The War Begins

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Explosions rang throughout the land, screams of terror and pain pierced the ears of those near, and commands could be heard being shouted from high ranking officers. The royal family of Aerugo battled with the followers of the Scherzo for nearly three months now. The imperial army was suffering heavy losses, their tactics failing, and their soldiers being outnumbered. Flags of the Scherzo family and Cretarian flags could be seen held in diffrent areas. Soldiers, who carried guns, swords, spears, and all sorts of weaponry charged at each other, killing the lives of former friends, brothers, and family memebers. Civilians panicked and rushed around the nation, seeking safety.

The setting of this battle takes place near the coast of Aerugo, only a few miles away from the palace of the royal family. The fleet of ships from Eikyuu Gaka have just arrived. Make your entrance, and let the Scherzo family see no fear! Versaille, let the royal family know you have come to their aid! A castle awaits you in the middle of this frozen wasteland. Snow falls from the sky, a cold breeze blows by, and the freezing water touches the edge of the beaches. Go to your main camp, and prepare yourself for battle.

The Theme of The Demon King

The Theme of The Nightmare

The Theme of The Sorceress

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Xan stood at the front of his flagship, the Nautilus, and commanded his Admiral to have the Cibolian fleet ready itself for a naval battle with the Cretan and Aerugese fleets. The Admiral nodded, and began to give orders to all of the captains of the various ships in the fleet through a radio. The transports were ordered to stay back until the combined enemy fleet was destroyed.

Smiling, Xan thought to himself that Creta and Aerugo really should have made more war ships. As it was, this would probably be too easy.

In the distance, he could just see the ships preparing a blockade against Cibola. What foolish notion had made them think that they could outgun the most powerful navy in the world?

They would soon be learing their place, one way or the other....

The admiral returned, and awaited further orders.

L'ammiraglio, prepara le navi di guerra a licenziare sul mio marchio.
(Admiral, prepare the war ships to fire on my mark.)


Sì, il mio Signore!
(Yes, my Lord!)

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The ship named Orochi, commanded by the Demon King himself, Takegami Tejirou, came upon the beach covered in snow. Snow fell to the ground from the night sky, the stars somehow shining even though snowclouds covered some of the sky, and the freezing water calmly rocked back and forth. The ship sailed lightly, and standing on top of the sails, at the highest point of the ship, was Takegami, who wore his samurai armor and wore his long hair down. The cold winds blew, but he couldn't feel the slightest bit of cold air around him, for he gave off a light blue aura himself, one that seemed to radiate coldness itself.

"Face me... brother."

The boat came to a halt upon hitting the beaches edge, and Takegami leapt down onto the front of the ship. Around him stood Katie Lynn Ash and Revel, the only two of his allies that would leave the ship for the moment. Yuan Yao and Ming-Yue Yao each stood on another ship, awaiting their orders or doing whatever. He quickly backflipped back onto the top of the boat on the sails, and took in the fresh air around him.

"Si province... it's good to see home."

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Xan saw the enemy vessels complete their blockade, and aim their cannons at the Cibolian fleet. Sighing, Xan raised up his right hand to the heavens.

Pronto, lo scopo, licenzia!
(Ready, aim, fire!)

As he said licenzia, he lowered his right hand to point at the blockade. As one, all of his front ships fired a volley of cannon fire at the enemy fleet. The naval battle had begun...

Xan pulled out a communicator that linked directly to Takegami...

Take, the naval battle has begun. It's your move now.

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Takegami heard his name be called by the captain of his ship, Orochi, and he looked down. The naval battle had begun, and Takegami was ready. He slowly drew his katana, and stuck it in the air. Lightning struck the blade, and stayed on it, as he stood there on the sails. Suddenly, he whistled, and his horse leapt into the air, practically gliding. Takegami snapped his hands, and cherry blossoms rained around the enemy fleets, landing on the water and boats, and even a few people. Unfortunately, this was their death. Right when he snapped his fingers all of the cherry blossoms exploded, setting the ships aflame or destroying them completly.

Fire blazed the water before Xan's entire fleet, and standing in the center of those flames was Takegami Tejirou, sitting on his horse in his armor. He stood on a ship which was blazing as if the gunpowder was all on this ship, and as he arrived another range of explosions happened at that moment, making the flames rise higher. Takegami raised his sword, which was still blazing with fire and lightning, and laughed the laugh only the Demon King himself could make.

"Let us go to our future, together!"

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The members of the Cibolian army and navy gazed in awe at the devatation that Takegami had created. Xan simply smiled and called his Admiral over.

Now do you see, my Admiral, why this war shall indeed be ours? Look! Our ally has cleared the way for our ships to move in unopposed! Wait until the enemy ships sink and the flames die out before you continue to the Aerugese coast.

