Chapter 26
An Unexpected Team
Yea this town is doomed. Both Aaron and I quietly watch as the orcs steadily push further into town. Taken and destroying everything that was in their path.
After getting a good ways into the city, one of the orcs looks up and point at us. I couldn’t tell since we’re so far away, but it looked like he was shouting something to the other orcs.
“Well Aaron, I think that was our cue to get out of here.”
“Max what’s going on, and why is there blood on your uniform?”
“I’ll explain in a bit mom, but right now we need to move, the orcs will be here any minute.” I look behind to see Max was dragging a woman wearing fancy blue dress. Just like him, the woman had blonde hair and blue eyes.
“Anna, what’s the situation down there?”
“Well the good news is the orcs stop launching bombs at us, the bad news is the orcs are in the city and pretty much destroying everything, also they spotted me and Aaron.”
“Oh my goodness.” Max’s mom cover her mouth in disbelief as she looks down at the town.
“Hey I thought you was going to get your parents, so where’s your dad at?”
“My dad isn’t currently in town thank goodness, but I still need to get my mom out of here, so do you guys got any plans?”
“Funny, I was just going to ask you that. Does this town have any other entrances that we can escape from?”
“I’m afraid not, that gate we enter in is the only entrance.” I look back towards the town to see that the area where the gate is at is now crawling with orcs.
“Well I guess that’s where we’re going.”
“Alright let’s go.”
“Huh?” I look at max who had a calm look on his face. I was expecting him to say “No way, this is impossible!” Yet for some reason he’s calmly accepting my idea.
“Are you sure you want to tag along? There’s an army between us in that gate.”
“After seeing what you did yesterday and earlier today, I wouldn’t be surprise if you could take an entire army out.”
Well this unexpected, I was hoping Max would disagree with my idea and run on off somewhere else. As long as Max is tagging along with me, I won’t be able use corruption to get out of here. Oh well, if comes to the point where I have use my power in front of him, then I’ll quickly silence him, although I’m pretty sure Aaron wouldn’t be happy about that, but he’ll just have to get over it.
“Fine, let’s get moving.”
“Wait, you guys plan going down there?” Max’s mom had a bewildered look on her face. “You see what’s happening and you still want to go down there?!”
“Don’t worry mom everything’s going to be alright, my friends will protect you, they already save my life plenty of times.”
Max’s mom looks at both me and Aaron with a concern look on her face. I don’t blame her, if I was in her situation the last thing I would do is trust my life to two kids I don’t know. Max’s mom walks over to Aaron and grabs his hand.
“Will you please protect me and my son?”
“….” Aaron quietly turns to face me. I guess he was asking for my approval. I simply nod my head in agreement. I feel like even if I disagree with this Aaron would still help them and right now we don’t have time to argue.
“Don’t worry miss, you can count on me and my sis to protect you.” Aaron said confidently.
“Really?” Max’s mom looked Aaron dead in his eyes like she was testing his resolve.
“Alright you guys keep doing whatever you’re doing, I’m going to go scout ahead.” Leaving everyone behind, I walk back down the hill. The moment I reach the bottom I quickly took cover behind a building. I stick my head out a little to get a good look at my surroundings.
The coast is clear…. Actually it’s too clear. I took another look around and notice that the entire area was void of life. Even though a few minutes ago me and Aaron had to make sure we didn’t get trample when we through pass here.
“Huh, where did everyone go?” I nearly jump when I heard someone was behind me. I turn around to see Aaron was behind peeking around the corner just like me.
“Jeez, you could at least told me you were behind me.”
“Sorry, I didn’t want to alert any orcs nearby.” Without even looking at me, Aaron continues to look around. “So, where did everyone go?”
“I don’t know.” I took one last look at my surrounding before finally stepping out from my cover. Everyone else quickly follow behind me.
“You think the orcs got them?” Max ask.
“No I doubt it. If the orcs pass through here there would’ve been some destroy buildings and at least a few corpses on the ground, but this area is simply empty, I guess everyone is taking shelter somewhere.”
