Chapter 2
Morgan was running with a stack of wood in her arms, how could she be so stupid to have left all her stuff in the middle of the woods. She had found a good place to make a camp and left all her stuff to go look for firewood so she could make a fire. It had gotten cold while she had been out looking for firewood, she could see a white cloud coming out from her mouth when she was breathing.
She stepped on a slippery rock and fell without being able to us her hands to defend herself from the hard ground. Morgan hit her left hip, scraped her clothes open on the knees and the skin on her arms and chin. She could feel a warm feeling on her chin and knees and understood that she was bleeding.
She tried to stand up, her foot hurt as she moved it and she grimaced in pain. Morgan fell back down on the ground, the pain in her foot and knees was to much for her to be able to stand up and if she couldn't even to that, it was no chance she was going to be able to walk back to her campsite.
Morgan closed her eyes an pictures of her father and brother she had left behind at home three weeks ago was shown on her closed eyelids. She had started to miss them, but then she started to remember about how they found she couldn't do anything on her own, how they always tried to protect her from everything. But she did miss playing with her brother and the friends in the castle.
''We need to find a camp for the night boss'' Morgan could hear a man's dark voice say, coming from behind her.
There was people on their way towards her and she couldn't move. She needed to get away, the voice she had heard didn't sound like a nice traveling man, more like a bandit talking to his boss.
''Are you telling me what to do Grego!'' Another man's voice that was even darker and more threatening.
''No, no boss I didn't! I promise!'' the first man's voice that had been named Grego, by the so called boss. She could sense a little bit of panic in his voice.
''Good'' the man called boss said, his voice even closer to where Morgan was lying on the ground unable to move because of her probably broken foot and bleeding knees.
She could now hear more voices coming from where she had heard the two voices of the men Grego and the boss. They were coming closer and closer, Morgan started to panic. They were going to find her, a band of bandits was going to find her lying here on the ground and probably kill her after they make her tell them were all her stuff is so they can take it.
Morgan could now see the first of the men coming up from behind a tree. He was dirty all over and she couldn't even see what skin color he had. He had holes in his clothes and a weird sword on his back, but his shoes was hole. 'Guess they need to have good shoes if they are going to walk everywhere' she thought to herself.
The man had spotted her on the ground and turned around while shouting to all his friend that was walking behind him.
''Hey guys, it's a little girl lying on the ground over here'' she really was in trouble now.
''What? Don't joke with us Plunk!'' she could her another man call from behind the trees.
''I'm not! You stupid idiot'' the man she could see shouted back. 'Did they all have weird names like that?' she thought in desperate need to find something to think about, so the panic would go down a little.
Morgan could see a group of men coming up from behind the tree the first man had come from. They looked at her surprised at first, then they smiled a crocked smile all of them. A big man that, according to her was to big to be a human, and a smaller but still big man with a big beard came and stood behind them. 'This man had to be the boss' was the first thing she thought when she saw the gigantic man.
''And who might this little girl be'' the enormous man said with a frightening grin on his twisted face that was full of scars.
''I don't know, I found her lying there like that, boss'' the man that had first come up from behind the tree said looking up at his boss.
Morgan had started to really panic now, what was she supposed to do? She couldn't run, her foot was definitely broken, but she didn't want to die. Her eyesight started to get blurry and something wet and worm ran down her cheeks, she realized that she had started to cry.
''Oh little girl you don't have to be scared of us.'' the man with the big beard beside the boss said to her while walking to were she was now trying to get up, despite the pounding pain in her foot and knees. ''we're nice people. We just want to help you'' the man she now think she remembered as Grego continued.
Did he really think she was that stupid? How could he possibly think that she would believe him, had he seen himself in the mirror, ever? He had gotten to were she had given up on trying to escape and was now lying on the ground again. He sat down on his knees beside Morgan and she froze. She opened her mouth to scream as high as she could in hope that somebody was going to hear her, but not a sound came out of her.
''You trying to scream little girl?'' Grego said and a wide grin appeared on his ugly face. ''Nobody is going to hear you''
She closed her mouth again because she knew that no sound would come out of it and he was right, nobody was going to hear her in this forest.
