LOSC chapter 15
LOSC: The New Guardians Part 15
The sun rose a day after the attack on the Southern wall, and the forces there had fail to report in...on the day that they were to send the duty and rotation rosters. Thus in response Hunter had taken it upon himself and his band to recon the area and report their findings. Running on the ground as fast as their feet would carry them Hunter and his men were coming in sight of the southern wall, quickly hunter stops and raised a closed fist to stop the soldiers behind him. Listening he hear what sounded like foot falls and quickly pointed to the trees before making a few other gestures, he was ordering his men into silence and to follow his lead as they scattered and quickly hid in the trees.
They vanished into the canopy using the leaves to hide their presence. Not three minutes after Hunter and his group had hid a troop of grublins, and orcs. Marched under them...It was a patrol easily the size of a platoon or two. The group was led by a squad of apes spread through their ranks, as hunter watched he grew far more worried as he looked through the leaves towards the wall and saw smoke rising from it. "This isn't good...that wall is the first defense line to both avalar and Warfang." The cheetah thought before making two hand signs, before pulling his bow off his back and nocked an arrow. He waited several moments waiting for his ten man team to follow his direction, before drawing back the arrow slowly and silently to keep the patrol from hearing the tell tail sound of a bow getting ready to let fly an arrow.
The lead ape stopped sniffing the air before his eyes widened only to have and arrow go through one of them before he could warn his men of the ambush. The forest was filled with the sound of bow twangs taking down the patrol with ease, not one of the patrolmen could even draw their weapons let alone yell out for back up. Hopping to the ground Hunter looked to his group, "grab all of their weapons Warfang is going to need all the information about this army." He ordered before running further ahead soon reaching a cliff overlooking the valley where the wall had been built into only to see...And army of thirty thousand strong camped there building siege weapons to attack Warfang, "heheheh lookie here a lost cat." Came a sneering voice making Hunter look behind himself to see three Dark Wolves there, "seems like it's our lucky day...Royce kill'em." The one furthest to the left ordered. But before the wolf called Royce could react he already had and arrow in his head, while the middle one had his chest and neck slashed, as the leader's eyes widened. All the two still standing didn't even see hunter move but the cheetah was indeed behind them sword dripping in their blood. After a five second delayed reaction the middle wolf's chest burst open splashing blood on the ground, while the leader's top half of his skull hit the ground with his body. After they were dead hunter made to leave, but dodged to the side to avoid a blade smashing into the tree behind where he once stood. "Hunter of Avalar, we meet at last." Said a rather large ape standing a good four feet away from hunter retracting the blade he had fired at the Cheetah. "Seems you're rather familiar with me but I've never met you before." Hunter countered quickly sheathing his blade and had his bow out arrow drawn and ready to be fired, "hang on their fluffy, I come bearing gifts." The ape said tossing hunter a large satchel, "Everything you're going to need to know in order to face this coming attack." The ape added before he vanished with the wind.
"Master...the trap is being readied to spring." Said the Ape to a communication crystal, "very good Grevous...Gual would be proud of you. Now, delay the attack for two weeks...then let the wolf make his assault." Ordered a deep voice coming from the crystal, "Yes...Lord General Myth."
Hunter stood their stunned but grabbed the satchel and ran off towards his team, "you three grab the corpses down at that ridge and follow us back to war fang now!" he ordered in a frenzy as he got this men moving quickly maki9ng their way back to Warfang. Upon arriving he went to the hawk towers and told them to get Warfang's army to the city immediately and bring supplies for a siege. Once that was done he burst into the Guardian's council chamber while they were in conference with Marshal for his daily report, "I say! Hunter what is the meaning of this?!" Demanded Cyril and hunter only answered with a crystal he kept on his person at all times...it was an imaging crystal designed to take a imprinted memory into itself and show it to the outside world. The crystal showed the army he had witnessed, "That is the reason why we lost contact with the southern wall...that army will be here once those siege weapons are built." Hunter stated, "It's a combined force of apes, orcs, grublins...and these creatures." Hunter said as one of his en dropped the carcass of Royce onto the ground. Marshal narrows his eyes at the corpse but wastes no time and leaves to muster the guard. "where is Arrow he needs to hear this" Hunter stated pointing to the wind guardian's spot, "he's training shadowheart." Ignitus stated, "but he will be informed." Hunter nodded and rubbed his eyes, "and another thing...it seems that one of the commanders is getting cold feet and gave me this." Hunter added tossing the satchel to Volteer, "it contains the battle plans for their attack." He states as the lightning guardians overlooks the map and book containing the plans, "what's this? No!" "What is it volteer?" asked Terridor, "it's a good thing Arrow isn't here." Volteer said eyes wide, "why old boy?" Cyril asked wanting to know, "seems he's a turn coat...it says on the map and in here that he's going to let a one Shadowfang and his entourage into warfang...to Activate a generator of some kind in the Dragon's tower of the temple." Volteer explained causing each of the guardian's jaws to drop, "How was he going to do tha-" Started ignites, "through the emergency exit we built for the city when malifor came back." Volteer finished. As the Guardians tried to wrap their head around this information a rustling was heard over them in the rafters followed by some splinters and dust, "damn it Shadowheart stop your evesdropping!" roared Terridor that caused the shadow dragon to jump and vanish with a snap as he shadow walked out of the chamber with the statement of, "fucking shit monkeys". Hunter just shook his head, "make sure that Arrow doesn't find this out...for everyone's safety." Hunter suggested and the others nodded, "then I'll be working on the city's defenses." Hunter finished with a bow before walking out of the chamber.
