Yu

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Chapter one2

The Kashin took out several ships near the mainland of Layjin', pushing the forces back, only 3 made it to Yu unharmed, one sunk by the mass of the weight it had gained from spears and arrows. Though much was learned from the sailors to combat the Kashin Ships, as in the weakness is to aim for the deck, no matter what, and the sides, which was commonplace, but most of the power as at the bottom of the ship, and it was not reinforced at the top.3

The growing urge of war sent a man named Palist to the frontlines of Yu, who will take them all the way to there shores and to there capital, to there front door no less. Ryoko to aid him, but not take upon the journey through the history of it all, who will go to a distant land and talk to Foci himself, bringing the Yu population great treasures to combat the new wave of evil from the universe many years after the war against Kashin.4

General Palist was a strong man, good hieght, and well built from the years on the sea as a trader. He had studied under many Naval commanders in his days as a Layjn' Imperialist. His eyes were always looking over the horizen, he knew oneday he would be a great man of the sea. Which he already was, learning and teaching his soldiers and sailors to combat the Kashin Army and Navy.5

General Ryoko, who will be by his side was a man of great wealth of Yu. He himself bringing all the clans together and forcing the Kashin back from thier homeland centuries before, has been growing suspicious and one day, have the courage of going up against the Counsel.6

I, Admiral shall sit beside them, taking my notes, barely interacting at times, but there will be small epics where I shall be needed most. My soul is intertwined, even after there deaths, but I will always be with there sons and daughters long after. 7

"Well, well, Counsel Members of Yu, we are going to raise an army no matter what, the growing concerns of our nation against Kashin are undeniable. Our economy will boost if we can get aid from Layjin' if we start war against the Kashin's." Ryoko said, Palist standing beside him as a bodyguard, no one stood against the War Counsel to thier plans, but these two were bold, and were going to stop a threat, before they are overrun by the Kashin Army.8

Myself watching the scene, stepped to the side and watched from my side seat, awaiting for more to go on. Watching Ki's face turn with distrust immiadiatly at the thought of Yu interviening with a war against the Kashin. 9

"We will do no such thing," Counsel Ki said, but then turned his statement around, "But for you, Ryoko, we shall." The man put his hand on the table and gave the direction to the door, and they slowly began to talk about there plans. Counsel Ki was a very well known man, but he was very cruel to the population of Yu, he was corrupt from the constant traders of Kashin he talked to, thinking he was above Yu from his none-savage ways.10

How I sat up and turned with Ryoko and Palist to thier horses, I watched the men smile at there new quest to bring battle straight to the door of Kashin. I smiled to the both of them and we strode out to the distance of the Kuda Clan Castle.11

Riding along woods here and there, we saw the countryside of Yu. Flat plans going into deep woods, and then hills into the distance. As we came up a hill ourselves, I saw large mountains of the middle Yu Island, where the fiercest of warriors lay, and the strongest poeple of the world lived, to fight everyday for no reason but the feeling of happyness. We would go there someday for the hell of it, to see our worth against the weakest clans, and slowly grow into the bigger ones.12

Ryoko stood infront of his Castle, which was built about 500 years after the clans came together. His family lived there, and most of the family has ever since Yu became a nation and was put on the Global Boards, which were large maps, mostly made by the Kashin and Ticontism people. Ticontism was a country and continent off the coast of Yu and Layjin' that did not trade or talk to anyone else, but there army was well known, with strong projectile weapons, they barely had any malee power, which will soon be there weakness against the Layjin' army centuries later after the Layin' world war.13

I turned to Palist, the future in his dark purple eyes. We smiled as he sat down on the ground, we were probebly all thinking the same thing, a great war, and we would be leading it to victory. His hand's clasped together, but there was no nervous tension, exept the sensation of killing running through his vains.14

Wondering about the future he looked to Palist, who was sitting down on the ground and wondering the same thing about the recent invasions and retreats of the Kashin army. The Layjin' knew they would not stand another fight against them, and Ticontism was having problems themselves against the General Turk, which is being pulled at this very moment from Kashin to defend the homeland from an attack. Replaced with some random captain.15

I coughed into my hand, and there was a ackward silence, but our minds were very noisy indeed. From what I could see, Palist was ready to spring to saying something, but it didn't come together perfectly and he sat back down to talk, his arm flexed and then all our eye's locked.16

The three looked at eachother for a second, "What should we do Ryoko? Time after time again they have ignored our action, we are old men, we cannot stand again infront and battle ourselves." Palist said to Ryoko, who he replied, "Well, we can raise an army ourselves..?" Ryoko shrugged a bit and smiled.17

"We could, but there is something we must do first. Build ships, and then turn them against the Kashin Army, we already know how to go against them.. Palist, what do you think we should do first?" Admiral said to Palist.18

The three had a plan, "We could, we really could, we would put it in the mercenary section, and gain power that way, they wouldn't dare use our reserves to attack us, we are to rich, gather up your family, we are going to show the Kuda Families power once again to the public." Palist said to Ryoko, who nodded, going off to another direction, and Admiral sat there writing down somethings about the recent events.19

As soon as this happen, Urikaine Kuda, stepped and tripped in the doorway. A man about 5'8 he was kind of short from his other family members, but always had a smile on his face. He was lean, but strong, a good horsemen most people knew him by as he rode from town to town quickly. He knew a lot about spears, and a lot about a sword, he had been training all his life for no reason, he was with Ryoko when 16 of the Kuda Family members went against a larger clan of 75 and destroyed them, watching and learning from his father's prowess in fighting.20

Urikaine Kuda ate a lot, but never gained a pound, he wore light leather armor all the time, even when he rode into town, with a purple sash acrossed his stomach to identify who he was. He had a naturally straight back, he looked a lot taller then he already was, and he knew that, for his black hair was darker then the night sky, and looked as if it consumed the area around it, as so his eyes.21

He rode everywhere, through the countrysides, he never worried about a mate or anything about friend's, he rode and rode, and never got tired. He learned to ride from his father, his father never learned how to ride a horse though. They both loved the sea, Urikaine Kuda would become great one day, as his father said this, "Urikaine Kuda is a gloryious boy, I espect him to be the best of this clan has to offer if we ever go to war, I want him on the frontlines like his father!" Ryoko explained.22

As I sat down on the ground, I watched a large flag be brought to the center of the camp, and along the flag poles there was also flags ready to be set into place for the recent show that was going to be underway. The Kuda Clan was ready to show to there poeple that they were still alive.23

That night flags were found and raised above all the outlieing castles of Yu, a purple flag of the Kuda Clan Family. It had a mountain in the middle of it with 14 stars, to commend to the death of 14 soldiers that died for the Kuda Clan during the uniteing of the clans against the Kashin long time ago. Palist was there, even though he was from another clan, he was a very well friend of Ryoko, and served him into countless battles. I was from another part of the many vast Yu Islands, we were stationed in the North, and I was born in the deep South, where we have no contact with any other clans, exept when we were invaded by the Kashin, we pulled out and went into the Northern Islands to tell that they were invading down there.24

The flags were powerful symbols for the Yu Isles, they showed that they were not barbarians anymore, but humans, humans indeed. "We will never let those flag drop, if we go against the Kashin, we will be riding with them stick in our backs, and piles upon piles of body before I see one of those fall." Ryoko said, which moralized the family of there proud heritage.25

I sat there for many hours, listening in to there conversations, and laughing at there stupid actions they made when they were talking. I could only tell them about my first military experience when I was 13 and another clan attacked, where I sat beside my father and took 20 men into his boat and sailed and landed nearby, attacking from there back-rear and toppled the invaders.26

They talked about countless battles that night, "Remember when that man from Layjin' came and helped us out in the battles against the Nalp Clan? He was a glorious man, I can't remember wherever he went." Justin said, who had the same build as Urikaine, but had this more Ryoko taste to him.27

As the day dawned, most of the members of the family got up, and got the flags from storage. The grandest of horses were set with plated armor, and they wore there greatest of there armor and clothing today. As the gates of the Castle opened, they slowly walked out, a purple mesh of some black too, gothic warriors. 28

They strode out to the villages, picking up any warriors that would aid them in getting a army together. Passing by one, they gathered almost 40, and it began to build. They were told to go to the Lasting Outpost and await to be asigned posts and what unite and what were they best with soon. 29

For I sat in the back, watching the column of men get larger and larger, my eyes taking in the view as we passed all the villages, men who wanted to fight, joined, and those who couldn't or didn't want to stayed. One odd thing came from an old man, in his late 80's who was frankly, barely alive, "Remember.. in the desert you have no name, for that you have no one to give you one,' and he passed away. Wise men and madmen are always to be trusted and revered, for that there knowledge is old and decrepit. 30

As the Kuda Clan went throughout the country side, the War Counsel gave orders in the Capital, which was Yu and sent 5000 soldiers to the Lasting Outpost. Yu had an army, "Yu had an army!" Ryoko said in his head before he spoke out loud in front of the villagers, who just woke up and wanted to see what was going on. More and more gathered, and before they new it, they had a force of 15000 almost ready for battle.31

I smiled at the quest well done, forces came from all over, and ships were sent to the middle Isle to collect mercenaries that wanted to battle against foreign enemies. My soul lurched forward, as I wanted to see the distant sea's, and the people, animals, land's that lay far, far, far away.32

Blacksmiths were hired all across the land, making armor custom made and money paid fully by Ryoko's family money, which was vast compared to many. Ryoko puffed out his chest as he walked into the Capital with Palist beside him, they strode together with strength and fertility of there new found strength. 33

Hammers and pounding went all around Yu for the weeks that the ships, and the army was being built. Everyone and everything had a part in the war-plan that was going on, and no one left the Yu continent, for that the fear of spies is very powerful.34

He walked over to the gates of the Counsel, bashing it down he ran over to Ki and hugged him, Ryoko of course, Palist sat by the door. "Thank you Ki, we needed those forces, we have a army of 15000, we now need ships, can you offer us some hand in that?" Ryoko asked, Ki replied, "Yes, we will give you all the money and men you need for the task of that, but hurry, Kashin forces were sighted off the coast of Gnoll, headed here, or to invade Gnoll, we do not know." he said gravely. 35

As we moved through the town, I noticed that Yu was becoming more modernized by the travelers of far who wanted to come here. Trading and a lot of mixing in the cultures turned Yu into more of a republic, which money, but no taxes. "Most of Yu's money comes from it's power to produce it, but since we do not believe in currency, we do not need it, take our homes, we fair in the woods." Admiral took from a Yu soldier during the first invasion of Kashin forces.36

They got to there horses outside of the Capital and moved to a ship yard in the back of the Yu Island, near the middle, hired 2000 workers to amass 1000 ships, and one after his great, great, grandfather, Armstaggin'. The money was paid to every worker, and the ships were costume built as so the armor, so they could see what man liked the most, a small ship, or a big ship, so they could adjust to the way it was made. 37

Armstaggin' was a 10 rowed balista boat, huge compared to the Kashin boats of 3 balista rows. It was very long too, and going to be well built to stand any attack from the Kashin army, which lay only a couple weeks away. The massive haul accomplished well over most of the army, but what our strength was fine vessels, fine men, and not many numbers.38

Chapter Two - On standby39

The Yu islands started to gather more and more wood, more and more power, and more and more forces. Slowly from there after, became an empire. The Boats were getting finished in a successful speed of 7 boats a day, with how many workers doing one at once, refreshing them with new task-workers and then setting up for another row of fresh men to work some more. The blacksmiths were making a slow pace though, the swords and spears would be finished later on because they would be needed to fit each soldier for what they wanted the length of handles and the length of the sword itself. "Haha, we will have a fully optimal army capable of taking on units three times it's own size!" Ryoko laughed into his hand as Palist examined the ships, Palist replied, "What we wished.. but you see, Ryoko, that is what we want. The rush of battle, the taste of blood in our mouths, for that we are from Yu!" He held up his hand and troops all over the ship were re moralized to the stake at hand. This was a stake, if we lost, it was all over.40

