Brigands

"Reporting boss we have captured the noble and his two servants!"

"Good" said a tall ugly man with a scar running across his left eye. This man was a brigand boss by the name of Razor.

Due to the war between Sardinia and Radia many bands of brigands were running amok across the country. Some of these groups would accept mercenary work for the nobles of both countries. Since the town of Arid was further east of the country with mountains lying between it and the rest of Sardinia it had mostly been left unscathed from the war. Not until today where this ambitious man named Razor have come for revenge against the Darrion family.

Rit's father during the war 15 years ago, was once the commander of the 22nd cavalry who had terrorized and destroyed the town that Razor had lived in killing his family. Ever since that day he had vowed to avenge his father, mother, and sister who had died in that vicious raid of his town.

"At long last, today will be the day that the Darrion family will be gone from this world. My family will be able to rest easy knowing that I have avenged them." Thought Razor.

"Bring all the adult male prisoners to the square and execute them all. All the children and women that we captured and will be sold into slavery to the black markets" Razor ordered his men.

[Don's POV]

After our capture I was separated from Rit and Sam as they took them away to the main square while I was kept with the other children and women in the cages they prepared. I heard the soldiers talking about how they were going to execute all the male adults and sell us into slavery. Before we were captured Rit had managed to send a Raven with letter to the nearest castle regarding the attack from the sea. Rit also gave me his noble ring and told me to say to any commander from the Sardinia kingdom that I was his son. I had kept his ring in my mouth for fear of the enemy taking it from me.

Everything had happened so fast that all I could do was sit around in the cage with a heavy heart knowing that Rit and Sam were going to die today.

The next day I woke up sore from all the crying and trying to break free from the chains that kept me restrained to the cage. I overheard these enemy soldiers shouting about an attack from the kingdoms soldiers coming to our rescue. They had started lighting the town on fire and bringing their spoils to their ships. Several hours later we were freed from the cages by Sardinia's soldiers. Only about a hundred of us kids were left. Most of the women were taken into the ships or were raped and killed by the brigands. "I will forever remember that tall man who had a scar on his left eye" I said in my heart.