Chapter: Three
The background of a berserker
"The background of a berserker is like a spreading disease, it lingers and holds a lot of death within its pathway."
Standing slowly was the village leader; sweat dripping down his face as he watched about at the people around him, their terrified faces like a tablex or a still image. Some of them where glancing along to each other, others where looking at their children and some were looking towards him respectively as if to be waiting for him to talk. He staggered backwards slightly, staring down at the never to be alive again body of that village doctor which lay sprawled along the floor, body rolled at its side, rusty blood pouring from those three dangerous holes in the back of his neck. He cleared his throat wiped the sweat from his forehead and spoke, a little shakily.
"I think were safe now."
The others remained quiet, watching him as if he was their saviour.
"That my people.was a berserker."
A few women shrieked, some coiled back as if to be struck by lightning grasping their children, nobody in the village had seen a berserker before, but they had heard stories, most from that old man who used to tell stories back then.
"There be nothin' inviting upon the face, dark an' frightening.." But he was gone now. "If he was alive right now.." The village leaders face was filled with sorrow as he spoke. "If he was alive right now.maybe we'd know a little more, maybe we could find out more about this repulsive breed, maybe even a weakness." A random man lifted his head and spoke up in a booming voice. "It all makes sense now, that ma- no, that beast killed him for a reason, so that we couldn't find these things, maybe we are underestimating it." The man quietened, a child cried out then there was silence. They looked between each other then to their leader as if a cue to continue his speech, which he did. "Why am I haunted so..? Why are well all haunted so?" He muttered slightly to himself tears dropping from his cheeks. "I am to tell you now, to tell you what I know personally about this being which has an incomprehensible plan to kill us. It all started ten years ago when this village was burnt down to the ground from the great fire. It happened within the fire.Many years ago we had a rival village who where jealous of our crops and our people, they swore to fight us, too slam us all to the ground and destroy us completely and this is exactly what they did. They set fire to our crops, which soon caught our wooden huts; they blasted into flames in mere seconds and soon the wild-fire has caught hold of even the grass beneath everything around was ruined. I was there trying to defend the village when it happened, the village doctor Suikotsu had tried to get into a hut to save a child and he had done so, he'd got into the hut anyhow getting out proved to be the problem. A villager from the other village had crept into the hut, I shouted tried to warn Suikotsu but it was too late, Doctor Suikotsu's blood had been shed, and his violent screams where heard, stabbed with a sword that evil mans gruesome intentions to kill someone so innocent. Suikotsu never made it out, neither did the child, but what did emerge was that a terrifying man, nothing was inviting upon the face, dark and frightening...the face of a berserker. He or it howled shrilly as it leaped out from the fire-blazed covered in its own or Suikotsu's blood, then dashing out into the forest. I knew from that day on that, that man had been a berserker, he'd known that the very sight of blood would of allowed him to transform, and killed that innocent doctor. I learnt that berserkers where born normal, but then their lives become pent up with rage and anger, something would of happened to that being to make him transform like that and I believe it was something to do with this village." The people looked up, the village leader below, inspecting their curiosity they had for his story. The village leader turned away began walking down the back steps towards the backdoor. "Go home! Board up the houses and watch your children, that's all I can say for now." Then he was gone.
The background of a berserker
"The background of a berserker is like a spreading disease, it lingers and holds a lot of death within its pathway."
Standing slowly was the village leader; sweat dripping down his face as he watched about at the people around him, their terrified faces like a tablex or a still image. Some of them where glancing along to each other, others where looking at their children and some were looking towards him respectively as if to be waiting for him to talk. He staggered backwards slightly, staring down at the never to be alive again body of that village doctor which lay sprawled along the floor, body rolled at its side, rusty blood pouring from those three dangerous holes in the back of his neck. He cleared his throat wiped the sweat from his forehead and spoke, a little shakily.
"I think were safe now."
The others remained quiet, watching him as if he was their saviour.
"That my people.was a berserker."
A few women shrieked, some coiled back as if to be struck by lightning grasping their children, nobody in the village had seen a berserker before, but they had heard stories, most from that old man who used to tell stories back then.
"There be nothin' inviting upon the face, dark an' frightening.." But he was gone now. "If he was alive right now.." The village leaders face was filled with sorrow as he spoke. "If he was alive right now.maybe we'd know a little more, maybe we could find out more about this repulsive breed, maybe even a weakness." A random man lifted his head and spoke up in a booming voice. "It all makes sense now, that ma- no, that beast killed him for a reason, so that we couldn't find these things, maybe we are underestimating it." The man quietened, a child cried out then there was silence. They looked between each other then to their leader as if a cue to continue his speech, which he did. "Why am I haunted so..? Why are well all haunted so?" He muttered slightly to himself tears dropping from his cheeks. "I am to tell you now, to tell you what I know personally about this being which has an incomprehensible plan to kill us. It all started ten years ago when this village was burnt down to the ground from the great fire. It happened within the fire.Many years ago we had a rival village who where jealous of our crops and our people, they swore to fight us, too slam us all to the ground and destroy us completely and this is exactly what they did. They set fire to our crops, which soon caught our wooden huts; they blasted into flames in mere seconds and soon the wild-fire has caught hold of even the grass beneath everything around was ruined. I was there trying to defend the village when it happened, the village doctor Suikotsu had tried to get into a hut to save a child and he had done so, he'd got into the hut anyhow getting out proved to be the problem. A villager from the other village had crept into the hut, I shouted tried to warn Suikotsu but it was too late, Doctor Suikotsu's blood had been shed, and his violent screams where heard, stabbed with a sword that evil mans gruesome intentions to kill someone so innocent. Suikotsu never made it out, neither did the child, but what did emerge was that a terrifying man, nothing was inviting upon the face, dark and frightening...the face of a berserker. He or it howled shrilly as it leaped out from the fire-blazed covered in its own or Suikotsu's blood, then dashing out into the forest. I knew from that day on that, that man had been a berserker, he'd known that the very sight of blood would of allowed him to transform, and killed that innocent doctor. I learnt that berserkers where born normal, but then their lives become pent up with rage and anger, something would of happened to that being to make him transform like that and I believe it was something to do with this village." The people looked up, the village leader below, inspecting their curiosity they had for his story. The village leader turned away began walking down the back steps towards the backdoor. "Go home! Board up the houses and watch your children, that's all I can say for now." Then he was gone.