{"sf1_id":11835,"sf2_id":"dmBVqzym","title":"Illusion of Reality Chap 1","author":"AshuraK","words":1216,"posted_at":"2006-07-13T16:12:00.000Z","tags":["Action","Bad Language","Character Development","Fanfiction","Magic","Medieval","Modern","Other/Herm","Plot Development","Violence (Not In Yiff)"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/11835-illusion-of-reality-chap-1","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/dmBVqzym","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/86/e7/86e7bc35-a5d9-43c0-96a1-4a3f4d648215","description":"#2 of Mondias Tales","content":"Illusion of Reality  \nWritten by: Ashura L. Kusanaga  \nAdapted from: JDawson's adventure  \n  \nChapter One  \nKalo was closest to San Kailon, and San Kailon was running low on reserve  \nsupplies, and so part of Kalo came to help San Kailon, but after a few long hard  \nbattles, San Kailon fell. This is what happened...  \n  \n\"Ready more balista!\" ordered a red-haired commander, riding a war-horse. This  \nwas Cal Sear, commander of the Alpha Squad for the Kalo Resistance. He looked  \nvery seasoned and hardened, and had an aura about him.  \n  \nAbout a few months before the first battle of San Kailon, his eldest son, Brad  \nhad run away. Brad was tired of listening to his parents tell his younger half-  \nelven brother, Anthony, about the resistance and the way of Kalo peoples,  \nmeditation, and the fact that his Tree Elven mother was helping with this  \n'madness', Brad once called it, named the War of Years. Having to do almost all  \nthe schematics for his father's battle plans didn't help either.  \n  \n\"Commander Sear, we are almost out of balista bolts!\" shouted a soldier, who had  \njust run up to him holding tightly onto his bow. The soldier was a young man,  \nin fact, and had no prior teachings before his training in the army. He looked  \nshell-shocked and he was sweating rather much. However, Commander Sear simply  \nsmiled and patted him on his shoulder.  \n\"You'll do fine, just go and gather the Magik Troops, soldier\" Cal said  \nreassuringly. The soldier smiled weakly and made haste to the Magik Barracks.  \nJust then Cal heard a faint buzzing in the air from the Amarahn Clan side...  \nMagik!  \n\"Quickly, rally the Defensive troops! Amarahnian Magicians at,\" Cal looked for  \nthem and there they were... three whole squads of Magicians, Magik users.  \n\"Northwest!\"  \nAs the order was given, six soldiers upon horses appeared upon the hilltop  \nbehind the Amarahnian Clan. Cal paid no heed to them yet, and raised one of his  \narms in preparation for the bowers to nock their arrows.  \n\"On my mark!\" he shouted. The Defense troops made their way quickly into the  \nranks.  \n  \n\n\u0026nbsp; \"Now\" commanded a horse-riding soldier upon the hilltop. This was the powerful  \nleader of the Amarahn Clan, Maximus. On his command, the Magicians launched the  \nMagik missiles into the air. They streamed different colors each, arched into  \nthe sky toward the Alpha Resistance, and landed explosively on top of the  \nsquadron from Kalo.  \n  \n\"Release!\" roared Cal lowering his arm. From the cloud of dust, flew thousands  \nof arrows. Just as the dust was clearing, Cal heard the screams of pain and  \ndeath from the Amarahnian soldiers and Magicians, and he grimaced. Though Cal  \nwas a commander, he hated killing humans and other races. He preferred to strike  \ndown the leaders and free the soldiers. He looked around. Not one of his  \nsquadron were hurt or killed from the Magik missiles.  \nMaximus grinned and wiped the spittle from his chin. \"Fool\" he whispered.  \nMaximus half closed his eyes, and then looked up at Cal directly with now all  \nred eyes.  \n\"Charge!\" he growled. He and his five other soldiers rode slowly as his army  \nbegan to run into battle.  \n  \n\n\u0026nbsp; \"What is he doing?\" Cal wondered, and then he bellowed out orders: \"Draw your  \nweapons!\" \"Remember what I taught you!\" \"For San Kailon, for the other fallen  \ncities, and for Mondias!\"  \nHis men cheered, and gathered their defenses, as he smirked and shouted for them  \nto charge as well.  \n  \nAlmost at once the two armies clashed together, and blood misted into the air,  \nand fell onto the ground. Cal and his other higher-ranking soldiers charged  \nright into the mass of soldiers, and each slaughtered the opposing army.  \nMaximus and his five soldiers also rode into the fighting armies, and in turn  \nhelped their soldiers kill Cal's army.  \n  \nAt some point, all of the higher-ranking soldiers from both armies were off  \ntheir horses and began to seek out each opposing army's higher-ranking soldiers.  \nCal had found Maximus, and they began to circle, their swords already drawn.  \n\"You can't win Maximus!\" said Cal over the battle around him. He brandished his  \nsword and swung at Maximus, who in turn countered and swung at Cal, slicing his  \narmor, but not his skin. Maximus grinned, and lunged at Cal.  \n  \n\n\u0026nbsp; \"Why do you hide your face, soldier?\" asked a red-haired Amarahnian commander,  \ncircling a green-haired Kalo commander.  \n\"I hide nothing\" replied a feminine voice. The Amarahnian soldier and the Kalo  \nsoldier ripped off their semi-masked helmets and glared.  \n\"Brad!\" growled the female Tree Elf.  \n\"Mother\" Brad smirked, and then he swung at the Elven soldier.  \n\"Traitor!\" she said countering his blow, but then caught a back handed gauntlet  \nfrom what seemed like nowhere. She fell to the ground.  \n\"Now mother, that hurts me when you say that\" he grinned evilly, now standing  \nover her. She took this opportunity to kick him in the stomach. His armor  \ncracked, and sent him stumbling, but he regained his composure quickly.  \n\"Bitch!\" he growled, then swung again with his sword.  \n\"How dare you!\" she said, dodging the swing, and then charging at him. She  \nknocked his sword out of his hand with an upward swing, and came down upon her  \nson. But she stopped mid-swing, for Brad had pulled out his dagger and buried  \nit into his mother's chest.  \n\"I'm sorry mother, but you must sleep now\" he growled quietly to her. She  \ndropped her sword, looked at him briefly as he pulled his dagger out of her,  \nthen dropped to her knees, and collapsed onto the ground.  \n\"If mother was here, where's father?\" he wondered, smiling with satisfaction.  \n  \n\n\u0026nbsp; \"The way of the world is not yours to toy with Maximus!\" Cal shouted, dodging a  \nblow.  \n\"I simply want the world, nothing more\" Maximus growled, then swung again at  \nCal. Cal countered, and sliced Maximus' armor, but missed his skin.  \nUnfortunately, this left Cal open, and ultimately was also his demise. Seizing  \nthe moment Maximus, lunged at Cal like before, and stabbed him through to the  \nother side. Brad saw this and made his way over, gritting his teeth and  \ngrowling.  \n\"Damn it, he was mine!\" he shouted. Maximus turned around, after pulling his  \nsword out.  \n\"He chose to fight me, Brad!\" Maximus glowered, then dodged a punch aimed at his  \nface from Brad, and returned one in kind. Brad's nose was broken, and along his  \nbridge was a long gash. \"Learn your place, whelp!\"  \nBrad got up, and punched Maximus in the side. Then, when Maximus was bent over,  \nBrad kneed him in the face, knocking him backwards and onto the ground, flat on  \nhis back. Brad pulled out his dagger again, and kneeled over Maximus.  \n\"He was mine to kill, you bastard\" he growled, and stabbed Maximus in the middle  \nof the chest, then he slit his throat.  \nBrad got up, and ordered a retreat.  \nThe Battle of San Kailon was over in a draw.  \n  \n\n\u0026nbsp; \\*\\*\\*  \n  \nIn Kalo, the word of a loss had not yet reached them, but it soon would, and  \nwould forever change dozens of lives not involved in the war.  \n  \n  \n[In the next Chapter of IoR, Kalo learns of its losses: it's highest-ranking  \ncommanders, the other lives lost, and the loss of friends... and even family]  \n  \n  \n\n","series":{"name":"Mondias Tales","previous":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/11828-illusion-of-reality-prologue.json","next":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/11984-illusion-of-reality-chap-2.json"}}