All characters are owned by George Macdonald except whatever OC's that I manage to come up with, purely fan made and inspired after reading all the great PatG fanfics
Angelica, who was still in the room at the top of the tower, was only able to see small seconds of the fight taking place at the base of the castle and what she saw horrified and alarmed her.
The white woman looked at her with soft eyes and a sorry look, as if to beg her to stay, but Angelica shook her head.
"I need to help him" she whispered, her eyes glistening with tears and her head and shoulders shaking as she held the door closed with her good hand. She reached for a spare sword propped up against the side of the door she had come through and grabbed it with a surprising amount of strength though her hand still ached from the injury that Sedaris had accidentally inflicted on her earlier that night.
Sighing, the queen squeezed her hand until her knuckles went white and opened her eyes, ready to fight for her husband.
In a second, she flung open the door and charged out to the first step, sword pointed out in front of her.
Angelica screamed loudly, though it sounded as if she was in fright it had been her best attempt at a battle cry and to her surprise she found a goblin already on the front step, though it was not the one that she saw fighting her husband.
The goblin that had stepped in front of her was Mefeero and she too had been surprised by the sight of the queen at the stairs when she suspected the king instead.
"Just a sun woman" muttered Mefeero as she stepped backwards, avoiding the point of the blade the queen held in her hands.
Gabriel had heard Angelica cry out and turned for a second to the stairs, no longer facing his opponent.
"Angelica!" The king shouted.
And with Gabriel's attention momentarily distracted by his love crying out, Korumn tightly gripped his fingers, making a hard fist and with all his might punched the Sun King right in the face, sending him sprawling to ground.
There had been a crack as Korumn's fist made contact with Gabriel's nose, and with that the king was knocked unconscious.
Far from dead, but most definitely unconscious.
However, Angelica had not seen this; she was only able to witness her husband falling to the ground and his bleeding body failing to move.
The goblin flexed his fist, satisfied with the blow he had dealt the stupid sun man and walked over the body. Blood flowed from the sun man's nose and already began to form a pool around his face.
Korumn focussed on the stairs ahead and stepped onto the first, believing that inside was where the king hid and that he had just defeated the guard.
He wanted the king to feel fear with every step the Korumn took; he wanted the king to know that with every step he took his end was coming as well. However this image was soon shattered when he saw Mefeero being held at sword point by a frightened young sun woman.
His first instinct was to run up the stairs, but he recognized the sun woman, it had been the same one that had run into him.
Angelica was now forcing Mefeero down the stairs with her sword, "Tell him that if he so much as takes another step up these stairs or touches my husband again I'll stick you right through." Angelica growled forcefully as she tensed her arms as if she would do the deed right there on the staircase of the tower.
Korumn had heard Angelica's threat himself and stopped, his foot hovered, about to take another step up the stairs. Angelica inwardly sighed with a little relief but to her dismay the goblin before her seemed to notice this.
Mefeero recognized the sun woman's tense body relax slightly and stared at her curiously, soon realizing that the sun woman wouldn't actually kill her.
Stepping down the stairs again and again until Mefeero came closer and closer to ground but the queen still prepared herself for anything the goblin would try. They were only fifteen feet above the ground then, or possibly closer than that, but neither the sun woman nor the goblin woman saw the stone that the goblin stepped on crack beneath her foot.
In a moment of pure horror, Angelica cried out as she saw the scene unfold in front of her but was too late to warn the goblin woman as the stone cracked and detached itself from the tower.
Korumn watched in horror as Mefeero fell but before she had hit the bottom the goblin woman was able to clutch the edge of stair.
Korumn began to sprint up the stairs but was stopped once he reached the fifth stair and dragged back down as a force pulled backwards on his cape. The Goblin King fell down the rest of the stairs bruising his back and legs as he landed upon the dirt floor, a good four yards away from the unconscious king.
