Chapter 1
From their perspective, it was a perfect opportunity for everything: try to improve a specie, take over a planet, test their new advances and enjoy the results, or even more. There was another option: plant a seed, wait for it to grow and watch the results, but they saw this specie was all other the planet, some regions more advance than some others, so they though there wouldn´t be space for a new specie. They decided to take the perfect opportunity. But the next challenge was the following: in one region, the main specie was better than the rest in comparison with the others; they had weapons, something like an armor, society, etc. In the other region, was different but similar at the same time: the weapons were different, in comparison, inferior and they had no armor. Before even trying anything, they sent a small wave to gather communication signs and see if they were somehow intelligent, to both regions. The results where outstanding! Let’s send them!
They saw at the upper region was occupied by the same specie but it looked like more evolved, so they made their mind for the inferior one. Why? Because they thought that the upper society could reject them and therefore it could become a war, and they didn´t want it. The contact was easy, they landed with no problems and they met with a group of ´´Wazers´´, nothing bad happened. The first contact was useful for evaluation: they are primitive so they don´t know what was happening, therefore they could achieve their goal. Discreetly, they began to kidnap members of the specie to start their experiments and to see which of them made it out. Their desire was to conquer the planet, but instead of attacking the inhabitants, even when they have force and army, and technology, they made important advances and preferred to test their new toys. Several were tested, in any way: introducing their technology in their bodies by any necessary mean or way which resulted in many deaths; mixing their technology fiercely or passively, which also resulted in many deaths; by killing and reviving them, which didn´t worked because subjects die and couldn´t be stable.
They were trying and trying, without the native specie know it, and being careful because they didn´t want to awake aware in them. But… It didn´t work at all, a part of the Wazers didn´t trust the new visitors so they though they were a threat. If the more advance group would meet these visitors, maybe they would think the same. They discovered something very interesting: this specie was composed by two different members, one they called wambre and the other wajer, and according to their observations, the wambres usually hunt and fight, the wajers usually recollect things and take care of small Wazers. They even discovered that wajers are capable of duplicating themselves, they can create very small Wazers which can get bigger and bigger, but their sizes were different almost 98% of the population they studied. Then they though of another option: what if they try to mix or enhance their technology in a new Wazer with the purpose of creating a new specie? A more powerful than the previous.
She was watching the herd of horses, tasked by her father, when her sister came for her.
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´´Adia! What are you doing? ´´ - asked Adalia.
´´I am watching the herd of horses, father ordered me. ´´ - she response.
´´It is ok, but he needs you, Abrul is with him, I think they are going to gather. ´´ - said Adalia, when any of them say gather, it means something bad, or it is going to be bad.
´´Ok, ok… I am on my way, then you watch over the herd. ´´ - asked Adia.
´´Easy! ´´ - said Adalia.
She was very confident, but she knew she could not distract. Even when the herd was eating very peace, some of them are rebels and sometimes they like to make it hard. Adia began her way to the village, just some steps away, her sister said ´´gather´´ and when it comes to gather, she cannot say no. About to reach the entrance of the village, she looked around as her father suggested to do all the time, and she saw something blue, with barely human shaped. She looked again just to check if there was something there for real, and… Nothing to see.
It wasn´t anything to see, they had their tricks to avoid being seeing, and this was one of them. It was seeing her, as many of them, just to research and check their hypothesis. Before testing and in order to avoid mistakes, they wanted everything perfect, or they would have to go another way. This particular was watching her figure: her high, her shape, her age, everything related to her. At the following moment, it disappeared. She entered and headed to her cabin.
´´Mother, have you seen Abrul and father? ´´ - she asked.
´´Yes, my dear, they are at the gather, go there, he requires you. ´´ - she said. Without any word, she ran again, and reached the gathering. Her father was waiting for her, and her brother also, as she is the second one, she must be almost there everything time they gather. Other members of the organization were there.
´´Abdahal, what are you going to do? The north tribe is trying to initiate a war again, and the northwest wants our resources, so I believe their offer of accepting an alliance is false. ´´ - said Deral, one of the elders´s descendant of the gather, his grandfather was very good friend of Abdahal´s father, and they grew together, so must of the times Abdahal usually listens to Deral´s advises.
´´By now, I don´t want to fight them and I already assigned Abrul to guard the lands, it is calmed. I want an alliance with the other tribe because I am sure we can make a deal. Oara, how have been the fields? ´´ - he finished asking Oara, she was in charge of the fields and recollecting.
´´They are just fine and haven´t been attacked by other tribes, yet. ´´ - she said, it means security and happiness for them, by now. The village wasn´t very big, but Abrul knows the tribes that want to take their fields.
They weren´t aware, but without a sound, and floating, a small drone was recording and watching them. THEY were watching them.
When the gathering finished, Abdahal worried was walking to the monolith they pray, he stopped in front of it and Deral appeared.
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´´I see you worry, what is happening? ´´ - he asked.
´´I feel something bad is coming, I haven´t received news from the tribes of the south and they are our best support. And even more rare, the north tribe haven´t attacked us since months ago, I wonder what happened to them. ´´ - he said.
´´I don´t know either, I will look for Jatu and ask him if he has seen something near the border. ´´ - said Deral.
As Deral began his way to the main border headquarters, he also began to be worried, the north tribe has always been characterized by the violence they use when they attack, and Abdahal knows them very well. The north has always tried to conquer other tribes, and other lands, but it has been difficult for them because other tribes can also defend themselves, but they have also conquered some tribes. Usually when there are long periods of time without attacking, it means their next attack will be really hard to hold. Deral arrived to the headquearters, just a big cabin, and Jatu was right there, sharpening his spear.
´´Greetings, Jatu, Abdahal and I want to know if you or any of your men have seen people from the north tribe or frustrated any attack recently. ´´ - he asked.
´´Greetings, Deral. No, I haven´t and I haven´t received any report from them… Actually, it has been very quiet, since they are the only one who attack us massively. I fear for a huge invasion but I some guys are patrolling the north and east area, I´ll notice you if they tell me something. ´´ - said Jatu, is the currently leader of the border defenses.
´´Ok, I´ll wait for news. ´´ - Deral began his way back to the monolith.
As a matter of fact, the north tribe is really busy, but not planning an attack, other thing. They are currently searching for their members, due to some missings. They don´t know why this is happening, but they need to find out.
Acegajal was looking for Nariki, who disappear 3 day ago, while recollecting food from the forest. She is the third person to disappear in the month, and the Agel Tribe is extremely worry about it, they haven´t attacked anyone because of this. The two last months their people have been missing, and they don´t know what to do. Their leader, Arrejal has been leading the searching squad in order to find the missings, but useless. He returned from the last trip entering to the entrance door, with all village waiting for his news. He stood next to his horse and turned himself to the public.
´´I know you are expecting news from me, but I haven´t found the missings. However, I won´t stop looking for them, I just ask you patience. I promise I will never stop looking, until I find them! ´´ - said Arrejal, who is very concerned about this because, it is his village.
Arrejal continued walking until he arrived at the monolith, where Homba was there, praying.
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´´Homba, have you seen Acegajal? ´´ - he asked.
´´Greetings, Arrejal… How was the searching? I haven´t seen Acegajal today, he went out looking for Nariki again, her sister is extremely worried, as we all are. ´´ - said Homba, the war leader, as they call him.
´´Nothing… There are no tracks, no signs, no even blood! I cannot guess they were killed because there is no blood… There are no signs of battle, or running tracks, nothing! This is making me mad… ´´ - responded Arrejal, who was losing his mind.
´´Don´t lose hope, people need you. I will have someone to look for Acegajal, meanwhile, lets walk together, I gotta tell you something. ´´ - he said, he stood up and asked someone next to him to go for Acegajal.
They began walking to the western area of the village, their was the biggest one, because of all the villages they have conquered and incorporated to their space.
´´Arrejal, I´ve seen wear things these days. ´´ - he said, expressing his feelings and fear.
´´What do you mean? ´´ - Arrejal started worrying.
´´I´ve seen things, Arrejal… I don´t know how to explain them. Yesterday I was walking around the river, and I saw a man walking next to something blue, it was like a shadow, but totally blue. ´´ - started Homba to tell. ´´It wasn´t an allucination, it was real because I saw it for seconds. Another day, I saw another blue shadow, just standing there. ´´ - he said.
´´Where? ´´ - asked Arrejal.
´´Near the east border, where the forest begins. ´´ - continued explaining.
´´Did it say anything, or did anything? ´´
´´No, just there. ´´
As the conversation continued, Arrejal began to worry even more, because he realized that the reason for the missings are not other tribes, is something else, something that can´t be explained. When they finished, they dismissed, each one had the corresponding worries, and even worst, no solutions. Arrejal found Acegajal entering the village from the north, commanding the patrol squad.
´´Acegajal, where were you? ´´ - asked his father, easy that he has appeared again.
´´Hello, father. I was patrolling the north border, trying to find Nariki. But the result was nothing, I am sad and worried. Where she could be? ´´ - wondered Acegajal, with a bid headache.
´´Do you know you are the war leader? If you get lost or disappear or die or anything else, we would be lost! ´´ - expressed his father, more worried about the future of the village.
´´You can find anyone else! You can count with Ayal, Kesum or even Sattan! We have plenty warriors, why are you so worried!? ´´ - yelled at his father, obviously both are mad.
´´Kesum doesn´t even know how to use a spear, and Sattan? Come on, he is a disaster throwing daggers! I putted you on this charge because of your experience using weapons and survived so much battles, I cannot be losing every valuable warrior y less now that I don´t know what is
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happening! Stop looking for Nariki, abandon her search and focus protecting the village, as your position demands you. ´´ - ordered Arrejal, extremely worried about the situation.
´´We haven´t been attacked so far, and our warriors are still enough to defend the village from an invasion. Stop annoying me! ´´ - said Acegajal for the last, and he left on his horse.
Arrejal though his son was blinded because of his love for Nariki, but whatever is making his people disappearing, is still there. What could be?
To the extreme north of the land, another tribe, the Hulas, was living a totally different life. They were contacted by the ones they call, ´´the Blues´´: blue and grey people, tall and hard to communicate and also to fight. The Hulas were totally conquered by the Blues, there were no war, and no resistance from them, the Blues applied some strategies to contact and pacify the Hulas so they could not even think about resist their conquer. They were using Hulas´s people to experiment on them their new advances, which some of them were just failings, they wanted to reach their goal: reach perfection making a new warrior who could allow them to conquer the planet. As they´ve seen how advance is the society at the north extreme of the planet, they want to develop something that could overwhelm those shields, swords, armors, etc. They knew the people on this land wouldn´t resist them that much, but even when they are primitive, some of them realized the Blues are strangers with bad intentions. That happened in a village some kilometers away from the Hulas: the T´Bakis. It happened what didn´t happened to the Hulas, some T´Bakis never trusted these blue and grey people, and they resist being conquered… But they were nothing against these people, therefore, the Blues couldn´t achieve what they wanted and they ended exterminating the village of T´Bakis, but they didn´t lose hope. As they technology is hundreds of years away from these natives, they just continued to the next village: the Hulas.
Although the Blues find natives who didn´t resist to them, they didn´t want the Hulas to be their pets, they were objects to study. As mentioned before, the Blues wanted to mix their technology with natives to investigate if the results brings a hybrid creature, just in order to invade the north part of the planet. They tried several forms to most of them lead to a dead for the subjects, which didn´t matter that much for them. Hulas are a northern tribe from the Agel, where Arrejal is the leader. And Agel Tribe is also north from the Juyas, where Abdahal is leader.
After the gathering, to which Adia arrived late, she went to the land behind the house, where her brother, Abrul, was.
´´Abrul, what are you doing here? ´´ - she asked him.
´´Hey, Adia… I´m just thinking. ´´ - she said.
´´Thinking about what? ´´ - she wanted an answer for her brother´s state.
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´´About why we haven´t received any report from the borders, why there haven´t been attacks these days. I think something strange is happening, although we are ready as always to defend ourselves or counter-attack, so much quiet and peace makes me nervous. ´´ - he finally said, as Abdahal´s older descendant, is logic to feel like that, generally in tribe´s laws, the first leader´s descendant is generally the one with best social position. Same as Acegajal, Abrul has the demanded position of War Leader, which also has to defend the village by any necessary mean.
´´Is that what father wanted? ´´ - asked again Adia, showing innocence, for she never met a single fight.
´´Yes, Adia. But understand that quiet and peace never last long, sooner or later it brokes, by any reason. I´m telling you this I´ve already fought many times. When you were a child, we were almost invade by another village. Many of us died and many of them, but we counter attacked and exterminated them. Father didn´t want it, he never likes wars, but it was necessary. We kept everything for us, in exchange of killing all villagers. ´´ - he explained to her, not with the intention for her to understand, but at least, to make her see why so much peace and quiet is wrong.
´´Ok, then, what are you going to do? ´´ - she asked, a bit concerned.
´´I don´t know… Father has been trying to know, but I haven´t seen any Agel member, neither any of the guards and less father. If they are preparing a huge attack, we don´t know. And that is something to worry because the last it happened, they almost broke into the village and destroy it or conquered us. ´´ - Abrul said.
Adia made an effort to understand Abrul, but she didn´t at all and he wouldn´t, too. She stay in quiet, he also stayed in quiet… Not a single word.
´´So… Can I help you with something? ´´
´´I don´t know, Adia, hahahaha, you made me laugh. What don´t you understand? We´ve done everything we can do to know what is happening and we don´t know! The last option but is a suicide is travel to Agel tribe and asked what happened. I´ll think a way to figure it out, please, leave me alone. If you want to find me, you know where I am ´´ - finally said Abrul.
´´As you say, brother. ´´ - and Adia left him alove.
By her own, Adia started walking, she felt useless because she had nothing to do, not even her father was available for doing something or telling something. She met Maka, a friend from her childhood, her cabin is the most near to her palace, who was walking, too, apparently directionless.
´´Hey, Adia! How are you? ´´
´´Hey… Maka… Well, I don´t know. My brother is worried about the peace and quiet we´ve been living these days. According to him, the Agel could be gathering an army to invade. Or something else could be happening. ´´ - said Adia. They used to talk about everything when they meet. Even though Adia has duties with the village for being the 2nd in line to ascend to the throne.
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´´Don´t you think his new position makes his mind a mess? I mean, as soon as you became a woman few months ago, your father ascended Abrul, maybe he is stressed. ´´ - was saying Maka.
´´I don´t know. He told me this village suffered an attack when I was a child, and people from both villages died. I don´t think you know something about that because you are barely a year older than me, do you? ´´
´´You are right, Adia, I don´t know. What if we talk near the river to clear our minds? Maybe later you could help you brother. Yes or no? ´´
´´I don´t know, if we should. I mean, Is not that I care a lot, the village has a lot of strong people, but I don´t feel confortable by walking near the river. ´´ - something was telling Adia that ideas was bad.
´´Come on! We always walk near the river, you like it a lot, don´t let your brother concern affects you. Even your father sometimes keeps you busy with different tasks. Let him worry with war stuff, we aren´t warriors so those problems aren´t ours. ´´ - with that argument, Adia couldn´t know and they both went walking to the river holding hands.
There is a river which passes near Juya tribe, and that same river goes north to pass near Agel and keeps north, to disembogue near in the ocean. Is a river plenty of animals, and flowers. Usually wajers go to the river to gather fruits, meanwhile wombres go to the river to hunt. That river separates these tribes not only from each other, but also from the other side of the world. The same river supplies fresh fish to the nearby tribes, except the T´Bakis, which hunt their fish from the ocean itself because they have the village near the coast. Thanks to this fact, Agel, Hulas and Juyas don´t fight at least for food, but they do for other reasons. However, the part of the river which is near to Juyas, leads to Agel and Hulas if you walk all the way long, but it takes you more than a day, and surviving brave jungle. This river is also Maka and Adia´s favorite place for playing and talking, when they were kids, they used to come with their mothers, whom are also very good friends, and played. When these kids became teenagers, they began to come by their own.
´´Oh oh oh! Here we aaaaare! ´´ - Maka is always happy when it comes to go to the river.
´´Yes… Here we are. And it is funny because we are very close to the river and nowadays we don´t come that often here. Do you remember the last time we were here? ´´
´´Yes, I do. My brother and I came here to play, but he wanted to hunt some fishes for himself. ´´ - was telling Maka.
´´Really? But, he is younger than you. ´´
´´That didn´t care for him, he came with his spear and a knife, and he actually hunted some fishes! Our mother was so happy that she cooked those fishes as our dinner, hahahaha. ´´
´´Wow, Maka… You have such a nice brother, mine just… You know. ´´
´´But what about your sister? Does she take care of the herd? ´´ - nice question Maka asked.
´´Well… Sometimes, you know… But believe it or not, White Stack obeys her, same as White Galo always obeys me. ´´
´´Great! I don´t have a herd or a horse, but we have a nice hunter, hahaha! ´´
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Maka and Adia were making fun and talking of the situation, next to the river. But what they didn´t know was that they were observed, by two different entities.
´´Now that we are here, what if we swim up the river? ´´ - dangerously suggested Adia.
´´Adia, but you know that above Agel tribe is there… What if their troops catch us? Anything can happen to us. ´´ - said Maka. And she was right, even when tribes usually respect their limits, for hunting sometimes they have to go into enemy´s territory, and Adia and Maka are not precisely warriors. For being the leader´s daughter, Adia always carries a knife, for defending herself, but she isn´t an expert use it, not as some other villagers who know.
´´Just a bit, or by walking so we can escape faster, do you dare? ´´ - there it is, Adia always challenging Maka, and she rarely refuses.
´´Ok! But lets make sure there isn´t a guard over this side, if anyone catches us, we´ll be in real troubles! ´´ - exclaimed, Maka, who accepted the challenge. But it wasn´t a joke, if they get caught by anybody, it will be a mess. Who both were around them just in case they discover someone, and they didn´t, so they stood up and started walking, they were also aware every step they made in case they see or listen something. Why this? Because they were going to walk nearby the border, where a misunderstanding can be very bad for them, and of course, aware of wild animals. They kept walking more, until they were almost at the border, where things usually were tough. At the moment, nothing to worry about, but they suddenly listen something that scare them and made them jump into a bush.
´´Did you listen something? ´´ - one asked the other.
´´Yes, it heard like steps, but I see no people. Maybe it was an animal, are we already at the border? ´´ - Maka was worried they reached it, and asked Adia because she knew the limits, being the leader´s descendant carry a lot of responsibilities.
´´Hm… Not yet, but we should either return or if we continue, slowly and very cautious. Never forget we aren´t the only village here, and there are still in the jungle. ´´
´´Yeah, yeah. ´´ - Maka agreed with all Adia said, when they are together, is usually Adia who says and Maka follows, they might be close friends but according to the situation, that they aren´t playing, Maka knows that if Adia says stop and return, that´s what she has to do.
´´Look again the surroundings, if we can avoid something, it will be better if we do. ´´ - said Adia and they both started looking careful at their environment. Maka was looking with extreme attention everywhere, and her eyes stopped at something that scared her.
´´A… Adia ´´
´´What? Did you see something? ´´
´´I haven´t being that much near the border, so I don´t know the surroundings… But that blue thing is something common? ´´ - said Maka, taking Aida´s left arm and making her see into the same direction.
´´What blue thing, Maka? ´´ - asked Aida, trying to see.
´´Aida, the thing I am pointing with my finger! ´´ - and Maka made an effort for Adia to see, and she did.
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Adia´s eyes were seeing something truly blue, it was like a shadow, barely human, among the grass and behind a tree. Adia didn´t said anything but made Maka quiet, with her hand blocked Maka´s mouth and whisper:
´´I know you are scared, but don´t say anything, lets watch it. If anything, you run and I face it. ´´- said Adia, and as always, Maka obeyed. Maka usually sees Adia as an older sister due to her wise decisions. And they were watching this strange blue thing, it looks like it didn’t spot them, so they could slow and briefly but detail watch it. It had two large things like arms from the upper part, something like a head, and really blue. They both were watching it but Maka also was trying to see where this thing was looking at, if them or another subject. Suddenly, a man appeared which also scared them. Adia has experience identifying man and woman from other villages, but this man was strangely new for her. He was wearing a bow and some arrows on his back, and wear clothes. They remained quiet, but the man looked toward Maka and Adia´s direction and toward the blue thing´s direction. For few seconds, Maka was watching that man and Adia was watching the blue thing, which wasn´t moving, just there. The man took an arrow from his arrow quiver and shot it between the girls and the blue thing´s space, that made Maka scared and the blue thing turned onto the arrow´s move, making it do eye contact with Adia, who almost never took eyes from the blue thing. She saw how the blue thing moved as surprised by Adia´s stare, and disappeared from that place, while Maka couldn´t hold and took Adia´s hand to crouch out of there, but not before Adia took fewer seconds to see the man, and try to memorize him.
Both girls successfully got out of there and were kind of running to their homes.
´´I must tell this to someone! That blue thing isn´t normal, I´ve never seen something like that before. ´´ - was saying Aida while running, whatever they saw, it disturbed both.
´´Who are you going to tell? ´´
´´At least Abrul, after him, maybe my father later, but Abrul is softer than him. Telling him at once would make me sound like crazy. ´´ - said Adia.
´´Ok… Lets tell Abrul first. ´´ - and both began their way back to the village.
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Chapter 2
After watching for some time that wombre, the Blue watched how he appeared from the woods, wearing a bow and the arrow quiver, and a leather armor. It didn´t think any of the natives from this land could wear something like that, it was something truly interesting to see, something that made it watched longer. But from the point it was watching that wombre running in the jungle, jumping and crouching, to the point of getting out of the woods, it never expected being itself watched by two wajers. The purpose of their camouflage was to observe their experiment subjects without being spotted, but it never expected a wazer could spot it that well to stare at. When it discovered it was being watched by two wajers, not only was senseless keep that wombre´s track, but also senseless to stay there and continued be watched by those wajers. It had no other choice rather than disappear. The Blue´s took any necessary measure to investigate wazers and keep record of them: they sent waves to watch villages, they came down to watch villagers, and the whole land by themselves, they even kidnaped some wazers to insert a tracking chip to register their routine and/or an eye-tracker, to see whatever the wazer see.
Maka and Adia returned successfully to the village, but before seeking for Abrul, they stayed in a place for thinking. Both were kind of traumatized, they couldn´t forget this blue shadow, but human shaped also. It was really rare and scary at the same moment. Up to now, they´ve only seen man, woman and animals, just that. Was the blue thing an animal? Stalking that man?
´´Maka, could that blue thing might be an animal? ´´ - asked Adia, very worried about what they saw.
´´It could be but… How many animals stalk someone like that? I don´t think so, first we saw the blue and then the man appeared. Was that blue stalking us? ´´ - proposed Adia.
´´Maybe… But if it was, was it stalking us since we were near the river? Because we got there and few seconds later I saw that blue. If it was stalking us, it means it was watching us since the river. ´´
´´It? ´´
´´Do you even think what we saw is like us? ´´ - that question made them even ask themselves more… Was that thing human?
´´Well… I saw it had two thing like arms, but… Like us, no… ´´ - said Adia, who really watched the blue longer than Maka.
´´Right! Because other tribes, like us, are blue! ´´ - said Maka in a sarcastic way.
´´Then… Should we conclude it was an animal? ´´ - offered Adia, the topic was reallt giving them a headache.
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´´I guess, so, shall we tell Abrul now? ´´
´´Yes, Maka, but in a very good way, remember he is stressed and we don´t want him to tell my father or our father. ´´
With those lasts words, they started their way to find Abrul, who was in the same location where Adia left him, but asleeped.
´´Oh great! The greath and mighty war leader is sleeping! Then who is going to protect us if my father dies!? ´´ - exclaimed Adia due to her brother´s sweet sleep, seeing him sleeping made her angry and she trampled her brother and his chest.
´´Why do you wake me up like that!? Are you crazy!? ´´ - exclaimed Abrul.
´´We need to tell you something, but you must remain quiet, I mean, not telling our father, neither Maka´s father. Am I clear? ´´ - said Adia, setting terms according to her advantage.
´´Just if it is about my worry. ´´ - said Abrul, getting back to the position he was when awoke.
´´It is! ´´ - said Maka, wanting him to not let it go.
´´Hm… Do you really? ´´
´´Yes! But first promise! ´´ - demanded Adia, the last she wanted was giving all that information for him and then being betrayed.
´´Ok, I promise. What is it?
´´You won´t believe us but try to. Adia and I went to the river, to talk and play…
´´Even when you aren´t children. ´´
´´Don´t interrupt me! ´´ - Abrul was joking but Maka was talking serious. ´´We had the wonderful idea to walk over the river… ´´ - right after those words, Abrul left his position and raised up a bit, to them at their eyes and throwing them that look of ´´are you kidding me? ´´. ´´And reach the border with Agel´s tribe.
´´This can´t be… ´´ - said Abrul, beginning to be scared.
´´We weren´t at the border, but we heard a sound, so we walked crouched a bit, hidden in the grass to see what was it. ´´ - continued talking Adia.
´´We stopped and watched the surroundings to see if there was an enemy or an animal nearby, and we see it… Well, Aida saw it first. ´´ - said Maka, giving the credits to Adia.
´´What did you see? ´´ - asked Abrul, at this time, he was totally immerged in the girl’s story.
´´There we saw a blue shadow, but not as a shadow, more shaped, and like us, like people. ´´ - Adia surprised her brother.
´´Blue shadow? Wouldn´t be a blue human? ´´
´´Oh yes, sure! As if human were blue! And do you how much blue pigment do you need to be totally blue (Maka was doing a gesture to leave clear the blue was all over that things body)!? A lot! Besides, to be camouflage with the forest, shouldn´t you use green or brown and green? This was BLUUUUEEEE! ´´ - said Maka.
´´I think it was a little taller than father, but had two arms and something like a head. It was just there, and I think it didn´t spot us. It was ´´watching´´ some bushes there (Adia was pointing at the place for reference). Abrul, we were both scare because we´ve seen people from Agel or
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Hula, long ago, and they are humans like us, but this whatever it was, didn´t look like human. ´´ explained Adia.
´´Therefore you are telling me you saw something blue just standing there, aren´t you? ´´ - asked Abrul, like challenging their story.
´´Yes, but that isn´t all. Then, from the woods, a man appeared! ´´-
´´A man? An Agel or Hula? ´´
´´No, Abrul, I mean, I don´t know. Just a man! But he was wearing a bow, an arrow quiver and something covering his body, made of leather. ´´ - kept explaining Adia.
´´Yes! Like us, or you, wearing that cover. But his cover was different, it covered almost all his body. ´´
´´But what is the final of the story, is that he looked toward us and fired an arrow, that made the blue shadow move and I think it discover us.
´´Then, what happened? ´´
´´It just go. ´´ - said Adia, concluding the story.
´´So… You want me to believe you saw a blue shadow near the border with Agel´s tribe, that it was watching a man in the forest, and that when this man fired the arrow, it realized you were watching it and then go? ´´ - said Abrul, making joke of the girl´s story.
´´Yes! ´´ - both exclaimed.
´´Right… How is that connected to the lack of attacks and the dominant peace? ´´
´´Well… We don´t know, we just wanted to tell you. Maybe you can figure out the rest by your own or somebody else. ´´
´´Yes, Maka, but I don´t know what to think about… At least don´t risk your lives again by doing that. Thanks for telling me, I guess. Are you going to tell our father? ´´ - asked Abrul, which attitude didn´t clear the girls if the information was usefull.
´´I don´t know. May be, may be not. I don´t want to tell him alone, if I do, I would like to say it with you and Maka next to me. ´´ - when Adia said that, Maka did a gesture as if she would be saying ´What? Me? ´´, Abdahal, the patriarch, isn´t a man to be kidding or something alike, and since Maka and Adia made troubles when they were younger, probably he won´t believe them.
´´Well, if you decide to tell me, come to me first. Meanwhile (he was getting up), is still daylight, so I am going with Deral´s son to see what can we do. I´ll keep your information on mind, thanks sister, and thanks Maka. ´´ - said Abrul, in a bye bye way.
´´Do you think he will do something? ´´ - asked Maka, still a bit concerned about what they saw.
´´I don´t know… But I hope. I think I´m going to have nightmares with that blue thing now, oh rash! ´´ - said Adia.
Meanwhile Abrul went to see Deral´s son, Durandal, to talk and find a way to do something. In Agel´s tribe, things are getting delicate. Arrejal hasn´t find Nareki, his friend and secret lover, and Acegajal has stopped her research. She has been missing for two weeks, Arrejal doesn´t forgets her because he is in love, but also his duty as war leader avoids him to keep her research.
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´´Hey, Arrejal, when are we going to attack another village? It has been long since we did. ´´ - asked Habuha, Arrejal´s lieutenant.
´´I don´t know! Not finding Nareki has been annoying me a lot, and my father wants me to forget her, but I won´t! ´´ - exclaimed Arrejal, Acegajal´s son.
They were at the top of a surveillance tower, which allowed them to see Hulas tribe. That surveillance tower is at the northern point of Agel Tribe, that is why allows anyone to climbs to the top to see Hulas tribe and by the way, the jungle.
´´Arrejal! ´´
Arrejal listened his name, wondering in his mind if it was Nareki begging his help.
´´Arrejal!´´
´´if she is dead, would my name be her lasts words? ´´ - still wondered.
´´ARREJAL! ´´
´´Hey, man, somebody down there is calling you. ´´ - Habuha awaken Arrejal from his own mind.
´´Huh? ´´ - and he turned his eyes down. It was Lasil, another soldier.
´´What do you want!? ´´ - asked angry, he doesn´t like being disturbed when he is thinking or dreaming.
´´Homba wants to see you! He told me is urgent! ´´ - that made Arrejal bit angrier because he had to go down. Agel´s surveillance towers have a particular way to climb up or down, they have a mix of rocks, woods and someother things packed as counterbalance. For going up to down, weight is added to the counterbalance to let the person go up, and for going down, weight must be removed. But if there isn´t anyone first in the tower, there is a particular ´´elevator´´ which helps the first one to go up. Since Arrejal is one of the best well-built soldiers in the tribe, he doesn´t care doing it his own way: taking a rope with some weight on the other side and jumping from the top, he can either jumping before reaching the ground (because if he doesn´t jump, he can get himself killed) or use the tree next to the tower to slow speed and then jump. Arrejal jumped and reach the ground easily… But not all Agel´s tribe warriors are brave enough to do that.
