Prologue

The neighs of horses filled the night, outside his window the man saw a company of thirty soldiers heading his way.

"What's wrong?" his wife asked him as she got up from their bed and tied her nightgown together.

"Go wake up the kids," the man ordered his voice filled with urgency.

"But what's wrong?"

"Go and wake the kids!"

The woman became startled, her husband was never one to raise his voice at her, she did as she was told and woke them up. Her eldest daughter who was no more than fourteen years old and their little boy who was five. She brought them to their father who was now shutting the window and barricading their doors.

His wife went to him and this time she asked in a low quiet voice.

"What's wrong?"

The man's eyes were filled with despair and desperation. He took a deep breath.

"Two days ago I heard that the king was going to assassinate us, I dismissed it as a baseless rumor but guess it's true,"

The woman felt like the ground was swept off her feet. Her motherly instincts made her feel scared for her children, she went and opened the trap door in the floor of their living room.

" You two get inside here, "she said as bravely as she could but her trembling voice betrayed her.

" What's going on mom? "her daughter asked.

Her little boy was way out of his element his eyes kept switching from his father frantically moving their furniture to the door and her mother opening the trap door that was only for emergencies.

She looked at her family starting from her husband, his silver colored hair gleaming with sweat, his neatly shaped eyebrows, his Grey eyes, his perfectly shaped nose and pink lips. She always wondered how lucky she was to be married to such a breathtaking man and their children who had inherited their best qualities. Her daughter inherited her blonde hair and her blue eyes while his son had inherited his father's hair and eyes.

She explained everything to her daughter, her daughter took this better than herself. She whispered something to her brother and the little boy's fear melted away and he went inside the tiny room in the floor. The daughter followed but her height made it impossible to close the door. The two parents tried to shut it but the horses were getting closer to their house and the daughter understood that if they wasted more time none of them would make it out alive. She got out of the room.

"Sarah get inside unless you want me to slap you," her mother threatened.

"If I stay in then none of us will live it's better if one of us lives,"

Her parents knew that she was right but what parent would sacrifice one of their children so that the other would live. Their daughter kept saying something to their son as she shut the door and covered it with their carpet. The soldiers were now outside their house, they could hear their door being kicked down.

The trio hugged each other one last time as the door opened, one of the knights managed to get in, the man pulled out a knife and rushed at the neck of the knight that got in first, his knife went through and blood sprayed out. The two women behind him screamed out, two more knights got in, knocked the knife out of his hand and they held him down.

The rest of the knights who got in pushed all the furniture out of the ways and opened the door wide open. The knights grabbed the two women and pushed them to their knees.

"don't fucking touch them," the father shouted doing so earned him a punch in his gut. The punch hurt more since the knights always wore gauntlets causing blood to come out of his mouth.

His wife and daughter were both crying their eyes out. The head knight was standing at the door way watching the entire event unfold his face was covered by his helmet.

"For killing one of my men," He said in a sinister tone as he moved to where the man was being held, he crouched down to his level and grabbed his chin.

"I'll make you suffer first before killing you, so how will you suffer,"

He roughly let go of his chin, stood up and walked to where the most important women in his captive's life were. His long dark cape swept across the floor and the clanking of his armor as he slowly approached.

He moved to the back of the women making him and the man stare each other face to face. He grabbed the hairs of the two with both his hands and pulled them. The man struggled to break free but the knights tightened their grip around his shoulder and arms.

"So who should I kill first?" the masked knight asked.

The women yelped after hearing this.

"Get your hands of them!" he shouted.

"Am getting impatient," the masked knight said in a singsong tone.

"Please don't hurt them,"

"Fine I won't if you grovel to me," he said.

The man dropped his head on the floor in a prostrating position.

"please spare them,"

His family had never seen him break before, he was as stubborn as a mule and always tried his best to find a solution but now, here he was begging.

"that was fun but orders are orders," the masked knight said, he freed the daughter's hair and pulled out his sword with his now free hand.

The sound of steel piercing through flesh was heard, the man abruptly pulled his head from the ground, blood splashed on his face, his wife had a bloody sword protruding out of her solar plexus. She spat out blood and as she gurgled on her own blood. For a second the whole world seemed to have stopped moving. His beautiful wife with her golden blonde hair that reminded him of sunset, a few lock of her hair now had blood on it. Her ocean blue eyes that always shined brightly were now darkening and her bright red lips and cheeks were now becoming paler and paler as time passed. The man felt choked like if he had forgotten how to breath.

The masked knight pulled out his sword and swiftly sliced through the wife's neck separating her head from her body. Blood sprayed out from her neck to the walls and floor and some on her daughter. The daughter screamed so loud that the angel of death himself would have been frightened by it.

The knight who was holding the wife, let go of her headless body and he marched back to where the other unoccupied knights were. The masked knight moved to the front of the man's daughter knelt down, grabbed her head by the back causing her to whimper and shoved his sword through her stomach.

The man kept screaming, shouting and struggling but to no avail.

The masked knight pulled out his sword as the lifeless body fell on her back. The man wiped his sword with his cape as he walked out of the building

"Men finish him and cover this mess," he ordered.

The remaining knights hacked through everyone of the sadist hoping to get a piece of the action. The man's guts, limbs were all over when the knights were done they left the house which now resembled a Slaughter house. One of the knights poured kerosene inside and outside the house and they lit the house on fire as they left.