“You think maybe we should join them?” Aaron ask.
“If we stay here and hide they’ll eventually find us. Even though our chances of escaping is small it’s at least better than hiding somewhere and waiting for the orcs to get you don’t you guys agree?”
Everyone agree with me in their own unique way, Max’s mom looked like she was going to cry any minute, Max himself for some reason didn’t looked that bother, I have no idea why he have so much faith in me even though we met yesterday. And Aaron of course was ok with my idea.
The four of us walk through the now dead silent town, the fact that there was no sound of fighting or even screaming made the place eerie. As we kept walking a question kept repeating in my head. “Why haven’t we run into any orcs?”
I mean I don’t want to run into any, but from what I saw earlier on the hill the orcs were easily making their way through town. We should’ve ran into a few by now. While I was thinking this, nearly walk into my answer. Standing in front of us was a huge ice wall that block off half the town.
“Whoa, who the heck did this?” Max walks up to the ice wall and lightly taps it.
“I doubt there’s any human here who could do this, and I don’t think the orcs did it either, so that leaves only one person, the elf.”
“Aw, her!” Max clasp his hand like he finally figure out how to solve the puzzle that was bothering him.
“You know her?”
“Yea Aaron and I met her at the cave when we came to save you. She defeated all the orcs by herself by creating some kind of hurricane, if she can do that than I guess creating this wouldn’t be a problem for her.”
“Oh yea sis, before she left she said something about you not telling her your secret, what did she mean by that?”
“It’s nothing.” Is she really still on that?! Just thinking about running into her and her bombarding me with endless question is terrifying me. I look back at the ice wall that’s blocking our path. I got to break it somehow.
I tap the ice wall to test to see if I could break it, but it was pretty obvious the moment I laid eyes on it I wouldn’t be able to. If the orcs can’t break it with their absurd strength, then there’s no way I would be able to scratch it.
“Aaron, see if you can break this wall.”
“Ok.” Aaron grabs one of is arrow out his quiver. “Can you guys step back please?”
All of us quickly back away from the ice wall.
“Is he really planning on destroying that wall with an arrow?” Max’s mom look at me with concern.
“Trust me lady, that’s not an arrow it’s a cannonball.”
Aaron slowly pulled the string on his bow back. I could sense him focusing all his magic into a single point, his arrow.
For some reason Aaron lower his weapon, and all the magic that was gathering around his arrow begin to fade away.
“Sis is this really a good idea?”
“What do you mean?”
“The elf, she created this wall to keep the orcs out. So if we destroy it, not only are we leaving everyone on this side unprotected, but we also might get attack by the orcs that’s probably on the opposite side of this wall.”
“…Good point.” If we destroy this wall we’re pretty much condemning ourselves. So then, how do we get out of here?
“Hey what are guys doing out there?!” The four of us looked around trying to figure out where the voice was coming from.
“Over here you idiots!” We all look towards the adventurer guild, there was a man who was sticking his head out the window. “Stop gawking and get over here!”
For some reason everyone turn to face me, like they were waiting for my permission.”
“C’mon, let’s go.” I headed for adventurer guild everyone else quickly follow behind.
I remember yesterday when I came to this guild it was full of drunk people who couldn’t keep their hands to themselves. Now it’s full of injury people who have defeated looks on their faces.
“You three again?” The guardsman who lets us through the gate walk over to us. The leather amour he was wearing was tore in a lot of places, which told me he barley escape from the orcs attacks alive. “What were you guys planning on doing standing around in the open like that?”
“We were planning on breaking the ice wall.”
“…Are you kids trying to get yourself killed?”
“I could ask you the same thing. Do you really think that wall is going to hold orcs for long?”
“No I don’t think it will, but it’ll buy us enough time for our reinforcement to get here.”
“Reinforcement, when did you guys had time to do that?”
“We call for reinforcement two weeks ago to deal with all these disappearance, they should be arriving soon.”