´´Where is he? ´´ - asked Arrejal, with his usual demanding voice.
´´´Follow me. ´´ - said Lasil.
They walked for some minutes until arriving to Homba´s cabin. Lasil left Arrejal for him to meet Homba.
´´Ah, son, I´ve been expecting you. ´´ - said Homba, welcoming Arrejal. Homba usually has a well welcoming for him not only because he is the current leader´s unique son, but also because he was very good friend of Homba´s son.
´´So… What do you want? ´´ - demanded Arrejal.
´´Before start talking, I need you to calm down, drink, son. ´´ - Homba offered him a drink, Arrejal never notices but Homba´s drink are very helpful, he usually makes them with special plants for different purposes. That is Homba is well known in the village as the ´´Herbal Sorcerer´´. Even if
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Arrejal is angry and would like to reject, he knows very well saying no is disrespectful and especially with Homba. Arrejal drank.
´´Ok, now? ´´ - finally waiting for Homba´s words.
´´My son, I know you are still angry because of Nariki´s missing (something that Arrejal doesn´t like listening and he does an angry gestures everything he listen something like that), but I believe I got a clue for you, about Nariki´s where about. ´´ - as soon as those words reached Arrejal´s hears, his face and mood changed drastically.
´´Are you serious? Are you seriously telling me Nariki might be alive!? ´´
´´Wait, son, I didn´t say that. I said I have a clue. Listen, please (Homba drank his own tea). Fewer days ago, I was wondering what happened to Nariki, and to think better, I sometimes like to go the river, which connects us to other villages and provide us of fresh fish. So I went walking, that relaxing march usually helps me to think better, to solve a problem or to discover something. I arrive to the river´s border, and watched peacefully the water, the trees and the sky. After sometime, I cannot say how longer, I heard something strange, like steps, but not on the water but on earth. I thought it was somebody who came to me to talk, so I turned back but where wasn´t anyone there. I was surprised because I clearly hear steps, so I turned my eyes to the river to see if it was someone on the other side of the river, and at the moment, nothing. But fewer seconds later… I saw something frightening that left me cold. ´´ - was Homba explaning, he had capture Arrejal´s total attention since the beginning.
´´What? What was it!? ´´ - asked Arrejal, excited and scared at the same time.
´´I saw something blue, it was like a shadow, but walking. ´´
´´A walking ´´
´´And it was carrying a man and a woman on each side. ´´
´´A man and a woman? ´´
´´Yes, son. It had something large, as arms from each side of its body. It was carrying the man with one and the woman with another. The three of them were walking. ´´ - Homba kept talking.
´´Strange, do you know where were they going? ´´
´´Not at all, they were on the other side of the river but I saw the three of them walking, slowly and normally. As if nothing wrong could be happening. ´´
´´Do you think the woman you saw was Nariki? Did you see her? ´´ - too bad for Arrejal, but the answers were not alike what he wanted.
´´No, I didn´t and I couldn´t, they were too far… But I am sure it has something to do with Nariki´s where about. But that isn´t the first time I see a blue shadow. Very near of Nariki´s disappearing, when returning from a patrolling with your boys, I was the last to enter the gates, so my horse was running slowly. I felt something strange, a bit frightening and scary, I thought it was a curse thrown by a hidden enemy, but it wasn´t that. I looked around me, and I spot something blue between the trees… ´´
´´It was a blue shadow, right? ´´ - Arrejal ended the sentence.
´´Yes, it was. It was just there, standing, watching. So for fewer seconds I did the same: I watched it, I saw it had two arms, one head and mostly blue. After a moment, it vanished and I entered the village. It could had been a spirit, but these twice occasions, it has been too real like to think it was a spirit. I fear Nariki could had been kidnap by this blue shadow, or these if they are more, and I think… We aren´t alone. There is something else that has
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been frightening me. ´´ - Homba continued to keep transmitting his worries.
´´What? What is it? ´´
´´Isn´t it wear for you that we haven´t been attacked these days? We are the Agel tribe! We used to attack every week, it is normal to get enemies when you are so strong, right? But your boys and my guards haven´t spot anyone. I think something mean is happening to the villages around us. If you want to go to the same site I saw that shadow walking with the man and the woman, go and look for the pale rock on your side. Try to see something or discover something. Leave someone in charge and go! ´´ - said Homba, giving a task to Arrejal which could be involving the life in the tribe. Before going away, Arrejal gathered his boys and design someone in charge while he wasn´t in the village, and took Habuha with him.
They left the village by walking, because the river can be reached by walk, which is one the best advantages of placing a village next to the river. Soon they both arrive to the river.
´´Ok, here we are, Arrejal, now what? ´´ - asked Habuha, wondering why they were there.
´´Let me think, Habuha, don´t ask. Hm… Homba said pale stone… ´´ - Arrejal was trying to locate the pale stone, where Homba was when he saw the event. ´´Ah! There it is, come Habuha! ´´ - he found the stone and both ran there. ´´This is where Homba saw the blue shadow… Now, he saw it on the other side of the river… ´´
´´A blue shadow? What is that? ´´
´´I don´t know, it is something Homba told me today. It can be related to Nariki´s whereabouts. ´´
´´Really? Then we must find her! Or that blue shadow! ´´
´´Great you are with me! ´´ - Arrejal was glad he wasn´t alone… But Habuha didn´t know what he was saying. ´´Hm, I think, we will have to jump to the river and swim to the other side. ´´
´´It isn´t a bad idea. (Habuha walked the river limit) As I see, the current is quiet, if you want to swim, it has to be now! ´´ - said Habuha and both jumped into the river. Even for a well-built man like Arrejal, swimming through a river is tough, also for his partner. But since both are interested in finding Nariki, they don´t care. They both reached the other side of the river.
´´Wow… Uff! (hard breathing) It has been long since I swam… It is great I never forgot it! ´´ - said Habuha, who was partially tired.
´´Uff… Yes… It is tiring. It has been also long time since I swam here. But at least, we are in shape for doing this! ´´ - said Arrejal and standing up, then he helped Habuha to do the same. ´´Habuha, watch the ground, the grass and the bushes, even the trees! We are looking for anything that could tell about her, anything! ´´ and both started walking.
After a while…
´´Arrejal! Come now! ´´ - Habuha demanding´s voice sound. ´´I think I found something! ´´ and Arrejal came relatively fast.
´´What did you find? ´´
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´´I don´t know if this is something, but look. I found this bracelet on the ground. Do you recognize it? ´´ - asked Habuha… and Arrejal´s heart almost stopped, he fall on his knees and started crying.
´´What? Is this Nariki´s? ´´
´´Yes! It is hers! I made it for her when we were friends. She was going to marry me as soon as she pass to 18. There were just months to wait! MONTHS! ´´ - finding Nariki´s bracelet was turning Arrejal mad.
´´Oh, no… I am sorry, Arrejal. ´´ - said Habuha, but Arrejal couldn´t respond, he was devastated.
´´Why? It has been two weeks since he disappear… WHY? WHY!? ´´
´´Arrejal, please calm down… We are on the other side of the river, we don´t…´´
´´NAAAARIIIIIKIIIII!!! WHERE ARE YOUUUUUU!? ´´ - Arrejal´s howling spread over the wind. Very close to their position, a Blue was watching the animals and flowers around the river´s border. That howling it listen made it aware there were wazers nearby, a defect of this guys, is that the Blues are very curious and something, they overconfidence their qualities. The Blue wanted to know the howling´s origin and approached the location, finding two wombres there. But it made such a sound of steps and run… Both Arrejal and Habuha listened the Blue´s run, and fastly took their weapons out and started going around with their eyes in order to find what the sound was… And the following moment was terrorific.
They stopped their when they met it… It could be said it was a close encounter of the 3rd type. They were watching almost open-mouthed a blue shadow just in front of them, but due to the distance… It wasn´t as much as a shadow. It could be described a 1.90 mts light blue human shaped mass, with two arms and a head, not legs because the Blues apply a small camouflage which is supposed to go according to the environment, in order to go unnoticed. Their original color is blue, but somehow this camouflage didn´t work at all, and they didn´t care. Being spot or not, they swear there were going to succeed in their new goals. The Blue did exactly the same than Arrejal and Habuha, it watched them, but not for long. Habuha was petrified, it was the most amazing thing he´s ever watched, but even when the same was for Arrejal, he was the blue shadow and a rage instinct began to burn him. He had no proves, but he was totally sure these blue vermins were responsible for Nariki´s missing. And he was going to take the chance to attack the Blue, the problem was that he doesn´t know the enemy and Habuha is next to him, he doesn´t want him to die. Arrejal slowly took his spear from the ground (where left when he took Nariki´s bracelet) and in a matter of seconds he threw it to the Blue.
´´Run, Habuha! ´´ - yelled Arrejal, and both run for their lives. If the Blue doesn´t move, that wazer large object could had hurt a lot. The Blue moved a bit to avoid the spear and watched them running to the river and jumping to swim. Then vanished. Due to the fear, both crossed the river like arrow cross a distance.
´´Arrejal, please tell me you saw exactly the same that I… ´´
´´Yes, Habuha! I saw it and it threw my spear to it! Homba was right when he told me his experiences… I think they are guilty of Nariki´s missing.
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Next time I see one of those vermins, I won´t hesitate! I will kill it! Let’s go back to the village. ´´ - ordered Arrejal and both started their way back to the village, but talking about this blue ´´shadow´´.
Even when they don´t care that much if they are spot or not, the Blues keep going with their camouflage, and up to know, they´ve been seen by Maka and Adia, from the Juyas tribe and Homba, Arrejal and Habuha from the Agels. They haven´t succeed a lot with their experiments in T´Bakis and Hulas. Most of T´Bakis are dead due to the rebellion that happened in that tribe against the Blues, but didn´t succeed. The Hulas has also reducted their number due to the number of failure experiment the Blue has done within them. But, a part of the Blues, which has been watching and monitoring female wazers, due to their capability to reproduce, has relatively discover a plan to mix their technology with them, but there is a huge problem: their solution to the difficulty of mixing their technology to improve wazers, is reproducing a wajer with a Blue. For the Blues, is a big ´´moral´´ issue this way, as a superior species in comparison with these ´´wazers´´ by any parameter, they consider themselves gods for this inferior species named by them as wazers. Then, mixing with a wazer, is considered a taboo, mainly because the technology has thousands of years of difference and they are supposed to achieve their goals without reproducing with them. But the other side of the problem is that they are testing their technology in a species that is physically inferior to them. Of course, they didn´t expected their experiment lead to death of the subject, because wazers not always can support the parameters Blues push them. This part of the Blues which called themselves the New Blues have been trying to achieve their goal secretly, and have been kidnapping wajers from different villages in order to test their supposedly new ways of reproduction. This Nariki, from the Agel tribe, and Arrejal´s fiancée, was captured by the New Blues. That moment when Homba watched the New Blue walking along with the man and the woman, was the precisely moment when Nariki was walking with a New Blue to an unknown location.
According to the New Blues investigation, the best way to create a mixed warrior who will live for them, is to make a wajer go through a process they call gestar. They´ve been watching these gestar last 9 months, and results in a very very small wazer, incapable of defending itself and the only thing can feed from is a liquid which comes out from the wazers extention they got to know as breast. But they want to reduce this 9 months to 9 weeks and create a wazer not so small, with capability genetically controlled of growing up fast and skills inborn, and not so dependent of this wazer breast liquid. The only capable of doing that is if a wajer has a ´´high match´´ with a wombre and she begins a gestar. Now, their problem to solve is: do they solve it introducing Blue genes in a wombre´s blood so at the time of high match he can throw his genes to her? Or somehow going deeper and inserting those genes in the wajer´s egg?
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Chapter 3
Since that encounter with that wild man and the blue shadow, she was thinking about them. Maka was also thinking about them, but not as Adia. She was watching the blue shadow longer than Maka, and something deeper in Adia´s heart made her believe that blue shadow wasn´t from this world. She hasn´t met the upper part of the world, where there are many human societies way much more advance than these tribes, but she was right believing that blue shadow isn´t from the world she´s living in. Adia started to have nightmares where either they are eaten by the blue shadow, or that man who came out of the woods shots them arrows, or other similar ways to die. Next morning, she was a bit tired because of lack of rest, so she ate her breakfast slowly.
´´Adia… Are you ok? You look like you didn´t sleep well. ´´ - asked Diala, Abdahal´s wife and also leader of Juyas tribe.
´´I couldn´t sleep well, I had dreams with a blue thing (as asleepy, she didn´t know she was talking about her encounter). ´´ - said, slowly and a bit paused.
´´A blue thing? Abrul, what is your sister talking about? ´´
´´I don´t know mother, maybe she gathered with Maka and some other and told a scary story. ´´ - he knew what Adia was talking about but he promised not telling their father the true.
´´Hm… I know what will wake her up! Adia, today is day for recollecting, the harvest has borne fruit, I am going to recollect the whole afternoon, why don´t you sleep more and then come with me to recollect? ´´ - offered Diala.
´´I am pretty sure she wouldn´t say no, consider a yes. And also, seeing her working with you will reinforce the other women´s confidence about her, remember that she is already 18 and is starting her real duties… Am I right, father? Or you do have a different task for her? ´´ - asked Abrul, he talked in a way and they wouldn´t change minds.
´´Yes… You are, seeing her working on the recollection with your mother will let the women see she is taking it for serious. I finished my breakfast, thanks for it, Diala. ´´ - Abdahal finished his breakfast and stood up. ´´I´m going to gather with the surveillance people, yesterday Deral told me Deraku was looking for me, he wanted to tell me something but it got late for me after going to get wood ´´
´´It is ok, darling. I´m going to check our herd and then we´ll prepare for going. Abrul, please, I want her to sleep more. Adalia, come with me, I want to teach some things to you. ´´ - demanded the matriarch.
´´Ah, mother, why? I want to keep sleeping, I´m drowsy (yawning). ´´ - said Adalia, always looking for skipping duties. As she is the third Abdahal´s descendant, she use to believe she doesn´t have to do anything.
´´Adalia, obey your mother. I know at what time did you go to sleep, come on, stand up. ´´ - also demanded Abdahal.
´´Father, you too? ´´ - she said, as if she wanted to cry.
´´Don´t make me rise my voice tone, do what your mother asks you. You don´t even look tired. ´´ - were his finals words, and got out of the cabin.
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Adalia had no other choice rather than standing up, go for water and wash her face to go with her mother. Teach some things? Her mother said that because she knows Adalia sometimes has troubles with the herd, and from time to time, is her turn to take care of Abdahal´s one of the most precious treasures. After Diala finished with Adalia and return to the house, Adalia took her turn to sleep, and as Adia was ready to work, they both went to work at the harvest field.
´´After we finished taking all the harvest, we also need to take the rest for the herds and set ready the field for the next sowing. You are going to take the produce fruits in the upper part, becase you are younger than and have more strength to climb. ´´ - said Diala while walking there.
´´Why did father decide to sow there? It is the limit between the fields and the place for gathering firewood and the rest of the forest! ´´ - said Adia, complaining to be assigned that part of the fields.
´´Don´t complain, Adia, nothing is going to happen there, why do you talk as if you were afraid of the forest? ´´ - asked Diala, even when Adia doesn´t know, Diala, as a mother, knows when Adia is worried, excited, scared or any other emotion.
´´I´m not afraid of the forest, mother, it is just annoying to the climb to the upper part just for some fruits! ´´ - kept her complainings.
´´Remember that also your father with some other men decide to sow there because exactly there they took the firsts Ouhanas! We need that fruit, and you know why, so stop complaining now! ´´ - Diala had to raise up her voice to calm Adia.
´´I´m going to stop just because we are arriving and I don´t those women to see us arguing. ´´ - said Adia and finished the conversation. And she was right, they were arriving.
´´Diala, Adia! So good you are here! We can start now. ´´ - said Abrulia, Diala´s friend. Her husband is part of the army.
´´Good morning, Adia. How are you doing today? ´´ - asked Hasusa, whose husband is smith that produces hammers, swords and shields for the tribe.
´´Fine… ´´ - said Adia, with no will to say it another way.
´´Ush (a gesture did because Adia´s bad response). Ladies! Now that we are were, let’s start! ´´ - said Diala, and all of them went to the field.
One of the main fields is the one which these women are going to take the havest, it is the most important due to its size and because at the upper part, there grows a unique plant that the Juyas have managed to sow, harvest and take and it is used in rituals and for getting ready in case of war. What Adia is a bit afraid of, is meeting another blue shadow when taking the fruits from the mentioned upper part. This part is directly at the border with the forest, it is next to a path which leads to the place men from the tribe go to cut and gather firewood. Taking the fruits from the harvest is a job that generally only woman do, so men take care of other businesses. Adia was taking the fruits and putting them together in a basket that her mother brought.
´´Ok, Adia. You´ve gather enough. Go and take the Sabus. ´´ - ordered Diala.
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´´Huh… Now… Yes, mother! ´´ - said Adia in response, it was against her will but she cannot damage their family´s image by refusing or failing. The task of taking fruit from that high place is only taught to the leader´s descendant, once Abdahal learnt it from his grandfather, then he taught it to his son, Abrul and Adia. Adalia will learn it sooner or later because she is the last children. Sabu is the name Juya tribe gave to this wear fruit, one that they consume when there are specific rituals, such as: the ritual where a boy becomes a man, the ritual when a man becomes the tribe´s leader, and the ritual before a war. For that reason, it is said, among them, that if the fruits are taken by someone who is not the leader or its descendant, at least the couple, when it comes to eat the fruit or consume it in the several ways there are, it won´t make effect. Therefore, for climbing ant taking the fruit, there is a need for a technique, and that technique was already taught to Adia when she was 15 years old. Of course she practiced a lot and never got killed because there was always Abrul or Abdahal to catch her if she would have fallen, and now, she is expertise enough to do it by her own. Adia got ready and ran toward the risk, jumping onto a rock and using the energy and the impulse she still had to jump again, and again. She was taught that if the first time she jumped failed catching the rock, she would had to repeat. Onto a specific point, she can fail and fall, the ground would stop her fall and harmless, but after that point, the fall means broken bones and/or death.
Once she got there, and started gathering the fruits, which she couldn´t do fast because the fruits can get damaged, she was focusing on her job… But later something distract her a lot and even scared her. It is normal to hear sounds from the forest, any tree branch, or animal walking around there, so she could put away some reasons, like for example: someone gathering firewood. Even they use firewood, they go and cut and take firewood from the forest only once per month. Every family has the exactly amount of firewood counted for them, and sometimes there is a common dinner in the tribe. Those days are special and therefore hunters must hunt something very special, either a rare animal or something very hard to hunt. So, it couldn´t someone taking firewood, so there can´t be someone there, the sound might be an animal. But even animal aren´t common at that part of the forest, the last time an animal was found there was 2 years ago, when taking firewood a bear appeared, scaring the boys who were taking firewood for their ascendant ritual. What could it be? Adia kept listening steps so she took her knife out and put it in position.
´´Hello? ´´ - she said, to see if there was any response.
´´Abrul? Kiral? Buwa? Are you there? ´´ - she mentioned the name of two men who used to play with her a lot when they were kids, they are still her friends but they´ve grown. No response, but she was being observe by someone. She watched carefully her surroundings, until she saw a man in a bush.
´´You! I already saw you! Get out of there! ´´ - demanded Adia.
And slowly, the man showed himself.
´´Who are you? Are you from the Agel tribe? Or Hulas tribe? Where are you from? ´´ - continued asking. But there wasn´t a response from the man.
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´´I am asking you! Don´t you speak! I´m wearing a knife! If you are coming for me, you´d better run or act now! ´´ - she threaten the man, and she was ready to fight. The only one who doesn´t know how to is Adalia because of her age, she is still 15.
´´I… I won´t hurt you. ´- finally said the man.
´´You won´t? But you are wearing a spear, and that… That cover… (she was slowly remembering) I think I know you… Are you the man who was running through the forest? ´´ - she said, a bit confused.
´´Huh… I don´t know… But this spear isn´t for you, is for me. ´´ - said the man.
´´If Maka would be here, she would identify you. ´´
´´What is a Maka? ´´
´´Not what, who! And she is my friend! Who are you and where do you come from!? ´´ - yelled Adia, more nervous than before and to throw herself at the man to kill him.
´´My name, my name is Alaku, and I don´t know where am I from. I just have been running to escape from them. ´´ - he said, identifying himself.
´´Escape from who? From… Hunters? From people for your tribe? ´´
´´Yes, yes. From people from my tribe. ´´
´´And what did you do, Alaku, for being hunted by your own people? ´´ - asked Adia.
´´I… Don´t remember. I just, was… Aff (headache) I just was cutting bushes, and my father came to alert me. They appeared, with weapons. My father tried to stop them, but they killed him. I ran. ´´ - was saying Alaku.
´´So… Horrible! Ok, you ran, but you are at the border of my tribe, the Juyas. If my people see you here, you might get killed. ´´ - Alaku has just being warned by Adia.
´´It is ok. If they try, I kill them. I had to kill before. They were behind me. ´´
´´Yeah, right. As if men from my tribe would let you kill them. Anyway, what are you doing here? ´´ - Adia didn´t leave the position, she was still waiting for an aggressive answer from that Alaku.
´´I don´t know… I just keep running. ´´ - he said.
Suddenly, Alaku´s eyes turned into another direction and he wielded his spear.
´´What? What are you looking at? ´´ - asked Adia, in a mix between nervous and frightened.
´´Slowly, come here, don´t turn. ´´ - he said, but she didn´t do at all. The walked a bi and then turned. Behind her there was a blue shadow. She let a scream of horror escaped from her mouth, and she listen Adia? Where are you?
´´My mother is looking for me, down there (Alaku quietly looked over the rift where Adia appeared). What is that thing? ´´ - asked Adia, extremely afraid.
´´I don´t know… But when I say, you run. Ok? ´´ - he said.
´´Yes. ´´
´´Ok… NOW! ´´ - he said, and she walked fast back. The shadow turned off its camouflage and launched against Alaku. Adia hide behind a tree and watched he fight, she had opportunity to watch the blue shadow, which wasn´t a blue shadow. It could be describe as a blue and gray entity, humanoid: two arms, two legs, one head, relatively tall. She couldn´t tell by her language for this entity was wearing a kind of armor. This New Blue took out two blades from his arms and attacked Alaku, who successfully blocked it moves. Adia couldn´t believe it, it was a fight between a man and
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something never seen before. The New Blue made little cuts on Alaku´s body, but he didn´t complain at all, instead of that, he resisted the pain and counterattacked. Adia could watch this Alaku was faster than any other man she met in her life, it could be practice for a war or a fight, but that speed isn´t easy to achieve. The only one who could equalize that speed is her father, but the fight didn´t last longer, somehow Alaku managed to take one of the New Blue´s sword out of its arms and stab it in the New Blue´s chest. The blue and gray entity felt on its knees, releasing a strange liquid, Alaku took the blade out of the entiti´s chest and stab it in its face, killing it. Alaku turned, searched for Adia and found her hide behind a tree.
´´I though you left… You should leave. Tell me where could I found you? ´´ - asked Alaku, telling Adia with that question he would like to meet her again.
´´Near my village there is a river, search for it and then from the opposite side of the forest, look for a pale stone. I´ll be there tomorrow afternoon. If you see or listen something, hide, if it isn´t me, leave. ´´ - she said.
´´Ok, I´ll see you tomorrow. ´´ - he said, a bye bye. Adia when to the rift and took a path made by her father and the men whom discovered that rift and the Sabus. Meanwhile, Alaku began to suffer a strange pain, looking the New Blue´s corpse, which began to lose color, he took it and walked with it. When found a correct place, he buried it. Alaku´s pan kept attacking for a longer time, so he decided to keep walking.
He didn´t know… Neither her… But that New Blue wasn´t alone, there was a wave observing the surroundings, invisible as always thanks to its camouflage system. The wave saw and recorded all the fight, and it was connected to another New Blue, sitting in front of a table. The New Blue pressed a button on its headphones, which shined in orange.
´´I found him. ´´ - said the New Blue.
Adia returned to her mother in the field.
´´Adia! Where were you? I´ve been calling you! Even the other women began to search for you! What happened to you? ´´ - said Dalia, all scared by her daughter.
´´I´m so sorry, mother. I was gathering Sabus and I heard something strange in the forest, near the zone father and others take firewood. It was nothing, a raccoon appeared later. ´´ - Adia excused herself.
´´Oh… Don´t you that again! I thought you were lost! Not even your father knows completely the forest. Be careful! ´´ - said Dalia, almost crying. ´´We are going to return, now! ´´ - and they started walking toward the village.
Adia and this new Alaku had an encounter with a New Blue, although they aren´t a warrior specie and they prefer to research and make with other species, they aren´t defenseless. This dead New Blue was wearing a standard armor, which protects it from attacks and provide it of great speed, which surprisingly Alaku was able to see to block its attacks. Alaku has become the target of his village due to a leader´s order, and he is also being
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chased by New Blues. Unless a New Blue has attached to its brain or its eyes a sensor which allows other New Blues to see whatever it is seeing, other New Blues cannot see what it sees. This is due to a lack of common mind, each one of the Blues has an individual conscience. Why are they chasing Alaku? Remains unsolved.
Next morning, Adia did everything her mother ask her to do, due to a gathering her mother had in the afternoon and she had to leave ready some things. Adia was praying not to do anything in the afternoon, because even when she hasn´t received anything in the day, at any moment someone can come from her father asking her to do something. As the leader´s daughter, she has to put whatever is ordered in first priority, because it is for the well good of the village. Coming the afternoon, she began to walk to the river, she didn´t see Maka, and she asked for her but her brother hold her Maka was busy with a task from her mother. Ok, well then for Adia. She went to the river by her own, but also kind of hide, the river isn´t a prohibited zone but the reason for going, it is. She reached the side of the river where everyone goes, and went directly to the pale stone.
The pale stone is a pale rock from the village´s side of the river. It is a reference point for everyone to meet. Juyas have done campings, bonfires, and it has been part of several rituals. Adia got there and started asking for Alaku.
´´Alaku! Are you around here? ´´ - he discreetly yelled. ´´Alaku? Where are you? ´´ - after she asked for him for a second time, she heard something.
´´Hey, Adia. I´m here. ´´ - he said, well hide in a bush.
´´Did you wait a lot? ´´
´´I don´t think so, but maybe. Before you came a woman and a boy came, then another woman with a man and then two women. Now, you. ´´ - he said.
´´Ok. Can I hide there? I don´t want other see me talking to a bush or with you. ´´ - she asked, with very good reasons.
´´Yes, you can. ´´ - he accepted, and she got in a hiding place.
´´Wow, is well build. Excellent for an ambush, or what you doing now, hiding. How did you? ´´ - she asked, charmed by the hiding place´s structure.
´´I´ve always had skills. ´´ - answered Alaku, not giving details.
´´Ok, now tell me. What was that thing yesterday? I´ve never seen something like that before. ´´ - she wanted answers, as logic.
´´I don´t know, I just saw it rising behind you. ´´
´´Right… And you expect me to believe that? You faced that thing as if it was something or everyday! You avoided each one of its move, and you managed to kill it. No one from my village would be able to do that… You are exceptional. ´´ - said Adia.
´´Thanks, and you are beautiful… I´ve never seen someone so beautiful like you. ´´
´´Are you serious, Alaku? Do you think I am pretty? ´´ - Adia was somehow charmed by Alaku, he has a well-built body, only her father and brother are alike, and she saw how skillful he is with the sword.
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´´Yes, I do. I don´t know how did I face that thing, I just wanted to protect you. Since I´ve been running, I haven´t been able to meet anyone, and less such a beautiful girl like you. Seeing you in front of me, is like a dream, it is incredible! ´´ - he said. ´´Could I touch your hand? ´´
´´Why? ´´
´´To check I´m not dreaming. ´´ - he answered, and she extended her hand. When Alaku touched her hand, was impressed by the feeling, Adia was well. They felt a mutual burning feeling, it could be consider interest at first sight.
´´Did you feel that? ´´ - asked Adia, excited by the situation.
´´Yes, I did! What was that? ´´ - Alaku was also excited.
´´I don´t know… ´´ - she said, beginning to approach to him.
´´Hey, hey! What are you doing? ´´ - he asked, scared by her move.
´´Don´t worry, just do as me. ´´ - she said, being face to face with him, and giving a slow and little kiss. Alaku was stunned by her kiss, and he slowly started to response and kiss her back. For some reason, they couldn´t stop, they continue to kiss and being controlled by that wear sensation. It was that much, that she took his hand and move it to her breast, which was soft and warm. She showed him how to massage it while kissing him, it continued to burn and she began to somehow take his covering out. They had felt in love, and made it, they were carried away by a burning desire.
She was doing something forbidden, her father only allows to do that with other tribe members, unless there is a good reason for accepting a stranger in his village. Mixing genetically with a stranger automatically gives him a death sentence, and her punishment could be exile. She also didn´t know Alaku had an unbelievable secret that he doesn´t even know. The Blues have been trying to improve wazers anyway to use them as weapons so they could either invade or onslaught the northwest part of the planet, but they haven´t had succeed a lot because of the many things affect success. They´ve been using T´Bakis and Hulas for their procedures but natives can´t stand, due to that, they´ve seen themselves stuck. The New Blues, a small group of Blues, have apparently found a solution: somehow inserting their DNA in a wajer in process of gestar, so she can produce a small wazer with mixed DNA and able to grow up faster. Some New Blues were against mixing their DNA with a wajer by having physic contact, some other were secure there wasn´t another option. One way or another, they had to do it, they couldn´t take so long because they knew sooner or later, a massive wazer group would raise against them and it could cause a war. Another small group, just two New Blues, after watching their members couldn´t solve the problem and weren´t brave enough for doing it, decided to insert Blue DNA in a woman, by a procedure they only knew. Result?
´´How did you felt? ´´ - asked Adia to a strange but well feeling Aluka.
´´Amazing, and weird at the same time. I didn´t know that could happen. ´´ - he said.
´´My mother told me a lot of things about this, because sooner or later I am supposed to marry a man from my village. And after my brother ascend to the leader´s position, my position will also change. Didn´t you mother tell you anything? ´´ - asked a comforted Adia, she lost time notion and didn´t know she was being wanted.
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´´I don´t know… I don´t remember her. ´´
´´I see… By the fight you had yesterday, I am afraid there are more of them. I have no way to know if the one I saw some days back, is the same you fought. ´´ - and Adia was right, if there are more, they could be a danger for all villages.
