Wolfswood : Black

Chapter XI

I walked alongside the emperor, along with two knights and twenty five soldiers along with Lord Duke Narthel, we opened the wooden doors to the manor and walked inside cautiously, the first floor was empty, no guards or anything, just the old paintings and light blue carpet floor, just before we proceeded to head up the stairs the doors behind us creaked open and a soldier walked in, "Lord Duke Narthel, your general Duk requests you, says it's extremely important", the captain looked to the Emperor, who only replied "Go deal with it, but hurry, and follow us up", he nodded and left back out into the courtyard. Finally we got up to the throne room, a knight pushed the door open slowly and it creaked, inside, standing at the throne was Lord Duke Swaine of Trim, he looked sad, almost disappointed, his brown hair slicked back out of way, he wore his formal clothes but held his houses sword in his hands, leaning on it forward for comfort, in the room with him was half a dozen Trim guards, four Navan Soldiers and two Swaine house knights. We entered the room and drew our swords, Lord Duke swaine sat down in his throne and looked at the emperor...."I hope your happy, you destabilised the Empire, created war, famine and delivered death to the door of the innocent", I jumped to The Emperors defence and shouted back "We've destabilised the greatest evil to lay root, we've sacrificed our lives for the better of the continents future"...The Lord Duke mockingly chuckled back, "Two sides too every coin"...He stood once more, he drew his sword, and in a swift moment he shoved his sword through his own stomach and fell to his knees, The soldiers in the room charged at us except one of the Knights, a fight ensued and I drew my sword cutting down a trim guard, The Emperor pushed me aside and charged at the knight, he swiftly dodged the knights heavy attacks and easily blocked his attacks with absolute ease, such skill I thought to myself, in a moment he shoved his sword through the Knights neck and killed him, I noticed the other knight had gone, then I also noticed a small doorway behind the throne, he must have gone in there, the trim and Navan guards were now dead, from the doorway out walked the knight carrying a large box, two of our men fired bolts into him but he kept going, he got to the front of the throne and dropped the box was covered in old rusty chains, the knight drew his huge claymore, all of us also drew our swords and stood in a line, the emperor at the front, I was confused, what the fuck was he doing, the knight raised his sword and smashed the lock on the box, he then took off  his chest plate and shoved his sword through his and dropped dead....I took a step forward and the box shook, we all jumped back...I looked at The Emperor who's eyed widened, almost he just realised what was in the box, he shouted aloud "RUN!!", I looked at the box and in a split second it exploded, the noise was so loud it blew my ears and i could hear nothing....they flash so bright I saw nothing but white.....I felt a force like other, I felt my feet be lifted from the ground and I was thrust through the air, then everything went black.

I awoke to a smoke filled room, body's lay all around me, I was near the door of the throne room, my body was in excruciating pain and I could barely move, I saw five or six of our met get up slowly, they helped The Emperor to his feet, he was in bad pain too by his movements, he picked up his sword and looked over at me and began to slowly walk toward me to help me until suddenly one of our men shouted in agony, I looked over to see some Navan soldiers rush out of the doorway behind the now destroyed throne, they speared two men to death and began hacking the injured men on the floor to death and they screamed in vain, one charged right at the emperor but he pulled up how sword and began duelling him, in from the door charged in Lord Duke Narthel, General Losty and some soldiers, The Lord Duke assisted the injured emperor in killing the assassin, he put his arm around the emperor until suddenly an assassin charged up from behind and shoved a dagger through the Lord Dukes chest and he dropped to the floor, The Emperor swung his sword around and killed the assassin, more assassins poured in from the doorway, I attempted to stand up but there was a huge piece of window glass lodged in my leg, General losty charged right into the assassins and began duelling them, The Emperor fell to his knees and he looked over at me, an assassin ran up behind him and drew a dagger, he raised it up until a Woolfswood soldier cut the assassin down, a soldier ran up to me and began dragging me from the room, I demanded he let me go, an officer than charged over aswell and ordered the soldier to pull me to safety, I tried resisting as much as possible but the blood spewed from my cut, as i was being dragged down the stairs, to my horror another assassin made it through to The Emperor....I then glanced over at General Losty and saw him swarmed and he fought to the last, about five men stabbing him to death, I looked back to the emperor to see him laying down on his back....with a golden dagger sticking from his chest...I couldn't even think....he..he had died, The Emperor had fallen...my vision began to fade...it grew darker and darker as I was dragged down the stairs...until I felt nothing more, everything grew dark. I couldn't feel the pain of my wounds. I saw nothing but darkness.