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Post by Keplers on Apr 16, 2020 18:36:40 GMT

This is an old, short story I wrote sometime in early 2016. I found it again while going through some old stuff, and while it's not quite as polished as I'd like it to be, I figured I may as well share it with somebody. Without further ado... here goes.

A captain walked through the desert of Spherus Magna, trailed by several warriors. A burnt, looted cart was behind them.

He was against stealing, but he wasn't going to go out of this way to reprimand them. He was against this war to begin with, and that was enough to detest for now.

He hadn't gone because he liked the fighting, or the sight of enemies running from his blade. He just believed that his tribe deserved the new liquid coming from the center of the planet. And he would get it any way he could.

The captain ordered his company to halt as they came across a Cendox with smoke coming from the engine. The Agori's blue eyes widened as he opened his mouth to scream. The captain put his hand over the Agori's mouth.

"Don't," he paused for effect, "scream. Understand?" The Agori nodded furiously.

"Good," the captain removed his hand.

"But- but you're Ironblade!" the Agori shouted in despair. "You're just letting me go?"

"Would you have it otherwise?"

"Well, no, but-"

"Good. We're going to fix your vehicle, and then pretend we never saw anyone blue. Got it?"

"Yes, Ironblade," the Agori said. He stepped aside as two engineers from the remnants of Ironblade's company moved forward to repair it.

"They say in the Battle for the Dunes of Treason you single-handedly took down forty-"

"Do they?"

"Yeah, they do. Is it not true?"

"Oh, it's true all right. But I don't like to brag about it."

"And so modest, too," the Agori said in wonder under his breath.

One of the engineers cried out, "Almost done!" from somewhere behind the Agori and Ironblade.

"So, do you know who's winning?" Ironblade asked.

"No. Last I heard, Vastus had triggered an avalanche."

"Poster boy of the Jungle Tribe, he is," Ironblade said, distantly. "We just got marched over by the Sand Tribe about two days ago. They frightened a Skopio towards us, then they jumped out from the dunes. . ."

"You don't like it?"

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"No, I don't. Did you know we started off with two hundred men in the company? We got split up into two groups. One has sixteen warriors. The other is this," Ironblade waved his hand vaguely towards the tired and worn men and women in his company, "and I don't like any of it."

"But, you were a hero," the Agori looked down, crestfallen.

"A hero isn't someone who relishes the glory of destroying armies. A hero is someone who does something that he has to do, or sometimes even doesn't have to do, so that others may walk free. Calling me a hero proves I dislike my job. But even then, am I a hero?" Sunlight glinted off the spiked helmet.

"This isn't a war about me saving the lives of others without being told to, or doing my duty bravely. This is a war of greed. We all want this new stuff. A worthless object meaningless compared to the lives on the line just to ensure a greedy warlord gets it. If that's being a hero, then I want no part in it." Ironblade stood up. The engineers had fixed the Cendox. He looked at the Agori.

"Go back to Tajun, and tell no one of our deed." The Agori nodded, got on the Cendox, and rode southwest.

Ironblade stared into the distance. They had skirmished briefly with a band of Vulcanus soldiers and were forced to retreat, thankfully with no casualties. They could see their beloved village now, in the mountains. Ironblade felt that he could sprint there without exhaustion, straight there.

Then he remembered the war. He couldn't stay for long. He would report to his superiors and then go right back out.

Perhaps the unexpected part that made Ironblade's stay more miserable was the medal, awarded to Gelu for acts of bravery. Ironblade looked at the metal badge on his chest in disgust. It was a reward they gave him for ending the lives of people that didn't want to fight as much as him. He tossed it into the campfire that night.

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Ironblade watched the metal melt, turning to a silvery liquid and running into the ground.

A silver liquid. Just like what they fought over. Ironblade's eyes narrowed. He hated this war. He hated the Elemental Lords. He hated the Great Beings. He hated it all. None of it belonged. They had gotten along fine, then the Great Beings and their "wonders" showed up. The Elemental Lords also forgot their origin. They used to be one of the normal people, just another like everyone else. Now they were hungry for power and for land. It sickened Ironblade.

So he decided to desert.

The war won't ruin his life. He'll escape it, go to an area untouched by the ravages of war. He'll be able to forget the destruction, the loss of life, the unnecessary damage caused by greed.

No one was going to keep him from living. And he won't be called Ironblade, a name attributed to him because of his ice blade that had cut through so many enemy soldiers.

So many innocent men.

Ironblade clearly remembered a picture he had seen of some apparently glorious battle where a white warrior stood atop a pile of enemies with a tattered flag. It filled him with disgust. No one ever did that. There was no need. Ironblade hated things like that, monuments glorifying a moment which had no good in it at all.

Except he wasn't called Ironblade anymore. He was called Gelu.

Gelu left early that morning, while it was still dark, and made sure to leave no trace of himself behind. He stood atop a ridge and unfolded the map. Somewhere on this map was a place uninhabited, and if there wasn't, someplace beyond the map was. Somewhere, somehow, he was going to find peace.

He would ensure it.

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