A Dragon's Treasure by Lorelei Moone

Author:Lorelei Moone [Moone, Lorelei]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: eXplicitTales
Published: 2018-11-13T16:00:00+00:00

It hadn't taken long for talk to turn into action. As long as they had no mermaid princess to turn over, the enemy would not stand down.

Broc had given the go-ahead at pretty much the same time as the Sea Folk commander had done so. Rhea watched with a heavy heart as the first hundreds of fighters started to emerge from the water and climb up the rocky shore of the island. She waited until they had almost reached halfway up the boundary wall.

"Attack at will! Make every blow count!" she shouted, as she unsheathed the General's Sword.

With feet shoulder width apart, and both hands on the handle, she took on an offensive stance herself.

"If we ever needed a dragon…" Broc mumbled.

Rhea ignored him. In all the confusion, she hadn't even had the chance to brief him about Saras' escape, and this certainly wasn't the right time.

"It would be best for the queen to retreat," she shouted.

From the corner of her eye, she could see two guards ushering Kelly and Uri away from the danger zone. Broc and Yorrick remained by Rhea's side, their own swords raised in preparation for the incoming assault as well.

Although they were all formidable fighters, they weren't at the first point of contact. As the three most prominent people on the boundary wall today, they had multiple layers of soldiers guarding them.

Just how long these defenses would hold was impossible to predict. But she wasn't prepared to hide herself away behind the guards anyway. Today, every soldier—every sword—would count.

Two thousand enemy combatants, at least. Rhea pressed her lips together in determination. The Isles had an army of not even a thousand, spread over the whole territory. Black Mountain itself housed maybe five hundred trained fighters at any time.

The islanders were taller, and in animal form perhaps even stronger than the enemy they faced, but what they lacked in sheer strength, the Sea Folk made up for in determination and grit. They fought to the death. The only way they'd stand a chance was to do the same.

If this was their last stand, she would make sure to take as many Sea Folk with her as possible.

Broc was right, Rhea thought bitterly. A dragon would change everything, most of all morale. But Saras was long gone. He had let them down, had let her down.

The first Sea Folk spears clashed against the weapons of her men. Those who chose to fight in animal form charged and used their natural defenses as best they could.

All around was the sound of metal clanging and bones and flesh breaking and tearing.

Her senses became overwhelmed with the smell of blood, enemy and ally alike. They had fought the Sea Folk before, but this battle was on another scale.

Beside her, Yorrick had found his first opponent. Rhea did not get the chance to watch more than the first thrust of his sword, because right at that moment an enemy fighter slipped through the chaos all around and went for her with his spear.

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