Men gathered as they finished there boats main deck, throwing up the poles, lining them with rope, and then giving them to there owners to try out on the ocean for many people's first time. I myself sitting on one boat to get a feel for it again, being away from a boat for about a week, it was an easy adjustment, I was born on the sea, as a lot and a lot not of people from Yu. Some were inlander's, who never seen the sea in their lives, then there is the men who never seen the mountain terrain that lives in the distant insides of Yu's heartland.41

"Very good job, this are brilliant, if I say so myself. I would hate to go against these any day, they seem like they could hit some good miles a day!" Palist spoke to the men that were working, "I design them with the help of a special general of Layjin, general Tyler, he is a good man, and fierce in combat, he pushed the Kashin back several times from his homeland. I hope my boy fights beside him one day to show how another general fights just like us at home!" Ryoko laughed a bit.42

I inspected the boats myself, smiling in glee at there success. Yu was not a sea-faring society, but we could make very good war ships and vessels built for speed and stamina, now they are being made for strength. My finger types running along the deck of three that day, I saw much success in them, the finest of the Yu's Navy.43

The days passed quietly almost, many people running back and fourth to get jobs done, Ryoko and Palist were training the army for the upcoming battles when they stepped forward into the unknown Kashin Continent, they researched there battle tactics with Ticontism, and were surprised that they were always in a big column, and never went to the side, and it was usually squared, one big square army, nothing they have ever fought with.44

"They fight in columns, they stand in a group, how.. what is it called Ryoko?" Admiral said to Ryoko, turning to him within the comfort of his chair, "Well, I guess they must be afraid of death, the Kashin people have not seen battle against us, only stories, so they will be needing a big column to fight against our poor organization skills," Ryoko replied, and Admiral snapped, "We do not have poor organization skills, we like to fight with open arms to the enemy, that is why we win, they get arrogant and try to charge us, but we are all different, kill one of us finally, the other one will be different, but the Kashin, they fight in the same style all the time," Admiral said to Ryoko, who nodded with the knowledge gained from that.45

Since many of the Yu people already had bows, they were already skilled enough with them, and Ryoko spent more time teaching people how to ride a horse, and himself, and one man alone made a inspiration out of all of these men, well, two men did, Firebid and Urikaine Kuda. Firebid and Urikaine kuda pulled themselves up the rank through there shear knowing of the horses and how to manuver them through tough terrian and to swiftly jerk them to the side from going straight forward, and they brilliant in doing so, and got Calvery Captains before they could go onto the field. 46

General Palist was in charge of the Navy, he already showed himself brave when he would be attacked by Kashin ships off the coast of Gnoll and Layjin', mistaken for a spy vessal, he would ride up to there bowl and yell at them from his small ship, he was very scary when he got mad. 47

Admiral was a historian/admiral ranked but would not serve in any of the battle plans during the remainder of the war, but after will get honor titles for his bravery in battle.I regreted no plan that I gave, because, all the plans I gave were always on the winning portion of battle, and none I gave fitted against thier plans.48

Every man closed there eyes, and they slowly became more skilled with everything they had already trained through, almost in complete and udder solitude of blindness, they learned to fight against eachother, slowly becoming stronger with drills and more drills, everyone using there own fighting style and stanced, while even remained in a group, or unit. They learned to be close over time, outside the Kuda Clan Fortess, which always had it's flag overhead. 49

Over the vast months of planning, everything was made, all the ships were in order, and men and woman got there weapons and armor. All of the men lines up, men were given there weapons and they got there armor. Slowly they were stacked together, and everyone was given which line they wanted to be in, who they wanted to be next to, who they trained with, and they became an army of friends. 50

Ryoko opened up the doors to the Yu Counsel Hall, and they were talking about the Kuda Clan, which Ryoko shrugged off and shook his head and then spoke to them, "I am taking 1000 forces on my own, wood and all, 200 ships and we are going to Kashin, by tommorrow, I have everything set together, Palist will be with me. Goodbye Counsel, I wish you luck." Ryoko turned and walked out the door, closing it behind him, a surge of energy from his youth came through him, he would be battleing it out against the Kashin.51

That night men gathered around campfires and they looked into them deeply, orginizing there thoughts as Ryoko gave the orders, they were now elites in training, there forearms raw with the new muscle and the weapons that lay in there hands. They held there heads high that they would be better, they would take the Kashin by storm. 52

Ryoko elected Nofross as the general of the remaining Yu army of about 19,000. Ryoko wanted to scout and get ready for the upcoming invasion that would be behind him soon after he leaves. As Ryoko set off, many new hopes came into being as the Kuda Clan flag was put above there ship, it was a awesome sight to see.53

Chapter Three - 54

Ryoko gathered his men and huddled them for the taking of the first Kashin Ship that lay half a mile away from them, they gathered there honor and hope to take the Capital Ship that lay infront of them, guarding it was 400 ships, he had only 200.55

"Give them more then they can take, fight to the fullest, and make their mother feel it!" The ship went at full speed ahead, coming against the haul of the other ship, which it almost rolled over to the side from impact, crackeling and splintering, as Yu forces rolled in viscously attacking with spears, axes, and swords against pathetic Rapiers, which broke and the Capital ship was taken over. 56

Palist which was on that ship turned the ship to it's own, fireing the balista's into the sides of the others ships around him as men fired crossbows and killing captains. The Yu Navy was winning it's first Champain. The Yu boats turned back, and then turned a swift turn which almost costed a couple ships into eachother, turning they fired, turning back to reload, and then coming again. Some rammed into other ships and took them over, slowly, and swiftly at the same time, the pace was taking it's toll on the Kashin Navy.57

From my spot next to Palist, the navy column moved forwad, opening up slowly and then quickly, one way hit the and then a reloading, as they pushed forward against the Kashin lines. 58

"Fire at will, but fire at targets!" Admiral leaped from his chair and yelled to the captains. The Yu Navy moved into the Kashin lines, opening fire everywere, as the Kashin had no time to recover as 'Ramming Ships' which they were called now rammed into the Kashin and stormed across, pillaging it and killing the captain before he jumped. Taking that ship and pulling the ramming ship off there side they opened fire on the Kashin Navy some more.59

This went on late into the day, fireing and fireing they were against the Kashin. Many Captain Ships were lost, and the Kashin were forced to retreat back into Gnoll shipyards which they met resistance and a following Yu Navy, and the Kashin Navy was crushed. "What a site to see, we have won our first champain against the greatest military in the world, next to ours." Admiral boldly said.60

During the night one vessal managed to excape our sight as we held the rest of the Navy Hostage, but that ship was sunk due to a reef it couldn't see. A lot of things were going well for the Yu Navy, which has battled a foe half it's size, "Foci is on our side in this war, we shall be able to take Kashin by next week if this keeps up!" Ryoko and Palist laughed as the descent moved forward, and at the last moments they fired all guns at the Kashin boats, destroying them almost on the first wave of Balista rounds, we reloaded, and fired again, not one lay above the water in the morning. 61

The Kashin Navy General through himself overboard and was found surely by a Yu Scouting boat and taken to the Yu General. "Well, well, we have a Admiral with no ship, what I shame. We have no policies, or peace treaties, we are men of Yu, we will send you back under strict orders, we are in war production, we have a dispensable army, and you will never defeat us." Ryoko said with honor flaring in his eyes as the commander was sent back on a captured ship, with a Kuda Clan flag over the Kashin one, a symbol of demoralization was at hand for them.62

The first Champain was done, now they must get over to the Foci Lands or Layjin', with no maps they knew nothing of the terrian, but they were going to learn, they had 2 months of food, and it takes 1 week to get to Kashin, they were going to lay waste to any porting ship of the Kashin. As they turned away from Gnoll, Admiral took his first men into battle against many porting cities and lay siege to them, and then turning back to the Yu Army upon his successes against the ports, losing no ship.63

I turned around, seeing a fine man in front of me, who looked as if he was not from Kashin Descent, but from Layjin', turning again to see Ryoko's face, who was bent on finding out information about the man from the capitlist ship.64

They found many, even one of the grandest Capitalist ship, which Ryoko found a man named Xavier on. "My name is Xavier, I am a man of the Layjin', we have been suspecting you, General," he bowed to Palist, and then looked to Ryoko, bowing again he said, "Generals, I correct myself." He smiled a benevolent smile.65

"What are you doing on a Kashin Capital ship?" Palist said in a modest tone, and tune, Xavier replying, "I was sent by the Layjin' Government, we knew you would be coming out here, in my bags are some maps," the man did say that with two daggers in his hands, and three Yu soldiers were skewered by him, but the only way he lived was by a Captain named Tison, "The man didn't attempt to kill those men, he didn't attack and vital organs, he is skilled, we could use him," the man saved Xaviers life.66

I nodded to Tison, was came into the room, about 5'6, skinny, but had a good aura about him. "Hello Tison, good to hear from you again, and see you," I said, turning then to Ryoko as he nodded to Tison.67

The man was Tison, a brilliant man of the last Island of Yu, he was educated in the Capital, but he was nothing like them. He had the honorable tune and tones of a battle men like Ryoko, always willing to go into the front lines and fight a clean and well designed fight. "Tison will be on my side till' I leave this place, and die." Palist said, patting Tison on the back gently.68

I turned, hearing footsteps coming from our port side, throwing a crossbow in front of me as the door swung open, my finger against the trigger as a scout opened the door and stepped forward. My hand put the crossbow down and the soldier spoke.69

"Kashin sighted in and of the West sir, they are coming from the North of the continent of Gnoll, we should advance and storm there front." a Scout said, as the man took a step forward, his eyes filled with tears in his eyes as smoke rose from the side of the ship.70

"Whoa, what is that some coming from," Admiral sprang into action, but the scout calmly said, "Our cook made a little mess, and it burning the raw meat in the cargo to get rid of infected disease, even though I wouldn't mind having a bite out of it, I have been up on.." Ryoko shushed him as a ballista ran straight into the side of the ship, everyone sprung to there feet then.71

Ryoko and Palist had other plans, "Use the swift ships, and run along side of them, and fire, fire, fire!" Ryoko said with his powerful voice as Palist did not have, 'what a good team', Tison said to himself, as he told his men to align and get ready to attack one side of a ship.72

Looking at both of them, I smiled, turning my hands against a crossbow and firing at anyone I could see from another ship, "3.." firing right into the chest of one, I turned and reloaded, but as that moment happen, a ballista shot out from a capital ship, hitting right dead center toward myself. Grabbing the railing of the ship, I leaped forward, throwing myself into another ship, running through it and throwing myself onto another, a Yu ship this time.73

Turning around, I saw Ryoko pulling his voice into action, and orders were yelled, "Light ships go along the line and fire, and then heavy go along the sides of the army, suround them! They are getting ready for a retreat!", and from my view, all looked well for this battle.74

The orders were given, the light and swift ships went along the Kashin front and fired, taking down some of the ships but did not sink them. "They are turning, send the heavy Capital Ship Foust!" Palist said with full force, Ryoko repeating him slightly afterwards, the pair was very well calculated and by Kashin Captains after the war, they were thought to always be beside eachother in every battle, no matter what.75

Soon the Kashin Navy retreated, as the front line of Ships turned, they soon fell before they could fire, the ballista's had made most of the balista's themselves damaged and destroyed. "Another Victory and a job well done for the Yu Navy!" men cheered from ship to ship, and another soldiers said, "We didn't even lose a single man or ship.." He was rubbing his eyes.76

