Chapter 11:
Ronove
This story starts a little over 60 years ago,
about right after the Russo's took over the world.
It starts with a young lad.
This young lad would go on to be the legendary war hero Rubert Stark.
Rubert, then named Rufus was a young orphan boy living in West Germany.
The war against East Germany had just ended and peace was slowly returning to the country.
Rufus was a kind hearted boy who lost his parents due to the war,
and had to support himself by doing oddjobs here and there.
He was well loved in his small village, for being a bright cheerful boy who could do anything.
On his 14th birthday, he was given a surprise gift.
A ticket to the great capital, Bonn paid for by the village who pooled together money to buy him one.
He had always dream of one day visting the capital, and to indulge the little boy.
The village elders saved up money to buy him a through and back ticket to the capital.
Rufus himself was delighted and begin packing,
unaware that his entire fate would change that day.
Upon arriving at the capital, Rufus was amazed at how advanced and beautiful the city was compared to his village.
He spent the first few days sightseeing and marking off his bucket list,
stumbling into a dojo at the outskirts of the city.
This dojo was run by a special diplomatic guest from France, Timothy Bert.
He was famous for the Aero Spear arts and had moved specially to West Germany after being bought off by the government for a high price.
His job was to teach rich and talented kids from all over the country in his arts and to create a special brigade of Ronove styled figthers.
Rufus tried to enter the dojo, but was kicked out upon the guards realising he was a no name peasant.
Dejected but accepting, he was walking back to his inn deciding how to spend his last day when suddenly.
He saw something unbelivable,
a beautiful girl about his age on the grassy field using the spear almost gracefully.
It was love at first sight for Rufus, and he decided to take the plunge and ask the girl out.
Even if he couldn't be with her, he could at least take her out on a date for his last day here.
The girl unexpectedly, when asked replied
How cheeky that a poor peasant dares to gaze their eyes on me, does thou not know who we are.
The girl , speaking in like royalty was Roselia.
She was Timothy's only daugther, and was no slouch when it comes to the art herself.
Despite her tone, she agreed to the date with Rufus and they spent Rufu's last day in the city enjoying the sights.
Roselia herself , you see was too sheltered and wasn't allowed to go out much.
After the day was over, as Rufus was going to leave back to his own village,
he was made an unique offer by Roselia.
He was to come and train with her and become her knight that fights alongside her.
Rufus while initially conflicted, over abandoning the village he loved and the girl he loved chose Roselia in the end.
Rufus then grew up alongside Roselia, training alongside her in the spear arts.
Rufus himself was no prodigy, unlike Roselia but he worked 10x as hard to make up for his shortcoming and soon.
He became the 3rd strongest user of the arts, losing only to Roselia.
When Rufus turned 23, he was given a once in a lifetime chance.
Timothy, who was getting old in age decided to hold a special tournement.
Whoever won the tournement, would be allowed to married Roselia and would be considered the true successor to his Spear arts.
Rufus was esctatic, finally he could offically be with the girl he loved.
He was already the best in the arts, so it was surely an easy win.
However, come the day of the tournement,
Rufus got into a rude awakening, and lost in the finals to a contestant from East Germany.
Ashamed that he lost despite being the 2nd best in the dojo to some foreigner, Rufus ran away back to his village.
Over the next 10 years, he rigoriously trained everyday like a madman.
Soon, after those years had passed, he became stronger than ever.
He even mastered Timothy's secret technique, the Drei Luft even tho he was never taught it as he was not the true successor.
Back at the capital, after the contestant, known as Reed had won.
Roselia was set to be wed to him.
Beside Timothy, the western government were also pleased.
Reed himself came from a slightly notable family in the east and with this union the 2 germany could finally be at peace.
Roselia herself of course, was not pleased with this outcome,
but despite her protest had to go through with the marriage.
She herself was also upset at her chosen knight for abandoning her and running away like a coward.
Unforutantely, tragedy struck like lightning.
After the 4th Russo war ended in a disaster, western and eastern tension started to escalate.
They had blamed each other for the mess and had assumed the calmity Randolf was sent by the other to disrput the games.
Soon, Roselia marriage fell through, and she was now stuck in east germany, effectively as a hostage.
This went on for 7 years, until around the time of the 5th games.
Timothy, now an elderly man himself, called Rufus back from his hermit lifestyle.
He gave Rufus a mission, to resuce his daugther from the evil eastern germanic forces.
He himself would participate in the 5th game and upon his return, they would strike east germany with their full force.
Rufus, upset that the girl he loved was now held hostage in east germany, easily complied with his master's insane request.
After all, he was just one man having to enter and resuce someone alone with no help.
Anyone would hesitate, but not Rufus.
He had trained for a moment like this for years.
On the day the 5th Russo War started, Rufus begun his infiltration into east germany.
He had managed to arrive at the manor where Roselia was kept,
resucing her from east germany's clutches.
As they were escaping, Roselia's husband Reed was standing in their way.
After all, it was all a trap.
East germany had used Roselia as bait to lure Timothy into east germany and get rid of him.
While they didn't expect to send someone else, it was good luck that timothy himself entered the 5th war and was going to die in it anyways.
Rufus furious, began to fight frantically to escape with his lover.
He fought on for minutes against the increasingly appearing army of eastern germany soilders.
Until, Roselia who was watching all of this from behind shouted at them to stop.
She was tired of all of this and decided to step up herself to end Reed.
She had successfully managed to use Drei Luft and was about to strike Reed in the heart.
Unforutantely, the Drei Luft she was using was only a 3 strike attack.
She had only striked Reed's arm, leaving his legs free.
Reed had use this chance to kick his sword through Roselia.
Rufus, seeing all of this was screaming at his powerlessness once again.
He then went berserk, without a care to his own body and slaugthered everyone in the area, including Reed.
Rufus could only bring Roselia's body back to west germany distraughted.
He spent the week mindlessly crossing the dangerous border of germany,
slaugthering everything in his way.
He was like a mad beast, and yet almost as if instinct, none of his attack had damage Roselia's body.
Upon reaching the Bert Dojo back in West Germany, Rufus was hit with even worse news.
His master Timothy, had died in the 5th Russo War.
West Germany, was now at a loss.
They had lost their best fighter, and the east was about to invade them.
Rufus then decided to step up and lead the army in his master's place.
Chaning his name to Rubert Stark now,
He spent the remainder of his life fighting against the eastern german dogs.
Like a mindless mass killer who spared no one mercy.
That was until one day, 14 years before his own entry into the Russo wars.
The day he gained a new light of hope into his life.
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