Life as a New Hire, Redrawing the Globe, Volume VIII

Life as a New Hire

Redrawing the Globe

Volume VIII

Copyright 2013 James M. Dosher

Published by Jens Sorensen at Smashwords

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Table of Contents

Adult Content Warning

Acknowledgments

Cover Credits

Prologue

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Chapter Ten

Chapter Eleven

Chapter Twelve

Chapter Thirteen

Chapter Fourteen

Chapter Fifteen

Chapter Sixteen

Chapter Seventeen

Chapter Eighteen

Chapter Nineteen

Chapter Twenty

Chapter Twenty-one

Chapter Twenty-two

About James M. Dosher

Other books by James M. Dosher

Connect with James M. Dosher

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Adult Content Warning

Life as a New Hire, Redrawing the Globe, Volume VIII the eighth part of the saga Life as a New Hire, The 84 day internship of Cáel Nyilas in Twelve Volumes (LNH); this is a work of creative fiction with few ties to normal reality.

This fantasy melodrama attempts to weave the absurd into a facsimile of real life to entertain and amuse the reader. There is use of extreme language, descriptions of sex acts, torture, terrorist acts, and violence if this is offensive Do Not Read.

All sexually active characters are eighteen years of age or older.

Mythical creatures, mythical and historic deities and super natural phenomena all are depicted as reality in this saga, a fictional alternate reality. Characters depicted in the LNH are fictional characters and do not represent any real people.

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"This adult fictional work may contain descriptions of various different types of consensual sex, sexual kinks, violence, staged combat, criminal behavior, warfare and terrorism.

No real human, animal, or AI was harmed in order to gain the technical inspiration for this tale."

James M. Dosher

Author

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Acknowledgments

This work would not exist with the support of family and friends.

This story plays fast and loose with Ancient History and Linguistics; be warned.

When our ancestor committed the first murder, was it rage, or fear that drove them to the deed?

Editing magic performed by KJ24 and Shyqash, plus contributions by the regular gang of brigands and ne'er-do-wells.

There is a bit of mangling of the Iliad going on. I apologize to Homer and the countless singers before him who carried the Iliad down through the dark centuries until the Greeks figured out how writing works.

There is something worse than waking up and not knowing where you are. You could wake up not know who you are too.

Professional, conscript, or volunteer – they have all run away from battle.

Loving your enemy is easy. You know precisely where the two of you stand.

Just in case anyone cares, I do not hate China or the Chinese People. As a Global Power, the PRC is fair game as a great antagonist. Not only do they have, as of 2015, the world's largest economy, largest population and a truly global Diaspora, they also have a rather totalitarian governance system that enables them to devote scary levels of resources to any endeavor they set their minds to.

I usually paint all governments to be entities capable of great good (rarely achieved) and great evil (because it makes such enticing fiction). In my stories, it often falls to the people within those institutions to make judgment calls on what is the right thing to do. In my final analysis, there are no 'Evil' governments, just evil people who use the system to get what they want.

In all contexts, I was just following orders is a hollow excuse.

Okay ... I don't know how, but I screwed up the days associated with the dates. The dates have been correct. I have no clue how I screwed up something as simple as reading a calendar, but I did. So Monday, September 8th, remains the end of the Internship period.

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Cover Credits

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Cover Elements:

Amazonomachia: fight between Greek warriors and Amazons. Marble, sarcophagus panel, ca. 160–170 CE. Located at Vatican Museum Museo Pio-Clementino, Octagon, Apollon Hall, Rome Italy

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Prologue

A Note on terminologies

The terms Weave and Weave of Fate are interchangeable. The proper term is Weave of Fate because it is the intersection ~ the sieve that all the possible futures entered to create what we perceive as the present.

The Present is what is happening right now.

The Legend is what happens when the present is pulled back through the weave and becomes the past. It is called the Legend because as the former presents fade into the past it blurs, becoming less precise and open to interpretation. Essentially, it is the equivalent of looking at one thing through a prism. As you shift your stance, what you see appears to change. Within the Legend exist mystic creatures, divinities, demons, spirits, all the Paradises and Hells.

