Colour throne

Plans

I woke up in a small room, lit by only a candle in the corner. I shifted in the bed and found out that I could move my leg again. The poison from the arrow must have worn off. Or I've died and I'm in heaven now. The small wooden door creaked open and Richard walked in.

"How are you feeling?" He asked me

"Not bad," I replied, "Where are the others?"

"Nos and Hal are in the Throne room right now," Richard answered, "They want us down there as soon as possible. As for Alexia, she got separated from us in the battle. I'm assuming she died."

My heart filled with dread. Alexia had only been part of this team for a while. She couldn't have just died.

"Maybe she's still alive," I said, "She's pretty powerful, I mean she took on Ivor himself and managed to hold on for a while."

"Sure, maybe," Richard replied, "Anyways, King Pelias wants us down in the throne room now. You think you can walk?"

I tried to stand up, but immediately, black spots started to dance in my eyes. A wave of pain nearly made me black out.

"Whoa, take it easy," Richard said, "We managed to drain most of the poison away, but it's still going to hurt for a while. You think you can walk to the Throne Room?"

I nodded and slipped out of bed. For some reason, I was still wearing my armour over my cloths. Together, me, with Richard helping me, I managed to limp out of my room and within a couple of minutes, into the Throne Room.

In the Throne Room, there were at least 20 people, all dressed in robes and expensive clothing, argued around this large table. King Pelias slouched in his Throne as always. He seemed tired, as if the arguing made him weak. On the table, there was a huge map of Gala. There were certain green coloured pieces scattered around our Kingdom, but they were pathetically few compared to the red pieces surrounding our Kingdom. All the arguing and talking died out the second that I walked into the room.

"Lenard, I see that you made a recovery from your wound last battle," He said, "You'll need it for the next couple of days."

"What's all this?" I asked, waving at the huge table with the map on it.

"Oh, that's a map of Gala," King Pelias replied, "After your loss at the Battle Of Ground Lake-

"After you refused to send reinforcements, like you said," I said, "We could've held it if we just had a couple more soldiers!"

"I know Lenard, and I'm truly sorry for that, but you must understand," King Pelias countered, "We need the soldiers to hold the kingdom. All of southern Green Kingdom has collapsed to the Red Kingdom regime. The Red Kingdom's next move is to take out our capitol. That's the only place with a resistance left. That's why I brought all these commanders here. We need to disguise our next move. And you Lenard are the highest ranking commander we have."

"What's all this?" I asked pointing at 3 green pieces that are surrounded by red one's located around the southern part of the green kingdom, "Are they the remaining soldiers that got cut off from the main group in the battle?"

"Yes, Lenard," King Pelias said, nodding, "We have 3 whole legions stuck there. My scouts report that they are being attacked ruthlessly by the Red Kingdom legions surrounding it."

I glanced at the map. There were around 10 Red Pieces around the 3 trapped ones. Suddenly, I had a question.

"How come the Red Kingdom have so many soldiers?" I asked, "They even outnumbered the Gray Kingdom, which used to have the highest population by far."