Wolfswood : Black

Chapter II

We entered back into Castle Johnner, the sun was going down quickly and the moon was visible, The portcullis was shut behind us and the courtyard was completely empty other than the guards on duty, we tied up our horses and i dismissed the house Guard telling him to get rest in the barracks, he told me his name was Claster, i had a feeling id be meeting him again. As i turned, i saw a Guard walking towards me with a torch in his hand, "My lord, you have been requested in Castle Damnden in Navan", i was confused, i asked back "Navan? who requests me and why, where is Lord Duke Caomh", the guard just looked at me with a straight face, "Lord Caomh is the one who requested you there, your late as it is my lord i suggest leaving immediately my lord" I simply nodded and got back onto my horse and headed for Macron bridge to get to Navan.

After about fifteen minutes i reached the bridge, it was still in bad condition from the battle, charred burned bodys still sat in small piles across the bridge and the huge ballista still sat in the middle of the bridge, some parts of the bridge destroyed and fallen into the river, it still made me happy to see the woolfswood flag proudly flying atop of the navan side of the bridge, i quickly galloped past and down trim road to reach the capital city on time, houses still lay destroyed and burned, no restoration work had begun yet, as i reached the city walls of navan the gate was opened and the portcullis up, many segments of the walls destroyed entirely, bodys were piled a metre high in some streets, Woolfswood soldiers stood on guard everywhere, i could the Castle from where i was, it is the tallest structure in the city, as i approached it i dismounted from my horse and the huge steel gates opened for me, then shut again behind me, it was dark out now and torches were littered along the castle walls, a guard stood atop the walls every five metres. I climbed the steps to the main doors of the castle and entered, inside was fairly dark, the candles and torch pyres were dimly lit, Woolswood Knights stood inside the manor on guard, brand new shining armour that i could pick my teeth in, the throne room was upstairs and thats where everyone else was, but standing alone in the hall where i was, was Lord Dale. "You have finally shown up, good, everyone is upstairs, the ceremony has already begun so you should hurry", i looked at him confused even more, i had no fucking idea what was going on, "Ceremony?" i inquired, "To pick a new council?" i asked, Lord Dale stared into my eyes, "Go up and see boy", i turned away from him slightly pissed off he wouldnt tell me anything, i headed up the huge beautifully made stairs, the throne room was in sight just down the hallway, a knight stood every guarding every 5 metres, i walked into the throne room and headed to the right side where i could see Sam, Spud and Nolan. The entire throne room was filled with Nobles and Lords and Generals, i could see General Losty, Commander John, Tiberius Remus, and lots more, i noticed on Sams face that i could only see one emotion being expressed, it seemed hidden to a normal person but i could see into his eyes and i saw Fear, Fear being struck deep down. At the top, sat Lord Caomh in the throne wearing all black Clothes with a wine Red cape, the priests behind him were singing a rather dark depressing chant and it went completely silent and from behind the throne emerged Pope Maxius Fabian, i was shocked, what had i missed, i noticed something off about him though and it was the fact that he had a black eye, he held a black cushion and on it was the crown of Navan Kings, but the Green gem in the centre of it was replaced with a Beautiful dark blue gem, he spoke out aloud in latin and addressed the court with a speech, as he began to speak the room went extra silent to hear his speech,

"In nomine sancte pater omnipotens est, hoc ego coronari hunc principem regnum diu"
"ipse est qui imperatorem"
"Long sit regnum eius"

With these final words, he turned quickly and pointed to Lord Caomh, who somehow managed to keep a straight serious face, The priests in the background began their humming once again and it echoed through the room, Pope Maximus carefully took up the crown, walked towards Lord Caomh, he lifted the crown above his head and slowly and carefully placed the crown atop Lord Caomhs head and just as it sat on his head, from above the throne and along all the balconies and pillars, a new woolfswood flag was flown, It was vertically coloured, one side being dark blue and the other dark red while in the centre was the a castle with a crown above it.

"I hereby henceforth address you as Emperor Caomh". With this name change and decree, the whole court room clapped in celebration, Emperor Caomh has done what no man ever done before, now there's a man I could follow I thought to myself. The whole continued clapping and Emperor Caomh stood and smiled, Sam turned to me and whispered, "I wonder what in gods name is going to happen next", Emperor Caomh then spoke, "you are all probably thinking what's going to happen next"...Sam turned to me with a huge smirk on his face and said, "what can I say huh?", I just laughed along with him. We celebrated the next of the night with drinking, eating and singing, I gave my full report to the emperor about Ar Dágh and he congratulated me, he then called Me, Sam and Nolan aside and told us, "Get a good nights sleep you three, your going to Kells tommrow, our allies need some help" we simply said, "Yes Caesar" and
Left, I then headed to bed to get a good rest for what lay ahead.