[Chapter Size: 1900 Words.]
Third Person POV
Northern kingdoms.
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"Hmmmm..." A man's groan echoed through the cave as he awoke, trying to free himself while his vision blurred with sunlight already penetrating the cave. However, he felt his body pinned to the ground, trapped by lines of symbols.
He tried to speak, but the fuuinjutsu placed by Madara prevented him from doing so, while his eyes grew slightly frightened by this.
Madara and Cirilla were eating at this moment, while the former was already aware of the man waking up. Cirilla looked surprised at the man. "Madara..." She murmured as Madara nodded in acknowledgment.
He walked over to the man pinned on the ground, his gaze shifting to the boy. "You finally woke up, then..." Madara said, as the man looked at him in fear.
"Hmmm???" he murmured, recalling how this boy had beaten him in his werewolf form.
Madara approached and began to release him from his seals, since it was daytime, he couldn't turn into a werewolf. "Who are you...?" The man murmured in fear to Madara.
"Just a traveler passing through Cintra," Madara responded, finishing touching the man's chest to finally release him from the fuuinjutsu marks as they began to disappear.
"..." The man finally managed to get up, feeling pain in his body from having been in one position for hours. But his gaze went cautiously to Madara.
Madara noticed that some of his wounds began to heal, still having blood on his body. "Now can you tell me who you are and what happened?" he asked with interest.
"I... I am from the local village... the soldiers... the soldiers attacked us," he replied, still confused and scared. "They killed my wife after abusing her all night... I, as you can see, am a werewolf. We don't need a full moon for the transformation, but it enhances our strength to the maximum and then I was able to free myself... I killed as many Nilfgaardians as possible in the village and left injured..."
Madara listened attentively and Cirilla had a sad face for his story.
"That explains your cuts... I am sorry about what happened to your family... but this is happening everywhere... I thought they would kill you before." Madara commented.
"And they tried... they stabbed a sword into me and left me to die... but that was their mistake... I recovered in the transformation. You know, I never killed anyone, my wife knew about my transformation and she helped me find this place so I could always come here and not hurt anyone, that's why I always limited myself to killing animals... This was the first time I killed humans..." He spoke with a weary tone.
"I can't blame you..." Madara commented. "If you want to eat, grab something over there, we'll be leaving soon." Madara said as the man nodded and went to the fire while Madara sat beside Ciri and the man ate something.
"What will you do?" Cirilla asked the man.
"I will stay." He said.
"Revenge?" Madara asked.
"Yes. I will kill as many soldiers as I can every night." He spoke firmly.
"..." Madara remained silent, finishing his meal and standing up. "Let's go... we must leave Cintra by tonight." Madara said while Cirilla nodded.
They quickly began to prepare their things. Soon, I was ready to leave, while the man remained silent in front of the fire.
"We're leaving, goodbye." Madara spoke as the man nodded.
"Good luck. I don't know what to say or if you're even human... thank you for not killing me," he spoke sincerely.
"I hope you kill all those you said you would." Madara spoke, after all, he also wanted to unleash this werewolf on the Nilfgaardians.
"I will do so or die trying, I will avenge all those damned for destroying the woman I loved." He spoke, and Madara nodded, approaching Ciri already ready after packing everything in the scroll again.
Cirilla once again mounted Madara's back, and they departed, leaving the cave and leaping between the trees of the forest, leaving the lair of that werewolf behind.
They continued traveling for the rest of the day, and as they were nearing the northern border, it took a few more hours, only stopping to eat something midday, to reach the river that separated Verden from Cintra with a vast expanse of water.
It was almost late afternoon when they arrived at the location, stopping at a distance on a high point to assess the situation from afar.
"They've been caught..." Cirilla murmured with some concern.
"How strange... they got here quite fast..." Madara murmured.
From a distance, several large ships were moored on the coast while the Nilfgaardians held them captive, unable to leave, and all the civilians from Cintra were detained. If Madara had to guess, these ships had been making crossings since the Nilfgaardians invaded the coast, attempting to send the people of Cintra to Verden, and by the number of people detained there... all the northern villages seemed to want to flee Cintra, unfortunately, they were caught.
"Let's wait until dark to get past them..." Madara said, after all, he couldn't save everyone and felt that this seemed very strange, as if it were a trap.
"Wait, Madara! We can't just leave them like this," Cirilla implored by his side, after all, these were still her grandmother's people.
