The Battle of Stonehorn
1228 Words
The sun was high in the moon sky. The smell of blood and fire hot on the air.
Aeliana, Catherine, Flynn, Callum, Daru, and Avari stood on a hill overlooking the battlefield.
The Phrygh… a cursed people, with blood red skin, and black eyes were a formidable opponent.
Relentless, and vicious, they used crude weapons, and claws to tear at their enemies.
“What are those near the walls?” Flynn asked, pointing at some different creatures nearest the wall.
Callum stepped forward with his keen eyes
“Pig-men… slaves to the Phrygh, they use them as shields before their attacks.”
Avari almost wept in anger
“No creature is anothers to subdue and forced to die.”
“Agreed” Catherine stated.
Daru stood atop the hill
“KAZUD!!!!” He raised his axe high, “Let the stone horn cry out! KAZUD!!!!!”
The dwarves in the keep went silent…
Suddenly in unison, a song rose up from the other side.
Harad tun! Come and see(beating their shields like a slow drum) KAZUD!!! WE RISE FOR TORYDD!
WE RISE FOR OUR KING
HARAD TUN!!!! NOW YOU FLEE….. the horn sounded, shaking the foundations of the great keep…
The gates slowly opened
A massive shield wall took the place of the gates.. thousand of dwarves, shoulder to shoulder
HARAD TUN!!!
the horn sounds again
The Phrygh now visibly afraid, started backpedaling.
“Ara sied!!!” Arrows flew from the northern hills.
“The wood elves are here!!” Flynn exclaimed,
Callum mounted his horse, and went to marshall the elven lines.
Phrygh started to fall within their ranks.. the Gnomes attacked in mass, taking advantage of the confusion
“Shield! Wall!” Daru bellowed. The dwarves formed ranks..
“South!” A Phrygh leader screamed in a panic.
Suddenly a commotion from the southern Wood..
“What is that?” Avari gasped
Catherine looked concerned, “Saurians.. but something isn't right with them “ she was correct, they ran blindly, and with a fear that was Unmistakable.
Catherine smiled “look my friends”
The Cayn, Elyon and centaurs were close behind them..
And….
“Sage!!” Aeliana almost fell off the hilltop in excitement.
The shadow mage was walking with purpose, a pewter colored sword in her hand, slicing and beating back the horde.
…The horn rang out again
“Push forward!” Daru ordered, and mounted a large black goat, and began bowling over the enemies as he rode into the fray.
The horn blared out again
“DARU KING!!” The dwarves cheered as they pushed forward with the shield wall.
Suddenly…
CRACK!!
BOOM!!!!
The southern mountainside broke open…
Drums….
A fell horn sounded out
“Orcs…” Avari said
“Goblins” added Flynn
Catherine unsheathed her golden sword…
“Shades!”
She turned back
“Minotaurs! Form rank, and push all to the breach!
No more watching…
It's time to fight, friends”
The hill emptied into the battlefield.
Aeliana charged upon her horse, slashing at enemies left and right.
Avari sent fire raining down from her staff.
Flynn with almost elf like precision, sent a flurry of arrows. “Where'd he learn that?” Aeliana thought to herself, as she cleaved a goblin.
The air turned cold…
Aeliana’s horse stopped cold in a clearing
“There you are..” a cold voice called out.
The horse fell into a death like sleep.
Aeliana stood with her sword drawn.
Three shades gathered around her.
“I am Tudo, first regent of the darklands. This is Caran the the knife
And this… is Guul…
Soul ripper…
You die today.”
Aeliana swung her sword, Tudo knocked it away.
The shades surrounded her….
All went black.
Aeliana closed her eyes
“I'm here.” A woman's voice said softly “Rise!” The voice said.
Aeliana opened her eyes, now glowing like the sun
“NO! Today you live!!!”
The shades hit their knees as a pulse resonated from Aeliana in all directions.
“Rise!”
The shades screamed as they seemed to be burning from the inside out, the light so bright, the elves shielded their eyes.
“Rise!!!” Aeliana now in a voice that shook the battlefield.
Their robes fell off.
Now, where the shades once stood, were two women, and a man
“Awaken, Valai!” Aeliana now in a more commanding tone
“Eltia…
Tavos…
Coiru…
Welcome to the world.”
The three stood now.
“Collect Malakar and Elysia” Aeliana ordered as she picked up Karon's Revenge and sheathed it.
She turned
“STOP!”
She cried out in a voice that echoed throughout the battlefield.
“This battle is over! Hounds of Dryvx, leave or die! The Valai commands it!”
The horde from the mountain fled in fear, with the Saurians not far behind.
“My lady..” it was Eltia, “I bring Elysia.” Aeliana looked at her, closely… she was beautiful, despite her curse, dark hair covered her head, she wore a red dress.
“Where is Malakar?” Aeliana asked.
Elysia seemed disgusted, “the coward fled with his warriors in the confusion after the orcs showed up.”
She spit on the floor
I never trusted him.. he's the one who bowed to Blyxx all those years ago..
Then he enslaved Arvandus”
Callum had arrived about this time, “Arvandus still lives?”
Elysia nodded, “Yes, woodking” Callum stopped for a second, then bowed his head,
“I must speak with him, is he here?”
Elysia motioned to a nearby Phrygh, and spoke to him in a strange language”
The warrior left immediately.
Aeliana laughed
“What do you find so funny?” Elysia asked.
The other Valai arrived, now smiling.
“I'll explain when Arvandus is here.”
Elysia nodded, “how far back do you remember, Elysia?” Aeliana asked
She stopped for a second,
“I was born in sheers point, near the lost city of Caalisai.. my mother, was a healer, and a seer..
She told me when I was five, that I would stand before a great queen, in a field of blood.. that was three thousand years ago…
And today, here we are”
Aeliana stood in thought..
“Your mother was Elia Trys.. she fought at the creases, and fell, your father, died when you were three”
Elysia’s eyes widened, “yes, and you are the prophesied Aegyss…” Aeliana nodded.
The Phrygh warrior returned with Arvandus. He was one of the pig-men.
Aeliana looked him up and down.
“Arvandus…
It's nice to meet you”
He bowed his head, “The pleasure is mine, Valai” he replied.
Aeliana nodded in thanks.
Catherine returned, wiping black blood from her sword,
“You could have done that from the start, saved us a lot of time” she laughed
“Where's Flynn?” Aeliana asked, “and Avari?”
“I'm here, my lady” Avari came forward, her dress now black and red with blood of her foes.
“Flynn went with Daru and the free dwarves of Stonehorn. They're preparing a feast.”
Aeliana rolled her eyes..
“Always thinking with his stomach” she laughed.
“Now, you two….”
She looked back and forth
“We must sit and talk.
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