Rathe: Chapter One

[Little Syxx]

WARNING: The following story may offend more wussier sensitive readers.

Rathe: Chapter One

A scorched landscape, void of any plants, water or mammals. On it’s surface three pairs of feet were walking away from town, various Swords and Guns in their possession. Each of them carrying a large amount of dried food and a cantine filled with water from the town well. Each of them walking towards their goal, The Tower Of Rathe. The place from which an immortal being commands an army of heartless Demons moulded in his own image and rules the planet with an iron fist. A planet he conquered in a hostile take over many generations ago and a planet he may keep control of for many more generations to come.

The little wind that was blowing that afternoon offered no relief to the travelers who by now were all suffering from sun burn, the little headwear they had on their heads offering little protection from the planets suns. Before the monster had taken over there was only one sun hanging in the sky but now another had joined it. This one much closer to the planet than the previous one.

Many people have speculated where this being that now rules the planet had come from. Some claim he is an alien, others say he is a man who wished for immortality and the strength of a God from an alternate world who decided he would much rather have control of this world. No matter where people think he is from though they all agree on one thing. He had turned the planet, that at one time had been green and full of life, filled with animals, lakes and forests as far as the eye could see, into as close to a living Hell as the planet could get.

Some of the people living in the few scattered villages that were left on Rathe couldn’t handle the fact that they were forced to live under the control of such a cruel tyrant and had decided they’d rather die. Something very easy to do as most of the villages had at least one Demon in them at all times. The Demons even made a game of it at times, killing the humans in the most creative ways they could think of, the winner getting the meat from the carcasses. A few of the villagers who chose to die even went as far as force their families to die with them, even if their families would have rather lived and fought. Most people who attempted to fight ended up dying in battle though and like the villagers who begged for death eventually became food for the demon army of the immortal to devour on their treks across the desert. But that never stopped people from trying.

There have also been many who attempted to reach The Tower but they never succeeded. The furthest anybody had ever gotten was the creature who guarded the first checkpoint the immortal had set up. These three felt they had an advantage though, unlike the others who have tried to reach the tower in the past these three were not only confident that they would reach it, but they were confident they could climb the steps of the tower’s long winding stair case and kill the immortal.

How they hoped to kill an immortal nobody knew. The three were thought to be, by many of the townsfolk they told of their plan, crazy. But it didn’t matter to them. As far as they were concerned they were destined to end the incredibly long reign of terror that the planet had been plunged into and would never be convinced otherwise.

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It was late into the afternoon when the three arrived at the village of Chtulu and when they got there they realised most of the villagers were indoors, attempting to escape from the hot sun. A few villagers were outside though but by the looks of it they were never going to be able get back inside. Sun or no sun they were part of that afternoon’s Demon feast. Three people had already been devoured as bits and pieces of shoes and bone remained laying around but there were still some people alive. A man, a woman and four children. The travelers knew what was going on and sprang into action.

One of them pulled out two guns, he wasn’t sure what type of guns they were, he just somewhat jokingly referred to it as the ‘Demon Blasters’, and pulled the triggers. The loud explosion of the gun firing was heard and the heads of one of the demons blew clear off while the others one’s knee had been blown apart separating his calf from his thigh. He pointed his gun downward and shot the now one-legged demon again, this time in the head, killing it instantly and spraying the demon‘s dark read blood all over the ground below, some of the blood splattering on his pants.

As this was going on another one of the travelers had pull out a sword and a small dagger, quickly removing the hands from one of the demons with her sword she buried the dagger into the skull of another, ignoring the spray of blood and the maddening howl of pain that came out when she removed it. The handless demon went to try and kick her but she avoided his foot threw her dagger into its throat, hitting it right in the wind pipe causing it to gasp for breath as it fell to the ground below. Not taking any chances she swung her sword at it again, this time removing the top of it’s skull.

The others two demons ran off realising they were outnumbered and outmatched, taking the bodies of their fallen comrades with them. They were still hungry and they knew there would be no more food for miles.

One of the people, the man, the travelers had just saved went to talk to the third traveler, the one who had done nothing during the battle, and tell him to thank the other two but when he got close enough the third traveler pulled out a gun and fired at point blank range, caving the man’s chest in. As he fell to the ground one of the other travelers turned his head and the woman and children all bursts into tears.

