Battle for Hunter's Hollow (open)

[Ollijio]

Ollijio woke up. His head was sore from using a rock as a pillow the last few nights. His hawk, Yinvar stood on the hot ground, he was a beautiful bird, and a smart one at that.

Ollijio Mounted his Brown mustang, Toranalo and they sped off to the east, They were not far from the beors, and Ollijio was riding to a small town called Hunter's Hollow to sell his game, buy supplies, have some nice summer ale, and even tell some stories of his battles with terrifying beasts to the young ones. After an hour of riding in the hot sun, he spotted plam trees and a wooden wall. Scores of traders and hunters from all around flooded into the gates to do buisiness with the local merchants, who travel to surda and the beors and spread their goods to even the varden. It was a vital outpost, and they had been agitated by urgals for years, For 10 leauges across form Hunter's Hollow, was an urgal city. Ollijio spotted guards, some of who he knew, wearing shiny helmets and brandishing deadly weapons.

The great hunter ollijio rode through the gates and he was greeted by a few people. He had quite a reputation in this town. He rode up to the Inn and dismounted Toranalo. He strode though the doors and he was greeted by Dinny, the local inkeeper.

"Ollijio! come and have a drink"

Ollijio nodded and sat at the bar. He turned to the man next to him and gave him a good strong handshake

"Hello, Abotus"

Ollijio turned to the man to his right and greeted him the same

"Hello, Jick"

Abotus and Jick were freinds of Ollijio, they were guard captians for hunters hollow. Just as Ollijio was about to take a sip of his frothy beer, A guard bursted through the doors and yelled

"THE URGALS ARE MARCHING FOR HUNTER"S HOLLOW!!!!!!!"

Every man stood up, each of them skilled hunters, and left the Inn, Dinny, brandishing a large knife and a mallet, shut the door behind him. The townspeople knew what to do, they all prepared for an assault, women and children running around, going to underground shelters. About 200 men, fully armed and ready to defend thier land gathered around the gate. Ollijio tied up Toranalo in a safe place, and then Approached the messenger boy, who was mounting his horse. Ollijio said to him.

"Boy, get word to General Filkoran of the Varden, tell him Ollijio calls for aid, Tell him Hunter's hollow is under attack."

The boy nodded and rode through the gates. Ollijio knew his brother would be at his fortress near tarnag, he would be there within a few days. A man called his name

Ollijio, you are requested at the defense council. The great hunter nodded and followed the man to the wall's keep. He walked up a set of stairs and down a hallway. At the end of the hallway was a door, and he opened it. Men were running around with hawks that would carry messages to varden, dwarven and surdan officers. Jick and Abotus stood around a table with a map on it. Jick spoke

"Ollijio, you have come. If you should accept,you will lead the main strike force and attack the Urgals head on."

Ollijio nodded and said in his deep voice

"I accept"

Abotus, who commanded great respect, said

"Good luck, old Friend, you may go to your men."

Ollijio simply turned and left, he walked back down the long, empty hallway, down the old, creaky stairs and through the mass of two hundred that now encircled him. He faced them, and they all became silent.

"I have been given orders to lead you into battle. I'm no good at speeches, since I've never given one before, So Ill just come out with it. We are attacking about 2000 urgals head on. Many of you will die. If they get past us, The guards will be overwhelmed."

Ollijio looked around, the men seemed to be frozen.

"I helped build this city, I know almost all of you, and your families. If we are defeated , the urgals will destroy Hunter's Hollow, and slaughter your families. They will then bing all their loot back to Galbatorix. I WILL NOT LET THAT HAPPEN! I WILL END THE PATHETIC LIFE OF EVERY URGAL OPPOSING US!!! So, I say to you, brave men fight for all that you have built, and fight for your families! FIGHT FOR HUNTER'S Hollow!"

Ollijio raised his club and all men cheered, letting out a massive battle cry as one. Ollijio turned around, as the gates opened.

[Arkantos]

Arkantos rode up on Wingfoot to a cliff about 30 feet up on a mountain in the Beors. His water pouches were empty, but he showed no sign of thirst; being a magic user, he just forced the water up from the parched ground. As he approached the edge, he saw a quaint town around an oasis, where human figures were gathering in obvious preparation for battle. He raised an eyebrow, intrigued. And then he saw why. A massive black column of Urgals were marching towards the little village, with several magicians among them.

