"I reckon your right Hale." She pulled the arrow from her shield careful
not to extinguish the flame and loaded it on her crossbow; she pulled it
back and grinned. "Do you think the sails would be the best place?"
"Oh that's the best place." I grinned back while firing my arrow into the crowd before I saw Florin arrow streak through the sky in a high arc into the sea rats sails, not only igniting them, but ripping a hole down the middle as well and as luck would have I it fell into a rat as well.
"Nice shot!" I exclaimed looking at the damage one arrow could cause, the rats were in a panic trying to put out the sails while still firing at us.
"Lots o' luck for that 'un." She looked on in disbelief, unfortunately the sea rats were determined and a long, wide plank fell between the ships giving them passage to our ship.
"Charge!" Screamed their captain as he urged his crew onto our ship, Florin and I scrambled for the door to find ourselves surrounded by a mad charge of our crew. The ship was flung into chaos as beasts stabbed slipping on the soaked deck. Blood ran freely onto the deck staining in red, I flung myself into the battle as well tackling several rats to have our crew stab down ending their miserable lives forever.
"Ulnan!" Ulnan crew charged into the fray with a ruthless efficiency surprising the horde with their experience, many of the rats fell to the slavers. I was parrying blows fro all sides with both end of my spear fighting to keep them upon the top decks, I could see that I hit not only the rats back I knocked down some of my own crew by accident in the mad chaos.
"Retreat!" One of the sea rats yelled as he ran across the plank, in the brief pause that followed the rat fell dead off the plank pierced by an arrow as the rats looked to their ship to find it engulfed in flames, they licked at several barrels which seemed to be full of lamp oil. Seconds later they disappeared in a fiery explosion and sent wood flying down on us in a fiery rain as the battle went on under a veil of fire and smoke.
"Aaahhh!" I heard screams of terror and pain throughout the deck as I stumbled around choking on the noxious smoke, tripping over the lifeless bodies of rats, weasels and all manner of beasts. I heard the sounds of battle, we were winning, beasts lay on the ground in agony from burns and wounds as hot ash rained from the sky. I tripped over a body and found myself staring into lifeless eyes, the once bright eyes of my friend. The now cold eyes of a ferret formerly known as Jerome, then the world decided to leave me in suspense, a large chunk of wood rain down square upon my head knocking me into the grasp of unconsciousness.
" . . .Insane, wot if the lord finds out wot yore doin' Meryl?" I found myself looking at a blurry room, I couldn't feel anything, my body was completely numb. I glanced around to find a hare bustling around a small hare maid as she worked across the room.
"I know what he'll do and I don't care, I'm taking care of him, it's my duty as a healer." I saw her blurry figure stand eye to eye with the male, who quickly disappeared as a wave of black clouded over my vision leaving me with a few words.
"Then yore responsible gel." With that I felt myself lapse back into my previous life with all the pain flooding back into my body and soul.
"Oh that's the best place." I grinned back while firing my arrow into the crowd before I saw Florin arrow streak through the sky in a high arc into the sea rats sails, not only igniting them, but ripping a hole down the middle as well and as luck would have I it fell into a rat as well.
"Nice shot!" I exclaimed looking at the damage one arrow could cause, the rats were in a panic trying to put out the sails while still firing at us.
"Lots o' luck for that 'un." She looked on in disbelief, unfortunately the sea rats were determined and a long, wide plank fell between the ships giving them passage to our ship.
"Charge!" Screamed their captain as he urged his crew onto our ship, Florin and I scrambled for the door to find ourselves surrounded by a mad charge of our crew. The ship was flung into chaos as beasts stabbed slipping on the soaked deck. Blood ran freely onto the deck staining in red, I flung myself into the battle as well tackling several rats to have our crew stab down ending their miserable lives forever.
"Ulnan!" Ulnan crew charged into the fray with a ruthless efficiency surprising the horde with their experience, many of the rats fell to the slavers. I was parrying blows fro all sides with both end of my spear fighting to keep them upon the top decks, I could see that I hit not only the rats back I knocked down some of my own crew by accident in the mad chaos.
"Retreat!" One of the sea rats yelled as he ran across the plank, in the brief pause that followed the rat fell dead off the plank pierced by an arrow as the rats looked to their ship to find it engulfed in flames, they licked at several barrels which seemed to be full of lamp oil. Seconds later they disappeared in a fiery explosion and sent wood flying down on us in a fiery rain as the battle went on under a veil of fire and smoke.
"Aaahhh!" I heard screams of terror and pain throughout the deck as I stumbled around choking on the noxious smoke, tripping over the lifeless bodies of rats, weasels and all manner of beasts. I heard the sounds of battle, we were winning, beasts lay on the ground in agony from burns and wounds as hot ash rained from the sky. I tripped over a body and found myself staring into lifeless eyes, the once bright eyes of my friend. The now cold eyes of a ferret formerly known as Jerome, then the world decided to leave me in suspense, a large chunk of wood rain down square upon my head knocking me into the grasp of unconsciousness.
" . . .Insane, wot if the lord finds out wot yore doin' Meryl?" I found myself looking at a blurry room, I couldn't feel anything, my body was completely numb. I glanced around to find a hare bustling around a small hare maid as she worked across the room.
"I know what he'll do and I don't care, I'm taking care of him, it's my duty as a healer." I saw her blurry figure stand eye to eye with the male, who quickly disappeared as a wave of black clouded over my vision leaving me with a few words.
"Then yore responsible gel." With that I felt myself lapse back into my previous life with all the pain flooding back into my body and soul.