This is a story about a squad of soldiers in the Sarafan order at the time
of Blood Omen 2, this is the serious version of the story, a comical
version will be posted later.
This story is called. 'A sword of justice- broken' (chapter 1)
You cannot stop what you cannot see, I never realised how true that phrase was until they came. but the true path of life is one we were not meant to realise.
Allow me to introduce myself; I am Helgmer, a soldier within the Sarafan order. A specialist soldier, designed for high-risk missions.
I joined the order when I was young, my parents and I had been attacked whilst on a journey through the canyons around Meridian. by demons. inhuman monsters. I was powerless to stop them, they slaughtered my parents, they slaughtered my spirit.
Alas however, the Sarafan guards came out and defeated the creatures, and found me, on the brink of death on the floor.
I had nothing to live for, nothing to gain. I joined the Sarafan there and then, with their promises of destroying the demons and prevailing for justice. Only now I come to realise, that justice doesn't come through fighting, justice comes through democracy.
Democracy was something the Sarafan lacked majorly. I was assigned to a squad of three other soldiers, commanded by a man named Karlh.
He was my first 'leader', back then I was just a normal soldier, the normal suit of armour and a short sword as my only weapon. Karlh led us with an iron fist, as did all the other senior members. When I looked to my fellow soldiers for solice and comfort, they blanked me. scared witless that they're superiors would punish them.
My first assignment was normal guard duty. We were set to patrol the grounds of Meridian, to uphold the peace and make sure order was maintained.
"Listen up men, there have been various attacks from violent gangs here, we are on a NO tolerance level, am I understood? No questions asked, simply destroy, we do not have time to argue with the ungrateful." Shouted Karlh "You are to remain at this Ward gate, until I return. remember NO tolerance for anyone."
With this Karlh left. clanking as he moved his heavy armour to the next street.
I turned to my fellow soldiers, there were 4 of us. I did not know them well, I had only spoken to one, his name was Denses. He was a tall strong man, devoutly religious however.
Denses addressed me "Helgmer, you patrol over by those market stalls, while I guard the gate."
I did as the man asked, and walked over to the stall, the other two men patrolled around the gate as well.
The villagers around us had a mixed reaction to our presence, some were scared something was going to happen, others were glad we were there for there protection however many, simply hid from us, not wanting to gather attention.
Through my mind I had often asked myself what I was doing, I did not care about fighting the vampires or serving God. I joined back then out of spite. with misguided feelings.
A few hours later, we were all quite tired. our once beaming dedication to guarding this area had faded. and been replaced with thoughts of whether our commander would ever return.
We were all sitting at a stall; most villagers had gone inside. as curfew was in effect, it was quiet. so peaceful, save for a few animals howling. Only Denses, a man devout to the cause, stood at the Ward gate still.
A man came up to the Ward age and shuffled past, looking warily around and almost jumping back in shock when he caught site of Denses.
"You there!" shouted Denses, such ferocity in his voice. "Curfew is in effect! What are you doing here?!"
The man did not reply, at this point Denses drew his sword.
The two soldiers next to me, began to walk over to the gate, to inspect the situation. The man still had no emotion on his face, he simply glared at Denses.
I look at the Ward gate, the man was still behind its soft glowing green surface.
Then I caught site of a shadow moving around at the top of the gate. slowly falling onto the floor.
It flowed onto the floor on the other side of the gate. to the switch.
"Denses!" I shouted as I got up "Vampir-!"
I was too late, the shadow had already flicked the switch, the gate turned off. and at once the man looked up, his eyes glowing red.
"You foolish Sarafan! Your grip on us shall no longer remain!" hissed the man, immediately the man jumped onto one of the soldiers, severing his neck, blood gushed onto the street.
I jumped to my feet, and drew my sword. the shadow took the form of a woman in front of me.
