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What is this feeling, everything is so loud, the surrounding is to warm. I feel my branches burning, I need to put the fire out. What should I do? Where did the fire come from? “Arrrrrrrrghhhhhhhhhhhhhh” I screamed with all my might. The fire slowly crept going along my branches, getting closer to my trunk.
“My lord, please put the fire out” says someone. As I look around to find them, I can hear its voice reverberating inside my trunk. “Please my lord, hurry before the fire engulfs you” it says again. “How, how can I put the fire out, the more branches I use the more lit aflame.” I say. “My lord, you have to break the burning branches. That’s the only way, even if it’s painful you have to do it my lord.” it’s sounding fearful, of what is going to happen.
Now, what should I do, how should I break myself free. I start using my branches to slam a small builder. Every time I slam it against it, the pain seared through me. Who is at fault, why should I painstakingly break my branches to survive. I’m going to find them, whoever started the fire and destroy them. Them and all their families. There are still burning sticks flying all over the forest, as I look around. My friends are burning, I have to put out the fires. Faster, faster, while I smash my burning branches down on the builder even harder. Finally after all the pain, the burning branches broke of.
“My lord, please, you have to get to safety, we can’t lose another lord.” said a tree. Ohkay, the trees can hear me and talk to me. How can I help them, can they move as well as I?
“Friends, can you move? Let us get out of here together.” I said slowly. “No, my lord, not everyone can move. Most of us is still too young, even you are still young. Please give us an order, so that the ones, who are able to move, can do so.” it said. This tree looked pretty big, even bigger than me, it seems pretty old. Is it possible to move such an old tree? Can it move?
“Ok my friends, I want you to call our brethren and say to them that we are going out of the burning forest. Whoever has burning branches shall break them of their body. Let us go, we have to go the opposite way of where it is burning. We have to find out who did this, to our home.” I said while I slowly moved forward. Every step I take, is vibrating the ground.
“My lord, we have to help our brethren, so you have to go, while we will help those who can move. It is going to be hard to help everyone, we have to get out of the forest as fast as we can.” said one of the older trees.
I still don’t know much about the world around me, but the trees here are mine to protect. Still they are doing the protection, just because I’m a young Entling. As I look back gen south, I saw the flames building up on speed, eating away at a tree every minute. If we don’t move out fast, we will burn to cinder. I started moving forward, slowly but surely, getting away from the fire, while I still see flaming branches flying over my head. What are these things, why are they flying through the air as if they are birds. Another one of my brethren got hit by one of these things, right on the trunk.
“Brother, can I help you?” I asked him while I looked around to find anything to help him. “No, my lord, it is already too late for that. If it was a branch, I could have survived, but right in the middle of my trunk, right next to my core. It is too late for me, you have to run my lord, the small pink creatures are right at the edge of the forest. They are the ones who did this to us.” after talking for a while, I see the fire climbing his frame. “Ahrrrrrrrrrrr” it screamed, my brother screamed and the only thing I can do is watch him burn.
I have to get out of here, I need to find some water, maybe then some of my brothers can survive. As I look around, I see my brethren all running from the fire, all screaming and hissing around. “Damn you fire, we will get back on you” I screamed almost as loud as the time I burned. My family is moving rapidly, we are more than 100, everyone seems to be thinking the same thing. Get the pink monsters, kill them, destroy them and then lets look for more of them to demolish their homes, as they did to ours. Only then we will rest, only then.
It’s been awhile since I last saw an animal, they all fled, fled from my anger, fled from the fire. Everytime I hear it hissing in the air, I see burning sticks flying through the wind. I always loved the wind, how it rustled my leaves, my branches, how it touched my bark. All of us loved the wind, it brought freshness which we couldn’t get otherwise.
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PoV Luigian General
“Sir, the enemy is coming into our sight, they have no weapons, just fleeing from the flame. Should we kill them or should we take them as hostages?” asked my vice general. As I looked at the fleeing mess of an enemy ambush, they all quivered, wailed, some even cried out loud while running as fast as they could. Why are they running so fast? Well the fire is dangerous, but they could have run to the east or west, but they ran right to the north.
“Get them into custody, we need some more slaves to earn us some more money.” breathing slowly, to understand the gist of the circumstances.
“So, what were the rumbling noises from the forest earlier? Do you have any Idea Jamluzlull.” Jamluzlull is my vice general, he has been at my side for the last w0 years, we rose the ranks together. His directness is the most important trait to me, he will always say, if something doesn’t seem right, even to his superiors. He is one of my friends, the only real friend in the army. He is a little bit taller than me, half a head taller, he has a scar in his face, which goes from above his left eyebrow to his left ear. Dark brown eyes and hair, like me he has the body of a veteran soldier. Maybe a little bit more powerful looking since he is a little bit taller.
