Tales of Evil
Chapter 1: A New Kind Of Evil
The war between the Hylian Alliance and Ganon's Army was more destructive than any of the previous wars, skirmishes were daily and few hylians had not suffered family loss. A series of victories from the Allies had weakened Ganon's force, pushing the vast army to the west, yet another battle was imminent.
It was the coldest part of the Hyrule winter, and the darkest, a massed force was sent with Orcus Aru, a Labrynnan military mastermind, to assault the enemy army. Ganon's army outnumbered the Alliance by 11 to 9, yet lacked the bravery or skill in most of its troops. Hylian Knights and Knights of Lake Hylia formed a vanguard, with Terminan crossbowmen at the rear.
The battle was to take place atop the now frozen Lake Hylia, with conflict expected on the ice, the surrounding field and on Hylia Bridge. It would start at midday, in a blizzard and with a long way to any routing point.
As the two armies stood gazing at each other, cold steel soon to meet chilled flesh, a moblin war horn rung out into the silence, and a symphony of battle cries erupted, bringing fiery temper to the icy surroundings. Arrows and bolts flew gracefully into the masses, with little accuracy needed to find a target. Swords clashed, lances broke and shields felt the pressure of attack.
On the bridge above, Hylian Knights ripped into bulblins and their steeds, a pair of mounted knuckles cut through five knights before being felled themselves. Friendly fire caused confusion between the bulblins and bokoblin archers, giving the hylians an edge and letting paladins take advantage of the situation. One such paladin was shield bashed off his steed by a lynel and plunged into the crowded lake, crushing a lizalfos captain and a miniblin.
Another horn sounded, and aeralfos with javelins and bombs soared into the sky, raining hell down onto the lighter militia on the right flank, before being obliterated by crossbowmen from the bridge. Casualties on Both sides were rising by the second, with swordfights between mighty darknuts and iron knuckles with the Knights of Lake Hylia continuing. The blizzard had turned into a storm, and with the twilight of dusk seeping in, purple clouds set to form a fog behind Ganon's Lines. Out of the fog emerged thirteen mounted mighty darknuts in black armour. One, however, wore a unique helm, and headed the charge, all kinds of monster parted as the riders joined a troop of stalfos and moblins, dismounted and let chaos reign.
The battle of the bridge was almost one sided, with the knights slaughtering ten times their amount of monsters. The knights had occupied four fifths of the bridge, and their victory would be a decisive blow for the Alliance. Ganon's generals activated a nasty shock to the prevailing forces though, and sent a squadron of aeralfos to support ammunition for a giant catapult. Halberdiers and macemen frantically hacked away at the bokoblins and wizzrobes aiming at the bridge, with little avail.
The catapult fired, and two giant boulders flew at the helpless bridge, a mighty crash as the middle, and the end the knights were attacking from, were destroyed. Both horse and rider were sent tumbling through the air, into the ranks, and helplessly screaming as they fell to their deaths. The bridge itself was above the monsters, and annihilated a large portion of the chilfos and dinalfos.
The Black Knight decapitated, impaled and dismembered labrynnan and holodrum men-at-arms, carving a path for him and his Black Guard to reach the conflict between lake knights and mighty darknuts, General Aru finished off a darknut with only a helm and tattered cape left, using a rapier and ordon broadsword combo, then lunged at the Knight. "Prepare to rot like the rest of your kind, damn you to the abyss, beast!" screamed the ivory and cobalt armoured axeman, his left gauntlet and pauldron missing, letting his hand feel the chill of the harsh winter wind.
"You're just another kill for me, Meat, this ice will run red with your foul blood!" hissed a low voice from behind the black helmet. Aru swung violently at the Knight, each attack being blocked or parried, damaging his armour so much that the chainmail hauberk underneath was clearly visible. The Knight thrust his sword, glancing off Aru's shield, and rebounding into his exposed neck, spouting crimson liquid onto nearby lake knights.
The blue lake knights had slain many a darknut, knuckle or moblin, yet the Black Knight's reinforcement group bled them of all their life. Lightning tore the skies apart, as wizards and wizzrobes let spells loose in colourful displays, incinerating spearmen, freezing lizalfos, shocking horses and exploding miniblins. The Hylians has lost all of their advantages, the bridge and the heavy infantry, all Alliance troops started routing, aside from Terminan Macemen and Hylian Champions, who banded together to buy the weaker units more time.
The champions were focused on killing the armoured soldiers, as they were the greatest threat, while the macemen killed off monsters and the occasional darknut.
About thirty men partook in the last stand, yet they killed 24 enemies – a sacrifice in vain, but buying some men valuable seconds to escape. The Black Knight, under Ganon's fierce control, would return for more bloodshed.