Laughing thunder [#Wattys 2018]

Chapter 19: Dumbledore tells war stories

     After picking ourselves off of the floor from Ariana's hammers of doom CJ and I separated going to our next and final classes. On my way to the door, I felt an overwhelming Spiritual pressure, energy, and aura beyond the door. Even to the point where I could hardly breathe eventually, I walked through the door after I steeled myself and in the middle of the classroom was Achilles decked out in old armor and robes.

     On his chest was a circular faded gold and grey chest armor with a sun etched into the middle with its tendrils branching out in curls of fire. With string connected to round metal shoulder armor which possessed a dark gray color each. Resting on his forearms and on his lower wrist in a square were silver bracers. Under each of these were a scarlet red robe and baggy white pants tucked into black sandals, and finally in his hands was no longer his crook but a gold shafted spear with a silver edge with etches of orange lines arcing over the surface.

"Ah! welcome, Thomas, it is good seeing you again!" Achilles said in a fatherly tone while clasping me on my shoulder. And from that contact, I felt an intense heat radiating off of him.

"Yeah same uh your kinda burning my shirt a little"

'My apologies my boy wearing this armor reminds me of many things and not all are good but let us add a good one today!"

"Sure sir, why are you in our class anyway?"

"Ah you all are about to cover the first war between us and the demi demons I am here to provide a first-person view of the events that unfolded but to your teacher's insistence I must not tell the whole tale and I must only show sparingly for now. But that aside go to your seat child class is about to begin soon"

"Yes sir" I smiled warmly

"Welcome students as you can see we have a special guest today, it is our Headmaster A-"

"Hey Du-" A random guy was about to shout out Achilles' nickname before everyone silenced his mouth.

"Don't do it" we each whispered sharply the teacher snickered at our behavior but looked relieved as well as she continued

"Achilles, he is here to help us with exploring the first Demi-Angel and Demi- Demon war"

"Hahaha! It is good to see you, children, once again, and I must thank your teacher for providing me with this opportunity to teach you all the actual history of this time rather than what they believe happened in the history books. I mean they just have to ask me or the other retired headmasters of the school, sloppy I must say but let us begin we don't have much time, Ms. Da Vinci will you allow me to take over this showing for today?"

"Not at all, headmaster."

"Thank you" Achilles raised his spear and struck the bottom of it to the ground three times sending out an orange and gold shockwave throughout the room changing the scenery to a desert area with the sound of flapping wings in the distance on both sides of us as to our left we saw Achilles and 6 other Demi-Angels flying towards our location and when we turned we could feel the sand beneath our feet and to our right we saw 7 Demi-Demons decked in gothic black armor with their monstrous reptilian wings, bringing darkness and destruction with their strides. After a minute the 14 of them met each other staring each other down as Achilles and one of the Demons meeting each other.

"Wrath! I demand you all leave immediately you are not welcomed in this world and to interact with humans so I would implore you and your generals to leave now peacefully or we shall start a war that shall scar the earth itself for generations and will end in your death!" Achilles' voice boomed with each word in a commanding tone each echoing across the battlefield. But on Wrath's face was a look of boredom and he appeared unimpressed.

"HaH! you demand we leave after that weak threat and in our deaths? You have misinterpreted that it shall be your death Dumbledore. Now let's end this pointless negotiation you know what this was heading to there is no stopping this war and our victory now let's begin!"

'So be it, Angels! Attack!"

'Demons! Destroy them all!"

And so the war began with a fierce clash of both group with Achilles beginning engulfing the other side in a tsunami of golden flames which were sucked into the maw of one of the largest of the generals whom I'm guessing is gluttony.

     Wrath drew two sicles and began attacking Achilles who guarded with the shaft of his spear. Wrath continued swinging and slashing in a whirlwind of chaos and lunacy that was his attack leaving him completely unpredictable but somehow Achilles managed to block every strike and saw an opening pushing his spear towards it but Wrath's wild movements made him dodge the incoming point as he twisted himself slashing Achilles across his face leaving a long scar on his forehead. this caused Achilles to stagger back breathing out flames from his mouth from the pain towards Wrath causing him to dodge it singing his blades black. Immediately after they clashed again. continuing their battle.

Each person's battle commenced similar to this with the land being ravaged by floods. flames. fractures and earthquakes, trees, storms, death, sound, and much more. The scale only increased year after year as it became bloodier and bloodier. This war lasted for over two centuries with it ending due to seven trumpets made from the angels in heaven because eventually at this rate the world would be destroyed from this battle so on the final day the seven angel generals came before the demons once again and asked for them to leave in peace which they refused.

     Seeing as they had no other option left they used the trumpets utterly eviscerating the seven generals as these trumpets were made to use the absolute pinnacle of the wielders power destroying anything in the user's path. With having won this war each general formed a pact to always fight together and to help each other as much as possible to never have this tragedy happen again and from the angels they were instructed to create havens for more of their brethren as soon as possible because with the defeat of the demi demons the demons would begin attacking and they were also warned of the return of the demi demons once again.

With another crash of his spear, Achillies broke the scene as his face seemed a millennium older from showing the events.

"That class is part of the overall war that I fought in as you could see that war lasted for centuries and as you can see I still carry to scars to this day, remember this children because of the destruction that may befall the people of the world who are unaware of these events that is why we must train and hone our skills so that we can protect those of this world but I won't admit that this has not blinded us over the years but in this class I implore and pray that you study these events and learn from them so that you can be better than the ones before you please promise me that."

"We promise," everyone says

A tear forms in Achilles' eye thank you, children, you have no idea how much that warms my heart, but I've talked for long enough it's about time to let your teacher do the teaching." he says as he walks off

"Thank you, Achilles have a good day," Ms. Da Vinci says as she continues teaching as our final trumpet sounds