Gerudo Valley - 3 PM
A young man walked through the desolate wastelands, the rock under him a dark orange and the clouds over him painting a blasted skyline of orange and yellow, with only little dim light to illuminate the world, along with fires here and there. His name was Albion, a wandering man of the Hyrulian Unified Forces. This army consisted of The Kingdom of Hyrule, Gorons, Zoras, Kokiri, the Ordon and Lanayru Providence, The Deku Tribes, Sheikah Carde, The Forces of Twilight, and the Termina Faries. Their enemy was the Army of Darkness, consisting of Gerudos, Moblins, Stalfos, The Dark Nut Legion , Lizalfos, River Zoras, Occooa and The Church of Majora.
However Albion stopped and looked around, only thing anyone could see where the weapons and bodies of the fallen warriors slowly withering away to time. However he could see more than just that, he stared into the bodies and quickly pulled his out his sword as a moblin lunged at him and tried to stab him. He blocked and spun around while wielding his blade in a Icepick grip style, and introduced the blade to the back of the assailant's head, killing the attacker, a disgusting looking ble pig monster. He was used to this already, he knew moblins always tried to get the jump on their enemies while they where busy.
Albion could hear the squeals of the pigs as he quickly ran back to the safe perimeter of the Hyrulian Army. He ran for hours until he found the camp site, just at the gates of Gerudo Valley. He looked at all the men and women in the camp, all had tiered looks and dried mud and blood on their skin. The "Gerudo Campaign" was turning out to be a failure up to now, everything they threw at the army of darkness was always countered by some means. Gorons? Bombchus. Ordon? The mountain goats would get picked off before they got anywhere relevant. Twili? Their skin glowed. It had been like this for a week, and the casualties where reaching the 12,000 mark.
Albion went to his tent where he found his partners, a tall Zora woman with a bow, A red Goron that was on fire, and a deku scrub. "Any luck brother?" asked the goron with concern. Albion shook his head and said "No... Another slaughter house, Dorum.." The goron sighed and the deku looked up at Albion "Is it possible that we are just not doing something right?" Albio sighed "Not sure Shrun, but i do know is that we might be leaving tomorrow..." Albion said as he took a seat and took his boots off. The zora looked at him in shock from the statement and said "You can't be serious? We haven't even pushed up near to their fortress! We must stay and-" Albion cut in "Rato, i understand where you are coming from, but think, is it a good move to sacrifice another 12 thousand men and women?" Rato went silent and poured some water on herself.
Albion was the leader of this small group known as "The Spear Head" division. Although his rank was of a guard, the last general they had, General Darunia, was asked to meet back with Queen Zelda and the other Generals for preparation for the 3rd year of war. When Darunia left, he let some snot nosed noble take command, Albion was his right hand. When the noble died Albion was left in charge, and after today, a tactical retreat sounded like a godsend. Albion sighed and asked "How we holding up Shrun?" The scrub sighed and responded "We lost another 2 catapults, and the last of the mountain goat division. Along with this we are short on food and out arrows and bombs." Albion frowned and nodded, laying down and slamming the bottom of his fist on the dirt.
Hyrulian Army Camp 9 PM
It was night already and Albion was walking through the camp as he watched the troops packing and preparing for sleep. He informed everyone that before sunrise they where gonna fall back to Fort Lon Lon Ranch. Everyone was glad to hear this, everyone needed some rest after this hell, and Albion was no exception. But he had "other" plans. He snuck out the camp and headed into the Valley, making sure not to be spotted as he came up to a small dead end. However he quickly proned and crawled through a hole in the stone wall, on the other side was the Sheikah in their base of operations.
They all stared at the young man as he nodded at them, letting them know their time was almost here. They nodded back and let him into their small cave system. He walked to the far end of the cave until he came up to a solid wooden door with the blood red eye and tear he grew so accustomed to seeing. He knocked the special code: knock knock, knock knock knock,knock, knock. The door unlocked and inside was a beautiful woman with slightly tan skin and silver hair waiting on the floor with her blade on her lap, her red tattoos on her left eye contrasting with her calm look.
"Albion, did my agents inform me correctly?" Albion nodded and brought his sword to her and placed it in front of her, he knew the Sheikah required an offering of peace in order to speak with them, what greater offering than the opponents weapon, she simply nodded and her facial features relaxed as she smiled at the young man. "I'm general Impa, leader of the Sheikah Carde. What do you have to report?" she asked as the man's expression grew solemn. "We are gonna retreat. The men and women need food and medical care, but i do have a plan." Albion stated sadly to the Sheikah leader as she listened.
