The Warrior Brothers

Long ago there were two sets of twin boys born into a family that had an extensive line of warriors. The first set of twin’s names were Belial and Belleth, and the second set’s names were Achreon and Azaerial. When the boys started walking, they began their training to become warriors. The first few years of their training was coordination. To work on their coordination, they balanced on sixteen different widths and lengths of balance beams. As the boys were incredibly young, they fell off the beams a lot, but the more they practiced the better they got at staying on the beam. As the boys progressively got better at balancing on the beams they started working on their flexibility while balancing. After a little over six months the boys mastered their flexibility and coordination training and moved on to working with swords and other weapons. Each week the boys worked with a different weapon and learned a new strategy to apply to every weapon that they used. Sometimes the boys would challenge the other warriors to see what they needed to work on and the times they would lose and end up with a cut that was just deep enough to leave a scar when it healed. Belial’s first scar was across his face but his was not disfigured, in fact the scar made him even more devastatingly handsome, he got that scar from his twin Belleth. The move that gave Belial his scar was one that the twins had made up and they were evaluating it to see if it would work, only to find out that it worked a little too well. Belleth got his first scar across his chest from sparring with one of the other warriors from the time that he got distracted by his twin. Achreon and Azaerial both have scars on their arms from blocking blows from Belial and Belleth when they were sparring. The four brothers were very handsome, they all had matching hair with it being a dirty blonde and they all had an eight pack of abs. Belial and Belleth both had bright blue eyes that looked like they were always glowing, while Achreon and Azaerial had bright green eyes that looked like they had that same glow in them. The four brothers were the most handsome men in the entire kingdom even with their scars. The boys loved to fight with each other and the other warriors, but it did not always end well for a few of them. Their father has always encouraged the boys to enhance their skills further and improve on what needs to be improved. When the boys were in their teenage years, they had become the top of their warrior class and they were also the top of their school classes as well. Most of the boys in the warrior training class dropped out of school to focus on their training, but no matter how much they trained they could not keep up with the four brothers. The four brothers secretly trained their little sister, Mazikeen, as well because the other boys in their class would crowd around her because of how beautiful she was, and her brothers wanted her to be able to protect herself from harm. When the boys were seventeen and sixteen, they had finished all their class work in school and graduated early. Now that they were finished with school, they could give all their attention to their warrior training classes. The boy’s mother had quit her job to stay home and take care of her five children and she was always worried about their safety. Whenever one of the boys got hurt, she would tend to them like she was back working at the hospital as a nurse. The boys and their father would leave the house at the break of dawn, and they would return at sundown. One day there was a large attack on the kingdom and all the warriors got called to fight and among them was the four brothers and their father. The attack came from an enemy kingdom from across the wide lake that separated the two kingdoms from each other. The trip across the wide lake took three days to get to the other side. Luckily, the castle wall guards saw the enemy ships getting closer to land with their war flags flying. The guards blew the alarm to alert all the warriors that had enough training to fight to get ready to guard the kingdom with their lives. The boys’ mother dreaded the day that her husband and children got called to guard the kingdom and she begged them not to go even though it was their job. Before the men left, they made sure that their mother and Mazikeen were in a great hiding spot in case the defense failed, and the kingdom was raided by the enemy. Belial and Belleth looked at each other and said, “Together until the end,” while Achreon and Azaerial looked at each other saying “See you after the battle.” Their father looked at all four of his sons and said, “My boys I’m so very proud of you and everything you have done, if I perish in this battle, I just want you to know how proud I was of each of you.” They all took turns giving each other hugs before getting suited up for battle. It took three hours for the enemy ships to finally make landfall and then the battle started. The first wave of the battle was crucial, and many lives were lost between the two kingdoms, but it was just the beginning. After the initial battle was over both sides decided to regroup and strategize, the general of the enemy army gathered his captains and produced a new plan of attack because they were currently losing the war. The brothers and their father all met with the general of their army and