Dragons and Thrones: Rising Tensions – Healing the Breach

Chapter 35 of my crossover story, enjoy.

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Hawke

Hawke looked around at his army, they were all ready and waiting, preparing for their charge. Hawke was certain Anders plan would work; It would require him and Anders to work together, while Cassandra remained in charge of their siege engines. Everybody else was stationed and ready to attack when the opening presented itself.

"You ready for this? He asked Anders.

Anders nodded. "Yes, let's get started, we'll have to go slow at first, not want to draw too much attention at first."

Hawke agreed. "Alright, let's do this."

So; observing the opposing army remained entrenched behind the walls, some of them shouting mockeries down at the attackers, no doubt trying to entice them to a reckless attack, bringing them within range of the archers and Mages.

'The enemy Mages are too focused on that, they won't notice what we are doing.' Hawke noted with a dark smile.

They had already planned things before hand and once they had taken the wall down, they would advance into the city and, fighting their way through, would divide into two main units and search out the four leaders of the forces here.

The leaders had paired off and were taking charge of two major sections of the city. They would use that against them and take them down, Hawke would be leading his group to take on Gordian and Maliphant and wipe them out.

With everything ready, with the enemy Mages arrogantly distracted, Hawke and Anders readied themselves and drove their staves into the ground. They focused their magic and began to search for what they were looking for with their minds, sending them out towards the ground beneath the walls.

The found, just as Anders had discovered, the ground beneath the walls was not the most steady, in fact, it was worse than they thought. Something would have to be done about that, later, once Yunkai was conquered.

They began working carefully on the ground, pulling up moisture from the ground, to weaken it further, dislodging soil here and there. It was a slow and tedious process.

'Nearly there...They'll find their taunts being turned on them, dying on their lips when things finally happen.' He thought.

He knew that it would take a moment to take effect, but once their plan was done, they'd have an easy way in. He focused harder, as hard as he dared without risking becoming a beacon for Demons.

Finally, they heard it, the ominous rumbling and cracking. With a nod from Anders, they released their magic, they had done all they had to do, the rest was down to nature. The noise got louder and the defenders became quiet, suddenly worried.

"Now is our chance Cassandra. Do it!" Hawke called out.

Cassandra gave the order and their catapults fired. The combined force of drastically weakened foundations and the blasting of the catapults was too much. The wall crumbled and collapsed, taken those on top of it with it, leaving a massive opening in the walls.

With a rousing cheer, their army charged in, taken aback by this sudden attack, especially as the siege weapons hadn't made much damage earlier, the defenders near the walls that were still alive were unable to put up much resistance. Hawke entered first, blasting two back with a spell; he looked around carefully as the others entered behind him, several of their forces also entering and either casting spells, or firing arrows at the remaining defenders nearby.

Hawke could hear the shouts and knew the defenders were scrambling. 'We have to hurry; we've opened a window of opportunity, we need to act before it is closed.'

"Let's go, it's time, attack!" He yelled. "Remember our plan!"

There were shouts and, with Fenris and Cassandra at his side; Hawke led his detachment of their forces to attack the city. Hawke continued to blast back any attackers.

Cassandra and Fenris both cut down their enemies; Fenris using his Lyrium abilities to scythe through countless members of the opposing army. Many of Fenris' targets were slavers, Hawke couldn't blame him, but he had to act.

"Fenris, restraint, we need not kill everyone, there are those who are surrendering."

Fenris growled but reluctantly agreed and soon, they were taking prisoner those who surrendered. There were those who would not, or could not fight, Hawke ensured their protection and before long they had a full quarter of the city under their control.

Hawke wasn't sure how Anders was getting on, but he hoped he was doing well, things were still intense.

"C'mon, push on!" He cried out.

His allies still had high morale, the enemy was recovering their composure however. As a result, the battle was going to become more difficult. Hawke launched a wave of ice at a group of approaching enemies, meanwhile, more were cut down, although they were putting up a resistance now, managing to kill many of Hawke's soldiers.

'We have to hurry, defeat the commanders and it will break their morale.' He told himself.

Launching several fireballs, Hawke looked around and then spotted two men that he knew, right away, that they were two of the four commanders.

Both were tall, one had black long gloves and boots, along with yellow armoured robes with a hood and a silver mask hiding his face. He was armed with a pair of daggers, this, Hawke knew, was Maliphant.

The other wore white clothing with a hood, a strange feathered adornment hung down the right hand side, he was armed with a staff and while his hair was covered, his black hair and moustache were visible. So too was his dark eyes and tan skin, he was a Mage and Hawke identified him as Gordian.

"Kill them, quickly!" Gordian bellowed.

Maliphant then added. "We cannot let them disrupt our master's plans, for the glory of the Elder One!"

With that the next clash between the two forces began, and was brutal.

Hawke attempted to break free of the press, casting his spells, while trying to defend his allies from Gordian's spells. Cassandra and Fenris did their best to prevent any attackers from getting too close to him. However, their attempts to deal with the commanders were in fact made easier, as Maliphant actually waded in to attack them.

In his haste to kill Hawke, Maliphant attempted to leap down and impale Hawke with both daggers. This only hastened his demise as Cassandra and Fenris blocked his strikes. With Maliphant defenceless, Hawke blasted him, point blank, with a powerful Stonefist spell; killing him instantly.

"Now, quickly, one more!" He called out.

They both nodded and turned to Gordian; who was still attacking them all with spells. They couldn't get close, he was making sure of that. Therefore it was clear he wouldn't go down quite as easily. Or so Hawke thought.

He shook his head. "We need to, do something..."

Fenris replied. "I'll deal with it, if you can just cover us as much as possible."

Hawke nodded and used his magic to generate a shield, this only infuriated Gordian and prompted him to cast spells more erratically. However that was what Fenris wanted, using that distraction, Fenris used his abilities to turn into a Lyrium ghost and phase right through Gordian, striking with his sword as he did so. Gordian froze, eyes wide with disbelief, before dropping dead.

As Hawke had predicted, the loss of their commanders caused mass panic and soon they were dealing with surrendering forces, they got to work, taking charge of their captives and freeing any slaves they found.

Meanwhile a messenger arrived with news from Anders, he had accomplished his mission too, Yunkai had surrendered and been conquered. Relieved Hawke now planned to wait for news from Meereen, he had to pray that things would work out there, for Merrill's sake.

End of chapter, hope you enjoyed it, read and review please.

Well, next chapter will of course be Anders, we'll see his point of view on the attack on Yunkai.