Crusaders III; The New Age
Part One
The New Call
1.1. The Horn trumpeted
The turn of the new millennium at 2100 marked the
new beginning of mankind. It was to sparkle into a world conflict as mankind
once betrayed itself to the greed of evil and declared a war that ripped apart
all that was build over the last century. The nations of the world have become
of two and their conflict resulted in one disaster; man's doom. The advancement
of Mankind in its technology was not used in space exploration but in the acts
of war.
Among the two conflicting sides, there are still the
remnants of the believers. They prayed for the day of peace or be damned to the
day of revelation. It was from their
prayers, one movement of salvation was called on again to save the mankind.
They are named the Crusaders.
Smaller in numbers, hidden by the Order that they
have sworn to served, they are now called to perform their duties when needed.
1.2 Heroine
of the Faith
The last war that lasted seven years had ravaged the
land from that of forests and lakes to that of withered unfertile lands now.
What were once proud mountains were now mounds of stones covered with icy cold
surface, where once snow was rare due to the dry lands around its plains. It
may be a form of wasteland but life still trampled its soils, and where the
elixir of life can be found, the seeker of it would converged.
The gentle creature once seen in abundance on the
grounds of that land was now a predator and feared no others. Its whiskers
twitched to pick up the scent of any preys before it hurried forward on its
four legged limbs. It does not run for length but dashed in short distance to
seek the next cover or holding its position to avoid detection.
That moment the creature known as the rodent, once
smaller than a feline creature but today shared it size, caught the scent of
another. Its sensory alerts went up as it short ears picked up the vibrations
of the sources, while its whiskers now tuned up tried to gauge the oncoming
threat. It does not show fear as the rodent once a loner in its quest, but now
adapted to hunt in packs; shrieked off a long squeak to alert the pack.
In a flash, it jumped aside to avoid the jaws of the
canine creature which had evolved from a dark furry coat to plain bare skinned
with the long fangs that protruded from it lower jaws. It was once a feared
breed of domesticated creature but now roamed like the rodent in packs for food
to survive. The canine was not to give up as it twisted its body to do a tight
turn and snapped it jaws onto the rodent rear limbs.
The bite was deep when the fangs dug into the flesh
there, but rodent was as ferocious to fight back with its own short and sharp
teeth on the lower front limb of the canine. It was to be a test of endurance
but the earlier squeak of the rodent had drawn its reinforcement. Three equally
large rodents jumped onto the canine and took the fight to a dying match soon
after. The three rodents having seized chunks of the canine body frame tore its
flesh off causing the canine to howl out in pain. Soon the attacker was
vanquished by the sheer number of its prey. The first rodent despite the
wounded limb was still able to savage its bites into the canine's head area,
drawing out streaks of flesh and blood.
Their frenzied feeding was not without miss by the
greatest predator of all creatures; the one they named Man, creator and killer
of all kinds. The deadly zap of energy contained lasers flashed out like
streaks of lightning’s ended the feeding frenzy within seconds. The charred
bodies of the four creatures were scattered by the blast.
The last killer of the creatures rode over on the
energized two wheel machine contraption. It was a mean machine mounted with an
energy efficient engine body for a single rider on a set of rimless twin hub;
one at the front and the other wider one at the rear. The machine was steered
by a twin horn handle with mounted display panels to showcase its power and
speed. The machine also comes with a set of energy lasers projectiles mounted
to its front controlled remotely by the rider through its thought activated
force strength helmet.
The rider who was riding astride the machine
dismounted from it and walked towards the charred site. The rider was clad in
silvery leather tight suit covering the whole body with a set of knee high
boots, where a set of laser phaser phasers were seen holstered on the right
side while the hilt of the laser blade can be seen on the left boots. The rider
also had on a pair of leather like gauntlets that stretched towards her elbow
with a screen on the top of the wrist. Above at the sleeve of her suit were the
two streaks of red and green which ran across her chest. Just below the two
streak was an emblem which resembled the sign of the cross; an emblem of faith
from the few scattered believers then.
The rider helmet was a virtual one although it had
the image of the cross displayed proudly in the face of it; was energized by a
force field that formed a dark tinted whale like shape on the head. Once the
thought command was given, the helmet would retract to the formed a dark ring
around the neck line. It can be removed and stored away in that form with a
command on her left arm gauntlet wrist screen.
At that moment, the rider gave its command to
retract the helmet, and the breeze on the land blew at the exposed young face
of the rider. It was a young lady of her late teens, and with her short cropped
hairlines, she could have been mistaken for a boy by many. She crouched down
and tore off a piece of the charred meat off one of the dead rodents. She bit
into it and tasted the meat.
"Not bad for a rat." She muttered to
herself before she devoured the remaining piece.
It was then she heard the call sign from the
Controller.
"Geranium, you are needed back at the
post." She stood up and looked again at the charred creatures.
"Guess you are just lucky today. I am not
eating you." Geranium smiled at herself. She activated her helmet and gave
her thoughts to the bike via the helmet. The machine gunned up to life when she
swung her legs over its back. Once seated comfortably, she grabbed the two
horns handle and steered the machine away back to the place she was told to
return to.
So then we had just met the First Crusaders of the
New Age.
She was to be named the Heroine of the Faith.
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