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I hope you enjoy chapter 11 of Lucifer's Story. It's Beta-read by ThrogmortenMimic.


Chapter 11: Medieval Wars and Flying Fish don't mix.

In the east the sun was slowly rising, casting the entire area in a strange red and golden aura. It was at this stage that I saw hundreds of soldiers from Airyglyph on the other side of the field, slowly advancing towards us. There was a mass of soldiers, both the Black Brigade soldiers and normal foot soldiers, and from this distance I could see that above the enemy lines the dragon Brigade was hovering, waiting for the order to attack. The horsemen of the Storm Brigade were standing at both sides of the army.

Looking at our own army, I saw that Adray, Tynave and Farleen were each standing a distance away from me, each at the head of a battalion of soldiers. Most of the soldiers were shaking a bit or looking around rather nervously. Adray's face didn't betray anything other than the fact that he was focusing on the oncoming battle. Tynave was just standing, looking very cool and unnerved. Farleen was standing with her back turned towards our enemy and appeared to be cheering the soldiers up a bit.

Looking behind me, I saw my own battalion of soldiers and, standing in front of them, Fayt, Nel and Cliff. My soldiers looked the least nervous out of all of our side on the battlefield. Behind us, just outside of Arias, the runological weapons were placed on the hills allowing them to fire in an arc to reach further away. Clair and a small group of woman were standing next to the weapons. Looking at me, she gave a small nod of her head. It was the signal that the weapons were ready to fire.

"Remember guys, I'll break through the front lines for a bit to give you guys a chance to reach Vox, but I can't do any more than that. Understood?"

I looked back to see Fayt and the other two give me a small and quick nod of the head, after that I raised my hand in the sky, the signal that the army was about to move but not yet attack.

A threw my hand forward slowly, ordering the troops to walk forward without loosing formation of drawing weapons. On the other side of the field the enemy was doing the same.

When both our army's were halfway through the field I raised my hand yet again, ordering the army to stop. Silently I drew my sword from its sheath. Behind me I could hear the sounds of weapons being drawn and put ready for battle. The enemy troops were still marching forward, their weapons already drawn. I raised my sword into the sky and waited.

Some of the dragon Brigade rushed forward, trying to get the first attack in. As soon as the dragons broke the formation with the rest of their army it was raining great rays of energy for the enemy. The runological weapons had fired and some of them had hit the dragon Brigade head on. Still I waited before ordering the attack.

'As long as they stay at a distance we can attack with the weapons. I have to avoid close combat as long as possible so we can defeat as many as possible without having a chance of being harmed.'

The second volley had landed and more of the Dragon Brigade had fallen. Some of the blasts were relocated to land in the middle of the still approaching army. I raised my left hand, ordering the archers to get ready to attack the Dragon Brigade.

The dragons were getting more and more close to us. I quickly jerked my hand back down, ordering the archers to fire. And they did.

From behind our lines a rain of arrows appeared and shot at the oncoming dragons. A lot of arrows were deflected from the knights or dragon's armor or the dragon's tough skin, but a lot of arrows also hit their targets. More dragons fell down on the ground, mortally hurt. At this point only about twenty five dragons were left, instead of the hundred or so that had charged at us. All the energy emitted from the runological weapons was now focused on the approaching army.

I lowered my sword quickly, ordering the attack. Immediately Adray, Tynave, Farleen, Cliff, Fayt, Nel and I rushed towards the enemy lines. A second later the rest of the soldiers followed.

The archers shot a second rain of arrows, although much smaller this time around, towards the Dragon Brigade. Another few dragons fell. We were now only a few steps away from the dragons.

I stopped my rush and slashed upward, right into the path of the dragon right in front of me. I sliced the giant lizard's head clearly in two before it could attempt to bite me. Jumping up in a fluid motion with the slash I came down on the dragon knight, sword first. He too was dead before he could hurt me.

Looking to the sides I saw that Adray had also defeated a second dragon knight without any problems. The dragon's head looked like it was burned from the front and the sides and the knight had shards of ice stuck in his helmet, blood still on them.

Tynave and Farleen had, with the help of their battalions managed to defeat another three dragons and knights although they had lost a fair few soldiers. The same could be said for the other dragons. They had all taken at least a few soldiers with them.

Again I raised my sword to the sky as a fourth rain of arrows was shot towards the oncoming army. Another rain of energy was also shot at them. This time however they answered with a rain of arrows from their side.

As the arrows cam crashing down towards us, I could see the person leading their troops into battle. He was standing with his sword raised as well. We both lowered our swords at the same time, ordering the all out battle to start at last.