´´I don´t know either, I just ran from my village when my father…´´
´´OH! My father! He must had the whole village looking for me! I must leave, see you tomorrow here, bye! ´´ - she said, without listening Alaku, she opened a door made of wood and cover by leaves. In effect, the village was looking for her. She was looking all over the surroundings if anyone could be there, but she didn´t see anyone. After reaching the pale stone she listened.
´´ADIA! ´´ - she heard from far and she turned her sign to the direction, it was Maka who came running onto her.
´´Maka… Why are you running? Stop and breathe. ´´ - which Maka did.
´´You… Father, and Abrul, are looking for you. Something happened… It is, urgent! GO! ´´ - and Adia started running. Maka took some seconds to breathe and prepare to run again, in that so, she was being watched by a Blue shadow and an invisible wave. The Blue stayed but the shadow followed Maka to the village. Adia arrived and met her mother, who was at the entrance which leads to the river.
´´Mother! What happened? ´´ - asked a hurried Adia.
´´Where were you!? Abrul and your father ware worried because of what happened to Zabul! ´´
´´Dalia! Adia! ´´ - said a voice, it was Derandal, Deral´s son. Maka just arrived.
´´Derandal, take Adia to the cabin, NOW! ´´ - and they left, Maka too.
´´What happened, Derandal? ´´ - asked Adia, who looking at the village, began to be scared.
´´You will see… We were worried about you, where were you? ´´ - he asked, but before answering, they arrived at the ´´medic´´ cabin. He made her enter, as well as Maka.
Inside, on the stretcher, there was a man… Suffering, with blue traces on his body.
´´Abdahal, here she is, and Maka, too. ´´ - said Derandal.
´´Thanks, Derandal… ADIA, where were you!? I had the whole able village looking for you! ´´ - he yelled, in an angry-worried way.
´´I was at the river, father…. I am sorry, for true, sorry. ´´ - she apologized first before asking.
´´It is ok, please, more attention to the village! ´´ - he demanded.
´´What happened to him? ´´ - she worried, watching what was left of a soldier.
´´THE DEMON! Isaw the demon! ´´ - said Zabul, with a missing right arm.
´´Ok, ok, but tell me… What happened? ´´ - asked Abdahal, when he asks like the way he did, he always gets an answer.
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´´I was patrolling the border with the Agel´s tribe, just in case be aware of an invasion and all of a sudden a monster appeared! I could barely defend myself. ´´ - said a Zabul without voice to talk, he had also his ribs broken, several cuts and those blue traces on his body. ´´That thing doubled my strength and speed, I couldn´t blocked must of his strikes. Damn! ´´ - kept saying Zabul, difficulty as he spilled blood.
´´What are those blue traces on your body? ´´ - asked Adia.
´´I guess they are traces of its blood, I managed to cut it sometimes but I couldn´t kill it… Boss… Get ready for a war… If, thyey, are mo…r… ´´ - and Zabul ending in death, in front of everyone´s eyes. His body became a fierce testament of the Blues´s power, but it hard to be in Juya´s mind, not that much in Adia´s mind because she already saw Alaku´s fight against that thing.
´´I think I´ll have to strengthen all the walls just in case those things appear… Abrul, I want any warrior to be ready! Zabul´s attack was direct to him, and if these blue traces are its blood, watch out for everything blue! ´´ - ordered Abdahal, and with no words, Abrul went out of the cabin. Adia was impacted, same as Maka, for the brutal state of Zabul´s corpse. But she has seen these creatures before, just that she hasn´t tell her father yet, but maybe is time.
Arrejal was alone in his cabin, with Nariki´s bracelet in his left hand. Wondering how this blue shadow would have captured her, what would it done to her… Those thinkings were torturing him.
´´Hey, Arrejal, are you ok? ´´ - asked Habuha, who leaned out by Arrejal cabin´s door.
´´How am I supposed to be ok if I don´t know what happened to Nariki? If I don´t know where she is? I feel useless because even when I want to kill the blue shadow, I don´t know where it is! ´´ - said a disturbed Arrejal.
´´Didn´t Homba tell you where he saw the blue shadow? ´´
´´Yes, Homba himself told me. ´´
´´Well, maybe if you ask him, he will tell you. ´´ - suggested Habuha, but the true was that Homba didn´t know.
´´Let’s ask him anyway. ´´ - said Arrejal, standing up and going out of his cabin with his friend.
They both walked to Homba´s cabin, wanting to get answers. They found Homba out of his cabin, at the entrance.
´´Good morning, Homba. Could we talk? ´´ - asked Habuha.
´´Good morning, young Habuha. Yes, of course we can. ´´
´´Inside your cabin. ´´ - said Arrejal with demanding voice. It surprised a bit Homba, but he agreed and made a gesture for them to go inside, he as well. They all 3 sat and he offered something to drink, Arrejal as always drink (Homba´s purpose to calm him down) and Habuha did it too to taste the tea.
´´Tell me, young men. What is it? ´´
´´We saw the blue shadow, yesterday… ´´ - said Habuha.
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´´What? Really? Did you see it closely? ´´ - asked Homba, curious as always.
´´Yes, we did, Homba! We were surprised and scare at the same time, light blue, like our high. I threw it my spear but it ran away. ´´ - narrated Arrejal, with anger in his voice.
´´I see… I saw another shadow, again, near the river. I am afraid it could be a new enemy and if it is so, I don´t know how many are them. I´m going to alert your father to warn the village. If it is a new enemy, we´d better be ready. ´´
´´What about Nariki? ´´ - asked Habuha.
´´I´m sorry to tell you that we shall forget her. If she was the woman I saw with the blue shadow and the other man, she is gone. We can´t lose time searching for her when these blue things might be preparing at attack against us, and less if we don´t know where is their base. ´´ - said Homba, it might be rude to say to forget Nariki, but both Arrejal and Habuha knew he was right, just that Arrejal didn´t want to accept it.
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Chapter 4
In the Blues perspective, the wazers are getting tough to be treated, as many of them from Hulas and T´Bakis have died, they have some results: wazers physically changed, same high but stronger and angriers, some blue, some white and some still have the brown color. And they are thinking about conquering other villages because they think they haven´t succeed, they want the perfect warrior for them. The main trouble for them is due to what happened in Juyas and Agel, it might be difficult for them to achieve somethine there. Abdahal is aware of these blue things even when Adia hasn´t tell him nothing yet. But until achieving, Blues won´t stop. What happens is that they cannot take wazer years and years for achieving their goal, two villages have already discovered them due to punctual errors. They want quickly results but due to wazer lack of resistance to treatments, they´ve had to kidnap more and more subjects.
´´We must find it ´´
´´Of course we do, but how? He escaped from us, and killed the ones we sent behind him. I got to know that one of the Blues was killed by him, and another got hurt after attacking a wazer. ´´
´´We need to find a way, disgrace for us that the one who went down, and got killed by the zero, didn´t had a tracker connected.´´
´´Do you think the Blues send it to attack him?
´´Yes, I do. And it went wrong, but I don´t know if they are chasing him or not. ´´
´´More than a disgrace, it is a shame that they want to know who disobey to punish and they didn´t even thank us for achieving the goal! ´´
´´They don´t know who did it, and they don´t even know who does he looks like. I believe there is a traitor among us! It isn´t our fault that these inferiors pieces of meat cannot survive after applying them the procedure! Even when being on possess of the highest technology on our solar system… We couldn´t create the perfect warrior! ´´
´´Easy! Don´t discuss, as long as we stay quiet, we won´t be discovered yet. They got their results and doubtless they will use them to attack other wazers villages to find OUR result. What we must do, is activate the New Blue part in our result before it is too late, and attract him to join us. ´´
´´How are we going to do it if we don´t know where he is? ´´
´´Easy, easy, I know. ´´
´´Do you?
The New Blues had a spy in their group, which has betrayed them and accused of blasphemy. They are going to be punished because of disobeying: not reproducing with wajers to insert Blue DNA. What they want is to find the one who is the star result and convince him to join them, but now finding him is the real deal, although they have several waves and one in each village, they haven´t been able to find him.
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´´Arrejal, we will find a solution. Don´t worry. ´´ - said Habuha in an intent for calming Arrejal down.
´´Stop telling me that! I feel useless for trying to figure out what happen, and because of I don´t know where are them, or when they are going to attack. It is also useless if my father gets to know about this, because without their location, he will never send warriors. ´´ - was telling.
´´Something will come out, why don´t we to go the patrolling house or find a patrol and convince them to search for a blue shadow? ´´ - suggested Habuha.
´´Well, I don´t think about something better, lets go to the patrolling house then, someone there will tell us where is people to patrol. ´´ - response Arrejal. Both began walking there, Arrejal´s friend just wanted him to making him think something else. They didn´t take long to arrive to the patrolling house.
´´Hey, Wazu, everything ok? No reports? ´´ - asked Habuha to Wazu, an old friend and always a warrior ready to fight or patrol.
´´No, nothing yet. Oh, greetings, Arrejal. And you? Everything ok? ´´
´´Not at all, have you seen any patrol guy or do you know where they are? ´´ - asked Arrejal, direct to the point.
´´There is a group patrolling beyond the main door. Zeras said he wanted to check the forest. They should be near the path goes up to the Hulas.´´ - said Wazu.
´´Great! Thanks! Come Habuha! ´´ - and they both started walking again. For Arrejal it was a great new so he had a good reason for going out of the walls. However he is the leader´s descendant, there should always be a reason for going out of the village. They made it and walked toward the mentioned point, being aware of their surroundings as always. Arrejal was aware of any blue shadow around and Habuha was aware of Agel´s patrolling members. They walked until they saw from far away some men standing up and some other sat.
´´There they are! ´´ - said Habuha, and both hurried until they were there.
´´Arrejal and Habuha? What? How did you know we were here? ´´ - asked Butawo.
´´Wazu told us. Are you patrolling this area? ´´
´´Yes, we are. Actually stopping here before returning. And you? ´´ - Kalel was another one of the patrolling group.
´´We came looking for you because I want to you for something. ´´ - asked Arrejal.
´´Sure, what is it, boss? ´´ - Watul, Wazu´s brother, was part of the team as well.
Hm… Guys, I saw someone coming. ´´ - aware Takero.
´´What? ´´ - Arrejal hurried to go to Takero´s position and look to the north… As a matter, someone was walking toward them.
´´Seems someone from Hula village… Why would be? ´´ - wonder Takero.
They were watching how this person was walking, surprised that someone could be brave enough to walk that far.
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´´Yes, it is someone from Hula… Walking toward us! Arrejal, what do we do? ´´ - Kalel began to be worried, they are more in case of a fight… But why would someone from other village walk toward another village? When the person showed to be a man, almost reaching them, if it is a fight, they are 6 vs 1.
The man stopped in front of them.
´´You are from Hula, right? What are you doing here? ´´ - asked Kalel, being right in front of the man. But the man didn´t say anything, he was just breathing, blinking.
´´What is going wrong with this man? ´´ - asked Izata, the last man of the group.
The man looked at each one of them, and kept breathing. Arrejal and his people looked he wanted to do or say something, but it was holded.
´´Hey… Say something. ´´ - said Kalel, touching the man´s right shoulder… But just he did that, the man turned his eyes onto Kalel and hit him with his elbow. Kalel broke his position due to the man´s move and the pain, and just after that the man kicked him on his abdomen. Both things happened so fast that they didn´t react on time, due to the force of the kick, Kalel was launched to a nearby tree, being stomped.
´´What the!? ´´ - barely said Watul, taking his small axe out. The man also unsheathe his sword, screaming and brandish it against Watul, doing it which such force that Watul blocked it and it destabilized him. Arrejal got closer to the man with a single step and punch him in his face, but it seemed that didn´t hurt him. The man pushed Arrejal way as if he were a toy, Habuha brandished his sword agains´t the man but he blocked and he stroke back, also destabilizing him.
´´Wow! He is real strong! ´´ - Izata jumped at him with his small hammer, but the man took Izata from the arm holding the hammer, punching him on his face and kicking him on the abdomen, Izata was pushed as well.
´´What is this man!? ´´ - yelled Watul, who brandished his axe to cut the man´s head, Habuha doing the same with his sword, but the man moving very fast blocked Watul´s axe, kicking him, blocked Habuha´s sword and doing another move to cut his chest, which he barely did. Arrejal came very fast and cut the man chest a bit, punched him on his face, breaking his mouth and hitting the man with his right elbow as well. The man received a lot, walking backwards, and taking away his blood with his hand, watching it. All of them were looking at him, and they noticed, somehow, the man´s eyes turned into a dark blue, and blue veins sprout on his arms. The man yelled again, beginning another fight.
Arrejal and his people couldn´t believe how strong this man is, they´ve faced before Hulas and the strongest Hula is like Arrejal… But this man was something totally different. He received hits and cuts, but he didn´t stopped. He continued to attack, all of them. All of them luckily avoided most of his move, until the man became stronger and when everyone was on the floor, tired and hurt, Kalel faced the man by his own. He didn´t last a lot, the man made him throw his sword with a strong sword move and punch him on his face, breaking his mouth and nose. The man took the chance to cut Kalel chest deep enough to release a lot of blood.
´´Kalel! ´´ - Arrejal stood up as fast as he could and stab the man´s lower abdomen with his sword, he felt how the man got to the no returning point. The man stomp Arrejal´s head with
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shake. His skin turned a little blue and yelled again. But he felt a little deep pain: Watul had just nailed his small axe on the man´s back, making him turned over Watul and kicking him on his abdomen so hard, that Watul spilled blood. He wasn´t over, he punched Watul´s face, breaking his face and twisting so fast that he managed to cut Watul´s face.
´´NOOOO! WATUL! ´´ - yelled Izata, with such angry that he took brandish his hammer and totally hit the man´s when he turned due to Izata´s scream. Izata felt the man´s face broken by the hit, and it was… A bit. The man returned to Izata and tried to cut his head, but he didn´t, Izata bend and hit the man again with his hammer on his abdomen but with the wooden part, making the man to backstep again. Izata returned to Arrejal´s position, with Takero and Habuha. The man spilled blue blood, and at that moment Arrejal knew the man had to do something with the blue shadow, the blood was exactly the same color of the shadow´s that day. Arrejal got angry by remembering Nariki´s missing day told by Homba and launched at the man, who was still backstep, resting. The man barely blocked some of Arrejal´s move, but he couldn´t last. He managed to cut one of the surface man´s leg and a shoulder right after. Some cuts more were needed to leave the man on his knees, and he was still light blue. Arrejal screamed and finally cut the man´s head, finishing him.
Arrejal felt on the floor after that, he couldn´t more… His people was on the floor too, it resulted a hard battle. The man was dead, mysteriously, he attacked Arrejal´s people and him, so fierce that Watul and Kalel resulted dead. Far away from the path, the Blues watched all the fight through the man´s eyes. They were recording the battle, and studying it, watching one of their results, which wasn´t that bad, but wasn´t what they wanted. Of course, they didn´t made it, the New Blues did. Which was still a relatively secret for the Blues. The battle also helped them see if any of the wazers was the one they are looking for, but even when Arrejal seemed a candidate, he didn´t fit their parameters. Arrejal and his people returned to Agel´s tribe, back home, they reported the horrible fight they had with a member of the Hula. Acegajal couldn´t believe it, neither Homba, the Hulas aren´t used to fight, or look for it, THEY, the Agel, are the ones whose do that. Arrejal described how the Hula man behaved, the light blue eyes, blue blood, blue veins and then his skin light blue. Homba just could supposed the blue shadow are enemies that want to destroy Agel´s tribe, and that made Acegajal alert the village and every single warrior to be ready for anything.
The Blues would just either keep sending their results to find this individual in both villages, or would do it themselves. They won´t care sending the whole Hula and T´Bakis tribes against Agel and Juya, after all, most of T´Bakis and Agel aren´t human anymore. And as seen before, a Hula deformed by Blues´s process can beat 6 wazers… It means with 50 deformed wombres, a village is done.
Acegajal summoned a gathering between several wise members of high class to talk about a plan he has designed.
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´´Greetings, I´ve gathered you because of something that isn´t a secret for us, and it affected us directly. My son and Habuha came back from a search, they found a patrolling composed by Watul, Kalel, Izata and Takero when walking the forest, and the faced something they´ve faced before: a Hula, but not any Hula, this Hula was fierce as 10 beast and hard to kill. Unfortunatly, he took Watul and Kalel´s life with him. If more of this men appear, the village won´t last longer and I am afraid another appear and kill more of our young men. I am to put a plan on the table. ´´ - said Acegajal.
´´What is it? ´´ - asked Homba.
´´I pretend to send a patrol men as messengers to Juya tribe. And then go with Arrejal to talk to Abdahal and his family. Why? Because that Hula killed two of our men and he was about to kill the others. Something happened at Hula tribe, something beyond our comprehension, otherwise why would a man turned blue and attack other with no warning? I fear for us, because it means another Hula would come and we won´t be able to stop him. If after the messengers we can know that Juya went through something similar… We probably can be one tribe and attack Hula´s tribe. What do you think? ´´ - Acegajal´s thinking was reasonable, and supported by Arrejal himself. After watching how this man brutaly killed two of his friends and almost him, if more Hulas appear, then it could mean Agel tribe´s destruction.
´´Hm… Do you seriously think we need help to face Hula? ´´ - asked Kobaru, the man in arms, in charge of creating weapons for the tribe.
´´He does! Didn´t you listen to him and my testimony? That man was about to kill me, and left really injured the others. I… I´ve never something like that before. With no words, he kicked Kalel and launched him against a tree. Where have you seen a man being launched due to a single kick!? And who has that strength!? ´´ - yelled Arrejal to Kobaru.
´´Easy, boy. Certainly something is happening at Hula. Instead of sending messengers to Juya, why don´t we send spies to Hula? Maybe we can find out what is it and attack them before they plan something. ´´ - proposed Gilijo, another wise man, in charge of making the rituals for the tribe, the chaman.
´´Hm… That is even a better idea, Gilijo… Lets do both! ´´
´´Explain, Acegajal ´´ - asked Homba.
´´Two patrol people, one go to Hula to discover what happened there, and will come back to tell us what to do. And the other will go to Juya and warned them Arrejal and me are going there just to talk. ´´ - Acegajal suggested.
´´That is kind of dangerous, due to the history betweet Juya and Agel… But I think we need the risk. If something happened at Hula, to deal with it we might need to mix forces. ´´ - said Homba.
´´Great, if there aren´t nos, that is it! ´´
After the gathering, Arrejal didn´t talk to his father to say no to the mission or suggest something else. He knew his father´s decision was right, they would need Juya´s help to deal with whatever is going on in Hulas.
´´Ok, listen! Kankaro, Janaru, Hipoten and Lisaro, you are ones that compose the patrol men that are going to go to Hula. We just need you to see what is going on there, don´t attack and less let them see you. Once you´ve done that, you will come back and tell us what did you see. Am I
clear? ´´
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´´Yes, sir! ´´ - said all of them at unisound.
´´Ok, go before night falls! ´´ - ordered Arrejal and his men started the mission.
´´Now, Tak, Kot and Malu are going to go to Juya and let them know we will go there. Do you understand? ´´
´´Yes, sir! ´´
´´Good! Come back alive, go! ´´ - and they also go…
Adia was walking to the river, as usual but the purpose was other: to help her think clearly. Zabul´s recently dead left her unable to think, or to talk, so going to the river was her best option to that. She was worried about the situation, those images remained in her mind, disturbing her. How Zabul´s body was left after the match, is something that hunts her, because she now knows what have caused those wounds. She saw Alaku facing one of those things, and he incredibly saw how he defeated the beast. That also made her thing what helped Alaku to defend himself against that monster, because if Zabul couldn´t killed one and he was destroyed at the end… Then, how did Alaku stood against that? She arrived to the river, waiting to see Alaku, as accorded the previous day. Next to the pale stone, lonely but thinking about him. Suddenly something came out of the water, she thought it was a warm with fingers, but after seeing a head also coming out of the water, she realized it was a man. A man from the river? But the current is strong, he must be stronger than the current. Once out of the water, the man walked toward her.
´´Where are you from? Am I near any village? ´´ - asked the man, calmed.
´´I am from Juya tribe, up that path. ´´ - she answered, wear the man.
´´Good. ´´
´´Who are… ´´ - but before she could end the question, the man took his axe out and threw himself to attack Adia. Right there, she was defendless, she wasn´t on time to take her knife out. She barely could move to touch her knife, but saw at the man, her death. Again, suddenly, a figure came out of nothing and charged against that man. Both felt on her right, she didn´t tell apart, or she couldn´t. They were struggling, and she was paralyzed because of nervous. She could out her knife in self-defense and looked at the men, she recognized one of them! Alaku? She whispered. Both men stood up and the other punched 3 Alaku on his face, which made him stepback.
´´Adia! Stay away! ´´ - said Alaku, and the man charged again. Alaku blocked him and kicked him on his abdomen, but the man didn´t run, instead, punched again Alaku and jumped to the ground to take his axe and attacked again. Alaku rejected him by unsheating his own knife and cutting the man´s chest. Blood came out of the wound, as the man touched his wound and looked at his hand, he tighten up his fist, as well as it began to shake. He looked at Alaku with dark blue eyes, scaring both Akalu and Adia, something was unleashed. The man was yelling, blue veins began to appear on his skin, as well as the blood from his wound turned blue. Both Alaku and Adia were amazed and scared of what was happening in front of them. More muscles began to appear as the man continued yelling, suddenly he threw onto Alaku and punched him several times on his face and body.
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´´Alaku! ´´ - screamed Adia, watching how Alaku was being beaten down. Soon Alaku also caught one of the men hits, applying as much force as the man was applying. Adia began to witness how Alaku began to change. His eyes turned light blue, from light brown, his body began to become a bit more well-built. Alaku removed the fist from his hand and fastly punched the man two times on his face, then a kick on his stomach and a spin for a kick on the man´s face. The man stepback, and Alaku assumed a battling position, never seen before. Adia was surprised Alaku could react like that.
´´Come at me, you worm. ´´ - he said, challenging the man, who didn´t wait and launched against Alaku. Adia could just see how they danced and punched each other. Both were holding and punching, but Alaku also, faster than the man, took the man´s axe and nail in on the man´s right shoulder, expecting him to surrender. The man didn´t and punched Alaku on his stomach with a left hook, which somehow hurt him a bit. The man tried to take his axe from Alaku´s grasp but he didn´t succeed, in exchange, Alaku cut him on his face, expecting again him to fall dead, which didn´t happen. Adia was horrified of the fierce battle she was watching, it was like a fight between bears, something she has seen before, but this time, it was between men, TWO men fighting like animals. She wondered if it wasn´t a nightmare. The man had one cheek cut, but he still was looking for fight. With another move, Alaku cut one half of his left forearm, the man punched him twice again on his face and Alaku avoided the third, and stab the left ribs of the man with a single swing. The man was releasing a lot of blue liquid, and felt on one knee, Alaku took the chance to kick him on his face to lay him, but did so hand that broke the man´s mouth, nose and opened even more the cheek cut.
´´They… They are coming for you, and for all of them too! ´´ - said the man, and Alaku finished him stabbing his head with the axe. Adia saw the end, and approached to Alaku who was hurt from punches.
´´Are you ok!? ´´ - she asked desperately.
´´Yes… Yes… I am. ´´´- he said.
´´Could you explain what has just happened!? ´´ - she demanded, confused, and wanting the true.
´´Didn´t you see he wanted to kill you? ´´ - he said, avoiding her answer.
´´Don´t play me fool, Alaku! What just happened, isn´t normal! I´ve seen my father and my brother fighting each other, and them against others, but you are stronger than them! Who can it be! ´´ - she yelled. ´´And I haven´t forgotten the blue monster, how you faced it and how you kill it, and now this man tells you they are coming for you!? Tell me! ´´ - she now wanted the answer.
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Chapter 5
´´Ok, I´m going to tell you… But at the hide. ´´ - said Alaku, who stood up and started walking to the place where he and Adia were previously. She stood up too and walked with him.
´´We are here now, start. I haven´t tell anything to anyone because no one is going to believe me. ´´ - she said.
´´Well… I´m from Hula tribe, I had a mother and a father, but my mother died when I was born. My father protected me and taught me a lot of things, and he died letting me escape. You see… You might have seen blue things recently, like the one you and that other woman saw when I appeared. ´´
´´Wait… You saw us? ´´
´´Yes, I did. And I saw the blue monster too, but my father called them ´´blue beings´´. Anyway, I shot that arrow to protect you, because that blue being could have killed you. I don´t know why my father was never affected, by he did received their treatment. Adia, this blue beings, aren´t good. They came from the starts, and they want to control everything, and they have been doing wear things with us. They do something wear with the tribe, that no one intended to riot against them. That blue being that appeared when we first met, was there because it wanted to kill me, and kill you. And this one that just appeared, is also because of me. ´´ - was telling Alaku.
´´Why? Are you part of them somehow? ´´ - she asked, about to know the true…
´´Yes… I am. And now… I feel human, like you… But I also feel something inside me, I don´t know how to explain, but I know is there. It is like something was awaken inside me. ´´
´´That was why your eyes are now blue, when they were brown… And that explains how did you face the monster and this man… Are you going to kill me, too!? ´´ - yelled Adia, unsheating her knife, ready to defend herself.
´´No! I don´t want to! I am not like the man that attacked you! ´´
´´How can I believe you!? Do you know… Days before today, a friend died… He was ambushed by those blue monsters! The way his body was left… This can´t be… I won´t ever forget those images! ´´
´´I know! I know what are they capable of… If you let me, I can talk to your people and convince them. Because I feel these blue beings aren´t going to stop until they kill me… Or they kill all of you. That man you saw, was from my village, and he was taken by those blue beings and was changed. You saw him! He turned blue, and stronger. I can think he can easily kill three or four like you. ´´
´´Why are you here? ´´ - said a crying Adia, impacted by the recent information.
´´As I said, help you and protect you. Safe you. As you heard him, the man turned blue, they aren´t going to stop. Let me talk to your people so I can convince them to join me and fight! ´´
´´Ok…´´
´´ADIA! WHERE ARE YOU!? ´´ - they heard a voice.
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´´Maka? ´´
´´ADIA! WE NEED YOU! WHERE ARE YOU? ´´ - Maka was calling for her.
´´Stay here or follow me without being seen. ´´ - and Adia came out.
´´Here! ´´
´´What are you doing here? ´´
´´Relaxing… Walking, watching the river. ´´
´´Anyway! Quickly! Come with me, your father and Abrul are at the entrance… Agel´s tribe leader is here! ´´ - said Maka, hesitated.
´´What? ´´
Both started running there, and Alaku too, but hidden. It is very rare for them received the new that another tribe´s leader is visiting. Usually they received visits from other tribes, like Male or Barujas, but receiving a visit from a tribe which was attacked them in the past? Rare. They crossed the village and when they saw Abdahal, they stopped.
´´Here I am, father, Maka told me. ´´ - said Adia, next to Abrul, her mother Dalia and even Adalia, and some important tribe members.
´´Great, Adia. Is good you witness events like this one. ´´ - said Abrul. Her father didn´t say anything, he was watching the door being opened. When done, Acegajal, Arrejal, and two more men came in on horses.
´´Greetings, Abdahal… Long time, right? Do you remember the last? ´´ - he asked sarcastically.
´´How can´t I forget? You said no to the deal I was offering you… And the next, you pretended to invade my peacefully village. ´´ - responded Abdahal.
´´Peace doesn´t make warriors, just make dumbs. But anyway, I am here just because of extreme need, and I hope you understand and have seen before. Shall we talk in private? ´´
´´Come… ´´
And most of them when to the gathering room.
´´Ok, Acegajal, what do you want? ´´ - asked Abdahal, usually only the leaders talk, and other make silence, but since each leader´s descendant are present, anyone can talk.
´´A truce. ´´
´´Why? ´´ - asked Abrul, who has fought Agel´s people and currently hates them.
´´Because we need, not because we want! ´´ - answer rudely Acegajal´s son.
´´Watch out your mouth, young boy. ´´ - exclaimed Dalia.
´´You see… My people and I had been through some events never seen before, and they overwhelm us, I expect you to help me. ´´
´´You? Overwhelm? That is quiet interesting, continue. ´´
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´´Days ago, Homba, a very trusted man, saw something that broke his thinkings. He saw, near the river which goes next to my village, yours and Hula´s, but from the forest side, a blue thing walking with a man and a woman. We believe that woman was my son´s fiancée. And later he had an encounter, with his best friend, against one of those things, something alike a blue shadow. Going on alive, but then… Walking to the path with Hula´s, he and his friends faced a Hula man who almost kill them. ´´ - was telling Acegajal.
´´Blue shadows… We´ve seen them too… One of my friends died because of a blue monster, he lost an arm, and his body was destroyed. We fear it is more than a shadow, because if it is more… Then that means it could be a war. ´´
´´And we aren´t prepared for one ´´ - said Arrejal. ´´My friends and I faced a man from Hula´s tribe… And that man almost kill us! I´m almost the strongest of the tribe, same as Abrul matches Abdahal… And I barely made it alive. That man killed two of my friends. His eyes were blue, and his skin turned blue too, with more muscles… It looked like a monster for us! ´´
Adia wanted to say everything she knew, but she didn´t know if that was the correct moment.
´´Correct ´´ - said Acegajal. ´´ Two people were sent to different missions, one was supposed to come here and tell you of this wish of mine, to gather and talk. And the other was supposed to go to Hula and report whatever they saw. Just one came back alive, and what he said were… ´´
´´Things impossible to believe, right? ´´ - suddenly Alaku came into the room.
´´What the…!? ´´ - said Abdahal.
´´Please LISTEN! ´´ - said Alaku, at the moment when some Juya´s guard came in, ready to attack Alaku.
´´Please, don´t hurt him! ´´ - Adia took part.
´´Adia… How? Why? ´´ - Abdahal surprised.
´´Let him explained himself and talk, please father. ´´ - she begged for Alaku´s words to be listen.
´´Ok… But he´d better explained, otherwise you will be exile with him! ´´ - he even threaten his own daughter.
´´Abdahal! How dare you? Could you do that!? ´´ - Dalia responded.
´´I am the leader here! ´´ - he said.
´´Sir, please, let me talk. Then you can decide whatever you want. ´´
´´Ok… Man, talk! ´´ - said Abdahal.
´´Thank you. My name is Alaku and I come from Hula´s tribe.´´ - began Alaku.