"You mortal? Do you think you have a chance?" the woman spoke softly to me. Denses and the other soldier both confronted the man, however both were thrown back by its powers. it simply moved its hands and back they went. Denses desperately rose to his feet and tried to slash the creature, however the creature faded, and materialized again behind him. The other soldier still struggling to get to his feet.
I took a step back from the woman. she was intimidating. she focused only on me.
I took the opportunity to attack her first, attacking left, then right and then thrusting. As expected she dodged every attack.
"Try harder soldier, perhaps then maybe your sword may even touch me!" She jested, but she did not realise that swords were dangerous whoever held them.
She tried to attack me, but now I realise how weak she was, demons like her would now barely even gaze at me. Back then this terrified me, my first real combat situation, and it was versus a vampire.
Densus and the other soldier had not a chance, as I spared them a glance, I saw the other soldier with blooding flowing out of his head, he had been thrown into the wall, Densus was swinging wildly at the creature, screaming.
I swung at the woman again, if only to stop her scowling. This time I hit her arm, and she felt pain, I could tell from her facial expression..
"Its not polite to hit a lady you oaf." She screamed. "Lady? Stay back demon!" I said back. wanting to make sure that I, in no way, would show her mercy due to her sexuality.
I had been prepared to fend off the legions of the damned and evil, but I had been trained to fight bloodthirsty creatures. soulless wretches of pure evil, this woman did not appear to be pure evil, although that's the impression she would have liked to convey.
When I realised this, I found a newfound strength. these creatures were just like any other opponents except stronger and faster. that's when I lost my fear and found my inner strength for the first time.
She prepared to claw me, but I did not fear her. no wait, maybe I did fear her. but not for the way she fought, but for the way she was once like me, a normal human.
"Demon, I shall rest your tormented soul." I spoke softly to her, and I knew she felt fear in my words.
I slashed once with my sword hitting her arm that blocked it, but instead of stopping there I pushed with an inner strength. a holy power. a unearned skill. through her arm.
She fell to the floor at the power of the push but quickly regained balance. "What?. What is this?!" She screamed violently attacking me. Her attacks, although frantic, were powerful and threw me back off balance. however although her body was there, her mind was filled with fear and disturbance, she was making mistakes.
One of these mistakes was to overswing out of her anger, she just wanted to destroy me. She over swung with one claw, I seized this opportunity to draw back and charge up.
Her eyes took a look of disbelief as my dagger piecered her body. She let out a small welp as blood poured from the wound and fell the floor.
I delivered the finishing blow to the head quickly, a few seconds later and she would recover, possibly putting me in the position I had sent her into, except the difference is I would not recover.
I had defeated a member of the undead, a foe in a time of 'light'. However I felt no satisfaction. my hands were dirty, with the blood of death and murder.
"ARGH!" Denses screamed. "Defeat me you may demon, but. the demon horde. will. fa..ll.."
Denses was dead, my whole squad was dead. I was truly alone, with a creature that had killed three men.
It seemed I would not return as a hero, but as a failure at the hands of this vampire lord. He was a powerful man, he had powers, and wore a long red coat, a tall man, unflinching.
"Well done mortal, well done, you killed one of our kind, that will just give me even more reason to kill you." The being walked towards me, trying to force his way into me, to raise his hand and throw me away with his powers, dismiss me as he would dismiss any normal soldier.
Raise his hand he would've when I was that unskilled, raised his hand and thrown me into the next realm.
My life should've ended then, thinking back, my life did end then. That was the time I met one of the Elitist squads of the Sarafan.
An arrow hit my opponent, as soon as I saw the arrow, he had moved. Yet the arrow was still inside him, his cape was burning.
"Who is there?! Another army of mortals for me to feed on?!" The vampire laughed, removing his great red cape.
Then I heard them, no, more like it. I heard its voice then.
"No" said one voice form the shadow. "We gave up being mortals a long time ago." Said a woman's voice from a shadow elsewhere. From both shadows came two warriors, they both had the Sarafan symbol embedded deep in their armour.
The man, incredibly talk and well built, his eyes hidden with a piece of face armour, he wielded a grand sword and shield. his armour truly glistening.
