The Unknown Battle
Kvothe woke up, it was morning, and after a short breakfast and meeting with Ra’Gru it has been decided we should march at once, to end the war today and return home tomorrow. Kvothe watched as the orc gave a short inspirational speech as it has been suggested to him in the planning meeting, and even though he was a great inspirer, the speech was good enough to make the troops ready to fight.
Kvothe though “so we finally march to kill the necromancer, sighs I wish I had brought my beloved war horse with me, he really knows how to walk and make me feel like I am sleeping, sighs”
As a captain of the rear guard and reserves Kvothe had send cavalry units in many directions behind the army to ensure no surprise attack was done on them by the enemy forces. After many hours of marching the air become thick, and you could see the elves began to become restless and wary, the necromancer fortress and army should be near soon.
Kvothe suddenly saw the army “Damn necromancer, he should have around 40 thousand in there and not only undead but there are thousands of orcs and Wildman…..This is going to make the battle much harder.” Suddenly the necromancer started its attack on the front ranks of the army that fought valiantly to stop them, but had begun to lose ground…
“Reserve ready! ….march to the center! Do not let them break! GO! Go! Go!” Thousand in reserver suddenly joined the center and began pushing back the necromancer forces….meanwhile Kvothe observed the fight his vision was block for a second and then the man next to him gave a death sound….and archer had skillfully kill him with a single arrow to the neck. Kvothe could see many more men were starting to fall dead suddenly.
Kvothe looked frenetically around until he saw them: “In the hill they are in the hill! Kalerus you stay here and mange my forces I will take some cavalry units and kill the little bastards!”
Kvothe and a few cavalry units ride at full speed to the hill and caught with the fleeing archers letting none alive. From the hill he could see the battle in a so much better, he saw the Army of the light pushing the necromancer forces back steadily and grinned, but that was a mistake that second allowed an enemy raiders force to surround him and his companions before anyone noticed. They were Goblins and were riding and sort of beats similar to direwolf but different at the same time.
Kvothe saw them and thought” Wargs, dammit they have wargs, I got distracted for a second and this happens’….how many are they? He asks the soldier next to him (Known to be a supreme fast counter): my lord their forces outmatch ours 10 to 1 and as you know their agility and ferocity is great. Sir, we cannot hope to fight them lets retreat.
“NO, if we do they will charge into the frontlines and will smash through them as they were water, none have noticed them, and the elf won’t see them coming before they are torn apart. We must fight them here and hopes someone noticed and hears in time”
Then a battle unknown to anyone but that could change the course of the battle began the nordmen were outnumber and in reality outclassed but fought bravely, the beast were agile and could jump taking the raider from their horses or killing the horse easily but the nord fought back with Kvothe to the front thinking all the while: “ Damn this things are good if we could use direwolfs like this no cavalry force would be better than our, but no direwolf are too proud to let themselves be rode like a horse and too wild, I guess you need to be as wild as this goblins to connect with the beast you ride, sighs.”
Suddenly a warg attacked by the back side and tore the horse neck in a single clean bite, the horse, understandably, launched Kvothe to the ground and a pop was hear by himself.
A sudden pain hit Kvothe and his mind went frenetic with thinking: `Thanks the creator Invidia took my Thir (his battle horse) to a ride with her the day I was departing the city, so I could not take it to war and his possible dead, sighs I wonder if she loves that horse more than me…..well she was always cold to everyone except that horse, it will devastate her if the horse were to die here with me…I am glad he is not going to die here with me” a sudden new wave of pain hit him stopping his thoughts for a sec and then it started again, is it say people have monologues with themselves and high speed when they are certain their death is her for them, this was Kvothe death monologue.
“Damn I am going to die here; will my son be ready for command? How is he going to react to be the leader now? I worry about him…I found a good girl he could marry but this war ended the plans and now he may not even now I promise him to someone, he is a good son but bit too extreme the girl would have done good to him….what will happen to him in the assembly, will some older lord, perhaps from coanmel, tell him I didn’t teach a thing or two about ruling and behaving? When he express a misinformed opinion? Just Like I did to that poor elf lady …what was her name…Eylinn Mindrilla yes that was her name….I was too rough with her she is just a child…she has to learn but I went too far…sigh nothing that can be done about it anyway” another wave of pain hit him….it appears they though him death or to injure to do much as they did not finish him yet.
“What will my beloved daughters do? Will they cry for me? Yes, yes they will, thought maybe not Invidia, damn that child never cries…except for the horse a voice remain him.., I haven’t even found suitable marriage to them, except for Navaris and Alera….Navaris... sighs.. I should have sent a letter informing her of it, Javert will do the marriage I know but I fear he doesn’t know how to handle her…sighs…and Alera so young and already engaged to Salah Al-Din heir…it is a good match I just hope Javert doesn’t tell her until later, she is young no need to inform her of such things , better to present them and make them become friends and hopefully lovers when they grow up before telling them, yes that’s a better way…..”
“My wife will surely cry for me, but she is a resourceful and brave woman, she will probably find a new husband to help her rise my daughters soon enough, though I just hope this guy doesn’t try to think himself as new leader of Kalare …javert would never stand for it, not when the law is in his side…sighs”
Then Kvothe opened his eyes, all that thinking and only a few seconds had pass in the real world and three wars were walking to him, it was surely his end…”No, if I am going to die then I will take as many as I can with me, not only my family will suffer my death!”
He raised from the ground hands clenching his family sword said to has been made in the fire of a volcano by Kalerus Kalare himself and launched himself to the warg in front of him cutting him in half!, using the speed he rotated and kill the warg behind him by crushing his head with the sword but the third warg was upon him…no way to kill him…it was surely Kvothe demise but then 2 arrows impacted the warg and rider alike saving Kvothe from his imminent death and dozens and dozens of riders hit the wargs and routed them form the battlefield, Kalarus Antillus was with them and offered a horse to Kvothe: My lord here you are I was wondering where you were and I find you sleeping in the middle of the battle!, both men laugh at this.
When going down the hill they saw the black smock swelling everything and mean screaming in horror and understood that they need to hit the enemy frontline to allow and orderly retreat even if it may mean their deaths! , and so they charged into the darkness and began to kill anything they touched with their swords until they reached were Jacob was, he saw them and was grinning and suddenly light began pouring from him cleaning the darkness away and launching the Light army into an frenzy attack. Kvothe took off to kill the necromancer and just when he was going to throw a heavy spear to impale him the Ra’Gru got in front of him and killed the necromancer with a swift decapitation, Kvothe laugh and congratulated the orc he almost impaled ( hadn’t he reacted quickly enough he would have thrown the spear and hit the orc).