Just before we clashed into the enemy, I heard the twanging of arrows be fired from behind me. We were already firing at them. Huri shouted the Frostsplitter clan's name before we clashed into them. I twirled myself just before I charged into them, the Scythe slew a handful of Stalfos while it was dashing. Huri ran his axe into the hostile flag bearer, and the Darknuts behind stampeded the Stalfos. The arrows arced down and landed dangerously close but the rain took a great deal of the Moblins of the as well as the undead. I swung the Scythe over my head, suddenly I felt rush of speed, the Scythe carved out a line in front of me, and saw that they eyes glowed slightly brighter. I then heard the Northerners cry into battle, sending there array of weapons into the enemy. At that point the Darknuts raised their swords began annihilating the enemy. However, the foe tried to reform the line. Two Moblins engaged me he. I twirled the Scythe for an uppercut slice, I could see the Scythe project itself just beyond itself to rip the Moblin in half, and I twirled it again to kill the second Moblin. But at the arc of curve I was making, a bolt of lightning struck the blade. I continued the execution and killed the other Moblin, this time it missed but blasted a bolt of lightning at him and even chained towards other unsuspecting moblins, frying them instantly. However the Moblins became ever rarer, it was masses of Stalfos incoming. I continued to basically reap them with Scythe. The shouting and clanking of metal made it hard to hear orders and to give them. But I could still hear Huri's booming voice over the chaos.
"We need to capture the West and East gate keeps!" Huri said while in slammed his axe into Stalfos.
"They are trying to sneak around us! From the right!" A Northman said,
"I'll handle that, you focus on the keeps." I yelled out.
I slaughtered the bonemen in front, then I entered a squad of Northmen warriors, but they were all whacked away by a huge Lizard creature. It was a Dinolfos and a large one at it. I stood guard as took sights on me. It charged but I waited for it. I could feel the stomps it took getting closer. It swung its longsword, but I raised my scythe and sliced it in half. Kicking it away I used my Scythe to dash him, but I only amputated his arm. It dropped its sword and began to go onto three paws. Then this time I spun it upwards and used the Lighting strike to shock it, but it still persisted, however I saw the eyes of the Lion glowed deep purple. I swung a strong horizontal strike, it felt like an instant, I saw the soul rip its body. There was a dimensionless violet rip in path I swung it. Certainly the thing was dead, and it was. However the eyes were black as night. It was hungry again. I used to it dash but I did not do so, must have no power. However I killed what looked like Bokoblins, and there was entire army of them heading around from us. The Scythe was still deadly, as it rendered their weapons, armors, and flesh useless. These guys were even easier than the bonemen, and much easier than the Moblins. The scythe took multiple kills to its name with a single stroke, I could feel, I was much faster, even though, I felt Death had no power. I managed to block the relentless attacks and counterattacks. Maybe it was because these blins were meat shields. I actually felt a little disappointed Cia did not summon anything worthy of my time. I saw couple of Darknuts escorting me. I did not need it but it was better safe than sorry.
"Damn! It's like cutting weeds from the garden!" I said while removing the head of a Bokoblin. The Darknuts managed to clear a way out. I was out of the battle for the most part, there were a few stragglers trying to get the battle for they were ripped apart. I sprinted to the rear of the ambushing force. However they were already engaged. I and the Darknuts charged into them, those blins were genuinely fearing for the lives. Cutting deep into the force I managed to catch Huri's son and Freia fighting together against the Moblin captains. Freia caught glimpse of me.
"Jorgen! Fifty-six kills already!"
"I am already in the hundreds!"
"What! I won't have no pretty scythe outscoring me!" Freia said while thrusting her sword into the captain. I reaped away the re-mobilizing Bokoblins. I carved a Bokoblin that was actually trying to fight back.
"Twelve more to list!" I said. The entire ambushing force was killed or had routed. I was sure the East keep there was a keep around this rocky hill.
"They're running around to their keeps! After them!" Huri's son said.
"Where, did you guys come from!?" I questioned Freia?
"Don't ask me, Mimir came up with this."
"I and company was at the Keep south to us. We were about join the main army before we found those suckers trying to ambush the main army. Come, they are going to reinforce their keeps!"
"There is a keep just north of here, they will be going there." I said
"Then what are we waiting for!" Mimir said.
