Skaletta

Chapter 2

Chapter 2

Be My Ally

Rozan Field

Vito with his white and black striped jersey and a symbol of Nilo Rovers printed on his left shoulder, and player number 23 behind his back, drops the football that was quite old textured, coloured in white, on the centre of the field.

A young man of pale skin with wavy hair, age 17, runs towards Vito as his jersey was the same as Vito's but a name behind his back, "Wasa" and 23 underneath. Giving a fist bump to him.

Wasa then speaks up, "What's the formation?". Vito turns to Wasa and nods, "Here you are, Wasa. Always late. We gotta hurry up with a formation."

Wasa chuckles, "First of all, thanks to Mariada for pulling your ass out of Gorr. Lastly, we could lose if you weren't there". Vito nods, "Yeah, I should drink the most bitter coffee before joining the class."

Wasa nods, "Then let's pipe in espresso into their asses as if they are planning a world war over there." Vito looks over at the red jersey players where Nasaf Skargaz is planning with his teammates.

Nasaf Skargaz to his rounded teammates, "Hey, if we win this match, we will have a party tonight. How about that?", a young man with brunette hair nodded his head and asked him, "Alcohol?".

Nasaf pauses while gazing at him with disappointment, "Seriously, Gross Garson?. You want me to be killed by my tyrant father? Your ideas are as disgusting as your name, dammit.", Gross sighs and looks down in embarrassment at his words against him, "Sorry, Nasaf"

Nasaf rolls his eyes before turning to his other mates, "We cannot lose to Nilo Rovers. It's the Quarter finals we are talking about. If we can't win this Bacein Super Cup. I will burn all of your asses at the BBQ, even dogs will avoid eating those!."

A slim fragile boy with a bald head speaks up with his bold look and scoffs, "Let's not whine, just give the plan to damn their dream, Nasaf. Bacein Super Cup belongs to us"

Nasaf nods, "Alrighty, Calvin. Team listen up"

Nasaf begins to present them his plans for the formation until he ends it and smirks at Vito from far away as he murmurs, "You better come up with a plan because I got better".

The referee whistles loudly after the teams get to their formations. Vito eyes Wasa and nods, "Get it.", he passes the football to Wasa who starts the kickoff.

On the grassy road to the way, Vaan is riding Vera, his horse, along with his henchmen riding their black ponies to accompany him. His face is filled with worries about the weaponry business and keeps his way riding while the sky gets filled with dark clouds and thunder rumbles within the thick clouds, he speaks to Vera. "No such clouds of thunder can halt me". He stops his way before turning Vera towards the henchmen. One of the henchmen horses walks to him, "Boss Fifth".

Vaan keeps his frowning expression and speaks hesitantly, "Use Telegraph to send a letter to Seviz. I don't want any delay. Invite them to the manor"

Hench nods, "Yes, Boss Fifth. Shall be done before you know it.", the hench rides faster towards the way to the north.

Vaan nods and continues riding towards the Kadiz Manor. The sky keeps rumbling more violently than the crows cawing while swarming around the sky.

After several hours of riding, Vaan arrives before the gate of Kadiz Manor. The manor is filled with dark trees with no colourful textures that seem centuries old and the guards were as old as a broken vase.

Hench gets off the black pony and walks towards the guards, "Skaletta Fifth has arrived to meet Kadiz Third.". The Kadiz guards immediately nod and open the gate widely before Vaan enters the field and parks Vera and walks towards the Manor door.

There is a tall fine skinned lady of age 37, dressed in a black suit and red shirt underneath, with a glam pin curls haircut in dark mocha brown colour, her upturned eyes were fierce-looking as if she could kill anyone with a glare, pouting at herself with her thin red lips while eyeing the sky in impatience.

Vaan eyes her and walks towards her, "Klethi? What are you doing here? Didn't I give you vacation for your marriage?"

Klethi boldly salutes him, "Boss Fifth, I changed my mind during my travel. I heard that my suitor is a bossy man. I don't like to get ordered by a person I am going to marry. So I declined. I just want to be on your side instead of marrying a cheap head."

Vaan sighs before nodding gently, "Alright, Klethi Gertha. You are back on duty.", he pats her shoulder softly, "I will get you the best suitor who will treat you like a queen in this Bacein. You deserve it", enters the Manor while the butlers welcome him as the guest of honour. Klethi blushes deeply to his words before nodding slightly, "As you command me, Boss Fifth", she then enters the manor and takes a seat beside Vaan as she is the advisor of Skaletta.