Korumn turned around quickly and looked upon the captain of the guard with intense fury, seeing it was he who had attacked him from behind.
Sedaris let go of the goblin's cape that had been in his gloved hands and smiled cruelly.
"It seems we have a fight to finish" Sedaris smiled at the goblin still on the ground while a band of soldiers grinned mercilessly over the captain's shoulders.
The Goblin King scuttled back into the shadows while gritting his teeth menacingly. "Yes goblin, go back to your dark cave—coward," but before Sedaris muttered much more the Goblin King launched himself out from the shadow, the sword he had been reaching for, hidden in the shadow, now clutched firmly in his hand.
The swords clashed as Sedaris barely lifted his blade to protect his throat.
"I thought you wanted to fight." The goblin snarled viciously and pulled back his arm, engaging himself in the second fight of the night and still attacking as angrily and savagely as he had with Gabriel.
Korumn slammed his blade again and again on Sedaris', Sedaris was forced to quickly react each time, moving his sword to protect himself. But unlike Gabriel, who had no one to help him fight off the Goblin King, Sedaris had his company of guards now surrounded the two while they fought. In truth Korumn did all the attacking for Sedaris was too busy defending himself from the ferocious attacks.
The guards that had accompanied Sedaris, of which there were five, began to lash out at the goblin from both sides and the back, cutting his skin occasionally. Korumn realized quickly that he was in fact against six men, so turning his attention on two of the soldier on his left, Korumn struck them back, knocking one out and sending the other crashing to the floor.
Sedaris was catching his breath as he had been very much unprepared for the ruthless fighting that Korumn had unleashed on him.
The captain of the guard, watched the goblin attack his men again but didn't dare interfere, he would join in on the attack of course, but only once the goblin was a little weaker. However Sedaris heard a soft shouting, like the innocent cry of a child and recognized it as the voice of the queen who watched in surprise as the goblin woman clutched to the edge of the stairs hopelessly.
Sedaris began to run up the stairs, heading towards the queen and the goblin.
Mefeero tried to pull herself up onto the stair but as soon as she got any hold with her nails, she slipped a little farther off until she was only hanging by her fingers.
Then, with a second look at the pitiful and scared sun woman standing in front of her, Mefeero pleaded, "Please, please help me."
Angelica just stood there, as if struck by horror and unable to move; by this point she had already dropped the sword.
"I am with child!" Mefeero cried out at last and bellow them the king of the goblins looked up, his ears twitching to the sound of his beloved, but was again drawn back into battle by the two remaining guards, one was still knocked out and the other two had followed Sedaris up the stairs.
Angelica was pressed against the towers wall frozen in place as she watched the creature before her grasping to get back onto the stone stairs.
Mefeero had not expected much from the sun woman, and she glared at her as she felt her nails that were digging into the stone begin to slip off the rock.
Suddenly they lost all grasp on the stone.
Before Mefeero had been able to drop to the ground though, the queen had dropped to her knees and flung her arms over the staircase to grab onto her arm, slamming her chest against the stairs as she held onto the goblin woman's arm.
Luckily for both of them Mefeero wasn't heavy and the queen was rather strong.
"Just hold on," whispered the queen as she struggled to hold onto the goblin's arm.
Mefeero did but she had been totally caught off guard by the sun woman's actions.
They could hear the soldiers racing up the stair to aid her and the queen breathed shallowly, almost winded from the impact she had received falling against the stairs.
The soldiers came to her side, but were bewildered when they caught sight of the queen grabbing the arm of one of the creatures that had been trying to attack her.
"M'lady we can't pull you both up, you must let her go," the nearest soldier to her shouted over the raging storm heading their way.
"I'm not letting her go!" cried the queen as she felt soldiers try to pull her back. "If you must do something then find men to help us both, get some more help" the queen cried out from the pain as it felt like her arms were being pulled out of their sockets.
"More men, we need more soldiers NOW!" bellowed the captain of the guard, still watching the queen with worried eyes.
