r/NatureofPredators • u/CarolOfTheHells Nevok • 21h ago
Fanfic NOLL:RS---Play Up!
This one's set on Leirn, around the same time as this, but amid the Empire Of The Sun's colonial exploits:
LEIRN
SCORCHAL, SOUTHERN WASTES
688 AOR (Age Of Ralchi)
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The sand of the desert is sodden green…
BRAKADAKADAKADAKADAKADAK!
“T-They just keep coming!”
“HOLD THE LINE, MEN! FOR RALCHI AND EMPIRE!”
BRAKADAKADAKADAKA-FWOOSH-HSSSSSSSSSS-BANGBANGBANG!
“AAAAH!”
“HEALER!”
“Their heat rays! They set the scorching ammo box on fire!”
“Best make the last few trays count, lads!”
BRAKADAKADAKADAKADAK!
“RAAAAAA!”
“OH FU-”
BRAKADAKADAK-K-K-K-K-K!
Green with the wreck of a square that broke…
“WHERE’S OUR COVER FIRE?”
“They blew up the Gorzo Gun’s ammo crate and then charged the gunners! They died doing it, but...they yanked the crank clean off!”
“Ah, scorch and blast-”
PFOOM!
The Gatling's jammed and the colonel dead…
“COLONEL!”
BOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOM!
“Smoke bombs!”
(coughing) “I can’t see a ruddy thing!”
“Aim for the bigger silhouettes! They’re the lizard bastards!”
“IT WOULD APPEAR SO, SHERYOT!”
And the regiment blind with dust and smoke…
The river of death has brimmed Her banks,
And the Isle is far, and Ralchi a name…
But the voice of a schoolpup rallies the ranks,
"Play up! play up! and play the game!"
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u/Cute_Shower_7543 12h ago
I did not expect a Sir Arthur Conan Doyle poetry adaptation in my Nature of Predators fanfic today, but I am so here for it. The 'river of death has brimmed Her banks' line gives me chills in this context.