5day of the Red sun year 190

Xeor,Glori,Kihina and Sherror had reached the city of Fapur after

a long and cumbersome journey as the Hawkmen were not so good at walking but after they escorted them home they quickly reached the city and now were before the Elders of the Catmen and the new generals.

(Elder)-Now we will not surrender, we don't need peace with the Empire we will just destroy them now that the old emperor died and the tribes are in chaos for his Succesor It will be our chance

(Xeor)-See Kihina I told you It will have fun

(Kihina)-Elder you do know who you are talking to, don't you

(another Elder)-We do know the hero who destroyed Sherror's army and now has Sherror as his Follower, but that's old news now

(Kihina)-Don't be Idiots you are telling you want to fight an alliance of lionmen,Hawkmen and boarmen rather than make him your king?

(Catman General)-Precisely, we have estimated that the three tribes together don't even sum up to half of our army and thank's to the previous general's messages we now know that the lionmen are too few to actualy pose a threat and as for the boarmen, we heard they are rather weak to begin with although they are many you have only one tribe under your control

(Xeor)-I see news travel quite slowly

And as they were talking a messanger came to the general and wispered something to his ear

(Catman General)-As it seems now you have the whole of them but that doesn't make up for them being weak not to talk about the Hawkmen who turned to be the weakest of them all

(Glori)-Say that again if you dare

(Catmen General)-The weakes....

A Roar Interupted their conversation

(Xeor)-You talk too much you know, why don't you fight Glori here to see by youeself if he is weak or not

(Catman General)-He should fight but not me I am but a strategist a guy who know how to think, he should face a warrior whose job is to fight battles

(Xeor)-Why not but only under the condition that if your warrior loses you will meet his fate

(Catman General)-Then how about If He wins you will just leave as you came

(Xeor)-If you want to fatten it up, then how about If Glori wins the whole Kinship will belong to me

(Elders)-No!

(Catman General)-You see the Kinship belongs to its people not just me , you can't make it yours just by beating one warrior

(Xeor)-Then how many warriors does it take

(Elder)-Prepostrous, we will not give you our Kinship even if you kill us all

(Xeor)-So just seventy elders are all that needs to die right?

(Catmen General)-Okey I will agree to your proposal but it won't be a one on one It will be our most capable warriors against you four, and they amount to at least a hundred how about that

(Xeor)-Sounds reasonable

(Kihina)-What, why are you agreeing to that?

(Xeor)-Why not I can kill them all just by myself now

(Kihina)-I know you are good at fighting but why me too, I don't want to die.....

(Xeor)-Come on don't cry if you like you can stand and just watch from the sidelines as we trumble them

(Glori)-I don't think she likes the idea of you killing her breathren

(Sherror)Hahaha

(Catman General)-Whatever, my name is Deatlan and in a week you will have your battle in front of all the catmen, so that non can question your your leadership if by chance you win

(Xeor)-Great we will have a huge audience

The elder didn't say a word as they could do nothing but hope that he dies in the battle to come, but knowing how he destroyed the dogmen alone made them tremble in fear.

Deatlan also had a few problems at his side as noone was crazy enough to give his life for a fight against the Hero of the Kinship and most would happily make him king if he liked to be one but his worse problem was that even if he won their best warriors would be cripples or killed so the campaign to destroy the empire would become even harder to accomplish.

Now while Xeor and his companions were sleeping in their tents Deatlan was walking back and forth in his wooden hut, under the complete cover of darkness he tried to find a way to Save the Kinship.

Deatlan was a normal Catman but his mind was that of a cunning fox and while others called him weak, he schemed his way to the top and even if Xeor hadn't taken the former generals he would still have gained the position by talent.It was to his merit that the secret ops were established, as he planted spies and sent catmen to gather Intelligence about the other races movements, he had even eyes on the humans who seemed quite weak by his specs. he had eyes everywhere on their side of the great river till the Iron Mountains where the Canine Empire's capital was.

