The Art Of War (Pt.1)

"In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good." Art Of War, Sun Tzu

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As the rays of the sun slowly shine onto my skin. I slowly open my eyes and looking around before getting up slowly and seeing my clothes already laid out by my door. I grab the clothes and go to have my bath at the nearby lake. As I arrived, I notice that my father is here already in the bath.

I slowly strip my self of my clothes as I did not care about being nude as much as others of the modern world. I dipped my feet in the lake to feel the temperatures before eventually stepping fully in and sitting down. Getting my body soaked and cleaned of the old dirt and sweat I could of gained during my sleep.

"Father, when shall my lessons begin?" I asked him not looking at him but instead the birds resting on the branches of the trees.

"They will begin when the sun reaches half way in the sky." My father stated while pointing his index finger at the sky.

"I see, Thanks for telling me. I will be able to research the topics before hand." I replied while still staring at the tree lines my eyes not moving a bit.

"No problem, kiddo." My father said my ruffling my hair before I saw from the corner of my eye that he was leaving.

As my father left I returned to think to my self and question what sort of things I should bring to this world. 'I could redraw the map of the world. No, that would be to tedious of a job. But if I had a map of the world, I could be known as a Avatar of a God Of Wisdom or a pure Lunatic. I just need to be good at weaving my lies with the truths. Just like Darius possibly would have done.'

'The next thing I could make would possibly new positions in the army and how the army is laid out. Similar to how I will each parts of my future Empire that I shall make into different states or counties similar to how Darius set up his satrapies and the Satraps' After I continued going through my memory on different thing that I could bring back and create here.

After a few minutes I stopped thing in my thoughts and looked up at the sky. Seeing two hawks chase down a raven. If what the Persians think is true with signs in the birds then I'm getting chased by two people larger and stronger than me but worse in the brain department. Well this isn't good, I quickly scouted and looked around my area and quickly leaving the lake and putting on my clothes. As I looked into the forest I saw it two lionesses. I wondered to myself why they this deep in Central Asia but left those thoughts quick and ran to find a weapon or a guard.

As I was running for my life I saw it they were stalking me from a distance probably to find a good time to strike and make me a quick and easy kill. Then I saw a hut ahead of me, It was a hunting hut I thanked the gods for my luck and ran inside it was a wide open area with no doors so I had to get a weapon quick. I quickly scavenged for loot and found a spear and shield. They were to hunt for boar but it do for lions.

Suddenly I heard a roar from behind me, I quickly spun around getting on one knee raising my shield above my head and point the spear at where I thought it would come from. Suddenly I felt something heavy suddenly pull down my spear and hear a loud thud on the ground. Even after that I didn't put my guard down as I knew there was possibly another lioness out there ready to strike at any moment and suddenly I saw a claw come at me from the left but I was fast enough and it was able to swipe me on the side of my stomach. Quickly I got ready again while gritting my teeth to try and hold the pain in and wanting to end this fast I closed the distance and smashed the lioness head with my shield and did a quick thrust with the spear ending it faster.

"My Lord, We have found your son he seems to be bleeding and has been able to take down two lions !" I heard a voice of a man shout and saw people approaching me from my right coming down from the palace quickly . Unluckily for me, I passed due to the amount of blood I was losing after being struck. Luckily, It didn't seem to be a vital part of my body and if it was well ill be damned.

------------------------------- The Palace Of Anshan. At 10:37 c 580 B.C ----------------------------

" My Lord, Prince Cyrus is waking up now. He seems to be in stable condition. But we cannot be so sure" Someone said which I guessed could of been a doctor for Cambyses I. I looked to my left and saw my father crying but with a smile on his face to which I returned the smile. He then proceeded to hug me.

"Thank Ahuramazda. I am glad you are not dead and I am extremely proud of you to be able to fight two lions alone is no easy feat. But you must promise me to never do what you did again always run to the palace you will always be safe here when you are in danger." My father expressed

"Of course father, I had to fight the lions as I had no chance of fleeing but if it was not for the birds in the sky I would have not know."

"So you were told by the gods that you were being chased by lions. It seems you are a special one and will be able to lead us into a new age. Now, Let us move on to a new topic your studies. Since you have been attacked by lions your studies have been postponed till the next day."

"I see, very well father."

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Well this is the end of this Chapter I hope you enjoyed.

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I hope you can express your thoughts on how I did the fight scene as that will is my first fight scene that I have written about.

Anyways, Ending my Enquiry here,

MrEuripedes