The Endless Black Sands is the final resting place for all failed legends. It is the place where all is forgotten until even former realities break down into the Black Sands. That Alal found a way to cheat this doom and retrieved Shammuramat was truly remarkable even though Fate ‘balanced accounts’ with him by sending Ajax and his war band along as well.

If you wonder how that was a ‘balancing’, consider the only people Alal cares for (in his own brutal fashion) – Shammy, now Sakura, and his only true offspring in 5,000 years, Cáel. With Ajax available to test Cáel, how could Alal resist the temptation to place of one the planets greatest killer on a collision course with both his loves, in order to test Cáel?

The Veil is a function of the Weave that protect sentient perceptions from perceiving the Weave and disguise creatures of legend unless they willingly allow themselves to be seen ~ usually so they can physically interact with the Present.

Some sentient minds, through horrific trauma [such as the Augurs and the poisons they take], quirks of Fate [Holy Men, Mad Prophets and Doomsayers such as Temüjin], or the touch of legends [like Cáel ~ though, in truth, he has been afflicted by all three (Ishara, the Augurs and Temüjin's legend], can sense fluctuations in the Veil and the things behind it.

Oblivion is what awaits Reality if the Weave ever fails beyond its ability to heal itself. This threat is what keeps the creatures of legend from constantly traversing the Weave. They have to weaken the Weave to do so and to use powers in Reality.

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In Volume VII

Accredited Irish Diplomat and Havenstone Intern Cáel Nyilas Wakko Ishara, Head House Ishara, Magyarorszag es Erdely Hercege's team headed to Europe with his Illuminati O'Shea Aunts aboard their private jet. During Cáel's European search for the lost members of Amazon House of Arinniti he experiences trials and ordeals worthy of a Beowulf saga.

His team members:

Riki Martin US State Dept.,

Special Agent Vincent Loire FBI,

Special Agent Virginia Maddox FBI,

Odette Sievert -sex buddy and thrill seeker,

Capt. Delilah Fairchild RAF- MI-6 agent,

Colour Sergeant Charles 'Chaz' Tomorrow (MI-6),

Pamela Pile-Amazon mentor sage and retired-assassin,

Amazon Wiesława of House Živa,

Sakuniyas AKA the Friendless the reborn Shammuramat Queen of Assyria,

Selena Jovanović Black Hand assassin and liaison,

And his Amazon security team SD Mona, SD Tiger Lily, SD Charlotte and SD Team Leader Rachel.

Cáel becomes a truly blooded Amazon Warrior while suffering a heart rending lose when SD Charlotte is killed, during the firefight against the Ajax's forces at the ruins of the Castle of the 7 Skulls, Romania.

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Upon arriving in Budapest Cáel's team realize their local Black Hand allies are acting in a risky manner so the team separates from them and strike out on their own. They leave the airport and reach the central train station in downtown Budapest where they encountered a rolling ambush by heavily armed fake police. The conflict goes badly for the bad guys, never ignore the women - especially when they are Amazons. Both Virginia and Chaz were shot but Mona said she could handle the wounds and they wouldn't need a hospital.

At subsequent meeting with Matthias, the local Black Hand leader, tasked with working with Cáel foolishly pulls a blade on Riki and is killed by Pamela. His henchmen are sent away with the body to pass a message to the Black Hand house leader about the price of betraying their Amazon ‘allies’.

While waiting for a reply the team breaks into sub groups to handle necessary housekeeping tasks. Pamela, Delilah, Suku and Selena followed Cáel when he headed out to scout the area. Scouting was fruitful. It yielded a run in with members of the Romani underground; a serendipity meeting with Alkonyka searching for her kidnapped sister; a fated brush with interested parties from the other side of the weave at a nightclub which turns into a good old fashioned street rumble with fists, knives, swords, and sub-machine guns. The post festivity's group discussion is crowned by Dot Ishara using a falling hunk of mortar to pull Wakko Ishara (Cáel) thru the Weave for a tête-à-tête, luckily Cáel had the fortune cookies with him. Ishara tells him Alkonyka's (a lost Amazon) real name Ildiko Lovasz and he needs to find the sister, Angyalka Lovasz. They would be able to put him on the right path.

