The Reddest Rose

...it all happened the same night when the Utopian Federation decided to use mercenaries and accepting voluntary aide from it's colonies...


...the same night when Queen Rasa decided that Tangerine, a senate serving her late father is no longer valid in her presence...


...it is at that very same night when Tangerine; the Prime Minister from an uncharted hidden land named Atlantis began working on Utopian Federation downfall for so long, began executing her plans from behind the shadows of an upcoming civil war...


"The Rose Of The Battlefield" came...

"I was just about to wrap it up for the day - rearranging the application documents, contracts and all that....there are no more applicants for the day, the office is nothing but empty.

...the guards...none inside the premise - i am sure of it. They are outside patrolling all possible entrance as they should be...but it seems like the security within this building is not to be much of a problem for her...

...after all she came; out of nowhere..."

-Divinekid

Rose: The Utopian Federation Military Headquarters; build during the reign of  the 17th King of Utopia in commemoration of his majesty great victory over the Exalion Kingdom  at the Battle of Laviae...

Divinekid: Wha...wher....hey! You there!

Rose: ...the monument build over other people's misery, the Utopian Federation "Golden Age" of conquest. History doesn't change much for mankind...or is it mankind never learn anything...

Divinekid: Intruder...how do you get inside the building!? I am calling the guards!

Rose: If ever your hand reaches for the communication device or should you intended to alert my presence to the armed forces stationed around the compound of this blood soaked building, I'm afraid i might need to silence you permanently...

Divinekid: Silenced me....?

Rose: You could try.

Divinekid: ...

Rose: There is some question that i would like you to answer...

Divinekid: Go to the office "Help Booth" you idiot!

...instead of barging into people's office this late at night!

Rose: I would like to know more about the assault that would take place on the rebel stronghold in Zelagross...

Divinekid: Not telling!

Rose: Your cooperation might save the foundation of your country as well as the people...

Divinekid: Mother say not to give information away to stangers!

Rose: I'm afraid that it's near impossible to gain some kind of understanding with this crabby meerkat. I think i have to try to adopt a more aggressive measure...

Divinekid: You bet! Try me!

Rose: Ahem...very well.

Divinekid: What...what is tha...gun? Guns? A gun!? Hey...hey wait a second!

Rose: Correct. It seems to lifted up your mood for a more "less hostile" conversation with me, unless you still prefer the taste of lead drilling deep into your internals...

Divinekid: There is no way that I'm going to leak out classified Utopian Federation information to some random strangers like YOU!

Rose: Is it worth it?

Divinekid: What's worth it?!

Rose: Centuries ago, the Utopian Federation who was at the verge of conquest spread their wings to the southern region of the Utopian continent.

The King at that particular time had already possessed a grand scale army no man nor civilization had ever witnessed before...and that army need to be supplied with adequate food and water in order to functioned as a spearhead for every Utopian military campaign...

The southern region, with it's warm climate and tropical seasons, are a haven for agricultural activities. Overseeing the importance of the southern region and the benefit it brings to his army, the Utopian King halted all other major campaign and marched his army towards the southern plains.

Divinekid: Why are you telling me this?! I have no time for...

Rose: ...there is however...only one obstacle standing in the way...

The ruler of the southern region, The Kingdom of Exalion had refused to cooperate with the warlike Utopian King and decided to drove the invaders away from their rightful homeland.

Divinekid: Exalion?

Rose: It was a one sided battle. In only three days Exalion falls...the cities burned and the people are either slaughtered or were sold as slaves.

The King of Utopia ordered that the whole member of the Exalion Royal Family to be executed...this was to prevent any possibility for a future rebellion or uprising from the surviving Exalion race that survived the invasion onslaught.

Divinekid: Do you think you're some kind of a genius historian!?

Throughout the history of Utopia; during the Utopian "Golden Age of Conquest" the kings adapted assimilation system that clearly stated out that the Utopian King should prioritize merging the kingdom and preserving the ruler of the occupied country in order to form a single more powerful country under the Utopian banner...

...even if the country was forced into war, the Utopian will always open itself for negotiations and prioritize peaceful negotiations before deciding to use force upon the opposing nation...

Rose: Exalion, as well as the inhabitants of the southern plains are rather unique...

...the Exalions are not of human races, instead they undergo the same evolution as that of the other ancient races like the Draconians, Elves and the Ravens; the ability to mimic human structure, verbal communication, brains and movement...with minimal or less changes made on their original features. 

...unfortunately, as human beings becomes dominant...they began surpassing the other races and decided to wipe out other competitors as the most superior races to roam the earth surface...

...the Elves and the Ravens are officially extinct - while the more powerful Draconians retreated to the underworld; vowed to rid the world of the human races when the time comes.

Divinekid: ...and what of that the Exalions?

Rose: ...i was about to say that the Exalions shares the same fate as the Elves and the Ravens;

However...now that i saw one with my own eyes, i guess i have to hold my tongue just a little bit longer...

