A Story Of Magic And Heroes

The Attack

After a couple of minuttes the tea was ready. The smal House was filled with the wonderfull smell of herbal tea. After a while there was a nock on the door. My mother went to open, the door went up with a terible sound and in stambled one of the girls who had gone home instead of drinking tea. She was covered in blood and holding her hand over a wond on her arm. She Was clearly in pain and her heavy breathing told us she had been running for a long while. "What has happend!?" Alice screamed with fear in her voice. "The... The village... It was attacked..." the young girl started to cought blood. I sprang up and went flying out into the barn to fech the axe they used to make wood for fireing up in the oven. By the time I came back the girl had passed out. "go outside and tell me if you se anything." Alice sayd while taking the girl in to treat her wonds. I went out and started looking for movement in the forest or from the road that lead to the village. After a while and nothing new I started to relax a bit more. Then I remembered That my father had gone to the village. The tripp to the village was swift since I ran. I tok a short cut trough the forest. Eventuarly I could see dark smoke trough the leaves above me. When I came to the outer part of the village I could se that all the houses was burnt down to the grund. All that remined of the houses was burnt wood and ash. The inn my father had gone to was allso redused to ash. I first tryed to se if there were any raiders left in the village but when he dident se anny I started a carefull and slow walk trough what was left of the town. When I reached the remains of the inn I could see that was were the raiders had burnt all the corpses. There was a huge pile of burnt corpses in the middle of the former building. I felt my stomack comming upp my trough, I lost controll of myself... He started to get tears in his eyes at the same time as I was puking all over myself. After a while the puking stoped, then I started walking shambling over to the corpses. I stod there crying and covered in puke, looking at the people I had seen every day since I was a little child. All dead. After standing there crying for a long time I came to think of my mother. I started running again. Home this time. My bigges fear was that the raiders would get there before I did. I dident think I vould be able to handle them all by himself, but dying while protecting the people that was there would be better than being the only one left. When smoke started rising from behind the trees again I first thougt it was the normal smoke that was always comming from the chimney on my house. But when I arrived there was nothing left of the house. Instead there were a large band of raiders there. They were gathereing what they could find usefull in some way. I ran screaming with my axe raised straight against the closest raider. When they notised me they fire stod upp and drew their weapons. When the raiders was alle to see who the attacked was they all started to laugh. I dident stop, the rage in me was to great. When I was close enough I swung my axe against the raider who was closest. The raider mode a short sted back and the axe missed. Then the raider used his sword to nock the axe out of my hands. I fell on my knees. I started praying. Not to one of the gods but to all of them. In Kaldizu most areas have a god they attende more to deepending on what they need. In the village I had always attende the Temple with my parents to pray for the god Alzune. Alzune was the god of harvest and growth. Her angels always looked after the fields of grain or the forests in the area if you belive in the old legends. Only some of the old men from the village told of seeing the angels. While I prayed a raider came over and spoke loudly to the others "I say we bring this one! I think he will be a good slave!" then he started laughing loudly. Anoter raider came with rope. They bound my hands on my back. Then one of them sayd "He stinks puke this lad... You think its in his clothes?". Then he striped of my shirt with a knife and draged down my pants. He kicked me forward so I fell on my stomack before he draged my pants compleaterly of. At the moment i god back on my feet they started walking. Many of the raiders was riding horses but I had to walk naked after. Eventuarly we pased the border to the village. Longer than this I had never traveled.