Wolfswood : Black

Chapter VIII

The army of Woolfswood arrived at the city of Dún, the walls were undermanned, the old gates easily penetrable, if they decide to fight it would be short and biased in our favour. At the city gates were piles of wood burning away filling the night sky with smoke, atop the walls were some city guards and even some soldiers who managed to escape Ar Dágh and make it back to Dún, there red wollen tunics overlaid with chain mail and there shitty iron steel caps, they all also held a shield with Dúns sigil on it, an oak leaf with a crown atop it. One guard shouted over the wall to us, "The city gates will open, the city of Dún surrenders on the order of Lord Duke Deane" after these words, the old wooden gates creaked open and the muddy pathway into the city was revealed, General Losty signalled his arm forward and the army marched right into the city, the sound of the iron armour marching and clattering throughout the shit filled city at night was an scary sound, the sound of death on the march, people looked from there windows down at us, unsure of what was to come, the city guards on duty literally shitting themselves as me marched by, General Losty gave the order and the army split off around the city, he began shouting "Take the barracks and arrest all guards and soldiers, arrest any city officials and order all nobles to the keep at once, if they do not show up they will be marked as traitors and hanged", Detachments began marching off different streets, kicking doors through and dragging nobles from there beside and arresting them, The soldiers attempted to arrest a city guard but he began shouting and drew his sword and began swinging it fanatically, The soldiers simply speared him, left his body there and continued.

We arrived at the keep of Lord Duke Deane, he arrived outside wearing fine clothes and with a let on smile on his face, he walked towards the emperor who was on horseback and calmly said "Your grace" and attempted to kiss the emperors Hand, the emperor quickly pulled his hand away and gently said "Arrest him", I grabbed the Lord dukes arm and he attempted to resist shouting "You can't! This is outrageous please I was only under orders!", Soldiers climbed the steps and pushed open the keep door and arrested all the guards, I dragged the Lord Duke up the steps and handed him over to Soldiers of the sixteenth, "Bring him downstairs and place him in chains"....as I began walking away then I shouted back, "Make sure he has an accident along the way", then I heard a large cry of pain from him at the stairs, I wasn't doing it cause I was a bad person, fuck him, he caused the deaths of hundreds of Woolfswood soldiers, civilians and Elis, as I walked back outside, a small light shower of rain had begun, thunder could be heard off in the distance, all the nobles and officers were brought to the steps to face The Emperor, who was towering above everyone on horseback, he put up his cloak and hood that covered his face in the dark, he handed a solider a scroll and told him to read it aloud, I stood just the left of the emperor, The soldier cleared his throat and spoke aloud, "For Dúns illegal and horrific attack on the city of Ar Dágh, a rightful province of the Woolfswood empire, I hereby sentence you all to die in the morning by hanging", they all gasped and couldn't believe it, they began pushing against the guards holding them back a small feud broke out, one of them hit a soldier in the face with a rock and charged threw the gap in the line and ran at the emperor, General Losty got in the way and slashed the mans face open with his sword, The emperor shouted, "Take them down to the dungeon" and the guards began dragging the men who were resisting, there screams filling the air, I looked up at the emperors hidden face, the moon glowing behind him, he looked back at me when suddenly a flash of lighting revealed his face, to my absolute shock, in the split second the lightning lasted it wasn't the emperors face I saw gazing back at me, my eyes widened and my soul dropped, I saw the face of death, it's dark eyes peering straight into me, suddenly the lightning went and the emperors face went dark again, I didn't even move, I didn't shout, I didn't even breath, General losty walked over with a fire torch in his hand and it lit up the emperors dark face, this time it was him, his grey eyes looking back, he didn't smile, didn't say anything, just looked, a soldier attempted to drag the body of the dead noble when the emperor commanded him to leave it there, he then said "Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all" and he then slowly trotted up the steps and into the doors of the keep, I followed with Sam and Nolan a few moments later, we stayed the night there, I couldn't sleep for hours over what I saw, the horrible Image plagued my mind, was my head playing tricks on me due to all the death and despair, or was it a warning from something, I eventually couldn't stay awake any longer and dozed off in the uncomfortable bed chamber.