CHAPTER FOUR: CRYPTS OF BANE

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• GRAY EYES   CHAPTER FIVE: ALL CANNIBAL

  grab two special daggers of mine from my belt, they are a gift from Karen with which she congratulated me on my very first kill. I throw one of them expertly at one of my attackers and get lucky because it lands on his skull and he falls backwards but before I can turn my attention to the other, he dives at me with his sword in the air aiming to cut my throat, wrong move, now he is vulnerable to my attack!I bend backwards quickly till I hear the bones of my back crack in complaint as I view his sword evade my skull and slice the air before my eyes with his body following through but then I stop his body with a stab of my second dagger on his chest where his heart rests and he halts in shock and looks into my eyes as his warm blood trickles down to his white skirt.“you are an abomination.." he says in the Egyptian tongue amidst the chaos as he observes the color of my eyes with his blood dropping from his mouth.I u

• GRAY EYES   CHAPTER FOUR: CRYPTS OF BANE

  We arrive at The Crypts of Bane, the hell where innocent Neem children are turned into monstrous killers. It is a deserted place surrounded by a dry forest which in the right description is just an extended region of earth on which dry trees, thorns and tare grow.Just walking across this place would tear one's skin and bathe one's body with a thick black dust that covers the brown earth beneath therefore, we ride our strongest trained horses through it.At the center of this rough forest is a mighty temple surrounded by little stonewalled habitations where the priests keep the trainees and torture them with harsh conditions until they become beasts!The Crypts of Bane is indeed a dry nothing that is turned into something by the bloods, cries and deaths of innocent children as they work so hard to become something they are never born to be, destroyers of flesh!The temple at the center is on an elevated to

• GRAY EYES   CHAPTER THREE: DEATH IS GLORY

  We arrive at a distance where we could view the great gray walls of Golem and what we behold is far worse than we had earlier imagined– A thick black smoke, so thick that it darkens the sun, a raging fire burning like hell is alive in it and the screams of my Neem brothers in the fire as it’s voice.All our iron chariots and horses adds to the heat of the fire which could be felt even from our distance, the god of fire is alive now and against us.The most terrifying thing about the whole scene for me is the look on Meizza's eyes, I see it for the very first time – Fear.All our lives in the Crypts of Bane we have been training for war, we have been built the strongest, fiercest and fastest warriors ever known in the history of mankind! Just one Neem could destroy a whole Egyptian army, save a city, or assassinate a king and all his princes in one night. The only thing we are ever warned of is fire!

• GRAY EYES   CHAPTER TWO: WEAKLING!

  Meizza turns and looks at me for a split second before mounting his thick black horse, his looks at me saying it all- you had better done it.Although there is trouble in paradise, he is a trained Neem who has learned to control all sorts of fear and to maintain calmness in the face of adversity, his gray eyes were telling me to never leave until this Babylonian is dead by my hands."we ride" he signals my fellow trainees to follow as he rides out to meet the horse riders from the army with a cloud of yellow dust following him.But I stand here- poor me with a dagger in my right hand and a Babylonian's brown eyes begging me for mercy. For him, death is mercy but that I cannot give. After the kill is even the hardest – the nightmares, the dreams of those helpless eyes staring at me in plain daylight, the visions and feelings of warm blood splashing against my body..."...Hey ch

• GRAY EYES   CHAPTER ONE: THE PLAINS OF ASSURE

  It is another hot afternoon on the plains of Assure, a dry land in the middle east that eats up every trace of green on it. It has been more than five years since the start of the Babylon-Assyrian war and we are still standing, Neems The strongest of them all."Arrgh!" The Babylonian messenger screams in pain as Meizza with his sword slices the skin on his sweaty and bare stomach as the smell of fresh human blood fills the hot desert breeze.He is a traitor!We have done far worse to inhabitants of cities we conquered in the past let alone a bloody Babylonian, we are just getting started.More loud grunts and yells from the Babylonian is almost deafening as Meizza grabs his intestines with his bare hands and drags them out of his body slowly and rolls to cause an unimaginable pain. Meizza then puts his left hand into his body forcefully and grabs a bloody organ as he screams again helplessly

• GRAY EYES   Prologue

  Once upon a time there was myths and legends, it was once said:."And the gods came down to earth and took the fair women of the earth unto themselves and they bore their children."These children of the gods were giant, evil and corrupt. They trampled upon the inhabitants of the earth with their incredible strength and dark magical powers, they are called ANAKIMS.Thousands of years passed and the Anakim bloodline watered down as they mixed up and married more earthly women giving birth to more human than gods until they formed a city called Golem within the large Assyrian empire.The Characteristic barbarity never left the Anakim bloodline and with time it became a typical Assyrian thing to be ruthless, barbarous and almost cannibal with enemies.Many generations passed and lineages changed and the Anakim bloodline watered down to the bar