It's a strategy to ensure I remain

The plan.

Aiko arrived at Valkyries cottage, it was a bit run down she could understand why he called it a hut, there were cobwebs everywhere. Perhaps he had a fear of spiders and couldn't bear to go near them? Or he liked them as a decoration?? I guess we'll never know for sure. She stepped closer to the door and knocked at it.

Valkyrie ran to the door and opened it "hello Hellooo!! Come inside" he opened the door wider and gestured to come inside. The place was a bit messy with scrolls of paper littered everywhere, a guitar was sat in the corner, it was dusty, maybe he liked writing?? The place had a faint smell of candles. "There's a sofa there if you want to sit down? Do you want tea or anything?" He took their coat to hang up on the door. Aiko nodded and Valkyrie went into the kitchen to make some tea, "so how many years have you been in this village? I've been here four years and I've never seen you around" Aiko asked leaning forward on the sofa "oh me? About a decade I think" Valkyrie said poking his head through the door. "Really it's strange that we have never met before" "yeah aha" Valkyrie walked over and handed some tea to aiko "be careful it's scalding" Valkyrie went and sat at his desk and moved some of the scrolls out of the way. "I have an idea" he said "hear me out we should build up a Nation, no one has thought about that before!"

"Ooo? That would be a good idea!" Aiko said with an interested tone "what will we name it though?" They said looking at Valkyrie "how about... sankofa??" He had paused for a second before saying the name. "That sounds awesome!!" "Thank you!! But we need a leader, someone who's independent" "hmm good question, how about my kid ace?" "Are they not a bit young?" Valkyrie said giving them a confused look "It could be good, I'm sure they would do a great job as a president and I will help them so they won't do mistakes, how abt the vice-president, do you wanna do it Val?" "Sure! Sure!" He smiled. This was a good idea.

Aiko and Valkyrie had spent that night designing a flag. Red for passion and sincerity, yellow for optimism, beige for calm and simplicity, dark blue for knowledge and teal for sophistication.

he chuckled "thanks! And where will we be situated?? And do we need any rules??" "Well we should probably start by having 2 base for the start cause we're not a lot yet, like we can use your hut for the first spot and my flower shop to make the potion and everything and about the rules" "yeah good idea!!"  "But what if someone hate our nation ? What will we do ?" she look at Val eyes with a worried look. "we will fight for it." he says a flare in his voice, not out of anger but enthusiasm. "We will, we should do preparations just in case this happen" "what preparations??" "Like making swords potion, shield and everything?" "Oh good idea!! We could use tnt and fireworks aswell maybe!" Valkyrie says while searching through a cupboard. Aiko nodded in agreement. "violence isn't always the answer but sometimes your perspective has to change if it's necessary"

Aiko checked her phone to see if she got any text messages from ace. "Want to head over to ace and tell them about the whole plan?" Valkyrie nodded and stood up and headed towards the flower shop. "Hi ace how was the work??" Aiko says "oh it wasn't that busy, there weren't a lot of people here." "Good good" Valkyrie looked to ace "how would you like to be president of a nation?" "That would sound pretty fun actually!!" Ace exclaimed excitedly. "But it is a serious thing president, you know that??" Aiko says in a serious tone. "I know I know"

Valkyrie explained everything to ace in as much detail as he could while aiko went to make the uniforms so they could identify themselves.

Valkyrie walked around putting up flags. "So far no one has said anything about our flags so I'll reckon we will be fine!!" Aiko said through a breath of relief. A young enderian by the name of jax had stopped to look at what Valkyrie and aiko were doing "hi aiko! What's that flag you and Valkyrie are hanging up?" "Oh it's the flag of the sankofa nation, I nation me ace and Valkyrie have founded!!" She said to them "oh ok that's cool" jax said but he thought that hopefully nothing would go wrong with them starting a nation.

"Yeah it's awesome!!" Aiko says punching the air "yeah..." jax said it's tone seeming off " I guess so..." "yeah it's not like we are gonna kill anyone." Valkyrie says slowly looking at jax noticing how off his tone seemed.

"Hey Valkyrie can I talk to you a second??" Aiko mumbled to Valkyrie who nodded and she grabbed his hand and ran to the flower shop " I don't think jax is very comfortable with the idea of the nation- I mean jax did look worried, is it just me??" "Yeah I did notice something off about their tone, as if they were lying through their teeth." He said slowly "I wouldn't think anything of it, their just being melodramatic." "Okay.. if you say so.."

Valk poked his head out and glanced at jax making eye contact with them, he narrowed his eyes at them. A fox walked up called Toby and started making conversation with jax. Jax laughed nervously still feeling Valkyries glare burning through him. "Are you alright jax?" Toby asked but jax brushed it off. Valkyrie decided right there right then that he didn't like jax. "Somethings off about Valkyrie." Jax mumbled.