Chapter 7: Rules of War
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'Rules are Rules' Jackson thought...

"Okay you lot." Jackson started as she looked out at the Police officers who now are short-term prisoners, "I can see you all have those papers, let me guess last letters?"

The men with the letters nodded, "Well good you can give them to whoever you wanted."

The men's faces turned from despair to jubilation and yet confusion, why were they being allowed to live? If those people from the Prison Van was anything to go by... them them men thought they were as good as dead...

"Why?" A wounded Senior Constable asked, Jackson looked at him walked over and knelt down.

The Constable had two guns shots wounds in his arm and leg...

Jacksons hands glowed with a soft golden light, the Constable moved away slightly but stopped when he made the connection that this light was the same as the girl with wings healing her friend...

As Jackson placed her hands on the man's arm and leg, he grunted from the pressure she was putting on the wounds... then a soothing warmth filled him and soon the pain he felt from his wounds was gone...

"That better, officer?" Jackson asked.

"Nora... It's Senior Constable Nora and I guess the highest ranked man here, what are you going do to us?"

"Nothing, unless you do something stupid I have no reason to kill you... I don't know about you or the Erian Police, but I wished that the first Vehicle we had hit was that belong to FRIA, it was there fault for thee... escalation of violence... but non the less." Jackson paused, "You Officer Nora and your comrades are defeated enemies and are people I would consider soldiers of a form."

"But we aren't soldiers?" Nora protested.

"You are Uniformed, you are Armed and you don't dress like Civilians unlike FRIA who has ambushed me multiple times with in Athtrim. Plus I always considered Police forces as Organized Militias with the your men there," She gestures at the EPTT members, "Are a military unit in all sense of the word, and before you say 'but you all are dress a Civilians', most of us are wearing our body armor openly and not underneath our clothes."

"But non the less." Jackson she continue, "We need to leave before backup shows up, Priestess can I assure that you could heal the rest and make way to us?"

"Yes, Goddess I will be able to find you with ease." Kerrigan responds.

Jackson didn't respond in regards to the Goddess remark, "Okay you all of you Officer, I am leaving my Priestess here to heal you all. But if she is arrested, killed or taken away by FRIA and never heard from again... I can't say that the Rules of War would be followed anymore. Especially in regards to Civilian losses." She left the threat unsaid but it got the needed response from the men.

"WHAT?!?" Nora shouts shooting up to his feet reopening the wound in his leg.

"Before you say anything, I am only doing this to follow a simple rule, 'Do onto another you would like done to yourself' that can and has being expanded in times of war, the only reason I am willing to waste Mana to heal you all. Priestess don't be afraid if you need to, your life is more important than them." With her final order everyone started packing up.

"Wait where is the Cadet?" Nora asked.

"Her? She'll becoming with us don't worry, while she is just a Cadet she would still have information I can get." Jackson told the Senior Constable...

With that said everyone started moving, Tanya with the help from Elke placed Emma into Fenrir and everyone else moved into the Forest leaving Kerrigan behind to attend to the effectively released prisoners.

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As Kerrigan started healing the men after five minutes Nora asked the the women left behind that was treating the other Officers...

"What happened to the kidnaped girl?" He asked.

"I can't say, but she is far happier then when we had first met..."

"Why are you doing this?"

"We would be doing the same if we were in any other place within the world."

"No why do you follow her? Someone that is willing to kill Civilians isn't someone you should follow."

"And what do you know? Those people in Athtrim should be glad that my Goddess is willing to give them any mercy." She says sternly her eyes shining a bright gold, then she takes a deep breath and her eyes turn to normal... "I follow my Goddess like the rest, she is the only reason that I live right now."

"You could leave? Ask for a plea deal?"

"Then what? Why would I want to live with those lesser then us?" She snarled at Nora, "You aren't Human, nor are you Servants or Slaves you are free... while I believe that you all should burn in the Goddesses holy fire, it is her words and actions that stop me."

"Human?" Another said with a laugh, "You have to be joking? They are just fairy tales."

"Like Magic? The very same thing I am healing you all? The same that I used to save my comrade from dying from a neck injury? Or did the meter and a half tall wolf didn't tell you anything?" Kerrigan responded sarcastically she moved her hair to show her ears...

The men around the man moved away from him, the man ignored what she said and seemed to care the ears "Clipped." The same man responded.

"Then what about my wings then?"

"What of them? Their ju-" The man was cut off when she smacked him with her right wing breaking his jaw.

"Now I have to waste my Mana for an asshole..." Kerrigan grumbled as she knelt down and placed her hands onto the mans jaw and started healing it... after a few moments it cracked back into place. "See all done."

She then went to the road side and spread her wings out wide to catch as much sunlight as possible. Her wings shone a low golden hue, all while she grasped her hands in pray.

"So what's this?" Nora asked seeing that no one was willing to speak after what happened to the fool.

"I am simply regaining my Mana at a faster rate. Also are anyone going to tell your allies that you are still alive?" She answered and asked.

"We can?" Nora asked.

"I am only here to assure that you are all healed and give my Goddess warning within regards to those of us becoming Prisoners of War that is all, I am unarmed. The Goddess said I would be armed only when I need to defend my patients but here I am unarmed. But as my wings have shown they are more then able to break bones... but none the less." She tells them.

Nora slowly moves and grabs the Radio inside the cab of the EPTT Van, he doesn't get in the cab.

"Dispatch... This is Senior Constable Nora... we have been defeated and are right now... Prisoners I think?" He says.

"Not really." Kerrigan corrects.

