The Shepherd she first noticed them streaming through a very narrow passage into the canyon. she was a shephard for the amazons. they were a roman army of 1,000 men. rome's finest. the force that had conquered the world. she had heard of the world of men. she stood on her tiptoes and she streched her long muscular torso as she tried to get a bigger look. she was slight for an amazon but she was thicker and more muscular than any man in the roman empire, she knew that men were to be avoided. the amazon women had constructed a society that was peaceful unless attacked. she pondered if she should run back home and warn her sisters of the thousand men that have entered amazon territory. ------------------------------------------------------------------ "sir. all troops have passed through the crevice leading into the canyon." reported an officer. "i wish to remind the esteemed general that only one man at a time can cross through the passage way. perhaps it is best to leave half of our force on the other side as to not totally isolate our troops on the one side..." "silence. i command, you follow"" barked the general. ------------------------------------------------------------------ mia sat and pondered what to do. she must go back and warn her sisters. she put her sheep in a small meadow where the only entrance was a small passage way. she blocked it off with rocks and lumber. she regretted leaving her flock this way but she felt she had no choice. just then she heard strange voices yelling at her and the clanking of armour. she spun around and saw them. there were ten roman soldiers pointing and running straight at her. the first thing she noticed was how slow and clumsly they ran. they were also small and almost wispy in contrast to her size. the tallest did not even come up the her shoulder. she was still terrified as the men closed in on her. she instinctively jumped past them and in doing so knocked three of them down. as two others swumg their swords at her, she swatted them both down as well. in just a few seconds five of the ten were on the ground. the other five stopped and then began to run away. mia thought they might tell the rest of the romans about her sheep so she closed in on them in a few long powerful strides and knocked them all down with one sweep of her arm. she grabbed them all by their hair, arms, and legs and dropped them on top of the other five. there were now all ten in a pile. she drew some rop that she always carried and very quickly had tied their hands behind their backs. their little hands slapped helplessly at hers. within seconds all ten men were face down with their hands tied behind them. their weapons strewn about the meadow. mia was stunned herself. these ten men were as easy as little children to subdue. she would have had less trouble with ten 7 year olds back home. she realized she was not just bigger, and faster, and stronger than these ten men. she was much much faster and much much stronger. the urgency to run to alert her sisters subsided. she then thought of her sheep and how they were blocked off in the canyon by a few rocks and logs in the passage way. she now thought of the 1000 man roman army as the same. if she blocked in their passage way then they could not get out and she could capture them and bring them back home. this could not be possible! she shook her head but what she just experienced indicated that she felt that the roman empire could not defend themselves against one amazon shephard girl. she heard the clatter of armor and so did the men she had just captured. her captives began to scream and 25 roman soldiers appeared over the rise. same results as last time. she ran right at them and knocked all of them down within seconds. she quickly tied little loops of rope and had the men all bound and face down within moments. the few that ran away were quickly overrun and carried back. she observed the spoils. 35 men. she speculated that the clanking of their armour might be what revealed where she was so she remvoed their armor and tied it together in a bunch. the clothing under the men smelled terrible so she removed that as well. she began to think of the men as animals, like her sheep that she needed to keep under control. she tied each man to each other. their arms and hands tied to their sides. a rope around each man's balls was tied to the one of front and so until the movement of any one man was felt by all. all of the men were secured to a central rope. she then grabbed the central rope and led the men to a stream where they were lead through it to be washed up and to quench their thirst. she tied them to tree and left them secured. she must quickly go over and block the roman army's only avenue of escape. ------------------------------------------------------------------ "so where is the advance party that we sent out? what have they to report?" "sir...they have not returned as of yet. we sent out 25 men to find them but they are also overdue in reporting back" said the nervous aide to the general. "perhaps it would be prudent to start securing a line back to our escape...err...departure route" the general's face burned red. "we are the roman army. the army that has conquered the world. we don't need to escape from anyone or anywhere". "send another 50 men into the woods but this time have them separate by a distance of 50 feet in single file" "yes sir" said the aide. just then they heard a large crash that last for several seconds. "and find out what that sound was." ordered the general "yes sir" said the aide with a warble in his voice. ------------------------------------------------------------------ the 50 men were quickly lost in this next fruitless escapade. one man did escape. he told of a giantess who moved faster and more silently than the wind. how she was able to overpower all of the men at once. weapons were useless against her speed and strength. he saw the men tied up and literally carried away. the general then showed fear for the first time. 84 of his men were gone without a trace. the arrogance was gone, replaced by a feeling of helplessness. "we can't combat sorcery" "get the men together and we will march out of this cursed canyon" said the general in a voice a little higher pitch than normal. the aide quickly organized the men, who were now skittish into an immediate withdraw. the path though the canyone was narrow and the woods close by. many men were snatched right through the brush and trees and into the woods by mia's long strong arm. no man would dare go into the woods after their lost comrades. the march out of the canyon had cost another 75 men. the men huddled and cowered in the middle of the path with no thought of fighting. each one just prayed that they would not be selected by the arm of the giantess. the aide cried excitedly .. "the passage way is around the next bend" and as the general and his men round the bend they all fell into speechless shock with their jaws dropped open. the passge way out was blocked by a landslide of rock. there was no way out. just then the giantess ran out of the woods straight into the body of men and scooped several of them up and then disappeared quickly again into the woods. 170 men were now gone. she ran out again and again and again. the men had no where to run but back away from the landslide and back into the canyon. the general summoned his aide. "what do you recommend aide? surrender?" the aide said "surrender to whom sir?" they then heard the screams of more men as the giantess now used a net to snare the men. and through the night it went. ten men, 5 men, 20 men, constant and never stopping. in the morning, it was the general and 40 of his men surrounding him. mia stepped out into the clearance. she pointed to the men and then pointed into the woods. most of the 40 men walked submissively into it. the general was left with 3 men and his aide. his army was gone. taken from him by what appeared to be a tall girl. and then in a blur she leaped out of the woods and ran straight at him. he felt her overpowering arm grab him and throw him in a net" the roman army had been captured. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- the general could not believe his eyes when he saw where he was being carried to. all of his men it appeared were alive and safe but tied together in an intricate mesh of rope. a thousand men all tied together bound by the same rope that the roman army had carried up with them. this can't be. this one girl defeating a roman army. he then felt her strong hands quickly lash rope around him and soon he was part of the web. mia then pulled on the central rope a thousand men groaned simultaneously as they all moved forward one step as mia tugged on the rope. she laughed as she found it easy to pull the men forward. she took the end of the rope, pulled it tight, wrapped her big toe around it and then flexed her big toe forward. to her delight, the thousand men all moved forward. the powerful roman army being overpowered by a shephard girl's toe. she laughed and tied the rope around her ankle and stepped forward to bring the men back to her village. she stepped forward and the roman army had not choice but to be dragged along by the movement of her feet. she had an evil thought. won't the roman empire want to know what happened to their army? perhaps she should clear out the landslide so that she can trap others. maybe she could go out and attack their armies on the open battlefield. maybe she could march on rome itself. all by herself. it appears that men can't stop her. these thoughts amused her as she absent mindedly dragged the roman army that was tied to her ankle.