The Dragon Prince - Marked

Part 58

"Janai, have your troops use their heat-being mode. Adonis will be feeding them power constantly. Ehari! I need all Moonshadow elves on the wall using bows. Luckily they'll only have the one entrance." They had just left the infirmary, and Callum was quickly giving orders to try and truly prepare for the attack.

"Callum without a source of heat to draw from, it would only last for so long."

"You need fire?" He thought for a moment. "What if I gave you a sun?" Janai and Rayla stared at him. "Just get them in position, you'll see." Janai nodded and began to order the sunfire troops in preparation for the battle.

"Callum! I give us about 3 minutes!" Ethari called from the top of the wall. Callum simply nodded. He turned to Rayla.

"Let's see, you got new toys from Ethari. What are you missing?" Rayla gave him a strange look. "Oh right." Rayla watched as Callum drew a spell in the air then touched his scarf. "Terminus confractus." It glowed brightly before returning to its normal form. He pulled it off his neck and gave it to Rayla.

"Really Cal?" She spoke, tying the garment around her waist. Callum smiled in return. Gods how she missed his real smile.

"I'm not leaving my beautiful elf outmatched. Speed, strength, and defense." The two shared a quick kiss before Rayla joined Ethari and the others at the top of the wall. Callum's demeanor changed yet again. "Archers, fire at will." Their response was quick. Breathing out, Callum began to draw another rune in the air. "Estuans lumine formam accipiunt." Light began to take the form of a ball in his hands, slowly growing until Callum pushed it directly above the sunfire elves. Janai noticed this and smiled. With a battle cry, all the Sunfire elves took their heat-being form. Callum steadied himself, he knew that while the sunfires were strong, they wouldn't hold forever.

"Hey." Callum turned to see Decker, Chaucer and Tianna. Chaucer held his hand up to stop Callum from speaking. "We can deal with everything later. For now, We're sorry. We let our fear get the better of us. You're family Callum. Now let's win this fight." Callum smiled at his friends, glad to know they still trust him. He nodded as some of his tattoos it up to enhance his own person. Between the archers and the spears, the attack was held off for about 10 minutes. Adonis however, was not trying to go easy. Soon enough the Sunfire needed to pull back. Quickly moving out of the way, Callum used his full power fulminus to take out a large number of undead while the others regrouped. Callum quickly charged through the front gate, picking up a dropped sunforged blade in the process. Janai and the others were right behind him as they began to fend of more and more or the undead. While the skeletons on their own weren't at all difficult, it was the number that gave them difficulty. The bridge funneled the army into a smaller number, some skeletons even falling off the edge. Callum had already explained to destroy the skulls, where the spell powered the bodies. The battle was going well enough that no one noticed when Adonis teleported inside the castle walls. Rayla was the first to notice since she had to restring her bow. Adonis was walking towards the sun Callum had made. If he destroyed it, the sunfires would be significantly weaker against the army. Quickly unsheathing her blades, Rayla leapt off the wall to attack Adonis. The mage looked up in surprise and moved his staff just intime to block her strike.

"Ah, the elven whore. Done playing housewife I see." Rayla quickly changed her stance as she went to kick Adonis, narrowly missing him as he jumped back. "I see you rubbed off on Callum. I guess you're the reason he fights as good as he does?" Rayla smirked.

"Not just me." She said. Adonis was about to speak but was cut off by Ghia kicking him further back. Not giving the mage any chance to recover, Rayla went in for another attack.

"Aspiro." Adonis called. Rayla tried to move out of the way but was still sent tumbling. As Adonis reached for his staff, Ghia threw a knife, cutting his hand. This time it was Seri who intervened by stealing the mages staff away from him. Rayla retuned moments later and the three surrounded the mage. Standing, he began. "I see you planned for this?"

"A little." Ghia admits. "We figured you'd teleport." What Ghia didn't share was that Callum had figured out it was Adonis' staff that allowed him to teleport so freely. "You've killed a lot of people, human and elven alike. Tonight, you pay." As their fight was going on, Ethari noticed Rayla's absence. Seeing that Adonis was inside the walls, he was about to fire an arrow at him until a thought crossed his mind. If Adonis was inside the walls, who was controlling the army. Down on the bridge, Callum and the others were oblivious to the battle behind them. Callum was farther ahead than the rest and was getting overwhelmed. Seeing this, Chaucer called to Decker.

"Decker. Gimme a boost." Without question, Decker readied himself and as Chaucer's foot stepped into his hands, he threw the elf in Callum's direction. Just as a skeleton was about to strike Callum from behind, Chaucer landed with a strike.

"Oh. Thank Chaucer." Chaucer blocked an incoming attack.

"Is this what it feels like for you owing me. Whoa!" The elf wasn't paying attention as two skeletons swiped at him. He closed his eyes, but he heard the wind rush past him. Callum saw the attack and used Aspiro.

"There, debt repaid."

"Goddammit."