Even in his panicked state he managed to sneak up on a carriage. Holding tightly to his sword for comfort, the sound of wheels turning on the ground gave him a bit of soothing, Leif didnt think hed be this afraid of war, but he was, borderline terrified, it was war who took his parents away from him and it was war that made him suffer this much, he felt a prickle on his lef eye but quickly rubbed his hand over it. Suddenly the carriage had stopped, not even 30 minutes after it begun moving, there was no way they where far enough from the enemy troops, he felt his chest tighten as he hear the sounds of hooves clopping on the dirt, thankfully no one could see under the tent on the back of the carriage.
???: [Stop the carriage old man!]
A commanding voice sounded.
???: [Do as the boss says and i wont have to cut your tongue off old geezer!]
A sharper, annoying voice followed.
???: [Yuuh.]
A loud, nasal and slightly choked voice boomed. Three people, three different ones, and they are about to open the carriage to steal the old man, what will they do when the see me here? Leif asked himself.
???: [Sherpe, go check the back and Boon go with him.]
Sherpe: [Yes boss!]
Boon: [Yuuh!]
Leif gritted his teeth and clutched the sword harder, he heard their steps coming cloaer once the both of them stepped down from their horses, quickly and panicked Leif unsheathed his sword, holding the handle with all his might, he heard one of the men open the lid of the carriage, the boy screamed pushing the sword up with everything he had, he felt something warm coat his hand, arms and head, he couldn't bear to look up, gritting his teeth and closing his eyes, feelling ss the edge of his blade slid up against soemthing hard and unyielding, he pushed again and again until there was nothing to push it back in.
Boon: [Uhh... uhhh.... Sherpe? Nuuuh! Nuuuuuhh!!!]
He heard the nasal voice once more looking up to see a tall, fat man with a flattened forhead and nose crying with blood covering his face and hands, on his arms a skinny and tall looking man with buckteeth and a big curved nose, his throat teared apart violently, blood gurgling and squirt from the red and blue meat, exposed to the bone of his neck, the fat man cried and wiped the blood off his face.
Boon: [Bruhhh! Big bruuhhh!!]
Leif felt a prickling sensation all over his body, he could barely hokd his sword and felt lightheaded, he had just killed a man, hundreds of different toughts rushed into his mind, but all of the sudden he could only focus on one thing, his ears.
???: [Sherpe! Boon! Whats happening??]
The man with the commanding voice screamed out, Boon looked around.
Boon: [Cap'n... Bruh... bruhh....]
Boon looked up at Leif and veins popped across his forhead.
Boon: [Yooouuu!]
Leif's blood ran cold as he saw the huge man grab the mace he let fall on the ground to hold his brother, thankfully he managed to jump away as Boon destroyed the back of the carriage with a powerful swing, Leif looked back as he left the sheath of his sword behind, faling with his back against the hard soil, he almost fainted when his head knocked against the dirt, but the vision of Boon shattering his head like he did with the carriage allowed him to ignore the pain easily.
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???: [What the..]
Leif looked back to see an older man in a horse, he had a strong nose and a stubble of beard, almost handsome.
???: [Boon get him!]
Boon: [Yuhh!]
The giant replied quickly dashing forward despite his size, smacking the floor with his mace as Leif managed to jump under the carriage, he saw the man jump down from his horse and thinking quickly sticked his sword out, shanking it deep into the mans foot, he heard him curse and fall as he crawled to the other side of the carriage.
???: [Boon! Get the fucker already!]
Boon circled around the carriage but Leif had already crawled from under it, thankfully the man had no armor other then a chestplate, Leif made his sword cut down the best he could, diving in the crook of Boons right arm, he almost let it fall from his grasp but quickly held it firmly again.
Boon: [Uuuuhhh..... Ouchieee!]
Boon managed to swing his massive mace with just his left arm, Leif felt the wind of the attack against his fave as he fell on his back against the floor, turning around and crawling under the carriage again, from under there none of the adults could really get a hold of him, specially Boon, he managed to cut the giants left ankle horizontally from under there, he heard him scream out another time, this time Leif stayed there for a few seconds, huffing to catch his breath and hearing out for the man, despite Boons screams and threats making it hard, he could hear someone step up into the carriage, he heard for the faint sounds of steps just above him, the captain, he had vanished and Leif couldnt see his feet anymore, he heard carefully, ignoring Boons muttering, he could hear the captains breath just above him, a dribble of blood oozed from one of the cracks of the carriage. Leif knew what the man was trying to do, he would wait until Leif tried to crawl out from unde the carriage to kill him, but Leif wouldn't do that, he layed on hi back under the carriage looking up at the cracks, squinting until he caught a glimpse of the mans foot, Leif held his sword up, silently hooking it on the crack, then with all the strength in his body he pushed up, all he heard was a scream of pain and a stream of blood oozing down his blade, the captain swore as much as he could before pulling his foot off the sword, with that Leif made a crawl for it, as fast as he could, getting out from under there and jumping to his feet as fast as he could.
