As the sun rises on the cold October morning. The sounds of jets and helicopters is heard in the base. As Asura walks towards the ships that are preparing to start their runs for the attack on the shipping yard. As he gets closer to the ships and Shadow he notices Honibenat is suited up in her own armor and has Ginic war ready.
"Honi what are you doing?" He says as he jogs to catch up with her.
"Getting ready for the fight bubba." She says and loosens her grip on Ginic's reins.
"Honi I. I don't want you fighting plain and simple."
"But Asura!"
"No buts, I want to make sure you remain safe. And if you got shot or injured I couldn't live with myself..." Asura says and hugs Honibenat tightly and she wiggles herself free of his grip.
"Asura please let me fight with you."
"Why do you want to fight so badly Honi? There is nothing glorious or good that comes from battle."
"Its not that its just."
"What is it Honi?"
"Its just. Just I don't want you to get hurt. I want to protect you like you protect me.." She says and lets her shoulders slouch slightly and Asura hugs her tight.
"Alright alright, I'll let you fight. But stay close to me OK? I'm not letting you get injured" Hearing him, Honibenat smiles widely and hugs him back then tightens her grip on Ginic's reins. As she walks to take her place by Shadow, Asura walks to the room that all his men are waiting in the sound of talking between the men filling the air. Taking his place at the podium he clears his throat and the chatter from the men quiets down.
"As you all know, Today in a few moments we will start our assault on the WW2 concentration camp that your people called Auschwitz. However, today it is known as the Auschwitz shipyard. The only way into the base, at the moment, is from the air. Our chosen insertion point is the section of the base that contains a ship we have code named The Lady Ebony and a small fleet of no more than twenty-five ships. Next we will be moving to the second yard which contains code name Jewel and her complement of twenty-five ships. Finally, we will be taking the final portion of the shipyard that contains the largest ship, code name Advocate, and her compliment of one hundred ships. As the base is not as large as I make it appear most of these ships are constructed underground in a grid work of scaffolding and platforms that we did not know about with the first scans but have learned of. As of now though we will focus on the Ebony and that area of the shipyard. Once we have taken it we will blow the surrounding wall and make room for our tanks and trucks to enter. If this goes according to plan this battle will be our entrance to Germany and the start of our final push. If get that fleet of One hundred and fifty-three ships we can very well attack the blockade and end this war by cutting off the angels supplies and starving them. Last thing before we start, this mission is a capture mission and must be treated as such. Do not shoot people that looked enslaved unless they show promise of being a threat and explosives are to be at a minimal amount. That is all"
With that, Asura leaves the room leaving the men to finish preparing for the fight. Knowing very well that a lot of them won't make it out alive he sighs softly and his mask forms in his hand. Sliding it on and moving his hair over it, the mask has no other facial features other than two triangular eye holes. Getting on Shadow he waits and when he sees the attacking forces are ready he takes the two massive horns sprouting from Shadow's head and lightly nudges his sides with his boots. The mighty dragon gives off a massively loud roar and pushes up on its legs fast propelling it five feet into the air. Spreading his wings, Shadow carries himself higher. Watching closely, Honi does the same thing, and Ginic takes off the same way following Asura and Shadow close.
Climbing high into the air, Shadow pulls his arms close to his chest and his legs go straight for the most part slightly bent at the knee but they lay parallel to his tail as he starts forward picking up speed quickly. GInic struggles to keep up with the massive black welch dragon that is Shadow and quickly they both reach their top speed. As the wind rushes by like hundreds of razor, Asura ducks taking cover behind Shadow's massive head, the dragon seemingly unaffected by the abrasive wind. As they four of them pull away from the base they are quickly accompanied by the fighter jets. The jet engines and propellers of the old day long obsolete. The bodies of these jets are long and black and contoured to avoid detection. The engines that provide them with such speed create a vacuum that sucks the air into them quickly and pushes it out just as fast, achieving virtually silent flight. Each of the four jets that follows them carries a payload of drop pods full of ammo and weapons for the troops to use and the freed slaves to acquire.
As the shipyard comes into view, Shadow and Ginic slow down and start to glide while the troop carriers and helicopters catch up to the group. Standing up on the dragon, Asura waits and when above the base, he jumps straight down head first. As the doors open for troops to jump out of, Anti-air round ring out through the sky. Spreading his wings, Asura uses them as rutters to turn himself to avoid the exploding bombshells. Looking towards his men for a brief moment he watches as one of the massive troop planes explode from its fuel cells being punctured and the resulting explosion clips the wing of a second plane. Spreading his wings their widest he slows his decent and lands on the ground. Drawing his sword, he is soon accompanied by Honi, who has his old sword in her hands. The blade in his own hand has a hilt that is shitty at best. The hilt is poorly nailed and strapped to the butt of Nagi's old double barrel sawed off shotgun. The blade itself is welded to the bottom of the barrels. The blade is about a foot with and about five feet long. it has a completely flat top and a long curved bottom, with the last foot of the blade being serrated. As the air is filled with the smell of burning flesh and the smell of burning jet fuel.
