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Song I listened to for this chapter: Bad Company by Five Finger Death Punch

Previously:

 “Found them.”

Now:

The world of the Fae was idyllic.  Nothing out of place.  Birds chirping.  Sun shining. Everything is orderly and people greet each other as they meet outside their homes.  The air is comfortable and the crops are coming in as usual.  The children are playing in the town square.  Every is like a picture of a fantasy place.

Too bad it was just the outside.

The inside is rotten as can be.  The creator of the planet itself is not sane, nor are the inhabitants aware of anything but the simplest things.  He wanted no one questioning his rule and he has finally achieved that.

Lucifer chuckled. He had an enjoyable time last night.  He had run Compton to the ground yet again on Earth. Then, once he has decided it was time to start the next stage of his revenge, he had brought him home.

From there, the vampire is quickly learning not to take things that belong to him.  He also sings like a canary about his daughter. Every detail about her, and he happened to know more than he really should. But then he had been there to do exactly that.  Find out all he can and then use it to make her adore him and become his pet for his Queen.

Too bad Sookie didn’t take being trained as well as they had thought she would.

He is quite proud of her.  He had hated Northman at first, but after the stench of Compton, Northman is quickly becoming a better prospect of being his son-in-law and is becoming welcoming in his mind as such.  Anyone who took her away from the waste of space and treated his daughter with the respect that she deserves has a plus on his side of the ledger.

Watching the TV from Earth is beginning to take over much of his time.  It is here that he finally saw his daughter for the first time.  And had to admit that Northman complimented her well.  They made a dynamic couple.

She needs to get rid of that stupid name, though, and take the one he had decided the moment she had been conceived.  Who calls a child Sookie?

The only thing making him truly upset (besides the name, but in his mind he is already calling her his name for her) is that they seem to be the ones who are ruining so many of his plans.  Didn’t they understand that he was trying to make them a better world?

He sighs in frustration.

Lucifer admits that they are worthy advisories, and he is quite proud of them.  They are blocking him in ways he never anticipated.  He has even admitted that they had skimmed the cream of the crop off of Earth and started a revival movement on their home planets.

He will give them that.

In fact, Lucifer is thinking he just needs to finish off the chuff left on Earth.  This way they all win.  And he gets to keep more of the Creator’s chosen than just one subspecies.  Yes.  This could all work out for the better. Especially since these insipid idiots are already annoying him.  If it had not been for the promise he had made he would have seen if he could create his own species and try again.

Hopefully he can open lines of communication with Gabriel.  After all, every little girl wants to be a daddy’s girl right?  And once he does that, he will offer to rid them of the vapid hanger-ons that remained on Earth.  They wouldn’t care about the ones that had driven them from the world anyway.

With this in mind, Lucifer leaves the room, whistling as he looks outside.  This could work.  If not, he will just stay holed up here.  No one has found this world yet.  It had been one of the Creator’s attempts to get him involved with making worlds.

It wasn’t that bad for his first attempt.

The amphitheater is full of people.  All either helping the ones leaving to arm themselves or making sure they have everything.

The months of planning are coming to fruition right now.  Unknown to Sookie and Eric, a lot of their people had started to plan for this in case it came to an actual battle.  So when Warlow had come back and announced that they had found the planet, the people selected to be the heads of their departments had stepped up.  They appear in the meeting, each one informing the King that his people are ready and willing to go to war.

Then they proceeded to show their lieges the plans they had made.  It had only taken a few days for Eric to take their ideas, merging them with the ones he thought of to create a working plan.

And this is the result of that planning.

There are stations set up everywhere, and a lot of them had food and drink to make sure the people are full of energy for the jump.  Once the armed ones leave, the layout will change to be ready for the next step.  Half of the field will be organized in case their people need more weapons, and the other will be set up for first aid.

No one knows how Lucifer is going to react when they appear on his doorstep but they are ready for anything.  Warlow is leading one force, with Eric and Sookie leading the other.  It would have been wiser to have three forces attacking but no one wanted to even suggest having the two mates separate.