´´Then… Is that true, what my man said!? ´´ - interrupted Abdahal rudely.
´´Father! Let him talk! ´´ - insisted Adia.
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´´Yes, sir… It is true. I come from Hula´s tribe… And we are no longer Hula. I know your daughter, Adia. She and the other woman, Maka, were walking through the forest, border with Agel´s tribe (Abdahal launched Adia a look of shame). And they found a blue being, as my father used to call them, which was watching me. They could have died at that moment, but I safe their lives. That friends of yours attacked and killed by a blue monster, and directly attacked by a blue being. The man who attacked you (pointing to Arrejal) was a man from Hula who made from the things they´ve done to us. ´´ - was telling Alaku.
´´What kinds of things? ´´ - asked Abrul.
´´I don´t know specifically, but have been bad things. Many of my people have died, and many other have survived. The ones who have survived, have become the type of man which attacked Agel´s people, and also attacked Adia today. I faced and manage to kill him. ´´
´´Wait… 5 men and me barely could barely survived from facing one of those you are talking about… And you are telling us you faced alone one of them… And killed him? LIER! ´´ - Arrejal accused, of course, he doesn´t know the whole true.
´´It isn´t a lie, I saw him! ´´ - Adia defended him.
´´How exactly did you see him? ´´ - asked Abdahal.
´´That doesn´t matter right now, sir. I faced and kill the Hula man, by my own because… ´´ - Alaku remained in silence, even when he was excited to say all, a fear held on him.
´´And so…? Why? ´´ - asked Dalia.
´´Because… I am also one of them… In part. ´´ - Alaku declared the true.
´´WHAT!? ´´ - said many of the present.
´´I can´t be. You look like us! ´´ - exclaimed Adalia.
´´Yes… But not at all, don´t you see my eyes? ´´
´´Oh, no! For Marruan! NO! His eye´s are exactly the same color of the blood! Is he a blue monster!? ´´ - exclaimed Arrejal, everyone was confused, and horrified at the same time.
´´When I was born, my mother died, but my father told me everything. He died when he allowed me to escape from the tribe, because they wanted to kill me. My father was also pushed to be experimented by the blue beings, I´m telling you all this by experience. ´´
´´In case you are telling the true, young Alaku. What do you suggest us to do? ´´ - asked Acegajal.
´´Join forces. At any moment the blue beings will attack us, merciless, and you have seen how fierce they are, right? I cannot face them all by my own, I need help and I want to believe you can help me! You count with one of them, but better than them, me! And I count on you: your strength, your number, your spirit! ´´
´´Hm… If the young man is right… I believe him. ´´ - said Abdahal.
´´Do you, father? ´´- asked Abrul, surprised.
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´´Don´t you? Zabul is dead, you saw his body. According to this man, your sister was attacked earlier. And according to Agel´s people, I believe him. ´´ - Abdahal was now supporting Alaku,
´´In case I also support you, what is the plan? Gather all our warriors and mix them in one army, then head to Hula´s tribe? ´´ - suggested Acegajal.
´´Bad idea. ´´ - said Abdahal.
´´I know it is a bad idea! It was joking.´´ - replied Acegajal.
Suddenly, a Juya man came in.
´´Sir Abdahal, three people are coming! They look like from Hula” – said the warrior. All of them came out of the cabin, and walked to the main gate. As a matter of fact, there were 3 Hula men walking toward Juya´s tribe. They seemed normal, but now they knew they are not. They stopped just in front of the village´s door without requesting something, they looked toward the village, and two of the three men jumped. With that jump, they reached each surveillance tower ant took them down, for Abdahal´s horror, they were already in when the third man jumped the door.
´´Be aware! They will start at any moment! ´´ - said Alaku when all arriving. One of the Hula man had eye contact with Alaku, and that was all to start. The three men began to change, they screamed while their bodies where turning light blue. One of them launched directly to Alaku, which Alaku charged onto, but the man charged too and took Alaku with him. The women hide with their children while Juya´s people and Agel´s fewer people were fighting them. A spearman tried to kill one of these men, but failed when the man took the spear, grab it and impale the man. Adalia screamed out when she saw the horror. Abrul asked a guard to take his sisters out of there, while the battle was becoming a bloodshed. Two more guard intended to stop the same and caught one of these men, they were controlling him, but he took his sword out and cut a guard´s staff, leaving him with no weapons. The other guard tried to stop this man, but thanks to the blue blood running through the veins of this man, he managed to cut the other guard´s throat. Alaku was busy fighting with another blue man. Arrejal, Acegajal, Abrul and Abdahal were dealing with the last blue man, which wasn´t easy. Somehow Arrejal saw and felt this blue man isn´t like the last one. This one was fiercer, and more dangerous. One of the blue man already killed 4 Juyas, something that made Abdahal angry and he went to face the blue man by his own.
´´Stop murdering my people! ´´ - yelled at the man, who turned his eyes onto Abdahal, and went just against him. Abdahal knew he was going to die, but he preferred to die fighting for his people. They crash swords, and several moves more. Abrul appeared to kick this man in his nuts, but it didn´t work because the man moved before and kick Abrul’s legs, making him fall. The man made his move to stab Abrul with his sword, but Abdahal blocked the move.
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´´Do you think you are going to kill my boy? WRONG! ´´ - he said, the man did a step forward and kicked Abdahal on his stomach, making it as well to lay on his knees. Ready to cut his heat, the man felt how Abrul perfored him with the sword, but he didn´t care. He turn onto Abrul, took the sword out and kicked Abrul as well.
Alaku was in an endless fight as well, battling with a blue man. Every time the man wanted to cut Alaku, he blocked the move and make him drop the weapon. The battle was equilibrated, impossible to each one to hurt the other, but a small window of time, Alaku took a small axe he kept from the other man of the river and cut this one´s chest. The man didn´t care, and taking advantage of a moment when Alaku was distracted, punch him four times on his face, making him backstep and beating him down. Alaku rested on one knee, the man was about to finish him but right at the exact moment, when Alaku rested, Adia was far behind him, aiming at the man with an arrow. She shot and the man couldn´t do anything but to receive the arrow right on his forehead. One less, two remain! Unfortunately, Arrejal was on the ground, wound by a cut and several hits on his abdomen and chest, which make him difficult to breathe, and his father was fighting alone the blue man. Acegajal is an exceptional warrior, but sadly didn´t match against this man, he felt on the ground do a powerful spin kick the man did, and he took the chance to nail a sword on Acegajal´s chest, killing him at once.
´´NO! FATHER! ´´ - Acegajal´s son yelled. He stood up quickly with force he gathered and jump onto this man, which tried to cut Arrejal´s head but didn´t succeed, instead of, a big blade crossed the man´s chest… A Juya took the chance to attack this man by nailing his foot to the ground with an arrow and Arrejal finally cut his head, releasing blue blood.
´´Thanks. ´´ - said Arrejal, with tears on his cheeks. Two less, just one! The following was taken down between all present people.
´´PEOPLE! Look what have done the Blues! The blue beings behind all! They won´t rest until conquering this land, either they kill us or not! The leader of a village, DEAD. Many of yours DEAD. This is all those blue demons carry, DEAD! I propose DEAD for them as well! LETS JOIN IN ONE SPIRIT AND ATTACK THEM! ´´ - said Alaku, inspirating people.
And therefore the war between humans and Blues started, humans didn´t know but Blues had a complete legion of modified warriors ready to defend them. They were facing T´Bakis and Hula´s tribes, and having 0 knowledge of everything, for them, and being humans, thinking an attack to any of those villages could result in execution. But what the Blues didn´t know, was that the wazers, as they have called humans since the beginning, were going to receive help from an external source. The humans didn´t know either, but they were going to know soon, as these renegades decided to go to earth and help wazers with their problem. In another world, some Blues were discover for breaking the rules, although they succeed achieving the goal: creating the perfect warrior. A warrior who will join them at certain moment, and fight for them no matter what, after achieving, they were supposed to
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reproduce the exactly procedure which made them reach the goal. But what they didn’t know was the fragile nature of the human being, forcing them to not only repeat the same falling procedure in more wazers, but to try more and different procedures, hoping for the wazers to survive and show results. Results which didn’t make them happy, results as these few blue man, who were presented as mistakes or failures became leftovers or barely tools. These Blues who broke the rules were already known as New Blues and even when they exposed their reasons and methods for their achievement, the Blues didn’t listen. As they knew they were doomed,they decided to go to Earth planet and decided, as they've seen, same as the Blues, wazers were already warned about their existance and also, as they´ve seen how Blues became a threat to wazers, they wouldn´t be able to make an alliance with them. What did they decide? Some of New Blues wanted to exile the planet and go to another one, escaping from their hunting down. Some others wanted to attack Blues foe helping wazers facing them, but some others wanted to attack wazers in order to find their ´´Perfect Result´´, better known as Alaku, and eliminate him before it could be too late. They thought about it, and exile to another planet wasn´t a good choice because of some other reasons, even if they search and eliminate the Perfect Result, Blues were anyway going to track down these New Blues... So, their last choice was to help attack the ones of their own kind.
Agel´s tribe no longer had Acegajal for leading them, and as Arrejal is the only son, he had the right to become the chief. When they returned to Agel´s village, Arrejal sit on his father´s throne and start thinking. Certainly, for him, the problem wasn´t other than what was happening in Hula and these blue creatures who wanted everything destroyed. What made him being afraid, was the fact that 3 men from Hula´s village are enough for killing at least 20 men... If they go to Hula´s for destroying these blues, what are they going to do if they found an army of a hundred blue men? Those images were lurking his mind, making him remember over and over how did they face those men and how did those men deal him them... His father´s assassination, how did they turn blue and began a ravaging wave of pain and wrath.
´´Arrejal, I´m sorry about your father´s death. I wonder if we could talk, so I can understand and maybe I can help you. ´´ - said Homba, once he entered the chief´s cabin.
´´For the first time in my life, I was scare, Homba. You know me as much as my father knew me. I am not a warrior who feels fear every time he is about to begin or join a fight. And I had fear. ´´ - was telling Arrejal, clearly traumatized how those men killed.
´´What happened? ´´ - asked Homba, as he said, he wanted to understand.
´´We went there for talking about those blue shadows, and to see if Juya´s people have seen the same than us. And they have, this man appeared, saying he was from Hula´s tribe, but they were attacked by some strange creatures. It seemed a bit unbelievable for me, I don´t know about my father. We agreed these blue creatures are a danger for all, then a man came inside the cabin and said there were men from Hula at the main door. We all ran to the village´s entrance, and they were there... Three men from Hula, they screamed and jumped inside the village, they didn´t care about
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the door and they began to attack us, of course we responded but... They killed, Homba. ´´ - told to Homba, to listen to him carefully.
´´I am sure your father fought with honor, and did as he could for protecting you and show he was still a steel man. ´´
´´That doesn´t matter, Homba! Of course my father was an incredible man, but those men were monsters! A single Hula man, turning into blue skin and with muscles, even taller, killed at least 4 men... How can a man do that? I am fearing for us, if we go to war against Hula, counting with Juya... I don´t know if we are going to make it. If every Hula men is like the ones we fought, we are all dead. ´´ - was saying Arrejal, who showed fear and insecurity in his voice.
´´And if I can be sure of something, is that we are going to war, aren´t we? ´´ - Homba asked just to be sure.
´´Yes, we are, Homba. It is unevitable, if we don´t go to war, it will come at us... ´´ - said Arrejal, confirming his worst fear.
´´This is what I propose to you: lets go to Juya, as they are already aware for this situation, I don´t think they will say no. Forming a scout group mixed with Juya and Agel and send them to see what is Hula´s situation, there we might have a better idea, make a plan and then strike them. ´´ - offered Homba as a possible solution.
´´Yes... It seems nice. And anyway, they will need us. Lets do this now, they received an attack and I am afraid the next attack might be against us. ´´ - said Arrejal, and he was right, if the next attack are 10 blue men, they could kill half of Agel´s tribe men.
They fastly gathered a scout group of 5 of the best explorers and went to Juya, with the intention of taking to Abdahal and adding 5 more explorers to their already formed team so they can be sent to Hula and get information. A day later, they arrvied. Arrejal wasn´t worried Juya´s guards fire arrows to them, then a village´s chief is on the scene, any village´s guards hold their fire because killing a village´s chief before talking, means war. Juya´s main door was opened in order to let them talk.
´´Greetings, Abdahal, I appreciate you let me in. ´´ - said Arrejal, sitting in front of Abdahal.
´´You are welcome. I am sorry about your father, we didn´t expect to receive an attack like that. My people are afraid for what could be coming, and I guess your people are also scare. What is your purpose by coming here? ´´ - asked Abdahal.
´´Thanks for your condolence, I am here for proposing you adding 5 more explorers to the ones I brought and send them all to see and when back, report how is Hula right now. We could strike them at once, but we need to know what happened to them and how are they now. Do you agree? ´´
´´I do. Abdahal, he is right, and I want to go! I want to know what happened there after I escape. ´´ - said Alaku who was still in Juya´s, after the battle, Abdahal allowed him to stay in his cabin, but sleeping away from his daughters.
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´´Hm... Although that is a good idea, I don´t think the same and I am afraid they could die on the way. But since Alaku is offering himself to go, I accept. My forces are even ready to go and attack Hula, I know that plan wasn´t a good option when we talked with your father included... But since we all saw how people from Hula are... I don´t think we have another option. Either we go get them or they get us. ´´ - was saying Abdahal.
´´Great you agree with me! I left specific orders to my people for training for this, Hula village is two and a half days away, I´ ll go back to Agel and then I´´ return here to listen to the explorers. ´´ - said Arrejal as final words.
Adia tried to deter Alaku from going, but as he hasn´t been there and Hula is his home, he expressed her his wish for checking by his own eyes how is the village and what can they do. Arrejal wanted to get this done same as Abdahal and his family, because meanwhile sending their explorers to see Hula´s village, Hula might be sending another attack and bigger against either Agel or Juya. Three days passed fast as both chiefs were worried for their people, and they knew their people had to be as fast as they could for getting information and then returning to get ready. They both sent their explorers with specific orders: meet the other part at a specific checkpoint and once they arrive to Hula, just observe, no attacks, anything else must be avoid, including incoming men from Hula. 10 men were going to Hula so they corresponding chiefs could decide.
In Hula... The hell was burning. As New Blues decided to attack Hula´s village in order to make things easier for Agel and Juya, Hula was in war. A disadvantage for them was that at present, many of Hula´s people are men already modified by Blue´s technology, being beast as the men who attacked Juya and killing Acegajal or even worst. Of course, New Blues technology is same as Blue technology, but Blue´s bad results are even more dangerous than Blue´s themselves. Currently there are some Blues guarding Hula´s village, since they don´t care being seeing by other´s villages wazers, because what they did to Hula is barely soft for what they could do to wazers in general. Since they are condemned to death by their own kind´s laws and can´t change that, most of them have agreed to use their lives by helping wazers avoid their extermination. Something else they didn´t count was even some Blues came down for fighting New Blues. When Agel and Juya´s explorers arrived at Hula, what they saw was in part untelligible: a broken village, there were still warriors to fight for the village, but New Blues´s attack damaged strongly the village. The explorers didn´t see anything strange as monsters, or blue shadow, so for them might a green light to tell their chiefs to attack. Although they saw warriors, they knew these warriors could perfectly be blue, something their people could take on.
Blues saw this situation as a risk, because they not only know the New Blue´s Perfect Result was still out there, but their attack on Hula resulted worse. Blue´s knew their wrong results could eliminate the wazers from other villages, but the Blue sentinels they had in the village were gone with New Blue´s suicide attack. They began to see wazers as a danger, with the waves they had spying Agel and Juya´s tribe, they started to understand that even they might have underestimated this specie.
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Chapter 6
The explorer group returned to Juya´s village, reporting what they saw and Alaku could see by himself that wasn´t the same village he abandoned, he also report somehow Hula was attacked, because he remember there used to be some blue monster, not men, monsters, but they were gone. Arrejal and Abdahal began to gather their forces as they knew there were nothing more in Hula than men, they were ready to hear there were monsters but they didn´t. They anyway didn´t take things for granted. In the meeting, Homba also was there for advising.
´´Abdahal, usually a front attack could be very effective, but since we don´t know a lot more than the explorer group, I suggest the attack split in two and attack both sides at the same time. ´´ - suggested Homba, while they all gather, Alaku was thinking what could have happened to the village once knew.
´´I can say he is right. ´´ - said Arrejal. ´´Juya and Agel have some in common: they both have access to the river, and as the river goes up, I can say there will be an entrance to Hula from the river. ´´ - he said, supporting Homba´s suggestion.
´´So... An attack from the river entrance to Hula and the other? From the woods? ´´ - Abrul pointed sometime important. ´´We don´t know what is in there, there could be a group of Hula men or blue monsters waiting. ´´
´´If you allow me, sir. ´´ - asked Alaku to Abdahal.
´´Yes, speak. ´´
´´What if we do this, another departing side to attack. Arrejal can lead a direct attack to the main entrance, Abdahal from the river and I, leading another group, attack from the forest side. ´´ - he also suggested.
´´Interesting... ´´ - said Homba.
´´You could be the reinforcements in the case we lack of warriors. ´´ - said Abrul, who never trusted Alaku by his strange way to appear in the village´s life.
´´No, Abrul. We weren´t ready for an attack and what happened? Arrejal´s father died. We need to be ready and for that I prefer Alaku either join us as attacking from another side or stay here, defending the village. We will need every single man. ´´ - said Abdahal.
´´I can stay here with Alaku if you want. ´´ - Homba offered himself.
´´No. ´´ - said Dalia. ´´I saw how Alaku fought one of those man from Hula. You need him with you. Homba can stay, and we will defend the village. ´´ - she said, targeting Adia y Adalia as protectors.
´´Then, I shall go with you! ´´ - decided Alaku, even when it wasn´t his decision.
´´So, Arrejal and I lead an attack from the main entrance. Abrul from the river and Alaku from the forest. In case, Alaku, you don´t find an entrance from the forest, you go to the main and help us. Is this plan agreed by all of you? “ – asked Abdahal, and no one said anything against the plan. “Great, I need you to understand this is very risky. We are only doing this because we are pushed to do this. We already saw how fierce are men from Hula, and if there are more men than we are going to comand, it may be a defeat and a massacre for us, that is why I propose including archers to our troops. They can help front line warriors kill easily Hula men. “ – Abdahal was being careful while proposing, because he knew that not even archers could be safe from those men.
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“Wise proposing. Archers could work very well as backups. Should there be archers from the river side? “ – asked Arrejal.
“Hm… Yes, there could be. But then they should be guarded by the same men amount. It is foolish to have 10 warriors defending 20 archers. 4 Hula men would be enough for killing those 10. “
“I propose 25 archers and 75 warriors. There can be 13 archers at the river and 12 at the main entrance. 33 men at the river and the rest at the main. “ – proposed Abrul.
“I like that. “ – Homba supported Abrul.
“Me too! “ – Alaku, plus two.
“Hm… Interesting. I also support him. “ – three with Arrejal.
“Decided! But, how many are going with Alaku? 20? “ – asked Abdahal, no one in the meeting room where capable of saying something.
“Yes, just assign me 20 men. And 5 archers. Just that, please. “ – Alaku himself was begging, he knew even when being a hybrid human/Blue, he isn't capable of facing 15 blue me.
“Father, grant him his wish. You know very well even there are strong warriors among us, we need Alaku! He is the only one up to now able to face a blue man by himself. “ – said Adia, backing him.
“I think the same, Abdahal, he hasn’t being here for much time, but we all saw how did he fought that man. And he isn’t inmortal. Grant him some men. “ – Dalia also supported Adia and Alaku.
“Ok… But where are those men going to be from? “ – asked Abdahal to Dalia, worried about the number of warriors available.
“Agel can donate them. They will be entirely from Agel. “ – Arrejal raised his hand and showing Agel is totally willing to participate.
“Great, then everything is decided! We'll go tomorrow! “ – screamed Arrejal, while all agreed and screamed with him. Alaku got out of the cabin so as Adia, he walked toward the main fireplace, all around him warriors we’re getting ready for the massive attack. Adia went behind him because she felt he was either worried or excited.
“Alaku, you are scare, right? “ – she asked worried.
“It is a mixture, Adia. I am scare, excited and anxious. I don't know what are we going to find, or how many blue men are there. We don't even know if there are blue men or blue monsters there. “ – he expressed his concerns.
“Yeah, I get it. It also scares me, I'm going to stay here with.my mother and Adalia. Not knowing if you will come back or if my brother and my father are going to return. And what if as soon as you leave, an army of blue men appear? We won't be enough. “ – Adia also expressed her concerns.
“I can’t promise you your father and brother will return, we all will be busy. But I'll do my best, I swear. “ – he wanted to calm her a bit more.
“Thanks. I also expect you to return alive. “ – she said with bate smile.
“Hahaha, that is a promise! “ – he did.
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They didn't know but they were being watched, both by Abrul and by a Blue's wave. Blue began to worry about this situation with wazers, the´ve seen how two wazer villages are getting together to attack Hula´s village. For them, there are two options: abandon Hula´s village, not sending Blue soldiers to protect it and just leaving the village with the Blue men resulted of their failure activities on them, or protect and counter attack these villages, but it also meant a consequence: if they would wanted to continue their experiments, they won´t be able because a counter attack means eliminating completely these rebels villages. At this point, their objective of continuing experimenting until finding their precious perfect result now was impossible, and even when these wazer villages weren´t the only one in his part of the planet, now they were afraid what happens to them could happen again and worse. They´ve now seen the human kind as something they didn´t think it could be. They still had the option of invading the north part of the planet using their arsenal, not trying to dominate passively the inhabitants, but to wrack them all at once. They saw with their waves how this army of wazers were coming out of one of those villages, so they had to make a decision soon. Although they could counter attack both villages due to their lack of warriors for protecting themselves, they didn´t see this as a good option. An idea came out: maybe they won´t avoid the wazers´s attack, but they could kidnap some wazers from the unprotected villages and try some last times to reach the result they want.
Abrul never trusted Alaku, as he sees him walking among the warriors marching toward Hula´s. He way the suddenly appeared in a meeting with Acegajal and Arrejal instantly targeted him a black list, so for him, if Alaku threats the attack by becoming a traitor or doing something wrong, Abrul will do as possible to taking him out of the attack. A reason which encourages this decision is not only when he declared himself a new type of blue man, but watching how did he managed to face a Hula man by himself. The only reason for Abrul that Alaku isn´t dead yet is that he defended Juya from those Hula man, showing his might and strength, but also exposing himself: an abomination. Abrul watched carefuly how did Alaku fight the blue man and what he saw frighten him a bit: Alaku is stronger than Acejagal and Abdahal, faster than both and his sword style is unknown... Never mind, he was going to be watching Alaku until the very last second.
Days became seconds as they saw Hula´s tribe on the horizon, Abrul men and him began separating, as they knew the river was close to being another route to the west village´s entrance. Arrejal and Abdahal kept walking toward the main entrance but hiding among the trees for avoid being seeing. Alaku was waiting for a clue to also ordered his men to move with him to the east and forest entrance. Some meters away, from Hula´s main door, Arrejal and Abdahal´s troops were still hidden in the bushes, but they didn´t know Hula´s blue men already noticed them, as they had better eyes product of Blue´s treatment. Abrul´s men were already on the river´s side, getting closer to the entrance. Alaku and his men also disappear due to the east entrance founded.
´´Archers, shoot on my sign! ´´ - said Arrejal, not loud to be detected and all archers began. They didn´t noticed but Hula main door men were already in defense position.
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´´SHOOT! ´´ - screamed Arrejal, as their warriors began yelling as they appeared from trees and bushes attacking the guards. Suddenly, an archer next to Arrejal felt dead, he didn’t know why but after looking at his head, he knew was a clear arrow headshot. He looked to the towers and a Hula archer had three arrows on his chest, and certainly, light blue. The Hula archer received three more arrows before falling. Hula´s main doors weren´t close, Abdahal noticed that, making him understand Hula somehow knew about the attack. One of the guards died, not before taking with him two warriors, bad, 73 left. Because of the screams, Abrul knew the battle began, and he approached to the entrance from the river, screaming:
´´FOR JUYAAAAH! ´´ and his men did too, running to the entrance... But as they kept running and they didn´t see the doors, they were getting confused. ´´No! The doors are still away, keept running, we must reach! ´´ - he said, as they all still ran. After a while running, they all saw Hula west´s doors, as some arrows, which killed some warriors: Hula also knew about the river´s attack. Abrul threw a small spear he was carrying and successfully killed a Hula archer, as the other one received 5 arrows and died, without reaching his 3rd arrow. At the entrance, several Hula men transformed into blue abominations: blue skin or blue veins on their skins, more muscles and some even taller, some with sharpen teeth, and some more characteristics. Abrul succeesfuly reached the doors and they began attacking, some Hula men were there for stopping him. After fastly killing some Hula men which didn´t transformed, Abrul realized that most of the warriors were adult men, he didn´t see any kid in the tribe. Some women appeared, turning their skin blue and shooting fire arrows as automatic Blue guns, Abrul took another small spear and threw it to them, killing just one, approaching to them and about to kill another arche woman but she threw her bow and unsheathed two small daggers. For Abrul, it was the first battle with a woman, problem for him was she was almost too fast for him, he could avoid some waves but she also did cut his chest surface twice. He finally kicked one of her legs to hard that broke her knew and taking advantage of her fall, he cut her head. He turned his eyes to his men, which were battling. Some Hula men dead on the ground, and fewer of his own, too. Suddenly he saw how a Hula man, with blue claws as hands, as cutting a man´s face, kicking him on his abdomen and by another slash, cutting his head. This monster looked toward Abrul and with a scream, jumped to him.
Alaku couldn´t reach the battle, the east entrance was closed, he instaly thought the blue monsters knew they were coming. It took him some time to get to the main entrance, which was desertic and with two corpses only, Hula men. They entered, and he ran inside as his men began battling. He ran inside trying to find either Arrejal, Abdahal or Abrul, and he actually did. He found Abrul being attacked by a blue beast, a man with blue claws instead of hands, he was doing as he could for avoiding being killed. Alaku arrived and snail his sword into the blue bleast´s back, which howled in pain, turned back and kicked Alaku to a cabin. He flew and destroyed it, in pain, trying to stand up, beginning to feel that wrath and that energy, he stood up and jumped, when landed in front of the blue beast, now turned into light blue.
´´STAY AWAY FROM HIM! ´´ - he said, but even his voice was a bit different, he kicked the beast on its face and again and again on his chest, making it step back, took his sword from the ground and cut the beast abdomen. At that looked like bare skratches on the beast skin, which a blue line
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covered these cuts and it tried to kick Alaku again, but he avoided cut its back again. Abrul stood up and picked up a spear from the ground, aiming at the monster. The blue beast crashed his sword against Alaku´s and both forced the other, the blue man beast looked Alaku to his eyes and began to shine in a light blue. Shine which stopped when the beast was nailed by Abrul spear, direct on the heart, the beast howled in pain and Alaku took the chance to nail him with his sword on the abdomen, and employing his strength, cut the beast from down to upper. The body felt on the ground he looked toward Abrul.
´´Thanks! ´´ - Alaku aimed his sword toward Abrul, who got scared at first, he threw it to him and Abrul launched to the ground, as he saw the blade nailing a blue man in his heart. Alaku started searching for Arrejal and Abdahal, discovering men dead: blue men, Juya´s and Agel´s as well. Archers didn´t made it at all, as some of them still alive but without arrows, still fighting with small swords. Deral, Abdahal best friend, layed on the ground, dead, as his son was fighting two blue men by his own. He made enough for an incoming arrow to kill one of those men and could kill the other. The battle finished, as the remaining gathered at the center of the village.
´´I never knew this could happen, but I guess is a result of those monsters. ´´ - said Alaku, resting on the ground with a knee.
´´Hula men were more than we expected, Deral is dead and his son, at least lives. ´´ - said Abdahal while looking to Derandal a bit away, crying over his father´s corpse.
´´I am surprised I haven´t seen any children here, did they hide them all? ´´ - asked Abrul, resting or the ground, also on his knees.
´´I don´t know. I also searched for women and children, but didn´t see. The only women I saw were those archers. And damn fast they there. ´´ - said Arrejal.
´´Did you fight them? ´´ - asked Abrul.
´´Yes, just one. The other went after Deral. And the one I fought almost killed me. I had luck because I launched myself onto her, and when had her with no moves on the ground, which was difficult because he was fighting to get free, I nailed her head. We didn´t expect this would anyway be a massacre. ´´ - said Arrejal, with reason.
´´A hundred men, right? And just 10 alive... And thanks to Alaku who appeared, a bit late due to the east doors locked. We should rest and then leave; I found some meat which was being cooked. ´´ - said Abdahal.
The Blues had partially leave the country, they found no reason for defending Hula´s village. They found other tribes in the south part of the continent, but they weren´t totally sure there could be another possibility. They´ve been also watching wazers in the northern part of the planet, and didn´t see yet some things they didn´t know yet. Due to some weapons they recently saw, they were now thinking if actually it was a good idea to kidnap primitive wazers and push them to those violent process. Certainly, the bad results were good, but against those fire weapons north wazer had, maybe even when getting blue monsters under their control would be anyway useless. But they also discover something interesting: another land (America) were
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wazers were totally diferent from the ones found in the south. Maybe the best option was to try again in ther other land before surrendering and trying at once in the northest part of the planet. Anyway, they left the country with a bounch of new experiment subjetcs.
Alaku, Abdahal, Arrejal and Derandal returned to the village, with other 6 men. But they didn´t like what they found. Somehow, Adalia disappear, as well as Oara and some other people. It looks like while Juya and Agel´s troops were out attacking Hula´s tribe, Blues took the opportunity to, even when leaving the country because they failed, they didn´t reach their goal, kidnap some last subjects. They still know their technology is better than this species, but they underestimated their intelligence.
Alone, on the river, Alaku began feeling visions: blue entities, the ones he called monsters, Adalia and Oara being kidnap, their waves, their technology.
´´You know you don´t belong to them... Why do you insist in staying? … You could reach all your power with us... Discover who you are. ´´ - he heard a voice inside his mind.
´´What? Who is it!? ´´ - Alaku asked to nowhere.
´´You are more... Like us... Than them... ´´ - he kept listening strange things, a voice talking to him. He watched his surroundings but didn´t see anything, wondering what was that and if he has something of a connection with those blue monsters.
