The New Zebrican Empire
Chapter 2 - Troubled village/ Meet the Cheif
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I was on my way down south, I stopped by to admire the plains, its so beautifully here. I was about to drink my water, which I brought with me to this world, and that's important survival skills to learn when out on your own. I was thirsty as hell do to the heat of the landscape, along with the sun beating down on me. Now normally I'm used to this, but even creatures living here have a difficult time enduring this, and the brightness of the sun wasn't making it any easier. I was walking for 3 hours, until I came across a village far in the distance, and from the looks of it, only a quarter of it was on fire.
"Wait, WHAT THE!" I yelled as saw what was happening down there. Then suddenly my iPhone turned itself on.
"I see that you found the nearest village." The iPhone said catching me by surprise as it showed an image of a weapon on it.
It was my Hobbit sword 'sting' from the Lord of the rings series, and my iPhone posted. 'Would you like to use this as your primary weapon of choice?' So, I clicked accept, and it just came to my hand along with a leather gloves marked with the dire wolf symbol on them.
"Alright time to see what I'm up against." I said as I made my way down. I hid behind some destroyed huts to provide stealth cover, as I was being sneaky I heard a voice from up close.
"BURN THE VILLAGE! TAKE THE MARES, AND CHILDREN! LEAVE NO SURVIVORS!" shouted a creature In stripes. As I now saw looks like a zebra holding a iron looking sword with leather armor, and other zebras that had no armor were looking scared.
'This looks like a raiding party, but from who?' as I thought to myself, and I was not going to sit around and let these raiders have their way with these villagers. As I was about to engage I heard a scream coming from a really big hut, and 3 figures came out of there 2 zebra males, and 1 zebra female who looks to be in her early 20's.
The 2 zebra raiders dragged her to the center of the village in front of her people, along with the raiding party as well, and the zebra with the leather armor walked up to her and said "You, and what's left of your tribe will be coming with us."
The young zebra mare tried to struggle, but it was no use, as she stopped struggling the zebra in leather armor spoke "HEAR THIS YOU LOW LIVES!" the zebra yelled as he grabbed the young zebra mare by the throat showing her to the villagers with fear in their eyes.
"THIS LAND NOW BELONGS TO KING ZEKU, AND YOU WILL SPEND LIVING AS SLAVES TO HIM. EITHER YOU WORK HARD AND PLEASE OUR GLORIOUS RULER, OR DIE LIKE THE WORTHLESS DOGS YOU ARE TO OUR EMPIRE!" he said as he began to shove the mares, and children in large cages including the young zebra mare. That's when I decided to act so I called to one of the raiders.
"Hey I found surviving males over here!" as my shout alerted them drawing 35% of their group away from the captives. I snuck around to free the prisoners, one of them was about to say something, but I silenced her so I can break her out. So begin to sneak up behind one of the guards by kicking the back of his leg, and stab him in the eye socket with sword, which drew the attention of a few others. With quick thinking, I took the dead zebra's spear and threw it at one of the zebras that was about to call for help, which went right through his chest gasping for air as he choke on his own blood.
As I was aware, 2 other zebra raiders charged me with their iron swords, as I fended off their attacks as the captive zebras were cheering me on. I swung my sword in the air which drew the raider's attention as I uppercut him when he was blinded by my sword's refection. Which I took the opportunity to stab him in the neck as I leaped towards the others with my sword to cut the locks on the cage wide open to free the prisoners. As soon as I did, they jumped out of the wagon cages to attack the raiders with their farming tools as weapons, then the young zebra mare stared at me with amazement, and a curious look on her face. We killed off the rest of the raiders, some had ran away do to our numbers, along with my sword play which the zebras watched from me as well.
Everything was fine now until a villager brought the zebra in leather armor as he tried to break free from the ropes.
"HOW DARE YOU INTERFERE WITH MY WORK YOU HAIRLESS APE!" as he shouted at me with anger in his eyes, but I needed answers, and I need them now.
"My name is Chris Sandbar and I'm a human, why are you enslaving these villagers?" I asked with great concern as I stared back at my enemy with a emotionless look on my face.
"If you must know 'human' I got my orders from King Zeku to torch this village, and take the chief's young daughter over here" he said facing the young zebra mare as he turn back to me.
"And to force these meat sacks to work in the name of our king, to fuel our allies with great enough power to march across the world to dominate the weak peacefully countries that are afraid to lift a blade against us." he said with pride, and that was my final, so I sliced his head off with my sword. I got on top of a tall spot in the center of the village to speak to the zebras.
"Everyone listen up!" as shouted out loud to them. "I'm here to help you all to free you from bondage of slavery! I may be different, and I know you are scared of what's happening right now!" as the zebras started to listen to what I have to say.
"I may not know your land, species, religion, or much anything. But I do understand that you can't spend the rest of your lives in chains, and you can't hope for a better world with equality if you don't do something about it. I know there is a better life for all even those that are not us are apart of life itself, living is the one thing in life you can't run away, and its no reason for you all to live in fear of the dark side of life." the zebras gathered around even more to listen with great determination on their minds. As my dad once said: The masses a.k.a. The General Pubic is like a massive river, words and actions alone won't steer it, but with working with the river it will go in your way, and no one can stop the river no matter how strong they are.
"So now with your support we will overthrow this tyrant of Zebrica, and have it crashing through the iron doors of Zeku's HOUSE OF SERVITUDE AND BACK BRAKING SENSELESS WORK FOR NO COST OF OUR LIVES!" the zebras are now cheering including the young zebra mare who cheered the loudest of all the others.
"Now we will rise! Spread the word to rally any ally tribes willing to fight by our side, as for our enemies make them fear us as we progress in this campaign not just to free ourselves, but to establish a new empire. One that does not built with the blood of slaves, and innocent, but with help of everyone around us even from strangers that see our point of view entirely. Now my new friends of zebrica go forth a bring hope for the future of the savannah plain lands!" and with that heroic speech put it over. The zebras of the village stood ready for whats next so they preparing for my next plan of action.
As I was walking away, I was stopped by the young zebra mare I saved earlier, and the one cheering loudly at my speech.
"Can I help you miss?" I asked with a curious look on my face wondering 'What does she want?' as I thought to myself.
"Yes can, ALOT I think." she said with a smile as she checked me out. "My name is Honey Comb, Daughter of our pervious chief, Chief Zukan as you know by I'm the chiefess of this village, and tribe"
"Wow that's a weird name for a zebra." I said with a funny look on my face.
"Hmf, says the 'human' with a name like 'sandbar' for their last name." she said with grin look as we talked.
"So want to discuss this inside your hut or outside the village?" I asked
"Of course our brave warrior of my tribe." she said and she took me to her hut to come up with rebellious plans of attack.
Author's Note
Good news viewers, I just got use this now so keep in touch ok? And yeah I'm barrowing a few movie lines mixed with my own hero lines, and that my friends are all true.
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