The moon rises over the burning capital of Rome. Death is pungent in the air, screams of death and agony fill the air. But many nautical miles away from the Roman Cost a boat filled with troops of unknown affiliation sail south from Rome, hoping to escape death and find refuge away from their enemies. Commander Alexi Magnus Vita is the last commander of The Roman Legion that was lucky enough to escape the slaughter of his homeland. Now he and his men are refugees that are on the run to escape what may be a most painful death. So now the story unfolds. The Story of the last centurion starts now...
"Commander Alexi, we lost the battle, then the capital fell. Now we are in the middle of the ocean, what do we do!?" The roman that just blurt out that comment was one of the 20 legionaries of Alexis's legion. His name is Julian Caesar, he is the decedent of Julius Caesar, although fallen from power after many years of ancestry. He is a young and very naive about the world around him. "Julian. Sit down and shut it. Do you want to be spotted by enemy ships?" The older man responds to his outburst. Julian sits down and looks around with a nervous look on his face. The older man then looks at Alexi, "Sir, what do you want us to do now?" But Alexi doesn't respond he only looks down at his clean white hands. He then starts to notice his hair is being blown down in front of his face and moves his head to the side while sighing. " There is nothing to do, we can only hope that we can make it to Egypt before word of our loss and hope for the best."
Everyone then realised that they may have lost their home, but their leader has lost a lot more. He lost his family, his King, and his true love. Lady Anna of Rome. She died in his arms and only Alexi knows what happened after. No one was near him when he was attacked and betrayed. They only remember a huge explosion happening by his estate, and lots of screaming.
"We are almost to shore, everyone sleep. We will need rest for the days to come." Alexi offered to watch over the men as they slept. The older man and Julian resisted, they told Alexi no. They persuaded Alexi to get rest after his non stop day of battle, Alexi after a few minutes of arguing finally agreed sleep.
*flash back time
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15 hrs earlier ( in dream)
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The day of Rome's Fall Continued...
The sun rises over the Roman palace and shines light onto a beautiful garden full of flowers from country's around the world. This house belongs to Alexi Vita, the youngest centurion in the Roman Legion. He just turned 26 the day before, he will never forget that day. Since today is the day, he proposed to his devoted girl friend Lady Anna Of Rome. She is the daughter of the current King and Queen of Roman empire. But little did Alexi know that after the best day of his life, the next few hours would be compared to hell.
As the sun shines in Alexi and Anna are given a rude awakening from the sun. "Morning, Alex." Her eyes meet his, he smiles and kisses her. He then sees the room darken immediately and he notices that Anna turns cold. While Alex stands there, looking at her he notices she was missing her eyes they were pitch black and she slowly made her way toward him. Anna pushes him off the bed, and as Alex looses his balance, Alex then falls back on the floor and loses sight of Anna. Alex gets back up but not before grabbing his blunt weapon on the chair next to his bed, and prepares to defend himself. Alex then looks at the bed where he was just saw a demented version of his wife. But when he looked up to where his wife was standing, he only saw his wife sleeping peacefully and quietly.
"WTF? What just happened?" His sudden movements made Anna turn towards Alex and she opened up her eyes. "Alex? What's happening?" She sees him with his sword in its leather scabbard and starts to get nervous. "Alex? Are you okay?" Anna looks at him weirdly, but she then smiles with a look of innocence and radiance so pure, that if some one who looked at her through glass her radiance would permanently blind them. Alex then relaxes and dismissed what he saw. It must have been a nightmare, he wouldn't know what would happen if he lost his wife. "Well since im up now, I have to head to the wall. Its my turn to lead the patrols." Alex then makes his way to the closet and takes out his armor. It is a sturdy set of Iron Armor that has no dents or scratches on it. He then puts his sword into his scabbard and makes his way out, but not until he kisses he newlywed wife. They are planning the wedding sometime in the next 2 to 3 months. But Alex keeps on thinking of the dream he had, while he walks down towards the wall. He decides to get 20 men with him and they start to patrol the perimeter of the wall. All of a sudden one of the legionaries speaks up, "Sir. How long do we have to do this. No one would dare attack us." Alex looks back and notices that it was Julian Caesar. Alex sighs, "I just have a feeling bad is about to happen. I. Had a weird dream." "A weird dream? Really, that's what you are going on?" Julian looks at Alex weirdly. As soon as Julian said this, an older man approaches up to him and punches him in the head. "All warriors and soldiers have gut feelings. If we cant follow them we die. Commander Alex, What do you need us to do." Alex looks at all the men who agree with the older mans claim and tells them to follow him. They make their way down the wall and prepare to make another round around the wall.
5 hrs later
"Well congrats. We patrolled for 5 straight hours and nothing happened. See told you no one would dare..."
Whoosh... the men look at a flaming rock that just sailed over the wall. Boom!BOOM!! And at The same time the rocks hits one of the houses the front gate of the wall explodes and sends all the men into the air. "DEATH TO THE ROMAN'S!!" A huge man standing 7ft tall with a axe that is the same size starts running through the gate, along with hundreds of foot soldiers. "What the hell!? How did they get though the gate without being seen by the patrols?" Alex looks on in fear because he saw that man before. In his nightmare the man leading the barbarian troops, was the man who took everything from him.
Alex stands up realizing what just happened and starts to collect himself and starts to grab some of the men who are lying on the ground and wakes them up. "WAKE YOU DUMB PIECES OF S***!" He hits each and every one of them on the face to wake up. When they do some of the foot soldiers make their way towards them, before any one can see what happened Alex takes out his sword and decapitates 5 foot soldiers. Instantly, all the barbarian men stop moving and look at him with fear and anger. They slowly start to surround him there are about 10 people around him. Alex doesn't have to worry about the 10 enemies, he has to protect his squad of men. 4 of the enemies sprint towards the unconscious men, but before they can reach them Alex cuts off 3 of the heads, but misses one. The other man falls on the floor with blood spilling from his back, he rolled on the floor so Alex wouldn't be able to cut off his head like the others. While Alex was focusing on that enemy the other 6 started to go at once and attack Alex. Alex noticed but not before of the men landed a strike on his armor and breaks his left shoulder armor plate. (*means thoughts of MC) *Crap these guys are strong. Alex, had to roll away from the other 5 enemies approaching him. The man who was hurt on the back stood back up, disoriented and weak. Alex was unsure of what would happen next, they were closing in on him. All of a sudden an explosion was set off near his estate. "Anna." He runs in that direction, but not before killing 3 more men and making sure that the last of the 3 enemy men behind him were chasing him so they would not kill his men. Alex is running up the mountain at a pace that couldn't be matched. He makes it to his door and slams it open.
*BAMM!
To be continued in The Last Day Of Rome