Chapter 12:
{Ashu POV}
“Yawn! Good morning!” with my sleepy and barely opened eyes, I exited my bedroom and greeted Ray, who was busily cooking our breakfast and scrubing last night dishes.
“Good morning to you too. Good now that you woke up, can you help with these dishes?”
“Sure.” I rolled my sleeves, splutter some water on my face and started washing the dishes.
“Where’s Cale?” I asked as I threw last night’s leftovers from the sink in the dustbin.
“Don’t even talk about that rascal.”
“How so?”
“He ran away instead of helping, dumping all his trash to me to clean, saying he was going to look for ourselves a new job, as an excuse.” Ray gripped the frying pan in his hand, for a second, I felt he would slam it but he didn’t because knowing the omelette that was in the frying pan, would get scramble.
“Hey, easy man- no need to burn your face over it, chill.”
“Let him come, I swear, I’ll force that bastard to wash our dishes!”
“Grab yourself a plate first, breakfast is ready.”
“S-Sure…” I washed my hand and picked out a clean plate to eat, Ray passed me the omelette and I took out a packet of bread from the cabinet.
“What about you!?” I asked as I head over the dining table and sat with my plate,
“I already ate a lot of fruits, when I woke up, so, I’m not that hungry.”
“Oh!”
“Yo!”
“Good morning, Cale. How was the searching?” I asked as he returned and drag the chair from dining table and sat, beside me.
“Put that bread down or else! Clean all the dishes befor you take a single bite or you won’t get any food to eat, next time!!” Said Ray, in an angry voice, warning him, before Cale could picked the food from my plate.
“!!”
“Pss, is he like this all time or what?” he asked as he got up from the chair and head over the sink and started cleaning the utensils.
“So, how was the job searching, found anything?” I asked as I assembled the sandwich and started eating.
“Yeah, I got ourselves a big one.” he replied while washing and putting the dishes in the shelf.
“What’s the job?”
“Well, we have to protect a government official of planet three for a month or so, until he resolve the recent issue of rapid consumption of drug usage that is happening in his planet.”
“Huh? Why a government official needed protection from underground guild, he could ask for protection from the official guild or the Justica.”
“I don’t know all the details but from what the bar-lady told me, our employer belongs to a one of those forsaken planet.” Said Cale, as he was scrubbing the dishes while Ray sat beside me constantly staring at Cale’s back.
“Forsaken!? How so?” I asked.
“You see…”
“There are in total 197 Planets with civilization, and most of them are come under one of the 4 major powers.” Said, Cale.
“Oye! Chop-chop, move your hand, we don’t have all the time.”
“…” Cale looked at me but I avoided any eye contact and turned my head down, continued my eating.
“…” Cale stared Ray with intent to kill, but Ray didn’t sense anything and stared back at him.
I thought to myself, ‘I’m glad, I chose the right path.’ Cale turned and continued washing the plates.
Ray turned to me and continued “So, where was he? Yeah, those superpowers, rule their tetories according to their own acord, but there are some planets with civilization that do not come under the influence of any 4 major powers those are known as forsaken.”
“Therefore, these forsaken planets are isolated themeselvs from the rest of us and cannot associate with anyone else, you could say, they are abandoned and because of that no help will be available for them.”
“But why they do not just join a faction?”
“Balance of power, groups with massive influence and power don’t want their competitors to gain more than so they already have. So, they restrict each other’s.” Said Ray.
“That’s why netizens of forsaken nation seek assistance from people or organisation, that is not under the influence of major players,each 197 planet have their own personal tower and because of which, trade and travels is possible.”
“Hmm… So, when are we leaving?” I asked Cale.
“This afternoon, we will meet our employer at the guild.” Said Cale.
After eating breakfast, all three of us freshened ourselves and got ready then we made our way to the guild to meet with our employer.
Upon arriving there, I asked “So, where is he?”
“Let me ask the lady.” Cale went to the bar counter, and started talking to the bartender lady, he returned “ Table number 3.”
While heading their Ray bumped to a man, the man was huge and his whole body shrouded in black cloth. He too was wearing the same white mask as us. He turned to Ray, to which Ray apologized.
He gave node and went on his way, “Man, that guy was huge!”
“You should be careful, people here are quite dangerous, we should avoid attracting any attention.”
We got to the table, where our employer was waiting for us.
“Mr Walt.” Cale called.
“Ah! Yes, and you are?”
“We were the ones to accept your job posting. Lake Kile, and these two are my companions, Jay Rowan, and Luke Raymond.”
“Hello, nice to meet you.”
“Like wise, sir.” I spoked and Ray gave a polite nod.
“Now that the introduction are done, shall we start discussing about the job?” Said Cale.
“Sure, why not, please have a sit.” All three of us sat down, facing our employer, Ray called out the waitress, on her arrival Ray placed an order, asking for four cups of tea.
“Thank you.” Said the man, as the waitress offered the tea each of us.
“First of all, I liked to thank you for accepting my job, you don’t know how much it meant to me.” Said our employer with a polite tone and a slight head bow, to show how much he was grateful.
“You don’t need to thank us, Mr walt. In fact, we need to thank you for giving us the opportunity.” Said Ray.
“So, Mr Walt please tell us more about the job?” Said Cale.
“Ah! Yes, so you might already aware of the what type of job it is from the posting?”
“Yes, you need protection until you resolve the issue of your home planet.”
“Correct, you see a secret criminal organisation is after my life, they want to weed me out as soon as possible. So, I want strong people, who can assure my safety until I resolve my issue of my home planet.” Said the man.
