The Story of Heruli
Part 2 - Battle
Well after a few scouts returned with no news of any battle parties seen, the meeting began as planed.
Then suddenly without warning the forest came alive with the sounds of war crying humans. All around the hill they moved. Within seconds they
had surrounded the hill and were ready to attack at the sound of their commanders.
It was at this point that our choice of a hill top gave us a slight advantage and a bit of extra time.
For most of the humans would have to run up hill to get to us. The archers already had to shoot up to even get near us and now it was next
to impossible for some to even come close to the top of the hill. However even with this advantage we had no inetention of fighting them.
From our view we could tell that we didn't have much time before they charged. But we knew
we had enough time to make one last decision. Near by there was a town of Wizards, Mages, Elves, and other creatures of magic. Before the
meeting had started it was said that this town had laws against the killing of creatures, and that these laws were upheld by magic not men in
places of power. So in the last seconds before battle it was decided that we were to meet back up at this town. But we still had to get away first.
This decision came none to late for suddenly the air was filled with flaming arrows and the sounds
of War cries and humans charging up the hill. It was now or never for us to leave. Bursts of fire came down the hill. Arrows were burned up in midair.
Within seconds fire and black smoke engulfed the whole hill. The smarter bunch of humans stopped in their tracks and put their shields up to keep the flames back. I pity
the fools who forgot that they were suited up in big ovens or wearing flammable clothes. The not-so-bright bloodthirsty humans seemed to think that
they were immortal and tried to run through the flames. They obviously forgot that a dragon's breath of fire is more then just a few feet away from the
dragon who made it. I think it was about the time their war cries turned into cries for help, that they soon realized that they had wait for the fire to
stop before they could go any further.
Well finally when the flames stopped and the smoke started to clear, arrows went flying and
up hill they went, again. Up they went, the top they did reach, and....... CLANG!!!!!! In the still clearing smoke they meet up with the others coming
up the other side. We were already gone. While we were blowing fire we were also creating our escape route. As the fire burned it created smoke that rose
high into the clouds. So just as the smoke went up, so did we. By the time the fire stopped, no dragon was within a mile of that hill. Luckily for us the
humans didn't know this at that time. And wouldn't you know it, when they came running up that hill and meet their brothers at the top from the other
side. They all started fighting each other. Oh it was a sight to see. Apparently when they got up there they thought we had changed ourselves into humans
to trick them into not attacking. Like we would ever do such a thing. HA. Well the joke was on them that time.
They went at each other for hours. Such senseless fighting. I bet they would have taken themselves
all out if they hadn't seen our watcher leave his post.
To be Continued
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