Harpies Havoc Part IV

Harpies Havoc PART IV

Presently Tameka had just killed Jeyuu walking toward each of the fallen comrades as she began to sheathe her katana back into it's sheath, she noticed that the majority of the comrades had died with only four survivors. She stretched her hands examining the wounds on the comrades bodies, as she did so her hands began to glow silver creating a silver aura of magical power, she then began to speak softly into a whisper,

“ (Whispering): By the glory of knighthood, let gallantry and honor clear the body of all suffering pains of the internal and external sorrows. Let healing hands avail them renewed again “

Tameka's hands were brilliantly glowing with silver beauty as she lowered her hands to touch the comrades wounds, the instant her hands touched the wounds then the person she healed came regained their consciousness wondering how they were alive after the quick attacks they were dealt. She continued to use her healing abilities helping everyone back to healthy condition thinking her body was so exhausted after her slow motion thread attack taking one glance at the fortress as she knew that Jeyuu was not the true enemy behind this whole ordeal,

“ (Thinking to herself): Jeyuu could never single handedly murder an entire culture even with an army of harpies, it was very much unlikely that Jeyuu could of done this on her own in any event. When I regain my energy I must go aid Marai to find out the truth “

In fact Tameka had no idea how correct she was when she had suspected a stronger adversary was behind the attack, Marai and her group had managed to travel up to the very top of the tower where they saw Tameka and her group of defenders through the tall open windows of the tower. The faint noise of someone in pain could be heard from the high pitch black ceiling of the tower though no one in the group could see anything besides a very faint blur of color which they could not make out what it was. Right next to Marai was a high throne chair while on the opposite side of the chair was the tall windows that the Reganto ruler could gaze upon what was hundreds of miles of plain lands now reduced to a sandy desert,

“ (High Pitch Menacing Laughter): I'm pretty thirsty, now won't you let me drink pretty boy (Sweet tone of voice)”

“ (Voice of a suffering man): No ! Go to hell you monster ! “

The voices came from above in the unseen blackness of the ceiling, all of a sudden the noise of screaming pain was heard echoing throughout the tower until something appeared to be falling. Everyone recognized it to be the man who spoke in protest to the other voice looking completely pale with several slash marks on his almost naked body where blood was pouring out of, Marai jumped back dodging the man's body that fell SPLAT ! Right in front of her. There was a pool of blood coming from the dead man's body which Marai had to backed away to the entrance where her comrades were able to avoid getting touched by the blood, unbeknownst to her an eight foot tall harpy flew down sitting on the throne chair with a discolored goblet containing blood full to the brim,

“ (High Pitch Voice): Awww......well aren't you a cute glowing woman.....(Taking a drink of the blood filled goblet) “

Marai didn't know how to feel about that complement especially when you consider they came out of a harpies mouth who was also drinking human blood, She looked around at her surroundings noticing a lot of old dusty equipment once used by an astronomer around the room that was pushed against the walls away from the window and throne, The harpy spoke again

“ (Soft High Pitch Voice): I guess you've never gotten that complement have you? Men are such revolting creatures of any species assuming that only women with attractive appearances are more important than a normal woman (Taking another drink of blood) “

Marai's face was of embarrassment as the harpies words were true she had never had a positive complement from a man as far as she knew, then she shock her head ridding herself of the embarrassment regaining her composure as she was ready to ask a question,

“ (Serious tone of voice): Why have you wiped out everyone of this culture? One of your minions Tayo mentioned that there was a pact of peace between you and the people of Reganto “

The harpy took a finally drink of her goblet of blood licking the blood that was staining her lips, giving Marai a sneering expression while at the same time crushing the goblet between her big taloned fingers. The harpy then with it's other hand spun a medium sized box next to the throne revealing a miniature door covering a hole that could be plainly seen when looking at the box which Marai had seen the box thinking it nothing important until this revealing moment,

“ (Sneering): So you murdered my sister Tayo and as I have seen down there that warrior has killed my other younger sister (Pointing one of her taloned fingers at Tameka), at any rate I'm impressed and I will reveal to you our reason since you as a victim may ask anything before I murder you to nothingness “

The harpy took a deep breath then leisurely leaned back with it's head against the stone wall of the tower bearing a blank expression thinking back with eyes closed, the harpy then spoke with a calm voice,

“ I am Yujirin leader of the northern harpies, and as you have heard from my sister Tayo we did have a pact of peace with the humans of Reganto for three hundred years. And in those three hundred years the relations between our races steadily diminished until our races hatred consumed us to killing despite the fact that Hatake Nokoro regarded us as intelligent creatures worthy of respect. During those three hundred years, there were only three times where a human decided to live among us and even mate with our females (Everyone stared at Yujirin with confused expressions and Yujirin noticed shrugging her feathery shoulders).....well don't ask me how harpies and humans mate with each other. As a result of their mating we are the products of evolution and that is how we harpies grew to more human sizes though the southern harpies evolved more humanoid with some more birdlike features than we northerns did, we look the exact same as our original appearance with the exception of a bigger body varying depending on the harpy.
Before you pose the question the majority of our bigger harpies with the exception of me and my sisters left our tribe to live among the southern tribe where there was a more peaceful home for harpies than ours which had been steadily taken away and constantly uprooted by the people of Reganto. “