These are the sane people after all.

Once they arrive on the planet, with Sookie, Eric and Warlow carrying all the forces with them, the Assassins already had their targets.  They will go for the triplets and get them out of there immediately.  No one wanted their allies hurt, and this way, they can make sure that they are taken care of.

Of course, there will be a stop by Sookie so she can get any information off of them and send it to Warlow and Eric.  But that didn’t need to be said as it wouldn’t take more than a microsecond. The ones who will be going after them are the best jumpers they have, and will be able to come back on their own once they are mounted.

And the force was not all the Fae; there were their allies as well.  Julian had been very insistent on coming since his race is warlike and this will be right up their alley.  In fact, Sookie had joked that the Klingons seemed to be based on them.  Since an amused George had shown him what she had meant by the reference, Julian and the rest of the centaurs have been proud of the nickname.

Nevertheless, the truth is they are made for war.  When their adrenaline or whatever passes for it is up, their bodies become hardier, resistant to magic as well as physical damage.  It takes a lot to kill them.  This helped Eric in deciding to add them.  Plus they are well trained and they quickly understood his ideas for the battle to come.

When the OK had come, Julian had immediately notified his world. They took the chance for fighting eagerly.  In fact, there had been a lottery to determine who could go.  After the tournament to decide who is the best.

Nothing less would be considered to be sent to the High King for a battle, of course.

Erisel and her people are also coming as air support.  Unlike Luat and his type, Erisel’s dragons had to fight with their mates.  The two bonded and produced a different kind of dragon.  Until mated, the dragons could not fly, nor were they corporeal.  However, once bonded they become solid and the elemental powers they control are massive.  The other side is that the bonded ones are much more stable in their minds as well.

The Griffins are only sending a few to accompany the forces; they will be the primary defense here in the home worlds as well as being the primary healers.  Their healing magic is second to none and they are hoping they won’t be needed while they make every preparation for the opposite to happen.

The Nightmares are the terrifying ones of the bunch.  Their flame manes, tails, and hooves made the area around them too hot for others to be comfortable around.  They only bear the Assassins in battle, and in fact only when there is conflict could they be used.  Nevertheless, their appearance is enough to often scare the opponents sufficiently to break formation and run. During a battle, the two beings form a symbiotic relationship and become much more powerful.  They can only be used during battles this way, and only under the command of the High One.

The Youkai are another bunch that is calm, checking their weapons and armor are ready. Nevertheless, Sookie and Eric had visited them on their home world where many of them often wander in their true forms.  To underestimate them is a huge folly.  Even in their humanoid forms they are very deadly.  They were what the Samurai had tried to emulate.

They failed.

For any water attacks, the Water Horses and their Knights of the Deep are ready.  They are one of the few species that could transport anywhere, but with one limitation: it had to have water.  They could not jump to a location that they did not know, nor to one that had no large amount of water. They are waiting to see if they are needed and if so, they would be a force to reckon with in their natural habitat.

Other creatures are ready, some not having names that they could pronounce. One of the most lethal but beautiful is a creature that commanded the forests.  They resembled the inuyoukai for the dog-like grace, but the antlers that are tree branches and the whip-like tail are unique.  They often promote peace, but if attacked, they control nature itself to defend it, the blue gem in their head emitting a beam that originally is designed to fix places where nature is ill.  Sadly, they had learned that it could also protect themselves if needed to.

No one is sure what it did since none of them would say anything about it.

All in all, it is a force made up of the Alliance in every way. This is what the Alliance had been meant to do: not to leave any world or battle that involves one of the Alliance without the rest being there to help.  Everyone is being used to their best advantage.  Some of the creatures are there to help in case their fellow beings are hurt while others are there for the attack.

None are defenseless; all are more than willing to end this as the High King and Queen say.  They all just want to get back to living and making the Alliance work again.  To explore new areas, see all that is out there to see.

The universe was a wondrous place, and they want to honor their Creator by admiring what he has done with it.

First they have to deal with his wayward son.

Final count: 1,922

Fairfarren~