On the front lines, there was a silence that sickened Quintin, only the waves crashing into the beach brought noise to the surroundings, there wasn"t even wind, a bad omen, the wind never completely dies in Capetown. Three o clock the afternoon exactly and the peacefull quiet was broken by the siren wailing behind them. In the distance the first sighns of the huge fleet came over the concave outline of the horizon, then like a dark shadow it widened, untill its sheer size of numbers had the soldiers dug into the sandbanks mumbling.

Quintin looked at Katja, then placed his finger on his earpiece.

"Showtime boys, remember the plan, the Ratel Ingwe"s fire first to distract the cwis, as Ingwe"s fire the Batteleurs fire aswell, along with the G6 and G5"s. Koos, you copy aswell?"

"Copy boet, were taking off now"

Quintin knelt down along with Katja.

"Take out the first line of ships in order to prevent the rest from pa.s.sing easily... ready... Ready...! FIRE!"

Senjin smiled upon the continent infront of him, soon to be his, it actually had him rather excited. Taking over America in the way he did was a strategic move, one of the three superpowers down, two to go. Senjin knew if he had started with any other country it would have been difficult, or otherwise impossible to accomplish his goals,too much mountains in China, and too cold in Russia. The distant crack of thunder made him look up from his world map. The sight was similar to a cloudbreak, but going up not down.

"What is that?" Miriam asked.

"Im not sure" Senjin said folding the paper, then an alarm sounded and the close in weapons systems went berserk, the gattler guns of the ships roared away to the front leaving a line of tracers, in the distance the rockets of the Ingwe"s got shot out of the sky, but as the cwis lifted up to the air the first of the hundreds of G6 and G5 rounds. .h.i.t the first line of ships, followed by the rockets of the Batteleurs.

Panic surged through the ships as they were so full of Senjin"s demons, nearly every hit was a direct one, Senjin cursed inwardly, only the higer ranked lieutenants had wings to fly, and they were on the far back ships, now he was losing numbers fast.

"Jump! Jump off and swim to sh.o.r.e!" He yelled grunting, another problem with using humans as subst.i.tute demons, they die easily, if he had his original army with him this would not have been a problem. Once again Alexander"s actions of millenniums ago set him one foot back.

---Alex and Kaij--

Kaileenah sighed as she watched the ocean pa.s.s by, the sun low, it was a beautiful scene. She then looked at Alex thinking of how lucky she was to have met him, even if their encounter was strictly her being queen, and him being her soul guardian, in the end, they fell in love and their relationship became more intimate.


Kaija noticed the odometer of the vehicle tipping past one fourty to one fifty and she frowned, it was unusual for Alex to be in a hurry.

"Whats wrong?" She asked.

"Nothing, why?"

"You"re exceeding the speedlimit, thats not like you?"

Alex looked down, she"s right, in his haste to get away he didn"t realise.

"Im sorry Kaija, maybe im just a little excited thats all" he smiled.

Kaileenah returned the smile "I have an idea, lets listen to some radio, maybe that will ease your mind"

Alex wanted to stop her but it was too late, the radio already loud from the previous time it was on, now bellowed out the emergency frequency.

"This is a national emergency, South Africa is under attack, it is requested of all citizens to retreat out of the Western Cape deeper into the country, military pitstops are in place to aid with shelter and safety from Beaufort west ip deeper into the country. What ever you do, do not head to Capetown, it is not safe!"

Kaileenah watched the radio as if it had a face talking to her, then she slowly turned to Alex.

"Please... please dont tell me you knew of this, and was using Etosha as a cover up so i couldn"t find out"

Alex sighed, and nodded.

"And, please don"t tell me... its Senjin?"

He nodded again.

"Why!? We stayed in South Africa for years! The least you could have done is give them aid!"

"You are my priority Kaileenah"

"Atlantis has fallen! I am no longer a queen of any country, you should have thought of that instead of being selfish and flee like a coward to protect only me whereas you have the capacity to protect millions!"

"I told you why i cannot fight"

"I didn"t tell you to go commit all out war, aid them, give them a strategy, and you can still use your chi to a minor degree, which would have been sufficient since you"ve grown ever more powerfull over the years"

Alex remained quiet and cept driving.

"Pull over" She said.

"I cannot"

"I said stop the car"

Alex obeyed.

"Get out"

"What?" He looked at her confused.

"Take Aegis and get out, from here you walk back, no matter how long it takes you to get there, you will ho there and give aid. When you are done, you can come to Etosha where i will be waiting for you"

Alex looked at her with an expression of anger.

"This is an Order Alexander, Take Aegis, and go back to aid all those innocent people! In any way you can!"

His frown went into a deeper anger glare.

"As you wish... my queen"

Ge got out, took his longsword wrapped in drape, then slammed the door shut, Kaija climbed into the driver seat then started the car.

"I love you" She said and drove off.

