An Aphotic Zion

History Lessons

Liara takes a sip of her tea, her blue eyes shine like a moon that shines due to the light of its star which we call a sun. “The year is two thousand and ten (2010) and the Earth is still shaken by the fires of the Second Great War, though peace has been established and the world is now ruled by the Alliance again. The Axis Powers have been all but eradicated or is it? And now in the shadows of the dark regions on this planet where there is no government nor a leader, the crimes and atrocities are being committed each and every other day. And the main governing body has again turned a blind eye to us all. Those were the dark days, the end of all of us; the end of Firebrands and the Humans. But those also were the days of a new hope, a new dawn of the men and women who rose above all. They were wearing Crimson armors and wielding Crimsons daggers. They went on a killing spree and freed the lands of all the rebels and caste out warriors and others. They were the ones who created the Crimson Society and it was then we all set out to make things right and re-write the history of the world. For three years we labored to carve us a place in this world but it was too late for us, we realized that there was no hope left for us in this world and that it would be the end of us we remained here” Liara pauses for a second and took another sip of her tea that she was drinking and then pours down more for herself. The tea is her medicine, the tea keeps her from dying off a rare disease.

 “So we started building us ships, practically a navy so that we can find us, ourselves a decent planet to live and to stay peacefully hoping that we wouldn’t get trapped into the crossfires of the war again. But Fate had something else in his mind. And during that time the leader of the Alliance known as Councilor Fate recognized us. This was the first time he gave attention to us so called rebels and came personally to meet us. “Before Liara could continue Shibi interrupts “Wa-wait, you mean that guy’s name was ‘Fate’? What kind of crazy name is that? “He says so in a confused way “Well, I am not telling you a fairy tale here boy so the names can a little crazy sometimes. Anyway, so he came to us and made an appointment, giving us a letter for a meeting that he was holding in the neutral zone, a country that was known as India. A country, or maybe I should say the only country which was not infested by warmongering people. It was a country of gold, a ‘golden bird’. We all knew that this was once of their schemes for us to fight against the Axis Powers but we went there anyway. We went with utmost caution, we even hired spies and some muscle to protect us from any dingy events that may occur during this detour of ours. We all were awed by the beauty of the country the second we entered in there. There was greenery as far the eye could see and beneath those trees lied their anti-air guns, in case someone decides to rob them off which no one ever thought of doing so.”

“So, we went inside where we were greeted by their King, the King showed us the way to the council hall. It was a huge hall which was built long ago with white marbles, this was a strong fortress and it was all but impenetrable. Its walls had the names of people carved on it who lived and died in that country. Each and every person was accounted on those walls. That was the beauty of the monument we saw, I had heard rumors about that palace to shine brighter than the sun itself during the night but looking at that in person was something I had always dreamt of. So we entered the building and we were headed in the inner halls, escorted actually by the legendary guardsmen, those who have always protected the palace and the King from any or all attacks. We all took the seats in the great hall where we had to discuss about a treaty that was in Fate’s mind. But things didn’t go as planned that day, it was something that no one ever saw coming literally. Moments after the council started, one that was headed by the great King of India the alarms rang all over the country. An alert was alarmed when a Ship de-cloaked the moment it crossed the detection barrier of India. All the guns starting shooting at it, the whole military force got distracted by that intrusion. And that was a really massive distraction. And before any of us could even react to those alarms. Some of the legendary guards turned around and shot an arrow right into the skulls of the council officials that included Councilor Fate, yes they fired arrows because bullets would have been purged before they could reach their targets by the detection system but thanks to the loyalists, the ones who were directly under the command of the King they saved the King, a few Alliance council members and us with their lives. That was a shot in the arm. And that was the time when the Alliance finally have had enough or this. They realized that they had to do something to stop them and they had an answer for that, the only possible answer that they could come up with.”