Know No Heroes: The Iridium Hand Chapter 1

The story of a feud begins, and Matthew finds an advantage hidden in the stars.

Chapter 1:

 

      The odd metal dragons keep dropping the giant cupules filled with death on my village. A scream erupts from my father and he collapses, but my mother and I are forced to keep running in fear. Painfully my sides ache out of fatigue.  Mages and beastmen fail to tame the burning terror that was once my home. Angels suddenly start seizing people, one of the people taken being me. My mother passes out from the smoke in the air, and is picked up by a fairy soldier. With a look of distaste my captors look at each other. They fly away at the same time, separating me from my mother.

 

"Miss. President, it's time to get up." my advisor says with an unusual edge.

I look at him, his ginger hair untamed as usual. My head aches from last night's round of whiskey-induced rage. 

"Good morning." I grumble to him.

He shakes his head and seethes, "Didn't I tell you to lay off the booze for just one night? There's a riot outside demanding answers, and I don't think they expect a drunken slob!" 

It's the first time he's yelled at me. It's normally vice-versa. "Let me explain this one more time to you." I say with shaky anger. "I am the president of the United Realms of Socemi, and I can give a speech whenever I damn please. Get my coat."