I, Mimir, Freia, and the rest of us ran around the rocky hill. We had the Keep insight and it was heavily guarded. I heard another twang of distance bows being fired, again from us. We waited to see where the arrows land. The arrows landed mainly in the battlefield, but some large amount landed in the keep. We took the advantage and charged for the keep. The garrison was filled with Moblins, however we furiously rushed, and we'd outnumber them. Then I heard an unfamiliar sound as something was beginning to hum louder and louder. I scored a Moblin to see a beam fire at me, I dodged out of the way. However many other Northmen were vaporized, I recovered and swung the scythe into the back of Stalfos. But then I heard a series of explosions followed as well. I turned around to see chunk of our warriors dismembered. I could not neither see Freia nor Mimir. Then suddenly something jumped on my back. I wrestled to get it off my back, it released its claws, it was a Bokoblin, my Scythe passed him, and it was a headless Bokoblin. I look to see the beam came from a large statue with a red eye looking for targets. I rushed at it and began to charge up its beam. However with an uppercut swing the statue was carved into halves before it shattered in an explosion. Finally the eyes were slightly, just barely, glowing. There had to be a better way to rid of those things. I joined my group, we managed to clear over half of the keep. We found the leader of this keep as well. Just behind a wall of Bokoblins, fortunately, he meet a swift end when I swung the Scythe which allowed me to dash across the keep. I saw that we had been pushed back to the west. They were weak but many, however the garrison of the keep was now destroyed or routing for good. We killed the stragglers and caught a moment to breath. The enemy had not known we had taken the East keep.
"How are you doing?" Freia emerged from the crowd. At least she was alive
"Still fresh, how about you?"
"Fine."
"What about Mimir?"
"Bruised up a bit from that eye laser statue, but okay. But I have theory about those, some good explosive can destroy them because their stone is very soft."
"You are going to have to find some bomb flowers. But I think they have caught wind of recent capture."
Then another volley of arrows were fired. We readied ourselves to hold out until the main army came. Either that or try to fight our way to the other keep. Our flag bearer began to waive the flag, it had the Sphere of Ronnourth on it. Damn Huri, he even managed to make flags. We signaled to the main army that East fort was captured. There were two ways of getting atop that summit, one was go back, use the wooden bridge to enter on the side. I could see on more keep before reaching the absolute top. Or there hopefully the same type of path on the other side. There was not a front door, only a cliffside were the enemy jumped off. But then I heard a roar and look to the left a bit. There was massive amount of fire over there, a dragon appeared just for a second before disappearing on to the main army. It was Volga.
"I need to get the main army, that damn Dragon Knight is slaughtering them!"
"We will head for the West keep, meet us over there when you kill the thing!" Mimir said.
"Darknuts, stay with them. They are going to need every sword they can get!"
"As ordered!"
I began to sprint towards the main army, killing anything that was in my way, except for the Dinolfos, I only managed to emancipate them of their sword arms. I looked back to see Mimir's band starting to advance. I arrived to the smoldering grounds, Huri was fighting the Dragon Knight, and he was holding his own. I was about reach him, but those one armed Dinolfos almost pounced me. I scooted back, executed a simple decapitation of one of the Dinolfos. I spun around to rip the jaw off one, and the final one was destroyed by a jumping slam. I turned around to see Volga punch Huri's face, he yelled in pain.
"Huri!" I bellowed and ran towards Volga.
"YEERAGH!" I yelled as dashed towards Volga, but I was smacked away by his pike. Flying towards the ground, he turned around. How did he do that, though he was not your average Bokoblin. He smirked and turned to face Huri, his face was ash covered, his armor scorched, but Volga? He had barely a scratch. I got up, but Volga already was fighting Huri, though, Huri was putting up an unmatched defense. This time I cautiously approached, him, but he was pounding Huri. He was ranging him with the Pike and fighting with utter rage and Huri was calm and fearless. I approached Volga, he spun around to try to whack me with the pike again, this I blocked with the blade of the Scythe. He used the rebounded momentum to try to strike me from the other side, but again I simply out ranged him. Then used that momentum to do a flip in the air, blew a stream of fire, which I rolled to get away, he landed, I heard the sound of flesh being pierced, followed by a gasp for air. The fired cleared, but I gasped, nearly covered my mouth. Volga's pike was right through Huri, right as swinging a blow. I could not speak, Volga retracted his pike from Huri's body and he fell to the ground, face first. Volga turn towards me, and smirked.
"Now you know who you are fighting." He said.
"Huri…" I silently called out.