“What the hell are you doing Laotsu!?” The traveler who had used the gun shouted running over to him. “We just went out of our way to save these people and you blow one of them straight to hell!”

The third traveler, Laotsu glared at the other traveler then looked down at the man he had just killed. “It was obvious what was going on Kane. He had just put himself and his family up for the Demon feast. If he had just been an innocent victim out for a stroll with his family that just got caught at the wrong place at the wrong time I‘d let him live but any man who wants the life of both himself and his family to end then changes his mind when he notices how frightening it is doesn’t deserve to walk on the same planet we do.”

The female traveler looked up at Laotsu as the other male traveler, Kane went to comfort the wife and children of the man his friend had just killed.

“What makes you think they weren’t just innocent bystanders Laot?” She demanded. “What could have possibly made you think that man had volunteered himself and his family to be offerings at the feast!?”

“The demons were going to kill and eat them last, that way they could see the fate their loved one bestowed upon them so the last moments of their lives will be filled both terror and heartbreak. That’s always how they do it, you saw how many there were. If they weren’t doing that the other two would have already eaten the children. You should know I wouldn’t kill a man unless I felt I had to Kamiha.”

“But you didn’t have to!” The wife of the man just killed screamed walking up to Laotsu. “As soon as he saw the first man killed he tried to get us away from the demons! He offered to find other townspeople to switch with us! He did everything he could to save us you son of a cruel girl and you just-”

She suddenly stopped talking when she felt one of Laotsu’s guns up against her forehead. She began to sputter and apologise for what she said but Laotsu shook his head and roostered his gun. The woman looked towards Kane and Kamiha and the two of them were just standing there. One of the woman’s children, a boy who looked to be no older than six was about to run over but Kamiha stopped him.

The woman continued to beg to Laotsu but he just kept his gun up against her forehead. She tried kicking him and that was the final straw. He pulled the trigger as his companions turned their heads and the heads of the woman’s children. Nothing happened though. No explosion was heard. It was a trick, or so she believed. The woman opened her eyes and noticed Laotsu was no longer standing in front of her. He had gone back to join his two companions. The three talked amongst themselves for a little bit as the children ran back to their mother. A few minutes later Kamiha and Kane walked up to the woman, looks of sympathy on their faces.

“Listen, we’re sorry about your husband ma’am but we can’t let people like that live. We did once before in our home village and, well, in the end we were the only one’s left.” Kane told her.

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The woman nodded but said nothing. Just she and her kids were heading inside their house they were stopped by Kamiha.

“Where’s the nearest hotel?” She asked the woman.

This time the woman did reply. “There’s no way you scum are spending the night here! I’d rather be back with those demons than be in the same town as you monsters! I’m going to round up everybody in the village, man and demon, and If you three aren’t out of here by tomorrow afternoon we’re coming to send you to hell where you belong!”

The woman walked into her house and slammed the door. Kamiha looked towards Laotsu and Kane and shrugged. “So, what are we doin’?”

“We’re staying.” Laotsu replied. “We’ll just have to find the d*mn Inn or Hotel in this village by ourselves.”

“You know, you really need to control your anger a little better. You can‘t blow the head off of everybody who insults you you know.” Kane sighed.

Laotsu ignored him as the three of them turned away from the woman’s door and walked off in search of a place to spend the night. If she had known who Laotsu or Kamiha were though, she probably would have been a little less hostile towards them, for they were uncrowned royalty.

-

The war had begun without warning on a bright afternoon in May. The Demons, over a million warriors in all, stormed the gates of the kingdom of Brai and entered into the villages. Almost immediately the armies of the king were being slaughtered at the Demons not only outnumbered them, but were much better trained and used to combat.

In the small section of the world the immortal had already taken hold of the art of war was taught the only way anything could be taught to a demon, through experience. There were many days when the shrieking of slain Demons could be heard while the nobleman hunted. Of course, as soon as the nobleman knew that the war games of the Demons were on they immediately vacated the area, not wanting to become target practise for the monsters or battle them and instead choosing to return to their plush homes and feast on whatever meal their underpaid and often times unappreciated servants had prepared for them.

