Short Story: Sam

By Jui-Wei Yang

It has been almost two and a half years. Sam looked at the letter and sighted. With anger and disappointment he sat down heavily on the couch and threw the letter down heavily. He never thought he would have come to this, never.

Once he was a successful businessman. Now, he is nobody. His beautiful wife Carol looks at the letter, fold it up and place it upon the table.

“Carol…if it isn’t for her, we probably can not even be able to pay the bills anymore.” Sam thought, at this time, Sam felt shame all over his body.

When they first got married, they said models like Carol are most likely to abandon their men at time like this. Sam doesn’t know about other girls in the modeling industry, but that is definitely not Carol. She sticks by him at the time of his need.

Sam sighed there must be something he could do. He is not going to spend the rest of his life depending on his wife. That is for certain.

“What is the point of keeping it? It is just more disappointment.” Sam said, as Carol placed the letter down onto the table.

“More debt?” Carol said

Sam nodded. When they first got married Sam promise to give Carol happiness, but now they are in so much debt, that it took up just about every single inch of their income. Sam couldn’t get a job anymore. Nobody dares to hire him. He managed to get a job working in a pub, two nights a week. It was a good thing that he worked in a bar when he was still in collage, but this is barely enough to solve their money problem.

“I still got that swim suit photo shoot this afternoon. I’ll probably be home late. Can you pick the kids up from school?” Carol asked

Sam nodded. “Sure”

Carol quickly kissed her husband on the lips, changed her cloth and rushed out of the house.

At the age of twenty-one, Sam was already a total hot shot. He made it to become a CEO of a company, at the age of twenty-two. The following year he married Carol and had their twin girls, Jessica and Elizabeth. Four years later, there was serious problem with the food product of Sam’s company. Fifty-six people ended up in hospital. The company compensated the victim of course, but soon the sales went down hill and the company went broke. Sam was out of job. The worse of all, Sam was the one in charge of this project and now his reputation is ruin. The following year, under the introducing of a friend, Sam got a new job working, as a manager is another company. Sam holds share and invested in the company, but soon the company’s owner ran off with all of the company’s access. The cops cannot find the owner of the company and now, Sam who is the only other shareholder of the company and has to pay for all of the company’s debt.

Originally, both Carol and Sam make plenty of money and they live a luxury life, but now they have to sale everything, they’re two BMW, furniture, and their large house by the beach. All of these only pay for a third of the debt. The rest of the debt is likely to take another five years to be paid off, slowly.

Right now, they live in a small apartment that is leased, sleep on the floor and drive a second hand car that is at least forty years old. The only decent piece of furniture they have left is this couch. Sam’s mother left this couch for him, before she died and it means a lot to Sam and he wouldn’t sale it.

Sam looked at the time, there was a clock hanging on the wall. It is almost time to go pick up the kids. Carol took the car, so Sam had to walk. Sam putted on his jacket and was about to go pick up the kids.

The phone was ringing. Sam decided not to answer it, let the answering machine answer the phone.

“This is Sam and Carol, we are not able to come to the phone now, please leave a message after the beep.” Carol’s voice passed out of the answering machine.

“Hey, Sam it is Jack. Just to let you now, I’ll be running half an hour late to come baby sit the kids tonight. You should be able to still make it to your bar job tonight. Give me a call if there is any problem, mates. Cheers mate” Jack’s voice passed out of the answering machine.

Jack. He is a true friend. It is only at time like these Sam can finally see who his real friends are. Sam had a lot of friends, but they abandon him, the second he become broke. Only Jack is willing to help him, but he still has his own family to take care of, of course.

Sam’s two brothers are the first people to abandon him, when he becomes broke. “Tomas and Richard, some brothers they are” Sam thought. Back when Sam was still rich, Tomas and Richard were always around and their families meet up for BBQ, camping, Christmas…everything. Now that he is broke, it will be a miracle if those brothers of his will even give him a phone call. When Sam and Carol were forced to sell their house and their family had no place to stay, Tomas and Richard found all sort of excuse to reject them.

