Genesis, A New Creation

War

-Chapter 15-

-Nocte-

Nocte opened his eyes and felt a slight pushing on his back. Glancing over his shoulder he saw Luna in her maid uniform slightly pushing him and once he turned she smiled and said “Sir, Nocte please wake up. The Alpha has requested you.” she stands up straight and walks backwards close to the wall with her hands together.

Nocte felt fully rested for once even though it had only really been two days after the party and the days felt..longer than “Earth” I will have to test that later he thought. Nocte got out of bed letting go of part of the blanket he had nuzzled against during the night. Luna appeared to be interested and asked “Do you sleep like that?” Nocte gave her a questioning look and she coughed into her hand restating “Do you sleep cuddled up against the blanket like that?”

Nocte gives a sigh and says “Yes. why?” She gives no straight answer, her ears just twitch and she says “Get dressed, The Alpha wishes to talk to you soon.” Luna then turns and walks out of the room. Nocte just gets out of bed and walks over to his uniform which he has taken quite the liking too as it's grey colors resembled the old Imperial German army uniform which he loved. He put the overcoat over his tee shirt and took off his pants he wore to bed and put on the uniform pants which fit perfectly once he attached the belt. He blushed as he remembered Annah showing him how to attach the belt.

The belt itself was almost like a small puzzle. You had to tie it around in the front and then strap it on the back, but once you got used to it; it was pretty simple and easy to do quickly. Why does the normal army not use these? It would help significantly in telling who is friend and who is foe as we'll as moral bonuses… he pondered this and came to the conclusion he would suggest it to Annah when he got the chance.

Putting on his cloak and chest plate, putting his mask on he walked out of his room and down the hallway that had a new red rug rather than the previous purple one, Though Annah had said she did not like the Royal aspect some of her followers imposed on her. Nocte could easily see the Royal aspect of the family lineage but even still the power of the Alpha was supposedly chosen by Saisho even though Nocte never really interacted with any of the Alpha’s after he saved their tribe so many years ago.

He grunted to himself dismissing the thought and went all the way down the main stairway and Luna was standing by at the end, Luna then said “Sir, Nocte you know you don't always have to wear that mask.” He nods but he continues to wear it and Luna just sighs and says “Follow me.” and she leads the way into a small lounge area where Annah sits looking out the window in a red chair that is clearly top quality and a cup of some sort of liquid but it smells like chocolate.

The room had paintings of her father and her when she was little, though a letter laid on the table already opened and seemingly read and Annah asks “Nocte….” and Nocte walks over not knowing where to sit as there's only one couch and she pats gently next to her and he sits down, She even while sitting is easily taller than him she looks over at him and says “read the letter on the table for me..”

Nocte is confused but reads it and it's a declaration of open warfare between the Bestian Confederation and the Kingdom of Kale, the war was declared by Kale under the pretense of the Bestian Confederation’s forces attacking the Kingdom not once but twice resulting in war. Nocte put the letter down but Annah speaks “It's a Declaration of war, I expected this but not so soon especially after what I heard from the reports I was given from my spies….” Her voice trailed off for a moment and she grabbed Noctes shoulder and looked at him “I need you're help, You're powerful and I can tell you're smart by just the way you speak to me. From this point on you are my second in command, You cannot refuse.”

Nocte glances away but nods and says “Very we'll...what do you want me to do then?” Annah does not let go of him, instead she says “I want you to give me any and all advice to win this war, I cannot assemble that fast of an army and the Kingdom easily has a few already in service. I need you to do whatever you can get my people ready, I will give you all the Warrior-”

Nocte cuts her off by placing his hand off his mask and taking it off and says “I understand.” Nocte can see Annah’s eyes gloss over and she is seemingly getting a bit closer to him, He looks away and stands up and says “How long until the Kingdom’s forces come?” Annah stands up and gets a bit closer to him and says “Four Weeks.”

Nocte grins “More then enough time.” Annah looks at him confused and asks “What are you gonna do?” Nocte looks at his hands letting his smile vanish and say “Their sword is already blunted all I have to do is strike at the same part and it will shatter.”

Annah stands in front of Nocte and takes something out of her chest pocket and takes Nocte’s hand into hers and puts what feels like a ring in his hand but keeps her hand on his and says “What i'm about to give you will give you the necessary Authority to control everything in my nation…'' She lets go of his hand and Nocte sees a ring made of a dark metal that seemingly looks like it has smoke in it and has an engraved Silver Wolf on it howling.

Nocte looks up at Annah and she is blushing slightly and Luna gives a slight “Meep” sound and he glances over and even sees she is blushing and quickly bows her head and says “Forgive me.” and leaves the room with a haste and Nocte looks up at Annah and asks “Is their anything….meaningful with this ring?” Annah’s face seems to turn red but her ears droop and she coughs into her hand and says “No….not at all…...no meaning to it..”

Nocte looks at the ring and can't help but think Is it like a marriage ring is that why they are embarrassed? He thought but he shrugs it off and puts the ring on and then Annah’s tail wags and Nocte looks up and she seems to be tearing up somewhat but she quickly says “Go…” and gives Nocte a slight push he walks out of the room putting on his mask really confused on what this ring really means.

-Saara-

Finally waking up Saara gets up from the bed, her hair in front of her face and she pushes it back and to the side, She gets up and walks over to the door seeing the letter on the floor picking it up. It looks like a report from her Diplomat.

