The Fight For Freedom

[vovan]

What? First you don't update for how long and then I am gone for some four days, and you write three chapters! No fair! Then, again, I didn't have to wait for those.

This is some awesome stuff, though. I love the quantity and the quality! Hope you keep on going with this and never loose the inspiration.

[ChrisiusMaximus]

Aw thanks Vovan, but you cant blame me if youre away for four days

I have definitely found my flow again, at least for the moment and Im pretty sure I will be able to get this finished soon. I'm toying with the idea of cutting off soon and leaving the plot open for a sequel but Im not to sure if it would work out okay.

Thanks Scratch for your earlier reply to the first post of part 11.

Regards Chris

[unscratchedfoot]

Yah, the good guys win! Your writing is getting better and better. As for the battle, I prefer, in my most unworthy way, a detailed look at what's happening in general as well as from one person's viewpoint. I mean you could have included a description of the general mayhem going on in addition to what was happening with the main characters to give us more of a 'there's a battle going on' feel. Just my two bits.

[ChrisiusMaximus]

Part 12 Danger in the air!!


Bryn had led his victorious army into the streets of Entremont,( the ancient seat of the Celtic Royal line) to a heroes welcome from the liberated masses that day. Throughout the continent of Celtica, in every Japanese, English and Celtic home and city their was rejoicing. For more than a generation the evil Communist regime at the hands of Mcgregor, had wreaked havoc and caused bloodshed, cruelty and despair upon the Celtic peoples.

Bryn knew that although there was much still to be done, his Brothers needed time to rejoice and then time to grieve for their fallen kin. He too perhaps, could now find some time, if only a moment, to grieve for his beloved Son Connel.


ROME.

"Your Imperial Highness, grave news I'm afraid!" said General Maximus.

"Well out with it General! what is it!" said Caesar angrily.

"The English have just sent us this message Sir!"

"Youre spy Lucius Vilnius is dead!! his accomplice Claudius was captured in the act of trying to steal secret documents from HM Goverments Foreign office. He has been thoroughly interogated, and has seen fit to discuss with us youre imminent invasion plan. This is a clear incitement to our nation, one which could very well see our two nations at war!! We must warn you Caesar no further trespasses by your spies will be tolerated!!! If you attempt to spy on us again we will declare WAR!!! Further Caesar we must inform you of our new Four Nations MPP pact with Celtica, Japan and China!!! if any of your forces attack one of our allies then we will declare WAR!! on Rome!!!"

" Thats all Sir!" finished the General.

Caesar was speechless, how could all his hard work, his many months of scheming and plotting and planning, all of which now looked to be thwarted by the faliure of one of his own agents. How could it all be going so wrong ?

"Who the hell is this Claudius!! how did he know about the invasion plans ? I cannot see how this is possible! tell me Maximus do you think the English are bluffing ?"

ENTREMONT,

In the newly built Celtic Central Goverment buildings, this was a fantastic achievement by the new power in Celtica. In less than four months and with much help from the Japnese providing skilled labour, and the English providing most of the finance. An international summit was taking place. It was to last for two weeks and its aims were to try and find solutions to current world tensions. The first week only delegates from the four nations pact were in attendance, but invitations had been sent out to the other three remaining nations of the Roma continent.

A great many topics were on the various agendas for the various meetings and sub meetings taking place during this summit, covering aspects such as trade, technological disparity and financial poverty etc etc. Bryn was chairing a meeting with the leaders of the other three nations of the new alliance, " Thank you all for coming here today, it is a great honour for me to finally meet you all, please be seated." He said motioning to the plush leather chairs around the smooth granite table.

"Bryn my Brother may I introduce my Emporer, his Emminence Tokugawa!" said his trusted friend Scratch.

"Yes and may I please introduce Her Royal Highness Queen Elizabeth 1 of England!" said a smiling Simon Peters, the diplomat who had first come to meet bryn with an offer of alliance all those months ago now.

"Allow me to introduce our leader Chairman Mao, his wisdom is as deep as the ocean!" said a Chinese diplomat.

"Great! thank you all, this is my most trusted Brother Kyle Donavon, I wanted him to attend this meeting as he will definitely play a very important role in our new government when we have held elections." said Bryn, sure in his own mind that his new political party "Free Celtica" would win.