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From their perspective, it was a perfect opportunity for everything: try to improve a specie, take over a planet, test their new advances and enjoy the results, or even more. There was another option: plant a seed, wait for it to grow and watch the results, but they saw this specie was all other the planet, some regions more advance than some others, so they though there wouldn´t be space for a new specie. They decided to take the perfect opportunity. But the next challenge was the following: in one region, the main specie was better than the rest in comparison with the others; they had weapons, something like an armor, society, etc. In the other region, was different but similar at the same time: the weapons were different, in comparison, inferior and they had no armor. Before even trying anything, they sent a small wave to gather communication signs and see if they were somehow intelligent, to both regions. The results where outstanding! Let’s send them!
They saw at the upper region was occupied by the same specie but it looked like more evolved, so they made their mind for the inferior one. Why? Because they thought that the upper society could reject them and therefore it could become a war, and they didn´t want it. The contact was easy, they landed with no problems and they met with a group of ´´Wazers´´, nothing bad happened. The first contact was useful for evaluation: they are primitive so they don´t know what was happening, therefore they could achieve their goal. Discreetly, they began to kidnap members of the specie to start their experiments and to see which of them made it out. Their desire was to conquer the planet, but instead of attacking the inhabitants, even when they have force and army, and technology, they made important advances and preferred to test their new toys. Several were tested, in any way: introducing their technology in their bodies by any necessary mean or way which resulted in many deaths; mixing their technology fiercely or passively, which also resulted in many deaths; by killing and reviving them, which didn´t worked because subjects die and couldn´t be stable.
They were trying and trying, without the native specie know it, and being careful because they didn´t want to awake aware in them. But… It didn´t work at all, a part of the Wazers didn´t trust the new visitors so they though they were a threat. If the more advance group would meet these visitors, maybe they would think the same. They discovered something very interesting: this specie was composed by two different members, one they called wambre and the other wajer, and according to their observations, the wambres usually hunt and fight, the wajers usually recollect things and take care of small Wazers. They even discovered that wajers are capable of duplicating themselves, they can create very small Wazers which can get bigger and bigger, but their sizes were different almost 98% of the population they studied. Then they though of another option: what if they try to mix or enhance their technology in a new Wazer with the purpose of creating a new specie? A more powerful than the previous.
She was watching the herd of horses, tasked by her father, when her sister came for her.
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´´Adia! What are you doing? ´´ - asked Adalia.
´´I am watching the herd of horses, father ordered me. ´´ - she response.
´´It is ok, but he needs you, Abrul is with him, I think they are going to gather. ´´ - said Adalia, when any of them say gather, it means something bad, or it is going to be bad.
´´Ok, ok… I am on my way, then you watch over the herd. ´´ - asked Adia.
´´Easy! ´´ - said Adalia.
She was very confident, but she knew she could not distract. Even when the herd was eating very peace, some of them are rebels and sometimes they like to make it hard. Adia began her way to the village, just some steps away, her sister said ´´gather´´ and when it comes to gather, she cannot say no. About to reach the entrance of the village, she looked around as her father suggested to do all the time, and she saw something blue, with barely human shaped. She looked again just to check if there was something there for real, and… Nothing to see.
It wasn´t anything to see, they had their tricks to avoid being seeing, and this was one of them. It was seeing her, as many of them, just to research and check their hypothesis. Before testing and in order to avoid mistakes, they wanted everything perfect, or they would have to go another way. This particular was watching her figure: her high, her shape, her age, everything related to her. At the following moment, it disappeared. She entered and headed to her cabin.
´´Mother, have you seen Abrul and father? ´´ - she asked.
´´Yes, my dear, they are at the gather, go there, he requires you. ´´ - she said. Without any word, she ran again, and reached the gathering. Her father was waiting for her, and her brother also, as she is the second one, she must be almost there everything time they gather. Other members of the organization were there.
´´Abdahal, what are you going to do? The north tribe is trying to initiate a war again, and the northwest wants our resources, so I believe their offer of accepting an alliance is false. ´´ - said Deral, one of the elders´s descendant of the gather, his grandfather was very good friend of Abdahal´s father, and they grew together, so must of the times Abdahal usually listens to Deral´s advises.
´´By now, I don´t want to fight them and I already assigned Abrul to guard the lands, it is calmed. I want an alliance with the other tribe because I am sure we can make a deal. Oara, how have been the fields? ´´ - he finished asking Oara, she was in charge of the fields and recollecting.
´´They are just fine and haven´t been attacked by other tribes, yet. ´´ - she said, it means security and happiness for them, by now. The village wasn´t very big, but Abrul knows the tribes that want to take their fields.
They weren´t aware, but without a sound, and floating, a small drone was recording and watching them. THEY were watching them.
When the gathering finished, Abdahal worried was walking to the monolith they pray, he stopped in front of it and Deral appeared.
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´´I see you worry, what is happening? ´´ - he asked.
´´I feel something bad is coming, I haven´t received news from the tribes of the south and they are our best support. And even more rare, the north tribe haven´t attacked us since months ago, I wonder what happened to them. ´´ - he said.
´´I don´t know either, I will look for Jatu and ask him if he has seen something near the border. ´´ - said Deral.
As Deral began his way to the main border headquarters, he also began to be worried, the north tribe has always been characterized by the violence they use when they attack, and Abdahal knows them very well. The north has always tried to conquer other tribes, and other lands, but it has been difficult for them because other tribes can also defend themselves, but they have also conquered some tribes. Usually when there are long periods of time without attacking, it means their next attack will be really hard to hold. Deral arrived to the headquearters, just a big cabin, and Jatu was right there, sharpening his spear.
´´Greetings, Jatu, Abdahal and I want to know if you or any of your men have seen people from the north tribe or frustrated any attack recently. ´´ - he asked.
´´Greetings, Deral. No, I haven´t and I haven´t received any report from them… Actually, it has been very quiet, since they are the only one who attack us massively. I fear for a huge invasion but I some guys are patrolling the north and east area, I´ll notice you if they tell me something. ´´ - said Jatu, is the currently leader of the border defenses.
´´Ok, I´ll wait for news. ´´ - Deral began his way back to the monolith.
As a matter of fact, the north tribe is really busy, but not planning an attack, other thing. They are currently searching for their members, due to some missings. They don´t know why this is happening, but they need to find out.
Acegajal was looking for Nariki, who disappear 3 day ago, while recollecting food from the forest. She is the third person to disappear in the month, and the Agel Tribe is extremely worry about it, they haven´t attacked anyone because of this. The two last months their people have been missing, and they don´t know what to do. Their leader, Arrejal has been leading the searching squad in order to find the missings, but useless. He returned from the last trip entering to the entrance door, with all village waiting for his news. He stood next to his horse and turned himself to the public.
´´I know you are expecting news from me, but I haven´t found the missings. However, I won´t stop looking for them, I just ask you patience. I promise I will never stop looking, until I find them! ´´ - said Arrejal, who is very concerned about this because, it is his village.
Arrejal continued walking until he arrived at the monolith, where Homba was there, praying.
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´´Homba, have you seen Acegajal? ´´ - he asked.
´´Greetings, Arrejal… How was the searching? I haven´t seen Acegajal today, he went out looking for Nariki again, her sister is extremely worried, as we all are. ´´ - said Homba, the war leader, as they call him.
´´Nothing… There are no tracks, no signs, no even blood! I cannot guess they were killed because there is no blood… There are no signs of battle, or running tracks, nothing! This is making me mad… ´´ - responded Arrejal, who was losing his mind.
´´Don´t lose hope, people need you. I will have someone to look for Acegajal, meanwhile, lets walk together, I gotta tell you something. ´´ - he said, he stood up and asked someone next to him to go for Acegajal.
They began walking to the western area of the village, their was the biggest one, because of all the villages they have conquered and incorporated to their space.
´´Arrejal, I´ve seen wear things these days. ´´ - he said, expressing his feelings and fear.
´´What do you mean? ´´ - Arrejal started worrying.
´´I´ve seen things, Arrejal… I don´t know how to explain them. Yesterday I was walking around the river, and I saw a man walking next to something blue, it was like a shadow, but totally blue. ´´ - started Homba to tell. ´´It wasn´t an allucination, it was real because I saw it for seconds. Another day, I saw another blue shadow, just standing there. ´´ - he said.
´´Where? ´´ - asked Arrejal.
´´Near the east border, where the forest begins. ´´ - continued explaining.
´´Did it say anything, or did anything? ´´
´´No, just there. ´´
As the conversation continued, Arrejal began to worry even more, because he realized that the reason for the missings are not other tribes, is something else, something that can´t be explained. When they finished, they dismissed, each one had the corresponding worries, and even worst, no solutions. Arrejal found Acegajal entering the village from the north, commanding the patrol squad.
´´Acegajal, where were you? ´´ - asked his father, easy that he has appeared again.
´´Hello, father. I was patrolling the north border, trying to find Nariki. But the result was nothing, I am sad and worried. Where she could be? ´´ - wondered Acegajal, with a bid headache.
´´Do you know you are the war leader? If you get lost or disappear or die or anything else, we would be lost! ´´ - expressed his father, more worried about the future of the village.
´´You can find anyone else! You can count with Ayal, Kesum or even Sattan! We have plenty warriors, why are you so worried!? ´´ - yelled at his father, obviously both are mad.
´´Kesum doesn´t even know how to use a spear, and Sattan? Come on, he is a disaster throwing daggers! I putted you on this charge because of your experience using weapons and survived so much battles, I cannot be losing every valuable warrior y less now that I don´t know what is
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happening! Stop looking for Nariki, abandon her search and focus protecting the village, as your position demands you. ´´ - ordered Arrejal, extremely worried about the situation.
´´We haven´t been attacked so far, and our warriors are still enough to defend the village from an invasion. Stop annoying me! ´´ - said Acegajal for the last, and he left on his horse.
Arrejal though his son was blinded because of his love for Nariki, but whatever is making his people disappearing, is still there. What could be?
To the extreme north of the land, another tribe, the Hulas, was living a totally different life. They were contacted by the ones they call, ´´the Blues´´: blue and grey people, tall and hard to communicate and also to fight. The Hulas were totally conquered by the Blues, there were no war, and no resistance from them, the Blues applied some strategies to contact and pacify the Hulas so they could not even think about resist their conquer. They were using Hulas´s people to experiment on them their new advances, which some of them were just failings, they wanted to reach their goal: reach perfection making a new warrior who could allow them to conquer the planet. As they´ve seen how advance is the society at the north extreme of the planet, they want to develop something that could overwhelm those shields, swords, armors, etc. They knew the people on this land wouldn´t resist them that much, but even when they are primitive, some of them realized the Blues are strangers with bad intentions. That happened in a village some kilometers away from the Hulas: the T´Bakis. It happened what didn´t happened to the Hulas, some T´Bakis never trusted these blue and grey people, and they resist being conquered… But they were nothing against these people, therefore, the Blues couldn´t achieve what they wanted and they ended exterminating the village of T´Bakis, but they didn´t lose hope. As they technology is hundreds of years away from these natives, they just continued to the next village: the Hulas.
Although the Blues find natives who didn´t resist to them, they didn´t want the Hulas to be their pets, they were objects to study. As mentioned before, the Blues wanted to mix their technology with natives to investigate if the results brings a hybrid creature, just in order to invade the north part of the planet. They tried several forms to most of them lead to a dead for the subjects, which didn´t matter that much for them. Hulas are a northern tribe from the Agel, where Arrejal is the leader. And Agel Tribe is also north from the Juyas, where Abdahal is leader.
After the gathering, to which Adia arrived late, she went to the land behind the house, where her brother, Abrul, was.
´´Abrul, what are you doing here? ´´ - she asked him.
´´Hey, Adia… I´m just thinking. ´´ - she said.
´´Thinking about what? ´´ - she wanted an answer for her brother´s state.
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´´About why we haven´t received any report from the borders, why there haven´t been attacks these days. I think something strange is happening, although we are ready as always to defend ourselves or counter-attack, so much quiet and peace makes me nervous. ´´ - he finally said, as Abdahal´s older descendant, is logic to feel like that, generally in tribe´s laws, the first leader´s descendant is generally the one with best social position. Same as Acegajal, Abrul has the demanded position of War Leader, which also has to defend the village by any necessary mean.
´´Is that what father wanted? ´´ - asked again Adia, showing innocence, for she never met a single fight.
´´Yes, Adia. But understand that quiet and peace never last long, sooner or later it brokes, by any reason. I´m telling you this I´ve already fought many times. When you were a child, we were almost invade by another village. Many of us died and many of them, but we counter attacked and exterminated them. Father didn´t want it, he never likes wars, but it was necessary. We kept everything for us, in exchange of killing all villagers. ´´ - he explained to her, not with the intention for her to understand, but at least, to make her see why so much peace and quiet is wrong.
´´Ok, then, what are you going to do? ´´ - she asked, a bit concerned.
´´I don´t know… Father has been trying to know, but I haven´t seen any Agel member, neither any of the guards and less father. If they are preparing a huge attack, we don´t know. And that is something to worry because the last it happened, they almost broke into the village and destroy it or conquered us. ´´ - Abrul said.
Adia made an effort to understand Abrul, but she didn´t at all and he wouldn´t, too. She stay in quiet, he also stayed in quiet… Not a single word.
´´So… Can I help you with something? ´´
´´I don´t know, Adia, hahahaha, you made me laugh. What don´t you understand? We´ve done everything we can do to know what is happening and we don´t know! The last option but is a suicide is travel to Agel tribe and asked what happened. I´ll think a way to figure it out, please, leave me alone. If you want to find me, you know where I am ´´ - finally said Abrul.
´´As you say, brother. ´´ - and Adia left him alove.
By her own, Adia started walking, she felt useless because she had nothing to do, not even her father was available for doing something or telling something. She met Maka, a friend from her childhood, her cabin is the most near to her palace, who was walking, too, apparently directionless.
´´Hey, Adia! How are you? ´´
´´Hey… Maka… Well, I don´t know. My brother is worried about the peace and quiet we´ve been living these days. According to him, the Agel could be gathering an army to invade. Or something else could be happening. ´´ - said Adia. They used to talk about everything when they meet. Even though Adia has duties with the village for being the 2nd in line to ascend to the throne.
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´´Don´t you think his new position makes his mind a mess? I mean, as soon as you became a woman few months ago, your father ascended Abrul, maybe he is stressed. ´´ - was saying Maka.
´´I don´t know. He told me this village suffered an attack when I was a child, and people from both villages died. I don´t think you know something about that because you are barely a year older than me, do you? ´´
´´You are right, Adia, I don´t know. What if we talk near the river to clear our minds? Maybe later you could help you brother. Yes or no? ´´
´´I don´t know, if we should. I mean, Is not that I care a lot, the village has a lot of strong people, but I don´t feel confortable by walking near the river. ´´ - something was telling Adia that ideas was bad.
´´Come on! We always walk near the river, you like it a lot, don´t let your brother concern affects you. Even your father sometimes keeps you busy with different tasks. Let him worry with war stuff, we aren´t warriors so those problems aren´t ours. ´´ - with that argument, Adia couldn´t know and they both went walking to the river holding hands.
There is a river which passes near Juya tribe, and that same river goes north to pass near Agel and keeps north, to disembogue near in the ocean. Is a river plenty of animals, and flowers. Usually wajers go to the river to gather fruits, meanwhile wombres go to the river to hunt. That river separates these tribes not only from each other, but also from the other side of the world. The same river supplies fresh fish to the nearby tribes, except the T´Bakis, which hunt their fish from the ocean itself because they have the village near the coast. Thanks to this fact, Agel, Hulas and Juyas don´t fight at least for food, but they do for other reasons. However, the part of the river which is near to Juyas, leads to Agel and Hulas if you walk all the way long, but it takes you more than a day, and surviving brave jungle. This river is also Maka and Adia´s favorite place for playing and talking, when they were kids, they used to come with their mothers, whom are also very good friends, and played. When these kids became teenagers, they began to come by their own.
´´Oh oh oh! Here we aaaaare! ´´ - Maka is always happy when it comes to go to the river.
´´Yes… Here we are. And it is funny because we are very close to the river and nowadays we don´t come that often here. Do you remember the last time we were here? ´´
´´Yes, I do. My brother and I came here to play, but he wanted to hunt some fishes for himself. ´´ - was telling Maka.
´´Really? But, he is younger than you. ´´
´´That didn´t care for him, he came with his spear and a knife, and he actually hunted some fishes! Our mother was so happy that she cooked those fishes as our dinner, hahahaha. ´´
´´Wow, Maka… You have such a nice brother, mine just… You know. ´´
´´But what about your sister? Does she take care of the herd? ´´ - nice question Maka asked.
´´Well… Sometimes, you know… But believe it or not, White Stack obeys her, same as White Galo always obeys me. ´´
´´Great! I don´t have a herd or a horse, but we have a nice hunter, hahaha! ´´
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Maka and Adia were making fun and talking of the situation, next to the river. But what they didn´t know was that they were observed, by two different entities.
´´Now that we are here, what if we swim up the river? ´´ - dangerously suggested Adia.
´´Adia, but you know that above Agel tribe is there… What if their troops catch us? Anything can happen to us. ´´ - said Maka. And she was right, even when tribes usually respect their limits, for hunting sometimes they have to go into enemy´s territory, and Adia and Maka are not precisely warriors. For being the leader´s daughter, Adia always carries a knife, for defending herself, but she isn´t an expert use it, not as some other villagers who know.
´´Just a bit, or by walking so we can escape faster, do you dare? ´´ - there it is, Adia always challenging Maka, and she rarely refuses.
´´Ok! But lets make sure there isn´t a guard over this side, if anyone catches us, we´ll be in real troubles! ´´ - exclaimed, Maka, who accepted the challenge. But it wasn´t a joke, if they get caught by anybody, it will be a mess. Who both were around them just in case they discover someone, and they didn´t, so they stood up and started walking, they were also aware every step they made in case they see or listen something. Why this? Because they were going to walk nearby the border, where a misunderstanding can be very bad for them, and of course, aware of wild animals. They kept walking more, until they were almost at the border, where things usually were tough. At the moment, nothing to worry about, but they suddenly listen something that scare them and made them jump into a bush.
´´Did you listen something? ´´ - one asked the other.
´´Yes, it heard like steps, but I see no people. Maybe it was an animal, are we already at the border? ´´ - Maka was worried they reached it, and asked Adia because she knew the limits, being the leader´s descendant carry a lot of responsibilities.
´´Hm… Not yet, but we should either return or if we continue, slowly and very cautious. Never forget we aren´t the only village here, and there are still in the jungle. ´´
´´Yeah, yeah. ´´ - Maka agreed with all Adia said, when they are together, is usually Adia who says and Maka follows, they might be close friends but according to the situation, that they aren´t playing, Maka knows that if Adia says stop and return, that´s what she has to do.
´´Look again the surroundings, if we can avoid something, it will be better if we do. ´´ - said Adia and they both started looking careful at their environment. Maka was looking with extreme attention everywhere, and her eyes stopped at something that scared her.
´´A… Adia ´´
´´What? Did you see something? ´´
´´I haven´t being that much near the border, so I don´t know the surroundings… But that blue thing is something common? ´´ - said Maka, taking Aida´s left arm and making her see into the same direction.
´´What blue thing, Maka? ´´ - asked Aida, trying to see.
´´Aida, the thing I am pointing with my finger! ´´ - and Maka made an effort for Adia to see, and she did.
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Adia´s eyes were seeing something truly blue, it was like a shadow, barely human, among the grass and behind a tree. Adia didn´t said anything but made Maka quiet, with her hand blocked Maka´s mouth and whisper:
´´I know you are scared, but don´t say anything, lets watch it. If anything, you run and I face it. ´´- said Adia, and as always, Maka obeyed. Maka usually sees Adia as an older sister due to her wise decisions. And they were watching this strange blue thing, it looks like it didn’t spot them, so they could slow and briefly but detail watch it. It had two large things like arms from the upper part, something like a head, and really blue. They both were watching it but Maka also was trying to see where this thing was looking at, if them or another subject. Suddenly, a man appeared which also scared them. Adia has experience identifying man and woman from other villages, but this man was strangely new for her. He was wearing a bow and some arrows on his back, and wear clothes. They remained quiet, but the man looked toward Maka and Adia´s direction and toward the blue thing´s direction. For few seconds, Maka was watching that man and Adia was watching the blue thing, which wasn´t moving, just there. The man took an arrow from his arrow quiver and shot it between the girls and the blue thing´s space, that made Maka scared and the blue thing turned onto the arrow´s move, making it do eye contact with Adia, who almost never took eyes from the blue thing. She saw how the blue thing moved as surprised by Adia´s stare, and disappeared from that place, while Maka couldn´t hold and took Adia´s hand to crouch out of there, but not before Adia took fewer seconds to see the man, and try to memorize him.
Both girls successfully got out of there and were kind of running to their homes.
´´I must tell this to someone! That blue thing isn´t normal, I´ve never seen something like that before. ´´ - was saying Aida while running, whatever they saw, it disturbed both.
´´Who are you going to tell? ´´
´´At least Abrul, after him, maybe my father later, but Abrul is softer than him. Telling him at once would make me sound like crazy. ´´ - said Adia.
´´Ok… Lets tell Abrul first. ´´ - and both began their way back to the village.
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Chapter 2
After watching for some time that wombre, the Blue watched how he appeared from the woods, wearing a bow and the arrow quiver, and a leather armor. It didn´t think any of the natives from this land could wear something like that, it was something truly interesting to see, something that made it watched longer. But from the point it was watching that wombre running in the jungle, jumping and crouching, to the point of getting out of the woods, it never expected being itself watched by two wajers. The purpose of their camouflage was to observe their experiment subjects without being spotted, but it never expected a wazer could spot it that well to stare at. When it discovered it was being watched by two wajers, not only was senseless keep that wombre´s track, but also senseless to stay there and continued be watched by those wajers. It had no other choice rather than disappear. The Blue´s took any necessary measure to investigate wazers and keep record of them: they sent waves to watch villages, they came down to watch villagers, and the whole land by themselves, they even kidnaped some wazers to insert a tracking chip to register their routine and/or an eye-tracker, to see whatever the wazer see.
Maka and Adia returned successfully to the village, but before seeking for Abrul, they stayed in a place for thinking. Both were kind of traumatized, they couldn´t forget this blue shadow, but human shaped also. It was really rare and scary at the same moment. Up to now, they´ve only seen man, woman and animals, just that. Was the blue thing an animal? Stalking that man?
´´Maka, could that blue thing might be an animal? ´´ - asked Adia, very worried about what they saw.
´´It could be but… How many animals stalk someone like that? I don´t think so, first we saw the blue and then the man appeared. Was that blue stalking us? ´´ - proposed Adia.
´´Maybe… But if it was, was it stalking us since we were near the river? Because we got there and few seconds later I saw that blue. If it was stalking us, it means it was watching us since the river. ´´
´´It? ´´
´´Do you even think what we saw is like us? ´´ - that question made them even ask themselves more… Was that thing human?
´´Well… I saw it had two thing like arms, but… Like us, no… ´´ - said Adia, who really watched the blue longer than Maka.
´´Right! Because other tribes, like us, are blue! ´´ - said Maka in a sarcastic way.
´´Then… Should we conclude it was an animal? ´´ - offered Adia, the topic was reallt giving them a headache.
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´´I guess, so, shall we tell Abrul now? ´´
´´Yes, Maka, but in a very good way, remember he is stressed and we don´t want him to tell my father or our father. ´´
With those lasts words, they started their way to find Abrul, who was in the same location where Adia left him, but asleeped.
´´Oh great! The greath and mighty war leader is sleeping! Then who is going to protect us if my father dies!? ´´ - exclaimed Adia due to her brother´s sweet sleep, seeing him sleeping made her angry and she trampled her brother and his chest.
´´Why do you wake me up like that!? Are you crazy!? ´´ - exclaimed Abrul.
´´We need to tell you something, but you must remain quiet, I mean, not telling our father, neither Maka´s father. Am I clear? ´´ - said Adia, setting terms according to her advantage.
´´Just if it is about my worry. ´´ - said Abrul, getting back to the position he was when awoke.
´´It is! ´´ - said Maka, wanting him to not let it go.
´´Hm… Do you really? ´´
´´Yes! But first promise! ´´ - demanded Adia, the last she wanted was giving all that information for him and then being betrayed.
´´Ok, I promise. What is it?
´´You won´t believe us but try to. Adia and I went to the river, to talk and play…
´´Even when you aren´t children. ´´
´´Don´t interrupt me! ´´ - Abrul was joking but Maka was talking serious. ´´We had the wonderful idea to walk over the river… ´´ - right after those words, Abrul left his position and raised up a bit, to them at their eyes and throwing them that look of ´´are you kidding me? ´´. ´´And reach the border with Agel´s tribe.
´´This can´t be… ´´ - said Abrul, beginning to be scared.
´´We weren´t at the border, but we heard a sound, so we walked crouched a bit, hidden in the grass to see what was it. ´´ - continued talking Adia.
´´We stopped and watched the surroundings to see if there was an enemy or an animal nearby, and we see it… Well, Aida saw it first. ´´ - said Maka, giving the credits to Adia.
´´What did you see? ´´ - asked Abrul, at this time, he was totally immerged in the girl’s story.
´´There we saw a blue shadow, but not as a shadow, more shaped, and like us, like people. ´´ - Adia surprised her brother.
´´Blue shadow? Wouldn´t be a blue human? ´´
´´Oh yes, sure! As if human were blue! And do you how much blue pigment do you need to be totally blue (Maka was doing a gesture to leave clear the blue was all over that things body)!? A lot! Besides, to be camouflage with the forest, shouldn´t you use green or brown and green? This was BLUUUUEEEE! ´´ - said Maka.
´´I think it was a little taller than father, but had two arms and something like a head. It was just there, and I think it didn´t spot us. It was ´´watching´´ some bushes there (Adia was pointing at the place for reference). Abrul, we were both scare because we´ve seen people from Agel or
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Hula, long ago, and they are humans like us, but this whatever it was, didn´t look like human. ´´ explained Adia.
´´Therefore you are telling me you saw something blue just standing there, aren´t you? ´´ - asked Abrul, like challenging their story.
´´Yes, but that isn´t all. Then, from the woods, a man appeared! ´´-
´´A man? An Agel or Hula? ´´
´´No, Abrul, I mean, I don´t know. Just a man! But he was wearing a bow, an arrow quiver and something covering his body, made of leather. ´´ - kept explaining Adia.
´´Yes! Like us, or you, wearing that cover. But his cover was different, it covered almost all his body. ´´
´´But what is the final of the story, is that he looked toward us and fired an arrow, that made the blue shadow move and I think it discover us.
´´Then, what happened? ´´
´´It just go. ´´ - said Adia, concluding the story.
´´So… You want me to believe you saw a blue shadow near the border with Agel´s tribe, that it was watching a man in the forest, and that when this man fired the arrow, it realized you were watching it and then go? ´´ - said Abrul, making joke of the girl´s story.
´´Yes! ´´ - both exclaimed.
´´Right… How is that connected to the lack of attacks and the dominant peace? ´´
´´Well… We don´t know, we just wanted to tell you. Maybe you can figure out the rest by your own or somebody else. ´´
´´Yes, Maka, but I don´t know what to think about… At least don´t risk your lives again by doing that. Thanks for telling me, I guess. Are you going to tell our father? ´´ - asked Abrul, which attitude didn´t clear the girls if the information was usefull.
´´I don´t know. May be, may be not. I don´t want to tell him alone, if I do, I would like to say it with you and Maka next to me. ´´ - when Adia said that, Maka did a gesture as if she would be saying ´What? Me? ´´, Abdahal, the patriarch, isn´t a man to be kidding or something alike, and since Maka and Adia made troubles when they were younger, probably he won´t believe them.
´´Well, if you decide to tell me, come to me first. Meanwhile (he was getting up), is still daylight, so I am going with Deral´s son to see what can we do. I´ll keep your information on mind, thanks sister, and thanks Maka. ´´ - said Abrul, in a bye bye way.
´´Do you think he will do something? ´´ - asked Maka, still a bit concerned about what they saw.
´´I don´t know… But I hope. I think I´m going to have nightmares with that blue thing now, oh rash! ´´ - said Adia.
Meanwhile Abrul went to see Deral´s son, Durandal, to talk and find a way to do something. In Agel´s tribe, things are getting delicate. Arrejal hasn´t find Nareki, his friend and secret lover, and Acegajal has stopped her research. She has been missing for two weeks, Arrejal doesn´t forgets her because he is in love, but also his duty as war leader avoids him to keep her research.
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´´Hey, Arrejal, when are we going to attack another village? It has been long since we did. ´´ - asked Habuha, Arrejal´s lieutenant.
´´I don´t know! Not finding Nareki has been annoying me a lot, and my father wants me to forget her, but I won´t! ´´ - exclaimed Arrejal, Acegajal´s son.
They were at the top of a surveillance tower, which allowed them to see Hulas tribe. That surveillance tower is at the northern point of Agel Tribe, that is why allows anyone to climbs to the top to see Hulas tribe and by the way, the jungle.
´´Arrejal! ´´
Arrejal listened his name, wondering in his mind if it was Nareki begging his help.
´´Arrejal!´´
´´if she is dead, would my name be her lasts words? ´´ - still wondered.
´´ARREJAL! ´´
´´Hey, man, somebody down there is calling you. ´´ - Habuha awaken Arrejal from his own mind.
´´Huh? ´´ - and he turned his eyes down. It was Lasil, another soldier.
´´What do you want!? ´´ - asked angry, he doesn´t like being disturbed when he is thinking or dreaming.
´´Homba wants to see you! He told me is urgent! ´´ - that made Arrejal bit angrier because he had to go down. Agel´s surveillance towers have a particular way to climb up or down, they have a mix of rocks, woods and someother things packed as counterbalance. For going up to down, weight is added to the counterbalance to let the person go up, and for going down, weight must be removed. But if there isn´t anyone first in the tower, there is a particular ´´elevator´´ which helps the first one to go up. Since Arrejal is one of the best well-built soldiers in the tribe, he doesn´t care doing it his own way: taking a rope with some weight on the other side and jumping from the top, he can either jumping before reaching the ground (because if he doesn´t jump, he can get himself killed) or use the tree next to the tower to slow speed and then jump. Arrejal jumped and reach the ground easily… But not all Agel´s tribe warriors are brave enough to do that.