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“Sir, we don’t know anything at all, maybe it was one of the enemy soldiers, maybe it was the wind.” he says with his strong voice. “I don’t like the feeling of the forest, didn’t we send in scouts before the war?” i said while looking over my soldiers who were currently apprehending the enemy.
“We did a thorough search in the woods 2 weeks ago, nothing abnormal, animals, trees, insects. Nothing out of the ordinary, some parts felt a little bit eerie but it’s like that in every forest.” after saying all that, he took a small breath. “As you can see Sir, we need to put our plan into motion, since their ambush failed and the forest is now closed of. We are not going to need so many soldiers to protect our flank. Let us go to the field and confront them directly, we have an overwhelming advantage. Almost double the amount of soldiers, we could have just overrun them with our forces. Without the need of turning the forest into flames, even if the enemy attacked our rear.” he said while still a little bit out of breath from all the talking. He hates to talk, but when he talks, he is mostly right.
“No, we don’t know how they would have divided their army, what would have happened if they had half their army in the woods. While we attack the main camp on the grassland, they would have managed to break through our main camp, or even just attacked our attacking army’s rear. I don’t wanna think about the consequences, sometimes even a small force from behind can annihilate a more numerous enemy. You should know the term, ‘An injured animal is a dangerous animal’.” I said with a stern face.
Some soldiers came running, probably a scout, his face looks aghast, completely frightened. “General Makinba, vice General we have a problem.” as he breathed deeply. “The enemy which we got under captivity, is saying some dangerous things. They heard loud booming voices in the forest, the ground was moving they said, Sir. Something dangerous is lurking within and we seemed to have it awoken.” He turned around to look at the still fleeing ambushing party.
“Tell me soldier, how many enemies did we capture?” I said while also looking to count them with my eyes. “General,
Sir, we got up to 3000 till now, but that was less than half the soldiers they had Sir. One of the captives said that they had 7500 soldiers in the forest. Planning to pincer attack our forces when the right time came.” He looked troubled to wait for an order.
“What about the rest, are they still fleeing in our direction?” I asked him. “Sir, we don’t know, a lot of them got burned to death, some of them still running. Sir, do you have any other orders?” he looked at me, and then at the vice general Jamluzlull. “Good work soldier, catch a breath and I await your further reports. I want the exact number of soldiers in our custody, and also what sort of soldiers they were. “ Then I turned to Jamluzlull, while waiting for the scout to go his way.
“Prepare to sortie, we are going to annihilate them now since they don’t have anymore soldiers lying in ambush. I want the knights on the left wing, our archers first line, second line our spear platoons and right behind them we need our sword platoons. First firing arrows till they get in danger, if the enemy knights charge them, we put the spear unit up front and destroy them. We should wait until we launch our knights into their unsuspected left side. When their infantry moved out. Just mow down the enemy archers. We need to finish this battle as fast as possible, the is still the capital of the Kerbygien Federation waiting for us.” As I looked him, in the eyes, I saw them sparkle in anticipation. He loves wars, he is born for bloodshed and so am I. “Yes Sir, I’ll prepare everything we need, 1 hour till departure.” As I see him walking away and informing our units, watching the stream of soldiers running away from the forest.
It seems like only a little bit of soldiers left. It won’t take longer than an hour for most of them to be apprehended. Then I see the scout back, he rushes to me after finding me in the mass. “Sir, we have apprehended 5000 enemies, everyone is in chains. 3000 sword soldiers, 1000 archers and 1000 spear soldiers. They still miss 750 spear and archer units each.”
“Good work soldier, any other news from the forest?” I asked him while looking at the forest. “No Sir, still the same.” the scout says. “Ok, take a rest, one hour till we start our attack on the main force.” as I turn my back to him and walk to my tent, I hear him moving away to his colleagues. While my tent is bigger than the one from the soldiers, there are also more people in it, some strategists some staff officers all working and looking at the map.
Let us see if we can finish this campaign in this month, we are still a week marsch away from the enemy capital. We should finish fast, or other nations will try to attack us while we are defeating the Kerbygien Federation.
Is the army of General Makinba fast enough to begin the assault? Is the entling going to fight the humans?
Is the war already decided?
This and everything else we might wanna know in the next chapter of Ent of Pyromancy.
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