The last rain of energy was seen, being shot at the enemy's lines as both our sides rushed at each other, getting closer with each step. The enemy leader and I were running straight towards each other.

20 feet apart

15 feet apart

10 feet apart

I thrusted my sword forward, straight into the enemy leader's chest, killing him quickly and simply. At that moment, all hell broke loose.

Behind me Cliff, Fayt and Nel were standing ready to engage in battle as well. I rushed at some of the enemy troops standing near me. I killed three soldiers immediately with a horizontal slash at neck height, and immediately continued with a diagonal slash to kill a fourth soldier.

"GO!" I shouted at the others, their signal to start their own mission. Instantly Fayt and the others rushed past me, Cliff being in the lead and smashing anyone that was in their way, out of it, with many a well placed punch.

'From here on out, I can't do anything more for them. Time to focus on my own fights'

I sprinted towards the soldiers that were closest to me. Three of my own soldiers had engaged six enemy soldiers in battle. Coming from the side, I quickly killed two of them in one strike. The remaining soldiers gave me a surprised look, giving my men enough time to finish them of.

The soldiers gave me a quick nod before joining in the fight of some of the others. Looking around, I saw a big group of enemy's nearing Adray. I once again rushed over to attack.

Instead of attacking them from behind, I jumped over the entire group at once and upon landing slashed one of them in two at once. The other soldiers raised their swords at me at once.

I raised my sword in an attempt to defend myself but it proved unnecessary. A second before they could attack me strange spikes, similar to the ones that had defeated Sophia in the Battle Simulator so long ago, shot out of the ground behind me and pierced the soldiers.

Looking for the source of the spikes I saw Adray standing there, with his still sheathed sword stabbed into the ground. The point where his sheath touched the ground the spikes were started as well.

"Thanks for watching my back, but you shouldn't let your guard down like that Sir Lucifer" Adray's voice was not sounding anything close to mocking. Instead it had a certain air of gratefulness and glee too it. It seemed that Adray was amusing himself in this massive battle.

Looking past Adray, I saw that an enemy soldier was trying to attack the old man in the back. Adray was also looking past me as if he had seen something. I immediately grabbed my sword once again and thrusted forward, passing Adray between his arm and torso.

At the same time Adray had raised his hand, in which a single shard of ice had grown, and slammed it just past my head. I could feel the ice shard shoot from his hand and I heard the sound of armor being penetrated and blood shooting out of a wound behind me.

Drawing my sword back I looked behind me and I saw a Black Brigade Soldier in a state similar to the Dragon Knight that Adray had defeated. A single ice shard was sticking out of his visor and blood was shooting out from the wound.

"Thanks!" we both said to each other before running past each other to join in on some more fighting.

Up ahead of me were Tynave, Farleen and a couple of soldiers trying to fend off some of the Dragon Brigade that had stayed with the main forces. From the side a soldier from the Storm Brigade was charging in, his lance aimed at Farleen.

Thinking more on instinct than anything else, I quickly lowered myself a little during the run to pick up one of the swords from a dead soldier. Picking it up with my left hand, I quickly threw it forward to intercept the horseman before he could kill Farleen.

The sword hit its mark clearly and the soldier was thrown to the ground, lum and all. Using the element of surprise while I still had it, I lunged at the Dragon Brigade. Unfortunately, the dragon raised itself to the sky an instant before I would have killed it. It evaded a deathblow, but instead I had managed to slash on of its wings, making it drop back to the ground. Another soldier from Aquaria jumped up and killed the knight before the he had a chance to recover from the sudden drop. A second soldier slammed an axe into the Dragon's head.

"I'll take care of the Dragon Brigade, but I need a ride up. Tynave!"

I had suddenly come up with a plan. The Dragon Brigade members were al floating in a circle and at a distance that I could easily manage, if I could reach only one of them.

Running towards Tynave I pointed my left thumb upwards, indicating what I was planning. Tynave gave a nod of understanding as she quickly punched the Black Brigade Soldier that was fighting her away and turned towards me and cupped her hands together to give me a boost.

As soon as I had put my foot in Tynave's hands, she threw me upwards as I jumped from her palms. The combined force was enough to put me above the Dragon Brigade and as I was coming down I used my momentum to slash one of the knights apart, the attack also injuring the dragon.

Before the dragon went crashing to the ground, I quickly jumped of and towards a second dragon knight. He too was the victim of a quick slash aimed to kill. The soldier's dragon soon also fell towards the ground as I made my armored leg connect with its skull. Again I jumped towards another dragon and its knight.

