Chronicles: Siege on Hammerfall

[Chocoa]

The sound of the hundreds of voice chanting in the dark of night was unmistakeable. The trolls of Witherbark had amassed a large force of over Six Hundred trolls to the South, while the Alliance from South Shore, working with the Witherbark to crush Hammerfall, amassed from the West. Only the natural mountains to the North and East offered protection from the rain of arrows and magical flames.

The Siege has lasted a full day. The repeating crash of a solid battering ram against the Hammerfall gate was deafening. The trolls chant was becoming infuriating and the holy assault of the Paladins was enough to make ones stomach churn.

An arrows sailed through the air and whistles loudly as it began its decent, it struck the ground not more than an arms length from a large black tauren. The tauren knelt and studied the arrow. The arrow was made from fine wood and had intricate runes from head to feather, it ebbed with arcane energy. Even one as limited in the understanding of magic knew the owner of such an arrow, the Night Elves had joined the battle.

"How many" Chocoa snorted as he showed the arrow to Revile.

Revile looked at the arrow and channeled energy that sprang forth from the earth and swirled around him. He looked about with eyes as white as pearls. Chocoa had seen Revile perform such a feat before, seeing great distances without the assistance of engineering lenses.

"I count 5, hunters with wolves the size of you!" Revile chuckled.

Battle always brought out the best in the Horde, it was when they sat idle for long periods did the various races war with each other.

Chocoa peered over the top of the fortified wall to estimate the number of troops. As he looked over the twang of a handful of bowstrings betrayed the onslaught of arrows that flew at the Tauren's head. Five arrows penetrated the stone wall, each within a fingers breadth of the another.

"Is it just me or are these hunters getting better and better."

Revile chuckles again, "maybe you should try wearing a more discrete color" as Revile noded his head at Chocoa's polished golden colored plate helm.

Chocoa smiled for the first time in days, a dark storm that the eyes couldn't preceive had descended upon Azeroth. Many of the finest warriors in the realm had felt like a chain had descended around them and kept there battle rage at bay. Chocoa had begun to feel the effects as well, though he did not share these thoughts with those close to him.

The earth rumbled beneath Chocoa's feet, but not because of some magic or machine. No, the rumble was made by a march. Chocoa removed a glass mirror from his pack and used it to look over the wall half expecting to see an army of Gnomes. The image, however, made Chocoa smile. The Horde had come. An army of the Forsaken marched from the south, forcing the Witherbark to stop the assault on Hammerfall and work themselves into a frenzy before charging the coming army of Forsaken.

Chocoa tightened his armor and released his blade from its scabbard.

"I saw a gnome magic user somewhere in the back, he's mine." Chocoa said as he stood up. The whistle of arrows again twanged from the woods. Chocoa raised his shield and 5 arrows struck it, barely moving the mighty Tauren.

"You want to live forever, Orc?!" Chocoa bellowed.

Revile laughed and put his helmit on, "No, but i'd like to make it past today"

Chocoa laughed again and jumped over the walls of Hammerfall charging towards a group of paladins. As each of his hooves connected with the ground, Chocoa began to gain more and more speed. He travelled at an impossibly fast rate. He barreled through two paladins momentarily stunning them. He leaped high into the air and delivered a vicious leaping blow into the chest of third paladin. Though his armor had stopped the blow from being fatal, he would not be rising this day or probably to next.

Revile hit the ground moments after Chocoa's initial assault, he marvelled at the effect the warrior had in battle. Shock and Awe filled the eyes of the unseasoned members of the Alliance who had never witnessed the charge of a warrior. The awe was short lived and Revile realized they were vastly outnumbered, 6 of 7 gnome and human magic users were at the back of the band of alliance, night elf hunters in the woods, 3 paladins were within 50 steps, and the smell of poison in the wind told Revile that rogues were lurking.

The sound of wolves filled the air as Revile turned to face the snapping jaws of winter wolves. Revile threw a totem to the ground which ebbed of energy calling to the wolves. The wolves began to attack the totem as though it were a person. Revile channeled the power of the earth and sky and called forth a mighty bolt of electrical energy that sprang forth from his fingers and struck the closest of the wolves and jumped from it to the next.

A common wolf would have run from such a blast, but these were no common wolves. They were the loyal companions of night elves. The wolves turned on Revile and sprang upon him.

A shield of holy energy circled Revile, repelling the attacks of the wolves. Then three screams filled the air that chilled Revile's blood. The wolves ran in fear, Revile would have ran himself had he not known the source of the screams. Evangelina stepped forward in the wake of the devestating scream.

The three stood against the alliance as Chocoa fell back, between the alliance and his group.

The battle had only begun...

[Rhoach]

((fun!))

[Halamesh]

Indeed mon, nice writing there.