Alex watched the suv dissapear around a bend, then turned back south, where the war was ongoing, slowly he started walking, removing the drapes off his sword, then strapped it to his back. It felt comfortable, like a piece of him that goes missing everytime he takes it off, the longsword called Aegis, which meant the shield... how could he make such a decision? Go to protect the people of South Africa and risk losing focus over the Bermuda triangle, which would cause world wide disaster. Or leave SA to their fate, and give the world a chance to fight back? Alex stopped walking.

"Thats not like you Kaileenah, what has gotten into you?"

---Quintin and Katj--

Rifle fire started cracking along with the ordinance as those demons who survived the artillery birrage made it to sh.o.r.e, Quintin and Katjia readied themselves, the first of the demons who set foot on wet sand got intercepted by Quintin, he struck it as it was still wiping water out of its eyes, he then bent it over and snapped its neck. Surprisingly it went numb.

"That... that was easy" Quintin said.

"What was boet?" Koos asked over the comm"s.

"I just killed a demon without efford"

Thats good to hear! Lookslike this fokkin dark cloud has some sort of silver lining, keep killing them Frikkie, we"re inbound one mike"

One minuite, Quintin looked at Katja, she was taring through the demons with her claws, it gave the soldiers in the sandbunks new wind in their sails, and they started doubling up their effords, the gunfire got more rappid, more frequent.

"Hows it look Frits?" Koos asked as they made the final bank allowing the guns to aim to the fleet. Frits was looking through his targeting scope then nodded.

"Its working, the front ships are creating a barricade, slowing the rest down"

"Good, lets rain some h.e.l.l down at those fokkers"

Frits brought the Hercules in low just behind the line of Batteleurs then readied his guns, as they got in line with the first ship he squeezed the triggers on his steering device, the gattling guns in front of the gunship roared away sending the same lines of tracer rounds back into the direction of the ships, as Frits let up his flurry Koos slammed the autoloading anti aircraft magazines into the guns who bellowed away sending larger rounds towards the ships, as his guns emptied out Piet threw in the 105 millimeter round into the howitzer and it boomed aswell, the sh.e.l.l struck the front of a ship blowing out a huge hole into the haul.

"Come round again Frits, thistime we aim to mow some of those fokkers out of the water" Koos said taking out the empty magazines of the flack guns and got ready with another two.

"Copy that" Frits said and banked away.

"Demons in the air! There are flying demons coming this way!" A spotter yelled over the radio.

"Capetown airport! Launch the Grippens and Rooivalks and engage those targets!" Koos yelled.

---Lun--

Derrick, Kara, Luna, Shiva, Kishra and Silvia who joined them earlier sat looking intensely the television set, an on site news crew was broadcasting everything, and it seemed to go well, but the sheer numbers of the demons was obvious, it was almost asif they were fighting a colony of ants.

"There"s so many" Kara said.

"I, could have helped" Luna said "Theres a whole ocean of water, i could have helped them"

Derrick sat watching Luna, then looked at the screen again.

"I can get you there"

Luna smiled at him "Only as a werewolf Derrick"

"I know, the sun is setting, as soon as the moon is out, ill take you, that is to say, if they survive till then"

-----

Quintin was also taring at the demons with his claws, it seemed more efficient than blunt fist blows. He finished off another then looked up. There were so many demons in the water it looked black not blue.

"Elephant tanks and Ratels! Open fire on those in the water!" Quintin yelled over the com link.

The turrets of the front line armour tilted down and fired, a roar from chainguns came overhead as the black Hercules came in and raked the swimming demons aswell.

Senjin looked left and right, the damaged ships was halting the progress of the rest, this must have been a plan of theirs. He turned to the brige of the aircraft carrier he was on and yelled "Ram this thing though! Make a path!"

The captain at the stern nodded.

"My Lord, they are clearly well prepared, going in like this might cause more damage to our force?" Miriam said.

"My initial plan was to swamp them with numbers, i cant do that if we cant get there"

"Look Koos! That fokkin aircraft carrier is breaking through the damaged ships" Frits said. Koos moved over to a window and looked out, it was true, but something else also caught his eye.

"Look on the nose of that deck ship Frits, there are two lone standing demons there, zoom in and see whats their story?"

Frits shifted his scope then frowned.

"Can"t tell you much, but he definitely looks bigger, and his horns are diffrent"

"You think thats Senjin?" Koos asked.

"It might be"

"f.u.c.kit, lets target him, go high Frits, then do a pilon turn, we give him h.e.l.l from above"

"With pleasure" Frits replied.

-----

"I get a bad feeling, i need to get there now" Luna said standing up.

"Then ill take you" Kishra said.

"Thankyou"

"But im only taking you there, then im leaving, i don"t want a part of that just yet"

"Understood"

Luna took Kishra"s hand but Derrick placed his hand on Luna"s shoulder.

"I would prefer to go with you"

"Its Ok Derrick, ill be ok"
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Derrick took his hand off her shoulder "Take care of Kara ok?" She asked and he nodded.

Kishra focused her chi and in a plume of smoke the two women were gone.

Quintin was still watching the Hercules ascend when the blast of smoke next to him made him duck. In utter disbelief he saw Kishra next to Luna, and his heart cramped.

