Prologue
"A war hero, a legend, a god, and now...nothing more than a criminal. You will die here, then you will be buried on a hill side in a pine box. You should have just played ball, you should have just let it go. But look at you now imprisoned, you know we wanted to kill you right then but it was just bad timing on the army's part. This is the village where you will be staying until the day you die. Welcome to hell....That was the last thing my so called allies told me before sticking me in here 10 years ago. The villagers look at me like a caged monster the guards want to beat me but are to afraid to open my cell. There is a little girl who comes in everyday with food for me, she is always wearing the same cloths. I assume she is orphaned and the villagers or guards don't seem to care. She used to come with her mom, I heard some of the guards raped and killed her though. Her dad is one of my sworn enemies, He doesn't care for her, only his new found power. When she talks to me the guards beat her and throw her out, helping me is heresy it looks like."
Chapter 1- The Killer
The little girl comes in with food as she does every day for the past 7 years, she is followed by the guards, the prisoner looks at them as they surround her, she tries to fight back knocking the keys of the guard and kicking them towards his cell. The prisoner unlocks the cage and gets the guards attention. He picks up a stick off the ground, the six guards turn away from the girl to attack the prisoner. The prisoner breaks the stick across the first guard that reaches him the second guard he stabs in the eye with the broken stick, then pulls it out and stabs the third in the throat, the prisoner lets the stick go and breaks the second guards neck. "Three left" he remarks. The fourth guards trows his fist at the prisoner, the prisoner breaks his elbow at the joint, and using the bone freshly protruding from the elbow, he impales the man in the throat with it.
The prisoner chase the last two guards to the cliff side he looks at both of them and asks them "where is this village located." Neither man answers so he grabs one of them breaks his leg and throws him off the cliff side. "Unless you want to be next I suggest you get a lot more talkative" he tells the second guard. The second guard attacks the prisoner with a knife, the prisoner wraps the chains attaching the shackles on wrists around the prisoners neck and begins pulling his arms in the opposite direction of each other until the guards vertebrae snaps and he dies.
The little girl walks up to the prisoner. "Why did they attack you to begin with" he asks. The little girl holds out the key to his shackles she had stolen from the captain of the guard. and smiles. "Everyone says your bad, but mommy said you were a hero. Mommy's gone now and I have no one, all the villagers are mean. Especially the guard captain...he killed mommy" the girl says sadly. "It was at that moment, I knew what must be done, I would have my revenge, the world did not change, I fought for nothing. I will kill my allies, then this little girl will rule this land, she has the kindness needed and cannot be corrupted by power, since she has gone all her life without it." The little girl tells him where the village is, but knows nothing of the outside world. He decides they will ask the guard captain the only way the prisoner knows how, violently.
Chapter2- The Butcher
As the prisoner and the girl approach the barracks at the top of the mountain where the guard captain presides, he becomes lost in his thoughts, trying to imagine the looks on their faces when he comes to kill them, wondering how many he can kill before the others catch on. As he returns to reality he notices they are nearly there. They make their way to the top floor where the captain is waiting for them. The prisoner recognizes the captain for the war, he was known simply as the Butcher. "It's time to die prisoner" the captain says as coming at the prisoner with the same axe he used to slaughter his enemies and their families, they were simply trying to protect. The captain swings his axe at the prisoner. "Killing defenseless villagers has dulled your skills butcher" says the prisoner dodging his swings. The prisoner grabs a statue off the captains desk, after the captain takes another swing the prisoner hits his wrists with the statue. The captains grabs his wrist and the prisoner starts to beat him with the statue until he loses consciousness.
The captain wakes up a while later with shackles on his hands and feet, and rigged to his axe. He looks around and all he sees is the river behind him, he begins to beg for his life. "Save your breath, you'll need it" say the prisoner who kicks him into the river and waits for the bubbles to stop coming up before heading back to the barracks. The prisoner searches the barracks for anything useful, he finds a map of the land and the most useful thing of all his beloved sword, hand crafted for him, unusable by anyone who does not have the same hand to hand style as him. He looks at the little girl who is smiling. Millia, she says her name is Millia then asks for his name. ".....I don't have one" the prisoner replies. " Grey, I'll call you Grey" Millia says smiling.
