Freelands

V. WESTERN WARRIORS

4. "Prove me wrong..."

"...The night sky turned bright, for a moment we thought the sun has risen earlier today, But it wasn't the sun.

The Coshaqs fired with every single bow and the flaming arrows hited like a fierce storm all our ships. Many were set immediately ablaze, like a dragon has breathed fire upon them.

Everybody was panicked. We knew they were coming, we saw them coming! But no man has ever witnessed such a rain of fire before.

The clash was even worse. After reaching us the ships collided and their charge was fierce and strong like unleashed lions, we heard the screams of pain of our comrades on the surrounding ships, unnerving.

Even more so was when they were sailing againist us. The ships hit the bridge of the ship and fully armed men with more weapons I've ever saw in my life started charging at us.

Queen Fourtuna didn't even consider fleeing. She charged by herself and so we followed her.

In no time though we were surrounded. Two more ships boarded from our sides pushing us to the middle, until it was clear we were lost.

They disarmed us all. They put us on our knees, but killed noone of us. They put us to hear the screams of agony of our dying sailors, the sound of stabbing, the cracks of the flaming sinking ships. Slowly, all those noises started fading.

Until, no sound could be heard. Just of the rain's drop meeting the calm sea. Soon we couldn't even see fire. All ablaze ships have sunk.

We were waiting in the rain and the cold for a very long time, when suddenly he reached upon us, the admiral, but in our bad suprise it wasn't Wildwind."

The young soilder tells the chronicle of the naval battle kneeled to Seawolf, who sits on the stone throne, wearing furry animal skins all around him, keeping them in place with a silver thick belt.

Right behind the soilder stands Frick Volca and Freyria Hail who've just arrived in Saltharbour.

"I think you've confused your words, soilder. There's no worse thing than this bastard son, Wildwind Coshaq. What are you talking about?" Seawolf says.

"Sadly there is, my king. At first you would think, our enemy used magic to make himself younger.

But it wasn't him. It was Frederick Coshaq, His older son. A man with the same disgusting spiky hair and earrings on the ear. He even had the same unbearable voice!

When Fourtuna saw him he spit on his face. He cleaned it and started talking.

"This is no kind way to introduce yourself, Queen Fourtuna ."

"You are the same irritating as your irritating father, rat! I don't have to meet your stupid ass."

"I'll have to dissapoint your instinct, but I'm nothing like my father. He would have sunk this very ship, with you inside. I, on other hand, believe this it is time for us to speak on how our two cities end this bloodsheed."

"HA! You speak abou ending the bloodsheed? Look around you! Everybody's dead! If you wanted to at least try to make peace you would have come to see us yourself." Fourtuna then spits again on Frederick's feet.