A few months earlier...

It was a busy day within the capital city, a lot of noise from the market all around, chattering, yelling, screaming even, from the usual crime of stealing or fighting on the streets. It was sunny and the air very dry. At the middle of the city on a small hill stood a huge white building with many flags of red blue and purple stripes and at the middle of the flag a black crown. Within the building in a big room stood many people seated around a uniquely designed big wooden table. With carved figures of animals and smoothly shaped angles, even a few crystals could be seen at the two ends of the long table. The room had many paintings in golden borders that were shaped into various shapes at each angle. The paintings had men and women dressed in green uniforms and on every painting could be seen differently colored armbands with crowns on them as a symbol.

There were around ten people in total dressed in green clothing with a grey armband and a black apple as a symbol. At the right end of the table stood a young man with a long black hair, pointy short beard with many bald spots and a small golden crown with many black crystals. He had a red cape with golden ornaments and a golden-silver mixed scepter with a big black crystal apple at the top of it. They were all chattering and giggling showing each other documents or telling jokes or stories. Standing up the crowned man said:

"I demand your attention, silence !", he yelled with a few light taps on the table with his scepter. Within seconds all of them went silent and turned towards the young man who put his scepter down and put his hands behind his back hidden behind the cape.

"I have gathered the representatives of the black apple today so that we could discuss the future of our royal armbands."

"The red, blue and purple crowns.", reaching down to the documents in front of him he pulled out a somewhat fat stack of papers.

"And although I named all of the crowns the one I really meant was red." Next to the entrance door stood two maids dressed in black and white dresses.

"Anelia, Mia, present the court with report of the battle for Naji village.", said the crowned man as the two maids bowed quickly without answering and handed one list to every man and woman in the room, they then quickly left.

"So, as you are familiar this is the report that the mayor of Naji village wrote, as a survivor and a witness to the explosion and flames that engulfed the whole place.", pulling his chair backwards he started slowly walking left and right. The people started reading carefully while they were listening.

"As you see the report says that the flames started because the enemy threw a molotov, by mistake, an accident, on the powder and oil storage next to the shelters." he then stopped and looked towards the door.

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"Let Zi enter the room.", yelled the young man, as the doors opened a black skinned man with a green uniform and a purple armband with a crown on it entered, he looked skinny with a bald head and black eyes, serious and frowned expression.

The people suddenly stared gasping and chatting among themselves.

"Yes, that is correct Zi is one of the three members of the purple crown, a deadly spy, assassin and a useful friend."

"It was him that discovered the truth behind the case of Naji village battle.", he said as he lifted his arm as to give permission for Zi to speak.

With a deep and respectful voice he started explaining.

"Two years ago on the second of December King Fredovic Konstantin Perel II was assassinated by the southern country known as Peshtaia."

"Ultimately the motives were the prevention of the invasion that King Fredovic wanted to do, using the purple armband to assassinate all three kings from each country on the continent. Information got leaked however and even to this day we still do not know how and who did that."

Zi then slowly walked up to the table and pulled from his pockets small pictures of a white man with a bald head and a huge scratch scar on his left eye.

"This is Ivan Frieza the one responsible for the assassination of our king."

"I want you to understand that this man sneaked through all royal armbands, purple included, killed the king and almost escaped if not for a certain someone who caught him by accident leaving the walls."

"To be frank, if he was that skilled I highly doubt that this is him, it might have been a decoy so that we may think that he is dead. But I am getting off the theme. What I wanted to say was that these events stirred up the war that started two years ago, on the fourth of December, two days after the assassination."

"Then a week later Prince Fredovic III gets crowned and preparations for the further declared battle for Naji village started. Sending out the red crown King Fredovic wanted to use the mysterious mutant children that captain Tom Masky found and trained for years. It was their debut, Ice and Fire, as the names suggests they controlled some mysterious powers that allowed them to use these two elements at their disposal. Including fast regeneration of wounds."

"Now here is the twist.", said Zi as he leaned on the table.

"We've recently found another survivor taken as a patient to a small Peshtaian city known as Jhiko. There a spy of ours managed to make him speak about the "accident". Apparantly a young Red haired man was put on guarding position next to the shelters, to make sure nobody hurts the civilians. However moments before the explosion the red haired man, Fire, ran towards the powder storage and set it on fire."

The whole room started mumbling again.

The crowned man then thanked Zi and continued explaining.

"Of course there isn't a 100% chance that any of that is true, we could never know however what i have in mind is sending them into battle, a particular one at that."

"As you know when the flames started engulfing the whole village, red crown deserted leaving captain Rio's blue stone armband to their demise."

"The bluestones were a generation of armband specifically trainted in Naji village."

"I will evacuate all civilians within our eastern city Rogvan, create a false threat of a sudden attack and put as many hidden cameras as possible."

"Let's see if Fire is a traitor or a loyal soldier."