Some time before the last ice age in a small farming town by the large stone obelisk where everyone in the village worked together to farm their crops. everyone shared what they could, Some knew woodworking others knew needle and thread everyone knew how to do something and all worked together. No money was ever used here only the trade of goods for goods or the help where one could. In a few days, there would be a festival at the henge,one held every year in spring to celebrate the coming summer. All the boys and girls from all the neighboring villages attended in huge numbers it was a time for celebration but also a time for the parents of young adults to barter for they're children to be married. With all the commotion during the days the nights leading up to the celebration were quieter than normal. everyone being tired from the day's work men women and children slept early with excitement on the eve of the celebration.
Chuckling quietly to myself as my raiders crept up on the unsuspecting village. they scouted this place days before while everyone was too busy to notice how we crept in the shadows watching and waiting for the perfect time. The urge to burn this happy little village was overwhelming and it was like an itch you couldn't reach, like bugs crawling under your skin." Tonight " I whispered to my men as they passed the word around quickly and quietly to all the other men hiding in the shadows of the forest overlooking the small soon to be burnt to the ground village. A large smile crept uncontrollably across my face as it always did and I began to laugh. It was getting deep into the night, by now the other groups have surrounded and cut off every escape, this place will be routed. I unsheathed my ax from its spot at my hip I didn't bother checking any of my other axes or knives that has already been done several times. There was no signal of this attack but when I began to creap forward so did my men, they were well trained dogs of war. After a hundred or so paces we came up on a dwelling ever so quietly open the unlocked front door creeping quietly across the room to the back where someone slept. By now other groups have gone into other dwellings. I raised my ax high and buried it into a body in the dark,a soft gurgle sounded and blood spurt across my face as I brought the ax up and down again and again I laughed hysterically.
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A frightening laugh in the night woke me up a shape moved towards me in the dark I could see him perfectly a man covered in wolf skins holding a large jagged knife. My body moved on it's own rolling to the side, the knife plunged where I was I threw my sheepskin cover at him. Grabbing at the stool next to me I smashed it over him and he collapsed into a heap. The laughing in the distance continued, I screamed at the top of my lounges " raid it's a raid everyone up" I rushed out of my small dwelling grabbing my bo staff that I had been practicing with recently. I had been practicing with it so I could win that particular competition at the festival. Outside there were multiple shadows dressed in wolf clothing and screams off in the distance one lunged at me I slapped him aside and thrust to his jugular he dropped grabbing at his throat. "Raid" I yelled again as I cracked the side of another wolf's head and he fell limply to the side there were too many so I backed up and ran through the bush there were more waiting I dispatched them easily. The laughing sounded closer now and my heart ached as my town burnt down around me. As I was hiding and moving quietly through the brush I heard a female scream and the sound of men fighting. I quickened my pace seeing Thom who I knew quite well a girl crying behind him on the ground Thom was bleeding while he wrestled with the wolves I quickly came from behind grabbing one and throwing him backwards a good ten feet the second one got a slam with my staff on his knee then his head. " Shit shit shit Thom we have to move and" two arrow shafts sprouted from Thoms chest and he fell backwards. Panic started to well up, my body again moved on it's own grabing the girl and dragged her to safety. An arrow whizzed by me drilling into the tree. Without even noticing my vision widened I could see everything for at least a hundred paces on every direction. There are way to many of them everyone I knew was dead or dying tears welled up in my eyes I forced it down, now was not the time. I easily put the girl on my shoulder I turned to run but a wolf stood right there in front of me but how? I didn't see him coming. He was tall and lanky wearing a dirty blood covered wolfs head and his eyes glimmered red in the moonlight, it was probably due to the fire spreading all around. His head tilted slightly to the side and he smiled and laughed like a mad man his ax was covered in blood.