Using the first Anti-air gun, Asura shoots the closest angels to him that stands in his way and as they drop, he dashes and sinks the blade into the soldier behind them. As he is doing this Honibenat cuts into an angel that is about to shoot Asura. Smiling softly at her they run up the stair to the anti-air platform. Sheathings his sword, Asura pulls out a pistol and starts shooting as the sound of bullets ricocheting off his armor is heard. As he gets to the first gun he grabs his knife and plunges it into the back of the operator's's neck. Turning around he throws the blade into the back of the head of the next operator. And as he emerges from the cover of the anti-air gun, a loud crack is heard as a bullet shatters his mask. As the pieces of the mask fall, Honi emerges from her cover and shoots the man. Raising his hand up Asura touches his forehead, looking at his finger tips he sees the blood from the bullet wound and fire surrounds his hand as it turns into the demonic hand and he digs his pointed fingers into his forehead with a wince and pulls out the bullet. Lowering his hand to his side and the bullet drops to floor in a small puddle of blood.
Grinning, Asura's eye goes scarlet again and his hair splits and a ball of fire forms in his hand as he grins. His black demon eye gleams in the light and he throws the fire ball at the last pair of anti air guns on the first platform. Watching as the platform ignites he grins and runs towards the flames as the angels run out of their seats and try to extinguish the flames. As the first one comes out, Asura plunges his pointed bony plated figures through its chest and rips its heart out and when the second on emerges from the flames he lunges at it ripping its throat out with his teeth. Grinning softly his wings shift on his back and his hand changes back to normal. Turning around he uses the upper part of the sleeves on his suit to wipe his face clean of the blood.
As the first anti-air guns go off line and the fire Asura started rages out of control, Theos, Maynette, and Lucifer runs off the C-25 Globe-master IV that they are on. And as they fall towards the ground Maynette shifts and grows wings to slow herself, Lucifer spreads his six massive wings, and Theos deploys his wing suit to glide into battle. As they go in the air fills with the hundred's of parachutes from the rest of the army. Gliding and directing themselves to avoid the wreckage of the first two globe-masters to be shot down, the group lands at the steps of the second anti air platform. Running up the stairs, the group makes short work of the gunners and a group of demolitionists run up the platform and plant bombs to blow the guns. Clearning the area, the squad blows the explosives and with a small fire ball and the sound of twisting and breaking metal, the guns are rendered useless.
With the guns offline and half of the original troops to make the jump remaining, Theos glances upwards to see the massive troop planes flying back to base.
"That seemed a bit easy dont you think?" Lucifer says and looks around at the court yard that is empty of enemy troop, at least the ones that werent dead.
"Yes it was, most of them men probably retreated back into the ship making it difficult on us. When i said it was going to be like WW2 Normandy, i didnt mean this part. A few anti air guns is easy to underwealm with brute numbers. This is going to be different. That ship is a maze of hallways and enemy men waiting to be ours." Theos says as he walks to the drop pod that he dropped. Removing his wing suit he rips open the pod. Grabbing his trench coat and hat he slides them on quickly. Putting a new clip of amo in his pistol, he holsters it and and slings a belt of 50mm machine gun rounds over his shoulder. Picking up the Machine gun from the pod next to it he holds it by the handle and trigger and a second handle up by the barrels turning himself into a mobel gun stand. Setting it down, he reaches into the pod and clips a massive amo box to his back. Sighing softly he picks back up the gun and walks forward to meet Asura and Honi to lead the troops into the Lady Ebony.
"I hope the flight in wasn't to bad Theos." Asura says with a soft grin his hair brushed from his face letting both eyes be exposed.
"Wasn't bad at all, it especially had a smooth landing" He says joking and taking note of Asura's demon eye.
"This is gonna be fun is it not Theos?"
"Should be. Im thinking we fly a kite and walk right up to the front door and ask nice."
"No no, I like the kite idea but why not go in the back door?"
"No no that wont work. Why not both?"
"Sounds good to me Theos, Lets do this" Asura says and spread his wings wide. Flying up to the top of the ship, Honibenat and the other demons fallow him up. As they, Asura looks for an air lock and about a minute into looking Honibenat tugs his sleeve softly. Looking at her, she points to a handle that is almost completely flush with the rest of the ship. Grinning Asura walks over and forces it to turn. As it moves the sound of gears grinding together against the motor that controls them is heard and with a hydrolick pressurized his the hatch door slides up. The door is circular and has two curved walls one opposite sides of one another. Looking down it, Asura grins.