I patted the back of the general's soon-after, telling them of the story of the ballista that was fired upon me, and then making sure that I wrote down everything that happened during this day, which had much controversial things about it, the Kashin Army did take a ship down, but it was a scouting ship before the battle, did that count? I stayed up all last night trying to figure out if that counted or not, so I didn't put that in there.77

As the Kashin retreated the devised a plan to quickly move there forces East and then pull around in a circle, covering out Main Ship with the General's inside of it. But they did not have enough time for the maneuver, two days has passed, they must get to the shores of the Kashin continent before Layjin' falls and Kashin has a main army to attack with.78

A lot of men slept that night, but Ryoko and Palist, they were going to sleep in the day tomorrow. The second champaign of the War went underway, the navy battle of Set Speed was it's name. Yu was slowly becoming a super-power, with the luck they have been gave, they will now seek there eyes on the capital of Kashin, but they would go through some hard times before-hand.79

On the third day, which was now, they moved there whole fleet in a North East pattern, no ship lay to far away, no ship lay to close to each other, they were ready to resume a attack pattern and ram the front lines of Kashin's Navy at anytime. Later in the day they went over the maps and learned they were getting close to the Continent of Layjin', and they started to see more Fleets of Trade Ships, which were fired at, and a lot of them sunk. 80

The Yu Navy halted, from Layjin' they saw vessels approaching, the Yu Navy spread apart in two patterns, seeing the Kashin Flags, they were going to use a new tactic against them to keep as if they were switching general's, but they were using old tactics.81

These old tactics, were my plan of course, which were called Double Tanking. Splitting the army into two parts and throwing swift ships first, flanking, pulling back and slamming huge ships forward into them. Turning back and then flanking with small and swift ships, turning again, constantly switching out ships, and using a low number of them.82

The Kashin and Yu fronts slammed in front of each other, and a vicious battle went underway, destroying half of each others army and laying waste to anything they could scrap together. Plans were ruined on both sides, and the Main Ship of the Yu armor was damaged, but General Palist held firm. It went well, and in the middle of the battle I was forced to go onto Urikaine's ship because of Ryoko's yelling disturbed my writing sometimes.83

In the middle of the battle, Ryoko's ship was taken by a huge gale, and it went swiftly out of site of both armies, as the day went on. The battle for Layjin' was undergoing, but the Yu navy had only 50 ships and the Kashin Navy had 400, the Yu Navy retreated, a loss on the 3rd champaign, and a missing General afoot.84

"What the hell, where is General Ryoko!?" I scrambled his ship through the whole line, he knew the ship did not sink, for that the ship was unsinkable in the minds of the commanders of the Yu world, for that precious cargo could not be lost now.85

As I walked through the halls of ships, I tried to get all information I could, coming to a soldier in the last hall of one ship who seemed to know what he was talking about. He was a captain, and told me this.86

"I heard it went off during that gale, and headed to Ticontism in a stream, it could be in Foci it was going so fast," A Captain said as he turned to Admiral and saw the warnings of a horrible omen aput.87

Chapter Four - What happen to Ryoko88

Ryoko's ship collided into a deserts Island off the coast of Kashin, throwing him and his soldiers off and rolling. Some men got back up, but some had shattered bones and coughing up blood from impact. 89

Ryoko went to one of his Captains, "What happened?", he replied, "I do not know, I don't even know if this is Kashin or Foci Lands, I have no idea where we are, we lost everything in the battle, we may be the only ones left." he then stopped.90

The General tried to get a look around, moving his eyes there, and finding scraps of his ship still intact he made a small campfire and night quickly came as they told stories and tried to find where they were. Ryoko said, "We will be moving away from here, pack your bags, we are leaving as soon as I see sun. Something in my gut tells me to go West." Ryoko and the soldiers drifted off to sleep in the boat that was half smashed into Desert Sand.91

As the Sun rose, so did Ryoko, his 20 men and him moving out with packed bags and enough food to last them a long time, a good long time. They came to no villages, but a small forest, no animals could be seen, they even knew in Kashin they had animals in the desert.92

As they walked a couple miles, they came crossed a Pyramid, with the largest statues alive, it's eyes glowed as if it were alive. As the Column of soldiers inched forward, the Golem moved and twitched, lifting it's arm, and swung down toward the men. Ryoko gasped, and jumped back as the hand stopped a couple feet away from the men, and a person's voice was heard in the distance.93

"Hold creation of Foci, they come in peace, they were sent to come to Foci and teach the ways of prosperity. They deserve to be in this land." the man said from atop the pyramid, followed be, "Come inside men of Yu." as a large block from the pyramid dissapeared and they went inside of it.94

They walked the halls for hours, then coming to a room that was very dark, with much marble that in cased it, in the middle there was a dug in place with a man standing in the circle, many runes were glowing. "I am Foci, I have heard of your conquests Ryoko, I am almost smiling for you." the man bowed to him.95

Ryoko was stunned, he did not fumble, "Thank you Foci," he bowed back to the man, "Thank you for your hostility, but what brings me here to you?" They all sat down on some chairs and listened.96

"I bring you good news, your lands have been fruitful and your men strong, your woman kind, and your power unbeatable because your lands are not like others. You have no arrogant people, you do not care much for money, they is no peasants except for the men who want to be. You will all be rewarded with the power to manipulate what is around you for War and Peace." He smiled to the men, and Ryoko's captain Mark smiled as they were all getting the knowledge and powers that will be called Of Medea, and Of One.97

Of Medea was a style to manipulate forces around them to fight and make things work in the order they were supposed to happen, or how they want them to happen. To manipulate fire, water, and all the elements needed for this power to work.98

Of One, is the style to manipulate the forces inside of you to transform them into you and use them for physical and mental powers. Extra strength and force to lift and destroy, to open your mind upon the world and learn things much easier.99

The styles were all in the men that lay before Foci, now they slowly altered there minds to the new force in them, they trained.100

"Train now, use the forces around this room till' you feel necessary to go back to Yu and teach them, you will know how once you leave this place, I will make sure of it, now, train my son." Foci said, smiling to Ryoko.101

I had to use Foci's records, who allowed me to after this war and did not use any tales, and after the war I asked Ryoko about his trip to Foci, and he gave me this information.102

Chapter Six - Yu forces meet Palist103

"I am being followed from my rear, they are attacking my forces as they retreat, we must turn around quickly now and destroy them all as they come back." Palist said to his Captains as they turned and rushed into Kashin lines that weren't prepared as the Yu boats came from all directions, coming along there rear as men slashed through there middle line of boats. The 4th champaign was a draw as they both moved back and slashed each other over and over again, until the Kashin simply retreated with only 130 ships left and the Yu Navy with 1500 coming here and there, heavy ships in the back still, and moved into a large column.104

"We lost Ryoko, we do now know where he is, we must get to Kashin before those men do, Justin, Urikaine, hurry your column to the front and lets get this all underway." He stopped and then gave the order from another boat and to another boat, that boat said to another, and then the column of 1500 ships moved torward Kashin.105

General Nofross was already 300 miles in front of them with his 1000 men ready for battle to get onto the shores of Kashin, which was not waiting for them, they would surprise attack the Kashin's surely. "We will get our revenge for Ryoko, if he was killed, but we will be kind enough to take no prisoners!" he said, his men cheering with him, they knew that they were the first to fight this war, die or not, Ryoko was the country, he the the land, the sea, the mountains, in the blood of the children, mothers, fathers, the family.106

After a couple days the Kashin finally gave there last charge, but due to the shear number of the column, they were savagely ripped apart before one ship could get 100 years of the ships, destroyed instantly. Taking the Admiral Seventho down in the charge, he thought he could make it out the other side of our army if he charged hard enough, even with the gale behind him, he was destroyed quickly. "Fool.." Admiral Palist said.107

The 5-5 had matched itself, losing only one of the Champaign, Yu was victorious on the navy side of the war, and would never be matched in a sea battle, at least they hoped. 108

Chapter Seven - Invasion of Kashin 1-35109

General Nofross ran his ships ashore, the front of them opening up as the men poured ashore, bows and crossbows first to insure that they are not going to be fired upon so easily without resistance, but there was no army in front of them. He went forward into the territory of the Kashin, as an army was awaiting from his rear, charging him, one soldier recalled the general's fighting style. "He fought with the largest shield, swinging it savagely, throwing Kashin to the side, swinging his short sword, I would mistaken him for the Foci himself, his height was compared to the Kashin soldiers, who fell back on other soldiers as he moved forward, throwing other men to the ground, and ripping them apart.110

Spear men charged, as with the calvary, smashing into the Yu lines and ripping them apart, destroying everything that was left of it. Only a thousand were standing that day, Nofross gave a last charge and stand with his captains, taking down as many as he could, throwing and savagely killing almost 200 men in that battle, he was a good general, his captains giving battle calls as men swarmed into them, spearing them, as they fought back. Throwing spears aside and men, Nofross was finally silenced with 5 men spearing him through the chest, gut, and throat. 111

1 out of the 35 champaign's of Kashin was lost called the Battle of Nofross, but glorious one it was, Nofross would be remembered in due time. But now the Kashin knew they were coming, and fierce and hard they would be, in the records they do not know how many Kashin died that day, but the force they had was 50000 men, half of there army, the other half was in Layjin', ripping it apart.112

General Soy'lerg spoke out loud to his Kashin Commanders, "Hhaha, we shall take them out soon, onward, scouts go out and find the boats where there will be reinforcements for these forsaken people. I will be resting, captains, come, lets have a drink," he said as he turned himself to his camp.113

Many of the Kashin generals sat in tents during battles, not ever seeing the general's faces unless a peace treaty was erected or his army was destroyed, and they were coming to his camp. 114

The tale came to General Palist who stationed himself onto the shores from a scout who ran from the battle of Nofross, telling of the tale and how he took down so many soldiers that we had to woke around the wall behind him to get to him after he called for his captains. He would not have surrendered, never in his life Nofross surrendered, that is why he was Ryoko's brother, Justin Kuda said as he walked with his regiment of soldiers that were more then soldiers to him, they were friend's and allies, such as Urikaine's calvary unit.115

Soy'lerg came from the North East, and Palist arranged his forced for the 2nd champaign of 35, he looked out toward the army and concentrated, he put his pike men in front of him, long spears and then short ones, then he switched them out to make them look like they were confused, but he was actually moving his crossbows behind his long spear men, and moving his archers to the sides of his army. The calvary were in the back and ready to spring when the moment was right for Palist.116

Soy'lerg charged his calvary like Palist expected, throwing themselves right into the line of fire for the Crossbowmen as they got into 50 yards of range and massacred. From the sides of Palist's army he threw his arrow men into gear, spears destroying the calvary were the lay. "Reload... fire!" another volley of bolts came from the crossbows, leaking most of the calvary that halted from the captain with was a doomed mistake.117

The horrow on the captain's face was never made again, as another volley shot and ripped through the calvary again, almost taking out more then half now. The Captain panicked and threw his men forward into a suicide attempt, as the Yu army was splitting for it's great manuaver.118

The Yu army split on it's own, and a swift calvary charge from the middle, and both of the sides, as footmen came behind them, the calvary smashing into the Kashin Calvary, ripping them apart. The Kashin Captains not knowing what to do because there general was far behind them in a camp, didn't suspect this to happen.119

Foot soldiers to foot soldiers as calvary ripped through the foot soldiers and main column of the Kashin army, the footmen following behind and massacring the rest of them. The Kashin army pulled back, but another wave of Calvary Justin and Urikaine came from the side, 100 men in both.120

My eyes shifted from side to side, looking about the column as they charged, ripping each other apart. The small number of the Yu army was made up with the skill of it's fighters. "Beautiful artwork, these men that will live as tales for new generations to come, if there is." I smiled with great anxiousness to write.121

