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[cassithederanged]

General Gaia's Last Stand

"General Gaia. I found the girl responsible for these attacks."

The soldier's voice was gruff, low. It held neither loathing or mercy in its words, simply a cold indifference. He held the smaller warmblood by her wrists, which were bound with rope tightly behind her. Her light brown fur was covered in blood, and one of her beautiful blue eyes was swollen shut. The captive looked towards the general for any sort of hope, any sign she would be spared. Cassius watched from the left side of her mistress, her expressions covered by her large hat.

"Are you positive it's her?" Gaia asks, looking the girl up and down. Dressed in only a blue dress and a pair of worn shoes, she didn't look like she could singlehandedly command an army of warmblood sympathisers, alongside a moonblood revolution. The soldier nodded, his own expression hidden behind his helmet. "We found her planning the next raid from inside a tent while the rest of the moonbloods were fighting our front line. "

Gaia nodded, processing this information. During that time, the small girl looks up, spotting Cassius. The expression that flitted across her face injured whatever was left of the assassin's heart. Cassius knew this girl. She knew her quite well, actually.

Her name was Jinnie, an earlier that year they had almost been friends of a sort. Best friends. Sisters, even. Back when Gaia's army first fell, they were both dangerously injured, and were nursed back to health. For the first few months, Cassius wanted nothing to do with the girl. As time progressed, there was a certain point where the assassin would do anything for Jinnie, even lay down her life, if that were the case.

That was a short time, however, as rumours of her General's rise to power became apparent. Gaia was back, and the assassin became her right hand once again. The two girls had yet to meet again before that moment, and Cassius had thought her friend dead.

But there she was, standing in front of the assassin and her general. Jinnie's eyes locked on Cassius's face, and her expression wasn't fearful. It wasn't angry, shocked, or betrayed. It was sad. Not just sad, but the kind of sad that was laced with forgiveness, and bound by inevitability. /That/ was the expression Jinnie showed her executioner, and that was the expression that tore through the assassin worse than any sharp blade.

"What shall we do with her, General?" The soldier said, and Jinnie's eyes were torn from her friend as her bindings were roughly jerked. Gaia thought for a moment, before a wicked grin spread across her features.

"I suppose the merciful option is obvious. That would be to kill her." She said calmly, and Jinnie's head lifted "But-" she sucked in a breath. "I have never been known to show mercy, have I, soldier?"

"No ma'am."

That grin never faltered, and the general opened her hands and shrugged. "I suppose I'll just let Cassius deal with her." Jinnie's face paled. The assassin shifted her stance, hand on the hilt of her sword.

"What do you recommend, General?" She asked, slowly drawing her sword from its sheath.

Gaia smiled again and shrugged. "Do whatever you like. Don't be afraid to make a mess; I'll have my guards clean it up later."

"Anything?"

"Anything."

Cassius nodded and stepped forward, her hat shifting back. Jinnie got one long look at her emotionless, golden eyes, before her arm moved, and the sword swung.

The sound of a blade hitting flesh rang throughout the room. There was a thud. Jinnie screamed, and the general's headless body hit the ground.

There was a moment of pause, the other two people in the room too shocked to say anything. Cassius sheathed her sword, tinting her head up to look the soldier straight in the eye. "Release her."

"L-Lady Cassandra, I--"

"Did I stutter?" The soldier gulped and cut Jinnie's ties, letting the warmblood run to the assassin and embrace her, waiting cluelessly for an order.

Cassius didn't even blink. "I am the second in line to Gaia's position. I now hold the title of general. Tell the soldiers they are released from their positions and the warmblood army is now disbanded. Leave this place and live in peace with the moonbloods forevermore, or they will answer to me. This war is over. Is that understood?" She said all of this while still holding Jinnie close to her.

The soldier saluted Cassius with a trembling hand. "Sir, yes sir!" He turned on a heel and practically ran out of the room.

