Read Story: SEASON 1 EPISODE 15

SADIQ

…….. By dawn.. The army rode out to the small village out Nishkapur… I was of course ahead of them leading the charge… I wasn’t happy about this… I wished there was a way we could settle this… Because War doesn’t solve anything.. Those people won’t have a chance against us.. And the worst part is they won’t be left alone… Some of them will be killed, some would be captured and sold into slavery.. Some especially the women might be raped or taken away to become concubines…

From Marida to the village, it would take a day for us to reach there… But we didn’t stop to rest… Thanks to the order of our General Dijal… He ordered that no one should rest until we’ve defeated our enemies…

By nightfall we kept on riding,.. But we had to stop because the horses were tired… We had to feed and give them water and then allow them to rest.

All of us camped on the desert, we made a big fire to roast some meat we bought along.. I sat a few meters away from them sharpening the edge of my spear.. As I did that, I listened to what the men was saying to themselves… They all hoped had plans on what to do after we’ve roamed and ransacked the village.

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Man 1 Oh.. I can’t wait… Those pigs will surely pay… They’ll pay dearly.

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Man 2 Of course… They will… But I have something in mind.. Once we’ve dealt with them… I’m going to take some things back home.

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Man 3 I support your views… I’m going after the young ladies… I’ll make them to become my concubines.

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Man 4 You swine…. Don’t you have enough wives? As for me.. I’m going after riches… With money you can get anything you want.. Including the finest concubines.

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Man 5 Money? Those b*stards don’t have riches.. And remember whatever they sold will be taken back to Marida.. If you ask me.. I’m going after the women as well.

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I couldn’t believe those men.. Don’t they have any pity in them? Do they even think what’s like to be a victim of War? Well… It doesn’t matter… Even if we meet a resistance from the villagers.. Most of this men won’t make it back to Marida alive.

Later in the night as we were sleeping… I heard the horses neighing wildly and uncomfortably.. At first, I thought they would quiet down but they kept neighing louder and louder… One thing i know If an animal reacts like this.. It’s either it’s hungry or it senses some kind of threat around it… I quickly grabbed my spear and stood up looking around to see who was put there… The worst part is.. The fire we lighted was now burnt out.. Everywhere was dark… Some of the men began to wake up as they heard the horses neighing uncontrollably.

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Man 1 Some body should shut this dumb beasts.. I want to sleep.

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Man 2 Go check it out… Maybe they saw a snake!

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Man 3 A snake in the desert? Are you mad?

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Man 2 No… Its your mother that is mad, fool.

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The men began to argue and insult one another.. Some of them went to check want was going on with the horses… Amidst that chattering moment… A scream was heard.

ARRRGGGHHHHHH

Everyone became silent… Shortly after that, everyone drew out their swords facing the direction where the scream went off… The annoying thing was, we couldn’t see what was going on.

The men called out to those who went to check on the horses but there was no answer… Just then, something zipped passed behind us, grabbing one of the men… It ran off with him into the darkness.. Shortly after that, we heard the man’s final scream as he was being murdered… We were all confused… Something or someone was attacking us from the front and behind and we didn’t know what it was.

Suddenly, Something huge jumped into our center and scattered us with one swift blow… The men quickly got back at their feet and charged at the attacker… The men slashed it but nothing happened.. The creature too had a weapon of its own, It swung it at us scattering us again…. Some of the men died on the spot after receiving this blow… I charged at it and struck it with my spear but it didn’t penetrate… The creature or rather man looked at my direction and swung his weapon but I dodged, I took some sand in my hands and threw it into his eyes…

The huge brute was stunned of course.. He began to swing his weapon wildly like a mad man mowing down whoever stood in its path… Some of the men tried their luck again but their blades were useless… What kind of armor was this thing wearing?

So seeing that, it couldn’t be hurt from the outside, I decided to attack from the inside and the only way to do that, was through his mouth and ears.

I ordered the men to go for his ears and mouth, and they did exactly that, but as you know, something is easier said than done.. Before the men could get close to the creature… It had already smashed them with it weapon.. Luckily one of the men sneaked behind him and jumped on his back stabbing its right ear..