´´Where is he? ´´ - asked Arrejal, with his usual demanding voice.
´´´Follow me. ´´ - said Lasil.
They walked for some minutes until arriving to Homba´s cabin. Lasil left Arrejal for him to meet Homba.
´´Ah, son, I´ve been expecting you. ´´ - said Homba, welcoming Arrejal. Homba usually has a well welcoming for him not only because he is the current leader´s unique son, but also because he was very good friend of Homba´s son.
´´So… What do you want? ´´ - demanded Arrejal.
´´Before start talking, I need you to calm down, drink, son. ´´ - Homba offered him a drink, Arrejal never notices but Homba´s drink are very helpful, he usually makes them with special plants for different purposes. That is Homba is well known in the village as the ´´Herbal Sorcerer´´. Even if
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Arrejal is angry and would like to reject, he knows very well saying no is disrespectful and especially with Homba. Arrejal drank.
´´Ok, now? ´´ - finally waiting for Homba´s words.
´´My son, I know you are still angry because of Nariki´s missing (something that Arrejal doesn´t like listening and he does an angry gestures everything he listen something like that), but I believe I got a clue for you, about Nariki´s where about. ´´ - as soon as those words reached Arrejal´s hears, his face and mood changed drastically.
´´Are you serious? Are you seriously telling me Nariki might be alive!? ´´
´´Wait, son, I didn´t say that. I said I have a clue. Listen, please (Homba drank his own tea). Fewer days ago, I was wondering what happened to Nariki, and to think better, I sometimes like to go the river, which connects us to other villages and provide us of fresh fish. So I went walking, that relaxing march usually helps me to think better, to solve a problem or to discover something. I arrive to the river´s border, and watched peacefully the water, the trees and the sky. After sometime, I cannot say how longer, I heard something strange, like steps, but not on the water but on earth. I thought it was somebody who came to me to talk, so I turned back but where wasn´t anyone there. I was surprised because I clearly hear steps, so I turned my eyes to the river to see if it was someone on the other side of the river, and at the moment, nothing. But fewer seconds later… I saw something frightening that left me cold. ´´ - was Homba explaning, he had capture Arrejal´s total attention since the beginning.
´´What? What was it!? ´´ - asked Arrejal, excited and scared at the same time.
´´I saw something blue, it was like a shadow, but walking. ´´
´´A walking ´´
´´And it was carrying a man and a woman on each side. ´´
´´A man and a woman? ´´
´´Yes, son. It had something large, as arms from each side of its body. It was carrying the man with one and the woman with another. The three of them were walking. ´´ - Homba kept talking.
´´Strange, do you know where were they going? ´´
´´Not at all, they were on the other side of the river but I saw the three of them walking, slowly and normally. As if nothing wrong could be happening. ´´
´´Do you think the woman you saw was Nariki? Did you see her? ´´ - too bad for Arrejal, but the answers were not alike what he wanted.
´´No, I didn´t and I couldn´t, they were too far… But I am sure it has something to do with Nariki´s where about. But that isn´t the first time I see a blue shadow. Very near of Nariki´s disappearing, when returning from a patrolling with your boys, I was the last to enter the gates, so my horse was running slowly. I felt something strange, a bit frightening and scary, I thought it was a curse thrown by a hidden enemy, but it wasn´t that. I looked around me, and I spot something blue between the trees… ´´
´´It was a blue shadow, right? ´´ - Arrejal ended the sentence.
´´Yes, it was. It was just there, standing, watching. So for fewer seconds I did the same: I watched it, I saw it had two arms, one head and mostly blue. After a moment, it vanished and I entered the village. It could had been a spirit, but these twice occasions, it has been too real like to think it was a spirit. I fear Nariki could had been kidnap by this blue shadow, or these if they are more, and I think… We aren´t alone. There is something else that has
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been frightening me. ´´ - Homba continued to keep transmitting his worries.
´´What? What is it? ´´
´´Isn´t it wear for you that we haven´t been attacked these days? We are the Agel tribe! We used to attack every week, it is normal to get enemies when you are so strong, right? But your boys and my guards haven´t spot anyone. I think something mean is happening to the villages around us. If you want to go to the same site I saw that shadow walking with the man and the woman, go and look for the pale rock on your side. Try to see something or discover something. Leave someone in charge and go! ´´ - said Homba, giving a task to Arrejal which could be involving the life in the tribe. Before going away, Arrejal gathered his boys and design someone in charge while he wasn´t in the village, and took Habuha with him.
They left the village by walking, because the river can be reached by walk, which is one the best advantages of placing a village next to the river. Soon they both arrive to the river.
´´Ok, here we are, Arrejal, now what? ´´ - asked Habuha, wondering why they were there.
´´Let me think, Habuha, don´t ask. Hm… Homba said pale stone… ´´ - Arrejal was trying to locate the pale stone, where Homba was when he saw the event. ´´Ah! There it is, come Habuha! ´´ - he found the stone and both ran there. ´´This is where Homba saw the blue shadow… Now, he saw it on the other side of the river… ´´
´´A blue shadow? What is that? ´´
´´I don´t know, it is something Homba told me today. It can be related to Nariki´s whereabouts. ´´
´´Really? Then we must find her! Or that blue shadow! ´´
´´Great you are with me! ´´ - Arrejal was glad he wasn´t alone… But Habuha didn´t know what he was saying. ´´Hm, I think, we will have to jump to the river and swim to the other side. ´´
´´It isn´t a bad idea. (Habuha walked the river limit) As I see, the current is quiet, if you want to swim, it has to be now! ´´ - said Habuha and both jumped into the river. Even for a well-built man like Arrejal, swimming through a river is tough, also for his partner. But since both are interested in finding Nariki, they don´t care. They both reached the other side of the river.
´´Wow… Uff! (hard breathing) It has been long since I swam… It is great I never forgot it! ´´ - said Habuha, who was partially tired.
´´Uff… Yes… It is tiring. It has been also long time since I swam here. But at least, we are in shape for doing this! ´´ - said Arrejal and standing up, then he helped Habuha to do the same. ´´Habuha, watch the ground, the grass and the bushes, even the trees! We are looking for anything that could tell about her, anything! ´´ and both started walking.
After a while…
´´Arrejal! Come now! ´´ - Habuha demanding´s voice sound. ´´I think I found something! ´´ and Arrejal came relatively fast.
´´What did you find? ´´
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´´I don´t know if this is something, but look. I found this bracelet on the ground. Do you recognize it? ´´ - asked Habuha… and Arrejal´s heart almost stopped, he fall on his knees and started crying.
´´What? Is this Nariki´s? ´´
´´Yes! It is hers! I made it for her when we were friends. She was going to marry me as soon as she pass to 18. There were just months to wait! MONTHS! ´´ - finding Nariki´s bracelet was turning Arrejal mad.
´´Oh, no… I am sorry, Arrejal. ´´ - said Habuha, but Arrejal couldn´t respond, he was devastated.
´´Why? It has been two weeks since he disappear… WHY? WHY!? ´´
´´Arrejal, please calm down… We are on the other side of the river, we don´t…´´
´´NAAAARIIIIIKIIIII!!! WHERE ARE YOUUUUUU!? ´´ - Arrejal´s howling spread over the wind. Very close to their position, a Blue was watching the animals and flowers around the river´s border. That howling it listen made it aware there were wazers nearby, a defect of this guys, is that the Blues are very curious and something, they overconfidence their qualities. The Blue wanted to know the howling´s origin and approached the location, finding two wombres there. But it made such a sound of steps and run… Both Arrejal and Habuha listened the Blue´s run, and fastly took their weapons out and started going around with their eyes in order to find what the sound was… And the following moment was terrorific.
They stopped their when they met it… It could be said it was a close encounter of the 3rd type. They were watching almost open-mouthed a blue shadow just in front of them, but due to the distance… It wasn´t as much as a shadow. It could be described a 1.90 mts light blue human shaped mass, with two arms and a head, not legs because the Blues apply a small camouflage which is supposed to go according to the environment, in order to go unnoticed. Their original color is blue, but somehow this camouflage didn´t work at all, and they didn´t care. Being spot or not, they swear there were going to succeed in their new goals. The Blue did exactly the same than Arrejal and Habuha, it watched them, but not for long. Habuha was petrified, it was the most amazing thing he´s ever watched, but even when the same was for Arrejal, he was the blue shadow and a rage instinct began to burn him. He had no proves, but he was totally sure these blue vermins were responsible for Nariki´s missing. And he was going to take the chance to attack the Blue, the problem was that he doesn´t know the enemy and Habuha is next to him, he doesn´t want him to die. Arrejal slowly took his spear from the ground (where left when he took Nariki´s bracelet) and in a matter of seconds he threw it to the Blue.
´´Run, Habuha! ´´ - yelled Arrejal, and both run for their lives. If the Blue doesn´t move, that wazer large object could had hurt a lot. The Blue moved a bit to avoid the spear and watched them running to the river and jumping to swim. Then vanished. Due to the fear, both crossed the river like arrow cross a distance.
´´Arrejal, please tell me you saw exactly the same that I… ´´
´´Yes, Habuha! I saw it and it threw my spear to it! Homba was right when he told me his experiences… I think they are guilty of Nariki´s missing.
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Next time I see one of those vermins, I won´t hesitate! I will kill it! Let’s go back to the village. ´´ - ordered Arrejal and both started their way back to the village, but talking about this blue ´´shadow´´.
Even when they don´t care that much if they are spot or not, the Blues keep going with their camouflage, and up to know, they´ve been seen by Maka and Adia, from the Juyas tribe and Homba, Arrejal and Habuha from the Agels. They haven´t succeed a lot with their experiments in T´Bakis and Hulas. Most of T´Bakis are dead due to the rebellion that happened in that tribe against the Blues, but didn´t succeed. The Hulas has also reducted their number due to the number of failure experiment the Blue has done within them. But, a part of the Blues, which has been watching and monitoring female wazers, due to their capability to reproduce, has relatively discover a plan to mix their technology with them, but there is a huge problem: their solution to the difficulty of mixing their technology to improve wazers, is reproducing a wajer with a Blue. For the Blues, is a big ´´moral´´ issue this way, as a superior species in comparison with these ´´wazers´´ by any parameter, they consider themselves gods for this inferior species named by them as wazers. Then, mixing with a wazer, is considered a taboo, mainly because the technology has thousands of years of difference and they are supposed to achieve their goals without reproducing with them. But the other side of the problem is that they are testing their technology in a species that is physically inferior to them. Of course, they didn´t expected their experiment lead to death of the subject, because wazers not always can support the parameters Blues push them. This part of the Blues which called themselves the New Blues have been trying to achieve their goal secretly, and have been kidnapping wajers from different villages in order to test their supposedly new ways of reproduction. This Nariki, from the Agel tribe, and Arrejal´s fiancée, was captured by the New Blues. That moment when Homba watched the New Blue walking along with the man and the woman, was the precisely moment when Nariki was walking with a New Blue to an unknown location.
According to the New Blues investigation, the best way to create a mixed warrior who will live for them, is to make a wajer go through a process they call gestar. They´ve been watching these gestar last 9 months, and results in a very very small wazer, incapable of defending itself and the only thing can feed from is a liquid which comes out from the wazers extention they got to know as breast. But they want to reduce this 9 months to 9 weeks and create a wazer not so small, with capability genetically controlled of growing up fast and skills inborn, and not so dependent of this wazer breast liquid. The only capable of doing that is if a wajer has a ´´high match´´ with a wombre and she begins a gestar. Now, their problem to solve is: do they solve it introducing Blue genes in a wombre´s blood so at the time of high match he can throw his genes to her? Or somehow going deeper and inserting those genes in the wajer´s egg?
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Chapter 3
Since that encounter with that wild man and the blue shadow, she was thinking about them. Maka was also thinking about them, but not as Adia. She was watching the blue shadow longer than Maka, and something deeper in Adia´s heart made her believe that blue shadow wasn´t from this world. She hasn´t met the upper part of the world, where there are many human societies way much more advance than these tribes, but she was right believing that blue shadow isn´t from the world she´s living in. Adia started to have nightmares where either they are eaten by the blue shadow, or that man who came out of the woods shots them arrows, or other similar ways to die. Next morning, she was a bit tired because of lack of rest, so she ate her breakfast slowly.
´´Adia… Are you ok? You look like you didn´t sleep well. ´´ - asked Diala, Abdahal´s wife and also leader of Juyas tribe.
´´I couldn´t sleep well, I had dreams with a blue thing (as asleepy, she didn´t know she was talking about her encounter). ´´ - said, slowly and a bit paused.
´´A blue thing? Abrul, what is your sister talking about? ´´
´´I don´t know mother, maybe she gathered with Maka and some other and told a scary story. ´´ - he knew what Adia was talking about but he promised not telling their father the true.
´´Hm… I know what will wake her up! Adia, today is day for recollecting, the harvest has borne fruit, I am going to recollect the whole afternoon, why don´t you sleep more and then come with me to recollect? ´´ - offered Diala.
´´I am pretty sure she wouldn´t say no, consider a yes. And also, seeing her working with you will reinforce the other women´s confidence about her, remember that she is already 18 and is starting her real duties… Am I right, father? Or you do have a different task for her? ´´ - asked Abrul, he talked in a way and they wouldn´t change minds.
´´Yes… You are, seeing her working on the recollection with your mother will let the women see she is taking it for serious. I finished my breakfast, thanks for it, Diala. ´´ - Abdahal finished his breakfast and stood up. ´´I´m going to gather with the surveillance people, yesterday Deral told me Deraku was looking for me, he wanted to tell me something but it got late for me after going to get wood ´´
´´It is ok, darling. I´m going to check our herd and then we´ll prepare for going. Abrul, please, I want her to sleep more. Adalia, come with me, I want to teach some things to you. ´´ - demanded the matriarch.
´´Ah, mother, why? I want to keep sleeping, I´m drowsy (yawning). ´´ - said Adalia, always looking for skipping duties. As she is the third Abdahal´s descendant, she use to believe she doesn´t have to do anything.
´´Adalia, obey your mother. I know at what time did you go to sleep, come on, stand up. ´´ - also demanded Abdahal.
´´Father, you too? ´´ - she said, as if she wanted to cry.
´´Don´t make me rise my voice tone, do what your mother asks you. You don´t even look tired. ´´ - were his finals words, and got out of the cabin.
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Adalia had no other choice rather than standing up, go for water and wash her face to go with her mother. Teach some things? Her mother said that because she knows Adalia sometimes has troubles with the herd, and from time to time, is her turn to take care of Abdahal´s one of the most precious treasures. After Diala finished with Adalia and return to the house, Adalia took her turn to sleep, and as Adia was ready to work, they both went to work at the harvest field.
´´After we finished taking all the harvest, we also need to take the rest for the herds and set ready the field for the next sowing. You are going to take the produce fruits in the upper part, becase you are younger than and have more strength to climb. ´´ - said Diala while walking there.
´´Why did father decide to sow there? It is the limit between the fields and the place for gathering firewood and the rest of the forest! ´´ - said Adia, complaining to be assigned that part of the fields.
´´Don´t complain, Adia, nothing is going to happen there, why do you talk as if you were afraid of the forest? ´´ - asked Diala, even when Adia doesn´t know, Diala, as a mother, knows when Adia is worried, excited, scared or any other emotion.
´´I´m not afraid of the forest, mother, it is just annoying to the climb to the upper part just for some fruits! ´´ - kept her complainings.
´´Remember that also your father with some other men decide to sow there because exactly there they took the firsts Ouhanas! We need that fruit, and you know why, so stop complaining now! ´´ - Diala had to raise up her voice to calm Adia.
´´I´m going to stop just because we are arriving and I don´t those women to see us arguing. ´´ - said Adia and finished the conversation. And she was right, they were arriving.
´´Diala, Adia! So good you are here! We can start now. ´´ - said Abrulia, Diala´s friend. Her husband is part of the army.
´´Good morning, Adia. How are you doing today? ´´ - asked Hasusa, whose husband is smith that produces hammers, swords and shields for the tribe.
´´Fine… ´´ - said Adia, with no will to say it another way.
´´Ush (a gesture did because Adia´s bad response). Ladies! Now that we are were, let’s start! ´´ - said Diala, and all of them went to the field.
One of the main fields is the one which these women are going to take the havest, it is the most important due to its size and because at the upper part, there grows a unique plant that the Juyas have managed to sow, harvest and take and it is used in rituals and for getting ready in case of war. What Adia is a bit afraid of, is meeting another blue shadow when taking the fruits from the mentioned upper part. This part is directly at the border with the forest, it is next to a path which leads to the place men from the tribe go to cut and gather firewood. Taking the fruits from the harvest is a job that generally only woman do, so men take care of other businesses. Adia was taking the fruits and putting them together in a basket that her mother brought.
´´Ok, Adia. You´ve gather enough. Go and take the Sabus. ´´ - ordered Diala.
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´´Huh… Now… Yes, mother! ´´ - said Adia in response, it was against her will but she cannot damage their family´s image by refusing or failing. The task of taking fruit from that high place is only taught to the leader´s descendant, once Abdahal learnt it from his grandfather, then he taught it to his son, Abrul and Adia. Adalia will learn it sooner or later because she is the last children. Sabu is the name Juya tribe gave to this wear fruit, one that they consume when there are specific rituals, such as: the ritual where a boy becomes a man, the ritual when a man becomes the tribe´s leader, and the ritual before a war. For that reason, it is said, among them, that if the fruits are taken by someone who is not the leader or its descendant, at least the couple, when it comes to eat the fruit or consume it in the several ways there are, it won´t make effect. Therefore, for climbing ant taking the fruit, there is a need for a technique, and that technique was already taught to Adia when she was 15 years old. Of course she practiced a lot and never got killed because there was always Abrul or Abdahal to catch her if she would have fallen, and now, she is expertise enough to do it by her own. Adia got ready and ran toward the risk, jumping onto a rock and using the energy and the impulse she still had to jump again, and again. She was taught that if the first time she jumped failed catching the rock, she would had to repeat. Onto a specific point, she can fail and fall, the ground would stop her fall and harmless, but after that point, the fall means broken bones and/or death.
Once she got there, and started gathering the fruits, which she couldn´t do fast because the fruits can get damaged, she was focusing on her job… But later something distract her a lot and even scared her. It is normal to hear sounds from the forest, any tree branch, or animal walking around there, so she could put away some reasons, like for example: someone gathering firewood. Even they use firewood, they go and cut and take firewood from the forest only once per month. Every family has the exactly amount of firewood counted for them, and sometimes there is a common dinner in the tribe. Those days are special and therefore hunters must hunt something very special, either a rare animal or something very hard to hunt. So, it couldn´t someone taking firewood, so there can´t be someone there, the sound might be an animal. But even animal aren´t common at that part of the forest, the last time an animal was found there was 2 years ago, when taking firewood a bear appeared, scaring the boys who were taking firewood for their ascendant ritual. What could it be? Adia kept listening steps so she took her knife out and put it in position.
´´Hello? ´´ - she said, to see if there was any response.
´´Abrul? Kiral? Buwa? Are you there? ´´ - she mentioned the name of two men who used to play with her a lot when they were kids, they are still her friends but they´ve grown. No response, but she was being observe by someone. She watched carefully her surroundings, until she saw a man in a bush.
´´You! I already saw you! Get out of there! ´´ - demanded Adia.
And slowly, the man showed himself.
´´Who are you? Are you from the Agel tribe? Or Hulas tribe? Where are you from? ´´ - continued asking. But there wasn´t a response from the man.
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´´I am asking you! Don´t you speak! I´m wearing a knife! If you are coming for me, you´d better run or act now! ´´ - she threaten the man, and she was ready to fight. The only one who doesn´t know how to is Adalia because of her age, she is still 15.
´´I… I won´t hurt you. ´- finally said the man.
´´You won´t? But you are wearing a spear, and that… That cover… (she was slowly remembering) I think I know you… Are you the man who was running through the forest? ´´ - she said, a bit confused.
´´Huh… I don´t know… But this spear isn´t for you, is for me. ´´ - said the man.
´´If Maka would be here, she would identify you. ´´
´´What is a Maka? ´´
´´Not what, who! And she is my friend! Who are you and where do you come from!? ´´ - yelled Adia, more nervous than before and to throw herself at the man to kill him.
´´My name, my name is Alaku, and I don´t know where am I from. I just have been running to escape from them. ´´ - he said, identifying himself.
´´Escape from who? From… Hunters? From people for your tribe? ´´
´´Yes, yes. From people from my tribe. ´´
´´And what did you do, Alaku, for being hunted by your own people? ´´ - asked Adia.
´´I… Don´t remember. I just, was… Aff (headache) I just was cutting bushes, and my father came to alert me. They appeared, with weapons. My father tried to stop them, but they killed him. I ran. ´´ - was saying Alaku.
´´So… Horrible! Ok, you ran, but you are at the border of my tribe, the Juyas. If my people see you here, you might get killed. ´´ - Alaku has just being warned by Adia.
´´It is ok. If they try, I kill them. I had to kill before. They were behind me. ´´
´´Yeah, right. As if men from my tribe would let you kill them. Anyway, what are you doing here? ´´ - Adia didn´t leave the position, she was still waiting for an aggressive answer from that Alaku.
´´I don´t know… I just keep running. ´´ - he said.
Suddenly, Alaku´s eyes turned into another direction and he wielded his spear.
´´What? What are you looking at? ´´ - asked Adia, in a mix between nervous and frightened.
´´Slowly, come here, don´t turn. ´´ - he said, but she didn´t do at all. The walked a bi and then turned. Behind her there was a blue shadow. She let a scream of horror escaped from her mouth, and she listen Adia? Where are you?
´´My mother is looking for me, down there (Alaku quietly looked over the rift where Adia appeared). What is that thing? ´´ - asked Adia, extremely afraid.
´´I don´t know… But when I say, you run. Ok? ´´ - he said.
´´Yes. ´´
´´Ok… NOW! ´´ - he said, and she walked fast back. The shadow turned off its camouflage and launched against Alaku. Adia hide behind a tree and watched he fight, she had opportunity to watch the blue shadow, which wasn´t a blue shadow. It could be describe as a blue and gray entity, humanoid: two arms, two legs, one head, relatively tall. She couldn´t tell by her language for this entity was wearing a kind of armor. This New Blue took out two blades from his arms and attacked Alaku, who successfully blocked it moves. Adia couldn´t believe it, it was a fight between a man and
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something never seen before. The New Blue made little cuts on Alaku´s body, but he didn´t complain at all, instead of that, he resisted the pain and counterattacked. Adia could watch this Alaku was faster than any other man she met in her life, it could be practice for a war or a fight, but that speed isn´t easy to achieve. The only one who could equalize that speed is her father, but the fight didn´t last longer, somehow Alaku managed to take one of the New Blue´s sword out of its arms and stab it in the New Blue´s chest. The blue and gray entity felt on its knees, releasing a strange liquid, Alaku took the blade out of the entiti´s chest and stab it in its face, killing it. Alaku turned, searched for Adia and found her hide behind a tree.
´´I though you left… You should leave. Tell me where could I found you? ´´ - asked Alaku, telling Adia with that question he would like to meet her again.
´´Near my village there is a river, search for it and then from the opposite side of the forest, look for a pale stone. I´ll be there tomorrow afternoon. If you see or listen something, hide, if it isn´t me, leave. ´´ - she said.
´´Ok, I´ll see you tomorrow. ´´ - he said, a bye bye. Adia when to the rift and took a path made by her father and the men whom discovered that rift and the Sabus. Meanwhile, Alaku began to suffer a strange pain, looking the New Blue´s corpse, which began to lose color, he took it and walked with it. When found a correct place, he buried it. Alaku´s pan kept attacking for a longer time, so he decided to keep walking.
He didn´t know… Neither her… But that New Blue wasn´t alone, there was a wave observing the surroundings, invisible as always thanks to its camouflage system. The wave saw and recorded all the fight, and it was connected to another New Blue, sitting in front of a table. The New Blue pressed a button on its headphones, which shined in orange.
´´I found him. ´´ - said the New Blue.
Adia returned to her mother in the field.
´´Adia! Where were you? I´ve been calling you! Even the other women began to search for you! What happened to you? ´´ - said Dalia, all scared by her daughter.
´´I´m so sorry, mother. I was gathering Sabus and I heard something strange in the forest, near the zone father and others take firewood. It was nothing, a raccoon appeared later. ´´ - Adia excused herself.
´´Oh… Don´t you that again! I thought you were lost! Not even your father knows completely the forest. Be careful! ´´ - said Dalia, almost crying. ´´We are going to return, now! ´´ - and they started walking toward the village.
Adia and this new Alaku had an encounter with a New Blue, although they aren´t a warrior specie and they prefer to research and make with other species, they aren´t defenseless. This dead New Blue was wearing a standard armor, which protects it from attacks and provide it of great speed, which surprisingly Alaku was able to see to block its attacks. Alaku has become the target of his village due to a leader´s order, and he is also being
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chased by New Blues. Unless a New Blue has attached to its brain or its eyes a sensor which allows other New Blues to see whatever it is seeing, other New Blues cannot see what it sees. This is due to a lack of common mind, each one of the Blues has an individual conscience. Why are they chasing Alaku? Remains unsolved.
Next morning, Adia did everything her mother ask her to do, due to a gathering her mother had in the afternoon and she had to leave ready some things. Adia was praying not to do anything in the afternoon, because even when she hasn´t received anything in the day, at any moment someone can come from her father asking her to do something. As the leader´s daughter, she has to put whatever is ordered in first priority, because it is for the well good of the village. Coming the afternoon, she began to walk to the river, she didn´t see Maka, and she asked for her but her brother hold her Maka was busy with a task from her mother. Ok, well then for Adia. She went to the river by her own, but also kind of hide, the river isn´t a prohibited zone but the reason for going, it is. She reached the side of the river where everyone goes, and went directly to the pale stone.
The pale stone is a pale rock from the village´s side of the river. It is a reference point for everyone to meet. Juyas have done campings, bonfires, and it has been part of several rituals. Adia got there and started asking for Alaku.
´´Alaku! Are you around here? ´´ - he discreetly yelled. ´´Alaku? Where are you? ´´ - after she asked for him for a second time, she heard something.
´´Hey, Adia. I´m here. ´´ - he said, well hide in a bush.
´´Did you wait a lot? ´´
´´I don´t think so, but maybe. Before you came a woman and a boy came, then another woman with a man and then two women. Now, you. ´´ - he said.
´´Ok. Can I hide there? I don´t want other see me talking to a bush or with you. ´´ - she asked, with very good reasons.
´´Yes, you can. ´´ - he accepted, and she got in a hiding place.
´´Wow, is well build. Excellent for an ambush, or what you doing now, hiding. How did you? ´´ - she asked, charmed by the hiding place´s structure.
´´I´ve always had skills. ´´ - answered Alaku, not giving details.
´´Ok, now tell me. What was that thing yesterday? I´ve never seen something like that before. ´´ - she wanted answers, as logic.
´´I don´t know, I just saw it rising behind you. ´´
´´Right… And you expect me to believe that? You faced that thing as if it was something or everyday! You avoided each one of its move, and you managed to kill it. No one from my village would be able to do that… You are exceptional. ´´ - said Adia.
´´Thanks, and you are beautiful… I´ve never seen someone so beautiful like you. ´´
´´Are you serious, Alaku? Do you think I am pretty? ´´ - Adia was somehow charmed by Alaku, he has a well-built body, only her father and brother are alike, and she saw how skillful he is with the sword.
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´´Yes, I do. I don´t know how did I face that thing, I just wanted to protect you. Since I´ve been running, I haven´t been able to meet anyone, and less such a beautiful girl like you. Seeing you in front of me, is like a dream, it is incredible! ´´ - he said. ´´Could I touch your hand? ´´
´´Why? ´´
´´To check I´m not dreaming. ´´ - he answered, and she extended her hand. When Alaku touched her hand, was impressed by the feeling, Adia was well. They felt a mutual burning feeling, it could be consider interest at first sight.
´´Did you feel that? ´´ - asked Adia, excited by the situation.
´´Yes, I did! What was that? ´´ - Alaku was also excited.
´´I don´t know… ´´ - she said, beginning to approach to him.
´´Hey, hey! What are you doing? ´´ - he asked, scared by her move.
´´Don´t worry, just do as me. ´´ - she said, being face to face with him, and giving a slow and little kiss. Alaku was stunned by her kiss, and he slowly started to response and kiss her back. For some reason, they couldn´t stop, they continue to kiss and being controlled by that wear sensation. It was that much, that she took his hand and move it to her breast, which was soft and warm. She showed him how to massage it while kissing him, it continued to burn and she began to somehow take his covering out. They had felt in love, and made it, they were carried away by a burning desire.
She was doing something forbidden, her father only allows to do that with other tribe members, unless there is a good reason for accepting a stranger in his village. Mixing genetically with a stranger automatically gives him a death sentence, and her punishment could be exile. She also didn´t know Alaku had an unbelievable secret that he doesn´t even know. The Blues have been trying to improve wazers anyway to use them as weapons so they could either invade or onslaught the northwest part of the planet, but they haven´t had succeed a lot because of the many things affect success. They´ve been using T´Bakis and Hulas for their procedures but natives can´t stand, due to that, they´ve seen themselves stuck. The New Blues, a small group of Blues, have apparently found a solution: somehow inserting their DNA in a wajer in process of gestar, so she can produce a small wazer with mixed DNA and able to grow up faster. Some New Blues were against mixing their DNA with a wajer by having physic contact, some other were secure there wasn´t another option. One way or another, they had to do it, they couldn´t take so long because they knew sooner or later, a massive wazer group would raise against them and it could cause a war. Another small group, just two New Blues, after watching their members couldn´t solve the problem and weren´t brave enough for doing it, decided to insert Blue DNA in a woman, by a procedure they only knew. Result?
´´How did you felt? ´´ - asked Adia to a strange but well feeling Aluka.
´´Amazing, and weird at the same time. I didn´t know that could happen. ´´ - he said.
´´My mother told me a lot of things about this, because sooner or later I am supposed to marry a man from my village. And after my brother ascend to the leader´s position, my position will also change. Didn´t you mother tell you anything? ´´ - asked a comforted Adia, she lost time notion and didn´t know she was being wanted.
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´´I don´t know… I don´t remember her. ´´
´´I see… By the fight you had yesterday, I am afraid there are more of them. I have no way to know if the one I saw some days back, is the same you fought. ´´ - and Adia was right, if there are more, they could be a danger for all villages.