The woman was beautiful; her armour was similar to that of the man, however her armour was not as grand or large, it was simple, designed for agility.
The vampire simply scowled, no longer caring about me it simply pushed me aside and jumped in between the two, growling.
"Go ahead demon, try your luck." The man said.
The demon rose its hand, almost laughing, I could see waves being pushed from its hand. The man raised his hand too, his armour seemed to glisten as that of Glyph armour.
"Don't rely on your magic vampire." The man said courageously. "A human with magic?! Impossible! A trick, heh you must rely on your armour!" the vampire laughed back, failing to believe.
The vampire went to swing again, but was stopped by yet another flaming arrow. this one pierced his body. He howled, howled in pain, the vampire dodged instantly, almost flying to the other side of the market.
As soon as the vampire was in mid-air, another flaming arrow launched, the vampire was going too fast to change direction and so was hit yet again.
"Cowards! Where are you hiding?" The vampire screamed.
"M'kelith, is not hiding vampire, you are simply too weak. too foolish to notice his presence." The man said, advancing towards the vampire. "M'kelith, allow me to take things from here."
The woman stood, looking almost bored. did she not realise this was a vampire?! At that time, my heart was racing.
The vampire took the opportunity to pounce at the man, the man simply pushed him back raising his hand again.
The vampire growled at he stood up, he took one claw back and prepared to hit the man, the man made no effort to defend as the vampire almost glowed with power.
The vampire hit forward, red power emanating from his attack. When the power left, the man was still standing there. in the same place.
"That was meant to hurt I presume?" The man laughed heartily.
At this point the vampire prepared to run again, he ran straight backwards. into the woman.
This was impossible, the woman had been on the other side of the market one moment ago, there was no possible way she would have been able to get to the vampire.
"Going somewhere darlin'?" the woman said.
The vampire tried to push her out the way, but she somersaulted over him and placed a dagger in his shoulder as she jumped.
The vampire tried to react by clawing up, but she was already on the floor next to him, she struggled in pain.
The man then advanced and bore his huge sword through the vampire's body, raising him high, pierced on this sword and slowly sliding down.
"M'kelith, dispose of this. creature." The man commanded.
At that point an arrow hit the vampire's head, than another hit his shoulder, and one finally on his leg.
The vampire erupted into flames as he was thrown off the sword onto the floor.
The vampire tried one, final attack and lunged at the man. The woman intercepted him in the air and took him to the floor, placing another dagger in its heart.
One final arrow hit the vampire, and it turned to ashes. the mighty demon that had killed my whole squad. defeated by two soldiers and an arrow- wielding marksman.
At this point, that was extra-ordinary to me, but alas. I would find myself commanding these powers myself.
The man and woman looked around at me, and another figure slowly floated down from the sky.
"Defeated a female vampire all by himself, is he one of the new?" said the Woman. "Mmm, I sense it. he is." The man addressed the woman and then turned to me. "Allow me to introduce myself soldier, I am Weq, I mean you no harm soldier, your name and rank soldier?" The man addressed me.
"He.helgmer sir, I am a recruit." I stuttered. "I am in Priest Karlh's squad. how. what. who are you?"
"We are your family Helgmer, you say you are a recruit, but that was not the rank I was referring to, heh, by rank I meant, are you still a mortal, or are you ready to become a hero?" The man said, picking me up.
All those days ago I remember how I replied.a reply that would govern my entire life. "A hero sire, I am a hero." I had replied. "Good, because if you had replied otherwise I would have had to kill you here." Weq had replied. "You will follow us brother, follow us past these streets of death and mortals to a better place. I will explain everything to you fully, when we are no longer being followed."
The man beckoned to me to follow, I had wondered, what did he mean by being followed?
It's only at times like this, when you can look back and realise how foolish you were. However it's only at those times, when you could have dreamed. now my dreams are lost.