“I mean, I am not try to be rude, I mean, currently my house’s fan sway is pretty good, when only four people live here, but if eight people live here, well…the fan sway will be totally the ruin.” Tomas said.

In the end, it was Jack, who allowed Sam and his family to sleep over for a few nights, until they found their own apartment.

Both of Sam’s parents are dead, so they can’t help. Carol’s parents can’t help either. Carol grew up in a poor family, her father was a bricklayer and her mother was a maid, but it doesn’t really matter for Sam anyway. Sam doesn’t like the idea of needing his in law’s help.

Sometime, Sam wonders why Carol didn’t just simply take the kids and leave him. Carol is only twenty-eight years old. She still makes plenty of money, if she leaves him, Carol and the kids can start living the same luxury life that they once have. But Carol was not planning to do so. Carol took an oath on her wedding day “till death do us part” and Carol is keeping it.

Sam walked out of the apartment and walked onto the street. The kids’ school is only four or five blocks away. Normally, on their way home, the Jessica and Elizabeth will be bagging their parents to go to McDonalds and gather the newest Happy Meal toy. Occasionally, Sam and Carol will give in, but most of the time, they will say no. But the kids are not bagging Sam for McDonalds today. The kids know that their favor Uncle Jack is coming and he always bring them some goodies to eat. Jack is a five star chef, working in a big restaurant and the kids love him. Sam doesn’t think it is nice to let the kids to take too much free meals from a friend, but Jack say he doesn’t mind, he said those are left over French cushiness that nobody order and if nobody eat it, they are just going to be fed to the pigs anyway. “My own kids are sick of eating French food anyway.” Jack joked.

Sam waited for the kids out side the school gate. The girls were happy to see their father and ran towards him. Sam gave both of his daughters a big hug. Before going home, Sam had to make a quick stop to the supermarket that is two blocks away. Sam and his daughters walked into the super market. The two girls were running around their father.

Sam looked at the prices of the products that the supermarket sales. “Everything is so expensive these days, especially, with the raising patrol prices and everything.” Sam thought. Sam quickly chose few of the cheapest products and placed them into the trolley, all together, it still cost Sam almost seventy dollars. Unhappily, Sam paid for the groceries, picked up the bags and started walking the girls back home. Both girls took one grocery bag and Sam took the other three.

Once they got home, the girls ran into their rooms. Sam quickly putted the groceries into the fridge. Then, he went to change his cloth for his job in the pub tonight. There were two messages on the answering machine. Sam quickly pressed the play button to hear what it is. The first message was from Jack, it was the same message that he left on the answering machine when Sam was leaving the house. The second message was something else.

“Hello Sam, this is Victoria from GCT Food Corporation. I am calling you for that middle management position you are applying for. Just want to let you, you got the job and we want you to start working for us on Monday. Give me a call to confirm that you want the job. My number is 0431 444 567. Thanks” the voice passed out of the answering machine.

Sam smiled, GCT Food Corporation that is a promising company. Maybe this is god’s way of giving him a second chance.

“I guess there is a god, after all.” Sam thought.
 

Short Story: The Golden Empire (Part 2 of 2)

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The next day, Jara went to ask the White Tiger Emperor for help. But, The Rat King Jara knows that the White Tiger Emperor Hasto and the Ox King Saha are in great term. The Rat King Jara did not dare to mention a name towards the White Tiger Emperor, unless he can be certain that the White Tiger Emperor is now on his side.



"The Rat nation has a massive powerful nation within the Golden Empire, approaching our nation again and again. It is a horrifying experience for our nation. We ask for your assistant, your Excellency." The Rat King Jara said.



"What has this nation done to you" the White Tiger Emperor asked



"They approach our nation again and again, you’re Excellency. It is the most horrifying experience for our nation and we humbly ask for you help to put down this great evil." The Rat King replied



"What do you mean by approaching again and again." the White Tiger Emperor asked.


"They just keep coming" The Rat Queen who was beside the Rat King started crying.




