His hands ached and bled from raking through stones to find the bodies. Around him everything burned to cinders, smoke rose form the ashes of the town. Deep trenches cut through the ground from the firepower of the empire. It ripped through the town in one burst, annihilating everything in its path. Then came the guard. Soldiers standing ten feet tall, embossed in golden armor that emitted a sound of trumpets and hymns. Their wings of blue and white spread as they descended. Their blade of fire striking out, vaporizing anyone left that could even resist. Even those that laid begging were wiped clean. They held no emotion of it, just pure systematic destruction. Then they ascended back into the sky to the floating city.
The city blocked out the sun as he was fishing in the dead lake. He didn’t notice it, no one did, until it was too late. He bolted, but he could hear the beams ripping into his town, the flames and shockwave cascading miles. He dove, hid, and as he got closer he saw the wings, the fire. Heard the screaming the begging and pleading, then silence.
Just the flames whipping in the wind of a memory.
He laid frozen all night watching the flames burn out and fall to cinder. The next day he made it to his house and he dug.
Mother.
Father.
Sister?
His bleeding hands found them all. Crushed and charred.
He sat at the edge of what used to be his town. Exhausted emotionally and physically. His hands raw and split. In his right hand he held a golden necklace that still shined bright in the sun. He clutched it hard, dead eyes staring into the depths of his own soul.
Fresh blood rained down the golden chain and dripped to the ground.
A small flame ignited deep within him. What was left, but revenge?
Fate had struck a new path for the world. His survival. Destruction to the City of Angelics.
I have this world where a floating angelic city rules over the land. I think I have made story where there is an assassination that happens on it, but I will have to look through and find it. This concept was born from thinking about the old anime landscapes where you had large areas and would see the shadow of something colossal black out the sun. This city rules the lands with its technology and the surface must gather its strength to fight and over throw them (maybe?).
Till next time.