The Lesser Evil
B4ndlss
I am not dead! Well... maybe I am... but that is besides the point. I am back with a new story (I will update the others soon enough.). Sorry for the abandonment... I got pretty busy :p.
Chapter 1. An Endless Grey Dawn
It was before dawn and the grey sky was moving quickly away from the ever approaching sun. Amorigas looked to the east, waiting for the warming grasp of the sun, but she knew it would never come, it never did. With a sight she turned away from her lost hopes and towards her nightmares. Down below the cliffs that her defense forces occupied sat an army of warsong orcs. From what she could see, they numbered in the hundreds; far too many for her elves to hold off.
"LYU!" screamed Amorigas with impatience. Long moments passed without so much as a stir. With a flash of light Amorigas found herself on her back with a knife to her throat.
"Hey Ami" laughed the cloaked figure, removing the knife from Amorigas' neck. Lyu watched as Amorigas got up and dust off her armor. "I find it funny that you can never hear me when I am in cat-"
"For fuck sake" swore Amorigas. She restrained herself from throwing Lyu off the edge of the cliff.
"Hey, just because I just took your life doesn't mean you can swear and pout around. How would that look to the troops?" teased Lyu. " By the way, it looks like the orcs are moving to the west... didn't the intel. we got from Astranaar say they were heading north into Felwood? … Into our trap? Ami...? Ami? HEY AMI!"
"Fuck! Get a messenger out to Astranaar, tell them that their intel. Was wrong, really really wrong. Tell them that we mean to stall them so they can prepare a proper defense. Tell them... that the orcs number in the hundreds." Amorigas continued to watch the orc encampment. "WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU WAITING FOR! MOVE!" Lyu ran off after a quick salute, hollering for a messenger. "Shit, Astranaar is fucked... fuck..." And with that Amorigas headed off after Lyu, towards her camp.
Ami entered the camp and found that it had already stirred. She went over the the central tower that stood as the beacon that marked the end of Ashenvale and the beginning of Felwood. She rang a bell that brought the camp to a halt. "Sisters!" roared Ami "Prepare for battle! Sentinel Leaders to me!" With haste did the camp equip itself for battle, a battle that each and every single one thought they would win.
Once the five Sentinel Leaders converged on Ami, she began a quick briefing. "Archer units move down the path and engage the first groups of orcs as soon as possible. Mounted units will flank the engaged units and wipe all that remain standing. Continue this until they start engaging in melee, then pull back up the pass and engage in guerrilla warfare. Is this understood?" The Sentinel Leaders nodded in acknowledgment and gathered their troops.
In a matter of moments the archers were heading down the pass, following were the mounted sentinels. Ami stood at the cliff with her bodyguard and her druid: Lyu. They watched as the archers began to engage the orcs with lethal efficiency. To Ami's satisfaction, each volley killed many orcs, causing the ground to wash away in blood. Ami even began to consider that they could actually defeat the orcs with the 50 sentinels she was given command of. That consideration quickly turned to horror as mounted orc raiders tore into the archer's backs. "Fuck! FUCK! Where are our mounted sentinels!" Ami frantically searched the area to find that they were all dead. Literally torn apart limb from limb. Ami's gaze shifted back towards the archers as they began to receive the same fate. Ami stared in terror, unable to blink, to think... just staring at her archers as they were torn apart by the wolves and their crazed handlers. It was because of this, she never heard the dying screams of her bodyguards, nor the pleas for help that came from Lyu. Before she knew it, she was forced to the ground, a gag was put in her mouth as her wrists and ankles were bound. Much more to her humiliation, she was thrown to the side, on top of Lyu. Ami's heavy plate mail pressed into Lyu's delicate blue skin.
"Ami... I can't... breath." gasped Lyu as she frantically tried to shift positions so she could breath. After much struggling Lyu was finally able to shift her position so she was able to breath while being crushed underneath Ami's armor. Each breath brought more pain to Lyu, who out of desperation tried to close her eyes and pretend that there was no pain, but it would not work. Just as the pain was becoming unbearable; the crushing weight ceased to exist. Lyu opened her eyes to see Amorigas slung over an orc's shoulder, blue blood on her back and a pained expression of defeat on her face.
With tears streaming down her face, Lyu was also picked up and hoisted onto an orc's shoulder. She watched in miser as the night elf camp faded off into the distance.
Well here is my first chapter, the next is already half finished and should be up soon. If you all could review, I would be much obliged. God Bless you all.
-B4ndlss