Behaviour like this was what led to the kingdom’s downfall as the soldiers of the royal army had grown soft and neglected their training. Some had continued their training as their father’s before them but most had grown fat on the luxury that being one of the kingdom’s elite had afforded them. They drank the finest wine, used the finest women in the land for their own pleasure, ate the most delicious and often fattening foods and in the end paid dearly for their overindulgence. It took less that a day before Rathe’s main kingdom, Brai, had been taken over and over the next few weeks the rest soon followed until the immortal had taken over the entire planet.

Unbeknownst to the armies of the immortal or the immortal himself the only child of the king, the princess Sasha, had been whisked away by one of the armies few good soldiers. The two of them had managed to escape from the castle just as the fighting had started because an advisor of the king, a powerful mage who had long ago mastered the ability to see the future, had foreseen the events a few hours before they had occurred and warned the king. The king had his doubts, his advisor because the advisor had been wrong many times over the last few years, but humoured him anyways by preparing the horse and escort for his daughter but because he really didn’t expect there to be any bloodshed he did not warn the commander of his army. The last thing he had remembered seeing before he himself had joined his battle was his daughter vanishing from sight. As soon as he made it to the battlefield he was killed but he died knowing his daughter was safe.

Not long after the fall of Brai, a few months at the most, Sasha had married the soldier who had saved her life and nine months later she died giving birth to their first child, a son named Future, obviously quite an odd name for a child but that didn’t prevent him from finding a wife and eventually marrying. Shockingly the royal bloodline was continuing right beneath the immortal’s nose as each generation of unrecognised royalty was told of the fall of Brai by the generation before them. Some of the descendants of the king, both male and female, had attempted to reach the tower but in the end the results were always the same. They never made it and the reign of the immortal continued. Each generation had to watch as the once wonderful land their ancestors had ruled over was transformed into nothing more than a giant ball of sand. The human population was estimated to be less than two million by now, quite small compared to the demon population which seemed to be nearing the billions.

Laotsu and Kamiha were the twenty third generation to be born after the fall of Brai and if they were not careful they would be the last. Neither of them had had children and the only other relatives they had were killed during the upheaval in their home village of New Brai.

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Kamiha tossed uneasily in her bed, the way she had done most nights since birth. Her brother had been able to find an Inn just as they were leaving town so it looked as if they were going to be spending the night in Cthulu and, if the conversation with the woman earlier in the day had been any indication they’d spend the afternoon trying to escape from Cthulu. It’s not like they hadn’t been in situations like that before though. It seemed as if every village the three of them spent the night at they had to kill their way out of the next day. Unlike her brother, and to a lesser extent Kane, she didn’t like the fact she, at times, had to kill those who are easily influenced by others. Laotsu had explained to her many times though that it was either kill or be killed and most of the time he was right. She still downright despised his actions at times though. Like earlier in the day when he killed the man for offering himself and his family up for the demon feast. It was quite obvious that the man had changed his mind but it didn’t matter to Laotsu. As far as he was concerned once your mind it made up and you all of a sudden don’t want to become just another piece of meat for a demon to taste, you end up tasting a bullet.

That was another thing Kamiha disliked about her brother and Kane, their use of guns. She had always felt they were too much of a hassle and too much of a giveaway when used in battle. If you were trained as well as she was trained you could use a sword for hours on end all day however guns always need reloaded. With a dagger you could easily sneak in to a place and, if you know where to cut a man, could get rid of any security without making any noise. A gun, the ones used by her companions especially, were loud and alerted anybody within the area of your presence. Laotsu and Kane had told her they prefer to use their guns in battle because they were much superior weapons when it came to long distance fighting, which was obviously true, but the mess they made at times made her sick to her stomach. While her sword obviously resulted in the loss of limbs it was a much more clean loss compared to the ’Demon Blasters’ which at times scatter bits of bone, blood and organs all over the place. She would never give up the use of her blades.

