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THE FALL OF ABRIA, Chapter 5This story may contain adult content. |
| Written by jake | |
| Saturday, 07 June 2008 | |
 THE GUARD RAN INTO THE BALLROOM, EYES WIDE WITH TERROR. " THE CITY IS BURNING... FLAMES FALLING FROM THE SKY...", HE PANTED. " WHAT... IMPOSSIBLE... WE HAVE ANGERED NO GODS...", MELKON SAID. THE CHILDREN HAD STOPPED DANCING TO LISTEN, AND THEIR FACES BORE CONFUSED EXPRESSIONS. THEN, ANOTHER, MORE CALM GUARD CAME THROUGH THE DOORWAY. " MY LORD... THE CITY IS UNDER SEIGE..." MELKON'S EYES LIT UP WITH A FIRE. " WHAT?!", MELKON YELLED, KIDS RUNNING AROUND, SCREAMING, CRYING," BY WHOM?" " AN UNKNOWN FORCE, SMALL, BUT THEIR LEADER IS CONSIDERABLY POWERFUL... HE CAUSED THE RAIN OF FIRE..." " NO... ONLY THE LORDS OF THE ABYSS HAVE SUCH CONSIDERABLE POWER... AND THEY WOULD BE SO BRASH AS TO APPEAR IN THE FLESH...", MELKON REASONED. " I KNOW IT SOUNDS ODD, BUT IT IS THE TRUTH. WE HAVE A FEW HUNDRED DEFENDING THE GATES. THEY HAVE NOT YET MADE IT INTO THE CITY." " COME MERIAL... WE GO TO THE FIFTH FLOOR, TO THE BALCONY...", MELKON SAID. CULTER STOPPED HIM, GRABBING HIS SHOULDER. " MY LORD... WHAT IS GOING ON?", CULTER ASKED. " NEWS FOR LATER... BUT FIRST GET THESE CHILDREN TO SAFETY...", MELKON SAID, AND CULTER BOWED, TRYING TO TROOP THE KIDS TOGETHER. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> " HRUNTAG WATCHED THE SCENE AT THE GATES THROUGH HIS MAGIC CAULDRON, THE IMAGE APPEARING GLASSY AND CLEAR, LIKE A MIRRORS SURFACE. HE SMILED WICKEDLY TO HIMSELF. <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< SOLDIERS AND WILLING MEN WERE AT THE GATE, TRYING TO HOLD IT CLOSED, WITH ALL OF THEIR INDIVIDUAL MIGHT. ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE GATE, SEVERAL OF RIKKIESH'S SOLDIERS WERE TRYING TO FORCE IT OPEN, PUSHING. HE CHOSE A MINOTAUR, AN ORC, AND SEVERAL GOBLINS TO TRY AND PROPELL THE GATES OPEN, SINCE THEY WERE NATURALY STRONG BEASTS. BUT THE MEN OF ABRIA HEL FAST THE GATE, AND IT WOULD NOT BUDGE. RIKKIESH ORDERED A LYPHAX OVER THE GATE, AND IT BEGAN TO LIFT MEN INTO THE AIR, ONE BY ONE, TEARING THEM APART. ITS TALONS CAUGHT HOLD OF A SOLDIER WHO SLASHED WILDLY AT IT. ZIP! AN ARROW THUDDED INTO THE BEASTS HEAD, AND IT FELL, SCREECHING, TO THE GROUND, THE MAN WITH IT, UNTIL IT COLLIDED WITH THE GROUND, AND WAS CRUSHED. RIKKIESH MARCHED TOWARDS THE GATE, AND HIS APPOINTED SOLDIERS STEPPED ASIDE. RIKKIESH THREW HIS HANDS OUT IN FRONT OF HIM, AND HE SENT LARGE BALL OF ENERGY FROM HIS PALMS. IT RIPPLED IN THE AIR, SLIGHTY BLUE IN HUE, LIKE IT WAS TRAVELING THROUGH WATER, AND COLLIDED WITH THE GATE. THE GATE FLUNG OPEN, OFF ITS HINGES, AND FLEW SEVERAL FEET IN THE AIR, LANDING ON A SCORE OF PEOPLE, KILLING THEM. RIKKIESH'S FIVE THOUSAND SOLDIERS POURED INTO THE CITY, MEETING A STRONG, BUT FUTILE RESISTANCE AT THE GATE. THE RING OF METAL ECHOED THROUGHOUT THE CITY, ALONG WITH THE HISS OF FALLING BALLS OF FIRE. " TAKE AS MANY PRISONERS AS YOU CAN... KILL ALL SOLDIERS AND ANYONE WHO STANDS IN YOUR WAY... BURN AND TRAMPLE THEIR HOMES... TOPPLE THEIR TEMPLES!", RIKKIESH YELLED, WHILE FENDING OFF THREE SOLDIERS, WHO HE EASILY CUT DOWN. RIKKIESH'S FORCE WAS DESTROYED QUICKLY THOUGH, ONLY A DOZEN OF HIS SOLDIERS REMAINING BY THE TIME THEY PASSED THOUGH THE MEN AT THE GATES. