Tydeus looked up suddenly; the wind had already lifted the waters; if it came down, it would crash their boat deep into the river.
*BOOM!!!!*
“Everybody jump!” Tydeus shouted at his companions, and they all jumped into the river.
This might be Tydeus's last mission. He has survived many tremendous dangers, but swimming out of a storm in the middle of the Nile might be the last history he is going to make.
Galdashkeh and Gryza, from the top of the Fortress, saw as Tydeus and his men fell into the river and their boat wretched.
“At last! He dies and dies for good”. Galdashkeh shouted exuberantly as Gryza beside him continued laughing. Their enemy has just killed himself.
Tydeus swam and grabbed Apphathorus who was starting to drown. They all held on to the woods of their wrecked boat.
“Where the heck is the ride?” Tydeus shouted as he held Apphathorus who had already fainted, onto a wood.
“I don't…”
Sakoh was about to reply to Tydeus when a big ship sailed towards them, and a rope ladder was thrown from it.
“About time!” Tydeus shouted as he carried Apphathorus on his shoulders and climbed the rope ladder into the ship with his companions.
“What?! How? Where did that ship come from?” Galdashkeh, who had already been rejoicing from the top of the Iron Fortress, began lamenting.
“Maybe he is truly the god they say he is,” Gryza said sorrowfully as he helped his boss maintain balance.
“Oh, shut up, Gryza! He may survive today, but I swear, I am going to kill him personally whenever we have the chance again.” Galdashkeh said as he held his balls.
“The only mistake I made is that…”
“Eehhmm boss! We have a problem.” Gryza interrupted Galdashkeh who was about to say something else.
They turned back and saw the greatest shock of their lives. It was the prisoners; it seemed they were done with the other pirates in the Fortress. They weren't just fighting to escape, they were fighting to end the Iron Mask’s reign once and for all.
The angry prisoners, with blood stains on their clothes and vengeance written all over their faces, began moving gradually towards Gryza and Galdashkeh. Some of them with swords, some of them knives, some sticks, some spears, which they've got from the pirates they've killed in the Fortress.
Galdashkeh began shaking again, peeing on his body. Gryza could not imagine what the angry prisoners would do to him if they caught him. He immediately jumped off the roof into the deep waters of the Nile, leaving his boss behind. He should drown rather than be torn into pieces by these angry prisoners.
Galdashkeh looked down at the depths of the tower from the bottom, he would never try what Gryza just did. He went to his knees immediately and started begging the angry prisoners who were ready to kill any other pirate who was still breathing.
“Please my dear brothers, it was the devil. I promise I will never be a pirate again. I am a changed man now…”
“Kill him!!!” One of the angry prisoners interrupted Galdashkeh's plea.
And In tremendous fury, the angry prisoners in their numbers stormed at Galdashkeh, beat him and threw him into the river from the top of the Fortress.
If any other Iron Mask pirate is still left breathing, he better be a changed man.
Back on the ship, Apphathorus sneezed back to life as Rakeh poured a bucket of cold water on his head.
“Woah!” Apphathorus shouted as he woke up suddenly.
“There you go, he is still alive”, Rakeh said to Tydeus as he walked back under a shelter in the ship.
“So who are we supposed to blame for this big mess?” Sakoh shouted at his two friends.
“You, of course, what kind of a boat did you prepare for our escape?” Rakeh objected to Sakoh with a straight face.
“And why did you guys come out of the base floor of the building? The plan was to meet me at the top floor and I would take you all to the boat.” Sakoh replied Rakeh again.
“Well, your big guy here wasted our time; we don't know what he was doing with the old man in the cell before they came out,” Rakeh responded to Sakoh as he pointed to Tydeus.
“Really Bro? Did you need to discuss family matters with the old man?” Sakoh said to Tydeus with a straight face.
“Hey, don't blame me. Blame the guy who forgot the escape route he planned by himself. If he hadn't forgotten the route, we would have met you on the top floor and arrived at the boat sooner,” Tydeus responded as he pointed to Rakeh.
