Chapter 10: Too late to consider

Chapter 10

Too late to consider

Nicholas was no match for Authur and his men. Within ten minutes he had been subdued effortlessly.

Nicholas saw all these happen on his presence and began to beg for his life

"sir pls have mercy on me and spare my life and I would be a dog and cow for you"

Authur sneered

"were you not calling me a kid just now, why the change of tongue ehhh?"

"Good lord I was wrong just now and my mouth runs anyhow" Nicholas said slapping his mouth.

"No need to play smart, have made up my mind that you won't leave this place alive"

"Pls I beg you have mercy on me"

"stop talking or else I woil chop you into peices and feed you to the wild dogs in the forest" Authur barked.

"Yes lord Nicholas shuts up! Nicholas shuts up"

"Good, now I will ask you some questions and all I need is the direct answers to the question I asks and I would spare your dog life in return"he then raised his voice a little

"but if you dare lie to me I promise you I would make your life mich worse than those staying in h**l"

Nicholas shivered in fear.

" Now who sent you on this mission?"

Nicholas swallowed the siliva in his mouth in fear

"Still hesitating to reply? Richard give me his legs"

"Noo I will talk"

Authur raised his hand signaling Richard to stop his movement.

"okay go on am listening"

" The details I don't know but all I know is that our big boss Marshall called us and told us about what we were to do and promised us some cool rewards for the job"

" How much?"

"twenty five thousand peices of silver"

"okay where is your boss now"

"He separated with us when you split up, I guess it's to follow up with your other team"

"Okay, I would leave you for now , depending on how you perform your next assignment" Authur then turned to Richard and said to him

"Tie him up"

"Yes my prince"

Nicholas was surprised. The young man is a prince?? He was still puzzled but summoned courage to ask Authur

"Are you a prince?"

" Yes I am, and my name is prince Authur, the last son of king Alfred the great King of Naviel"

Nicholas felt strucked by lightning. I mean it's obvious because who hasn't heard of Prince Authur and his mighty deeds and valour around the world. He felt like a fool and wish the ground could open and swallow him up. He made up his mind that if he can survive today he will be a cow and horse for prince Authur not minding the consequences.

Meanwhile Greg was having a hard time fighting with the other team of mercenaries because the leader of this team was no other than Marshall himself.

Tablot and Mansa suffered serious injuries on the process of defending the Brightons while Andrew and Charles Brandon were close to knocking on heavens gate. He had managed to hold Marshall down for a long time and wished that prince Authur could come quickly because he couldn't hold on any longer. He also prayed in his heart that Authur did not encounter any serious problem because if he did he doesn't know how to explain things to princess Crystabel and queen Cordelia, also the king would have his head hung on a spike outside the kingdom to show others not to repeat his mistake ever in their lives.

Just then marshall delivered a huge blow from his sword on Greg's side causing him to fill down on the ground spilling out blood from his mouth in the process. Greg quickly turned to his right hand side narrowly avoiding a blow ment for his chest on a close range and before marshall could manoeuver himself again Greg was up on his feet, delivering blows upon blows to him. Marshall was also tired. Just then a shout from Greg's left hand side forced him to turn and look at that direction totally zoning out marshall.

It was from Mr Brighton who was strucked down by a blow from one of Marshall's minion. The blow was delivered to his chest very close to his heart. Mrs Brighton was on his side trying to block the minion from delivering any more damage to her husband.

"pls I beg of you, have mercy on my husband and my family. Pls don't hurt us."

" Get out of my way b**th" the man roared and pushed the woman out of his way, just then a dagger from no where strucked the minion on his head, killing him in the process.

Marshall screamed in agony

"noo, Julius don't leave me here, yuur father can't live without you" the minion who just died was his son and his only child for that matter.

Just then Authur walked out of the woods with his remaining soilders. Marshall was at Julius side holding him in his arms and weeping profusely. Authur came to him and picked up the dagger stucked to Julius head.

