10 HOURS AGO
"THUNK!" Seraphina lands on the roof of the Overwatch Gymnasium, observing the sparring from above.
During the spar between Gabi Astrea and Mark, she saw his eyes glow blue, she makes a mental note and prepares to leave to report to the capital.
She stands up, and focuses. She readies her stance, and calls upon the deity Seraph, manifseting her wings of light, allowing her to fly easily, her wings having sleek, smooth, aerodynamic traits, perfect for flight. It is also able to create its own pivot, and apply force and velocity to itself, as long as Seraph maintains focus.
She launches her body into the sky, ignoring wind resistance itself, and going gliding across the city.
Sky cruisers fly across her, the crowd, shocked seeing a flying knight with wings of light.
She eventually has a rough landing on the entrance of the palace, the guards recognizing the wings and face. The guard nods to her, as if familiar with each other, and lets her in, no questions asked.
Many protesters are outside the gates, dissatisfied with the current rulers.
Marble walls surround the room, with windows that mimic church architecture, in which they display the 7 known deities.
7 Seats surround the room, Seraphina kneels, providing a report to the council.
"There seems to be civil unrest, specifically in the major cities. Riot Containment Unit's are handling the situation but they are understaffed. Also.. Gabi Astrea seems to be demonstrating high combat prowe-"
"BOOM!" Mulitple explosions go off in the palace, alerting the royal guard. The councilors dissapear into the shadows mysteriously, Seraphina draws her sword, a cold metal sound vibrating from the hilt.
Runes from an ancient language are inscribed into the golden glow of the sword, seemingly absorbing the light around it.
Its hilt, made of steel has a neon trim around it, as if powered by an unkown entity, eminating the same glow as its blade. Seraphina conjures her wings of light and surveys the area.
"BANG!" Multiple bullets are fired in Seraphina's direction, catching her attention. Multiple masked men, wearing chainmail armor under their dark cloth and metal plating, wearing the insignia of an unkown organization.
Seraphina lunged towards the men's location in terrifying speeds, only to notice one man holding a net launcher.
The man fired, but to no avail, the net is quickly torn into shreds in quick succession, with none of the bullets fired landing.
The men pull out their melee weapons, preparing their stances for battle.
The royal guards rush to the building.
The scene changes.
Gabi is in the medical ward, and wakes up with bandages on his body. Klein, sitting next to him notices him waking up.
"You did well." Klein said.
"Dont worry, just because you lost doesn't mean you didn't pass. Hell, I'd say you did amazingly well against an officer."
Gabi, eyes strained, takes a deep breath.
"What happened to your eyes there? I saw them glowing. Well, whatever, I was just here to tell you that you passed."
"I.. passed?"
Of course you did. The spar's were never a zero sum game, it was just to see the fighting styles in close combat of the trainee's. I knew I made the right call making Mark fight you.
Gabi internally recalled his memories of the battle. "What was that.. power? No, I cant say its a power, I still dont know how to use it."
"Alright, thanks." Gabi said. Does this mean I can help with the case now?
Yup. That was the reason you were assigned to my squad in particular. Im the one working on it, though I wasn't able to gather any leads since im busy with training you guys and handling ALOT of property damage paperwork.
Gabi nods.
"I know we haven't been in good terms ever since that happened, but I have my reasons. I just don't wanna see another comrade die."
See, this isn't the original squad I was in. Back a long time ago, I had original comrades of my own, when I was still a youngen, just like you.
---2 YEARS AGO--
Officer Klein and his squadmates Corporal Ashera, Trainee Kim, Trainee Lyne, alongside Trainee Ling and Trainee Regil are walking in the old roads of Primero City, patroling the streets together.
Trainee Kim takes a bite out of his bread with his right hand, carrying a bag of bread on his left.
"Stop fu**ing eating during patrol you dumbass!" Corporal Ashera jokingly states and laughs, with the others joining in the banter.
Kim mumbles an unintelligable statement while munching on his bread.
"Ashera!' Klein calls.
