chapter 1 meet the leaders

The lights dimmed as the meeting hall went into a calm silence. The only one that remained in the build was the fearsome leader of Capital. He relaxes sipping on tea thinking about how terrible his lates plan was. Somehow that lucky fool and the entertainer were able to figure out his plan and stop the destruction of the farmlands just as it started. The man shook off the annoyance and reached across the table for a delicious treat and froze as his hand grasped nothing but crumbs.

In the bleak early morning hours the last of six people called forth entered the room. At that moment the mini-meeting that would decide who lives and who dies begins.

The man shroud in darkness was sitting center of the other. He demanded silence before questioning them. "All right who ate them?"

"Ate what?" A man in green with clover symbol embedded in his off the shoulder coat. He was the only one with enough courage to speak up but on the inside, he was screaming in terror.  Freezing with a smile on his face as the leader turns towards him.

"Who ate all the muffins?" A defiant silence surrounded the room. The man in green glances towards another man in a plain blue suit with a horse embedded in it.

"Sky was near them the most." The man now known as Sky stands up and glares over to the man in green.

"Forget you Bow. I don't even eat muffins." He glances over to two women making small talk. "I do know a certain girl that enjoy them by the dozen." A silver-haired woman whose beauty rivals a goddess stands up singing out a quick hey. She was dressed in the most expensive robe proudly showing off her swan emblem sewn in her right chest. "Not you Stella. I meant Key."

"Hey!" said the young woman dressing in dark purple pajamas with a lighting blots emblem in her hair wrap. She was glaring up the table towards Sky as Bow tried to calm them down with a straight face "I don't even eat that many muffins but Weasel does."

Just as she says that Weasel a poor man dressed in a dark brown and black suit collapses to ground gasping for air. The weasel emblem was pasted on his black button-up.

"Now I know you're wrong!" The scream came from the center making everyone jump. "Weasel is allergic to nuts and all the muffins had nuts!"

"Lucius sweetie keep it down ." The boss flinches.

"Sorry, mom." Everyone settled down giggling softly as a broken moan came from the floor. A hand slowly reaches up weakly gripping the table.

"Help....me.." Lucius slaps the hand away.

"Shut up Weasel. I'm trying to defend your honor." The meeting continues for another three hours only for everyone to agree that they all ate the muffins. Weasel was sent to a clinic half an hour later.

He watched at the fired spread consuming the corn his mother and father worked hard on all year around. He could hear the other children screaming as the ran around him. He could almost feel the heat of the flames until he blinked and fell to the ground spitting out a mouth full of water.

"Come on Lukas you getting your butt kicked here." His brother threw another water balloon as one of the girls rushed by squealing and dowsing them both with a bucket.

"Are you boys a little too old to be playing with water balloons?" His mother exited the very glamorous house. Holding a plate filled with treats for the neighbors.

"Mom we're like seventeen. That's not too young to enjoy the sights of-ow!" He rubbed his head as their father started telling him off. "Yeah I get it I get it old man."

"Frank let it go you know how Lukas and Michel get when hungry." He nodded to his wife Margret and left the boys be while heading back over to party.

"Isn't this great. Because of that misunderstanding, the farmland is doing better now than it has in years. We might be able to get a tourist city up and running for the youngsters." Many of the men nodded and cheered hearing that.

"Your right about that."

"Hey, Frank what's up with Lukas. He's a little off." Frank looks at him with a deadpan glare.

"Duh, he's a little off. When hasn't he been." Many nods but kept themselves out of this conversation. "Why do you think we're giving everything to his younger brother?"

"Wait the one that ate rocks?" Some chuckle."

"No the one that juggles rocks." He waves him off before whipping around glaring full force. "Yes! The one that ate rocks, you moron"

Lukas was still standing in front of the house staring in shock as everyone laughed and celebrated. It was like they all forgot the terror and suffering the attack caused them. How much destruction was placed on the humble land and who did it. Thinking back to that day he swears to avenge his innocent people as another water balloon slams into the back of his head.

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