Chapter 2: The power of three

The screams sounded all over the the small town turned battlefield. Men, woman and children all died by the hands of Genghis Kahn and his warriors. A lone soldier lifted up his sword in the air to attack but was hacked down quickly by Genghis himself who was riding across the town on his horse to order his men about.

It was all a bloody mess, a fight of armoured warriors against few soldiers and a lot of villagers. 

The Mongolian warlord jumped off his horse and walked into a small house where the two officers waited that he had brought in this little skirmish. Both still inexperienced, Genghis wanted to show them what leading soldiers was all about. They had not failed him. The two new officers greeted him and started speaking about this glorious battle that had been won by the Mongols. 'Silence' Genghis spoke. 'This was not a battle. This was an attack. A usefull one, but still an attack.' Normally, he could enjoy such flawless victories with some sort of pleasure, but not today. He was unable to put his mind to rest. Ever since he had combined all the Mongol tribes into one army, he had become a nonstop killing machine. The battles and disagreements between the tribes were slowly dissapearing and the Mongols really began to act as one solid army. But even though everything was going great, the kahn felt restless the past few days.

As the three men talked, a knock on the door was heard. The door opened and a soldier stood in the doorway. It was a veteran of several campagins and a man with a good heart. 'My kahn' he spoke. 'Some of us have found a treasure hidden in one of the houses.'  Genghis followed the man towards an house where two eldery people were being held by soldiers.
Ignoring the man and woman who were begging for their lives, Genghis stepped inside and saw that one of his soldiers was holding a green crystal. The man gave the crystal to the leader and Genghis looked at it for several moments before tucking it away in a pouch.
As Genghis walked outside again, the old man dropped on the knees and begged the Mongol leader to give the crystal back. 'It has been in my family for a long time. It is for my son when i die. Please, I beg you. I beg you, please'
'Now it is mine' Genghis spoke while the old man got dragged away to be killed.

When the warriors returned to camp, Genghis took his extra  flammable arrows from his horse and jumped off the animal.  She had acted great as usual and now deserved rest. Genghis walked into the officers tent, followed by the two new officers. The three men joined in on the ground with the others and they talked about the battleplans.  Genghis explained that by attacking this town, they forced the locals to act quick, something that would be very usefull.
When the talk had gotten to the loot captured, Genghis took the crystal and showed it to the rest. To his suprise, the green crystal had now turned red and seconds later, a sudden light hit him and everything went black.

'How is he?' 'He'l come by i think' Genghis heard people talking while he slowly regained his conciousness. The eyes of the Mongolian were still closed and Genghis could not see who were talking. The  voices did not sound familiar either.
As the kahn  opened his eyes, he saw a figure standing in front of him. The figure was that of a young man, by the looks Chinese. He was bald and had an orange robe. The man looked like someone from an Chinese order but Genghis was unable to say from what order this man came from.
'How are you?' The man spoke with a kind and gentle voice. 'Where am I?' Genghis asked. He looked around and saw a big room with strange clothing hanging everywhere. There were also dolls the size of a man, who wore the clothing. The flour was soft, as if someone had taken a giant piece of cloth and spread it all around. But the most remarkable thing about this room, was the blood that was spread everywhere, as if there had been a battle here.

Before the Chinese monk could answer, another man came into view. This man looked like the soldiers from the west. He had a white skin, blond hair with a small beard, chainmail armour and he wore white cloth with a red cross on it and a white mantle with a red cross.
'Is the Mongolian awake already' The man asked. 'Yes but he still needs rest' came the answer of the monk.
'Can anybody say where I am and who you are?' Genghis asked while he tried to stand up. 'And where are my weapons?' he added.
'My name is Shang' The monk spoke. 'I am a monk of the Shaolin order.' He explained further.
'The name is Ardo. I am a Templar knight.'  the other man spoke.
'As for where we are. I am afraid, the two of us also don't understand what happened. We only know that it had something to do with crystals.' The monk spoke again. 'The question of your weapons is luckely more simple, they are in the corner.' The Shaolin added with a grin.
'We found you on the ground and if we had not picked you up, those things would have torn you apart.' It was Ardo who spoke this time. 'Things?' Genghis asked, unclear about everything at the moment.
'Yes, those demons. They look like normal humans, but they wear the same sort of clothing that we have found here. They cannot be killed by any normal means. We are here in hiding for them.' Said the knight.

Suddenly, loud roars could be heard. Ardo placed his helmet on his head, unsheated his sword and grabbed his shield, which was also white with a red cross. 'Grab your weapons' he yelled at Genghis. 'Don't yell at him, he needs rest' came the voice of Shang as he took his staff from a rack.
Genghis walked up to his weapons and as he grabbed his bow, fifteen strange people came into the room. These demons looked like corpses, slowly decaying. Some were in worsers states of decay then others, the clothes they wore were torn and covered in blood.
As the zombies approached the three warriors, Ardo jumped into action. He slashed one of the zombies across the chest while deflecting a scratch with his shield. He then used his shield to punch the zombie that had just tried to scratch him and impaled another in the stumach. The man withdrew his sword from the stumach but noticed that the zombie was just coming at him again. Ardo blocked another attack with his shield and used his pommel to break the nose of the zombie who was bashing the shield. Another zombie tried to bite his arm, but failed due to the chainmail.
Shang jumped in and kicked the zombie away that had tried to bite the Templar. The small monk then used his staff to attack the zombies. He hit them in the head, neck and chest but they kept coming back. One zombie that was hit with a fierce strike to the temple stayed down, but that was the only one.
One zombie noticed Genghis and tried to approach him. The Mongolian had his bow in hand and in a matter of seconds, three arrows impaled the zombie. The first went in the throat, the second in the stumach and the third in the heart. To his frustration, the zombie kept walking towards him, even though it should be dead already. The three men saw that fighting was useless and as they saw an opening, they ran out of the door. The three warriors started running without looking back. Unshure if the zombies followed, the three kept on going.


The two warriors waited patiently with their weapons drawn as someone appeared from the bushes. The man had a brownish skin colour, wore some sort of vest and had a strange helmet that looked like a tiger or Jaguar. As Ramses and Pete noticed that it was not a monster, they lowered their weapons. The strange man was still standing in front of the camp. He was holding a big piece of wood with stones embedded in it and he had a small dagger with him. 'My name is Ramses' Ramses spoke. 'We are here in peace' the pharaoh added.
The Aztec Jaguar thought for a moment and decided to join the other two. He placed himself near the campfire that was burning and finally spoke. 'I am Thula' After a quick chat, the three of them fell asleep.

