With that declaration, the atmosphere changed. Everyone took on a serious and sombre mood. Dale looked around him in veiled amazement. This was what he had always hoped to achieve one day. Command that was both respectful and honorable. If only time would allow him to.
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Heavy clouds gathered in the sky. Thunder roared. For everyone in the capital, the destruction as well as the chaos and the thunder made them to think one thing, this was it. The end. Mass hysteria flooded across the city. People screamed while others decided to go down in a blaze of glory,;engaging in all sorts of evil.
Then the military showed up. Dozens of military vehicles varying in shape and size pulled up in the streets and emptied themselves of soldiers in full combat gear. They began to arrest anyone and everyone. A new set of fear and hysteria set in.
The rain began to pour..
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