"What do you mean by they keep coming." The White Tiger Emperor ignored the Rat Queen’s tear and asked



And the Rat King and Rat Queen replied with the same answer.



So the White Tiger Emperor asked the same question for ten times and all ten times, the Rat King and Rat Queen replied with the same answer, with the Rat Queen crying throughout. The White Tiger Emperor was starting to loose patient with the Rat King and Queen.



Finally, the Rat King and Rat Queen gave up and left the White Tiger Emperor’s, palace.



Later onwards that day, the Ox King Saha demand for the Rat nation to compensate for their unexplainable invasion of the Ox nation again.



The Rat King Jara decided to return to the Rat nation and called for a military alliance with five different nations to protect the Rat nation from the Ox nation.



The Ox King Saha went back to the Ox nation. There was talks about invading the Rat nation for a while, in the Ox nation’s Senate, but it was been dismissed, because the Senate decided that if any military action is to take place, it should go through with permission from one of the three Emperors first. In the end, the Senate of the Ox nation decided that, they will only push for compensation for the time been and if the Rat nation continues to avoid answer, then the Ox nation will bring the case to the Emperors and the Supreme Senate of the Golden Empire.



Back in the Rat nation, the Rat King Jara called upon help from twelve alpha nations.



"The Ox nation a massive and powerful nation within the Golden Empire has been putting their footstep into our weak and helpless Rat nation again and again. I fear for the life of my nation, my people and my country. I humbly beg you all to join us to fight against this evil." the Rat King said to the twelve nations.



Out of the twelve nations the Rat King called to ask for help, five replied, The Queen of the Sand nation, the King of the Horse nation, The King of the Yellow nation, The King of the Silver nation and the Queen of the Moon nation.



The news soon reached the Ox nation and at first the Ox King and the Senate hesitated for a while about what they should do about this situation and then decided that if the Rat nation formed a military alliance against the Ox nation. Then the Ox nation should stand even stronger to demand for the Rat nation to compensate for their invasion.



"Now, we got even less reasons to ignore the Rat nation for this invasion." The Ox King said and then demanded the Rat nation to compensate the Ox nation, for their invasion one more time.



The Rat King Jara chooses to ignore the Ox nation and started to rebuild his scattered army. The Kings and Queens of the five nations that have agreed to form a military alliance with the Rat nation soon wrote a join letter to the Ox nation, asking for the Ox nation to withdraw any approach from the Rat nation.



When the Ox King Saha, saw the letter written by the five joined nation he was quick to response, requesting to have a formal meeting with the leaders of all five nations, on their territory, within the Capital of the Moon nation. The five nations were soon to agree



"The Ox nation has only made one attempt to create a diplomatic relationship with the Rat nation over three years ago and that was the only contact we had in prior to the Rat nation’s unexplainable military invasion to our Ox nation four weeks ago. Although, our nation sustained minimum damage, the Rat nation has no right to attack the Ox nation for no good reason and it is absolutely in our right to demand the Rat nation to be compensating for their actions. An attempt to create a diplomatic relationship with another nation is an action that opens up a door for two nations, not a threat or attack, a door which the Rat nation’s leader insulted and we here in the Ox nation just left them to be and yet the Rat nation still has to assault us, three years later. The Rat nation should be taken responsibility for their action and nothing more." The Ox King said, while meeting the five national leaders within the Capital of the Moon nation.





The five nations soon send their own agents to investigate the matter and the truth return as the Ox King has said and as a result, abandon their military alliance with the Rat nation and started to get into good terms with the Ox nation.



Loosing their military allies, the Rat King Jara started to look for new allies against the Ox nation. The Ox nation was still demanding for the Rat nation to explain themselves for their attack upon the Ox nation.



The Rat King Jara soon went to the Red Dragon Emperor and call for help.