My theory had worked because after that attack, the Creature shouted out loud clutching to its right ear… The creature was angry of course.. It grabbed the man on his back and slammed him hard on the ground….. Such power I’ve never seen the likes of it.. Before the man could escape the creature stomped the man’s stomach crushing him like a tomato ..

After that, The creature roared out loud and charged blindly towards us with its mouth wild open… I grabbed my spear for one last attempt and threw it with all my might right into the creature’s mouth… The spear pierced it’s mouth coming out from behind it’s nape… The creature fell on the ground, dead.

The men gathered around and approached it carefully to take a look at it’s face.. But before they could get close, another creature appeared, smacking away the men from its fallen comrade.. It took his body and ran off with lightening speed heading to the direction of our destination.

We quickly claimed our horses and gave it a hot chase but we couldn’t catch up to it.. It was so fast… I’ve never seen anything like it.

A bit later, we gathered around and discussed what just happened… After experiencing that terrifying moment… All of us couldn’t go to sleep.. In fact, it had disappeared from our faces..

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Dijal Sadiq… Any idea, what that creature is?

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Sadiq Well, it looked like a man.. It has the strength that I’ve never seen before and it is fast… All I can say is.. It’s a man.

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Man 2 Man? Are you actually saying this? You heard it’s voice… No man has that kind of voice…

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Man 4 Its a beast…

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Sadiq Beasts can’t outsmart an army of trained warriors… Whoever this thing is.. It has intelligence.. It knows how to fight.

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Dijal I have to agree with you Sadiq… That b*stard outsmarted us… And I know who’s behind this….

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Sadiq General… You can’t be seriously suggesting that the villagers are behind this

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Dijal Of course it’s obvious… These creatures ambushed us and now they’re running towards our missions destination… The villagers must have somehow knew we were coming.

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Sadiq A village live in poverty and dirt, couldn’t possibly hire mercenaries.

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Dijal With the goods, they’ve stolen from our merchandize’s, I’d say they could… No sleep for us tonight… We ride straight forward to that village… We waste any more time.. They’ll send more of those barbarians to attack us… MEN…. LET’S RIDE…..

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The men obeyed the the general.. Thanks to the general’s wild assumption, the men too had believed what he said… They all looked angry and sought revenge.

The night.. We rode fast and wild…the only sound that was heard was the heavy breathing of horses and their hoofs galloping on the sand…No one stopped to rest, no even for a piss… We rode on and on getting closer and closer to our destination.

The next morning… We were still riding on our horses… Luckily for us… The sun wasn’t yet in its full form… Before long.. We had arrived at our destination….

We had camped a few miles away from the village… To plan our next move of attack.. We wouldn’t want to go in blindly like that until we knew what tricks our enemies had in their sleeves… We managed to send a scout to check out what was going on… We waited and waited and waited, but there was no sign of him…

Later at noon, The scout returned saying, that our enemies had no surprise attack for us… He also specified that, they had no army ready for a fight.. They were just doing the normal day to day activities.. Upon hearing that, Dijal ordered us to attack..

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Dijal Men.. Sharpen your swords.. Let them feel the sharp cold edge of your steel.

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Sadiq There’s no need for genocide… Let’s spare the ones that surrender..The merchants can make their lost wealth out of them by making them their slaves…

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Dijal Well said… Alright men.. CHARGE!!!!.

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As quick as Lightening… We rode our horse charging with full force at the unsuspecting villagers… Immediately they heard pjr shouts and rumble, they began to run for their lives.. Some of them came at us of course but they were cut down…. Before long we had overpowered them… Seeing that they couldn’t stop us.. The villagers took to their heels but not all escaped… Some were caught especially the women… Amidst that commotion.. The men used that opportunity to have their way with some of the women.. They tore their clothes and raped them mercilessly… Even the general got mixed up in this barbarism.. As for me.. I went around the village on my horse aimlessly….. As I got to a couple of thatched huts , I heard a scream, I got down from my house and held my spear just in case… Just then, a man came out from one of the huts trying to sneak up behind me.. I instantly felt his presence, cause he was a bit noisy… I turned around immediately and planted the spear on his chest.. The man shouted out loud in pain and die shortly after that.

