Colour throne

The Raid

      The next day, all the soldiers were nervous to head into a hopeless fight. Nos called us all into an meeting to talk about the battle plans. Richard and I were trudging along, on our way to the meeting. Soldiers murmured to each other as we entered the giant tent that we had set up for the meeting.

      "All right everyone," Said Nos as we all entered, "We all know that the Red Kingdom troops outnumber us. But just remember, we have the element of surprise and we can probably wipe out half of their troops before they even know whats happening."

      "What about Antitso and Conex?" Asked a nervous soldiers as he raised his hand, "Won't they wipe out half of our troops before we can even see them?"

      "Great question soldier," Nos replied, " That's why I suspect that they won't be in the camp. They'll probably be waiting outside somewhere, ready to ambush us, since they know we're coming up and attacking them. I'll assemble an elite force to fight them if they do ambush us. Lenard can lead this squad with Richard"

      Several heads turned to look at me. Me fighting Antitso and Conex? Even with Richard and the elite force, the thought was nearly impossible. Still, I nodded my head.

       "No problem," I said, loud enough for everyone to hear me, "We'll stop Antitso and Conex here!"

      Our troops cheered and headed out of the tent to grab their weapons and get ready for combat.

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      After a few hours, our troops were marching along the rocky paths of Mt.Orb. After a while, a heavy fog swept into the paths, making it almost impossible to see anything. Nos said that the fog would help conceal our positions, but it would just make the battle much more chaotic and crazy.

      Soon, the camp came into view. It was built in a weird formation as it was at the edge of a ledge. I noticed that the ledge like the same ledge that Ivor stood on when he teleported Antitso and his army away.

       The camp wasn't as impressive as it was big though. Rough stone walls were piled around the camp, with 2 meter deep trenches along the entire perimeter. A few cannons were pivoted onto the walls, but they were rusty and didn't seem like much of a threat.

       A few soldiers wanted to attack right away, but Nos said we needed to first set traps for the ambush and scout the camp for enemies. Our troops spreaded out and started setting traps around the perimeter of the camp. Weirdly, there was a forest grown on the huge ledge with towering tree's and bushes, making it impossible to see what was on the other side of it.

      We set snares, sharpened sticks and even pits covered with leaves all around the forest just to make sure there were no enemies inside the forest. After a few hours, at noon, Nos finally gave the command to attack. Our cannons first shot a few rallies into the camp, then our soldiers drew their swords and in a neat shield wall formation, they began advancing onto the camp.

      Strangely, no guards came out of the barrackes even when we opened the main gate. Our soldiers rushed inside and checked all the tents and found nothing. It was an empty camp. I followed Richard into the main tent with a Red Kingdom flag flying on top. Inside was a roughly made throne out of stone and creaky wood at the far corner, but the main attention was on a giant gold table at the center.

      On top of it layed several pieced of paper with sketches on it. Several were pictures of Norripods with glowing black eyes, just like the one Richard and I encountered. At the very center of the table, was a clear glass jar with some sort of black gas inside it.