Part 5: The Conflict

The Onixian had somewhat settled in and they were gradually getting accustomed to living amongst the Kanipu and the Hitokuya. The natives were quite primitive compared to the Onixians, at least technology-wise, however, they treated the Onixians very well, in some cases even to the point of worshipping them as living Gods. A lot of the Onixians could not get used to the preferential treatment and felt uneasy to be serviced and worshipped all the time. Thus, with the help of the Kanipu, they built their own little settlement near them so they could be close to them but somewhat had their privacy. The natives respected that the Onixians needed a place where only God-like beings congregated. They all kept away from the Onixian village except for bringing food and other essential supplies. Most the Onixians preferred to stay in the village except for their children who often went to visit the natives.

One day, the Onixians awoke to the sound of gunfire and they could see smoke coming from the Hitokuyan village in the mountains. Fraser immediately assembled a team and rushed up to the mountain to investigate. They found many of the villages burnt down and half of the Hitokuyan population slaughtered. The peaceful Hitokuya had been brutally attacked and many of them had been murdered. Fraser soon found out to her terror, that some of their children were playing in one of the villages at the time of the attack and were missing. Karen and her friends were nowhere to be found. King Harry had also been slain and many of the natives had been captured and taken away as well.

Beastslayer was amongst the survivors and he was gathering up the surviving warriors in an attempt to lead a retaliation attack on the enemy to avenge his beloved king. Fraser had to stop Beastslayer from acting impulsively and attacking immediately. She needed to get more information about the enemy and also wanted to ensure that the children would not be endangered. She found out that a race called the Caukarom had attacked them.

The Caukarom were technologically more advanced than the Kanipu and the Hitokuya. They were very intolerant towards others and destroyed everything, which they did not like or was different from them. They believed that they were the most superior beings and everybody else who were not like them were sub-human and did not deserve to be living except as their slaves. Thus they made it their duty to kill and destroy everything that was not like them. Killing the more primitive Kanipu and the Hitokuya soon became a popular sport amongst the Caukarom. They were like a bunch of ruthless barbarians who liked destruction and devastation when they went into the valleys where the tribes lived. The infliction of pain and suffering to their neighbours was entertainment for the Caukarom. However, in their own cities, they were what appeared to be civilized people. They had a written language and had schools and hospitals, welfare for the old and even some electric generators for generating artificial light which scared their more primitive neighbours and kept them away from their cities. They were also able to terrorize their neighbours due to their superior weapons. They possessed firearms, crude explosion propelled weapons, but nevertheless deadly enough to cause fear and havoc. The Caukarom were said to have come from another continent they claim was swallowed by the sea. They had been terrorizing the other native people since their arrival due to their deadly and superior weapons.

The Hitokuyan warriors led by Beastslayer and the Onixian warriors led by Fraser agreed to work together to rescue their abducted people and avenge King Harry. Suddenly, while they were working on a plan, they heard gunfire again and then they saw smoke coming from the Kanipuan settlements down the valleys. Many of their villages were on fire; even the Onixian village, which the Kanipu had built for them, and located amongst them. Fraser and her group of warriors accompanied by some of the Hitokuyan as well immediately rushed back down to the valley but when they arrived, the attack was already over. Many were killed in the surprise attack. Amongst the dead were some Onixians as well. The chieftain was dead and his son Gakidou was gathering his people to avenge his father.

Even Admiral Tabero had been injured. He had been shot in the back, but the wound was not fatal. Everyone wanted revenge and it was up to Fraser to make it happen. Gakidou immediately took over the leadership of the Kanipu as the rightful heir. He swore an oath to avenge his father and all the Kanipuan warriors pledged him their allegiance and loyalty.

The Hitokuyan had a little problem on their end with the succession. Almost everyone in King Harry’s family had been slain. His sons, their cousins, all were dead. They discovered that princess Leia was the only royal survivor because she had been in the slaughtering tent preparing to be butchered and was not together with the rest of her family. The Hitokuya had never faced such a situation before. It has always been clear who would succeed the king. The oldest son was the heir, and if he were killed, then his younger brother would take his place. In the rare case when there was no son, the heir would be the oldest son of the king’s closest relative, usually his younger brother. But they had all been slain. The Hitokuya needed a new leader that everyone would follow. Beastslayer did not know what else to do, so he pledged his allegiance to princess Leia. Soon many of the other warriors followed his example since it was the only logical solution they could think of. They all pledged their allegiance to the only survivor of the royal family, princess Leia. She was quite shocked and was not quite sure what was expected of her and what to do. She had been preparing herself to be butchered for a family feast, but she had never expected to be made leader of the Hitokuya. It came as a real shock to her. As a girl she had expected to be married off to bear children or cooked for her father’s dining pleasure. She had never been trained to be a leader nor did she know how to lead her people. It had never been expected of her before. But suddenly it was her responsibility. Her brother had been trained for that but he was dead leaving her all those responsibilities instead. She had to be strong and lead her people and avenge her father. But how was she going to do that? She had only been trained to be a delicious and willing meal, but now she had to lead her armies into battle and she had no idea on how to do it or even where to start.

