Topic: The Battle Of Bluebottle

Lucy Ravenlock

Date: 2006-07-24 21:31 EST
?Mistress! Mistress a telegram from him! Mistress!? A blonde haired boy, ragged and dirty erupted into the tent with such speed it almost shocked the occupant inside half to death...

That was of course if she wasn?t dead, already...

?What?? Renna of the Dark exclaimed, irritated by the boys haste. Leaning up from her sitting position upon her throne while her skeletal hand had risen up to clutch and snatch the letter from the outstretched hand of the young messenger boy, which she might add had hardly any time to even bow before her ? disgraceful! No manners at all! Something Renna of the Dark usually would not have tolerated without punishment but today however, mercy was granted amongst her subjects and this was mostly because killing them before the battle even started was highly ill-advised?

Considering, she was way too outnumbered to even afford in killing her own subjects for her own sickening pleasures and sadistic lusts. And also considering they were only merely human?

Bringing the message to the eyeless sockets that had barely even the smallest ray of light by the dimly lit lamp that lay rested atop of a small wooden desk in front of her, read what was displayed upon the paper in odd-daemonic runes and reading it with ease despite the night?s darkness that had shrouded most of the tent. Perhaps being as old as she was, Renna was also able to understand the runes without so much of a problem and she waved away the messenger boy with a free hand while sinking back into her the chair of skulls recreated from the corpses of her fallen foes from battles past.

?Renna of the Dark,

The Bloodstones have taken up camp upon the hill beyond the plane. Scouts have reported that it is quite possible that there are thousands of them? Hundreds of thousands? We cannot tell. Also, I would like to bring to your attention of their reinforcements coming South of our position? I don?t think I need to remind you Mistress that would mean we would be completely surrounded? And outnumbered? I suggest we strike tonight under the cover of dark.?

Your loyal servant.

The message was not signed but although Renna knew exactly who it was, and usually he liked it if he was remained unnamed. The letter was crushed slowly and tossed atop of the desk, she watched it roll to the other side of the table and then like the golf ball hanging over the hole in a few, slow, precious moments to win the game? The golfer willing for it to give way to Newton?s philosophy of gravity? And then fell to the ground rather dully.
Pushing off of the arms of the throne ? the two skulls at the edge of the arms being used for leverage, sent her black monkish robed form out towards the tent?s entrance, lifting the curtains with both of her skeletal hands to stare on out to the night?s sky and to see in the far off distance, through the darkness and to the hill across the plane, the many lights of her foes dancing along the long high hill in a brilliant scene of burning fires; where her enemy had set camp, readying themselves for tomorrows bloody battle?

Yes, Renna of the Dark was going to face them despite the reinforcements from the rear?

"Thousands... Shit."

Lucy Ravenlock

Date: 2006-08-04 19:32 EST
5:59 am. Battle Overview.

The rustle and thundering marching of both armies veneered the calm and clear weather ? the flat land between the valley?s high rolling walls was today?s battle ground with each side standing firm, with miles between them, humans with inhuman leaders ? both sides working for the forces of Darkness; two opposing factions coming together in one, blood soaked battle?

The scene itself was like the great battles of old? A mass of men coming together in a clash of swords, shield and fists where only side can remain standing and victorious. There was no escape for Renna and her forces; six hours she had, a meager six hours to destroy this force that stood in her way of the Bloodstone?s main Fortress and to turn her sights behind her ranks and on to their Reinforcements coming on in from the rear. It was going to be close at best ? the sights, sounds and cries of this day would forever did remain inside the fears of Renna the Betrayer, but yet, she longed for a battle quite like this to occur everyday for the rest of her unnatural life. Heck, she would have loved and done anything to get this sort of power again - it was a shame that this was the last greatest battle the Betrayer; or as she was called here: Renna of the Dark would never experience again.

Miles apart from the front ranks of her enemies army, Renna?s forces was not divided up into the specialized blocks like her organized foe. Her army was arranged into three simple sections. The Left flank the Middle and the Right flank. Each of these sections had two main set of troops... The Spearmen were amassed around the corners to prevent flanking maneuvers from any cavalry or infantry upon the middle section, while the middle flank was tightly packed with swordsmen, lightly armored and each carrying at least two crudely created throwing javelins to pepper the foes that they charged, or while they were charged at.

Renna had no horse ? she didn?t have the luxury or the status to even trot about her army, glaring down at them from the relative safety of a charging beast. The skeletal Commander, Renna of the Dark stood proud with her head held high to the sky, glaring out across the field as the sun rose to the east. Revealing the array of blue flowers that stood between the two armies? The dew of the morning lightly skipped across the tops of the flowers in an ominous evaporating mist, curling into the air and dissipating into the blue sky, Renna?s robes flickered about in the cold chilling wind that whisked across the nervous and eager masses of her forces, shifting the hood across the grinning skinless face of death that she would soon stare down upon the corpses of her opponent?s pawns?

Renna only carried one item, a shield crafted from the bones of the men that had fallen in previous encounters. Perhaps not as epic as the one was about to take place, but the fresh heads nailed at the focal point of the circular guard was a certain reminder that to anyone who crossed the path of the future Queen of Shadows would surely end up like those before her? And like those nailed to her shield.

Slowly she wandered out and away from her ranks, further and further until she stood with her arms opened wide above the hood covered head, the shield held high too, slowly turning back to stare upon the long array of men standing before her. Her head twisting side to side, from the tiniest of man in the distance, to the closest directly in front of her, and stared? Renna wasn?t the kind for great awe-inspiring speeches and so instead, loudly thumped her skeletal hand against the bone of the shield?

Clunk? Clunk?

And her forces joined her in their silent war chant, drumming spears, javelins and sword hilts against the defenses in the same slow yet quickly growing rhythm, echoing out on over towards the waiting Bloodstones?

They were arranged into large blocks of men, each one with own specialty. Archers and Swordsmen, Spearmen and perhaps the most terrifying for Renna?s forces moral? War dogs ? savage hunting dogs trained to tare a man a part half of them either rabid, or diseased. Being bitten by one of these would surely kill them later on. The archers were lined in short ranks at the front of the various blocks of men. Behind the Archers, the Spearmen, then the blocks of Swordsmen and lastly covering the flanks were War dogs. The Commander of the Bloodstones was quite content in watching the battle from the hill behind his army. Heck, he didn?t need to get his hands dirty for these revolting rebels.

And now the rumbling noise of Renna?s army chanting hilt against the shields fought over the calm and silence of her foes stance, psychological warfare at its best was taking place... What was more chilling for anyone than the mortal civilized man against a ravaging cheating barbarian?

Let the battle commence?

Renna?s Forces: 30,226.
Bloodstone?s Forces: 57,508.

Lucy Ravenlock

Date: 2006-09-05 22:19 EST
On HI-ATUS until I can be bothered to write.