A surprising Friend
This is my
very first FanFic. It took me a week to write and alot of
my friends liked it so I hope you people do too. Enjoy...
Of all
lands that ever were and all solar systems there ever was
with all Galaxies that have been and all Universes there
are to be, Kirlmalda. It is a land of no remorse of no
pity and yet of such beauty that none could ever scorn
its surface. The ten Gods of this land would forbid it
with all might that has never been seen with living eyes.
Fire, Water, Earth, Air, Magic, Power, Wisdom, Fatality,
Being, and to rule them all in their duty to watch, guide
and aid all lesser beings. The Overlord. The Overlord
being the superior of the Gods, led them to create a
world unlike any have seen ever before. They had
accomplished it. The God of Being gave life to the land.
Fatality set all of life’s limits with few
exceptions. Kirlmalda was kingdom to many creatures from
Gnome to Dwarf to Human to Elf to Dragon and so on. At
first most of each race lived apart from one another,
afraid of any who dared trespass on their part of the
country. Humanity, being the model for life, took for
themselves most of the territory west of the Great Ocean.
They organized and divided into 4 different
nations. The North, South, East, and West. The
other races were furiously trying to uphold their
territory against the humans and there advances upon the
land. Futile, alone and separated each individual race
was many times inferior to the cunning of humans.
Some decided to ally the humans and be part of there
society. Most fled to the extremities of the land of
Kirlmalda. And so was established human rule over
all!
-They
shall thank us for our sacrifices here this day.
-Who will milord??? What sacrifices???
-Our descendants will. Sacrificing our lives, our
well-being, our hopes and dreams and all we hold dear.
Ah, sergeant Perdil, you never did think of how much you
give for your people, do you???
-No I suppose I don’t.
-Humanity, how would you describe them???
-Well, there very intelligent, cunning, but almost
abusive milord.
Exactly, we elves cannot survive these mountains
we’ve been driven to by our own cousins, its
betrayal. These constant onslaughts by Trolls and
those damn Orcs... yes... the Orcs... He said with a
twitch of pain in his eye, we must gather our people and
the mighty Dwarves, to a safer place. Valg, call in
Tabour and let us be.
At that
very moment, Tabour walked in the room, like he had been
listening in on the private conversation.
Lord Valg, my Dwarves can’t take this slaughtering
any longer. We must retreat now! -All is prepared Tabour,
we leave as soon as the rear guard can be readied.
-Aye, let's be on our way. It’s a ways, back to
safer grounds. But the humans aren’t going to let us
just walk up to their northern city of Salvon and throw
us a welcome home party. It used to be my northern city,
not as grand but a good home it was for my people.
-Yes, quite, listen well, for the Elves have been
planning for a very, very long time de demise of the
Human Alliance.
-You're insane, Valg, you’ve gone mad, berserk in
the head; you’ve got you helmet on too tight!!! My
dwarves will revolt and murder you in your sleep if you
think that again!!!
-Come yourself Tabour, you’ve only heard the
beginning. First we shall retreat from this horrid place
and move south, I’ve friends in high places that can
help us in quietly overthrowing the Alliance. Come now,
think of our children. Do you want them to grow in fear
of an axe in the head sleeping!?! No!!! I doubt you do!!!
-Your son was a great loss to all of Valg, but that
shouldn’t affect your thinking of your people.
Valg continued without acknowledging the response of his
lost son.
-The Alliance is stronger than us both, they have been
greedy, eaten and spoiled all the land with their touch.
They think us lesser then them. It’s a lie. We
are better then them, we uphold the land, keep peace, and
waste nothing. They are the complete opposite of us both.
We must fight back!!!
-I still think you completely mad but you prove great
point. Ready yourself, we leave within the hour.
March!!!
Tabour screamed louder than anyone would have expected
for someone of his height. Right away the dwarves jumped
into action with packs on their backs, moved quickly
through the Frost Forest.
-I’ve sent elven scouts on ahead, they’ll
report back within the hour. Perdil is with them.
He’s was a good man, your son I mean. I think every
body feels for him.
-Thank you Tabour, Valg said holding back a very deep
lake of tears. He was a good man.
Frolor,
son of Valg, was the only heir to the throne of the elven
people, he had wanted to go with the scouting party and
learn their ways. The scouting party never came back to
camp. Three search parties were sent, 6 more men never
came back and 2 were badly hurt. It was disastrous to
Valg, his only son killed by some monster from the woods
and probably eaten by wolves. Valg knew he was going
insane, he knew he would die from insanity, he wished it
would come sooner and put him out of his misery so he
could be with his son. But his people needed him to pull
trough for now.