After that, I removed my spear from the man and went to see who was inside the hut… As I got in.. I saw some hungry looking women.. They looked dirty and in need of bath. As I looked at them one by one.. I saw one that was totally different from the rest… In all my life… I’ve never seen a woman with such beauty… Despite being in a rough state.. She was still attractive and alluring..

She too was staring at me the same I was doing to her…

As if I was being hypnotized , I went to her to see if she was okay… She was the only one that my mind was focused on.. The rest was just oblivious to me…

As I got to where she was, I asked if she was okay but she couldn’t say anything, she just stared into my eye lovingly… I was so mesmerized by her stare that I lowered my guard not realizing the beautiful wench was planning some kind of mischief.

Using this opportunity, she quietly packed some sands in her hands and threw it at my face….

I jumped back as I felt the sand in my eyes… To be honest, I couldn’t blame her… In her situation, it’s hard to trust anyone.. Seeing that I was distracted.. She rushed at me and pushed me, I was amazed the strength, the girl has, not ever woman can do she just did… After that, she ran out of the room to escape… I had clean the sands from my face before I chased after her…. As I got out of the hut.. I looked left and right but there was no sign of her, where could she have gone to so fast?

I climbed my horse and rode around the place to see If I could catch a glimpse of her… Shortly after that, I heard some cheerful noise from the north side from where I was… I whipped my horse and rode there as fast as I could… Immediately I got there, I saw the men gather around in a circle… It would seem there was something going on in the middle. As I got close, I was shocked to see the girl… She was holding a sword, waving it around her to keep the men off her…

I admired her ferocity and her courage.. To think, she had already acquired a weapon to defend herself…

While she was busy guarding her front.. One of the men sneaked behind her and tried to disarm her but the girl was quick and agile, she dodged the man’s grab and ended his life right there and then…

The men were all silent after that, at first it was fun teasing the girl but now, it wasn’t.. She had killed a man and that wasn’t going to be taken lightly… The men converged at her once, the girl was confused on which one she would attack… They grabbed her and disarmed her… What followed next was unpleasant….

The men started to assault her.. Slapping her and ripping off her clothes.. I knew where this was going, so I got between them and the girl.. One had already dropped his underwear to f–k her but I kicked him away from her.

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Sadiq Enough… All of you.

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Man 1 But sir… She killed one of own.. The b*tch must pay..

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Sadiq Yes she did… But you forced her to do that… So she defended herself… You would all have done the same if you were in her position.

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Man 3 Sir… This is outrageous… The w—e must die..

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Sadiq Come closer and I’ll make sure your intestines feel the pointy edge of my spear…

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No one made a move.. All of them were scared by my threat… I looked at the girl and saw how hurt she was… Poor soul… If i don’t find a way to help her. These men would definitely tape her to death or probably sell her off at the slave market to some man who’ll keep having s*x with her unstop until she breaks…. So I thought of an idea.

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Sadiq Listen up all of you… You’ve had your share of fun in the war… I too would like to have a little something for myself and this girl would definitely do… She’ll become my concubine at the palace… She’ll spend the rest of her miserable life serving my sexual needs…. So does anyone have a problem with that?

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No one said anything… Judging by the smile on their faces, I knew they loved the idea… After that, I grabbed the girl and covered her with my turban… I ordered the men to keep her safe and keep an eye on her…

After we were done inspecting the villages… We rode back to Marida… But we didn’t go home empty handed.. We captured some people so that they would be sold into slave market in Marida, we recovered some of the items stolen and the best of all, some men got some concubines to do with them as they pleased.

The girl whom I claimed was going to be mine, wasn’t an easy one to get over… She was moody and always gave me a look of hatred… I never really meant what I said.. I just did that to protect her.. But you know women.. You just can’t please them.

Whenever I try to feed her, she would kick the food away and call me names.. I had to get her tied hand and foot, so I could feed her myself but still that didn’t work… She would always snap her teeth at me when I tried to feed her.

So that night…We decided to camp out and rest… After setting up tents.. The men started having fun with their war booty… They had their way with the helpless women ramming their d*cks savagely into them.. While I was trying to sleep, I was disturbed by their moans and screams as they had o—-m..