Divinekid: What? Who survived? ...where did you...

Rose: It's a pity that...as the last surviving member of the Exalions, you disregard your past and put your loyalty to the ones that had murdered your entire race.

Divinekid: ...you know about my past?

Rose: I am here to gather the information about the war campaign against the rebel forces at Zelagross. There are many hidden organisations with different agendas involved...one that might threatened the very foundation of The Utopian Federation while another...threatened the future of this world.

...if you think that what i am saying are of any significant importance to you i want you to beamed the data to this coordinate: 43.60336 -110.7362

...however if you think i was just a lunatic trying to disturb you with some crappy fairy tale from the past; i would like you to forget that we ever met. Goodbye...

Divinekid: Wait! Tell me more about Exalion...tell me...

Lady Junna: The officer described the person between 172cm to 176cm tall, slender build with long tied ponytail hair...white except for the brown trousers...a red tie and a cape...

...is this the person you are looking for Bunny Two dear?

Bunny Two: That's Rose...yes i am sure it's her!

...is there any more information about her Lady Junna?

Lady Junna: None from the Registration officer...i have to check my other logbooks for that.

Bunny Two: There is another from the mercenary; Alonqexe. You did mention his name earlier.

Lady Junna: ...i hope it won't end there. It seems like the more we get involved in searching for your Rose...the more unexplained events which occurs during the Utopian Federation last moments unfolds before me.

Bunny Two: Yes, i agree...

Lady Junna: However...Bunny Two...there is something that i would like to ask you about...

Bunny Two: Hmmmm? What is it?

Lady Junna: All these talking...it sure took us one whole day discussing this and that...

Bunny Two: Yes...how time flies!

Lady Junna: That's not what i mean...

Bunny Two: Hmmm...?

Lady Junna:...it's getting terribly late now Bunny Two. don't you have a home to come back too?

Bunny Two: ...hmmmm...i ran away from home just to see you, Lady Junna.

Lady Junna: ...aren't your caretaker be terribly worried about your safety?

Bunny Two: I am worried about my safety when i reach home.

Lady Junna: ...where do you intend too stay for the night then...relatives or friends perhaps?

Bunny Two: Nope...here! Lady Junna will ready me a cozy bed and a tasty dinner before we continue our story for tomorrow! I am hungry!

Lady Junna: ...

To Be Continued...

Pieces Of Puzzles

Intervention: the act of intervening

(Government, Politics & Diplomacy) any interference in the affairs of others, esp by one state in the affairs of another

(Economics) Economics the action of a central bank in supporting the international value of a currency by buying large quantities of the currency to keep the price up

(Business / Commerce) Commerce the action of buying up surplus produce when the market price drops to a certain value
 
The Utopian Federation crisis had reached boiling point - a rebellion is inevitable...yet cloaked under the grim blackness of the nation's bleak future, we realised that more and more foreign powers had already begun intervening with it's political affair. ...
 
Political interest?
Espionage?
Opportunist? 
Fortune? 
 
...nobody knows...
 

Bunny Two: I never knew that our current Prime Minister had served Utopia before. There are no such information about the nation of Atlantis getting involved in other nation's affairs directly nor indirectly. in addition to that, meddling around with the outsider would risk the secrecy of the Atlantis itself.

Lady Junna: This my dear was the affairs of your country during the pre-commercialize era...and judging from my records Atlantians, under the leadership of Prime Minister Tangerine had been long observing the Utopian Federation much more earlier than that.

Bunny Two: She's not aiming for the Utopian Federation throne amidst the chaos?

Lady Junna: Not likely...as i explain the events surrounding the Utopian Federation fate you will notice that The Prime Minister of Atlantis; unlike the Kingdoms of Watermark - intervene in a rather strange pattern.

Bunny Two: Ummm...how come?

Lady Junna: The Badlands and The Watermark Kingdom both seek to outdo one another, racing for the Utopian throne. Lord Flame intends to continuously manipulate Queen Rasa for him and his fellow conservative nobles benefit, while Lord Mana planned a coup de'tat during the final stage of the Utopian civil war.

Bunny Two: They are both driven by power and position.

Lady Junna: Exactly. When the Atlantians decided to intervene, the outcome has little or no effects in contributing towards Utopia downfall. From my list here...destruction of the Utopian Arcane Library, small uprisings and vandalism in the commoners settlements, abuse use of the Utopian Mass Media....

Bunny Two: Maybe she hates reading?

Lady Junna: ....

Bunny Two: Okay, she hate books, love to party and then get herself in the media spotlight...

Lady Junna: ....

Bunny Two: I guess i got it all wrong...



Lady Junna: ...(sigh)...never mind, who am i to talk about history and politics to a nine years old;

...by the way Bunny two, do you know that apart from the nobles, the colonies, merchants and by all means intervention from a foreign land, there is another person whom out of nowhere, decided to participate unconditionally into the Utopian Nation crisis...