the general said, “Good job gentlemen but the war is not over yet there will be another attack coming and soon so eat while you can and be ready for another fight.” All the men let out a heavy sigh because they knew that it was going to be a long and restless night. All the warriors took turns after dinner watching and waiting for the next attack to happen. Around four in the morning the next attack happened, and all the warriors were up and waiting at the kingdom’s wall. The second wave of the war lasted for hours and there were even more casualties on both sides, but the enemy army lost more. As a result of the second wave of the war the enemy army’s numbers were cut in half. Belial, Belleth, Achreon, Azaerial, and their father all had minor injuries and cuts and they could continue fighting in the war. “How is everyone doing?” Belial asked his brothers and his father. “I’m okay.” said Belleth. “I have some cuts on my arms.” replied Azaerial. “I have a slice on my leg, but it’s nothing serious.” commented Achreon. Their father replied with “I’m good but be prepared the war is not over yet and they won’t stop until the last of them are dead.” All the warriors ate breakfast and went to meet with the general for the next strategy and that meeting lasted for a couple of hours. The warriors were so tired from staying up all night waiting for the next wave of the war that they finally had little time to sleep for a few hours, but they were still prepared for battle. Back at home in their hiding place, the mother and Mazikeen made sure that they rationed their food and water to make sure that they had enough to last as long as the war lasted. They also were worried about the boys on the front lines defending the kingdom with their lives and they wondered how many lives had been lost. Mazikeen finally looked at her mother and said “Mama I hope that my brothers and father are alive, well, and unharmed. I know that the enemy kingdom likes to take prisoners and they t*****e them until they die.” “I know sweetheart I hope that they are all safe as well and that they all come back home soon.” replied her mother. The next day the warriors all got a huge surprise when the king himself came to join in the battle. The king, Tyraxes, had been defending his kingdom against the enemy since he was just a boy himself, but they were not always enemies the two kings were childhood friends until they both fell for the same princess and that is when the fighting began because she chose one of them. After the coronation of the Tyraxes and the new queen, Caerleon, his ex-best friend declared war on his kingdom, and they have been fighting over everything. The slightest inconvenience would spark up a war and so far, they had all been a lost cause to the enemy kingdom. Over the last twenty-five years there have been ten wars over the slightest problem. In queen Caerleon’s opinion it was getting out of control, and it needed to stop because she knew that the two kings used to be best friends when they were younger, and she hated the fact that she was the one that came between the two. All the older warriors knew about why there were so many wars started throughout the years, but the younger warriors had yet to know why they were fighting in a war this time. This war was caused because king Tyraxes refused to let his daughter, princess Faeryn, marry the enemy’s son to unify the two kingdoms. King Tyraxes would not allow the marriage because he knew that it was just a ploy for his enemy to take his throne and his kingdom. When the news that the enemy king was at his general’s tent and was joining the war, Achreon had a beyond brilliant idea. His idea included him, his brothers, and their father sneaking into enemy grounds while they were sleeping and slaughtering the king, and everyone left their camp so that the war would be over. Achreon told king Tyraxes of this idea, and he then replied, “You must be one of the twins, I have always heard that you and your brothers were brilliant when it came to battle and strategy. I give you permission to conduct your plan, let us end this silly war.” As Achreon left the general’s tent he was beaming with excitement as he went to tell his brothers and father about the good news. The four brothers and their father waited until well after sundown, until midnight, before they started sneaking into the enemy campground to conduct the plan to end the war. When the sun finally began to rise, everyone in the enemy camp was dead with only the brothers and their father left alive. As the five of them got back to their camp everyone was just waking up for the day and about to get ready for a new day of battle and then they saw the brothers and their father drenched in blood but they themselves were unharmed. The five men got questioning looks from everyone in the camp as they made their way to the king’s tent to give him the news. The king was elated when he heard the news from the men and the successful night that they had with their plan. King Tyraxes waited until after breakfast to gather around the camp to share the news about the war being over and gave all the credit to the brothers and their father for conducting the plan of attack throughout the night. As a reward to the four brothers, the king made them knights in his king’s guard and made their father and mother dukes and duchess of the kingdom.