"Correction, not really apparently we need back up? One of them are here to give a message to umm us?" Nora didn't know what to say.

"Roger can you arrest the person?" Dispatch asked.

"No umm her... wings would kill us." He says...

A confused "What the fuck?" Comes back from Dispatch and then, "We are sending a few more units of EPTT and half a dozen Patrolmen." 

"This will be fun." Kerrigan says as she finally stands up he wings fold behind her...

A few of the other men starts asking questions mainly around her and who the Goddess is. 

With this time Kerrigan used a skill she had gotten when she had leveled up.

/Preacher; You are able to preach the word of the Goddess, to convince those that do not believe in your Goddess, this skill will allow you to persuade them to pray to your Goddess there by granting her more power and this power affects allies boosting their Combat capabilities/

And while they talk Kerrigan's skill slowly affected the men. It would take time but a man who had near death experience is a person tents to find God... though they don't really fall for the Goddess chatter but she noted two who were paying attention, it was a pair of EPTT members who had suffered very bad wounds well fatal... she was still attending to their wounds while talking to them.

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Half an hour after the Battle with the Police and Tactical Team.

Detective Michal and Oscar were driving hard along with another three teams of the Erian Police Tactical Team, and another six normal patrol vehicles.

The sirens of our vehicles blared as we drove up the road to were the Survivors of the Ambush...

It to us a few minutes.

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When we had gotten there out of the few officers and EPTT members there was someone else...

She looked at us, she wore a simple black long-sleeve shirt and shorts, along with a pair of shoes and socks... the three details made the pair of detectives mouths drop.

She had a pair of pure wings with the tips being black, her head had a halo that sat above her head... both of them knew it was an angel-kin... something they have seen and heard described from old Human religion... the name was lose to time...

The last thing was the armbands with were a bright red cross on her upper for arms...

The EPTT members got out of their Vans and aimed at her along side ordering her to put her hands up.

She didn't and pointed out her armbands and slowly toke steps away from the survivors...

"I SAID STOP!" The Captain with the EPTT shouted at her.

"My Goddess told me to ensure that the men we have defeated are treated fairly within the Rules of War."

"Then your under arrest for terrorism and the death of multiple Officers!" The Captain said.

"Under said Rules as a identified Medic you can't treat me as nothing less then a Soldier. Plus I was told to give you an ultimatum."

"What would that be?" Oscar asked after both Detectives got out of their car.

"That is simple, what would you do with captured enemy soldiers?" She asked.

"Depends, If FRIA get hold of you we don't know." Oscar admits.

"And you?"

"Well as right now, your 'Goddess' is wanted for murder of multiple FRIA agents, Kidnapping of a girl named Jessica and now the death of half a dozen Erian Police."

"I see, well." She paused and looked out the Men she had just stepped away from.

One of the wounded men coughed up some blood as he tried to stand up.

"What did I tell you?" She shouted at him and walked over.

"Sorry mam," He coughed up some more blood, "I know what I just did was somewhat a waste of what's it called?"

 "My Goddess and I call it Mana. Plus I told you if you move to much your healed wounds would reopen." She says as she walks to him ignoring the Officers, Her hands start glowing.

BANG!

Everyone snaps their heads at a jumpy Constable. Looking back at the Angel-kin, the Detectives along with everyone else eyes widen as they see a hole in the women's side...

"Well then." She coughs and places both of her hands over the wound, "So Senior Constable Nora." She calls to the wounded men, "Do you think that counts as what my Goddess said?"

"Lower your weapons." The Constable Ordered the EPTT members and the men with the Constable voiced their agreement.

"Why?" The Captain asked.

"Her... 'Goddess' said to us that if you arrest her now, kill her or she just disappears she couldn't say that everyone within Athtrim would be save. As far as we know the arrest part only counts here right?"

"My Goddess only wants when it comes to fighting that we are treated as defeated soldiers, and not as dissidents or rebels. This is a war for us. Enso we will treat anyone we beaten as a person, what did she say. Treat another as you wished to be treated." She paused and lifted her hands showing her healed wound... "Well then." She looked at the man she was going to and continued and her glowing hands torched the man...

"So what does that mean? Treat another as you wished to be treated?" Oscar asked to want specifics he had already whipped out his note book and had made a basic description or her.

"Simple, If we took care of your men as we have done, the next time we fight she wished to have us treated the same, we wished to be treated with respect. Respect you would give any soldier, and not as a common criminals. We aren't your people or even your Race..."

"Meaning?" Oscar presses.

"The Goddess told me not to make it obvious, but they know." She says and gestures to the men around her, "But now my job is done." She walks back into the side of the road her wings go out wide and she runs down the road and her wings started flapping until she took off...

Jaws dropped, eyes bulged... and weapons lowered.

"This is going to make our life hard." Oscar said... seemingly unfazed by what they had just saw...

But his mind was racing... and one thought dominated his mind 'Are we at war? With who? This Goddess?"

"What did she mean by 'even your Race'?" Oscar demands at the Senior Constable.

"She is Human... and we  had to assume that her Goddess is Human... but sir we can't fight them."

Oscar's mind stopped on 'Human' WHAT? Then he proceed the rest of the man's sentence... and then asked what he meant

"They ambushed us suppressed us with a heavy weapon then they rushed us forcing us into close combat and then there was the wolf..."

"Wolf?"

"Huge Wolf... it eat the Sergeant with us..." One of the EPTT members...

"Shit." Oscar muttered. 

Note: Hello, as the poll says rules are rules, although I went with a down scaled version but later on there will be a proper Article 3 of the Geneva Convention. End Note.

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