Hercules walks up to the shadow and taps him on his shoulder. “Shadow can summon my computer so I can get to work?” The shadow snaps his fingers and a desk, chair, and computer appears. Hercules walks up to the desk and starts typing on his keyboard. Minutes past as Hercules is typing on his keyboard, I have no idea how much time has past. I sat down and waited for Hercules to finish typing so we can do something else. The shadow is in his chair zooming around the place, my little brother is sitting as well, the only two people standing is Emily and Goldfish. Rumble. I turn and look at my little brother whose stomach was rumbling. Hercules hears the noise and looks up. “Why are you guys still here? This is going to take the rest of the day to finish. Go away I am finished for today.” The shadow zooms around in his chair right next to Hercules. “Hey Herc why didn’t you say this 30 minutes ago after I call up your computer?” Hercules looks up at the shadow and says, “Um, I forgot.” The shadow rolls his eyes and snaps his fingers.

We are transported to the cafeteria. The shadow looks at us and says, “Go eat; we are having a break right now.” The shadow disappears. I walk to one of the places and got myself a healthy meal. I haven’t been eating a lot of sweets instead have been eating a bunch of health food. I walk back the group and my little brother looks at my meal. “Sister that food looks kind of plain why are you eating it?”I ignore my little brother and start eating my food. Emily walks up behind me and asks, “You should be nicer to your little brother you might miss him one day. Must of us here miss the love ones that we have left behind. You don’t have to be so cold and so determine. No matter what is the situation has a little hope please.” I turn towards here and start wondering why is she even here. I know Hercules will teach us how to fight and Goldfish is the one that is going to teach us tactics. But what is her role? “I am eating this because I am used to it. I have been training really hard with Rex and I do not want to change up my eating habits. Little brother does not worry about me. Have fun eating whatever food you want.” I tell my little brother as I eat my food. Emily pats me on the head and whispers in my ear, “You are very kind please stay this way forever.”

I finish my meal and turn toward the others. The shadow reappears in front of me. The shadow looks at everyone and asks, “Are you guys finish eating?” I nod my head but my little brother shakes his head. The shadow looks at my little brother, “well you can finish eating at the place we are going.” The shadow snaps his fingers. We are transported to a room. The shadow flies his chair in front of the room and says, “This time it is Emily training is going to be training you guys. She is going to be teaching you guys the art of war.” I tilt my head. “Shadow isn’t that Goldfish job.” The shadow starts laughing. “No, young one, Tactics is different from the art of war. I will let Emily explain.” Emily walks up right next to the shadow and says, “Question what would happen if you kill a leader in the middle of a battle?” My little brother raises his hand. Emily nods in his direction. “The next guy in charge will take over.” Emily nods and asks, “Ok, what if the man is a king and he is the only person that give orders to the army?” I tilt my head again. This is a weird question. I answer, “the army will fall apart since there is no leader.” Emily nods and chuckles. “Yes, that might happen but there is another possibility. The leader is love and killing him to engage his followers. They pull strength from the deepest parts of their bodies and overruns you.”

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My little brother raises his hand, Emily nods to him. “Why would that happen? Wouldn’t they most likely retreat since their leader died and they have no one to command them.” Emily laughs, “You guys sound like Goldfish. Goldfish never told you how he died this is a good time to tell them.” Goldfish walks up to the front of the room and says, “The day I was killed I went to a battle in which I had zero percent of losing. My army was half the size of my opponent but I had led the opposite army into a trap. Not only that but their foolish king decides to leave his castle and fight on the front lines. He was a good man and was loved by his people but I was arrogant. His forces have won many battles and at the time I was young and stupid. I wanted to conquer the entire world because I was that much smarter than everyone else at war. I was so disappointed that this man was leading an unbeaten army walk into a trap. I order my force to attack and kill the stupid king so that the remaining forces will lose their will to fight. The arrows rain down on the king and he dies in the first wave. Now, less than half of the remaining army survives the initial attack. Not only that but most of them were wounded and some heavily wounded. Something unexpected happens, the army didn’t break down the moment they saw their dead king they became enraged. They start to climb the cliff that my army was the station. I didn’t care at the time. They were just dead men walk. I had my army shoot them down because they were nothing but fish in the barrel. My army shoots arrows but the people didn’t fall. They kept climbing the cliff. They were moving at speeds that should have been impossible.

I still didn't worry if they did climb up the cliff my army should have been able to easily cut them down with their swords. I was naïve. They were an army that was possessed. The climb the cliff and starts to cut down my men like they were cutting through paper. It took 5 of my people just to stop one of them. I look at the battlefield and saw myself losing for the first time. My plan was perfect, nothing went wrong. The king is dead half of the army died in the first attack. Yet, my army was being pushed back. I still didn't worry but that was the last mistake on that battlefield. After losing half of my troops, my army turn tail and ran. I was talking to myself that this wasn’t possible. Even if this army found a second wind it wouldn’t take them long before they ran out of energy. I step before my troops and told them to keep fight or I would cut them down. The soldiers took a step back because they know my martial arts strength. Yet, the screams of the battlefield made them less scared of me. They turn their swords on me. My men were the ones that killed me. The reason why I am here now is that I refuse to believe I was at fault for losing that battle. The shadow came to me at my death and asks if I wanted to live forever. I ask him would I be able to find out why I lost this battle he said yes. That is why I am here now.”