Snippet #1171381

The sun peeked over the horizon, bringing light to Kolera. It was the start of a new day, thoughts of bandits and the prince were in the back of Wolf’s mind. He was enjoying his sleep. But that didn’t last, he started to hear loud stomping, he sat up and looked toward the sky. He was still on the roof, he had fallen asleep during is watch. The sound began to grow louder, it came from the forest. He looked in the distance but could see nothing through the trees. The sound soon stopped and he tried to figure out what that sound could have been. He then looked toward the sky and saw a streak of red light coming in toward the city. Wolf stared at it and he then got up quickly as he realized what it was, the red streak came down toward the city and hit a small house, burning the roof of the house. The streak was a burning arrow. Wolf watched as more came sailing down toward his city. He ran to the ladder and climbed down, he jumped off the ladder landing on his feet, he ran to the center of town, there was a bell there. Wolf kicked the bell, the bell rang loudly covering the whole city, it would be impossible for even the hardest sleeper to not hear.

Wolf watched as people rushed from their houses in a panic, he then saw soldiers rushing into the city, Wolf drew his swords and ran toward the soldiers, cutting them down quickly. The soldiers were trained, but they weren’t trained well. Wolf could tell as none of them could come close to cutting him. They all wore light armor, but they fought like they had heavy armor protection using wide swings and trying to use their weight to push Wolf back. Their moves were amateurish, he wondered why soldiers this weak would attack his city. As the number of the soldiers began to dwindle and the bodies around Wolf began to grow larger. He notice more soldiers coming into the city, these soldiers had heavier armor, they looked experienced. He then realized the strategy, they sent the weaker soldiers to tire him and then the experienced soldiers would attack. It was quite devious a tactic that only a weak commander would use. Wolf smiled happily, he wondered if he would be able to win this battle. He looked at the more experienced soldiers rushing toward him and behind them. Stood three fearsome warriors, one carried a large sword over his shoulder. He had a cloth over the left side of his face. The man looked like the strongest of the three. Another warrior carried a large pole axe over his shoulder, he was missing his left arm. But it didn’t seem to put the man off balance. The last warrior carried a long sword in his left hand the way the man was holding the sword showed his left hand wasn’t his dominate hand. The man was hiding his right hand behind his cloak. It made Wolf suspect that the man had lost his right hand. Wolf also suspected that the three were the leaders of the army and the ones he needed to defeat to drive the army out of his city.

Wolf ran toward the men, running passed the heavily armored soldiers. They didn’t try and stop him. It was as if they didn’t want to stop him from getting to their commanders. Wolf stood before the three warriors blocking them from going farther into the city. They looked at him with cold eyes. The warrior with the pole axe and the missing left arm stepped up. He pointed his axe at Wolf and said “ step aside or I will cut you down.” Wolf didn’t move, he only stared the man down. The man seemed agitated he brought his axe up and prepared to bring it down. Wolf saw his chance, he stepped forward and prepared to take the man’s head off, but his sword was blocked by the man with the sword in his left hand. Wolf looked up as the axe was coming down toward him, Wolf jumped back narrowly dodging the axe. The man with the large sword over his shoulder began to walk passed Wolf and he said to the other two “ I will leave this to you.” the two smiled and then charged at Wolf quickly.

Helena jumped out of her bed and then ran to the door. She opened it and the sound of the bell rang louder in her ears. She looked across the hall and saw Elizabeth, who looked frightened but also excited. Helena stepped into the hall and then walked to the door that lead to the stairs. Elizabeth followed closely behind her, the two reached the first floor and saw Flora and Asher standing at the door their daggers drawn. Helena walked over to the both of them and placed her hand on their shoulders. They both looked back at her and smile. Flora’s gaze then shifted from Helena to the second floor where Alice was standing looking down at them. Alice walked to the stairs and Elizabeth smiled at her. Elizabeth grabbed Alice’s hand and lead her to the door. Helena looked at Alice and said “ I’m sorry to ask you this, but it looks like things are going to get bad. We could use some help.” Alice nodded and then Flora and Asher pushed open the door. They then charged at the soldiers and started cutting them down. They looked up at the arrows falling down toward them. Alice used her light magic to create a shield and blocked the arrows. Helena used her earth magic and the soil starts to get soft, it then caused some of the soldiers to sink into the ground. Helena chuckled and then looked back at Elizabeth and said “ you should stay close.” Elizabeth laughed and said “ I can take care of myself, look” Elizabeth whistled softly and snow white wolf appeared behind her, it was large like a horse. It’s teeth stained blood red, the wolf charged at the soldiers knocking them to the ground. It then bit and scratched the soldiers, the soldiers were frightened, they hadn’t expected such a thing to happen. Some ran off trying to flew the claws of the snow white beast, but most failed to escape. Elizabeth whistled again and the wolf turned and ran back to her, the wolf slowly disappeared into nothingness and Elizabeth was proud of what she had done.

Gabriel heard the yelling, he walked to the window of his room in the inn. He opened it and the smell of blood rushed to his nose. He stepped back in disgust, the smell was horrid to his acute nose. By the smell Gabriel could tell a large group of people were dying. And by the yelling he could tell it was from a large battle. He wondered who was winning, but he didn’t want to go out and see. He preferred to not get into the middle of such things unless he had to.