Gears of life

Chapter 3

In the high throne room in the citadel of the era city the mechanical king and his council of 15 mech lords and lady's debate. Within the throne room sit the seats of the fifteen lords and lady's in a semicircle and in front of them the grand golden gears throne of the mechanical king. The throne room itself was well light by artificial lamps and the banners of era city hung draped from the walls. All the lords and lady's wore fine leather robes and tunics of different colours and they were all under 40. As with each new king comes a new council if he so wishes to replace some. In this council were 8 men and 7 women all of whom were arguing relentlessly while the king looked on.

Lord Oliver: the fact is our army is not prepared for another war and if we try to wage another one we will be defeated worse than we were in the last war.

Lady Jillian: that is wise counsel coming from one who profits whether we go to war or not

Lord Oliver: and what are you saying lady jillian

Lady Jillian: that you are a coward my lord.

The lords burst with anger and started to argue

Lord orrick: I agree with lady Jillian you lord Cromwell are a coward if you doubt the expanse and the Victory.

Lord Oliver: I resent that!!

Lord greddy: peace please we are not enemy we are here to discuss the situation of the city

Lady rose: it is true the state of the city must come first and the expanse talk must hold

Lady Jillian: such talk is blasphemy

Lady rose: what do you know of such things!

Lord Fredrick: the expanse cannot wait; we must discuss our war plans now and...

Mechanical king: SILENCE!!
He slammed his fist down hard onto the armrest of his throne. All the lords stopped their arguing and looked to their king. He was a man in his mid thirties with a straight face as if he could show no emotion, he kept his blonde hair tied back and his face clean shaven as to show his shape features. He wore the mechanical king's robe of red and black with golden lining. And a golden chest and backplate with gears embedded into the corners. The crown of the mechanical king was the rival of all others, it was made entirely of gold and had several Gears crafted into the ringlet, as it sat on his head the gears and the grinds of the crown changed shape as if to show how he was thinking.

Mechanical king: I call this meeting to discuss a development in the new plan and yet your bitterness to one another has disrupted that and cost me time!

Lord Oliver: forgive me sire

Lady Jillian: and me sire

Mechanical king: enough, now back to the matter at hand. As you all know for months now I have been preparing our army to once again take up the crusade of the expanse.

All the lords: here here

Mechanical king: and you have all completed our tasks and orders I gave you to help with our war machine, economy and training of our new army.

All the lords mutter among themselves

Mechanical king: however what you did not know was that I was building my own investment into the next expanse crusade. You may all recall how close we were in the last war to winning thanks to the efforts of the supernaturals who sided with us, the chaos brigade was the fiercest force we had at our disposal, gifted with the powers of mischief chaos by the grand chaos wizard morthlogaurd. However in the final battle the brigade was nearly wiped out.

The mustering continued as all the lords remembered the fateful day they gave the order to send in the brigade in hopes they would turn the tide.

Mechanical king: for some time now I have attempted to have the brigade rebuilt, but far some little has been achieved, my enforcers have brought many supernaturals to refill the ranks but only 4 were from the original brigade and there for only they have the mischief chaos power as they only chaos wizard morthalguard was killed during the war.

Lord greddy: sire what would be the use of the brigade now then, if we rebuild it and only a dozen or so pose the powers.

Mechanical king: whether or not the whole brigade has the power does not matter. What matters is the brigade itself, just having a brigade of supernaturals to fight for us is enough. None of our enemy's has forgotten what the brigade did during the war that is the key the fear. And now my lords and ladies we have finally found the greasiest of the original brigade...

Before he could finish the doors to the throne room were opened and the enforce supreme marched in with his four captains and several enforcers. The enforcer supreme was a well built man with a straight posture and his strides had purpose. Unlike the regular enforcers uniform the supremes jacket was a leather tailcoat but with the same design. Also his gauntlet was golden as was the mask he wore which covered his face his captains wore the same styled jacket as the supreme only they each wore silver masks and their gauntlets were silver.

Mechanical king: ahh enforcer supreme just the person I wanted to see, come tell us what news you have brought.

The Enforcer supreme approached the kings throne while his captains stayed back

Enforcer supreme: we have received word from one of our informants and know the plans of the three vampires who have evaded us for some time now.

Mechanical king: good, and this source is the same one we have got information from for the past few years?

Enforcer supreme: yes my king

The mechanical king smiled

Lady Jillian: my lord if you would allow us to know what these plans are we..

The king waved his hand to silence her.

Mechanical king: this matter does not concern your attention, tell me supreme are we prepared for the coming events.

Enforcer supreme: yes my king all of my enforcers are in position.

Mechanical king: good everything is falling into place, everything
he smiled evilly

Mechanical king: go now supreme return to toe enforcers and be ready.

The enforcer supreme bowled as did his captains before making their way out of the throne room.

Lord Orrick: sire if I may

Mechanical king: ah yes lord orrick I believe you have news you would like to share with us.

Lord orrick: indeed sire

He rose from his seat and addressed the whole council

Lord orrick: my lords and lady's for years now we have been working to restock our armies supply's and replenish our ranks and we have succeeded but we can only go so far, but my engineers have discovered a new weapon which along with the kings newly formed chaos brigade will change everything in our favour.

He blew a whistle that was in his pocket. There was a loud noise coming from the hallway outside the throne room. The council thought nothing of it until it started to get louder and closer. It was like something heavy was marching down the hallway and something that also made gear grinding noise. and then without warning doors to the throne room were pushed open and the council all gasped when they saw what had entered the throne room. All their faces were filled with disbelief at what they were witnessing all except lord orrick and the king who started to laugh when he saw the great figure standing before them.

Lord orrick: this is the newest addition to our army, my engineers have come up with a nickname which I find not inappropriate, I give you the mechman.