 As the morning came, the warriors made ready to travel. Their main objective was finding out where they were.
They walked for half a morning without seeing anyone. The three used this time to get to know some more about the cultures of each other. Pete and Thula were suprised to hear that Ramses was an actual king and altough Pete did not seem to care much, Thula was impressed.
Suddenly Thula spoke. 'I can see others in the distance.' The three looked at each other and started walking towards the people that Thula saw. It did not take long for the other two warriors to see them also and the strangers were now heading for the small group also. The strangers turned out to be four people,  three men and a woman.They looked like they were dying, they had hollow eyes and they were dressed in rags. As the two groups met, Ramses feeled trouble. 'Back' he yelled. As he yelled it, he stepped back himself, avoiding a blow to the head. Pete grabbed his blunderbuss and fired it. He looked satisfied as the strange woman fell onto the ground. The satisfied look changed into one of amazement as he saw how the woman that he just shot, stood back up again. Pete grabbed his flintlock pistol and fired directly into the heart, without much effect.
'They can't die!' He yelled in panick. 'We noticed'  Ramses said as he was slashing his kopesh sword at his opponent.
Thuli was unable to speak as he was fighting two of them at once. He used his speed and macahuitl to his advantage but he also was unable to give a killing strike. The three of them got pushed back fast and hard. Without the ability to retreat, the three of them were dead men. 'Run for cover'  Ramses yelled.
He and the pirate ran towards some trees and when they noticed that Thuli was not following, they saw that he was still fighting his two opponents. 'Leave him' Pete yelled.
Ignoring the pirate captain, Ramses placed an arrow on his bow and fired it, aiming at the head of one of the creatures. The arrow entered the head close to the ear got stuck in there. To his suprise, the creature fell and stayed down. 'The head, the weak spot is the head.'  He yelled. Thuri did not let this go unnoticed and used his tecpatl dagger to slash at the face of one of the zombies and pierced the cheek of the other. To his suprise,   the two kept going and when Thuri was about to meet his doom, an arrow catched one of the zombies in the chest. The zombie stepped backwards a few times, which gave the Aztec enough time to jump out of the way and run. He did not like that, but it was better then getting killed by these monsters. Thuli quickly outrun the zombies, but had to leave his macahuitl behind. The three kept running untill they found some sort of shack they could climb on. The zombies were nowhere to be found. 'Are..you..okay?' Ramses spoke while he tried to catch his breath. The Jaguar nodded. 'One of them bit me, but that is all.' He said while he showed bitemarks on his arm. The three of them were silent for a moment, untill Pete spoke. 'What the fucking fuck was that?' he said. In all his travels, the pirate captain had never seen something like that.

A man walked up to the lost macahuitl. It was a young, pale man with  a small black beard. he was fully dressed in leather exept for the chaines on his arms. The young man smiled as he grabbed the weapon. He had seen the struggle of the three warriors and enjoyed it. It was him who had send to zombies after them in the first place. This all would be reported to his master.

chapter 1: The king and the thief

The two horses had run as fast as they could. Dragging the small chariot, they crossed the desert beneath a hot sun. The warrior that was standing on the chariot had been traveling for some hours now and he halted his horses to give them some rest. He loved those rides, nothing to worry about, no kingdom to rule and no guards to keep him in track. There was no war and the country was in prosperity. For once, Ramsesses was finally free. The Pharaoh stepped into the hot sand and walked over to a rocky area. He was wearing his scale armour and had his kopesh sword, bow and arrow and piercing axe with him, just to be shure. Ramses suddenly saw something shining and walked up to it to investigate. As he walked close to it, he noticed that a green stone was stuck between the rocks. A rattlesnake crawled over some rocks beside the green stone and crawled on it. The rattlesnake suddenly halted and stared at the the warrior. The snake rattled his tail and slowly made ready to attack. Seconds later, the snake tried to bite the pharaoh while the man swung his khopesh and chopped the head of the snake off the body.

Ramses knelt down and spoke a quick apology to Wadjet for killing one of her bretheren. He then took the green stone from the rocks and rubbed the snakeblood off. As Ramses held the stone, it suddenly began to shine very brightly green and turned bloodred. The pharaoh dropped the stone in shock but after seeing the red stone on the ground doing nothing, he collected it again. He studied the strange stone carefully and wondered what god had created this. And more important, for what purpose. Ramsesses placed the crystal in a pouch and stepped onto his chariot. He would return home and ask the priest of Ra advice on this strange stone. Maybe they knew what god had placed it on his path.
As he raced through the hot desertsand, a tremble could be felt in the earth and before Ramses knew it, a sudden light  hit him.

Ramses opened his eyes, his head hurt a bit and the two horses blew out some wind. It was somehow colder all of a sudden and it was not sand he was lying in but hard stone.
'Where am I' the pharaoh asked himself. The desert was nowhere to be found. Somehow the gods had transported him, the horses and the chariot in a strange place. There was a stone flour on the ground, strange buildings to the side and a cold air. This was not Egypt.
Ramses saw three buildings that he could identify as houses and some other buildings that he could not place. The whole area looked deserted.
Remembering the stone, Ramses took it from his pouch and saw that the strange stone had turned green again.
The pharaoh took his piercing axe and left his chariot to investigate these strange houses. Inside, he found that nobody was there and after calling out a few times there were still no sounds. What he saw were signs of struggle, one of them being blood everywhere.
Ramses quickly checked the other two houses but saw the same signs. There has been fighting. He walked up to his chariot again and started riding, looking for a place with people to ask where he was. They could maybe tell what games the gods were playing with him.

As he was riding, the pharaoh saw a man running his way. The man was wearing strange clothing that covered his while body, he had an unusual hat and the man sported an black unkept beard. The strange man signed to Ramses to come near and soon the man jumped on the chariot. 'Now Flee!' The strange man yelled.
Just after the man had yelled in the ear of the Egyptian, two creatures appeared and started running towards the two. Not wanting to find out what these were, Ramses turned the chariot and gave the horses the command run.
The two black steeds raced as hard as they could through an grassy field but the two beasts were slowly gaining on them. 'Who are you?' The pharaoh asked the stranger while they tried to escape. 'The name is Pete.' The pirate spoke while he took a blunderbuss and aimed it at the monsters. He then fired.
The sounds and smoke suprised the Egyptian, who had never encountered such a weapon. Ramses lost control over the chariot and the two of them jumped out before it crashed.

The werewolfs were now almost on top of the two warriors and Pete fired his flintlock pistol. The metal ball flew out of the gun and hit a werewolf direct in the face. The werewolf flew backwards as if it bounced off an invisible wall and did not move. The other werewolf ran past the pirate and and aimed its claws at the chest of the Egypt born warrior. As the monster came near, Ramses aimed his piercing axe at it and when the monster tried to grab him, he forced his weapon in the chest of the creature. Due to the full weight of the monster hitting him, Ramses got blown off his feet.
The monster was dead. At least, Ramses hoped it was, otherwise he would not be covered in so much blood. The pharaoh stood up slowly and noticed that the large and sharp nails of the monster had slashed his chest armour but not penetrated it. Now he had a good look at the monster, he saw that it looked a bit like Anubis. Maybe these two monsters were send by that god, but for what purpose?
'They are dead.' Pete suddenly said. 'I can see that' was the answer of Ramses. 'I mean the horses you fucker. The horses died in the little crash of yours' The pirate spoke, not caring who he was talking too.
The answer came quick. 'You used that magical machine that made a lot of sounds and some sort of burning smell. Both the horses and I got confused by such a weapon. Who are you anyway?' The pharaoh finished with a question. 'Sir there is lots to talk about' The pirate spoke.

