Octavius POV
Chapter 2: A little battle
I looked behind me at my army. All my men were ready for the fight and waited for my command. Then I looked ahead of me again. I could see how the German troops went down with a rope as quickly as they could. I was totally convinced that I could conquered those uncontrolled groups with one simple attack.
But I have to admit, those Germans don't look like I suspected. What I know about Germans is that they are unshaved, wear animal skins as clothes and they don't know the word bath. Instead those men are pretty clean and their clothes are nothing like animal skins. Now that I'm writing this down I start to hesitate: are those men actually Germans?
~Jedie and Ockie~
Anyway, on the plain my eyes found the man I talked to a hour ago. He rode ahead on his spotted horse again and he still looked as gruff and angry as when we met. Still his eyes looked calm. I rode on my black stallion towards Jedediah. He saw me coming and rode also towards me. When we reached each other we both stopped.
"You have still the chance to surrender yourself," I said before he could say something.
"Are you a Roman?" he asked immediately and ignored my question.
"Yes," I replied.
"But how did you came here then?" He rude continued asking. "Did the Romans also dominate America? No, that can't be true, America wasn't even discovered back then." The pioneer, the name he gave himself, looked confused at me. He kept his head a little skewed while he looked at me.
"The Romans never dominated America," I answered him. "Honestly, I never heard of America before."
"You're lying," the man before said with a calm voice. "You're just lying, you can't be a Roman."
"And why shouldn't I be a Roman? Who gave you the right to decided that? I am definitely a Roman!" I said and I started to lose my calm.
"You should be death for 1500 years!" he yelled so loud that both our looked up. I didn't know how to reply and I felt really offended.
"Once you and your men are under my care I will unlearn you those shameful words and manners."
"How do you look at me?" the barbarian still loudly yelled. "As a horse who needs to be tamed? Or a young dog who has to learn some commands? You're just a liar. You hear me, fake Roman. I don't know where you came from and I don't know if you're really that bad as what you make me think now, but believe me when I say that I will never give up and I will fight against you forever. You can't stop me."
The only thing I could read in his eyes were anger and I've never been so afraid for someone before. I hided my fear and tried to speak threaten. "You speak nice. But you will see, the Roman Empire will grow and there is nothing you can do about it."
"We'll see," he now whispered instead of the yelling. As if we agreed we both turned around after his words and we rode back to our armies.
"Prepare the catapults," I said when I reached my men. "Archer, stay ready to shoot." Within a minute they all should be ready to fire.
The other army before us just waited for us. Jedediah kept on looking at me. I ignored him and tried to concentrate on my army. Finally all the catapults were ready and I didn't hesitate for a moment: "Release hell!"
Arrows and stones flew towards our enemy. For a few seconds Jedediah didn't knew what to do, but then he strutted his horse and galloped towards us. His men followed quickly and I knew I had to attack too.
"Forward! Attack!" I yelled so whole my cavalry could hear me. I strutted my horse to a gallop and I could hear my troops behind me. Jedediah rode straight towards me and I rode directly towards him. Those little seconds when we rode towards each other felt like a hour, but finally we reached each other.
My sword slammed hard against the thing Jedediah held in his hand. I have no idea what it was or what it should be, but after the slam that weapon landed hard on the back of my helmet. I grabbed my sword even tighter and hit Jedediah's side. Even though the blow was fine, the thing I expected didn't came. I couldn't see a drop of blood on Jedediah's clothes when it should have been there. On that very moment I saw what I should have seen a lot early: my sword was terrible blunt.
Again that weird weapon came down towards me. I was just in time to parry it with my sword, but the slam was hard enough to push me of my horse. In a reflect I grabbed the closet thing in my way and that was Jedediah's weird weapon. Jedediah and I both fell on the ground, but in a few second we both stood up and were ready to attack again.
But then the ground started to shake and I could hear two loud voices above me. I looked above and saw two giants not so far away from us. I clearly heard what they said to each other.
"Those started fighting too?" "How are we ever going to separate them again? They are a lot smaller and with so many." "Of course they are smaller, they are miniature. But come on, we gonna brush them away from each other."
After that the giants walked away. Our little battle was over. Nobody fought anymore, we all were stiffed with fear for the giants we just saw. I looked at my right and saw how Jedediah looked amazed at me. And on that moment the giants came back.
And the second chapter is finished! ^^
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