My Last Hope (Truth Series 4)

46: Betrayel

Third Person POV

While Soro, Star, Ridge, and Sierra are off training, everyone else prepares for war. And rightly so. Two months after the four leave for the spirit mountain, Sky Army, the Creatures, the Yogscast, hundreds of Yognau(gh)ts, and countless other friends and allies stand ready in Craft City.

Soldiers stand on the walls surrounding the city. Some are armed with bows and arrows. Others are heavily armed with swords and potions. Several towers stand among the wall. Inside recruits act as lookouts, keeping a close watch on the surrounding forest, plains, and sky. Behind the walls, inside the city, soldiers patrol the streets ready to defend civilians. Most of the civilians have evacuated the city. However, a stubborn hundred or so remain. Sky and his generals walk among the soldiers, ready to call them to order and defend their city. Various friends and allies stand ready with them.

A lookout's cry of pain is cut short as an arrow pierces his heart. Blood quickly soaks through his armor. A second lookout goes to sound the alarm. He is shot down before he reaches it. Soldiers along the walls start falling to the ground as an array of arrows fly at them. Mitch gets hit in the shoulder. He ducks into the cover of one of the towers. Knowing better than to remove the arrow right arrow he breaks the shaft off. He bites his lip to stifle a cry of pain as the arrow moves slighting inside him. Blood drips steadily down his shoulder. He calls to a soldier at the bottom of the tower. "We're under attack! Tell Sky and the others!" The soldier runs off. Mitch takes hold at the top of the tower. He checks on both soldiers there and sighs when he realizes their dead. "Brine will pay for this." He mutters. He looks out the tower. Skeletons and zombies atand in the cover of the forest. Endermen tear out blocks from the walls. "Shit." In the plains several rogues recruited by Brine close in on the city with witches. There's a loud boom and the tower shakes. Mitch looks down. "Fuck." Creepers explode next to the walls creating holes in Craft City's defense. Mitch readies his bow and fires taking out as many creepers as they can before they explode. He's too late with the combined efforts of the endermen and creepers, Brine's forces march past the walls and into the city.

Ty stands with Sky ready to take action. A soldier runs up to them. The two recognize the soldier to be one of Sky Army's recruits, a small girl named Moca. "Commander Sky! General Deadlox!" She cries out. "What is it?" Sky demands. "General Mitch sent me! Brine has attacked the walls. "Notify everyone else." Sky orders. "Recruits! Form lines at the walls! We won't let those bastards into our city!" Together Sky, Ty, and the recruits charge the walls. "Form ranks! Don't let anyone past you!" The commander, his general, and the recruits clash with the rogues and witches piling in through the holes in the wall. In the chaos, the commander and his general are separated. Ty fights on his own surrounded by witches and rogues. A rogue lands a lucky blow on Ty's shoulder. Ty cries out as one of his arms is disabled. The rogue's sword having severed the young general's muscul. But, Ty doesn't let him stop him. He cuts through one of the witches just as another poisons him. He takes out rogue after rogue and witch after witch only to find them immediately replaced by more. Soon Ty finds himself covered in blood. The blood of his own shoulder wound and the blood of his enemies. The poison in his system slows him down. A rogue's sword cuts through his back. Ty cries out and swirls around to strike him only to be tripped by another. He falls to the ground with a shout. A rogue shoves his sword through Ty's leg pinning him to the ground. He feels blood pooling beneath him. A second rogue then slowly pierces the young general's heart grinning at his screams of pain and terror. Ty tries to get away but only makes it worse. The last thing he hears before his world goes black is the voice of his best friend and commander. "Ty!"

Sky fights his way through the rogues and witches. He ignores the cuts and scrapes he gets from attacks he can't avoid. Ignoring the blood dripping from his wounds and fighting on as any soldier should and any of the commander's would. "Ty!" He sees his friend on the ground surrounded by Brine's forces. He cuts down rogue and witch alike until he reaches his friend's side. He screams in rage. "NO!" He is too late. His best friend lies dead in a pool of his own blood. "YOU'LL PAY! YOU WILL ALL PAY FOR THIS!" Sky doesn't hesitate to bring his rake his sword through those that had surround his friend. Sky stands his ground by his friend's body. The monsters that murdered him will not get the chance to defile his body. He kills rogue after rogue and witch after witch. He continues to fight regardless of the reddened tears streaming down his face. "YOU'LL PAY FOR THIS! YOU HEAR ME! YOU'LL FUCKING PAY FOR THIS! EVERY LAST ONE OF YOU!"