The Empire (story)

"The Empire" is a story written by ToaAtraks.

Prologue
The first thing you will notice are the ruins. Ruins to the south, to the north, to the west and to the east. You get the impression that the whole planet, or at least what is remaining of it is covered in ruins. But if you travel long enough, you will reach a wall. A very tall, black wall. Covered in spikes. Behind this wall lies a city. A very, very big city. Big black skyscrapers, that look like blades extending from the ground are the most noticeable buildings. Actually there are no other buildings. Everyone live in those skyscrapers. In the outskirts of the city you will see thousands of factories and barracks. The inhabitants of this city are the Skazark, tall saurial beings, covered entirely in black armor. Most of them are from the worker class, the lowest ranking class in their society. Patrolling in the streets are the even taller soldiers, whit white glowing lines on their armor. All the other inhabitants are even higher ranking commandos, generals, and other soldiers. Our story begins with Scatarus, a low ranking soldier. The usual places where people can find him is in a back alley, sleeping. Scatarus is happy. This is an unusual mood for a Skazark. He is happy, because nobody comes to bother him. Suddenly footsteps started to echo in the back alley. Scatarus started to groan and finally woke up. "What's going on?" A Skazark soldier, higher ranking than Scatarus, was standing in front of him. "Sleeping while on duty? You know that this is a punishable violation of General Arixis' rules, Scatarus." "Well Gerak, I wasn't sleeping, I was just thinking." "Yeah, thinking and snoring." "Gerak, please, don't tell captain Katrya about that. After all I didn't tell anybody when I caught you in a bar." "Yeah right… Let's go to the Headquarters and check if we have anything more to do." The Headquarters was, like you probably guessed, a tall black skyscraper. On it's fiftieth floor there was a big brown door. Behind it there was a big, square shaped office. Behind a big black desk, covered in documents, was sitting captain Katrya. She was a promising young officer, commander of the 10th squad of the city Guard. The fact that she was a female didn't make her less dangerous than the other squad commanders. "What do you want Scatarus?" "Err… Nothing, captain. I just came to check if I have any other tasks to perform before I can go back home." "Well you surprisingly have nothing else to do so you can go home."

Scatarus walked towards his home, abd he knew something strange will happen today.