The admiral asked what Xan intended to do.

Xan simply smiled and whistled. Quicksilver, his dragon, came roaring from the sky and landed on the ship in front of Xan's feet, waiting for his master.

Why, I am going to go ahead of you and speak to our ally, of course.

Without another word, Xan hopped onto Quicksilver and flew towards the ship that Take was standing on.

[Revel Yao]

Revel.. running behind as usual, which was odd for a ninja, finally came up behind. She was not on a horse, her speed allowed her quicker movement on foot. She had to take a detour, an enemy ambush to be seen on heroriginal tour. She seemed to almost appear from flames themself, her cloak flowing behind her. Her crimson eyes flaring as she herself seemed to emit a dark glow.

"Ego sum rumex ego sum tardus. A detour had capi." (Sorry I'm late I had to take a detour) Looking around at the flames, she figured the burlap cloak would not be a good combination of flames and tossed the fabric aside, letting it be consumed into the chaotic and hungry flames.

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Takegami looked over at Revel and nodded slightly, understanding her reasoning. He then turned back to Xan, an evil smile on his face. Upon sight, one would mistake Takegami for a young Nobunaga without the ponytail and moustache, but otherwise, he was a reincarnation. He said not one word, nor did he wave for Xan, but simply awaited the arrival of his ally.

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Xan jumped off of Quicksilver and landed nimbly on the burning ship in front of Take and Revel. With a whistle, he dismissed Quicksilver back into the skies for a while.

Turning to face his allies, he noticed that they kind of looked like Nobunaga and Kunoichi. He could only wonder what he looked like right now...

Hello Take-san and Revel-chan. I take it that nothing serious has happened while I was taking my sweet time in getting this close to Aerugo?

[Revel Yao]

Revel blinked and saluted Xan, a grin on her face. "Abyssus Xan , is has been a dum. Quam es vos?" (Hello Xan, it has been a while. How are you?) She wasn't actually asking, it was more rhetorical, a kind and friendly hello. She turned to Take. "Vestri ordo meus dominus?" (Your orders my lord?)

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Takegami sat on his horse, and simply laughed and motioned for the soldiers who barely managed to survive to come out. He leapt off of his horse, and slapped it on the bottom, signaling it to roam around freely. The horse galloped onto the water and leaped, seeming to glide as it disappeared off into the skies. Takegami simply nodded slightly as a hello to Xan, and looked as they slowly became surrounded by soldiers.

"Kill..."

Takegami prepared for the foolish soldiers to advance, in which they did, and simply charged back at them. He slashed through them one by one, bringing them down to the ground, their blood spilling all over the boat. Screams of pain came from them just before they died before Takegami slashed one into the air and jumped up with him, and slashed right into his gut sending him back to the floor.

"And so it begins..."

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Xan thought that he couldn't just let Take have all of the fun. Drawing his sword, Xan began to slice and stab to death anyone whom Take had somehow missed on his first wave of destruction.

What's wrong Revel? Don't you want to have some fun too?

As Xan was speaking, a foolish soldier tried to stab him through the stomach. Xan jumped high into the air, and threw a dagger at the man. The dagger lodged itself into the man's skull and he fell over, dead.

Then Xan gave the other men a look that clearly asked for his next opponent.

[Revel Yao]

Revel grinned at Xan and seemed to diasappear, she could be seen in short glimpses all over the field. Her movements almost dance liked and graceful as she jumped location to location. Her eyes red with amusement as the men tried to catch her. A few lunged at her, only to fall off the edge of the boat. She sat on the ledge looking around curiously, a few men staring in utter confusion before they ran in mass chaos and her tricks all started again.

"She's a sorceress!" they shoued in fear. Only to be silenced a second later.

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Takegami spun around, slicing four men that surrounded him, then slashed through another one infront of him, and jumped only three inches off the ground and began to spiral forward through several soldiers. As he went through the last soldier, he slowly stopped, almost as if he was floating, and gently floated down to the ground. The soldiers all looked at him, and dropped their weapons, backing away.

"Run!! He's a monster! A demon!!"

Takegami chuckled evily, the flames razing the boats behind him.

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Xan appeared in a flash of light on top of the burning ship. With a snap of his fingers, ten swords of red light appeared around him and sliced through more of the men on the ships. Then, he snapped his fingers again. Then, the men whom he had just killed stood back up and began fighting against their former comrads, with a zombified expression on their faces.

What trickery is this? The Ishvalan must be a nightmare creature just like the other two!

Xan roared with laughter while he heard the things that the ships crew was saying. Demon, sorceress, and nightmare. That actually fit pretty well right now.

