George/Geo

Leader ,the past battle and the present

And the battle continues at sun rise. Without the chief ranger, the archers shoot arrows here and there .The enemy soldiers start to

climb the castle. George seeing them directly under him shoots arrows at one of the climbers. His 10th arrow pierces the soldiers armor as he falls to the ground shattering his bones and dies. He shoots at the other out of the 6 climbing. This time he kills at his first strike. He kills all the remaining. Seeing his bravery, one of the experienced archer among the 27 remaining out of the 40 appoints him the Chief Ranger. He is given the old Chiefs Armor which could be only pierced by a pike or a sharp sword. Geo commands the 27 rangers to hold their arrows until the enemy starts climbing and reach the middle. They do so and 59 soldiers start climbing along with their Chief. Geo hurls one of the pike at the Chief which doesn't pierce him but the fall kills him. He commands to shoot arrows until all of them are killed. The archers shoot arrows below them like they are clouds and are raining arrows. All of the 59 and their Chief lay at the Ground. The enemies retreat. It was a victory for the defenders of the castle. Geo is given the title of Leader and Ranger of the Raiders. Its a rank of honor for a mercenary. He recites the Mercenary code as he is given a Medal of Honor by the Baron Taki of Idleton. The Baron Taki, the youngest Baron of the kingdom at 19,is a famed lover of brave men. His father Julius was a knight who refused to be the Baron. Julius's younger brother Kilak, was annointed the Baron until Taki came to age. When Taki was 15,he was announced the Baron of Idleton. He was a fan of the knights of Xarta, the most brave men of the eastern continent. The 700 knights swept the kingdom of the refugees and dishonorable men. At the time of purity 12 years ago, his father died in the famous Aortan battle . Kilak said that when they reached the Aortan river they found thousand bodies of dead soldiers and Julius head was at the shore while his remaining body was flowing in the river. The river itself turned red from black and was called as the bloody river or the red river after that. Julius was only 30 when he was killed.

Hoffhill is one of the northern state of the kingdom. It would take  less than a month ride from Perseus City. Its full of mountains and forests. The hilltribes have been in a large number there. Atlas, Durt and Hoffhill are the three states where the hilltribes have terrorized the noblemen. They used to loot the rich people and kill them. The forests were the most dangerous place in  Hoffhill. The city of Mullhill was only the safest place in Hoffhill .The Baron Burt ruled on Mullhill City. He used to say "Call me the Lord of Mullhill not Hoffhill" .With a mere population of 100,000 excluding the Hilltribes this was the least populated city in the continent. The hilltribes were large in number .They were at-least 10,000 in Hoffhill,5000 in Atlas and some

300 in Durt . Half of these population knew how to use axes. They were similar to savages. But some 27 of them entered the Mullhill city as it was heard. The Baron Burt had wrote a letter to the King 6 years ago when some bodies of noblemen were found in the woods. The king Richard took 3 months ride with 1000 soldiers and searched the whole state and killed at-least 500 savages in the woods. He lost more than half of his soldiers. Many of the hilltribes men fleed through the northern sea to Forsberry, Atlas ,Durt and Vixon. He returned to Mullhill with 317 soldiers left and told the Baron Burt that "They are savages. Savages have a moral to kill and live. That is what they will always do. More than half of my men died for you while you hid on your small castle. If you had used your 700 soldiers ,many of my men would have been alive and those savages wouldn't have troubled you again. This is your punishment. If they come again you will have to face them yourself". The king didn't stay at Mullhill that night. He ordered his men to return straight to Goldam. Since then the Baron used to hire mercenaries from the east to tackle the

Hilltribes who returned a year later after the battle with the King.

Geo listens to the story as 100  Blue Mimosans travel with 573 Idleton soldiers to Hoffhill. They are ordered by their Baron to kill 71 hilltribes who had entered Mullhill.

"I heard most of the Hilltribes fled to Atlas 6 years ago." says one of the soldiers of the Idleton army.

"Let me get this straight. All of your soldiers will make a perimeter in Mullhill while 100 of us are going to enter the dark woods and kill them" asks one Geo.

"I heard Mercenaries only cared about glory and gold. And only your men will enter. You are their Commander not an infantry. Why do you fear Ser George" says the soldier.

"I am not a knight. And i am a leader of the raiders not the commander. My men will fight besides me. Tell your soldiers to make their camp. We will evacuate the area." says George.

"A commander at 15 and yet as wise as a veteran you speak. Spoken like a true warrior. But you are smart though. I hope you live. I heard the Hoffhill Baron has   100 golden coins for your men after the battle while we only follow and smell your glory farts" says the soldier.

"I am still a leader .My rank does demand respect from a soldier like you. Tell me when was the last time you got wounded in a battle" asks George.

"Careful now boy. Stopping a Castle siege may rank you high. But you lack something that I have and that's experience. So good luck commander" says the soldier.

"Tell your men to make the perimeter. We have reached Mullhill. There's the cowardly famous Baron up at his castle. Mimosans , enter the jungle.20 of you will be used as bait.50 of you archers will up in those trees. You will be raining your arrows on them. The remaining 30 will be there at the back with their swords incase they outwit us." says George as they enter the jungle while the Idleton soldiers make a perimeter.

The 20 men wait for two hours with one of them wearing some golden jewelery to attract the tribes. Finally some 17 tribes men with their axes come .The 20 men are confused whether to kill theses 17 men or to wait. The men up in the tree start to climb down .George with the last 30 seeing the delay enters alone with a horse. He was wearing the armor his father made him and also the sword and the dagger was with him. He sees 17 tribes men staring that his 20 men. He looks up and signs the archers not to come down . He asks his men to not attack. Being impatient the remaining 54 come out and start to chase the 21 men including George. George tells his 20

men to lead them in the trap while he attacks some of them killing 2 of them. He falls from

his horse.50 of the tribes men are after the other while 12 of them surround George. George swings his sword as he cuts the handle of the ace of one of those. The man 7 feet tall tries to hurl him as he catches him. George's sword falls down but he finds his dagger and strikes him at his forehead. The dagger sharp kills the man in seconds. George picks his sword as one of the men tells the other 10 not to intervene as they fight in a single hand to hand combat. George defends as the man attacks with his axe. George has never seen a fierce fighter as the man. As the man tries to strike his axe on George's head , Georges helmet shatters but he is alive. At the same moment he strikes the sword at his head separating his head from his body. The remaining 10 men surrender seeing the bloody c*****e. Georges face and hands are filled with blood .He looks ahead to see his men showering arrows in the remaining tribes men. He doesn't let them kill those who surrendered. The Blue Mimosans aren't happy with his decision but still they follow his order