Luckily, Beastslayer was quite dependable and helped her organise her armies and prepared them for battle. He was a fearless warrior and knew how to lead small scouting parties, but leading an entire army was beyond his capabilities. But there was captain Fraser. Almighty Fraser would lead them into glorious battles just as the prophecy had foretold. She was a born fighter and a great military leader. At first, each, the Hitokuya and the Kanipu wanted to attack the Caukarom by themselves, but Fraser convinced them to join forces and attack their common enemy together. Their combined forces could hit the Caukarom harder. They had to coordinate their combined efforts. Fraser was an expert in such matters. She had had much experience and success in the past. The Onixians knew about it all too well. Fraser had been a ruthless rebel leader and terrorist until she was converted to the Onixian faith and then joined the Onixian forces. She had always been feared by her enemies and loved by her own troops.

The Caukarom lived in an area that had many natural defences and would make an attack on them quite difficult. In addition, they had built a big fortress that surrounded and protected their main city. Nobody had ever been able to force his or her way into that fortress before, and no attacker had even come close enough to try. Since the Caukarom possessed firearms they had always had the upper hand and were the ones who did the attacking. But even if they were attacked they were able to shoot any attacking army before they even got close enough to attack.

This time, however, they were outgunned. The Onixians had far superior weapons than the Caukarom. Not only had they three times their range but their machineguns could shoot a few thousand times faster than the crude guns the Caukaroms possessed.

When the Caukarom detected the combined Hitokuyan and Kanipuan forces approach their fortress, they arrogantly rushed out of their invulnerable fortress to intercept the enemy. They were planning on shooting them like rabbits; however, the Onixians turned the game around. Instead of the Caukarom shooting at the Hitokuya and the Kanipu, the Onixians were shooting at the Caukarom. Fraser had prepared a group of her warriors and armed them with machineguns. They lay hidden in a straight line awaiting the arrival of the Caukarom troops. Then when they were close enough she signalled them to fire at the Caukarom who dropped by the thousands when they were machine gunned down. The Caukarom had been very surprised and caught completely unprepared. They were expecting to shot at primitives and believed they were still at a save distance when their soldiers suddenly started to drop like flies. They immediately tried to run for cover but the Onixian bullets raining on them were faster. They continued to drop dead left and right even when they retreated. They could not escape easily.

The Onixians continued to shoot them until the Caukarom managed to get back into their fortress. Their losses were great. Two third of their attack force had been wiped out by the Onixians. But fortunately for the Caukarom, their fortress was able to protect them from the Onixian hail of bullets.

The Hitokuya and the Kanipu were astonished and very excited. They had never seen that many Caukarom being killed before. Usually, they had to take heavy losses in order to just kill a few Caukaroms. They now truly believed that the Onixians were very powerful war gods. Only a God’s wrath could have wiped out the Caukarom armies like that. They would do whatever Fraser told them to do without hesitation. The command of such a powerful war goddess had to be followed and they all were willing to follow her blindly.

The Caukarom, however, were devastated. Never had they been defeated before and seeing more than half of their army lying dead in front of them did not inspire them to fight on bravely either. Many were very terrified. In the past, the death of a few soldiers had been a reason to mourn for several days since it was very rare that a primitive would manage to slay one of them. That something like this would be happening was unthinkable, but yet it had. The ruthless Caukarom general Napo was horrified and shocked speechless. His proud and invincible army had been defeated and slaughtered, and he had had to helplessly watch their destruction. All his powers were evaporated into thin air in an instant. But all was not lost yet. Their fortress would protect them. They could survive a long siege. They had plenty of supplies, which they had taken from the Kanipu and Hitokuya who now had not much left, and it wouldn’t be so easy to storm into their fortress either. It was practically impossible to penetrate the fortress in a conventional way.

Fraser was carefully studying the defences of her enemy, in particular the guard posts on the fortress. There were many cannons. And also, there was no way to sneak up to the fortress without being detected and fired upon. An all out frontal attack would be very costly and not necessarily result in penetrating the fortress either. They needed some armoured vehicles. If only they had a tank or a fighter jet. Then it would have been easy.

Meanwhile, the Kanipu had discovered some smaller Caukarom settlements that were located outside the fortress. Since the Caukarom had not expected that they would ever loose, none of the settlers had been evacuated. The Kanipu could not resist the urge for revenge and attacked one of the settlements. The fighting was very bloody. The settlers were desperately trying to protect themselves while the Kanipu were thirsty for blood and revenge. Both sides took heavy casualties. When the Onixians got involved, the fighting was almost over and the Kanipu already had the upper hand.

