The refugees, 2nd draft

Fire and light

Charolette

16th month, October 51st, 2999

Yes, I'm back, hurrah. Anyway, you've heard of our domain and had it described to you as hell, honestly Jigonku is hell. Our realm had great pools of liquid fire, which we had felt from our factory. Our people are constantly cold in temperatures that others may consider warm, it is only by summoning fire that we stay warm.

Yet here in this realm of liquid fire we have made our homes out of obsidian, with rivers of lava. We can swim in lava, it's completely safe for us. Yet cold water hurts us, much like fire does for others. It gives us hypothermia instead of causing burns, but it still hurts.

As a faction we can all agree that we hate the Aquilians simply because they control water. They also have taken over the surface and the cold realms of the surface hold no appeal for us. Our faction is even more hated and feared then even the night's watch, but we are more important and thus some stay in the cold surface. Our main palace is below the largest lake of liquid fire.

Our power holds the fire at bay around us and ensures that we can breathe and survive beneath the orange waves. On Halloween the realm was decorated in such a way that it would be terrifying for others but for us it merely aggravated how jigonku always looked. I can tell you this, in the afterlife we will be comfortable in hell, it won't be much different from here if we rid ourselves of punishments.

Of course, there are nine hells, and each is different according to the priests, Gabriel is aligned toward God but still will occasionally preach for Evil. He seems fine in the caves though the cave where he preaches for us is cold stone lit by torches bearing white fire, white fire is the most used for it looks like an LED light, but blue is brighter.

Anyway, now that I have bored or confused all of you let's move on to what happened that day and the wars that followed. On Halloween we travelled to the surface to join the celebrations.

"They have all gathered on the surface near the wall to celebrate," the page informed us. I nodded and said, "Thank you," I then turned to my generals and told them, "We will head out in force, anyone who wishes to stay can, but the rest will fly toward the surface in force. Everyone is to keep their Suwingu with them at all times, we can't have those undead bastards attacking and overwhelming us.

"Wall watchers for those of you who stay remember, one blast for people entering, two for an attack or unauthorized visitors and three blasts for and undead army. You are to kill anything besides orange cloaks that come up. Fire and Light!" I said tot eh assembled Generals.

"Fire and Light!" They replied. We all stood on the curtain wall, about three quarters of the citizens and soldiers, we were about eighty strong. I sent out a blast of blue fire into the centre of the maw and my generals responded in kind. We then all swung up as one, a massive army of rippling orange cloaks and cables whipping through the air.

When we landed, we completely surrounded the Mikyan city walls. Before we swung over to the main gate in formation. Ligh and the other leaders arrived to greet us and invite us in. We celebrated Halloween there, ate and scared others with tales of Jigonku.

Our words are fire and light for that is what we fight for, what we need, how we live, we are the fire that lights the shadows.

Around midnight that day the horns alerted us that the war had begun. Arooooooooooooo aroooooooooooooooo aroooooooooooooo, the horns called. None of us Energy soldiers questioned it, we jumped from the windows and flew off.

When we came down, we saw the cannons and guns sawing through the undead but there were too many of them, "kill the leaders!" I said as battle was joined. I drew my gun and aimed for one of the undead wearing a twisted crown and a few others, I squeezed off about three shots before the adrenaline wore off and I began to fall towards them.

The thing is, I shot that leader, in the eye, with a fiery bullet and he didn't die. **** him.

A few of my people had begun to swing inside the walls, The undead followed them inside the city but left half of them up with us.

We chased them down to the city and there, with heavy artillery on the roofs and fire all over we made short work of those who remained. I chased down the leader and fought him alone. He fought well but fought in a style that focused on strength, I fought in a style that focused on, hit him with about five fireballs and whack him a couple of times with a flaming metal stick.

When he died, I had his crown nailed to its head and placed in a sack. Then in the next council meeting the next day I arrived late, then strode through the doors, pulled the head out of the sack, then placed it on the table. The head hadn't died, we had thrown the undead bodies into the fire after looting them, but anything left was still alive. I pulled the gag off and sat down.

"I am the king and hear me know we will return! We are still alive! We..." at that moment I twisted my hand and burned him, saying, "Shut up and answer our questions or I'll do it again." He stared at me with hatred in his eyes but stayed silent.

The others were looking at me with shock, some with fear Shiani merely began to laugh. Cordlen ignored him and asked the head, "Is there a city at the bottom of the maw?" The head laughed and said, "A city? No, down there are thousands of graves, we were buried there when we died the first time. That taught us to hate humanity, you as a species are evil and should be extinguished."

Shiani shook her head and said, "Mangar, those were raiders, we are simply trying to live." He spat and said, "then leave." Shiani shook her head and said, "We cannot the barrier keeps us from flying too high."

He then laughed and said, "Are there any monsters or abnormally large beasts?" Shiani nodded and said, "There are giant wolves in the woods and their leader is a massive wolf named Fenris."

The head immediately said, "Kill Fenris, that will release you into the rest of the magic-bound universe you are in now." "Thank you, Mangar, Charolette take him away." "Burn me, burn me, I need release, if we killed the people up here, we would become human again, but we haven't so burn me and release me." I nodded and brushed my hand in his direction, burning him to ashes."

Cordlen then said, "let us vote, raise your hand to kill the wolf." Everyone raised their hands to kill him except for Shiani, Akran, and Falon, "Falon, get us out of here." Shiani said. Falon smiled to us and said, "We never forget." before throwing a glass bottle at the table and summoning a thick cloud of smoke.

By the time our vision cleared they were gone.

*.*.*.*

The next day we woke to find that the gilded sector was abandoned, they had moved to the Surveyor's factory overnight and the walls were now bristling with heavy artillery and anti-air defences.

Cordlen immediately summoned the army, specifically, Asipra and her goons. They were charged with assassinating Fenris wolf. Aspira asked Cordlen what the price was, Cordlen replied, "We will be free, what more do you want?" Aspira considered this for a second before saying, "We cannot kill the people of highest importance."

Cordlen the said, "Then gather every person here, gather our full military might, we will kill that wolf for his crimes."

They gathered the army in a day, a massive force 800 strong. Some flew fighter jets, some destroyers, and some led carriages with huge machine guns on them, this is for sure, we shall not lose.

The Union

Agriculture: Lenox, 137

Aquilians: cordlen, 117

Sanrak: Gabriel, 59

The army: Aspira, 66

Economy: Alizee, 70

Labour: Granger, 61

Healing: Alvaro, 52

Mikyana: Ligh, 119

Transportation: Niki, 84

Energy: Charolotte, 118

Arcaya: Kara, 57

The Separatists

Surveyors: Akran, 76

Ravens: Falon, 300

The night's watch: Shiani, 114

1,515 employed