{"id":341,"date":"2015-03-04T01:07:31","date_gmt":"2015-03-04T06:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonsofsword.com\/?p=341"},"modified":"2015-03-30T22:43:43","modified_gmt":"2015-03-31T03:43:43","slug":"champions-of-battle-ad7-awakening-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonsofsword.com\/?p=341","title":{"rendered":"Champions of Battle: AD7 &#8211; Awakening #15"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bosstown Rejuvenation Center:<\/p>\n<p>Team GarDNAnge1 waited with AD7 for Cyd to finish his shift.\u00a0 It was very true that he hated his job but he had enough respect to at least finish his final shift.\u00a0 However, the Blue Stone Reanimation Corporation could do without their three week notice.\u00a0 It was only fair.\u00a0 He had worked there for six years without any notice of a promotion or pay raise.<\/p>\n<p>The five of them sat on a few large and very soft black couches in a side lobby.\u00a0 As they talked, AD7 occasionally glanced at the counter.\u00a0 It was busy.\u00a0 Customers came and left with their revived allies.\u00a0 The revived often limped or looked uncomfortable as they moved.<\/p>\n<p>Occasionally, someone would enter with an unfortunate person; or a box.\u00a0 So many hurt, dying, and dead people; was this new world so violent.\u00a0 Was it just as violent in the old world too?\u00a0 Maybe?\u00a0 Possibly?\u00a0 AD7 was still drawing blanks.<\/p>\n<p>The bunch of them looked awkward staying in the lobby, a bit like loiterers.\u00a0 They got a few strange looks but no one dared to say anything to the fearsome cloaked warriors and their slim orange and yellow companion.<\/p>\n<p>AD7 had long since changed into more reasonable attire.\u00a0 A plain t-shirt and a pair of pants complements of the Rejuvenation Center.\u00a0 Light brown seemed to match her skin the best, slightly lighter pants and white shoes completed her outfit.<\/p>\n<p>She guzzled water as fast as her body would absorb it while the members of GarDNAnge1 told her about the world.\u00a0 They had removed their hoods and introduced themselves some time ago.\u00a0 They seemed nice, granted she had only known them for a short while.<\/p>\n<p>A great amount of the world had changed.\u00a0 The city she loved had fallen on &#8220;hard times.&#8221;\u00a0 Rubin&#8217;s Trail had gained a &#8220;presence&#8221; in the area.\u00a0 New and mysterious combat schools were discovered including the Holy Talent Set that Hachiro used.\u00a0 Of course, with all the things they were telling her, she couldn&#8217;t help but wonder what they were leaving out.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the technical information they gave her it was over her head.\u00a0 All she understood was that they needed her to build things.\u00a0 She kept thinking the question.\u00a0 <em>If they were so powerful, why did they need help?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What do you need built,&#8221; she asked the next time she had a chance to enter the conversation.\u00a0 They looked at her confused which surprised her a bit.\u00a0 It was like she gave a very wrong answer in a classroom.\u00a0 &#8220;Did I say something wrong?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Tirzah looked at her companions a bit longer then turned to AD7.\u00a0 <em>How much of the last two hours did AD7 comprehend?<\/em>\u00a0 Tirzah cleared her throat, &#8220;Let&#8217;s start again.\u00a0 We are the lead portion of team Guardian Angel,&#8221; Tirzah said with pride.\u00a0 They had earned that pride.\u00a0 GarDNAnge1 was the lead team of what could be argued as one of the greatest clans in the entire world.\u00a0 As such, everyone in the world knew their team name.\u00a0 However, AD7&#8217;s eyes showed nothing resembling recognition.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;From Pure Order,&#8221; Tirzah continued with a little bit of hope.\u00a0 If anything she knew their faction name.\u00a0 The rivalry between Pure Order and Pure Wealth was legendary.\u00a0 Again, AD7 responded with a blank gaze.\u00a0 &#8220;We come from the city of Sanity,&#8221; Tirzah said almost frustrated.\u00a0 Everyone in the world wanted to find the secret city of Sanity.\u00a0 Not only did it hold a world famous clan, it held secret Hanja and enchantments that no other place could duplicate or disenchant.<\/p>\n<p>It seemed that AD7 recognized that the three statements were supposed to mean something.\u00a0 What they meant was beyond her.\u00a0 Hachiro came up with the answer, &#8220;She&#8217;s too old to know about us Tirzah.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>AD7 flinched at his words.\u00a0 She did not like being referred to as &#8220;too old.&#8221;\u00a0 No matter how long she had been in storage, she looked just as old as they did.<\/p>\n<p>It made sense to Tirzah though.\u00a0 She began a new explanation, &#8220;We mostly battle on trails.\u00a0 We don&#8217;t need you to build one thing.\u00a0 The structures we need are buildings that build, train, and upgrade machines.\u00a0 We use these machines and our skills to attack opponents while they attack us trying to force a surrender or retreat.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>AD7 had no idea how to respond.\u00a0 She agreed to help these people as thanks for reviving her but it was all overwhelming.\u00a0 &#8220;I&#8217;ve never done that before,&#8221; she said.\u00a0 At least she had no memory of doing anything like that.\u00a0 She remembered a wall that was about it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Don&#8217;t worry,&#8221; Tirzah said comforting.\u00a0 She seemed very sure of AD7&#8217;s abilities.\u00a0 She took a sip of water \u201ccompared to what you&#8217;ve already done, it should be easy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Champions of Battle: AD7 \u2013 Awakening #1\" href=\"https:\/\/sonsofsword.com\/?p=33\">#1 <\/a>\u2013 <a title=\"Champions of Battle: AD7 \u2013 Awakening #14\" href=\"https:\/\/sonsofsword.com\/?p=323\">Awakening #14<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; <a title=\"Champions of Battle: AD7 \u2013 Awakening #16\" href=\"https:\/\/sonsofsword.com\/?p=374\">Awakening #16<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bosstown Rejuvenation Center: Team GarDNAnge1 waited with AD7 for Cyd to finish his shift.\u00a0 It was very true that he hated his job but he had enough respect to at least finish his final shift.\u00a0 However, the Blue Stone Reanimation Corporation could do without their three week notice.\u00a0 It was only fair.\u00a0 He had worked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[14,3,17,16,170],"class_list":["post-341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ad7","tag-champions-of-battle","tag-cyd-chang","tag-gardnange1","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonsofsword.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonsofsword.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonsofsword.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonsofsword.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonsofsword.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=341"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sonsofsword.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":400,"href":"https:\/\/sonsofsword.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions\/400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonsofsword.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonsofsword.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonsofsword.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}