Got A Secret, Can You Keep It?(Ff/kh)

Chapter 43

Your recovery was faster than you expected, two weeks was all it took for your leg to completely recover.  The other next four weeks, you spent them under extreme training by none other than King Mateus. That man was not only ruthless to his enemies but he was ruthless with your training too and not to mention the man you had to train with. You lost count with how many men you sent to the doctor. He didn't care if they were mortality wounded or not, he wanted you to succeed in your training and you did.

Not to mention his training in how to be his perfect soldier, how to act and how not too. He was ruthless with that too, but if he expected to beat loyalty into you, then we was very wrong.

He could beat you as much as he could but he would not get your loyalty, the only thing that kept you here was mostly your family. He wouldn't touch his heart and spare them, he made it clear.

Now, it was time to join the battlefield. Despite the training, if you could call it as such, didn't teach you how to properly lead an army and with your capabilities, you were not meant  to be lead either. You were free to fight as you saw fit, but it was more than that really.

You've heard the rumors of the soldiers, you've heard their fear in their voices. They were young and inexperienced in a war.So, King Mateus was using you as an example not to be afraid. To show them that if a woman showed no fear, nor should they. Or, it would cause them shame that a woman was more capable of fighting with no fear than any man.

The prospect of fighting seemed a lot more pleasing, you've had enough of King Mateus. Of having to be in his presence all the time, it was suffocating. At first you told yourself that you would get used to him, but you couldn't. Every moment, even without words, he reminded you who you belonged to and of course...Even now as you departed, with him giving a speech, his gaze he reminded you of the consequences of you fleeing.

Looking at the backs of your new comrades, you tried to ignore the man's gaze. Did he expect to see you upset? Or course you were no longer a First Class Soldier, and you no longer  enjoy the luxuries that it gave. Here you were nothing but a soldier, no more special room, no special food and no special clothing.  And he expected for you to see the distaste in your face?

You didn't like how the rest of the soldiers had treated you, acted cold and rude towards you. With how you had beat some of the training partners you had, so was their ego. You didn't have no friends here, but that was okay. This wasn't the first time you had to deal with this and it probably wouldn't be the last either.

At the sound of the trumpet, everyone began to march forward. And as you all left the castle, you could still feel the King's gaze on the back of your head. You weren't curious but you figured that he was thinking wether you would make it back alive.

You thought you were going to take the same journey when you were attacked, but this one was going to be somewhere else. The first week the area you had to cover was deserted but as you went on, you came to see a land populated with trees, plants and the occasional pond, lake or river. Then small villages came to view, in which you all took some time to rest.

Some of the villagers were afraid, some curious and some happy even to see you. Despite that they kept their distance. Journeys like this took weeks, and it was tiresome. Most soldiers were not used to them so it was no surprise to see them exhausted when you arrived to your destination. It was a military camp, the flags of Cacoon Kingdom swayed from side to side by the wind. You've passed the Kingdom, this was their military camp.

Either way, during this journey you learned that now showing yourself as a female warrior brought a lot more dangers than the enemy you had to face. Some men were not themselves when they were deprived from food, rest and of course, women around.

If you had not been on guard, you couldn't imagine how many men you would have wounded. Or even worse, what they would have done to you. Which was why you had cut off your hair once more, way to short and it seemed to work. They didn't make more attempt to sexually attack you.

You wondered...What would have happened to women if they actually  allowed to enlist the army? You weren't normal so if they attacked you, you had a better chance as defending yourself. And if rapes did happen, you could only imagine what it would happen. They would be ignored, told that men were men. That they knew what they were getting themselves into when they joined the army. It would be a long way until equality took place.

The higher officials were quickly informed of the status of the war, all the while the soldiers were ordered to set up their tents and they didn't need to be told twice. They quickly set up and since it was late already, most of them retired for the rest of the day.

Some of soldiers from Cacoon were kind enough to share their food the your comrades, which they eagerly accepted. Food wasn't an issue, you still had plenty of it. You learned to ration it, but what you were met with was once again, discrimination. As soon as they noticed your smaller frame, and of course other places proving you were very much a woman, they scurried off.

Everything moved fast, then part of the inhabitants of the camp were ordered to move out where part of the war was taking place. King Xemnas was an odd...Man to say the least. The way he attacked was odd, but with the ability to travel and simple plant one of those creatures, it was easy to just attack. Unlike everyone else who had to travel on foot, horses and carriages, it took way to long.

Either way, the battlefield awaited you, and sure enough the first sight that some of your companions saw was enough to implant fear into them. There were corpses scattered everywhere, not to mention body parts. The bodies belonged to the enemy and to fellow soldiers.

The Cacoon soldiers didn't seemed phased by it since they already experienced war already. And if it did, they were good at hiding it. As you continued, you were careful not to step on the bodies or what was left of them. 

The smell sent a few to throw their meals out of their stomachs, it was such a pultrid smell. It didn't matter how you breathed, it just wouldn't go away. Maybe even someone experienced was able to just barely deal with the smell.

Either way, you walked ahead along with the rest of the soldiers. You didn't count how many of them there they were  over a hundred may two hundred. The camp you left was very big, covering a very large area, tents everywhere.

This was was like no other, there was not an army ahead of you that was facing you and ready to attack. No, the area was empty...Or so it seemed. Slowly forms began to emerge from the trees, one, two, three and then more and more.

As expected, these had the bodies of a human but the wholes and multiple wounds on their bodies alerting you or their deaths. They acted very differently from when you first came face to face with one of them, they simply  attacked as soon as they spotted people. Not here, they waited...Until someone else appeared from one of those things you've seen before. The very same thing that Roxas had used to travel. Whomever appeared was a young man, long blue hair and the very same black outfit as the man from Kingdom Hearts.

Being all the way to the back, you weren't able to clearly see the man other than those characteristics. From what you heard a Prince was leading the small army, along with others. You were not sure who it was, not...That matters. There were only a few things to do, fight and survive.

The prince gave a command, and the soldiers offered a cry of war and they rushed forward ready to attack. You did the same, retrieving your sword ready to battle.

There were not many of them but if not careful....Their touch could be deathly and dangerous for the rest of you. They would turn into one of them and their numbers would increase. This was going to be ugly.