Yea and they going to be in for a huge surprise when they get here.
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“Ok so you got people coming to rescue you, what makes you think the orcs will just sit around and wait? They can easily fire more of those bombs and destroy this town.”
“They won’t destroy this town.” I suddenly felt someone place their hand on me. I look to see a little girl with a red dress and pointy ear was standing next to me. “Hi Anna.” The girl gave me an extremely bright smile.
“Hey Claire.” I said as unenthusiastic as possible.
“So, about your-“
“What do you mean they won’t destroy this town?” I quickly cut Claire off, the last thing I wanted was for her to question me. A small frown appear on her face, but it quickly faded and was replace with her bright smile again.
“While I was in the cave I overheard them talking about making this town their new home. So I doubt they’ll launch anymore bombs, unless they want to burn their new home down. Which means they’ll either have to pick at my ice wall with their bare hand, or wait for it to melt, both will take a long time.
“I guess you guys actually thought this out.”
“I’m glad you finally agree with us now miss, can please find somewhere to sit and not get into any more trouble?”
“Fine.” I walk away from the guardsman and look around the guild. I notice everyone that was hiding was avoiding the windows. I guess they didn’t want to be spotted by the orcs even though there’s a wall separating us from them. I walk over towards a window so I could look at the ice wall. Their plan sounds pretty good, but there’s a few things bothering me.
For one, why are the orcs so interested in this town? They’re going through all this trouble capture a simple human town why is that? Also where they get their weapons? I’m pretty confident they didn’t make those bombs, so where did they get them from?
There’s too many mystery revolving around them, I wouldn’t be surprise if they did something unexpected.
As I was looking at the ice wall, I notice something flew over it. I could immediately tell that the object that flew over the wall was a bomb.
“Ha….I hate it when I’m right.” I quickly drop to the ground to take cover. A spilt second later I heard the bomb go off. All the window in the guild was blown away as the entire building shook from the explosion.
I looked back out the now destroy window to the area where the ice wall at was now on fire.
“Huh, I didn’t expect them to do this.” Claire said calmly.
“ Shouldn’t you sound a bit more concern?”
“Trust me I am worry, if that wall melts we’re done for.” Claire said nonchalantly.
Everyone in the guild begin to panic. The guards were force to attack a few people to stop them from rushing out the door.
“Everyone calm down!” one of the guards shouted.
“They’re launching bombs at us we’re dead if we stay here!” someone in the crowd shouted.
“Don’t worry, we got this under control!”
Yea, right. I look back out the window to see part of the wall already fully melted. A group of orcs pushes a catapult through the opening.
“For my wall to melt this easily, what kind of bombs are those?”
“I don’t know, but do you think you can fix it?”
“Yea, I can easily repair it, but they’ll just destroy it again with those bombs.”
“You just worry about that wall, I’ll take care of the bombs.” I headed straight towards the door Aaron and Claire quickly follow behind.
“So what’s the plan?” Aaron ask.
“We’re going to take that catapult out so Claire can rebuild her wall. You up for this?”
“Yea.” Aaron quickly answer. Of course I expected nothing different from him.
“Hey where you guys going?” I felt someone place their hand on my shoulder. I turn around to see it was the guard from before.
“We’re going to go save your ass.” I push his hand off my shoulder.
“Do you guys really think you can beat them?”
“I think they can.” Max jumps between me and the guard. “I think they’re the only people who can possibly save us.”
“Listen, I don’t really have time for your games right now.” The guard tries to push Max out the way, but Max grabs on to him and tries to hold him in place.
“Go ahead Anna! Do whatever you’re plan on doing!”
“Nice one Max, you’re actually pretty useful.”
“Um, thank you?”
“Hey wait, get back here!” The guard shouted. Of course we didn’t pay attention to him and headed out the door anyway.
Standing in front of us was about eight orcs and more and more of them was coming through the hole they made in the wall.
