Chapter 12:
Ronove
"Roxy, it's already 10am, time for you to get your lazy ass up."
Roxy's mom yelled as she tries in vain to wake her daugther up.
Roxy had stayed up until 3am last night practicing her guitar and thus was still tired from staying up that late.
She could barely drag her ass up from bed down to the kitchen to have breakfast.
Roxy was just your average 18 year old,
she had just finished high school and was currently unemployed.
She spent all her time at home practicing her guitar to reach her dream of becoming a famous musician.
Her parents could only sigh at the failure they bought up who's wasting their life away on a useless dream.
Being a woman, she was expected to already get ready for marriage at her age and get hitched with a dude.
Of course, any attempts by her parents to pair her up with a dude would always end in failure.
Roxy would do the craziest things to scare off her suitors and remain single.
Roxy's day started like any other, she had breakfast at 10am then went back to her room to write music and practice her guitar.
This particular day was different however,
her guitar was off keyed and she needed it tuned.
Of course, she could tune it herself, but she was using it as an excuse herself to get out of the house away from her nagging parents.
As she left the house and went to her regular shop to get her guitar tuned,
that was when tragedy struck.
She was just walking home like normal,
when she heard the fire engine sirens go off.
She was curious and followed the siren to see where the fire was.
However, when she arrived she was struck silent.
It was her own house, it had mysteriously caught on fire and burned it all down.
Her room, her house and even her parents were all burned to a crisp.
Roxy then fell to the floor and broke down crying.
She was then bought to her aunt's house to be cared for due to her no longer having a house.
Her life at her aunt's house wasn't easy.
They were not as laidback as Roxy's parents,
they forced her to do chores and menial work in order to be fed.
Roxy was both depressed and empty, she just did as she was told.
That was until one day, when her aunt told her.
They had found a husband for Roxy to marry and she was to be wedded in 1 week.
Her husband was a rich old man who would pay her aunt handsomely for Roxy's hand in marriage.
Roxy finally snapped out of it and decided.
She may have no where to go anymore, but she knew she didn't wanna stay in this house either.
So on the night before her meetup with her husband, she left her aunt's home.
She left with nothing but her guitar and the clothes on her back.
Roxy spent the next year, begging on the streets.
She would perform on the streets or at bars across the city.
She would sleep in the parks or at 24/7 stores that were open.
After a year, while performing like normal.
She would see a flyer on the street pole.
The army was recruiting woman specfically to join their special woman only division.
It was a new division where to compansate for their lack of strength,
they would be empowered with special Ronove powered weapons.
Roxy, who had nothing else to lose decided to sign up for the program.
She didn't mind working now if it meant she finally had a roof over her head.
It was during the enlistment that she discovered something new about herself.
She was a great shooter.
She had aced all the shooting tests and hit full marks on all the targets.
She was then enlisted into the highest ranking group of the program where every member was an ace in something.
Roxy however, was just happy she finally had a roof over her head and didn't need to beg anymore.
She initially didn't wanted to get too close with her fellow soldiers but their presistance bugging evantually led her to open up to them.
She then learnt that her fellow comrades were in a similar state to her.
They had lost something and had nowhere to go and nothing to lose so they decided to enlist.
The girls were also good at playing music so Roxy had the idea to form a band with them to play in their free time.
Roxy and her unit then became known as the flaming symphony.
The band became known as the army's strongest unit of Ronove warriors who could also play good music in their spare time.
Their name came about due to Roxy, who evantually became their leader specialising in shooting fire bullets and arrows.
What a strange twist of irony indeed, for a girl who lost her world to flames to be using flames.
Even she was laughing at the sick joke.
About 7 years before the present day,
Roxy and her crew were given a mission that would change their fate forever.
IT was to be the assualt team for their war against iraq over a land dispute.
They would just need to hold out for 3 days until they could send reinforcement.
They would then assist the backup to take over the disputed land.
While initially, nothing seemed wrong, the girls quickly realised they were screwed.
This was because even after the 3 days had passed, there was no backup from their home country.
3 days turned to a week and as Roxy lost more and more of her fellow members, no help arrived still.
Evantually, Roxy and her crew could not hold out any longer and were forced to surrender to the iraq army.
Her and her remaining crew, now down to 4 members from their initial 10 were taken as POWs.
They learnt during that time that they were sold out by their government.
In exchange for being able to use the resources they would mine from the land Iraq had aquired.
Roxy and her gang would be sold off as slaves to Iraq.
Of course, the soldiers didnt expect roxy to not surrender and continue fighting until half of her crew was destoryed.
A miscalculation if you will.
Roxy fell into despair for a 2nd time, and she felt like there was nothing she could do anymore.
She felt god was punishing her for no reason with these cruel jokes.
However, her remaining 3 crew member, took the chance of them being transported to escape.
They had managed to break free of their jail cell, and evantually hijacked the car that was transporting them back to iraq.
They had fleed their captors, but they also couldn't return to their home country anymore.
And so they became a wandering band of mercanaries who would take any job offered to earn money to survive the day.
Roxy evantually got her will back thru a fated meeting but thats a story for another day.
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