"The plan is simple, lead them to Hyrule field were General Rauru will be waiting with cavalry and catapults along the entrance to Hyrule, then he will hold the enemy from there." Albion reported, but judging from the scowl on Impa's face, she didn't like it. "You plan on losing all the ground we made in the past weeks?" she said flatly as Albion nodded, he could feel her stand and sit beside him, then speak "My troops are yours to command, i will send a message to Rauru to push forward and come assist us, but we gotta hold out." Albion snapped at finally said it "We are just 233 troops! 341 counting the Sheikah! They are 30 thousand and more coming, we can't hold out!" However Impa didn't get fazed.
"Are you scared?" she asked Albion as he was having an emotional breakdown and nodding. "I saw what they are capable of... We must fight smarter not harder... A tactical retreat will give us time to recompose our forces... " he stopped when he noticed the Sheikah smiling at him. "Darunia was right, you have the potential. You don't fight like a zora, or like a hylian." Albion looked down, his brown hair covering his face, he usually had it pulled back, but right now he was to much of a wreck to care. "As of today you are now a commander for the Hyrulian Army. But i do mean what i said, we must not lose the ground we won, so let's think." she said as Albion nodded and pulled his hair back.
"We got one catapult, no bombs, 400 deku nuts, and 233 troops. 100 being hylian and Ordon, 50 being goron 33 zoras, and 50 twili." Albion reported as they both looked at the map of the Valley, there was one choke point, the bridge, but it was both a choke and bottleneck for both sides, so relying on it was risky. "What about this?" Impa said as she pointed to a narrow valley corridor just slightly ahead of the bridge. "We can use this as a choke on them, if they break through we will use the old Construction Site as cover, then cross the bridge when we need too." Albion thought about it but shook his head, stating " Can't, we got nothing to hold out from a range and fighting them in close quarters combat while they have archers is a no go... Unless..." Impa looked at the young man with peaked interest.
"I can send the Gorons and Deku scrubs to the top of the Valley to give us nut and bubble support, and the gorons can roll in when the enemy is already in the narrow path, they won't dare use bombs there, and if they do we win time." Albion stated as he moved the pieces to their respective locations and drew the plan on the map, it was a stupid plan, it was madness, it was perfect. Impa smiled and wanted to test him abit "Alright, but say they got flying lizalfos, then what?" She smirked as she watched him go into "tactical mode". Albion responded with "Then the gorons will cover the Deku while they attack from above." Impa nodded and snapped her fingers, a Sheikah appeared before them "Tell Rauru that the plan has changed. Push forward and meet with the the troops in the valley, bring everything." Impa said as the sheikah nodded and vanished.
Albion stood up and was about to leave "Where are you going?" Impa asked in an offended tone. "I gotta go tell the troops of the change of pla-" he was cut off "Already done, now sit." she responded as a Sheikah guard brought a plateful of fruits and some meat. Albion sat down quickly, he hasn't eaten in 3 days, and he was not about to let a moment like this pass by. "Thank you." he said politely to the Sheikah general as he bowed his head to her respectfully. Impa bowed her head back and both picked up an apple and started eating, it took all of Albion's will to not devour it all in one go. They both spent the night discussing worst case scenarios for tomorrow and solutions for them.
Gerudo Bridge - 6:30 AM
Albion and Rato where both moving forward with the hylians and Zora to the Narrow path, at the top of the Valley the Gorons and Deku where sneaking to the top of the Valley, they where all ready within 8 minutes and had some potted launch flowers incase the skies where needed. Albion watched as Impa and her troops joined up with the main force, the catapult in the back ready in case of a preemptive attack. "Alright... I want 3 groups. Group A, you are with me at the narrow valley. Group B, you are with Impa at rhe abandoned Construction Site. And Group C, You are with Rato at the bridge, if we are pushed back, you will cover us with deku nuts." Albion informed "Spearhead" Division as they nodded and all got in position.
"Don't try heroics Commander, we are holding out, not trying to push them back." Impa reminded in a cold tone, Albion nodded and put on his helmet and ran forward to point A. Impa watched him hurry and smiled abit, she knew he wouldn't fail, but failing and surviving where two different things.
Albion watched in the distance the Army marching forth to the narrow path, he could see the Moblins, Stalfos, gerudo and most worrying, Dark Nuts. Their general at the middle of the group, Twinrova. Albion swallowed audibly and pulled out his sword and shield, the battle for Gerudo Valley was about to truly begin.
And Fic no.5 has officially begun, and for the first time i actually have to state a notice of copyright, for i will be dwelling into the awesome world of Legend of Zelda, and this one Deserves it. (Fun fact, First game i ever played was LoZ Majora's Mask and is my Favorite in the series) Also this Fic will take place in a specific Zelda World from Hyrule: Total War.
So I Do NOT own any of the Characters, places, or names established in this fic (Except for the OC's) So All rights go to Nintendo and TheUndyingNephalin, only thing i will say i own is the Character: Albion.
Now with formalities out of the way, i will finally say my words.
Until Next time, i'm still in the trenches, and hope you enjoyed.