[Revel Yao]

Revel glanced at Xan and pouted, "Oh way to show off!" She shouted, slicing the throat of the man in front of her. She disappeared, reappearing on the otherside of the flight, disappearing as two men lunged, they ended up stabbing eachother instead. Revel sighed and crossed her legs, licking the blade of her dagger, "You make it almost too easy..."

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Takegami was growing bored of these weaklings, and slashed through one more before creating phantom soldiers. The enemy tried to kill these phantom soldiers, but simply panicked at the sight of their blades going through them. The phantom soldiers began hacking away, taking life after life after life. The soldiers panicked, trying to understand the situation, practically pissing their pants.

"What is he!? What are these things he's created!? There's no use in fighting, run!!!"

The soldiers hopped into the water,a nd swam away... if they could.

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Xan signaled his ships to fire another volley against the first row of ships, then braced himself as the cannonballs hit the ship that he was on. The enemy soldiers screamed again and more of them jumped into the water. Those who were lucky would make it to the second wave of ships to await their inevitable destruction. Those who were unlucky were either burned alive, drowned, or were eaten alive by sharks.

Come on, mortals! Is there no one who can face my might?!

[Revel Yao]

Revel yawned, watching the people with a look of boredom. She had taken a good chunk out and there were barely any other's left, so she began walking along the ship, pacing and waiting...

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Takegami stood there, the flames surrounding him. He could feel more ships coming to stand in their way, but he had prepared for this. Using his brilliant mind, he had defectionist planted within the enemy army, and within seconds of the arrival of the second wave of ships, they exploded. Takegami could only smile that devilish smile that sent others straight to the depth of hell.

"Man up your stations, feel the sensation. Surround, invasion, move quick for we will create destruction."

With that said, Takegami walked into the flames as if they were nonthing. Soldiers, staggered backwards, falling to the ground in fear. The phantom soldiers made quick business of them, and Takegami prepared to set his third wave of the plan into action. He whistled and his horse suddenly came galloping off of the water and onto the boat. He galloped over to Xan and Revel, and Takegami pulled her onto the horse with him.

"You might want to get back to your fleet, Xan. These ships won't stand for long."

Takegami leapt into the air on his horse, and took off to join Xan's main ship. And within two minutes of his leaving of the ships, they exploded and sunk into the sea. Hopefully, Xan was away from the boat by that time.

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Xan appeared in a flash of red light on his flagship, the Nautilus, just as the now sunken ship had exploded. It had been a slightly close call, but Xan enjoyed that sensation of almost being blown up in the morning.

Calling his shaking Admiral over, Xan issued new orders: Continue to the shores of Aerugo, and provide support from the sea, including a constant bombardment of the closest enemy camps.

After the Admiral left to issue the orders to the war ships, Xan turned to his allies.

Thanks for the help, that was fun. What do we do now?

Just as Xan was speaking, his war ships continued forward, and his supply ships and transports would follow once it was clear that Cibloa and Eikyuu Gaka controlled the coast.

[Yuan Yao/ Greed]

There was a laugh. "Guess I'm late." the emporer of Xing grinned from his perch in the rigging of his head ship. Of course, it was expected for him to be late, Xing was pretty far away, especially by sea.

Yuan was clinging to the ropes with just his feet. His orange and red jacket was nowhere to be seen, so it was just his sleeveless, high necked shirt, tight pants and 'troll shoes'.

"So what I miss?" Yuan continued, knowing no one heard him as he jumped down from the rigging, white bandages showing on his left arm. There had been a minor accident. Some idiot servant had broken a lamp and somehow managed to catch Yuan's arm on fire. It ahd ehaled fast enough, but the skin was still red and held a charred smell, so he might as well hide it.

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Takegami looked over at Yao, and sighed. The boy was late, but fashionably late with his appearance. He then turned back to Xan and nodded slightly as to say no problem. When the four of them stood together and cleared the path of the burning ships and wreckage, Takegami thought about their next move.

"Once we get to the shore, i suppose we'll plan this war out. My brother is tricky, and it would be foolish to charge out into battle unprepared."

[Revel Yao]

Revel nodded, standing there silently as she wiped the blood on her blade off on her skirt. There was nothing to do, at least until the plans were finished. She looked at Yuan and gave him a small smile of greeting, and turned back to Takegami and Xan. "What exactly are we fighting here?" She asked curiously. She hadn't been told anything, she was clueless.

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"Holy crap, it's freezing here!" Ming exclaimed, pacing on her head ship. She was late, but at that moment, she didn't care about that. On top of her signature minidress she wore a knee length coat with fake fur rimming the hood, which was pulled up over her head. Only then did she realize that pretty much everyone was already there. "Sorry I'm late, Take. Certain...things were complicated."

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