End of the begining

Red burning flames raged the entire village. The smell of burning flesh filled the area with fear and turmoil.

Every small house in the village was burning like a pyre. The closed doors of the houses were letting only one thing out and it was hot blood.

The sky appeared as it was crying for help. The fresh cool wind was reeking of burned bodies, but more than that, what reeked was cries of the dead.

The normal life of the people of Aron village was destroyed in just a moment.

Soldiers were running from one house to another, but not to save the dying, to slaughter them…

Limbs of children were scattered throughout the village ground, screams of women being raped could be heard from a mile away.

"WHA- WHAT HAPPENED? WHY?" far on the village entrance stood a young man with a war axe in his hand. From the look of him, it appeared that he was shocked by the tragedy in front of his eyes.

"What's happening? Who did this?" His blue eyes were full of tears and fear as he asked a woman who was lying at the entrance waiting for her death.

"Alexi- Alexios… run… run away or you will die, the soldiers will kill you run…" before the woman could complete her sentence her soul left her body leaving many questions behind.

"HEY! HEY! WAKE UP! What soldiers?"

"What's happening? WHY!" Alexios was losing his mind. Wherever he looked only, blood and death followed.

Before he could understand anything, he heard footsteps coming toward him.

"Huh, someone's coming!" he quickly moved and got behind hidden a house that was nearby so no one could find him.

"That was some woman. I didn't know a village like this had so much beauty. The men of this village had the best time, but anyway they are dead and all their woman is ours to rape. Um, where should we go next?"

the sound of footsteps took a shape of a couple of soldiers who were coming out of the road ahead of him with blood on their swords and armor.

They talked about killing and massacring the town, which cleared that it was no other than the kingdom's soldiers who did it.

"Ah, that house seems untouched. Let's find some bitches' there." one of the soldiers zipped his pants and pointed to a house that was situated in the corner which made it harder to detect at night.

Alexios was listening to everything from behind the wall, and now he somehow understood what was going on,

he peeked at the soldiers to see what place they were talking about raiding, but when he saw the house, they pointed it made him lose his mind.

The house they were about to raid was no other than Alexios house itself.

"Wait! No, why are they heading that way? NO! NO! NO! That house! That's my house. They can't go in I need to stop them at all cost!" everything was turning against Alexios,

he was a newly recruited soldier who barely knew how to fight but he didn't think once about it as it was his family who was at stake.

He pulled out the war axe he had tied on his waist and held it tight in his hands.

He was shivering with nervousness and fear, but he had no other choice but to protect.

Before wasting any second, he began to move slowly and stealthily toward his house.

He looked around for anyone else there and continued to walk closer and finally, after a few steps, he found himself in the backyard of his house.

"Thank goodness I made it to the house. It's so calm in here. Seems like the soldiers went somewhere else, but I shouldn't be careless. I need to take mother and Ryan out of the village. I hope they are okay." Alexios took a whiff of relief after making it to the house.

He slowly turned the doorknob and peeked before moving inside.

"Why is it so dark? MOM! Are you there? Ryan? Are you two okay?" he looked around the unusual dark rooms of the house for his mother and brother Ryan but couldn't find even a strand of their hair, but instead, he found something he never wanted to.

"What's this? Ah, why is it so dark? Huh? No! No! It can't be!" As he saw the thing on the floor, he stepped back a little, his eyes enlarged and throat dried.

"It's blood! It's blood on the floor." As he realized it was nothing else but blood on the floor, his body shook in fear and his eyes flooded with tears and his voice broke down.

He knew blood on the floor meant only one thing, but still, he was afraid to accept the truth and couldn't hold it and screamed his lungs out for the last time.

"MOM! RYAN! Where are you?"

From the darkest room of the house, a weak and painful voice came, which sounded broken as if it is shattered like a broken heart…

"Al...Alex…Alexios…"

As it reached Alexios ears, he realized who it was, and the broken voice was enough to bring him to tears. His face turned blue in fear.

"MOM! NO! I'M COMING!" after hearing the broken voice of his dear mother, without a second thought, he rushed toward the room where the voice came from but before he could make his first step, he noticed a shadow of a man rushing toward him but even after seeing the person he couldn't stop him.

"SLASH" the man quickly came to light and slashed Alexios' knee, making it impossible for him to move.

"AGHHH! NO!" Alexios fell to his knees as the dagger stabbed him. The man was none other than the soldier who came into the house.

"Not so fast, you son of bitch" The soldier smirked and dragged Alexios and held the dagger to his throat.

"Haha-haha you trash! What did you think you will save her? You're late. We raped her already. She is such a slut, ha-ha." Another soldier came out of the room, dragging Alexios's mother by her hair.

"NOOOO!" tears flooded Alexios's eyes as he saw the face of his mother covered in blood, shame, and fear.

"I will kill you! Leave her! you MOTHERFUCKER!!" The pain in Alexios's voice was heartbreaking, seeing his proud mother broken in front of his eyes was traumatizing.

"Oh boy, crying for your mama? I will let her go but only if you PLEAD?" the soldier had a smirk on his face.

He was looking Alexios straight dead in the eye, as if he was a caged animal he wanted to violate.

"Please, please let her go take my life instead… just let her go!" Alexios was crying on his knees. His pride was destroyed only thing he cared about was his mother.

"Alright, you're free to go." The soldier holding Alexios's mother pulled his hand away and pushed his mother to the ground.

As she touched the ground, Alexios ran to her but before he could reach her.

"SLASH!!"

"NOOOOO!!!"

-to be continued.