《Ent of Pyromancy》
Prologue: The awakening
It was the time of strife, every race was fighting for supremacy, this battle takes place in the vicinity of the Mariodun forest. Which lies to the south west of the eastern continent, spanning approximately 500m2. The Nation of Luigia who is the attacker right now, lies to the north of Mariodun forest. While the Kerbygien Federation lies to the south of the forest. So that the forest is right between the two warring nations. Both of these nations were controlled by humans, little did they know, that this war was going to be the end of both nations.
As the two forces were planning their fight for the forest, so that they can keep a good position for the next phase of the war. The Luigian scouts saw, that the Kerbygien Federation started to prepare ambushes in the forest.
As the ambushing soldiers wait and prepare for the enemy, they hear strange sounds. Rustling of leaves here and there, the wind flowing in and sometimes stopping abruptly. They started to fear something, something unknown to them something ominous. Right as they were ready to get out of the forest in fear of what is currently residing there. An attack occurs, the Luigian forces started an ranged attack, they used their bows from outside the forest. Every archer in the platoon started to shoot burning arrows, searing through the sky, to annihilate the ambushing enemy. They are thinking about burning them to the death, to get rid of a big chunk of the enemy army. Before the final clash on the outside of the forest.
The cries and the wailing of the ambushing group could be heard from the vicinity. Fire and blood everywhere, trees were burning fast since it was the high of summer. No one knew at the time, but they started a war they couldn¡¯t grasp, soon, soon they are going to their demise. As the fire burned and burned, ashes everywhere, a something moved, a something small. A deep, throbbing scream could be heard by all in the vicinity. A scream so loud, you had to close your ears with your hands to stop the throbbing in your head. The animals now run, even running in the direction of the fire, since the monster who was awoken seems more dangerous than the fire at the time.
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The soldiers in the forest, started scrambling away, like small squirrels, running, just run was their thought. Run from the monster, run from the arrows, just get out of the burning forest. Dropping every equipment not needed in the escape, dropping the swords, spears and bows to make their escape succeed even if only by 1%. Little did they know, that the forest was burning on the side south side. The enemy archers did the best thing they could think about while preparing the onslaught. They cut the ambushing enemy from their allies in the south with their flaming arrows. The ambushing platoon could only run into their enemy in fear of the fire and the looming monster in the vicinity. They didn''t know where the monster is, but running away from the fire was the first thing they thought, no one would like to be like charcoal, crisp and black.
As the small tree moved its branches to put the fire out, it got worse, another branch catched on fire. Now with two branches burning, the burning arrows didn''t stop searing into the forest. The humans outside just wanted to burn the complete forest down, to kill the monster who screamed so deep that they feared it.
Are we going to see the might of the monster? What is that monster? Will it seek revenge? Does it have some friends? All of this in the next chapter of EoP or maybe not.
Chapter 1: The rise of the forest
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What is this feeling, everything is so loud, the surrounding is to warm. I feel my branches burning, I need to put the fire out. What should I do? Where did the fire come from? ¡°Arrrrrrrrghhhhhhhhhhhhhh¡± I screamed with all my might. The fire slowly crept going along my branches, getting closer to my trunk.
¡°My lord, please put the fire out¡± says someone. As I look around to find them, I can hear its voice reverberating inside my trunk. ¡°Please my lord, hurry before the fire engulfs you¡± it says again. ¡°How, how can I put the fire out, the more branches I use the more lit aflame.¡± I say. ¡°My lord, you have to break the burning branches. That¡¯s the only way, even if it¡¯s painful you have to do it my lord.¡± it¡¯s sounding fearful, of what is going to happen.
Now, what should I do, how should I break myself free. I start using my branches to slam a small builder. Every time I slam it against it, the pain seared through me. Who is at fault, why should I painstakingly break my branches to survive. I¡¯m going to find them, whoever started the fire and destroy them. Them and all their families. There are still burning sticks flying all over the forest, as I look around. My friends are burning, I have to put out the fires. Faster, faster, while I smash my burning branches down on the builder even harder. Finally after all the pain, the burning branches broke of.
¡°My lord, please, you have to get to safety, we can¡¯t lose another lord.¡± said a tree. Ohkay, the trees can hear me and talk to me. How can I help them, can they move as well as I?
