One of the horse charge at you put go to block there attack but then it vasnish. Smoke but as you looking at the other horse you feel something behind you. The horse has appear just right behind you, half of its body open like a a mouth.
Theet like bones crowing as you look more and more. But the more you look, the more the spines show itself. You jump at when you realize the spines is reaching for you with speed.
Dodging this attack you wonder, what is that things ? What do they want ?
Your thought are interropt when anothere one jump at you but this your prepare, right as it fades away you turn around, with quick mouvement of your sword you slice the neck of the creature.
It roars, not like a horse, not like anykind of animal you've heard before. It just, makes a very high pitch noice before the sound of the roar dissapeard and you only hear the a ressemblance of the scream of a women.
The other horse rush to you all at once, you prepare to one to fade but none does, you decide to run to the rest of the squa to help them.
You look ahead, your squad is also in not so good position. You look at the trees, they look unstable, they look dead, they look perfect. If one of them fall, the other will. The roots, the only things keeping them from falling.
You have an idea.
You call out your squad, theres a chance the horse might understand what you say but you at least have to try.
You tell them to do exactly as you say. Everyone nod, even soldier 3.
Listening to your order, you make a run for the trees the other making sure the horse are pack as one big mass. All regroup then they run up to you?
Arriving at your level they jump out of the way of the trees. You take your sword, the strenght of your body, the energy, the rage. All of it goes to your arm, your hand, your grip, your sword.
With a swig precise and strong you cut, in one blow, the roots. As the trees are falling on you the horse still try to attack you but you make a run for survival.
You run as the trees fall, as the horse falls too. You might join them, you might not make it. But you will, because your a soldier from the Empire, and the will of the Empire, is the will of the soldier. And like the Empire, its soldier are immortal even in the face of death.
You jump as the last trees is about to fall, the last horse praticly grabing you with his teeth, but with luck, or the blessing of the Emperor, you live.
Those monster fall, and raise to your feet. Your sword needing rest, you put it back into its resting sheath, ready for another cut into the what this forest has to offer.
Soldier 1: Are you okay?
You are okay, but this way is not the right. Not anymore, you have to take a step back and comes back to your horses.
The squad agreed, Soldier 3 doesn't wait any more second and pratically runs back to the horse, you also have to run just not to lose him. But at one point, at every point of this forest, you can't see the end.
You've been trappe, it doesn't take a genious too realize that but Soldier 3 doesn't stop when you yell at him to do so. He continue, ignoring you, so you have to catch up with him and make sure the other member of the squad are still following.
But managing both, is still something you have to do. As the leader of the squad, you are the ones that keeps it all together. Your the light house and they are the boats.
But the boats are drifting away and you have to choose between, the most competent, against the one who doesn't follow order.
You refuse, everyone can follow the Empire light, the light just needs to be found.
You try your best, but it seems to have not been enough. Soldier 3 dissapear into the forest and you have to stop running before you lost the rest of your squad as well.
You sit on the ground, rethinking of how your going to get to the village.
Soldier 2: What do we do now sir ?
You all have to get to the village. Without Soldier 3, maybe he will find a way to the it.
You don't thinks he will, but hope so.
You wonder how you will manage to find a way to the village. But while you wonder, Soldier 1 already has found something.
Soldier 1: Hey ! I found something ! You see those decoration ? You know how they were pretty present before ? Now there is so little of it but then back there there is more.
You look at where he points, indeed his right.
You get back up and follow the trail of decoration. Follow by your squad, the more you walk the decoration there is.
Occasionally, the decoration becomes less present and you just turn around to find more. You don't know how this place works. But you know the empire will has left this forest.
But you walk without fear, you know whenever, wherever you are. The Empire, the Emperor, they never leave a soldier heart alone.
Again, as you walk something stand in the middle of the road, but its not a person, not a horse but a house. A cabin to be precise, something you wouldn't have expect from this place.
A simple cabin, smoke coming out of the fireplace, the wooden wall barely able to stand the weight of the roof. Precisly, it will all calapse. You know it, you realize it.
You walk to it, not to go in but to ignore it but it seems as you can't. Youre force to walk towards it, you can't look away.
You have to pass thfough to continue forwards. You and your squad.