I was at Minas Morgul already gathering my army and the chief of the zebras, Toa, was with me so he could show me the way to his village after I finished preparing. Toa though wasn't looking at me, he was gazing at the undead, he looked down to them fearing them, I could see it into his eyes. He was afraid.
"Are you ok?" I asked and he looked at me and faked a smile.
"I'm fine." He said but I knew he wasn't, I didn't have time to care though I was thinking of ways to improve our fighting forces and then I remembered something, I still had magic from Skyrim.
"I have an idea if you will excuse me for a moment." I said and walked into the tower and then into the throne room, I closed the door and walked to the center of the room where I focused my magic into my hand which immediately got surrounded by the same energy from the game and I thought of the undead I wanted and Lifted my hands. Immediately a purple cocoon like shell appeared but as soon as it appeared it faded leaving behind a boneman archer. I waited to see if it will disappear like in the game but fortunately it didn't, with that in mind I tried to summon an specific undead that couldn't be summoned in the game, I focused my magic and created yet another purple cocoon, from it a draugr stepped through. It had a two handed ancient nord greatsword but it was just a regular and weak undead, I wanted the best. I used more magic and this time I managed to summon a few restless draugr three Death lord draugrs and one Death Overlord draugr, which should be the strongest one if my memory is right.
"Are they ready?" I asked to my captain, he nodded and motioned to me to follow him outside. I did so and exited the tower the draugrs I created also followed me, I just managed to get out of the tower and immediately I noticed that Celestia and Luna were there as well. 'Strange I didn't know they would be here.' I idly thought. "You want to come too?" I asked them.
" Yes, while I witnessed first-hand what the demons are capable of my sister didn't, I wish for the both of us to come with you so we may be more prepared to the nearing conflict." Celestia said, she then focused her sight over my newest undeads. "What are they?" She asked.
"They are Draugrs they were originally found in ancient nordic ruins, some says they were ancient followers of the dragons and after their downfall they were cursed to roam the land forever. This is a story for another time though, let's just say that I found a way to magically create some of them." I said, Hecale showed up shortly after and led the way to the balcony where we could gauge to my arranged army. Toa was there too and tried in vain to not look directly at the undeads and failed to do so.I put a hand on his shoulder and that actually broke the trance he was in, he shook his head and pointed on the map where his village was. Our calculation gave out a five days time of march to arrive there. With that settled we began our journey.
5 days later
We have been traveling for five days, while my army could march forever the same couldn't be said for Toa and his daughter, especially Wairua looked completely worn out, she wasn't used to walk for days under the unforgiving heat of the desert.
"We should stop for a few minutes it looks like your daughter is tired." I told Toa, he looked at her daughter and decided to stop as well. In the meantime while we were walking I managed to summon more draugrs unfortunately only weak ones, Death lords and Overlords completely burns out my energy for some reason. Further more they completely ignore all who tries to command them if I am not the one that does it, why they do that is a mystery to me but that will be an inconvenience.
After a short rest we resumed our march, we didn't waste any more time and finally arrived to the village. I ordered my undead to remain out of it while we scout. We entered only to find a lot of zebras that warmly welcomed us, and their chief who had a serious look on his face and immediately rounded up his warriors to discuss on what transpired at the meeting.
"It's very nice here." Hecale said as she looked around the village.
"Yes it is." I said, Toa then motioned for us to follow him in his house. A simple wooden hut, the inside was well decorated with a nice fireplace and a table with a set of chairs. On the table there was a wooden bowl filled with fruits.
I sat down on a chair and waited for the chief and Hecale to follow my example then I spoke out. "First of all we must understand from where the demons will attack, we can't surround the entire city that way we will just cut out our escape route and possibly condemn the civilians still in the village if we lose." Toa nodded at the statement and replied.
"I already have my warriors scouting the area around the village to see if we can find any sign of them." Toa said as he pulled out a map and laid it on the table then he pointed to a region right in the center of it. "This is where we are and the surrounding area." He said.
"Yes but without knowing where they are coming from we can't plan a proper defence against them." I said again which made Toa scowl at me before a young zebra entered the house. He rushed to Toa's side and whispered some words in his ear, Toa immediately freezed and the sported a very serious and worried look.
"It appears we have a problem." He said and we waited for him to finish." We found the demons and they have already surrounded the village, it seems they are only camped right now but they will probably strike tomorrow it's a miracle we didn't run into them when we walked here with your army. There is no other alternative we will have to hide all civilians and then we must win." He then looked down with a very saddened expression. "Or everything is lost."
"I can help with that, the liches can use their magic to build an underground shelter for them before the battle." I said and he sighed in relief that his people would be safe. "My undead should start moving into town you should warn the people of their arrival." I told him at which he nodded and exited the hut, we remained inside waiting for him until after a couple of minutes Wairua entered.
