One Shot Wonder

The One Shot wonder; it is what everyone has come to call Shina.

Shina was a Night Specter, a group of sharpshooters that took great pride in the danger they were placed under. From espionage, to frontal assaults, their lives were always on the line. Frontal assaults were the most dangerous. The Grand Leaders cared very little for the individual, despite how easy it would be for any sharpshooter to die from being so easily exposed. However, they pushed on, and the Night Specters never lost as much as one of their members.

The battle of Great Hasting, the one that earned Shina her nickname, was one such fight, frontal assault with the Night Specters placed right behind the 1st, 3rd, and 5th divisions as they charged into waiting Shinha weapons. It was terribly rainy, and visibility was diminished to just a couple feet from the main group. Shina and her compatriots would fire at the waiting Shinhas, covering the divisions rush forward. Everyone seemed to struggle with the task, since the rain made it impossible to fire accurately, and most crouched down and waited for the rain to subside.

All except Shina, who stood straight and fired away.

She swept her weapons to and fro, sniping away at the careful placement of the enemies and taking out enemy sharpshooters. The 1st Division clashed with the waiting Shinha, and would go on to push them back. The Night Specters looked on in wonder at Shina, who stood triumphantly. The others would go on to call her "The One Shot Wonder" even if such a thing was theoretically impossible, Shina had cemented herself as a legend.

Obviously, The Grand Leaders were aware of the danger that Battle Slaves were under, especially those set under the "Disposable" ire. It left many to charge relentlessly, row after row, into a siege of weapons. Their ancestors must've looked down upon the young boys and girls with a mix of disgust and awe. There was a reason children exclusively were chosen for the task; much less prone to rebel, to counteract, to kill those that guided them to death in a bout of well deserved mutiny. Calculating minds will say smaller bodies mean less feeding, less strength, quicker movement, and harder to shoot, but there is nothing more precious than being able to keep puppets under strings.

In many such outings, in the great PA war that ravaged the Hanetta States, it was common for heavy losses to be experienced by the Hanetta states, yet they were losing very little. Despite the heavy loss of life and the toll it must've had on the young ones bodies, the Shinha were actually on retreat. By the year 756, they were winning, and the "Victories" held by the barbaric teachers, and the innocence-less children of the Hanetta states, were used as a political tool to support the Hanetta's use of battle slaves.

The battles were messy and bloody, the shapes of mangled bodies of children contorted in pain and confusion. It was terrible, and the Tallahaki would withdraw from the conflict, leaving the Shinha with the burden of the weight of so many deaths, of children. The leader, Unik Laisy, a man of great stature and prowess, was found crying while clutching the picture of a young girl. The girl had killed 3 men from a group of 15 'rehabilitionists' as they tried to force her into submission and to stop fighting, the men unable to control her. They tried to knock her out with drugs, but she freed herself and fired upon the group once more, before being put down for good by two of the accompanying soldiers. The group, broken over the deaths of their groups and the impossibility that the Hanetta presented them, wrote off their notes as they proceeded to turn their guns on themselves.

The incidents like this and the killing of so many children had earned the Hanetta a terrible reputation. Unik Laisy would go on to declare, "The Hanetta states are harboring creatures of the vilest form, taking the shape of an impossible stance, a damning proposition to harm young children, to force them to kill or be killed. He who does that, he is no more human than the demons he must invite inside. A impossible situation with impossible circumstances, the Hanetta have not won their failed victories with great honor or respect, but rather with the corrupt ideals that no state should be built upon. Should we retreat now, our children will never be set free."

However, to endure the conflict and continue to push the Hanetta to fight would mean the deaths of thousands of more children. The Shinha would not allow this, and started negotiations as soon as possible.

As the negotiations were written up, Shina "One Hit Wonder" Alesco was planning away, scheming to end the corrupt Hanetta states. For a while, she had killed many without a regard for their life, for their purposes. She had always wondered why the rose their weapons and never fired, why they charged at her, as if her weapon wasn't trained on them. She had been drilled over and over again; these people wanted to kill those she loved, wanted to hurt her parents. To her, that excused the pulling of the trigger, the methodical firing and taking out of entire squads.

Shina was aware something was wrong however, when she was in a certain battle known as the Tiki-Canal offensive, a push from the Hanetta into Shinha western front and to the infamous Tiki Canal and the port city of Burling.

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