Upon waking Cáel hears the Vizsla (Hungarian Black Hand leader) wants to meet tomorrow eleven AM. She is sending a car for Cáel, Selena and two others. Cáel breaks the team into two parts Pamela and Ildiko to stay with him and Selena; Rachel will take the rest and make the best possible speed for the border.

While the Vizsla and Cáel work out that Matthias will take the rap for the failed ambush and treachery, a heavy assault is launched against the Inn. Quickly Cáel and Pamela send the Vizsla and the others to escape thru a hidden exit; Selena promises Black Hand help to get Ildiko back to his team and help find the sister. Cáel following Pamela's lead make a break through the front door. With luck they break contact from the assaulting forces and make it to the river where they seek shelter with a bevy of bikini-ed co-eds aboard a river barge cruising downstream.

When the opposing force reached the river they were revealed as Ajax and his resurrected Mycenaean warriors outfitted with the latest military arms. After some trash talk and a bit of a sniper exchange, a fragile don't shoot at me and I won't shoot at you status arose. The next town downstream had only a ferry crossing, Cáel made a couple satellite phone calls and arranges a bomb threat against the ferry which kept it on his side of the river, leaving Ajax with no easy assault route. The Mycenaeans faded away.

Pamela and Cáel slip ashore to enter town by road to avoid suspicion for the co-eds and they where to meet a local hostel. After they all meet, the town is closed up by security forces due to the bomb threat and the firefight that burnt down the historic Inn where Cáel and the Vizsla met.

This leads to an impromptu rave in the town square where amazingly Cáel meets his resurrected grandfather, Cáel O'Shea (aka Alal). Cáel has been living with Alal's memories ever since his uncle's attack. Grandfather and grandson cautiously feel each other out as they stroll around the town square. Cáel realizes Alal is using the Illuminati, Condottieri and other GSS to further his private plans for world control. He also has plans for Cáel's body if not his mind. Alal is taken with the thought of Cáel's expected children. They agree Cáel will see about Alal having a chance to hold some of them, after Alal promises (for what is worth) not to harm them, before fading into the night.

Warned not to leave town by the TEK (Hungary's Anti-Terrorism Law Enforcement Body) Pamela and Cáel borrow a KT1600 GT - 2009 motorcycle from an unconscious friendly German and race for the Romanian border and catch-up with the team. Along the way Cáel becomes aware of a supernatural presence following them. Upon rejoining the team He learns they are ready to travel to Miecurea Ciuc by train to followup on the information Selena, Ildiko and her recovered sister, Angyalka brought.

Meanwhile:

While Cáel et al, were touring the sights of Hungary and Romania, the Khanate's 'Unification War' had been developing causing concerns in the world's different capital cities. With great unease Russia, North Korean, South Korean, India, and Pakistan all watched the developing struggle as the newly proclaimed Khanate moved militarily against PRC forces to enforce their claim of sovereignty. The UN called a meeting to discuss the developing situation, all attempts to diplomatically communicate with the Great Khan's leadership failed due to the failure to officially recognize the Khanate. The only successful contact was made by Ms. Hana Sulkanen, Cáel's fiancée. Somehow she was able to arrange humanitarian aid flights into the new Khanate provinces, The Russians in particular noticed and decided Hana would be a usable channel to the Khan, willingly or unwillingly.

A few threats by large men claiming to be from Gazprom (the Russian Natural Gas monopoly) got Hana's personal assistant to cough up an address for the nice Manhattan eatery Hana had sneaked off to.

This hastily scheduled luncheon had come about for two reasons: Hana had gained a level of notoriety that some people found troubling (for her own safety) and the other reason was - what part of his life would 'Cáel' devote to Hana as her fiancé and what part of 'Cáel, Mr. Love-Monkey' would be shared among the rest of the women gathered at the table?

In every other universe, one Russian military attaché and four SVR-RF operatives would be sufficient to the task of 'convincing' Hana to take a little walk with them.

