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**civman2000** · June 19, 2002, 17:51

pretty good teaser....

**TheDarkCavalier** · June 20, 2002, 20:03

The attack

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The new-founded city had no soldiers, and only a few weapons in the city’s armoury. The strongest took the stone spears and the stone axes. Caesar and Titus themselves had to help in the repelling of the attack

The barbarians’ primitive weapons could not destroy the walls but the ones that got through caused numerous casualties to the already small populace. Titus himself was grievously wounded. The walls and many buildings in the town needed repairing but the town had no resources to do that. About a fifth of the population were killed, and many were wounded. Being attacked about each season, spending all its resources to making cheap primitive weapons the and being exposed to the barbarian tribes near it, the town was slowly dying… until….

“CAESAR!!! CAESAR!!! I found it! I found the metal! I found it!” Flavius jumped into the palace knocking the guards off their feet and screaming. Then regaining his calm, he spoke to Caesar. “The metal! Iron! It is stronger than anything! It chops through stone easily!” Flavius then unsheathed a fine-looking long sword. “The metal is near our town, but there is only a very little part, a big deposit is guarded by another camp of barbarians.”

“Really?” asked Caesar, eyeing Flavius suspiciously.

“Try it!” said the advisor and pointed to an axe lying in the corner of the throne room.

Caesar hit the blade of the axe and it shattered into very small pieces. The emperor was delighted. “Make more of those, and then we will have to go through another big battle and secure the deposits, and possibly build a city there.”

“We do not have the resources to do that, we cannot make another city without sending a big part of the people there, and we cannot do that, because then our city with be overrun by barbarians. And we cannot send the warriors there either.” Brutus, the most hated advisor of the emperor spoke.

“Did I ask you?” Caesar was becoming his usual enraged self. “I do not want to die here, defending this city, that will not survive anyway. And since it seems that you do, go and man the walls… NOW!” Brutus left, muttering curses.

The plan was simple; the hundred bravest warriors sneak into the barbarian camp, kill the leader and the strongest warriors in the sleep, and then take the rest as slaves and burn the encampment. But when they entered the camp, they made so much noise, that in the matter of seconds Titus, Caesar and his men saw a thousand bristling axes and spears pointed at them …

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Comments are appreciated … I will write some more today or tomorrow.

**TheDarkCavalier** · June 20, 2002, 20:35

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The warriors of the camp did not seem very angry, and they took Caesar and his warriors to the leader’s tent. The leader seemed like a giant, he was very tall and muscular, and he carried a bow and an iron sword. He spoke to Caesar in some dialect of Latin.

“Who you? Why you here? Why you take weapon?”

Caesar started screaming. “Why should I answer to you, you barbarian piece o … “ He felt a painful kick in the leg from Titus. “Ow! Because we needed to take iron, if not our city will not survive, but you can never understand that you pathetic … Ow!”

“City? What a city?” the man seemed puzzled.

“Rome! It is very near! The city is a hundred times bigger than your camp!”

“I want see big camp! Show big camp!”

“Follow me…” said Caesar and tried to walk out of the tent. He was met by about ten bristling spear points. “I SAID follow me, you illiterate sc… Ow! Go after me!”

The leader and his guard were not afraid of Caesar’s men. They walked until they saw the stone walls of Rome.

Something was wrong, the fires were all out and no one was manning the walls. The group was startled at what they saw. Hundreds of bodies littered the space before the walls, some of the buildings were completely destroyed. There were many more barbarians dead than Romans. Then Caesar saw Brutus lying on the floor near the walls still clutching his sword. His chest was impaled by a spear and one of his legs was missing. He was still alive.

“They came all killed all of the defenders … there was ten thousand of them … they destroyed our buildings and took all the gold from the treasury ... I told you … “

Having said that, he died. The sword fell from his hand. Caesar looked around him and saw about twenty barbarians lying around him, and his sword bloody till the handle.

“Give a proper burial to the hero” he said.

The barbarian leader seemed to be delighted with the view of the city. “You make this? You are god! We follow you! We work for you! We kill who kill you!” Then the leader ran off.

The people of Rome were busy with repairing the city as much as they could, but now with even less population they could not do. All they could do is wait for the barbarians to come back.

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Comments are appreciated.

**civman2000** · June 21, 2002, 07:12

Something I've always wished for-different barbarian tribes would attack each other. THat's not what's happeneing in the story, I know, but it made me think of that

**TheDarkCavalier** · June 21, 2002, 07:52

If you can read minds, and know what's gonna happen in the story, just shut up about it!.

Anyway, now you made me rethink some things in the story ...

To the eyes of the expert is the story great? good? mediocre? or poor?

