Warlords of the Borders: War of the North

Bartimaeus followed behind Leonardo as the city and the castle slowly became less visable. When it was out of site Bartimaeus looked at the lion, proudly strolling at Leonardo's side. He was glad Sabim was watching over them. Though he didn't quite understand why it growled at him..

OOC: Check the OOC\SU in around 5 minutes for a map update

 

Bartimaeus looked at the forest and raised an eyebrow, he felt something in there that made him feel uneasy. He knew that after they went through the forest though, that the eastern deserts would be much worse then whatever was inside that forest. As they continued in the forest, the presence got bigger and more uneasing. He looked around and then at Leonardo "Your highness i sense a very disturbing presense here...Let's be careful." Suddenly a White and Gray Wolf leaped out of the forest and tackled Bartimaeus. It picked him up in it's mouth with insain strength and ran off. Leonardo's lion followed. They got to a small clearing with a rock infront of a cliff wall. The Wolf howled and the Lion roared and the rock started to move. Revealing a passage. They ran in and the Wolf put Bartimaeus down and looked at him, so did the lion "The path ahead of you will be a dangurous one, Bartimaeus." The wolf said. "Kerando?" Bartimaeus asked "Yes.." The Wolf said "Why did you take me here?" He asked "This is the spring of the gods. Anyone who drinks from the water of this spring will be healthy. All wounds will be healed. But that is not why you are here. We wish to give you a weapon of great might that will allow you to defeat your enemies. Perhaps even Jiggehlag." Kerando replied. Out of the spring came a sword with a bright silver blade with fire designs on it, the hilt and handle were made of what looked like pure gold. "Take it and go back to your party. We will be watching you." Kerando said. He then dissapeared and the rock moved back out. Bartimaeus and the lion both walked back to the party

 

Bartimaeus looked at Leonardo "Everything is alright, that Wolf..It was Kerando, he brought me to a safer place so he could give me this.." He held up the sword Kerando and Sabim gave to him. Bartimaeus didn't want to mention Sabim, Leonardo would have thought he's crazy if he said Leonardo's pet lion was really Sabim's physical form.

Kerando appeared in the god's council room "I know what your thinking, Sabim..That was an insain and dangurous act, but i had to give him Flameslave, they might not survive without it."

"You are one of the most reckless gods i've ever met, Kerando..But i do understand why you needed to give Flameslave to Bartimaeus." Venjinda replied as he sat on a large throne that was around a large table, there were 4 thrones, one for each great god. Kerando was sitting on his with his feet up on the table, looking up at the ceiling.

Bartimaeus got back on his horse and noticed a light coming from the edge of the trees. His horse trotted to it with the others and beyond the trees was the bright sun, shining down on them, the forest greens turned into dry landscape and desert flowers scattered every here and there. "We've made it. Now we have to go south for 2 or 3 days and we'll hit a mountain, we take the cave through that mountain and we'll hit the dwarven mountains." Bartimaeus said.


Jiggehlag had sent a letter to Lord Apollo reading:

My Lord, Apollo:

Everything is going well, we have taken a small portion of land in the western kingdom, your foolish brother in-law, Bartimaeus tried to stop me, but he failed. But i see courage in him, a flame that won't douse, you should be carful of him next time you cross paths with him. I know you don't like anyone mentioning he's your brother in-law but i don't really think it matters, sorry if that made you mad, My Lord. But i feel that you'll see him soon, when you do, tell him i said Hello and then destroy him.

I also feel that we will be able to take more of the western lands, and when we do i will write you another letter.


Untill then.

Signed: Maleth Jiggehlag

 

"By now they should be out of the forest and in the desert, right? I think they would probably go for around--What the..?" Kerando sat up in shock. He put out his hand and a bolt of ice came out and hit the wall, covering part of the wall with ice. He walked up to it and a cleaer image could be shown "An army of Easternlings are marching towards the borders where Leonardo's party came from..How did they know they were there..?" Kerando exclaimed. He turned to the others "We have to warn them. They should set up a defensive camp, anything!" Kerando walked up to Sabim "Can't you use that physical form of yours to warn Bartimaeus so he can tell the others?" He asked

 

OOC: Could you make that post longer, have Leonardo do something.

"Oh come on your not that old, Danagiathan the Dragon god of the dwarves is like ten times older then you." Kerando replied chuckling.

Bartimaeus looked around after they had traveled through the desert for awhile, around a half hour. "This would be a nice place to set up a camp." He said as he looked back at Leonardo

 

"For someone like you, who has lived there your whole life. Yes, when i was pulled away from my home in the Egolian lands to here, i was devistated..You'll have to learn to live with it, we may be gone from the kingdom for weeks, maybe even a month..or months..I'm sorry." Bartimaeus replied

The Easternling army marched closer to Bartimaeus and Leonardo's location, about an hour long trip.

Bartimaeus looked out and saw the sea off in the distance he could barely see the island, and to the south, he saw a large moutain in the horizon. "That's the dwarven moutain pass, if we could build a boat large enough to hold all these troops we could travel on the sea to the pass, it would only take about a day where are going all through the desert would take at least 2 or 3..We have 3,000 men..So we'd need at least 3 or 4 boats." he said

 

Bartimaeus looked at the lion, he heard something in his head "An army approaches, be ready to build boats and fight for your life." Bartimaeus looked at Leonardo "We have to build these boats fast. I sense an army approaching..We have to defend ourselves."

The army was 30 minutes away from their location.

When those 40 minutes past, a defensive perimeter had been built, the first boat was under construction but they didn't have any time left

"MY LORD!" Bartimaeus said as he ran out of his tent. Mostly everyone was sleeping, it was already 9 PM "The army, i can hear them marching, we have to wake the soldiers and defend this place untill the workers can build the boats. It will take at least 2 hours" he said pulling out Flameslave

 

Bartimaeus got on his horse and twirled his sword waiting for the order, as the army approached he shouted out a command to the workers telling them to work as fast and hard as they could, for they didn't have much time.

BATTLE


Northern Army Value: 3,000

Eastern Army Value: 5,000

Values=A close battle

Bartimaeus, with Leonardo led the men into the first line of the easternling army, around 200 men were in the first line, mostly foot soldiers with spears and pikes. Bartimaeus road in and made his horse kick some of the men. He jumped off and stabbed another, took out his sword from the soldiers chest and slashed another one's gut and then kicked him in the neck. Bartimaeus got back on his horse and fought with the other soldiers.

 

Bartimaeus quickly helped Leonardo up. After he did he spun around and slashed an enemy soldier's neck.

About an hour of fighting had gone by, 2 ships were complete, the 2nd one was underway. The eastern army had 2,987 soldiers left, where as the 1,500 with Leonardo and Bartimaeus were all dead, except for 400 of them. Bartimaeus and the others retreated back to the camp.

"We just have to wait a little longer, the 5th line of enemy soldiers is approaching the camp fast. We should have to archers do an arrow volly to flank them." Bartimaeus said as he rapped a rag around his arm where he had been cut by an enemy swordsman