Tales of Serenity

Story 1

Alarms rang in my head, my body a different type of numb. My eyes were locked into the icy blue depths of her's. Her blonde hair seemed to cascade down her shoulders, outlining her dream of a face.....

I'm sorry, I seem to have gotten ahead of myself, My name is Jacob Riley. My friends if you would call them that, call me Riley. The year is 2511 and I'm in hell. The woman I mentioned before, her name is Divina, Dee for short. Back on Persephone, she and I was to be married. We had different views on the U war, mine being with the Browncoats, her's with the Alliance. Once those views came out into the open, you can imagine what happened from there. It wasn't like me to walk away from love and I didn't, she however, did.

So let me fast forward a bit now. As I'm sure you know, The Alliance practically waltzed into Persephone and claimed it their own. Desperate, I searched for any information about Dee, her family, anybody I knew from my town. Sadly, the reports came back with everybody KIA, apparently a rouge Browncoat bomb demolished the place while The Alliance moved through. We know the truth though, the Alliance themselves laid that town to the ground, as an example to the rest of Persephone. I'll tell you right now, there is an old Earth that was saying " Better to have loved and lost, then to have never loved at all." That's simply gorram chin shay won. My heart, my soul, my entire body seemed to die right then. The next few days passed in a blur, and I was barely aware we had been given our dispatch orders, a planet named Hera, A planet I'd never forget. What proceeded was one of the bloodiest battles the verse has ever seen. That's right, I fought in the Battle of Serenity Valley, don't bother saying that I'm a lucky one for living. Hear my whole story first...

It was the last day of fighting, though we didn't know that then, and things where getting bad. There were hardly any officers left alive, barely anybody in command. Rumors had spread that a Sergeant was