AN- I'm so excited to finally put down all these story ideas swimming around in my head. Well I hope you enjoy! (^_^)
Chapter 1
"My lord, Nagae's army continues to advance, what should we do?" the young scout gasped.
Nagae, a rebel who had led a resistance for years against the Imperial Army and it's rule. Why wouldn't this fool just admit that he can't win and just quite? The general thought to himself quietly.
The general closed his eyes, then opening them slowly he looked down at the battlefield below him.
He watched as infantry grunts were mercilessly slaughtered, as archers sprayed their arrows across the enemy side. Yet, the one thing that interested him the most was one particular enemy soldier, who seemed to sweep amongst the bloodshed with ease, cutting down all those in front of him.
My god, the general thought with a smirk, this man seems to be enjoying this war.
"My lord?" the scout cut into his thoughts, concerned. "General Fai!" he pleaded. "What should we do?"
Fai tore his eyes away from the battlefield and stared down at the man from his horse with a confused look on his face.
"Yes?" he asked innocently.
The scout looked bewildered. How the hell did this man become a General?
"Sir, Nagae's army continues to push as back, soon we'll lose our advantage and have to retreat. We're losing so may men as it is, especially with him out there." the scout sighed, staring down the hill at the warrior who had caught Fai's attention before.
"Who is he?" Fai asked, staring back down at the man on the field.
"General Kurogane, he's one of Nagae's best. I'd say he might even rival you my lord, if you'll pardon my speaking." he muttered, glancing up at his General.
Fai just tilted his head and smiled, before going back to watching the soldier named Kurogane.
How he'd love to face this man on the field. He watched as Kurogane sliced and thrusted his way through Fai's battalion. Then, after beheading yet another unlucky soldier, Kurogane stopped for a moment and turned to the direction of the hill, before staring up at Fai with and unwavering glare.
"Ooh~, how scary!" Fai giggled to the scout. "It's as if he knew that I was watching him."
But the scout just gurgled in a funny way.
Fai turned questionably towards the scout before widening his eyes in shock.
An arrow was producing from the front of the man's stomach, his mouth gave a final gurgle as blood poured out before he dropped to the ground twitching.
Fai had seen many men die, no this wasn't what had shocked him. It was the direction in which the arrow had come. From behind.
He jerked the reins of his horse to turn around, but he wasn't quick enough. An arrow came flying from the forest behind him, piercing his horse. Then another, and more until the beast was down, toppling Fai to the ground.
His head slammed against the ground, and a numbing pain began to engulf him, everything was blurry and a ringing was pounding against his ears.
Everything was getting dark and the last thing he heard was a man commenting on how surprisingly pretty an Imperial General could be.
God, Fai thought, why does my head hurt so damn much?
He opened his eyes slowly, taking in his surroundings.
He was in a fairly large room, with a nice canvas bed and expensive paintings. You would think that he would have been placed in the nice, oversized canvas bed, but no, he had been carelessly dumped on the floor like some dead animal.
"Fuck." he muttered, rubbing his head tentatively.
He staggered over to the door, stumbling out into the hallway.
His eyes widened as he stared up at a large portrait of the rebel Nagae, his creepy pointy beard had been braided and he had so many jewels adorning his fingers that Fai doubted he was able to move at the time.
Well, great, he thought.
He was now occupying his enemy's palace, and God only knows what his captors had in plan for him.
Speaking of captors, he thought suspiciously, where the hell were they. Where was anybody?
There really was nobody, he noticed, as he skipped around the halls as carefree as can be. What was the point of sneaking around if he was already captured.
Then, suddenly, he heard a small muffled noise come from the room he had just passed.
Walking backwards slowly he eyed it curiously before deciding whether or not to open the door as loudly and as obnoxiously as possible.
He smiled to himself, as he inched towards the door slowly, before throwing it open with a large grin plastered on his face.
It seemed to be a conference room, with a large map spread across a long wooden table. And around the table were twenty or so Generals, and the great Nagae himself at the end of the table.
Everybody went silent as Fai just strolled in, looking down at the map calmly, before one of the Generals stood up and grabbed him by the arm.
"Who the hell are you?" he asked, his gaze wandering down Fai's body.
Before Fai could reply the General sitting across the table stood up and gave a low growl.
Fai's smile slowly slipped as he recognized the General. Kurogane-san.
"He's my prize." growled Kurogane.