“And why did you come late to pick us up?” Sakoh said with a straight face as he pointed to the sailor moving the ship.
“Me? I'm sorry. My ship developed a little fault”. The sailor replied to Sakoh with his voice shaking.
“Great! So nobody is taking the blame?” Sakoh shouted as he looked at his friends.
“What blame? We already saved the old man. The mission is complete. Chill out, bro”. Tydeus responded to Sakoh.
“Uhhmm, thanks for saving my life boys.” Apphathorus honed in on their conversation.
“Thanks? We don't receive thanks here, old man. We received gold. Just pray your people pay us our balance, or else we will have a big problem”. Rakeh responded to Apphathorus, who seemed happy.
Sakoh's bird immediately landed on his shoulders. “Oh little, you're the only one who did a perfect job in this mission”, he said as he massaged the head of his little sparrow.
“Uhhmm, but wait a minute, who are you guys?” Apphathorus asked curiously.
Tydeus, Rakeh and Sakoh turned back and looked at Apphathorus at the same time with confident smiles on their faces.
“…97, 98, 99 and 100. There you go, bro”, Rakeh said as he poured a hundred golden coins into a small bag and passed it to Tydeus.“Are you sure this is complete?” Tydeus asked Rakeh, smiling as he picked up his cup to sip some of his fresh wine.“Of course, you want to count it again?” Rakeh asked curiously.“Nah, never mind. I'm just joking”, Tydeus said as packed his bag of money off the table.“Don't worry; when Sakoh comes back with the balance payment, the calculation will be straightforward”, Rakeh said to Tydeus.“But why is he taking so long?” Tydeus asked Rakeh.“I don't know, he only has one job there, to just collect the balance payment and meet us in this bar. Maybe he's busy playing hide and seek with his little bird again.” Rakeh replied to Tydeus as he gulped some wine off his cup, too.“Or maybe those people are just delaying him”, Tydeus intercepted.“Delaying him? Under this hot sun? They better not. I told you those people don't look like they have our price. Somet
“How dare you???” The hefty barbarian said angrily as he got up slowly from his seat.“Uhmp?! Please I'm sorry, it's a mistake. I don't mean to”, The young man began begging, going down on his knees gently.The rest of the bar attendees who were partying began making way for the hefty barbarian. No one wants to get in the way of such a hefty gang leader. The last person he fought hasn't recovered from his injuries.“Did you know what you have just done?” The hefty barbarian said angrily again to the young man who kept moving backwards in fear.“I was only trying to go my way, sir; I didn't mean to pour away your drink”, the young man continued begging as he noticed someone behind him.He turned back and saw two other gang members of the hefty barbarian.“I will show you what we do to little brats like you”, the hefty barbarian said as he lifted his giant palm and landed it on the young man's face, sending him to the floor.The other bar attendees began murmuring, some of them already
“Whhhooooaaaaaa!!” The rest of the crowd exclaimed in great shock. Did this man just throw out the hefty barbarian through the window with a single punch?As the remaining two members of the gang saw that their boss had just been defeated, they ran to attack Rakeh and his friend.The first one agitatedly came closer to Tydeus, but Tydeus immediately stood up from his chair and collided with his jaw using his head. This impact instantly brought out four teeth from the mouth of the gangster as he fell on his groins.The rest of the crowd in the bar burst into laughter as they saw this. The second gangster became confused, he didn't know who to hit, maybe Tydeus or Rakeh.He immediately faced Tydeus and began throwing punches at him. Tydeus stood his ground with his cup of wine as he dodged all the punches without flinching.As the gangsters kept throwing punches but kept missing everything, the crowd began laughing. Tydeus came close to the gangster again so he could land a hit, but h
