The Raiding Party

It was Midnight. The Moon was High over the mountains and in the darkness stood alone a massive camp of raiders. The camp was full of tents and campfires and the smell of mutton.

At the largest of these fires sat the leader of the raiding company and his name was only known to those loyal to him. The group of muscular men sat by the large fire and the leader talked.” men we have not been seen by any sentries or sentinels of the mountain our numbers are considerable and with these elements and the help of Surprise we will attack the capital and seize the throne. we are undefeatable!” with that the group of men gave a loud war cry. As soon as the mutton was served one man said” sir on the way here I noticed many strange things”. the leader said “and what, may I ask were these strange things”. then the Man replied ”well sir there were many strange birds that I’ve not seen before and they seemed to have fallowed us were ever we went”. “that is nonsense. birds and beast are every where, if not we would not be eating this wonderful feast.” exclaimed the leader. They ate to what seemed a few minutes when suddenly all the camp fires went out with a puff and there was an awful smell. The mutton that the raiders were eating turned to dust and there tents disappeared! Thump!! A gust of wind blew two people over. Thump!! Another gust of wind. Then one of the men screamed “look to the skies!!” sure enough there was a massive creature with eyes of moonlight and as soon as the man had screamed he fell limp on the ground.

Flames flew every where from the Creatures mouth sure enough it was a Black Dragon. Dark arrows were being shot from the back of the dragon hitting raiders left and right. It seemed to come from a Cloaked figure on a saddle strapped to the Dragon‘s back.

Suddenly the figure jumped off the Dragon did a flip in the air and landed with such agility. He drew from his back two Elvish blades that glowed a faint Moonlight flame he was every where dodging darts and slashing away Raiders. Every second two or three Raiders fell. The leader was struck with fear for the Dragon was also shooting black flames across the battle field as the Dark figure was fighting away.

The Cloaked figure was very graceful with his feet you couldn’t even hear them hitting the ground. soon enough the raiders leader called “Retreat!” but they stopped instantly for the Cloaked figure threw his hand in the air and said a strange word and a star like orb flew in the sky and a shockwave of energy flew across the battle field and Each raider felt as if their legs and arms where bound by an invisible chain. The cloaked figure stopped and walked toward the terrified leader.

He stopped in front of the leader and said with a Quite yet intimidating voice ”so do you surrender or do you want to be a snack for My Dragon”. with that the Black Dragon Roared and All the surviving raiders ( which wasn’t very many) shuddered. The Figure’s face was undecipherable and the only thing that the leader could see of the persons face was one Eye. the figure’s right eye glowed just like the moon.

The leader said “fine we surrender and we will not attack the capital. with such a small group of men it would be impossible anyway“. then Figure said ”that is exactly what I wanted to here”. the figure then ran toward his dragon and glided to the Dragon’s saddle the Dragon then Roared a second time and took off. The figure then raised is hand and all the raiders were released from the spell. It was strange though all the dead raiders seemed to disappear.

The Dragon then flew straight to the moon and the leader of the raiders shook his fist and cursed.