Some time later, the two warriors had made camp on a field and the pirate was telling his story to the amazed pharaoh. 'Like I said, I am Pete. I deal in stuff that used to belong to others and collect that stuff as captain on my very own ship.' 'A Pirate' Ramses spoke. 'Well yes, that name has been thrown to me a few times yes.' The pirate spoke. Then he continued. Anywayss, i was there on an island and I found a strange green crystal. I put it in my pocket and forgot all about it. That night, i slept on my ship as always and as soon as I woke up, gone ship, gone crew and gone bloody fucking sea. I only had the stuff that i was carring with me at the time. My weapons, a few bags of gunpowder and the bullets ofcourse. Then those werewolfs showed up and...' 'Werewolfs' Ramses asked, interrupting the pirate. Before the latter could answer, they heard sounds as if someone was close by them. Ramses grabbed his bow and an arrow and aimed it at the location of the sound while Pete had his pistol already aimed.

Prologue

Nostro smiled as he walked up the stairs of his great castle. History has been rewritten and it was his doing. No more would the mortals rule the earth. His undead people would get the chance now.
The master vampire walked trough the long and empty hallway towards the ballroom and while walking, he thought about the attacks. The ancient vampire had been hidden for centuries, only appearing in history to find food for himself. Now he was back and he was back for good. There was only one thing Nostro wanted, a world for his undead people to live.

In a time, now long forgotten. The master vampire had tried to destroy the human race and claim this world for his people. He almost succeeded, untill the ancient gods started to meddle in. These gods and their disgusting heroes slew his people in a battle that shook worlds and forced the great Nostro himself into hiding.
The old gods that were known by different names in the different places fought hard against the army of undead monsters during the battle and the heroes that aided them fought brave and would go into history as legends.
When the battle was over, Nostro fled, knowing that some vampires and werewolfs survived the clash of titans. He hid into the shadows, waiting.
The heroes of the winning side would go into history as legends and altough each culture named them different, the fact that they showed valour, courage and power in the battle stayed the same. Nostro and his creatures

 Nostro had waited for ages, always in the shadows. The vampire was there when the heroes of old died and he saw how people started praying to new gods, neglecting the old ones. When the people stopped praying to the old gods, the power and controll they wielded lessened. Nostro waited patiently for one day, the old gods had no power at all.
That day had come two weeks ago. The vampire had felt it coming and was prepared for an attack.
He collected the handfull of vampires and werewolfs that still existed and summoned the zombies from their graves.
The day the old gods had lost their powers, he made his attack.

When the zombies first appeared, the mortals were taken by suprise and many died in the first few days of the zombie attack, but the mortals were smart and managed to counterattack the zombies succesfully. The battle raged on and when it looked like the mortal armies would finally get some victories, the werewolfs were released to tear the humans to pieces. Unprepared for such an attack, the mortal troops got dealt a destructive blow from which they could not recover.
While the zombies and werewolfs were fighting the human armies, the vampires took out all the worldleaders and other important and influencal people, turning some of them in other vampires and killing others.

Two weeks after the inital attack, the world was finally in posession of Nostro. The vampire walked into the dark ballroom, he smiled as he saw his coordinates already gathered. The four vampires and werewolf waited patiently for the leader to come in and speak to them.
'Gentlemen' he spoke. 'After ages of waiting, ages of hiding and ages of fleeying, we are in controll!'
His voice was dark and one that would give instant chills, but these were used to it and only cheered.
'I have gathered you all to see how everything is going. I hope you will not dissapoint me.'
The first one to step up was a young man in leather clothing. He had a small black beard and a bald patch on his head. The most remarkable of his attire were the chains the he wore on his arms.
' My lord.' He spoke with an old English tongue. 'We are hunting down all rebelling humans. so far we had little succes, but together with Theobald, i have no doubt that I will succeed.' 'We succeed' the Werewolf snarled. 'Easy on' Nostro spoke to Theobald. The werewolf silenced on this command and watched angry to the rest. 'Now, Ernesto, please continue.' The leader spoke to the vampire that was just speaking.
'Well. Theobald and his werewolfs are very good in finding mortals. We then capture them and interrogate them. This methode works well and we have all fugatives cornered soon. ' 'Good to hear that news. very well done the both of you.' Ernesto nodded while Theobald growled happily. He was the most sane of all the werewolfs and altough he spoke in rough words, one could make out what he said without a problem. Therefore he was chosen as the leader of the werewolfs and the only one allowed to meet with the vampires.
'Now Severus' The master vampire pointed his attention towards a vampire with slick black hair and a unusal large nose. When he spoke, one could hear a hiss tone. 'My lord, we have done research for the crystal you have found and so far we were able to find evidence that there are more of them.' When the mastervampire heard that, he had a sparkle in his eyes. 'I knew' he whispered.
'But there is other news' Severus spoke. 'We found out that the old gods had planted twenty five Crystals on earth, to be used in time of great danger. You found one of them. According to our studies, they can influence time itself. How it works, we are not shure yet.' When the vampire was done, Nostro spoke again. 'What about the other crystals?' 'We are unable to locate them now, but we are still searching.' was the short answer. 'Very well. I want them found en destroyed. Anything made by the old gods is dangerous.' The master vampire finished.

Somewhere else, an old man ran through a storm. He was wearing and old and black hoody, a leather jacket and a backpack. At his side, he wore a rusty old curved sword and a handpistol. The man showed great speed and agility considering his old age and managed to climb a group of rocks quickly. He looked back but could not see anyone followwing him. When he was certain he was alone, he stepped into a small cave.
The man took the backpack from his back and opened it. From the backpack, he took a collection of green crystals. Twentyfour in total.
He placed the Cystals on the ground and started to to speak an incantation from one of the old languages. After a full two minutes, a bright light appeared in the cave and decended on the crystals. The crystals were gone a moment later.
'May the Portaas be found by able warriors who can battle this ancient foe and and bring earth in control of the humans again. His voice was booming and gave an echo.
Seconds later, the man heard voices outside the cave. He took his 9 mm handgun and directed it towards the entrance.

Information on the Monster Match Up

This blog will contain information on the Monster match. There will be info on the match itself, I will write info on the monsters and I will finally reveal new matches that i am going to do.

I will start with the info on the match itself. I will write down the way how I am planning to present this story and the rules of the story.

First of all I want to state that altough I will talk about this project as a match, It will be a story. The survivor (s) is/are already known to me. I did not pick the winner due to the chance of surviving this according to the weapons and armour, i based  it on what would bring a good story. Therefore there will be no research into the weapons and no arguments on my side on why I chose for certain things in this match.

I also want to state that the warriors might not get all the weapons they had in their own matches. Some will get one weapon and some will get more. It all depends on the story and my thoughts about moving the weapons around all the time.

I will  post this match in chapters. This means that for every chapter, there is a blog. That way, it is better to write for me, easier to read for you guys and much clearer for us all. I am not shure yet how many chapters the whole story will count, so yeah. it ends when it ends.