“Hey, little you. How have you been? Where is your friend?” Tydeus said to Sakoh's sparrow as he massaged its neck while the bird stood on his shoulders.“There he is”, Rakeh said as he sipped some wine from his cup.Sakoh came into the bar towards Tydeus and Rakeh's table with a bag in his hands. He pulled out a chair and sat with them. “So what's the update?” Tydeus asked Sakoh who looked tired and sweaty.*BANG!*Sakoh dropped the small bag of money he went to collect on the table and said, “This is all I got, their village head said they would pay up our balance by the end of the month”.“Damn it!!!” Rakeh shouted out of nowhere.“I told you those people aren't going to pay us well, they don't have our price. Now we don't have our money complete after all the stress we went through last night”, Rakeh protested to Tydeus.“Oops! Just take it easy man. We are going to get another good job”, Tydeus tried to calm Rakeh down.Sakoh grabbed a cup from the table and tried to fill it wi
Tydeus and his friends remained unshaken. They stayed in their seats, waiting for who and what was coming.Only a few people remained in the bar, as the rest had run outside. And all of a sudden, great silence took over the entire bar as everybody kept mute waiting for what was coming.Suddenly, two soldiers walked into the bar. They didn't look like ordinary soldiers, with the spear and shield in their hands, the kind of armour they were wearing and the symbol on their shield, they looked like they were from a palace or kingdom.Rakeh immediately signalled Tydeus, this might be a threat or something.The two soldiers came in and stood at the entrance as escorts, which they were; two other soldiers came from the entrance, too, but this time, with someone in their middle.The person was wearing a long black cloak which covered every part of the person's body, and the face was covered with a black hood.Tydeus remained on his seat wondering who it could be. Is he about to be arrested by
“We all know the story. It's a popular one and we are not talking about fairy tales here, Alright?” Tydeus shunned Artecus.“Sorry for the interruption, my lady. But what have I to do with all that you've just said? I don't seem to see anything that actually concerns me”, Tydeus asked Isis, the king's sorceress.“The ruler of Giza, King Nezeron, demands your presence. We need you to fight with us and defend us from the notorious rebels who are about to destroy our land”, Isis narrated again.“Me? I'm no saviour. All I do is to eat, sleep and do my business. I am not a hero or whatever you're looking for. I think you have come to the wrong person”, Tydeus responded, spreading his palms to demonstrate his reply.Isis bent her head moving closer to Tydeus like she was about to whisper something into his ear,“The gods didn't direct me here to meet the wrong person. The gods never make a mistake”“Well, there's always a first time”, Tydeus intercepted Isis, the king's sorceress sharply.I
Isis, the king's loyal sorceress, arrived in Giza from Cairo with Tydeus and his comrades. The Giant gate of the city was opened for their horses and their chariots to ride in. Giza was pretty much in shape compared to other cities in Egypt which the civil war has ravaged. But into the city as Tydeus rode on his chariot with two big black horses and his friends also on their chariots, The villagers around the road all halted what they were doing and they started staring and looking at the new visitors who had just arrived in their city. Tydeus took his attention to the environment and the people around the road. They all looked sick like they had been suffering from some dangerous pandemic. Their huts and the houses looked like they were partly damaged. Even their children looked very unhealthy. The city must be filled with poor people or maybe the people are just suffering from something outrageous. Tydeus kept staring at the people of the village as his chariot moved sl
Isis's smile suddenly vanished as she kept on staring into Tydeus's eyes like she had just seen something ominous in his eyes. She continued gazing into Tydeus's eyes portentously, her face was like she had already zoned out or something. Tydeus, noticing her reaction towards his question, became confused. Has he said something wrong? “Is everything alright, sorceress?” Tydeus asked, winking one eye and yet with a little smile. Isis began opening her mouth gently like she was about to say something “King Nezeron will see you now”, General Gyeron called out from the entrance of the castle, intercepting whatever Isis was about to say. Tydeus chuckled at the sorceress, Isis, as he signalled to his friends behind him, and they all entered the castle to meet the king. They began walking in a passage in the palace as General Gyeron and two of his soldiers led the way to meet the king. The inner door of the palace, where the king's throne was, was pushed open as Tydeus and his fr