Epiphany

War

A few minutes from sunrise, the sky still dark, stars still glowing.

Far away in the horizon glistened the first blushes of sun ray, pinkish tainted clouds were slowly advancing, bringing morning dew and freshness to the land, the winds were calmly breathing lukewarm breeze on the big castle and the villagers.

Close to the Tenetika kingdom's outter gates, hundreds of tents were anchored, the only sound that could be heard was that of soldiers snoring, and metalic gear being grated against dirt, for they all slept wearing armor, all ready to react and ripost if ever the Wealdlanders attempted a sneak attack.

The villagers composed of women, children, and few elders were all hiding in their homes, every man's presence was requested by Theon.

Then trained into the arts of war, and were all asleep outside in one of the tents, the alleys were empty not even a cat, silence was the ultimate and only sovereign of the village.

Lily had her silver sabatons, greaves, cuishes, and plackarts, along with golden poleyns, long tasses and gardbraces already on.

She was now attaching her couters, then her gauntlets and finally helmet.
She then held her blue buckler, secured it to her left hand, and grabbed her long sword with her right, then advanced through the large hall leading to stairs that opened on the lower side of the castle.

Meanwhile outside the outter gates, the tenetika soldiers along with their leader Theon were preparing themselves and the field to the upcoming battle.

Today was a big day, if all goes as openly planned Thaumael, and secretly did Maximilian, the war shall end with Tenetika's victory for a start, and Miervall and Shiva shall be captured at last.

Not far away, came out of the bushes a small piglet who was then spotted galloping towards the kingdom's outter gates where Theon's troops were, they all stared with an air of confusion

Is it a trap concocted by the wealdlanders, a messenger bringing letters from them, or just a coincidence.

He kept advancing towards the gate, passing under the few first raws of soldiers, he now was seeking the imposing outer gates.

Running fervently like his life depended on it, seemingly trying to escape some sort of threat, which was a signal that the Wealdlanders were close.

No one gave much attention to the tiny intruder, especially now that the wealdlanders troops peeked suddently from outside the forest from which the piglet came from, and stood there for an instant.

Theon who took their reluctance for revulsion when faced with the huge Tenetika army, screamed: " today we'll win, ATTACK !".

The army started rushing towards the forest, meanwhilst the Tenetika archers showered them with sharp arrows, but nothing seemed to change, the dark shadowy figures were still unmoved, standing there, transpierced by arrows, not even bleeding.

Mid way to their target, the tenetika troops witnessed a strange glow intensifying for a few moments between the trees, followed by a big explosion amidsts the rows closer to the gate.

A humongous beast seemed to appear from nowhere, a metalic boar like figure whos body was composed entirely of golden alloy bars, in its core was a chimney like device that started steaming and breathing black smoke from its crown, itself extruding from the metalic beast's back.

Its elongated head held many long and sharp tusk shaped structures coming out of the beast's mouth Dispersed but pointing to its front, its snout also made with golden aloy bars ending with a robust heavy shield like structure on its front end.