In the jump I quickly drew the dagger from my right arm and held it in my left hand. Now I was wielding a katana in my right hand and a dagger in my left. Upon landing, my dagger was sent straight into the knight's head, while my katana pierced the dragon's skull and stabbed in its brains.

I jumped from dragon to dragon, to repeat the process of killing them. The last dragon however turned towards me and, ignoring all other enemy's, inhaled to attack me with its fiery breath.

'Crap. I can't dodge it in mid-air. And those flames will turn me into crisps.'

It was everything I could think at that moment. I was incapable of dodging or turning in the air and had no attacks to counter the dragon.

Suddenly a fountain of ice shards shot up from below the dragon and pierced him. The dragon's wings were ripped to pieces, his throat was sliced open and some of the shards even went straight through the dragon, killing the knight.

Looking below, I saw Farleen standing there with her staff held in one hand while her other hand was floating just above the top of the weapon. Both were pointing at the dragon knight that had just been shredded by ice shards.

"Are you alright Sir Lucifer?" Farleen looked at me as she was hunched over, her hands on her knees as she was trying to catch her breath.

"That was close wasn't it?" she had put up a small smile towards me, although I could easily see that she was exhausted from the spell she had cast to save me.

"Way too close. Thanks Farleen. Now you go and take a quick break for a few minutes. We'll go and see who needs some more help."

No sooner had the words left my mouth or an explosion sounded from the other side of the area. Looking up I saw that an area near Kirlsa was turned into a small crater as black smoke was rising from that spot.

'What the?' my thought were suddenly racing in my head. 'That was an explosion, but Airyglyph doesn't have the means to cause an explosion do they? And it was to big an explosion for the Runological weapons. Did Dion already finish the Thunder Arrow?'

A second explosion followed, although this time it was on our side of the battle. I had seen the blast coming this time. They were coming from the sky. I looked up and saw something I had never wanted to see, least of all on this planet.

There, floating in the sky, was a huge red spaceship. Its size alone was already about half of the entire area. All around me other soldiers, both friend and foe, were staring at the ship dumbstruck. The ship fired another blast, this time at the centre of the battle field. I paled and suddenly fear struck me. There was no way that anything on this planet was capable of taking on a Vendeeni Battle ship.

"EVERYONE! RETREAT! DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT FIGHTING THAT THING. JUST RUN!"

For a moment the soldiers around me looked at me without taking any action. Then the blast hit the ground and fear suddenly erupted all over the field. Soldiers were starting to run around looking scared, panicking. I looked around at Tynave and Farleen, who looked at me once before trying to get themselves and their soldiers heading back to Arias.

I quickly ran to one of the nearest hills. On top of that hill I could see over the entire battle field. Quickly, I raised my sword and swung it in the direction of Arias. It was the signal for the army to retreat. I noticed Adray was immediately complying with the order and was dragging several other soldiers with him. I was surprised to see that even Adray was still a soldier who obeyed the orders of his superiors without moping. Probably because he had already seen that they could not win this fight.

I quickly ran back towards Arias as well. When I arrived there I saw Dion making preparations to fire the Runological weapons at the battle ship.

"Yes... YES, FIRE! Begin the attack!" I heard him give the order to attack the ship.

"Dion don't! There's no way that we can defeat that ship. We have to… oh SHIT!"

As I was about to tell Dion that we had to retreat and hide, I saw one of the battleship's blasts coming down. And it was about to land close to us. I quickly grasped Dion's arm and turned around. Using my momentum from the short spin, I tossed Dion forward and quickly jumped after him. We were both flying over a rock that I wanted to use as shelter, but it was too late. As I was flying in the sky in front of Dion, the blast landed and an explosion occurred.

I was thrown forward and crashed with Dion in to the ground. I could feel an intents burning in my back, similar to what I felt when I was hit by Albel's Palm of Destruction only much worse.

Suddenly I heard Fayt's voice.

"What are you talking about?"

I couldn't hear all the details to well, even though Fayt and Cliff were standing close to me. My ears were still ringing from the explosion.

I tried to look up, so I could see what was going on everywhere, but my body would hardly move. The explosion had certainly taken its toll on my body.

By the time I had my head raised so I could see what was going on, I heard Fayt yell out, though not to anyone in particular it seemed.

"Who-who the hell am I!"

At that point something happened that I never would have imagined. Suddenly, Fayt's eyes went glassy and a lot of wind seemed to be flowing off of him. There was a lot of light and suddenly some sort of angel appeared from Fayt's body and, from her hand, shot some kind of ray that completely destroyed the battle ship. I was still lying there, looking shocked at what just happened. I kept looking at the place were the ship had been only minutes before, almost as if expecting it to return.

