The silence of war

The silence of war - chapter 3

I walked into the training ground the sounds of swords clashing magic blasts and arrows flying filling my ears as a small smile found its way across my face with my eyes and armour shining in the beautiful rays of celestias sun. The recruits spotted me standing with the smile still etched to my normally serious face and they all formed a line in front of me and saluted with their own smiles arising on their faces.

"I'm here to give you recruits a speech so why don't you idiots stop smiling so I can get to it" the tone used as I spoke those words seemed to be one filled with anger and high amounts of irritation, all of that simply because they were smiling? Ridiculous right?

"OKay here goes. This war has been going on for the past 7 and a half years with all of the recruits hell even most of the non recruits thinking that peace is still an option despite what our enemies have done. You all need to stop living your stupid fantasies and grow up. Peace is not an option and it never will be and that is what I'm meant to be teaching you because if I don't then you will struggle to kill your enemies and you will all die. Just like shining did. The element bearers. They thought peace was an option and look what happened to them, they're dead. Every single one of them is dead all because they thought that peace was an option during this god forsaken war. If you don't get it through your heads that peace isn't an option then every single one of you is going to die and it won't be anyone elses fault but your own. Now then ont-" my speech was cut short as the castle started shaking as if an earthquake was occuring right beneath our feet, but that was impossible unless. We were under attack. I looked at the recruits and sighed.

"All of you into the barracks and grab your weapons. We're under attack" I ordered my men and they all nodded as they ran inside the barracks to obtain their weapons and their armor. I walked into my office and picked up the sword I had resting against the wall and strapping it to my back next to shinings sword. I left my office soon after and stood before the recruits and I smiled as we marched out of the training grounds and began to march through the castle halls.