A soldier, a killer and a fool part 3

“Ah Bey another glorious day being me” Bey said aloud. He had just finished his third chicken and was now ready for his main meal which was roast pig stuffer with two kinds of smaller pig. Bey believed in the three basic food groups, which is to say he believed in eating three of everything. As he sat in his luxury suite in the Imperial palace he thought back to his illustrious child hood and how his father had always told him that if he kept eating he was destined for greatness. Or as he put it “Son you keep eating like that and you will be huge when you grow up” It was soon after this that his father was killed by ghosts. His mother had come to him in the night and told him that his father had been killed by stampeding ghosts from a neighboring farm. This not only made him fear that ghosts were real and could kill humans but it also made him fear these farmers who apparently grew ghosts.
As the years past he stayed in side a lot he hadn’t seen a ghost in his house yet and so was pretty sure that they couldn’t get him there. While there he concentrated on making sure his father’s predictions of greatness came true. He was about ten when his family decided that he needed help and sent him to a private school. It was here that he first met the emperor. Although he had heard some people say that the inbreeding in the emperor’s family had made him ‘weak in the head’. Bey had always found the emperor level headed and wise. He had shared his knollage of ghosts with the emperor and they had decided that they must stick together to destroy this menace. The emperor always insisted in staying up all night, he had said it was the only way to catch these ghosts. This of coarse meant that neither of them had time for school work they would have both failed there final exam but the emperor had all the teachers executed as traitors the day before the final exam as they had tried to fool him into believing that ghosts did not exist. He had then ordered the new teachers to graduate both Bey and himself as top of the class.
As an educated man Bey had been involved in many of the emperor’s key decisions such as the giant flag which now hung from the palace walls. Bey had informed the emperor of how important the flag would be in such events as if they got lost in the city and needed to find the palace or if the citizens ever needed to know what there flag looked like. However it was not until the great ghost hunt or the war with Kalor as it was now called that the true value of the flag was revealed.
It was soon after graduation that Bey had head one of the palace guard’s comment on the herds of ghosts in the countryside. Bey had informed the emperor and he assembled his army. As was the emperors policy they marched at night and had in fact walked through the army of Kalors camp before one of the emperors generals pleas finally made the emperor wipe out the invading army before continuing there search. After two nights with out success the emperor decided to turn for home, as he did not trust his soldiers the emperor him self decided to lead his soldier’s home. After four more nights the army was in ruins they had no food or water and could not see the city in the dark it was dawn after the fourth night that Bey suddenly remembered the flag. The emperor and he both looked around and sure enough they could see the flag 200 meters behind the city wall. Mistaking the city wall for a cliff they had been camped behind it for two nights.

Laughing to himself Bey finished his meal, put an emergency leg of chicken in his pocket and went to meet the emperor. He told the guard that ‘the emperor does not wish to be disturbed’. They had been speaking for a few minutes when the emperors other advisor Chen walked in carrying a sword covered in blood. Bey had never liked Chen who had often referred to Bey as a fool.
“What is the meaning of this” the emperor said. Bey began backing away from the emperor.
As the emperor and Chen spoke Bey grabbed the talisman at his neck and threw it at Chen’s feet.
“It will take more than your lucky charm to stop me” Chen said as he looked at the hunk of metal at his feet, it was while he was looking at this that Bey stepped in Screamed “WHO THE FOOL NOW” and stabbed Chen in the jugular with the chicken leg he had been saving for later. As Chen’s lungs filled with blood the emperor outlined his new plan.
“We invade the west” the emperor said.
Chen was baffled “Isn’t that mainly ocean sir”.
“Exactly” said the emperor, “Who has heard of ghosts living under water. I am making you a General and once we have beaten the fish army or whatever they have I will move my palace there,”
As Bey ran to carry out the emperors wishes he fell over the body of a young guard.
“I should have that moved before someone gets hurt” said Bey and hurried off to find the army.