¡°Friends, can you move? Let us get out of here together.¡± I said slowly. ¡°No, my lord, not everyone can move. Most of us is still too young, even you are still young. Please give us an order, so that the ones, who are able to move, can do so.¡± it said. This tree looked pretty big, even bigger than me, it seems pretty old. Is it possible to move such an old tree? Can it move?
¡°Ok my friends, I want you to call our brethren and say to them that we are going out of the burning forest. Whoever has burning branches shall break them of their body. Let us go, we have to go the opposite way of where it is burning. We have to find out who did this, to our home.¡± I said while I slowly moved forward. Every step I take, is vibrating the ground.
¡°My lord, we have to help our brethren, so you have to go, while we will help those who can move. It is going to be hard to help everyone, we have to get out of the forest as fast as we can.¡± said one of the older trees.
I still don¡¯t know much about the world around me, but the trees here are mine to protect. Still they are doing the protection, just because I¡¯m a young Entling. As I look back gen south, I saw the flames building up on speed, eating away at a tree every minute. If we don¡¯t move out fast, we will burn to cinder. I started moving forward, slowly but surely, getting away from the fire, while I still see flaming branches flying over my head. What are these things, why are they flying through the air as if they are birds. Another one of my brethren got hit by one of these things, right on the trunk.
¡°Brother, can I help you?¡± I asked him while I looked around to find anything to help him. ¡°No, my lord, it is already too late for that. If it was a branch, I could have survived, but right in the middle of my trunk, right next to my core. It is too late for me, you have to run my lord, the small pink creatures are right at the edge of the forest. They are the ones who did this to us.¡± after talking for a while, I see the fire climbing his frame. ¡°Ahrrrrrrrrrrr¡± it screamed, my brother screamed and the only thing I can do is watch him burn.
I have to get out of here, I need to find some water, maybe then some of my brothers can survive. As I look around, I see my brethren all running from the fire, all screaming and hissing around. ¡°Damn you fire, we will get back on you¡± I screamed almost as loud as the time I burned. My family is moving rapidly, we are more than 100, everyone seems to be thinking the same thing. Get the pink monsters, kill them, destroy them and then lets look for more of them to demolish their homes, as they did to ours. Only then we will rest, only then.
It¡¯s been awhile since I last saw an animal, they all fled, fled from my anger, fled from the fire. Everytime I hear it hissing in the air, I see burning sticks flying through the wind. I always loved the wind, how it rustled my leaves, my branches, how it touched my bark. All of us loved the wind, it brought freshness which we couldn¡¯t get otherwise.
PoV Luigian General
¡°Sir, the enemy is coming into our sight, they have no weapons, just fleeing from the flame. Should we kill them or should we take them as hostages?¡± asked my vice general. As I looked at the fleeing mess of an enemy ambush, they all quivered, wailed, some even cried out loud while running as fast as they could. Why are they running so fast? Well the fire is dangerous, but they could have run to the east or west, but they ran right to the north.
¡°Get them into custody, we need some more slaves to earn us some more money.¡± breathing slowly, to understand the gist of the circumstances.
¡°So, what were the rumbling noises from the forest earlier? Do you have any Idea Jamluzlull.¡± Jamluzlull is my vice general, he has been at my side for the last w0 years, we rose the ranks together. His directness is the most important trait to me, he will always say, if something doesn¡¯t seem right, even to his superiors. He is one of my friends, the only real friend in the army. He is a little bit taller than me, half a head taller, he has a scar in his face, which goes from above his left eyebrow to his left ear. Dark brown eyes and hair, like me he has the body of a veteran soldier. Maybe a little bit more powerful looking since he is a little bit taller.
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¡°Sir, we don¡¯t know anything at all, maybe it was one of the enemy soldiers, maybe it was the wind.¡± he says with his strong voice. ¡°I don¡¯t like the feeling of the forest, didn¡¯t we send in scouts before the war?¡± i said while looking over my soldiers who were currently apprehending the enemy.
¡°We did a thorough search in the woods 2 weeks ago, nothing abnormal, animals, trees, insects. Nothing out of the ordinary, some parts felt a little bit eerie but it¡¯s like that in every forest.¡± after saying all that, he took a small breath. ¡°As you can see Sir, we need to put our plan into motion, since their ambush failed and the forest is now closed of. We are not going to need so many soldiers to protect our flank. Let us go to the field and confront them directly, we have an overwhelming advantage. Almost double the amount of soldiers, we could have just overrun them with our forces. Without the need of turning the forest into flames, even if the enemy attacked our rear.¡± he said while still a little bit out of breath from all the talking. He hates to talk, but when he talks, he is mostly right.
