Twenty-one Orcs, Twenty-One Minutes
The Never Ending Quest - Episode 33913
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Twenty-one orcs had poured through the cave opening on this side of the
Shreken, twenty-one creatures of small mind but great strength. Fred had
thrown the first salvo - he had killed the nearest and fastest and
stupidest of the beastly race, but that left twenty more to go. With a
ten-to-one ratio (Velus really did not count) it looked grim, but then a
glow appeared not far from the group and from out of a mystical bubble
there appeared an archer with a longbow! The battle, already engaged,
went into full force - Fred and Astra beating and slashing while the
bowman strung arrow after arrow; the orcs beat back at Fred and Astra, a
few tried to take the archer but none successfully neared. At the end of
twenty-one fierce minutes the twenty-one orcs were dead, their intestines
and
bile splashed across the mountainside. Fred was bleeding from both arms
and his right leg, Astra had cuts and bruises on her backside and legs,
Velus had been kicked twice in the stomach but suffered no internal
bleeding. The bowman was unscathed as all orcs who had charged never made
it closer than three meters before the arrows pierced brain or heart or
lung.
Fred and Astra were exhausted; they turned to give thanks to the mysterious stranger. It was then they noticed there was an arrow trained on them! They tensed, their warrior reflexes honed - they were ready, even if at a disadvantage. "You cannot kill us both!" yelled Fred. With that the bowman let loose and the arrow flew through the air and met its target - the breast of Princess Astra; she was dead in moments! "NOOOOOO!" yelled Fred and charged the murderer. But the stranger, with lifted arms, summoned the bubble of light and disappeared from the mountainside. When Fred reached the spot where the bowman had been he found the bow, a quiver and a parchment. He opened it and found it written in his language, it said: Life is cruel as you well know. Astra's death serves a higher purpose. Bury her so that her flesh become not the food of crows. The DragonMage is resourceful but not immortal. It will fly out to burn and maim again tonight, it will be followed by its black cloud. When it returns it will come in its dragon- form; hide here until night, hide behind the rocks, use the bow and shoot its underbelly.
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