CHAPTER 7

THE NEXT BATTLE AFTER THE KNIGHTHOOD

After the ceremony, The Band of Hawks and Griffin were sent to the battlefield again for another battle at first it looked like any normal fight but in this battle, something happened that changed them for always.

At the battlefield

The Griffin was holding his necklace(behelit) and waiting for the news from the fort. Griffin now officially became a knight so he must have to be at the base and rarely step in battlefield cause of many reasons. He was seeing the whole battlefield from the cliff. When he noticed that one of the soldiers is coming toward him.

Soldier “Reporting !!..we seem to have just about finished taking the enemy fortress !! ...”.

Griffin “And what about the enemy leader ?”.

Soldier “No ... Not yet ..presently Captain Kaal’s raider is laying siege to the inner bastion, but ...th..the enemy has a remarkable soldier... He is holding back breaches..”.

Casca asked “... Did you say, one man ??”.

Corkus “Just one man??.....

*Phehh!!*

That’s just pathetic!” Casca didn’t say anything to him.

Then suddenly Judeaus said “Zodd...”

And everyone turned toward him.

Casca “What?”

Griffin also started to look at him.

Rickert “Zodd ...Judeaus you don’t mean ...that ...”

Judeaus continued saying “Well ... I caught wind of a strange rumor before this battle ...that Nosferatu Zodd had been added to the enemy forces ...”

Everyone said at once “Nosferatu Zodd!!”

Pippin “Who’s that ?”

Rickert “You don’t know Pippin ?!....among mercenaries Nosferatu Zodd is a legendary swordsman. They say he’s killed hundreds, even thousands on the battlefield ...

but that’s not the only reason why Zodd is feared ...every time a rumor goes around that he is dead in battle or ....others ..., but he always shows up again in some battle and the unbelievable thing is ...people have been telling war stories about him for close to a hundred years !! ...

He is immortal ..that why Zodd’s called nosferatu ”. After hearing his whole story everyone strayed silent for a moment and after that.

Corkus “Hey, Hey, HEY !! Don’t tell me you actually believe that fairy tale!... I mean come on little Rickert ”.

Rickert argued, “But there are some mercenaries who worship Zodd as a battlefield god !!”.

Judeaus “Well ...something is telling me if Kaal ran into him ...he did go charging impetuous like a madman..”.

After hearing Judeaus every one started to look Griffin for orders.

Griffin “Well ..that can’t turn out good ....”.

In the castle

Kaal was trying to go inside the building who is the enemy’s escape route but his men are holding him, and are trying to stop him from going inside but Kaal still arguing with them.

Kaal “Y... You stupid bastards!! Let me go, Gaston!!”.

Gaston “No way Captain!!. ... Hey !! You guys help me to stop him!!....”.

“I can’t let you do it ....!!....there is no way can I let you go in alone !! ...that’s far too dangerous ....so just listen to me ......and .....wait ...a little longer !... Let’s just wait a little longer !!”.

Kaal shouted with frustration and anger “It’s already been a whole hour, YOU IDIOTS!!...

We sent almost fifty men in there and not even a single one had come out ....!!.... NOW LET GO ... ME !! ”.

A soldier suggested “Then we should ask boss Griffin for reinf-- ”

But Kaal suddenly caught his face before he can finish and shouted “YOU TRY IT and I will kill you !!.....

it’s just one man!! .....

A single enemy’s got all five hundred of Band of Hawk’s raiders stuck like a nail in a wall.....!!”.

Kaal let him go and started shouting again “You ever heard of anything so humiliating?!!”.

Kaal was still shouting when they suddenly noticed the sound of someone’s groan “*AHHH!*”.

A soldier who was covered in blood and critically injured came outside the building. His right half of the body was missing, his hand was not attached to him and his guts and ribs were showing. Everyone was just staring him after seeing him ever one became motionless for a moment. He was hardly able to walk and after walking a few steps out from building he started calling for Kaal and fell on the ground “...*Ahhh!!!*.......C....Captainnn...”.

Kaal instantly recognized him he was one of his men who went inside the building “Dillos...”.

Dillos felled on the ground and everyone run towards him and started trying to talk to him.

Kaal “Dillos!!!”.

Dillos was nearly dead so he brought out every last bit of strength and said “.....Zodd. .... Nosferatu...Zodd” And died after saying this. After hearing Zodd’s name everyone’s face’s color started to flee and they started talking.

“Th...That means the rumor was true...”.

“Hey... This is big trouble ....” After hearing his soldier Kaal just closed Dillos eyes and stood up and started to move towards building. Band members saw it and started trying to stop him “H...Hold on ..Captain !!”.

But he shouted back “BACK !!.....

nobody come with me ...

I am going to kill him alone ...“ And looked them with eyes filled with the anger.

After seeing him like this no one dared to stop him and he went inside the building. The only thing the band members can do was only to see him going inside and trying to stop him by their voices “Captain...”.