"King Saha and the Ox nation, has been making constantly making approach towards our nation, causing fear and terror amount the people of our nation. They won’t stop approaching us. The Ox nation is strong and powerful and we the Rat nation is weak and in poverty. The Rat nation is weak and vulnerable. We have no choice but to ask for you’re great Excellency for justice and protecting in this darkest our. We can not withstand the horror from a nation like the Ox nation, marching upon our door step again and again. We humbly beg for your assistant, for your support and your protecting, you’re great Excellency." The Rat King Jara said to the Red Dragon Emperor. As he speaks, the Rat King’s hand started to trimmer.



"I'll see what I can do." The Red Dragon Emperor said as he walked off his chair and slowly helped the Rat King off his knees. The Rat King was not wearing very decent cloth, which Jara later onwards said that the situation is so argent that he rushed here, as soon as possible. The Red Dragon Emperor soon called for the servants nearby to get the Rat King some decent cloth and something to eat, before sending him off, back to the Rat nation.



Feeling something demeaning has been done to the Rat nation, the Red Dragon Emperor was quick to send a messenger to the Ox nation, to call for a representative from the Ox nation and to come forward to his palace.


At this time the Ox King Saha was still far away at the Moon nation, where the Queen of the Moon nation has invited the Ox King to tour their nation for a few days and join them in their festival for the moon, which is within four days, before returning to the Ox nation. As a result, the Crown Prince of the Ox nation, Senator Borko was been send to visit the Red Dragon Emperor.




Borko soon visited the Red Dragon Emperor and speak. "You're Excellency. It is in the hobby of our nation to open up good relationship with other nations, wherever we can and it is not in our nature to use any unethical method to achieve greatness for our nation. The Ox nation only made one mere contact with the Rat nation once, over three years ago, which is in a diplomatic meeting hoping to open up trade or otherwise to have some nation in good term with, within the other side of the Empire and then we went to strengthen our relationship with some other nations. Yet, three years later..." Borko’s sentence was been cut off.



"You said you just want make friends amount some other nation within the Empire. You say you and your people just want to open trade, but yet your nation is harassing the Rat nation again and again. If you or your nation ever go and approach the Rat nation again, then I will be calling the entire Empire upon you, taking military action to attack you if necessary and that is final!" The Red Dragon Emperor roared.



"We only been in contact with the Rat nation that once, with the diplomatic approach and it failed when the Rat nation insulted us and we left. It is only because the Rat nation..." Crown Prince Senator Borko was cut off again.



"I don’t care what they do. The Ox nation is not to approach the Rat nation again and that is final!" The Red Dragon Emperor yelled.



"But you haven’t heard our side of the story yet." Borko said



"I heard your side of the story and I am saying you are not to approach them ever again!" The Red Dragon was really angry.



"They what about their invasion of the Ox nation they..."Crown Prince Senator Borko was been cut off again



"If they invaded your nation, what does that tells you? They don’t like you! And you are to leave them along!" The Red Dragon Emperor yelled.



"What about compensation, they should compensate for their invasion and..."Borko was been cut off again.



"If you didn’t went to harasses the Rat nation, then they wouldn’t have attack you wouldn’t it." The Red Dragon Emperor yelled angrily.



"Our nation has only been in contact with the Rat nation once three years in prior to this invasion, in diplomatic meeting and then they invade us." Borko was very unhappy and he was struggling not to get angry.



"Well, of course you invade you, you approach them, and they are scare of course they will invade!" The Red Dragon Emperor said



Borko was furious, but he thought it wasn’t a wise move to speak furiously against the Red Dragon Emperor, at this stage. Angrily, Borko resigned from the Red Dragon Emperor’s palace and went back to the Ox nation, with the angry news. The news created national anger within the Ox nation. The Ox King Saha who just returned from the Moon nation was furious.


Crown Prince Senator Borko took responsibility of this situation and asked to resign as the Crown Prince. Saha hoped for him to stay, but Borko insisted on the resignation. The Ox King Saha and the Ox nation’s Senate elected Senator Grato to become the Crown Princess and replace Senator Borko.



The Ox King Saha was furious and after consulting with the White Tiger Emperor in private, The Ox King Saha decided to take this case towards the Supreme Senate of the Golden Empire, the only body within the Golden Empire that is more powerful then the Emperors and deal with the Rat nation within the Golden Empire’s Supreme Senate, once and for all.