He was the Chief, without him, I would have never been anywhere as powerful, I walked towards him, holding back the sorrow, and turning it to anger. Volga readied himself, he expected a swing. I rolled to the right of him and swung an upper cut. He dodged it, I kept swing, the lighting did not came, and I cursed, as his thrusted the pike. But he slightly missed only scraping me armor, I followed up the Scythe and knocked the Pike into high into the air, Volga retrained his balance. I raised the Scythe, altered it diagonally, and swung it down. Volga managed to block it however it cracked his pike. It still looked usable, I began to target his weapon, but Volga knew exactly what I was doing. He pulled back and summoned a dragon claw arm and wielded the pike one head. He rushed towards but I dodged and swung the Scythe, and it sliced the side of him as he passed. I began to feel a little faster, I looked at the Lion's eyes to see it was almost ready. However, Volga followed with huge swing I raised the Scythe to block the blade with the pole of the Scythe, but then his claw was heading for my face, I ducked, and swung the Scythe for his legs as I raised myself, Volga jumped. I pulled myself back to gain so distance from him. I took a deep breath and so did he.
"Not bad. You fight better your Chief." Volga said and was struck in the left shoulder when my Scythe came bearing down on him. He grimaced in pain. I retracted my blade, it glistened red.
"But I am a Dragon Knight. Behold my power." He said as glowed red hot. I backed even further after he was set ablaze. He detonated into his fiery dragon form, performed a backflip and dove straight for me, lucky, I already knew how to deal with this. I waited for him to get as close as possible, he roared at me, I stayed a rock solid until the last second, then I strongly swung, it knocked him backwards and out of the air and out of his dragon form. He landed just beyond me, I looked at the Lion's eyes they were dark as night. Something was not right, he should have been killed. Volga stood up and began to laugh diabolical.
"You cannot reap a soul, if gave away long ago." He said. I walked towards, I was going to do this the reliable way.
"You have bested me for now, but your little resistance will crushed." Volga said as I was about to decapitate him. He laughed as I swung the blade, just when I was about to connect he vanished into a dark mist. He'd either went to the summit or had left the battle, headed for Huri, but the time I arrived he was long dead. I got on my knees, placed his axe on his chest, removed my helmet, placed it on him, finally I moved his arms to make him grip his axe, it was customary.
"Goodbye Huri, may Ronnourth hold glory for you." I bid him farewell and headed for the West Keep. I saw that Mimir's, Chief Mimir's army, was almost to Western Fort. They were facing heavy resistance but those Darknuts actually contributed a great deal towards their success. I did not want to tell Mimir about his father's death at this hour, but it was necessary. I arrived at the army, they were busting into the fort. This one was less heavily guarded, there was not a leader for anyone to see. The fort was quickly cleared out because the lack of a leader. The stables were just located just beyond the entrance. I quickly found Mimir, he was out of breath from the running. I waited for him to catch his breath but he caught notice of me.
"What happen over there, here a lot of action. Where's your helmet?" Mimir was confused and curious.
"Chief Mimir, I regret to inform that your father was slain on the battlefield, he died an honorable death, and I gave him his last rites." I said, Mimir was overtaken by sorrow he grasped me, and started to weep. He let go took a deep breath. He was shattered but still together. He knew Huri was old, but he thought he would have died a more peaceful death, unlike most chiefs. He began to nod is repeatedly.
"Okay, okay, I understand, now…we haven't received anyone reinforce our position. We cannot take the fort and hold them. However from the looks of it the tide of monsters seems to be slowing. If we can get the main army we can organize a counter attack. I sent Freia took get over there but she has come back. Get over there and see what going on." Mimir said, he was much more authoritative in voice, it seemed his youngish was gone. I went to the stable to mount a horse.
"Jorgen…here take this, for what is worth. Make them fear you." He tossed a black hood towards me, we both smiled. He must have overheard it from someone. Arriving at the stables, naturally I chose the black hose. It was going too much easier using this Scythe on this horse and I mounted. A couple of Northmen got on some horses as well. They were lightly armored as well, the horses loved it, seemed they had some much heavier riders in their past. We left the Eastern fort, my little gimmick worked, the Bokoblins thought I was literally Death. They did not dare fight us we rode to the castle which main castle, bodies littered the place, the stench was unbearable, hundreds of crows were descending towards their newfound meals, fortunately it was littered with majority enemy dead, though we were heavily outnumbered.
"There is Freia's band. After them." I said and drew the Scythe. Freia was held by a large amount of Stalfos and Bokoblins. They turned around to see our company come, we charged at them, I lowered the Scythe, and it cut through the masses, nearly effortless. Our horses trampled over the Stalfos, turning them into bone dust. The rest just routed, they were not having it.
"Wow, you found that cloak. Thanks for the save." Freia thanked us.
'Yeah, do you know where the main army is?"
"I've been trying to find them. I think they hold up at the castle over there."
"If we are that back we will never reach the summit before we have pull back."
"We took a lot of losses from that damn Dragon Knight. No one expected him to enter on the Witch's side."
