Thaw's Series - Volume 01

Thaw was brought to his first council meeting, standing next to him would be his towering brute sized father who kept his arms rested on the arm chairs of his towering oversized chair. House Grad's King was present, with King Grad speaking up with his hands folded together. 

"Thaw, I understand that you have brought my House here for a possible change for the city."

Thaw kept his back straight and his hands together. 

"I have discuss terms with the military of Arcose, and I believe we should grant them the power to run our cities."

King Grad would have broken the table in two if it wasn't for his father's presence. He still couldn't believe that a child would be given the title of King. He truly didn't like the old ways, and he kept his cool for now. 

"You want the military protecting our cities? But House Moroz has always been the neutral party and has never messed with Galactic affairs or Domestic... Your House has mainly focus on the constructions of buildings and transportation." 

"Yes and as much as I have appreciated your House and their services, our transportations and construction of building have been put on constant delays for months now. Nothing has been done about it with your House and with the saiyans and even the tuffles causing chaos and all this war. Our services can't help other nations who want to grow and i'm afraid your House just can't be everywhere and aren't big enough."

King Grad had stood up in a frustrated matter as he flipped the table and pointed his finger at him. 

"JUST WHO THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU ARE! YOUR HOUSE HAS NEVER BEEN INVOLVED WITH POLITICS! THERE IS A REASON WE HAVE NEW TRADITIONS IN PLACE AND NOT THE OLD." 

Thaw's father had given King Grad a death stare, not even bothering himself with getting up. King Grad had felt the aura coming from Thaw's Father and sat back down. Thaw had raised himself up from his chair and kept his arms to his side.

"I appreciate your concern, but my word is final. Expect your House to do other task for the City."

Thaw had left and his father had joined him by his side. He was nervous and kept his eyes to the ground. His father took notice and smirked. 

"A King should never show fear, keep your eyes ahead."

"Do you think I made the right choice? Changing our House's neutral political stance to a Military stance and not a Domestic one?"

Moroz looked to his son and then ahead as their royal guards had followed behind them. 

"The old tradition has always stuck with the military aspect, the new generation tends to stick with domestic affairs and not really wanting to conquer planets. I cannot tell you if you made the right decision for our House. But what I can tell you, is that I will stand by your decision and teach you along the way. You are a King and as King, you have made a politic change. Which means you will be meeting with the Emperor soon."

Thaw's operation had started, with the aid of his small military forces along with the set up a several camps made within Planet Kroom, it made it enough for them to obtain intel on the region along with how many other camps and outpost that the tuffles and saiyans lay claim too. Thaw sat at the council table once again, only this time House Iglu had arrived and spoke with him.

"King Thaw, I would like to propose a business deal with your House." King Iglu had stated this, as he had his Captain hold a brief case in his hand. 

"Go on." 

"Your House is responsible responsible for outside sources now. I understand that you would need more funds to help further your cause, unless you want to go down the path of conquering planets. Your House isn't known for that, which sees that the vision you have isn't of the old ways."

Thaw had stared at him with a confident yet curious stare. 

"I may not have the old world view kept in a traditional sense, since I am of the newer generation, I tend to keep myself open in terms of politics and not directly by the book like the other Houses." 

"I understand that you want to keep with newer tradition,  I also don't rely on the military for support. I use the local forces and even mercenaries to aid my House. Probably the only reason why the newer generation tends to stick with old traditions is because of the low count in their clan family or just lower Household count. Whatever your reasons for it doesn't concern me, however, I want to make a deal with your House regarding a split share of my funds, in return, I would like your House to construct me another casino."

Thaw had calmly looked at the King and kept his serious stare true and unfazed. 

"As much as I respect your House and the spies you have all around you. Let me remind you that an army doesn't make the House, its the clan within those Houses that you should be in fear of. My House is known throughout Planet Arcose as a force not to be messed with. Whether it's against an army or just one man. I know that you know who my father is. As for your business deal, you know that I don't have enough resources to provide domestic politics anymore."

"In all fairness Thaw, your House before your ruling was a neutral state and providing more local support than a galactic one. Your father also owes me several casinos that was promised and never made due to outside problems."

"I don't care what my father owes you, I am King now and I have new terms in place." 

"Do you really want a civil war between our Houses? I came here trying to see if you would want to work with me like your father had done so in the past." 

"Your money was returned to you, so i'm not sure why you believe that he owes you anything. My suggestion would be for you to get outside sources to help you, or perhaps another House." 

"Everyone knows your House deals in this department and all others would just drastically increase the cost due to it not being their field of work."

"I gave you my answer and if you really think a civil war is necessary then try it. I have the military on my side and any House who attacks the military becomes an enemy and a traitor. So I suggest you choose your words carefully." 

King Iglu had raised from his seat and stared Thaw down. 

