"CHARGE!!!"
"Take the injuries to the back."
"Yes sir."
The soldier runs over to help up one of his comrades, and has he is helping the other soldier up, the soldier looks up and sees all the cornage and death that has happened on the battlefield.
("With over half our army wipe out, we are at a disadvantage.")
"Sir watch out."
The soldier over and sees a soldier from the empire standing there, swinging his sword at the soldier, trying to cut off his head.
("Shit, my sword.")
The soldier realized that he had not drawn his sword yet.
("Crap, I will not have time. Is this the end for me?")
As the sword gets closer to the soldier's head, the soldier closes his eyes.
("Well, I did what I could for my kingdom and my queen.")
As the sword is about to cut off the soldier's head, someone stops that sword with their own sword. As the soldier's right ear starts to ring from both swords clashing. The soldier opens his eyes and looks over and sees the other blade to the other sword right in his face.
"Why are you still sitting there? Get up and run."
The soldier looks up at the one who is talking and sees it is Rose.
"You're from that party, that showed up early to help us."
"Yeah but if you don't move it I can't help anyone."
"Right."
The soldier moves out of the way, as Rose kicks the empire soldier with her left foot, then Rose finishes off the soldier with a follow up with a downward strike over the soldier's head. Rose turned around and looked at the soldier that just stood there.
"If you are just going to stand there then go home. We don't need weaklings on the battlefield. And if you get in my way I might have to cut you down for being in the way."
All the soldiers around Rose started to become scared and started to doubt their own straight.
"Rose, you know that is not how you talk to people that are scared."
The soldiers turned and looked to see who said that, and they all see Reinhard walk up with half of his right arm missing.
"They should not be scared. They are fighting for their queen and for our prince."
"But still, giving hope to others will give them the courage to keep going and even the straight to keep fighting for what they believe in."
"Yeah, yeah. I know."
Reinhart walks over to the dead empire soldier and picks up his sword. As one of the other soldiers looks at it with a confused face.
"Sir, why are you picking up that sword? You're missing an arm, it is best for you to go get medical attention, not fight."
"You might be right about that, but."
Reinhart looks at the soldier.
"If I fool back now I will never forgive myself for giving up on my prince."
"There is no point in talking him out of it. Trust me, I have already tried."
"Now, we have a job to do."
Reinhart and Rose ran into the battle, and started to cut down the empire soldiers left and right. And at the same time they are helping the other soldier to fool back and regroup.
"If we keep this up we might just win."
"Yeah but at the same time, we have to buy a little more time for Madison."
"Yeah I know."
As Reinhart and Rose try to hold the line with the other Havoc soldiers, as Icibis flanks around the empire's army to get a surprise attack on them.
("So if I flank them it will make them split their army up.")
("Yes, and with that Madison will be ready to take out most of them the second you do it.")
("Alright I am trusting you on this.")
Icibis slowly makes his way around the army as Madison and Maira start to head more north to get a better angle on the empire army. Madison and Maira run into a mountain that goes high enough to see the whole battlefield.
"Well, I guess we have to claim it."
Maria keeps on looking back to see if they are being followed by anyone. Madison starts to claim then turns and sees Maria just standing there.
"Maria, we have to claim this to help the others."
"Yeah, I know but I am scared."
("I keep forgetting she is only a kid that was a slave and now she is in the middle of a war. I have to do what I can to show her that she is okay and everything will be fine. But even I know that, everything is not fine.")
Madison gets down and walks over to Maria and puts his hand on her head, then crouches down to look her in the eyes.
"What about this, after we finish up here I take you back to Reinhart and Rose, then we get some yummy snacks. What do you say to that?"
Maria gives Madison a nod and a smell.
"So, you want to get on my back, so you don't have to claim the mountain."
"Okay."
Maria gets on Madison's back, then Madison stood up and walked over to the mountain and started to claim it. As Madison gets a quarter of the way up the mountain he turns his head to see the battlefield, and when he does, he used his All Seeing Eye and noticed Icibic running in the frost, around the empire army.
"What is Icibis doing?"
Maria looks back but can only see trees.
"What are you talking about Madison? Where do you seeing Icibic?"
"Sorry Maria, I am able to see up to 10 miles with my Super Vision, but with my All Seeing Eye I can think of a location and as long as I have been there or seen it, I can see over that location with a radius of 2 miles."
"Oh, that is a lot of words and numbers. But I think I understand."
"Well, that is good. Now we have to hurry, so I can help Icibic with whatever he is doing."
Madison continues to claim the mountain with Maria on his back, as Icibis has finally gotten behind the empire army. Icibis gets behind a couple of big rocks and pecks over the rocks to see what the empire forces have. When he looks over, he sees over 5,000 soldiers and 1,000 rock giants.
