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Chapter 2
Sorry it took so long to update.Thanks for the great reviews,for my first fan fic I am pleased with the great reviews.
Raki Xenas son: Thank you. Gabrielle's wanting revenge is going to be on Eve but originally not for what you think. But I think I just might use that idea to add on to my original reason for her revenge. Now,on to Chapter 2.
Gabrielle is riding her black horse,Vetos,with her men following behind her.Gabrielle's shoulder length blonde hair waved slightly in the gentle breeze that filled the Greek air. She was riding by an Amazon village,one of the only lucky few left standing that her men haven't sieged. She let out a sigh,her hate filled eyes looking for any sign of Eve,even though she heavily doubted she would be in this part of Greece.
"My Lord,why should we spare this village unlike the others? I say we siege those witches and burn their daughters and sisters in front of them. I hear that centaur,Xenan, and his son,Borias,live there!" exclaimed Theos.The memories returned to Gabrielle.Ephiny,the birth of Ephiny's son,Xenan.Then the time when she and Xenan reunited,and she helped the delivery of Ephiny's grandson,Borias.
"No! We are leaving this village at peace and if any of you even set a glance at that village I will severe your Achilles' tendons and feed them to Vetos!" ordered Gabrielle. She wouldn't have done this 3 years ago,but that was 3 years ago.Now she was alone,Xena's spirit had left her heart,and now she was after Eve for revenge.Xena was gone,Eve was the only person close enough to Xena who was still alive according to rumors. Gabrielle also remembered Joxer,Eve killing him. Not even showing him a second's mercy. Xena wasn't here anymore to save the precious Messenger of Eli. No,this time,Gabrielle was going to finish what she had started 4 years ago. She was going to find Eve and kill her. But this time,on her own free will,and she was going to torture Eve as well.
"Hyah!",Gabrielle yelled,ordering Vetos to pick up the pace a little.She made her way past the village and heard shouting in the background. She stopped Vetos and turned around,she saw her army moving towards the Amazon village. "No,I told them to spare the damn village!" Gabrielle shouted. She screamed,kicking Vetos' sides,setting Vetos galloping towards the Amazon village. Gabrielle quickly grabbed the chakram and threw it.The chakram whistled through the air and starting colliding and bouncing off of the warriors' weapons,sending the weapons flying a few feet away from them. She then caught the chakram as it flew back to her. She put it away and watched as her men grabbed their weapons and ran to the village again.
"Clearly…they're idiots."She had no choice but to jump off of her horse and run towards the village.She would not send her horse into a now burning village. As she made her way towards the village she had to fight off her guarding men.She yelled as she swiped at them,stabbing them,slaughtering them. The sound of flesh tearing,blood rushing,women and children screaming,and Xenan. Xenan was,at least in Gabrielle's guess, being killed. She couldn't let it happen,she was determined to save the Amazon village. She killed her last warrior and made her way into the village. She stopped in her tracks,not believing what she saw. The whole village…destroyed. Fire was in the paths, on the roofs of houses, everywhere. Gabrielle's Amazon village was done for. She walked in horror as she saw the corpses of dead Amazons and their children. She then saw a dead young Centaur. "Borias…" Gabrielle held the tears in as she made her way farther into the village. Then,suspended from hooks over a fire,was the fresh, dead corpse of Xenan, Ephiny's Centaur son.
"No!",cried Gabrielle. She saw her mean chuckling at the sight of Xenan's dead body. Her compassionate look turned into a look full of anger and rage. She yelled and ran towards the men. She sliced one's arm off and stabbed him in the heart. She decapitated another. She then walked up to Theos and pulled him over to the fire.
"Do you see this! This is exactly what I wanted to avoid with this village,Theos! But no,you had to head over here and kill all of these people when I ordered to spare them. Normally, I would just kill you. But I wanna watch you suffer. I'm gonna do you a favor, and help you get used to flames, because in Hell, that's what you're gonna be in!"With that said,Gabrielle then grabbed Theos by the shoulders and threw him into the fire.Theos screamed. Gabrielle then sat there in front of the fire on her knees, feeling sadness and mourning death for the first time in 3 years.
I know the last chapter was a little short,but hopefully this one was longer. I tried to go a little more in depth with Gabrielle being a warlord,but I figured I might show the old Gabrielle with the compassion and the mourning at the end. But will she turn to the good side,or is this one village of familiar innocents not enough to turn the warlord back into the Gabrielle we all loved? The next chapter she will be in Amphipolis and she will meet a few unsuspecting people. I will also have Gabrielle relive a few past sieges from Gabrielle's warlord days and use that to go a little more in depth with Gabrielle's "dark side" as I like to call it.