"Haha, men, stay close together with me, see that little break in there right top? Aim for that, defend me, I am going straight through!" He lifted his spear, as his group rampaged through the top right of the Kashin Army, tackled to the ground by a Kashin soldier, Urikaine fought back desperately for his life, grabbing the soldier as dead lay all around him.122

My eyes watched, turning my form around as another army came from our side. Palist was forced to retreat as another army came forward, he had no calvary and didn't want to lose any of it, so he pulled back, the calvary then pulled back with him, and awaited orders. Sitting down in a small camp, we awaited to learn about the losses and wins about the battle, but there was no record upon how many they killed.123

Urikaine Kuda lay under a bunch of dead bodies, pulling them off he was covered in blood, and was surrounded by the Kashin army, but no one noticed him. "Wha-what happen?" a Kashin guard saw him, and helped him up, brushing him off slightly before realizing it was the enemy.124

Guards came after him as he ran toward a horse, tackling one of the calvary men off his horse which was stolen during the run and rode off toward the army column, he was almost killed. Myself took note that he was very brave and that was a omen that he might be great one day with his speed and accuracy to not panic under such events.125

As I sat down in my chair, I awaited orders about how many were lost, and who won the battle, it wasn't known yet, but it was our lose, but not in numbers, but the retreat.126

Urikaine Kuda came into camp, bloody as hell, Justin Kuda came over to him, "What the hell happened to you dude?" the man tilted his head to the side of his brother, as he replied, "I.. I don't know, I was charging and I saw the break, ran straight into it and someone tackled me off my horse, I got up, and some Kashin soldier helped me up, I pushed him to the ground and grabbed my horse and flee'd, am.. am.. I alright?" the soft spoken man was shaking and Justin Kuda inspected him, "You look alright, no wounds, but you are covered in blood, how many did you kill?", he replied, "Three."127

From my chair and tent, I watched the column move and make a camp near a small village that was neutral to the war. The Column sat down and rested for a bit, wondering about the next day, and if that was skill, or was that pure luck they took down that battalion of Kashin soldiers? They did not know, but they rested well, they wouldn't dare to attack us again now. 128

Back in the Camp of Kashin, the general was stunned by the outcome of the battle, knowing not what to say to the president of Kashin, Sphinx about his outcome in battle, he shrugged it off, and then later sent a letter saying Sol'lerg has it all under control, it was all luck. They were afraid, that Foci might just be on there side in this one.129

My eyes watched, my hands rubbing against each other as people walked into camp on horses. A young woman came from the ranks, a Sargeant already, her name was Crystal, one of Urikaine Kuda's calverymen. She was well built for her beauty, she was in the front lines and doing well under such the pathetic command of the soft-spoken man that turned into a Calvary Captain in the middle of battle. My eye looked on her, her arms built well as she would make a good General of the Yu army, or a great calvary captain someday.130

I smiled, as a women came from the ranks and went forward. She walked over to Urikaine Kuda, bowing her head as she looked toward the ground, "There is something grave on the horizon, I must talk to Tison, there is people who have snuck onto our boats, they are kids, and one of my brother, is there anyway I could send them home?" she said, her eyes sparkling.131

I noticed something then, Crystal had this twinkle in her eye every time she would speak of Tison, they made frequent gatherings together, but as of now, she wanted to meet him for the first time.132

He had to, moving over to Palist, he hinted him to come over to him, from his horse, which was visible, and thank Foci he was known. "Well, this woman says there are kids in these regiments, and they have snuck onto our ships, and one is her brother, a kid sir." He tilted his head to the side as they looked to the woman.133

"Well, there is one thing I can do, and that is make them fight for there country, we cannot send for reinforcements yet, the waters are to dangerous to go right now. And we do not want to risk the kids life, do ya? I will put them in the back of the army, safe, they can rise through ranks there and age, this war is going to last a long time." The words echoed through her eyes and ears, Palist was a good talker, it was better then she expected, she shrugged and said, "I shall get him and tell him the news, thank you General Palist, but can I speak with Tison please?" her eyes were glowing again and Palist hinted over to Tison for her.134

Tison and her talked about the plans ahead, he only talked to her about them for some reason, they had this connection or something. "Hehh, what brings you to the front lines? Most woman like to stay in the back and make food for us and stuff, but you like to share blood and death with these soldiers, why?" Tison said to Crystal, and she replied, "Hey, I am not an average woman, I don't like staying in one place, I cannot," she said with a little honor in her tone and tune.135

From looking at the two, they seemed like a perfect pair, laughing almost inside as Urikaine came into the picture, almost hitting into one dude and spinning slightly to catch his balance, he knocked right into a, "Kid?". Turning my head, I wrote what had happened next down.136

He simply smiled to her, and Urikaine Kuda came into the picture, knocking into some kid, not noticing the kid there, "Hey there, what is your name, are you Crystal's brother?" Urikaine said, the kid replied, "Yes... my name is Kento, I am 14, and loyal to my country!" The little man saluted and the vigor in his eyes were known.137

Urikaine smiled to the guy and brushed his hair out of his eyes, "The time is going to come soon, we may not make it out of here alive, but we will give them hell, do not faultier, okay kid?" Urikaine said before leaving them all together. Crystal eyed him as he left, and mysteriously, Crystal became a Colonel and Urikaine became a Master Calvary men, but did not order Justin around, Justin was his own support unit.138

Night fell onto the camp, and everyone was given orders to move out when the sun rised. Cracking his neck, Palist gave a sudden speech, "We will follow Firebid to the heart of Kashin, he knows his way, then we will split, I will be taking Justin's calvary and half of Urikaine's and taking it to go against the Northern Kashin, Urikaine, you will be incharge with Firebid to go to the south and find something that could help us in this war, goodluck on tommorrow soldiers, we will be moving quickly, travel light.139

I sat down in my tent, outside the village with a sword and armor on. My belt had a couple drinks around it, I was afraid of dehydration. My form ached though, the heat on our backs, throughout the day, people grew reder and reder in the battle, and now myself, was red.140

General Turk arrived in Kashin, meeting the army and was slammed, but in a desperate attempt, which costed the Kashin army a grave amount of dead, General Tyler smashed his calvery all the way through the Kashin rear. But when victory seemed almost there, the Kashin got rienforcements and Tyler was ripped in half by the sudden force that came over his army and he was pushed back into his boat and retreated.141

Chapter Eight - Justin is killed142

As we walked started to work on a bridge, we split, turning the army into two parts. After the army was split at a river, which a bridge was made and across the river Urikaine went. Under command of Palist and Justin they moved to the North, and Urikaine to the South. Now, the eyes are on Justin Kuda.143

"Justin, we will be moving out swiftly and past the Kashin capital with the 10,000 men we have, Urikaine has about 5000, he will be good to go for now. Allies from Ticontism and Layjin' will come after they regain there powers from the Kashin invasion. On our way we will.." he paused as he saw movement in front of them, raising his hand his captains halted there forces, a Kashin Calvary was 1000 yards in front of them. 144

As they talked, I saw men hug and shake each others hand, remembering there enemies and pushing them to the side, friend's coming together in the ranks and split the army in a friendly and friendly side. People picked and choice who would go and who wouldn't. Brothers and friend's hugged each other and stood beside, and after the army as accumulated, they head off.145

Justin Kuda moved his calvery forward, they have never went against another calvary at full force, but they moved there crossbows into action, and the bowmen to the sides. As the Kashin came into 100 yards in front of them, the crossbow men fired, and sterd Justin's horses, and they charged at full force, lifting there spears, they rampaged against the Kashin Calvery. My foot stood firm, throwing my notes into my chestplate, I pulled my forearm forward, throwing a hand infront of me and got into form, throwing my scabbard up, slashing through armor and cutting through anything that came infront of me.146

From my point of view the Kashin frontline was slaughtered and massacred, pulling back and fired again over and over again. My scabbard falling to my side and into the sheath, turning my pen against paper and telling of the battle that unfolded.147

Smashing against it they pulled back, and the crossbowmen fired and the bowmen came from the sides of the army and fired on the Kashin calvery, it was a draw as both armies stared at eachother from afar. Palist looked to his captains to what to do, and then spoke outloud, "We will charge, for Urikaine, we will take down this army, and we will charge, and charge, till we cannot stop, till we die." The captain's hinted to retreat back, as they did the Kashin charged, in a frenzy, the Yu army turned around and ran straight into there lines, crossbowmen fireing and fireing as they ran, bowmen running and fireing as they used there bows, daggers, and blades that they picked up, using fists and fighting back at the Kashin in a frenzy that couldn't be matched.148

A frenzy was created in the middle of the mosh pit of forces, purple and green armor mixed together as they were battleing with anything they could pick up, from swords to shields, to fist to fist, to head to head, the battle was on. Sitting back I did not go into battle anymore, looking at the site and writing it down.149

Fist and sword, sword and spear, shield to shield, the Yu forces pushed back the Kashin, who were in a full charge. Slowly they bashed there heads into the chest of the Kashin, kicking, biting, tackling, "This is insane! Retreat!" a Kashin Captain commanded, but as soon as they did that, a calvery charge by Justin was underway, but, there was a Kashin named General Kora sitting there awaiting to take the captain out, his spear raised, it went straight to Justin, and through his chest. Falling off his horse he hit the ground behind him.150

The Charge was broken, Captains fell back and fought along there way to get there fallen Calveryman, there main force. Pushing and throwing anything at there sides, I looked in horrow at the outcome of the recent disastor.151

He fell, captains came to his sides as they charged, pounding and crying as they ripped through the lines of there fallen commander, revenge was at hand. The Kashin column fell back, but was grabbed by the sides and squeezed together by the Yu army, and then crushed finally. To there amazment, they pushed a column of 40000 away momentarily, as the Yu army retreated from the battle, the battle of Justin was a tie. The 4th battle of 35 to happen in Kashin.152

The battle was named 'The Battle of Justin' and many were set on praying upon his grave as Palist made camp, unlikly of him for doing so, but there was a mist of that they were not going to attack again. Scouts came moved from the west of the camp and headed for Urikaine as the Army was headed for him, applying air of 1000 with the scouts.153

After the battle, for the first time, Palist made a camp, knowing that they would not attack us after such a lose of men on both sides. Only 7000 soldiers left, he made his speech, "We will hold these grounds till we die, we must hold it out, I shall send 1000 of my best to Urikaine, scouts have told me that they are headed for him, they know he is trying to gain support by the South. Other hten that, we must hold this position, they cannot take it, no matter what it costs." Palist said, his eyes glintering with honor and pride for the cost they lost together on throwing back an army almost five times as larger then theirs was.154

They burned the body of Justin, and celebrating his valiant charge against the General that costed him his life, and under Yu code, he had to be burned. The eyes of one of the most influenced general of all time stood and looked into the fire, her name was Mountain Monk. She stood 6'8, her hieght was barbarian tall, she was from the deepest parts of the Yu Clans. She held ground where no man could, she was in the skirmish that made them almost curtain victory on the battle today. Her eyes burned with intensity to battle again, and she would.155

She rose from the camp, walking over to Palist, and pushed him to the ground forcefully, and gaurds sprung to defend him, which were thrown and tossed to the side as she looked down at the general stumbled to get back up, "You.. Palist. We are standing here, for once in our lives, we will ride now out to the Kashin capital, we will loosen everything that holds that of which it stands. I see a bright future, give me your uniform, if you wish to die in glory, let us do it now." The general stood up, all the hair on his body stood up, he felt it, Foci was commanding him, he stripped and handed her the uniform, the patches were taken off, and General Julia was made.156

From my sight, the captains were not suprised that she came to power, many backed her up at the time before that and made notes to the commanders that she was good at fighting and will be better for the army.157

