Chapter 5: Chapter 5 : The Band of the Falcon.
(Time skip)
Four years have passed quickly and Guts was 15 years old now. Barkha had trained him for near three years while continuing their mercenary activities . He taught him battle tips but also infiltration and other of things.
Before separating one year ago, Barkha gave him his last gift before their separation and it was neither a jewel or a weapon but sex, he had taken Guts in a brothel to make him a man.
They took different paths but had planned to meet later because they were sworn brothers now and their link was really strong. The last year, Guts has experienced the world by himself but not alone because unlike the main reality, it had a companion.
(NOW)
"I OFFER A REWARD TO THE ONE WHO BRING ME BAZUSO'S HEAD" A nobleman in armor on his horse yelled when his army had just entered a stronghold that they besieged. A little further, there was a tall man wearing heavy armor and a round helmet who had only two circular openings for his eyes. This man was none other than Bazuso, the gray knight with the great ax who had already killed 30 men during a battle.
"LET THOSE WHO WANT THEIR HEADS TO BE CRUSHED ADVANCE . WHO WANTS TO FACE ME ? WHO WANTS TO FACE THE GREAT BAZUSO AND GET CHOPPED ?" Bazuso said with arrogance and with his weapon firmly.
The soldiers and mercenaries of the attacking army completely paralyzed by fear didn't have the courage to advance while the noble in armor didn't stop shouting on them and treating them like cowards when suddenly someone approached of him.
"How much for Bazuso?" Guts dressed with the same armor as in the main reality at that time as well as his large sword asked calmly when the nobleman looked at him just as the soldiers and the mercenaries who began to make fun of him but he is remained of marble.
"How much for Bazuso?" He asked him again in the nobleman asked him if he seriously thought he could beat Bazuso but Guts repeated exactly the same question.
The nobleman : half a year's salary of a soldier.
"I want the double ..." Guts said calmly to the Nomble who moaned but seeing the unchanged gaze of Guts, he accepted the deal by believing with fun that Guts was going to be killed.
"You'd better keep your promise..." He said in a threatening tone, advancing towards Bazuso who saw him approach. Bazuso wanted to make fun of Guts because he considered him too young when at very high speed, Guts suddenly darken on him and Bazuso, as a defensive reflex, immediately hit the void with his great axe but that was what guts expected and immediately Jumped back slightly to dodge the attack, draw his sword and with an extremely fast circular attack, he cut Bazuso from the bottom of his right armpit to the side left of his neck with his large sword.
Everyone :…
A silence reigned on the battlefield when they looked at Bazuso's body, an extremely formidable warrior almost divided in two. The intestines, the blood, the terribly fast attack with such a large sword who tore that armor like paper.
At the top on a building, the members of the falcon band watched this crazy scene.
Corkus: He… he killed Bazuso !!
"He's strong and very fast"
"This sword is abnormally tall for him but he handles it with so much skill and ease. I heard the rumors of a young mercenary who was fighting with a big sword but had never experienced defeat, it's definitely him." Judau said, smiling with a grass rod in his mouth. As for Griffith, he only looked at Guts intensely while below, the fray resumed.
The band left from there before being spotted because they were part of the enemy army. In fact, it was because they organized the defense of this castle that the siege had taken many days instead of a single day.
After this battle, Guts recovered his bonus and refused the offer of the nobleman who wanted to hire him at his service. He seemed to look for something or someone when a person on horseback arrived near him.
"Nice performance against Bazuso, you're as skillful with this sword as your other big sword. A feminine and sensual voice has been heard. Guts turned around to see a magnificent young red woman with an arc behind her back." It was Ros, his partner for over two years. This girl was also a mercenary, but even more, a genius thief.
Barkha and Guts had saved her from rape by bandits a year before his separation.
Since then, Ros had followed them and they only accepted it because Barkha had perceived in her interesting talents.
