Friend or Foe? Even the ancients were unable to tell. They were, against all agree that nothing good Theos but could not recall ever having heard describe anything good to share the wine vine open during celebrations of the solstice. The galleys
slackened their race, threatening eyes painted on each side gave them the appearance of a sea monster emerges from the abyss. The villagers shook against each other with the impression of being a helpless prey. Some wanted to flee or barricade themselves in their homes but the patriarch insisted that everyone remains calm and ready to welcome guests from the sea, Poseidon could send them an enemy.
Perhaps these powerful strangers they reward or at least they would save their village? A galley, bigger than other, more frightening, too, painted red and blue highlights continued his route right on the shore. The oars rose and fell in sending up sprays of water from the surface which was blue. She seemed hurt by the sea even his blows. Frisian ran a body of Theos and he was tempted out of hiding. Maybe he would have stayed with her parents?
The bow of the ship broke through the wet sand slowly before running aground. The oars were still suspended in the air with chatter and they are swallowed into the hull. The birds seemed to have deserted the scene. The waves had made docile and timid under the mighty ship. The villagers could not help but recoil as if they feared that the boat splitting the earth as he had made waves. Reflections appeared along the rail. Human cries arose incomprehensible forms and threw themselves overboard, landing a knee in the sand, head down, pointing their crest spectators, adding to the theatrics of the scene. Their muscles oiled and jutted their armor shining in the sun. At this time, Theos envied the imposing of these creatures and wanted to be one of them. The oval pads were patterned simple cursive and a wide round shield blocked their backs. On the torso, a bronze breastplate decorated with a dark pattern that seemed to bring out their skin. All the village men had skin matte and hauled men who spent their day at sea soldiers whom had skin like a baby but when they raised their headdress with a grave, Theos saw blue eyes sunk in a face and a dark beard cut framed.
The first of them had a crest decorated with a blue plume, it walked up to the patriarch. The latter drew back unconsciously. These men were taller than average and never bent by toil. The soldier wanted impassive but his helmet quivered as he wrinkled his nose. Theos, the son of Poseidon and Hephaestus not, remembered that he too felt the sea at the time and never felt any repulsion to the odor strong and candid. The soldier seemed to talk in whispers with his grandfather who knelt. Then he held out an arm core to the villagers and his men approached.
Theos panicked, he had not thought of evil away this morning to better observe the gigantic ship in the distance but now he felt he was too late to show even if he had wanted. His legs refused to carry it and it looked like the scene in slow motion. He would have loved his friend, Dorian was there at his side rather than at the bottom with others. His mother clutching her arms around his neck as if he was still a child she had to protect. Theos had learned the reason for all this later, Hephaestus the decadent needed children to fight in his name. Most of the villages that agreed to come take a tribe but the blood thirst of the city of a thousand fire was unquenchable and recruiters increasingly ventured far to fulfill their office. It was the first time that the village of Theos facing such a request and fear in the air. The disaster occurred by Nikos. The beautiful, intrepid Nikos. A fool who only liked young women who lived only for themselves and their image. As if that was one of the concerns of a fisherman. The soldiers grabbed the arm of young men and began to pull the ship. Crying and screaming when the first fusèrent mothers realized that they tore their son. All fishermen have a small knife used to scoop fish. Nikos was released on his own, Dorian saw but could not identify her mother's arms crying. Theos saw scared Nikos, the air serene approach a soldier, the knife in evidence. Nobody paid any attention to him, the soldiers were too busy pushing the grieving parents and villagers who cursed. Theos wanted to scream but no sound came from his throat. The knife plunged into the crest Nikos Soldier and as it sank into the soft belly of a fish. It falls slowly with a slight trickle of blood. The man put his hand to his neck and the blood continued to flow through his fingers. He turned around slowly and drew his weapon while his knees sagged under him. Nikos realized what he had done and walked away while the man collapsed face down on the sand against his armor suddenly appear duller. An order was barked out the swords and innocent body collapsed. While the blood
wet sand and the cries became hysterical, Theos Nikos preview that ran towards inland. The soldiers threw themselves in pursuit of carving a path through the human mass in front of them. Cutting off arms, cutting throats, gutted children. Theos saw Dorian stood before his sister in a protective gesture, forms later, but hid when he saw his friend bathed in blood, grinning red blocked his throat. Her mother still had her arms outstretched toward his children. His sister sobbed, looking fixedly before her, his hands covered with blood. Theos was always amazed to have looked over the corpse of his friend than his parents. When the sun reaches the sky of noon, he was standing contemplate the grave of what had been his life so far.
He could not put a name on these bodies lying so grotesque. The few surviving loved ones shocked clutched in their arms or crying, cursing the gods.
The soldiers were busy carry the body of one of them who had fallen. Nikos head adorned the beach, the boats were broken, houses burned. Theos was frozen despite the sun, he started hearing a rustle beside him and turned around. The man in blue crest stood before him, his bronze sword dripping blood friends and relatives. The man raised an eyebrow and mice and reached out for him. Theos is folded in half to suddenly throw up and sank into oblivion, exhausted.