However, in this universe...Rhada was hellishly on edge, Oneida wanted to punch somebody - anybody - just to release some of her stress, and NYPD Officer Nikita Kutuzov was nervous because three other women at the table besides herself also carried firearms. Buffy wasn't nervous. She was pissed. The moron she loved was exploring a whole series of new ways to kill himself while doing good deeds for the Host - that selfish bastard (aka Cáel).

With the unexpected appearance of two heavily armed 'Westies', (Hana's bodyguards courtesy of Cáel's O'Shea aunts) putting the Russians in what could have been a deadly crossfire and facing of several deadly, armed, and frustrated women the Russians became more conciliatory. Buffy, Hana and the attaché Major Bukhalo had a quiet discussion after the others watchfully moved away to give them some privacy. The Russian was made to understand Cáel was the only path to the Khan available; present Cáel with a proposal and it would be rejected or accepted based on the needs of the Khanate. There was no time for discussions and the diplomatic dances. The Russians retired to send the information on to Moscow.

Back Romania:

The team's Romanian watchdog, Flaviu Molnar of the Serviciul de Informatii Externe (SIE) (aka the Romanian CIA), cleared a train car for the team. While reviewing a computer file sent by the US NRO, part of the Dept. of Defense, concerning the Khanate-China-Russian situation with the help of Delilah and Riki, the supernatural entity appeared to Cáel and grabbed him. No one save Saku was aware of the entity, she attacked it with her sword, which having crossed the Weave actually had an effect on the entity, driving it away. Wounded by the talons Cáel final put the pieces together entity has to be Illuyankamunus Primordial Dragon protector of Amazon House Illuyankamunus.

The team's next stop is the home Serbian Professor of Eastern European Studies, Dr. Arsenije Loma who has spent a lifetime studying the rising/setting Sun symbols and ideograms in the region. The Sun Goddess was Arinniti and patron of the Amazon House Arinniti, this was the best lead to find the missing Arinniti.

As the team approaches the Loma home, Flaviu Molnar, SIE informs Cáel the Russian Military Attache to Romania is on the way to speak to him. While Dr. Loma's nubile daughter is leading Cáel to her father he meets the Professor's sons who are being shadowed by Illuyankamunus, whom only Cáel can see. While meeting with the Professor it soon becomes obvious to Cáel that he has discovered not only leads to the lost Arinniti but also found an unknown branch of House Illuyankamunus.

Riki has received additional intelligence that the Russians are looking for some sort of military agreement with the Khanate and Cáel is to finalize the deal. Riki, Chaz, Delilah, Flaviu and Cáel gather in the kitchen to review the data. Finally the data, filtered through the Alal memories he carries, allows Cáel to understand the Khanate's military ploys. Somehow he needs to have the Russians occupy the northern Chinese provinces bordering Russia where Khanate forces have defeated the major PRC forces and appear to be ready to occupy. Russian forces would appear to be denying region to the Khanate forces while actually allowing the Khanate forces to pullback and regroup for further action. The area and its resources would in effect be denied to the Chinese forces until returned to Chinese control once all the present unpleasantness was over and diplomacy worked out a workable plan to return control i.e. not soon.

Mrs Loma comes home and enters the kitchen, Cáel recognize her as an Amazon renegade who gave up House Hylonome and chose to live free and unknowingly married into a lost and unknown branch of House Illuyankamunus. She goes to her children upstairs while Cáel and the others finalize the Russian issue.

The Professor's data revealed the names of 14 individuals tied to the Arinniti line (between ages 68 and 3) who relocated to Brazil after WWII where the data stopped.

A motorcycle driven by a young girl crashes at the end of the driveway and Cáel requests she be recovered and brought to the house. She turns out to be Zola, childe of Anna, sister to Aliz (Mrs Loma). A giant (Ajax) with many men - overran the Hylonome camp at The Castle of the Red-Orange Skull killing all. Only Zola escaped with a warning that they were betrayed by an Amazon.

