by Augustus Germanus » Sun Jul 12, 2020 5:39 pm
13:10, Small town on the outskirts of Svalvík, Republic of Davostan, 14 July 4725
"Good day, young child" said the lady the young child could not see properly as the sun almost entirely blinded him. "Where are your old folks? Your mom and dad?" the lady asked. "I... I don't have a mom or dad..." the young child answered. The lady curiously observed the unnourished black haired young boy. She found the young boy's eyes to be of especial interest. "Dark blue, empty and at the same time penetrating... interesting" the lady thought to herself. While she stretched out her hand towards the boy, she said "My name is Lucille, but you can call me Lucy". The young boy, while sitting down leaned towards the ruined wall, looked up and as the sun was positioning itself in the right place the boy could see more clearly who stood in front of him. The cold empty and piercing eyes glowed up in admiration as the boy blushingly observed the lady in front of him; with silver blonde hair, grey penetrating eyes and the face of a beautiful 25 year old, the lady showed a bright kind smile which held a charming mischievousness about it. The young boy stretched out his hand of pale white skin and took the lady's one. "Don't worry. I'll take care of you" the lady said while holding the young boy's hand."
15:45, Bunker under the City Hall, Fladborg, Third Kivonian Republic (Davostan), 12 July 4777
"Commander! Commander!" are the words which was able to wake Julius Callus up from his thoughts. "Yes. What is it Lieutenant?" the de facto leader of the Third Kivonian Republic responds back. "The enemy forces is about to reach the center of the city. The helicopter at Site D is ready, should we pack our things and move?" the lieutenant asked. Julius Callus watched the soldier calmly and with piercing eyes for a few seconds. "Yes I believe it is time. Issue an executive command to the remaining defensive forces: Kivonia or death" Julius Callus answered the lieutenant. The lieutenant looked worryingly at his colleague sitting next to him, not sure how he felt about the order he had been given. "Yes Sir! Right away!" the lieutenant answered firmly to try to hide his reluctance.
As the Counselor of the Republic ran through the secret tunnel built in preparation for the battle of Fladborg towards Site D, he is stopped by a familiar voice, "CALLUS!". As Callus slowed down to the point of completely halting his movements, he understood who had just arrived. "Well, well. If it isn't miss State Officer" Callus said with a calm voice as he turned around to find Isabella Cederstam 20 meters away with a gun pointed at him. Cederstam as usual around the mysterious man a bit in front of her got nervous, especially when she noticed his calm demeanor and small mischievous smile. "Callus! End this war right now! There is no point in continuing to make people suffer further!" Cederstam angrily shouted at him. Cederstam is completely put of balance when Callus gives a loud laugh as an answer. "End the war? To stop people from further suffering? The Kivonians and Davostanis will never stop suffering as long as they exist" Callus responded with a clearly visible, and according to Cederstam evil, smile. "That's not true! They can coexist! Both can express their cultures, no one has to suffer..." Cederstam said as she tried to reason with him. "That's naive Isabella. Still you are human, so its reasonable for you to not understand" Callus nonchalantly answered. While they both looked at each other, the whole tunnel corridor started to shake when bombs were being dropped above them. As the two archenemies was unable to hold their balance, Callus took the opportunity to begin running towards Site D again. And as Cederstam finally noticed she tried to get a clear shot at him, but realized that he was to far away. She then proceeded to chase after him. At the end of the tunnel corridor Callus entered a storage room which was in the middle of the path. When Cederstam reached the same storage room she carefully looked around as no sounds could be heard. Callus then jumped up behind one of the storage boxes in the room and fired a few shots from his pistol. Cederstam hid behind another storage box and responded with her own shots, while shouting "Stop this at once Callus! Don't you understand how many loved ones people has lost?! Don't you have someone you love?!". As Julius Callus heard those words his mind once more entered a flashback...
19:30, Country side on the outskirts of Ballenhus, Republic of Davostan, 14 July 4725
The car arrived at a two-storey white house in the country side, a few miles outside the city of Ballenhus. While sitting in the passenger seat the young boy could see a young girl standing on the terrace of the house and waving to the lady who had driven them both. Before stepping out of the car, the lady known as Lucille said to the boy, "Welcome to your new home". As Lucille jumped out of the car, the young girl ran towards her and gave Lucille a hug, "MOM! I've missed you" the girl said while being embraced by Lucille. "I've missed you as well. And I've brought someone with me", while Lucille was saying this the young boy stepped out of the car and shyly looked at the young girl. Lucille made a gesture for the young girl to go and greet the boy. The young girl then walked up to him and without hesitation held her hand out, "Hi! My name is Erika. Erika Reinhardt" the young girl said. The boy looked at her and noticed her beautiful face surrounded by a silver blonde bob-cut almost reaching down to her shoulders, her grey eyes with the same piercing feeling as her mother's, the same height as his revealed that they were most likely the same age. The boy reached out to Erika's hand and greeted her with a, "Hi". Erika looked at him confused, "Don't you reveal your name when someone greets you?" Erika asked annoyed. While observing the scene in front of her Lucille held her bright smile and answered for the boy, "He doesn't have a name. He is an orphan I found in the outskirts of Svalvík". Erika looked at the boy with eyes filled with even more curiosity. "Oh... Then I'll name you." Erika told him with a cheerful smile. The boy looked at her with a slight interest. "How about... Julius!" Erika said while looking at the boy for approval. When the boy shyly looked down at the ground, Lucille said, "That's a wonderful name", the boy then looked up and started blushing when he meet Lucille's eyes and kind smile. "Then its decided! And I'll call you July for short" Erika said while smiling even more cheerfully to the boy. "My Lady the dinner is ready and served" the main servant of the house shouted to Lucille. "Thank you Robert, we'll be right there" Lucille answered. "Come July, Robert's food is the best in the world" Erika said while grabbing the hand of the boy who's name was now Julius.