("That is not good, the soldiers are not a big problem but the rock giants are going to be very difficult to deal with. So what should I do? I don't think balance will work on the rock giants.")
As Icibis is thinking about what he should do, the over 400 of the rock giants start to walk to the battlefield.
"Shit that is not good."
Icibis moved a little and made some of the smaller rocks fall off, making 5 soldiers turn and walk over to see what moved the rocks. As the soldier's got Icibis grabs his sword and is able to draw it to fight, when he hears the voice again.
("Don't worry, they are already taken care of.")
("What do you mean?")
The time Icibis asked the voice that question, all 5 soldiers were hit in the head with arrows. Icibis looks over the rocks and sees their bodies hit the ground.
"I guess I owe Madison a free drink the next time we go out."
("Grab to bodies before someone sees them.")
("Yeah sorry.")
Icibis grabs the bodies one by one and drags them behind the rocks. After dragging the bodies behind the rocks, Icibis draws his sword a bit in the ground, takes a breath.
"Huh, BALANCE!"
When Icibis said balance all soldiers instilling go on their knees and are not able to stand up.
"What is this?"
"I can't move."
"Same here."
("Okay, now they are stuck. What now?")
("That is simple, just let your archer take it from here.")
Icibis looks over to where he believes the arrows come from and says.
"Okay Madison, it is all up to you now."
As Icibis stands there holding his sword in the ground to keep his balance on the empire soldiers, in the far distance Madison and Maira are on top of the mountain that they claimed. As Madison pulls back his bow and aims it at the sky. As Maira watches Madison do this.
"Madison, can you hit them from this far away?"
Madison looked back at Maria with a a smell.
"Don't worry, I can't miss a shot."
Madison less the arrow fly, as the arrow hits the clouds. Madison put his bow on his back and looked at Maria.
"Okay we need to get moving again."
"What about Icibis? And why did you shoot the clouds?"
"Don't worry you will see soon enough. See."
Madison points at the clouds as the clouds turn dark and lightning strikes start to hit the empire soldiers on the ground that are near Icibis. Maria can't see what is happening but she can hear the lightning.
"Is that lightning?"
"Yep, that is from my Rainbow Arrow. It is kinda hard to explain so that will be for another time okay."
"Okay."
"So come on, we need to hurry to help the soldiers of Havoc or they could lose the battle."
Madison and Maria started to move south-west on the mountain to get a better angle on the main battle. As the Havoc army are slowly pushing the empire army back with the help of Reinhart and Rose, but the empire rock giants join in the battle.
"Reinhart, I think we are doing great."
Rose points her sword at 3 soldiers and says.
"Sword Magic, flying swords of hope."
Has 6 magical swords appear behind Rose and shoot at all 3 soldiers. As 2 of the soldiers had no time to react to the magic swords that hit them, the 3rd soldier tried to block the ones flying at him with his shield, but the magical swords just phased through his shield and went into his chest.
"Yeah sorry but my swords can only be stopped by magic."
"Or other things."
Rose looks over at Reinhart.
"If that was true I would know."
"I am just saying."
As the two both think they are doing well in the battle, a rock giant appeared out of the forest. As it started to kill every Havoc soldier that it sees.
"What is that?"
"I don't know, just run."
"What for m…"
The rock giant grabs the soldier by the head and crushed it.
"Shit what do we do?"
"You follow back and we will handle it."
Rose runs past the Havoc soldiers that are running from the rock giant. Rose uses her sword magic to shoot swords at the rock giant, but as the magical swords hit the rock giant nothing happens. This makes Rose question what the rock giant is made of.
("What, my swords didn't work on it but how is that possible? I thought only magic could counter my magic swords. Is it made of magic? It has to be.")
Rose gets closer, as the rock giant goes to attack Rose by using it rock ham but Rose was about to dough the attack and get close enough to use her real sword on the rock giant.
"If magic swords don't then real ones will."
Rose swings the sword and has the blade of the sword hit the rock giant the blade breaks off. Put a shock look on Rose's face, as she looks at her broken blade and then looks up at the rock giant with fear in her eyes. The rock giant lights up his right hand over Rose and goes down to crush her. Reinhart sees this in the distance but is too far away to do anything.
"ROSE! ROSE!"
As Reinhart tries to get closer to see Rose the more he knows he will not make it. As Rose said.
"Thank you Icibis, my prince. For everything."
As the rock giant drops his hand down the hardest he could on top of Rose. Rose closed her eyes as she heard the hand of the rock giant hit something. Then she heard a familiar voice right next to her.
"So you just giving up just like that. Well what would your prince say to you?"
Rose opened her eyes then turned her head. As the man said
"Well I think you should lift your head up and keep fighting. That is what Prince Icibis and Princess Vita would do."
Both Rose and Reinhart were shocked to see Tristen standing there holding the rock giant hand with the arm that he lost.