Ok this is the first chapter, I will get on chapter 2 later. I think there will be 3 chapters and when I complete them, I will complete the comedy story.
This story is called. 'A sword of justice- broken' (chapter 1)
You cannot stop what you cannot see, I never realised how true that phrase was until they came. but the true path of life is one we were not meant to realise.
Allow me to introduce myself; I am Helgmer, a soldier within the Sarafan order. A specialist soldier, designed for high-risk missions.
I joined the order when I was young, my parents and I had been attacked whilst on a journey through the canyons around Meridian. by demons. inhuman monsters. I was powerless to stop them, they slaughtered my parents, they slaughtered my spirit.
Alas however, the Sarafan guards came out and defeated the creatures, and found me, on the brink of death on the floor.
I had nothing to live for, nothing to gain. I joined the Sarafan there and then, with their promises of destroying the demons and prevailing for justice. Only now I come to realise, that justice doesn't come through fighting, justice comes through democracy.
Democracy was something the Sarafan lacked majorly. I was assigned to a squad of three other soldiers, commanded by a man named Karlh.
He was my first 'leader', back then I was just a normal soldier, the normal suit of armour and a short sword as my only weapon. Karlh led us with an iron fist, as did all the other senior members. When I looked to my fellow soldiers for solice and comfort, they blanked me. scared witless that they're superiors would punish them.
My first assignment was normal guard duty. We were set to patrol the grounds of Meridian, to uphold the peace and make sure order was maintained.
"Listen up men, there have been various attacks from violent gangs here, we are on a NO tolerance level, am I understood? No questions asked, simply destroy, we do not have time to argue with the ungrateful." Shouted Karlh "You are to remain at this Ward gate, until I return. remember NO tolerance for anyone."
With this Karlh left. clanking as he moved his heavy armour to the next street.
I turned to my fellow soldiers, there were 4 of us. I did not know them well, I had only spoken to one, his name was Denses. He was a tall strong man, devoutly religious however.
Denses addressed me "Helgmer, you patrol over by those market stalls, while I guard the gate."
I did as the man asked, and walked over to the stall, the other two men patrolled around the gate as well.
The villagers around us had a mixed reaction to our presence, some were scared something was going to happen, others were glad we were there for there protection however many, simply hid from us, not wanting to gather attention.
Through my mind I had often asked myself what I was doing, I did not care about fighting the vampires or serving God. I joined back then out of spite. with misguided feelings.
A few hours later, we were all quite tired. our once beaming dedication to guarding this area had faded. and been replaced with thoughts of whether our commander would ever return.
We were all sitting at a stall; most villagers had gone inside. as curfew was in effect, it was quiet. so peaceful, save for a few animals howling. Only Denses, a man devout to the cause, stood at the Ward gate still.
A man came up to the Ward age and shuffled past, looking warily around and almost jumping back in shock when he caught site of Denses.
"You there!" shouted Denses, such ferocity in his voice. "Curfew is in effect! What are you doing here?!"
The man did not reply, at this point Denses drew his sword.
The two soldiers next to me, began to walk over to the gate, to inspect the situation. The man still had no emotion on his face, he simply glared at Denses.
I look at the Ward gate, the man was still behind its soft glowing green surface.
Then I caught site of a shadow moving around at the top of the gate. slowly falling onto the floor.
It flowed onto the floor on the other side of the gate. to the switch.
"Denses!" I shouted as I got up "Vampir-!"
I was too late, the shadow had already flicked the switch, the gate turned off. and at once the man looked up, his eyes glowing red.
"You foolish Sarafan! Your grip on us shall no longer remain!" hissed the man, immediately the man jumped onto one of the soldiers, severing his neck, blood gushed onto the street.
I jumped to my feet, and drew my sword. the shadow took the form of a woman in front of me.
"You mortal? Do you think you have a chance?" the woman spoke softly to me. Denses and the other soldier both confronted the man, however both were thrown back by its powers. it simply moved its hands and back they went. Denses desperately rose to his feet and tried to slash the creature, however the creature faded, and materialized again behind him. The other soldier still struggling to get to his feet.
