CHAPTER 1
IT ALL STARTED

The air was filled with the sound of horns. The fiends outside were pounding on our city wall. I am writing this as a journal so if any one ever finds this place they will know what happened. They started the siege yesterday, they have cut off all supplies we get. Not only that but if they ever get in they will slaughter us all. The only hope around here is that Illiad the greatest warrior elf to ever live is on his way here. When I grow up I want to be a great warrior just like him, although it is a long ways away because I am just 13.
I hear a loud crack. I look out my bedroom window and see that the main gate has been splintered. The fiends rush in from the gate. Our forces try desperately to hold them back but it does no good. The fiends are much more skilled in weaponry than us. We have lived in peace here, the fiends never threatened us before. Our soldiers never trained so the fiends had a skill and numbers advantage. They came in with torches and started burning buildings down. The number of our dead is almost innumerable and the fight just barely started. I could think of nothing else to do so I ran out of my house and climbed over the city wall from at the back.
I begin to run away to the sound of people screaming from my city. I turn back to look at the ruined state it is in and suddenly a sharp pain hits the back of my head, and I can see nothing but black.

I wake up to the sound of someone eating loudly. Elves were always trained in good manners when we were little so I desperately hoped this was an elf that had no such teachings. I look up and see a big fiend. He has horrible stained-yellow teeth and they're sharpened so they can eat people. They have big muscular arms and black hair tied up in a ponytail. They have no clothes save for a loincloth. They are such savages it's almost remarkable.
He looks up at me and I pretend to still be asleep so he doesn't do anything to me. I try and break the bonds at my hands but I can't break them or squeeze out. I can say all I want about how savage they are, but they make darn good knots!
I hear a grunting noise behind me. I turn around and see that there's more than just one fiend holding me captive. I had a slight chance against one but three, I am going to die. There's no way they are going to let me escape. They start talking about things I'm pretty sure I'm not supposed to know about but they still think I'm unconscious.

"How much longer until we get to the masters place?" groaned the first fiend.

"I don't know but it isn't going to be a short trip." answered the second one.

"Why do we have to bring this stupid runt with us then?" wailed the first fiend.

"I don't know but the boss said he wants him for his... special abilities." the third fiend replied.

What special abilities could they be talking about. I can't do anything, if I had any special abilities, trust me, I'd use them.

"Anyway why won't the stupid boy wake up either." the third one continued. "He should have been awake two hours ago."

"I don't know but do you want me to wake him up?" the third asked.

Just by the way he said it I knew he wasn't going to try and wake me up by gently shaking my shoulder.

The fiend is beginning to walk over. I hear a sword being drawn and the fiend screams. This is my chance so I pretend to wake up at the scream, and when I open my eyes I see an elf standing over the dead fiend.
He was tall and had weapons stashed all over the place. He had knives in his boots, throwing axes on his belt a second sword lain across his back and a quiver of arrows and a bow beside it. Now this guy was armed! The other two fiends stand up and draw their swords, and one of them charges. In the blink of an eye the stranger cuts him open and leaves him dead on the ground, and I know it was in the blink of an eye because I blinked and missed it. He then took out one of the axes, threw it and it hit his face right between the eyes, and he died as well.

"Who are you?!" I asked him.

"Surely you know" he answered. "I am Illiad."

END CHAPTER 1