silvertongue217
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My people and I are dying, dying because of the great pharaoh Anumet. She who has unsurped the throne from her dead husband and taken it for her self. Claiming a false goddess to the old gods she has claimed as her own. I Akhom and my people no my MEN were forced to flee, flee our homes and our lives lest our religion be taken from us.
We who worship the old gods now do it in secret or from the shadows. I the great general now live in the dessert planning my holy war and praying to the gods for the victory I know they crave.
And hope I am man enough to give it to them
…………..
“Archers to me!”
Akhom raised his spear banging it on his golden shield. Behind him his men roared in victory bringing their long bows up and pulling them back as they sighted the enemy cavalry. They were making their stand showing that the old gods would not go without a fight. His men were trained and prepared all clamoring to get back at the men who had forced them from their homes.
“Wait for it” Akhom murmured to himself watching and waiting his fathers training coming back in his head about the perfect time to strike…..
“Now” he hollered bringing his shield down in a forward chopping motion. His archers released as one, a storm of arrows flying above him before raining down and cutting the infantry down to half its size.
“Another” Akhom said before rushing forward and leaving his men to coordinate the return fire with one of his lieutenants. He saw his spearmen amassing in the standard formation and he joined them coming to the front where his second in command was waiting along with their best spearman.
“It is a good day to die” he said simply in greeting
“It is” Akhom replied in kind reaching over and clapping the man on his bicep.
“We do this for the gods and for our family” Akhom said raising his spear once more and hearing his men shout and holler back at him. He turned back bringing his shield up and his spear as the mounted men crashed into their formation and the battle truly began.
Akhom lost himself in battle pivoting and drawing on every bit of training and instinct his father instilled in him. Flashes of the man Akhom had loved and above all respected came and went with the battle and he felt his father spirit with him as he defeated the heretics. Surely this battle would be theirs, surely the gods would smile upon them and the holy war they were waging in THEIR name.
But they didn’t
The battle went badly, the men even though they were bolstered and passionate fell to the over whelming forces. Akhom found his men dwindling and dwindling and soon word came the archers were fairing no better….
“Retreat” he snapped at his second in command who was clutching his side. He noted the blood running down his friend’s body and raised his spear ignoring his own blood even as it stained the sand.
“I will hold them off go find safe passage for our people find some one to help” Akhom said pushing him back as he swung his spear and roared at the forces still advancing on him.
Then there was nothing but battle
He was a whirl moving like water, slipping away at the last minute only to be back the next stabbing and killing. He killed who knows how many of them just by himself, he killed them onto the sand was wet with blood, and he even killed them as his shield fell and he began to limp.
He was on the ground a sword at his throat. They were above him growling and telling him to stay still.
But he would not
He fought them even though his arms were sore, he fought them even though every part of his body was screaming in pain. They paid him no mind however roping him up with coarse rope and throwing him over a horse like he was nothing more than a common prisoner. He spat curses at them until they finally gagged his mouth.
Then they were off
His wounds causing him to pass out and in the bliss of unscousiouness he remained until he was suddenly doused in ice cold water. He found himself on the stone steps of a chamber his hands bound and his body very very crudely patched up.
“Traitors” He spat at the guards.
“It is you who is traitor general” One of the guards sneered bringing up the whip “the goddess has granted us untold peace and prosperity and you and your men wish to go back to the gods who grant us no favors”
Then they wiped him back into sleep
He woke again his feet dragging and scraping on the rough stone. He saw every one gathered whispering and pointing and made sure to spit at them his eyes narrowed at them all a look of pure contempt adorned on his face.
“My Queen the lead man in front of him surely a “mighty” general “I bring you the false general Akhem!”
He was pushed forward dumped onto the floor. He growled and lifted him self-using his upper body strength alone. He turned his head up facing the false Queen defiantly glaring at her as he tried to work the rope off of his wrists behind his back.