I took a step back from the woman. she was intimidating. she focused only on me.
I took the opportunity to attack her first, attacking left, then right and then thrusting. As expected she dodged every attack.
"Try harder soldier, perhaps then maybe your sword may even touch me!" She jested, but she did not realise that swords were dangerous whoever held them.
She tried to attack me, but now I realise how weak she was, demons like her would now barely even gaze at me. Back then this terrified me, my first real combat situation, and it was versus a vampire.
Densus and the other soldier had not a chance, as I spared them a glance, I saw the other soldier with blooding flowing out of his head, he had been thrown into the wall, Densus was swinging wildly at the creature, screaming.
I swung at the woman again, if only to stop her scowling. This time I hit her arm, and she felt pain, I could tell from her facial expression..
"Its not polite to hit a lady you oaf." She screamed. "Lady? Stay back demon!" I said back. wanting to make sure that I, in no way, would show her mercy due to her sexuality.
I had been prepared to fend off the legions of the damned and evil, but I had been trained to fight bloodthirsty creatures. soulless wretches of pure evil, this woman did not appear to be pure evil, although that's the impression she would have liked to convey.
When I realised this, I found a newfound strength. these creatures were just like any other opponents except stronger and faster. that's when I lost my fear and found my inner strength for the first time.
She prepared to claw me, but I did not fear her. no wait, maybe I did fear her. but not for the way she fought, but for the way she was once like me, a normal human.
"Demon, I shall rest your tormented soul." I spoke softly to her, and I knew she felt fear in my words.
I slashed once with my sword hitting her arm that blocked it, but instead of stopping there I pushed with an inner strength. a holy power. a unearned skill. through her arm.
She fell to the floor at the power of the push but quickly regained balance. "What?. What is this?!" She screamed violently attacking me. Her attacks, although frantic, were powerful and threw me back off balance. however although her body was there, her mind was filled with fear and disturbance, she was making mistakes.
One of these mistakes was to overswing out of her anger, she just wanted to destroy me. She over swung with one claw, I seized this opportunity to draw back and charge up.
Her eyes took a look of disbelief as my dagger piecered her body. She let out a small welp as blood poured from the wound and fell the floor.
I delivered the finishing blow to the head quickly, a few seconds later and she would recover, possibly putting me in the position I had sent her into, except the difference is I would not recover.
I had defeated a member of the undead, a foe in a time of 'light'. However I felt no satisfaction. my hands were dirty, with the blood of death and murder.
"ARGH!" Denses screamed. "Defeat me you may demon, but. the demon horde. will. fa..ll.."
Denses was dead, my whole squad was dead. I was truly alone, with a creature that had killed three men.
It seemed I would not return as a hero, but as a failure at the hands of this vampire lord. He was a powerful man, he had powers, and wore a long red coat, a tall man, unflinching.
"Well done mortal, well done, you killed one of our kind, that will just give me even more reason to kill you." The being walked towards me, trying to force his way into me, to raise his hand and throw me away with his powers, dismiss me as he would dismiss any normal soldier.
Raise his hand he would've when I was that unskilled, raised his hand and thrown me into the next realm.
My life should've ended then, thinking back, my life did end then. That was the time I met one of the Elitist squads of the Sarafan.
An arrow hit my opponent, as soon as I saw the arrow, he had moved. Yet the arrow was still inside him, his cape was burning.
"Who is there?! Another army of mortals for me to feed on?!" The vampire laughed, removing his great red cape.
Then I heard them, no, more like it. I heard its voice then.
"No" said one voice form the shadow. "We gave up being mortals a long time ago." Said a woman's voice from a shadow elsewhere. From both shadows came two warriors, they both had the Sarafan symbol embedded deep in their armour.
The man, incredibly talk and well built, his eyes hidden with a piece of face armour, he wielded a grand sword and shield. his armour truly glistening.