The rules are simple. The warriors have to kill the leader of this undead army to survive the monster attacks and be crowned winner.

The warriors will act the way people would act in those circumstances. They can join together in groups or small bands, they can attack and kill each other, they even can betray each other. The warriors will have to find the way to kill the creatures themselfs and may communicate it with each other, or not...

You guys will now get information on the bad guys of this story. The monsters!

The Zombies

- The most of the monsters are the zombies.The zombies are brainless people that can walk/run at the same speed of humans and will have the same strenght as normal humans. They will be attracted by blood, sound and movements. The zombies will try to croud the opponent and either choke them, eat them or just rip them apart. 

They used to be living people, only revived when they died. The decaying bodies can do much damage with their bare hands but some will wield weapons like a broom, shovel, knife etc. 

They can infect the warriors by biting. A single bite will not do the trick but three or four bites will. When a warrior is bitten, he will not transform into a zombie directly. The warrior needs to die first for him to transform into a zombie. When a warrior is transformed, he will be mindless and searching for blood. He will have no memory's of his past live and won't be able to respond whatsever except for low grunting. They do not feel pain

- The way to kill them is easy. Get the brain. To kill them, you  either have to hit the head and thus brain or simply behead the zombie and thus severing the connection with the rest of the body. Another way to kill is to burn the body. The attacks of the monsters are easy to dogde since it will be just dumb hacking and bludgeoning. Any skilled warrior will know how to deal with it.

The werwolf

- The werewolf is based on the balverines from the Fable series. They are with lesser numbers then the zombies but with enough to do much damage. The werewolf has some thoughts and knows when to run away or how to attack most effective. You can compare his mind with that of a savage. He runs the fasted and is the strongest of all three the creatures. They have powerfull claws and a dangerous bite. The werewolfs have great hearing and smell. These guys also are able to turn a warrior into other werewolfs by biting him. But unlike the zombie, the warrior needs to be alive when turning into werewolf. If the warrior gets killed before he turns, he will not turn. 

What also is different to the traditional werewolf is that when someone turns, he will stay a werewolf untill gets killed. They will also be able to move around during daylight without a problem. The werewolf does feel pain.

- The werewolf has some incredible powers but also has the most weaknesses. The werewolf can be hurt or killed like any other animal. They can be killed by all weapons and in all ways you can kill something like a bear. It is only harder because the werewolf fights back harder and faster. Also, they hate fire and will try to run for it. They are also easily killed by fire.

The vampire

- I am a fan of traditional vampires. Nosferatu ofcourse, but also the older dracula incarnations. Now i do know that there is a difference between Nosferatu and Dracula. That is why I combined the two.

The vampire is the last of the three monster types and the ones who have the least members. They are twice as strong as a really strong human being and are twice as fast. They can fly, hypnotise, create fogs and controll werewolfs and zombies. They can kill using their fangs and claws but also can use melee weapons very well and have a high intellect. I should say that they are as ugly as Nosferatu on the pic above.

They can turn others into vampires but have to drink the blood of the victim and feed the victim blood of themselfs. This will begin a transformation that takes a day to complete. If the unlucky warrior dies during the transformation, he will still become a vampire. The vampires are the supreme hunters and will be on top of the monster hierarchy. The vampire also feels pain and will only be able to come out of hiding in the night.

- Such a monster is hard to kill ofcourse, but nothing is impossible. Like the previous monsters, they hate fire and will burn very well. Other ways to kill the vampires is to get something to impale the heart or get to the brain. Either of the last two ways will give a instant kill. You can also lob the head of and kill the vampire this way. Daylight will have the same effect as fire and will burn the vampire. 

Now I come to the most important part. The warriors.

I have chosen to use 20 warriors instead of 10. I chose for that because that will make the story more awesome and makes for a greater story overall.

The warriors I have chosen are partly because i want them in the story and partly because you guys chose them. Without fruther ado, here they are:

Joan of Arc                                   Genghis Kahn

Julius Ceasar                                  Pirate

Miyamoto Musashi                         Vlad the Impaler

Apache                                           Ivan the Terrible

Spartacus                                        Hannibal Barca

Shaolink Monk                                Zande

Spartan                                           Aztec Jaguar

Templar Knight                               Viking

Alexander the Great                         Ramses II

Saladin                                            Sun Tsu

These are the warriors, deal with them!

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Other matches

Ofcourse, i will do normal matches after the story and after thinking, I decided to do fictional matches as well as real matches. 

I will write the fictional matches the same way as my normal ones. Write info on the warriors. Write info on the weapons. Then I will compare the weapons and finally do my analyse and write fightscene between the warriors. i will do some group fighting in my very own third season. 

Blackbeard Vs. Dick Turpin

The most famous pirate will face off against the most famous highwayman. In this battle between two dangerous men. Will the man who'se name was giving fear to seamen win or will the young highwayman that made the roads unsafe get the kill.

The Joker Vs. Indiana Jones

i promised you guys this match and I keep word. In this battle between the clown prince of crime and one of the greatest adventures, who will win?

The joker is known for his insanity and his amazing killcount while Indiana managed to escape dungeons and labyrinths and managed to elude tribal warriors, cannibals and nazi's. Who will win?

Ninja Vs. Hassasin

Two elusive groups of killers that prefer to strike in the dark and kill with poison are facing each other. In a match of assasins and spies, who will be victorious and able to move and kill better without the other knowing. Neither warrior group fought on a battefield but both preferred to keep in the shadows. A dark game will unfold.

Thor Vs. Raiden

Two thundergods will fight each other in an epic clash. Which master of electricity will be the suprime god when Thor from the marvel comics faces Raiden from Mortal kombat. A duel that might chance the world will  unfold.

Vlad Dracul Vs. Ivan the Terrible

Two dangerous real life people who were known for torturing and killing are facing each other. Which of these two would win if they faced off against each other. Neither one cared for a life more or less, even those of their own soldiers and they both loved to torture villagers. In a match of swords, polearms and early firearms, who is stronger?

Eric Cartman Vs. Stan Smith

A cartoonic battle between the sadistic, jewhating, gingerhating and hippykilling Eric Cartman and the loyal, ultra right winged CIA agent who would kill his own mom if the cia asked it from him. Stan Smith

Both of those are more of a match for each other but who will walk away to tell the tale??

Sioux natives Vs. Frankish Knights

Two groups of warriors that fought from horseback. Will the natives win in this clash of weapons or will the forerunner of the knight win the day. More then 1000 years apart but more then a match for each other. Who will win. the Sioux will not use guns in this match.

Yoda Vs. Ryu Hayabusa

One of the greatest jedi's in Star wars history faces the most famous fictional ninja. Who will win in a duel between two good guys. The small but acrobatic Yoda can use his forcepowers and Lightsaber to his advantage and fought dark lords. Ryu Hayabusa fought demons and used his skill, his katana, his magic powers and his agility to overcome all dangers. In A duel to the death, who would rise victorious.

