TRAFAIRRIKOTA CHIEFTAIN

(TRA-FAIR-RI-KOTA) meaning General of Triumph for the Old Nation.

When he arose before the people of Challiouseeka in the ceremony to his new title as Trafairrikota Chieftain, Senchauncey knew he had satisfied his people's doubts and raised their ambitious minds and desires to new heights of conquest in victories of regaining lost lands, and for the first time securing new lands. Trafairrikota Chieftain Senchauncey looked upon the people, especially the men he fought alongside with in battle, and with a stern and fierce look in his eyes, he raised his Spectre in salute to his men, women, and children he has now sworn an oath to protect and uphold his duty.

It was two years ago when Senchauncey and the troops felt the war intensifying all around them. The enemy was not only outflanking them on the left but also cutting them down from behind. The enemy had shrewdly cut off key escape routes. Senchauncey and the troops were cut off and caught in the grips of a fierce and heated battle that was looking very grim and gruesome for the warriors, and when the warriors suffered the biggest loss of the battle when the commanding Trafirrikota Chieftain was killed last week in battle. The morale of the men has since suffered from the tremendous death of their Trafairrikota Chieftain, and most of the men were lost as to what to do or how to fight without Trafairrikota Chieftain's directives.

There was no one left to lead the men because the Trafairrikota Chieftain's generals and captains were also killed in a surprise attack that left the ranks depleted and without commands or orders on what to do next against an enemy that is on the verge of wiping out all the remaining soldiers of Challiouseeka and securing conquest of their nation. The remaining men were young and had virtually no war-like experience. Most of them fighting now were only in their first training sessions of war games when news of the pending war was approaching the people of Challiouseeka because it was not only a prime land it was a strategic area to launch a war against two other cities in both directions left or right, but the people of Challiouseeka were on good terms with both cities and would fight to protect that friendship because it was a financially profitable relationship between all.

It was because of the financial arrangements that war was sought against Challiouseeka because the warring faction or the council of the people of Sarhonee concluded that once Challiouseeka was defeated the other cities would surrender in fear because they were not a warlike people, and all the wealth of both cities including Challiouseeka would become theirs for the taking, but first, the defeat of Challiouseeka and the Trafairrikota Chieftain must be completed and every warrior killed or crushed in spirit because this new victory would bring total control of an entire region which the enemy or Sarhonee would have control for years to come.

The battle for the men was bleak and a losing situation, but Senchauncey rose up, and where the men were confused and lost, he ordered them to stand and fight. Senchauncey ordered the men to turn to the enemy behind them and to fight for an opening because they needed the opening to retreat back to the hills and Forrest for security and cover to regroup. The men heard the charge in his voice and began to fight with a renewed vigor. Senchauncey ordered twenty of the men to continue to fight against the enemy that outflanked them on the left. The enemy began to feel a turning in the skirmish they were fighting with all their might but it seems now that they were not gaining ground and the ground that was gained is now being lost especially where the Sarhonee had the Challiouseeka closed off in battle from behind.

Senchauncey saw the opening in the rear and ordered the men to purge the Sarhonee with flaming torches to burn down the trees surrounding them leaving them no cover because they were so closely embedded with them and at times both sides engaged in hand to hand combat which the Challiouseeka were clearly the stronger and wiser of the combatants and saw the Sarhonee fall every time. This maneuver led Senchauncey to have his twenty men retreat from their battle to lead the way straight through the rear cleansing the Sarhonee. The plan worked the Sarhonee rear blockage was effectively removed, and Senchauncey order his men to stop wasting ammunition and to take cover in the hills so they could rest and regroup because the Sarhonee had stopped fighting as well.

Senchauncey heard the men yelling and shouting his name. They saw a new force in him. They were surrounding him looking to him to give orders for a new fight, but Senchauncey ordered the men to rest to attend to the wounded and to replenish themselves while the fighting is ceased for now. The men followed his orders twelve men took first watch over the men while they slept and tended to the wounded. It was good sound advice given by Senchauncey because he could see in the men the fatigue from fighting for days without rest without sleep, and the men wounded in battle were greatly in need of help, plus the loss of Trafarrikota Chieftain was devastating to all because all the men had grown up under the orders and wisdom of the Trafarrikota Chieftain he was like a father to all of them, he taught them the silence of courage and the roar of thunder when attacked. The Trafairrikota Chieftain will be sadly missed by all as Senchauncey fell asleep thinking about his honorable ruler and leader.

Three days had passed and no signs of the enemy were in sight. By now a lot of the men were rested and had recovered from the battle wounds and though still injured were ready to fight and capable of fighting from a secured position. Senchuancey noticed that the Sarhonee had not attempted any advance or new assault against them, he gathered his troops together to inform them that the Sarhonee has suffered in battle as we have because if this were not true why have they not attacked us knowing we are in retreat, knowing that our Trafarrikota Chieftain is dead. They are just as wounded and defeated as we are especially where we have defeated them in hand-to-hand combat. Senchauncey surmised that they should take the battle to the Sarhonee right now that the men should stay bundled together and once upon the Sarhonee spread out like a wing and swoop down on the Sarhonee until the battle is complete.

Just like Senchauncey had planned and told the men the Sarhonee were hurt, they were recuperating, they were confused as to the turnaround in the war. Senchauncey ordered his men to fight, to fight for the victory of Challiouseeka, to fight for their wives and children to fight for their freedom to force the enemy to lay down in defeat to fight to secure their right to do business peacefully with their neighbors. The howls of victory could be heard by the men now of Senchauncey. Their adrenaline was beyond normal to abnormal strengths. The enemy could not encompass what is happening to them it seemed to be a supernatural force against them a supernatural force for which they had no answer, no fight, no victory. The Sarhonee began to flee because they were caught off guard, they were outnumbered because they suffered huge losses by being cut off.

Senchauncey ordered his men back from pursuing the small remnant of the army of the Sarhonee because they were insignificant in numbers compared to his troops. They were defeated and Senchauncey knew it was time to march into Sarhonee as victor to alert the people of Sarhonee who the Challiouseeka are and what the Challiouseeka is to the Sarhonee. Senchauncey let the people know that their intentions were of finance and finance only that the Sarhonee would become a city of Challiouseeka and work together if not for Challiouseeka's best interest in a future that will be free from wars between the two nations. It will be a time of gathering and building for a new generation a new relationship with boundaries that if any enemy encroach they will suffer defeat.

Trafarrikota Chieftian Senchauncey walked out from off the altar of the Ceremony amongst his people who were shouting his name in glee to the new reign of the new Trafairrikota Chieftain the gave them victory where the appearance of a loss was at hand.

The End

Written By

Gayland B. Coles

(c) 2021