''She has to have a camp so lets use her camp, then we don't need to make our own, right.'' A man that stood on the left side of the group said.
He was right, she had a camp but that wasn't big enough for all these people. The group of men that stood ahead of her where about 20 men, how would they fit in that little spot with no trees she had found for herself.
''Well little girl where is the place?'' Grego that was sitting beside her asked.
Morgan opened her mouth but she still couldn't get a sound out and closed it again. She didn't want to be here. Why had she run away from home, if her brother, friends or father was here all would be good. But they weren't, so she had to get out of this on her own.
*
Her foot was dangling and the pain was something she had never felt before, it was like somebody tried to sever one nerve at a time. One of the men from the bandit group was carrying her and they were soon at the spot she had begun building her camp this afternoon.
She had finally been able to speak and told them what way her camp was but the man Grego had said that she was going to show them the way.
''There'' Morgan said with a voice that was almost not even a whisper and pointed to the big tree she had put her backpack under.
''Well this doesn't look so bad does it'' one of the men that had only pants, two axes at ether side of his waist and shoes on, he was very dirty and smelled bad in.
They put her down beside her backpack and she gave away a little sound of pain when her foot hit the ground, some small tears started to form in her eyes. The pain when they had carried her and her foot had just dangled from her leg had almost been enough to make her pass out. She had broken her arm ones before, but she hadn't been alone and people had taken care of her, now she had no one that could help her fix it but she probably wouldn't need one.
''Look through her bag and see if she got anything interesting.'' the boss said to one of the smaller men.
''okay boss'' the small man said to confirm his boss's order.
He walked over to her and took the bag that sat on the ground beside her, turned it upside down so that everything that had been inside it was now in the dirt. He ran his hands over it all but didn't seem to find anything he liked.
''Boss, she got nothing'' the little man said looking over at his boss.
The big man that was the boss looked up from the fire they had started with the firewood she had collected and dropped when she had fell.
''What, she has nothing?'' the boss said irritated.'' she has to has something'' he insisted.
''Well, no she got nothing, just a book and other boring stuff.'' the man that had gotten the job to look through Morgan's bag said.
The boss stood up and while he did that Morgan could see something moving behind him in the forest. She lost interest in the big man that was walking towards her and instead she looked in to the forest where she think she had seen something or someone move among the trees. 'Is someone here?' she thought to herself and started to hope a little bit, but back in her mind she knew it was stupid to hope.
''What you looking at little girl?'' the boss said and was now in front of her.
He was so big that she had to tilt her head all the way back as much as she could. 'How can a man be so big' she thought and started to get scared. How much time did she have left to live or where they not going to kill her maybe. 'If someone was among the trees watching why didn't he or she help? Why is that person just watching?' she thought to herself angrily.
''Hey goldilocks answer me!'' the boss hissed at her.
She jump so high she think she left the ground because she hadn't heard him talking to her until he had loudly hissed at her.
''what?'' she answered without thinking like a reflex.
What had she said to him and what was it that he wanted her to answer. She hadn't been listening, Morgan had been in her own thoughts and had her attention on the trees. She started to shake, she was so scared
''What!! you say that to me!'' the boss was now so angry that his scarred face was going red.
He lifted her up by grabbing the front of her shirt and she was now face to face with the frightening man. She told herself she wouldn't cry and she didn't, she held the tears of terror in that she so much wanted to let out. Morgan was the daughter of the White family, her father was the king best friend and her mother had been one of the best soldiers, she was a White and they didn't cry or break ever. She just stared coldly in to the man's eyes.
A branch broke somewhere in the forest around them, this time the bandits had noticed. All of them looked around, stood up and grabbed their weapons. They made a circle around the boss and Morgan that he held in his fist.
''Come out, come out'' one of the men that had a big axe as a weapon called.
''Okay but don't attack me'' a child's voice said from the trees on the left side of Morgan.
