When All Else Fails (ON HIATUS)

The Forest Camp and The Blood Queen

Thank you for lending me Angel WildChildMary

Invading the queen of the east was no easy task. Not only was she a dangerous individual to mess with. Her encampment was known for all types of booby traps, and worse of all land mines. It took forever to track it down and locate its spot. However,  once they did Maria decided to give Ville a chance to come along with her men, Zeke, Noe, and their men. 

Tanny and Adda had stayed behind to keep order in the camp. In the beginning, all of her advisors had gone against the idea of letting a new recruit enter such a dangerous and important mission, but to Maria, each recruit had to be thrown out into the frontlines, especially if they had survived all on their own before joining a unit. 

"Remember we go in with the banner of peace, offering an alliance, but under this guise, we all try to find out where they keep the prisoners and free them stealthily," Maria said. "And what if it goes wrong mid-plan, like what if I find one of the prisoners and everything goes haywire," he said. 

"Then we come out guns blazing and do our best to hold back the opposition, while we find the other one, after all, we made plans for back home," Zeke said. 

Maria nodded they had already set into place a zone where they could flee too if they were in danger from another group. It had been set up at the beginning and until now they had only fled from regulators, but now as per the circumstances, it would be their new home if they did not succeed in taking down the queen, and her empire, they had to run.

"Do you think they will stop looking for us....they will search out for us for some time" Ville added. Maria grimaced he was right but she hoped that with the rations that were sent by Angel they could survive. She had arranged to meet alone with the blood queen to do the exchange if all went well, then go into hiding with her tribe, if the queen of the east and her clan yet lived. 

"Then we hide out like rats for a while, that is all we can do" Maria replied, as they headed out. The small car they had picked was an armored convoy. Noe knew this would not pose a threat as all cars from the survivors had to be bulletproof and have some way of tracking anyone following them. 

"So according to Tanny the queen is waiting for us to debate our supposed deal, we drive in carefully, and keep ourselves sharp and alert," Maria said. Maria did not worry about bringing some men from the troops with them, like the car this was a common form of defense and travel in the world.

After some hours they approached a large plain of forests surrounded by lakes, the trees were tall, looming, and ominous, but most of them were dead or burnt the lakes once beautiful gave an eerie vibe to the zone, filled now with acid, and poisonous substances. 

A small group of armed guards approached them armed in the fashion of guerrilla warfare until Maria showed her token, a  small tattoo carved with a knife into her back, it was in the resemblance of anima and animus, it had been chosen as a symbol only worn by the leaders of the world today. 

"You are here to meet our leader yes," The older man said he was wearing a gas mask so his face and voice were hard to discern, yet the banner and weapons bore their logo a small stick with legs protruding down and two upwards to be shaped like a tree, which lay encircled, a symbol of the deep wood survivors.