Short Story: The Golden Empire (Part 1 of 2)

Once upon a time, in mystical land far away, there was a mighty Empire, called the Golden Empire.


The Golden Empire was made up of hundred of small nations, each with their own laws, their own Kings and their own people. Above the Kings, there were three Emperors, The White Tiger Emperor, The Fire Bird Emperor and the Red Dragon Emperor, whose job is to supervise the Kings, to maintain peace between the nations and to make sure the Kings work in public interest. The Emperors are been supervised by the Supreme Senate, elected by the citizens of the Empire.
 
Amount the nations of the Golden Empire, there were two nations, the Ox nation and the Rat nation. The Ox nation was an alpha nation, which means that she was one of the more powerful nations within the Empire.


The Ox nation is peaceful in general, within her well protected city walls there was the Ox nation's glorious cities. The Ox nation believes in peace, freedom and equality. The King and the Citizens of the Ox nations are lawfully equals, where the King is their leader and their pro liberation King rules the nation with his loyalty towards his people and his country. The crown of the Ox nation is passed down to whoever that can lead the nation, where the King nominate a Senator to be the next the Crown Prince and await for the Senate's approval or for the Senate to nominate a Senator to be the next Crown Prince and await for the King's approval and the Ox nation's regional and federal government official is chosen the same way.

The Ox nation was one of the regions most famous trading spot, where businessman from all over the nearby regions, come here to open trade with each other. The Ox nation's intellects set the foundation of the nation's economy, where the well respected farmers, hunters and fisherman set the basic, but important foundation of their nation through agriculture. The Ox nation's silk and craftsmanship was famous through out the world and is been exported everywhere, both within and outside of the Golden Empire. The Ox nation is famous for its math, science, medicine, literature and philosophy and people throughout the Golden Empire, flocked to study here. The Ox nation's powerful army protected the nation from invaders from outside. The success of the Ox nation came from the unity of their people.


The Rat nation is a Delpha nation, which means she is one of the weaker nations of the Golden Empire. The Rat nation has a strong isolation policy, where the nation isolate herself from nations of other race and other religion, believe, even from within the Golden Empire. Those within the Rat nation who dares to be different were been frown upon and might even be executed by the court. The Rat nation is capable of producing very little goods and its isolation policy means she has little nations to trade with and most of those nations were extremely far away and has little interest in what the Rat nation has to offer, this make the Rat nation very poor. Knowledge and inventions, from foreign race or religion is been rejected and forbidden to be taught or introduce, meaning the people of the Rat nation has limited skills, in comparison to the rest of the Empire.




The Rat nation has a very strong social hierarchy system, where only those on the higher rank within the hierarchy is allow to learn how to read and write. The people who are amount the lower rank of the social hierarchy are practically slaves. In fact, prior to becoming a part of the Golden Empire, some of those people were slaves. Now, it is only, out of fear of the Golden Empire, the King of the Rat nation agrees to give the people of the lower social hierarchy some minimum care, but even so, many of them are still living in poverty, work for minimum wages and dying, while their land lords who rank higher in the society hierarchy, live in luxury. The people who ranks top in the Rat nation's hierarchy are the ones who runs the nation and cares about little other then to secure their own power and used most of the nation's resources to secure their power and live a luxury life. The warrior class of the Rat nation rank second highest in the hierarchy, where the ruling class give them a huge sum of luxury, in exchange for their loyalty.



The Rat nation and the Ox nation are in two completely different corners of the Golden Empire. The Golden Empire was huge and as a result, the Rat nation and the Ox nation, has very little knowledge of one and other. The Rat nation and the Ox nation first come into contact, under the influence of the Fire Bird Emperor, through numbers of imperial conventions, where the Fire Bird Emperor hope to bring up further relationship and prosperity for the whole Empire.



