33 Risen#re

A single ship resembling a black flying saucer was swallowed whole by another much larger ship.

Once inside the occupants on the small ship walked out of the hatch with heavy tension in their steps.

They each wore completely black outfits that covered even their face's and a veil that blocked their eyes.

As they filled into the large mothership another group dressed in a similar manner met them.

The person in the lead looked at the group surrounding his team of 14 and spoke, "We are the blade…" his words were rudely interrupted by someone from the mothership's crew, "…And the daggers…"

Once the words came out of his mouth the crew of 14 didn't show any displeasure at the interruption, instead the interruption made their taunt nerves ease up.

And they all began to recite the rest of the code alongside the members of the mothership.

"That severs the hindrances to our masters, in turn we benefit the empire, such is our noble goal."

As they spoke the two groups merged and became indistinguishable from the each other.

It wasn't the way of Zealots to introduce themselves by name, they never had one to begin with and using the names of their masters was a taboo when they were in the middle of an operation, so their masters would give them a code to speak when they worked together with other zealots.

They didn't know that the other zealots came from Efrideet Capriska, they didn't need to, their only goal was to accomplish the goals of their master.

As they walked through the mothership the new group noticed a difference in all the zealots on this ship, there were over a hundred of them but there were only two from the second accord.

Because Telamon had so little leeway in the number he could train secretly he focused on quality over quantity making all his zealots second accord combatants.

They reached the control room and soon they found themselves looking at a very large green rock floating in space, it was at least 80% earth and 20% water, it was their target destination.

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As that meeting happened another two ships silently cloaked themselves and landed on the green world, the occupants left their ships in an orderly fashion.

The occupants of the first ship wore uniforms of green and black colours and The Great Tree emblem of the Eden family was seen directly over their hearts.

They looked at the people in white uniforms with recognition, the emblem of the proudly perched eagle was all they needed to know that they were from the Jane family.

They had no need to doubt each other's identities as they recognised most of the people in the teams.

It was only twenty of them in total, but all of them were the finest second accord combatants that one could find in the Opal Star Zone.

The chief advisor of Callum Eden, Milan Eden walked to the front of the group, she wore elegant ice-blue robes that highlighted her every curve, but as if contradicting her bodies intense sex appeal her face was cold and unbending.

The elites from the Eden family had no idea why she chose to leave her position temporarily for this mission.

She lied to them and to herself, saying that it was because this was a direct mission from his majesty, she didn't want anything to go wrong.

Milan didn't waste her time with ant speech's everyone knew exactly what they were here for, she pulled out a device and it began to emit a signal, seconds later it locked onto the position of Edith's earing.

The candidates might have figured out the private rooms were tapped, but they would have never figured out that their earrings were always a way of tracking them to keep tabs of their location.

The elites of two great families set out.

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Alastor controlled the fleet, it was a little slow and sluggish without a crew to help, so it would still be a few more days before he arrived, he glanced down at the note Lirian had left him.

Yo, Alastor

I know that you've made up your mind about joining me so drop the act!

I'm giving you your first assignment,

My cruiser fleet is already stationed in empty space, so rent a shuttle and board it, you can use the controller to locate it and the co-ordinates of the expedition are already fixed into the controller, so you have no excuse's to not get here.

If you don't make it then consider yourself fired.

I wouldn't be telling you to do this if it wasn't necessary, for the most part you won't do anything other than monitor the planet, if you see a big explosion take that as your signal to come down and help me out.

P.S. When the expedition is over I'm expecting that ignition powder rifle you promised to get me!

-L

Alastor sighed as he shifted his focus back to the ship.

'I can't believe I agreed to follow such a disrespectful fellow,' he thought pitying himself

As for the rifle he didn't know what all the haste was about, it was difficult enough to find one of those things, and for some odd reason he wanted one that needed to be restored which was even harder.

Alastor had mentioned that he had a friend who dealt with such objects once, when he spoke to Lirian and he was surprised by Lirians enthusiasm when he spoke about it.

He offered to get it for him, but with his recent demotion it was proving a little difficult to get into contact with anyone from his old circles.

He put the note away as the planet he was heading towards appeared on the monitors, even with the ships instruments the planet still appeared as a green dot in the universe.

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"We've been finding a lot more animal tracks around the camp and they are coming in closer every day," Mordred was reporting to Lirian directly, most of the students were to afraid to speak to Lirian in person, so they chose to make the students from class 5-A who were the most familiar with Lirian do all the reporting.

All the candidates kept their entire class with them and so there were 19 of them that could share the burden, but they chose to draw straws, and Mordred had the worst possible luck, almost every time he got stuck with the duty of telling Lirian all the problems that occurred in the camp.

"Have there been any attacks yet?" Lirian asked while tapping his finger against the desk.

"Only one, but no one was injured, they startled a saber tooth tiger, and after it swiped at them it fled in a panic, but asides from that, we've discovered several lairs in the surroundings and there are eight different types of creatures."

Lirian thought on it silently, 'These creatures are smart, they are stalking us and slowly closing in on us, the biggest problem is that we don't know their numbers or their strength, but the longer we prolong hunting them down the more numbers they can gather.'

It was a common occurrence in nature, when a new predator arrived in an area, all the local alphas would do everything they could to get rid of the invading creatures that would poach all their food.

"We'll head out to the closest lairs and kill what ever we find, then we'll drag the corpses back to camp," Lirian decided.

Lirians plan was simple, he was going to kill some of the creatures to anger them to make them attack in retaliation, it would help cull the crowds before the creatures could gather up and attack the camp together.

Lirian got up with a grin, he was anticipating cutting flesh and spilling fresh blood for the first time in years, when he felt Edith take his hand suddenly.

"I want to lead this attack," she said in an excited voice, "Since you've taken charge here, I haven't had anything to do at all," she complained.

Mordred complained internally as he saw the new couple holding hands as they spoke to each other, he quietly slipped out of the tent.

'Poor Lirian, you'll soon find out that woman are the bane of all men," he thought sadly as he remembered his ex-girlfriend Mizuhara, because of that stupid remark she made about him being ill equipped he had a hard time when he tried to ask out any of the girls in the academy.

They would start giggling the moment he approached them, and he could tell that they were aware of the rumour, 'Since Mizuhara is here as well I'll be sure to show her who's ill equipped,' he thought wilfully.

Lirian sighed heavily, "Fine you can lead the attack but be sure to be back within four hours, the real fight is going to happen in the night, and we need everyone rested before it starts."

Edith smiled happily, she cast a quick glance around the tent to ensure that no one was looking and pressed her lips against Lirians.

The kiss went on for a full minute before they pulled apart, Edith sucked in the air desperately, she really loved kissing him it was so intoxicating that she would forget to breath and it made her head feel fuzzy.

"I'll see you later," she whispered with a red face and happily walked out of the tent to gather her extermination squad.