A sword is all it takes to end another humans life, Petr thought. As he walked the trail he felt watching eyes on him. Everyone called him a local hero but no one knew the terrible action he did. He had abandoned his regiment, the same regiment that he had called family. Now he had gotten word that his whole regiment was dead. Now as he walked the trail he felt ashamed. The cold, chilling night seemed to be clining to his skin. He could hear the trees violently swaying in the harsh wind. The night didnt fell any better with the feeling he was getting. It was like someone was watching him, scouting his every move waiting for the right oppurtunity to strike. As one of the most accomplished swordsman in Avenagar he knew this was never a good feeling. Deciding that he was getting irritated he spun around as fast as he could. "Weird" he said aloud. He turned back around not noticing the man standing just beyond the trees. His name was Rowan, better known as one of the legendary Darksiders. As he watched the walking man in disgust Rowan began to bring up his bow. It had become second nature to have his bow ready to go wherever he was at. He never knew when he had to use it. Now was one of those times. As tears came to Rowans eyes he pulled back the arrow. He always considered this man his best friend but now he was nothing more than a traitor. As he let go of his arrow he felt a twinge of regret. Last week he would have never thought he would be blending into the woods firing an arrow at his best friend. The arrow missed. Rowan was shocked. I never miss a shot, he thought. Peter felt the arrow brush across his ear. Shocked he spun around with his shield just in time to block an arrow that would have dead center in the heart. Rowan smiled. Just like Peter to have fast reactions. Peter was a swordsman, although he had the build of a darksider. He also was very agile with his reactions. Its a shame it all has to end like this he thought. Rowan snuck back into the darkness trying to find a place to run and flank Peter. Show yourself ! peter shouted. As Peter drew closer with his shield covering the whole front of his body, he had one disadvantage. He could not see over his shield. While he was temporarily blinded by his shield, Rowan used this to his advantage and snuck back into the woods looking for an opening. To the left about fifteen meters was a perfect spot where he could get an arrow off. Rowan rushed to the spot and picked his shoot. This time no tears, he thought. Putting his whole past with his former best friend in to this one shot, he fired the arrow. the arrow hissed through the night sounding like a snake preying on his enemy. There was a cry in pain as Peter fell to the ground. The arrow had went straight through his neck. Rowan, tears bubbling up in his eyes started to walk away. suddenly he was seized by a feeling of sorrow and rushed to Peters side. Rowan, a weak Peter replied. Im sorry, im sorry i had to, rowan cried. it was the kings orders. word had gotten to the kingdom and he was overcome with rage. he ordered me to find and kill you. As blood poured from the open wound in peters neck they both knew he did not have much longer to live. Rowan, please do me one last favor. Please... take care of my boy. Don't let him go the same road i have chosen. don't let him become a swordsman. He... he will become a darksider. Peter croaked. Rowan always remember, you are my bestfriend. I did a terrible action and i wish not to be forgiven. But i know now that i was wrong. I am a dead man soon. Please give me a proper burial. Please dont speak of this to my son. And..... one last thing... Rowan... i always loved you like a brother. And with that, Peters heart stopped beating and that was the end of his life. Rowan cried, fell over and started to yell. Why! Why did it have to come to this. I have always thought of you as a brother Peter. You cant, cant die here. Looking down, he saw a smile on his friends face. He began to get up. No, he said. Peter you were my best friend. I will not leave your child to go to the orphanage. I wont fail you peter. with that, rowan picked up peters lifeless body and began walking with it. the trip to Avenger would be a long one he knew and he wanted to get all this grief and sorrow off his as soon as he could. He walked about 15 minutes into the woods where stormbreaker was. No point in tying the horse up he thought. The horse was trained to sit perfectly still for his master. He loved his horse. They had been through a rough journey since the first day they met. Stormbreaker even blocked an arrow for him. He was hit in the thigh and needed to be off his feet for many weeks but after stormbreaker recovered he was still as strong and fast as ever. As Rowan got on he decided to put the lifeless man in front of him. He knew as he rode into Avanger that this would raise much concern with the towns folk. Oh well, he thought, he just killed his best friend. he wasn't to worried about what the towns folk thought.
