Immortals of Ravenna ( book 1 )

Chapter 5

The horses stopped and ran away, crushing the chariot as they ran. Drake jumped out of the chariot, with his bow on his back and huffed. He was standing in a weird and eerie land. Gas was fuming everywhere, the land was as hot as the sun itself, and it got harder to breath every second. Drake had been riding to the east nonstop  or was it  west? It was hard to remember when a mad dragon is chasing you. He looked back at the direction he came from and all he saw was the same land he was in now. He huffed once again and walked. He could barely breath. His breath turned from a breath then a snort then a wheeze. This land's gas is highly poisionous he thought. How am I gonna get out of here. He remembered hearing a legend about this land from Immortal but he can't seem to remember. Thinking of Immortal made him very homesick. He doesn't know what happend, how it happed, or how long he's been out. Now without horses he can't get away from this land. He was thristy, silighly hungry and awfully exhausted. He checked his arrows once more. He only has 2. I probly have to make more arrows or scavenge my arrows after every kill. he thought. It been hours since Drake noticed a sound. He turned and nocked a arrow to his bow. He turned around and saw a skeleton of a dead human. The skeleton wasn't any skeleton, it was dark purple and held a broadsword. Drake dropped his bow in suprise. It hit the ground and evaporated. He put his hand in his belt and found his hunting knife. He held it in a defensive stance and waited for the skeleton to attack. He heard more sounds and turned to see more skeletons behind him. The skeletons surrounded him. this is going to take a long time he thought. 8 mighty skeletons surrounded him, all of them with swords. He looked even further to see skeletons coming with bows. This is it Drake thought the apocolypse. The skeletons were making a labriyith formation, assisted by archers in to reinforce and decrease the chance of survival. Drake has never seen this formation before. Drake charged, and slashed a skeleton. A skeleton swung his sword at Drake as he ran after him. Drake slid, burning every second and stabbed the skeleton in the back. As Drake killed the skeletons and eeven felt hope, more skeletons replaced the ones he slew. Guess I'am gonna kill every single one of them Drake thought as he kicked off a skeletons head. Arrows were flying, swords were being swong and Drake was still alive. Drake was heavily injured but alive. He sweeped more skeletons and some what jogged, as he couldn't run due to pain or walk due to not dying. He was still stuck in the labriyith, slashing and hacking at skeletons. He felt overwhelmed and saw that a huge horde of skeletons were coming. Drake slew about 125 skeletons and there were a abundant more. When Drake felt like giving up, he thought about Immortal, the dragons, and how much skeletons he slew and roared and slew some more. He was out of the labriyith but more skeletons were coming from all 4. He fell to the ground in defeat and waited for the skeletons to rip his flesh and bones when a arrow buzzed by his head and a skeleton fell on him. He got up and saw a small horde of humans coming at him with swords, axes , and bows. The skeletons forgot about Drake and looked at the humans, then charged. The 2 armies charged. The war was on.