"Bryn I have wanted to meet you for so long, it is an honour to do so now!" said Tokugawa.

"For me too Tokugawa, your envoy has been a most trusted friend and a Brother to us all in our struggle. My people owe much to your nation I only hope we can one day repay you!"

"It is of no matter!" said the Emporer as he waved his hand to dismiss Bryn's thoughts. " Our nation is just glad to see the back of that evil dictator!"

"I agree!" said Queen Elizabeth, "It could'nt have come soon enough for me to see Mcgregor defeated!! That animal has the blood of thousands of our young men on his hands!" she continued. "In fact it would have been worth any price to be rid of him!"

A sentiment that was shared by all in the room.

To be continued

[vovan]

Hmm... Dark side I sense in Caesar. Some of his advisors shoot he will.

Nice developments there, Chris, though they kind of left me wanting for more. Interesting to see who will start the Rome vs The World war. Keep 'em coming, those goods, please.

[ChrisiusMaximus]

Part 12 Continued,


"Please! if I may. I do not wish to offend you my allies but I must insist that you refrain from describing Chairman Mcgregor as an evil communist. Indeed he was an evil man, a man who abused his posistion of power." said Mao of the Chinese.

"Agreed!" said Bryn, "A dictator is a dictator whether he be a king, Emporer or a Chairman. The form of government he chooses to hide behind is irrelevant!"

"As you are no doubt aware we have secured information detailing Rome's plans to invade Little Celtica. As we speak a massive fleet of Roman transport vessels is anchored off the coast of Rome awaiting Caesar's orders. From there he would progress to the mainland using the island as a staging post." said Simon Peters.

"Has there been any response from Rome ?" asked Bryn.

"Not as yet, but youve all got a draft of the message that was delivered to the Roman embassy in London last week. As you can see it reads very clearly! Caesar would be mad to ignore our threats!" continued Peters.

"What makes you so sure he will care? after all he has an army six million strong! more than all of us put together!" stated Kyle.

"Brother Kyle have you forgotten already how a huge obstacle can be surpassed ? have not you and your Brothers just accomplished the impossible ?" added Scratch. "Yes Caesar stands before us like a mighty Oak, unbending to the wind, we must be sure our blades are keen to fell such a foe!"

"As a gesture of goodwill my government has decreed to share our latest technologies with you all, all the details are in the prospectus youve been given. Yes it will take time to rebuild Celtica and to enable you all to fully modernise your military forces, but I am confident we can achieve peace!" said HRH Queen Elizabeth.

"What if Caesar strikes before we have managed to train our forces, in these new techniques ?" asked the aide to Chairman Mao, Lung Yoo.

"The problem Caesar has is very similar to that of the former Chairman Mcgregor! an obsession with size! Although the Romans have not had to finance fighting an all out war lately, their military budget is massive. They spend so much on supporting their army that research is almost at a complete standstill." said Tokugawa.

"Yes indeed our military forces though fewer in number surpass the Romans technologically! there fleet is large but still comprised of Frigates, Galleons and Ironclads. They dont even know that the Royal Navy is watching them from below the waves in our newest vessels, Submarines!" said Peters.

"YES!! YES!! those stupid Romans cant see our boys only a few hundred yards from their ships! HAW!! HAW!! HAW!!" laughed the Queen quite hysterically.

"They have absolutely no knowledge of our flighted aircraft, brand new I admit but with our new Bombers we could almost destroy any invasion force before it gets near our shores, and finish them off with torpedoes!" said Peters.

"Tor what ?" asked Bryn rather perplexed by it all, "Machines that can fly and drop bombs ? what in the Gods!"

"Progress Brother!" said Scratch, "Its called progress!"

"Bryn on behalf of my Queen and our nation I ask for your permission for us to establish a permanent base on Little Celtica! from there we could easily keep an eye on any agressive Roman troop movements on both land and sea!"

The meeting went on into the night.

ROME,

another meeting had just finished in Rome and Caesar was just deliberating his decisions.

