Fantasia
Arc1: Battle of villages
Chapter2: The ragons invasion starts
After reading the warning from his friend Zolu, Juan headed directly toward the shore, where he saw a group of ragons walking toward his village, they were around thirty men equipped with harpoons and swords, he hid himself behind a rock holding his breathes, drowned in fear, he couldn't move his feet and run to warn his clan of the approaching danger.
A tear dropped from his eye on his hand, making him remember what the sage told him about being an ardnerian isn't about his size or power, but about his soul, and how they still consider him a family member despite his different appearance, so he stepped on his fears and ran as fast as he can, but alas the young man tripped, and the enemy noticed him so they sent one of them to catch Juan.
The young man tried to take his balance and continue to run but he seems that he twisted his ankle, giving the ragon the opportunity to catch him.
"Hehe…well well well, what have we here? A human lad!" the ragon said with a crazy stare on his face…
"Damn you! I'm an Ardnerian!" Juan shouted at him dropping some tears…
"Whatever you say" the ragon said before raising his dagger: "Farewell…Ardnerian!" delivering a stab to Juan who shut his eyes waiting for his death, but a fiery fist hit the enemy sending him away, it was Roné who came to save his brother…
"Are you alright bro?" Roné aked Juan after helping him to stand…
"Um, yeah but how…?"
"I noticed you left your papers on the floor so I took them, I've read the one with the warning and so I followed you" Roné answered…
"What about the others?...the ragons are attacking the village!" Juan said in fear…
An explosion is heard coming from the village: "Well I told the others, so they are giving them fishes the ol' one two!" Roné answered with his usual sly grin…
And so the brothers headed to their village to witness the defeat of the enemies, who were tied to a pole, Rocux –Juan and Roné's father-, approached the ragons, and started to shout at them: "Bastards! How dare you attack us?!"
-Rocux: As mentioned before he's Juan, Roné, and Demeteri's father, he's a famous blacksmith beastman, he's a muscular stocky man around fifty years old, he has sharp red eyes, short beard and thick moustache, and a noticeable large scar that goes from the middle of his half-bald head through his forehead to stop above his left eyebrow, he wears a silver plate in his belly, covered with a thick brown leather mail, and puffy pants, he's a short tempered man and known for his reckless decisions and cruelty-
"Easy there Rocux ol'man, they are no match for us here!" a young beastman commented…
"We'll send them wrapped in fish guts to their king by morning like nothing happened" another one added…
"Maybe we should tell the sage about this" a third man suggested…
"Your old geezer can do nothing with our new ruler…hehe, flame eaters!" a ragon said with an evil grin…
And so strangely the captureded enemies started to leak water from their body forming a large pond as they started some sort of incantation.
This spell caused more ragons to appear from the pond, surrounding the beastmen from all sides:
"No match for you?! We'll see about that!" an imprisoned ragon insulted the beastmen…
And so the two clansmen engaged in another fight, but this time the number of the water dwellers was overwhelming for the Ardenerians, so the battle scale leaned toward the invaders' side.
With this the land owners fell defeated against the large numbers of the ragons, one of the prisoners approached Rocux and started to kick him in the face saying: "Hehe! Bow before us flame eaters!", but he was hit by a large fireball shot from Roné who was standing on a rooftop:
"Stay out of the old man fish face!" he shouted preparing another fire spell with his hands…
Unaware a water dweller teleported before him, Juan encouraged himself and tried to defend his brother but he was kicked down to the ground, Roné was in danger but he wasn't attentive, the ragon jumped at him with a sword but suddenly a red magic circle appeared under the enemy releasing an explosion that pushed him away, Roné turned around to see that the sage of their village was the one who saved him…
Luffine jumped to the middle of the battle field, the invaders looked down to him and one of them mocked the situation: "Heh, so this is the legendary Luffine? An old midget geezer! How depressing!"…
"Sorry for failing your expectations young ragon!" the sage said with a wide smile and a goofy accent…
"Don't think that just because you are an old man we ain't fighting ya!" another ragon shouted…
"Huh? What have you said young man? I believe I'm too old to be hearing you" the sage asked while putting his hand near his ear…
And so the taunted fighters raided the old man, who simply and in a blink released some of his magic force pushing them away immobilizing them…
"Monster!...he's a monster!" a defeated ragon said in fear…
"And you bastards attacked this monster's home and hurt his family! Get lost or I will no longer hold myself!" shouted the sage with an angry scary face, setting fire on his right palm…
Despite the warning the invaders didn't move an inch, the sage warned them again but it was useless, they were stunned, as mist started to cover the area, one of them laughed saying: "It has started! The great invasion has started!"…
"Invasion?...what in hell name is going on?!" Roné asked…
"There! Everyone look toward the shore!" Juan said while pointing to the southern gulf…
The sea was covered in thick fog but there was a shadow of an approaching body coming, a giant one, it was the whole village of Sumeria carried by a giant ice golem that was walking slowly toward the village.
"What in blazes?!" Rocux expressed his surprise…
"Sayoh! You wouldn't be planning to do it!" the sage said to himself, before casting a spell on himself that made him covered in a silver knight armor.
On the head of the golem there was a cloaked tall man standing, he smirked widely before starting drawing on the air with both his right index and middle finger, accompanied with some incantations, shortly before the ice giant opens its mouth widely and an enormous blue magic circle in front of it was formed, distinctively the circle carried the symbol of Sumeria; a shark that's pierced by three harpoons, then the golem released a powerful beam-like shockwave through the circle toward Ardeneria…
"This is bad!" Luffine said," Everyone! Take cover!" he added…
And so the old leader started to do some signs with his hands finishing it by clapping and saying: "I call the power of the raging mountain!" casting an earth spell which manifested as many solid lava pillars around the village that extended to form a thick multi-layered barrier around the area, protecting the towns people from being hit by the Sumerian giant attack…
"Incredible!" Juan said, "This is just…Wow!" Roné added…
Luffine turned toward his clansmen: "Rocux…take everyone to the shelters, I shall say few words to Sayoh" he ordered his people…
The blacksmith had nothing but to obey the orders of his superior and take his sons and the injured beastmen with him to evacuate the village.
The sage took a deep breath, "Sayoh, I don't know what's with you, but alas my old friend" said Luffine before covering himself in flames and heading like a striking meteor toward the cloaked man who turned himself into mist, the two clashed a bit in the air to land on the land of the village of Sumeria.
"Sayoh! What's the meaning of this? all eh?" Luffine asked…
The cloaked man removed his veil slowly then commented: "Hoi, Hoi, it've been years, you've become aged…uncle Luffine" finishing his words with a wide grin…
"You are…Impossible!" he said after seeing the man's true face, a tall slender ragon with a handsome face, relatively large black eyes with red markings on their outer sides, pointy nose and small mouth, a thin moustache that ends with a small goatee, he was bare chested, wearing a lage black pants that carries the symbol of Sumeria on the right kneepad, as he was equipped with a rapier that carries the word "Rocux" on its hilt.
The sage stood idly by as the image of an innocent young ragon passed through his memories, then he added in surprise: "Ramusus! You are the king!?"…
The man laughed widely then answered: "True! I'm now Lord Ramusus the sage of Sumeria!"
Luffine pulled himself together and his face turned serious: "Even if you were once the child of my old friend, attacking my family isn't tolerable, either you take your men and return to your sea, or I will make my fist talk instead!" the sage warned Ramusus…
The latter responded by yawning and pulling his rapier.
"Then I have no other choice for you, prepare yourself my child!" Luffine said while pulling a spiky round-headed hammer from a magic portal.
To be continued