Caroline was leading the Onixian group that Captain Fraser had sent to assist the Kanipu. When they arrived at the scene she immediately deployed her warriors and stormed into a small hut by herself from where she had heard some struggling. Upon entering she saw prince Gakidou strangling a female soldier that he had overpowered. She was gurgling softly while drool dripped from her slightly parted lips. Caroline smiled and left the building and then saw something in the corner of her eyes. Someone next door was trying to hide. Caroline grabbed her dagger and ran over to where she saw the movement. There was a woman hiding in the shadows. Caroline immediately attacked her and threw her over her own shoulders sending the woman crashing against a wall. Then Caroline slit her throat before she could get up.

Following that Caroline went to the next house, which was defended by an old man desperately trying to keep everyone outside. But he was only armed with a double-barrelled shotgun. Caroline leisurely shot a round into the thin wall the man was hiding behind and that was the end of him. There was only a hysterical bitch left in the house that screamed at Caroline when she entered the house. Caroline did not pay much attention to the annoying woman and just knocked her out with one punch to the head. She was more interested at the strategic advantage of the building since it was the highest in the village. However, upon seeing the stupid woman regain consciousness and moving her aching head, Caroline decided to end her pathetic life. She grabbed the half unconscious woman and dragged her over to the bed and used the bedcovers to make a rope. Then she hastily wrapped some of the rope around the woman’s neck and tied it securely. Next she tied the other end of the rope to the bedpost and then slapped the woman around the face to wake her up. When she was awake enough to understand what was happening, Caroline threw her out of the window. The woman immediately tried to free herself and desperately tried to untie the rope around her neck, but it was too late. By the time she had her hands around her neck she had already been thrown out the window. Her shoulders slammed hard against the wall breaking her arms, which now were dangling motionlessly around her sides. The rope around her neck was holding her dangling underneath the window frame. The knots in the makeshift rope were preventing it from tightening more around her neck, but her weight was pulling her down. The woman tried desperately to get free and kicked her legs wildly, but it did not help her much. Her own weight was slowly pulling her down and asphyxiating her. It would be a slow and painful death.

Meanwhile Gakidou had been quite busy. He had burned five houses and massacred about two-dozen people on the streets. Dead bodies were lying everywhere. The place was literally covered with dead and mutilated bodies begging for mercy. The Kanipu were really bent on revenge and they knew no mercy for the murderers of their chieftain.

Then Caroline watched Gakidou chasing a couple, a mother and her daughter. When they entered a sideway it turned out to be a dead end. He had them corned and the mother went on her knees begging Gakidou to spare them. Gakidou didn’t know much Caukarom, but he knew how to say a few things.

“I’m going to kill you”, was one of the things he could say and he enjoyed telling it to the two dead scared women who were begging for mercy.

He unsheathed his sword and plunged it into the mother’s belly. She screamed out loud and began to slowly sink to the ground. He then slowly pulled his sword out of her and she clutched her blood spurting belly with both hands and was whimpering in pain. The girl was scared and crying seeing her mother crouching on the floor and bleeding a lot. Gakidou was about to stab the woman to death when he saw the girl’s pleading eyes, which gave him an idea. He grabbed his dagger and handed it to the scared girl and told her in broken Caukarom

“You can stop your mother’s suffering. Kill her!”

The girl looked back at him with disbelief, but she took the dagger. Maybe she was thinking she could defend herself with the weapon.

“I will torture her and make her suffer a lot. You can kill her and spare her from that.”

The scared girl glanced at her whimpering mother lying in a pool of her own blood. Then she glanced at Gakidou who was still holding his bloodied sword. She could not believe that he was asking her to kill her own mother. Gakidou kicked the woman lying before him in the rips and she coughed in pain. Then he stabbed her in the leg upon which she screamed out loud and howled in great pain. The terrified girl was in tears seeing her mother being abused like that. She knew that her mother was fatally wounded and would die soon. She could end her mother’s suffering but she could not bring herself to murder her own mother.

Gakidou then bend down and using his finger made a movement from the woman’s left side of the neck to the right side. He was mimicking the movement of cutting her throat. Then he looked at the girl staring at him with wide open and disbelieving eyes. He waited a while and then grabbed the woman’s left breast and began to saw it off with his sword. The woman was too weak to fight him but her face showed obvious pain and suffering. Then he repeated the mimicking of cutting her throat and let the terrified and trembling girl reconsider again. She was still hesitating. Growing a bit impatient, he just cut off the woman’s nipple and squeezed on the remaining breast hard. The woman was grimacing in obvious pain and blood was squirting out of her mutilated breast. Tears were streaking out of the girl’s eyes as she was watching her mother’s torture and suffering. And then she snapped. The girl suddenly dropped to her knees and with trembling hands she placed the dagger at her mother’s throat. She closed her eyes and then slit her mother’s throat.