¡°No, we don¡¯t know how they would have divided their army, what would have happened if they had half their army in the woods. While we attack the main camp on the grassland, they would have managed to break through our main camp, or even just attacked our attacking army¡¯s rear. I don¡¯t wanna think about the consequences, sometimes even a small force from behind can annihilate a more numerous enemy. You should know the term, ¡®An injured animal is a dangerous animal¡¯.¡± I said with a stern face.
Some soldiers came running, probably a scout, his face looks aghast, completely frightened. ¡°General Makinba, vice General we have a problem.¡± as he breathed deeply. ¡°The enemy which we got under captivity, is saying some dangerous things. They heard loud booming voices in the forest, the ground was moving they said, Sir. Something dangerous is lurking within and we seemed to have it awoken.¡± He turned around to look at the still fleeing ambushing party.
¡°Tell me soldier, how many enemies did we capture?¡± I said while also looking to count them with my eyes. ¡°General,
Sir, we got up to 3000 till now, but that was less than half the soldiers they had Sir. One of the captives said that they had 7500 soldiers in the forest. Planning to pincer attack our forces when the right time came.¡± He looked troubled to wait for an order.
¡°What about the rest, are they still fleeing in our direction?¡± I asked him. ¡°Sir, we don¡¯t know, a lot of them got burned to death, some of them still running. Sir, do you have any other orders?¡± he looked at me, and then at the vice general Jamluzlull. ¡°Good work soldier, catch a breath and I await your further reports. I want the exact number of soldiers in our custody, and also what sort of soldiers they were. ¡° Then I turned to Jamluzlull, while waiting for the scout to go his way.
¡°Prepare to sortie, we are going to annihilate them now since they don¡¯t have anymore soldiers lying in ambush. I want the knights on the left wing, our archers first line, second line our spear platoons and right behind them we need our sword platoons. First firing arrows till they get in danger, if the enemy knights charge them, we put the spear unit up front and destroy them. We should wait until we launch our knights into their unsuspected left side. When their infantry moved out. Just mow down the enemy archers. We need to finish this battle as fast as possible, the is still the capital of the Kerbygien Federation waiting for us.¡± As I looked him, in the eyes, I saw them sparkle in anticipation. He loves wars, he is born for bloodshed and so am I. ¡°Yes Sir, I¡¯ll prepare everything we need, 1 hour till departure.¡± As I see him walking away and informing our units, watching the stream of soldiers running away from the forest.
It seems like only a little bit of soldiers left. It won¡¯t take longer than an hour for most of them to be apprehended. Then I see the scout back, he rushes to me after finding me in the mass. ¡°Sir, we have apprehended 5000 enemies, everyone is in chains. 3000 sword soldiers, 1000 archers and 1000 spear soldiers. They still miss 750 spear and archer units each.¡±
¡°Good work soldier, any other news from the forest?¡± I asked him while looking at the forest. ¡°No Sir, still the same.¡± the scout says. ¡°Ok, take a rest, one hour till we start our attack on the main force.¡± as I turn my back to him and walk to my tent, I hear him moving away to his colleagues. While my tent is bigger than the one from the soldiers, there are also more people in it, some strategists some staff officers all working and looking at the map.
Let us see if we can finish this campaign in this month, we are still a week marsch away from the enemy capital. We should finish fast, or other nations will try to attack us while we are defeating the Kerbygien Federation.
Is the army of General Makinba fast enough to begin the assault? Is the entling going to fight the humans?
Is the war already decided?
This and everything else we might wanna know in the next chapter of Ent of Pyromancy.
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Chapter 2: The captives story
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One of the best sounds a general can hear is the sound of soldiers moving in almost perfect unison. Everyone steps using their might, in perfect rhythm. As my units slowly move into position on the left side of the forest. We see the enemy tents, just at the horizon. Approximately 3600m away, they saw us, or at least their scouts found us. Their army is already deployed, right in front of their tents.
"General Makinba, how far away should we position our self? I think that 1000m should be enough space to react if they start Attacking. You know as well as me, that they are not going to attack." says my vice general Jamluzlull. "We should move up to 750m, since we already know that they don''t have any siege weapons. Let the knights stay in the back, it would be best if they could stay hidden until our forces collide. Also I want you, to take command over them, take my elite soldiers with you. They should be able to keep you safe and help you push even faster. You shall purge the enemy commander from this plane." I say to my dear friend Jamluzlull.