1800 Gangs Vs. Modern Hooligans

If a gang from around 1800 faces a modern day group of hooligans, which group will win? Both groups destroyed, murdered and were a pain in the ass. Now these bastards will face each other. It will be a battle of tools turned into weapons and farout brutality. The gangs will be about streetgangs like the natives, dead rabbits, etc. If you do not know what i am talking about go and see the movie gangs of New York

Katara Vs. Storm

A waterbender and close friend of Aang, from the Avatar the last airbender series faces an woman from the X-men who has control over the weather. As these two females fight, which of the two would win? Both can use water but only one can fully control it while the other as other weather abilities. These two black females do have some suprises on their sleeves and should not be underestimated.

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This was my blog for now. Comment your opinions on the monster match if you will. Who will win?

Also I would love to hear your opinions on the winners of the other matches. 

Talk to you guys soon

El Cid Vs. Maharana Pratap Singh

This battle will be between two great and famous horsewarriors. Both are legendary in their own right and both warriors will come with some extraordinary weapons. I can humbly present the battle of:

El Cid Versus Maharana Pratap Singh











El Cid

The real name of El Cid was Rodrigo Diaz the Vivar but everybody knows him by his nickname now, El Cid Campeador. His nickname means Lord master of military arts. El Cid was an Castilian nobleman, diplomat and military leader.
he was born around 1043 in the town of Vivar. As the son of an calvaryman, Rodrico would follow the footsteps of his father and fight under king sancho II. One of the famous battles, was the battle of Graus, where he managed to beat an Aragonese knight in single combat. From that day, he was known as Campeador.
Since Sancho was killed in 1072, Rodrico followed Alfonso, who gained all the power of Sancho. El Cid did have the position armiger Regis up untill that time, but it as given to his rival. It had been reported that El Cid was the leading man who forced Alfonso to publicly swear on holy objects that he did not kill his predecessor but no proof of this has been found.

While under the leadership of Alfonso, El Cid managed to get into Granada and after the famous battle of Cabra, he forced the emir of Granada into an route. But the king never ordered this expedition and therefore El Cid got exiled. Even though this was the main reason for the exile, other reasons were given. Jealous nobles turning the king against El Cid, an accusation of pocketing some tribute money of Sevilla or the animosity of Alfonso against El Cid.

This exile did not mean the end for El Cid. After some dwelling around, he was welcomed by the Moorish king Yusuf al-mu'taman ibn Hut and Al-Mustain II, who ruled after him. It was then that El Cid recieved his famous nickname.
Also during that time, El Cid got to command an big Moorish army and saw an familiar face on the other side of the battlefield, King Alfonso.
After an crushing defeat Alfonso was eager to recall El Cid from exile.
Around that time, El Cid was in command of an army of both Christian and Moorish warriors. he used them to get his own fiefdom in Valencia. By battling and conquering towns, El Cid gained more power and control in Valencia. After an uprising, El Cid lay siege of Valencia. Attempts to break the siege failed and in the end, officially El Cid ruled in name of Alfonso while he was fully independent. The city was both Moorish and Christian.
While El Cid was living his life peacefully, Valencia got under siege by Almoravids. During battle, El Cid got killed by an arrow in the heart. He rose once again to do battle. His body was set up on his horse and so, they rode into battle one last time. He died in 1099.

El Cid loved the ancient Greek and Roman authors and the books on military themes. he had them read aloud in front of his men to for inspiration.
El Cid also had brainstorming sessions with his armies before battles to figur out the best strategy. What is more, he loved psychological warfare. He often used small parties to distract the opponent and then hit hard or strike terror in the hearts of the opponent and thereby paralying it before attacking. usually combining the two. El Cid was also famous for allowing his soldiers to help create battleplans and taking advise from them. Something unheard off before.

Finally I cannot name El Cid without naming his warhorse Babieca. There are several tales on how El Cid aquired Babieca but no matter what his origin was, it was an great warhorse. It was famed by Christians and it struck terror in the hearts of the opponents of El Cid. El Cid loved his horse so much that it is even said that he requested his horse to be buried with him.

Some weapons of El Cid are quite known and so it was easy to pick the weapons. Some weapons were included because I found that his armies used those.

For short range, the weapon of choise is an sword called Tizona. The name roughly means firebrand or burning stick. The sword is one handed, has two sharp sided and an tip for thrusting. It also has an crossguard that is slightly bended. Tizona is around 40.4 inces long and weights 2.4 pounds. The blade also contains a lot of Damascus steel inside it. The sword was named in several tales that were sung about El Cid, showing the importance of this weapon.
It also contains two texts.
The first one is io soi tisona fue fecha en la era de mile quarenta.
It means I am Tizona, made in 1040 in medieval Spanish.
The other text was:
Ave maria-gratia plena-dominus tecum
This is latin for Hail mary, full of grace. The lord is with you.

The second weapon is the spear. It is just an ordinary spear of 6 and an half feet long. This weapon was usefull from foot and horseback. All images I have seen of it show the spear holding the banner of El Cid. The spear was made of wood, with an steel tip, good for thrusting attacks.
I cannot say much else about the spear,  only that it shows in a lot of important images of El Cid, showing how much he used it in battle.
 I should tell that the spear was used one handed on horse and could be used onehanded or twohanded on foot. while using it twohanded, you can use it with greater strenght. i also believe that you can have only one powerfull hit on horseback before needing to discard it. The power could punch the rider of the horse.

As for long range, the weapon will be an javelin. Javelins were used by Spanish mounted warriors. They were used in significant numbers and they were very effective at skirmishing and manuevering. The javelin played an important role in Spanish mounted warfare up untill the 16e century.the javelin was an somewhat shorter spear, made of wood and with an steel tip. Normally these would only be used from horseback. For this battle. I will give El Cid three javelins, meaning three chances to kill his opponent with his long range weapon.
The javelin throwing was mainly used by the Jinete, the Spanish light calvery.
The picture that I have included, is off jinetes in 1431. So this picture is not historical correct for the time of El Cid, it gives an impression of the weapon.

The Final weapon, the special weapon is another sword called Colada.
El Cid won this sword in battle from the count of Barcelona and it is said that this sword frightens unworthy opponents. Colada means a sword made from Acero Colada. A process of alloyed steel without impurities.
This sword was less times named in the stories of El Cid, but enough in its own right.
From this picture, the sword number eight is Colada. It should be noted that there is still discussion about the hilt. It looks 16e century and if it was, hte hilt would be more straight. i have found no pictures of this sword with another hilt and will use this one in the battle.

As for the armour, El Cid would wear an gambeson and a chainmail haubergion above the gambeson.
The haubergion differs from the hauberk by the the fact that the arms are also covered. El Cid also did wear an chainmail coif, protecting his face, throat and neck and chainmail leggings with padding underneath to protect his legs. El Cid is always seen wearing an simple steel helmet. Above the chainmail armour, El Cid would have worn an coat of arms.
Last but not least, El Cid would carry an heater shield. This shield was made of layers of wood like al medieval shields, but perfect to keep an swordblow away.
In the picure, you can see the armour, part of the shield and the spear of El Cid. The horse babieca is also there.