Morgan saw a boy that looked a little older then her come out from behind the trees. He had dark brown hair that was long enough to covered his ears. He had normal traveling clothes and a backpack in his right hand. He looked at the boss that still held Morgan in his fist so they were face to face.
''And who are you boy'' the boss asked not wanting a real answer, just some reason to kill him for interrupting what was going on.
''Noah'' the boy answered him calmly.
''And what are you doing in the forest all alone'' the man with the axe asked not letting his eyes of Noah.
''I can't travel alone just like that girl?'' Noah asked casually and pointed at Morgan that was staring at him.
''You little brat!'' said a voice she couldn't see how it belonged to.
The men raised their weapons ready to attack the boy. Noah reach for something under his cloak and stood still ready to defend himself. 'Dose he have a weapon?' Morgan wondered with curious eyes on the boy.
One of the men that was nearest the boy attacked but somehow the man was on the ground behind the boy and Noah, tat he had introduced himself as, was standing in the same spot as before. No one had seen what had happened especially Morgan, she hadn't seen anything. If the Noah was the reason to why the man was on the ground in a pool of his on blood, he had to be good. Really, really good.
''Wha..'' Grego that stood beside the boss and her tried to speak.
Everyone was in shock, what had happened. Morgan's hope started to rise, if this boy Noah was this good he could save her. If he wasn't going to kill her to, but that he wouldn't do and that she was sure on. She could see it in the boys eyes somehow, and she just knew.
''What are you waiting for men? Just kill the freaking brat!'' the boss shouted and threw Morgan on the ground.
Her foot pounded so, she thought she was going to die and she screamed in pain. The boss turned around to look at her in surprise but then he smiled at her with a disgusting grin so his rotten teeth was showing, she shuddered at the sight.
*
Noah had killed one of the bandits that had started to attack him and was now lying on the ground behind him.
He had seen the gold haired girl being carried by the bandits that he had been shadowing for the last two days. He had noticed that her foot was broken because it had been dangling unnaturally from her leg and her knees was still bleeding.
He was focusing on the men that was looking at him with fury as their only expression, when he had heard her scream and Noah looked in the direction he had heard it and he saw that she was now on the ground holding her broken foot and tears running down her cheeks. The big man that he knew was the boss looked down on her but Noah couldn't see his face because he had his back to Noah.
The men attacked him and he wasn't ready, he had been focusing on the girl, but he could still escape the attacks. The bandits wasn't very smart or strong when Noah compared them to the soldiers that had raised and trained him, but they could still fight and it was him against 18 men if not counting the man he had already killed and the boss that was still looking at the girl that was now looking up at him with terror but still with a fighting fire in her eyes.
Noah drew his sword and danced, he was flowing between the swords and axes and he laid a blow on every man. In just two minutes all the men that had stood between him and the two people behind them was lying on the ground in their on blood and Noah had not a single cut or drop of blood on him.
He started to walk towards the massive man that was now holding a ridiculously large sword in his left hand. 'He's left handed' Noah thought to himself when coming closer to them. They were still facing each other but the girl didn't break eye contact with the boss even ones, she barely blinked. Noah was impressed, this girl have had some training.
The boss raised his sword over his head and Noah knew he was going to strike the girl. A anger he had never felt before raised inside him. 'This man is going to strike down a girl that can't even defend herself, a someone that can't even run!' he said to himself in his mind.
Noah could hear the wind being cut by the enormous sword and in a second he was in front of the girl stopping the sword with his that was much smaller. The man's eyes widened in surprise, he looked back to were his men had been alive just minutes before but was now drowning in their own blood.
''You brat I'm going to cut you up in pieces!'' he screamed in Noah's face with only one emotion in his face, rage.
Vad tycker ni om Noah? Verkar han som en härlig kille? Detta är andra kapitelet och jag gillar det verkligen, här börjar själva storyn lite. De här två personerna är de som storyn kommer att kretsa mäst om, de kommer helt enkelt att stå i fokus. det är i alla fall vad jag hoppas att det kommer vara men vem vet jag kan få en helt annan känsla längre in i berättlsen.
Anna Good