Marshall noticed it and roared

"Boy where you the one who just killed my son with that dagger"

"Yes I did, do you have any problems with it?"authur asked arrogantly.

"Yes I do and you must pay with your life" marshall said getting up from the ground and trying to get to prince Authur.

Prince Authur ignored him but instead turned to Richard and said to him

"Give Mr Brighton some first aid treatment"

"Am talking to you??!!" Marshall roared once more touching Authur on his back, but that was the biggest mistake he made. Authur who was in his front suddenly disappeared from sight and he felt a big blow on his back, making him to fall down on his knees once.

Authur then asked

"Are you marshall?"

"yes I am, believe it or not I would have my guard Nicholas Burst you in a million peices"

"You mean this guy?" And the road was cleared with robin holding the tied Nicholas in his hands like a thief.

Marshall felt like the whole world was spinning in his head but he still behaved like he was not afraid.

"see am gonna ask you only once and you better give a clear answer, no beating around the bush"authur said.

"Don't act like you're in charge here, even if you're the king of heaven you can't force me against my will" marshall sneered

"Gbosa!!!!"a resounding slap was given to marshall making him sit on the floor with his eyes seeing stars.

"That was just an appetizer to tell you of what you would recieve if you don't answer properly" Authur said

"One question, one minute to answer"

Marshall nodded his head.

"Okay let's begin, who sent you?"

Marshall did not answer. He just could not give up the identify of the person who gave him the job.

The result was another resounding slap from Authur. Marshall yelled in pains.

"next time it won't be a slap but I would cut off one part of your body"

"Who sent you"

"Uncle dont tell him anything, you know what agreement we had with the benefactor?" a young man from Marshall's side yelled out.

This was Marshall's nephew who was with him when he had the negotiations with the other party.

Authur turned and faced him.

"you come here"

The young man pointed at himself and then asked

"Are you talking to me?"

"No he's talking to your father's ghost, come on move it"yelled Mansa as he dragged the scallywag to meet prince Authur

"will ask you only once, cause me and you know you know something about what am talking about and if you dare behave nonsensical with me I promise you I will make your life much worst than death."

"Am not afraid of you, you can do your worst"

"Who sent you?"

"Kid just let my uncle and my friends go or else face the consequences"

Greg was pissed off

"What are you gonna do of we don't?"

"would lead my friends and cause all your family members to face the worst torture and if you have sisters rape them in front of you"Authur hated the world rape and immediately kicked the man down while drawing out the sword from his sheath. The kick from prince Authur made the dude whimper in pains, and when he saw prince Authur coming towards him with a sword in his hand he couldn't help but fear for his life.

".. what.. what.. what..are you try.." he could not complete the statement before Authur swung his sword down directly on his waist cutting his roots completely. The man screamed and then gave up the ghost.

Marshall peed on his pants immediately.

He couldn't help but wonder why the other person was so ruthless and evil when Authur came back to him.

"Are you now ready to talk."

"Yes " Marshall then told the prince the other party's information and details.

"Sir pls can you let me go now? marshall pleaded with the prince.

"no I can't because you had the opportunity to live well and fine but you blew it up, now it's too late to consider."Prince Authur said.

He then turned to the others and said

"I would give you a chance to reform and live a clean life, so you now have two options to choose from. First one is, you give up your former life and follow Mr Nicholas here and obey all my commands from now on or secondly you follow marshall and take the next available flight to heaven's gate."

The mercenaries were scared to death especially because of Authur's ruthless ways of handling things and so they naturally took the first option. Marshall was angry in his heart

This b****d after all the things I did for them.

Well it's not his fault, he was so foolish for not doing things properly.

"my prince, thank you for giving me this opportunity to turn a new leaf" Nicholas said.

"release him" prince Authur said to Mansa who then set Nicholas free. Prince Authur then gave Nicholas instructions and told him to meet him at the palace at Naviel before killing Marshall on the spot. After resting for some time and treating Mr Brighton, Authur and his crew made their way to Naviel where Authur made plans to punish the people involved in the attack made on them by those mercenaries at the village path.