Shattered Into Ash

Shattered Into Camp

Azun:

"Azun!" Ames runs over to me. "What do you mean you agreed to be General?"

"I don't have anything better to do." I sighed, not wanting to really be doing anything. "My plans didn't quite work out, I'm just a sucker."

"No you're not." Ames pulled me aside. "You may say that you lost your edge, but that's all in your head! Listen to me."

"Why?" I tired to walk away, but he grabbed my arm. "You have never cared for me or anyone."

"You just got a midlife crises." Ames held on tightly. "But you taught me everything that I know just by being a good example."

"Ames-"

"You will totally kick up, you're up there with Mike and Luke." Ames stared me down. "I am not about to let you forget what being a Zodiac is all about."

"Ames-"

"We are all here to fight in a war, to get the job done, to actually accomplish something."

"But I can't-"

"We are the only ones who can do this better then every stinking person in the galaxy. I know you have a rough time with dad-hey, I have them too. Throughout everything dad has done I haven't seen anyone stand up and write letters like the amount of determination that you did."

I noticed Larkin, Aspen, Dustan and my other sibling in the back. They watched me and Ames toile with each other.

"There is no need to worry." Ames patted me on the back, dragging me over to my siblings. "Ok sibling. Now say something nice or else I will kill you."

"You're an awesome guy!" Larkin fibs, responding right away.

"You never let us down because we have such low expectations for you." Jasper mumbled.

"You are the reason we are all here." Dustan smiled.

"See amigo." Ames slapped my chest. "Don't get down, you are up here." He held us hand above my head. "With the great ones."

"Thanks." I questioned why he was doing this.

"Here comes the general!" I heard a shot from Aspen, my younger sister.

We all hurried into formation, I was at the front with Ames at my left side, the order we were born in, our numbers, our titles. My heart was racing, was this how Nathaniel felt when Ames whisked him off to the water planet?

"Siblings." Luke addressed us, his black hair like the shadows of the night, it scared me how alike we were.

Luke and I had the same hair, same height, same skin tone, same clothing style, out only difference was our eyes, the gateway to our souls. His were green, stricken with envy. While mine are diamonds in the rough.

"So kind of Azun to finally step up to his rightful place." Mike laughed, passing out our weapons of choice.

Each of us had a different unique weapon that we had spent centuries mastering. Larkin had a bow-staff, Arielle had a blow torch, Emler carried a short sword and Aspen carried a long sword. Jasper had a whip, Dustan carried ninja stars, Ames had a detailed Machete, Mike carries a saber, Luke had some daggers, and finally I had a Double sided Scythe. In my own opinion each weapon resembled my siblings.

My weapon was made on fine silver, polished to perfection, it looked like the death sword I had often seen in horror films, but instead of death having one hook I had two. I remember my training with Nathaniel as I practiced using this weapon much like bow-staff. Nathaniel has mastered the bow and arrow, which is quite impressive for only being fourteen.