Prince Gakidou watched the girl snuff her own mother with delight. He then grabbed his sword with both his hands and took a step back. The girl remained motionlessly and dropped the dagger with which she had killed her own mother. Her heart was filled with sorrow and she was shocked at what she had just done. She was a perfect motionless target. Prince Gakidou took aim and then he swang his sword forward in a half cycle and cut off the girl’s head with one clean blow. The head fell off and rolled away towards the dark alley. Then the girl’s body collapsed on top of her dead mother. Gakidou turned around satisfied and went to find more Caukaroms to kill.

While the Kanipu were busy taking over the villages around the fortress, the Hitokuya laid siege to the fortress itself and prevented anyone from leaving. The Kanipu surrounded the settlements so that none of the settlers could escape and no reinforcements could get to them. Then they methodologically wiped them out, destroying a village after another while the Caukarom soldiers had to watch their people being butchered from the walls of their fortress. The Kanipu would then display their trophies in front of the fortress for the Caukarom to see. They placed the heads of the slain villagers on pikes and assembled them in rows. On a few occasions they had female captives that they gave to the Hitokuya who then impaled the living women on thick long poles. They would sharpen the ends of wooden poles and insert one end into the ground with the other end sticking out. Then they would strip a woman and carry her to the pole. The kicking and screaming woman would then have her legs spread and would then be placed on the pole. Then the woman would be slowly impaled on the pole through either her cunt or asshole and the pole would be run through her body until it re-emerged from her mouth. Then she would be left to die like that.

The Caukarom soldiers had to watch their women being impaled in horror. Eventually they could not take it anymore. The torment of helplessly watching their people being killed was too unbearable. They could not endure it any longer and launched a desperate rescue attempt. They assembled a large group of volunteers and those brave soldiers went out of the fortress attempting to help their people outside. But they never got very far. As soon as they left the safety of the fortress they were ambushed and killed by the Hitokuya. For those few who survived and made it further, the Kanipu were already waiting and easily finished them off. Despite the odds and obvious defeat each time the Caukarom attempted many more rescue missions. They did not give up easily. The Caukarom soldiers were dedicated to their own people and willing to make great sacrifices in order to save them despite the very high cost and heavy casualties they had to suffer. This went on for quite some time and each time a rescue attempt failed the Caukarom would assemble a new team and try again.

Then Fraser had an idea. She came up with a way to send some saboteurs into the fortress and cause some major damage and maybe even assassinate the Caukarom general. The Caukarom army was commanded by general Napo. He was the reason the Caukarom forces were so strong since he was able to keep them under tight discipline but without his leadership they would become disorganised and ineffective. Fraser called for a meeting with princess Leia and prince Gakidou. Together they agreed on the new plan. It was the first time princess Leia came face to face with prince Gakidou and Fraser noticed them staring at each other quite frequently.

At the next rescue attempt when a group of Caukarom soldiers stormed out of the fortress again, the Hitokuya were instructed to loose against the Caukarom and let them pass to get to the settlements. The Hitokuyan warriors did not like the idea much but obeyed. They let the Caukarom pass their blockade but put on a bitter fight nevertheless. They could not bear to just let them walk pass without giving them a fight. However, since they were to loose they did not kill many Caukaroms and paid a heavy price for sparing them. Many of their warriors were shot dead by the Caukarom. If they had been able to slit their throats, which they usually did, many of those warriors would not have been killed. However, this fierce battle was brutal enough that the Caukarom did not suspect it to be a trap. The Kanipu acted surprised and fled the battlefields when the Caukarom suddenly appeared from behind them.

The Caukarom soldiers were very happy. They had reached one of their settlements. It was the first time they were able to do that so it was a truly auspicious occasion. They were finally able to save some of their people and bring them back to the fortress. Sergeant Wilhem was the leader of this group of brave Caukarom soldiers and he ordered his men to gather all the settlers and prepare them to evacuate to the fortress. The settlers greeted him like welcoming a hero back. They had been besieged by the Kanipu and were unable to flee by themselves. Helplessly they had to watch their neighbouring settlements go up in smoke as the Kanipu attacked one after the other. Quickly sergeant Wilhelm tried to lead the settlers back to the fortress. He ordered his men to keep watch to detect any potential attacks. They could not afford to be trapped while they were escorting the settlers back to the fortress.

And then the attack began. A combined group of Kanipu and Hitokuya came charging at them. Sergeant Wilhelm ordered his men to form a straight line of defence and when they fired at the attackers they quickly dispersed and disappeared. However, suddenly, they were attacked from behind as well and a few of the settlers quickly fell victim to the attack and were killed. His men managed to shoot a few of the attackers before they ran off, but they could not protect all the settlers. The raids were lead by prince Gakidou personally. He wanted to make sure that Fraser’s plan was executed properly. He had lost many of his brave men in order to make this plan work and he wanted to ensure that all those lives were not wasted. It would have been easy to kill them all but that was not the plan. They had to be able to fight their way back into the fortress. His men had to be careful not to kill Fraser’s infiltrators who sneaked into the crowd of settlers when they attacked. In total they had to allow the Caukarom to rescue three settlements so that the infiltrators would not be detected as strangers. Skilfully he led one attack after the other, slowly coercing the Caukarom to retreat to another settlement that they had selected.