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> MELKON LOOKED DOWN AT THE CHAOS FROM THE BLACONY, WHICH WAS OUSIDE A LARGE, COLUMNED ROOM. HIS WIFE WAS BESIDE HIM, TEARS FORMING IN HER EYES. MELKON TOO WAS UPSET, BUT HE ALSO KNEW THAT RIKKIESH'S SMALL FORCE HAD BEEN DEMOLISHED. LITTLE DID MELKON KNOW, THAT FORCE HAD SPAREABLE, AND RIKKIESH HAD HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF SOLDIERS AT HIS BECKONED CALL. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> A HOST OF MEN SURROUNDED RIKKIESH, TRAPPING HIM IN A TIGHT CIRCLE. HIS COLD LAUGH SENT CHILLS DOWN THEIR BACKS. THEY POINTED SPEAR TIPS AT HIM, AND TAUT BOWS WERE AT THE READY. RIKKIESH KNELT, AND WRAPPED HIMSELF IN A TIGHT HUG, THEN JUMPED UP, THROWING HIS ARMS OUT, SENDING SPIRALING, HEATED ENERGY INTO THE CIRCLE OF MEN, KNOCKING ALL OF THEM OVER, INTO THE AIR, KILLING MOST OF THEM. " SSINGRIGGOTTAN!!", RIKKIESH HISSED, AND A RAVEN BLACK AS PITCH FLEW TO HIM AND LANDED ON HIS SHOULDER. MORE MEN CAUTIOUSLY APPROACHED, NOW AFRAID OF THIS VERY INTIMADATING AND POWERFUL MAN. HE HURRIDLY PLACED A SMALL ROLL OF PARCHMENT IN THE RAVENS SHARP BEAK, AND IT FLEW OFF. RIKKIESH CONTINUD HIS FIGHT ALONE FOR THE TIME BEING, TRYING TO MAKE HIS WAY TO THE PALACE. HE DID NOT MAKE IT FAR BEFORE ANOTHER FIFTY-THOUSAND OF HIS TROOPS POURED INTO THE CITY. THEY SLAUGHTERED. CAPTURED, TOPPLED, DESTROYED, BURNED, LEAVING DEVASTATION IN THEIR WAKE. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> TEARS RIMMED MELKON'S BLUE EYES, HE COULD HEAR THE ROAR OF THE INVADING ARMY, THE SCREAMS OF TERRIFIED CITIZENS, THE BRAVE BATTLE SONGS OF HIS DYING SOLDIERS. HE WANTED TO FIGHT, BUT HE KNEW HE WOULD HAVE TO WAIT IN THE PALACE, AND HERE HE WOULD DEFEND. ENEMY SOLDIERS PASSED BY THE PALACE, ON ORDER BY RIKKIESH, WITHOUT HARMING IT, AND ONWARD INTO THE REST OF THE CITY. THE FIRST HALF OF THE CITY LAY IN WASTE. FIRES BURNING FIERCLY, SMOKE RISING IN LARGE COLUMNS TO THE SKY, BUILDINGS, HOMES, LYING IN RUBBLE, BLOOD STAINING THE STREETS. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> RIKKIESH APPOACHED THE PALACE A FEW YARDS AWAY FROM THE STEPS THAT LEAD TO THE PALACES DOORS. THE PALACE GUARDS, A DOZEN AT LEAST, LINED UP IN DEFENSE ON THE STEPS, READY TO DIE FOR THEIR KING, THEIR COUNTRY. FROM THE ALLEYS, BLOOD DRIPPING FROM ITS MAUL, A LYPHAX JOINED ITS MASTER. THE MENS EXPRESSIONS SUDDENLY TURNED FROM THAT OF STERN MEN, TO THE FACES OF SCARED CHILDREN. THE LYPHAX WAS LARGER THAN NORMAL ONES. IT WAS AT LEAST TWENTY FEET TALL, AND PROBABLY WEIGHED A TON. IT WALKED LIKE A HUMAN, MORE OR LESS. RIKKIESH LAUGHED MADLY, ADDING TO THE GUARDS FEAR. " KILL THEM", RIKKIESH HISSSED. THE BEAST ROARED IN AGREEMENT. Copyright 2008 jake |
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