As the sun rose bringing a dawn on a brand new day, what befell the Rebel Army at their current base was a view of destruction, with part of the base burnt, and everyone coming to the realization that things could have been much worse,

“Catch”, Barak said to Polaris, throwing a wooden container at him, as he walked towards where Polaris had been sitting,

He had been sitting at the base of the wall ever since the fighting stopped, he stretched out his hand catching the container, he undid the lid and took a sip,

“water, really”, Polaris said, the disappointment could be heard in his voice,

“you know what I want to know, is what the hell was that”, Barak questioned,

“what was what”, Polaris asked,

“you refusing to go help where you were needed”, Barak said to Polaris, the frustration in his voice growing,

Polaris got up from where he was sitting, looking barak, straight into his eyes,”as much as you would think you’re the leader of us you’re not”, Polaris stated to Barak,

“i was right where I was needed, so stop trying to control me”, Polaris continued,

“Pol can you even hear yourself right now, a building was on fire, a building that just so happens everyone here needs, and as far as I knew you were the quickest option in outing the fire, and what the fuck is this about you should know that I’m one of the last people that would try to treat you the same way Zaraar treated you”, Barak answered back,

“ you know what you need some more time to cool off”, Barak said, turning to walk away, but as he did that he saw Bard with an extremely large table, it had burn marks at the end, but before barak could say anything , Bard dropped the very large table in the middle of the training area,

Out behind Bard walked Amon and Yumi, they both approached the table, without missing a beat Amon threw a Large map onto the table,

“Everyone gather around”, Amon shouted,

you could feel it in the air, the lack of motivation and the slight stench of despair, from the rebel forces, as they dragged their sleepless feet to the table that Bard had put their,

Amon looked around at his forces, or at least what was left of them, he could see the tiredness within their faces, he could feel their unrest as they shuffled around, he knew within himself that this was the lowest that their Morale had ever been, but he also knew that they were past the point of no return, he swallowed the air in his throat, tat had run dry at the sight of how things were,

“Guys listen, this is not looking good, frankly it’s even worse than it looks, After the assault last night, they barely left us with a days worth of food, they burnt all the rest, along with damaging the living quarters”, Amon explained,

“along with that, we are going into this fight with ten percent less forces than what we initially had, either due to injury of death”, Amon continued,

Zack rushed forward to the front of the table,”did I just hear you correctly, I get it, you want to help many of us here take back our homes, and you want to stop your brother, but look at us we aren’t in any shape to be fighting”, Zack exclaimed,

“i know that”, amon answered somberly,

“but we aren’t in a place where we can be backing out”, regardless of what ever happens now, come tomorrow we either go to them and fight or they’re coming here and this time they’ll be coming with everything they have, so we literally don’t have a choice now”, Amon Continued to explain,

“we could always run”, someone within the crowd said,

“i’m sure we can, but know if we run we won’t ever have a chance of returning things to how they were”, Yumi stated chiming in,

“we run now and I guarantee that in the future the mere whisper of a rebellion will be met with overwhelming force, just to make sure it never gets to this point again”, Yumi finished explaining,

“guys look, you all are tired and angry, your homes have been taken over, loved ones and family members have been slaughtered, friends taken right before your eyes, but guess what I’m from the country that’s doing all of that and I haven’t been spared by them either, I’ve watched my friends die, I’ve seen my family turn their blade against me, I’ve seen places I’ve known since birth burnt to the ground, so I know of everyone’s anger, I know of everyone’s resentment, I also know of everyone’s fatigue and exhaustion, but I just ask of you just give me one more day, stick with me one more day and it will finally be over, we will finally be able to rest the burden we have been carrying all this time, stick with me...one...more ..day, and the corrupt royal family of Dracht will finally pay…... for…….. their…... sins”, Amon Exclaimed, preaching this to the people around him,

One by one, the life returned to everyone’s face around, but not with joy, what was on their faces was raw unfiltered rage,

“the guy sure knows how to give a speech”, Aster commented, looking from side to side at the three others that stood next to him,

“ I get the distinct feeling that this isn’t going to exactly end well for us”, Levant stated,

“Well for once I’m actually excited about a fight, I have some unfinished business with that assassin”, Polaris stated,

“I see that we’re all in agreement, lets go hunt us some royals then”, Barak said, his all to familiar wicked grin peeling across his face,

some time later

Amon sat on top of the roof of the base, looking off at the mountains that were to one side of the base, he heard the door to the roof creak open, he could feel the familiar presence approach behind him,

“damn I haven’t felt you this upset with me in a while”, Amon stated,

“Trust me my first instinct is to punch you extremely hard, but now is not the time”, the person stated,

Amon turned around, he looked at yumi in the face, her eyes had no trace of any perceived calmness, they were only filled with rage at this point,

“woah there if I didn’t know any better I would say you want to beat me to death”,Amon stated, giving a nervous chuckle at the sight of yumi,

“oh I want to, but that urge is quelled by the fact that you are planning on murdering the royal family and you aren’t being particularly quiet about it”, yumi explained,

“ Amon if you do this there is no coming back from it, you would be branded a criminal not only by Drahct but by everyone they are allied with”, Yumi continued,

“Has Aluric unnerved you that much”, Yumi questioned,

“to be quite honest with you I know my brother and the moment he realizes I’m out for blood against the royal family I know he’ll try his damnedest to try and stop me, so I resigned myself that I may also have to kill him”, Amon answered,

at the point of hearing this yumi lunged forward holding Amon by his shirt collar and pushing him over the edge of the building,

“is your judgement so clouded that you would stoop so low down as to killing your only brother, the brother who was abandoned by this country alongside you as a child, the brother who suffered with you when your parents were killed ,are you now abandoning him also”, Yumi asked,

Amon just looked at her, as his back dangled over the edge of the roof, his eyes remained cold and unchanging,

“you want to question me about judgement, from what I can see your still the same naive girl who feel in love with my brother all those years ago, and is still coming to grips with the monster he decided to become”, Amon stated, grabbing hold of yumi’s hand and pushing her back, stepping away from the edge of the roof,

“UGGHHH”, yumi bellowed, holding her palm to her head,

“ so whats your brilliant plan, an all out fight with all the adventures of the Artemis Guild, and hopefully you win and then just recklessly attack the Royal Palace, hate to break it to you, but even if you do manage to win, the palace will be heavily guarded, so you’ll essentially have to fight two wars”, yumi shouted towards Amon,

Amon’s eyes still held the same cold expressionless gaze, “has your opinion of me dropped so low in the last couple of hours, why do you think I’ve been up here since this morning”, Amon explained,

“i’ve been coming up with a plan every since then, and I’ve just about settled on one that should work, all things considered”, Amon finished explaining,

“ but before I tell what we are about to do next, I have one question, are you still with me ?”, Amon asked, extending his hand towards her with his fist folded,

“as angry as I am with you, we started this together, plus you aren’t going to get rid of me that easily”, Yumi said, bumping her fist into his,