Away from the capital, the two astral body, who are calling themselves as void stopped in a cliff. One of them dropped the body of his partner he was carrying after they barely escaped the humans. He rest his back against the solid rock and he looked at his passed out companion.
"How long are you gonna play dead there, halfwit?! Tch!" he said and kicked the other one on his face. The latter woke up and slowly rise.
"Finally awake, halfwit? Tch!" he added. The awakened guy grabbed him by his collar.
"What are you mad about? Just because you've been defeated by someone, you'll gonna vent out your frustrations to others. Tch!" He said once again and his hazelnut eyes met the other one's pitch black ones. The latter let go of him but his frustration, disappointment and humiliation shows in his face.
"Theist, we already did our job here. Let's go back. Tch!" He said.
"One day, I'm gonna make them pay! I'm gonna kill them all!" Theist shouted at the top of his lungs. His loud and big voice echoed across the mountains that even made the birds and other animals panic.
"That's why I told the leader to replace me in going with him." The other guy sighed.
As they were leaving the land of Amane, it is already dawn. However, apart from the capital, some places in Amane, fight is still on going.
Every generals is fighting a huge number of the Barbaric people. This tribe is composed of simple minded people who's mind is just thinking of fighting. They are a nomads from the south and were known as ruthless citizens. They could've been dismissed from the country but the previous kings didn't. The reason was unknown.
The generals are far from their level. From speed, strength, power, and agility. The generals could anticipate their next moves and defeated them easily. However, each generals are facing more than ten persons. It is time consuming and their endurance is failing. It's been awhile since they've been into war that they have forgotten how to keep their bodies in shape. After all, after a long time of peace in the country, no one expected an internal dispute. But that should not be an excuse of not training. They were created as generals for the country for any time war will broke out, there would be strong people in the front line. The generals knew that and they blamed themselves for this weakness.
The sky is still dark. Under normal circumstances, this place should be sleeping and the place would be dark. But tonight, it is completely different. There's no celebration but the country is in great noise. There's no band but there's always a loud bang coming from everywhere. The women and children did not know what to do. They would want to hide and stay inside their homes but there's fire. They wanted to go out but things keep on flying everywhere.
The generals have something in common in their minds right now. That is a way to eradicate the Barbaric in no time. They need to gather every one of their kind and launch an attack that would incapacitate them. They have the ability to that, yes they do. However, every single one of them is scattered. The generals itself is a kilo meter or so from each other and there's no way of communication. The only way to get rid of them is to fight them with what they can. However, this is going to be tough. The enemies are slow but strong. They are dumb but strong. They lack any other but not in strength.
General Amiana is already feeling her limit. The Barbarics seems to go after her because she's a woman. This frustrates her because she felt underestimated. Right now, she's hiding from any of them while thinking of a way to ask for reinforcement. She looked at the way to capital. Earlier, there's a lot of smoke she had seen in there and explosions. It seems that it is on fire. Her main weapon is a bow and arrow. Within Amane, no one could par with her in archery and her marksmanship is remarkable. She's lost in thought that she didn't notice that there's someone behind her. She felt a presence behind her a little late and barely on time escaping. She jumped away from where she was hiding and landed on a rooftop. Even if she managed to dodged it, it still grazed her cheeks. The one who attacked her was the Barbaric man named Gruel.
He is known to be maniac and into sexual gratification. He kills every woman he sees and before he did that, he would do whatever he wanted with them. That's why when with his tribe he was kept chained and imprisoned. Now that he's temporarily free, he's wreaking havoc.
"Did you know, that every woman has a distinct taste?" he asked after Amiana saw him.
Amiana's grip on her tightened and rage filled her eyes. Her eyes narrowed and she gritted her teeth.
"Now I wonder what your taste is like." Gruel said and looked at her grossly while licking his lip. Amiana almost throw up from this.
