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After Xander the brutal and his army had liberated Athens, many of the soldiers went to find shelter for the night. Almost all of Athens' citizens offered a bed and some food to the soldiers. As they settled down for the night, rumours had started around the roman legions that a group of Greek rebels were coming soon, and the leader was a ruthless warrior, he had already bested two of the Legions best warriors.
In the morning, as the sun rose, the Greeks were already on the march for Boeotia. As the Romans, had expected the Greeks they had doubled their defences in the city of Thebes. As the Greeks, approached the city, Xander had decided to siege the city. Xander had split his force in half, half would stay with him in the north and the other in the south being led by Axion of Thebes.
The Greeks waited for, the signal from their General Xander the brutal. He gave a loud whistle, which could be heard from all over, the Romans stood ready in their defence positions, the Greeks had ladders up on the city walls, on the loud whistle, the Greeks climbed onto the ladders and up they started to take out the Roman sentries on the walls. As the Greeks successful got onto the walls, they looked down into the city and they could see the 6th Roman legion split across the city, ready to fight the "Invaders."
Every Greek looked at Xander, as he jumped straight down, into a bale of hay, he then left it and ran straight into battle. Even though, he had taken part in many battles, his armour was still clean and prestige. Xander, had taken out many of the Roman soldiers that had crossed his path in search of the Roman commander, eventually a Roman in prestige armour, his cape was purple and it swayed with the wind. "Xander the Brutal." Praetor Octavianus Canutius spoke, he was a 6ft tall man, with dirty blonde hair and sky blue eyes, the wind seemed to stop at his command. "I take it; you are my next kill." Xander scowled, at the wind stopping.
The Praetor was wielding the standard Roman shield and a pilum, the Pilum seemed to have lighting engraved in it. Xander, had his spear ready, his shield was on his left arm, his sword still hidden within it. The two circled around, but as they did Octavianus summoned lighting which struck only feet away from Xander, "A son of Zeus?" The Roman let out a loud laugh "Zeus is a pathetic god, my father is Jupiter, the true lord of the skies." After, he finished speaking, Octavianus sent a large jab at Xander, the Greek brought the shield up and managed to blocked the jab, as the Roman made more jabs at Xander, so the son of Ares let out a blood-curling roar, then suddenly all the demigod could see was red. Xander, ran towards Octavianus he sent a quick and brutal jab at the son of Jupiter, it was aimed for his shoulder. The Roman, using his quick reflexes, managed to block the attack.
The Roman, attacked harder and while he attacked, he kept summoning his father's lighting, many of the bolts charred the ground as Xander managed to roll out of the way, but as Octavianus was summoning more lighting, Xander smirked, he ran full speed at the Roman and used his shield to hit the Roman back, Octavianus stumbled back and fell down, Xander still seeing red, jabbed his spear into the Roman's balls. He then pulled them out and crushed them under the might of his boots, he then used the sword that he had, to strike the Roman in his eyes. Leaving him forever blind, but he didn't stop there. He used his spear and sword to strike the Roman hard, who still hadn't recovered from before, Xander struck the downed Roman fall over, cutting off his right leg.
Octavianus, who was in tremendous pain. He didn't let it show, however instead with whatever might he could, which was just a little, he managed to strike Xander, with Jupiter's lighting. The lighting wasn't strong so it only sent a little shock into Xander, the Greek then had enough, he tore the Romans chest plate off and started to crush, the Praetors chest with his boot, as he did, the crunch off the ribs could be heard, eventually the Praetors life force withered away and as Xander finished killing Octavianus by crushing his ribs into his heart, he decided to cut the head off, as the Blessing of Ares ran out, Xander made his way back to the city walls, and put the Roman Commander's head on a spike as a warning to anyone, not to cross paths with the Greeks.
During the siege of Thebes, many Greeks had fallen in battle against the Romans, however the Roman legion had been defeated. The Greeks, then all gathered, they sent either dead off and also gave the Roman warriors a send-off.
The Greek army which was now around 20,000 strong, had set route for Lokris, once they freed Lokris, they could launch their fleet. It took the Greeks around 12 hours to get to Lokris. They set up their tents near Naupactus. The exhausted Greeks, all got into their tents and fell asleep. As Apollo, was doing his godly duty of pulling the Sun chariot across the sky, the Greeks woke up, at first sunlight. They eat together as comrades, sacrificing to the gods in thanks for their recent battles. The gods on Olympus, felt the power from the sacrifice running in their ichor filled veins.
They all got up, and they polished their armours, they sharpened their weapons and then they got into their armour, and geared up but as they did, a familiar face showed up. Xander spoke "Eagle Bearer, blessing us with our presence again?" As Kassandra came around the corner, "Yes I am."
