Plob by Craig Zerf

Author:Craig Zerf [Zerf, Craig]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Small Dog Publishing
Published: 2013-11-30T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 16

With a vast tearing and splintering the castle doors collapsed inwards to open the way for the screaming minions of Bil de Plummer, the evil one.

The captain’s small force stood in a line in the courtyard, longbows drawn, ready to make their last few arrows count. As the horde came spilling over the rubble that still partially blocked the entrance, the captain gave the order.

The men fired once, twice, thrice and then the enemy were upon them. Swords were pulled from scabbards, war axes hefted, shields held to hand and, as each of the King’s men voiced their own personal battle cry, the last stand commenced.

It was the stuff of legends, and clichés, the battle would be impossible to explain without a good helping of all of the hackneyed old expressions such as fortitude and valour and windrows of fallen dead and cutting down like so much wheat and into the valley of death’s etcetera and so on and so forth and yahdee yahdee.

But really, it was an absolute cracker of a battle, the captain and his highly trained troops stood firm showing great fortitude and valour, shields overlapped and weapons swinging freely. The windrows of fallen dead piled up at their feet as they cut them down like so much wheat and, finally, Bil’s minions retreated as they no longer had the courage to continue into that personal valley of death and so on and so forth and yahdee yahdee.

The captain and his now slightly smaller group let free a yell and rushed forward to hurry the unorganised rout on its way.

But they were experienced troops, and they knew that soon, very soon, the enemy would be back.

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