´´I don´t know either, I just ran from my village when my father…´´
´´OH! My father! He must had the whole village looking for me! I must leave, see you tomorrow here, bye! ´´ - she said, without listening Alaku, she opened a door made of wood and cover by leaves. In effect, the village was looking for her. She was looking all over the surroundings if anyone could be there, but she didn´t see anyone. After reaching the pale stone she listened.
´´ADIA! ´´ - she heard from far and she turned her sign to the direction, it was Maka who came running onto her.
´´Maka… Why are you running? Stop and breathe. ´´ - which Maka did.
´´You… Father, and Abrul, are looking for you. Something happened… It is, urgent! GO! ´´ - and Adia started running. Maka took some seconds to breathe and prepare to run again, in that so, she was being watched by a Blue shadow and an invisible wave. The Blue stayed but the shadow followed Maka to the village. Adia arrived and met her mother, who was at the entrance which leads to the river.
´´Mother! What happened? ´´ - asked a hurried Adia.
´´Where were you!? Abrul and your father ware worried because of what happened to Zabul! ´´
´´Dalia! Adia! ´´ - said a voice, it was Derandal, Deral´s son. Maka just arrived.
´´Derandal, take Adia to the cabin, NOW! ´´ - and they left, Maka too.
´´What happened, Derandal? ´´ - asked Adia, who looking at the village, began to be scared.
´´You will see… We were worried about you, where were you? ´´ - he asked, but before answering, they arrived at the ´´medic´´ cabin. He made her enter, as well as Maka.
Inside, on the stretcher, there was a man… Suffering, with blue traces on his body.
´´Abdahal, here she is, and Maka, too. ´´ - said Derandal.
´´Thanks, Derandal… ADIA, where were you!? I had the whole able village looking for you! ´´ - he yelled, in an angry-worried way.
´´I was at the river, father…. I am sorry, for true, sorry. ´´ - she apologized first before asking.
´´It is ok, please, more attention to the village! ´´ - he demanded.
´´What happened to him? ´´ - she worried, watching what was left of a soldier.
´´THE DEMON! Isaw the demon! ´´ - said Zabul, with a missing right arm.
´´Ok, ok, but tell me… What happened? ´´ - asked Abdahal, when he asks like the way he did, he always gets an answer.
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´´I was patrolling the border with the Agel´s tribe, just in case be aware of an invasion and all of a sudden a monster appeared! I could barely defend myself. ´´ - said a Zabul without voice to talk, he had also his ribs broken, several cuts and those blue traces on his body. ´´That thing doubled my strength and speed, I couldn´t blocked must of his strikes. Damn! ´´ - kept saying Zabul, difficulty as he spilled blood.
´´What are those blue traces on your body? ´´ - asked Adia.
´´I guess they are traces of its blood, I managed to cut it sometimes but I couldn´t kill it… Boss… Get ready for a war… If, thyey, are mo…r… ´´ - and Zabul ending in death, in front of everyone´s eyes. His body became a fierce testament of the Blues´s power, but it hard to be in Juya´s mind, not that much in Adia´s mind because she already saw Alaku´s fight against that thing.
´´I think I´ll have to strengthen all the walls just in case those things appear… Abrul, I want any warrior to be ready! Zabul´s attack was direct to him, and if these blue traces are its blood, watch out for everything blue! ´´ - ordered Abdahal, and with no words, Abrul went out of the cabin. Adia was impacted, same as Maka, for the brutal state of Zabul´s corpse. But she has seen these creatures before, just that she hasn´t tell her father yet, but maybe is time.
Arrejal was alone in his cabin, with Nariki´s bracelet in his left hand. Wondering how this blue shadow would have captured her, what would it done to her… Those thinkings were torturing him.
´´Hey, Arrejal, are you ok? ´´ - asked Habuha, who leaned out by Arrejal cabin´s door.
´´How am I supposed to be ok if I don´t know what happened to Nariki? If I don´t know where she is? I feel useless because even when I want to kill the blue shadow, I don´t know where it is! ´´ - said a disturbed Arrejal.
´´Didn´t Homba tell you where he saw the blue shadow? ´´
´´Yes, Homba himself told me. ´´
´´Well, maybe if you ask him, he will tell you. ´´ - suggested Habuha, but the true was that Homba didn´t know.
´´Let’s ask him anyway. ´´ - said Arrejal, standing up and going out of his cabin with his friend.
They both walked to Homba´s cabin, wanting to get answers. They found Homba out of his cabin, at the entrance.
´´Good morning, Homba. Could we talk? ´´ - asked Habuha.
´´Good morning, young Habuha. Yes, of course we can. ´´
´´Inside your cabin. ´´ - said Arrejal with demanding voice. It surprised a bit Homba, but he agreed and made a gesture for them to go inside, he as well. They all 3 sat and he offered something to drink, Arrejal as always drink (Homba´s purpose to calm him down) and Habuha did it too to taste the tea.
´´Tell me, young men. What is it? ´´
´´We saw the blue shadow, yesterday… ´´ - said Habuha.
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´´What? Really? Did you see it closely? ´´ - asked Homba, curious as always.
´´Yes, we did, Homba! We were surprised and scare at the same time, light blue, like our high. I threw it my spear but it ran away. ´´ - narrated Arrejal, with anger in his voice.
´´I see… I saw another shadow, again, near the river. I am afraid it could be a new enemy and if it is so, I don´t know how many are them. I´m going to alert your father to warn the village. If it is a new enemy, we´d better be ready. ´´
´´What about Nariki? ´´ - asked Habuha.
´´I´m sorry to tell you that we shall forget her. If she was the woman I saw with the blue shadow and the other man, she is gone. We can´t lose time searching for her when these blue things might be preparing at attack against us, and less if we don´t know where is their base. ´´ - said Homba, it might be rude to say to forget Nariki, but both Arrejal and Habuha knew he was right, just that Arrejal didn´t want to accept it.
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Chapter 4
In the Blues perspective, the wazers are getting tough to be treated, as many of them from Hulas and T´Bakis have died, they have some results: wazers physically changed, same high but stronger and angriers, some blue, some white and some still have the brown color. And they are thinking about conquering other villages because they think they haven´t succeed, they want the perfect warrior for them. The main trouble for them is due to what happened in Juyas and Agel, it might be difficult for them to achieve somethine there. Abdahal is aware of these blue things even when Adia hasn´t tell him nothing yet. But until achieving, Blues won´t stop. What happens is that they cannot take wazer years and years for achieving their goal, two villages have already discovered them due to punctual errors. They want quickly results but due to wazer lack of resistance to treatments, they´ve had to kidnap more and more subjects.
´´We must find it ´´
´´Of course we do, but how? He escaped from us, and killed the ones we sent behind him. I got to know that one of the Blues was killed by him, and another got hurt after attacking a wazer. ´´
´´We need to find a way, disgrace for us that the one who went down, and got killed by the zero, didn´t had a tracker connected.´´
´´Do you think the Blues send it to attack him?
´´Yes, I do. And it went wrong, but I don´t know if they are chasing him or not. ´´
´´More than a disgrace, it is a shame that they want to know who disobey to punish and they didn´t even thank us for achieving the goal! ´´
´´They don´t know who did it, and they don´t even know who does he looks like. I believe there is a traitor among us! It isn´t our fault that these inferiors pieces of meat cannot survive after applying them the procedure! Even when being on possess of the highest technology on our solar system… We couldn´t create the perfect warrior! ´´
´´Easy! Don´t discuss, as long as we stay quiet, we won´t be discovered yet. They got their results and doubtless they will use them to attack other wazers villages to find OUR result. What we must do, is activate the New Blue part in our result before it is too late, and attract him to join us. ´´
´´How are we going to do it if we don´t know where he is? ´´
´´Easy, easy, I know. ´´
´´Do you?
The New Blues had a spy in their group, which has betrayed them and accused of blasphemy. They are going to be punished because of disobeying: not reproducing with wajers to insert Blue DNA. What they want is to find the one who is the star result and convince him to join them, but now finding him is the real deal, although they have several waves and one in each village, they haven´t been able to find him.
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´´Arrejal, we will find a solution. Don´t worry. ´´ - said Habuha in an intent for calming Arrejal down.
´´Stop telling me that! I feel useless for trying to figure out what happen, and because of I don´t know where are them, or when they are going to attack. It is also useless if my father gets to know about this, because without their location, he will never send warriors. ´´ - was telling.
´´Something will come out, why don´t we to go the patrolling house or find a patrol and convince them to search for a blue shadow? ´´ - suggested Habuha.
´´Well, I don´t think about something better, lets go to the patrolling house then, someone there will tell us where is people to patrol. ´´ - response Arrejal. Both began walking there, Arrejal´s friend just wanted him to making him think something else. They didn´t take long to arrive to the patrolling house.
´´Hey, Wazu, everything ok? No reports? ´´ - asked Habuha to Wazu, an old friend and always a warrior ready to fight or patrol.
´´No, nothing yet. Oh, greetings, Arrejal. And you? Everything ok? ´´
´´Not at all, have you seen any patrol guy or do you know where they are? ´´ - asked Arrejal, direct to the point.
´´There is a group patrolling beyond the main door. Zeras said he wanted to check the forest. They should be near the path goes up to the Hulas.´´ - said Wazu.
´´Great! Thanks! Come Habuha! ´´ - and they both started walking again. For Arrejal it was a great new so he had a good reason for going out of the walls. However he is the leader´s descendant, there should always be a reason for going out of the village. They made it and walked toward the mentioned point, being aware of their surroundings as always. Arrejal was aware of any blue shadow around and Habuha was aware of Agel´s patrolling members. They walked until they saw from far away some men standing up and some other sat.
´´There they are! ´´ - said Habuha, and both hurried until they were there.
´´Arrejal and Habuha? What? How did you know we were here? ´´ - asked Butawo.
´´Wazu told us. Are you patrolling this area? ´´
´´Yes, we are. Actually stopping here before returning. And you? ´´ - Kalel was another one of the patrolling group.
´´We came looking for you because I want to you for something. ´´ - asked Arrejal.
´´Sure, what is it, boss? ´´ - Watul, Wazu´s brother, was part of the team as well.
Hm… Guys, I saw someone coming. ´´ - aware Takero.
´´What? ´´ - Arrejal hurried to go to Takero´s position and look to the north… As a matter, someone was walking toward them.
´´Seems someone from Hula village… Why would be? ´´ - wonder Takero.
They were watching how this person was walking, surprised that someone could be brave enough to walk that far.
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´´Yes, it is someone from Hula… Walking toward us! Arrejal, what do we do? ´´ - Kalel began to be worried, they are more in case of a fight… But why would someone from other village walk toward another village? When the person showed to be a man, almost reaching them, if it is a fight, they are 6 vs 1.
The man stopped in front of them.
´´You are from Hula, right? What are you doing here? ´´ - asked Kalel, being right in front of the man. But the man didn´t say anything, he was just breathing, blinking.
´´What is going wrong with this man? ´´ - asked Izata, the last man of the group.
The man looked at each one of them, and kept breathing. Arrejal and his people looked he wanted to do or say something, but it was holded.
´´Hey… Say something. ´´ - said Kalel, touching the man´s right shoulder… But just he did that, the man turned his eyes onto Kalel and hit him with his elbow. Kalel broke his position due to the man´s move and the pain, and just after that the man kicked him on his abdomen. Both things happened so fast that they didn´t react on time, due to the force of the kick, Kalel was launched to a nearby tree, being stomped.
´´What the!? ´´ - barely said Watul, taking his small axe out. The man also unsheathe his sword, screaming and brandish it against Watul, doing it which such force that Watul blocked it and it destabilized him. Arrejal got closer to the man with a single step and punch him in his face, but it seemed that didn´t hurt him. The man pushed Arrejal way as if he were a toy, Habuha brandished his sword agains´t the man but he blocked and he stroke back, also destabilizing him.
´´Wow! He is real strong! ´´ - Izata jumped at him with his small hammer, but the man took Izata from the arm holding the hammer, punching him on his face and kicking him on the abdomen, Izata was pushed as well.
´´What is this man!? ´´ - yelled Watul, who brandished his axe to cut the man´s head, Habuha doing the same with his sword, but the man moving very fast blocked Watul´s axe, kicking him, blocked Habuha´s sword and doing another move to cut his chest, which he barely did. Arrejal came very fast and cut the man chest a bit, punched him on his face, breaking his mouth and hitting the man with his right elbow as well. The man received a lot, walking backwards, and taking away his blood with his hand, watching it. All of them were looking at him, and they noticed, somehow, the man´s eyes turned into a dark blue, and blue veins sprout on his arms. The man yelled again, beginning another fight.
Arrejal and his people couldn´t believe how strong this man is, they´ve faced before Hulas and the strongest Hula is like Arrejal… But this man was something totally different. He received hits and cuts, but he didn´t stopped. He continued to attack, all of them. All of them luckily avoided most of his move, until the man became stronger and when everyone was on the floor, tired and hurt, Kalel faced the man by his own. He didn´t last a lot, the man made him throw his sword with a strong sword move and punch him on his face, breaking his mouth and nose. The man took the chance to cut Kalel chest deep enough to release a lot of blood.
´´Kalel! ´´ - Arrejal stood up as fast as he could and stab the man´s lower abdomen with his sword, he felt how the man got to the no returning point. The man stomp Arrejal´s head with
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shake. His skin turned a little blue and yelled again. But he felt a little deep pain: Watul had just nailed his small axe on the man´s back, making him turned over Watul and kicking him on his abdomen so hard, that Watul spilled blood. He wasn´t over, he punched Watul´s face, breaking his face and twisting so fast that he managed to cut Watul´s face.
´´NOOOO! WATUL! ´´ - yelled Izata, with such angry that he took brandish his hammer and totally hit the man´s when he turned due to Izata´s scream. Izata felt the man´s face broken by the hit, and it was… A bit. The man returned to Izata and tried to cut his head, but he didn´t, Izata bend and hit the man again with his hammer on his abdomen but with the wooden part, making the man to backstep again. Izata returned to Arrejal´s position, with Takero and Habuha. The man spilled blue blood, and at that moment Arrejal knew the man had to do something with the blue shadow, the blood was exactly the same color of the shadow´s that day. Arrejal got angry by remembering Nariki´s missing day told by Homba and launched at the man, who was still backstep, resting. The man barely blocked some of Arrejal´s move, but he couldn´t last. He managed to cut one of the surface man´s leg and a shoulder right after. Some cuts more were needed to leave the man on his knees, and he was still light blue. Arrejal screamed and finally cut the man´s head, finishing him.
Arrejal felt on the floor after that, he couldn´t more… His people was on the floor too, it resulted a hard battle. The man was dead, mysteriously, he attacked Arrejal´s people and him, so fierce that Watul and Kalel resulted dead. Far away from the path, the Blues watched all the fight through the man´s eyes. They were recording the battle, and studying it, watching one of their results, which wasn´t that bad, but wasn´t what they wanted. Of course, they didn´t made it, the New Blues did. Which was still a relatively secret for the Blues. The battle also helped them see if any of the wazers was the one they are looking for, but even when Arrejal seemed a candidate, he didn´t fit their parameters. Arrejal and his people returned to Agel´s tribe, back home, they reported the horrible fight they had with a member of the Hula. Acegajal couldn´t believe it, neither Homba, the Hulas aren´t used to fight, or look for it, THEY, the Agel, are the ones whose do that. Arrejal described how the Hula man behaved, the light blue eyes, blue blood, blue veins and then his skin light blue. Homba just could supposed the blue shadow are enemies that want to destroy Agel´s tribe, and that made Acegajal alert the village and every single warrior to be ready for anything.
The Blues would just either keep sending their results to find this individual in both villages, or would do it themselves. They won´t care sending the whole Hula and T´Bakis tribes against Agel and Juya, after all, most of T´Bakis and Agel aren´t human anymore. And as seen before, a Hula deformed by Blues´s process can beat 6 wazers… It means with 50 deformed wombres, a village is done.
Acegajal summoned a gathering between several wise members of high class to talk about a plan he has designed.
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´´Greetings, I´ve gathered you because of something that isn´t a secret for us, and it affected us directly. My son and Habuha came back from a search, they found a patrolling composed by Watul, Kalel, Izata and Takero when walking the forest, and the faced something they´ve faced before: a Hula, but not any Hula, this Hula was fierce as 10 beast and hard to kill. Unfortunatly, he took Watul and Kalel´s life with him. If more of this men appear, the village won´t last longer and I am afraid another appear and kill more of our young men. I am to put a plan on the table. ´´ - said Acegajal.
´´What is it? ´´ - asked Homba.
´´I pretend to send a patrol men as messengers to Juya tribe. And then go with Arrejal to talk to Abdahal and his family. Why? Because that Hula killed two of our men and he was about to kill the others. Something happened at Hula tribe, something beyond our comprehension, otherwise why would a man turned blue and attack other with no warning? I fear for us, because it means another Hula would come and we won´t be able to stop him. If after the messengers we can know that Juya went through something similar… We probably can be one tribe and attack Hula´s tribe. What do you think? ´´ - Acegajal´s thinking was reasonable, and supported by Arrejal himself. After watching how this man brutaly killed two of his friends and almost him, if more Hulas appear, then it could mean Agel tribe´s destruction.
´´Hm… Do you seriously think we need help to face Hula? ´´ - asked Kobaru, the man in arms, in charge of creating weapons for the tribe.
´´He does! Didn´t you listen to him and my testimony? That man was about to kill me, and left really injured the others. I… I´ve never something like that before. With no words, he kicked Kalel and launched him against a tree. Where have you seen a man being launched due to a single kick!? And who has that strength!? ´´ - yelled Arrejal to Kobaru.
´´Easy, boy. Certainly something is happening at Hula. Instead of sending messengers to Juya, why don´t we send spies to Hula? Maybe we can find out what is it and attack them before they plan something. ´´ - proposed Gilijo, another wise man, in charge of making the rituals for the tribe, the chaman.
´´Hm… That is even a better idea, Gilijo… Lets do both! ´´
´´Explain, Acegajal ´´ - asked Homba.
´´Two patrol people, one go to Hula to discover what happened there, and will come back to tell us what to do. And the other will go to Juya and warned them Arrejal and me are going there just to talk. ´´ - Acegajal suggested.
´´That is kind of dangerous, due to the history betweet Juya and Agel… But I think we need the risk. If something happened at Hula, to deal with it we might need to mix forces. ´´ - said Homba.
´´Great, if there aren´t nos, that is it! ´´
After the gathering, Arrejal didn´t talk to his father to say no to the mission or suggest something else. He knew his father´s decision was right, they would need Juya´s help to deal with whatever is going on in Hulas.
´´Ok, listen! Kankaro, Janaru, Hipoten and Lisaro, you are ones that compose the patrol men that are going to go to Hula. We just need you to see what is going on there, don´t attack and less let them see you. Once you´ve done that, you will come back and tell us what did you see. Am I
clear? ´´
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´´Yes, sir! ´´ - said all of them at unisound.
´´Ok, go before night falls! ´´ - ordered Arrejal and his men started the mission.
´´Now, Tak, Kot and Malu are going to go to Juya and let them know we will go there. Do you understand? ´´
´´Yes, sir! ´´
´´Good! Come back alive, go! ´´ - and they also go…
Adia was walking to the river, as usual but the purpose was other: to help her think clearly. Zabul´s recently dead left her unable to think, or to talk, so going to the river was her best option to that. She was worried about the situation, those images remained in her mind, disturbing her. How Zabul´s body was left after the match, is something that hunts her, because she now knows what have caused those wounds. She saw Alaku facing one of those things, and he incredibly saw how he defeated the beast. That also made her thing what helped Alaku to defend himself against that monster, because if Zabul couldn´t killed one and he was destroyed at the end… Then, how did Alaku stood against that? She arrived to the river, waiting to see Alaku, as accorded the previous day. Next to the pale stone, lonely but thinking about him. Suddenly something came out of the water, she thought it was a warm with fingers, but after seeing a head also coming out of the water, she realized it was a man. A man from the river? But the current is strong, he must be stronger than the current. Once out of the water, the man walked toward her.
´´Where are you from? Am I near any village? ´´ - asked the man, calmed.
´´I am from Juya tribe, up that path. ´´ - she answered, wear the man.
´´Good. ´´
´´Who are… ´´ - but before she could end the question, the man took his axe out and threw himself to attack Adia. Right there, she was defendless, she wasn´t on time to take her knife out. She barely could move to touch her knife, but saw at the man, her death. Again, suddenly, a figure came out of nothing and charged against that man. Both felt on her right, she didn´t tell apart, or she couldn´t. They were struggling, and she was paralyzed because of nervous. She could out her knife in self-defense and looked at the men, she recognized one of them! Alaku? She whispered. Both men stood up and the other punched 3 Alaku on his face, which made him stepback.
´´Adia! Stay away! ´´ - said Alaku, and the man charged again. Alaku blocked him and kicked him on his abdomen, but the man didn´t run, instead, punched again Alaku and jumped to the ground to take his axe and attacked again. Alaku rejected him by unsheating his own knife and cutting the man´s chest. Blood came out of the wound, as the man touched his wound and looked at his hand, he tighten up his fist, as well as it began to shake. He looked at Alaku with dark blue eyes, scaring both Akalu and Adia, something was unleashed. The man was yelling, blue veins began to appear on his skin, as well as the blood from his wound turned blue. Both Alaku and Adia were amazed and scared of what was happening in front of them. More muscles began to appear as the man continued yelling, suddenly he threw onto Alaku and punched him several times on his face and body.
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´´Alaku! ´´ - screamed Adia, watching how Alaku was being beaten down. Soon Alaku also caught one of the men hits, applying as much force as the man was applying. Adia began to witness how Alaku began to change. His eyes turned light blue, from light brown, his body began to become a bit more well-built. Alaku removed the fist from his hand and fastly punched the man two times on his face, then a kick on his stomach and a spin for a kick on the man´s face. The man stepback, and Alaku assumed a battling position, never seen before. Adia was surprised Alaku could react like that.
´´Come at me, you worm. ´´ - he said, challenging the man, who didn´t wait and launched against Alaku. Adia could just see how they danced and punched each other. Both were holding and punching, but Alaku also, faster than the man, took the man´s axe and nail in on the man´s right shoulder, expecting him to surrender. The man didn´t and punched Alaku on his stomach with a left hook, which somehow hurt him a bit. The man tried to take his axe from Alaku´s grasp but he didn´t succeed, in exchange, Alaku cut him on his face, expecting again him to fall dead, which didn´t happen. Adia was horrified of the fierce battle she was watching, it was like a fight between bears, something she has seen before, but this time, it was between men, TWO men fighting like animals. She wondered if it wasn´t a nightmare. The man had one cheek cut, but he still was looking for fight. With another move, Alaku cut one half of his left forearm, the man punched him twice again on his face and Alaku avoided the third, and stab the left ribs of the man with a single swing. The man was releasing a lot of blue liquid, and felt on one knee, Alaku took the chance to kick him on his face to lay him, but did so hand that broke the man´s mouth, nose and opened even more the cheek cut.
´´They… They are coming for you, and for all of them too! ´´ - said the man, and Alaku finished him stabbing his head with the axe. Adia saw the end, and approached to Alaku who was hurt from punches.
´´Are you ok!? ´´ - she asked desperately.
´´Yes… Yes… I am. ´´´- he said.
´´Could you explain what has just happened!? ´´ - she demanded, confused, and wanting the true.
´´Didn´t you see he wanted to kill you? ´´ - he said, avoiding her answer.
´´Don´t play me fool, Alaku! What just happened, isn´t normal! I´ve seen my father and my brother fighting each other, and them against others, but you are stronger than them! Who can it be! ´´ - she yelled. ´´And I haven´t forgotten the blue monster, how you faced it and how you kill it, and now this man tells you they are coming for you!? Tell me! ´´ - she now wanted the answer.
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Chapter 5
´´Ok, I´m going to tell you… But at the hide. ´´ - said Alaku, who stood up and started walking to the place where he and Adia were previously. She stood up too and walked with him.
´´We are here now, start. I haven´t tell anything to anyone because no one is going to believe me. ´´ - she said.
´´Well… I´m from Hula tribe, I had a mother and a father, but my mother died when I was born. My father protected me and taught me a lot of things, and he died letting me escape. You see… You might have seen blue things recently, like the one you and that other woman saw when I appeared. ´´
´´Wait… You saw us? ´´
´´Yes, I did. And I saw the blue monster too, but my father called them ´´blue beings´´. Anyway, I shot that arrow to protect you, because that blue being could have killed you. I don´t know why my father was never affected, by he did received their treatment. Adia, this blue beings, aren´t good. They came from the starts, and they want to control everything, and they have been doing wear things with us. They do something wear with the tribe, that no one intended to riot against them. That blue being that appeared when we first met, was there because it wanted to kill me, and kill you. And this one that just appeared, is also because of me. ´´ - was telling Alaku.
´´Why? Are you part of them somehow? ´´ - she asked, about to know the true…
´´Yes… I am. And now… I feel human, like you… But I also feel something inside me, I don´t know how to explain, but I know is there. It is like something was awaken inside me. ´´
´´That was why your eyes are now blue, when they were brown… And that explains how did you face the monster and this man… Are you going to kill me, too!? ´´ - yelled Adia, unsheating her knife, ready to defend herself.
´´No! I don´t want to! I am not like the man that attacked you! ´´
´´How can I believe you!? Do you know… Days before today, a friend died… He was ambushed by those blue monsters! The way his body was left… This can´t be… I won´t ever forget those images! ´´
´´I know! I know what are they capable of… If you let me, I can talk to your people and convince them. Because I feel these blue beings aren´t going to stop until they kill me… Or they kill all of you. That man you saw, was from my village, and he was taken by those blue beings and was changed. You saw him! He turned blue, and stronger. I can think he can easily kill three or four like you. ´´
´´Why are you here? ´´ - said a crying Adia, impacted by the recent information.
´´As I said, help you and protect you. Safe you. As you heard him, the man turned blue, they aren´t going to stop. Let me talk to your people so I can convince them to join me and fight! ´´
´´Ok…´´
´´ADIA! WHERE ARE YOU!? ´´ - they heard a voice.
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´´Maka? ´´
´´ADIA! WE NEED YOU! WHERE ARE YOU? ´´ - Maka was calling for her.
´´Stay here or follow me without being seen. ´´ - and Adia came out.
´´Here! ´´
´´What are you doing here? ´´
´´Relaxing… Walking, watching the river. ´´
´´Anyway! Quickly! Come with me, your father and Abrul are at the entrance… Agel´s tribe leader is here! ´´ - said Maka, hesitated.
´´What? ´´
Both started running there, and Alaku too, but hidden. It is very rare for them received the new that another tribe´s leader is visiting. Usually they received visits from other tribes, like Male or Barujas, but receiving a visit from a tribe which was attacked them in the past? Rare. They crossed the village and when they saw Abdahal, they stopped.
´´Here I am, father, Maka told me. ´´ - said Adia, next to Abrul, her mother Dalia and even Adalia, and some important tribe members.
´´Great, Adia. Is good you witness events like this one. ´´ - said Abrul. Her father didn´t say anything, he was watching the door being opened. When done, Acegajal, Arrejal, and two more men came in on horses.
´´Greetings, Abdahal… Long time, right? Do you remember the last? ´´ - he asked sarcastically.
´´How can´t I forget? You said no to the deal I was offering you… And the next, you pretended to invade my peacefully village. ´´ - responded Abdahal.
´´Peace doesn´t make warriors, just make dumbs. But anyway, I am here just because of extreme need, and I hope you understand and have seen before. Shall we talk in private? ´´
´´Come… ´´
And most of them when to the gathering room.
´´Ok, Acegajal, what do you want? ´´ - asked Abdahal, usually only the leaders talk, and other make silence, but since each leader´s descendant are present, anyone can talk.
´´A truce. ´´
´´Why? ´´ - asked Abrul, who has fought Agel´s people and currently hates them.
´´Because we need, not because we want! ´´ - answer rudely Acegajal´s son.
´´Watch out your mouth, young boy. ´´ - exclaimed Dalia.
´´You see… My people and I had been through some events never seen before, and they overwhelm us, I expect you to help me. ´´
´´You? Overwhelm? That is quiet interesting, continue. ´´
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´´Days ago, Homba, a very trusted man, saw something that broke his thinkings. He saw, near the river which goes next to my village, yours and Hula´s, but from the forest side, a blue thing walking with a man and a woman. We believe that woman was my son´s fiancée. And later he had an encounter, with his best friend, against one of those things, something alike a blue shadow. Going on alive, but then… Walking to the path with Hula´s, he and his friends faced a Hula man who almost kill them. ´´ - was telling Acegajal.
´´Blue shadows… We´ve seen them too… One of my friends died because of a blue monster, he lost an arm, and his body was destroyed. We fear it is more than a shadow, because if it is more… Then that means it could be a war. ´´
´´And we aren´t prepared for one ´´ - said Arrejal. ´´My friends and I faced a man from Hula´s tribe… And that man almost kill us! I´m almost the strongest of the tribe, same as Abrul matches Abdahal… And I barely made it alive. That man killed two of my friends. His eyes were blue, and his skin turned blue too, with more muscles… It looked like a monster for us! ´´
Adia wanted to say everything she knew, but she didn´t know if that was the correct moment.
´´Correct ´´ - said Acegajal. ´´ Two people were sent to different missions, one was supposed to come here and tell you of this wish of mine, to gather and talk. And the other was supposed to go to Hula and report whatever they saw. Just one came back alive, and what he said were… ´´
´´Things impossible to believe, right? ´´ - suddenly Alaku came into the room.
´´What the…!? ´´ - said Abdahal.
´´Please LISTEN! ´´ - said Alaku, at the moment when some Juya´s guard came in, ready to attack Alaku.
´´Please, don´t hurt him! ´´ - Adia took part.
´´Adia… How? Why? ´´ - Abdahal surprised.
´´Let him explained himself and talk, please father. ´´ - she begged for Alaku´s words to be listen.
´´Ok… But he´d better explained, otherwise you will be exile with him! ´´ - he even threaten his own daughter.
´´Abdahal! How dare you? Could you do that!? ´´ - Dalia responded.
´´I am the leader here! ´´ - he said.
´´Sir, please, let me talk. Then you can decide whatever you want. ´´
´´Ok… Man, talk! ´´ - said Abdahal.
´´Thank you. My name is Alaku and I come from Hula´s tribe.´´ - began Alaku.
