CHAPTER 3
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"Here" Raziel pointing at the front gate of the cities blue prints. "You will focus your attack here, while me and my forces will attack at the rear of the city, I want the catch them off guard."
"What about the front gates, you expect us to break thorough that kind of a defense?" Asked Niccolie. "Or just make it look like it"
"You don't have to brake it. Just fight it. It's a distraction. The humans hate and fear you, they will stay focused on you."
"What if we do break it?"
"Keep fighting of course, till either they surrender or they are all dead."
"Will I receive any kind of support? Artillery? Infantry men? Archers?"
"Yes, five catapults and two hundred of my kin. But stop the catapults firing after I have broken in. it isn't easy to take the city if you raze it to the ground."
Raziel rolled up the map and then handed it to one of his lieutenants.
"Niccolie, I choose you to lead my men only because you have a reputation for your skill in cavelry warfare, expcially in a battle with the odds against you. Consider this an opportunity to right the wrong with my clan. But as of now you are to respect and obey my orders."
"I will" Niccolie nodded with respect.
That night, out in the camp next to the city. The sound of swords being sharpened, horses being groomed was about, sounds of preparation. Niccolie didn't want to stay in the city, he fear a spiteful Razielim might try to sabotage his unit or some thing.
Niccolie sat down next to the fire. He pulled out his swords and stuck them in to the fire.
"You worried?" asked shark who sat next to him.
"No." Said Niccolie staring into the fire.
"Why? I was always curious of what made you fearless."
"I guess I just don't really care, I never thought about the risk of battle"
"You don't fear death?"
"I don't know, my life has been barely livable since I entered this world. Maybe I am just to exhausted to live any more"
"The past can be forgotten" shark said "think here and now"
"Not mine, are you worried?"
"No"
"Why?"
"Because if I want to go, this is how I want to go. In the heat of battle, I don't want to die rotting in some bed or some thing, after all,that is why I became a vampire in the frist place."
"That's what I want to hear in my men," said niccolie
Early morning.
The sun rose to the shadows of an army marching to the city. Small, but still an army.
And before them the city of Willendorf. It had rained supreme for hundreds of years. Even now long after the death of King Omattar, it's streets shined gold and the cities hummed of business; wealth and power had lasted as far back as Niccolie remembered.
Niccolie felt a cold breeze pass over his face. It was odd to attack at day, he felt naked, and vulnerable. But Raziel needed the humans to recognize niccolie in the light, to draw their attention away form his infiltration unit.
"Sir, the catapults are in place." Said a young Razielim as he approached Niccolie.
"Good" Niccolie nodded and turned to shark "ready the troops."
Niccolie looked over to the forest behind the city. Some moments went by but then there was the signal. A glint of a sword flashed in their direction.
*Shink* Niccolie pulled out his sword and raised it to the sky.
"MARCH" he yelled and every one began to march to the city.
The cities front wall began to buzz with shout and screams and orders, soldiers poured out to the support towers and over crowded the wall.
"FIRE" screamed some one and the catapults shot to fire balls at the cities walls
Then arrows were fired back and forth. It rained over them like hail and tore at them, as they grew closer.
Then some one screamed f'ire' again and two blasts shot out across the plains and hit the wall, splattering bodies and fire all over the place.
Niccolie calmly waited for the rear attack to take place.
then the men on the walls freak, and turned their back to them. They rushed down from the wall.
Niccolie then charged down and his men charged down behind him like bats out of hell. Water, arrows, fire rained down on him, he herd screams of the unfortunate behind him. He charged down to the gate's his head down, fear gone. He jumped off his horse and slammed at the huge wood doors. They held firm. He slammed at it again. They held firm. "Stupid" he told himself.
Suddenly he had an idea. He turned around to see one of his men about to throw a hatchet up at the walls guards. He ran up a snatched it from him and ran back to the door. He hacked at the small space between the doors until he could see the heavy wood bolt holding the door firm. He reached in and slowly began to slide it out.
"LOOK OUT SIR!!" he heard shark scream at him. He turned around and saw a flaming catapult pot of fire head his way. He jumped out of the way just as it hit the doors and blasted them wide open.
"WHY THE HELL DID YOU DO THAT!!!" he roared at the artillery captain. But he didn't wait for an answer and got back on to his horse and charged into the town.
It was fiery hell, vampires and humans swarming over each other. He charged into the crowed. Lucky for him all the vampires wore Razielim clan colors, and the humans wore green.
*Shink* he pulled out his three and a half foot long riding sword and charged in and began lopping of heads of any thing that wore green.
The battlefield was filled with screams.
*Shrink* off went a head
*Chop* of went a arm
*Shrink* off went other head.
