I bounce on the balls of my feet to get rid of some of my nervous energy. Sure I have been in battles before but this is the first time I have had the opportunity to anticipate the upcoming fight. All of my pervious battles have been sprung on me like a bear trap. One moment I am setting up camp or starting my campfire the next I am fighting for my life.
'Army on the horizon!' A soldier near me shouts. My eyes find them, Mason Carman's army marching towards us. Within ten minutes they have nearly reached out first line of defenses. In front of my army are pits of wooden spikes sharpened to a lethal point. On the cliffs high above the pass are soldiers with bats of boiling oil. They wait on both sides to pour the oil on Carmen's army. If the oil does not kill them it will defiantly burn them. Screams fill the air as the oil is dumped on the men. Some fall into the spike pits, others drop to the ground as streams of oil hit them. The men that make it thought attack my warriors with a crazed wildness about them. I let loose a scream of rage. I leap into battle with my teeth bared. My blonde hair flys behind me as I spin and kick an approaching soldier. My kick sends him sprawling onto the ground. Before he can recover I end his life by plunging my sword into his chest. A young boy around 16 charges at me with his sword raised. I drop to the ground and roll out of his path as his sword cleaves the hair where my neck used to be. As I roll I pull two daggers out of their sheaths and then come up behind him.
'Peak a boo I stabbed you!' I yell as I stab the small of his back. I spin out of his way again with a smile on my face. He turns around and lunges at me but I block the attack with one dagger and with the other I slit his neck. His blood spurts out of his now open neck. I let him drop to the ground and climb a near by bolder to see how the battle is going.
It is going better than I thought it would. My soldiers are fighting valiantly and we have only had two losses. But more and more of Carmen's men are pouring in through the opening. My archers under the command of Katrina White are firing volley after volley of arrows. I jump down from the bolder landing lightly in front of a soldier about to attack m best friend Kimberly Winters while her back if turned fighting another opponent.
'Didn't your momma ever teach you that it is not nice to attack 19 year old girls while they are fighting for their life?' I ask as I engage the 22 year old girl. I quickly dispatch her and move on to someone else. My army moves as one, men and women, teenagers and older folk fighting together as if they have been for their entire lives. I move in a flurry of kicks, spins, stabs, jabs, slices, and leaps going through opponent after opponent. I am untouchable. At one point I am fighting off 5 men at once. And although the odds seam to be against me I drop them all to the ground and keep moving. And as well as my army is fighting we are starting to be over powered.
'Retreat to the underground' I shout my commanders catching the order and relaying it to the other warriors. We move together into the caverns and seal the door allowing no one from the opposing army the chance to get in. Once we are all in I order the signal to be given for the men to close the opening that Mason Carmen's army came through. Once it is closed they are trapped.
'Here is the plan' I start looking out at the sea of my warriors. 'You guys now how this used to be a lake right? Well there tunnels going around, beneath, and all over this thing. What we are going to do is rest up then we are going to each stop that the tunnels open into, around, and under the lake. We are going to place large pots of oil beneath the openings. The other side will be trapped and some will fall into the pits. While they are a mess, we will slip out of our openings on the sides and around old lake. Then we will kill them. It is time we get our revenge!' I finish looking around at the faces of my warriors. Some look horrified at the prospect of killing all of those people, others look excited about it. Either way we are going to do it they massacred our people it is our turn now.
'Rest up warriors we are doing this tomorrow. You have all fought bravely.' I shout. With that I retreat to my sleeping space.
TIME JUMP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I smile at soldiers as I jog through the ranks of men and women prepared for battle. Then I get to my place. I pull out my twin daggers and my smile widens as I think about the feel of Mason's men's blood dripping down my weapon onto my hands. I shout the signal to Tim, John, Bryce, Laurie, and Samantha and the open the pits. I watch with joy as the army below us descends into chaos. We open the entrances and form and an impenetrable barrier around them. Then on my signal we attack cutting through them with ease. I laugh as I drop people left and right with no mercy. With in seconds they are all dead. All except the leader Mason Carmen.
'Excellent! Everything has gone according to plan' I say.