Over time, he taught her archery with handling of the daggers and as he had planned, she had talent. Ros was a formidable archer, a real medieval sniper although she didn't have the level of Barkha, this talented monster.
With Guts, they formed an incredibly effective duo and they were sex partners . Ros was two years older than Guts but saw no restraint to sleep with him, he was handsome and strong with a very well developed body.
Her sexual nonchalance came from the fact that much younger, she was the sexual slave of a nobleman who had taken her to her parents by telling them that she'll become a well -treated noble servant and for them, it was an honor.
In the end, she was raped by this nobleman almost every night until the day when she ended up escaping and growing up, she had the choice to be a whining that cries for all the males in the world or so Become a fatal woman knowing the desire of men to manipulate them and take advantage of them to rob them .
As for Guts, he still made nightmares about the assault of Donovan and Barkha had told him that it was normal compared to what was going to happen that night but that the warmth of a woman was an excellent remedy To this kind of thing, advice that has shown its effectiveness with Ros.
Guts: Did you do it ?
"Display the army funds and steal part of the money that was going to be used for bonuses ? Yes handsome, now we have to leave from here before they realize that they were stolen." Ros said with charm and he rose to his horse by hier side to leave with her.
Barkha had told him to never forget three things in life. First, never let someone despise him and Belong to anyone . Then he could only count on his strength and nothing else. Finally, the money was extremely important and the bonus of a mercenaries was never enough for his life.
The next day then the whole band of the falcon had installed his camp behind a hill by the road, Griffith was lying in the grass on his back with his lieutenants near him in a moment of relaxation, he put his hand on his Chest to touch something, a scar he had had a year ago.
"This scar still haunts you, Griffith ?" Casca asked him and he looked at her calmly.
"My first defeat, the only one in my life in front of a guy who spared us only because I had the lucidity to ask him what his price was to give us life spared. I never faced someone like that, his mental and physical skills were...terrifying. " He said, closing his eyes when great anger invaded Casca, remembering that.
The guy they had faced had ridiculed them during a battle with around fifty men under his command, he had practically played with them and it was only for his atrocious interest in money they were spared and left Tudor.
"Nevertheless, who was this guy? He was really strong and it was the first time that someone beat Griffith, especially with so much ease." Rickert asked that and his remark attracted the anger of Corkus who told him that Griffith had come close to winning by a narrow margin and of course, it was wrong because the opponent had completely played with Griffith.
Judeau : It was Barkha the greedy wolf. I inquired about him and apparently he is a prodigious warrior, assassin and strategist. He was mercenaries for a time and that's all we know about him but the biggest detail with this guy except his extraordinary skills is his sickly love for money.
"A year has passed this time and I'm sure the next time he can't do anything against Griffith. Isn't it , Griffith…?" Casca asked Griffith who didn't answer her and only contemplated the sky by caressing his scar.
"Look ! This is the guy who beat Bazuso yesterday and he is in a charming company it looks like. (whistles) Very beautiful the redhead, even more feminine and pretty than you Casca "Corkus said by teasing Casca who threatened him with her sword.
Judau: It's true that she is pretty. He must have the pockets full of gold with his bonus for Bazuso.
"Pfff, this cheesy was just lucky, I also intended to take care of Bazuso one day but this guy just ahead of me . With a few men I can take everything he has and let him go with one ear less without a garment on him. What do you say, Griffith?" Corkus asked Griffith who told him to do what he wanted and he left smiling while Caska warned him that he was going to die.
Guts was talking with Ros when they saw several riders head towards them.
"Bandits !" Ros said then Guts stopped his horse while looking at them and unlike the main reality, Corkus arrived there with 10 riders instead of 4.
"This kingdom is really infested with bandits of all kinds, I take care of them. " He said, starting to gallop towards the gang while taking out his large sword which he put in one hand on his shoulder while with the other hand, he directed his horse.
"Corkus, he loads towards us and seems determined to face. Are you sure of your plan ?"
