Fate and Freedom V: By Order of the Emperor

"Helyna!" Rakurai shouted, almost impatiently, casuing his girlfriend to frezze. He put his hands on her shoulders and shook her gently.

"Just tell me what's going on," he said.

"...It's better if you see with your own eyes," she whispered. She dragged the young man through the many broken and battered alleyways and turns of Hikari, until at last the castle (or rather, what was left of the castle) came into view.

It was covered in ice.

As Rakurai and Helyna joined the already blooming crowd of onlookers, he noticed that about a hundred imperial soldiers, all dressed in the trademark Ukanlos armour and weapons, stood in lines in front of it, impassive, as if to guard the colossal structure. From the mass of grey-white bodies came three authoritative looking people. Two were dressed in Alatreon armour, one male and carrying an Alatreon Revolution, one female and wielding a Dark Claw "Demise". The woman's irises were milky-white, like all the other imperials', and her ruby lips were curled into a thin, forced smile, as if she had somewhere else to be and was disgusted by the sight that faced her. There was no feasable way to tell what the man was thinking or feeling, as his face was hidden beneath the steely, pitch-black exterior of the Alatreon helm. It was these two figures that caught the attention of Rakurai, and Helyna inparticular seemed rhater off-put.

"What is it? You know them?" Rakurai muttered to her.

"Those two...they're part of the Abyssal...

(unfinished)