A/N: enjoy
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In the king's throne room
"What the hell are these abomination's?" yelled the king, standing up from his throne the fury evident in his voice.
The king was well known for his short temper and tendency to behead those who angered him. The elder gulped nervously, knowing that he would have to tread carefully from here on out if he wanted to keep his head attached to his body.
"These creatures my lord, are my creation that will help keep your family in power until the end of time."
"HOW CAN THEY DO THAT!" he yelled, this time even louder than before, "they look like they will barely survive the next week."
"That is because they are still young, I just completed the spell yesterday and they are already beginning to grow bigger."
It was true, the two babies had grown bigger but still looked quite weak despite their growth.
The king sank back into his throne, the anger still there but had subsided to much safer levels. Feeling more confident the elder continued.
"If all goes correctly they shall to quite a large height and strength maybe even to challenge the likes of you, my lord."
The king grumbled angrily, "that is all well and good but you are still yet to tell me how they will live up to your claims of keeping my family in power for eternity."
The elder nodded hurriedly, "I created these using an ancient spell, binding them to your family's blood line, making them immortal so long as they don't fall in battle or as long as your bloodline still exists. They will completely loyal only to members of your family and will fight to the death to protect them from any danger."
The king nodded, looking slightly behind him where his young daughter slept soundly. He worried that he would soon be unable to protect her.
But he was not entirely trusting of the elders magic. He had a lot of experiences with beings of magic and while one had resulted in the birth of his daughter, the others had not been so enjoyable.
The king shook his head, "I will not allow your abominations anywhere near my family. Now take them from my sight."
The king rose and went to go his chambers. As he closed the door he saw the elder pick up the two creatures and began to walk out of the throne room. He knew that he had angered the elder, but he had promised somebody dear to him to never use anything the elder offered him. The person had told him that if he did not follow through on his promise, his family would be cursed forever.
In the elders cave
The elder was angry, he had tried his best, sacrificed most of his life to protect his lord and his family. And he finally came up with, and succeeded in creating creatures that will protect them long after he himself was gone.
He looked at the two creatures, they had already started to crawl around on all fours. He already began to see the similarities between them and the great wolves in the woods.
He grabbed a rabbit carcass from it's place hanging from the roof and tossed, skin and all to the two monsters. The immediately pounced and started to rip apart the rabbit, sending pieces of flesh and bone everywhere.
He looked at them in satisfaction,"one day," he thought,"one day the king will see that my creations are trustworthy."
Twelve years later
The kings fifteen year old daughter walked the dirt roads that spread throughout the town. Her dad's great hall was on top of a hill that looked over everything for miles, except for one side where a big forest resided. The king had started to look older, the talk of the people circulated around the idea that soon, the king will die and she will become their ruler.
She was so distracted that she did not notice the fact that she had wandered outside of the walls, and into area between the farmers fields and the great forest, when she did notice where she was, she immediately strode towards the forest. When she was younger, her dad would warn her that the forest was haunted, and too never go in there. She had always been curious, and now that there was nobody to stop her she took the opportunity to satisfy her curiosity.
When she entered the forest, she discovered that it was so dark in the forest that it was almost impossible to see.
"Well, well, what do we have here?" said a voice from the dark.
Before she could react, a pair of strong hands grabbed her and before she could scream. The left side of her head exploded in pain and the world went black.
The next day
Panick. That was the only word that could describe the king's mood. He had woken up and realized that his beloved daughter was missing. He ordered everyone to drop their daily activities and search for her.
The king sat on his throne, his head in his hands. Suddenly the big wooden doors burst open, revealing a group of strange looking people.
For one they wore strange looking armour. While his people wore animal skins, these people had armour made of silvery metal. They wore helmets on their heads made of the strange looking medal, the man that led the group had a helmet like the rest, but he was the only one to have a red plume on top of it.
"Great king," said the lead man,"we are soldiers of the Roman empire, and we have come to-."
"I know why you are here." the king interrupted. It was true, he had heard of the Roman empire. They had fought and defeated the greeks and now they had set their sights on the tribes surrounding their empire. Their methods for converting tribes to their cause were quite effective, they would either let the tribe peacefully join them or if they refused then they would use force.
"Excellente," said the soldier, "then you will peacefully join the Roman empire? Like so many of your other savage brethren have."
The king's famous anger was sparked to life.
Standing up and striding over to the soldiers, who put their hands on their weapons. the king's personal guard also had their hands on their weapons, said king towered over the Roman leader.
"Listen here Roman." growled the king, "I am not like those other tribes you forced into slavery. And if you intend on trying the same with me and my people, you will be in for the fight that not even your gods would have thought possible."
To the king's surprise the Roman was smiling.
"But my king. What will your daughter think?"
The king was shocked. "What do mean? What have you done with my daughter!"
The Roman just laughed, "she is safe back at my camp. And will continue to be so long as you cooperate with the the Emperor's demands. You have two days to decide."
With that they turned around and marched out the throne room.
The king watched them go. He felt angrier than ever before but he didn't know what he could do. He didn't trust the Roman, but he was not going to risk the life of his daughter by marching his army to the Roman camp and attempting to rescue her.. On the other hand if he submitted to Roman rule then his people would overthrow him, killing him and his daughter for not fighting the Romans.
Suddenly an old memory resurfaced and with it a plan began to develop. He turned towards his bodyguards.
"Make sure they actually leave and find out where they made their camp."
They nodded in unison and started towards the door, one of them turned around questioningly.
"But my lord, what are you going to do?"
The king looked at him grimly, "I'm going to do something that I promised myself I would never do."
Later that day, after his troops had returned and informed him of the Romans location. He set out for the elders cave, hoping that he had forgiven him for rejecting him all those years ago.