Butlers welcome both of them with a glass of martini juice and they accept it gratefully.

Vaan rests back on the comfy sofa and speaks to Klethi, "I hope my manor is alright while I am here. Too many lads swarming in my manor.", he sighs while rubbing his forehead, "And my unambitious son, ugh."

Klethi nods, "Do not worry about him, Boss Fifth. I have been his babysitter and mentor. I know he can shine."

Vaan nods, "I take your words, Klethi"

A moment later, an old man with a white handlebar moustache and chubby cheeks glanced over them as it was apparent that he is the current boss of Kadiz by the look of his finger ring that shows the symbol 'K' as he walks down the stair until he welcomes Vito especially, "You are welcome to our little family, Skaletta Fifth"

Vaan stands up and nods, "My pleasure of being here, Kadiz Second".

Kadiz Second smiles and nods while taking the stairs down to them, "Pleased to meet you, Skaletta Fifth. I never knew the respected clan would come to my small clan. It's an honour."

Vaan smiled before shaking his head, "We all are the same in terms of clans. There are no ups and downs of classes.", he moves to point Klethi in respect, "and meet my advisor, Klethi Gertha. I take her advice during my hard decision"

Klethi nods and greets Kadiz Second, "Pleased to meet you, Kadiz Second"

Kadiz Second nods and offers them to take a seat, "Oh, do not get me wrong, I thought she is your wife as fair as charming"

Klethi pauses in shock and utterly blushes deeply, looking elsewhere.

Vaan chuckles before shaking his head gently, "It's no surprise but she is indeed my advisor. My wife, Sonya Lehds, died a long time ago when my son was 5. Since then, I haven't married but raised both clan and my heir."

Kadiz Second raises his eyebrows in surprise, "Oh, never knew that side of you. You are a good father and a leader."

Vaan smiled gratefully, "Not true, Kadiz Second", he clears his throat before resting back, "So, the reason I came here is because of the weaponry issue we are facing in this country, Kadiz Second. I need your alliance to convince the government to agree to our terms"

Kadiz Second listens to every word Vaan spoke before gently disagreeing with him, "I respectfully disagree with your terms, Skaletta Fifth. I believe that the banishment of weaponry will bring peace to our nations. Why are you not agreeing with the government?", he frowns as he speaks.

Vaan looks at him in disbelief then shakes his head, "First off, I have a weaponry business.

Speaking back to the dark history, when our country was a peaceful nation, with no weapons, and no politics, what happened then? Those Aeradis devils snatched our land in the bloody war of 1547, killed countless then tortured us. Do you know why? Because we didn't have weapons back then. Did I make myself clear, Kadiz Second?" Vaan glares after finishing his dominating words.

Klethi gulps secretly and tenses slightly while seeing Vaan in a furious state and she stays silent.

The whole manor goes silent as the minute ascends. Both Kadiz and Skaletta eye contact with each other for a while.

Kadiz Second spoke off, "But this is the 18th century, no one is waging war"

Vaan sighs deeply and holds his head in frustration, "God help me"

Klethi holds his arm and turns to Kadiz Second, "With due respect, sir. Back in the 16th century, just like now, republicans never thought they had to face war. As you can see now, Aeradis is destroying Erdis lands secretly, without using army force but agents. So therefore there is no guarantee that Aeradis will spare our country which is filled with a high amount of resources. So, there is no guarantee that the war age is over''

Vaan looked at Klethi in silence before she looked back at him with a slight nod of welcome. Vaan then looked at her hand on his arm, she grits her teeth and pulls out her hand in embarrassment and whispered to Vaan, "Sorry, Boss Fifth"

Kadiz Second raises his eyebrow as he was impressed, "She made a point, Aeradis hasn't changed yet. So, Skaletta Fifth, I hereby agree to ally with you for the protection of Bacein. However, we need two clans with us."

Vaan opened his mouth in shock at having Kadiz ally with him that easily then turned to Klethi as she winked a flex at him. He then turned to Kadiz Second, "Yes, I already have a-". A gunshot hits up outside as the Kadiz henches run to get on defence.

Other henches get to protect the door but some of them get shot.

Klethi gets her desert eagle ready to reload but Vaan grabs her hand, "Klethi, Don't. Stay back!"

Klethi hesitates until Vaan glares at her as a warning, and she runs to take cover.

Another gunshot hit up and its noise got familiar to Vaan, as he tenses deeply and knows which gun and whose gun it could be until he speaks to himself, "Masaf?"

To be Continued

Next Chapter 3 - Attack on Kadiz