The King of the Ox nation love to open up further diplomatic relationship with any other nation and he always try to get into good terms with any nation he can come across. The Ox King sees a good potential chance to open up trade with the Rat nation. One of the few plants that the Rat nation can grow is something that the Ox nation can use to create medical herbs, while been mix with other plants. So, despite the distant the Ox King still hold a bit of interest to open some trade with the Rat nation and if things doesn’t work out, it do not hurt to have another nation to be in good term with, on the other side of the Empire.



Within the third imperial convention, hold by the Fire Bird Emperor the Ox King asked to meet with the Rat King for the first time, where the Rat King accepted. Despite been more multicultural, the dominate race and religion of the Ox nation was the same of the Rat nations. The Rat King was originally very found of the Ox King, knowing that the Ox King is of the same racial and religion background as him and that his family has been the King of the Ox nation for three generations. The first meeting between the two Kings was a brief ten minutes conversation, but it went really well. The two nations learned a bit about each other's culture and then the two Kings exchanged gifts, bow and said their fare well.



However, the Rat King soon learned about the Ox nation's government policy, that the succession of the Ox nation's crown is strongly influence by the Senate, which is elected by the Ox citizens, that their citizens has the power to sack their King and the King of the Ox nation is a public servant. The Rat king who hold such strong believe in his nation's traditional value found it to be disturbing and angry, saying that the commoners of the Ox nation should learn their place as the subject of their King, which is below the King and the Ox King should discipline his peasants and start acting more like a King then the peasants' lap dog.

The Ox King also found the Rat nation's hierarchy government system to be extremely unfair, especially towards those in the lower rank of the hierarchy, but he received limited information about the Rat nation's social issue. If the Ox King has a little bit more knowledge towards the Rat nation's traditional culture, he probably would have figure out that the Rat nation must have certain social problem as a result of their social hierarchy. But with the limited information upon his hand, the only conclusion the Ox King came up with was that, the decision of what government structure the Rat nation want, is up to the citizens of the Rat nation and it is none of the Ox nation's business.

Within the third imperial convention hold by the Fire Bird Emperor, the Ox King strengthened the Ox nation's relationship with some of the Ox nation's old friends, strengthening their military alliance with the Wood nation, created a trading deal with the Water nation and made a few new friends amount some other nations.




Within the fourth imperial convention hold by the Fire Bird Emperor, the Ox King asked to talk to the Rat King again, hoping to open up the trading deal with the Rat nation. But the Rat King now looks at the Ox nation with disgust, thinking that the people of the Ox nation have no moral boundaries, no discipline and probably sleep with other people's wives and now that he knows the Ox King's mother, was once a servant working in a rich family's kitchen, he also started to look at the Ox King from a snobby attitude. So, the Rat King rejected the Ox King's offer, for another meeting and hoping to open up trade, with the most clear and arrogant and insulting manner possible. The Ox King was slightly offended, so he gave a short speech about his disappointment and the short sight of the Rat nation and leaves it at that.



The Ox King Saha gave up on making a trading deal with the Rat nation and never went to approach the Rat nation ever again. Within the next three convention hold by the Fire Bird Emperor, The Ox King Saha, continue to strengthen the Ox nation's relationship, with nations that he has got into good term with and continue to make plans and decisions that will further benefit the Ox nation. After the series of convention, hold by the Fire Bird Emperor, was over, The Ox King Saha, return to the Ox nation, with even more prosperity opened up for his nation.



Three years has passed, the Rat King Jara continue to strengthen his power and control over the Rat nation and continue to strengthen his support amount the ruling class. Jara continue to give even more benefit to the Warrior class, in return to get their support. A whole range of fear and rewards was been given towards the landlord class, to insure their loyalty.



The Rat King Jara, still believe that the people of the Ox nation to be lack of moral boundaries and social discipline and they probably sleep with other peoples' wives, because of their pro liberal and pro equality, policy and culture. So, The Rat King Jara, started to put in place a whole range of stricter laws, to maintain the social hierarchy of the Rat nation and its isolation policy against other race and religions and even harsher law against anybody that would speak out against it, saying that it is maintain the moral and discipline of the good old conservative values. The Rat King Jara putted extremely strict laws against any lower class citizens of the Rat nation, who dares to complain about their poverty status, saying that they should be grateful of what they got and they shouldn't cross the moral boundary of their class.

