Fates Mistake
this is my first fic so as ive asked please no flames .
disclaimer: i do not own any of the charactors except for shauna and her mom.so please dont sue me!
They came by force.Raided her village and grabbed every able bodied boy.She was amongst that few.But a girl,was it not only boys they wanted? Yes,but fate is cruel sometimes.Shauna was second level warrior.The only female. To protect herself she would bind her breasts and dress as a boy.Her image had damned her.
Shauna was drug from her village, kicking and screaming, by her braid. Her final image ,her mother screaming and face tear stained and reaching to her.Shauna struggled and twisted. She reached for her knife but the roman soldier was quicker,his fist collided with her templeand blackness was all she knew.
When she awoke sometime later ,days ,weeks. She found herself drapped over a horse,her vision swaying makeing her sick . A young man or boy sat beside her guiding the horse.Several others were with him.Their conversation giving them away.She stayed quiet,her warrior instinct not trusting her companions persay.
"Did you see that lad Odissius drug in last night?" said one. "You bet I did! Bastards!!,cant believe they raided that village just 'cause their leader couldnt afford any boys." said another. "It's a sin, that one mother ,see her? sobbing and what not as Odissius drug her son away and then punched the lad for fighten back."this ones voice was quiet. "In fact thats the lad there,layin crossed your horse,aint it Galahad?" "I think so,"said the one Galahad. "yeah it is!"said the one who first spoke. "Wonder who he is and all that stuff."
The talk of her mother startled her into action.'mother' she whispered as she pushed off the horse, diving into a tuck and roll summer sault. She stood and took off in the opposite direction of the procession. The group of boys with her shouted 'hey' and 'get back'. 'Damn! them! they will pay if i get caught!' she though as she tried to run faster.
Suddenly three soldiers tackled her. She fell to the ground growling and cursing in a way that satan would be shamed by. They grabbed her arms and legs and drug her back ,struggleing to hold her. Eventually a fourth soldier came up ,as they got back,and smashed her in the head with the butt of his sword. She saw stars and for the second time,total blackness.
When she awoke this time she was ,again upside down, but instead of drapped over a horse , she was hanging by her wrists and ankles from a branch supported by two horses. She growled and sighed irritated.The horses were mounted by two soldiers. Shauna snarled. One soldier saw and grinned. " Oy! look here,he's woken up!" jested the soldier.The other looked down his nose at her he raised his eyebrows in a disgusted manner. Shauna growled " What!? think your to good for me, bet you think I'm filth huh?" she laughed. " I will laugh at your graves ,may the sarmatian gods curse you for your sins !" the first soldier drew his sword and slapped her in the side with the broad edge of his sword."Silence your filthy sarmatian ass,boy!" The group of boys from earlier glared ,a grudge forming, how the soldiers would pay.
It had been three or four days since they had bound the boyto the branch. He was mostly asleep but when awake he would rain hell on the soldiers . Galahad and Gawain sat together and watched the lad as he tried vainly to get out of his binds. they watched and felt grief for their own.
They had set the branch up betweeen two close standing trees, cuttting notches so that the branch would stay. Shauna hung a few feet off of the ground . The tail of her braid touched the ground.after hanging like this her hands were an ugly purple and her feet,she guessed,as well. If this kept up she'd starve, they had not fed her during the time either.
The soldiers that night watche as the boy struggled weakly to pull his arms and legs free.They made fun and jeered at him. The poor boys wrists and ankles had begun to bleed badley and infection would set in. The soldiers threw scrapes of food at the boy, who was beggining to look gaunt and pale.The boy would either try to catch the food or look over at the soldiers and growl and snarle like a rabid animal. This frightened the soldiers.
After watching this torture go on for to many days Gawain had had enough . that night when all was quiet and not a creaature was sturring,Gawain,with Galahads help would free their brother. Gawain lay curled up as if in sleep while the soldiers wait awake and drank themselves unconscious. As the last soldier passed out ,Gawain crawled over to Galahad and shook him awake.
thats it for this chapter .hope you like it. please review and let me know whats up.
much luv, bad kitty