Niccolie hacked his way thought the crowed, men ran up to him and fell to pieces. Soon the humans weren't so many, the town was littered with their bodies.
"RAAHHHHH!!!" Niccolie was suddenly tackled from his horse to the bloody ground.
A man ran up to his side and lifted his sword up high for the final deathblow.
*Shink* next thing the man knew he had stumps for legs.
Niccolie pulled his other shorter blade out and switched hands as he got up. Another man came running up to him. They traded blows and with each blow the pace got faster and faster until the human could handle it.
*Shink* and then there was half a human.
Niccolie hacked his way to the doors of the castle. But then he was rushed by a crowed of humans and found himself fighting ferociously. Some thing bumped against his back and he spun around, swords raised. It was a Razielim female. For a moment they exchanged glances. But he pulled her aside as a human rushed at her back. Another wave of humans came over them and they found themselves fighting back to back.
"NICCOLIE COME WITH ME!!" yell Raziel over the screams of the humans. Niccolie saw him as he knocked down one of the humans. Raziel ran up to the doors and stuck his sword in between them and leveled a thrust then kicked the doors open.
Niccolie and the Razielim woman went with him and two of his lieutenants followed.
"I told you to hold artillery fire," said Raziel as he and Niccolie bolted the door after two of his lieutenant's dash in.
"Your artillery captian is deaf." Niccolie slid the half of broken bolt in the slot in front of the doors.
"I will see to it later, FIND THE KING" Raziel pushed on into the castle
Some more men joined them and they began running thought the castle looking for the king, they had found other ways in.
Niccolie went with Raziel and the woman. The castle was almost abandoned some maids where running around with water but they ignored raziel, niccolie and the others. The search party broke into the main hall.
"What happened to all the guards?" said Niccolie looking along the windows and rows of chairs.
*Fwip* an arrow shot past him just missing his head.
"GET DOWN!!" screamed Raziel as four guards ran out firing arrows at them.
Raziel picked up a chair and threw it at them knocking two down. Niccolie putted out two of his throwing knives and gave the last two an up close and personal look at them.
They made there way thought the castle till they found the king hiding in his closet.
The battle was over in a few minutes. It took the Razileim fourty minutes to break the defense, kill the inner defense and hang the king. All with a minimum lost of a fifty or so men. Raziel was more then please with the victory. But most of the human soldiers had fled. A he sent niccolie and his riders to hunt down and eliminate them.
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"Here" Raziel pointing at the front gate of the cities blue prints. "You will focus your attack here, while me and my forces will attack at the rear of the city, I want the catch them off guard."
"What about the front gates, you expect us to break thorough that kind of a defense?" Asked Niccolie. "Or just make it look like it"
"You don't have to brake it. Just fight it. It's a distraction. The humans hate and fear you, they will stay focused on you."
"What if we do break it?"
"Keep fighting of course, till either they surrender or they are all dead."
"Will I receive any kind of support? Artillery? Infantry men? Archers?"
"Yes, five catapults and two hundred of my kin. But stop the catapults firing after I have broken in. it isn't easy to take the city if you raze it to the ground."
Raziel rolled up the map and then handed it to one of his lieutenants.
"Niccolie, I choose you to lead my men only because you have a reputation for your skill in cavelry warfare, expcially in a battle with the odds against you. Consider this an opportunity to right the wrong with my clan. But as of now you are to respect and obey my orders."
"I will" Niccolie nodded with respect.
That night, out in the camp next to the city. The sound of swords being sharpened, horses being groomed was about, sounds of preparation. Niccolie didn't want to stay in the city, he fear a spiteful Razielim might try to sabotage his unit or some thing.
Niccolie sat down next to the fire. He pulled out his swords and stuck them in to the fire.
"You worried?" asked shark who sat next to him.
"No." Said Niccolie staring into the fire.
"Why? I was always curious of what made you fearless."
"I guess I just don't really care, I never thought about the risk of battle"
"You don't fear death?"
"I don't know, my life has been barely livable since I entered this world. Maybe I am just to exhausted to live any more"
"The past can be forgotten" shark said "think here and now"
"Not mine, are you worried?"
"No"
"Why?"
"Because if I want to go, this is how I want to go. In the heat of battle, I don't want to die rotting in some bed or some thing, after all,that is why I became a vampire in the frist place."
"That's what I want to hear in my men," said niccolie
Early morning.
The sun rose to the shadows of an army marching to the city. Small, but still an army.
And before them the city of Willendorf. It had rained supreme for hundreds of years. Even now long after the death of King Omattar, it's streets shined gold and the cities hummed of business; wealth and power had lasted as far back as Niccolie remembered.
Niccolie felt a cold breeze pass over his face. It was odd to attack at day, he felt naked, and vulnerable. But Raziel needed the humans to recognize niccolie in the light, to draw their attention away form his infiltration unit.