´´Then… Is that true, what my man said!? ´´ - interrupted Abdahal rudely.
´´Father! Let him talk! ´´ - insisted Adia.
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´´Yes, sir… It is true. I come from Hula´s tribe… And we are no longer Hula. I know your daughter, Adia. She and the other woman, Maka, were walking through the forest, border with Agel´s tribe (Abdahal launched Adia a look of shame). And they found a blue being, as my father used to call them, which was watching me. They could have died at that moment, but I safe their lives. That friends of yours attacked and killed by a blue monster, and directly attacked by a blue being. The man who attacked you (pointing to Arrejal) was a man from Hula who made from the things they´ve done to us. ´´ - was telling Alaku.
´´What kinds of things? ´´ - asked Abrul.
´´I don´t know specifically, but have been bad things. Many of my people have died, and many other have survived. The ones who have survived, have become the type of man which attacked Agel´s people, and also attacked Adia today. I faced and manage to kill him. ´´
´´Wait… 5 men and me barely could barely survived from facing one of those you are talking about… And you are telling us you faced alone one of them… And killed him? LIER! ´´ - Arrejal accused, of course, he doesn´t know the whole true.
´´It isn´t a lie, I saw him! ´´ - Adia defended him.
´´How exactly did you see him? ´´ - asked Abdahal.
´´That doesn´t matter right now, sir. I faced and kill the Hula man, by my own because… ´´ - Alaku remained in silence, even when he was excited to say all, a fear held on him.
´´And so…? Why? ´´ - asked Dalia.
´´Because… I am also one of them… In part. ´´ - Alaku declared the true.
´´WHAT!? ´´ - said many of the present.
´´I can´t be. You look like us! ´´ - exclaimed Adalia.
´´Yes… But not at all, don´t you see my eyes? ´´
´´Oh, no! For Marruan! NO! His eye´s are exactly the same color of the blood! Is he a blue monster!? ´´ - exclaimed Arrejal, everyone was confused, and horrified at the same time.
´´When I was born, my mother died, but my father told me everything. He died when he allowed me to escape from the tribe, because they wanted to kill me. My father was also pushed to be experimented by the blue beings, I´m telling you all this by experience. ´´
´´In case you are telling the true, young Alaku. What do you suggest us to do? ´´ - asked Acegajal.
´´Join forces. At any moment the blue beings will attack us, merciless, and you have seen how fierce they are, right? I cannot face them all by my own, I need help and I want to believe you can help me! You count with one of them, but better than them, me! And I count on you: your strength, your number, your spirit! ´´
´´Hm… If the young man is right… I believe him. ´´ - said Abdahal.
´´Do you, father? ´´- asked Abrul, surprised.
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´´Don´t you? Zabul is dead, you saw his body. According to this man, your sister was attacked earlier. And according to Agel´s people, I believe him. ´´ - Abdahal was now supporting Alaku,
´´In case I also support you, what is the plan? Gather all our warriors and mix them in one army, then head to Hula´s tribe? ´´ - suggested Acegajal.
´´Bad idea. ´´ - said Abdahal.
´´I know it is a bad idea! It was joking.´´ - replied Acegajal.
Suddenly, a Juya man came in.
´´Sir Abdahal, three people are coming! They look like from Hula” – said the warrior. All of them came out of the cabin, and walked to the main gate. As a matter of fact, there were 3 Hula men walking toward Juya´s tribe. They seemed normal, but now they knew they are not. They stopped just in front of the village´s door without requesting something, they looked toward the village, and two of the three men jumped. With that jump, they reached each surveillance tower ant took them down, for Abdahal´s horror, they were already in when the third man jumped the door.
´´Be aware! They will start at any moment! ´´ - said Alaku when all arriving. One of the Hula man had eye contact with Alaku, and that was all to start. The three men began to change, they screamed while their bodies where turning light blue. One of them launched directly to Alaku, which Alaku charged onto, but the man charged too and took Alaku with him. The women hide with their children while Juya´s people and Agel´s fewer people were fighting them. A spearman tried to kill one of these men, but failed when the man took the spear, grab it and impale the man. Adalia screamed out when she saw the horror. Abrul asked a guard to take his sisters out of there, while the battle was becoming a bloodshed. Two more guard intended to stop the same and caught one of these men, they were controlling him, but he took his sword out and cut a guard´s staff, leaving him with no weapons. The other guard tried to stop this man, but thanks to the blue blood running through the veins of this man, he managed to cut the other guard´s throat. Alaku was busy fighting with another blue man. Arrejal, Acegajal, Abrul and Abdahal were dealing with the last blue man, which wasn´t easy. Somehow Arrejal saw and felt this blue man isn´t like the last one. This one was fiercer, and more dangerous. One of the blue man already killed 4 Juyas, something that made Abdahal angry and he went to face the blue man by his own.
´´Stop murdering my people! ´´ - yelled at the man, who turned his eyes onto Abdahal, and went just against him. Abdahal knew he was going to die, but he preferred to die fighting for his people. They crash swords, and several moves more. Abrul appeared to kick this man in his nuts, but it didn´t work because the man moved before and kick Abrul’s legs, making him fall. The man made his move to stab Abrul with his sword, but Abdahal blocked the move.
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´´Do you think you are going to kill my boy? WRONG! ´´ - he said, the man did a step forward and kicked Abdahal on his stomach, making it as well to lay on his knees. Ready to cut his heat, the man felt how Abrul perfored him with the sword, but he didn´t care. He turn onto Abrul, took the sword out and kicked Abrul as well.
Alaku was in an endless fight as well, battling with a blue man. Every time the man wanted to cut Alaku, he blocked the move and make him drop the weapon. The battle was equilibrated, impossible to each one to hurt the other, but a small window of time, Alaku took a small axe he kept from the other man of the river and cut this one´s chest. The man didn´t care, and taking advantage of a moment when Alaku was distracted, punch him four times on his face, making him backstep and beating him down. Alaku rested on one knee, the man was about to finish him but right at the exact moment, when Alaku rested, Adia was far behind him, aiming at the man with an arrow. She shot and the man couldn´t do anything but to receive the arrow right on his forehead. One less, two remain! Unfortunately, Arrejal was on the ground, wound by a cut and several hits on his abdomen and chest, which make him difficult to breathe, and his father was fighting alone the blue man. Acegajal is an exceptional warrior, but sadly didn´t match against this man, he felt on the ground do a powerful spin kick the man did, and he took the chance to nail a sword on Acegajal´s chest, killing him at once.
´´NO! FATHER! ´´ - Acegajal´s son yelled. He stood up quickly with force he gathered and jump onto this man, which tried to cut Arrejal´s head but didn´t succeed, instead of, a big blade crossed the man´s chest… A Juya took the chance to attack this man by nailing his foot to the ground with an arrow and Arrejal finally cut his head, releasing blue blood.
´´Thanks. ´´ - said Arrejal, with tears on his cheeks. Two less, just one! The following was taken down between all present people.
´´PEOPLE! Look what have done the Blues! The blue beings behind all! They won´t rest until conquering this land, either they kill us or not! The leader of a village, DEAD. Many of yours DEAD. This is all those blue demons carry, DEAD! I propose DEAD for them as well! LETS JOIN IN ONE SPIRIT AND ATTACK THEM! ´´ - said Alaku, inspirating people.
And therefore the war between humans and Blues started, humans didn´t know but Blues had a complete legion of modified warriors ready to defend them. They were facing T´Bakis and Hula´s tribes, and having 0 knowledge of everything, for them, and being humans, thinking an attack to any of those villages could result in execution. But what the Blues didn´t know, was that the wazers, as they have called humans since the beginning, were going to receive help from an external source. The humans didn´t know either, but they were going to know soon, as these renegades decided to go to earth and help wazers with their problem. In another world, some Blues were discover for breaking the rules, although they succeed achieving the goal: creating the perfect warrior. A warrior who will join them at certain moment, and fight for them no matter what, after achieving, they were supposed to
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reproduce the exactly procedure which made them reach the goal. But what they didn’t know was the fragile nature of the human being, forcing them to not only repeat the same falling procedure in more wazers, but to try more and different procedures, hoping for the wazers to survive and show results. Results which didn’t make them happy, results as these few blue man, who were presented as mistakes or failures became leftovers or barely tools. These Blues who broke the rules were already known as New Blues and even when they exposed their reasons and methods for their achievement, the Blues didn’t listen. As they knew they were doomed,they decided to go to Earth planet and decided, as they've seen, same as the Blues, wazers were already warned about their existance and also, as they´ve seen how Blues became a threat to wazers, they wouldn´t be able to make an alliance with them. What did they decide? Some of New Blues wanted to exile the planet and go to another one, escaping from their hunting down. Some others wanted to attack Blues foe helping wazers facing them, but some others wanted to attack wazers in order to find their ´´Perfect Result´´, better known as Alaku, and eliminate him before it could be too late. They thought about it, and exile to another planet wasn´t a good choice because of some other reasons, even if they search and eliminate the Perfect Result, Blues were anyway going to track down these New Blues... So, their last choice was to help attack the ones of their own kind.
Agel´s tribe no longer had Acegajal for leading them, and as Arrejal is the only son, he had the right to become the chief. When they returned to Agel´s village, Arrejal sit on his father´s throne and start thinking. Certainly, for him, the problem wasn´t other than what was happening in Hula and these blue creatures who wanted everything destroyed. What made him being afraid, was the fact that 3 men from Hula´s village are enough for killing at least 20 men... If they go to Hula´s for destroying these blues, what are they going to do if they found an army of a hundred blue men? Those images were lurking his mind, making him remember over and over how did they face those men and how did those men deal him them... His father´s assassination, how did they turn blue and began a ravaging wave of pain and wrath.
´´Arrejal, I´m sorry about your father´s death. I wonder if we could talk, so I can understand and maybe I can help you. ´´ - said Homba, once he entered the chief´s cabin.
´´For the first time in my life, I was scare, Homba. You know me as much as my father knew me. I am not a warrior who feels fear every time he is about to begin or join a fight. And I had fear. ´´ - was telling Arrejal, clearly traumatized how those men killed.
´´What happened? ´´ - asked Homba, as he said, he wanted to understand.
´´We went there for talking about those blue shadows, and to see if Juya´s people have seen the same than us. And they have, this man appeared, saying he was from Hula´s tribe, but they were attacked by some strange creatures. It seemed a bit unbelievable for me, I don´t know about my father. We agreed these blue creatures are a danger for all, then a man came inside the cabin and said there were men from Hula at the main door. We all ran to the village´s entrance, and they were there... Three men from Hula, they screamed and jumped inside the village, they didn´t care about
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the door and they began to attack us, of course we responded but... They killed, Homba. ´´ - told to Homba, to listen to him carefully.
´´I am sure your father fought with honor, and did as he could for protecting you and show he was still a steel man. ´´
´´That doesn´t matter, Homba! Of course my father was an incredible man, but those men were monsters! A single Hula man, turning into blue skin and with muscles, even taller, killed at least 4 men... How can a man do that? I am fearing for us, if we go to war against Hula, counting with Juya... I don´t know if we are going to make it. If every Hula men is like the ones we fought, we are all dead. ´´ - was saying Arrejal, who showed fear and insecurity in his voice.
´´And if I can be sure of something, is that we are going to war, aren´t we? ´´ - Homba asked just to be sure.
´´Yes, we are, Homba. It is unevitable, if we don´t go to war, it will come at us... ´´ - said Arrejal, confirming his worst fear.
´´This is what I propose to you: lets go to Juya, as they are already aware for this situation, I don´t think they will say no. Forming a scout group mixed with Juya and Agel and send them to see what is Hula´s situation, there we might have a better idea, make a plan and then strike them. ´´ - offered Homba as a possible solution.
´´Yes... It seems nice. And anyway, they will need us. Lets do this now, they received an attack and I am afraid the next attack might be against us. ´´ - said Arrejal, and he was right, if the next attack are 10 blue men, they could kill half of Agel´s tribe men.
They fastly gathered a scout group of 5 of the best explorers and went to Juya, with the intention of taking to Abdahal and adding 5 more explorers to their already formed team so they can be sent to Hula and get information. A day later, they arrvied. Arrejal wasn´t worried Juya´s guards fire arrows to them, then a village´s chief is on the scene, any village´s guards hold their fire because killing a village´s chief before talking, means war. Juya´s main door was opened in order to let them talk.
´´Greetings, Abdahal, I appreciate you let me in. ´´ - said Arrejal, sitting in front of Abdahal.
´´You are welcome. I am sorry about your father, we didn´t expect to receive an attack like that. My people are afraid for what could be coming, and I guess your people are also scare. What is your purpose by coming here? ´´ - asked Abdahal.
´´Thanks for your condolence, I am here for proposing you adding 5 more explorers to the ones I brought and send them all to see and when back, report how is Hula right now. We could strike them at once, but we need to know what happened to them and how are they now. Do you agree? ´´
´´I do. Abdahal, he is right, and I want to go! I want to know what happened there after I escape. ´´ - said Alaku who was still in Juya´s, after the battle, Abdahal allowed him to stay in his cabin, but sleeping away from his daughters.
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´´Hm... Although that is a good idea, I don´t think the same and I am afraid they could die on the way. But since Alaku is offering himself to go, I accept. My forces are even ready to go and attack Hula, I know that plan wasn´t a good option when we talked with your father included... But since we all saw how people from Hula are... I don´t think we have another option. Either we go get them or they get us. ´´ - was saying Abdahal.
´´Great you agree with me! I left specific orders to my people for training for this, Hula village is two and a half days away, I´ ll go back to Agel and then I´´ return here to listen to the explorers. ´´ - said Arrejal as final words.
Adia tried to deter Alaku from going, but as he hasn´t been there and Hula is his home, he expressed her his wish for checking by his own eyes how is the village and what can they do. Arrejal wanted to get this done same as Abdahal and his family, because meanwhile sending their explorers to see Hula´s village, Hula might be sending another attack and bigger against either Agel or Juya. Three days passed fast as both chiefs were worried for their people, and they knew their people had to be as fast as they could for getting information and then returning to get ready. They both sent their explorers with specific orders: meet the other part at a specific checkpoint and once they arrive to Hula, just observe, no attacks, anything else must be avoid, including incoming men from Hula. 10 men were going to Hula so they corresponding chiefs could decide.
In Hula... The hell was burning. As New Blues decided to attack Hula´s village in order to make things easier for Agel and Juya, Hula was in war. A disadvantage for them was that at present, many of Hula´s people are men already modified by Blue´s technology, being beast as the men who attacked Juya and killing Acegajal or even worst. Of course, New Blues technology is same as Blue technology, but Blue´s bad results are even more dangerous than Blue´s themselves. Currently there are some Blues guarding Hula´s village, since they don´t care being seeing by other´s villages wazers, because what they did to Hula is barely soft for what they could do to wazers in general. Since they are condemned to death by their own kind´s laws and can´t change that, most of them have agreed to use their lives by helping wazers avoid their extermination. Something else they didn´t count was even some Blues came down for fighting New Blues. When Agel and Juya´s explorers arrived at Hula, what they saw was in part untelligible: a broken village, there were still warriors to fight for the village, but New Blues´s attack damaged strongly the village. The explorers didn´t see anything strange as monsters, or blue shadow, so for them might a green light to tell their chiefs to attack. Although they saw warriors, they knew these warriors could perfectly be blue, something their people could take on.
Blues saw this situation as a risk, because they not only know the New Blue´s Perfect Result was still out there, but their attack on Hula resulted worse. Blue´s knew their wrong results could eliminate the wazers from other villages, but the Blue sentinels they had in the village were gone with New Blue´s suicide attack. They began to see wazers as a danger, with the waves they had spying Agel and Juya´s tribe, they started to understand that even they might have underestimated this specie.
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Chapter 6
The explorer group returned to Juya´s village, reporting what they saw and Alaku could see by himself that wasn´t the same village he abandoned, he also report somehow Hula was attacked, because he remember there used to be some blue monster, not men, monsters, but they were gone. Arrejal and Abdahal began to gather their forces as they knew there were nothing more in Hula than men, they were ready to hear there were monsters but they didn´t. They anyway didn´t take things for granted. In the meeting, Homba also was there for advising.
´´Abdahal, usually a front attack could be very effective, but since we don´t know a lot more than the explorer group, I suggest the attack split in two and attack both sides at the same time. ´´ - suggested Homba, while they all gather, Alaku was thinking what could have happened to the village once knew.
´´I can say he is right. ´´ - said Arrejal. ´´Juya and Agel have some in common: they both have access to the river, and as the river goes up, I can say there will be an entrance to Hula from the river. ´´ - he said, supporting Homba´s suggestion.
´´So... An attack from the river entrance to Hula and the other? From the woods? ´´ - Abrul pointed sometime important. ´´We don´t know what is in there, there could be a group of Hula men or blue monsters waiting. ´´
´´If you allow me, sir. ´´ - asked Alaku to Abdahal.
´´Yes, speak. ´´
´´What if we do this, another departing side to attack. Arrejal can lead a direct attack to the main entrance, Abdahal from the river and I, leading another group, attack from the forest side. ´´ - he also suggested.
´´Interesting... ´´ - said Homba.
´´You could be the reinforcements in the case we lack of warriors. ´´ - said Abrul, who never trusted Alaku by his strange way to appear in the village´s life.
´´No, Abrul. We weren´t ready for an attack and what happened? Arrejal´s father died. We need to be ready and for that I prefer Alaku either join us as attacking from another side or stay here, defending the village. We will need every single man. ´´ - said Abdahal.
´´I can stay here with Alaku if you want. ´´ - Homba offered himself.
´´No. ´´ - said Dalia. ´´I saw how Alaku fought one of those man from Hula. You need him with you. Homba can stay, and we will defend the village. ´´ - she said, targeting Adia y Adalia as protectors.
´´Then, I shall go with you! ´´ - decided Alaku, even when it wasn´t his decision.
´´So, Arrejal and I lead an attack from the main entrance. Abrul from the river and Alaku from the forest. In case, Alaku, you don´t find an entrance from the forest, you go to the main and help us. Is this plan agreed by all of you? “ – asked Abdahal, and no one said anything against the plan. “Great, I need you to understand this is very risky. We are only doing this because we are pushed to do this. We already saw how fierce are men from Hula, and if there are more men than we are going to comand, it may be a defeat and a massacre for us, that is why I propose including archers to our troops. They can help front line warriors kill easily Hula men. “ – Abdahal was being careful while proposing, because he knew that not even archers could be safe from those men.
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“Wise proposing. Archers could work very well as backups. Should there be archers from the river side? “ – asked Arrejal.
“Hm… Yes, there could be. But then they should be guarded by the same men amount. It is foolish to have 10 warriors defending 20 archers. 4 Hula men would be enough for killing those 10. “
“I propose 25 archers and 75 warriors. There can be 13 archers at the river and 12 at the main entrance. 33 men at the river and the rest at the main. “ – proposed Abrul.
“I like that. “ – Homba supported Abrul.
“Me too! “ – Alaku, plus two.
“Hm… Interesting. I also support him. “ – three with Arrejal.
“Decided! But, how many are going with Alaku? 20? “ – asked Abdahal, no one in the meeting room where capable of saying something.
“Yes, just assign me 20 men. And 5 archers. Just that, please. “ – Alaku himself was begging, he knew even when being a hybrid human/Blue, he isn't capable of facing 15 blue me.
“Father, grant him his wish. You know very well even there are strong warriors among us, we need Alaku! He is the only one up to now able to face a blue man by himself. “ – said Adia, backing him.
“I think the same, Abdahal, he hasn’t being here for much time, but we all saw how did he fought that man. And he isn’t inmortal. Grant him some men. “ – Dalia also supported Adia and Alaku.
“Ok… But where are those men going to be from? “ – asked Abdahal to Dalia, worried about the number of warriors available.
“Agel can donate them. They will be entirely from Agel. “ – Arrejal raised his hand and showing Agel is totally willing to participate.
“Great, then everything is decided! We'll go tomorrow! “ – screamed Arrejal, while all agreed and screamed with him. Alaku got out of the cabin so as Adia, he walked toward the main fireplace, all around him warriors we’re getting ready for the massive attack. Adia went behind him because she felt he was either worried or excited.
“Alaku, you are scare, right? “ – she asked worried.
“It is a mixture, Adia. I am scare, excited and anxious. I don't know what are we going to find, or how many blue men are there. We don't even know if there are blue men or blue monsters there. “ – he expressed his concerns.
“Yeah, I get it. It also scares me, I'm going to stay here with.my mother and Adalia. Not knowing if you will come back or if my brother and my father are going to return. And what if as soon as you leave, an army of blue men appear? We won't be enough. “ – Adia also expressed her concerns.
“I can’t promise you your father and brother will return, we all will be busy. But I'll do my best, I swear. “ – he wanted to calm her a bit more.
“Thanks. I also expect you to return alive. “ – she said with bate smile.
“Hahaha, that is a promise! “ – he did.
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They didn't know but they were being watched, both by Abrul and by a Blue's wave. Blue began to worry about this situation with wazers, the´ve seen how two wazer villages are getting together to attack Hula´s village. For them, there are two options: abandon Hula´s village, not sending Blue soldiers to protect it and just leaving the village with the Blue men resulted of their failure activities on them, or protect and counter attack these villages, but it also meant a consequence: if they would wanted to continue their experiments, they won´t be able because a counter attack means eliminating completely these rebels villages. At this point, their objective of continuing experimenting until finding their precious perfect result now was impossible, and even when these wazer villages weren´t the only one in his part of the planet, now they were afraid what happens to them could happen again and worse. They´ve now seen the human kind as something they didn´t think it could be. They still had the option of invading the north part of the planet using their arsenal, not trying to dominate passively the inhabitants, but to wrack them all at once. They saw with their waves how this army of wazers were coming out of one of those villages, so they had to make a decision soon. Although they could counter attack both villages due to their lack of warriors for protecting themselves, they didn´t see this as a good option. An idea came out: maybe they won´t avoid the wazers´s attack, but they could kidnap some wazers from the unprotected villages and try some last times to reach the result they want.
Abrul never trusted Alaku, as he sees him walking among the warriors marching toward Hula´s. He way the suddenly appeared in a meeting with Acegajal and Arrejal instantly targeted him a black list, so for him, if Alaku threats the attack by becoming a traitor or doing something wrong, Abrul will do as possible to taking him out of the attack. A reason which encourages this decision is not only when he declared himself a new type of blue man, but watching how did he managed to face a Hula man by himself. The only reason for Abrul that Alaku isn´t dead yet is that he defended Juya from those Hula man, showing his might and strength, but also exposing himself: an abomination. Abrul watched carefuly how did Alaku fight the blue man and what he saw frighten him a bit: Alaku is stronger than Acejagal and Abdahal, faster than both and his sword style is unknown... Never mind, he was going to be watching Alaku until the very last second.
Days became seconds as they saw Hula´s tribe on the horizon, Abrul men and him began separating, as they knew the river was close to being another route to the west village´s entrance. Arrejal and Abdahal kept walking toward the main entrance but hiding among the trees for avoid being seeing. Alaku was waiting for a clue to also ordered his men to move with him to the east and forest entrance. Some meters away, from Hula´s main door, Arrejal and Abdahal´s troops were still hidden in the bushes, but they didn´t know Hula´s blue men already noticed them, as they had better eyes product of Blue´s treatment. Abrul´s men were already on the river´s side, getting closer to the entrance. Alaku and his men also disappear due to the east entrance founded.
´´Archers, shoot on my sign! ´´ - said Arrejal, not loud to be detected and all archers began. They didn´t noticed but Hula main door men were already in defense position.
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´´SHOOT! ´´ - screamed Arrejal, as their warriors began yelling as they appeared from trees and bushes attacking the guards. Suddenly, an archer next to Arrejal felt dead, he didn’t know why but after looking at his head, he knew was a clear arrow headshot. He looked to the towers and a Hula archer had three arrows on his chest, and certainly, light blue. The Hula archer received three more arrows before falling. Hula´s main doors weren´t close, Abdahal noticed that, making him understand Hula somehow knew about the attack. One of the guards died, not before taking with him two warriors, bad, 73 left. Because of the screams, Abrul knew the battle began, and he approached to the entrance from the river, screaming:
´´FOR JUYAAAAH! ´´ and his men did too, running to the entrance... But as they kept running and they didn´t see the doors, they were getting confused. ´´No! The doors are still away, keept running, we must reach! ´´ - he said, as they all still ran. After a while running, they all saw Hula west´s doors, as some arrows, which killed some warriors: Hula also knew about the river´s attack. Abrul threw a small spear he was carrying and successfully killed a Hula archer, as the other one received 5 arrows and died, without reaching his 3rd arrow. At the entrance, several Hula men transformed into blue abominations: blue skin or blue veins on their skins, more muscles and some even taller, some with sharpen teeth, and some more characteristics. Abrul succeesfuly reached the doors and they began attacking, some Hula men were there for stopping him. After fastly killing some Hula men which didn´t transformed, Abrul realized that most of the warriors were adult men, he didn´t see any kid in the tribe. Some women appeared, turning their skin blue and shooting fire arrows as automatic Blue guns, Abrul took another small spear and threw it to them, killing just one, approaching to them and about to kill another arche woman but she threw her bow and unsheathed two small daggers. For Abrul, it was the first battle with a woman, problem for him was she was almost too fast for him, he could avoid some waves but she also did cut his chest surface twice. He finally kicked one of her legs to hard that broke her knew and taking advantage of her fall, he cut her head. He turned his eyes to his men, which were battling. Some Hula men dead on the ground, and fewer of his own, too. Suddenly he saw how a Hula man, with blue claws as hands, as cutting a man´s face, kicking him on his abdomen and by another slash, cutting his head. This monster looked toward Abrul and with a scream, jumped to him.
Alaku couldn´t reach the battle, the east entrance was closed, he instaly thought the blue monsters knew they were coming. It took him some time to get to the main entrance, which was desertic and with two corpses only, Hula men. They entered, and he ran inside as his men began battling. He ran inside trying to find either Arrejal, Abdahal or Abrul, and he actually did. He found Abrul being attacked by a blue beast, a man with blue claws instead of hands, he was doing as he could for avoiding being killed. Alaku arrived and snail his sword into the blue bleast´s back, which howled in pain, turned back and kicked Alaku to a cabin. He flew and destroyed it, in pain, trying to stand up, beginning to feel that wrath and that energy, he stood up and jumped, when landed in front of the blue beast, now turned into light blue.
´´STAY AWAY FROM HIM! ´´ - he said, but even his voice was a bit different, he kicked the beast on its face and again and again on his chest, making it step back, took his sword from the ground and cut the beast abdomen. At that looked like bare skratches on the beast skin, which a blue line
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covered these cuts and it tried to kick Alaku again, but he avoided cut its back again. Abrul stood up and picked up a spear from the ground, aiming at the monster. The blue beast crashed his sword against Alaku´s and both forced the other, the blue man beast looked Alaku to his eyes and began to shine in a light blue. Shine which stopped when the beast was nailed by Abrul spear, direct on the heart, the beast howled in pain and Alaku took the chance to nail him with his sword on the abdomen, and employing his strength, cut the beast from down to upper. The body felt on the ground he looked toward Abrul.
´´Thanks! ´´ - Alaku aimed his sword toward Abrul, who got scared at first, he threw it to him and Abrul launched to the ground, as he saw the blade nailing a blue man in his heart. Alaku started searching for Arrejal and Abdahal, discovering men dead: blue men, Juya´s and Agel´s as well. Archers didn´t made it at all, as some of them still alive but without arrows, still fighting with small swords. Deral, Abdahal best friend, layed on the ground, dead, as his son was fighting two blue men by his own. He made enough for an incoming arrow to kill one of those men and could kill the other. The battle finished, as the remaining gathered at the center of the village.
´´I never knew this could happen, but I guess is a result of those monsters. ´´ - said Alaku, resting on the ground with a knee.
´´Hula men were more than we expected, Deral is dead and his son, at least lives. ´´ - said Abdahal while looking to Derandal a bit away, crying over his father´s corpse.
´´I am surprised I haven´t seen any children here, did they hide them all? ´´ - asked Abrul, resting or the ground, also on his knees.
´´I don´t know. I also searched for women and children, but didn´t see. The only women I saw were those archers. And damn fast they there. ´´ - said Arrejal.
´´Did you fight them? ´´ - asked Abrul.
´´Yes, just one. The other went after Deral. And the one I fought almost killed me. I had luck because I launched myself onto her, and when had her with no moves on the ground, which was difficult because he was fighting to get free, I nailed her head. We didn´t expect this would anyway be a massacre. ´´ - said Arrejal, with reason.
´´A hundred men, right? And just 10 alive... And thanks to Alaku who appeared, a bit late due to the east doors locked. We should rest and then leave; I found some meat which was being cooked. ´´ - said Abdahal.
The Blues had partially leave the country, they found no reason for defending Hula´s village. They found other tribes in the south part of the continent, but they weren´t totally sure there could be another possibility. They´ve been also watching wazers in the northern part of the planet, and didn´t see yet some things they didn´t know yet. Due to some weapons they recently saw, they were now thinking if actually it was a good idea to kidnap primitive wazers and push them to those violent process. Certainly, the bad results were good, but against those fire weapons north wazer had, maybe even when getting blue monsters under their control would be anyway useless. But they also discover something interesting: another land (America) were
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wazers were totally diferent from the ones found in the south. Maybe the best option was to try again in ther other land before surrendering and trying at once in the northest part of the planet. Anyway, they left the country with a bounch of new experiment subjetcs.
Alaku, Abdahal, Arrejal and Derandal returned to the village, with other 6 men. But they didn´t like what they found. Somehow, Adalia disappear, as well as Oara and some other people. It looks like while Juya and Agel´s troops were out attacking Hula´s tribe, Blues took the opportunity to, even when leaving the country because they failed, they didn´t reach their goal, kidnap some last subjects. They still know their technology is better than this species, but they underestimated their intelligence.
Alone, on the river, Alaku began feeling visions: blue entities, the ones he called monsters, Adalia and Oara being kidnap, their waves, their technology.
´´You know you don´t belong to them... Why do you insist in staying? … You could reach all your power with us... Discover who you are. ´´ - he heard a voice inside his mind.
´´What? Who is it!? ´´ - Alaku asked to nowhere.
´´You are more... Like us... Than them... ´´ - he kept listening strange things, a voice talking to him. He watched his surroundings but didn´t see anything, wondering what was that and if he has something of a connection with those blue monsters.
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