ISKANDER THE CONQURER Part 2 of 3 :

Artemis looked at Arthur and whistled to call the other horse she had with her to gather supplies for the winter season that was soon to come. The horse galloped to her and she looked at Arthur and said "You and the sick woman can ride on the horse and the two of us will walk on foot". Arthur looked at the while holding his chest making sure he doesn't lose any more blood and said, "No its fine Cleo can go with Lilith on the one horse, you in the other and I will walk on foot, seeing as I have the strongest weapon there is here". Artemis went to saddle she had on one of the horses and took off a little bottle with liquid in it and looked at Cleo. " You're Cleo right? Grab one of those leaves from that tree over there, bring me a little branch as well and go gather some mud. Remember only the leaves if the tree with purple flowers from them".

Cleo went to the tree that was to the east of them. Artemis walked closer to Arthur with the bottle in her hand and ushered Arthur to sit on the massive log that was next to him. He struggled to sit for a while due to the pain he was in. Eventually Arthur could sit down and when he did Cleo had came back. "okay take that mud and put some right in the middle of the leave you had just gathered, make sure you place it right in the middle of the wounds, you take this and put into your mouth and bite as I pour this over the wound". She then opened the bottle and held her breathe, Cleo was coughing like crazy and she had gotten the stuff ready she was supposed to. She poured it onto the wound the bear had caused and he had the twig in his mouth, he bit right through it and screamed so loudly that the birds in the trees flew away. Cleo quickly put the leaves she had to on Arthur's chest and it stuck to his chest and he lost conciseness.

Arthur then woke up at camp the two ladies had made up, as he opened his eyes the fire he was laying close to had just gone out. Cleo gasped at this and all that had given them light was the beautiful blue moon. "Why don' you get up, make yourself useful and go start the fire up again. Typical man sleeps while the woman needs to do all the work". Artemis said to Arthur. Arthur was trying to start the fire up again but kept on feeling like there was someone watching him the whole time as he struck the two stones together to start up the fire once again, he then kept on hearing hissing and growling (coming) from the forest surrounding them. He then dropped the stones to grab Excalibur to go see what this was and Artemis said, "NO you carry on with the fire. I will go investigate the disturbance". Arthur got down and started striking the two stones against one another again as the hissing and growling got louder Cleo started to get restless and started to panic. The noise stopped for a few seconds and the fire had finally been lit again.

Artemis stepped into the light of the fire and Lilith sat up looked at her and said, "Artemis is that you?" she then fell down back to sleep once again. As she was putting the dagger back she had taken with to go and inspect what was causing all the commotion, she looked at Arthur and said, "It was a bear that was making all the noise". Arthur was about to ask her how Lilith knew her and noticed that she had a scar going across her stomach. He looked up at her and he asked, " Where did you get that scar?". "I got it from a man that invaded my forest 2 years ago to be exact, he had come looking for an ancient weapon that once belonged to the great Hercules. Its blade was made from the teeth of the lion he killed when he was only 8 years old. The tip of this weapon was made from the bones of an ancient Mammoths' tusk . He came into my forest and he killed all my animals and burnt half of the forest as well, but that's a story for another time. We need to put the fire out and go sleep". Before she did this she noticed a birthmark on Cleo's arm and remembered she had seen it before but couldn't remember where exactly. She then kicked out the fire with some sand and went to sleep.

It had been two years since Hitler got separated from the group, captured unjustly and forced into a dark dungeon because of a prophecy he is apparently involved in. The last thing he remembered was falling from a portal and then being captured by an unknown man who called himself Isakander the Conqueror.

It's been two weeks since Hitler has been captured, the amount of torture he has been through could have easily broken any person but he stood firm because of his extraordinary intellect, he just kept on telling himself mind of matter that this pain will only make him stronger, but as the days keep on blurring on and on he begins to slowly break down bit by bit. Seeing this the Deities inside his body slowly but surely begin to gnaw at his mind breaking him bit by bit.