Chapter Nine - General Mountain Monk158

She rode her horse forward, the column behind her running, as her horse trotted. General Palist was with Captain rank as they rode through villages of Kashin, the desert heat diminished as they rode and got used to it in this moonless night. 159

"Through the desert weeee goooo.." Captain's whispered to eachother and soon the army was singing for all to join them, hospitality came from villages as the column slowed to a walk.160

Some other lines were picked up along the way, a song was sung through the moonless desert night, the ethuisasm was expected from almost winning a battle from a enemy who was ten times there size. Drums were amassed overnight, from a nearby village, and kept the tired soldiers well and rested. 161

They came to one village called Seta, which offered the army to stay overnight with food and a good stockade of surounding fortress for them to defend. 162

In the morning, men slowly crept up, as General Tison was anounced under General Julia ( Mountain Monk ), he spoke outloud to the forces, "We are going to go straight to Kashin, crossing a vast desert, it has been several months, let us use every ounce of strength, and crush them!" He raised his hand and sent it skyward.163

Through leaving the Seta Village, they took as many rations they could, not stuffing themselves though, they had to carry light inside there stomachs, and on themselves. The Kashin Village was given notes that they would repay them after the war if they lived.164

Now, the whole army was on horses, the Seta people gave them everything to be free from the Capital, and to be free, just free again from the new president and general, O' Cratical. The wielder of two green tinted scimitars, he was a gigantic fellow who knew how to battle himself, not like the other generals who stood behind there armies. He was elected by Unlimited, not many general's have made him smile out of there bravery and strength that they wielded themselves.165

In the capital, there was panick, the 40000 Kashin soldiers were no where near as the Yu Soldiers were, only two days away, many of them panicked at an attack on the no walled city, which was only defended by a constant standing of army at every corner, which had worked several times, but the main force was out, and only a small militia of 400 lay inside of it. 166

General Julia sent her army at a full pace, leaving no one behind though, the pace was quick. "I think we will make it by early tommorrow at this pace, or was she just raising out spirits, that flag is pretty high for even a general to hold." he said as he pointed out that Julia was holding the Yu Union Flag, purple and stardazed, it moralized the troops.167

General Tison smiled to the fact that everyone was keeping up. He started to orginize the battle in his head, he knew, but no one else knew, that the Kashin Force of 40000 was going to make it to the gates before them, no matter how fast they ride. 168

Men sharpened there swords that night, shields were rienforced, hospitality from other villages was very quiet indeed. But they grew, the whole army had horses, and now even better armor. Kashin blacksmiths swarmed to greet them, getting as much money as they could, they rienforced the armor, and the weapons. Even some of the horses were fitted by the grandest of the blacksmiths of Kashin Capital.169

They were spineless, not careing for there Capital's destruction but the greed that was unfolding in there eyes as countless men gave them money and armor to fix and repair.170

"I have something to propose, the Kashin force is going to meet us infront of the Kashin Capital, and I know. I have seen the scouts in the horizen," Tison lowered his hands as put pulled his glasses, a soldier said outloud, "We will be prepared, my armor has been shined, my armor has been rienforced, my horse is well fed, we can take em'!" He raised his hand in anger and his proud heritage.171

Palist came forward, smiling to the men that he was going to die for soon, "I have something to say too, I am going to commit suicide on the battle that lay ahead, in a brave and honorable battle ahead of us. He who serves me will be the greatest of Yu, follow me to your seats," he took 400 men out of the camp and to a nearby spring to bathe and focus on there fate on the battlefield.172

The moon was raised bright above them, they knew, everyone knew what lay ahead of them. The General's spoke of there plan in great detail, no one left the camp or tried. The flag was lifted high, into the sky as the morning rose, and they charged on.173

Horse by horse, the Yu forces slept in there armor, and there sword next to them, they thought about the battle ahead, taking down as many as they could before they died. 174

O' Cratical gave to his officers a speech, "You will all die for your nation, do not mess up, if you do, I will kill you myself," he snarled at his forces, spitting at there feet as he looked to the Yu forces ahead. He outnumbered them 15000 to 40000, almost by three times as much. 175

General O' Cratical lay at the back of the army, slowly moving into the front when his captains gave the order to split the army in half. 176

General Julia and General Tison road beside eachother in the middle of the Yu Union Army, which it was now affirmed to be called. Spearmen in the front, and then calvery in the back, the spearmen went forward, under the commanderate of Palist.177

The Yu Raining Blood Force under General Palist moved forward, crossbowmen first, then spearmen they charged, as the light armor Kashin Calvery charged forward straight forward them, armed with light scimitars, they were fast. The crossbowmen fired, under trained Yu Horses, they road backwards on there horses, and reloaded, as the spearmen charged with fierce momentum, as arrowmen aimed up, and rained a barrage of arrows onto the Kashin.178

"What is this... they are using tactics unheard of ever in battle before.. there crossbowmen, then there arrowmen, then there spearmen?! What is this?!" O' Cratical screamed to his forces as they were pumbled back, storming with his bodyguards he made forward to the frontlines.179

Arrowmen and crossbowmen switched positions with another row of spearmen that charged the Kashin Frontlines again, as they reloaded, they focused now on officeres and croweded men, making every shot count. The Kashin Army was being pushed back and made no chance or effort to move forward, and then a brilliant plan was divised, as the Raining Blood pulled back.180

The Yu army pulled back to regroup, they barley had lost 20 men in each wave they sent of Calvery of Spearmen and Crossbowmen, switching out kept refreshing them. The Kashin Blacksmiths had done there job, they were winning this battle slowly during those morning hours.181

"I have a plan, it will involve us this time, I thought they were going to pumble us, but that show gave me an idea, we will split the army in half with my calvery. I am going to use my veterans of the clanwars in Yu. And we are going to rip the sides off, and throw them into a good circle of crossbowmen and arrowmen that will then launch calvery forces from there back if charged.182

The battle resumed, "Charge!" the Yu forces gave there fastes charge the world over could feel. Tison raised his arm next to Palist, next to Mountain Monk, they all were charging, frontlines and all, right into the side of the Kashin force, throwing them forward into a hail of arrows and bolts, and then another calvery force, entering into the front of the Kashin Army, and out the side of it with the rest of the Yu Calvery, the Kashin army lost half there army. 183

The Kashin General shook his head, admiting defeat was on the horizen, he pulled back his forces from Kashin City. 5-35 the battle for Kashin City had been won.184

Chapter Eleven - Urikaine is on the move185

His 15,000 armed and well divided army, split into two parts, calvery in the back for quick attack from any side, and even from the back.186

As people rested, as so horses, they saw a day after tommorrow, as a soldier once said, "Hey, this is the life, we havn't seen battle in 3 days, it's good to go, but there is this earie feeling," he said, as they walked into a village.187

Urikaine Kuda sat beside Crystal and Kento, the soft-spoken man smiled to the child and hinted him over to him, "I saw you fight the other day, it was viliant, I hope you become a General one day," he said smiling, Crystal interviened, "He will be leaving the service soon, but.. if Urikaine Kuda, son of Ryoko Kuda has that twinkle in his eyes as he says that, I do not think I will be able to stop him when he gets older," she said reluctantly and then sped away with the boy as Urikaine Kuda waved his and motioned to slowly move from the village.188

They made a camp outside of the village, taking supplies without much resistance from the village itself, they rested themselves. General Firebid was elected from the soldiers, his eyes were red as he looked out to the desert, "One day, I will die, every ounce of my blood will fall to the ground before I die, not before I marry you first, Tika, my wife" Firebid said, holding out a ring to Tika, a soldier from the calvery regiment.189

She smiled, taking it, through the camp they had been flirting, even on the boat to Kashin, they fell in love with eachother on the battlefields they were on. "I would love to, and will," she said, kissing him on the forehead and they made to a tent. 190

There was no religion, just who believes in the Foci, and who doesn't. Even though imprinted in there heads is the creator Foci, most have never seen him. "So, there was this place called Russia? And a even bigger planet then this one? We are the only survivors of The Creation of This Universe?" Ryoko said to the Foci, who replied, "It is all very complicated, I died of a heart attack many millions of years ago, woke up in a complete blankess of space. I was a philosopher where I come from, most of this in my head is hidden so I do not unlock it, my emotions are calmed and I have made myself more patient. Over time, I created this from the power granted in my head," he said, bowing to Ryoko as he stepped forward.191

"You can simply destroy us? And remake the universe?" Ryoko tilted his head to the side, "Yes.. yes I could.. but this has intertained me through all these years, let me tell you by my studies have been. Time is nothing really, we all are frames, almost like a video," Foci implanted the knowledge of video in Ryoko's mind, "And from that, we are balanced, all of the universe is to balance a none-universe, a sword with a none-sword. All balancing out eachother, I must have been created to make up for the None-foci, and this universe for the none-universe," he said, it all made sense to Ryoko, who would later make the Yu Empire the superpower of the world with his knowledge.192

On that morning a scout came with the urgents of Urikaine, "Ticontism and Layjin' soldiers are on the fronts, they are coming to you Urikaine, and they will need your army soon defending them. I have sighted a garrison of about 50000 Kashin soldiers headed for there stationary point right now," the man said, as his horse bent down to drink some water.193

Urikaine thought for a second, and then spoke, "We will divide the army, 6500 to Firebid and he will defend these grounds, splitting the army would be a good advantage, I will call on him when I need him. How many soldiers do they have?" Urikaine asked the soldier.194

"We have about.. 20000, it's all we could salvage from the last invasion, but they are willing, we got about 3000 veterans in there, 500 captains, and 5 generals, I do not believe they could take us easily with them working together," the soldier replied to Urikaine.195

The soldier was named Sgt. George, he was Yu born, but after a ship sunk off the coast of Ticontism, he was brought in by several families. He would be a good ally to many people after the war, telling stories, through Gnoll he went.196

They moved out on signal, it was a bustling commanderate army, they were winning most of the war now. Far in the distance, scouts came back, telling of a Garrison of 3000 forces lay infront of them, Firebid took command of all the calvery, and moved forward. Footsoldiers and pikemen followed, as we rushed for battle.197

Firebid raised his spear forward, as so many of the spearmen in the front lines, his muscle tensing as he ran into the Kashin lines. The Kashin soldiers were pumbled back, knocked down quickly as Firebid got uneasy being surounded but still moving through the column by himself.198

He through his spear, taking out a captain as he unsheathed his machete and started hacking away till it broke, throwing himself off his horse, he was a swashbuckler at heart, using everything around him to gain ground, he was in the middle of the column of Kashin soldiers and was making them scramble on his own.199

Then led by another charge, Urikaine bashed through the lines to get to Firebid, who's armor covered his whole body, taking blows here and there as he punched, kicked, headbutted Kashin soldiers. The lines ripped and the Kashin soldiers retreated into a well lined archer and crossbowmen units, fire upon fire, waved died till there was nothing left of the 3000 Kashin garrison.200

"We barely lost a single man that time Urikaine, it's almost funny how most Kashin don't know how to fight like us peoples of Yu, how did Layjin' and Ticontism lose to such cowards? Bah, I will never understand," Firebid said, as Urikaine analyzed, "Well, there is one thing, Kashin soldiers are always in one column, they have one type of fighting style, and barely use calvery. Layjin' and Ticontisms terrian has no flat lands, it's mostly forest, hills, and mountains," Urikaine pointed out bravly to Firebid, who understood now. 7-35201

Five hundred forces lined up that night and were gaven there ranks, through the night officers and captains gave out new medals and ranks. No one lost there rank, and that night Urikaine Kuda got his Colonal Rank. 202

Scouts came from Palist's army, coming through the night and then leaving as the day came back. Gave much information, the whole army slept through most of the day to wake up in the middle of the day rested and well to go more west. 203