**SomeOneElse** · June 21, 2002, 08:09

i'm no expert, but i find the story very intriguing thus far

**beno** · June 21, 2002, 09:54

most entertaining

**TheDarkCavalier** · June 21, 2002, 14:21

Cultural collision

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The barbarians came back … charging with swords and spears and firing arrows as they came. Fortunately, they fired the arrows in the opposite direction, but they were running towards Rome, with a gigantic barbarian force on their heels. They outnumbered Romans and friendly barbarians about three to one.

“Shut the gates!” screamed Caesar, drawing his sword. The gates were being shut, condemning to death anyone who would not reach them in time - that is all the friendly barbarians.

“Do NOT shut the gates!” screamed Titus. “It is an order!”

“Are you out of your mind? We do not care if the uncivilised and illiterate will be killed, we need to protect Rome! SHUT THE GATES NOW!” Caesar was once again becoming enraged.

“You pathetic fool, you do not realise what you’re doing.” said Titus and punched Caesar in the face.

“DO NOT SHUT THE GATES! Or I will kill you … all of you!”

The “uncivilised and illiterate” reached the city safely, but the gates were not shut completely, and some of the invaders got through. The invaders were completely different from what the Romans even saw. Their skin was black and covered with tattoos; they wore a feather or skin headdress and they had spears of bronze and shields of bronze.

Those that reached the city were dispatched quickly, but the huge mass outside were a much bigger threat, even though the spears did not do much damage to the walls, the sheer number of invaders could knock the gates and walls off.

The leader of the barbarians inside the city tried to kill off as many barbarians as he could with his bow, but only he and his personal guard has them. After a few unsuccessful tries, the invaders ran off, not before screaming: “Shaka kill you! Zulu return!”

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Comments are appreciated. I will write some more later if I can.

**civman2000** · June 21, 2002, 18:46

lol nice twist

**TheDarkCavalier** · June 22, 2002, 14:15

Titus was puzzled by those screams; he asked the leader “Who is Shaka? What is Zulu?”

“Shaka – leader, Zulus – tribe. Me – Attila, my tribe – Huns.”

It was the last thing Titus ever heard. He felt incredible pain in his back and turned to see who was it and saw Caesar stabbing him with his sword. He tried to draw his sword, but instead it fell on the floor, he tried to choke Caesar, but received another stab in his stomach. He fell, dying in agony.

Caesar wiped his sword on Titus’ armour. “That is what happens when you touch Caesar! Attila, from now on, you are my new military advisor.” He took Titus’ sword and passed it to Attila. Attila was only grateful to accept such a title.

Then Caesar called for Brutus, but realised that he died when the barbarians pillaged their city. “I lost too many people, but it’s their fault.”, thought Caesar and named a Roman citizen his new domestic advisor.

Caesar told the plans of improving the city to his new domestic advisor, Ionius. “First we rebuild our destroyed temple and granary, we will send the Hunnic villagers to mine stone and rebuild the buildings, then we will send one third of the city to found another city near the iron deposits, and we make the barbarians mine iron, then we make a lot of swordsmen and kill all the barbarians.”

“Y-y-yes, g-great C-C-Caesar” stammered Ionius looking at Titus body lying on the floor.

“Ok, I like that”, said Caesar, and sent out orders.

Rome finally started prospering. Attila showed them how to make bows, and now they had archers manning the walls. The new city was founded, and iron was being sent to Rome, they found gold deposits in the mountains near the new city, Veii. They had discovered horseback riding and now they were themselves raiding barbarian camps, slaughtering all the elder, women and children and taking men as slaves, all on orders of Caesar. They had built a marketplace, a barracks and a courthouse. Caesar’s palace was almost entirely made of gold, he was drinking wine from vineyards near Rome each day, and he had about twenty wives.

The Huns, now being about half of Rome’s population, worked too hard, but neither Attila nor his men couldn’t say anything because they joined Rome on their own free will, and Caesar held all the power in Rome, until one evening…

Caesar didn’t notice the ten Romans approaching him until it was too late. They all had their swords drawn and there was grim resolve in their eyes. Caesar tried to run, but one of the blocked his way and threw him to the pack. The tallest and strongest one of them looked Caesar in the eyes and said: “This is for Titus.” and stabbed Caesar in the heart.

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Comments are appreciated

**civman2000** · June 22, 2002, 23:13

big civil war! yay!

**Kramerman** · June 23, 2002, 00:57

I like the shaka thing-
cool twist!

Keep going

Kman

**History Guy** · June 23, 2002, 10:34

The story is pretty good so far...just one question for everyone...

What does everyone have against Caesar?

I mean, the poor guy seems unable to appear in a single story without getting murdered!

**TheDarkCavalier** · June 23, 2002, 10:49

Well, he DID get murdered in real life ... so ....

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