Caged: The Quest for FreedomOnce upon a time, in the land of Rellington, there was a brave young Prince that went by the name of Geriant.Geriant was not only a prince, but he was also a soldier that fought for his town. One day, Prince Geriant talkedto his father about him going to war with Sharath. His father disapproved of this idea, but Prince Geriant beingthe determined man he is, ignored his father and went to prepare for the war. As Prince Geriant was preparing toface another fearful battle, his father walked in and said the following words “Son, I am warning you, please donot go to this battle. I am certain that my men are going to lose.” Prince Geriant took a deep breathe and slowlysaid “I do not care if I die, I just want this town to remember me as a hero, as a person they could look up to,a person with great faith”. Prince Geriant’s father sad as ever said “I will make sure that you are rememberedson, for you have brought great honor and pleasure to my life” Prince Geriant replies with a tear running downhis face “Thank you father”. His father leaves Prince Geriant to ponder on the words his father left him. PrinceGeriant puts on his golden trimmed armor, and wields his steel sword. As he leaves the large storage room, thePrincess walks in. She looks at him as if she knew that he was going to die, she licks her lips and says “Geriant,I know you think you are unstoppable, but take into consideration that your father might be right” Prince Geri-ant walks closer to the Princess and just stares as if it would be his last. He walks out of the room, leaving her to think about why he is determined. As she leaves the room, she looks back to remember all the times she hasseen him leave for war. As Prince Geriant was leaving for war, he saw his mother and he thought to himself, heshould say goodbye just in case his father was right. Prince Geriant leaps off his white coloured horse and walkstowards the direction his mother. As he walked towards his mother, she could hear his sword rattling against hisarmor. She turns around slowly and at that moment, Prince Geriant saw that his mother was crying. Prince Geri-ant asked his mother “Mother, why are you crying?” his mother replies “Because this is the last time I’m goingto see you” Prince Geriant shocked at the words his mother said, replies “If I am going to die tonight, I wantyou to know that I died a happy man and that I have always loved you” his mother crying more than beforesays “I was honored to be your mother, but please don’t go to war” Prince Geriant kisses his mothers foreheadand walks back towards his horse. Prince Geriant mounts his horse and takes him men into the direction of the battle. As he leaves Rellington, he looks back to see the town saying their goodbyes to the soldiers.Their journey has led them to the entrance of dark mysterious forest. They look at the entrance of the forest no-ticing that no-one has entered for years or even centuries, there weren’t even tracks on the pathway. They stand

there thinking if it was best to enter the forest or to nd another way around. After a long discussion they nally

decided to take the risk and enter the forest. They enter with caution, as they hear sounds coming from bothsides of them. They notice that its dawn and they decided to set camp. Prince Geriant and the 7 men accom-

panying him, lite a re and pitched tents. Prince Geriant tells everyone that its late and they should go to sleep

because they have a really big day tomorrow. They all go to sleep, except Prince Garient who kept watch over the tents. The next morning they packed all their equipment and continued on their journey towards Sharath.After a few hours of walking they came to a house. Prince Geriant tells his men to mind his horse while he goesand enters the house in search for food and water. Prince Geriant knocks on the door, then a few moments later a young blonde woman says “Hi, can I help you?” Prince Geriant replies “Yes, do you have food and water that I can have?” she replies “I can feed you, but what will I get in return?” Prince Geriant replies “Well, I canhelp with your farm, I could help you with harvesting the food”. The lady stands there thinking to herself andthen says “well, ok tell your men that they can come in and have some food”. Prince Geriant then walks back to his men and he says “She has welcomed us into her house and offered to feed us, but we must help her withharvesting”. The men reply “Yes, today we feast”. After the man has spoken, there was a loud uproar. PrinceGeriant than says “But we must be on our best behaviour since we are her guests”. They all dismount their horses and enter the farm house. She welcomes all of them and then introduces herself. Her name was Alycia

and she had a son that went by the name of Kaspar. They both were very quiet as we all sat at the table stufngour faces. After eating Prince Geriant goes out into the eld and harvests some food. A few hours later the men

say their goodbyes as they need to go to Sharath.

The journey was long but they nally arrive at the gates of Sharath. But they were late, the soldiers of Sharath

were already waiting for the Prince Geriant. Prince Geriant and his men charged waving their swords abovetheir heads and yelling “Fight with honor and run with pride”. Prince Geriant watched as his men ran towardsa hoard of soldier waving sharp swords. All he could hear were the clashing of swords and the yelling of men.Before he knew it all his men were on the ground screaming in pain. He watched as the heartless Sharath peoplewent around stabbing all of Prince Geriant’s men. Prince Geriant than was noticed by one of the men. They allstart to charge at him, he stands there full or bravery wielding his sword with both his hands. He swings killingone, but there were too many. Then one of them hits Prince Geriant across the head with the back of his swordknocking him out. They carry him into Sharath city, and wait anxiously until he wakes up. A few hours pass andhe wakes up, and one of the men who was as hairy as a monkey said “Prince Geriant I presume” Prince Geriantreplies “Yes, and you are” the man replies “Just call me a friend, the only reason your alive is because I needyou to go to Caramier where you will kill the evil Supreme Ruler” Prince Geriant replies “Ok, ill get to it, but Ineed some money, my weapon, armor and horse”. The Sharath men bring what he wanted and also give him acompass and a map. Then the hairy man said “We also have the Princess held captive, just in case you try to dosomething tricky”. You have been set on your quest, the princess’ life is at stack. Prince Geriant looks back atthe small bandit camp, and continues in the direction of the closest town.