Sergeant Wilhelm was trying his best to protect the settlers, but the attacks on his group were quite frequent and unpredictable. He did not have enough soldiers to put up much resistance or sustain any long fights. Most of the male settlers were armed as well and they helped Sergeant Wilhelm defend their women as best as they could. However, they were just outnumbered and easy targets. Their escape route was blocked. There were too many enemy warriors trying to prevent their escape. He had to find an alternate way back to the fortress. The attacks kept on coming and they were almost at another settlement so he decided to go there to seek temporary shelter and enlist more help.

Princess Leia and her warriors were already near that settlement. They had hidden all around the settlement as planned and were waiting for the Caukarom rescue team to enter it before she would begin her attack on the settlement. When the Caukarom entered the settlement, princess Leia signalled her warriors to start the attack. They stormed into the settlement and started to burn down the houses and kill the women that fled the burning inferno.

Hilde was one of the infiltrators selected by Fraser. She had learned to speak Caukarom and their skilful doctor Jasmine had helped her alter her physical appearance so she was indistinguishable from the Caukarom. She then took the clothes of one of the slain Caukarom women and assumed the identity of the dead woman. Then she joined a group of fleeing women. Princess Leia tracked her progress carefully and ordered an attack on that group of women, which resulted in half of them being slain. Leia watched as her warriors attacked the women and slit some of those women’s throats. One of the Hitokuyan warriors grabbed a woman standing next to Hilde and he slashed her throat so that her blood splashed on Hilde’s face. Then he hit Hilde and she fell down pretending to be unconscious. At that moment a group of Caukarom soldiers rushed in to help the women and Leia signalled her warriors to slowly retreat. Their first mission was accomplished. The Hitokuyan warriors killed a few more Caukarom before they left and let them escape back into the forest where they would be safe for a while until the next attack led by prince Gakidou and his warriors.

Meanwhile Sergeant Wilhelm was counting his losses. He had lost many of his soldiers in the last attack, way too many. However, they were joined by quite a lot of armed male settlers and much less females. The males could boost his fighting force and there were fewer women to protect. Overall, it worked out quite nicely for him. He felt ashamed for a short moment for having such an unethical thought. The lives of all Caukarom were equally as valuable, both males and females. His situation was practically desirable since they were in the middle of the battlefield, but ethically he should not have considered it to be lucky that there were less female than male survivors in the settlement. Anyway, he quickly discarded that line of thinking and continued to concentrate on the task at hand. He had to quickly organise the settlers and prepare them to fight their way back to the fortress before their enemy returned for another attack.

Prince Gakidou and his warriors were watching the Caukarom organising themselves from a distance. If it weren’t for Fraser’s plan, he would have launched a surprise attack and killed them all quite easily. They were like fish out of the water. But he knew better than succumb to such a foolish and impulsive urge. He wanted to be a responsible leader like his father had been and not act rashly on instinct. He knew exactly what his mission was. He had to sneak another spy into the group of Caukaroms.

He looked at the young woman standing opposite him. She was so young and innocent looking, just a sweet darling of a girl. But Gwen was ready for her task to infiltrate the Caukarom. She had had a hard time learning to speak Caukarom fluently but all her hard work had not been in vain. Gwen now looked like a Caukarom and could speak their language just like one of them. Prince Gakidou could not believe that the young girl standing across him was really an Onixian and not a Caukarom. In addition, she was a very dangerous assassin as well. If Fraser had not told him so personally, he could not had believed that such a sweet innocent looking girl could be a trained killer. He could have fallen in love with that girl. She was so cute and charming. Little did he know that she also was a little psychopathic bitch who enjoyed torture and pain.

Everything was set and they were ready to attack the Caukarom and lure them into another settlement. Sergeant Wilhelm, however, had other plans. He was trying to fight his way back to the fortress at any cost this time. Prince Gakidou was not able to change the Caukarom’s escape path no matter how he directed his attacks. Gwen had to lend him a hand. She really surprised him when she asked him for a few warriors. She really took control of them and led the small group of warriors into the bushes where they started a big fire burning the small forest directly in their path. The result was as expected. Sergeant Wilhelm had no other choice but turn around and head towards the next settlement. Just at that moment, the wind turned and the fire spread in the direction towards the settlement that they were heading to. The Caukarom had to run. They had to escape the fire and get to the settlement before the fire got there and help the settlers. The settlers would be trapped otherwise. They were surrounded by their enemy and they could not leave the settlement without being slaughtered but if they stayed there they would be burnt to charcoal. Sergeant Wilhelm and his group rushed to the settlement as quickly as they could to rescue them. But when they arrived the settlers there refused to abandon their homes and were trying desperately to fight the fire. They believed that they would be safe as long as they remained in the safety of their settlement. Sergeant Wilhelm and his men had to help them in their desperate attempt until he could convince them to flee.