Madara did not respond immediately, looking at the crowd for a while as the black soldiers oppressed many people from Cintra, such as whipping them, nailing them to wooden columns, while beating most of the people. It was very strange for them to act so fiercely as if they had received orders to hurt them, so he found it very suspicious, but in the end, he nodded with Ciri.
"Alright... But I want you to hold this and not let go at all, understood?" Madara warned before handing a kunai to Cirilla, who took it, feeling its weight in her hands.
"Yes... thank you..." She murmured, holding the kunai firmly.
They remained hidden there at a distance until the night finally arrived, and then Madara decided to act. He released two clones to protect Cirilla from anything strange and advanced.
In the middle of one of the captured ships, people sat on the ground while several guards circled around to see if they would do anything, which meant a slow and painful death for anyone, unlike the deaths during the invasion, here they tortured their victims cruelly.
In front of him, there was a scene of cruelty as a 14-year-old boy was being beaten by a Nilfgaardian soldier after spitting on them.
"Stop, sir, please!" A middle-aged woman exclaimed, seeing her son, just a teenager, being beaten like that as he continued to receive punches with a black armored fist.
"You filthy woman, shut up!" The soldier felt the woman cling to his legs and exclaimed, slapping the woman with her crying on the ground.
"Mom!!" the boy with a bleeding face exclaimed before getting punched again.
"You, filthy creature, try spitting again, worm! Now suffer the consequences!" the soldier continued in his native language, ready to kill the boy.
And as everyone expected exactly that, a shadow appeared above the soldier, with Madara coming from the shadow of the night and falling on the guard, hitting the man's head, easily penetrating his armor as his short sword was imbued with Chakra, and the man probably didn't even know how he died.
"What is this?!" The guards shouted in surprise at that stranger, and Madara didn't stop there, moving to the second guard before he could react and slashing his neck.
The other guards quickly drew their swords, and Madara advanced on the third, intending to fight with all of them, while all the other civilians watched the bloody scene in fright.
"Invader, attack!" They clamored, as Madara prepared for the fight with dozens of guards on that ship.
It wasn't just at that location, but on all the ships and in various parts of the camp, 40 Madara started slicing enemies, beginning a slaughter at that moment.
Cirilla just watched from a higher distance, observing while the clones protected her.
And suddenly, a sharp sound came from the forest. One of the clones quickly looked to the side, but in the next moment, he was hit by an arrow, with a somewhat shocked look, he disappeared into smoke. The other clone quickly positioned himself in front of Cirilla, as more arrows flew towards him. The clone dodged several, while ceasing fire, and more arrows came from another direction, while he used his kunai to defend himself.
Another arrow flew from one side, as he dodged another from behind. These arrows came with flashes of light, and Madara already knew all too well who it was. As a light appeared in the distance in front of him.
"You have quick reflexes... but can you save your princess in time?" The man's voice came and Madara's eyes widened as an arrow flew towards Cirilla.
Cirilla was holding the kunai firmly while Madara fought against the one launching the arrows. And she was stunned with that arrow being launched, heading towards her, but while she thought she would be hit, Madara's clone positioned itself in front of the princess, being hit and disappearing like smoke staring angrily at the archer mage.
Ciri was even more frightened by this, while Madara still seemed to be fighting amid the ships. She quickly raised her kunai, only to see the mage teleport again and appear a few meters in front of her.
"Princess, I am here to take you to the emperor. Don't worry, everything will be fine," He said, pleased that everything he had planned, had happened.
He had asked the Nilfgaardians to be harsher with the people of Cintra, even if it had to turn into a bloodbath just to attract the attention of Madara and the princess, so they could fight against them. This would give him a chance to capture the princess, and now he had finally got that chance.
While smiling at the little girl, lifting some kind of strange knife, he approached her ready to take her and return to Emperor Emhyr.
"I'm not going anywhere," Cirilla said, growling.
The man didn't care and advanced on her. However, as soon as he got close enough, the kunai the girl was using suddenly exploded into smoke, and Madara emerged from it.
"I knew this was a trap!" Madara said, as he quickly pierced the man's shoulder. The man roared in pain before disappearing completely, leaving Madara hitting only the void. But he still managed to keep his short sword bloody as he had made a fine wound on that enemy.
Madara knew something was wrong, so he had placed his own original in a kunai so that, when the time came, he could protect her, knowing that she was the target of this somehow, while only his clones had fought on the ships.
"Are you okay?" Madara asked her, as the girl, still frightened and dazed, nodded her head.
Madara turned his gaze back to the fight happening ahead, while men screamed being massacred. "It won't be long now..." he thought, as he finished off all the Nilfgaard men.
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