The next next week Warfang went through its greatest change since the war with Malifor. Mole anti-dread wing catapults were brought back to life throughout the entire city. Over the gates four mole dragon canons roared back to life along the city's outer most southern wall, the first line of defense. Marshal prepared the city guard for the coming battle while Warfang's army marched into the city from the east and west, soon reaching twenty thousand. Shadowheart watched Marshal drill his soldiers hard and roughly, and despite being younger than the other apprentices they were being deployed in the coming battle...he wasn't. Sighing he stood up when Marshal was done and approached him, "Captain Marshal I place myself under your command." He states and gets right into marshal's face to prove he was serious. Marshal stared at Shadowheart and shook his head, "no shadow..." He started to say, "why cause I'm too young? I don't care I'm an apprentice guardian too I should do something to defend Warfang." Shadow interrupted and ground his tail blades into the stone ground in agitation. "Fine but you're going to need to prove yourself capable." Marshal stated, but right as he finished Marshal's wind sense told him to dodge and due to its warning he narrowly missed Shadow's tail blades going for his neck.
A cloud soon covered the city allowing shadow to shadow walk behind Marshal his tail blade's blunt end smacking into the back of marshal's head. Confused and Dazed marshal tried to retaliate with a swing off his own unique tail blade's sharp end strike nothing as shadow had walked again blasting Marshal's chest with shadow fire knocking him into the air. But Marshal blasted out a shock wave of wind disbursing shadow's flames. "Damn it...his movements are fast and that shadow walk makes it hard for me to sense his attacks." Marshal thought before drawing his wind sense closer to himself in order to detect Shadow better. Shadow narrowed his eyes as they seemed to glow showing his innate power, before appearing right in marshal's face again swinging his tail blades at him. Only to have marshal's tail blade hammer end meet his scythe blades stopping them dead. Shadow heart growls as he flaps his wings causing him to move to the right parrying Marshal's tail as he spun himself and swung his blades down toward marshal, who used the wind on a fore leg and knocked it aside. But Shadowheart used that action to spin the other direction and swing his tail back up towards marshal's head. But the elder dragon once again used to wind to knock it aside before blasting young shadow heart with a compressed wind blast from his maw, hitting him like a cannon. But the shadow once again vanished only to reappear over Marshal tackling the older dragon to the earth using marshal to soften his landing. But once they hit shadow was blasted off with a burst of wind sending the shadow dragon tumbling into a wall making the wall crack a bit. Getting back up shadow growls throwing out his wings launching tendrils of shadow at marshal, who dodged them easily using his wind sense to do so, but he didn't see Shadow coming at all with a comet dash drilling the older dragon in the gut and launched him into the barracks and out the other side. Only to be met by the paw of Shadow grasping his face, quickly countering marshal cracked Shadow with the hammer end of his tail dazing him allowing Marsahal to reverse Shadow's maneuver onto him and with a boost of wind chucked Shadow at a wall. Again Shadow escaped with a shadow walk, but now Shadow had enough as he lifted his head to the sky and started gathering shadow energy from all around him into his open maw. Forming a ball of compressed shadow element there, "what I he doing?" marshal thought when Shadow snapped his maw shut and swallowed the ball. Black steam started to leak out between Shadow's fangs, just before he reopened his maw and fired it right at marshal twice as fast as a cannon ball. With the split second he had Marshal quickly used the wind to cushion the ball's impact into himself before tossing it into the sky as He bounced like a tennis ball. As it flew away the ball exploded sending out a wave of shadow element leaving Shadow heart panting as the cloud leaves letting the sun weaken Shadowheart again.
Marshal got back up panting himself that fight had tired him out, "ahh the younger generation." He mutters with a chuckle, before walking towards Shadowheart, "okay Shadow your with flame in the air core." Marshal said before leaving a grinning Shadow heart where he stood proud of the little dragon.
Back with the dark army Shadowfang sat on a hill looking over at warfang with absolute hatred, "Once more the dark wolves will rule over all lesser races." He snarls as his army was ready, "The dragons have had their chance now it's time for their true masters to return. Ahahahaha HAHAHAHAHAAA!"