An Ashlanders Tale Chapter 3 Options

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Some of you may have read my first two chapter in this little adventure and enjoyed it. Well i've got alittle twist for yall. Let me introduce to you another charcter that is very important to this story. Her name is Johannes.


Chapter 3

[size=18]Johannes's Story

Here we come to a part in this adventure when another character’s plot begins to unfold. This character’s name is Johannes. She is a young female nord who grew up in the new settlement of Dagon Fel. So far her life has been completely unscathed by the war that was going on right outside her small village. However, as we all know nobody can escape war when it is already at your own doorstep. Let us begin Johannes’s story.


“Father.” Johannes asked when she saw her family rushing past them in the streets of Dagon Fel.

“Father!” He turned to look to see who was calling. When he saw Johannes his face lit up and he hurried towards her.

“Hurry daughter. A army is marching this way and I fear they have death and destruction on their minds.”

“What army? Who would want to attack our village?”

All I know is I saw a large group of soldiers coming this way and that I need to get my family out of here before the reach us.” He said in a very urgent tone.

I stared at him in disbelief but his face should too much worry and strain for him to be lying. “Ok. I must get home to gather my stuff.” I started to walk off but he grabbed my arm.

“No there isn’t enough time for that. They will be upon us at any moment we must hurry.”

I nodded and began to follow him through the village. Several people stopped to watch us in our hurry to leave but nobody looked too suspicious of us. I wondered why my father was not telling the others about this approaching army. Thy must know about them. My father would not condemn them all… would he?

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“Run my lady!” My new escort shouted as we ran through streets of Vos. The city was under attack by the nord army and it was about to be taken. “We must leave before this place is overrun.!” I looked behind me and saw that most of the city was in flames.

“No…” I whispered. The thought of how the nords managed to get here brought a pain to my heart. Could they have killed Marit and all his men? I shook my head to clear those thought and turned back around to see where I was running.

As we rounded the next corner I could see the docks at the bottom of the hill. They seemed to be under control at the moment but before we could start down there I heard screams behind me. I turned to see what was causing the noise and I saw several women running behind us trying not to get caught by the men behind them. The men behind them were 2 nord pikemen who had blood all over them. They were laughing and calling out taunts at the women they were chasing.

One woman fell and was trying to get up when one of the pikemen ran up and stabbed her in the back. She screamed sharply and quickly fell quiet. Anger swelled up inside of me and I stopped in my tracks and turned to face the nord pikemen.

“Come and fight me!” I called out to them in their native language. They understood what I said and ran at me with a bloodcurdling yell. I realized I had no weapon in which to fight these men and I quickly decided that I should run. But before my body could react to my thoughts one of the nords was already upon me. He jabbed with his pike and I was sure that was going to be the end. But just before the pike hit me my escort jumped out and parried the blow away. In the same motion he spun forward and cut off the nords head.

The other nord shouted at my escort and charged him jabbing franticly with this pike. But my man was to fast and nimble for him and easily dodged the attacks. Frustrated, the nord lunged at my escort and tried a swipe at his legs. But the man saw it coming and jumped out of the way and rushed the pikeman in his own frenzied attack. Slashing left and right a few times and thrusting his sword into the nords chest so deep that only the hilt was visible from the front.

I ran to my escort and grabbed his arm. “Thank you for saving me. I don’t know what came over me. I just had to help those women…”

“Don’t worry about it. It’s my job to protect you. Now if you don’t mind I think we should leave before more of those guys show up.” He said smiling.

I nodded at his suggestion and we ran off towards the docks. It wasn’t long before we were pushing our way through the crowded area around the boats. People were yelling and demanding that they be taken across the bay to Tel Mora. I looked around and saw many families huddled together praying to the gods for protection and guidance. I felt sorry that most of them would die here when the nords reached the docks.

“Come this way my lady.” My escort shouted to me. I followed him through the crowds and soon we were standing at the waters edge looking for a boat to take us to Tel Mora.

“I don’t think anybody is coming to save us.” I said in a sad and disappointed voice. Was this dock going to be my final resting place? I was still wondering what to do when somebody started shouting beside us.

“Look! They are here to save us!” A man was pointing out over the water to a large group of boats coming at us at a very fats rate. I strained my eyes to see the banner being flown by the lead ship but all I saw was a dark red flag blowing in the breeze. Soon others were shouting at the boats for them to come to us.

Screams came behind us as the nords got closer to the edges of the docks. I looked again over my shoulder to see this time the entire city in flames. I also saw the nord army pouring out of the streets down towards us. I looked back out over the water to see if the boats were closer and to my surprise they were almost to shore.

“They’re almost here!” Someone else shouted.

“Were saved!” Another echoed across the crowd.

The boats slowed their speed as they got closer to shore but they were still going to fast to dock safely at the piers. I wondered what was going on. Several of the boats veered off from the main group and rowed towards us. One man stood up on the deck and shouted for us to get in line so we could board the boat easier.

I looked to my sides and saw as the first boats crashed into the shore. They kicked up sand and rocks as they slowed down but soon they came to a stop at the beginning of the hill. Dozens of soldiers poured out of the boats and began rushing up the hill towards the nord occupied city. Many fell to the rain of arrows coming down the hill at the Chimmer soldiers but most of the force made it to the top of the hill and engaged in combat with the nord archers.

I wanted to stay and watch more of the battle but my escort pulled me into the line for boarding the boats. Soon we were on the boat and sailing away from the flaming city. I watched as the other boats pulled away from the docks and followed us and how the Chimmer army began to fight its way into the city.

Soon I thought, soon I would be back and ready to fight for my country.