Chapter Twelve - The Months Following204

The Kashin Army left with the Population of the Kashin Capital one day, defending there retreat and they went into a forest known as the Kashin Black, think with all sorts of enchantments, they moved there population into there slowly. It was on the North West portion of the Continent, a desert and then directly following it with thick Forest, it was a sight to see. The Kashin Army stayed well inside and fortified much of the forest, where no man would enter without a large force to take it. Much movement could be seen within the forest, but nothing came out. Firebid, the Supreme General of the army made sure not to thin his lines around the Forest, but put bulges in large numbers on each sides incase of an attack.205

Resistance went through some of the Yu Ranks as they were settleing on Kashin Soil, more and more Forces and even Civilians ready for combat joined the war Effort to excape the know relentless Counsel of Yu, which was taking some of the freedoms from Yu by trying to make them a state, with money and growth like the Kashin Government, giving them more strengths and powers which were not needed for the Counsel. As a man once said, "They have taken my land, putting a fortress and livestock on it, and told me if I didn't raise any money, which I don't know what that is, I couldn't get it back." a simple man, he had glowing blue eyes, his name was Bezero.206

The resistance of the Yu Army to stay was a little undunting, they were winning more battles then they were losing and they were hot on the tails of the Kashin Army, that now was in hiding, "Well, hell no I am not going into those woods, they would rip us apart if they got the good grounds already. Inside it looks well preserved and much good plentifull, let us wait till they get fat and unable to move," General Julia said, as she turned her back to go into her tent with Palist, Tison, Firebid, and Urikaine Kuda.207

"This isn't good, they are fortifieing positions inside, and they are looking grave, but we could sweep through undetected if we throw them off right now, but winter is upon us, and the world will be sheated soon, let us make our winter here, we must," Firebid said, his skinny form was growing large muscles from his constant training of the Yu army was in his hands.208

Julia spoke up, "We also must train these men, we don't want them getting fat and lazy, I will put that into the hands of you Firebid, again, you are already doing so well with your regiment," she smiled, bowing herself to Firebid, her rank was now showing a little more in her constant new ability to speak more fluent, she had grown stronger with it, Firebid replied, " Yes, thank you, it would be most appreciated, Urikaine Kuda is getting good in our calvery, he has lived several times with.. how many kills do you got?" Firebid asked Urikaine.209

"I have 37 sir, most are from helping other people though, I have never been wounded.. yet. Even though I was knocked off my horse in the first battle and woke up around about.. a thousand Kashin soldiers," Urikaine said with a little terror in his voice, Firebid then said, "What? You never told us about this!"210

"Didn't want to think I was a spy, I tackled a Kashin Calveryman to the ground and took off, I am a perfect horseman, I got away without much suspicion," He said with dignity of his herioc excape.211

"Well, beautiful Urikaine, I am glad you are alive," Firebid said, his eyes to the distance, as a echo came deep from the Kashin Forest and a tall figure stepped out and fell about a mile away from the now forming calvery of the Yu army.212

Urikaine Kuda rode his horse forward, sword drawn, as in minutes the Yu army was in designed formations and ready for battle, but there was no army infront of them. Urikaine Kuda rode forward infront of the army with a scouting party to the fallen man who was larger then anyone they had seen before, and was trying to get back up but fell.213

"It could be a trick," a scout warned Urikaine as they were about 200 yards infront of the huge form of a man. Urikaine dismounted and moved forward, his shortswords ready, as men followed.214

"I am Titan, the lost Kuda..." the very large man stood up, and a arrow was fired into his chest, which bounced and hit the ground beside him. "My arm has the crest..." the man said as he turned his wrist and there was a purple circle with a mountain edged into the middle of it.215

Urikaine Kuda in respect bowed to Titan, his head tilted forehead and a smile across his face, as Titan was brought a wagon and hauled several ways away from the front of the Kashin Black. 8-35216

Chapter Twelve - Titan and secret weapons217

Firebid issued the training of a massive scale of around 15,000 to train in the best of tactics of all the general's and captains of the Yu army, which when the Yu army came out of the forest would destroy the remaining of the army and send everything in a huge desistating lost, inwhich the Kashin Population would never be able to regain power.218

But till then, the Yu army was at a huge scale of 50,000 forces, as the Yu army was well over 150,000 in all. The Kashin Population squared itself in a 150 mile fortress called the Kashin Black, which was slowly starving itself and may attack quickly in a huge frenzy that could whip the Kashin army good. Firebid was planning a massive invasion of the woods and attack with barely any loses of men.219

"We are planning something well.. I would never want to come inbetween your brave plan to destroy all the Kashin Army, Firebid." Titan regained his strength the coming month, and was training with the calvery, which Firebid was training to take a massive army even 50x's it's size, which was made up of 1500 men.220

Firebid, in his bold and tactical mind set, which came through in the half year they were outside of the Kashin Black, he was growing old, and his time was coming as he stayed in the heat of the Kashin Desert that ate his soul out. As most of the Yu General's, they were wrestling and fighting with eachother, not over power, but out of the need and want of combat. 9-35221

Chapter 13 - The Great Retreat222

Sound echo'd through the Kashin Black, Admiral himself turned pale as the Yu forces got into action, throwing there spears and shields forward and ready for combat.223

In my eyes, I saw the Kashin forces move from the woods, they were viscous, turning and destroying the Yu Army as they ripped through the lines with such a frenzy. Titan the Secret Weapon fought and killed hundreds as they couldn't fight back, his arms swaying back and fourth and ripped everything around him.224

Looking to my left side, the Kashin Front pushed back the Yu army, Palist and others saw that the Kashin Army was different, they had evolved to such slayers that they now were more powerful, the two years they had been here, they had been evolving throughout the time in the Kashin Black.225

The General's of the Yu army turned back, and retreated, they could not stand and fight against a army that was well beyond there human power, they were indeed much stronger and powerfuler now. I myself learned from this mistake to allow them to sit back, they were now immune to our tactics, they fought 4 on 1, they knew everything and had trained against our tactics.226

Ticontism soldiers uped there guns and fired at the Kashin, who were put to there death on the spot, reloading slowly, they turned on there horses and fired, taking down hundreds that followed them. General Urikaine Kuda was made into focus in this battle, and the whole Yu Army was lost as they retreated into the Capital, where Sphinx lay a trap, they Kashin City was not locked off and thousands lay to defend. 227

The Great Retreat was made, only 10,000 Yu Soldiers got away from the devasting massacre, and the armies were hot on there tail. I myself took half my armor and no weapons, running and taking any horse that wasn't taken by a person or dead body. 228

By the end of the day all the General's lay on ships, losing more then half the army and only having 8,000 soldiers left of the army, retreating back off the Coast of Gnoll, where friendly forces lay of the Ticontism.229

Firebid, Julia, Urikaine, Palist, Tison, Crystal, and Kento were the only General's that remained, and in the far distance, Ryoko was headed torward Yu, on a ship made of Fire, called the Revolution. 230

Chapter 14 - The Aftermath231

As I walked through the ships that landed ashore, we all looked back to see no fleets on our tail anymore. A sign of peace that we hoped to last enough for us to regain our strength.232

The news spread of the horrible defeat of the most powerful army in the world, 'How could this happen?' was said as the soldiers returned to the council. 233

The council was outraged, Ki's rage ended up in three officers hanged for their inability to see the threat of the Kashin earlier. This was directly against the ways Yu handled the unexperienced. This man was not the Ki we knew to love in the past, he was a changed man.234

I sat in my chair, then stood up to the council, 'The times in the Kashin deserts did not toll our soldier's bodies, but it did so to their minds. Any 'unloyality' is not the act of their own accord, but of the desert madness. If you do not believe this Ki, you can shove it up your ass,' and I walked out of the council, that was my plee for my life.235

The next day I stood up again, they demanded an apology or I would be hanged, but I spit in their faces, in front of Ryoko and Palist. 'You are not Yu, you do not even know what Yu is anymore Ki, you are paid by Kashin merchants to put the people of Yu down. You never seen a battle in your life, you sit in your chair and listen to 'advisors' who only want what they want, not the people!'.236

Ki retaliated, 'I h-have been a council member for 20 years, you cannot dare say this to me, you are only a soldier, act like one and take orders!' once again I storm out of the council, this time my life was in danger.237

As I walked with Ryoko and Palist, they smiled as if nothing was wrong, how could they think nothing was wrong? Ryoko turned to me and spoke, 'Your life is not in danger, Ki's life is in danger,' giving a small smirk to me.'238

We came to a small lake and Urikaine sat in the middle of a circle of men. He was dressed in his best of armor, polished and swords at his sides. He looked up at me, the passion of fighting in ihs eyes this time. I smiled, bowing graciously to him. 239

'We are going to take out the council today, we are going to destroy them. They do not even stand for Yu, they stand for themselves, why we have not seen this is beyond me, but this ends today,' Urikaine spoke outloud to his unit. 240

This was not Urikaine Kuda, this was Morganblood, the man I saw after the death of Firebid. This soldier is strong and determined. His eyes were so fierce, it gave me shivers down my spine. 241

Urikaine stepped forward, no one else walked with him. This man was not the quiet little boy Ryoko raised, everyone knew it. He was not leading the assault, he was the assault on the Council.242

Chapter 15 - Crushing the Council 243

I followed behind Urikaine, his foot touching against the doors of the council, a large breeze ripped through the corridors, everything was going slow as Ki sat in his chair, looking up at the son of Ryoko. Urikaine's eyes glowed with victory as he rushed Ki.244

Ki rose his arm, the blade pushing through his forearm and straight into his neck, and out the other side. Silence fell upon the others as the blade turned and struck the council member seated behind him in the head. 245

I grabbed the hinges of the door, closing them shut. Placing a small dagger in both sides of the cracks, allowing that no one escaped this massacre. 246

Small cries echo'd from behind the doors, as screams slowly followed from the pathetic council members. Urikaine walked to the door, I opened it graciously to the man who will save this country time and time again.247

'The enemy has been silenced, forever.' Urikaine walked through the doors, his armor was bloody, his sword's edge and handle covered in the crimson liquid. 248

The moon rose to the distance as the man that would change this world walked through to the men who he fought alongside in the war to end all wars with. Both of his hands down at his sides, he rolled his right shoulder, 'The deed is done, no one could revive the state this country is in unless we work together.'249

Chapter 16 - Loyalists and The Rebels250

As if the country could get in any worse situation, Loyalists of the council, who were also paid well with gifts for their mind and body turned against the bloodshed that helped create the country of Yu.251

We were now 'rebels' to these people who never even knew what pain was, who never saw a battle, these were not men of Yu, they will be crushed so a new age will appear, one that will put Yu as the most powerful nation in the world!252

Ryoko planted both of his feet against the ship's boards. His hands slowly went across the walls of this vessal, as he looked back to Urikaine, 'I am going to leave, I do not belong here anymore. I want you to lead this country against the rebels and defeat them.'253

Urikaine bowed toward his father, both hands on his sides, 'I will father, I will fight against them all, who shall aid me in command?', Ryoko responded, 'General Julia will aid you in command of the army, she is one of the most interesting women, get to know her well.'254

Ryoko drifted off to the distance, his ship and whatever remained of him is unknown, but they say he lived with the creator of the universe, or went to Ticontism's large mountains and fought any man who could dared to challenge him for his knowledge of military tactics, but who knows.255

Urikaine first agenda was poised and done. Crushing the council and burning it the building in which they resided to the ground. 256

General Julia moved through the ranks that were sit across a ridge, her armor glistening to the sun's gentle tune across her flowing purple hair. 'Morganblood, there is little time, the rebels are coming to fight against us soon, what shall we do?' she looked up to him.257

