Feudal War 1st Edition

Act Two: Chapter Eleven

Fakid is taking a day off to take a load off, since it's been nothing but one after the other with his life lately. He decides to visit his generals to see how their doing since his recovery, the first was Wolvine. She had been training animals to fight with the army, she had taken residence in the woods behind the castle town. He comes across a small tent, Fakid takes a look inside to see things scattered around inside. He looks around a little more before exiting out and looking around the area before calling her out. "Wolvine!" Fakid calls, "Over here!." she yells back. She called from behind a tree, while she continued to pet a wolf incredibly familiar to Fakid. He walked over and recognize it, "That wolf..." he says. "Yeah, it's the one that brought you back here, and it's a he." Wolvine explains as she stands up to look at Fakid. "What's up?" Wolvine asks, "I wanted to visit everyone on my day off for today." Fakid answers. "Should you really 'ave a day off?" She asks before realizing how she just spoke, and covering her mouth with her hand. "Don take notice to that, guh or that." She demands trying look away, "Wolvine I don't care how you talk, you don't have to talk at all, just being free to whatever should be good." Fakid says. She looks at him, "I knew that." She says angrily, "So is he the only one here?" He says looking at the wolf, getting a good look at it. The wolf has black fur, but only around the top parts of his body, the rest was white. "Yes, the rest are out stretching their legs, as he should be doing but he stayed for some reason." Wolvine explained. Fakid walked over to the wolf and took a knee and pet the him, "Does he have a name?" he asks, "No" Wolvine responds. "What! Then how do you give orders?" Fakid exclaims in surprise, "We follow an unspoken rule of attacking when and where necessary." Wolvine explains. "Well, fine but this one gets a name, and it's Kaber." Fakid says attempting to brush off the rule, "fine Kaber it is, are you gonna leave now?" Wolvine comments. "Why do you want me to leave?" he asks as Kaber looks up to Fakid with his tongue out. "I don't know I just want you to leave and it was quiet, so that may be one reason." Wolvine says, "Fine, I'll leave before you come up with more." Fakid says as he leaves. As he leaves, Kaber follows him back into the city, "You wanna come with?" Fakid asks. He gets no answer, and Kaber continues to walk beside him. Going into a wing of the castle, Fakid walks through a bunch of machines waiting at the entrance. They are giving off steam, as they watch him walk through. Fakid walks through a hallway as a machine walks behind him, in a sort of stumble, and every step produces a shot of steam. Fakid making it through the hallway, walks through a door at the end. Fakid find Gears looking at a gear on a table with something flying in place on the other side of the table. "Fetch the monkey." Gears says and the flying thing moves over to another table in the far side of the room and grabs a monkey wrench. "What are ya doing?" Fakid asks as he walks further in, and Kaber runs under the flying object and starts barking. "My lord, why are ya here?" Gears asks unfocused, "I am looking at everyone today for a day off." Fakid says, causing Gears to nod. "O.k. and that seems to include mean and the steam clockwork robots out there." Gears says looking up from the gear and taking the wrench from his flying thing when gets back to the table. Kaber follows and begins jumping at it, and the thing flies higher to avoid him. "Those soldiers are big." Fakid says observing a robot outside the room watching him. Gears waves at it and motions his hands in different directions, while the soldier begins to move as Gears stops. "What is that?" Fakid asks, "Gesture recognition, same as a stealth mission and silent orders are given." Gears explained. "Can you teach me them?" Fakid asks, "No, there are a lot of gestures, and not enough time to-" Gears cuts himself short, as he starts grabbing nuts and bolts from the table and screwing around. Taking a few minutes, Gears finishes, "When I work, I don't like being interrupted or being cut short from working again, so not right now." Gears explained. "Fine, I'll leave you to it, Kaber let's go." Fakid says as Kaber follows spitting out the flying thing onto the floor as they leave. "Be careful, you promised this place would be a place where I could sell my things to new people, I don't want that squandered because you died." Gears said shouting. Leaving out the hallway, Fakid encounters the steam robots and continues out the door, while the robots continue to watch closely. They then slam the door shut as Fakid distances himself from there. Continuing into the town to see people, Mistress Q catches up with Fakid as he walks. She grabs his arm and holds onto as if they going on a date into town, "How are things holding up Q?" Fakid asks. "The town has made business with the tunnels and mages, we have also grown again, with a steady expansion to the walls due to population. Anything else?" Q reports. "Where's