Prince Gakidou and his warriors quickly rushed to the scene as well and were joined by Princess Leia and her band of warriors. There was an awkward silence for a short moment while prince Gakidou and princess Leia were staring at each other and exchanging glances. Then they started to talk and together they discussed what to do.

“The foolish Caukarom will all burn to death if we don’t do something.”

“We can’t let that happen.”

It was ironic but they decided that they had no choice but to save the Caukarom. The problem was how they were going to do that without making the Caukarom suspicious. Again, Gwen had an idea.

“We will attack them from the north only and force them out of the settlement. They will be able to escape either to the west or the east since the fire is approaching them from the south so they would not be going there.”

Both prince Gakidou and princess Leia agreed that it was a workable plan. They quickly instructed their warriors that were guarding the west and the east side of the settlement to abandon their posts and move towards the north for a combined attack. They had to drive the Caukarom out of the settlement in order to save them; otherwise the fire would get them.

The Caukarom were still busy with putting out the fire and trying to save the settlement. This settlement was much larger than the others and even had a defence perimeter with small trenches all around it. The settlers were quite ready to defend their homes but now they were facing an even worst enemy, one that had no feelings and could not be scared. The fire was quickly making its way into the settlement. Already a dozen houses towards the south of the settlement were on fire. There was no hope for saving those homes, but the Caukarom were desperate to fight the fire and prevent it from consuming more buildings.

Sergeant Wilhelm and the village elder had a heated discussion while everyone else was trying to fight the fire. The village elder wanted Sergeant Wilhelm to stay behind and help his settlement put out the fire. He was certain that they could manage the fire. Sergeant Wilhelm, however, did not believe that they were able to beat the fire. He was also worried that their enemy would use the opportunity to attack them or start more fires.

“Those savages wouldn’t dare to come close to our settlement. They are scared of our streetlights and we are stocked up with ammunition. We have trenches all around the settlement where our men can safely take shots at any attacking savage. Those savages won’t stand a chance against us. Just make sure your men help us put out the fire quickly and you’ll be safe here.”

“You are wrong. Those savages are fierce and brutal. They have already killed many of our soldiers and nothing can stop them, not even our guns.”

“You sound like a coward scared of the enemy even before the fight.”

“I’m no coward. I have fought them and I’ve lost many good men. Those savages have better weapons than us.”

“You really are a coward. They are savages. Our guns are invincible. Don’t blame your incompetence on your weapons.”

Sergeant Wilhelm got very angry and drew his dagger and was about to attack the village leader, but he just stopped himself in time. He could not believe how stubborn and shortsighted some settlers were. They really believed they were invincible. But then again, Sergeant Wilhelm and his soldiers once believed that they were invincible as well. However, that was before their great invincible army was slain like defenceless rabbits. It had been a very costly and painful lesson for them and these settlers still had not learnt that lesson yet. He really wanted to spare them that lesson if only they would listen to him.

Just at that moment, a hail of burning arrows rained down on them from the north. It was followed by a frontal attack by both prince Gakidou’s and princess Leia’s warriors. They charged into the settlement and poured hot oil into the trenches. The painful death screams of the Caukarom guards posted in the trenches could be heard for a while. It was immediately followed by the terrible screams of dying women. Prince Gakidou had caught three women, possibly the wives of the soldiers in the trenches who were bringing them food. He had them burned to death. Two of his warriors had piled up some dry twigs around what seemed to be a storage facility and set it ablaze. Gakidou then grabbed one of the women and tossed her into the fire. She screamed bitterly from the pain but she tried to escape the fire and managed to come running back out of the blaze while her entire body was on fire. Gakidou had to throw an axe at her and split her skull to protect himself since she was charging towards him. The women dropped dead with the axe firmly embedded between her forehead and she began to smell like roasted pork.

Learning from that experience, Gakidou instructed two of his warriors to break the remaining two women’s arms and legs. Two burly men suddenly grabbed the two terrified and stunned women who had just watched their friend being killed. One of them began to twist the woman’s arm he was holding. She tried to struggle and get free from him but he was too strong and had a very tight grip on her. Then with a sudden twist he broke her right arm. The woman was shocked but before she could react the man broke her other arm as well. Now the woman was visibly screaming in pain but her cruel captor wasn’t finished with her yet. He roughly pulled her left leg up and abruptly twisted it until it broke. Then he threw her down on the ground while he held her other leg locked with his legs between his calves. That broke her other leg as well. Then he swooped up the defenceless woman who couldn’t move anymore since all her limbs were broken and carried her over to the burning building. He then unceremoniously threw her into the burning fire’ s flames and watched her agonised screaming, as she was slowly being burned alive.

