As the battle horn rang out through the previously silent and still forest the countless bloodthirsty cries and roars of monsters and the crashing of sword against shield began to rise up and fill the forest. The ground began to shake slightly as the noises of our enemies drew closer and closer without being seen. Far off to our right we suddenly heard the shouts of men, the clash of steel upon steel and the roars of the enraged monsters. I look off in the direction of where I presume the Dragons and Blood Knights were now fighting together against this common enemy.
I quickly turn back to face directly in front of me as I hear the noises draw close. From the darkness of the trees and the on-setting night I began to see shadows with bright glowing red eyes appearing with weapons drawn. The enemy line waited for a second for their true line to form, creating a row of menacing shadows and hundreds of glowing red eyes. At the middle of this line a figure stepped forward out from the shadows. It was a tall, strongly built dark green Orc with yellowed chipped tusks protruding from its lower jaw and dark red eyes, it wore rough leather armour stained with green and red blood. It raised a huge notched axe into the air with one hand and let out a huge battle roar before leading the charge of the Orc and Goblin hordes which lay in wait behind him.
If it was not for my friends to my left and right and the reassuring presence of Sky next to me I would have been out of here within seconds, but instead I dug my boots into the dirt and readied my sword. I quickly look at Sky, who was similarly preparing for the inevitable clash, and give a quick nod to her before running straight at the oncoming horde of monsters with my sword raised slightly with a double handed iron grip. Within a moment I see that sky has joined my side in this counter charge and within a split moment we plummet into the horde of raging Orcs.
I swung my sword downwards where it met the thick skin and flesh of the green blooded Orcs, my sword crashed against the bones of my enemy snapping them with ease and cutting the Orc in half with a spray of warm green blood. I spun around, gathering momentum and swung madly again and again at the monsters taking them down one by one. But soon this continuous swinging had lost its effectiveness as the Orcs began to surround me with large circular wooden with metal rims around them and a iron spike protruding from the centre.
I quickly changed to precision striking and aimed a number of swift hits past the shields dealing out large amounts of damage to the monsters which now completely surrounded me and were closing in fast. I suddenly saw a flash of steel as three of the Orcs lost their heads and fell to the ground dead, behind the three corpses I saw Sky quickly turn back to attack the Orcs that were charging down at her with swords and axes raised. I quickly took the remaining Orcs' confusion and swung my sword in three quick successions taking all of their heads off.
I looked up around me and saw complete carnage, all of my friends were locked in hard combat with a number of enemies ranging from small, dagger wielding goblins to a battle mad, Orc warriors swinging their blood stained weapons madly without caring for any of its allies getting in the way. And still the echoing sound of fights along the forest could be heard. I could see to my left Andrew and Aurora deftly dodging heavy blows from their sluggish enemies' attacks before quickly swinging round and smashing a huge blow upon the weak leather armour and to my right Andrew B smashing back his foes with his large shield and letting Oliver quickly finish up with his heavy and blunt metal hammer. Whereas me and Sky were taking on our own targets with sheer force and blade skills before randomly switching with each other causing confusion upon the enemy giving us a chance to deliver a killing blow.
These simple strategies worked for a while before the number of enraged and blood lusty Orcs began to lessen the effect until we had become completely engulfed by our enemies, no way forward, no way back. We had been surrounded completely by numbers of Orcs who charged with a swinging blade without a moments hesitation. We were now back to back and slowly turning, in a spinning dance of life or death, as we swung and stabbed our swords with as much speed and power that we could muster, just holding off the horde of Orcs which didn't seem to be coming to an end.
As we span slowly killing off the advancing Orcs we began to take heavy damage from attacks directed at our blind sides, iron swords cut into our armour and virtual flesh and spears targeted our weak points with piercing blows. Both of us were down to red health, winded and exhausted, when the Orcs around us pulled back allowing the leader through. We quickly saw that it was the Orc with the sharp tusks and huge two handed notched axe who ordered the attack upon us. It locked its red eyes upon us and slowly began to walk towards us with his axe dragging along the floor.
"Sky." I quickly say as I take out two red vials, health potions, and chucked one to Sky before taking the lid out of mine with my teeth and downing the sweet elixir. Within a moment of me taking the potion I started to see my health bar ever slowly creep up, I saw similar happen to Sky's health as she took the potion in a hurry. We both turned towards the advancing Orc leader and raised our swords with tired arms. The Orc then suddenly charged at us with great speed and power. We quickly adjusted our fighting stance just as the Orc swung his huge double edged battle axe up at us.
We quickly ducked below this surprise attack but I got kicked in the face as I rose my head, knocking me to the ground. He then kept his swing going, spinning him in a complete circle, until the notched blade collided with the hastily met block made by Sky, however this block pushed her backwards and broke through her strong stance. The Orc seeing its opportunity moved back over to me and swung its axe downwards at my head. I rolled quickly out of the way and felt the axe as it ploughed into the ground in the spot where my head was just at.
I quickly got to my feet and moved a little back from the Orc, I now stood at Sky's side. She quickly turned at me and nodded her head as a signal to go on the attack, hoping that its defence would be much weaker than its abnormal attack strength. We sprinted at the Orc and swung our swords, my sword fell from the sky at its head and Sky's sword made a diagonal path at the Orc's stomach. My swing was blocked by the metal shaft of the axe which was raised to block my deadly stirke, sending a shudder through my body. Sky's attack, however, was more successful, it gauged a large and deep cut into the Orc's stomach sending blood red, glowing particles into the sky.
The Orc staggered backwards at this blow, but we pressed on with more precision blows. As the Orc was on its last bit of its small amount of health, due to the many glowing cuts and stabs that covered its green leathery skin, a humongous roar echoed from the trees in front of us. We all, in shock and fear, stared into the dark forest as we heard a tree being ripped from the ground with the massive groans and cracks of dead wood.
All of a sudden a huge tree comes rocketing from the darkness of the forest directly at us. We see it in time to hit the ground letting the tree soar over our heads, but the Orcs were much slower than us and didn't see it until the last moment. We heard the crunch of bones and the wounded cries of the beasts as they got crushed by the flying tree. As we heard the tree crunch to the ground resting we got back up and looked around. practically all of the Orcs were on the ground, dead or fleeing from the monster that had launched the huge tree.
From the darkness of the trees a huge shadow shaking the ground with its heavy footsteps, it was a huge grey skinned troll who had arms as thick as trees and with completely black eyes of emptiness. It looked at the six of us before letting out yet another huge battle cry and charging at Andrew and Aurora, the closest of us to it. As it began to swing its huge arms at the two swift rangers deftly avoided the hits, the four of us began to ran to their aid.
However within moments of the two dodging the attacks, both of them in unison jumped up onto the trolls huge arms, ran up them and planted their strong rapiers into its thick grey neck. As the monster cried in pain and tried swatting them off they repeatedly withdrew and stabbed their swords into its thick neck and spine. Suddenly it swung its head backwards, directly smashing into Aurora sending her flying across the ground and leaving her motionless when she came to a stop on the ground.
"Aurora!" Andrew shouted in pain as he saw Aurora's motionless body upon the ground before quickly turning back to the troll he was currently standing upon. He ripped out Aurora's sword, which had been left protruding from the troll's flesh, and his own sword and with both hands and with a furious power he stabbed down with both swords into the beasts head, smashing through the thick skull and into its soft brain.
The troll stood for a second, motionless and limp, before falling backwards. Andrew quickly retrieved the two blades from its de materialising head and quickly rushed over to the unconscious Aurora not caring about the fact that he had just taken down a fully grown elite monster without taking damage, only caring about the safety and life of Aurora.