Kingdoms Fall

Chapter 23: "To'zou"

      

Chapter 23: "To'zou"

POV Narrators: The emperor of the Vesh empire wasn't really the true emperor; he was rightfully in his position, yes. But he did not get this seat through family blood lines. But To'zou was born in the twenty-first century, so how could he possibly be the Vesh emperor in the year 1888? Well, the horrible, or interesting truth, is that To'zou was once an engineer at a company called VoiusTech, and the company was constantly trying to push the limits with what they could do with different controlled particles; they combined metals with various types of stones, and the CEO and founder of the company was Koiko Mada, who's true name was Koimus the God of technology, the son of Loiko Mada, who's true name is Voimus the God of machines. Around the year 2043, Koiko made a machine that would allow him to travel through time and space, but he could only use the machine to travel into the past. To'zou, although merely a human and more than not capable of facing a god head to head, found out about Koiko and this machine, which was hidden in Koiko's office. But, while To'zou was looking for this machine in his office, when Koiko was gone, he came across a book about Kishi, the gods they worshipped, the different emperors, and how long they reigned in specific regions, but the thing he paid attention to the most was the part in this book where he saw an old illustration of what appeared to be two people, or beings merging together. All he could understand were two words on the two pages he was turned to, and those two words were "scroll" and "Kishi." Later he would find out exactly where Gorego kept this scroll, which was the "Scroll of two hearts." When he sent a skilled assassin named Okotoma to kill Gorego a year before his sons had turned eighteen, and as if that wasn't good enough, that the king was successfully assassinated, he'd sent a assassin who loved to leave calling cards at the scene of each of his crimes, which were usually white playing cards painted with various different faces on them as the five different power cards, jack's, queen's, king's, ace's, and the joker's. Instead of him being completely home free with Gorego's death, both the king's sons end up finding out how To'zou sent Okotoma to murder their father; there were many rogue assassins, or mercenaries, in Kishi.

             

If one of these paid killers had killed Gorego to make a name for themselves, that person alone would be punished with the penalty of death. The penalty for even throwing food at any member of the royal family was death, and the penalty for To'zou's crime, even though he didn't physically kill Gorego himself, would be a very terrible death. He would be locked away in a cell, and there would be no food, no water, and his company would be many different small insects or bugs that were not safe to eat. He would either die of starvation or he would die from a sickness retrieved from eating the different insects that were in his cell, or he would end up killing himself somehow. Go'incho, if not the mightiest warrior, then one of the emperor's most powerful soilders walked towards To'zou and his golden throne, his shaking nerves concealed beneath pounds of steel armor he seemed to always wear throughout the day. "May I, emperor?" he asks as he kneeled onto one knee, awaiting his answer. "Speak, Go'incho." To'zou answers him... To'zou was not a big man; he was six feet tall, yes, but a muscular man he was not at all. He had spiky black hair that grew really long, but he always cut it short so it wouldn't past his shoulders; his eyes were brown like a dark cup of coffee, and the thing that made him stand out was his strong, boney cheek bones that sort of made him look like he was a vampire, or like he hadn't eaten in three weeks. The knowledge that he'd brought with him had made him extremely powerful in the era he was in; no one in the eighteen hundreds understood how he made the things he made. When he'd challenged the last emperor for his position, it was the technology that he'd built into his sword that allowed him to win, and not one of the spectators saw his sword shoot tiny poison pins he'd installed into his sword's hilt during battle. To everyone that was watching, it seemed to look like the emperor was getting tired, and he was simply bested because he didn't have the endurance or stamina to keep up with To'zou in a sword fight. "Your royal highness, I'm sorry to report this news, but six more of our strongholds have been compromised... They say there were no survivors, sirr," Go'incho says. The emperor was silent for a solid fifteen seconds then said, "Tell Mala, her immediate presence is needed as soon as possible; tell her it's a matter of hearts."  "Yes, emperor," Go'incho says respectfully, then he swiftly heads off to fetch Mala, who was an astral projector, who also on various different occasions has predicted the future very accurately, Go'incho says respectfully, then he swiftly heads off to fetch Mala, who was an astral projector, who also on various different occasions has predicted the future very accurately, he would want Mala to try and see who was responsible for the now seventeen different attacks on his military strongholds, even though he expected one of Gorego's sons to have something to do with it. He wanted to be sure before he made any major decisions from this point forward. A few moments later, Mala walks into To'zou's chambers wearing her neon blue hair in a bun on top of her head; her eyes were as white as snow, and she wore a dress that matched her milk-colored eyes; it was tightly clinging to her figure; she wore white heels that had a light blue hue around the base of her shoes. Mala was a terrifyingly beautiful woman, and she wasn't as evil as those she was surrounded by; she told To'zou information, and that was all she did; she showed up, told the facts, and she didn't ask questions; she didn't worry too much about the general public; she got her money and made sure her daughter was provided with whatever she needed.