“Bring the next bomb!” One of the orcs shouted. Two more orcs came through the wall rolling a huge ball.
“We can’t let them fire another one those. We’re dead if we do.”
“I know that. Don’t worry, me and Aaron will take care of it, just focus on created that wall. Now let’s go!”
I ran towards the catapult as fast as I could. The orcs quickly spotted me heading towards them. Two of them jump off the huge catapult and ran towards me.
“Aaron these two are yours!” I drop on the ground slid underneath them.
“I got it!”
I didn’t turn around to check to see if he got them, I didn’t have time to. I needed to quickly destroy the catapult before they could fire it again. Realizing that I was now a threat, four more orcs ran towards me.
*Tch* Aaron just fire his arrows, it’s going to take him at least a second to prepare his next arrow, which means I’ll have to deal with these guys.
The orc in front of me stops running and his raise his club in the air. From the looks of it he was waiting for me to close the distance, the moment I get in his range he’ll crush me.
As I kept running, I pulled my sword out my sheath. The orc smile the moment he saw my sword, I guess because he knew I would have to get real close to hit him, but he fail to realize that have intention of fighting him up close.
I threw my sword at the orc with all my strength. Caught off guard, the orc tries to move out the way, but my sword land perfectly into his face.
As the orcs slowly fell to the ground, I jump on top of him and pulled my sword out his face. Then I quickly jump off and rolled underneath the other two orcs.
Seeing a shadow looming behind me, I quickly turn around and impale the orc that was behind me in the stomach.
“Get ready to fire!” I look up to see the orcs had place the bomb on the catapult, and one of them was reaching for a lever that was on the catapult. I got back up on my feet and headed towards the catapult, but five more orcs quickly cut me off.
Shit, I’m not going to make it.
Suddenly, the wind pick up. All the orcs that was coming through the wall was blown away. Even the catapult got caught up in wind and was quickly torn apart as it was blown away. Strangely enough the wind didn’t affect me at all. While everything else was getting blown away I was able to stand perfectly still in the fierce breeze.
“Well that take cares of that.” Claire walks up to me with a proud look on her face.
“I told you to worry about the wall. The last thig I need is for you to use up all your mana.”
“Don’t worry I got plenty of mana to spare.” Claire puts her hand on the wall. Slowly the hole that the orcs created was fix. “All done.” Claire gives me another bright smile.
“Do you really think you won?” One of the orcs who legs I cut off started laughing.
“We kick your ass so I think so.” The orc continues to laugh
“You must be the girl Cain looking for. How unlucky, you’re better off dead, because when he gets his hands on you.
That’s all you’ll wish for.” The orc continue to laugh like a madman.
“Um Anna?” Claire taps me on my shoulder.
“What is it?”
“Look.” Claire points to the sky. I look up to see another bomb was flying over the wall.
“Aaron take that bomb out!”
“I got it!” Command: Iron Head>
The arrow that Aaron fire quickly disappear from my sight. A split second later the bomb explodes in the sky. The fire that came from the bomb engulf the entire sky.
I almost relax until I realize that the fire was slowly falling towards us.
All the fire around us stops in midair. I could sense that some kind of magic was stopping the fire from burning us.
I look around to see Max was standing near us. He held his shield to the sky, I guess to keep the fire off us.
“I’m glad I can be of some help.”
“Guys we got another problem.” Claire pointed towards her ice wall. The fire was able to get on the wall, quickly melting it. Soon multiple holes appear in the wall, with a bunch of orcs jumping through the opening. “So what do we do?”
I notice that everyone was looking at me, like they was waiting for an order. When did I become the leader? Well I guess I have been telling everyone what to do for a while now.
“Well running don’t seem to be an options now, so I guess we’re just going to have to fight.”
A/N: Man my updates are random. well at least i'm posting chapters weekly so I guess that's something. Well I hope you guys enjoy the chapter maybe the next one will be out this weekend. But don't quote me, as i said my updates are random. Anyway thanks for reading