The Captain
Greed has only two paths, one will lead to his goals, the other.... his demise.
274 AD
"Why am I remembering that right now!?"
Lark drove the memories from the back of his mind as he continue to run.
"AAAHHHH!!!"
"HELP!"
"Have the Gods finally abandoned us!?"
"Argh!"
The sound of burning houses and the yelps of the misfortune could be heard as they slowly burn or cut down by their own protectors.
The cries of the children and animals alike, clawed down the mind of the young Lark into much despair.
"Damnit!!"
Remembering the death of his two friends and Dean who ran away brought tears to his eyes, in which he could not supress any longer.
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A few minutes earlier.
As Lucas was still on his knees, he could hear the sound of something pounding on earth as the ground shakes and the sounds of rattling of metals could be heard.
The sound could be heard reverbrating through the dense forest, alerting the other villagers.
The source of the noise finally showed itself.
It was fifty mounted men in armor that had a jaguar crest on their breast plates and one of the knights also held a banner with the same design in their armor plate.
"Mommy look it's the Knights!"
"It's the Jaguars too!"
"Is there a criminal? And they brought the whole members too"
At this time ten knights with a bottle that had a lit cloth rag sticking out from the bottle's mouth could be seen going deeper to the village, the other forty proceeded to Lucas' home.
Soon the smell of fire and the cries of despair could be heard.
Seeing his long awaited reinforcements Clark looked at his brother triumphantly.
"Lucas the atrocious 'demon' and also part of the 'crows' who assassinated the minister, whilst taking down half of the King's knights ten years ago"
"Has now once again struck the one and only son of our majesty, shall now be met with punishment"
A man with a golden lining armored vigorously shouted in his helmet that had a Jaguar's headress over it. One could see his stout figure, when he has a much bigger armor and horse, than your average knights.
"I, Therion, as the captain of the 'Jaguars' shall now give his punishment of death to him and his family, as well as the whole village that was labeled by the court as an accomplice for hiding such a monster"
Therion got down from his mount and with a large thump~ a short quake in the vicinity occured. Therion had a huge Zweihander and shield at his back that rattled along with his armor, when he got down.
"Sir Therion, I'am so glad to see you"
Clark let go of Elena to the side in who was caught by a knight and gave a bow to Therion.
"Clark! what is the meaning of this!!"
"Aren't you part of the 'Crows' too?!"
Lucas who was kneeling suddenly got up and yelled at his brother's incomprehensive actions.
"Too bad the group now worked for the King"
"HAH! there's no way the others would agree"
Hearing Clark's blurting nonsense, Lucas couldn't help but give him a mocking laugh.
"Hahahaha! Oh you ignorant Brother! you underestimated the power of gold and the capability of the greed of a human"
Clark smugly said to his brother as he crossed his arms.
"Well, although the four agreed, Wolfe declined and managed to escape before we even assassinated him, he is truly befitting of his name.... a disloyal dog"
Hearing the words of his very own brother, fueled Lucas' anger more.
No I must calm down and figure out how to save Elena and get Lark, as for our escape route, the hatch may work and the curse no longer works for Lark and Elena, but how should I save Elena.
Suddenly Clark took a dagger from his sleeves and suddenly backhandedly stabbed Elena who was held by a knight in the stomach.
"Elena!'
Seeing his wife stabbed, Lucas immediately ran after Elena, but was suddenly blocked by a huge figure. Therion emotionlessly and effortlessly grabbed the one hundred inches long Zweihander at his back with one hand and did a overhanded strike at Lucas.