AUTHOR'S NOTE: Sorry for the last chapter being so crappy. I wanted there to be some sort of thing before the war started and I was talking on the phone while I was writing it. This one will probably be a bit short but it makes sense in the chapter after this.
As Seraph came walking out of the palace he saw a wall of soldiers approaching the shores of the region around Vivec. As he looked he saw that the soldiers were dead bodies being controlled by some unseen force like puppets. Each of the dead soldiers wore native bonemold armor over their pale, bloated, rotting flesh. Some if the soldiers you were even able to see the bones through the rotten flesh.
As the dead army lined up along the shores, the Ordinator archers raised their bows and aoorws, along with the crossbows and a few spears. The second a dead soldier attempted to get onto the bridge that led to the foreign quarter, hundreds of arrows were soaring through the sky and piercing into the armor of the undead soldiers. At the same time, a fire lit on top of each of the cantons.
Seraph watched as the undead swarmed into the waters and tried to take the bridge that led to the foreign quarter. He saw that they simply walked through the water, and remembering that they don't breath he saw that they started to form walls with their bodies to reach the canals, but with archers destroying them as they came out of the water. The war went on into the dark before the undead retreated to the areas around the city.
"This war is entirely not normal. They are most likely going to try something in the early times of the morning. We must be ready, so sleep up a bit and get some food." This was on the leaflets posted in all of the sleeping quarters of the soldiers. As predicted, the army's tried to attack early in the morning. They failed, but tried again every morning for the next week. Finally they managed to penetrate the foreign quarter, and then the Redoran canton. With many men lost, and many more ready to fight, the living army took back the Redoran plaza.
"We must do something Seraph. You know we can. Our power together is impossible to defeat," said Sango as they ate their dinner, made of kwama eggs. "I can do something too. I can summon hundreds of bonewalkers and skeletal minions," said Holly in an impossibly shy voice. "You can? When did you learn that?" questioned Seraph as he put his bowl down on the table. "I've known since I was a little girl," replied Holly now sounding not so shy. "Well, the nine divines are to discuss it tonight, I'll bring it up then," said Seraph just as one of the ones in a hood looked away. "You know you cannot defeat us. We will stop you before you stop our master. We will make you one of us," said a sinister, hiss-like voice just before a pair of yellow, reptile like eyes opened up and awoke Seraph with a shock. "What's wrong?" asked Holly looking almost sick. "The meeting. I'll be back," said Seraph as he got out of his bed and ran into the next room, the room in which the nine divines are in. "We have a lot of power if you stupid gods were to back us up!" yelled Seraph over the talking of the others. "You know we can istead of needlessly killing more of our men and giving them more soldiers," continued Seraph. "We are doing all we can," said the voice of Vivec in Seraph's head. "The only true way to stop them is if you and the girl join and stop them," said another voice. "Now get some sleep. You're going to need it," said Vivec, with a wave of goodbye.
As Seraph walked back into his and Holly's room the symbol glowed green on his forehead again, but this time symbols appeared down his arms and legs, with one large one on his stomach, and another on his back. As this happened his armor stood up and walked over to him as though there was some one in it, and attached itself to him. As the amulet glowed green around his neck the symbols on his body faded and everything from Seraph's view went black.