The other man then copied what his friend had just done with the woman he was holding. The terrified woman desperately tried to beg for mercy but the Kanipuan soldier had no idea what she was saying neither did he really care. He was just following orders. He really hated the Caukarom and wished them all dead. He considered killing those women a just punishment and retribution for his brother’s murder by the Caukarom many years ago.

Sergeant Wilhelm and the village elder stopped arguing. They now had another problem to worry about. Their argument had become pointless. The settlement’s defences did not hold so there was no point in staying in the settlement or trying to save it from the fire. The enemy was already in the settlement setting more fires to the buildings and killing indiscriminatively. The village elder was shocked speechlessly and too stunned to make any decision. He just stood there in total disbelief at the situation. He could not believe that the savages so easily broke their defences. Meanwhile Sergeant Wilhelm took charge and ordered everyone to evacuate and abandon the fire fighting effort.

However, in the confusion of all the fighting and the inexperience of many of the settlers, everyone just ran for their lives in any direction they chose. Some stupidly went south and were caught by the advancing fire, others went north right into the hands of the attackers and were instantly slain. A group of young women were stupid enough to run north and ran straight into prince Gakidou’s hands. He had been stabbing a pregnant woman to death when three frightened girls suddenly bumped into him. He glanced up at three terrified faces holding his bloodied knife and instantly felt an urge to rape and torture them. However, he felt someone grabbing his wrist stopping him from attacking the girls. It was Gwen. She walked up to the three scared girls and told them to strip. The three girls couldn’t believe their ears. This girl who looked like one of them and spoke their language was actually helping the savages. She was just the same age as them. But Gwen wasn’t like them at all. She smacked the girl closes to her in the face. Instantly the girl began to strip while the other two watched with total disbelief. Gwen then smacked the next girl but that one blocked her face with her arms preventing Gwen from hitting her face. But that did not stop Gwen. She just elbowed the girl and then sank her knee into the girl’s guts. The poor girl fell over in pain but Gwen wasn’t satisfied yet. She grabbed the girl and pulled her back up into an upright position and then kicked her in the head with a spin kick. The girl lost her balance and fell sideways, but Gwen jumped up and went for another spin kick, which send the poor girl flying backwards crashing into the third girl. Then Gwen glanced at the third girl who immediately went on her knees and begged Gwen to spare her.

Gwen menacingly walked up to her and pulled her by the hair and dragged her over to where prince Gakidou was standing. Then Gwen dropped the girl right in front of Gakidou and commanded her to suck his cock. Prince Gakidou had an obvious boner. He had never seen a girl abusing other girls like that before and it turned him on incredibly. He also understood what Gwen had commanded the girl to do which made him even hornier and he immediately freed his cock, which sprang to live and rubbed on the girl’s face. The girl opened her mouth although she felt utter disgust and began to suck on prince Gakidou’s cock while tears welled up around her eyes. Gwen slapped her on her ass hard and told her to do a better job. The girl felt so humiliated and disgusted but began to suck harder on the cock. Then Gwen made the other two join in as well and suck Gakidou’s cock in turns. The two other girls obeyed silently in fear of being beaten by Gwen. Gakidou was enjoying himself. Having three girls suck him off was a terrific experience. He could still hardly believe that a darling like Gwen could be that brutal even having witnessed it personally. Then they all were stunned when Gwen began to strip off all her clothes. She had a gorgeous body with a figure of a goddess. Gwen then pushed the three girls aside and took charge of Gakidou’s cock herself. She brought his cock to eruption and swallowed all his cum. The three girls watched in shock and awe. Then Gwen picked up some of the three girls’ clothes and put them on. She looked lovely and innocent in those clothes. Then she picked one of the girls and made her get down on all fours and spread her legs. Gwen then began to finger her pussy and insert her fingers into it. First one, then two until she had four fingers in the girl’s cunt. The girl was too scared to resist but it could be seen on her face that she was disgusted about what was being done to her. Then her face distorted from the pain as Gwen began to push her entire fist up her cunt. Gwen was merciless and pushed her fist deeply into the whimpering girl’s tight cunt while the other two watched in horror at this terrible violation of their friend. Prince Gakidou was quite amused watching Gwen fist fuck the girl. Then finally Gwen pulled her fist back out of the girl’s cunt and the tortured girl collapsed.

