A Messenger, A Savior

I pace rapidly. Awaiting my turn to go on stage, I need air, or water, or probably both. My nerves have shot so far up that I can barely hear the person currently talking. If only they all knew how important what I’ve got to say is. I wish the person on stage would speak faster. All of this waiting, it’s pushing me to insanity! What if I go on stage, and the council finds what I’ve got to say as dull or insignificant! Right, concentrate. It’ll be all right, I’ve just got to go out there and pray to the Gods that the council will help us.

“Hello, I’d like to begin by blessing you all for listening to my speech, and for the honor of presenting it to you. My name is Dr. Leo James, and I desire to discuss Earth. Although King Aegostrol and Queen Khalasaar have been in check of Earth since the Great War, we must remember that it was Henbarth who created Earth so he’d have a place for his creatures of war and for him and his family to live. I have reason to believe that Henbarth has been on the move and that he is planning on commencing war one last time between Earth and Sierta. But this will be no ordinary fight. Henbarth plans to either win over our home star: Sierta, or go down fighting. He will not back down or surrender this time as he has done in his previous attempts to attack and take control of our home.”

“And why should we believe you? What proof do you have that can convince us?”

“For a start, because I came directly from Earth, from Henbarth himself. Three years ago, I was employed in secret directly by Queen Khalassar. She had had a dream, a vision, that Henbarth would once again attempt an attack on Sierta and that this time he would neither surrender nor flee. She hired me to keep an eye on him just in case. I spent the first two years earning his credence and getting myself the title of his assistant. And I have spent this past year watching over his shoulder as he creates the most terrifying new creatures and builds the most horrific weapons of war any living creature has set eyes on before.”

“And why have you come to us? Why have you not gone straight to Queen Khalaasar and King Aegostrol? Are they not to be told and warned of this condemnation first?”

“I have told them already, Sir. As soon as I reached the city, I went straight to them! They have asked me to come here to have you listen to our predicament in the hope you will help us train and recruit more soldiers for the upcoming battle.”

“And when does Henbarth intend to attack?”

“He plans to be ready for battle by the New Season, then, he can attack on the day of the Spring Star Shower when most people will be at home in Sierta with their friends and family members from neighboring Stars. He is planning on attacking in waves from every direction, Sir. He plans on beginning the attack with his undesirables, his creatures of war and destruction that did not turn out as he wanted them to, or that he dislikes because he created them “in the image of disformity. Once the Undesirables are nearly all annihilated, then he will send in his weapons of war along with his Arcturian Giants of Extinction, which we all know are very deadly to Eternitarians. Especially if they manage to meet our eyes with theirs which will lead to them sapping the energy directly from us. Which then leaves us drained and too exhausted to continue fighting, as you may well remember from the last battle, and often leads to many of our soldiers crashing from the atmosphere back to Sierta. Once Henbarth’s Arcturian Giants complete weakening our borders by their means of dissolution and decay, he will then advance by striking with his ideals. He plans on sending them in three waves, and once our warriors have been drained or killed off, he intends to ride in, side by side with each member of his horrible family, and either see Sierta won over, or die fighting. By that time, nearly every Eternitarian working the border and thousands of extra soldiers sent in to assist them will have fallen, meaning that even if the Leaders and Generals of Sierta manage to fight off the first five waves, they will still have to deal with Henbarth and his family, which everybody knows is only a match for Queen Khalasaar and King Aegostrol.”

“What do you propose we do then? If Henbarth’s weapons of war and chaos are as dangerous and terrible as you say, what will we be able to do to fend him off? What chance do we have of surviving?”

“You see, Sir. I came back to Sierta to warn you all, but afterward, I will have to return to Henbarth to continue watching and to give you all a higher percentage rate of surviving. Although this all stands true, I did come with some diagrams you might find helpful and even instructive if the engineers can manage to recreate the machines. I have brought you the blueprints of Henbarths’ machines of war.”

-Monachopsis