Arc Chronicles

Calixte IX

Calixte IX

I dreamed I was back in my warplane, flying over the desert of Morocco, the golden dunes extending as far as the eye could see. Below me, a battle was raring. Strangely enough, the skies above the battle were empty. It was a crystal blue sky with white clouds scattered through the endless azure.

Then suddenly she was there, my enemy. She a better ace and it was everything I could do to avoid dying in my sudden new battle. The sky had turned into a death zone and I wished that I was on the ground, in the safety of the trenches, far away from my enemy. As far away from her as I could be.

She appeared at my left flank and fired. Her bullets shattered my shields and ripped through my wing. The Jupiter Engine safety features kicked in and I was ejected from the plane, a powerful shield protecting me from the fireball that it had become.

As I fell, she had come back around for me. My enemy was there, barreling through the sky towards me. Her guns were aimed at me. The shield that