No Storm Lasts Forever, a DND inspired story, by Allan Concillado

Chapter One: Nightstone, Part Seven

     The mercenaries scrambled everywhere to prepare. Some climbed up the walls and set some traps and equipped bows while others went into the field with shields, swords, and spears. Phil and his party went to the walls. Mercenaries wrapped rope around a tree that was far in the field and wrapped the other end to the wall.

     "Are you guys ready?" Phil asked his party. They were all serious this time. Ledias held a stone in her hand. If the goblins and ogres were to climb up the walls, she would cast Divine Smith on the stone and chuck it at them. If they needed to, they would slide down the rope and into the field. A horn sang in the distance. The goblins have arrived.

     There were 60 of them in total. Most of them were goblins, but there were some ogres and orcs there. One giant orge stood out of the crowd surrounded by orcs and smaller versions of the ogres. They were all chanting something in an unknown language. Justin Time understood and translated it to Phil.

     "They're saying, 'we want food, we want land!' over and over and over, I explained with a posed look," Justin Time told Phil. Phil scanned the battle field, but he couldn't see Commander Timber anywhere. The mercenaries yelled their own war cry and charged into battle. The goblin army also charged.

     What the goblins lacked in fire power, they made it up with overwhelming numbers. The mercenaries on the ground were easily outnumbered, but they weren't called The Seven Snakes for nothing. They held their ground, hacking and slashing away at the swarming goblins. The orcs went to the moat and started to climb up the stone walls using their huge green hands and sharp tools.

     Ledias casted Divine Smith on the stone and chucked it at the climbing orcs. The stone found its target on one of the orcs head. They made contact and the sound of a crack of the skull rang around the battlefield. The stone glowed with bright radiance as a holy bolt  struck the orc, sending him flying into another orc behind him. "I got two!" She called.

     Ace pulled out his sickle and short sword from his bag and jumped down towards the enemy. His beak dug into the first orc's skull, then his sword entered the orc's kidney. He wrapped his sickle around the orc's neck and used all his weight to decapitate it. "That's one son of a b-" Ace started to say, but he was tackled by another orc and pushed into the ground. The orc raised his one-handed battle axe and slammed it into the ground. The orc missed and his eyes were foggy.

     Ledias used Command over the orc and made him miss. It was a spell that could make anyone do one action, but it wouldn't harm them in any way. Ace took the chance and pecked at his face with his beak. The orc screamed in pain as the orc and the bird switched places.

     Phil and Riley pulled out their daggers and swung down the rope. "Midnight, Cyprus! You guys handle the range attacks! Come with us Ledias!" he called as he and Riley got to the battlefield. Ledias decided to take the rough route and with her sword, she jumped from the wall and landed on the orcs, killing two of them with the blade and knocking one of them out with her foot. She jumped from the corpses and landed on the soft dead grass.

     They all ran at the huge orge battle ready. The orcs saw the trio and charged at them. 8 of them surrounded the small group and leaped at them. Three of them attacked Ledias, two of them had battle axes and one of them had a great sword. She raised up her buckler shield as the weapons made contact with it.

     They tried to push her into the moat and drown her, but they were surprised at how strong this small 17 year old girl is. She pushed back and casted Branding Smith on the armor around her feet. She kicked the orc in the middle in the scrotum and a loud screech of pain came from it. His crotch started to glow from the Branding Smith as he fell to his knees in pain.