The refugees, 2nd draft

Woe to the people of order

Shiani

They betrayed me, they left me in favour of the destruction of everything we have, sure the rest of the world is magic as well, but we built this valley, and there has to be another way. I will not kill Fenris.

When he threw the smoke, I lunged toward Akran, grabbed him by the arm and pulled him out the window. The few hands that tried to grab me I knocked off. Once we began to fall, he regained his wits and began to fly with us.

Once we reached the gilded city a large force of ravens flew upward and stopped the few Sanrak that had followed us. Falon shot a cable and loosed the bell, causing a loud clangour. All the citizens flew after us into the forest without question, they had always had an evacuation procedure ready.

When we arrived at Imperial wolfpaw and made it to the factory we gave a speech.

"To everyone here, welcome, today we have heard that if we are to kill Fenris then the shield will break, and we will be placed into a random time period in the magic world beyond Diag. The others say to kill him, to free us but Falon, Akran and I are against this, the night's watch was built to protect both of our sides from each other, and we will not break our oaths!"

Falon stepped forward next, "They wish to kill their neighbours, neighbours who could have killed us all when we arrived but didn't, who gave us freedom and allowed us to grow. We will not repay kindness with cruelty for a debt is owed and a debt shall be paid! If they wish to attack us, then we will repay that evil a thousand-fold. We shall never forget!" The other ravens and many others replied saying, "We shall never forget!"

Then Akran stepped forward, "I once served as hand of our sovereign Cordlen, no longer! Cordlen has declared war on us, declaring us rebels and traitors, they shall never stop until Fenris is dead. But we can win, we have the strength to. My faction has had control of the factory since the battle of the storms and in that time, we have discovered many great things and have used this technology from the energy faction.

"We now have tanks, a great fleet of fighter jets, we have the means and ability to win this war ahead, but we cannot do it alone. Every single person here can make a difference. For honour and justice!" "For honour and justice!" the crowd cheered.

That day we ordered people to prepare the jets, the tanks, the turrets and weapons by the thousands, we were ready. That night I gathered the wolves and we prepared to devour; the allies we'd once known sweet friendship now sour, and now explosions will rain from on high, as we gladly bid our final goodbyes. Woe to the people united, I hope your home will forever smoulder and that you never rise again, and woe to those who called me a friend. *

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The next day a few weak radars that Akran's surveyors had rigged up picked up massive amounts of movement from the east, the army had come. Our wall stood three-hundred feet tall and over one hundred feet wide. The wall had a solid plating of metal on the outside and could repel most weapons, if one wanted to cross, they could either arrive by sea and be destroyed by the tanks or fly and quickly get shot down.

The Union did both. Radar saw points all over the river and the horns sounded for all divisions. Yet it was too late for them. Anti-air shot down the planes that came near but the people there were careful not to kill the people inside, there are only two-thousand of us after all. The tanks had arrived as well, shooting the outer wall.

And the destroyers never came, we had, the day before, burned down he entire floating city of Atlantis. However, that didn't stop the Aquilians, they rose from the river and began to attack. They encountered the wolves though. After suffering heavy losses, they retreated and disappeared.

With all resistance on our side of the wall crushed we settled in for a siege. We had food enough to last a month so the few farmers that we had quickly began to grow crops.

They were attacking the wall at that time but really that was just the wall getting shot and burned by the union and repaired by our separatist Mikyana who had a rotating schedule so with both sides no one was going to quit any time soon.

As I said we've settled in for a siege but it's fine because we were living independently for quite some time. Our flag now flies above the walls of grey and black.

For Wolfpaw!

The Union

Agriculture: Lenox, 137

Aquilians: cordlen, 105

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

1512 employed

*Credit to Mizz Fish, Woe to the people of order