Avalon/Roleplay Section/Hector/The Battle of Henhower, part II
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The Battle of Henhower, part II
The skies were grey, at least that's what Revan could make out of all the treetops in the way.
"Let's go"
Soon after, the sound of the undead fill the men's ears. The men grab what wounded they could and dart off. Revan looks back at his men to make sure none had been left behind. He saw one man struggling on a wounded.
"Here, I got him."
Revan hoists the wounded man over his shoulder while still run at full speed. The soldier is relieved a bit but his face still bare the fear of being caught by the undead.
"Revan, what are we going to do? 700 of those damned sacs of flesh, we'll never make it out."
"Oh, quit whining soldier. With an attitude like that i'm surprised we're not being chased by you!"
The wounded man on Revan's shoulder had a bloody gash upon his head. He could still see but with a red gloss over his sight. He takes a look at the horde behind them in horror. The undead, dead men that yet still lived. Not only were there dead men there were also the preditorial creatures of the area. Few like giant house cats. The undead think nothing of the trees as they either bounce off of them or plow right throught them showing no sign of fatigue. Water pertrudes through the blood on the wounded man's face through his eyes.
Revan and his men, just a little bit behind Hector's men, were gaining speed away from the horde that lie behind them. The trees broke away to a small valley. The men could see Hector's unit fall into the valley and freeze. When the men enter the quiet valley they held their breath to see the pale flesh of a small group of undead barreling towards them.
"Go Hector, I can hold them off."
"Revan, are you crazy? You'll die here."
"Hector, It's either you or me. Now get going and don't waste any more time."
"I'm sorry Revan, but I'm staying to fight."
Revan turns to the monsters and calls his men to a defensive box formation.
"Throw the wounded behind us, I don't want them to get in the way."
Hectors men join Revans to create the box formation. Revan and Hector stand in front of the box and wait.
"I knew this would happen, Didn't I tell Grim-Reaper it was too risky to TO Henhower?"
Hector did not reply, he unsheathes his sword and assumes a battle ready stance. His sword seemed to shimmer like silver though no light could have done this. Revan prepares for battle. It began to rain. The horde was seconds in front of them. Revan could clearly distinguish the shape of the beasts and the second before the two masses clashed Revan was not scared of the beasts that wanted his blood soo badly. In fact he felt brotherly towards them.
As living began to fight undead Revan clearly knew that it was rediculus to think like that. The first to attack Revan was an undead giant cat. He fell to the floor and raised his blade to cut the underbelly of it. The undead beast fell to the floor, still flinching but with not enough mobility to do anything. Revan quickly picked himself up to slice the right side of an undead in the form of a human. He finished the undead with a clean spin and a quick slice of the neck, causing the head to spin and fall to the ground as its body did. Revan charges another monster and sinks his blade in the left leg of another undead. The leg snaps like a tree freshly cut by a wood cutter. To finish the undead off, Revan crushes the head with a powerful stomp with his foot, continuing on to the next monster.
The men had fought well but many had start to fall. Down to the few men Hector had he spoke.
"RETREAT!!"
Revan followed that up with the same call. He had 4 men down to their last breath. Hector's men run off into the valley. Revan runs blindly out of the skirmish towards the forest. He would have turned around since that was where they were being chased by the first monster horde but he was already ahead of the monsters.
3 men safetly make it out of the skirmish but one struggled at first but was then caught by an undead that had jumped into the sky and onto the poor soldier. The undead beast bit down into the neck of the soldier and ripped out a chunk of the soldiers neck with the veins spraying out a stream of red blood that shot at least 3 feet away. Revan and his three men ran wildly into the forest. They were soon met by the bulk of the horde that was chasing them. Revan verred left and never looked back. He was running faster than he had ever ran but no matter how fast Revan ran the undead seemed to match his speed. One undead managed to slash Revan on the back and Revan cried out to no one but the beasts behind him.
A flash appeared ahead of him and a crack. A tree had been struck by lightning and before it could fall Revan slipped under the tree, blocking off the undead with a blaze of fire.
Through the orange and red flames of the fire, Revan could see the undead making it's way slowly closer to the cave. It was absolutely horrifying to Revan and his eyes buldged, starring at the undead closing in on him. One undead had made it into the flames and embraced them. It was burning alive, or burning dead, walking through the scorching flames that burnt the skin into crisp that cracked off as it moved. It fell on the floor, motionless. The rest of the horde walked into the flames all burning in one hellish inferno so bloodthirsty and determined to kill Revan. Revan could smell the peutrid smell of burning flesh that filled the whole cave and it became hard to breath. All that night Revan had the horrifying sight of undead after undead walk into the greedy flames that claimed one after one. It had saved Revan's life but at a terrifying display that wouldn't let Revan sleep.
The next day Revan had claimed the area safe and he kicked what was a combination of flesh and dirt onto the flames and they went out. Revan wandered around the area and finnaly found one wounded man in a tree. He soon after found the last two in a rotting tree. He took one deep breath and ordered his men to move on.
"Carry on men."
Next: The Battle of Henhower, Part III (Written by Hector): (Avalon/Roleplay_Section/Hector/The Battle of Henhower, part III)