So seeing, I couldn’t sleep, I decided to have a chat with my guest..I went to her tent with some food , where she was being kept and tied.. As I got in, I saw here sitting still with a saddening look in her eyes.

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Sadiq Hello… Why aren’t you asleep?

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Jasmine What’s it to you? Are you trying to rape me as well?

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Sadiq Heavens no… I just came to talk to you..

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Jasmine Well, i’m not in the mood for that.

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Sadiq Here, I bought you some food.

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Jasmine (shocked) What is wrong with you? How many times do I have to show you I’m not going to eat anything from you and any ones hands. You may have probably put something inside to make me fall asleep, so you can have my body.

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Sadiq (laughs) You’re a dramatic one… I assure you.. I have no intention of doing that…

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Jasmine What makes you think I’d believe you? You just told your men earlier about what you’re going to do with me.

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Sadiq Yes… I did.. I said that to save you… If I hadn’t done that, the men would have raped you to death or do something worst to you. I assure you where we’re going you won’t have to worry about any troubles at all.

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Jasmine and where are we going exactly?

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Sadiq The kingdom of Marida.. But as for your place of stay, it will be the palace.

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Jasmine (laughs) Palace??? What power does a common soldier like you have to put me in a palace..

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Sadiq Hmph… I never knew you were the type that looks down on people but nevertheless, don’t let my appearances fool you… So if I may ask… Who are you?

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Jasmine My name is a privilege to some men…. I don’t tell my names to people like you…

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Sadiq Beauty and ignorant… Well I’ll tell you mine… I’m Sadiq.. Prince of Marida.

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Jasmine (shocked) Did you say prince?

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Sadiq Yes… In fact, the real prince of Marida…

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Jasmine But you’re a soldier…

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Sadiq I know… I chose this for myself… I’m not used to being pampered and all that..

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Jasmine By the gods…. Uhm… My name is Jasmine..

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Sadiq Jasmine!? What a lovely name.. And from where are you, jasmine?

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Jasmine Nishkapur… I’m the daughter of sultan Ali and princess of Nishkapur.

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I saw still as I heard her statement.. And then I began to laugh… The girl was surprised and shocked… I couldn’t believe it.. She a princess… Okay.. She’s beautiful.. But a princess… No way.

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Jasmine what’s so funny?

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Sadiq You!… That’s a funny joke by the way!

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Jasmine I’m not joking… I’m the real princess of Nishkapur… Listen to my story.

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Jasmine told me everything front the beginning to the end… Her story sounded convincing but… Women can do anything.. And I mean just about anything, to get themselves out of trouble. But there was one thing she said that caught my attention.

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Sadiq So you disobeyed your father… Got kidnapped and escaped an army of monsters… And then you got kidnapped again..

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Jasmine Yes.. You have to believe me.. My father will be worried.

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Sadiq About these monsters… Can you describe them for me?

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Jasmine told me how their features were and they fitted the description of the same mysterious creatures we found… Telling this to the general would be a bad idea.. He might execute Jasmine by accusing her of witchcraft.. And supposing I believed Jasmines story about her being a princess… I can’t let anyone know about it.. Because if they realize the princess of Nishkapur is here… That would mean that the kingdom also have a hand in a crime that they didn’t commit and This could an all-out war between Marida and Nishkapur… It’s better I keep quiet for now.

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Jasmine So are you going to help me?

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Sadiq Listen to me.. I can’t believe a word you just said but supposing it was true.. I can’t help you…

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Jasmine Why??

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Sadiq Listen.. Its for your own good.. If these soldiers knew they have a princess of Nishkapur as hostage.. They would think that your kingdom also had a hand in stealing from Marida as well and that would cause choas……

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Jasmine You fiend… You just want to keep me here so I could become your tool for sexual satisfaction…

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Sadiq Listen.. You bird brain… If anyone knows about what you just told me… You’re dead… They will kill you.. And if you don’t know.. Those same monsters that attacked you also attacked us and these men are very angry about that and remember.. What you did earlier today… If you want to stay alive.. I suggest you keep your mouth shut.. Understand…