"They are not coming for you know that right." while chained to the dungeon wall Hitler slowly opens his eyes and shakes his head and denies the voices that have been getting louder in his head "NO they will come for me I know they will" the voices just continue to laugh and keep whispering into his ears.

The Prison guards hear and notice him shouting at something and they go to investigate and all that they see is this person shaking his head and screaming at something in a language they have never heard before, they then shut his mouth so he cannot speak and even struggle to breathe. He has not eaten in weeks. The guards would eat in front of him and not give him anything to eat or drink, they would even urinate on him from time to time because these guards did not get any breaks from watching him, they had to be on watch 24/7. This went on for weeks and weeks. The same thing every day and every night. One morning as he was opening his eyes he heard a voice coming from outside and it was a woman's voice. He thought it was Lilith or Cleopatra there to rescue him as he was about to make noise to draw this woman's attention the deity said, "She is not here to rescue you, she is the reason you have been captured. She gave you up for the knight she was looking for. Only I care about you, OPENE YOUR EYES and see only I can save you from all this dismay and torture".

He shook the cobwebs away and noticed the woman was speaking to two men and he recognised the ones voice to be Leonidas. He could hear the two walking down the steps towards the dungeon, "Open the door you filthy peasant". Hitler raised his head to the door and Leonidas came stepping in with a grin on his face and a tray of food and wine which looked like he brought it for Hitler to eat and drink but he felt an overwhelmingly strong and brutal presence in the room. He had also heard extra footsteps. As Leonidas was about to take the mask off to feed him he saw a big hand with an arm covered in veins and tattoos hit Leodidas hand away and he saw the same hand hit the food out of his other hand. He then saw a figure appear from the shadows, he saw a man a few inches taller than Leonidas stand next to him muscled and covered in tattoos. "Little brother why did you do that. Can you not see he is hungry and thirsty". The other man just laughed and said nothing.

One of the guards came running down stopped in front of them, "Prince Leonidas, Prince Alexander. The king and queen are requesting you in the throne room". Prince Alexander had now seen that this man hanging on the wall knew his name and hit him and Hitler had never felt anything more brutal in his entire life. "Brother what are the servants feeding you? Just a week ago you were smaller than me but now you are twice my size in mass and strength". (Leonidas). "It's called training, something you don't need to do seeing as you were born with dads mind and I was born like mom, weak and pitiful". (Alexander). The two brothers stepped out of the room and the door slammed shut and was covered in pitch blackness. Hitler was knocked unconscious. The guards heard a voice tell them to lock the door and just leave because there was nothing there for them to do anymore. They obeyed and believed it to be the king but it was the deity that was corrupting Hitler.

After some time Hitler opens his eyes and slowly but surely he begins to succumb to the deities words. "why do I have to suffer like this, I only wanted to make the world into a place fitting for my supreme race, what right does it give those people to do this to me" slowly the deity starts laughing and pushing Hitler further wanting to get rid of the remaining kind side to his heart, "yes even she betrayed you even she left you here to rot and die. The deity begins to show Hitler images of Cleopatra who he fell in love with at first sight, kissing other men and losing herself to the pleasure and lust as she enjoys herself with many partners, "See she is not looking for you she is busy enjoying herself with other men, SHE DOESN'T EVEN KNOW YOU EXIST" Hitler begins to scream madly trying desperately trying to remove the chains "STOP NO MORE SHOW ME NO MORE." As he screams he passes out and the dungeon goes silent again.

