The five of them walked through the large tunnel entrance, the boys looked around, seemingly intrigued by a lot of what was going on around them, of on each side of the large tunnel were blacksmiths and artisans, in different stages of crafting and creating weapons, from what looked like military type heavy bows to large battle axes, this grabbed Aster’s attention, his eyes lit up upon seeing this wonderful scene,

“ I thought this was an abandoned military stronghold ?”, Polaris asked yumi,

“oh it was, but, just because the Dracht Army isn’t using it, doesn’t mean we can’t”, yumi explained,

“why was it abandoned anyways ?”, Polaris asked, his eyes darting around taking in everything at a rapid pace,

“well until recently we were at a relative peace, and this is the closest base to the kingdom, so the king shut it down so he could spend his money elsewhere”, yumi explained,

“so you guys are just squatters”, Polaris said jokingly,

“more than you know, see, a good chunk of the rebel army is made up of Bolterra and Argon citizens, these include adventurers, soldiers and normal citizens, who all want their homes back”, yumi continued to say,

“still to keep all of this running it’s quite impressive”, Polaris replied,

“yup and this isn’t even all of our troops, most of our active fighters are out, currently fighting right now, along with one of the other guys who help keep things running”, she explained,

she let go a disappointing sigh, “ though I wish you weren’t so surprised, as I am a scientist after all and a good part of that was me learning how to engineer things, though that isn’t my strong suit, I’m not to shabby if I do say so myself”, she continued, giving herself as much praise as possible

“ I’ve never seen no scientist fight like how you do though”, polaris said under his breath,

“huh”, yumi stuttered looking back at the boys,

“any ways, along with me we have engineers, from all over the continent, well the ones that sided with us any ways, working on developing weapons and keeping this place running”, yumi continued explaining as the moved on ahead,

they continued down the tunnel until they came to a large over sized bunker door,it ran from the ground all the way up to the ceiling, it was a faded, off white color with slightly visible rust spots all about it, with a faded yellow circle in the middle, next to it stood a smaller, average sized door, in the same off white color , the door opened, parting from the middle and sliding into the walls,

they continued through the door into a hallway, as they continued down the hallway, a very large muscular bearded man walked around the corner, his head was bald, his skin was a light brown, and he was extremely muscular to the point where he easily dwarfed everyone else, he was wearing a black vest and camo pants and military styled boots, his left arm was covered in alot of scars,

“oh, hey half pint, you’re finally back after three whole months, those the new recruits”, the hulking gentleman asked,

“ oh Bard , I’m surprised that you’re at the base, i figured you’d be off somewhere wreaking havoc on some guild strongholds, and yeah these are the new ‘recruits’ ”, yumi answered,

“guys this is Bard, he’s the chief officer, he’s responsible for most day to day operations and he’s also one of our top fighters, though don’t be fooled by his size he has quite the carefree personality”, yumi said introducing Bard,

“nice to meet you guys”, Bard said, extending his hand for a hand shake,

“nice to meet you to”, barak said jolting forward to shake Bard’s hand, the handshake lasted for a very short awkward moment, the air was tense, as if to wild animals had encountered one another and were sizing each other up,

“hmm, you’re quit the interesting fellow, what is your name ?”, Bard asked,

“it’s barak, seems like me and you will get along just fine”, barak said with a smirk running across his face,

“you bet”, Bard said,

“Damn muscleheads”, Polaris said under his breath

“anyways, yumi its best to take them to the training area we are having a briefing to the entire army, to night ”, Bard said as he continued down the hallway, looking at the notepad he had in his hand,

“also yumi”, Bard said stopping and looking back towards her, his expression was somber, as he struggled to make eye contact with her,

“we go the report from Demitr late last night, Aluric took out Keagan himself, they said he died fighting till his last breath”, Bard said, continuing down the hall way

“ohh, I wasn’t expecting to hear that today”, yumi said, her demeanor changed, the energy around her growing heavy,

“look loss isn’t always easy to deal with, so take your time to process it”, Levant said, resting his hand on her shoulder,

“hmm, okay, well lets continue on to the leader’s office”, yumi said, putting her hand on her chin, as she thought through what to do next,

they continued down the hallway and after going around a couple of corners they came to a stop at a door with a gold crest on it, the crest was a golden capital A with four wings spreading out from it, yumi knocked on the door, but no one answered, she knocked again, but still no answer,

yumi scratched her head, she had a very annoyed look on her face,

“AWW, SCREW THIS!!!!!!”, she screamed, kicking open the door,

on the other side of the door stood a silver haired man, who looked to be slightly older than the boys, stood there with a puzzled look on his face as yumi jumped on him, punching him in the face, repeatedly,

“in the three months we’ve known her I have never seen here be so outright violent”, Aster stated,

“you got that right”, Levant agreed with Aster,

“for fucks sake, stop being so engulfed in looking at porn and answer the door when you hear people knocking”, she yelled as she got off of him,

“porn ???, what the hell is she talking about ?”, Polaris asked,

“look at the wall” Yumi said,

the boys turned their heads to see a shelf filled with multiple magazines, a look of shock washed across their faces, yumi let out a sigh of disappointment, yet again,

“this perverted guy is the leader of the entire Rebel army, he also happens to be Alurics older brother”, yumi said,