imperium lapsis

The bow

Charles P.O.V "Stop thief" the royal guard's footsteps echoed throughout the huge hallways of the castle. This was the third time in a week that I had robbed the royal pantry for food and other goods that would keep me and my brothers alive, but today the guards had been on to me and secretly waited until I showed up before throwing a javelin directed straight at my exposed chest, I liked to travel without armor since it made less noise and helped me fit in smaller places, thankfully due to sabeior I was used to dodging these things and slightly leaned left allowing the tip to rip through my left shoulder tearing away skin and muscle allowing my blood to flow and stain the smooth rock floor. This however had been intentional my sacred bow wouldn't allow an arrow to be shot unless I was wounded now that these mongrels had hurt me I was going to end there life I allowed arrow after arrow fly each one disappearing and reappearing right in front of where I had originally intended it to hit every arrow killing each soldier 107,108,109 body after bloody body landed at my feet where they belonged 110,111,112 i only began running after too many had piled up i remember the first time I had been forced to go on the run I was 8 and my family was the owners of the city a rich and fertile place with 2000 inhabitants and pretty soon 2001 my father made me memorize how many People there where for when I took over the town. I had been in my daily lectures when I heard it...the first blood curdling screams of a woman, I got up and dashed for the door just as it burst open and a woman came in with an arrow through her abdomen and, the most horrific scene a newborn at the end of that arrow lifeless and dead still covered in her mothers once nurturing blood. Then thud the woman doubled over and hit the ground with a hard thud. I slowly stepped around her my head spinning from what I had just seen i stumbled out into the courtyard and saw black smoke coming from the town. I ran over only to see my town in a mixture of red flames and crimson blood flying through the air. With People running around trying to avoid incoming arrow rain. As I was about to run out to begin helping a small delicate yet force full hand grabbed me covering my mouth and dragging me across the brown halls of my family's villa. We took the stairs that led up to the roof where I saw my mother and father tied to two Wooden stakes and a third in between theres. The hand threw me to another guard who was amusing himself by taking shots at my people on the streets spilling there sacred blood on the ground he grabbed me and tied me to the stake in just the right position to see one soldier slash the last villagers throat 2001 villagers all murdered in cold blood... Suddenly the steak I was on rotated towards my mother I saw her loving blue eyes and worn out figure I began feeling calm like everything was going to be okay like I would wake up in my bed with my servants bringing me my morning meal. I could not have been more wrong, all I saw was an arrow whistle through the air and impale itself into my mothers head her loving eyes filled with cold hard emptiness any dreams I had ever had about this being okay where shattered into a million pieces. Then the stake rotated towards my father who looked even more traumatized then I did he was crying and begging for death his once handsome features now distorted in anguish. Then an arrow appeared out of his chest blood spurting out in unbelievable quantities his face at first seemed surprised not at the fact that he had been killed so much at the fact that they had completed his request his face went from surprise to happiness he was with mom but they left me alone 2003 people dead that day and I was waiting even kinda hoping it would be 2004 but they untied me and just pushed me off the roof straight into a cage whit four other kids who honestly looked like shit but at that moment I believed they had never experienced what I had but was I wrong, but what I experienced was nothing to all the poor people in my home... They had all been killed by arrows and I was going to be sure that all these mongrels would die the same fate as my people!