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And likewise Kane and Laotsu would never give up the use of their guns. As they had told Kamiha they prefer to use them due to the fact they’re a much better weapon to use from long distances but there were also other reasons they preferred the gun to the sword. For starters if you stab a demon in the head they don’t always stay down. Though Kamiha can be too stubborn to admit it there were many times when her sword didn’t finish a demon off and Kane or Laotsu had to shoot it before it attacked her. She’d always claim she had the demon where she wanted she was just toying around, and in some cases that was true, but most of the time she was in danger of losing her life, she just wouldn’t admit it. Another reason they preferred their guns was a reason Kamiha despised them, the noise they made. The hearing of a demon is much more sensitive than the hearing of a human and if they shot their guns at the right time they could practically deafen some of the demons making it much easier for them to kill the demon.

As the thoughts of the inevitable bloodbath that was to ensue the next day ran through Kamiha’s head Laotsu laid awake in his bed anticipating the next morning when the fight in Chtulu would begin. In some ways Kamiha and Laotsu were like day and night. While Kamiha didn’t like the thought of killing people who, in other situations, would be completely innocent and possibly fight alongside them Laotsu didn’t mind killing anybody who stood in his way. The only thing that mattered to him was reaching the top of the tower, killing the immortal and ascending to the throne of Rathe. Once again making his family the most powerful family on the planet and finally, after over twenty generations, avenging the loss his family suffered. He had said to his companions many times that he would rather die than let somebody he felt deserves to die live. He knew deep down in his heart though that if Kane or Kamiha stood in his way he could never kill them. They were the only people he had left in the world to call his family or his friend. He had had other family and friends in New Brai but they were all dead now, some of them killed by his own bullets, some of them killed by the bullets of Kane and a few of them killed by the blades of his sister. The village they had lived in, the New Brai had fallen, just like the old Brai.

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The next day the travelers had awaken and prepared for battle. They weren’t sure how many people the woman would be able to round up but they knew they could expect at least six demons and the woman herself, and quite possibly the woman’s children. They all hoped that wasn’t the case though as the last thing any of them want to do is kill children. But when a child is running at you with a gun it’s kill or be killed and in the end if a child must die so they can live so be it.

After they got their weapons together Kane looked out the window to see if he saw anybody outside. There was nobody there and he let out a sigh of relief. He was almost ceartin there’d be people waiting for them. When he got outside with Laotsu and Kamiha though he cursed under his breath. They’d later find out the man they had killed was in fact the town’s most beloved man. For what reason they never found out but whatever he did had to earn the village’s affection had to be something great because standing in front of them were over a hundred people, all of them armed with wooden board, broken bottles and knives.

“Well.” Kane said looking over the angry crowd of people then over to Laotsu. “Thanks a lot buddy. I’ll be sure to get ya a nice birthday present this year.”

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Well, there’s the first chapter down. Hopefully I’ll be able to keep this up for the rest of the story. And I tried fitting this into two posts but it just would'nt fit.

[~*Hieislove*~]

Little said:

WARNING: The following story may offend more wussier sensitive readers.

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How mean...but oh so true ;D

Wow this turned out better then I would of thought ;D nice work keep it up

And how many stories do you have out?

Your writing alot and others stories are getting harder to see. I almost missed Blackcovens

You should get your own section.

[Little Syxx]

*Hieislove* said:

Your writing alot and others stories are getting harder to see. I almost missed Blackcovens

You should get your own section.

I had a feeling you'd eventually agree I should get my own section.

I can picture the description now.

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"We were sick of seeing him fill up the story board."

And I'm glad to see I was actually able to exceed somebodies expectations with this story ;d.

[~*Hieislove*~]

Little said:

I had a feeling you'd eventually agree I should get my own section.

I got mad. Thats not good. You made me almost miss BlackCoven's story.

(psss.....go suggest...
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I know, I liked the chapter alot just keep it up

[SockPerson]

I'm going to be an ass and point out that the first and second sentences contradict each other, because one says there isn't mammals then there are three pairs of feet walking away from town... Unless of course they are like reptile, or bird people.
It just stuck out a lot because it was RIGHT in the beginning.


Ok, I actually really liked this.

The only problem I kind of had with it, was that you dumped a lot of information on us all at once sometimes. Like that bit where your talking about guns and swords and such.
Thats just a minor thing to me though.

Overall, good work.