“Okay, but why this organisation is after you, what did you do?” asked Ray.
“You see, I’m elected for the presidency of our planet, and my political rival is a member of this organisation.”
“You see for past few years our planet is going through a sort of a crisis, because of revolutionary activities, due to which our current leader was forced to relinquished his position.
One day I happened to hear of a certain organisation is the cause root for all chaos happening in my home.”
“I secretly started my own investigation, during one of my investigation, I found out that the leader of this organisation is none other than… the leader of the reputed party known as Aries and one of the 9 members of Hemitheos.”
“ Haqil of the moonless night.”
“…”
“!!”
“!?” upon hearing the name of the man, who was after our employer life, all three of had different reaction.
I was silent, same goes for the Cale and Ray, all three of us knew who our employer was talking about.
“You guys know him!?” He asked.
“Well, not personally. You see Haqil Aries, is somewhat of a famous person in our observable universe.” Said Ray.
“His family was the supplier of arms, that was used in the recent gray war. His family was the one who supplied weapons to us during our battle, because of which he was appointed as the one of the nine hemitheos just recently. Which is now considered as one of the major superpowers ”
“What are hemitheos?” asked our emplyer.
“Think of them, as an extremely powerful individuals, that world government currently allied with. To prevent other two powers and their great families to gain any more power and control of the tower, than they already have, just by allying with these individuals’ world nobles maintain certain balance of power and authority.” Said Ray, who then took a sip from the cup and then asked our employer.
“But I don’t get it!? Why someone as powerful as him need to interfere with the politics of a forsaken territories ?”
“You see our planet in the past was known as a, Hellnic republic?”
“It was an ancient but one of highly advanced planet that had quite the history with, World nobles.”
“! Please elaburate!?"I said.
"90 Years ago, the leader of our planet was offerd the posistion of a world noble, but he refused it and this action angerd the world goverment and hence it led our planet to become one of a forsken relms. Which made people of nation furious with our leader and goverment."
“But what that got to do with Haqil?” asked Cale.
“Like I said before, the master mind behind all the chaos in my home planet is Haqil, he is looking for a way to attain the authority of our tower to increase his power and influence in secret.”
“Apparently, it was him who had been instigating the revolutionaries, that all I could find on my investigation. Other than that fact, I don’t know anything else nor could I do anything about him.”
“I don’t know how but he knows that, I know, he is the head of the criminal organisation and the one causing the mayhem in our planet and that I’m one of the opposing candidates for the presidency.”
“That’s why you came to guild for protection,” I asked.
“Yes. Even though what I heard may or may not be just a rumour, but I’m quite sure that he is the man behind the everything, that’s why I need to return to my planet and inform everybody about him and his plans.”
“So, in the end his end goal is to take over your planets tower, but I still don’t get why, if is that powerful then why go all this much trouble, he could easily take over your planet by force.” Asked Cale.
“No, he can’t, not directly because, if were to do that that he would loose his title as one of the nine hemitheos due breaking the agreement between him and world nobles. Which in turn will put him in the open for an attack. Each of the hemitheos can have only limited territories, if they try to get greedy, they would break the agreement that was made by 4 powers. And their titles will be taken back by the world goverment.” Said, Ray.
“If I don’t hurry back to my home to put the stop to his ploy, things will go exactly as he planned!”
“I see… that explains why the reward was so much,” I said.
“Now, that we heard about everything, please can you tell us when we will leave for your planet?” Asked Cale.
“Now, if you’re okay with it. I have an airship docked at the nearest mooring tower.” said our employer.
“We are okay with it but can you give us few more hours, we need pack few of our stuffs that we might in need.”
“Sure! And please you can call me Jay, I may not look it but I’m not that old.”
“Okay Jay, so we will meet at the mooring tower at 3 o clock, is it time good for you?” I asked.
“Absolutely!”
And with that we got ourselves a new job with a pay large enough to by us a small air ship.
Ray, Cale, and I return to our room and started packing.
“It was thing we got ourselves a new high reward job, because with our earnings from the last mission, was about to finish. With the rent for this place and few our sutffs, all the money was about to be depleted.” I said.
“Yeah…” Said Ray, with a look that was telling he was thinking about something.
“Is something on you mind?” I asked.
“It’s about the job, you see this Haqil guy is quite dangerous individual, more so than the lieutenant Lester. We barely got ourselves escape from him, just think about the trouble we might we get ourselves in with him as our enemy.” Said Ray.
“Is he that powerful?” I asked.
“Yes… not everybody can acquire the tile of hamitheos, to acquire one, you need to prove the world government that you’re power enough to pose a imminent threat to them. You need have influence, abilities, territories enough to make the world nobles to think before going against you, that’s who are hamitheos are.”
“I wonder what kind of a guy he is?” Said Cale.
“Sigh…” Ray didn’t say anything and continued packing.
“In any case, with this mission we’llsoon have ourselves enough reward to buy ourselves our very airship and can register ourselves as a party to the tower. Like I said before, we cannot turn back once we started moving forward. Even if God himself appear Infront of me, saying Ashu turn back, I won’t, no matter how strong the enemy standing Infront of me.”
“So, worry not, we’ll find a way out, if we got ourselves in the danger. And its not like we have to directly face him, we just need deal with his pawn, that is running for the presidency.”
“You might be right…”
To be continued….
Author note:: don't worry, editing will be done in few day's, I'm sorry for that, my editor is gone for holydays. he'll back in few days. I'll make to sure woop his a** and edit every errors and will try to make more appealing.
I'll promise.
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