Dread Guard

chapter 1

~Unedited but who cares~

Genji opened his eyes, blinking out the grit that had managed to find its way in there. It took him a few seconds to remember what had happened, and a few more to figure out where he was. His back was up against a tree, and he was halfway down the mountain. He must have rolled down and hit a few trees, judging by the trail of destruction he left, before hitting this tree and stopping. he let out a moan as pain so sharp it made his eyes water pierced his skull. Dizziness made the world swim in his eyes and he blacked out again.

Genji was woken up again by the barking that all commanders seem to use to wake up their troops, wherever and whenever they were. All of a sudden he was surrounded by mounted mongol soldiers, clothed in toughened leather armour and with bows. He panicked for a moment, until they rode at a leisurely pace right past him. He hadn't been spotted! Genji lay absolutely still as the Mongols rode past him, if he was spotted he would almost certainly be tortured for information and then killed.
He knew why they were advancing: the part of The Wall that he had guarded had been overrun.

Once the group of Mongols had moved past, Genji cautiously stood up, trying unsuccessfully to block out the pain in his head. He knew his only option was to make it back to a friendly part of The Wall
although that seemed highly unlikely due to the fact that not only was he in the most heavily armed section of enemy territory, but also the union of Vikings, Mongols and Orcs was taking the wall, Nihon's greatest defense, with disturbing ease.

Genji hit the ground, hard as someone, or something, landed on his back. As he turned his neck to catch a glance of his opponent but he was instead greeted with the cold metal tip of an arrow on his forehead. "Who are you?" Hissed the figure, their body obscured by a dark green cloak clearly dyed to blend in with the colour is the leaves. "Woah, I'm just a guard of the Nihon wall" Genji replied, his words slurring together because of his head injury. "Prove it!" Demanded the figure who he now saw had the pointed ears of an elf. Genji showed the elf his badge, but the bow wasn't lowered. "How do I know that you didn't take that off a dead body?"
"Because that is the badge of a watchtower commander, watchtower 88 in fact, which was overrun last night and I was knocked off that tower and have just recovered consciousness."
The elf gave out a sigh of relief before apologising: "sorry about that, but you can never be too careful these days." The elf removed the hood, revealing strawberry blonde hair and eyes the colour of the sky. "I'm Emma, you?"
"Genji" he muttered, before accepting her hand up. "My plan is to make my way back to a friendly part of the wall and rejoin the fight" Genji said, wincing in pain at his throbbing temple.
"Not with that injury, you won't" Emma said with a chuckle. She seemed to think for a minute, before she said "Tell you what, I'll help you get back to your part of the wall. I'll also finally get a leave." She muttered the last part under her breath. "What do you say?"

Hopefully that was ok? I'm better at right scenes lol. I will be introducing some new characters later in the story and idk what to name them so I'll probably name them after random people I know (like friends, friends of friends etc.) Although Emma was kinda random. I should update tomorrow if I have enough time