The Legend of the
Unbound Warriors
by Michael.(Åström)
In China during the Three Kingdom War, the fights between Wu, Wei
and Shu was extremely intence, and though these battles spread
throughout China, there were still some "Unbound Warriors".
These warriors had their reason not to join the war, some could not see
a reason to fight a war that had nothing to do with them, some tried to
keep out until peace was again, tying to create it through sparring lives
and helping eachother, and some was awaiting the right moment to
strike, endless months making preparations, creating plans and bringing
in troops and supplies, to one day set a tremendous strike that would
make the whole China tremble, and some was just sparing eachother,
preparring to fend of anyone who was brave enough to set foot in their
territory.
There was many warriors and even more innocents which was all
damaged one way or another by the war and a youing boy wanted
this all to stop, a farmer named Thi Kiro.
He was born a farmer, just like his father Thi Zu Shen, but unlike his
father Kiro was unsatisfied with the life of a farmer, he wanted
excitment, action and fighting, and instead he got to live a simple
farmers life, doomed to forever live with his father on a downgoing
farm, on a territory whos landlord raised the taxes and did not care one
bit about, neither the war, nore the farmers on his ground.
"This is just awful, said Kiro, I should be on the battlefield or at least in
the training camp in the army... instead I´m here on this farm doing
something completely useless just so that we can live on this steril
ground and farm to feed the soldiers of an army, in a war, in which we
are fighting our own friends, our own family, and still our pig of a
landlord does nothing to stop it, he just sitts there and sends his soldiers
to the other territory for the profit."
" A moving speach my son, Shen said, but as you can see for now thats
the only thing we can do, that and pray for the end of the war"
"I know... but sometimes... I just... I know I can fight and I´m good
at it, I think I would be of better use in the army and maybe I could even
become a landlord, then I could fight and I could change the outcome of
this war"
"It´s dinner, Kiros mum said."
"Let´s go and eat ,Shen said, then you will feel better with som food in
your belly."
Kiro admired his father, even though it was tough times and the war was
ragingn, nomather what happened his father always kept his chin up,
he always seemed to see the positive in things.
The "Dinner" was mostly a bit of rice and some meat from a cow
which had died of starvation and therefor did not have much meat on
it.
Kiro looked on his plate and moved the rice around a bit.
"Whats wrong Kiro? 'Why aren´t you eating?"
"I´m not that hungry...Kiro said, give it to Hao, he needs the energy.
He´s mother took the plate away and fed Thi Hao, Kiros baby brother.
"I´m of to bed, Kiro said"
"Me to ,Shen said, I have to get som sleep today because I´m leaving
a delivery tomorrow".
Their farm was three small houses, one for the women(and Hao),
one for Shen and Kiro and one for the animals (one thin cow, and two
hens).
Kiro and Shen went to their house to sleep, the beds where roughly
made and not soft at all, but as usual Kiro did not care about that
and went to bed in the not so comfortable bed.
" I´m sure the harvest this month, Shen said the rice plants are already
groing!"
"Yes...",Kiro answered.
"Oh, thats right! I got you a gift today."
"A gift?"
"Yeah you talked about how you wanted to be a soldier, so I got you
a little test..."
Shen goed to the wardrobe and tried to fetch something...after a few
secounds he dragged a out a giant sword.
"What the...!", Kiro stumbled.
"I got it from the blacksmith, Shen said, I asked for something to make
my son a real warrior, and he took this sword out, he got it from a
really strong warrior, said he thought it was to heavy, if you try to
lift it each day, you´ll succed eventually."
"Wow... thanks dad... lets strike the sword down in the ground", Kiro
answered.
And with their combined strenght the dragged the sword out and strook
it down the ground.
" When you lift this sword, Shen said, you´ll join the army with my
recomendation."
"Thanks dad, I really appreciate that, Kiro said, YAWN well I´m tired,
we will have to go to sleep now."
And then they went to sleep.
Part 2 coming up