"Although it pains me greatly to postpone operation Celtica I see no alternative. Gentlemen we must reassess the situation! if we attack now we risk a war on many fronts and against an alliance of four. As things are we cannot guarentee that France and Egypt would not sieze an opportunity to attack us while we were otherwise engaged. We must double our espionage efforts and find out the strengths and weaknesses of this new alliance! Getlemen we may have to annex the remainder of both France and Egypt before we can attempt to invade Celtica!"

Caesar was not really a dictator in the same sense as Mcgregor had been. The Romans loved him, and would follow him to hell itself! they were warlike people and were hell bent on total world domination, seeing all others as inferior beings to be used as slaves and entertainment in the arenas of Romana!

For now the Roman war machine, massive beast that it was would stand down. At least until a target was definitely selected for its attention. The Celtic people would have time to breath the new fresh air of their nation reborn but there was still DANGER IN THE AIR!!

[ChrisiusMaximus]

Sorry about that Vovan you must have read the first part of chapter 12 while I was having my tea. I hope the second post leaves you feeling more satisfied

[vovan]

Nice. I like these new developments. And the quantity of goods also leaves me quite satisfied.

Funny coincidence, too: I was reading this last chapter, I was listening to some music, and so as I get to the last paragraph, this song, Danger, by KISS starts. Went together quite well: reading the final sentence: "there was still DANGER IN THE AIR!!" and hearing Paul Stanley go



Danger, danger, give me danger, danger
Give me measures of pleasure and pain, boiling the blood in my veins
Danger, danger, give me danger, danger
Give me nothing to stand in my way, I'll make the best of my days





Anyways, good stuff, Chrisius. I didn't expect the Romans to stand down...

[unscratchedfoot]

Bring on the war! I want to see a nice mutual slaughter of Romans and the Big 4

[PLATO]

Interesting developments. Rome appears to be more politically isolated. Ceasar will need to take some type of diplomatic initiative or he will begin to fade in world power.
Still wondering about Scratch's and Tokugawa's motivation for helping. The English have exposed their reason in asking for basing rites.

Excellent storyline. I am really enjoying follwing it. Thanks and keep it coming!

[vovan]

Originally posted by unscratchedfoot
Bring on the war! I want to see a nice mutual slaughter of Romans and the Big 4

Hey, I see you are back to your normal warmongering, and bloodthirsty self, scratch. That last story of yours without any shooting or mass carnage had me worried. Hence I had to play your role of a "hungry doberman on the chain" for a while to get you back in the mood. Now I see you are okay, and get back to my regular posting habits.

And speaking of writing, when's Dubya going to kick some more ass? I'd like to see more of that stuff. I hope he's not sitting in the restroom after the delicios chinese meal, worshipping the porcelain god? Chris here has had more than his fair share of cleaning the toilets, and besides, he can't show up in front of Caesar after cleaning up the mess - he will be executed for the bad smell!

[unscratchedfoot]

um... thanks vova, I guess. I'm disappointed to hear that your recent war-mongering was faked. I thought you were finally seeing the light and learning how cool war really is. As for the bush story, there will be no diarrhea at all in it! Besides, Chris is doing too good a job of cleaning it all up for any to be left around.

By the way vova, your post is lacking meat: where's the positive commentation on Chrisius' work? I think he deserves a good word or two on this story.

[vovan]

I'll think of adopting your evil ways, scratchy.

As for meat, I've praised Chrisius already in the previous post. More will come with the next installment. (Where is it, btw, Chrisius? ) With the amount of stories piling up here in the recent days, I have to ration praise severely, you see, lest it run out. Though I always have some for good ol' Chris here.

[PLATO]

Chrisius, do I see a series developing here? Could the next epic be entitled "Danger in the Air"? Bryn seems to be developing into a world leader, but how will he react to the challenges of governing? What will his posture toward Ceasar be? Will he rely on the English and Japanese Shield...or will he commit his nation to rearming with their new technology? What will be the crisis' that he will have to overcome?

C'mon Chrisius...We need MORE!!!

Thanks for such a wonderful epic that stirs the imagination of how a new nation is born!! Write On!

[Kaos XIII]

Whoa! Lot’s of new developments, since I last read this. (and plenty of updates )

I think I’m going to miss Mcgregor and his war-mongering, advisor-shooting ways.

As for Bryn leading the new nation, I think he's in over his head, or not.

Anyways, keep up the good work, Chris Max.