16:27, Bunker storage room, Fladborg, Third Kivonian Republic (Davostan), 12 July 4777
"Someone I love huh?" Julius Callus mumbled to himself while Cederstam tried to shoot him from the other side of the room. Callus smiled to the thought, before he moved to the pillar in the middle of the room to try to flee through the exit towards Site D and the helicopter. While Callus was running and was about the leave the storage room, Cederstam took the opportunity to try to get a shot at him. The bullet she fired hit Callus in the right shoulder. The Counselor gives out a quiet moan and almost stumbled, but he managed to get himself to the room next door. Cederstam followed and found him standing in the middle of the next room facing her. Callus then tried to shoot her but misses when Cederstam took cover next to the door edge. When Cederstam heard the clicking sound of an empty gun, she jumped out and with heavily shaking hands fired three of her last bullets. One hit Callus' left shoulder, the second hit below the other bullet wound in the right shoulder and the third hit Callus' in the guts. Cederstam breathed heavily while dropping the gun and watched Callus fall down on the floor. Cederstam then leaned against the wall so that she could slide down to the floor, and continuing to breath heavily and trying to keep an eye at Callus. While giving noises out of pain, Callus tries to crawl his way towards the exit. Cederstam noticed but didn't do anything as she could see the amount of blood which followed him. Callus came to the realization that it was over and managed to roll to his back while facing the roof. When Cederstam saw this she got up and started to slowly walk towards him, when he started coughing Cederstam then sat down beside him and put his upper half in her arms. "Isabella?" Callus asks. "Yes, what is it?" she answers. "Proceed with the plan... her plan..." he tells her. Cederstam looked with a confused expression at him, "Who is she? What plan?" she asks knowing that his final moments were here. "Rei... Reinhardt. Outside of Balle...nhus... tell... tell... Erika... to conti...nue...", while saying this, the picture of Erika grabbing his hand towards the house and Lucille walking behind them with a smile, was the last thing Julius Callus saw before his eyes finally closed to never again open. Still confused Cederstam said, "I'll tell her, I promise", not fully comprehending what she had just heard.
16:05, Country side on the outskirts of Ballenhus, Occupied Davostan, 3 March 4780
As Cederstam steps out of her car, she sees a very old man standing on the terrace of the white two-storey house. "Greetings madam, my Lady has been expecting you" the servant known as Robert said with a creaking voice. Cederstam mumbles to herself, "Expecting me?". The old servant shows her the way in to the living room, in there a beautiful woman who looks as if she were 25 years old, with silver blonde hair and grey eyes with the same penetration which Callus had, turned towards Cederstam. "Hello there. I've heard so much about you. My name is Erika, Erika Reinhardt", the lady said while holding out her hand to Cederstam. "Isabella Cederstam. Thank you for having me here" Cederstam said nervously. At that moment another person stopped by the living room, Cederstam turned around and carefully observed the girl standing at the living room's entry and noticed that it was a literal copy of the lady she had just met. "This is my daughter Fredrika, she do look older but she is just 15" Erika said. Cederstam could feel how the girl known as Fredrika could almost see through her and with the same grey eyes as her mother. "Hi, my name is..." Cederstam says before being interrupted, "Isabella Cederstam right? I've seen you on the tv, you are a national hero" Fredrika says while giving the same small mischievous smile Cederstam always will remember from a certain someone "Julius Callus..." Cederstam thinks to herself. "Continue your training Fredrika" Erika tells her daughter. "May I ask something?" Cederstam says while looking curiously at Fredrika who went up stairs. "Anything" Erika responds calmly. "I have two questions. Are you all descendants of August Reinhardt?" Cederstam asks not knowing how the lady in front of her will respond. "Yes. I would say it's pretty obvious. There doesn't exist anyone named Reinhardt anymore in Davostan. And we are the few Kivonians left who shares our ancestral traits of silver blonde hair and grey eyes, something August had" Erika tells Cederstam, the latter pretty much in shock of what she just had heard. "I see... it's said that the Reinhardts died out in 4656 after Elise Reinhardt's death" Cederstam curiously tells. "No. We didn't die out and we will most likely never. We are like cockroaches, we will be the ones to crawl out when everyone else is gone" Erika says with a proud smile. "What about your second question?" Erika continues. "Oh yes... this might be personal but I think you understand why I would ask it" Cederstam says while Erika looks in to her eyes and gives her a small smile as if she knew what the question was. "Is your daughter, Fredrika, Julius Callus' daughter?" Cederstam carefully asks. A few seconds pass as silence fills the room, until Erika replies with "July was like a brother to me, we grew up together ever since we were children". Not entirely convinced by her answer Cederstam continues by saying "Well he might have been like your brother, but that hasn't stopped a Reinhardt before has it?". With an intrigued mind Erika looks Cederstam in the eyes for a few seconds. "Somethings are never known..." Erika replies calmly and coldly with her small mischievous smile again. Cederstam looks at her knowing that this is a mystery she won't figure out today, but perhaps soon. "Julius wanted me to say that you should continue" Cederstam says after another few seconds of silence. While looking at the floor Erika gives away a kind smile, she then says, "Well then... I shall tell you about the plan".