From the corner of my eye I suddenly saw Fayt falling to the floor. He was completely exhausted after such an outburst of… whatever it was.

When Fayt's head touched the ground, something strange happened yet again. From the place where his head connected a golden wave was flowing. It was coming towards me, but I couldn't dodge it. I still couldn't move.

As soon as she shockwave reached me I saw something. Four images.

A man with white hair that reached down to the small of his back was sitting on the ground. His hair was tied in a ponytail. In his hand he was holding what seemed like the handle of a sword, but there was no blade attached. His clothing was similar to what I was wearing, although his armor was colored blue, like the ocean. On his torso armor a large ice crystal was shown. He looked at me, with blue eyes and he was smiling. He looked tired, yet happy. From what I could see he looked no older then 19, maybe 20.

The second image was that of a woman lying there. I could see a part of what my own body lying next to her. She was a beautiful woman, with really long, fiery red hair that was lying all over the bed, and she looked like she was about the same age as me. Some of her hair even reached down to her feet. She was looking at me with her red eyes, eyes that seemed to radiate passion. She was smiling at me too and it was then that I noticed that we were naked.

The third image was filled with three people, standing in front of me. The white haired male from the first image was standing facing me. I could now see just how tall he really was. He could easily stand above Cliff with well over a head of difference. His posture for the rest seemed pretty normal. He was standing with his left hand resting on the hilt of his sword. He was grinning as his right hand was ruffling up the hair of one of the two women standing with him.

Next to him, stood the red-haired woman and it was now that I could see that her hair did indeed reach down to her ankles, yet none of it was in her face. She was also wearing armor similar to mine, although her armor was red, like her hair, and in the torso had the image of a flame on it. She was leaning on her sword, which was still sheathed, as she watched the other two people with a smile on her face. The smile was different from the one she had given me though. The smile she had here was one of amusement, while in the other image it had been one of love. I noticed one thing that was new to her armor. The other male and I had nothing on the armor of our arms, yet she had what appeared to be blades attached to them. They reached up the length of her arm. It was put up in such a way that, if she were to give a punch and miss, the blades would hit and cut.

The third person was someone new. I had not seen her before, yet for some reason she (just like the other two) felt familiar, as if I had known her for a long time. She had brown hair that was cut in a strange style. It was long at the front, reaching down to below her chin, but as it reached further back it became shorter.She looked younger then the others, maybe 16 or 17 years old. She had eyes that were brown, just a bit darker then her hair. Like the other two, she was also wearing armor and clothing similar to mine, although hers were brown and had the image of a rock at the torso. At her side, just like it was with me and the other two she had a katana strapped at her belt. Like the red-haired woman had the blades attached to her arms, this woman had something that was different as well. Attached to her arms, fists and lower legs were what appeared to be spikes. The kind that Tynave had on her gloves as well. The kind that, when you give the opponent a punch or kick, easily penetrate skin and can kill.

The brunet was giving the white haired man an annoyed look as he was ruffling his hand through her hair. She was significantly shorter than the other two. I would guess she was about half a head shorter then Sophia, while the red-haired woman was about as tall as Nel was. She had a rather normal posture, just like the man had. It was clear with all three of these people though, that they were quite strong and had some toned muscles underneath their clothes. She was swatting away the white haired man's arm, with the inside of her own arm most likely to prevent hurting him, as she had put up what seemed like an irritated look, though there was a spark of amusement in her eyes.

To my eyes it seemed as if they were just a bunch of teenagers having a good time together.

The last image was the most shocking one here. I saw the red-haired woman from the images before, crashing to her knees. Blood was shooting out from a wound that ran clear across her torso. From her right thigh up to her left shoulder. The gash had struck her heart, and she was dying.

I noticed as I watched the scene, that she had her sword drawn. Also there was something strange. Both her sword as well as her arm blades looked like they were on fire, but the fire was being reduced. It must have had something to do with the fact that she was dying.

Then as quickly as they came, the images left. I had them engraved into my memory as I watched Cliff pick up Fayt and Nel and Adray walking towards Dion and me.


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Preview for chapter 12:
The Vendeeni Battleship has been destroyed by Fayt, but are all the Vendeeni really gone from Elicoor2? And what will happen with Fayt and Lucifer now that Fayt has shown such power and Lucifer has seen those images? Find out in the next chapter of Lucifer's Tale.