Yujirin stopped telling the story as she had become distracted by the strong sudden gust of wind that happened to be Tameka flying with her silver wings up to the tower slashing the window open with her katana blasts and landing in front of the edge of the pool of blood coming from the dead man,

“ (Hostile tone of voice): Now I want questions answered harpy ! How could you ruthlessly kill all of these people and their culture ! “

Yujirin rolled her eyes as if this was too much even for her to handle, while Marai and her comrades stood amazed at Tameka's arrival, Marai spoke,

“ (Calm):Calm down Tameka, the harpy is telling us the story right now “

Yujirin cringed at the lack of respect these humans had for her thinking they should be more respectful to her as she felt she had the superior power compared to the humans she considered infantile creatures, Yujirin eventually continued to tell the story,

“ (Letting out a long sigh): Continuing our story, the years continued to go by with the humans taking more and more of our land unjustly saying that it was part of the pact of peace. The humans began throwing their leftovers at us saying that harpies don't deserve real food until they learn to stop looking repulsive, and this constant insulting of our race's intelligence and appearance would continue as a result of their kingdoms strict teachings of perfection and beauty needing to exist to stamp out imperfection made from all that was hideous. We were then marooned to the island next to theirs eating only the fish that swam around us while the majority of our tribe were infuriated with the humans for everything they had vilely done to us. In the final insulting act, the last king of this city had the gall to instruct his engineers to construct a bridge connecting the islands together for an invasion. He brought an army of sword bearing warriors while he marched onto the bridge taking out the three hundred year old pact of peace document from inside his jacket ripping it to pieces declaring that, “Peace hath end, let these creatures of inferiority be extinguished from a world that needs to be cleansed of natures hideous creations “

Yujirin took a long pause as her expression changed to an expression of pure delight as she felt the next part of the story was the best part of all, Yujirin's lips were completely curved to a full smile as she continued,

“ With every beat of my heart my bottled up ferocity toward the humans had been unleashed , as the king turned his back ordering his troops to kill us all, my body sped toward him silent and soundless slashing his head off his shoulders with blood squirting out of where his head used to be. I began to really laugh for the first time in my life as I had liberated my tribe, the kings troops had their morale severely damaged having witnessed their kings assassination by my talons yet they continued their late kings orders putting away their fears. Tayo and Jeyuu lead the tribe to slaughter the troops and everyone in the city as I went to the engineers ordering them to create a statue of me to commemorate this victory, and they did as I said though I gave them the reward of being the last people of their culture to die. After we killed all of the residents of this culture it became apparent that we would lose our food supply soon, so I ordered my sisters to take the harpies out to invade more human cities kidnapping and killing them which was relatively easy since I found this box that brings back all of the harpies that have died to be reborn anew constantly spewing out with battle ferocity no matter how many times they get cut down. “

Everyone then realized that pact of peace that once stopped the constant bloodshed between the two races had only been a band-aid against the Regantian false teachings of appearance being a judge of what was evil and good. The king had it coming to him and so did his supporters, though it did not justify the many lives who bore no sentiments of hatred to die for the foolish nature of a king. Marai spoke out first,

“ (Outraged) : You had reason to kill the king and his supporters, but why did you murder the lives of innocent people who didn't hate you in the first place! ? “

Yujirin rose from her chair irritated at Marai's remark,

“ (Annoyed): That damn king has the responsibilities of all of his people, so why did no one protest against that king in the name of our rights. We had a pact of peace declaring us intelligent creatures yet I don't remember any humans trying to help us at all ! Nor did those filthy humans treat us as equals like their hero Hatake Nokoro wanted them to ! So if it happens once then why would other humans treat us any differently? “

Yujirin had ripped Marai's remark into pieces as she had been victorious at making her point, while Tameka wasn't going to back down as she went into a fighting stance,

“ THAT doesn't change the fact that you are continuing to kill more innocent humans who had nothing to do with the Reganto king's idiocy “

Yujirin was quickly losing her patience with these challenging remarks stepping away from the throne toward the dead body peering down at it as her talons were stepping in the pool of blood, she kicked the body out of the window where it made another SPLAT ! As it landed on the ground outside of the fortress. One of the warriors from behind Marai and Tameka had begun to express great annoyance with their silent loyalty after watching their leader do nothing about the body that was thrown away as if it was nothing, Opane spoke,

“ (Utter Annoyance): WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU TWO ! That monster just desecrated that man's body and you two are too worried about innocent people who are hundreds of miles away, or innocent people in this city who have been dead for Amida knows when ! “

Opane's irritation sparked more reactions than she realized as her comrades around her began to either agree, or disagree while Marai and Tameka sighed as if she was acting like a young adolescent who couldn't control her temper. Yujirin on the other hand was amused then she lowered herself to drink the blood that still lay as a small pool on the stone floor. Kilmaki was next to speak though he was protesting against Opane,

“ (Objective):  Where the hell do you get off ordering them around when both of them are of higher rank than ourselves which means they have a bigger responsibility than some lower ranked twit like you. You should stay silent to show your loyalty unless you ask your opinion, or your assistance“

they then began arguing amongst themselves until Yujirin at last finished drinking slamming the stone floor with her big taloned feet making the stone floor underneath everyone begin to crack at her stomping. Both Marai and Tameka anticipated an attack, but not one that would target everyone at the same time.