"Hop on, Mimir is at the eastern fort, with him being the far forward he is going to be a lot of danger if we don't hurry."
"Boys, head on back to Mimir, we'll handled it from here."
"Alright, come on let's go!" A Northmen said and Freia mounted on the horse. We galloped towards the castle. Not many words were exchanged, the ride was quick there I saw the main army. But a huge army of undead, Bokoblins, Dinolfos, and even some Darknuts. Our army was without a leader, they were truly a disorganized mess, and it was perfect if you had a leader, but now it terrified me. Still they managed to put a decent…brawl to say the least.
"They aren't going to hold." I said.
"They are already falling. The ale has worn off." Freia said with a touch of dark humor.
"Let's get in there!" One the other Northmen said. I readied my Scythe and lead the small force towards the overbearing army. I could not feel what I was killing, I thought about Huri's Death. I turned the horse left to avoid a spear. The scene kept reacting itself my head.
"Jorgen, look out!" Freia said, I snapped back into reality, saw my horse was skewered, and were reared of the beast. Freia landed face first, inadvertently causing the flashback again. I suppressed it and blocked a hostile Darknut's sword. I then swung Scythe into its chest and ripped the chest piece off. I quickly swung the Scythe the other way to block another blow towards Freia, one of my horsemen killed the attacking Moblin. Freia slowly got and my fellow horsemen were circling us, however they began to be skewered off their horses, one being taking a spear to the head. We were surrounded, hundreds of feet. I swung the Scythe to make clearance, we had to get to our side of the line. Freia drew her sword.
"Watch out!" I said as Dinolfos charged her. I blocked and decapitated the beast, I spun the Scythe trying to clear all the Bokoblins. The Blins began to actually fear me, but they charged mindlessly away. I continue slaughter them, my Scythe was flaming this time. Every time I swung it left a fiery trail that burned the, but I felt a sword cut against my side, my armor absorbing the blow, I was knocked to a knee. I saw it was another Darknut, I blocked his swing with pole of Scythe, and I saw another one my Horsemen was simply overwhelmed was murdered. The Darknut was beginning to overpower, I let him, but dodged to the side and executed the Death Stroke, Killing not just it, but a basketful of Stalfos and blins in front of him. The Scythe was still burning, I was breathing fast, trying to answer to every attack from around me…
Then I heard a harrowing scream, I was shaken to hear it and turn around. She had a sword running right through her from a Moblin. She feel to her a knee, and rammed her sword into the face of her injurer.
"Freia, hold on!" I nearly screamed and lost it. I dashed to her and blocked everyone around her.
"I am…fine." She said with blood coughing out of mouth. She thrusted her blade into her crippling Moblin, then removed its head. I kept the Moblins
"No! I not going to lose two friends this day!" I shouted at her.
"You won't, I won't have my glory taken by a blin."
"Strong lass, I'll get you to the castle, there has to something that can help you."
"Got's tail, that's what I need right now."
The other Northmen and friendly moblins were pushing the enemy back. I and the injured Freia managed to fight are way there. Freia was gasping for air, but showing a remarkable sense of endurance. She continued to fight even though heavily injured. I cut the last moblin down between us and the main army. The other Northmen saw us and let us pass, Friea was now laying on my shoulder. We limped to the castle keep. Immediately a number of people came to us.
"What's the injury?"
"She has been stabbed through the torso. She needs Got's tail."
"That's a tall order, but we can do it. Get her over here. Agvald, make a clearing solution. How long she had the injury." The medic told me lay her down on a clearing, there some other injured Northmen that others were attending to.
"About ten minutes."
"We are cutting it close, however, we might be able to get you back on your feet."
"Fervid, this is our last clearing solution, make it count!" Agvald informed Fervid and through a clear vial at him.
"Damn, we won't have enough to cure everyone. Here drink this, it will ease the pain." Fervid said and Freia did so, she was instantly knocked out, but she was still breathing
"How long would she be out?"
"Maybe an hour or two? But from the looks of it we might have thirty minutes before we are overrun."
"Any more bad news?" I asked.
"Those Hylians are about to arrive."
"Any good news?"
"I've sent envoys relaying a message to the other Chiefs about the imminent danger that is to the West and South. With it, this battle may be lost, but it will not be in vain."
A man came rushing inside the keep, out of breath. Everyone turned to look at him, he spotted us and ran towards us. He took a minute to catch his breath.
"Sir, our scouts say that the Hylian army has arrived. What do we do?"
"We fight." I said.
"Sir, we will be outnumbered by thousands!"
"We cannot retreat, we are pinned in now. The Gods help us."