On the
fifth day of hard marching without incident, the scouts
all ran as fast as their legs could cary them back to the
Valg.
-Milord,
Perdil managed while running; we’ve found something
you need to see. -How much farter ahead??? He replied
calmly.
-Half a mile I think, it’s hard to tell at the speed
we were running.
-Very well, Valg chose ten of his personal guards and was
guided by the scouts. They had arrived at a small
clearing with a small pond to the west.
What Valg
saw then made him drop to his knees. His son. Time
stopped. Nothing moved, no sound. His son. What was left
of Frolor’s head on the top of a pike. His body was
nowhere to be found. Valg, still on his knees, watched
horrified at the others beside his son. All on pikes the
same as Frolor. And all came back into view. Time
resumed. But this time it was quieter than usual except
for the heavy panting of his men. He stood to his full
oppressive height.
-Why are you all panting like dogs?
Then he realized the how stupid the question had been
when he saw a party of trolls dead on the ground. He must
have been hit so hard by the discovery of his son’s
head that he didn’t hear the attack and the brave
war cries of his guards fighting. -How many are there???
-20 sir. Replied Perdil who was slashed across the nose.
-How many did we lose???
-Two sir.
-Two??? We were outnumbered 2 to 1!
-The sight we saw inspired us milord. We had to protect
you, you were on your knees mumbling: why? over and over.
-Well done. Let's get back to Tabour, and do you see that
arm bone???
-Yes sir I do.
-Bring it, I think Dretr would like that back.
When they
got back, Valg immediately called Dretr.
-Yes milord, what do you wish???
-Well, Dretr you were with that search party I sent
yes???
-Yes, I was. You know that. That’s how I lost My
arm, Fighting a Troll. It took my arm in one swing
of that damn axe, I was so mad at it that I threw my
sword at it. Got it in the chest, but I was knocked
unconscious right after. I don’t know if it died. I
took the axe when regained consciousness. Still got it
too.
-Quite a story, I’ve a present for you.
Valg gave him his arm back, the bone was clean; no doubt
a wolf had eaten the raw meat. Dretr stared in amazement.
Petrified yet intrigued by his own arm. He gently took it
from Valg and whispered a promise: By my sole do I swear
to kill that which has taken my arm or die trying.
-Thank you Valg.
The next
few days were much the same as the others. Until the
Thirteenth day when the rear guard yelled for enemy
blood. Cries went unheard Elves fired bows and line in
formation of rank upon rank of swordsmen. Dwarves went
wild with the chance of a good fight. The attack was
right behind them, when everybody heard loud and clear a
horn. So pure was the sound and calming, it was thought
magic by the onlookers of who had blown it. It was an Elf
sitting upon the largest dragon anyone had seen for many
ages. It was a dragon of legend; coloured head of blue
with a red chest and green tail, all colours flowed into
one another so perfectly it was as if it was one. The Elf
was tall, slim with strong elven features. Blue, green
eyes with blond hair fit him well with a black leather
tunic, bow across his soldiers and a sword at his side.
All stopped, noises were shushed but swords raised. The
young Elf hopped off the monstrous dragon and stood by
it’s side for a moment. After a few seconds of
consideration, he took one step forward; the army took
one step back. Then he burst out laughing in a fit.
-My, my, let’s not kill my friend and me here. I
just came for a good look at what you were doing moving
so many people at once and armed to the teeth at that.
-Pardon our caution with our people master.
-My name is Teal Whiteraven.
-Thank you master Whiteraven.
-Teal will do just fine, thank you.
-Of course, Teal. I am the Dwarf leader Tabour Fitle and
this is King Valg Lore, leader of the Elves, Valg
finished.
Most of the men still had their weapons in the air
looking at the dragon. Teal realised this and butted in:
-Don't worry about Orca, he’s probably more afraid
of you than you are of him and started laughing again.
Immediately after the dragon let out a puff of back smoke
from his nostrils and revealed his long sharp teeth in
response that it was afraid. Men stepped back five paces.
Teal laughed even harder, until Valg interrupted him:
-How did you tame such a beast???
-Well, when I was very young I was walking in this very
forest when a lone Troll attacked me. His mother saved me
by killing the vile thing, we became friends. Orca was
just born and I was so small she took me for a second
son. She was an old Dragon and was in her last 50 years
of life. But one day a party of Ocrs shortened it. They
killed her and left Orca for dead. I rescued Orca, so he
and I grew up together. But that was over 70 years ago.
Ancient history. Best friends in their prime of life
looking for adventure. Seems we found it.