"Get away from her you b.i.t.c.h!" He yelled but Luna stepped infront of him.

"Its ok Quintin, she"s on our side"

"What!? Never trust an Anubis, lying is one of their specialties"

"Oh sssh h.e.l.lcat, i just brought you some backup, good luck with your little war ok?" Kishra smiled and dissapeared again.

"Luna?"

"I told you, we have an alliance now"

"Ok, then why come here then?"

"To help you ofcourse"

"But... youre not a werewolf now"

She smiled "I am an Amarok Quintin, youll see, ill be more than enough backup" Luna said and walked to the water. Gunfire roared all around them, it was chaos, she took a deep breath and held her hands open next to her, when she opened her eyes her blue irises were lit like lights, she heaved, threw her hands up and shouted "Tsu! Nami!"

The waves that was rolling towards the beach suddenly changed direction and rose like a wall, a giant wave carried the demons in the water away, back towards the ships

Senjin saw in disbelief the water wall approaching the ships.

"Blast it!" He screamed.

"My Lord you said there is only one person capable of manipulating the ocean! Could he be doing this!" Miriam yelled bewildered.

"I know i said that! The problem is i dont sense his life force in that wave!"

The wave struck the front of the aircraft carrier and pushed it back, aswell as the rest of his fleet, Miriam got washed off the deck, but Senjin stood fast. When the ship settled somewhat the first of the Hercules gunship barages. .h.i.t him from above. From the beach the men behind the sandbags thought they were watching a film, the wave, then the line of ordinance striking the aircraft carrier that was breaking through the line of sinking ships. The last volley of ordinance struck the ship and Frits leveled it out again.

"Did it work!?" Piet yelled sticking his head through the hole ment for his howitzer barrel.

"Dont know, i dont see movement" Koos said looking out on his side.

The entire h.o.a.rd of demons has stopped in their tracks, looking at the spot Senjin was last seen, whilst on the beach cheers of joy erupted among the soldiers.

"Could it still be to early to celebrate? Is he really gone? Could it really have been that easy?" Was the questions that ran through Quintin"s head. He looked down at Luna, who stood phanting, that technique seemed to take quite alot out of her, she did infact just create one ma.s.sive wave, no matter how she bragged, that would sap anyone dry.

"I, i have a bad feeling" Katja said next to him, words that made him feel cold, he knew it, he knew this couldn"t be over.

From out the rubble of the destroyed ship Senjin came flying up in a rage. Its been years since anyone has hurt him that badly. Ignoring the gunship above he decided to get back at the elemental wielder on the beach first, charging up ki energy in his core, then channeling it up to his eyes, he prepared the Ak.u.ma taihõ; demon cannon.

Its over, its all over, many times in her life Katja has seen this attack, she felt the horrid darkness of its feel, its force, she had too little time to explain so she grabbed Quintin and kissed him deeply, he was still confused at what her intensions where when she kicked him as hard as she cloud into the ocean. Under water Quintin saw the red light pa.s.s over from far left of the beach to far right, vibrations in the water told him something devastating was happening. He swam up as fast as he could, fearing the worst, when he breached the surface a scene of sorrow greeted him, all the armour, the men, the artillery, all gone, only smoke, wrecks and bodies remained, pieces still raining from the sky. The first thing that came to mind was...

"Katja?" He called swimming to sh.o.r.e.

"Katja!!?" There was no answer, his heart cramped, his stomach felt sick, tears welled up in his eyes.

"KATJA!!"

"Quintin!" He heard Koos over the coms slightly, the water seemed to have damaged it.

"Quintin! Are you ok boet!?"

"I... its all gone... there"s nothing left"

Quintin sobbed combing the bodies, he found Luna first.

"Luna!?"

She was badly burbed, he recognized her by the bit of white hair on her head that remained, she was still alive thou, but he felt her life force slipping.

"Luna! Can you hear me!?"

She groaned and shifted her head, she had no eyes to open, ger face was charred.

"You can heal right!? Tell me you can survive this!?"

"I... im sorry" she layed her head down and breathed her last.

Shock and awe, that a creature exists able to do this to an Amarok. He wiped the tears from his eyes and continued looking for Katja.

"Quintin! We might have bitten off more than we can chew boet!" Koos called but Quintin didn"t respond, he frantically searched the bodies for his beloved wife, but to no avail, they were just too burnt up, untill...

"Quin... tin..."

He heard the murmur to his left, he scurreled over desperately "Katja!"

She was face down into the sand, her body still on fire in some places, he quickly patted the flames out then turned her over, her face still ok, it seems she covered it with her arms, which was now burnt away to the elbows.

"Please, i beg you, tell me you can survive this!?" He yelled.

"Demon... energy is different... than chi" she coughed "It saps your natural chi levels... and drains the natural ability you have to heal. Chi has the same effect... on Ki, which is what we call demon energy... So, this is goodbye, Quintin, i love..." Her eyes still open, her breath ended. Quintin"s tears dripped on her face. He brought his hand up and closed her eyes with his fingers.

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