Land Of Legends

Day Of Execution

My family was always poor, but my father was friends with the king. They always said I was a child prodigy. Whatever that meant. I was 7 when my mother fell ill. She died when I was 8. At age 12 my father grew ill with the same disease. On my 17th birthday my father died. Two days after my 17th birthday, the king of the small country of Kellsorth was assassinated. All followers of the king were cut down. Any and all ties to the king were cut. They soon came for me. They quickly captured me and caged me like a wild animal. And here we are, I'm in a cage with others that were connected to the king. All of us are headed to the Capitol to be Executed. "I-I DON'T WANT TO DIE! I HAVE A WIFE AND KIDS!" A man yells beside me. "Yelling won't do any good, our fates are sealed. I just hope they kill us quickly." I mumble to myself. "QUIET BACK THERE!" The guard on the carriage says. A man in the cage quickly stands up. "There has to be a way out." He says as he kicks against the iron grid door on the cage. After several annoying hours of riding in a cage that's on a carriage, trapped with idiots and beggars, we arrive at the capitol. "Well boys, time to meet our friends and families in the afterlife." I say as the carriage stops in the center of town. "Looks like they're gonna kill us in front of the entire city, how disrespectful." A man in the cage says. A guard quickly walks to the cage and opens it up, dragging men out by their ankles. I willingly get out and sigh. "I really didn't expect to die like this." I mumble to myself. Suddenly I hear screaming inside the cage. I turn around and see a man standing on a guards throat. I stare in disbelief as the man crushes the guards throat with his barefoot. Blood squirts everywhere as he shows his hands. "He's broken free of the rope!" A guard screams from behind me. The man in the cage quickly grabs the dead guard in the cage and takes his sword. The man jumps out of the cage and starts cutting other peoples ropes off. After cutting several peoples ropes  off he cuts mine off and smiles. "Get out of here, if you all run they can't catch everyone." The man says as a guard comes running toward us. The man quickly chops off the guards head and cuts some other peoples ropes off. Without thinking I grab the dead guards sword and start running. I quickly run toward the front gate of the city. A guard steps from around the corner and sees me. As he sees me he starts to unsheathe his sword. Before he can unsheathe his sword I get to him and slice through his neck. His blood squirts out of his neck onto my face as I run by and keep running. I run right into the nearby woods, getting cuts and scratches from little branches and twigs all in front of me. As I run through the woods I trip over the roots of a tree. As I trip I fall down and roll down a hill. As I reach the bottom of the hill I roll to my feet and keep running, dropping my sword as I run. I feel my body getting sore from being hit from all the branches. I feel a stream of water run down my cheek. Thinking it's sweat I wipe it away. As I look at my arm I notice I wiped away blood.  "Damnit, one of those branches must have cut me." I say to myself as I keep running. After several minutes I trip again. I'm gasping for breath from running so much. My vision starts getting blurry as my body starts going numb. I quickly black out. As I open my eyes I see its night time. I sit up slowly and look around. I see what looks like a fire behind some trees several hundred feet ahead of my. I slowly stand up and start walking toward the light. As I get closer I see it's a fire. I see a few guards walking around the fire. They have tents and tables set up. I slowly climb up a tree and crawl out onto a limb above the camp. "We think the escaped criminals went this way, following their tracks in the mud." One guard says. "Good work, get some rest, I'll keep watch for the rest of the night." The other guard says as the first guard walks over to a tent and lays down. I look at all  of the tents. "There are 5 tents, I doubt they would bring 5 tents for 2 people." I whisper to myself as I look for the other guards. I see 3 asleep by the fire. "That makes 5." i mumble to myself as I look back to the guard that's keeping watch. I slowly climb down from the tree and watch the camp as their fire starts growing dim. After half an hour of waiting their fire goes out, letting the only light in the area come from the moon. Pale white light comes through the tree tops, barely giving enough light to see. I slowly sneak up on the guard keeping watch in the dim light. I can barely make out his form. As I get behind him I stand up. I quickly put my right hand on his chin and my left hand on the back of his head and pull his chin with my right hand. a loud unsettling cracking sound comes from his neck as he falls to the ground. I quickly grab his sword from its sheathe. First I slowly sneak up on the man asleep in his tent. I quickly stand the sword through his throat. blood sputters from the where the blade pierced his throat. He desperately tries to scream but fails. As he stops moving I pull the sword out of his neck and look around for the others. I see them all still asleep where the fire was. I quickly move up to the first guard and slit his throat. He gasps as he bleeds out in a matter of seconds. I stab the sword I'm wielding through his throat. He gasps as the blade touches his throat but bleeds out in a matter of seconds. His gasp woke up the last guard slightly and he sits up. I watch as he slowly turns around and sees me hovering over his friends bodies. He slowly starts standing up then tries to run away but trips and falls down. I quickly jump on top of him and stab him through his throat. He reaches up and grips my hand as he dies. I slowly pull the sword out of his neck and lay it down by a tent. "Now, maybe I can sleep, I really need to get some rest." I mumble to myself as I crawl into a unoccupied tent and cover myself with the thick wool blanket. "I don't need to sleep much, more guards might come." I mumble to myself as I fall asleep.