Rescuing Amikin: Tales of Embria

village lost!

As soon as Karn walked into the village he jumped of Arkius and went to his second.

"Karn the centaur are attacking. The chieftain of chiefs looks changed? What's happening? I've set up defences around the village." Karn nodded to him telling him to come.

"You have done well Zabic, I would like you to meet Calum, Calum this is Zabic, my second." Nodding at Calum Zabic walked to him and was about to shake his hand, but suddenly an ear cracking rumble came. It sounded like something was smashing a wall. Remembering the picture of Amikin the giant thrashing the walls he yelled.

"Amikin! Get down!" everyone that heard immediately went to ground. Karn nudged him on the shoulder pointed at a stone building. He started yelling orders for people to get to the safe houses. Immediately Nephilim entered the stone houses in an orderly fashion.

"Ten in each house!" he heard Karn yell.

"Warriors to the walls. All around know the warriors ran to the walls. Getting out of range of the tumbling rocks.

Calum, Karn, Arkius and Zabic waited for the rest of the civilians to get to safety before fleeing out of range themselves. Rocks bounded all around them, but Arkius was determined not to let them down and ran faster and faster and faster. A huge boulder went in their path. Seeing the danger Arkius turned at immense speed dodging it. They watched as the rocks destroyed the wooden huts all around them, Then to make things worse, the speed of the rocks made them continue and smash into the walls causing holes to appear in them. 

They were finally safe. They jumped of Arkius. Calum began to hug his companion. Arkius nudged his arm with joy at the praise. Then stopped and saw that the two tribesmen were bowing to him. Then he lowered his head slightly as if to bow back.

Their reunion was interrupted by the sound of battle cries.

"The troops!" Zabic yelled running in the direction of the screams Karn looked at Arkius who had already picked up a stick and wrote in the dirt "jump on!" Karn did so after calum and they rushed to pick up Zabic who was still running. In no time they were next to him. With a brief stop to let him climb on Arkius. They raced towards the noises. They were there in the village centre. Hit by the surprise attack, small pockets of nephilim were stuck in deadly battle with the centaur. A hoof kicked out at a nephilim who was smashed on the floor. Zabic roared at the sight and jumped off. Running to the nephilims aid he hammered the centaur with a cross punch and combo it with a smash with his battle hammer. The centaur didn't move. The grounded nephilim rose to join the fight again. Karn stopped him.

"Get the remaining warriors to gather the civilians and evacuate the village. The warrior looked confused but didn't question. Zabic began rounding up groups of warriors. Telling them to get out of the village.

Calum looked across the battlefield and all the warriors trapped in the hoard of horsemen were dead now, overwhelmed by numbers. Karn also ran to the safe houses and told everyone to run. Women and children ran out the house and in lines joined the remaining warriors. But the army was still behind them. Arkius and Calum ran to join Karn in the evacuation. Looking back he saw an odd twenty nephilim warriors break off from the group. Zabic's voice roared through the village.

"Karn get them out, we will hold them off long enough for you to get to the tunnels!" Then he turned and began to hammer at the centaur forces. At the back, Karn and Calum looked and saw the white Albino horseman hiding in the shade.

"We will kill you." Karn whispered. 

They ran to the furthest wall of the village. Callum was confused. "It's a dead end." Karn nodded at ten warriors who dropped their hammers and started taking down the wall. Calum noticed little clips of metal being undone. Soon villagers were running in orderly lines through the hole. Then the ten warriors picked up their hammers, placed them down outside the walls and ran back in to get the pieces. They clamped the wall pieces back into place, picked up their hammers and joined the main group.