Only Time Will Tell

Chapter 7: Nania

ANUBIS**

We arrived at the outskirts of the Elf kingdom after 3 days.

As usual, our journey had very few little stops; of course for resting the horses.

The King had assigned us 10 of his best soldiers including his daughter Margaret, due to the dire importance of this mission.

"Halt!!!" Margaret ordered, raising her right fist in the air and we all stopped abruptly.

There was silence as we waited for Margaret's next order.

"M'lady what's the matter, why are we lurking in this misty wood?" One of the dwarves asked

" We need to be cautious! The elves can be tricky at times (She replied observing the terrain ahead keenly)

Let's move!" She ordered leading the way.

We moved slowly and cautiously due to the fog that covered the field, giving us very limited view of what was ahead.

The fogs disappeared slowly as the sun rose.

"You're trespassing on the property of the elves, retreat immediately or we'll attack !!!" A voice spoke from a distance.

We halted immediately, waiting for Margaret's orders.

As the fogs cleared away, we saw a squad of elf soldiers up ahead.

"Get down your horses, slowly " Margaret instructed and we obeyed her frightfully

"I repeat, Retreat immediately or we'll attack!! "The elf ordered again but we held our ground

I couldn't make out what they looked like because they had their helmets on

"Hold your positions!!!" Margaret ordered and we arranged ourselves into a triangle

"I'll give you a count of 3, one!!! (He shouted and his soldiers brought out their bow and arrows and aimed at us)

Two!!! (He said hesitantly, waiting for us to run but we didn't )

Three!!! And fire!!! "He ordered and they shot at us

"Shield formation!!!" Margaret ordered and immediately we connected our shields to form a dome just in time to receive the arrows that traveled in projectile

"Arghhh!!! I got hit!! A dwarf wailed in pains. An arrow had made it's way inside before the shields were properly connected.

"Hold your positions steady!!!" Margaret ordered.

Everywhere was silent after the first wave of arrows landed.

They must've thought we'd run away after the first wave.

"Fire!!!" The elf ordered again. I'm positive we must've stepped on his nerve

We held our positions as the arrows landed heavily on our shields trying to break our formation.

The arrows came flying with force, wave after wave.

"Attack!!!" The elf ordered again and they charged towards us, taking their swords out of it's sheath

"Get ready to attack!!! (Margaret ordered as we felt then coming closer and we all gripped our weapons)

Prepare the explosives!!! (She ordered, waiting patiently for them to come a little closer)

And fire!!!" She ordered and the explosives were thrown at the elves

"Dynamite!!! Retreat!!!" The elf ordered on noticing the explosives and they fled.

But they didn't make it away quite in time as the explosives blew them away.

The explosives were not as lethal as I expected tho.

"Attack!!!" Margaret ordered and we charged towards them with our weapons

We were about to clash with the elves, but were stopped on our tracks as arrows from no where dropped two of our soldiers dead immediately.

"Everyone get behind me!!!" Margaret ordered and we obeyed her.

Surprisingly, the elves didn't attack us.

We were all waiting in confusion to know what was going on and where the arrows came from.

We didn't have to wait too long tho as a Feminine figure emerged from the fogs behind the elves and they bowed to her

"Rise!!!" She instructed as she alighted from her horse, and they rose immediately.

"M'lady you can't be here, it's too dangerous." The elf (commander) whispered to her

"Hush!! Xavier " she said raising her index finger, signaling him to be silent.

"Princess Margaret! " she said as she majestically but cautiously approached us, then removed her helmet.

I was overwhelmed by her divine beauty.

"Nania!!" Margaret said with a pinch of sarcasm in her voice as she advanced towards the elf princess cautiously.

"I'm impressed. Your reputation quite precedes you. " she said with a bit of sarcasm in her tone.

"I wish I could say that about you " Margaret dissed

"Ouch! (Nania exclaimed, pretending to be hurt by Margaret's words)

Little princess, do you care to dance?" She asked as she brought out her sword from it's sheath.

"Been dying for you to ask" Margaret said as she advanced towards the princess.

We (dwarf and elf soldiers) all watched from the sidelines the battle of the 4'5ft and 5'7ft

Margaret flunged an axe at the princess as they were about to collide, but Nania who saw the danger coming dodged it acrobatically and came in with her offense once she gained posture.

She thrusted her sword at Margaret but she (Margaret) blocked it immediately with her shield.

Nania withdrew her sword sharply and struck it against Margaret but the stealth warrior blocked it and gave the princess an uppercut with the shield and she (Nania) staggered backwards.

"Impressive!" Nania said as she spat out blood on the floor. She gave a sinister smile exposing her bleeding mouth.

She attacked Margaret again, this time more aggressively.

She attacked with a heavy karate kick and Margaret fell down, losing her shield.

She tried to strike Margaret with her sword but Margaret rolled away skillfully.

Still on the floor, Margaret tripped Nania and she fell, but the princess rose from the floor with a beautiful "Chinese-get up" stunt and landed a skilled back kick at Margaret and she staggered backwards and finally she (Nania) connected her attack with a front flip karate kick that landed on Margaret's head and she fell face first on the ground and passed out.

"Now we're even! "She said with contempt