In the Ox nation, Saha is still the King and a new Crown Prince was been appointed by the Senate, after the last Crown Prince was been dismissed on corruption charges. By this stage, Saha's unhappy incident with the Rat nation, three years ago, is now merely a vague memory from the past. Saha has no idea what happened to the Rat nation and he hold no interest, he hasn't been in contact with the Rat nation and he has no desire to do so. Saha was running his nation as usual and he was doing a great job. The people of the Ox nation love Saha and life in the Ox nation has never been better, the Ox nation's economy is growing more powerful by the day and everybody lived in harmony with one and other, with good social literacy rate and low unemployment rate, where everybody is making a decent living, the crime rate was reaching a new low. Now, the Ox King Saha is about to join another series of conferences, of the Golden Empire, this time, it is hold by the White Tiger Emperor.
 
The White Tiger Emperor is hoping to use this conference, to decrease poverty within the Golden Empire and to increase the Golden Empore's overall national defense.


Both the Ox King and the Rat King were invited to the convention, amount another one hundred and fifty nations, within the Golden Empire.

The Ox King Saha hardly even remembers the Rat King Jara and didn't even pay any attention towards the Rat King, who did not give one good suggestion throughout the entire conference.

However, every time Jara saw the Ox King, his hatred and disgust towards the Ox nation grew stronger. Finally, Jara sends order back towards the Rat nation and ordered for his army to attack the Ox nation.

The soldiers of the Rat nation walked for eight days, crossing an entire desert, almost without any sleep to get to the Ox nation. By this stage, the army of the Ox nation has already received the news of the Rat army's arrival. The Rat army tried to attack the Ox nation's well defended city, only to be blocked off by the Ox army. The Rat army was forced to withdraw. The Ox army marched out of their city and attacks the Rat army. The army of the Wood nation and the Swan nation soon joined the Ox army against the Rat army's forces. The Rat army was been attacked from three triangular sides and was soon been defeated. The entire war took, less then a day. The Rat army lost thousand of their best warriors either dead, wounded or captured, where the alliance between the Ox, Swan and Wood nation, lost only three solider and had six wounded.


This war has done minimum damage towards the Ox nation, but the Crown Prince and the Senate of the Ox nation, send a messenger towards their King, within the White Tiger Emperor's conference, right away.

When the Ox King Saha heard about this news, he was furious and he confronted the Rat King Jara for his behavior and demanded for an explanation.

However, instead of facing the Ox King and giving him a reasonable explanation, Jara started acting like the Rat nation is the victim and the Ox nation is the aggressor.
 
The Ox King was furious. Saha soon made a formal speech amount an audience of hundreds, demanding for the Rat nation to compensate the Ox nation, for this ruthless invasion.




"The Ox nation never did anything bad to the Rat nation. Throughout the inter history we only made only one diplomatic attempt with the Rat nation, over three years ago, where the Rat nation has ruthlessly reject and we leave them to be and yet the Rat nation still has to come to us and attack our nation for no good reason. A diplomatic attempt is not a forceful assault against another nation, but a door to open up positive relationship between two nations, a door, which the Rat nation later onwards insulted and shut down. Then in response to that, we just leave them to be and get on with our life. That was over three years ago and it giving the Rat nation no reason to come to our nation to assault the Ox nation. The Rat nation should be trialed for their crime and be punish for it" The Ox King Saha said.

The Rat King Jara, did all he could to avoid the King of the Ox nation and when he could finally avoid the Ox King, the Rat King Jara made a speech.

"It is a horrify situation for a small nation like ours, to have a greedy and massive nation, like the Ox nation, putting their feet into our door step again and again. It is not the first time, the Ox nation march upon our door step and it won't be the last. I just want this all to end, for the sack of the Rat nation" Jara said

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