"Its ventilation. If we get in their we can go anywhere in the goddamn ship." Asura sticks his arm out across the opening and turns it softly.
"Its hot air too so it probably from one of the engine blocks. But its not overly hot so im guessing this is the from the generators that powers the lights and other minor systems. If this was for the thrusters and stabilizers then my flesh would be burning right now. Honi are you ready?" He says squatting by the opening and looking at her.
"I'm ready bubba. Lets due this." Walking over to him, Asura picks her up, he holds her back tightly to his chest and stomach. Crossing his arms over her chest she holds them to her as tight as she can. Taking a deep breath, Asura steps into the tube and they immediately fall. Sliding down the wall of the tube they go for what seems like hundreds of feet before the tube levels out. Sitting up Asura lets go of Honi and they notice they are at a junction in the pipes. In front of them the pipes got smaller and went downwards at a sharp angel. To the left the air flowing past them smelt horrible. With the industrial sized turbine at the end of the tube still fresh with paint, it was easy to see the big black letters that said 'waiste management' on it.
"We will go right. No smell and relativly straight." Asura says taking the lead and walking down the pipe as far as he can. Manuvering as far as they can the two make it to a vent and break it open finding themselves facing an elevator to the bridge. Waiting, Asura looks around and jumps to the wires and starts climbing them.
"Honi spread your wings and fly to my back. Ok?" Nodding she does so and clings to him as Asura starts climbing the cable fighting the lack of fricton forcing his way up the best he can. Whilehe climbs, Theos and his men make their way inside. Everyone was throwing themselves at the main entrance ramp into the ship. Bodies were pilling up and with every other death an inch of the 100 foot ramp was gained. As the onslaught continues, Theos motions from behind a barrior for two men to move up. These men were heavily armored and had riot sheilds. As they inch forward past the bodies of the fallen, Theos crouches behind one and a man with an rpg croutches behind the other. As they rinch the bullet fire increases on the sheilds each round denting or bouncing off of the sheild.
As they reach the half way point the boy with the RPG stands up and aims to fire. As he pulls the trigger a bullet enters his fourhead and he drops, the rocket arching and missing the target denting the metal above the door. Cursing, Theos drops his chain gun and dashes for the RPG a bullet finding a home in his shoulder and stomach. Ignoring it he Grabs the spair rocket and loads it into the RPG and quickly he stands up and fires. As the rockets launches, the sound of metal scrapping metal is heard as the riot sheild it forced out of the other mans hand by the rocket not haing enough clearance.
"Knock knock bastards. ADVANCE BEFORE THEY RECOVER!" Theos yells at the men and they rush the ramp and past Theos and to the door. As the men flood in the make quick work in the smoke and fire of the rocket fall out and Theos and Maynette walk in behind the troops walking backwards to protect from an ambush while Asura's men and Theos's men come together and start to cleanse the rest of the ship of the enemy men.
As the men below clear out the grunts Asura walks into the command center and to main gun controls. Rotating the guns so they face the door, Asura enters the data and the guns fire. With a rain of dirt and broken metal the protective wall gets a hole punched through it and the men waiting quickly run in and down the ramp to the ground level. As the other ships are quickly over wealmed and engineres and proper pilots enter. The first gaurter of the ship yard is quickly over run. Turning to tell Honibenat the coast is clear, he sees her stindind and running her fingure along the arm resst of the captains chair.
"Taking a liking to it have you?" Asura says smilign softly.
"It looks nice, i cant deny that."
"The captains chair is yours if you want it. I have faith in you."
"A-Asura i couldn't. Im not fit."
"Honi i made you a promise. Remember? I told you that one day you would rule by my side as my general like your mom and dad to my dad."
"Asura i couldn't" Not saying anything else, Asura walks over to her and hugs her tight. Then picking her up he sets her int he captains chair.
"I doub they General Honibenat. Ship master and Admiral. With you i place total control over all my generals and men, like your parents you will be the best of the best even if i have to train you myself." He says and smiles at her as her eyes start to water up. Hugging her close Honibenat cries into Asura softly and he holds her. Not to long after, technisions enter the bridge and starts the ships engines for flight.
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Demon Rising: The Ballad of Asura
FantasyFIRST CONCEPT WORK... War is a plague that spreads all species, realms, realms and planets. No one is safe from it, not even the most holy or corrupt is spared. As evil is passed around the species and a three headed threat emerges and throws every...