Urikaine changed his name to Morganblood that day, his eyes looked directly at his enemy with a vicious glare. His horse snarled underneath him, his hand lifting, 'Men of Yu, the true loyalists, charge with me, there is no way around this, we shall charge, no tactics, no officers, just men who will fight against an enemy to an enemy, for the right cause. They are fighting for a government, not a way of life. We are fighting for our way of life, how we have lived for almost 3000 years! Money, cloths, are meaningless, life is lived by moments, by the way we interact with eachother, not with material objects!' his hand lifted upwards to the sky, his horse charging forward.258

The lines were met, the clashing of swords and armor ripped through the air for many hours. Morganblood's left shoulder pushed against an officer's chest plate, pushing him to the ground. His right arm came crashing down, the edge of his blade ripping through the head of his opponent, blood splattering everywhere. As the tip of a spear poked the back of his armor, Morganblood spun around, turning the side of his blade to the handle of the spear, his blade turning into the throat of the man, his gasp for breath was the last heard of this man.259

Morganblood rushed forward with Julia on horseback to a small unit on a hill, his left arm holding ihs shield and in his right; the pen that will shape the country's future. This weapon smashed into the enemy lines, destroying their morale and their physical bodies, 'To the grave with you!'.260

The loyalist fell ten by ten, their world ending before they even knew it. Experiences soldiers of the Yu island against the lords of clothing and money, 'What a joke,' some men said during the battle.261

'Why are we even fighting this battle?' an officer said, his blade piercing the side of the enemies head. 262

'This battle signals the end of a era of corruption, and starts an era of beauty and freedom. This is a massacre of the evils of the land that shall be banished to the center of this planet, Foci has demanded this to happen,' I said to the others who surrounded me.263

I looked up at the sky once again this week, my eyes slowly gazing at the crystal atmosphere. 'We cannot escape this planet, and this planet cannot escape us, I wonder what will happen when we grow bored of this place,' my arthritis was cutting into my bones, it seems as if I cannot write as much anymore.264

That night we sat around a campfire, the revolution had already been over for a couple hours. The Loyalists houses were burned, their items given to the men and women who needed it most. 265

Morganblood stood up as if to give a speech, 'This day we eliminate all currency and outside trade to the other nations. We do not need this money that corrupts men, these items that strip us from who we are, what makes us gathers of useless materials,' he said to the crowd of men.266

'But what will we do?' a officer asked in the background, I noticed that soldiers do not usually speak out in the Yu ranks.267

Morganblood turned to the man, 'We will improve what we have on our own, all men are equal, even though they are very different. We must build a new nation now, improving the health of our people and how they live, for too long we have sat in huts. Now it is time to expand our influence on the inside, our ways will be kept, our lives will not change, but the way life lives around us will change, the rivers, the mountains will be cared for, the floods will be stopped, the disease will be destroyed, this is a new era of health for the land!'268

Chapter 17 - The Reunion269

A man steps forward into a cornfield, then onto a hill, were a small tree is. The man, middle aged, dressed nicely, strong, long-white hair flowing down his back to his knees, a small emblem on his chest, and then scars on his skin from times in his youthful years. 270

He went from looking at the ground from looking forward. Horror came over his face, a full line of enemies, a stretch outline of dog-men, fully armed with bows, arrows, swords. Strong men, mostly white, and a bit black, mostly in there twenty though thirty of age. Some dog-men came fourth from the army and went to the man.271

"We are here for Morganblood!" They called out from the line, the Gnoll army was at the footstep of the Yu door, but not for long, Morganblood thought to himself as he looked around, he would hear the faint whispers around him.272

From a few months ago, the Gnoll have declared war, but have not dared to attack. Simply staying put untill invasion, putting up defenses, but no Yu Brigade was put into action. Since the coming months they took down there defenses, and put up a Navy, then attacked the home of Yu, but since the Legendary are still around, there attack was futile, and this is what happens in the following times.273

"General Morganblood, you will haveet-" his voice died from the dog-man, he then was hurled into the air from a sonic boom. Morganblood looked from side to side and then saw more and more fly up into the air and down onto there own men.274

The men cried out, the General Morganblood went dumbfounded at the site. Dog-men came down from the hills shooting arrows, which missed from times, as Morganblood moved to sides to get away from them. They let out battle-cries. To amazement, they flew into the air, and came to the ground instantly, some let out cries of shear horror, as others, submitted to defeat. Morganblood's keen eye's saw what’s going on, and let out a breath of air which came out to, "Peacemaker..," he looked about the area as he could see the ghost of a man who would whip the air around him and manipulate the enemies skin and rip them apart, but he was playing with these fools from other lands.275

After the army was slayed-down by the large sonic-booms. A man stepped out of the wind, the ground behind him shot up with dirt, and layed back. The man, looked around sixty years old, military looking,as his form was touched with many known scars and bruises, but only the scars crossed his face were visible, long and wide.276

His statues acclaimed him as he lit the area of a eerie strength and power, his wooden katana alone was enough, for it had many scars and cuts along it,"Long time no see Morganblood." The man, recognized as Peacemaker said.277

"Ah yus', Peacemaker, long-time-no-see. Power lives for a long time, or it's useless." Morganblood said, his accent was upon the long and cold ground, his eyes presumed along Peacemakers horrifically built body.278

The two men talked for a little while, about precarious battles that took place a long time, and some stories after it all; The First Yu War, ending in the Kashin's fall to power, and Yu ascendants to greatness beyond the worlds leading powers.279

It was 5 continents under war, declaring and alliancing with each other-other till either one dies to one lives. Neutrality equals, death or take-over. Yu islands, continent of Kashin, Calo, Medo, Foci and Gnolls ( This story is from a Yu point of view ). For those who have not read the first book.280

"General Morganblood, you have been resigned to your post. Accept and win, you will be the richest person on this planet, and rule..four nations.. Gnoll shall be your first, those Dog men shall fall with your legendary tactics!" Peacemaker said with a smirk, his eyes lighting with the fire of the Yu Empire, he knew that Morganblood in the long run could do it, all he needed was an army.281

"I will have to, this war would force me to my study plans. Drivin' my nuts to try them out." Morganblood said as the Peacemaker disappeared into the distance of the fields in a motion blur of his powerful speed. Morganblood retired to his house. He walked into a large room, a floor, a roof, covered in nothing but papers, a few furniture of wool and straw. Pencils everywhere to be seen, and a large rewrite-able drawing board, full of battle plans of the Kashin war with Yu ten years ago. 282

This time will be different though, the thought out loud in his mind. He will have to devise plans to attack well and strong against them, learning there tactics, what armor, how they eat, what they eat. 283

Searching through many books, he came across an old one from Patali's time, from the first war with the Gnoll. They are dog-men, created by Foci to establish some order between the Humans and Animals, but as humans, they have become greedy and self-centered. But, they will grow into the fine beings after this invasion is clear, he thought to himself again. 284

The next day people on horse back pulled to General Morganblood and picked him up. They took him a few hours to a battleground/battle master barracks, which at this time was filled with men. Most of them were low ranks from no invasion for a long time they have had no time to gain a rank but soon they will. But soon, they will be ready for battle against these invaders from another land. The base, 4 stories high, crick and wet mud. A river on the side of it, boats filled this river, crossing it was a bridge. There was a small port and small little huts for trading the fish which were caught there. Has never seen combat though, it was old from the new storms that come from the West and sweeps over the continent every month, and new techniques have been added around the Yu Isles to keep them from falling apart on themselves. 285

"Welcome General Morganblood!" A a voice from nowhere, but seemed from under him, General Morganblood looked from side to side, shifting his gaze downwards to the man who lay in front of him, "Why hello Kentai."286

A small little kid dressed in heavy army stood there, as Morganblood tilted his head to him. Morganblood hugged the kid, with a glee-ish smile on his face. The boy did not hear the small mistake he made in his name.287

This child/kid was Kento, a kid who snuck into the army and survived the Viscous 37 Champions of Yu War 1. Around only 11 years old, a Brigadier General. He is a sneaky little punk and viscous in battle. "Hello there ole' ye' Kento!" Said General Morganblood, letting go of the hug. "Good, good, you made it L-Morganblood.." A man, around 30, thick glasses, a science-persons robe, and immense powerful form and aura around him, as he stepped forward out of a barrack door. This is Tison, another General who tried to kamikaze himself into the ranks of the Yu War 1, and picked up by Morganblood in one battle. He was starve-craving mad, and recovered. He went into the army and saw life wasn't so bad there, lived only 20 Champains of the War. 288

"Attention! A woman yelled to the tree men talking about the war 3 minutes later. She stood straight, and saluted. General Queen of Diamond Roses. On the battle of the Roses, she defeated many of the Kashin allies there, standing in the front-line with many soldiers who outclassed her and outranked her. She flew her swords into the enemies one by three, and destroyed the front line around her that tried to sweep through. 289

"Damn, just kiddin' guys, so uptight.." The three Generals were standing saluting to the general at the sign of 'Attention' and then relaxed. 290

She was a 20 year old, creepily skilled in fighting since she was young and entered the ranks of men. Kind to all who is kind to her, survived and is the big sister of General Kento during the 37 Champaign's of the war ( By the way, her name is Crystal ). Well, this war is goin' to last about 40 years guys.." Crystal said. "Power isn't power endless it last long, so lets kick some ass?" Kento had said in a questioning way. "Power isn't power unless it lasts long, so lets use it now and kick some ass.." Tison corrected Kento, and Morganblood nodded to his quote. Morganblood's forces marched to the barracks equipment area, where there was swords, armor and tailor suits. "We better get some armor Urikaine!" Kento then realized somethin' wrong and shut his mouth with his hands. 291

Yugonish Uslavion Urikaine Dote' Kuda was Morganblood's old name in Yu 30 years ago. All the war and change of Yu had a devasting effect on the Kuda Family, and he changed his name and left it. A blacksmith just came to Morganblood's armor along with his sword and Morganblood paid him the pounds of money for it. Morganblood spent the hours of his night after the incident with Peacemaker to find what armor they needed. For woods which Gnoll was filled with, they need something quick, and leather was it. As Morganblood put on the armor, Crystal said, "Wow, so many memories.." As she took hers, getting into it. "Yus', even if it's not armor, but leather' it's still just dressin' into armor in these climates and with all of us here again, the old feelin' I guess." Morganblood had said. The ship Armstaggin' came through the harbor and through the river. A massive ship, anything like our worlds, a large wooden ship made of wood, metal, and paper. Fastest thing on the planet next to Firebid's charge 10 years ago, has stayed alive for 250 years.292

Chapter 18 - On our ways to Gnolls293

"Gnolls are dogs who can walk, barbarians thingas', a large army and land. Keep your head low and shield forward, don't get biten!" Tison says to the crowd, known as the Yu army.294

"They have shamans, so Medeas fire then. Out before they burn you, main weapon is a katar or stave, jump very high, and have a very bad odor." Tison gives a last speech then gives a sign to General Morganblood to get up. They were giving speeches for the upcoming invasion, they were going to launch a three wave attack, first forces from Yu, heavy to push into the center of Gnoll, then a second wave, lighter with many more horses, and then the Of Medea which will be when the capital is sacked.295

Morganblood moves forward then in front of the soldiers, and says, "The plan is that we will rush and band close in combat together with out honor and katana's might and gliding blade to protect us!" as the crowd smiled and laughed a bit, knowing this as..'the usual'. The power of these men outmatched most of the world's army, they swept into Kashin with the leather on there backs, and a sword and shield and defeated the super-power on over-welming odds against them, and slowly pushed and destroyed there capital, which is most of the time there aim.296

A few hours passed by, lots of drinking of the army and eating. Some worked out before a big invasion ahead of them. Most of them were elites of the Yu Brigade a few years back when Morganblood took the capital and destroyed there own corrupt counsel. After the war there was a large corrupt counsel bent on greed and power, which was taken over and gave to more responsible people.297

