[Chapter Size: 2000 Words.]
Third Person POV
Northern kingdoms.
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In the castle of Cintra, the black-clad soldiers quickly began descending the stairs to find the vault and search for riches. As soon as they arrived, they started trying to break open the door. It didn't take long, along with one of the mages, for them to unlock the vault door. As soon as they opened it, they quickly invaded the place. However, what they found was an empty vault.
"Where is the wealth of Cintra?" someone exclaimed.
"Calanthe must have removed it along with her mage," another murmured.
"Anyway, let's leave. There is nothing for us here." The mage replied.
But just as they were about to leave, a small paper with symbols none of them had seen before fell from the ceiling right in the middle of them. The mage looked curiously at it, picking it up and holding it in front of his eyes trying to understand what it was. He felt no chaos energy, but suddenly, the symbol began to catch fire, making everyone's eyes widen. But it was already too late.
BOOOOOMMM!
An explosion occurred the next moment, as their bodies began to disintegrate throughout the place.
Emhyr, on the throne, along with all his men, listened to what his commanders reported about Madara. They quickly felt the small tremor coming from below, leaving everyone stunned. Emhyr immediately sent soldiers to check what was happening.
Meanwhile, Madara continued heading north.
"We are close..." Madara commented atop a tree, looking at the map of the region with Cirilla on his back.
"Do you think Nilfgaard's soldiers will be there too?" Cirilla asked cautiously.
"It's very likely..." Madara responded.
Ciri remained silent, her heart still broken, but much better after accepting her real situation at the moment, while continuing to cling firmly to Madara's back.
They then headed to the coast and, after a few more hours, finally began to see the city a while later as they stopped to look at the distance from a high point they found above a tree on higher ground.
The city, as Madara thought, was dominated by Nilfgaardians, while its ports were full of ships bearing the empire's flag throughout the entire harbor, the gates were closed while the walls were filled with black-clad soldiers.
"What are we going to do, Madara?" Cirilla asked cautiously.
"I think we can go check out the situation." He commented as they headed toward the city.
Running through the city taking care not to be seen, Madara quickly ran along the walls, swiftly passing by the soldiers and advancing into the city unseen as he jumped from roof to roof, while the men below couldn't even see the figure passing over them. The black-clad soldiers were everywhere, and the citizens had all been subdued, being abused in every possible way.
"Close your eyes." Madara asked Ciri on his back, and as she quickly did so, he saw some men abusing women in the middle of the street with bodies of dead men, while he began throwing kunais and shurikens, killing entire groups of men in one move with his weapons flying towards them. He had done this through all the streets he could, leaving a trail of death everywhere, with the citizens of that city confused with soldiers dying in front of them.
He reached a building near the harbor looking for any ship that might leave there, but only found ships blocked.
"Can't we go to Skellige?" Cirilla asked with a cautious tone as Madara sighed.
"No, and it seems we can't stay for long," Madara spoke calmly, as he saw some men talking with a person he knew very well there at the harbor.
The one giving some orders at the harbor was that archer mage who had managed to wound the lord commander Varys and Queen Calanthe in the middle of the battlefield in the south. The man was giving orders in Nilfgaardian to his men when his gaze fell instinctively to that building, but found the roof empty.
'I wonder if I'm just seeing things...' he murmured internally, feeling watched but dismissing it as he continued giving orders. He had come to the north through a portal to search for the princess and was urgently directing the Nilfgaardian men when suddenly, men began running toward him.
"Lord Calan!" they exclaimed in the empire's tongue.
"What's the problem?" Calan Var Ardry (OC), the magical archer, asked, narrowing his eyes at his companions.
"There are over 200 bodies of our soldiers scattered throughout the city, dead! All of them had this planted in their head!" The Nilfgaardian man showed a small ninja star.
"This..." Calan murmured as his gaze quickly returned to the roof. "They are here!" He announced before turning back to his men. "I want you to search the entire city for a girl with white hair; she's with someone dangerous! Just signal me, and I'll handle this person," he ordered immediately as the troops began to mobilize.
While the men hurriedly ran through the city after Madara, he and the former princess were already outside the city, running toward the border between Cintra and Verden.
They stopped to camp for the night in a cave while Madara took out everything they needed from his scroll stocked with food from the castle and his estate.
"This is so useful..." Cirilla couldn't help murmuring.
"Yes..." he said in a neutral tone, handing Cirilla some fruit as she ate peacefully.
The girl couldn't help but take a better look at their surroundings as Madara took out some mattresses so they wouldn't have to sleep on the ground.
"What a big place..." Cirilla murmured as she carefully observed the cave, better analyzing it with the fire Madara had created. She smelled something strange coming from deeper within the forest and approached it while her green eyes detected something.
