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Chapter 21 - CHAPTER 21: THE ENEMIES

A bloody man stood in the middle of a field, staring with his eyes wide all around the place and shaking in great fear. His clothes were torn, scratches all over his body and he was held with some big chains on the ground. He heard a screeching sound and quickly snapped his head upward to the left.

Wings spread wide in the air, a large human size eagle targeted its prey and dive head down.

The man was petrified before he began to struggle trying to get himself free. A loud scream filled the air together with a screech and the eagle flew away with the man in it's clutches, blood and guts falling off.

"That was extreme, your majesty." Said a man with a small turban on his head, as he stood under a shade with the king and general habib, staring at the bloody scene.

"He deserves even more, your highness. If we are lenient on prisoners, then eagles will fall." added general habib.

"No one dares to disclose our most important secret just for some shit coins. He deserve it!" said king babuga.

King babuga, known to be ruthless and cruel and enjoys blood bath. He rules the eagle eye kingdom one of the kingdoms in the eastern regions. He raised giant eagles and used them for various purposes, torture, war, you name it.

A man was captured selling information to a spy. The soldiers chase after them and were lucky to get the informant but the spy ran away. He was taken to the king and wouldn't talk. He claimed to no nothing about the spy but the king would not have it and asked his soldiers to take the man to the field either he talks or not, his fate still remains unchangeable.

A man appeared in military uniform walking with grace and stretched out his arm. An eagle flew from the air and nested on the man's arm. He quickly removed a letter and read it as he walk. Looking over the shade, he saw his king and went to him offering the good news.

"Commander bukar, the eagle master, proud of the land. What's the good news?"

Commander bukar was known as the eagle master because he captured the young ones, raised and trained them. They are of two varieties the normal and the giant ones. The normal eagles he trained them for delivering information while the giant ones are used for war.

The good news was that the other kingdoms are gearing up and accumulating more battle gears. The western regions have two hundred war lions, huge and aggressive, scary looking and strong. The southern regions also contributed three hundred elephants. Huge with their strong sharp trunks adorned with a sharp pointed metal rope wrapped around the trunk.

King babuga was contented with the news he heard but they have to delay the attack because their enemy is now aware of their invasion plan. They have to change tactics.

"Then we are certain of defeating the formidable kingdom your majesty. The number of the army beasts will help to overwhelm the great number of the hardrock army." Said the waziri.

"From now on, information must be strictly handled well, there should be no leakage!"

"Yes your majesty." Answered the general.

"And we must be more careful of the general, shamsuddeen, your majesty." Added commander bukar.

His men once had an encounter with that scary general when he sent them on a secret mission in hardrock. They were to go and get some information on the military tactics because it is mind blowing for hardrock to get soldiers so plenty with an unimaginable battle moves.

How did they acquire such amount of soldiers? Was it that every male child was enrolled in the army? Then how did they get other males in order fields? Yet they have male fishermen, physicians, farmers and so on. If every male is born a soldier, then they wouldn't have men working in other aspects of life right? So they had to send men to fish out the information so they can use it to implement in their own army too.

Bukar vividly remembered when he was in his training field with the eagles and he was summoned to receive a big box in his quarters. The box has a letter stuck to it. He removed it and open the letter.

'Those who fish for what is above them shall perish and the sender shall be the next to join them!'

Curious, bukar opened the box and the stench, the gush was unimaginable. He only recognized his men with the finger that has the ring he gave one of them as a marriage gift, then the head of another man, then the arm of another man with an army band of bukar's army, it was horrifying.

How did they ended up like that? The last man was intact and he was the deliverer. He reported that they were lured to a big house and were attacked by someone or something they couldn't see. By the time the attack was over, he was covered in blood and he was in shock because the next scene that took place was more horrifying than ever.

A man appeared before him looking like a tiger, holding a sharp short sword. He examined him thoroughly and then turned around, gave a horrifying order to dismantle the corpses and package them in a big box. The man appeared before him again, looking at him sharply.

"Go back to your master, deliver the message. From general shamsuddeen!"

With that, the man turned and left just like that, without hurting him. He didn't realize he held a breath and his body was vigorously shaking until the general left. His face was covered in blood and sweat, he suddenly crashed to the ground looking at the big box.

Bukar was completely shocked to hear this devastating news and since then, he became so wary of the general.

"Then the situation must be handled with uttermost care and we are entrusting you with this mission. Make sure everything runs smoothly." Said general habib.

"Yes general, sir!"

The eagle on his arm quacked loudly nearly deafening waziri's ears he had to cover them looking scarily at the eagle.

"I better go feed it before it find its food by itself." Said commander bukar looking at the scared waziri.