Dear Star Angel

Lurking Beneath

3-30-XXXX

The night Prata was injured, he's carried back to the army and is thusly stitched and unable to fight until hist wound ist healed. Verily, the soldier's missed on the battlefield and the realization that more soldiers are needed becomes apparent. Thus, the prince approaches the General, who's in a carriage: days after they left the petty-kingdom... "My dear General... I feel we should recruit more men into our legion.." he says "Our ranks are strong: yet, losing one of our more stronger fighters has hindered our fighting skills immensely against monsters. Imagine how much worse it shall be when we fight against a organized army?". The General replies "Alright, that's awesome! Tell me how that shit goes... Good luck, buddy!", Gabriel smiles in annoyance "Friend, you have to help to. Take part, of the glorious-phenomena of making comrades!" he finishes the sentence with a real-smile... The General sighed hard: "Fine, dammit! I'll talk to some brats and shit..." the General gets off a cot in anger.. The prince laughs slightly "Thank you, you're always reliable!", the General smirks "Yeah, yeah... Don't get all shitty on me...". They suddenly see one of the army's doctors-in-soldiers walking by: 

"What the hell!? Frank's in here too??!" The General asks... Then calls out "Hey doctor, how's Prata? The guy up and movin' yet??". Frank turns towards the General: "No General sir: Before, we'd have the tools and technology needed for that. But now, the body has a lot more to heal without help... But.. Me and Nurse Madoka have both been watching him around the clock..."... The General sighs "Alright, forget it... shit...", Frank sees the disappointed look on the General's face and then suggests "He's well enough to get visits, now... Maybe seeing him will cheer him up?"... The General sighed "No dude, I don't wanna see him unable to move an' shit! Jus' tell me when he's able to be a smartass like usual..".. The doctor shrugs and leaves... The prince leaves too..

4-18-XXXX

The army stops in the kingdom of Camelot, there: they search for my recruits into the army as they try to also get food and water... Meanwhile... Xoro sneaks away with Charles towards the forest surrounding the kingdom! "Alright man, this is it! Once we get the sword, we'll be invincible!" the captain explained, Charles replied "I'm only coming because I have a thing against letting in inexperienced people, so I've nothing better to do..". Xoro laughed ".Than help me, right? If ya see anybody else with it: shoot their ass for me!". Charles arched his eyebrow "Wait, what!?  Look... Why do you want it? I thought you were 'almighty'!" he asks in annoyance, the captain turns towards him "Don't make fun of me! Hear me!!? If we get this, it'll be for protectin' the weak people! I'll use it for that!"... he turns and marched away as the archer rolls his eyes "(Whatever helps you sleep at night...)"... They then happen upon a forest clearing with a sword embed inside a stone!!! 

"HOLY SHIT!!!" Xoro cheered as he ran to it, Charles casually follows "Yay, we found it: Um... HOW do we know this is it? And is the sword, magical? How do we know our efforts are worth the reward?".. The captain grabs the sword "Stop bitchin' ya punk! We got the thing!!!", he yanks it... but it doesn't come out... "SHiiiiiiit! What gives?!". The archer walks besides him "It's suppose to come out for the true king of Camelot, observe: I wouldn't be able to, either...", Charles reaches at the hilt... then pulls out a box of wetwipe and wiped the handle off... "What the fuck does that mean, shithead!!!? Xoro shouted in annoyance... Charles grabs the hilt "You know EXACTLY what it means: many have touched this, and on a larger scale: YOU probably killed something recently, and didn't wash your hands.". The captain almost retorts when the blades slides out of the stone... "I... I'm the king??!" Charles wondered in excitement, the captain replied "No, I loosened it: you jus' got lucky, boy!". The sword then gives a unearthly glow, then breaks!!! The men stare at it, then at each other... and quietly leave... as something worthless crawls out and watches them..

4-30-XXXX

The army has a smooth time in Camelot so far (Outside of Xoro and Charles' breaking Excalibur...) ad new recruits have started coming in, thanks to Prata and Gabriel's way of talking with people... Though not all the grunts and villagers are successful: many have convinced people of Camelot to join their cause.... Though their cause was never clear outside of a rebelling against a corrupt kingdom, even to most of the army... This caused many to fail in recruiting as well... Mira in fact, loses a potential soldier right now... "Shit... Welp, that's it for today..." she thought aloud and starts back towards the camp: "I don't even wanna keep doing this crap myself..." her thoughts are broken by a fellow soldier: "Major-General!" he calls out! She turns to see: "Warrant Officer!!?"... she asks as she walks to him 

"Elliot? What's wrong??". He salutes as he answers "I think I need to explain something..", she stares in curiosity "What dya mean 'explain'?". He gestures for her to follow him "Please come with me... it's about what we'll tell people to get them to join..."... She followed: now too curious as to what's happening beyond the surface... They find a quiet building with a balcony, and stand up there as he says "We might have to tell them the whole truth, I have: but not to the more scared looking soldiers: we need canon fodder, too..."... Mira asks in annoyance: "What IS the real story?! I thought we were just plotting to kill the prince's dad!!?"... Elliot turns towards her in shock "You didn't know?!!! No wonder... I bet the others probably don't either..."... he looks away again: "Alright, I tell you the full truth: What I know and what Gabriel told me and Frank, himself... In his kingdom: Avalon, 800 ears ago, there was a Archdemon roaming the world.. and it had travelled there one night... Fortunately: all Gabriel's family, his ancestors are well versed in all magic. So his ancestor had cast to loose the Archdemon's skin and peeled it off him! Then tied him up in it, and placed a seal, disabling the archdemon from being freed of it's own skin and Lyoness itself. But... Gabriel's dad has been offering children to the demon, in order keep rule over the kingdom despite the corrupt deals and actions he's took. The places' beautiful... but it destroyed many other kingdoms to simply feed the demon and stroke his ego. That's why Gabriel rebelled against him and why we're helping... he wishes to overthrow his father and strengthen the seal on the demon, to keep it from ever breaking free..."... Mira stares in awe.. "Wait a minute... so those things that possess people and make them look all crazy: there's a stronger one under the kingdom!!! And someone's trying to set it free!!???" she ask in horror.. Elliot replies "More so he's taking power from it, but he isn't paying attention to the fact that the seal CAN break and it'll be much harder to reseal, let alone trying to kill it: ESPECIALLY since he's feeding it souls..."... He turns away... hopefully this information can be explained clearly to braver would-be-warriors and their desire to save the kingdom will be strong..." he walks away... As Mira goes to tell the Commander and General...