Prince Gakidou then drew his sword and made the first girl kneel down. It was time to end the fun. He had more killings to do. The terrified girl obeyed and knelt down trembling. She knew she was going to be executed but there was nothing she could do to stop it. She was doomed either way. At least her execution would save her from the psycho bitch’s abuse. Prince Gakidou aimed at the girl’s smooth tender neck and sliced off her head with one quick draw of his sword. Gwen immediately jumped in and kicked the severed head like a ball sending it flying against the other watching girl who screamed hysterically. Gwen then walked up to her and grabbed her head with both her hands and twisted it breaking her neck with a single snap. Then she let the lifeless body drop to the ground. Prince Gakidou was amazed and very impressed at the speed and efficiency of the killing. He had to admire this girl for her skills and intelligence. Then Gwen picked up the remaining girl she had fisted before and holding her head by the hair, she forced the girl to kneel upright. Then with her other hand Gwen pulled a dagger and quickly cut open the girl’s belly gutting her like a pig. When she was finished Gwen looked back at prince Gakidou and smiled at him and then ran off to infiltrate the Caukarom.

Prince Gakidou then continued the attack and was able to drive the Caukarom out of the settlement before it burnt down completely. Meanwhile Gertrude, the last of the infiltrators picked by captain Fraser was preparing her own infiltration. She had been accompanying princess Leia’s group, which was attacking the Caukarom settlement as well. As a result of the attack, many of the Caukarom had been killed and they were split into two groups, one that fled to the west and one that fled to the east. Gertrude joined the group that fled to the east, which was led by sergeant Wilhelm. The group that fled to the west had no real leader. The village elder was in that group, but he was an absolutely useless character who was just a wreak after a nervous breakdown. The worst was that he had the admiration and loyalty of the settlers and they still considered him their leader. However, he was in no condition at all to lead them. Gwen was with this group of Caukaroms. Somehow they had to rejoin the other group and get rid of that looser of a leader, the village elder.

Princess Leia had been monitoring the situation and she knew that sergeant Wilhelm was the man they had to be driving. They had to coerce him to lead them back to the fortress. The village elder was too useless. He would just get them all killed, which would have been good for the Kanipu and Hitokuya in different circumstances but in their current situation they needed the Caukaroms to get back to their fortress safely. Princess Leia waited until sergeant Wilhelm had finished organising his group before she attacked them. Hopefully he would lead them to the other group and they could rejoin. While she was waiting, prince Gakidou and his warriors joined her and they had a quick chat. Then the Hitokuyan warriors attacked the Caukarom lead by sergeant Wilhelm screaming loudly and rattling the bushes in an attempt to scare them. The Kanipuan warriors assisted them and their tactic worked. A lot of the Caukarom were scared and wanted to run. Sergeant Wilhelm had no choice. Most of his soldiers were dead. His fighting force was composed mainly of the male settlers and they outnumbered his soldiers. They weren’t very disciplined nor did they know much about the military protocols. It was better for them to run than fight so sergeant Wilhelm ordered a retreat and they fled from the attacking Hitokuyan warriors. Princess Leia was able to easily manipulate sergeant Wilhelm’s escape route. She had quickly picked up the skills required to lead her warriors and also managed to learn a few tactics, which she expertly used now to make the Caukaroms do what she wanted them to do. Princess Leia was a real natural talent, which was lucky for her people. Prince Gakidou really admired her braveness and beauty.

Soon sergeant Wilhelm’s group could spot the other group resting in a clearing ahead of them. They quickly joined them and sergeant Wilhelm planned to use the combined force to confront their attackers and fight them, but having accomplished her goal, princess Leia called off the attack and her warriors stopped attacking the Caukaroms and left them alone.

The Caukaroms were safe for a while and now they had to somehow get back to their fortress. Again, the village elder wanted to take control and lead the group since he was the legally elected council leader. It was his right to lead them since most of them were civilians. But sergeant Wilhelm disagreed since this was a military rescue mission. In his opinion, he should be in charge plus he had more experience in military tactics and fighting in general. The village elder still believed that sergeant Wilhelm was a coward and refused to let him lead. His fellow settlers from his settlement all supported him. But the settlers from the other settlements supported sergeant Wilhelm. They knew what he had risked and done for them. The group could not have two opposing leaders. Something had to be done about it.

Again, Gwen resolved the issue. That night when most of the Caukarom were sleeping, she sneaked out and worked on her plan. The next morning, when the village elder went to the small river to get some fresh water, she followed him and pretended to be a scared, lost little girl. The village elder, being a dirty old man, used the opportunity to have his hands all over Gwen, pretending to be checking that she was all right and not injured. Gwen let the old pervert have his little fun but then Gwen pretended to have lost something up in the nearby bush and begged him to help her get it for her. Gwen skilfully manipulated him and gave him the impression that he would be a great gentleman and hero if he did that for her. The village elder fell into her trap and went to the bushes to fetch the item for her. Gwen grinned evilly while she watched him walk over to the bush. The old man searched for a while and soon discovered something. It looked like a pair of red undies. He went closer for a look and then picked it up. The undies had been tied to a small mechanism with a very thin almost invisible string. When the old man pulled on it, it released the mechanism. A sharp wooden stake suddenly shot up from the ground and went straight through the village elder’s chest. Gwen happily chirped up behind him and said: