Tale of the Twilight Warriors

Chapter 3: Thaddious's army.

The smog grew closer, at a alarming rate, soon it would rest outside the castle gate. Shadow and Gabriel stood fully armed awaiting the imposing threat, Lucious stood next to them dumbfounded, the smog stopped not twenty yards from the kingdom. The sound of a foreign language echoed throughout the skies, bowstrings snapped and the sound of arrows raining down apon the kingdom echoed through the air. "You are pitiful, you cloak yourselves behind smog, because you are too afraid to show your faces" Gabriel shouted.

"It's sad, when two men stand tall infront of an entire army and they hide!" Shadow chuckled.

"What in the hell are you two thinking?!" Lucious scoweled at them

"In our last seconds of life, why can't we just enjoy them?" Gabriel smiled, "Yea, you need to quit being such an ungrateful rat, and cheer up, you've only got a little bit of time left." Shadow stared into the smog.

"So, are you cowards going to lift that veil of smog, or are you going to hide behind it and treat it as a tactical victory, because we're looking for a fight!" Shadow yelled.

The voices of hundreds of lost souls echoed from one person "ENOUGH" "Imputent rats, insulting my army!" The smog parted, as a man dressed in black armour that was trimmed in a glowing crimson stood tall. "You wish for a fight, you insult me, what sort of warriors are you?"

Thaddious chuckled, his voice seemed to echo through the air, a thousand different voices in one, a thousand diferent screams and pitches. "Well, approach me fools."

Gabriel and Shadow walked until they met Thaddious face to face, his armour hid the fiend inside, "you wish to battle, yet you know nothing of battle, i doubt you have even seen war, yet you call yourseles kings?" He chuckled. It sounded distorted, hollow and ugly "Well, we were just crowned today, and no we know nothing of war, but we are plenty capable of fighting" Gabriel drew his Helix edge. Shadow drew his blade "Ah. if you think you are worthy enough to fight me you are wrong, i just wanted you to see the face of the man who's about to take everything you love and force you to watch as my fiends strip them of there life!" He bellowed, the smog fully lifted, six flanks of five men wide ten long stood in the front of the line. A line of at least fourty archers stood behind that, then a shield wall, more archers, then spear men and finally in the back a huge line of what appeared to be mages.

     "Well then, if you two expect to take on my smallest squadren, then please, proceed i wish to see you fight." Thaddious stood in the center of the first line of troops. "Then come now" Shadow cletched his blade tightly and held his defender with an iron grip. They ran into a flank of the dark creatures yet there blades bounced from there armour.

     "Ahahah... You expect to win, to fight for your home, your loved ones, when you know nothing of the foes you face... pitiful, yet admirable, proceed, i'll continue toying with you" Thaddious's laugh was so annoying to Gabriels ears "can you stop laughing, it's annoying" he said a loud on accident. "What? My Laugh? It annoys you? Why you imputent pup" Shadow and Gabriel rushed again at the first flank infront of them, only to be cast aside like nothing as the army moved forward step by step. They were ten yards away from the entrance when someone yelled from the battlements.

     "Remember Shadow! Gabriel! Rememer, who and what you are fighting for! Let that fuel your will! Let the power of what you wish, condem these accursed foes!"

   Thaddious looked up at the sky "Felix..." He turned to the troups, alright, no more games, take them into custody."

    They surrounded Shadow and Gabriel quickly "Shadow, Gabriel, if you die now, what were you fighting for, if you let them take you, what did you fight for?!" "It will be a fight, for naught as you would have gotten no were, i know the light within you is strong just let it be seen!" the words echoed through Shadow and Gabriels ears, they felt an odd sense of strength and power as well as honor, a feeling of enlightenment. They had begun to glow, not just there weapons there entirety, they struck quickly around them slaughtering any troop who came close "We fight for our people! Our land! Our love! our purpose! We fight, for the lives of thousands!" Shadow and Gabriel screamed, the flanks started to dissapate as they cut them down.