The Russian arrived, Cáel sent off his plan, Operation Funhouse, to the Russians via their Attaché (a hot looking, curvaceous blonde Major) and to the Khanate through the offices of the US and UK. Only after that was done, did he ask for his favor. He wasn't going to bargain with the fate of Temüjin's people.

With the support of the Russians, Americans, and Brits Cáel requests and got the Romanians to activate their 24th Mountain Troops battalion to deal with Ajax's force. As Magyarorszag es Erdely Hercege Cáel insists he be in the first wave out of the helicopter. Cáel is adamant only he can handle Ajax and has a plan involving using himself as bait to draw Ajax's attention. It works and Ajax and Cáel are pulled through the Weave allowing the Goddess Illuyankamunus to kill Ajax. While on the other side of the Weave Cáel learns the Goddess' name is actually SzélAnya, Illuyankamunus was her father. "The males of her line give birth to the 'warriors' - their female offspring - while the sons carry on the bloodline to the next generation. the daughters don't carry her divine essence. Before Cáel is force back to the mundane world he swears on Dot Ishara to take her children back to Havenstone for protection and to take her grievances to the Keeper of Records and the Council.

Forced back into the mundane world before his body died was a painful process he regains his senses to find Rachel and Corporal Menner at his side. One look at Rachel let him know something was wrong. She tells him Charlotte has been killed, she died protecting Vincent who was seriously wounded- the rest of his team would survive. The Romanian casualties so far were seventy-three KIA, 63 wounded; some would not survive. Ajax brought fifty-one men and one traitorous Amazon to the Castle of the Seven Skulls. Three escaped, five were wounded and captured, the other forty-four, plus Ajax, perished.

Post battle Cáel moves among the survivors feeling their shared loss and trauma until he is needed to more fully explain to the Romanian leadership and is flown to the HQ accompanied by Chaz, Rachel and Pamela. Diplomacy, sovereignty and legality all reared their ugly heads Russia, the United States, the UK, Romania, Hungary and Ireland were now all interested parties. The posturing and name calling went on for sometime, in the end an acceptable fairy tale was concocted for public consumption, the truth no one wanted it released.

Hana and Cáel talked by phone with Buffy in earshot - some truth and some lies were spoken and a tentative meeting arranged for Rome. Cáel had a chance to speak with Vincent before he was medevac to a US Military Hospital in Germany and then home to the US. The rest would be on the move soon.

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Chapter One

A Night in Rome

Evening at the Metropole, Roma, Italia

I think you’ve done well, Riki congratulated me as word came down that her replacement was on the way. Our profile had been updated and they wanted to bring in the ‘real professionals’.

There had been a miscommunication. The US State Department thought I couldn’t dictate who was, or wasn’t a member of ‘Unit L’ – we now had our own designation within Javiera’s expanding taskforce.

The government had a random name generator for this shit…and we got the letter ‘L’. Maybe that device didn’t think we were going to last long enough to matter. I grabbed Riki's phone and hit redial.

Who am I talking to? I inquired.

Ms.…who are you? he demanded, since my caller ID said Riki and, unless I used my high, squeaky voice, I obviously sounded like a guy.

I’m Cáel Nyilas. Who is this? I replied.

I’m Bill A. Miller, Director of the U.S. Diplomatic Security Service. What seems to be the problem, Mr. Nyilas? he was rather uptight about the call-back.

Since we are working together, why don’t you call me Cáel? I politely requested. I’ll call you Willy.

My name is Bill, but you can call me Director Miller, he corrected me. The reason for your call is?

It is Willy, or Dick; your choice, I countered. I don’t call my boss ‘Director’ and I worship the ground she walks on. You are not even in her league. Any-who, I didn’t call to discuss name-calling. I want to know how many agents work for you.

What does that have to do with anything? he grumbled.

You are quick with the questions while painfully bereft of answers, I snorted. Don’t make me Google this too.

Over two thousand, he stopped being a total ass. Is there anything else I can tell you that Miss Martin should have been able to tell you? Back to being an ass.

"Riki’s being physically restrained from taking her phone back by some of my educationally-challenged, illegal alien unskilled labor force