It took the assassin a moment to realize that Jinnie was crying, and she looked down in surprise, awkwardly patting her hair. "...it wasn't really you that lead those attacks, was it?" Cassius asked calmly. Jinnie sniffed and shook her head. It was clear she was very frightened, and had taken the blows for someone else. Just the sight of the blood on her face made Cassius's skin crawl, and in a rare moment of sister-like comfort, she wrapped her arms around Jinnie and rested her head in the girl's hair, hat falling to the ground.

"I will never let them hurt you again." She said forcefully. "I swear it."

"I... Thank you, Cassius." Jinnie said, cuddling close to her savior. The assassin just sighed irritably.

"...It's Cassi." She grumbled.

[mimibunu]

"C-cassi, please don’t throw knifes… You almost hit me…" "Well I didn’t. Merry Christmas. Now go away before I find another knife."

Cassius's and Jinnie's relationship

[a-soft-fluffy-girl]

"Dust- Huh? Why are there two of you? And why is one of you a girl? And why is your fur different colours? Wow your eyes are different colours too! Oh wait one of you looks like me kinda! idontunderstand"

"... So that's what I look like as a girl..." Catching himself for a moment (after Cassius smacked him upside the head), the young man blinked and coughed slightly, looking his younger, female self over. "W-well, Dust got split up into... us. I'm... well, you. Just older."

"And a male. Don't forget that part."

[cassithederanged]

CLOSED @cutiejinlove

Cassius sat in her cottage, using a small knife to whittle away at a piece of wood. Her hat rested on the arm rest beside her, and her eyes were narrowed as she tried to get the finer details on the small sculpture. At the current moment it looked like a feral wolf, the jaws open, but fused together still by the wood. 

She was startled out of her concentration as Ahrah, who sat on the couch cushion to the right started to hum. Cassius. Look out. Enemies are approaching. On reflex, Cassius dropped her wooden sculpture, snatched up Ahrah in one hand, and put her hat on her head, stalking her way towards the door. Quietly, carefully, she lifted the curtain over the window to gaze at who was coming up the road. 

Cassius sighed bitterly and dropped Ahrah, who just hovered in the air by the door rather than falling on the ground. She put the knife in her beltloop and rubbed her temples, opening the door to none other than Jinnie, who was beaming. "I thought I told you not to bother me ever." Cassius spat, but she stepped aside to let the girl pass anyway. Jinnie barrelled into the cottage, speaking at a hundred miles per hour, carelessly leaving the door open.

[a-soft-fluffy-girl]

cutiejinlove:

"Trick or treat!" *is dragging cassi along*

cassithederanged:

"Jin, No! that's not how it works... *sigh*" Cassius swished her tail, rubbing her temples in exasperation.

And both Jin and Cassius seemed to waltz right up to Dust's door, knocking right onto it and shouting out with glee. Dust, being as friendly as ever, walked right over to the door with candy in hand, and promptly spotted the two standing before him. A female Jin and a female Cassius. That was a sight.

"... So you two are going as girls together? Well that's original, I'll admit. Here you go." And he simply hands out the candy bars. "Never thought I'd see you two together, though."

[cassithederanged]

A Meeting of Old "Friends" //Closed\\

Cassius walked along an overgrown path, lined with grass and purple flowers. Her sword was at her hip, and the air was chilled, though she was still almost uncomfortably warm underneath her black fur and black uniform. Her long hair was tied back in a ponytail and her hat covered her yellow eyes completely. 

The path reached a bend, and opened up to reveal a large clearing, the grass overgrown, and the ground black with ash. Most of the structures were completely demolished, but a few foundations of houses, and the occasional board stuck up from the ground. Cassius looked on it all with no expression on her features, eyes scanning. How long had it been since she burned the place to the ground? Years. Actually, a few years and... that very day. 

Oh no. That meant she was around.

Cassius looked up through the fabric of her hat to spot none other than Jinnie, who looked pretty upset at the sight of what used to be her home. Ah... Cassius should have thought harder before she came to visit.