686 Brink of war (2/2)

This was just making thier situation even more dire. And eventually, a certain someone had snapped. Out on a hunt, Dennis couldn't hold back any longer. It wasn't a kill steal that set him off, but an ”accidental” stray attack that hit one of their members.

Whatever damage was done to the Cursed, Dennis had returned it threefold to the Parasite member. Because of this little incident, the two factions were at the brink of war.

It had gotten so bad that they were no longer allowing either faction members to enter their shelters, and the Cursed leaders had decided to stay at the Crow's base on the planet rather than on the ship, leaving Peter behind in charge once again.

Inside the building, they were having a meeting about what to do. Sitting slumped down in his chair with his head held down, Dennis couldn't look any of the others in the eye.

”I'm sorry guys, we tried so hard to avoid this, and now because of me, maybe people will…” Dennis paused as visions of his own planet appeared in his head. How the Eagle faction members and their families were burnt in front of his eyes.

Back then, he couldn't stop them from attacking, and now he felt horrible that he could be the cause of something like that.

”Don't be sorry”, Nate said, slamming him hard on the back. ”If I was there, I would have done the same thing.”

'What's done is done, and now we have to come up with a solution to solve this, and playing a game with them won't work this time.” Said Blip.

”We are waiting for them to get back to us with a solution,” Sam explained. ”It seems like the Parasite members themselves are restless to attack, while our members are more on the cautious side. Just in case, we have already started to move residents temporarily back to the ship until tensions have quietened down again.”

”Don't you think it's strange?” Paul said.

At these meetings, Paul often wouldn't say much, He didn't want to get too involved, and he thought that the former Crow members did a good job caring about everyone. Most of the faction members belonged to them anyway.

”I'm just speaking my mind, but Quinn is away, and they want to fight us now. Usually, factions who truly don't want war with each other, will try a number of things before resulting into fighting.

”You attempted multiple times to be reasonable with them, yet instead, each time they retaliated by being even more unreasonable. And although none of us are worried about Quinn, we have been unable to contact him, which is unlike him when he knew he would be away.”

The others thought about what Paul said for a while. The Parasites were being difficult; they were making it so hard that the others were wishing they had just tried attacking them when they came here in the first place, rather than all of this passive aggressive nonsense.

The light on Sam's watch started to flicker, and tapping on it once, a projected screen appeared. It was a message from the Parasites.

”What is it?” Nate asked, wondering if they could be fighting any day now.

”They have come up with a suggestion to the problem. One that actually might favour us. They claim that because both sides don't want unnecessary blood shed, and the faction's are a similar size, that the two sides should have a duel instead.

”Pitting their strongest five, against our strongest five. Whoever wins, the faction will serve under them from that day.”

Nate and Dennis smiled, thinking that the Parasites were underestimating them. This would be an easy win, but the others weren't too sure.

However, this was clearly better than war.

”So it seems like we are all in agreement to accept the terms?” Sam said, and they all nodded in response. ”Then the next question is, with Quinn out of the picture, which five of us will fight?”

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