"There is a reason why the newer generation was formed." 

King Iglu had walked away and the statement had referred to the age being more appropriate for a thirty year old King than a thirteen year old one. As he left, Thaw just sat there and waited a bit, his father had arrived. 

"How is everything coming along with King Iglu?"

"He talks about a potential civil war."

"Many Houses have been wiped out due to civil wars, specially those who don't have the military backing them. Thread lightly, as much protection as you have, even Kings who work with the military have seen an early grave."

Thaw listens to his father's advice, wondering what he will do next.

Thaw sat upon his throne, just in idle today from boredom as soldier after soldier had came before him. 

"Sire, the established camps and the dire situation from planet kroom has been success on our part. The tuffle has retreated due to the defeat that they had received from the saiyans. We now outrank the saiyans by a large margin." 

Thaw curled his index finger and placing it underneath his bottom lip, while in his other hand he carried with him a glass of wine.

"Destroy them."

The soldier had bowed and left, being the last soldier to report a status. After the soldier left, Thaw's father had entered the room and naturally towered over his son. 

"How did the latest reports go?"

"The tuffles left planet Kroom and we had the opportunity to invade them due to outnumbering them. So I decided for them to attack."

"Did you asset the combat level of each saiyan?"

Thaw was clueless at this point and had awkwardly answer.

"N....no... but our forces-"

Thaw's father had sighed and kept his arms to his back now.

"Come with me."

Thaw had followed right behind him and the both of them were now in a room filled with party guest and a gigantic cake. Thaw was rather confused and spoke with his father.

"Father I don't understand, what is all this?"

"Good luck."

Thaw's father had vanished and now Thaw was all alone. His father had severely reduced his power level to a combat level of 1, and watched his son on the high balcony in the shadows. Thaw had looked confused at first, so many people were here and he wasn't sure what he was suppose to do or even look for. Thaw had looked for key marks and there he had spotted it, a throne chair across the hallway which was made for him. So he had went over there and sat on the chair, exhaling a sigh of relief for the most part. He scanned the room and about that time, a blue brenchian with square glasses had approach him from the left side, holding a clip board. 

"Excuse me sire, your father has appointed me as your assistant for this event. Many nobles will be attending. This event is in honor of their names so that. you can grow your House." 

"I see..."

Thaw had sensed an unusual high power level coming off from this assistant. Though it wasn't as high as one of his Captain's power level but it was indeed close. An anger mob group had suddenly appeared, two towering kabochans and a red brenchian that was muscular in size. Thaw had gotten up from his chair and looked to the anger mob with a death stare. One of the kabochan's had shouted. 

"I'm wondering why we weren't invited into this event!"

Thaw had kept his finger to his chin and looked up at this bulky man. 

"What House do you serve?"

The three of them had ignored his question and went straight for an offensive attack. This had caught Thaw off guard and he leaned back ready for anticipation as three of them tried attacking him. The clipboard from his assistant had dropped and a concealed dagger had come forth and Thaw was quick to coil his tail around the wrist of his assistant, causing him to drop the dagger and with a light twirl, throwing him into the mob group. The three of them falling back from the sudden maneuver and Thaw quickly executed the four of them with a straight beam to their chest. The party lights had faded, the bright lights were now on. And now the four bodies he had executed had now risen up to their feet. Thaw's father had arrived beside his son and lightly patted him on his back. 

"Good work, you passed."

Thaw looked to his father slightly confused. 

"What do you mean I passed?"

"You all can go now."

The party goers had left the room, along with the four assassins as Thaw's father gave them a stare. It wasn't that many people for a party but with the dark atmosphere and party lights, it was more than enough to fool anyone. Thaw's father had looked to his son with a smirk.   
 
"The lesson I have taught you today was to always stay on your toes no matter what event you are in. Those four assassins I had sent you, were all Captain ranked soldiers for the military. Old friends of mine that had retired the service. I wanted to see if you could handle yourself and you did."

"But father you already know how I strong I am?"

"Strength means nothing when tactics are cleverly made to outdo even the strongest soldiers. Yes it is true, sometimes the numbers won't make a difference when it comes to strength. However, sometimes you won't always be so lucky. There can be a strong opponent among the weak in disguise. I saw what you did and you have impressed me. I told you years ago that I had received my mechanical right arm due to an ambush. I really received it from my own father due to failing this task. The old ways were worst than what they are now. I was given a lesson even with the strength I had and failed. That's why I had build the reputation of our House to be feared. Because of my disadvantage."

Thaw looked to his arm and then at his father's eyes. 

"Would you have done that to me if I had failed?"

Thaw's father had smirked and had his arms to his back.

"I'm not like my father, though you would have gone through tough training that would make you regret failing it in the first place. Good work Thaw."

As much training as Thaw was given, the worst was about to come and even he didn't realize it.