*Aaron*: Testing, testing. Ok, seems good. I'm here with Colonel Brad Bransky, well known Hero of the Battle of Marston Moor. It has taken me 5 years of intense research to track him down, and I am currently the only human alive that knows of his existence. He has agreed to answer a few questions I have in exchange for keeping his secret. If I'm lucky...I can put this whole ordeal to an end right now. Colonel, thank you for this.
BB: .....
Aaron: To start, most of the events of that battle have become public knowledge thanks to the paper published by Archaeologist Dr. Ethan Resnes. Still, I feel that we have not been told the whole story. If you could please, explain the exact details of the battle.
BB: For the most part, Ethan is correct. We were cornered on all sides. The southern quadrant had recently been taken over and we had lost most of our men and ammunition. It seemed that all of our hard work had been for nothing. Suddenly, at the peak of our doom, everything stopped. Just froze completely.
Aaron: What do you mean when you say "froze"?
BB: ......
Aaron: Please. I need you to explain what happened, no matter how hard it is.
BB:.....Frozen...like ice. Everything just stopped right in it's tracks. All my men, my tanks, the enemy...just frozen in time.
Aaron: And you?
BB: I was spared this effect. I looked around the field in shock, as if in a dream. You wouldn't believe the feeling of being the only one unfrozen.
Aaron: You have no idea...
BB: Excuse me?
Aaron: Nothing. Please continue with your story.
BB: I walked around checking if my men were alive or not. They didn't have heartbeats, but it was clear that there was still life in them. It stayed that way for 2 hours, me just sitting there. It was at that point that I saw the boy again.
Aaron: The boy?
BB: The messenger boy, Johen Klip.
Aaron: !?
BB: He was a small lad, I'd say about five or six years younger than you are. His job was to run from station to station and deliver messages to the various soldiers. This particular boy had just ran further down the mountain to deliver the news of the enemies success, so it was surprising to see him back so soon. Nonetheless, it was good to see another moving person. As I walked up to him, he held out his hand, as if to stop me. He then said, "All is not lost. There's one thing I can do. The enemies' Energized Lombart Opal....if I could destroy that....." He seemed to be lost in thought.
Aaron: What exactly is an "Energized Lombart Opal"?
BB: Don't know exactly, but it seemed to be the source of energy for the opposing side. Supposedly it was dug up by their scientists from the site of an ancient temple, a powerful treasure...and an even more powerful weapon...but again, these were all rumors. No one really knows if this Opal even existed. Anyways, Johen was silent for a bit...and then...
Aaron: .....
BB: I'm sorry. I can't continue.
Aaron: You have to! Please. This is a matter of life and death!
BB: Oh? It seems that you have your own story in this....eh? Tell me...why are you so interested in that battle? I think I deserve to know if I'm here doing this all for you.
Aaron: I can't tell you much...but I will say that I'm fairly certain that the Energized Lombart Opal existed...That's all I can say.
BB: .....I guess an old man like me can never expect to understand the whole story. Very well, I'll continue. As I was saying, Johen was silent...and then disappeared. Vanished into the air just as quickly as everything had frozen. It was also at that moment that all my men were revived, as if nothing had ever happened. They were back to normal...but not everything was the same. This, I believe was also mentioned in Dr. Resnes' paper. Everything was still silent. The soldiers stood there, in the field and we all began to realize that the enemy had stopped. The soldiers began celebrating, but I was still nervous. Besides everything that had just happened to me, something still seemed out of place. That was when the noise began.
Aaron: The whistling noise?
BB: Yes. A shrill piercing howl. Then, the object fell from the sky. Of course, we know what that object was...
Aaron: Johen's head.
BB: Correct. What isn't mentioned in any report though was the strangest part....
Aaron: ......
BB: The neck...it was a clean cut, perfect in every way, as if the smoothest blade had cut it. Plus, there was no blood coming from the wound. It almost seemed as if the cut had healed right away. Of course, back in those times there was nothing nearly as fine to be able to do that...To this day I have no idea what it could have been.
Aaron: And then?
BB: And then that's it. The enemy really was defeated. Every single man...dead. No wounds, no reason. Just...dead. We had won.
Aaron: Do you think Johen had done his part?
BB: Impossible. The enemy base was over 30 miles away. He could never reached them in the amount of time that passed.
Aaron: But you yourself had experienced frozen time! If he had traveled that way he could have had all the time he needed...plus, the dead bodies...all of them dead at the same time...you didn't find that odd?
BB: At that point we had seen enough odd things to last a life time. The battle was over, that was all that mattered. That's my story. Did it help?
Aaron: More than you can imagine. Thank you. One last question. After the battle...why did you hide away?
BB: Oh...I was just tired. I couldn't stand to be around people after all the war I had seen.
Aaron: I find that very hard to believe. You had just reclaimed your city...why would you not go back to the family you fought to defend? You had another reason...something you didn't want anyone to know.
BB: Smart child. I'll stick by my word though. An old man like me can't be blamed for having some secrets left. Now, I must be leaving you. I hope this "matter of life and death" works out for you.
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Aaron: Frozen time, simultaneous deaths, the whistling howl...there's no mistaking it. I've put it off long enough...I'm going to need to find the Energized Lombart Opal,the fabled ELO, before anyone else. And if I can't...well, that's not an option. This is Aaron Klip, signing off.
Ethan:
After all of the training, the sweat and the blood, the pain that no man should ever have to feel. After all of the years of preparation, the time for action was upon him.
His dreams were filled with nightmares. Filled with horrible images from his past. But all of that would be made up for soon.
This was his destiny. This was his reason for living. Losing was not a possibility. It was the pinnacle of his existence, the time was now.
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