Chapter 21: The Coming on the Third day
At Alfea Faragonda was in a grim move, she had heard the news from Griffin that Cloud Tower had been attacked and that the Trix and others had been captured but what was more concerning was that the Lighthaveners had broken off their siege of Cloud Tower entirely, which meant one thing, the army was now coming down on Alfea. Griffin had given this news to Faragonda personally as she had arrived with the bulk of the witches from Cloud Tower to come to the defense of Alfea where the Final battle would soon be waged outside the school 250,000 Lighthaven warriors were ready for battle.
"I can't believe Erasiel would take such a risk even this time of desperation" Griffin stated, suddenly a holo projector started beeping on the desk. Faragonda activated it and the familiar figure of Erasiel came into view.
"Hey honey, we are almost here, we'll be coming out of hyperspace soon" Erasiel stated.
"Was your mission successful?" Griffin asked irate.
"Completely, Bloom has drawn Valruost and has received the complete support of the Kingdom of Domino, the entire armies of Coltaris, Endoria, and Keremathi are on route to Magix with more coming from the Colonies" Erasiel stated. "What of our other allies" Erasiel asked.
"I just received a message from the Dwarves saying that a mighty Throng will be arriving in an hour, as to the Elves, they will be arriving about the same time" Faragonda replied.
"Excellent, we'll be arriving soon; also, how is the weather holding up" Erasiel commented.
"The Storm has continued raging however it's not as intense as before" Griffin stated.
"What of the Trix?" Erasiel asked at this both Faragonda and Griffin's faces became grim.
"They have been taken prisoner by the Lighthaveners: Lord Templar De Lande captured them" Griffin stated.
"Well at least they are still alive; they got captured by the most honorable of the Lighthaveners then; after this is over I'll be looking for them" Erasiel stated.
Later… Outside in the courtyard the faeries, witches, specialists, wizards, and other defenders made ready for their last stand, in the center of the plaza Balthazar Gelt mounted his Pegasus Quicksilver, while other teachers had donned their battle regalia, alongside Gelt some of the more elite Specialists including Kordatura had mounted Dragons from Red Fountain; this aerial force was more than capable of dispatching the few griffons that remained of the Lighthaven army as they numbered only a dozen from the 5000 at the beginning, their numbers having been ravaged by the storm and by Erasiel's efforts at Red Fountain and more so by the Beastmen and Goblins who had keen bowmen that were numerous. The host of Lighthaveners stood ready for battle: the Grand Templar at the front of their dread host alongside him was his honor guard and the remaining Lord Templars; the Grand Templar himself was standing on the ground and not yet in their air.
"Heathens and Heretics of Alfea: I give you one chance to surrender and convert now and your lives will be spared, if not we will slaughter you to the last" Grand Templar Arsonious shouted in challenge, suddenly a loud horn was heard followed by more; this was a proud deep horn followed by more proud deep horns, suddenly from a great hill came a host clad in armor; a mighty Throng of 50,000 Warriors, the Dwarves had come at last. At the head of their army was a great wagon pulled by bears, it was ornate and covered with gold, to either side were armored bears on each were dwarves clad in the finest armor and alongside that throngs of Dwarven warriors clad in Aetherium armor etched with runes, they numbered in the thousands, behind them ranks of dwarven warriors clad in fine armor, with more elite units wearing finer armor among these were cavalry with riders on Goats, Boars and Bears and chariots pulled by Goats; among them also were large constructs and towering giants in in even finer armor then the warriors of Lighthaven as well as mighty cannons, ballistae, catapults and moving fortresses; their numbers were tremendous, on the Chariot was the Dwarven High King; Wulfstan son of Tolghar, at his side was his daughter Princess Aida clad in armor rivaled only by her father and his top general Rulf Steelbeard, as well as the master rune smith Khrand Ironbrow and the head of the cult of Arkath the master mage of Fire and Runes Hangvul.
Wulfstan turned towards the Lighthaveners. "Good Morning how are we all; it's a we bit stormy today" King Wulfstan stated as his chariot drew closer to the Lighthaveners. "I got a tiny proposition if you wouldn't mind hearing me out" King Wulfstan continued. "Would you mind: JUST SODDING OFF! You are on the chuffing land of my allies and you attack without just cause or honor; you lack fairness and more importantly you broke oaths!" King Wulfstan yelled.
"Our quarrel is not with you dwarf, merely with people of Magix!" Arsonious replied.
"Aye but there's the teeny problem, the people of Magix, specifically the Faeries of Alfea and Witches of Cloud Tower, are our allies; and you and your army of Umbarakai are on their chuffing land coming to do them harm!" King Wulfstan responded.
"You will be purged as well Dwarves! In the fires of Purity by Elrath you will die!" Arsonious retorted.