The two brothers had forgotten completely what they were about to do and Alexander looked at his brother and said, "Why don't we go train in the court yard. I see you grow weaker every time we have been training, I also have a new surprise I have to show you". They step into the courtyard and start to train, Leonidas the mastermind hand to hand combatant knocks Alexander down with ease because all he has is his brute force and strength. He stands up dusts himself off and walks to an object that lays on the floor covered in a silk like cloth, he removes the cloth to reveal an axe. He picks this axe up and looks at his brother and sais, "This is the new surprise I was telling you about." He picks up a shield and throws at Leonidas, he then swings that axe that cuts clean through the shield and both of them are shocked by what happened but Leonidas being the naturally born fighter strikes his brother and draws blood as he lands on the ground. He is still holding the axe and notices he is bleeding. He gets up and looks at Leonidas, "Alexander are you okay? I'm sorry brother I didn't mean to do that. You know I get carried away when I am in battle". "That's just it Leo we aren't in battle right now, you always do this, even when we were kids, dad forced us to fight harder because I was always bigger until we reached the age of 16".

It started to rain heavily all of a sudden. Alexander lunged at his brother and tried to strike him with the axe but Leonidas evaded him very quickly because he was very agile on his feet. He dodged him to go get the spear his mother had used that was meant to be for Alexander. Alexander was enraged at this and told him, "That weapon is mine. WHO GIVES YOU THE RIGHT TO WIELD IT?". "Your weapon? You have always gotten everything, yes I am mothers favorite and you are fathers but I am the oldest yet you are next in line to king and all these years YOU COULD NEVER EVER knock me down. Why would anyone worship a weak king like you?" The two brothers then got into a heavy battle that Alexander knocked Leonidas to the floor easily and had broken their mothers spear. As Leo lay on the floor Alex had jumped towards him to cut his head off. He heard there mother shout at them, "Stop it you two, you are brothers. Brothers don't fight like this".

As she got closer she noticed her spear laying on the floor broken. Alex through the axe in the bushes to get rid of the evidence. They were both looking at their mom and the king had shown up and helped Leo to his feet. He had noticed as the rain had stopped there was ink on his hand. He looked at it and grabbed Leos wrist. "what is this? Do you not hold the birthmark of the crown on your wrist, are you not royalty? ARE YOU A BASTARDS SON?" He said this as he looked at the queen. She wanted to say something but her facial expression had said enough. "GAURDS GET THIS TRAITOR OUT OF MY SIGHT, HE IS NOT MY SON AND SHOLD BE BANISHED until he proves he is worthy to beat my son then only he can come back to this family. Remove Leonidas out of my sight".

As Leoniadas and his mother are taken out of the city via carriage, Leonidas slowly looks at his mother and asks her "Am I not your son, am I not father son." His mother attempt to say something but then looks down and keeps quite. Leonidais begins to scream hysterically "TELL ME AM I YOU AND FATHERTS SON !?" "No you aren't my son and neither is he your father" Leonidas looks at his supposed mother in shock "but I have the crown birth mark" "No you do not it's a fake, haven't you ever wondered why I told you never to wash or clean you birth mark" the queen looks directly at Leonidias eyes ":NO you lie I'm the firs crowned prince, everything in this land belonged to me not Alexander" As Leoniadas begin to scream hysterically the queen slaps him much to the shock and confusion. " Stop this at once the king told you if you want to return to the kingdom you have to defeat Alexander.

Leoniads begins to lose the light in his eyes and looks at the queen " I thank you for raising me but what's mine is mine I won't let him take everything from me". Leonidas stands up and opens the carriage door as he jumps out the queen screams but hears leonidas screaming "I WILL TAKE BACK WHAT IS RIGHTFULLY MINE I WILL SHOW YOU ALL" and disappears. He then hears the carriage with the queen pulling further and further away. Leonidas slowly gets up and laughs "Heh no love for the dirty street mongrel" he cruelly looks in the direction the carriage his headed and is angry "So you're going back without me, well no worries I'll be back to claim what is mine."

