Love and War: Intro

“Oh uh… Hello there.” A random girl had rustled her through the bushes to find herself stared down by many soldiers. “I’ll just… uh…” She was off in a flash, but Captain Giat was hot on her tail. The protesting of the Grand Commander came to no avail as Giat charged after the girl.

“Protecting your spy, Captain Giat?” Ella asked as Giat stumbled into both Ella, and the Baroness.

“Perhaps Chiefess Ella, if you send better spies, you would not have need of such lousy cover stories.” Giat rebutted.

“What I don’t need is more of you brass and simple-minded oafs invading our forest!” Ella took a stomp forward with her hoof. “Did that look like a faun to you?!”

“She has a point.” The Grand Commander stepped forward. “Unless the vile creatures have learned how to change their purple skin .”

“She was clearly human.” The Baroness stated. “And therefore clearly YOUR spy.”

“Permission to make a proposition, sir?” Giat questioned. The Grand Commander glared at him, but nodded. “Well, if she is not of either of our kingdoms, then that is quite the discovery. Perhaps a temporary partnership? Between my...self and Chieftess Ella?” Giat had paused mid-sentence as the Commander’s glaring increased. “Due purely to our respect for each other, of course, sir.”

“This a rather drastic change.” Ella reluctantly agreed. “One we would both discover sooner or later. And this monkey’s assistance would be… more helpful than most.” The Baroness looked to the Grand commander, and both scoffed.

“What would be helpful to you, Miss Ella.” The Commander replied. “Is lowering your consumption.” Ella’s eyes went wide, and she charged at the Commander. In a panicked Giat got in the way barely deflecting her sword. Ella swung again, and Gait swung with his hammer in turn. The Baroness, and Grand Commander jumped into the fight. The longer the fight became the more it favor Giat and the Commander. As the Fauns were fast chaotic creature, which relied on bringing down the more defensive human army as fast as possible. In this vein, Ella made a surprise attack at the commander. Giat grabbed Ella’s arm and tugged both away only to position himself directly in front of the Baroness strike. But just before she could land the blow Ella made a wild swing and tugged Giat towards her. But the weight of his armor caused the ground to collapse beneath him, and sent both Giat and Ella tumbling down a steep cliff. Giat held Ella tight, and protected every part of her he could as they rolled down. When they finally reached bottom Ella had him pinned down, and looked over him. The sounds of argumentative gibberish about concerned over Gait’s potential injuries ended as Ella locked him in a long, passionate kiss.

“I will gladly take a few sword swings for that.” Giat replied somewhat awestruck.

“Are all of you such children?” Ella questioned with a bemused chuckled.

“Only in the face of such beauty.” Giat replied.

“Speaking of good looks.” Ella replied. “You have no right to be hiding such a handsome figure under that armor of yours.” their loving qurall, and passionate gazes were interrupted by the sound of a robot. The three of them stared at each other for a while before Ella whispered. “Just say what you need me to do.

“That's ...not ours.” Giat replied. “From where do you hail?” The robot responded by turning around and walking forward before turning back to them again. Both looked at each other. “Not like we have anywhere else to go.” Ella followed Giat in a rather protective fashion as both followed the robot back to an unguarded gate. From this side it looked abandoned, but beyond was a bustling city. Filled with Fauns, Humans, and various other creatures. That, of course, was several years ago now. Giat placed an arm around Ella’s shoulders as she looked over it. Ella rested her head against him as she spoke.

“I won’t hold your opinions against you.” Ella stated. “I can only tell you the story of how two low ranking leaders brought about the collapse of their kingdoms.” Ella wrapped herself around Giat. “And that whatever you may think, I would gladly do all of it again.”