Chapter 8

"You and my father's god Gurrent both only saw what the master wanted you to see! Bawahahahahahahaha" He roared with laughter.

"I saw your body, I fought your killer. Your father's god put a curse on me for letting you die." I stumble back still in shock.

"I know it has been such a great thing, to watch the great and powerful Zeke brought down to a shadow of himself." He stepped forward as he laughed at me.

"Buster is she still alive then, we never found her body?" I step forward eagerly while hope blossomed in me again.

"She was after the battle but she would not listen to reason, so I had to kill her myself. I took a dagger and went to her as if I was going to cut her free from her bonds, then as I looked into her hopeful eyes I slipped the dagger between her ribs and into her heart. Her blood soaked my hands and clothes the Master was very pleased with me. He even granted me these weapons crafted from demon and angel bones. These blades are so beautiful and deadly they have feasted on the blood of many heroes..."

"I am going to kill you!" I yell as I charge him. I deactivate my shield and jump into the air, I grasp my sword with both hands and raise it above my head to strike. He looked at me as I jump and quickly stuck his right sword into the ground then raised his right hand, he caught my wrists as I came down towards him.

"That was very rude. I was talking and you interrupt me. That's so sad, I am very disappointed in you. I have been holding back this whole fight and now you've made me mad!" He stabs his sword into the floor as he held me. "Now it's time to teach you some manners. First, never talk when your superiors are talking!" He yelled, as he smashed his fist into my face. "Second, never interrupt your superiors!" He punched me in the stomach so hard I lost my breath.

"Those lessons are useless for me!" I say through a busted nose and swollen lip.

"Oh why is that?" He asked as he brought up his fist again.

"Cause I would have to consider you a superior first." I laugh as I kick him in the chest, which does very little other than to make him squeeze my wrists tighter.

"Is that so well let's see shall we, I am the one holding you and about to smash your face again so I think that proves who is better now, Shut Up!" He started to punch me again, so I do the only thing I can twist my sword around in my grip and stab his arm. I got very lucky with my attack because it went through the thin layer where his gauntlets meet his forearm guard. He dropped me and I roll away and onto my feet

"What were you saying about who has who." I laugh as he charged, he hit me with enough force to pick me up, and throw me about six feet back through a window. I drop down two stories and land on my back so hard I pass out.

Buster removes his hand from Zeke's wrist after that, "Now go to your assigned post and let us begin." orders Zeke. As Buster walks away clenching his fists Zeke sees an on marking on his wrist, it looked to be a demon head in front of an hourglass with two-crossed scythe behind both. Just looking at that image gave Zeke chills, he looks over at his commander of magic and says, "I want you to keep an eye out for Selena and protect her, do what you have to ok. She is important to me and our employer ok."

"Understood sir, she will come to no harm while I still live." He salutes and he turns to follow Selena. Zeke reaches into his pack and removes a stone container; he turns the dial on the front and opens it putting the map inside. Zeke reaches down and traces a ruin on the top, once he finishes the ruin the box disappears. He walks to the front of his troops and jumps up on a rock so they could hear him speak. One of his soldiers tosses him a scroll, which he open and sits before him. "Activate so all here can hear me." The scroll glows blue and then Zeke says.

"My friends, here we are again. Outnumber and the underdog, but that has never stopped us before, let us show this gathered horde why we are feared above all others. If one of us falls, ten or fifteen of them shall fall to. Let us make this so costly that they will never raise an army again. We are the defenders of the human realm, while we live none shall rise to harm those we protect." Zeke raises his swords and everyone else does. "For glory, for honor, we shall kill all before us!" He jumps down with a rebel's yell charges at the oncoming horde. Zeke's forces meet the enemy horde with a mighty crash, he crouched low as he ran so that he could come up and under the guard of a minotaur slashing a x across its chest. As he slashes through its chest, he kicks off it and lands on an Ogre's shoulders slicing its neck, then flips off and lands on his feet facing the enemies.

This had only taken a few seconds of the battle, but as Zeke glances around, he saw his forces clashing with and going down to the horde. However, they were talking four or five out at a time. A troop of goblins rushes him, as he is watching the struggle. Zeke fights them off as he follows each group fight. Jacobs's unit slams into the side of the enemy forces, he uses two hand scythes connected by a crystal chain to slice, cut, and break his way through the enemies.

His unit fought almost as hard as Jacobs did, even though they had just met him a little while ago. Jacobs and his unit followed the plan cutting off part of the enemy formation so they could surround it and crush it. Buster on the other hand was leading his unit straight into the main body of the enemy. He was fighting like a man possessed, he seemed to be glowing red and his unit seemed to be battle crazed. Zeke watched as one of Buster's fighters gets between him and his target and he just slashed through his body. While he killed his targets, he lost a soldier and did not even seem to care.

Zeke looks back and sees Selena using her famous curved edge sword. It was a one piece of curved metal, the handle was wrapped in leather and gold. The hand guard was part of the edge, it curved out at a gentle angle away from the edge and the guard on the back part curved gently towards the back of the blade. It was as elegant as she was and just as deadly, she was dancing her way through the enemy forces as if it was nothing. They would swing at her and she would duck under and then slash through them, she moved with an angelic grace. Beautiful and deadly, nothing could touch her as she defended the casters and archers.

A chain whips through the air right in front of Zeke's face impaling itself in the chest of a skeletal warrior. Zeke looks and sees Jacobs pulling the chain and blade back to him. He lifts his scythe in right hand in greeting and he returns to his group, Zeke looks towards the fallen undead warrior and looks for the Necromancer controlling it. As Zeke looks around for it what he sees is worse than he thought, it was not just a Necromancers but also a Lich. The thing was standing at 7 feet tall, with mummified looking skin, 3-inch long claws for nails. Wearing tattered cloth and leather armor, Zeke watches as it created a ball of purple energy and threw it at a group of Buster's troops, enveloping them. He sees the group of four get back up, there skin is melting off one of them was missing half his face, another his arm. He hears cold laughter as the group runs towards him with weapons raised.

"I am so sorry I didn't know they had a Necro-Lich." Says Zeke as he defends himself. The trick to killing these resurrected soldiers was to kill the one controlling them. However, to do that you had to disable these first. The first to reach him welded a battle ax, so Zeke sidestepped his attack and cut off his hands as the ax came down. Then he swung low cutting through his ankles one at a time. As he finishes that one, the second and third one reaches him one carrying a spear the other a sword. The spear was thrust at his face, he uses the blade in his left hand to bat it aside and get in close. Zeke then puts his blade against its neck slashes through it almost beheading it. He would have finished him off but the sword zombie attacked him, slashing at Zeke's back. Zeke had to dodge to the left, which meant he had to tackle the spear one and pull his sword out as they went down. As he rolled to his feet facing the sword zombie, the fourth one wielding a mace came up behind him raising it over his head.