The woman was beautiful; her armour was similar to that of the man, however her armour was not as grand or large, it was simple, designed for agility.
The vampire simply scowled, no longer caring about me it simply pushed me aside and jumped in between the two, growling.
"Go ahead demon, try your luck." The man said.
The demon rose its hand, almost laughing, I could see waves being pushed from its hand. The man raised his hand too, his armour seemed to glisten as that of Glyph armour.
"Don't rely on your magic vampire." The man said courageously. "A human with magic?! Impossible! A trick, heh you must rely on your armour!" the vampire laughed back, failing to believe.
The vampire went to swing again, but was stopped by yet another flaming arrow. this one pierced his body. He howled, howled in pain, the vampire dodged instantly, almost flying to the other side of the market.
As soon as the vampire was in mid-air, another flaming arrow launched, the vampire was going too fast to change direction and so was hit yet again.
"Cowards! Where are you hiding?" The vampire screamed.
"M'kelith, is not hiding vampire, you are simply too weak. too foolish to notice his presence." The man said, advancing towards the vampire. "M'kelith, allow me to take things from here."
The woman stood, looking almost bored. did she not realise this was a vampire?! At that time, my heart was racing.
The vampire took the opportunity to pounce at the man, the man simply pushed him back raising his hand again.
The vampire growled at he stood up, he took one claw back and prepared to hit the man, the man made no effort to defend as the vampire almost glowed with power.
The vampire hit forward, red power emanating from his attack. When the power left, the man was still standing there. in the same place.
"That was meant to hurt I presume?" The man laughed heartily.
At this point the vampire prepared to run again, he ran straight backwards. into the woman.
This was impossible, the woman had been on the other side of the market one moment ago, there was no possible way she would have been able to get to the vampire.
"Going somewhere darlin'?" the woman said.
The vampire tried to push her out the way, but she somersaulted over him and placed a dagger in his shoulder as she jumped.
The vampire tried to react by clawing up, but she was already on the floor next to him, she struggled in pain.
The man then advanced and bore his huge sword through the vampire's body, raising him high, pierced on this sword and slowly sliding down.
"M'kelith, dispose of this. creature." The man commanded.
At that point an arrow hit the vampire's head, than another hit his shoulder, and one finally on his leg.
The vampire erupted into flames as he was thrown off the sword onto the floor.
The vampire tried one, final attack and lunged at the man. The woman intercepted him in the air and took him to the floor, placing another dagger in its heart.
One final arrow hit the vampire, and it turned to ashes. the mighty demon that had killed my whole squad. defeated by two soldiers and an arrow- wielding marksman.
At this point, that was extra-ordinary to me, but alas. I would find myself commanding these powers myself.
The man and woman looked around at me, and another figure slowly floated down from the sky.
"Defeated a female vampire all by himself, is he one of the new?" said the Woman. "Mmm, I sense it. he is." The man addressed the woman and then turned to me. "Allow me to introduce myself soldier, I am Weq, I mean you no harm soldier, your name and rank soldier?" The man addressed me.
"He.helgmer sir, I am a recruit." I stuttered. "I am in Priest Karlh's squad. how. what. who are you?"
"We are your family Helgmer, you say you are a recruit, but that was not the rank I was referring to, heh, by rank I meant, are you still a mortal, or are you ready to become a hero?" The man said, picking me up.
All those days ago I remember how I replied.a reply that would govern my entire life. "A hero sire, I am a hero." I had replied. "Good, because if you had replied otherwise I would have had to kill you here." Weq had replied. "You will follow us brother, follow us past these streets of death and mortals to a better place. I will explain everything to you fully, when we are no longer being followed."
The man beckoned to me to follow, I had wondered, what did he mean by being followed?
It's only at times like this, when you can look back and realise how foolish you were. However it's only at those times, when you could have dreamed. now my dreams are lost.
Ok this is the first chapter, I will get on chapter 2 later. I think there will be 3 chapters and when I complete them, I will complete the comedy story.