"This is the reason why men is the disgrace in the society! Didn't your mother taught you how to stop your balls from jumping in front of a woman?!" Amiana growled and her eyes got angrier.
"Mom? Oh right! I remember! I was about to do her when she suddenly killed herself in front of me saying…. 'I have given birth to a monster!'" he said and laughed loudly. He's panting between his laugh but suddenly stopped when he felt an itch in his chest. He stopped laughing and looked at his chest. He saw an arrow buried into his skin.
"What the hell is this thing?" he said and pulled it out. Amiana's eyes widened when he pulled it out with ease. Then the guy broke the arrow.
'He could be a problem.' Amiana thought.
Suddenly, another number of Barbaric men started to gather around them just below them. Amiana is standing at the rooftop and Gruel is also standing in the rooftop of the adjacent block where Amiana is standing. Between those roofs and beneath it, more Barbarics came to fight Amiana However, they were warned by Gruel.
"Stay away pests! She's mine!" he growled at them.
"Shut your mouth prisoner! Don't be so cocky just because you were released! Remember this! After this siege, you'll be thrown in again in that cold and dark place behind the iron bars!" one from below said. Gruel was angered by this. In no time, he was in front of that person and severed its head with just his bare hands. His eyes is full of thirst for blood. He looked at the other fellows and grinned widely.
"Who's next?!" he asked.
While he's busy dealing with his fellows, Amiana stood there until she notice something. She could have runaway but her pride could not forgive the person who thought of women as mere toys. She just watched them as she was planning on how to put her idea into action.
Gruel had beaten many of his fellows. Beaten is way too soft. They were killed. There were others who begged for their lives but he's too high to understand what they're saying. When he took care of them all, he returned to where he was standing.
"Why did you stay? You could've just runaway!" he said but he didn't mean it.
"Why? Because I have no chance against you? Or is it because…. I'm a woman?!"
Amiana said with an angry voice. She then threw him a look like a dagger.
Gruel was surprised by her reactions. She was supposed to be afraid or shaking just by looking at him. However, she stood against him, talked to him, and is ready to fight him.
"You know what? I dislike woman like you." he said. Amiana raised an eyebrow.
"It's my pleasure to be disliked by somebody like you. I'd rather die." She barked with emphasis. Gruel laughed at this.
"You're one hell of an interesting woman! My previous women were so submissive! But you've got guts!" he said while laughing so hard.
"Your…. Woman?" Amiana said as if she didn't caught up what he said.
"Yes! I bet you don't know what it's like to chase women until they got nowhere to run! When they're helplessly asking for help even if no one's gonna hear them!" he exclaimed with so high enthusiasm.
"Shut up…" Amiana growled but it seems that he didn't understood.
"Ah… The look on their faces filled with fear as they shake! The way they scream in pain! Ah! Just thinking of it makes me turn on!"
"I said shut up!" Amiana let out a loud scream and charged at Gruel. Her bow and arrow was replaced with a dagger.
"Ah! It's been awhile since I had the last experience of that euphoria! You're so unfortunate that I'm the one you're fighting at! I'm in high spirit!" he shouted back at her as he blocked her dagger with his own arm. Amiana aimed for his eyes. She was shaking in anger and so desperate to kill him. She's so occupied that she failed to notice that his other arm is free.
He grabbed her neck. His hands are huge that her neck was only held with one hand. She coughed as she felt that he was tightening his grip on her neck.
"You really are something! You're the first woman that dared to lay a scratch on me. But that won't happen again!" he said and drew his face closer to Amiana's face.
Amiana was disgusted and threw a spit on his face much to Gruel's surprise. Gruel was angered by this and tightened his grip on her neck.
"You, damned woman! I'm gonna make you scream until you lost your voice and then kill you!" he growled and throw the lady general to the rooftop in his front. He got lots of power with him that the impact made the building turn to rumbles. The building fell together with Amiana.
Gruel's rage didn't seem to calm down. His face is so pissed that nerves are starting to show.