"Madara!" she called as Madara looked up and approached.
He came with a torch, looking at where Cirilla had stopped. "It smells rotten..." she murmured as his torch revealed flies and maggots on decaying flesh alongside bones.
"It seems we've entered the lair of some creature..." Madara replied calmly, yet unafraid.
"Are we in danger?" Cirilla asked with some fear.
"Just small animals... nothing too threatening seems to come here... and it hasn't been here for days..." he responded calmly, but then quickly turned his face to the cave entrance as he sensed something entering.
'What luck...' Madara thought, though bored.
He quickly created a clone to stay with Cirilla, while the girl was surprised. "Stay here," Madara instructed as she would be protected by his clone, and he approached the entrance of the place, seeing a humanoid, furry creature.
"A werewolf...?" Madara responded, startling the creature that sniffed near the fire Madara had created with the food and beds.
"You..." the enormous creature looked surprised as it growled at Madara, its voice bestial.
Its body was all wounded with various blade cuts, while blood dripped from its fur. "Who are you..." the werewolf asked, and for the first time seeing this kind of creature, Madara couldn't help but be surprised by it, recalling that the light was full this night before they found a place to stay.
"We are just travelers, trying to escape from this realm lost to the hands of Nilfgaard..." Madara responded calmly.
"Nilfgaard!!" The werewolf growled, seeming to hate that name.
"So it was the black-clad soldiers who did this to you... at least you killed some of them..." Madara inquired while eyeing the dried blood on its claws, which did not belong to him.
"Yes..." it spoke.
Cirilla stood at a distance looking at this alongside the clone with some fear.
"You must leave here," the creature said. "I don't want to hurt you," the werewolf spoke, in a pained tone. There was so much anger in it that it might not hold back and kill these intruders. It managed to control its murderous instincts for a moment, to not kill these children.
"And what if I don't want to?" Madara simply responded, looking bored.
"Child, you seem not to know who I am, nor what I am capable of. Leave now before you regret it," it threatened.
Madara simply walked up to him, fearless. "You are not a threat, creature. Werewolf or not, we're not leaving here now," he said. Although the werewolf was surprised by the child's lack of fear, he still did not want to harm him. When the werewolf reached out to grab him and try to expel him from the cave, his arm was easily caught by Madara.
"As I said, you are not a threat," Madara responded calmly, causing the creature to be taken aback and let its instincts flow upon seeing the challenge from this strange child who had stopped his arm with ease.
He quickly became more beast-like, attempting to attack Madara with his other hand, but the boy quickly activated his sharingan and easily dodged before striking him in the rib, sending the werewolf flying a few meters and crashing to the ground.
The werewolf quickly rose, acting purely on instinct now. He launched an attack against Madara, who dodged before kicking his leg to unbalance him and punching his face, causing the creature to roar in pain and fall a few more meters ahead once again.
At this point, the werewolf was at the peak of madness and charged at Madara again with the intention of tearing him apart.
Despite all the tragedy that had happened in Cintra, Madara would not miss the opportunity to understand how a werewolf could fight, and it was an easy creature for the shinobi to handle. Madara began to dodge easily, his Sharingan not even really necessary in the end.
"Too slow," he said in the midst of the fight. "Could be faster, but still... too slow." Madara taunted, dodging the claws trying to hit him.
Cirilla stood at a distance, watching the fight, which was easily visible with the fire lit near them. She was a bit worried, but quickly looked on as her childhood friend simply beat the werewolf without intending to kill him.
The creature fell to the ground several times but kept returning to fight. Meanwhile, Madara absorbed the blows with his body having the speed and brute strength to play with the creature, something no witcher could do. But for a ninja, this was very different.
The creature fell to the ground several times, more injured each time, with broken ribs and even a dislocated arm, eventually unable to move it. In the end, it fell defeated, while Madara approached it on the ground, reverting to its human form, showing a middle-aged man with clothes torn due to his transformation, only his pants intact, lying completely on the ground.
Cirilla also approached, while Madara began to make some hand seals before placing them on this person. Fuinjutsu lines began to expand around the man, a way to bind him. After all, Madara saw no reason to kill the creature since it had tried to remove him from there to prevent killing them.
After binding him, while the former monster lay unconscious, Madara returned to Cirilla looking at the man cautiously.
"Did you bind him?" she asked as the clone that had stayed to protect her disappeared.
"Yes... he's no longer a threat, let's eat and go to sleep," Madara said, leaving the man bound.
"..." Cirilla remained silent and followed him to eat something.
In the end, the two teenagers finished eating and went to the prepared mattresses, sleeping while Madara left a clone to watch the entrance of the cave and the man fallen, bound in his fuinjutsu.
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