ANTONIO RAVEN

    Following Antonio, Toku walked through the long hallway which had a lot of doors leading into different rooms on each side of the hallway. They finally walked out of the building and Toku noticed it was already nighted, they entered what looked to be a parking lot, with many trucks plated with armor around them, the armour looked like it was made out of iron but gave out a mysterious hue. There was also a lot of  men who wore some sort of uniform who were either loading some boxes onto the trucks while others were offloading boxes from the trucks. Walking past the men in uniform whom Toku realised were actually soldiers,  they all stopped what they were doing and saluted Antonio with their left hands opened up flat and placed sideways against their heads and thier right hands clutched into a fist and placed against their chest. Seeing this, Toku immediately realised that Antonio was definitely a high ranking officer from what he has noticed and the next question was how did his aunt knew him.

            Toku and Antonio continued walking, they took some turns here and there and Toku found hiself to be in what seemed to be a residential district, there were two story buildings and these story buildings had different residential flat where these soldiers stayed in. Antonio and Toku walked through the pathway in between the two story buildings and entered another residential district which rather than there being residential flats, there were actually bungalows. This particular residential district was much better and fancier than the last one as little ornamental crops were planted here and there which gave the place a nice calm atmosphere, although the former residential area was clean, there were still some littered paper along the way but in the present residential area, no dirt could be seen.

              Antonio walked up to a bungalow, removed his crystal card placed it against what seemed to be a scanner and the door opened. They both entered into the house and Toku was once again amazed. Although the house was meant for one person, the place was still larger than where he had to live in with his aunt. The place had a sitting room which Toku thought was quite large with two couches. It also had one room, a kitchen and a bathroom. The decorations in the room was what amazed Toku, with a center table with what looked to be a sculpted statue of a bird on it. There were also some plants kept at the edges of the room, giving of a nice and refreshing scent, Toku was deeply amazed.       "welcome to my humble abode" Antonio said as he and Toku walked into his house, "It isn't much so just bear with me and manage" Antonio said as he noticed Toku looking around the place. Toku was shocked hearing Antonio saying 'it isn't much' for this was the best place he has ever seen.

              Antonio sat down on one of the couches which sank in a little, indicating how soft the couch was with a relaxed expression on his face he turned to Toku who was still standing and staring at the sitting room in awe, he cleared his throat before saying " why don't you introduce yourself to me" Antonio said while signaling for Toku to sit. Toku sat down on a couch infront of Antonio and was overwhelmed by the sense of comfort he got just by randomly sitting on the chair,  getting hiself together "Toku" he said as he answered Antonio's question. " Is that your real name or an alias" Antonio asked Toku who didn't know the meaning of alias, "real" Toku answered while looking at Antonio. Antonio knodded, stroked his chin and then " why don't you tell me about how you know Captain Lizzy" Antonio asked while expecting Toku to answer, on the other hand Toku looked confused, he didn't know this 'Captain...lizzy' that Antonio spoke of. Noticing the confused look on Toku's face, Antonio figured out that he didn't know his aunt's name was lizzy so.. " the woman that gave you this paper, you know with pink hair..." Antonio said as he waved the peice of paper that Toku gave him in the air before describing Toku's aunt. Toku hearing the description and noticing that it was his aunt that was being described knodded and said " well she saved when I was at the brink of death" Toku then continued to narrate how he was beaten up by some group of men for stealing a loaf of bread, how he was laying in a pool of his own blood and how he slowly fell unconscious only seeing Lizzy's silhouette before finally falling unconscious. "Sigh...the forsaken realm really hasn't changed and it seemed neither has she, always looking for people to help" Antonio said as he closed his eyes while looking Towards the ceiling, there was silence for some minute and Toku finally decided to speak. " What about you how did you come to know my aunt upon being such a high positioned officer" Toku asked, Antonio dropped his head looked at Toku and said  " well you see kid it all happened 10 years ago, I was still a private and lets just say things wasn't all too good back then" Antonio said in a nostalgic voice.

          Ten years ago, Antonio had just entered the group of trained personnels who were entitled to working in the border, he was under a captain whose name was Lizzy. She was firm in her decisions and never compromised no matter what, she also cared about those who were under her and never allowed them to be mistreated. One day, while Antonio was assigned to guard a truck which was sent to the border to transport food and resources to those in the forsaken realm, along the road the truck was attacked and the goods stolen. Antonio and the other soldiers all engaged the attackers but the attackers had a psychic with them, the psychic used unknown tactics to possess Antonio and made him attack his fellow comrades. Antonio slit the necks of his comrades thus betraying them, and was also made to hand over the boxes of food and resources over to their enemies, while doing this reinforcement came and caught Antonio aiding the thieves. The thieves escaped while using Antonio as a distraction by making him attack, when they had escaped to a safe location the psychic cancelled the mind possession thus making Antonio to regain control of his body. When Antonio regained consciousness of his body, he was confused and was already surrounded by his comrades. He was accused of treason and was to be banished to the forsaken realm but before the order was passed, someone spoke on his behalf, Lizzy. After carrying out a private investigation she found out that Antonio was controlled by the thieves and that the thieves were actually acquainted with someone in a powerful office but without evidence her testimony was overruled but she took on Antonio's punishment. Antonio was so shocked and touched by this, someone who was willing to giveaway his/her title as captain, for just for an incompetent private like him, he swore not to waste this second opportunity and wrote an 'i owe you' letter to captain Lizzy before she left and promised to help Lizzy in any way he could and thus Lizzy was banished to the forsaken realm. what a valorous leader she was.

           "Are you serious all that happened" Toku exclaimed in shock "anyway, you need to get some rest, tomorrow we will leave for the city" Antonio said as he stood up from the couch and approached the door leading outside the house before stopping "ooooo....you haven't eaten right, there are some food in the kitchen, eat what you like don't wait up for me and you can sleep on one of the sofas. I still have some matters to attend to". Antonio left after instructing Toku on what to do, Toku then went to the kitchen and was amazed again by the beauty, he then searched the kitchen for some food and was shocked as he found a lot of food items and different drink. He only took out a loaf of bread and water, he didn't know how much the food items cost but based on his knowledge from the forsaken realm, they were expensive so he ate the bread, drank the water and slept on one of the sofa's waiting for tomorrow to come.