"Lucens; when are you going to settle down?" You're three hundread and eight. You aren't getting any younger." Lucens rolled his eyes at his mother. He had heard this question once a year for the past two hundred years. It got old rather fast."

"Mother..." It wasn't like Lucens hadn't tried. He did marry a fellow female Guardsmen when he was eighty,but she died on an escort mission. He was in love with another female when he was one hundred and fifty, but she was just using him for information on the guard. Luckily, he got his revenge by turning her in for treason. He almost married again shortly after he advanced up to Lieutenant, and began to oversee nearly the entie guard but she only wanted him for his gold. That was about fifty years ago. And he tried one lst time ten years ago, but it turns out she was already another man's wife. So at this point, Lucens wasn't all that concerned about marriage or kids. But his parents longed for grandkids.

"Fine." Lucens was actually surprised that his mother ave in so quickly, but he thought nothing of it.

Lucens shrugged his shoulders, before raising up from his seat. His visit with his mother was just about over, and it was time for him to return to his post. And that was when he felt the earth beneath him tremble, followed by the village's alarm going off. "We're under attack!" Lucens' cresent shaped mark on his forehead began to glow dimly. It was the guard's own personal alert system that every member had. It was meant to alert the Guardsmen to prepare to protect the village, where as the alarm was meant to tell the civillians to stay inside. Lucens' grabbed his long sword from the floor next to him and bolted out of the door.

Lucens' ran down the village road, heading towards the Guardsmen headwuarters, where they all met up in case of an attack. His sword was drawn, which saved him from a sudden attack by a monster foreign to him. The creature that attacked him looked like a mixture between a panther and a dragon, with sleek black metal for skin. It was unlike anything that Lucens had ever seen. But Lucens was ready for the challenge. He ducked down when the creature whipped it's claw around at Lucens, and countered with a clean swipe that lobbed off the creature's head. "Black, hot blood?" Lucens' muttered as he watched the foriegn liquid spill out from where the creature's head once was. The creatures weren't from the feywild, that's for certain.

He met up with the rest of his Guardsmen, and they quicly realized that they were severely outnubered. For every one Eladrin, there were five foreign beast. And that was after they took out a few of their numbers. The problem was that no one knew how to fight them, and that they were more mechanical based. In the feywild, things operated in a more arcane nature. "Captain Almah, what are these?" Lucens' asked the captain of the guard, who had significantly more experience than the rest of them.

"I have no idea...but this may be our final stand..." Almah's words nearly demoralized the entire remander of the guard.

"No it is not! Listen up and listen closely. All long ranged fighters, stay in this area and spread out. Close range fighters, partner up and jump into the front lines. Mid range fighters stand in a line in between the long range and short range so you can give help to either side. Captain Almah, take my father and the rest of the escort specalists and gather all the civillians and gather them into one area. It'll be easier to defend them if they're all together. I'll go between the groups and give everyone support. Now on my signal, we will move out." Lucens' father, whom was a little bruised but otherwise okay, glowed with pride seeing his son take charge so effectively. Lucens then walked over to a medium sized boulder against the wall and slashed at it. Inside was revealed to be a design of arcane origins. In the center of the rock, there was a slot just large enough for a sword blade to fit in.

"What on all that is Merlin is that?" Almah had never seen anything like that. In fact, no one had besides for apparently Lucens. Lucens stuck his sword within the vacant slot as the group looked on in wonder.

"It's a special spell I had a wizard set a hundred years ago. It can only be activated by my sword, but it'll only targt people who aren't from the feywild. I thought something like this would happen eventually, just not this many or this strong. I digress though, the point is, it's a spell that naturally strengthens over time by gathering energy from the feywild's arcane energy. And considering it's been a hundred years, this will definately help."

Lucens turned his sword like a key, and spoke a few words in Elven, and with that a torrent of white light shot off in different directions. "Move out!" Lucens shouted, as everyone moved to their assigned position. Lucens' moved around the area, taking creatures out whenever he saw one that the other's missed. And any that he missed, Lucens' dormant magic spell struck down. When the battle was over, the Eladrin were victorious and with minimal casualities.

"Lieutenant Lucens, first of I must say congradulations. If it wasn't for you, we might not have a village to return to." The village elder was the lead of the entire village due to his wisdom. His word was absolute, so recieving praise from him was especially rare. "However, I do have a mission for you. Two in fact."

"Sire?" Lucens questioned.

"Go to the mortal realm. We cannot have this happen again, and if we are to prevent this then we need all the information we can get on outsiders to the feywild." Lucens' nodded, showing his understanding. "And secondly, look for these creatures and kill every single last one of them. Make them pay for triffling in our territory." Lucens grinned at the last request, and prepared for his journey.