"Hey did your father tell everyone yet?" I asked and she nodded with a smile and we all walked outside, I immediately sent a message to my undeads to come into the village. I then ordered the liches to create the shelters for the civilians, swiftly and silently they started to move the earth and create the underground bunkers. I on the other hand was busy creating as many dradur and restless draugr as I could before the battle, I managed to test some of them to see how strong they were and they came out as a bit more powerful than my normal undeads. Unfortunately I was the only one who could summon them so they had to remain with me at all time to fight.
I had successfully created 30 more normal draugrs and 15 restless ones before I got tired, I then went up to bed and rest for a bit. I was awoken by Celestia telling me the Sun was rising so I stood up and went outside, before the battle I created yet another death lord just to be sure then positioned my undeads. I had more than enough to cover the whole village, unfortunately due to the scarce numbers of draugrs I couldn't let them roam into the city so I kept them closer to the bunker except the death lords and overlord, they were strong enough to remain at the forefront of the battle. I climbed up to a roof where my boneman archer was positioned and looked around to find the demons.
"They should be coming any minute now." I said and Toa walked up beside me.
"My warriors want to fight for their home." He said and I expected as much from them.
"I know and they will get their chance if the demons make it through us, but I won't allow that to happen." I said, to that he just nodded and returned back to his warriors, meanwhile Celestia, Luna, Hecale and I all remained there to face the demons head on. Celestia and Luna both wore their armors, Luna's armor was ebony with a multitude of silver engravings that adorned the masterfully crafted breastplate, the armor split at her shoulder leaving her arms unarmored. Her hands and wrists were protected by an armored glove, her legs were protected by a black chain mail while only the joints and feet were armored. In the center of the chest plate there was depicted her moon which shined and pulsed with life, all around it several runes and arcane incantations rotated around the symbol. Her hand rested over the hilt of her sword, a beautiful broadsword entirely coated in silver, the blade of the sword was glowing in a pure pearly white. The sword pulsed with rage towards the enemies of her mistress.
"You are about to see the demon horde, are you sure you two are up for this?" I asked Celestia and Luna they both nodded, Luna lowered her visor and readied her sword. My undead in the meantime planted their shields in the ground meanwhile the restless draugr, death lord, and death overlord waited in the back for the battle to begin, then the demons showed themselves. From all angles the demonic troops charged in a frenzy towards us, swinging their weapons around in a crazy fashion.
The first ones I saw were the fire demons, their skin looked like it was made of coal and they had fangs made of flames, their armor and horns were made of fire, they all used diverse kind of weapon but all of them were rigorously made out of pure flames. Next I saw completely black demons with ancient and seemingly powerful runes engraved on their flesh humming with light and magic, the runes were radiating pure black magic. They looked similar to Hecale before she became my proxy, I then saw many other demons, some were the same that attacked the dragons while others were completely new to me.
'How many are their?" Celestia asked as she looked at the charging demons.
"I have no idea but that doesn't matter right now we have to protect the villagers." I said and they nodded confirming my orders, the undead were readying themselves, they all pointed their lances forward and awaited the incoming assault. The restless draugr prepared their frostbite spells, the usual frosty magic coated one of their hands showing that their spells were ready.
With a thunderous impact the demon forces smashed against our formation, the sound of battle started with steel clashing against steel and flesh being ripped. The undead hold their ground as long as they could but the demons quickly overwhelmed them and destroyed our first line of defense. The draugr then started to battle, they showed a lot of mastery with their weapons and the usage of frost like magic really helped against the fire demons. With our first line shattered Luna and Celestia dropped on the ground and joined the fight slashing and maiming left and right, Hecala and me remained on the back line to prevent any back stab.
The demon sorcerer started to fire their magic wide hitting everything and anything without care, they were acting as artillery meaning that they were extremely dangerous to be left alive for long. "ZUN HAAL VIIK." I heard from my left, I turned towards the source and saw one of the death lords using one of the most annoying shouts in the game, the disarm shout one of the reasons I preferred to be a mage than a warrior in skyrim. Immediately the shout took effect and with a powerful blast it blew away the weapons of the demons that were too close, after that they were easily disposed off.
Two death lords were sniping from the roof using their ebony bow to shot down as many enemies as they could, the boneman archer was there too and despite its look it was very good with its weapon. I looked down to the battle and saw that Luna was in difficulty, struggling against to fire demons. Before I could do anything the boneman struck them both down with a swift headshot, then it avoided one of the many spells the sorcerer were firing. The boneman looked at them and readied two arrows at once, it then shoot them and struck good killing them both in a single shot.