The X-factor of El Cid is his psychological warfare. He will try to distract or throw his opponent by other means off guard to give the fatal kill. This was an tactic he was famous for using and it worked very well in history. The key to the psychological warfare is paralyzing the foe by any means.

Here are some facts about El Cid
http://www.middle-ages.org.uk/el-cid.htm

Here is the whole story of El Cid
http://en.valencia-netz.de/168/histroi-val-en/el-sid-en.html

And an clip with all paintings, books and statues of El Cid.

Note that the clips of the film in there, are not historical accurate. The film depicts some armour that he would not have had, like steel neck protection or an steel shield.


Maharana Pratap Singh
Maharana was born in the year 1540 in kumbhalgarh as prince of the kingdom of Mewar. He had 25 little brothers and as eldest was crownprince, he would become the 54e ruler of Mewar in the line of Sisodya rajputs.
But during the reign of his father, the capital of the mewar empire named Chittor was invaded by an Mugal emperor called Akbar. The royal family managed to escape and create the city of Udaipur.
now comes the problem. The father of Maharana wanted his other son Jagmal to be the next king, but the nobles wanted Maharana to be king, as tradition. At first Maharana himself did not want to disobey the wishes of his father, but the Rajput nobles convinced him that his brother was weak and would not be an good king. It should be noted that Maharana was king only on paper and never ruled any land.

Maharana himself never was happy with the new ruler of India and spend his whole life fighting Akbar. One of the main reasons why Maharana fought against Akbar was because Akbar killed 27000 civilians in the siege of Chittor.
Akbar had tried several times to negotiate with Maharana but the rajput never agreed to it. Therefore, he lived his whole life on the run and always dreamed of ruling.
The most famous battle of Maharana Pratap is the battle of Haldighati. Altough the battle was not an victory for Pratap, it was the first time an rajput force managed to breaktrough an larger Mughal force.
This was only the one open battle that Maharana fought. During the battle against their Mughal foe, who had an size four times as big as that of Maharana, the rajput king himself fought bravely in this battle and managed to kill an enemie general who he had an grudge against him in personal combat. The larger size and artillery of the Mughals proved to be fatal and in the end of the battle, which lasted four hours, Pratap got away, using an decoy. It is said that his brother died in battle while trying to protect him. This was also the battle where chetak, the beloved horse of Maharana died after carrying Pratap while it was wounded by an sword tied to the tusk of an elephant.
After this battle, Maharana used only hit and run tactics.

Akbar has send a lot of expeditions to try and stop or kill Maharana but never succeeded. It costed him a lot of money and soldiers.
I also would like to note that Maharana was an real gentleman and an gallant fighter. An example is that during an expedition against him, his army came across some woman who belonged to the leader of the expedition. Maharana made shure that the woman were brought to the opponent safe. He also was never able to forgive Akbar for the fact that the man killed 27000 innocent people.

Maharana also had an famous horse. The name of the horse was Chetak. Chetak was named in several ballets and songs about Maharana. Chetak was white of colour and of the Marwari breed. He was considered beautiful and poetical divine. He had an balanced muscular body, acute intelligence, restrained, had great courage and he had an unflinching faithfullness to his master. It is also said that Chetak was blessed with flying legs, meaning that it was very fast.

In the end, Maharana had 7 sons and 15 daughters. He had conquered much of his empire back but never succeeded in taking back his beloved capital of Chittor. Due to the oath he had sworn that he would never sleep in an bed untill he had control of Chittor back, he always slept on the ground of an hut, untill his death.
Maharana Pratap died in 1597 at the age of fifty six due to an hunting accident. On his dying bed, he made his son and successor swear to continue the fighting. Which he did, for a bit...

As for weapons of Maharana, some of them, i have got from pictures of him carrying while i have chosen other weapons because it was known to be used by Rajputs during his time.
Early firearms were used during the time of Maharana and after long and carefull thinking, I have decided to include one. I originally did not want to, because using firearms is not honest for the other warriors. The reason why I did on this one because Maharana used them and I was unable to find an suitable alternative for other long range weapons. I have given this a lot of thought the past couple of days and I came to the conclusion that I will include an gunpowder weapon in my match.

The first weapon for use on short range is the talwar.
The talwar is a curved sword with a single egde that is still used to this day. Like all curved swords, it is perfect for slashing but also very usefull for thrusting, altough with less power. The sword is used with one hand and is around 33 inches long. The talwar has an handle with protection to the hand and has an spike at the pommel to do up close damage.
Altough the talwar was first used as secondary weapon. The medieval ages saw the talwar getting more important and replacing the khanda as the Rajput weapon of choise.
There is a story about the life Pratap written after his death that indicates that he used the talwar in battle. Also, in every picture and statue that has him wield an sword, the sword looks like a talwar.

The midrange weapon is the sang. The sang is a spear from India. It was an rare weapon but a lot of statues show Pratap holding this weapon so I can say that he used it. The strange thing about this weapon is that it made totally from steel. It is light, well balanced and very strong. The balance comes due to the butt-end of this weapon, making both ends very dangerous. The spear is around 73 inches long and was very dangerous from horseback. I can see this weapon being as dangerous on foot.

As for long range, I choose for the wheellock musket. i have already explained my reasons for including this weapon and i will not say it again. If you forgot, scroll up you lazy bastard. ;)
Anyhow, first I will say something about the wheellock mechanism. The wheellock made the musket being able to be fired by an trigger.before it, a fuse was used to ignite this weapon but with the wheellock mechanism, you can simply press the trigger.
As for the musket, I have explained the musket in my last post but i will do it again. It is early firearm that fires small lead balls. The weapon had an accuracy of 70 yards. The Indian ones were made of wootz steel, which is very strong, making the warriors able to use more gunpowder and even stones as ammo. According to the city palace of Udaipur, which has a lot of weapons used by the armies of Maharana,  he used a lot of gunpowder weapons and I can say that he would be accurate with it. This weapon may be an gamechanger.

Finally the special weapons. As for special weapons, there is only one I could use for the Rajput. The Katara.  This weapon is better known as the katar by fans of the show. Katars were fistdaggers that were used in close range weapon. Not only an good weapon, the fistdagger was also an status symbol. worn a lot by nobles and princes. There is no doubt that Maharana would have used these. Up untill the 18e century there was an small knuckle protector on the katara to protect the knuckle of the user.
Now there are two more problems I encountered with the katara's that were used on Deadliest warrior.
First off all, i found no evidence suggesting that two katara's were used together and to me its more impracticle than usefull. Second is the problem with the scizor katara. Everything I found, said that the katara had only one blade in practical combat. The two and three blades that you guys saw on the katars in the show were only made for decoration. These were highly wanted in Europe (and only existed since the Europeans came there). They were also impractical. The power of the katara is the force of an whole fist in one tip. With the two tips the force would be halved and the weapon not that effective.
Therefore, only one katara and only one blade.

