Episode 4: The circle

After the attack on Beckerharm town, survivors of Beckerharm town, towns around it, the 5th town that was blown and the 4th town that got affected were ordered by the royal majesty to refuge in a far away town that is close to the English capital, called Nottingham.

At night, the thousand refuges walked into the town

Citizens of Nottingham were surprised and in tears when they saw the big injuries some refuges had. The fear that showed in the faces of the refuges was like they had seen the devil and it terrified the people. The commander in chief of soldiers in Nottingham called Commander Braun called in a troop of soldiers consisting of 20 soldiers to his administrative office, when they came.

Braun: Am sending you to his imperial majesty, let this letter reach him as fast as possible !!

Soldiers: Yes sir

The soldiers took their horses and quickly rode outside the walls of Nottingham, to the forest

Their journey lasted all night, till they reached the English capital at first hour of the day

Reaching the capital they rode to the palace.

Inside the palace, in the king's Chambers, the king was playing chess with a minister in his kingdom till they heard a sudden knock at the door

King: Come In

A servant opened the door and said unto the king

Servant: Your highness, soldiers all the way from Nottingham are here to see you

King: Alright......😒

In the imperial cabinet where the King sits to make decrees, the Nottingham soldiers stood there waiting for the king. Two soldiers by name, Gananbry and Sané began to have a conversation

Soldier Gananbry: It's over an hour and the king hasn't shown up

Soldier Sané: What type of ruler would have a non challant attitude towards his.......

The King entered into the cabinet with his ministers, him and his ministers sat on their administerial sit to attend to the soldiers

King: Let's get this over with 😒

Minister Kenny: Someone should speak up

A soldier called Oswald decided to speak up

Soldier Oswald: Norwich !! Beckerharm !!! Catosburg !!! they have all fallen !!

King: Hmmm

Minister 2: We sent Runers and soldiers to secure that area, why are you saying those towns have fallen

S.Oswald: From what we saw, when we were got there. There was a Verstoßen over powering the runers, the runers didn't pull a sweat from the guy. Even i, in my entire life I haven't seen a Verstoßen display such amount of power.

King: 😠..... those devils... So why are you people here

S.Oswald: The commander in Nottingham gave us a letter to give to you

A soldier walked up to minister Kenny and gave him the letter. Minister Kenny walked to the King and gave him the letter, the king opened it, went through it and requested for an empty paper. He wrote on the paper, folded it and gave it to minister Kenny, Minister Kenny gave it back to the soldier

Minister Kenny: Give this to your commander

The Soldiers collected it and went out from the Palace. In Nottingham town where the refuges from other towns resided with it's citizens

It was time for soldiers to share food for the refuges. The refuges held a plate and made hundreds of line

the soldiers gave them a finger size of bread and poured a very little quantity of soup for each person. While doing this, the soldiers that went to the English capital rode in to Nottingham. They passed the thousand refuges that were collecting food and amongst the refuges was Cloud and his baby sister Alexa. It was time for Cloud and Alexa to take their own food, the soldier gave them a piece of a finger sized bread and soup to share

Cloud: Sir ,what about my sister

Soldier: You two should share the food

Cloud: What the hell !! it's too small for me, talk more about sharing !!! we are not slaves !!! so stop treating us like one !!

What Cloud said immediately got the attention of the refuges and they faced his direction. The soldier who gave Cloud food, looked round and saw all eyes on him. The people's attention gave Cloud more nerves to yell at the soldier

Cloud: 😏We !!!.....

...Cloud instantly received a thunderous slap from the soldier...

.../PAOW!!!!/...

He fell to the ground and the soldier said

Soldier: Who cares if you are slaves? After all, we did rescue your poor souls. Would you have preferred getting smushed in that rumble?

We secured you in a safe place, yet you yearn to be treated like equally as the inhabitants? If you wish to be treated equally, you will work for it. Good things don't come easy

Another soldier walked to the soldier talking

Soldier 1: Comrade ,you are frightening the people more

Soldier 2: Yes...... they should be frightened

Soldier 1: Shut up.... Common everyone!! 😁you know that's a joke. Go on with your lives, there is enough food for everyone !!!!

Cloud who was on the floor with his sister, picked his bread and carried his sister up. He looked at the poured soup in tears and walked to a shade to sit and eat. He sacrificed his bread for Alexa to eat it. While Alexa ate, Cloud was crying, remembering his family that died in the devastating church then he over heard someone shout his name

............: Cloud !!!!

Immediately Cloud looked towards his right, he saw Doris Lorenzo and Aryan Wood coming to him. When they got to him, Doris shouted in joy.

Doris: Cloud you are alive😣

Aryan: We over heard your voice from a far, when you yelled at that soldier. so we came to check if it was really you

Doris hugged Cloud and Aryan squatted to talk to Cloud

Cloud: Harry, Luna and Grecia... are they here

Aryan: They are dead😣

Cloud: 😧..... No

Aryan: Luna and her family were in the cathedral when it collapsed, Harry and his family were victims of the battle between the Verstoßens and Runers. My dad left me and my mum in death 😣

Cloud: Aryan ...... we would avenge our people and lay waste to all Verstoßens

Aryan/Doris: Huh ?

Doris: You are saying this out of anger, right ?😕

Cloud: No.... Aryan don't you want to still be a runer

Aryan: Cloud face reality... we never knew what the Verstoßen were capable of. After witnessing what they did to our town and the neighboring towns, I saw that those dreams were nothing but a mere fantasy

Cloud: Huh ? are you backing out from the fight

Aryan: For crying out loud ! those people can shoot out balls of fire from their hand !! they can fly !! their skin is harder than any metal you know !! they do extraordinary things that we Gehören can't comprehend !! 😔but what can we normal humans being the gehörens do ...... WE CAN DO NOTHING !!! there is absolutely no god damn thing we can do about it😢 we get squashed by them, we get roasted by them, we get decapitated by them !! we know we are gonna die some day but isn't it better to sit and wait for death to come than to walk straight into the arms of death !!!

Cloud: And I would rather die in a fight than sit back like a coward and die !!

Aryan: Don't you feel safer here, atleast you can see food to eat. The runer you want to become, you would hardly find food to eat.

Cloud: If it's about the food they are giving to you, you can eat it all but am not a parasite !!!

Aryan: The runer you want to become, there is nothing special about them, you watched as they were killed like flocks of insects by that Verstoßen

Cloud: 😦(Cloud instantly had a flash back to yesterday when he saw the Verstoßen kill runers on the cathedral's highest point) 😑😠grrrrr 😤 am joining the military cadet recruit tomorrow

Cloud stood up, backed them and was about to walk away

Doris: Cloud no!! what about your sister Alexa, do you wanna leave her

Cloud: 😳😡I leave her to you two....... I have already lost my family, apart from Alexa....... I have nothing else to loose.

He faced back to see his sister, when he saw her innocently eating the bread, he closed his eyes tight and walked away

Cloud: Doris I leave her to you, I will be coming time to time to see her. I swear when I become a runner, I will protect you all from danger

He walked out from the shade they were under, in search of the military cadet recruitment agency

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