She takes it and sits back on her bed opening it and reads through it realizing half way through it that the Kingdom of Kale and Bestian Confederation is at war and the report was two weeks ago. Instantly she goes to look at her mirror of transmission looking through it. She says “Nocte” and the mirror shows exactly what Nocte is doing and he is standing in front of easily a thousand men all clad in armor and even full gear.

They all stand at attention, all wearing the same uniform and all have brown coloration to the uniform that lay underneath the armor they wear. Their faces are covered by different masks alone, all clearly personalized, some wear helmets or hats but all have the same chest piece and insignia of a Wolf Howling.

Nocte then puts his hand in the air palm out and they all instantly draw swords and get closer together. Putting his out to the side they all quickly holster their swords and pull out spears on their backs, take round shields off their backs as well and collect into a tight line formation layered with two lines. They create a spear line with the second layer putting more spears forward through the gaps in the line making a strong spear line.

They all seemed to be led by a man in silver armor and blue uniform underneath, Nocte then moved his hand to his chest then the men in blue armor shouted a command back and the men quickly filed into three layers. The back layer faces behind them while the first to face the front. Saara didn't know what to make of it but it seemed Nocte was safe for now. She sighed as the mirror faded back to darkness and fog as her mind wondered for a moment. She felt a new presence within the world, It was stronger than even her brother’s especially Ata this new presence suddenly pulsed and Saara puts her hand out to the mirror again to try and find this energy source but the mirror did not show anything and she grunted quickly standing up and her tail flicked hitting the mirror and smashing it to pieces.

-Mira-

As Mira stood at a capital building Soldiers surrounded her as the dust settled as some of the men were pushed back with her pulse of magic and the ones with spears aimed at her quickly. So far everything is going out exactly as planned She thought. The Soldiers wore plated armor with purple drapes on their sides covering part of their bodies, Their helmets were lined with purple fur and their armor was lined with fur.

Then a man in a white robe walked out of the escort that was holding him keeping himself safe, He was the president of the Republic of Risa. He quickly said in a cocky tone “Oh how the mighty hero falls so fast….you saved so many lives so why did you plan to take power for yourself? It was a foolish endeavor truly.”

Civilians start to gather around as his guards in the same armor but with red coloration stand beside him looking at Mira waiting. Then the man says clearly lying as Mira can feel it “I never realized that you had such an evil core, If I had known I would never had welcomed you.” he said with a grin and Mira thought Yea keep talking big shot, you were the one to put me into this position with your political games..

Then she smiles slightly and loses her posture and stands straight and asks “Why do you think I betrayed these people? Poparius, I only gave them a better ruler.” Poparius looks confused and says “Kill her now!” but Mira raises her hand in the air, palm out and instantly his guards draw swords, putting them to his neck and the men surrounding Mira quickly spin around and circle Poparius.

He instantly shouts “What is the meaning of this!” and Mira responds coldly “Stop being cocky, You are charged and under arrest for murder, false taxation and corruption. Anything you say will be used against you in the ruling council of judges. Your sentence is death and your replacement will be decided by the people of this Republic! Take him away.” instantly he shouts “You can't do this! I'M THE PRESIDENT '' one of the guards grab him and begin hauling him away into the crowd as they boo him and slander him.

--Rama Loreius--

As he stood, snow had covered the battlefield. Only four months ago did the Risa Republic fall and the Empire of Risa arose with a new leader. They supposedly elected this monarchy but he never believed himself, He stood in front of the line he was tasked with leading the middle lines into battle. He gave a slight shiver as he saw the enemy army arrive over top of the hill.

Their cold breath could even be seen from this far, Their flag of white pigeon surrounded by a black circle and carried across the line of their army. Their army only numbered around one Thousand from intel but there's easily five thousand.

He smiled as he yelled to his men raising his spear “This battle shall be easy! Just keep your wits and drinks will be on me!” they cheered and stomped their boots into the snow. Then everyone went silent as only ten men marched out in a single line they wore masks that had weird attachments to their chest plates and they gave off no winter breath as they breathed.

They carried black rods with no iron tip, Their pure black armor with seemingly no metal on them whatsoever almost made them seem like easy targets for archers but they began to march forward. Rama looked down their line and saw that they were coming from each division from the enemy army, all the way down the line but he snapped his attention back to the ones marching to his men. He quickly yelled “SPEAR WALL!” and they all formed a spear wall not allowing any type of trick.

They stopped marching once they were only four or five meters away from them, they could hear them breathing it sounded artificial and it echoed in the silence then they pointed their rods and Rama felt a sudden sense of fear as he saw everything turn yellow with a red and purple mix then he heard water rushing but it was not water it was fire as it drenched his men, barely grazing his left arm he hit the floor instantly screaming as he felt the flames burn his skin.

He could do nothing but scream as the sound of rushing fire through the air crackled and burned through skin, wood and metal. The fire stopped and he saw everyone that was left standing break and run for their lives. The dark figure marched forward a few steps stamping their feet on the floor and then they stopped and one looked at him, The eyes were nothing but black and had nothing behind them and they mirrored the fire that was burning on the bodies of his comrades and then the figure aimed and fired. He closed eyes as he felt the heat but he screamed as his flesh burned away and he finally passed out from the pain.