Ex?" Fakid asks, "My lord-" "Fakid!" "F-fakid, please don't call her Ex." Q hesitantly says. "I'm not wasting time calling her the full name, where is she?" Fakid explains and asks. "To our left." Q says turning down a fork in the road to a large range close to the walls of the town. Fakid follows as he encounters someone flipping over his head and firing an arrow at Fakid's head. He goes to dodge it, when a hand reaches from behind him and grabs the arrow. In a pause, Fakid get a chance to look at the person behind him and it's Executioner. The person flipping over Fakid landed in front of him. Executioner takes her bow from her back and plants it on the ground, she then takes the arrow she caught and primes it. While that was happening the person began running in the opposite direction, having gotten somewhat far up the wall. Executioner breathes out and lets go off the arrow firing it from the large bow she had dug into the ground. The snap of the string on the bow cause wind to stir as it slung the into the person fleeing up the wall. The impact from the impalement left blood on the wall and the a hole slightly bigger than the arrow initially dug. The person's body fell from the wall and landed close to a trainee using a smaller bow. Fakid walks over to look at the body, he gave it an inspection, finding the person to be a male from the rogue tunnels. He had a letter on him giving instructions on who to kill, but Fakid had recognized the handwriting. Fakid crumbles the letter and started stomping to the castle, "Ex, I'm sorry to cut this visit short, but call the council would you?" Fakid asks angrily. "Yes my lord." she shouts bowing and pulling her blouse as to show respect. Fakid closing in to the castle, caught by Madred, "Whoa, whoa what's wrong? Did Q finally go too far?" Madred says trying to hold him still. "Excuse me!" Q responds, "Let go," Fakid demands in a very serious voice. Madred lets go of Fakid and as he begins to stomp off again he shoves the crumpled letter into her chest. Madred moves back in reaction, trying to dig it out, Magoi walks up behind her. Q follows fast behind Fakid, looking towards Magoi and Madred as she crumbles the paper. Madred gives off a gasp as she also recognizes the handwriting, she looks up crying at Fakid stomping away with his head down. Fakid comes crashing through the throne room doors, before walking up to his throne and throwing the chair in frustration. The chair flies to a guard, who moves out the way, "Everyone get out!" Fakid says looking at every guard. Q is walking in behind and through the guards, to find Fakid punching a wall next to the window in the back of the room. As she slowly walks up to him, "My...lord?" Q asks, causing him to punch the wall hard breaking off some of the stone. Fakid stops and breathes out a long breath and turns around. He walks over to the steps up to the throne and sits down. "The letter... it's from Asomoth and it says to KILL ME!" he says yelling it out loud in anger. Q walks over to him and gives Fakid a hug, Fakid tries to push her off, but she holds on. As Fakid pushes harder, and as he continues Q hugs harder almost choking him. Fakid taps her to stop, she looks at him as she finds herself choking him. Q loosens her grip, but she doesn't let go, she instead sits on his lap. "Don't rage so hard, if that's so there are people here to talk to." Q explains. This time Fakid manages to push her off by raising his foot to kick her off. "What do you know?" Fakid says standing up and groaning, "What?" Q asks. "What do you know! You were poor you said, lowest class citizen, where they've lost family, I don't remember them trying to kill eat other!" He shouts. "Wrong! We killed for food, we killed peace. Back when your father ruled there were times when the fight felt like it would never end, all food went to war, if not to dead men and women. When we were hungry we had lower classes had to fight and steal to get food. Because of your father's stupid decision to fight, there were lower classes who fought to be on top!" Q shouts back. "Then get up! And show me this fighting spirit you had to develop, if shit's gonna hit the walls, then show me!" he says angrily. This caused Q to get up, she walked over to Fakid and punched him, "I don't care if you were betrayed, but you were never at the bottom you would not understand, you have just hurt though." she says. The punch causes him to stumble back, Fakid readies himself to throw a punch at her when a little dragon jumps into his face. Cutting his punch off and causing him to jump back, "Ah! What the hell, Nina!" Fakid shouts. "My lord, please don't fight your own teammates." Juli says walking into the throne room. Juli runs to grab Fakid and she tackles him to the ground, Q watches as he is tackled. She walks over to the two, "What are you doing, Juli" Q asks in a serious voice. Juli looks up, "I want him to stop!" Juli shouts. "I think he's had it get." Q says, "Fine" Juli says. While Fakid still struggling he pushes her off, and she gets up shocked by how violent he was. "I've got this, just wait for everyone else you two."