The RuneWorld Chronicles
I stood in amazement as I saw Lumbridge for the first time. Even though I had been born here, I had never seen anything aside from my little room I shared with my mother in the servant quarters in the main castle. I was three years old then, when I saw the outside world from the little balcony on the second floor. I stand there know, 10 years later, when things have changed, wondering at the mystery of life. My name is Anglius, My father is Saradomin, and my mother is Dyamonda, a servant a Lumbridge Castle. I live with my mother as my father is far away in Ardougne. Now I shall go to see the world for myself, and I will write in this book as I go, writing down all my adventures as I see them. ONWARD!
The Attack on Lumbridge
They came so fast with their ships that we never saw them coming. The Doomsayer had warned us, as had prophets from Al Kharid, Draynor, and even as far away as Varrock. We never listened. Nobody really thought that anybody would want to conquer the sleepy trade city of Lumbridge. Duke Horacio had ruled a good 25 years without anything much happening, and his father and even grandfather had also never seen a major event in their lifetimes. Only his great grandfather had seen something, and he had seen the founding of the city, but that was as a child. Nobody really knew how Duke Lum had come to power (Horacio's Great-Grandfather) (not his real name, his real name was Duke Sigmunniud, but nobody could say that, so they called him Lum). Now, as the first major event since the armies of Draynor had swept in through the forest 125 years earlier, the Apes from the Atoll south of Karamaja came in on their ships, which had been stolen over a period of years from idiots dumb enough to sail near the place. They had powerful scimitars made of Dragonite, a material only found in the deep wilderness, the territory of the elves, deep under Ardougne, and, of course, on Ape Atoll. Humans got what they could of this rare substance from deep under the tunnel mines of Ardougne, but the apes had tons of the stuff just a few meters under the surface, due to their volcano. Dragonite was very light, and very, very hard. The apes had master gorilla smiths, who made enough dragon weapons and armour to equip an army, and all of that dragon was coming at Lumbridge. Obviously, the apes expected a lot more resistance than they were going to get. Lumbridge gathered up an army, as did Al Kharid and Draynor, which were near Lumbridge and along the coastline. Luckily, the one thing the apes didn't have was cannons. Lumbridge's army was made up of half-trained soldiers thrown into mithril and adamant armour. Only the Elite Warriors could afford rune. Most of the citizens fled Lumbridge, but some stayed to join the army and protect the city. Since Lumbridge was the first target, Draynor and Al Kharid offered some of their elite forces, and Lumbridge eagerly accepted them. Most of the cannons from the Lumbridge castle were moved to the shoreline, waiting for the apes to come into range. New cannons were made from the metal of unused armour, and soon a hundred cannon were waiting to open fire. A cannon could put a large dent in a Dragonite shield, so more metal was mined at a frenzied pace. I watched from the sidelines, part of the army. I had Adamant Armour, but, as a gift from my father, I had a Rune Longsword. Rune could easily destroy adamant, and even put a hole in dragon armour. As night fell, we watched and waited.
-BBBBAAAAANNNNNGGGG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!- An earsplitting bang came from the ape ships. They had launched one of their boats, and, since they thought it would be dishonourable to launch a surprise attack, they alerted us with a might bang, which came from one of them hitting a gong of hollowed iron. We prepared our cannon, and aimed them at the lights coming toward us from the ape fleet.
We all heard a crash as the first of our cannonballs hit the ape boat nearest to the shore. Then the rest of our cannons opened fire, and a volley of bronze, iron, and steel went flying at the apes. We managed to sink all their transports, but a few surviving apes reached shore by swimming, and immediately began destroying our cannons. The army rushed forward, and there were just too many blades for the apes to withstand. They fell dead, and we took their weapons and armour, because these were small ones, not the gorillas that were yet to come.
As dawn arose, we saw more ape ships coming at us. As 2 of our 100 cannons had been destroyed, we threw those in the castle cellar and went to work putting up fortifications as the cannons hit the ape boats. Again, the apes that reached shore were killed and stripped of weapons and armour. Near noon, as the fortifications were complete, the third and final wave of Apes came. These were Gorilla giants, who could punch down 10 of our men before being subdued. There were many more boats this time, and some of them reached the shore. A hundred gorillas came at the terrified army of Lumbridge.
They would have ripped us all apart, except for the fact that this battle was taking place in the swamps, and one of them crushed a balrog's den. The balrog incinerated most of the apes and some humans too, because balrogs don't have very good aim. Balrogs are beasts made of fire, and only anti-fire armour can protect you. The balrog traveled over the water, as balrogs can fly, and it set fire to the ape ships, which sunk before reaching land. The balrog also did a thorough job of killing the survivors too.
We built the balrog a new den, a real lair, as a gift of thank-you. We managed to communicate with it through Sedridor of Wizard's Tower, who speaks Balrog.
The festivities came on for days, the citizens returned, the army was disbanded, and Lumbridge returned to its former state, except for the balrog, which was a new ally to the sleepy trade city, and served as a source of happy and joyous natural fireworks.