Kassandra, looked at the army, "The city is heavily guarded, the walls are crawling with Roman troops ever since you have defeated the other legions, they will expect a full out attack or a siege, however I have planned for this. I currently have my ship, floating just out of range. My Lt will move her and give the archers the order to fire once we are within city walls." Xander, gave a simple nod. "We will not siege the city, we shall rush in and free it, we shall go in loud."
The Greeks, plus Kassandra marched for 10 minutes until they got to the city walls, the gate was open, so they just slipped in. As they slipped in, a lookout saw them however he didn't raise the alarm. They carried on hidden in shrubby, towards the garrison by the beach as they did, the alarm was finally sounded. The sounds of the 9th Roman Legion, came out to see the Greeks surrounding their garrison. But as the alarm had been set off, Kassandra's ship was in the bay and shooting arrows towards the Romans.
The Greeks, had the upper hand as they slaughtered many Romans. The Greeks, were jabbing and slicing left, right and centre. Roman bodies littered the group, as Xander helped his soldiers. A short man, at the height of 5'4 came out, his armour was worn out and tatted from the many battles he had been in. His eyes, showed no compassion, his hair was short and grey. The man's face was wrinkled, he looked to be the age of 40. "Centurion Marcius Regillensis get back!" One of his soldiers had shouted, just as he had shouted that, Kassandra shot an arrow and killed the Roman Legionary.
Marcius glared at Xander, "I'm guessing your Xander the Brutal, the one that has killed most of my brothers-in-arms." Xander, gave a brutish grin "Yes." He answered. After, he had answered Marcius had ran straight at him. Xander simply stepped to the side and watched the Roman head-butt a wall. The Greeks, were watching their general and the Roman Centurion fight, they had left a wide circle, they let out a loud chuckle when they saw the Roman, head-butt a wall. This just angered the Roman more, he charged at Xander, however the Greek saw this coming and used his spear to block the charge and knock his opponent to the floor. Marcius got back up and swung his sword, Xavier brought his shield up to block the attack but as it hit the shield, the Romans gladius just shattered.
Seeing this, Xander laid his weapons down on the ground and smirked, the Roman charged at Xander with his fists clenched, Xander managed to step to the side and kneed the Roman in the stomach area of the chest plate with enough force to make the Roman kneel over, as the Roman did kneel over, Xander with his full demigod strength behind him punched the Roman till he fell on the floor completely. As the Roman was on the floor, Xander picked up his left boot and stomped on Marcius' face breaking his nose. He then moved his boot to his enemy's neck. As he pressed down, the Centurion's face started to turn blue from the lack of Oxygen, he carried on, the face turning even more blue. Eventually, he stopped, just in time for the Roman to breathe again. Xander stripped the Centurion of his armour, he turned to his army and to Kassandra, "Kill him!" One of the Hoplits called out. One of his captains called out, "let him live, make him run back to Rome, disgraced and warn of us!" and one of his colonels called out, "Give him to the Eagle Bearer or make him, a slave for us."
Xander seemed to think, Kassandra spoke up "I agree with the captain, make him warn Rome of you. I can sail him as close to Italy as I can." Xander, nodded at his distant relative and pushed the Roman towards her, as she caught the Roman, she made her way to her ship. As the Greeks, started to take the Garrison over, their fleet had arrived and docked up. The Greek warriors disembarked from their ships and settled into the Roman Garrison. The Greeks all had dinner, they made their standard sacrifices to the gods, however they did extra to Poseidon, Perseus and Triton for safe sea travel. The Greeks went to sleep just as the sun set.
The Greeks woke up when Artemis was pulling the Moon down, and just as Apollo had started his daily routine of bringing the Greeks sun light. They had their breakfast early that morning, they made their standard morning sacrifices and again made extra to any Sea Deity they could think of for safe sea travel. They also made extra to the wind gods, for the winds to be in their favour.
As the Greeks launched their boats, the sacrifices seemed to work as the winds were strong enough for them not to row and the seas were nice and calm for them. They set course for the Island of Delos, birth place of the Goddess Artemis and her twin brother, the god Apollo. There wasn't really a Roman Naval presence so they got through okay. The boats seemed faster, they were cause the Sea Gods had increased the currents around the fleet and the Wind Gods had increased the speed that the winds hit the sails.
Around 3 hours after first sailing, they hit the port of Delos, they spotted a few Roman troops, that were fighting with what looked like pirates. The fleet all bundled together, the ground troops got off and then the fleet was taken back out to sea to a safe distance. The Greeks, looked at each other, then to Xander. Xander lead them along the coast to what happened to be a small Roman camp, Xander and a small group of hoplites, snuck up and into the camp. Xander snuck into the Captains tent and slit his throat, his soldiers did the same to the Romans on lookout. The Romans that were fighting the pirates had lost, so now the Greeks fight were with some undisciplined and unorganised pirates. So, as the pirates made their way back, a volley of arrows hit them from the Greeks waiting on the shore-line.