In the morning there was few people awake, and people who were, stood a bit out of place and fell asleep easily. A few crew of men picked up the scraps, which was hired by Crystal when she was..sober. Men were almost literally crated to the boat when it was supplied with all that it was needed to.298

A letter came in from Xavier a Lt. from War One who helped map out the Kashin posts a long time ago had a map inside of it. Those maps were very expensive, and came from Ticontism Capital. Xavier was not a fighter, but he was quick with running and his band who he helped train in the mountains and forests of the Yu Outkasted Lands, which people lived free and lawless, in which only the people who wanted to be free went to. Which was given to General Morganblood when he woke up with the letter that said, "Well here it is, we have done enough reconisents of the area of Gnoll, this island is huge, hope to see you soon Morganblood..goodluck in reachin' me!" and it stopped. 299

Tison and Crystal were at the top of the boat. Looking at each other and having a good ole' time, they sat close and hugged, then Tison spoke, "We need to get out vows replenished after the war, it's been a long time since we did somethin' like that Crystal.."300

She looked at him for a couple seconds and smiled rightfully, and nodded to it, "Soon-after the war we shall do it honey.." and she kissed him lovingly.301

"As long as we make it.." They said after the kiss.302

General Morganblood then walked into the scene, "The war better be w-what we hoped, at least as good as the first.."303

The morning fell into dawn, the light admitted from the crystal layer atmosphere. People started to wake and complain of headaches immerged from the vacancies of hallways and bedrooms. The cook told em' to eat some of his food and you wouldn't care if you had a head or not. The Armstaggin' started to roll off the coast with the Yu Forces inside of it. Many of the soldiers were under Navy ranks but transferred to Army ranks after the war, or put them together. A lot of ship battles had been in Yu War 1. Many of them though, were battles which Yu lost, but kept there center with, Kashin never invaded Yu for 500 years since the first attack, but they were savagly defeated by the Clansmen around the top of Yu, which were mostly of the Kuda clan and North.304

Kento came to the front of the ship when the light from the Crystal layer was at it's largest the hint of the afternoon sunny hours. To see the large waves and perking lovely sea creatures below it all. Men crawled out of the holes of their rooms to the ships deck and food-areas like zombies from the intense party the day before. Crystal and Tison spent there hours together alone and with Morganblood sometimes with Kento as they roamed the old boat.305

When the sun started to fall under the sun the people went to the middle of the boat, at least some high ranks that knew each other. Telling stories about mostly Morganblood and how Morganblood corrected the 37 men he took out in the frontline to 306

"Yeah, I remember that! Morganblood rushed into the front lines by accident, we had a horrible rank instructor, he said 'CHARGE'! And then said 'PULL BACK'! And we got confused, like Morganblood he just charged with a couple of already' slowing down horses to enemy lines. Morganblood tried to get free but was pulled in with the lines. He took down 37-" Cut off "34.." Morganblood corrected, "34! Oh yeah! He took out 34 men and I think 3 of his own to get out of there lines, we almost lost one of the soldiers around." Kento finished.307

"Palist was a good General, not like us, he is a forgottin' general in time. Before all of us there was a 4 Star Grand Admiral/General named Palist, he fought many skirmishes with Kashin, and brought down many ships over fish, he governed the first attacks on Ports of Kashin, which grew anger to us for a long time. They didn't invade because of him though, we attacked one of there Elite ships near Calo, which it wasn't supposed to be there, and they blamed the attack on Palist, who was long disappeared before the attack." Morganblood said.308

"I heard of him, and look at the time, we all must get some sleep." Tison said and kissed Crystal on the cheek and pulled her to there room.309

Kento and Morganblood went to there rooms, which was in the lower deck near the nearest to the engine. It was very' noisy down there and creaked a lot but was very went and cold, the engine ran on steam, cold steam.310

A couple of weeks on the ship, about a month of crossing strong currents and getting off-course the ship finally sited land. The crew of the ship got ready to spread and scout, which wasn't going to happen because gnoll were already visible. Camps along the side of the shores were departing tiny ships to the vassal, and people were frightened when they jumped onto the side of the ship and started to climb with there claws. 311

Chapter 19 - Gnoll frontline312

Soldiers deployed as fast as they could, the ship turned 90 degrees and fell onto the beach, onto its side, not latterly, the side came off and soldiers, around 700 poured off into the Gnoll to fight these dogmen, which were called Gnolls.313

"Preposition, men! We fight with glee and honor, remember that! Keep your heads low!" Tison said walking on the side of the armor and literally tackled himself on this morning day.46314

The forces cut through the gnolls, which had barly any armor and poor weapons, a type of sad frontline. Blood poured into the beach and into the water, gnolls came from the forest that was about a mile infront of them, a huge frontline of men. The repeating-cross-bow turrets were deployed and loaded. Fired upon the range of Gnoll meeting into the front line of the Yu Forces. On the right was Crystal, Tison on Kento on the left, they used a surrounding tactic to take them by all sides and crush most of there forces to bits. The front lines came into a triangle formation, using the points to pour over the Gnolls, running out along them as they were circled, the front line, held by heavy armor and then falling back to make the lighter infenty to come forward, the calvery back inside the boats as they moved forward, crushing the frontlines of the Gnoll, as those were the servents that had to leave there masters to defend the shores, the Elite more near there capital. 315

"I could say around 400 of them were massacred, or dearly 1200.. can't you say Morganblood?" Who was ripping his sword out of one already reply'd "850 I counted from the top, I met you guys in the middle, or tried.."316

The Yu Forces set up a camp that was partly made from there own materials and the Gnolls. Morganblood, Kento, Crystal, and Tison went into the ship to write papers and letters to the counsel in Yu, which needs to know of there landing and what is going on with there army and just that.317

Morganblood and then looked at the process of the huts and forts, Morganblood said, “Blah, this will take forever.. Tell em’ there goin’ to have to hurry it up if they want this to stand.”318

A fair warning came to them and the pace quickened, some complained, some didn’t at the whole thing. Morganblood only wants to tough them up again for the big battles ahead. In which brawn won’t just help you.319

Dusk hit the fort, and a lot of the men instantly fell asleep were they were standing. The cold of the night swept through here like wildfire in this type of dense woods only a mile from them. Lamps were picked up and lighted on the wall of the camp’s wall. Morganblood and the gang moved to a fort outside the wall, a small wooded hut covered with scouts to keep it all well and fortified.320

“Thank heavens no cannons, we can sleep well, and sleepily without having to worry about them.” Kento said, remembering some of the cannons the Kashin used against them in the first Yu War, in the middle of the Yu battle of Sarah, a canon ringed out, which was the battle 14 of the 35 champagnes.321

In the middle of the night, there was a stern, and most men got up and got ready for combat, getting a bit of sleep so did Morganblood and the rest of them. A large piece of army about 1500 men swept through the woods and onto the camp, Kento recalled, “I stepped outside of the hut, and there was lots of black thingas’ with large teeth around me, not so pretty. Thank gosh I always slept with a sword to defend myself!” 322

Morganblood flung down the door of the hut and the hut.. fell apart on them. They got up and rushed into the camp, the screeches and dog smell came all over the place. A dog came infront of him, 12’ feet tall. He raised his sword and cut the throat, which.. Didn’t stop the gnoll, a ballista was fired from a ballista, ripped into the skull, which splattered to the ground.323

The Morning soon after, was a blood one, the beach was stained with blood, and so the swords, altogether the 700 Yu Forces lost 50 men. Most were half dressed and didn’t have a weapon when they died. The wishing that they were more prepared should have been imminent.324

There was a mail for all Generals, Fistogan had made it to the side post on Gnoll. She arrived unchallenged. Her army was around 2000 men, expecting a large force to meet her, didn’t happen, sent men to meet up with Morganblood’s army soon enough. If so make it.325

After a few hours of morning another large storm of Gnoll came through, totally knowing this would happen, the Yu forces sprung so quickly it knocked back the Gnoll’s army to early then expected and they were surrounded and smashed 200 of Morganblood‘s divisions cut to the side of the army and Kento cut it in half. To a amazement there was four armies, one Yu one Gnoll, for each. Both one Yu force surrounding the a Gnoll force, only 10 men died in the Yu Forces. 300 Gnoll forces died.326

Some did escape to another base on the beach that is not to far away from where they were. So Morganblood followed them with 200 forces to the other Gnoll base. Kento and the others stayed behind to defend the fort, which wasn’t really worth defending because of the massive damage it already has sustained. 327

Morganblood’s forces came to the Gnoll base at nightfall, perfect for a raid. As they did try, there was no one in the base, and the forces were mighty tired from the run. So they stayed in there for the night. Morganblood came to the rooms and places and slept in a scout’s nest. 328

In the morning there was a massage from the other army, and swiftly and quickly the army awakened in shock, the messenger fell from a arrow wound in the leg, arm, chest, chunk of his neck missing, and don’t know how he survived this long to come and say it.329

Tison, Kento, and Crystal were seriously taking action and combat with little of almost 600 men they had to fight with, Gnolls came even from the back of them, swarms and masses of them just. Came out of nowhere.Many soldiers died on the battlefield that day, the Battle of Bloody Shores. 330

Morganblood’s forces came up from practically asleep to full awoken warriors to the aid, running and marching as fast as they can, charging to there aid, 2 hours later they ran into a cut off line of gnolls, which.. Didn’t stand against the huge masses of rampaging Yu forces, which totally cut through the lines and out the other end. The forces tumbled back and fell to the power of the quick army tactics they used against the Gnoll, making them pull back, as a ringing from a horn was rung from the back of the Gnoll army. Reinforcements had arrived.331

The Yu Forces met up with Fistogan’s reinforcements along with Kento, Tison, and Crystal. Messages of Tison severely injured during the fight was spread and Morganblood and others went to see him. Running through many of the wounded camp to search and find General Tison, who was told to be in somewhat of a bad wound into the gut. Of Medea priests were sent and gathered immediatly for his ressurection if needed. “Morganblood I am alright, I just have a stomach cut that is it. Stand I shall for sometime don’t worry about that. Crystal, clear that shoulder wound for me, that is only thing that will become indemnity of my death if so it would cause infection.” Tison had said and passed out.332

Medical personnel of Medea’s priests came to aid Tison in recovery. His wounds were repaired after battle like many others that lay wounded on the battlefield. 90% of the men who went into the battle and some who didn’t were wounded. And only 170 died out of the 1300 who all came together in the battle. 333

Chapter 20 - Moving out334

There was a lot of scrambling and moving about around the camp for a couple months, around 2. The other slow moving divisions moved to Morganblood’s fast moving army of Yu. Gnoll filled out and said itself full war on Yu, but through most of the war they never got to touch down on it’s soil.335

Yu Forces packed up to move further into the dense woods of Gnoll, the most humid and dense place on the planet. Little villages here and there that did not retaliate to Yu forces or Yu forces to them. There was a lot of hills which were thick with jungle, and steep to get up, tired most of the forces of Yu down to get up them and clear. A re-supply came from Yu on Armstaggin' to the Yu forces a week early and a scout team went and got it.336

“Morganblood we must stop, we are being’ watched..” Kento whispering to him. Men moved forward to scount, but in the distance they saw a glint of armor, they did not stand time to wait for ambush, many of the men gathered there gears ready for combat. 337

Morganblood looked down at Kento and then arched a brow and quietly told his forces to stop where they were, they moved a few steps and stopped. General Crystal came off her horse, a cross-bow target at a glint of armor through the jungle. 338

Before she could say what Morganblood could say he said, “Who goes there!”. Crystal still had a powerful voice that echo'd through the jungle around them as we looked nervously to the people that were about to talk.339

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