Now for the armour. The rajput normally wore riveted mail armour. Sometimes with plates to protect. That said. I have looked trhough dozens of images of Maharana Pratap Singh and I found not a single piece of evidence supporting that he wore armour. To be honest. I can only say that he wore some leather under his clothing, but it would not be very good armour. So, for bodyarmour, I go with a bit of leather. Pratap did however, wield an dahl shield. The dahl is a round shield that was either worn on the back of the user or in the hand. The dahl is an small metal shield (18 inches in diameter), with leather covering in the back. It also had four small bosses on it.

As for X-factor, there is only one thing that stood out with Maharana Pratap. His hit and run fighting style. He used this tactic a lot and it helped him greatly fighting an larger opponent. It was even so that when he tried an open battle confrontation, he lost. That was the only time he lost a battle.
How this will play out in an one to one battle; Pratap will use it on his own. He will attack, flee. Attack, flee etc.
It also helps that he has a really fast horse. Like I said before, Chetak was really fast and I think it would be faster then Babieca, the warhorse of El Cid.

I have found a great link about the Life of Maharana that I want to share with you guys.
http://www.hindujagruti.org/articles/34.html

And an small film about the man.

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The edges

Tizona Vs. Talwar
- If you would compare these weapons, they are much alike. Both swords can cut and thrust, with tizona being able to thrust slightly better while the talwar is able to cut slightly better. Tizona is 40.4 inches while tghe talwar is 33 inches, making the Tizona longer. The talwar on the other hand has some hand protection and a spike on the pommel, for close in danger. Both were used in one hand, that enables to have a shield in the other. I should also mention that both swords could be used on horseback.

- For weapons versus armour, it is something different. Both weapons first have to get past shields. The heater shield is a bit larger then the dahl, but the dahl is made from better materials. Both shields are almost impossible to break though. When the swords get past the shields, the talwar has to get past chainmail armour. it is good and solid armour and the talwar wont do much good cutting, but some good with the thrusting attack. The tizona on the other hand, will have only leather as counter. That means that the tizona will inflict more damage due to the less armour of Pratap.

- For skill, I can be simple. Both warriors were known to be great swordfighters who knew how to use their swords in deadly precision. The only think that El Cid has in his advantage is that he had a special sword that fit him perfect. This does not count for much in the battle, since I suspect that Maharana would know his sword well also.

- As conclusion, the swords are really close comparable and the way they would act, would not differ much from one on another. I do have to chose one though.
In the end, these swords are equal in almost all aspects. The difference is in the armour and the lenght.
The speciality of the talwar is cutting, which will be really hard with chainmail armour. The tizona on the other hand, is better in thrusting. This will inflict lots of damage on the leather armour. The tizona is 7 inches longer also. For those, it gets the egde.
Edge: El Cid


Spear Vs. Sang
- This is a match up of weapons that are both the same and totally different. they are the same for the fact that they are both spears and almost the same lenght. The spear surpasses the sang with 0.5 inches. But those are the only similarities that there are. the spear is like any other spear. made from wood, with a steel point. The sang is completely made from light steel, but will be a bit heavier. That said, due to the counterweight, you can move more easy and have less recovery time. Also both ends are dangerous points for the opponent. Both weapons can be used on horseback and both can be used on foot. in my eyes, the biggest differences with fighting is the counterweight as it gives less recoverytime and does not need to be used linear. It will hit harder because of that. Altough the sang has some good points, the spear also has some advantages. The spear is lighter, making it less tiring for the warrior to use it, it wil also be slightly faster.

- Weapon armour, the spear will have no trouble getting to the flesh of the Rajput. The leather will not help much. The sang on the other hand, will have more trouble penetrating chainmail and a gambeson. This will not be that easy. I can see that the butt-end will come in handy to ram the opponent and give blunt damage.
on horse, the sang might be able to penetrate both layers of armour if his horse makes enough speed. Both warriors have to deal with a shield then.
On foot, neither warrior will like a shield because you can use these weapons with one hand, while holding a shield in the other, it is not advisable. The speed is slower, the accuracy worse and you cannot get a lot of strenght with it.

- On skill, i can be very simple. Both warriors are depicted a lot while holding these weapons and i can honestly say that these are their main weapons and that both Cid and Maharana are greatly skilled with them.

- In the end, I have to choose between the sang who scores better in the weapon to weapon comparison and the spear who gets the egde in the weapon against armour comparison. This one is hard for me to judge because there is a lot to a battle. The ability to get directly into the body of the opponent is something that will be very usefull in a battle. This must not be underestimated. But this advantage counts only on foot. i believe that a horse can bring enough power that the sang will get through the chainmail or knock his opponent down. The advantages of the sang. it being made of steel and having a good counterweight, will be more usefull allround in the battle and will give for a battlestyle that El Cid will not have encountered before. making it harder for him to fight such a battle. That is why i give the sang the edge here.
Edge: Maharana Pratap Singh

Javelin Vs. Wheellock Musket
- Now we have two totally different weapons matched up against each other. One one side, we have three javelins. The javelins are smaller then a spear, but still made of wood and with a steel tip. It is usefull from horseback but not as effective from foot. The range is also not quite as good as the long range weapon of the opponent. That brings me to the wheellock musket. This musket shoots small round balls in high speed. It has an great accurate reach of 70 yards. The hit and run tactic used by Pratap is also effective as he can shoot and then flee to reload his weapon. I found no evidence that Pratap used the musket as a club and I wil not count it as such. The musket has another advantage. It can be shot with one hand.
The musket also has some disadvantages. It can misfire, it does not have a great aim while riding from horse and therefore the horse needs to be standstill or Maharana should be on foot to fire a good shot.

- Weapon against armour is rather easy to predict. The javelin will have little trouble getting trough the leather armour. The combined power of the throw of the man and the horse will make this a dangerous weapon. The musket will also penetrate chainmail armour without trouble. I even think that it can go through the chainmail and the gambeson of El Cid.  So both warriors can deal massive damage, without having to worry about armour.

- Ofcourse, we have to take skill onto account. El Cid will have skill with his javelins. Throwing javelins was a tried tactic. But he is on horse, which makes getting accurate a bit harder and he is up againt a nible opponent on horse. Making it even harder to hit the target. The musket on the other hand, is a weapon you can aim very well. The aim is not as good as one of a modern weapon,but i would call the aim decent. Pratap also has practised a lot with gunpowder weapon and had lots of them in his army. He will be able to fire off very well and even if the heart of head is not hit. Any hit can be potential lethal. As long as Pratap does not fire from horseback, he should be alright.

- In the end, this one is an better match to call then most other weapon matchups. The javelin is a good weapon. On horseback, it is rather dangerous and can kill very well. But the javelin is nothing compared to the wheellock musket. The musket has a better reach, a better accuracy and a better killing potential. Even if the wheellock misses, which is very well possible, the sounds and smoke of the gun will suprise El Cid. The warrior from Spain has never encountered firearms before and will not be able what to think about the weapon.
Edge: Maharana Pratap Singh


Colada Vs. Katara
- This is a sword versus dagger match. The colada sword is just as long as the tizona while the katara is just a big dagger. Both weapons will be used with one hand, leaving the other with the shield. The colada can cut as well as thrust while the katara can only thrust. The katara can however thrust with more force then the colada and from closer up. However, the shorter reach and the fact that it can only thrust is a bit of a downfall for the katara.