As he approached the town of Avangar he was welcomed with a series of gasp and screams as they saw peters dead body. is that the man who betrayed his regiment people whispered. furious rowan speed up. there wasn't much he could do to stop people from believing that his best friend was a traitor. but in reality peter had also been a hero, winning many battles. as rowan approached the castled he was stopped by the castle guards. What are you doing you buffoons, he said angrily. you know who i am. let my through so i can report to the king! One knight sensing Rowans frustration said, you must leave his body outside, indicating peter. Very well Rowan said but when i get back i better see his body in a casket. then he added a casket fight for a hero.
rowan entered into the kings chambers. the king seeing rowan asked was your mission a success? rowan angrily answered yes my MISSION was a success. The king replied with Rowan, i know it was a tough thing that you did today and honestly i don't know one other man who could have done it. But you did it and it was a good thing you did for the kingdom. At that moment a man burst into the room. They recognized the man as the second in command of Peters regiment, William. have you seen peter about, william said, his plan was a success! Rowan confused by the sudden outburst asked what do you mean. What plan. Well it was a plan only for our regiment to know. We didn't report it to anyone else in fear of a spy. The plan was for peter to "abandon" us and leave us without a leader. Then we fell back and pretended to retreated. What the enemy didn't know was that we had our archers on a cliff above them. When they began to chase us the archers came out and finished them off. We also used giant boulders to finish the job. We didn't lose one man! Now where is this Peter? He was supposed to be here? Suddenly realization swept over rowan as his knees began to buckle. the whole room went dark as he fell to the ground, unconscious.
Rowan awoke in the hospital. Not knowing why he was there he looked around and saw the king and William. Suddenly everything came flooding back to his head like a bad dream. He had killed his bestfriend over absoulutley nothing. He was the reason Peters son would grow up without a father. He was the reason for it all. As he opened his eyes the king and william noticed him awake. Your awkae the king said. im sorry, i didnt know. noone knew except his regimemnt. Does that change the fact that he is dead, Rowan shouted. Dead. Killed by an arrow shot from my bow. My bestfriend is dead becuase of me! im sorry the king repeated. I overreacted from it. Times of war are making everyone here stressed including me. As Rowan listened to the kings excuses the memories of him and his friend came flooding back to him. Suddenly he was thinking of the last requeat his friend asked him. He has asked him to take csre of his son, rowan thought. Lief. Lief was a toddler now barely a year old. He was a good healthy baby. 8.2 pounds. A little small only a foot and 2 inches. Do you wanna know how you can repay Peter for this. Rowan said suddenly. Take in Lief, take him in as a son. Make sure he knows that his father is a hero. He deserves to be treated with the finest care. King Luther hesistated. He knew that he owed Peter his life. After all he had given the strict order for rowan to kill his bestfriend. After what seemed like a eternity, King Luther finally said, I will. I owe Peter my life and i will make sure he is treated with utmost respect. Now i know this is a little soon but i think you should plan the funeral.
His funeral was held the next week. Peters regiment was recalled for this. Many knights, sworsman, royal officals, darksiders and even towns folk attented his funeral. Word had spread about his plan and everyone now knew what a courageous thing he had done. People were crying while the funeral was going on. As it came to the end Rowan was disgusted. With himself and with King Luther. Had it not been for them two this would not be happening. Peter what be a hero. Not a dead hero. He left the funeral before it ended and grabbed Stormbreaker. He left Avengar for thirteen years. He would not come back until he thought the boy was ready.
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The DarkSiders (NOT FINISHED!!!) Need edited grammar and description
FantasyA story I've been working in for about a month. Trying to get it noticed. Love to see people read my work. Look for constructive critism