[h1][center][color=silver] The Patriots, The Nationalist, and the Outsiders [/color][/center][/h1]
[center][h3]Collab between [@NecroKnight] and [@Wildman13] [/h3][/center] 
[center]Road to unification mini RP[/center]

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The road had been hard and rocky - the people whom had been fleeing from one location to another. The monsters that had entered Japan - once some kind of gate had opened in Sendai. After which most communication started to get harder and eventually cease all-together. Then came the monsters, beasts not even folklore could imagine - and they killed. Killed like wild animals and didn't stop - not when faced against the Clans or the Daimyos in the Northern lands. The current group had just entered Aomori. Some talking and hoping that perhaps they could reach the northern tip and maybe sail for Ezo.

How ironic it was, that the will of the Kami favored their northern 'cousins' in such a way. People whom had a hundred years ago been nothing more than simple hunters and wild men. How they of Yamato - had thought themselves so above the Americans, the Koreans, the Russians, the Chinese. Then they got greedy and the Heaven' lance speared the land asunder - their Emperor dead and all of his most loyal men and advisors. In that single moment - they were reminded of humility.

In the years of the Cold War - they fought against each other like animals, while the Ainu - once thought lower on their social ladder than even the Koreans, had prospered. Under the rule of the Soviet-system they grew several times larger - until they had enough people and arms to be a prefecture itself. While their children died in civil war or famine - the Ainu taught their own how to sing, farm, fight, and hunt. 

It had been such way throughout the Cold War - then one day the Soviet Union was gone and so was the threat that hung over the Northern region. The Ainu - despite having suffered half a century of Japanese discrimination were not angry - they were even willing to accept reconciliation and aid the divided nation in getting back up. Then two decades later - this happened. Monsters. 

The current group had been lucky - they had kept moving. Such happened, whenever the lands of one Daimyo fell or the man himself was killed in battle. Those that survived fled to the hills or the next safe land. Soon likely - there wouldn't be anywhere to run. "Think, they will let us in?" asked somebody - namely, if the Ainu would accept refugees into their socialist 'utopia'. Long ago the people would have fought to death to keep such a force away - now they were running towards it in hope of salvation.

"They have to." A small teenage boy replies to him, clearly still below 18 years old and visibily weak and exhausted from all the running he undergone for the past days. "I mean they would need us somehow." He follows up and like the rest went to doubting himself in the process. His answer made the others nervous and slowly losing hope.

The group by itself was composed of a total of 5 armed civilians and another unarmed 15. Armed only with a few spears and swords one of them seem to be wielding a gun that he was lucky to scavenged from the battlefield. Because of the voices of the two a small patrol of orcs was alerted to their presents, but as they kept on arguing they have failed to noticed the incoming threat as an arrow went straight into the chest of one of them. 

"THE ORCS ARE HERE!" One of them yells in panic as the group started running, the orcs started chasing the weak group picking off the armed, severing limbs and heads from their bodies. Soon, shots were fired into the charging orcs, killing one of them before the gunner gets overwhelmed by them. The boy started running as fast as he can, not looking back to see if the others were still alive.

"You shall hear hear thunder....and remember us...." whispered Ayai, as they saw the sight and soon - in unison seven SKS' fired off and suddenly the heads of four orcs exploded. While one other died due to several shots into his neck and shoulder area - to make it bleed out.

As both the orcs and civilians saw the figures of armed soldiers appear from within the hiding brush several meters away - almost hidden like ghosts due to the early morning fog. The humans didn't need to reload, unlike the dwarven blunderbusses and they took aim once more. Killing off the orcs, that were upon the unfortunate civilians - killing off most of those, that wanted to go after the unarmed ones.

"The sky a crimson red...."

As expected, one of the orcs raised its sharp staff - and several abominations soon charged off at the soldiers. Whom didn't make any movement to flee - while the civilians could soon hear the sound of something familiar. Horses. As the young kid soon saw - a dozen horseback riders charge past him at the orcs.

Before the orcs could realize the deception and the fact that their archers had been first killed off. It was too late. As the mainlanders once saw the roar of men charging into battle - and the last thing the orcs shaman and few warriors saw was the sharp end of several dozen spears being smashed into their vulnerable parts.

The abominations that charged into the fog were then with a quick swipe slashed in half by the Captain of the group - with a sharp blade, and in less than a minute the entire battle was over. As the hidden soldiers soon started to appear from within the fog - yet they were not Daimyo or Imperial soldiers.

The civilians cheered in celebration, thanking the soldier for saving them but, by the time the battle was over eight men lay in silent in the ground and another 3 were injured where one was heavily injured while the other two had suffered minor damages. 

"Thank you so much." He and the others give thanks to the soldiers. "Are you the Ainu!?" one of them excitingly said as they stare with hopeful eyes. "More importantly are you going to take us in?!" another follows up, making the crowd look in anticipation.

They soon got their answer upon seeing Captain Ayai - the heavy tattoos on her face and hands, marked her an Ainu hunter - and a rather adept one at that, since she had more than enough markings on her body to prove it. Carrying on her back, was a sheathe for a katana - namely an Imperial Officer' sword. Likely a war trophy from long ago - yet still sharp as ever and caked in the blood of abominations.

As the woman soon spoke up. "Sadly no. We are not here to rescue-" she stated - her Japanese slow but understandable, likely crushing some spirits, before reigniting them with her next words. "-we are here to cleanse. The mainland of these filth and make sure they don't threaten Ezo. If you wish, we can take you to our staging ground."
 
The faces of the men lighted up with her answers, filling them with hope and igniting the passion of nationality back in their hearts.

"HEAR THAT." One of the shouts out passionately. "WE ARE GOING TO TAKE BACK OUR HOME!" He continues with pride as the others cheer happily in liberating and saving their clan. As sense of duty was seen in their eyes, and above hope that they can save their families at last from the savages that took their lands.

Captain Ayai rolled her eyes in reply to that, leave it to the mainlanders, to go from desperate refugees to eager warriors seeking glory. "Alright move it. We don't have all day," she called, as the civilians were soon back on the road. The bodies of their own carried by the Ainu - while the orc ones had been set and left to burn.

An hour later of walking, they would soon reach the city of Aomori. Which was home to one of the last Daimyos in the region. While also having numerous forces from Ezo present. “Form and orderly line. Sign up. You will be then designated where to go. If you’re hungry, there are several people servicing at the moment. Do so, after signing yourself in..."

The men quickly filled up the forms and started grabbing a meal after, falling in line and getting a well needed rest and a chair to relax on. "Can't believe that we have the option to go and take back our homes from them." One of them said clearly happy and excited. "Yep they aren't so bad after all." one of them comments with the aid that their getting. "I don't know with you but, I might be a lord with land after all of this is done." another joke around bring well deserved cheers and laughter for the once hopeless group. 

"Still pops would be glad knowing that were taking the fight back to them." someone in the group said bring back reality back to them mentioning the lost that just suffered a while back.

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