Unknown to the party on the staircase, the stone that had broken off and caused Mefeero to fall off in the first place was also supporting the others and now those stones began to give way to the weight of the people standing on them.
The queen whimpered out as the goblin woman grabbed tightly to her arm, digging her claws into the flesh of her wrist, but the queen refused to let go and cried out in pain instead.
Three more soldiers climbed up the rickety stone staircase and the stones groaned treacherously under the weight.
"Alright men, lift carefully." The captain of the guard spoke gently and two men on the queen's right and two other on the queen's left began to ease both the queen and the goblin woman to the top of the stairs.
Again the stones groaned in protest but the grumbling went unnoticed by the watchers.
"That's it, easy does it-" they lifted the queen and the goblin woman still hugging to her arm with ease.
"It's alright" smiled the queen, "We're going to get out of this." And for a moment Mefeero stared at the sun woman with something that bordered on tolerance as well as respect and for a goblin this was rather good.
The two of them were eventually pulled to the edge and then shifted slowly away from the ledge of the spiralling stairs. Suddenly, a victorious roar went up from Sedaris and all the men who had pulled the queen and the goblin woman from the brink of certain death. Sedaris was the man that Mefeero also knew was the one who had cut her dear Korumn but she rationalized that there would be time for revenge later.
All the cheering was short lived.
There were a few cracks underneath them again, but for the most part this went unnoticed, it was only Mefeero with her keen hearing that was able to detect the stone cracking beneath them.
Though the goblin woman hated sun people, of that she was sure, she felt a kind loyalty to the simple sun woman that had saved her life and threw the queen from where she had been resting. It was fairly easy for her to do this since Mefeero was stronger than most goblin women.
The queen went sprawling on the stairs, a good two meters away from where she had been.
The soldiers, especially Sedaris, were enraged but had no time to realize that what Mefeero had done was a brave act of self-sacrifice before the staircase beneath the goblin woman finally gave and the stone toppled to the ground. Mefeero hit the dirt floor with a sickening crack as she felt her leg break beneath her weight.
The Goblin woman howled out in pain and grasped at her shin as the bone pierced through, spilling a small amount of blood over the ground.
She heard a crack from farther up, directly on top of her and looked at more of the broken stairway begin to crack. Realizing what was happening; she tried desperately to pull herself out of the way but couldn't manage to move at all. Mefeero looked up at the great slab of stone staircase about to crush her, and her life flashed before her eyes and the life that her child would never be able to experience.
But before Mefeero could be crushed, she was suddenly propelled out of the stone's way and landing on her knees. Mefeero felt the wind being knocked out of her as fell on her arm.
The force had been so strong it may have very well broken her ribs but it had also saved her. Mefeero turned to see what had pushed her out of the way but cried out when she saw Korumn sprawled on the ground staring at her, a look of utter devotion in his eyes.
There was a thud, unlike what any of the on lookers had suspected, and a few horrid cracks as it crushed the Goblin King beneath the mighty weight. Mefeero clutched her bleeding leg, her golden eyes wide with surprise, pink hair whipping in the wind.
Tears began to run over her face.
The restless wind blew across the wet skin of her cheeks and tugged at her hair gently but she couldn't move; she couldn't even blink as the tears began to fall and dampen the ground where her blood was already pooling.
Some of the Goblin King's men had escaped from the fighting that was still going on in the courtyard and arrived just in time to see the incident happened. Reacting rather quickly, given the situation, two of the goblin soldiers went to the lover of the Goblin King and began to drag her back to the kingdom in the mountain caves.
The wind rose up, lightning tore across the sky and a few kilometres from the farm-castle and at last a wailing cry escape into the bleeding sky of a red dawn.
I really can't say much... except that this IS the end of the prologue piece, there are a few bits on how it would get to the start of Irene and Froglip's part but that's about it.
I hope it's going well.