As Delos, was a quick and easy fix, the Greeks trekked to where Artemis and Apollo were said to have been born. They bowed, at the temple that was there. They said their thanks to the two gods. Xander, left his bow and arrow as he didn't use it a lot. The Greeks then made the short hike back to the docks, and as they did their fleet had just docked up. Everyone got onto the ships, they set sail for the next Island to free from the cruel Roman occupation.
They sailed for about 15 minutes, to the Island of Andros, it was said Hephaestus had a sacred forge on the Island, they docked up not far away from the forge, Xander only took a small group of 20 with him, they walked for around 15 minutes and they reached the forge entry, they saw the door was broken open. They went in, as they did. They saw Romans hard at work, blacksmithing weapons for their troops, "LEAVE THIS SACRED FORGE OR DIE!" Xander yelled, the Romans got into a defensive line, the Greeks rushed ahead and fought the Romans, many of the Romans dropped like flies. The Greeks that got rid of anything that reeked Roman. They purified it basically, as they finished, Lord Hephaestus appeared, "Thank you for cleaning my forge up from those intruders." The Greeks bowed, and the god left, they went back to their ships and set sail for the Island of Crete.
They hit Crete after about an hour of sailing, as they docked there wasn't a Roman patrol in sight. The Greek army, got off their ships and started to walk over the plains. As, they walked in the general direction of the Palace, they slowly saw a few Roman Patrols. The Greeks made quick work of getting rid of them. As they approached, the palace they could see that they made it fortified, there was only a handle full of Romans though, Xander told his team to stay where they were and he snuck over, his spear in hand. Xander, had guessed there was 30 troops in total.
Xander, started to jab with the Romans from some bushes he was using as cover. He, then snuck into the main throne room, where a Roman Commander was sat on the throne that was starting to fall apart. Xander, threw his spear straight at the Roman, it landed in the guy's forehead, blood started to spill out, by the time the Roman could react, Xander had made his way over and managed to pull out a dagger and started to slit the throat of the commander. The body of the commander, fell to the floor, blood started to spurt everywhere, it got on the floor and on the throne. As the army saw no more movement they moved into the palace, they looked around. They walked down a dim light corridor, as they reached the end, the door opened to the labyrinth. They didn't bother going in as they didn't want to get lost, they went back up into the throne room. Xander, sat on the throne and looked at the army he had amassed, "We are nearly there, we will have control of our lands again."
The troops started to clap at their commander's speech. "You'd make a great king!" the Troops all said at once, Xander gave a smile. He got off the throne and walked towards Pephka, where the arena once was. It was said mercenaries and warriors from all over the Greek world fought there, as they arrived after 1hr 30 minutes by riding on horseback. Xander, started to reminisce about the time he fought in the arena.
-Flashback-
Xander, was around the age of 23, he was a Captain in the Spartan army. He had been offered 1,000 drachmae if he won a fight. As Xander entered the arena, he could hear the chants of the crowd, he pulled out his spear, he had his shield, that had his sword in. His opponent, jumped down, the opponent was a 6ft, bulky Athenian Captain.
The Athenian Captain ran straight at the Spartan Captain, with his super quick reflexes from being a demigod, he managed to roll out the way, the Athenian Captain brought out a dagger, the Athenian attacked Xander with quick, short and close jabs, Xander had to block the jabs quickly and returned long, powerful jabs with his spear, the Athenian had deflected some, however most of Xander's jabs managed to strike the opponent. Xander managed to finally end his opponent's life. Xander pulled his spear out from the opponent's neck. He then left the arena.
-end flashbackâ
"The Arena, used to popular before the invasion happened, soldiers and mercenaries used to come and fight to win drachmae, I once fought here and won, I was a Captain in the Spartan Army only at the age of 23." Xander said, as they walked in they saw Greeks cowering away because of the Roman invasion. Once, the Greek citizens saw the makeshift Greek Army, they stood up, they gathered that the Romans were gone now, they thanked the Army and left. Xander and the army rode for 2 hours straight back to their ships, however as they arrived, Hermes was waiting. "Lord Hermes." Xander spoke, before dropping to his knee, the rest followed his lead. "Stand, you are all invited by Lord Zeus to banquet in your honour for leading and freeing Greece from those pesky Romans." Nobody in the army had been to Olympus before, so they all closed their eyes so Hermes could flash them to the throne room, Hermes took them all, to the banquet hall for the Gods.
The Greeks dropped to their knees again as all the Gods were there, Percy was the first to speak, "You have all fought so bravely and ferociously to free Greece, you have the Romans running, they have tucked their tails and are retreating." The Greeks stood eventually and smiled at the god's compliment.
Zeus, chirped in "Everyone sit." All the warriors, and Greeks sat down, Ares had commanded Xander to sit next to him, the general did as his father told him to.