???: [Goddam rat! Fuck!]
The captain face was sweaty and twisted in pain, Boon tried to do something to sooth his captains pain, but what can a huge man like him do?
???: [Get him already Boon! God fucking dammit!]
Boon circled around the carriage once more, holding his made with his left hand, he stood in front of Leif, just now the boy could see how much taller the man was, he heavily swinged down the mace towards the boy, not as quick or a strong but enough so that Leif wouldnt even think of not dodging it, Leif made a risky move, steeping close to Boon, shanking his sword forward and shoving it as far as he could under the mans chestplate, they stood there for a second before Boon let go of his mace, throwing up a great amount of blood, his gruff and ugly face twisting in pain.
Boon: [Guuh... guhhh...]
The man tried to breath, Leif gritted his teeth and pulled the sword out the moved it in again, making the man throw up more blood, they stood there for a couple of seconds as the light faded away from the giants eyes, he fell, but in the process trapping Leif under him, there they layed, Leif under a huge and heavy bleeding corpse, he tried to move, but Boons body just didnt allow it, then he saw it.
???: [Heh... hehehe..... atleast this fucker was usefulll before dying...]
The captain limped over, using his sword as a cane to approach the two, in his fave a smirk as he mocked the dead man.
???: [Now little rat, its just the two of us.... You gave me a trouble i wont lie... mostly because i just insist in getting the most stupid mercenaries known to man, but still.... ill giv you the glory...]
Leif gritted his teeth as he tried his best to get out but Boons body was a great prison, he looked up once more to see the sharp tip of a sword right above his eye.
???: [Ready to die?]
Leif felt something burning come up his throat, he huffed and puffed, sweating with tears prickling on the corners of his eyes.
???: [Hehehe.... just kidding... no one is....]
His mouth and throat where burning up, as if someone had poured hot coal on it, hed felt like he was about to throw up, the imahe of his mothers and fathers heads spiked on spears on the top of a wall, his heart was beating wild on his chest.
???: [Well... lets get to it.]
The burning grew andd grew to his entire body, the prickling sensation building up and covering his skin, tears streaming down his face, he huffed more and more, how much more until the fat fucks body moved? I dont want to die, the captain lifet his sword up, then with a grunt it dived down, but instead of crying Leif felt soemthing comign out of his throat like a mass of blazing energy.
Leif: [[HÁRT]]
Everything blowed up, he felt Boons body be lifted up by the force of the explosion, the captian was nowhere, Leif inhaled and exhaled, as he got up he could see a blue flame dacing over the carriages wood, he looked over up on the road to find the captains body scattered across the dirt, he couldnt find anything that seemed to be Boon but was pretty sure the meat and organs covreinf the side of the road used to be him, the confirmation was the half charred head of the giat rolling down from a small hil just above the rest of the "body".
Leif stepped around to find a man hiding behind a tree nearby, it was the old man who owned the carriage.
Leif: [Umm...]
The man looked at the body in shock that slowly turned into relief.
???: [Wa- Warlock!]
The man jumped to hold tightly to the boys legs, repeaing the word while cried, the boy confused just let him, when he stopped and sat on the road, Leif just remembered a single thing, their ears, he took his sword from the road, there was a faint glint on the base of the blade, two symbols he didn't know glowed softly but quickly stopped, he ignored it just like he ignored the exlosion that just happened, stepping over to the burned up head of the giant man, he tried his best to chop off his ears without messing it up, when he did it he shoved them on the right pocked of his pants, then he went to Sherpe, laying on the back of the carriage, he cut off his big and round ears aswell, wondering if bigger ears payed more, when he starting to walk towards the captain the old man interrupted him.
???: [Mister Warlock, thats Captain Zerk Oos, you should cut off his head and take it with you... I'd bet Commander Persworth would pay atleast 30 copper pieces for a enemy captain.]
Leif found the idea pleasing, doing his best to cut off the soft neck of the man, when explosion happened his neck was turned into a paste inside, but Leif managed, holding the head by the hair, the old man gladly allowed him to sit on the back of the carriage, and the both of them made their to the next camp.