Now that clever cat was about to match wits with a lion, but in that darkness a glim had lit in his eyes as a plan so devious he had come up with that it scared even him.

The next day all the kinship knew about the fight that would take place but not could think of an Idiot who would challenge the Hero,

although many wanted to have a match with him few dared to fight him to death.

Hopefully for Deatlan in their society he could buy warriors with the right price on the line and so the next days he went from town to town gathering warriors by promising riched and fame.

But the most important part was his meeting with Salmar the most infamous cugarman in the kinship, who was exiled one or more times, coming back everytime with a new name and identity but the reason of their meeting I will not reveal.

Salmar was weaklooking and old in age but he travelled a lot and in one of his travels he found something that changed his life, it was catnip a herb that to catmen works as a drug, just by chewing on one

their mind stops working and they feel good but when one becomes too addicted to that happiness they will do anything for it.

But what Deatlan wanted was not that, it was another herb Salmar had in his possesion, that works as poison but not many catmen are crazy enough to eat grass, so Salmar had used it many times just by

dyeing his claws in it's extract he had killed many foes and even escaped death.The deal was now closed and each took his own path and only two days now remained till the match.

9day of Red sun year 190

It was late at night and Xeor was right about to go to sleep in the hut he was given to stay then at the door he saw the orb it glowed an earie red light.Xeor didn't think twice before saying "Why now?" and following it, on his way he stumbled on someone and went faster under the cover of the night. He couldn't think as the light went faster

he also went faster he saw it leaving the town gates and went after it

Ignoring the guards who were half asleep themselves, they didn't even budge as they thought of him as an illusion of their sleepiness.

Xeor followed the orb for a long time till it dissapeared before a small forest and the god's voice could be heard from the sky although he could not see the hand in the darkness of the night.

(Creator)-I see you are good to your promises

(Xeor)-I did as you asked, I am here now

(Creator)-Yes you are and I am glad about it, but there is a reason for you to be here Xeor, This is the enchanted forest within which

Lies the School of gods My last and greatest creation

(Xeor)-School? what's that?

(Creator)-It's a place where people will be trained and educated but in this precise school each god will mold their own champion for the incoming games of war which you so much like

(Xeor)-Do I have to be trained now cause I'm a bit busy at the moment uniting the beastmen

(Creator)-Don't be afraid the first preparations will only take a day or two, you will be back in time for your match and with a bit of my magic this time

(Xeor)-I will do anything you ask of me I would even lose the match for magic

(Creator)-Don't say that, you know I made your race in a most exquisite of designs, a battle machine but for you to win the fight you will need more than just magic, as we speak the other gods are still deciding on their champion but I have chosen you cause you might be a savage but your potential for creation is as high as your fighting spirit, you can make cities of stone or wood or even dirt, you posess a mind that non of your mortal friends can understand, you have dreams that in time you will realise

Xeor was out of words and a bit confused at the many and complicated things but he knew it was a good thing by the god's tone of voice.

When the sun came out, in the city of Fapur an aproar begun as a catman was found dretched in blood dead by falling on his own claws, non knew him but one person Deatlan.The death was written down as an accident as he was quite old but Deatlan knew it wasn't as he had paid that old fool Salmar a lot in order to have him poison Xeor and taking the blame for it as he was a wanted beastman anyway so it would seem like an accident, he even told him where Xeor's hut was and he died in the middle of the road with his claws soacked in poison by impaling himself to death and on top of that his spies managed to lose Xeor's whereabouts in the middle of the night

when they were exchanging shifts and non had seen him leave the city. In Deatlan's tent that day he and his chosen champion Akish and the Intel gathering leader Shordax were talking about it.

(Deatlan)-How can he have just vanished?

(Shordax)-I know but they just saw him ready to lay down and then he vanished without a trace

(Deatlan)-Why didn't they check he might have just run away

(Shordax)-But they did, you know we ctmen can see in the dark and my spies are the best eyes and ears of the kinship but they were too scared to aproach his hut to inspect more closely and thought he had just fell asleap, only in the morning did they realise he had evaded them.