- The Colada will have little trouble, dealing with the leather armour. His only problem is the dahl shield of the opponent but it is good possible to move around it. Especially since Pratap need to be very close in to use his fistdagger.
I thought carefully about the katara and the ability to penetrate chainmail. It is true that it had no trouble doing so on the show, but you guys must not forget that the armour used there was butted. Butted mail is nothing compared to riveted.
I thought long and hard about it and I came to the conclusion that it takes two to three strikes to penetrate riveted chainmail and the gambeson. Altough from horseback, it will take only one strike. With that said, El Cid still has his heater shield. I should also mention that the colada can block the katara but not vice versa.

- Both warriors were very skilled. For El Cid, it was a weapon known to him and not very different to his other sword.
The katara was worn and used by nobles and kings. Pratap would have worn and used this weapon from an early age and would be very effective with it.

- in the end, this one is not as easy as it would appear. Altough the colada is longer and can kill in more then one way, the quick striking from horseback of the katara should not be forgotten. What is more, in the close range of the katara, it would be somewhat harder to use the colada. But for this to work, the kataran needs to get close by, which can be very difficult. In the end, this is prove why swords are better then daggers. The sword is just a better weapon.
Edge: El Cid


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The battle


The blood was still dripping from his coat of arms as El Cid raced on Babieca to catch up with the fast rider in front of him. He and his men were just marching through a field when they got attacked by foreign soldiers. Soldiers they were looking for.
After a short but heavy skirmish, the attackers fled. The Spanish commander quickly gave the command to follow as he started to pursue the the leader of that squad of soldiers. He had followed this man for some time now, but unable to get close. Twice he had the oppertunity to throw his javelins and used them but both times the javelins missed.

This was not the plan. was the only thought that raced through the mind of Maharana.
A few days earlier, Pratap had gotten word that Akbar had send a Spanish man to kill him. Maharana Pratap had set up an ambush and waited patiently. The soldiers came and the Rajput attacked with his men. The plan was to skirmish first. That worked well. Then he and his men should flee to harress the opponent on another place. That went awry since Pratap now had to deal with the spanish leader, who was tailing him. As the swift Chittor kept on outrunning the opponent, Maharana figured that he could take his opponent out now and leave the opposing army leaderless.
with this thought, the Rajput steered Chittor into a forest.  He then raced through some bushes and past small trees.

No, Rodrico thought. The Castilian knight had followed his target in the the woods but lost him. The warrior better known as El Cid had to come to this distant land simply because the friend of his lord needed some help with trouble-makers. But now El Cid had lost the man.
He and his horse walked slowly through the forest, looking for their escaped opponent.
As they moved, they saw the man on his horse, holding a strange weapon.

Pratap fired his wheellock musket to his opponent. The sounds and odour made the horse of the opponent stagger and sidestep. This made the ball miss and hit a nearby tree. Pratap fled while El Cid was in hot pursuit again. Maharana managed to escape sight once again and quickly reloaded his weapon.
Just after loading it again, The Castilian apeared on sight and raced towards Pratap with his spear out.
Maharana Pratap quickly put the musket away and grabbed his sang as he jumped up his horse.
The two of them raced towards each other with the horses giving it all they have. As the weapons came close to each other, El Cid pulled out his javelin and threw it at the last second.
Maharana tried to dodge the weapon coming out of the sudden and leaned over to one side of his horse. With the speed, this made him fall of and as Chittor raced forwards, Babieca rode past the other warrior.

El Cid turned his horse towards his opponent and aimed his spear on the Rajput warrior. Babieca started running again and just before El Cid could could hit his opponent with the spear, a low hanging treebranch hit him in the face and knocked the Spanish warrior off his horse.
El Cid raised up with his tizona drawn and the shield out. He was just in time to block an attack from the talwar as Pratap singh came up to him wielding his sword and dahl shield.
The two swordmasters dueled  for a time with neither warrior getting past the shield of the other.
Maharana managed to scratch the chainmail once but had to evade a blow of his opponent after that. After some time without a result, the warriors stared at each other. Both of them dropped their shields and they attacked each other again. The fight was even more intense now, with each warrior feeling the strenght and power of the other. Maharana jumped suddenly behind a tree and when Rodrico followed, he recieved a blow to his chainmail. Cid then threw his sword on the ground and stepped backwards through some bushes.
Pratap did not think much about such a stupid action and ran forward, attacking the weaponless opponent.

Before he could land an attack, the sword of Pratap got blocked by colada. Maharana was suprised for a bit about this new sword but adapted quickly to it. The two of them dueled again and while Pratap thrusted his sword, El Cid tried to cut.
The talwar hit the chainmail but did not go penetrate while the colada manages to cut the arm of the Rajput, forcing Maharana to drop his sword.
Before Pratap could be pushed into a corner, he drew his last weapon. The katara.
Needing to dodge two more blows of sword, Maharana quickly noticed that he would not win this match this way. He tried to attack again but recieved a blow to the side that left a nasty wound. El Cid closed in again but Pratap grabbed some sand and stones from the ground and threw it at the Castalian who shielded his eyes. When El Cid looked again, the Rajput warrior was gone.
El Cid manned his horse and walked trough the forest to search for either his opponent or a exit.
As he guided his loyal Babieca, the opponent appeared again, holding the strange device.
El Cid took his chance and raced towards the opponent, holding his sword.
before he could hit, the smoke and sounds appeared again. This time, he felt a pain in his stumach as he got thrown off his horse.
El Cid lay on the ground in pain, his chainmail ripped apart. He tried to stand but failed. Maharana came walking towards his opponent and pulled the chainmail away that protected the neck. He then thrusted the katara in the throat of the knight. El Cid was dead.
Maharana fled the site, scared that soldiers would look for the fallen knight. He would however, leave the army of this fallen man alone. That was the least he could do.

Winner: Maharana Pratap Singh

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This was a  battle between two epic men who deserve respect. Both men were really brave, honest and good, just as one would expect from such men.
But like in all fights, we have a winner and a loser.
It is my opinion that Pratap would win this fight. He had some disadvantages due to his lesser armour and his dagger but he had gunpowder. The gunpowder weapon combined with the hit and run tactic really proved usefull to defeat El Cid. The musket would be the deadliest weapon in this match.
I know that in my last match, the gunpowder weapon was not a decisive factor, but now, we had a warrior with more skill wielding it and a opponent who had never encountered it before. That really differs so much that it turned the battle. What we must not forget is that altough the musket gave the victory to the Rajput, the talwar and sang kept the weapons of El Cid from scoring enough points to counter the firearm.
El Cid was ofcourse not powerless and he would score really close due to his x-factor, his armour and his swords, but it would just not be enough for him to gain enough of a edge to win this battle.


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