As we slowly Marched right into our destination, we hear some more rumbling for the first time in a while. A young scout rides our way as fast as his steed can transport him. "General Sir, one of the prisoners, told us something unbelievable. He said that trees started to move, they slowly moved away from the fire, attacked some of his man. They even ripped them to pieces, stomped on some of them, like they are stomping tomatoes. I don''t know if I should believe him or not. He seems to be the captain who was responsible for the ambush. He was so white, he looked like he went through hell and back." said one of the scouts.
"How many saw the trees moving around? " asked Jamluzlull. He always knows what to ask, perfect right hand man if I may say so. "Vice general Jamluzlull, Sir only the captain saw the trees moving and killing his people, he almost got squashed like a flounder he said, just barely escaped with his life. It also seems like he was the last one, to come out of the forest." I looked the scout in the eyes. ¡°Ok, good work soldier, you are dismissed, go back to your post and alert me if anything happens near the forest.¡± The scout then dismissed himself and rode back to his unit, to continue his work.
"So, what do you think about it, do you think that the enemy captain is saying the truth? Or is he just using this chance to disturb our soldiers? I never heard of trees who can move around, maybe he is talking about the tree loving tribe with long ears. What was their name again? Something strange, I also heard that they don¡¯t eat any meat. Can you believe it, no fucking meat, I would get crazy without some beef from time to time." I ask Jamluzlull while looking over the upcoming battlefield.
It seems like we are going to fight uphill against them. Should we change the venue? If we march past them and directly in the direction of their capital. Maybe we can bait them to attack us. It would be more favorable if they move out to attack us. As I was thinking what to do, Jamluzlull stops.
"I think the tree huggers are called elves, I never saw them but they should be dangerous. We don''t know where they live their life. Since we never heard from scouts that some of the elves got seen here in the vicinity. From what I heard, they don''t look like trees. Their skin should look like whitened gold. Really, they are not eating any meat? What the hell are these guys even eating? I would die from hunger if I couldn¡¯t eat meat at least once every month. I think that the enemy captain was lying, he just wants us to direct our attention to our back. Instead of concentrating to the front. " he said while grunting out loud.
"Should we bait the enemy, by marching past them?" I asked him. "No, even if we are fighting uphill. We should be able to annihilate them pretty easily. We outnumber them completely. They don''t even have a standing army, just a bunch of mercenaries, merchants and farmers who wants to protect their land, I mean our land." he slowly showed me his vicious smile. As time went on, we managed to position ourselves, I let the soldiers rest for a while, since they need the energy to climb the hill. After a half an hour of rest I asked all my unit commanders to me.
¡°Archers to the front, spear units right behind, sword soldiers close behind them. Slowly advance, Archers be ready to rush in position to shoot the enemy, they are on an hill so they have longer range than us. You should know how close you need to be. Shoot the enemy archers first, while our sword and spear units push forward with shields above the head, to protect us from the arrows which are going to get fired soon. One spear unit needs to stay behind, in case of a surprise attack from the enemy knights. Our knights are going to enter the fray, after the battle has started. Flanking the enemy, and splitting off right before the impact. One group strives for the enemy general, the other attacks the archers from the side. Archer units should start attacking the opposite flank of the enemy, where none of our units are present. We have to prevent casualties as much as possible.¡± As I said to all the unit commanders who are currently surrounding me.
All of them seem eager to attack and conquer. They also seem rested, that¡¯s good, we need all the strength we can get. Should we have asked for engineers from the capital? We are going to need them soon, if the walls are too high to climb and the enemy too many to count. Catapults would be good to take down the enemy walls or gates. They are great, can fire from a large distance and are accurate enough to get the walls down. Worst case scenario, we destroy all the buildings behind the towers.
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¡°Do what you can guys, I have my utmost confidence in my commanders. I choose you and I know what you are capable of. Just keep a calm composed heart and finish off the enemy in front of ya. Go out and bring us the victory. For the Nation of Luigia, for me and your families.¡±
¡°YES SIR, WE WILL GO OUT AND CONQUER.¡± All of them yelled together at the top of their lungs.
With that the battle began, while I watched from afar right next to my trusted friend and longtime comrade Hidalgo. A pitch black stallion, trained by me for a long time. He feared loud noises in the beginning, it was really hard to keep him calm in the battles we fought. Feared fire and even water if he couldn¡¯t see the bottom of it. But slowly and surely I managed to get him accustomed to that. Never am I going to ride to war without him, Hidalgo. As I slowly brush his black mane, he looks up to me and shows his determination with his eyes.