A few days later Leonidas finds himself in an unknown forest covered in a perpetual mist, sounds of wild animals crying all over and a mist that is so thick that it makes breathing though "This will be a perfect place to train, a perfect place to strengthen myself and cast away my old self, to show them who is the true Iskander The Conqueror." During the next few days Leonidas is tested both metal and physically. In this mist covered forest he has been forced to stay extremely vigilant or he will become food for a predator much stronger than him. The mist is against him, every time he breathes in the mist he coughed blood but he oddly feels much better when he does like something inside him is changing.

After a few months he found this strange waterfall and lake that has a tremendous amount of life energy, at first when he attempted to touch it, it would burn him but after the changes in his body from being exposed to the mist he could now submerge himself in the water. "What is this pulse of energy in my body it feels so weak and insignificant yet all powerful at the same time" While in the water Leonidas's body begins to vibrate as if it is causing ripples, Leonidas soon figures out that his body is giving out excess life force as if it is causing small ripples around him. Leonidas slowly gets back to shore with a smile on his face. "If I can master a way to use this ripple like energy I can defeat that good for nothing brother of mine and prove to mother and father that I am worthy even if I am not their true son. I will show them who truly is worthy." As he begins his training to master his new power Alexander has been mastering his own new abilities.

Leonidas thinks he has mastered his new found powers and sets on a journey back to the caste to confront the people he once called his family and prove to the king that he is worthy of ruling and to defeat Alexander. As he was getting close to the castle he noticed one of the royal horses eating grass and wonders that these horses are never off the castles property un attended. He sees the carriage tipped over in the distance and sees one of the guards trying to move the carriage to move a body. He notices it's the queen and goes sprinting towards the carriage and tells the guard he will help and they move the heavy carriage but to no avail, the queen is dead. He grabs the guard, "Who attacked you, WHO KILLED MY MOTHER? WHO?"The guard looked at him. "It was a hooded figure with a bow and arrow that attacked us my prince, why did you jump out of the carriage because right after you did the attack happened. I will go back to the kingdom and get help". The guard leaped onto the horse and had galloped off into the distance. Leonidas fell to his knees and put the woman's head that had raised him all his life on his lap and started crying and as he was doing this he noticed how powerful his new powers were as he started to make a crater in the ground he was sitting on. He stood up and picked his mother up and started to walk back to the castle to tell them the bad news.

Leonidas had finally arrived at the castle but half way he noticed the guard and horse were attacked by wolfs. He go to the gate and seen the king waiting for someone and right before there was an area covered in darkness. He then heard the king call out, "Olympia my wife is that you?". Leo stepped out from the shadows with her in his arms. "Father a hooded figure had attacked and killed mother, I'm sorry". "DONT CALL ME FATHER, WHERE WERE YOU? WHY DID YOU LEAVE HER TO LET HER DIE, WHY DID SHE ACCOMPANY YOU IN THE FIRST PLACE. GUARDS come . I need help". Two guards came running and the king took his wife from Leo gave her to the guards and kissed her forehead and said, "Take her to the royal burial room". They walked away and then he turned to Leonidas an d slapped him through the face and he fell to the floor but they weren't aware Alexander was awoken by all the commotion. "I hate you, this is all your fault, you are the reason your mother is dead". The king was crying and then they heard a voice ask, "Father, what is going on. Why are you crying. What is he doing here?" it was Alex. "Your mother is dead my son, she was killed by a hooded archer". "AHHHHHHH ITS THIS WORTHLESS PEASANTS FAULT, I WILL HAVE HIS FUCKING HEAD. MOTHER SHOULD HAVE NEVER GONE WITH HIM". Alexander said as he clutched his axe and his father could see the rage and anger in his eyes and how the ground was trembling around him. He looked at Leo and Alex and opened his mouth to speak but was interrupted by the guards shouting, "Intruders, Intruders:" A man had steeped through the gate followed by 3 woman but the one wasn't seen because they were only concerned with the man that they sensed was extremely powerful and wielded a strong weapon. The woman stepped in front of them, "I am Lilith and I am here for your strongest warrior".