"You hear that lads! We're on! Let's give these Wazzuks a Good hammering! Yanad-Dur-Anu!" King Wulfstan shouted and loud "Khazuk!" Roared out from the dwarves along with pounding of Spears, halberds, mattocks, swords, Two-handed Warhammers, axes and shields. "Asuru-Habab!" Wulfstan ordered and the Dwarves formed ranks of interlocking shields and began to advance. "Gamni! Ifridi Zharr!" Wulfstan barked, and crank of artillery was heard.
"Augan Bahkr!" the Dwarven Officers yelled out among the ranks as they advanced. "Khazuk!" the Dwarves yelled.
"ZHARR!" Aida yelled. The roar of Cannons and crack of artillery were heard as a barrage of explosive shells, cannonballs, bolts and boulders soared into the sky and fell amongst the ranks of Lighthaveners; who charged forwards to respond to the Dwarves, inside Alfea the defenders took flight and stormed into the sky; the battle had begun. The remaining griffons were easily taken aside by the aerial support of the Alfea defenders, then they were free to rain magic down upon the Lighthaven army; the Lighthaven priests put up protective barrier, the Lighthaven army was still colossal notwithstanding the dwarves army. Balthazar Gelt led the aerial force forward with a group of junior faeries at his side.
"Gehanna's Golden Hounds!" Balthazar casted, and several giant metal hounds materialized and started to devour Lighthaven warriors with ease. "Searing Doom!" Balthazar casted and giant shards of molten metal poured down on the Lighthaveners, melting them like wax. The several faeries who were flying alongside Balthazar added their own magic to the attacks to varying effects, some Lighthaveners turned into gibbering fools, others were forced to dance non-stop, Katy's spells ended up dropping a bunch of starving crazed weasels which climbed under the armor of Lighthaven warriors and gnawed at their flesh causing them to run into each other. Ahisa; the fairy of Love actually managed to cast a spell which caused a giant to fall in love with a bunch of Lighthaven warriors which it picked up and hugged, crushing them in the process, before it was downed by a dwarven cannonball to the face.
"Baruk-Khazad!" Wulfstan yelled as his army charged in, the King was clad in golden armor with a red cape and crowned helmet, the armor was made of Aetherium and layered with the strongest runes, his orange beard proud in the day, in either hand was weapon, one a Warhammer and the other an Axe. The Dwarves yelled out "Khazad-Ai-Menu!" the battle cry of the Dwarves as they charged, their ranks clashed with the Lighthaven warriors, the King and his Daughter jumped off their chariot to battle on foot alongside the warriors. Princess Aida was a beauty with long orange hair who was strong of body but well-endowed, she wore golden lensed glasses, and heavy Adamantium plate armor covered with runes over a layers of mithril armor as well as crowned helmet the armor was woven with purple silk cloth padding, in her hands was a mithril great-axe named Zardak; which had been forged by her uncle and was fastened with runes of might, on her back was her shield and at her side a sword and axe, she cleaved thru Lighthaven armor like it was paper. Rulf was also strong, he had grey-beard and wore an ornate helm over his thinning hair, he too was clad in extremely strong armor and he wielded an Axe and shield and carved thru rank after rank of Lighthaven warriors, though as they fought a number of dwarves fell.
The Dwarves had barely clashed when the ground quaked and fair horn was heard alongside the roars of raptors. The Dark Elf army had arrived Queen Ylaya at its head alongside her sister Shadya, both rode Cold-ones, with them was an honor guard of cold one Knights and powerful sorceresses, they were clad in armor, much like that of Queen and her sister, this vanguard was backed up by armored elves men and women carrying spears, swords, bows and repeater crossbows, behind that were warriors clad in armor with menacing masks who carried cruel and elegant Great axes and sword, alongside them were Elven maidens wearing little armor and carrying swords and daggers, their hair was mostly blood red with some white haired and dark haired elves among them, behind them were massive armored Minotaurs who towered over the elves and who carried weapons of massive size and variety, alongside them were yellow-green-skinned humanoid creatures clad in purple colored armor in the same vein as the rest of the army, the had longswords, they were Troglodytes. Behind that were fearsome Hydras and flying above the army 60 Black Dragons with riders and without them. This host numbered 50,000 excluding the war beasts which were worth more than a 1,000 men each. "Warriors of Ygg-Chall to battle: Sa'an'Ishar Gorth-eien-Gothrim!" Ylaya shouted and the Elves charged with great speed, they were quickly on top of the Lighthaven army. "Bladewind!" Ylaya casted and several large purple spinning blades tore thru the Lighthaveners allowing the Cold-one cavalry and Chariots to drive in. Throughout the battle magic was casted, the spells from variety of different magic users the sheer effect tore into the Lighthaveners; their numbers fell down significantly though they outnumbered the defenders, then the sound of ships coming into Atmosphere.