"You got to be fucking kidding me" I thought with a loud sigh while looking at a group of ten skinny unkempt homeless looking kids.
"Sir adan this is the group that the count has chosen for you, to fight alongside you during the war." Said a soldier uncaringly while looking at the ten unkempt homeless looking children with complete disgust.
"So basically I was just given ten kids to train during the short amount of time I have before I have to leave for the war" I thought with immense anger while looking at the kids with bloodshot eyes and my fist clenched so hard that blood started dripping from it while continuously healing.
The soldier looked at me and seen the look in my eyes and was shocked and stepped back a little with his right hand on the hilt of his sword, ready to unsheath it at any second if need be.
I took a deep breath to calm myself down and thought with my eyes closed to help me relax "I need to control myself, I can't let what my new estranged father does to me affect me since I can make it work somehow"
"Sir adan." Said the soldier with his right hand still on the hilt of his sword, slowly making his way towards me.
"I'm alright." I said while opening my eyes that had returned to my usually calm self and looked at the soldier and seen that he had his hand on the hilt of his sword.
"What do you plan to do with that sword." I asked calmly, looking him dead in his eyes with a cold and serious gaze while not noticing the unkempt children had a frightened look in their eyes and were shivering.
"No....nothing sir adan, my apologies." Said the soldier while letting go of his sword and bowing.
I waited a couple of minutes, watching the soldier bow and seen him started shaking from pain and said uncaringly while waving my right hand "You are dismissed, reflect on what you have done and dont lev me see your face again other I'll skin it off."
The soldier started sweating hardly from fear and started walking away at a fast pace, immediately leaving my sight.
I looked back at the ten kids one by one and said calmly "What are your names."
A short very skinny, white dehydrated dirty boy with a rag that is hanging on by a thread even so much so that you can see his private area and looked to be around 7 or 8 years old with green eyes and blonde hair stepped up and stutterd weakly "M...my...n...name is diego and I am 8 years old and the bastard of hernan cortes."
"Huh, isn't that one of the people who led the conquest against the aztec empire and became the governor of new spain" I thought while looking at the boy named diego up and down which made him tremble from my indifferent gaze.
"Is your father dead." I asked calmly, looking diego straight in his weak looking eyes.
"Y...yes...s...sir adan." Said diego softly and weakly while looking down with tears threatening to come from his eyes.
"I can't hear you." I said calmly while still staring at his bowed head.
"Y...yes...s...sir adan." Said diego stutteringly, softly and weakly againwith his head still bowed and tears threatening to escape his eyes.
"SPEAK LOUDER, I CANT HEAR YOU." I said screaming at the top of my lungs with spit flying from my mouth, crouched In front of his bowed head like a gangster which scared the shit out of him and almost made him piss himself from my intimidation while not knowing when I appeard in front of him.
"Y...YES, HE D...DIED LAST YEAR SIR." Said diego loudly and stutteringly with his body straightened up and his head held high with new found strength appearing in his eyes that he didn't know he had.
I nodded with a wide smile on the Inside because I can already see internal growth from diego but who knows about the rest of the nine kids.
I got up from my crouching position and looked at the light skinned girl next to diego who looked to be around diego's age with long light brown curly hair and hazel eyes and had a surprisingly luxerious dress on and asked calmly "What is your name."
The girl scoffed and said with complete disgust on her face "I'm not obligated to give out my noble name to a mere bastard like you, you know what I don't even know why I was sent this trashy county as punish...."
*PAH*
*SPLAT*
*Boom*
I took out a hankerchief that I surprisingly got from a maid around my age when I left my estranged father's study which was awkward but shows that the body I'm in isn't ugly, and wiped my right hand with it while looking at the girl on the ground with a bloody mouth and nose.
"YOU W...." Said the girl, only to be interrupted.
"Silence, you will all listen carefully and well, the reason for you being here is because you were abandoned by your family and wasn't acknowledged or possibly as punishment for doing something grave or you were abandoned at birth and possibly more outcomes and by you being here you will obey and respect me since I will be the one leading you during the war and if you step outline who knows what outcome I could possibly have in store for you." I said calmly while looking at the girl coldly in her eyes who was now crying on the ground in pain with a bloody nose an mouth from my hard slap that almost dislocated her jaw and could've probably broke her neck if I didn't hold back.
"Now I will ask again,.what is your name." I asked calmly again, watching the uptight girl get up from the ground and dust her dress off.
"I am Susana escarra, daughter of baron pedro escarra." Said the girl named susana with anger in her eyes while holding her bloody nose an blood dripping from her mouth.
"Never heard of him so he must not have alot of power which makes me wonder why a girl like her would think she can talk to me like that since I'm still the son of count niebla despite being a bastard" I thought while looking looking at the next child which was a unkempt white boy with a muscular physique who looked to be around my age with dark brown hair and light brown eyes.
I looked the boy up and down calmly but surprisingly the boy had his back straight with his head held high and said loudly with fighting spirit "I HAVE NO NAME SIR ADAN I WAS ABANDONED AS A BABY AND WAS RAISED IN A WHORE HOUSE AND WAS LATER KICKED OUT TO FEND FOR MYSELF."
I nodded and patted his shoulder and said "Your name will be martin from now on, I have high expectations for you."
"Yes I have really high expectations for all of you to die for me if I comes down to that" I thought while looking at the next child which was an older looking well developed girl that looked to be around 11 or 12 with dark brown hair that looked black and had ocean blue eyes, but was still shorter than me because for some reason the men in my new family are really tall and there's no telling how tall I will get considering my estranged father is 6'6 and my mother is 5'7.
