The Banished

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Chapter One I kept running as fast as I could with heavy breathing and my heart pounding. “Freeze” I heard them yell, they were the security of the city armed with katanas. t They wore all black uniforms with masks covering their mouths so they were unable to be properly identified, if anyone cared enough to even try to identify them. But I kept running and I kept looking back at them to make sure they were getting closer to me. I also had one of my hands on my katana located against my left hip in case I needed to draw it. But while I wasn't looking in front of me, I tripped over a fallen branch and fell to the ground. My head made contact with the ground, hard, and I blacked out. The last thing I saw before blacking out was one of the guard's katana swinging at me but since I fell, his katana just missed my face and slammed into the tree of the branch I tripped over. I seemed to of been unconscious for a while because when I awoke I was no longer in the forest that I was running away in located just outside the city, I was blindfolded and my hands tied behind my back. "My hands must be zip tied" I thought, though I couldn't feel the restraints, I was unable to move my wrists freely. I also felt and realized that I no longer had my katana on my left hip, "they must of taken it off me when they caught up to me after I got knocked out" I thought. Another thing I noticed was that I wasn't lying down either despite tripping and getting knocked out upon my head making contact with the ground, I was now walking, well actually being led somewhere. I couldn't see them but I felt the presence of the city security guards surrounding me on every side. I have had feeling of where I could be being led, but there was two possible places. I could be going to the jail to await trial for my crimes or the worse option, which would be straight to the judge. I felt us make a right turn, "no this isn't good" I thought, we were heading straight to the court house! I start to say something "are we heading to-?", "keep your mouth shut" one of the guards snapped at me and I complied. I didn't want to get into even more trouble then what I was just about to be penalized for. They walked me into the court room, I was expecting to hear a bunch of commotion from the public but instead I heard nothing, "that's odd" I thought but then I realized there was no one else there in the court house other than me, the guards and the judge. I then heard the judge speak. "is this the one?" the judge said, I assumed the judge was asking the guards if I was the one who was responsible for committing the crimes. "yes your honor this is the criminal" I heard the guard on my left respond to the judge though I was still unable to see the guard. "very well then for the punishment of committing these crimes, I am sentencing you to banishment from this city, effective immediately" the judge said and my heart sank, "banishment!?" I thought. I couldn't believe what I was hearing, I was now banished from my home and the only place I've ever known. It was all my fault.