Vorosh: Hello again my friends and -very small amount of- reviewers; I am pleased to tell you that I went to the Morningtide prerelease worldwide; so this fic is dedicated to the first battle for achieving the first place in the flight tournament.
(The setting is a large prairie, ending in a great forest and a series of swamps in one side, and a large river on the other)
The war had begun; it was all to clear to the elvish pack of hunters on one side of the large plain extending between the two armies, one consisting of a main force of elves,with some faë sent by the queen of fairies, Oona, for a strange reason and a small contingent of the treefolk who had their own reasons to help; but among all there was one thing that stood over everyone else: the Taercenn Kalathar and his subordinate planeswalker Ajani Goldmane. The other army consisted of the treacherous merrows allied with the changeling kind and some of the faë, all guided by a reejereey.
The taercenn made the first move and called forth some kithkin carryng the Ballyrush banneret and sent them against his reejereey foe, inflicting some wounds before the traitors could react to the power of Lys Alana.
-"Excellent, even this creatures are able of a certain knack for military strategy; but they are still very unskilled and unorthodox. . . don't you agree, Ajani?"
"Yes, my liege; but, if I am permited to speak freely, when will I intervene?"
-"Soon my friend, I am still weakened from the previous battles and I don't have enough power to sustain you yet."
The battle waged fiercely now, the elves of the Colfenor pack grew in numbers as their Perfect summoned more and more of the deadly hunters, while the archers of Lys Alana bore a flying destruction upon the -akwardly increasing- merrow army; while the skies were a clashing fury of steel as the few faë valiantly fought against their cousins and some of the eyeblighting changelings who had called upon the Kinsbale balloonists to aid them.
-"Ajani; you will go now; punish our enemies with your fury!!"
-"As you command, my Taercenn!!"
The prairie had become an utter chaos; the planeswalker Ajani Goldmane grew stronger as he helped the taercenn mantain a decent level of health against the continous attacks of the merrow traitors aided by their cursed shapewater. The taercenn suddenly lashed out at the merrow and destroyed it's shapewater bubble and took out his own winnower dagger and stabbed the traitor in the back as he evaded another one of the incoming attacks.
-"This disgusting creatures annoy me Ajani, I say it is time we take some extreme measures to end this insurrection once and for all, we will call your Avatar, I will personally see to it that He ends this quickly, you can close your eyes if you want."
-"I will obey, taer, but I remember that the last time we released it, it rampaged for three hours before we regained control!"
-"Yes Ajani, I remember; but do you remember what happened when I regained control of him? How the boggarts ran for their lives? How Auntie Wort became our prisioner? How we nearly extinguished those blights? Eh, Ajani? No, I don't think so, seeing as you were banished from the fight right after they took control of It."
The clash of steel stopped abruptly as a new combatant entered the fray; a gigantic semi-transparent lion of about thirty four feet tall roared loudly as it charged at the merrow army with a fury and power seen only in the Greater Elementals, it lashed and stomped blindly at the merrows and changelings, taking tour or five at each time; and when the opposing army was all gone, the taercenn aproached his reejereey foe.
-"Look around you; do you see what you achieved with this insurrection? Do you see all the deaths you are responsable for? Tell me; was it worth the try?"
-"I don't know if it was worth it, but I know that I could harm the elves right where it hurts."
And with those words the reejereey took out a whiskergill dagger and lunged at the taercenn, but he quickly regreted the move, because the taercenn took out his own dagger and sank it deep into the merrow's skull, right between it's eyes.
-"This fight was over before it started"
Vorosh: so well, how did you like it? I made the fic in two hours just because it is my birthday, so I hope you enjoy AND review.
Glossary:
Elvish pack: elveish hunters are ALWAYS teamed up in packs from a dozen to a few hundreds.
Faë: the name of the fairy race in Lorwyn.
Oona: queen and mother of the faë.
Treefolk: living, sentient trees like the ents.
Taercenn Kalathar: it's my name and range in Lorwyn's elves.
Ajani Goldmane: a powerful leonin planeswalker.
Merrow: the water people of Lorwyn.
Changeling: a shapeshifting race that unwillingly copies each creature it sees.
Reejereey: a merrow leader and school master.
Kithkin: Lorwyn's small folk, around the size of a hobbit; the thoughtweft makes them one.
Ballyrush banneret: the banneret crafted from only the best springjacks; it brings new strenghth to the heart of a kithkin.
Lys Alana:my residence in Lorwyn.
Colfenor pack:one of my two packs, it consists of fifteen hunters.
Perfect:the greatest caste of the elves.
Kinsbale ballonists:Kinsbale's way of flying.
Shapewater:a tipe of merrow magic.
Winnower:a hunter dedicated to exterminate eyeblights.
Ajani's avatar:one of Ajani's abilities.
Auntie Wort:one of the boggart aunties.
Greater elementals: all of Lorwyn's non-flamekin elementals.
Whiskergill: a tipe of elemental from the Dark Meanders.