Bunny Two: Huh...another?

Lady Junna: I hope you can help me out on this Bunny Two, because up until today there is no clear explanation why did this peculiar person...or possibly an agent of some secret organisation decided to get into the heat of the battle in Zelagross plains and in the end, just disappears into thin air.

Bunny Two: ...peculiar...person...battlefield...could it be!?

Lady Junna: ...i take that you know whom I'm talking about my dear...

Bunny Two: Please...please...please...tell me... tell me more! 



Lady Junna: Well...alright my child. The whole incident happen at the very same day the volunteers and mercenaries registers themselves into the Utopian Army; that very same night when Tangerine was removed from her position as the Utopian Senate...

...as i headed towards the Utopian registration office to supervised the final phase of the program, i received report from the officer in charge that she was approach aggressively by a mysterious unknown person who began interrogating her for information's regarding the battle plan assault at the rebel camp in Zelagross.

Bunny Two: ...another intervention attempt?

Lady Junna: ...another Atlantian, this time however maybe with different goals. I ordered a perimeter search around the office compound in fear that vital top secret military information might have leaked out by a possible enemy spy...

...in the meantime i was trying to gather as much information about this intruder from the officer in charge. It took quite some time to help her relax and calmed herself down; after a while, she began to tell me her story...



TOO BE CONTINUED....

Tangerine's Plot

"the winds of war is blowing..
the storm is brewing..
the skies will rain blood.."

- Banshee (Rose 16/7/2010)

Bada: Good evening Prime Minister Tangerine. That was fast of you coming back from your meeting with the Queen...or is it the Queen is unavailable for the time being?

Tangerine: Cut the formalities Bada. Please don't call me "Prime Minister" outside of Atlantis. There are many eyes and eyes that are spying and eavesdropping on us as we speak.

Bada: My Bad...but truly are we watched? This is indeed difficult times for Utopia...

Tangerine: I wish for none.
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Bada: I am relieved. So you met the Queen? did she accept your reasoning?

Tangerine: I was fired.

Bada: What?!

Tangerine: I was stripped of my ranks, fired from the Utopian Parliament and shown the door out without ever had a chance to make her see my point of perspective.

Bada: What more could we expect from such a greenhorn leader. It's a pity...please don't take it to heart, you still got us and our homeland.

Tangerine: A homeland that would be in danger if we don't take immediate action regarding this Utopian crisis.

Bada: What should we do now?

Tangerine: Our espionage mission here had come to an end Bada. it's time to go home...

Bada: But what about the Utopian civil War...and...and...the growing threat from Watermark?

Tangerine: Easy there my friend. I've got that taken care of. It's not that we just turn tail and run back to our home waiting to be invaded. I just want to add an additional flame to the already combustive situation.

Bada: Huh? I don't get you sometimes...

Tangerine: There's no need...but there is something we need to do before we are officially kicked out from this place. Bada, i need you to arranged some things before our term expires.

Bada: How much time do we have left?

Tangerine: ...by right, an ex-Utopian senate will have at the very least a week to clear out their personal belongings and handling down documents before retiring.

Bada: That would be enough, depending on what do you want me to do...

Tangerine: I need you to contact Ishtar. Have her fleet ready and sailing in three days. I also need you to gather the rest of our espionage team at our usual meeting place tomorrow.

Bada: That's easy enough...anything else?

Tangerine: Yes...ask Nihja too update her report about the situation in Zelagross. it has been two days without anything from her.

Bada: ...(sigh)...I'll do that...

Tangerine: That's not all...i need the latest blueprint on the Utopian Arcane Library, complete with information on guards, sentries, book logs and drainage systems.

Bada: Sure...but where are you going? You just came back...

Tangerine: I am going to pay a visit to the Utopian Media Network.

Bada: What did you say?

Tangerine: A senate that was fired recently should made a good story for tomorrow's seven o'clock news isn't it? Besides...i am going to tell all of Utopia how upset i am about our Queen's decision to sacked me.

Bada: I can't see clearly where are we going by doing that...

Tangerine: ...propaganda's...

Bada: Pissing off the Queen in public will definitely sees and outcome of having the Royal security banging at our door...not to mention that your "Retirement News" facing heavy censorship.

Tangerine: the situation out there is falling apart. the Utopian people will find any reason to get their claws on the nobles skin. I'm just using the scenario to escalate the downfall of this nation.

Bada: I see...

Tangerine: ...anything else before i make my move Bada?

Bada: ...well it disturbs me how we lost our trail on her a week ago. I always have this fear that she will meddle into our plan and ruined it...i think we should put more manpower to the search.

Tangerine: ...as for now, our main objectives are to destroy the Utopian Arcane Library, King Panthera's head and hunting down a Draconian that managed to find it's was into this dimension...

Bada: ...

Tangerine: ...as for Rose, you need not worry about her, they didn't call her "Flower of The Battlefield" for nothing, don't you think?

To Be Continued....