LOSC chapter 14
LOSC: The New Guardians Part 14
The red sun rose in the east starting to turn the night into day on the plains of Sivaler [Siv-all-er]. The hyena and cheetah guards watched on the Southern wall leading into Warfang's territory still leagues away from the great city. With the rise of the sun the guard changed. All was well at what was the most boring post for any guard, until a howl was heard from a lone wolf standing on a ill not two yards from the wall. Before any guard could tell it to leave, arrows shot up from the ground taking out four of the seven guards on the wall wounding the rest severely. Causing panic from all but one...A cheetah with an arrow through his thigh he climbed to the warning horn and blew into it. As soon as he did the guards of the wall sprang into action grabbing their weapons and armor, though as his comrades readied a spear would embed its self into his chest causing the young cheetah to fall from the wall dead.
Getting into battle formations on the wall and behind the gate the four thousand guards stood ready to defend the city from this sudden attack. Standing on the wall stood a proud cheetah with Prowlus' village symbol on his back, His name was general Ventus the son of Prowlus. As he looked over at the hoard he paled seeing the massive sea of creatures charging his wall. "Archers...fire at will." He ordered drawing his sword as two thousand arrows launched from the wall taking out grumblings, orcs, apes, and a few wolves with the volley. The next volley fired arrows with their heads a flame causing the dark army to stumble in fright of those arrows, "EITHER DIE TO THEM OR DIE TO ME!" Roared Shadowfang causing the army to rally again and charge the wall again. Ventus growls and looks behind himself over his right shoulder, "CATAPULTES...FIRE!" He yells swinging his sword over his head to signal them to fire if they didn't hear him. Soon the swooshing of the trebuchets launching large boulders into the army crushing dozens with every stone they launched. But the Dark Army was too many...no matter how many died another just took whatever just died. Ventus bared his fangs as he saw a battering ram go for his gate, "SOLDIERS...DRAW SWORDS! PIKES SPEAR WALL IMMEDIATELY!" He roared to the other half of his force on the ground protecting the gate, getting an immediate reaction as the pikes made a defensive wall of spears and shields, with the swords man behind them swords drawn and shields facing towards the gate as the ram smashed into the gate for the first time.
Back on the wall ladders and grappling hooks latched themselves onto the wall, causing Ventus to order the soldiers on the wall to draw their swords as he punched an ape in the face causing it to fall to its death and snap the battering ram with it momentum, "NO ONE GETS PAST US!" He roars grinning as he heard a "Howoooh!" from his men. As soon as the first creature made it to the wall it was cut down only to be followed by another...Soon the wall was full of combat. Soldiers and dark army monsters dying on the wall, the clank of swords rang throughout the morning. The battle seemed to be in Ventus' favor even though he had lost a few dozen men, but the enemy was losing more of their men for every one of his that went down. Shadowfang huffed at this meager defense and looked to a silver wolf standing next to him, "bring in the siege towers." He snarled causing that wolf to howl. Stopping to look at where the howling had come from only to freeze where he was. His eyes widened as he saw those siege towers, "MEN! WE FIGHT TO THE LAST MAN!" He roars in defiance, while Shadowfang chuckles he could smell their fear. He began to walk through the ranks of his army heading right for the gate as his siege towers closed on the walls quickly, "I bring the hunting winds with me now let my enemies feel the hunt's wrath! Hunter arrows...EXIST!" Shadowfang chanted launching a dozen or so arrows of a reddish black color into the air sending them to explode upon hitting the catapults, sending cheetahs, hyenas and foxes flying. Ventus looked horrified as he saw his defenses being picked apart bit by bit. Soon the towers reached the wall and opened up to both create a ramp and latch onto the wall itself. Ventus roaring he charged into the group of apes and orcs charging from the tower nearest to him cutting the first creature out of the tower down, while smacking the second with his shield sending it falling to its doom screaming in fright. Rallying with their general the soldiers of the southern wall showed why they were elite cutting down creature after creature while they were losing dozens...the battle was tipping in Shadowfang's favor. Another howl ripped through the morning followed by the screech of Dreadwings causing a soldier to look up in horror, "DREADWINGS!" he shouted only be the squadron's first victim, the defenders' fear rose but they kept fighting...to the last man!
Shadowfang began to cackle as he watched his army tearing into these soldiers. Soon it was full blown laughter, loud enough for Ventus to hear. "Magic of the fire demon: HELL CANNON!" He roared out blasting the gate to smithereens sending slinters of wood out creating shrapnel causing some of the line to falter as they would be hit in the eye or eyes with the wood. "I challenge the laws of reason and logic to call upon the power of shadow! Black Mist, exist!" The Dark wolf chanted covering the area under the wall with the mist cutting off the sight of the soldiers there causing them to shout in fright, only to have those shouts turned into screams of terror followed by the sounds of them getting slaughtered, "FALL BACK! FALL BACK!" Ventus called trying to regroup his army towards their second line of defense but his army was being slaughtered as they tried to make it behind the second gate. Dreadwings snatched up soldiers left and right, as enemy archers rained arrows down at the retreating soldiers, with Dark Wolves blasting and shredding their prey apart going after every feline they found. Ventus watched in horror as he saw his soldiers dying, the enemy not leaving a single warrior alive. "So are you the leader of this pitiful army." Asked shadowfang behind the cheetah causing Ventus to turn and face the massive canine, "I am...you will never take me alive." Ventus snarls readying his shield and blade to battle the wolf, "oh I had no intentions of letting anyone leave here alive at all...DIE!" States shadowfang pouncing at ventus while he swung for the wolf's head blade bouncing from the metal plate on his head creating sparks. The cheetah's eyes widened in shock, before he felt Shadowfang's jaws clamp onto his throat stabbing him with the blades along his muzzle. Shadowfang shook Ventus about snapping his neck and shredding his throat, before dropping him blood dripping from his maw, "BURN IT ALL!" He roars as his men killed any wounded and non-combatants, "Warfang will fall!" He thought watching the Southern wall burn brightly in the early morning, before staring behind himself and grins, "And so will you!" He states before pouncing. Causing both Spyro and Shadowheart scream waking up at the same time! They both had thought it was a dream, but unknown to them it was a warning of the storm that was coming...
...The dark army had shown it's self...