PoV one tree in the forest, right after the fire started spreading so some hours ago.
Our young lord is still slow to react to his surroundings, he finally grow up and started to converse with us. The only problem is, that he woke up because of external influences, just because some pink creatures started a fire in the forest. He should have at least 5 more decades to slumber and nurture his might. Sadly he awoke earlier and now he has to learn from the surroundings himself.
He still seems small, how is he going to get the strength to oppose the ones who are our enemies? Does he know that ents have an ability to change their appearance? What should I do, if he doesn¡¯t know it, I can¡¯t really help him use his abilities. ¡°My Lord, we should get out faster, the fire is catching up to us. Does my Lord know of his ability? The ability to change your appearance.¡± I said while looking into his direction.
¡°My brother, I don¡¯t know of that ability, but that is not so important right now. I agree, we should get going.¡± he said while moving forward as rapidly as he can. Huh, what is that thing there, oh it is one of the pink creatures, what were they called again. Well it doesn¡¯t matter, as long as it is not hindering my lords way, I will not care.
The pink creature looks at my lord and my brothers with an astonished and frightened look. Maybe it is its first time to see trees moving around so fast. What is it holding in its limbs? It seems to be a long stick with a silver shine at the top. The silver part seems to be pretty sharp. Is that wood? Is that wood it used to make the stick? It is still too far away, but I will get it. I have to see what sort of weapon it is using.
As I ran even faster, I took a roundabout way to get to the pink creature. As I was standing right behind it, I used my branches to whiplash it to the ground. It couldn¡¯t even fathom what hit it, a red liquid oozed out of it into every direction. Some of it splattered onto me, smelled horrible, like one of the things below the ground, the hard things. Well let see what sort of thing they carried with them.
Holy Yggdrasil, these creatures are using my brethren to us as weapons. It doesn¡¯t seem like a dead tree, it seems like one of the big trees. I need to get to them and show them that trees are the nobles of creatures. ¡°My brother, why did you attack this creature?¡± asked my Lord with a concerned look in his face.
¡°My Lord, these things are killing our brothers to make weapons, they are not using the dead trees like the elves. These monsters are killing us, just to make weapons. I can¡¯t contain my anger my lord, let us go after them and destroy them.¡± I said with a loud rumbling voice.
¡°Ok brother, we will destroy them, are these also the ones who spread fire to our jungle?¡± he asked while looking at the corps below my branches. They should be the creatures to start the fire. ¡°Yes my lord, shall I search for more creatures to still my revenge?¡± I asked while my sight wandered around the area to look at the next target. Right at that moment I saw 3 more pink creatures.
¡°My lord, on that side are 3 more creatures, shall I go after them?¡± I said while I was slowly moving in that direction. ¡°Let us get them.¡± he said and started running to them. He got there first, used his mighty root to squash one of them. While I got the second one, I grabbed the creature on it limbs with my branches. It screamed in an strange language, looked like it is pleading with all his might. But it was too late, this was also had one of my brethren as an weapon, pretty fresh oak, still a young one at that. It used the oak in a strange way, and binded the two ends of the bend branch with a thin string. It also had lots of small twigs with a sharp point in a leather bag. These monsters are really using our brethren to create weapons.
The last one scrambled, left all its weapons and ran, faster than we could reach it. While we were dismissing the creatures, the fire almost catched up to us. We have to keep moving, can¡¯t get catched by fire to turn into charcoal.
¡°Brothers!, we need to do something so that the fire can¡¯t annihilate our home the forest. How can we stop the fire from spreading even more?¡± asked our Lord while looking exhausted. It is not even 3 hours since he awoke from his slumber. He still didn¡¯t get the rest he deserves. ¡°My Lord, we need water, but that is hard to come by here at this side of the forest. The only creek we have near the forest is the one on the bottom side of the forest. Right below the forest flows a small creek, but the fire is between us right now.¡± what could we do?
When does a fire grow? How does it jump from tree to tree? Maybe we have to do that.
What will the tree say to his Lord? Will they manage to still the fire? Will the creature get away? Is the army of Luigia strong enough to climb the hill? Is Silent Hill a good game? This and everything else could happen in the next chapter of Ent of Pyromancy.