Colour throne

Harbor

       Hal, Alexia, Nos, Richard and I climbed out of The Gallion just as it docked onto the Green Kingdom docks. The civilians muttered nervously as we walked past them and towards the Green Kingdom capital. The guards nodded respectfully at us as they opened the heavy gold doors of the Throne Room.

     King Pelias was lounging in his throne and straightened when he saw us walk in.

     "So, how'd it go?" Said the king, with a smile that was clearly forced, "I heard you arrived, but a large portion of your strike team didn't make it."

      I started explaining how we had spied on the Red Kingdom and managed to escape. King Pelias nodded, but his entire attention was on Loth, which was still strapped onto my belt.

      "So, I see that you managed to retrieve Loth," King Pelias said, "That'll be useful to us later. Now, if what you have heard from Ivor is true, we must organize a army to raid the Red Kingdom first by the sea."

      Nos started to protest, but King Pelias silenced him with his hand, "I know, I know what your going to say. Green Kingdom doesn't have much of a fleet, but ever since the fall the of the Gray Kingdom, we have started to construct one. You can personally lead the assault with The Gallion and strike at the Red Kingdom before they know what's happening!"

     "But King Pelias, " Richard said, "No matter how many ships we have, the Red Kingdom fleet will be always better than ours. They have the strongest navy in Gala!"

     "Ah, Richard, " King Pelias said, "My scouts have reported seeing a large fleet consisting of many, many Red Kingdom ships that are sailing for ground lake. It will take them a while to arrive, since they are traveling with heavily armed soldiers and cannons. Our army will be able to sneak around this giant army and hit the Red Kingdom capitol before the bulk of their army arrives. With their capitol overtaken, the Red Kingdom will surrender for sure!"

     "Our army has already been assembled," King Pelias continued, "We will set sail first light tomorrow. Just be careful when you sail around the Gray Kingdom, they might have patrols out. Once we get past the Gray Kingdom, we can easily take the Red Kingdom."

     King Pelias dismissed us and we all walked out of the Throne Room to get ready for tomorrow.

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      The rain was just started to drizzle down. Our troops were rushing around, trying to get every thing packed up and ready to go before we set sail. A couple of builders repaired the Gaillion overnight and even managed to get a new dragon figurehead, since the old one had been destroyed.

     Nos threw me a spear, which I barely caught and strapped it awkwardly onto my back. Long spears and arrows were never my weapon. Hal, however, had loaded himself with a heavy battle ax and 3 spears, strapped onto himself. If that was me, I probably wouldn't have even been able to walk.

     I sheathed Loth and climbed on board The Gallion, which had Green Kingdom sails on it now. All of our sails were hidden inside a tightly rolled white fabric, so the enemy couldn't see that we were from the Green Kingdom.

     As the last crates were being thrown onto the ship and the last soldiers were climbing on, I waved a farewell to Alexia and Richard, who would be staying back to guard the Green Kingdom and start organizing an army for Ground Lake if we failed our mission.

     Then, slowly, one by one the ships started leaving the port and onto enemy waters.

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