Traitors On The Battlefield is one of many unfinished, unpublished works by Mousy677. It has nothing to do with battlefields whatsoever, but heavily features traitors.
To be specific, it follows the lives of two very different groups of children: Redbloods and Bluebloods. The main characters with Blue Blood - Eima (pronounced EE-mia), Galanar, Bried, Thenio and Lucazs are much higher-class than the red-bloods Abeira, Afuro, Shapire and Shupa.
There is, in this peculiar group of friends, only one person that fits in nowhere: Elorin. His blood is neither red nor blue, and is, in fact, orange. This marks him as two things - up for legal killing if he puts a foot out of line, and a freak. In fact, Emia's family disapprove wholeheartly of him, and him hanging around with their daughter has significantly put their noses out of joint.
This would be bad enough in normal society, but Emia's parents are the King and Queen. Of course, this puts Elorin just about as high-up on the hit-list as it is possible to get. With the help of his friends, however, Elorin can only get so far.
However, when he and Emia visit a crash-site that gives Galanar headaches just thinking about it, they come across a strange-looking boy (who Elorin isn't sure is actually a boy), clad all in black, who calls himself Death, saying that he was abandoned in the woods as a baby. Interested, Elorin and Emia offer to live with him.
In doing so, they discover the source of Galanar's headaches: and it isn't pretty.
This book provides examples of:
- Action Girl: All of the girls, in some way.
- Emia seems to show hints of this, right from the start: with the book starting with the Blue-Bloods having a water-fight on the castle grounds, this is only to be expected.
- Bried, who starts off depressingly unsure of herself, partly due to her purple-tinged blood, proves that she is, in fact, incredibly good at wielding a longsword (which she does against the Culling Officer in the final battle).
- Abeira is an incredibly nippy little fighter, who manages, somehow, to bring down an Imperial Guard, and helps Galanar and Elorin to pin the Queen against a tree with kitchen-knives
- Shupa, while never shown fighting, is perfectly able to manipulate things so that they go "the right way."
- Battle Couple: Emia and Galanar
- Bried and Elorin
- Abeira and Thenio (unwillingly)
- Afuro and Lucazs
- Shapire and Shupa
- Eldritch Abomination: The... thing that Death is somehow connected to.
- Fantastic Racism: Bluebloods and Redbloods hate each-other, and everyone apart from the Kids hate Elorin.
- From Bad to Worse: Galanar's headaches.
- At first, they're just a minor annoyance, that only happen when he's near the Crash Site
Galanar winced momentarily, bringing one hand to his temple. As they walked on, his hand dropped back to his side, nd he nearly forgot the bolt of pain.- Around half-way through, however, they start getting worse:
"Another headache?" Elorin asked, pawing half-affectionately at Gally's shoulder. The younger boy nodded, crossing his legs. "And always around here..." the orange-blood muttered. Gally nodded. He wasn't going to tell Elorin that, momentarily, he hadn't been able to see - apart from a shape in the darkness.- By the end of the book, when Death's plan is revealed, however, they're bad enough to knock him out. 'Nuff said:
Death wouldn't be happy with their lateness. He was lonely enough, after all: he would almost certainly be feeling quite left out by now - they hadn't been able to visit for the last two week-Elorin heard a groan behind him, and spun around, drawing the knife that Emia had given him, and saw that Gally was collapsed on the floor. He yelped and ran over, calling Emia's name. She sped back over in her odd way.They sat with Galanar for about ten minutes, Elorin assumed. He finally came back to, looking groggy, his skin pale enough to be tinged vaguely blue, which was never a good sign."I get the feeling," he muttered, pushing himself up on his elbows, Elorin worriedly put a hand behind him, in case he collapsed again, "that we should have paid more attention to your parents." He stared at Emia before his eyes rolled up and he collapsed back on to Elorin's arm.- Galanar's headaches turn out to be premonition of Death's plot to destroy the Kingdom. His Ink-Blue blood makes him more suceptible to random visions of doom.
- Good Scars, Evil Scars: Death has three claw-marks going across his face.
- Galanar has several from after the fight with the Queen.
- Growing Up SucksGalanar: And... and some day soon, I'll be heading the Imperial Fleet, and you'll be Queen. Lucazs and Afuro will probably be chasing cats around a Vetenarian's room. And... and Elorin will be dead, and we will be to blame because we didn't do anything.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: Death. Looking at them makes Galanar almost pass out.