Corkus : Attack ! Just attack, he cannot have such a good balance with a sword of this length on a horse. He's done...
They arrived in contact and Guts cut in two pieces the first rider with a simple but very fast blow, he did the same for the other four riders who followed and it ended the progress of Corkus and others that have been definitely terrified.
"How can it handle such a long sword with so much ease ? This guy is a monster !" One of them said then that Guts was already in front of them, he killed two other horsemen and when he was going to cut Corkus in two, a blade deviated his blow and it was Griffith who had arrived there with his horse and his armor.
Corkus: Griffith !! Thank's God ...
"Can you put away your sword ? I think you shed enough blood ... "Griffith told Guts who looked at him coldly.
Guts: You have the cheek to ask me that when it's your friends who loaded us ?
Griffith: I think they paid a fairly high price for that, I apologize for their behavior.
"Griffith, he killed Dan and the others. You have to avenge them!" Corkus said and Caca asked him to be silent and threatened him with her sword again, reminding him that it was he who started all that.
"You're wasting my time..." Guts said and turned to leave when Griffith held him back.
Griffith: My name is Griffith and my friends here are part of the band of the Falcon , We are mercenaries and you've certainly heard of us...
"Only rumors but I know that it was you who held the fort who gave so much trouble to this aristocratic fool. What do you want ? Why are you presenting yourself ?" Guts then asked while Casca looked at Griffith strangely because generally, he didn't show so much interest to someone because it was the others who always came to him.
Griffith: I'm going to be cash, I want you in my army. You are indeed a mercenary, right?
Guts: not interested.
"Well, that's a very beautiful pretty boy ! My partner seems to give you a hard time." Ros said with seduction, approaching and Griffith looked at him with a certain interest before greeting her .
Griffith: You should be Eagle-eyed Ros , the Archer whose beauty is praised as much as malice.
Ros : Oh, did you recognize me ?
Griffith : The pretty red-haired mercenaries with a bow don't abound in the trails of this kingdom . Will you agree to join my band?
"I accept if you sleep with me" she responded with malice while Guts made a facepalm.
"You provocative bitch ! Who do you think you are?" Casca said angry and Ros watched her.
"Nfufufu are we jealous ? It is not with the lemon who serve you as a boobs that you'll seduce him, Tomboy..." Ros said with mockery , Casca in rage drew her sword and before she advances, Griffith blocked her way with his own sword.
Griffith: I accept your condition, Ros.
"Griffith ?!!!" Caca questioned him and Corkus treated Griffith of lucky one, which earned him a serious threat from Casca. Ros looked at them in silence before laughing out loud and saying that she joked, although Griffith was very beautiful she was disgusted by the men who looked closely or far from nobles and Griffith seemed to go straight away of a castle.
"Let's go, we lost enough of our time with them." Guts said and Ros asked him to wait.
Ros : And if we stayed with them for a while, I heard about this troop. They are very strong, it seems and have only known defeat once according to the rumor. In addition they're young as us, it can be fun. I'm tired of being on the roads and It will make us earn more money regularly. What do you think?
Guts looked at Ros for a long time and sighed before watching Griffith.
Guts: I only find any real interest when I fight so I will offer you a duel. If I win I will be paid five times the normal salary not including bonuses with the choice to leave when I want but if I lose then-(interrupted)
"If you lose then you'll be me, I will make you my sword and you'll die where I will consider you useful to die." Griffith said to him, looking at him fiercely with eyes full of a desire for possession but Guts only looked at him by telling him that he accepted.
They found a place to fight and the hawks encouraged Griffith with confidence.
"How exciting !! Who are you willing to bet on? Beautiful strong and courageous young men should not be afraid to put some coins at stake, right?" Ros as always said in attractive ways and the boys hastened to bet with her when she bet everything on Guts and if he win, she would certainly win a lot of money.
Casca looked at her with a lot of contempt when Ros winked at her to provoke Casca , increasing her animosity towards her.