A Crusader, a Pony, and a Sword

Its been several years since the end of the First Crusade,many of the crusaders have returned home from the deserts of the Holy Land. The same could be said of Sir Friederick. He was a member of the Teutonic Knights,and the rank of RitterBruder. Shortly after the crusade he had returned to his home in the Holy Roman Empire. Before the crusade he was a retired knight who lived in the German state of Saxony, which he lived peacefully until the Crusade began to set off. When the Crusade set off he quickly joined up with some of the German crusaders heading to the holy land.

Prior to the Crusade he was not a radical Catholic, he believed that he wouldn't bother with others if they didn't bother with his. This began to change when priests began to preach about the Islamic atrocities towards Christian pilgrims, this angered Friederick, so he joined up on the crusade. He traveled with the German Crusaders and he did his part in the crusade, he fought at battles such as: the Siege of Nicaea,the Battle of Dorylaeum,the Siege of Antioch, and the Siege of Jerusalem. After the Christian victory he stayed at the Hospitaller Quarter in Jerusalem, Until some of the German Knights began to form the Teutonic Knights, which He joined.

He Went back to Europe after the crusade to serve the Teutonic Order in Europe. He resided in their chapter house in Frankfurt. Friederick was one of the Ritter charged with locating and destroying Pagan shrines. This new mission was no exception, It was a Pagan Shrine he was going to tear down in the wilderness outside Frankfurt.

"Damned Faithless Dogs." Sir Friederick exclaimed pulling down one of the large stones to the shrine.

He has been doing this for several hours and is starting to get bored. He looked over to the main part of the shrine.

"Finally just one more part and ill be done." He walked over to it and pulled out some rope, he Tied it to the large stone and pulled it down, as it fell it revealed a hidden cave. "Great more work!" he exclaimed in anger, he had been out there all day he just wanted to get home. He light a torch and entered the cave. He walked down the dark passage,he almost tripped over the skeletal remains of an unlucky adventurer, he knelt down at the remains, they were wearing some sort of armor he had only seen described in books and he knew exactly what nation wore them,The Roman Empire. He searched through a pack that lied with the remains and he found a journal, It read, "These damned Germanian Barbarians just have to keep building these false temples, and who's the one who has to tear them down me!" Friederick put the book into his bag and continued deeper into the cave.

He stopped dead in his tracks when he came across the main room of the Temple,and what he saw there was amazing. In the center of the room sat a large ball of glowing mass. He placed the torch in a torch holder and approached the sphere. He stood right in front of it and he prepared to reach out hi hand to it. He placed his hand on the outer part of the ball he then, seeing that it did not bring him any harm, drew his sword and shield and put his entire body into the sphere, he was then overwelmed with a jolt of energy, and then he blacked out.