(Akish)-So either this Xeor fellow is a genius or the luckiest fellow in the world, you know they found the most dangerous of criminals dead this morning heading towards his hut, probably to rob someone but word goes he was killed by Xeor in that way because he wanted him to die of his own poison

(Deatlan)-As if Xeor knows what poison is, he's just a forest pumpkin

(Shordax)-Are you sure about that, my sources say he had faked his own death just to evade a war with the boarmen, and even united the boarmen in just ten minutes of time, not to exclude the potential that he is a god in disguise, as we heard the boarman chief calling him

(Deatlan)-Those are just rumors If he was that smart he would just call it an alliance and then with our help conquer the entire continent, but he chose stupid words like conquer and invade and even threatened to kill the elders than bribing them

(Akish)-But wouldn't that leave him with a thorn in the back, he did intent to become a monarch, no?

(Deatlan)-Idiot, even the Canine emperor had to ask fo the elders' support to rule the dogmen

(Akish)-But if he makes it won't that make him a true Emperor of the beastmen, and ruler of all

(Deatlan)- Fool do you think any of the races he conquered so far would even think of avenging him if he dies?

(Shordax)-Well, it seems the boarman chief could be one, his friend the chief of the lionmen might as well so two, then there is the problem with you insulting that wingman so I thing all the races so far might come at us, but you didn't even think of that possibility did you oh great strategist

(Deatlan)-shut up you Idiot, do you think the Boarman would care to avenge the slayer of their previous chiefs, or his friends who behind his back call him crazy and an idiot and as for the Hawkmen they have already been destroyed by Xeor so why help him, and as for the insults, they will never hear about them and if they lose in a duel all the more reason to be called weak

(Akish)-So three against a hundred is now called a duel, sounds more like a lynching to me

(Deatlan)-What do you care all you have to do is beat Xeor before the others do and the title of the strongest will be yours

(Akish)-Is it the stress of betting you life on the line or have you grown stupid Deatlan who would call me strong if I gang up with the others if its not in a duel non will even recognise me as a warrior, I don't know how you found all those idiots but lump me with them

(Deatlan)-You are the stupid here, If I thought you could beat him I would have asked for a normal duel and you would have become the new Hero of the Kinship but like some other time before I had to resort to all sort of foul play again

(Akish)-Foul play and again?

(Deatlan)-Well do you remember how you became the champion of the arena?

(Akish)-Yes I beat that weakling Fuur

(Deatlan)-And didn't you find it stange that you beat him so easily?

(Akish)-Well I was stronger than him so he lost

(Deatlan)-And it didn't even pass your mind that the duel was staged, did it?

(Akish)-Preposterous, who would do such a thing?

(Deatlan)-Well you see some ex-general and I had a huge bet on the winner and he had selected the winning champwho was sure to win, so I did many things to ensure your victory, like strange rumors about your incredible strength or the insults the champ said about you and other things as paying the chump somuch meat that he could live for ten years without even coming out of his hut

(Akish)-Impossible

(Deatlan)-Oh and I was about to blackmail you with that if you refused to fight in the match but you turned to be an Idiot so listen, If Xeor doesn't die you will die either in your sleep or outside in the wilderness exiled for something you didn't do, do you get it now

Akish didn't say a word and was just trying not to cry preserving the little selfesteem he had left

(Deatlan)-Now back to you Shordax, you imbecile do you think a god would just challenge us to a fight when he could just destroy us?

(Shordax)-Well there are many god as to speak

(Deatlan)-And who would he be the god of idiocity or maybe oh yes surely he must be the god of creation, the great creator Xeor hahaha

The rest of the day Deatlan passed throwing insults at Xeor although in reality it was all pure jealousy cause Xeor did that ,which he wanted to do Years before he had come, Deatlan's Ambition was to become an emperor like the canines' Emperor and he was so close.