"Those poor saps are going to be torn apart!" Arkantos gasped. Taking out his bow and spear, he picketed Wingfoot and set several wards over him, just in case a wandering Shrrg got hungry. Using magic, he managed to get down quickly, landing in stride as he immediatly started running. When he was in range of the Urgals, he stuck his spear into the soft ground and loosed several magically enhanced arrows at the enemy; he grinned wolfishly as they found their mark, taking out some of the more powerful sorcerers before they sensed his presence and erected barriers. He put his bow away and grabbed his spear, loosing a war cry as he charged into the Urgals' right flank, twirling his spear above his head.

[Ollijio]

Ollijio and his troops marched out into the desert. Ollijio had never been In a large scale battle before, So he, even being "The Great Hunter" was scared, mostly for his men and the townspeople.

Just then, he was hit by a most comforting thought.

We are making history, If the varden get here in time, stories and songs will be wirtten about how the brave men of hunter's hollow stood for what was right. Ollijio was scanning the enemy's ranks, watching them like a predator on his prey, he spotted a few humans, and a few sorcerers. Then, they fell.

The Urgal ranks were in dismay, and half the force turned around to attack the source of power coming from the cliffs. Ollijio's head flew towords the action so fast he did not have time to blink. A lone warrior charged twirling his spear. Seizing the oppurtunity, Ollijio yelled

"ARCHERS, FIRE AT WILL!"

about 50 men strung their bows and fire thier quivers out of arrows, the urgals were now running around, trampleing eachother, trying to form up, none seemed to be retreating. Ollijio riased his club

"FOR HUNTERS HOLLOOOOOOOWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!"

A deafening cry, one that might pop your ear drums rose up from the small force of 200 It seemed that they were a force of 200,000

Ollijio charged as the urgals were finally managing to form up. It seemed he was running for a year across that desert plain, his heart pumping with adrenaline. With any luck, the varden would be there within the next hour or two. Ollijio and the defenders of hunters hollow clashed with the urgals head on Ollijio riased his club and an arrow bounced off the polished wood He swung hard at an urgal and the spikes impaled him on the stomach. He then ripped it out and hit him hard with a death blow to the back of the head, the urgals brains and blood hit him in the face. Ollijio soun around ans swung his club at an urgal's head, He blocked it with his barbaric sheild and then battered ollijio with it, knocking him over, and the club out of his handthe urgal raised his hand axe for a death blow. Ollijio quickly ripped out his shark tooth sword and stabbed him in the pelvic area. The urgal grunted and spit blood oall over Ollijio. He then fell the the side and shook violently. The then stopped, frozen, dead. Ollijio and the humans of hunters hollow were now surrounded and fighting valiantly, with the spirit of a million men. Over a hill, to the west. Filkoran, general of the varden army, rode up on his silver mare. He was clad in steel armor and he was wearing a purple tabard. Ollijio wispered to himself

Filkoran

Filkoran drew his sword and raised it high in the air. He yelled

"Chaaarge!"

He was followed by 500 cavalrymen and 1000 infantry. they pounded down the hill, some urgals faced the incoming force, but they were facing a wall of death. they were trampled wby horses and finished off by the infantry. There was now a full scale battle waging, and with 1000 urgal reiforcements on their way, anyone could win

[Arkantos]

Arkantos looked up from impaling a writhing Kull and breathed, "Filkoran." Fighting his way through 3 more Urgals, who gave him a nasty gash on his abdomen with thier huge pole ax, which all of them had to hold to weild it, he made it to the Captain's Guard, the elites of the non-sorcerers. At least 10 of them had fallen at the hands of 4 brutish Kull who closed in around them. Throwing his spear, he imapled 2 of them and drew his sword as he raised his fist and uttered a word, making the remaining Kull burst into flame and fly back into the crowd, torching their comrades.

"How many times am I gonna have to save your skins?", Arkantos shouted above the roar of battle. The commander merely smiled grimly and nodded to acknowledge his presense. They didn't like him when he brought up the fact that he saved them in almost every battle since the Burning Plains.
Turning around and norrowly missing a stab with an Urgal spear he lunged into battle once more,ignoring the burning pain in his side as he fought to liberate another small press of men, these ones not of the Varden, but villagers of the town to the east.