Corporal Ashera sees Klein lagging behind the group. "Hey, catch up!"... "Is there something wrong? You okay?"
"Wait, wheres the others?"
Ashera.
Officer Klein then kneels, and proposes marriage, Ashera's eyes widen, her face red like a tomato, she covers her mouth, visibly in joy. "YES!!"
Lets just live a quiet life.. after this. I don't wanna risk my life anymore, I just wanna be with you...
Sure.. Klein..
Promise!! Klein smiles contently.
"BOOM!"...
Twenty minutes earlier, the trainee's spot a hostage situation and attempt to diffuse it.
"STOP RIGHT THERE!" The young trainee's shout, a deranged man, pointing his revolver on a childs head, with a crowd and their parents watching and screaming for help.
They point their guns at the man. "WHAT ARE YOU DOING! STAND DOWN!" They shout at the suspect.
The assailant grins with content, as if satisfied with life, and pulls out his lighter...
Blood fills the air with the smell of rust. Rubble and debris scatter around the area while buildings burn, tumble and fall. Mass amounts of corpses are scattered around the city while Exyllum Overwatch rush to the area.
A younger Officer Klein accompanies what is left of the squad... They rescue the civilians and survey the area.
"Sh**! How could I let this happen!" Corporal Ashera exclaims after seeing the body of Trainee Lyne.
The squad points their weapon at the masked man. "WHO ARE YOU?! WHY DID YOU DO THIS! DID YOU CAUSE THIS MESS??" Officer Klein shouts, recieving no answers from the man, but that was another mistake.
A barrage of pressurized magma are hurled towards the group, melting the heads and instantly killing Trainee Regil.
"SCHWAK!" A metal blade pierces right through Trainee Kim's chest. The masked man, wearing a wolves' mask tosses the boy aside. Klein screams in agony as he takes his rifle and fires.
His squadmates fire their weapons, all of them missing, except for one, which hits the wolf on his chest.
The wolf dashes into the squad, the squad pulls out their weapons. Corporal Ashera screams at Klein to run, while defensively holding back the wolf.
Klein refuses to run and pulls out his blade, only to see his entire squad wiped out.
Right as Klein was about to meet his demise, his life flashing before his eyes...
"CLANG!" The sound of blades clashing reverberate through the concrete rubble, creating shockwaves and lifting the dust scattered on the ground into the air.
One of the Royal Guards carries Klein and rushes him out of the fight, while the man screams at the assailant. He will have his vengeance.
-- SCENE CHANGE --
Leading one of the counter-charges, her voice clear and commanding amidst the chaos, Sergeant Gracie blasted attackers with her blunderbuss before wading into the melee, her sword crackling with thousands of volts.
The battle is raging across the palace, the sound of blades clashing, and gunfire ring across the entire area as the Royal Guard clashes against the masked attackers cladded in black plated armor.
Flames engulf an area in the distance as more and more reinforcements come, the power of thunder being called upon to smite the assailants.
"Execute them all in the name of the King!" Sergeant Gracie says with a authoritative voice.
"I hope seraphina is okay.." She says before she charges in.
In another area....
Multiple iron spikes fly across the burning battlefield, as they injure multiple attackers, piercing their armor at high speeds. The Man snipes one of the men in the head, blowing their brain into bits.
The men fire back, and the woman lunges forward at the men, multiple rifles being pointed at her.
The bullets fired by the man are blocked by the scattered metal debris, the man pulling the metals and using them as cover.
He lunges forward and rapidly slashes the attackers limbs out of their body as they scream in fear.
The scene changes back to seraphina as she effortlessly blitzes her opponents, sparing no prisoners. Not a single bullet hits her as she outpaces the enemies ranged weaponry with the power of flight as she dashes across the body in extreme speeds.
"THUD!" Tall shards of glass brutally impale Sergeant Gracie, with Seraphina not being able to do anything other than watch her beloved mentor's eyes become lifeless, as blood drips down into the ground.
"Scum." A man wearing the mask of a Crimson Wolf states before preparing his stance, readying for mortal combat.