He only had one step, destroying the canines and become a Hero but that plan was thwarted not once but twice now and the first time was when Xeor fought alone against Sherror, he was the commander Xeor ridiculed that day and probably didn'teven remember him but Deatlan was sure not to forget that, but the second time was even worse as he had staged it so that the previous generals would try and unsurp control over the elder and he would be the one to save the Kinship and now after he had the emperor assassinated Xeor appeared once more to steal his spotlight once more and unite everyone under himself.

If Xeor is left alive he will probably rule the whole continent as Akish stated but the worst thing would be he would lose any chance in becoming a ruler of the Kinship forever as Xeor might be a fool but he didn't stike as a tyran or corupted in the least by greed and no weak spot to make him crawl at his feet, it was as if he was a divine emmisary trying to united the scattered and warbound beastmen tribes and did it with such ease as if it was something normal.

But enough of my introductions lets go to Xeor's groups' meeting

(Kihina)-Anyone seen Xeor today?

(Glori)-I did Five rounds all around the city and he has just vanished

(Sherror)-I could have tried tracking his oddor but I've got no subordinates now who can do that, but if he only had a dogman tracker we could have found him quite easily

(Kihina)-He couldn't have just vanished with just one day left before the fight or could he

(Glori)-Nah he probably went hunting or something to relief his boredom

(Sherror)-I don't even care as long as he's here in time

(Kihina)-And if he left with his tail between his legs

All three laughed together even Kihina couldn't believe he would do something like that, after all he had crushed a whole army single handedly.

The day passed them by as they were now waiting at the arena entrance for Xeor to show up, well he couldn't have lost his way since he had his tracking spell, but the arena was now full and all the other warriors and the crowd were getting impatient

(Kihina)-Now what are we going to do?

(Sherror)-Well no big deal, they did anounce it as Xeor's team so it doesn't have to be Xeor Who fights his team is enough

(Glori)-No trouble those weakling won't survive for long anyway lets go Kihina

(Kihina)-But I don't want to...

Inside the arena an aproar of Boos was being directed at Deatlan who had organized the whole fiasco and he himself went out to end it

(Deatlan)-Xeor you freaking coward come out here and fight me, I know you are afraid of the hundreds behind me but now its just a one on one you and me

That he said loudly so that all could hear in the arena and even if Glori so wanted to kill him now he couldn't.Deatlan had played his cards fluently as he knew perfectly well that Xeor couldn't hear him as he wasn't even in town and now he could become the hero of the Kinship If the sky hadn't suddenly darkened as a colossal boulder fell from the sky nearly killing him, and stopping right before him and

as Deatlan took a breath of relief he saw the boulder cracking and ran away as fast as possible. In a few seconds the boulder exploded sending fragmends in all directions hitting and injuring many beastmen warriors and spectators and as the smoke cleared out in it's place was Xeor, who Roared out of delight

(Xeor)-that was one heck of a ride

he said and went to where his group was with a satisfied face as if he made it in time for the match but after his entrance not only the opponents but even his "friends" were left paralyzed with fear, he made everyone think that he was a god all begun kneeling before him all but Deatlan who shouted

(Deatlan)-He is not a god, he can't be a god , Xeor come here and fight me now you and me

(Xeor)-Why would I want to fight you and why are they all kneeling, where are my opponents?

And he Roared in anger as he went through a lot to get back in time

just for this event and now it is all ruined but by his attitude even Deatlan fell down on his knees trying to blend with the others,

with only one though, If I can't be his enemy then better be his underling than dead meat.

Despite Xeor's displeasure about how he conquered the Catmen he was now seen as a god and no catman would dare fight him and he left Dealtor and Kihina to Rule over the Kinship in his leave as he went with Sherror and Glori to conquer the Canine empire to the north. The reason he left Dealtor in charge was simple, he was the only one whom he remembered in the balk of people, although he had forgotten who he was but he did remember he had seen him somewhere before, not so strange since he only saw him at the elders' meeting for a while and he stroke to him that he had balls, wanting to go against him was quite an intresting thing and he did hate boring things.