"Sir, the catapults are in place." Said a young Razielim as he approached Niccolie.
"Good" Niccolie nodded and turned to shark "ready the troops."
Niccolie looked over to the forest behind the city. Some moments went by but then there was the signal. A glint of a sword flashed in their direction.
*Shink* Niccolie pulled out his sword and raised it to the sky.
"MARCH" he yelled and every one began to march to the city.
The cities front wall began to buzz with shout and screams and orders, soldiers poured out to the support towers and over crowded the wall.
"FIRE" screamed some one and the catapults shot to fire balls at the cities walls
Then arrows were fired back and forth. It rained over them like hail and tore at them, as they grew closer.
Then some one screamed f'ire' again and two blasts shot out across the plains and hit the wall, splattering bodies and fire all over the place.
Niccolie calmly waited for the rear attack to take place.
then the men on the walls freak, and turned their back to them. They rushed down from the wall.
Niccolie then charged down and his men charged down behind him like bats out of hell. Water, arrows, fire rained down on him, he herd screams of the unfortunate behind him. He charged down to the gate's his head down, fear gone. He jumped off his horse and slammed at the huge wood doors. They held firm. He slammed at it again. They held firm. "Stupid" he told himself.
Suddenly he had an idea. He turned around to see one of his men about to throw a hatchet up at the walls guards. He ran up a snatched it from him and ran back to the door. He hacked at the small space between the doors until he could see the heavy wood bolt holding the door firm. He reached in and slowly began to slide it out.
"LOOK OUT SIR!!" he heard shark scream at him. He turned around and saw a flaming catapult pot of fire head his way. He jumped out of the way just as it hit the doors and blasted them wide open.
"WHY THE HELL DID YOU DO THAT!!!" he roared at the artillery captain. But he didn't wait for an answer and got back on to his horse and charged into the town.
It was fiery hell, vampires and humans swarming over each other. He charged into the crowed. Lucky for him all the vampires wore Razielim clan colors, and the humans wore green.
*Shink* he pulled out his three and a half foot long riding sword and charged in and began lopping of heads of any thing that wore green.
The battlefield was filled with screams.
*Shrink* off went a head
*Chop* of went a arm
*Shrink* off went other head.
Niccolie hacked his way thought the crowed, men ran up to him and fell to pieces. Soon the humans weren't so many, the town was littered with their bodies.
"RAAHHHHH!!!" Niccolie was suddenly tackled from his horse to the bloody ground.
A man ran up to his side and lifted his sword up high for the final deathblow.
*Shink* next thing the man knew he had stumps for legs.
Niccolie pulled his other shorter blade out and switched hands as he got up. Another man came running up to him. They traded blows and with each blow the pace got faster and faster until the human could handle it.
*Shink* and then there was half a human.
Niccolie hacked his way to the doors of the castle. But then he was rushed by a crowed of humans and found himself fighting ferociously. Some thing bumped against his back and he spun around, swords raised. It was a Razielim female. For a moment they exchanged glances. But he pulled her aside as a human rushed at her back. Another wave of humans came over them and they found themselves fighting back to back.
"NICCOLIE COME WITH ME!!" yell Raziel over the screams of the humans. Niccolie saw him as he knocked down one of the humans. Raziel ran up to the doors and stuck his sword in between them and leveled a thrust then kicked the doors open.
Niccolie and the Razielim woman went with him and two of his lieutenants followed.
"I told you to hold artillery fire," said Raziel as he and Niccolie bolted the door after two of his lieutenant's dash in.
"Your artillery captian is deaf." Niccolie slid the half of broken bolt in the slot in front of the doors.
"I will see to it later, FIND THE KING" Raziel pushed on into the castle
Some more men joined them and they began running thought the castle looking for the king, they had found other ways in.
Niccolie went with Raziel and the woman. The castle was almost abandoned some maids where running around with water but they ignored raziel, niccolie and the others. The search party broke into the main hall.
"What happened to all the guards?" said Niccolie looking along the windows and rows of chairs.
*Fwip* an arrow shot past him just missing his head.
"GET DOWN!!" screamed Raziel as four guards ran out firing arrows at them.
Raziel picked up a chair and threw it at them knocking two down. Niccolie putted out two of his throwing knives and gave the last two an up close and personal look at them.
They made there way thought the castle till they found the king hiding in his closet.
The battle was over in a few minutes. It took the Razileim fourty minutes to break the defense, kill the inner defense and hang the king. All with a minimum lost of a fifty or so men. Raziel was more then please with the victory. But most of the human soldiers had fled. A he sent niccolie and his riders to hunt down and eliminate them.