"Name." I asked calmly.
The girl took a deep breath and said calmly "My name is ana smith, the daughter of a blacksmith."
I nodded and walked in front of the next one which was a white boy with red hair and green eyes asked calmly while taking out a pocket watch to check the time and seen it was 7:10 am "Name."
"I don't have one sir adan." Said the boy with red hair and green eyes with obvious nervousness in his eyes.
I put the pocket watch back in my pocket while looking at the boy straight in his eyes and said "Your name will be xavier from now on."
"NOW EVERYONE LISTEN WELL, DURING THIS JOURNEY TOWARDS THE MILITARY CAMP I WILL BE TEACHING YOU EVERYTHING I CAN AND IF YOU CAN'T SOAK EVERYTHING I TEACH UP AND END UP DIEING ON ARE WAY TOWARDS THE CAMP BY BANDITS THEN OH WELL THAT WILL BE YOUR FAULT AND I WILL NOT BE SAVING YOU MY ONLY RESPONSIBILITY IS TO TEACH AND FEED, NOT HAND THINGS TO YOU OR SAVE YOU BEACUSE YOU NEED TO EARN THAT RIGHT BY PROVING YOUR WORTH SAVING, REMEMBER THIS IS WAR NOT YOUR MOMMA'S WARM BREASTS OR ANY OTHER SHIT ITS TIME TO GROW UP BECAUSE YOUR GOING TO BIRTH KIDS AND DIE ONE DAY ACCEPT IT." I said screaming at the top of my lungs with a little bit of spit flying from my mouth, making sure every single one of the kids heard what I was saying.
The children looked like reality had slapped them in the face with some of the girls crying not knowing why they were sent here and some of the boys clenching their fists hardly at the thought of dieng young and not being able to experience what a woman tastes like or possibly a man if their homosexual which if I haven't clarified is forbidden in this century but I'm sure some people still have gay sex not that I care since I'm focusing on keeping myself alive and gain my own power so I obviously have no time to please people right now since I'm only a mere knight with a ten men and some woman at arms.
I looking at every single kid I could and nodded at some of their determination to survive and ignored the whiny ones and said loudly "START GETTING YOUR THINGS WE WILL LEAVE IMMEDIATELY."
The kids were shocked and some started comply about not being able to rest and whatnot, but we're ignored by me taking my leave since I'm not going to deal with more bullshit than I already have.
TIMESKIP: 10 weeks later.
It's been 10 weeks since I boarded a ship to head to the darien province in columbia with my cavalry and since then I have been rigorously training the children in swordmanship which some of the boys already knew but I still explained from the beginning for the ones that didn't know which even helped improve the skills for the ones that already knew and didn't forget to to explain horse back riding which I couldn't demonstrate on a ship and other necessary things like medicine I knew from my past life that could help during the war and other that they should and need to know about during the war if they care about their life that is.
(Adan's POV)
"STAND TALL MEN AND WOMAN THIS IS A MOMENT THAT YOU ALL NEED TO TAKE IN BEACUSE WE ONLY HAVE THREE MORE WEEKS TO GO BEFORE WE REACH THE DARIEN PROVINCE IN COLUMBIA, SAVOR THIS FEELING OF ACCOMPLISHMENT SINCE YOU MIGHT NOT GET ANOTHER CHANCE AFTER THIS." I said loudly while looking each of the children in their eyes, only to catch susana with a lustful look in her eyes that she shouldn't have at her age but ignored it and continued looking at each of the kids in their eyes.
"SIR ADAN, SIR ADAN THEIR IS A BANDIT SHIP APPROACHING." Said a middle aged male servant screaming at the top of his lungs while running towards me with binoculars in his hand.
"The fuck." I thought with a serious face while snatching the binoculars out of the male servants hand and put it up to my eyes and seen a huge ship heading in a different direction and spotted a muscular old man who looked to be the leader ordering other people around.
I immediately looked at the servant and said calmly "Fire the cannon."
"B...b..." Said the male servant trying to add his opinion, only to be interrupted.
"FIRE THE FUCKING CANNON OR I'LL DO IT MYSELF." Said martin loudly who was standing behind me a little since I appointment him second in command since he showed the most improvement amongst the others and especially since he has exceptional strength for his age and also tasked him 3 weeks ago to named the rest of the five nameless kids who all surprisingly didn't have names.
The middle aged servant trembled and immediately bowed and went to the already loaded cannon and started preparing to launch it.
I sighed and went up to the cannon and shoved the servant out of the way and said loudly with a serious face "COVER YOUR EARS."
The children covered their ears while I lit a match that was handed to me by martin and put it by the cannon which set it off and covered my ears immediately.
*BOOOM*
I held the ship a little from the impact and watched the the ship in the distance, waiting for it to blow not knowing a wide smile was present on my face from the current excitement I was feeling and haven't felt in awhile.
*BOOOOOOOOOOM*
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH." Said loud pain filled dieing screams coming from the distance.
I took a breath and closed my eyes, happy that I took them out before they spotted us and looked at the children behind me while all had their mouths open in shock.
"This is only a glimpse of what war would be like now you all are dismissed go get some rest because in three more weeks your life will be filled with all types of emotions that you didn't know you could experience." I said calmly while heading towards the direction of my chamber while throwing the match into the sea.
All the children gulped in nervousness except martin who clapped his hands together hardly which snapped all of them back too reality and started heading to their chambers.
Not knowing that their hands might possibly be coated in the blood of their comrade's.
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THE END...