[Ollijio]

A massive kull lifted a man up over his head with both arms, and then brought the poor man down on his knee. There was a sickening Crack as the man's spine broke. Ollijio charged the kull, and lunged at him. The kull caught Ollijio in mid air and threw him to the ground. Ollijio fell face first on the ground and broke his nose. Blood was evrywhere, His nose was swollen, and it was hard to breathe, he had black eyes and was in great pain as it was. Ollijio, ignoring his pain, grabbed an arrow off of the ground and jumped on the kull's back
The kull spun around, trying to get the man off his back. Ollijio stabbed him in the eye with the arrow. The kull let out a terrbile cry, and fell to his knees, and then on his back. A varden solider fell next the the kull, who was now squriming on the ground, clawing at his eyes, which were emitting a strange black puss. Ollijio took the varden soldier's sword and stabbed the kull though the heart, he stopped moving, and his arms fell to his sides. The varden soldiers were now cutting thier way through to the villagers, who were cutting their way through to the varden. Ollijio saw filkoran on his horse, he too was covered in blood, he was strinking at every urgal around him. One urgal, however, got a rock off the gound and threw it at filkoran, it struck his head, and The commander fell off the side of his horse. Ollijio's heart jumped,

"Nooo!"

the great hunter threw the sword at the first urgal who attmped to stab his downed brother with a spear. The sword landed in the urgal's back and the urgal fell. Ollijio, determined to save his brother, slashed the urgal in front of him, there was a huge knot of urgals fighting varden soldiers and Villagers of hunters hollow standing in between him, and filkoran

[Arkantos]

Arkantos saw Filkoran fall as he limped through the battle unnoticed. An Urgal had gotten a lucky blow and had slashed his right leg, forcing him to cast a spell of concealment over himself and blast away Urgals with magic, which, even with the ring, was becoming tiresome. He hurried to ward's a knot of Urgals that were preventing a medium force of Varden and villagers from aiding the general. Walking to wards them, he raised his hand and uttered a single sentence. The Urgals vanished as they were sucked down into a swirling vortex of sand that had sprung up beneath their feet. Once the last Urgal horn had sank beneath the sands, the force charged forward, led by a man who had two black eyes and a broken nose with Grey skin and a beard. He smiled as he saw the man's sheer determination to reach Filkoran. Then it hit him.
"That man might be related to Filkoran. He does look slightly like him, and their fighting style is similar.." He was quickly brought back into reality by an Urgal death scream. The Urgals were falling, but not fast enough. Eventually, they would overwhelm the tired defenders and the Varden and obliterate the town.

Calling his spear with magic, Arkantos dispelled the Concealment and raised his spear, beginning a long invocation while black thunderclouds formed overhead. Finally, he lowered his spear and said one word: "Brisinger". Instantly, bolts of lightning struck the battlefield, slaying every Urgal within 10 miles. Drawing a steady stream of energy from his ring, he managed to keep himself alive long enough for the spell to do it's deadly work. Limping to wards' the town as he called Wingfoot and loosened his restraints, he lay down and fell into a deep sleep born of mental and physical exhaustion.

[Ollijio]

Ollijio and the rest of the men had been saved by this misterious wizard. He lifted his brother back onto his horse and walked him through the carnage. Limbs, heads and blood dotted the oasis of hunter's hollow Ollijio walked Filkoran's horse to the gates. he walked past the man who saved them, who was slo slumped on his horse. Ollijio walked both horses in on thier reigns and the men of hunters hollow (who now only amounted to 87) and the men of the varden followed him in. There was a massive cheer as the gates opened and the wounded were tended to. That night, there was a party that lastedthe whole night, and the next day there was a funeral for the dead, dinny was amongst them. And so was his son.

When Filkoran awoke, Ollijio accompanied him to the tavern, where they could talk. They sat at a creaky wooden table and spoke to eachother

"You fought well brother"

Said Filkoran

"As did you"

Repiled Ollijio

"I have news, about our father."

Ollijio's head turned up.

"what news, when did you accuire it?"

"Ill tell you later, for now, i need a drink"

to ollijio's disapiontment, his brother stood and went to the bar.

[Ollijio]

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This thread is done, Im just not gunna post here anymore.)