Royal Command: A trip to Africa

                                                              Royal Command

                                                                                                            by David Meyer



         Striking up a Banner of prestige and glory, John Royal, Captain of all of Celestial Shipping's goods and protection set out to form a cloth business as an extension of Celestial Shipping.  Baaing of sheep woke him from his sleep, clatter of wheels and horses plodding out in to the dirty streets of Banha gave the sound of a market center.  Ever since He had arrived, trains of goods and people had to be brought up so far from the coast that the business almost died from lack of goods.  Though he wished he could have started in Cario, business men said it was full and not taking in large companies anymore until new roads were built.  John began to think of his father and how he gotten himself into this in the first place.

 

                             Born in a small farming and fishing community he grew up learning to farm, fish, hunt, and use weapons of many kind. By the time he finished school, Celestial Shipping was first starting and looking for recruits.  His Father told he could only if he would come back every year to visit the family.  John was young and still had many things to learn.  One of which is that the Company is a Universal company and could send anywhere, as long as he stayed a grunt.  For two years He stayed a grunt, always on the move.  He'd been pretty much everywhere and seen everything.  This company was no rose garden, many a pirate would attack firing their cannons and rattling their swords but in the end they where no match for the well protected trading ships.  Then after long years He became a Nord Lead.  Nord Leads as the company called them where half in charge of a ship. Many battles were fought against the unending raids of the Berbers, paving the way to Egypt.  one of these outstanding battles was fought on the coast of Crete. Blue and Red behind the crown of victory as was the flag of the shipping company, shone brightly into the endless sea.  Reed boats floated silently towards towards waiting crew.  Creaking and rocking slightly, the reed boats came towards the vessel.  Each man dreamed of the fortune he would make of the goods on the Shipping boat. The Berber pirates thought they had them by surprise bu as soon as they drew up against the boat and drew ropes against it.  the sky lit up with cannon fire and mail clad soldiers leaped into the reed boats.  John had been present and was one of the few chosen to go into the reed boats.  Swords flashed, Berbers fell. Unstoppable, the knights slaughtered until the Berbers fled by jumping into the sea.