part 1 talion
Author's Note:
I had to fix the chapter a part of the bottom did not post sorry about that
"The dragon kingdom is under attack." The guard said, immediately we rushed out of the room. I hastily sent a letter to my liches and captains with orders to gather the army, Celestia in the meantime was gathering any guards she could and got them ready to fight, she had a total of 500 guards ready to travel in less than ten minutes.
"Are you ready?" I asked, Celestia nodded, in the time she ordered her guards she also went off to wear her personal armor, a beautiful piece of smithing, filled with arcane symbols and commemorative engravings, the whole piece was of a golden colour which shone under the light of the Sun. The armor covered her entire figure leaving an opening for her wings and horn, when she finally strapped it on fully a multitude of runes light up in awakening showing off the true power of the armor, and the mastery of the one who crafted it. Even then there was no time to admire her, there was a battle to win. We immediately rushed out and went off into the air with a chariot.
"So the demons have made their move, I was hoping to have the meeting tomorrow before they had a chance to attack." Celestia said as we rode the chariot which was being pulled by pegasus guards, in little time we moved to the open fields below canterlot where I could see my army, ready and prepared for battle, marching off towards the dragon kingdom. Waiting for them would have been a waste of time so we decided to arrive there before them and start the council as soon as possible.
"We better try to come up with a strategy now while we have the chance to, I don't think we will have the time when we get there." I said, she thought about it and nodded. Celestia pulled a map out of thin air then it unrolled and flattened in the air showing us the dragon kingdom. The dragon kingdom was filled with mostly mountains and volcanoes, there were very few traces of green on the map but that was to be expected, the map though showed some marks on it. "The markers is where they are being attacked?" I asked and she nodded.
"Right here is where the bulk of the demons are from what we heard." She said as she pointed to a base of a volcano. "It is the dragons stronghold, unfortunately the battle is going south pretty fast they won't resist for long." She said as I looked over the map and came to a conclusion.
"We should send the guards to the other areas that are in conflict, the volcano could be too much for them to handle especially the extreme temperature of it, if we can help the dragons in the other battles they can use their forces to sustain the stronghold's defenses, I can also send my undead there, they are immune to the effects of the scorching heat." I said as I pointed to the other areas around the kingdom.
"I see you're right it would be too much for them they were trained to handle high temperatures." She said agreeing with my plan and told the guards to be ready for battle since we reached the border of the dragon kingdom already and we were above rocky terrain.
"We will reach the battle shortly I guess?" I asked her, she nodded but remained silent afterwards. After some time we landed on the ground, the guards got off their chariots and grabbed their weapons making also sure their armor was on correctly, the pegasi in the meantime were resting on some rocks not too distant from us.
"I'll scout ahead to see how the battles are going." As I said that I jumped up on a few large rocks and started climbing it till I got to the top of the small rocky mountain and looked around the area. I could see several battles around the area the closest one was with a few dragons and demons, the demons were large and wielded great swords and warhammers. There were many types of demon but the most common were two, one had a bright red skin, with a pair of ram horns and a long slim tail, they sported a well defined body but not to an extreme, they wielded black greatswords which seemed to be their weapon of choice.
The black demons had snake like features, they had the head of a snake and the body of a minotaur, with their massive size they wielded massive warhammers. I hadn't have the time to check through all the other kinds of demon, I had to be quick. I rushed down the hill and spoke to Celestia letting her know of the many battles around us and more importantly, the one that was ragin just a few hundreds meters away from us. We regrouped the guards and marched towards the battlefield, fortunately the demons didn't see us coming so we took them by surprise sneaking up on them from the flank. The battle was quick and with very few injured, not surprisingly considered mine and Celestia presence. After the battle we helped the injured dragons while also directing the others to the stronghold.
"You should head to the stronghold we will help with the surrounding battles my undeads should arrive shortly." I said, they were a bit reluctant about leaving their fellows in battle but understood that the main objective was to defend their most powerful position. In the end we managed to finish off the remaining demons from the different battles mostly thanks to the fact they didn't know we were there.
"The dragons should have a better chance of defending their stronghold now." I told Celestia, she didn't answer immediately so I looked at her, she was breathing heavily probably because she wasn't used to fighting especially after thousands of years of peace and… Cake eating." You ok there Celestia?" I asked and she gave me a thumbs up while sitting down on a nearby rock. I could feel my undead approaching the main battle and I decided to join them, I explained this to Celestia and she just nodded still winded. I teleported to the front of my army and saw the general and the captain of my royal guard, they were busy leading the troops to battle doing a fine job at that too, I walked over to them and joined them in the march to the stronghold at the volcano.
"Nice of you to join us, we already finished the other battles only the strongholds needs defending bring the manticore riders and the Centaurerkers," The same centaur like creatures that showed up during the fight in the crystal empire. "at upfront we will charge with cavalry first then the main force will follow." I explained, with my orders given I saw the creation of the undead manticores thanks to a necromancy spell, this way we didn't have to hunt them down first..
"We will arrive soon." The general said as we marched to the stronghold.
"Have the archers prepare their bows same goes for the foot soldiers, we strom in after the chavalry opened us a window." I ordered, the undeads immediately followed the command and readied themselves behind our mounted infantry. We marched forward maintaining our formation, we neared the stronghold and saw situation. The demons were numberend in the thousands the picture was grim the dragons were losing ground even with their aerial advantage, there were simply too many. Fortunately for the dragons I was there to see that rectified.