-Well, seems you did, friend. Join us for supper we shall
throw a great banquet tonight. It’s a full moon;
they’ll be plenty of light. Except your friend, we
couldn’t feed him if we tried.
-Don’t worry about Orca, he’s been eating our
good friends the trolls and orcs. We’ve been
tracking you secretly for days figuring what to make of
you people.
That
night, spirits soared with renewed hopes and cheers and
they toasted their new friend. After the party, Valg,
Tabour and Teal had a meeting.
-Well... started Teal, you’ve got big plans for the
Alliance I hear.
-Yes, we do, we’re tired of being locked up so far
north in the mountains, replied Valg.
-Yes!!! Orca and I are sick of sleeping with one eye open
at night. We must take back what is rightfully ours. I
say we fight.
-No, no you young fool. Think rationally, we can
overthrow them very quietly and without showing a fang or
tooth.
-So I see you’ve got this planned. How??? I’ve
got a friend in the Great Palace of Waterkeep; he is the
king.
At first
light, all was packed and readied to make an early start,
for they would be exiting the Frost Forest this day. When
they heard a war horn all too familiar. The war horn of
the Trolls. They have come, whispered Valg while
unsheathing his sharp blade that looked a dull blue.
Without delay bows were fired and lances thrown. At least
4 score of the enemy died in the first attack.
Instantaneously Orca leaped into the air with 3 flaps of
her great wings in front of the advance of the trolls,
some of the trolls seemed to remember him and ran, the
rest burned. Unlike most dragons who shot red flame, Orca
shot a bright blue raging fire. Even the Elves and
Dwarves were surprised by this. Teal shot into action,
unsheathed his sword and ran into the fray. For Dretr all
focused on the one face he saw in front of him. The ugly
troll that had taken his arm the troll recognised it was
him and pointed to an ugly vertical scar in the middle of
his chest. They both smiled and charged at each other. A
fast lunge from the troll made him dodge to the right but
gave him the opportunity to slash his back. The troll
screamed for vengeance. It got up and they locked
weapons, sword on battleaxe. It flung its sword in the
air and stabbed him in his right shoulder. -Trying to get
the other one aye!!! Never!!!
He leaped aside and grabbed what was left of his arm, the
bone. With renewed power and confidence he raced at the
troll and beat it on the head in four quick strikes.
Dizzied and confused by being hit on the head by the
Elf’s own arm, it fell flat on its back. Dretr
didn’t stop, he beat it into unconsciousness and
beat it until it had a clearly visible hole in it’s
skull. He kept thrashing it after it died. Teal was
slowly being overwhelmed by hoards of trolls circled him.
Orca, seeing his predicament flew low, scorching the
attackers and landed beside Teal. Teal jumped upon him
like he’d done so many times and flew gracefully
away from the danger. Valg fought and fought with such
hatred of these monstrosities he swore he would kill them
all. Eighteen died before his sword and dagger, but he
was tiring fast. Teal pointed to Orca the tiring Elf and
told him to pick him up. With a great swoop downward Orca
Grabbed Valg in his Talons and kept on flying. Valg
passed out when he realised he was in a dragon’s
grip so they dropped him a safe distance off to rest.
They
returned to the battle to find that it was almost over;
bodies ling everywhere in disarray, the ground was a
small pond of blood. They landed, and a Troll surprised
Teal by grabbing his leg and throwing him off. Orca acted
slowly as if uninterested then turned to face the troll,
it panicked, dropped its club and started running in the
opposite direction. The dragon reached out with it’s
wings and wrapped them slowly about the fleeing troll, it
screamed like a lost child, until their was a sickening
crunch from its bones shattering.
-Well, aren’t we relaxed in the middle of a war,
Teal said but failed at trying to be serious and laughed.
Common, let's go see if all is well.
When the
attackers fled Orca gave chase and returned looking to be
a fragment bigger in the waist. The elves suffered a
great many loses, 9 score and 7. The dwarves had lost 7
score and 3 but they counted one hundred and fifty six
trolls bodies plus the ashes of some and the ones that
Orca had eaten. Valg had returned unhindered from his
rest and aided the injured, when he called Teal over.
To be
continued...
I hope you
guys liked it! If you do, I'll write the next chapter:
The legacy of Teal Whiteraven. It'll be better I swear.
To explain a few things:
-Sorry about the spelling mistakes, if there are any,
it's all IcE-Inforcer's fault, bitch at him not at me.
-1 score = 20 people meaning:
-5 score and 3 = 103 people. Get it!?!
Thanks!
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