"I'm gonna make you regret by slowly killing you! Now, scream for me woman!" he shouted and suddenly two arrows appeared from the cloud of smoke.
"Are you mocking me, woman?! The same trick won't work on me twice!" he shouted and didn't noticed that Amiana is already standing few meters in front of him on a broken wall. She is aiming an arrow on him. Gruel's eyes widened at this. This is not an ordinary arrow just like she shot him earlier. The arrow and the bow glowed with a gleaming moist of red air, if he was to describe what he saw. Amiana's eyes darted at him. He was waiting for something to happen.
'Don't be foolish! You don't know what that is!'he mentally reprimanded himself. He changed his location and Amiana's aim followed him. He kept on moving around and Amiana is still following him. He was thinking that should she shoot while he's moving, she might miss. But that's what he was thinking.
"You think you can entertain me more?!" he shouted between his shifts.
"Do you I was born to entertain you? You must be deluded!" Amiana snarled.
"Keep talking for now! Because sooner or later, it's not word but just scream that will go out from your mouth! Ah! I can hardly wait!" he said and was fantasizing.
Amiana wasn't able to contain her anger, decided to shot her arrow. Gruel was shocked but smirked at the same time. And just as what he expected, Amiana missed.
Gruel laughed so hard and Amiana gritted her teeth.
"So this is all you can do?!" he asked her. Amiana just stayed silent. She runs rooftop to rooftop of every building.
"Running away, huh? You should've done this earlier! Now let me how far you can go!" he was saying this while running after her. Amiana was so focused and her enemy is so full of himself. In terms of physical strength, she's defeated. He can even deflect every arrows she shoot. His speed is also something that should not be ignored. He is simply a monster.
As they were running, Amiana suddenly lost her footing. She yelped and was slowly falling to the ground. The cold hard ground greeted her with pain and dizziness. She tries to stand up but Gruel appeared. He was on her top and choking her not giving her any time to breath.
"You really are unfortunate. Seems like luck is on my side!" he told her smirking. They are currently in an alley, specifically, a dead end.
"Now, beg for your life! I wonder what should I do to you first? Should I taste you or just go directly with organ removal? Well, why don' you choose which one?!" he said and let out a very loud and maniac laugh.
His body is so heavy that she couldn't shake him off. It was so dark there and the only sound they can hear is the squealing of the rats. Gruel was in cloud nine as he was thinking what to do with her. He was laughing so hard that made the dark alley even more eerie.
"Sounds like you're having fun." She said. Gruel stopped.
"You still have the guts to talk? Well, whatever! You'll gonna die anyway! Now scream for me!" he begged her to scream while slapping her face back and forth. The sound of the slap echoed in the dead end.
"Okay, I'll do it."she suddenly said. Gruel stopped slapping her and was confused.
"What?" he asked.
"Didn't you hear me?! I said I'll scream." She said nonchalantly.
"What are you getting at? Well, whatever! Just do what you want and give me the scre----."
He stopped when Amiana shrieked. Her voice is so high pitched and loud at the same time that made Gruel spin his head. He was at least passed out for a moment. When he came back to reality, his eyebrow furrowed and his teeth is grinding at each other.
"I said… Scream nicely! That was the ugliest scream I've ever heard!" he said angrily and took out his knife to stab her.
"Anyone who calls Lady Amiana ugly shall be punished." Suddenly, someone talked.
Gruel looked up and saw a shadow of three woman.
"Who are you?!" he exclaimed.
"Who are we? You seriously picked a fight with someone you don't know?" the woman replied.
"Well then, let us introduce ourselves."
"We are the Women."
"The… Women?" Gruel asked confused.
"Tch! I told you to think about something else! That's just so lame!" Amiana whispered.
"And we are here to aid our leader upon the eradication of filthy and disgraceful men!" they said in unison.
Three women appeared in the dark alley and saved Amiana from being stabbed. The Women, just who are they?