the entrance!

[Gateleader]

Mablooked atLokken. She walked over to him. as she circled around him she looked at his soilders. suddenly she kicked Lokken. Whith her foot she held one of his shoulders back.
"Lokken, we agree to the ters Garret has said. But know this, if you think that you can screw us, think again. Even Gods can die."
Lokken smiled,"So they can, M'Lady."
Mab smiled an evil smile at him and backed off. She walked over to Garret and Ethe."Oh, and Lokken. I want my horse back. And better quarters. It smells like some demonds died in here."
Lokken laughed. Garret's mouth fell open. Mab took Garret by the hand ad began to walk away. She motioned for Ether to come. "Don't get up. I'll find my own tent. Even if I have to kick someone out."

 

[Morgoth]

"Oh, don't worry, Mab, I keep my word. Now all of you get to choose your ranks. Personally I would rather have you as officers as there is less chance of you getting killed. And Garret, I won't kill needlessly if your new emperor decides to surrender", Lokken told them.

 

[Cryo]

Ether stood up and began following Mab and Garret. When they were out of earshot of Lokken, he whispered "I'm doing this because I fear anyone who aspires to become a god, let alone has the ability. But growing up as a bard left me without the traits necessary to lead even a small entourage of solders."

 

[Gateleader]

Mab smiled and squeezed Ether's hand."Just stick with us. Kee your troops near us and we'll tell ya what to do."
Mab looked at the tents around them."You guys are bunking with me right?" Both noded.
Something nudged Mab in the back. She reached behind her and scratched Thor's head."Hey buddy. I missed you. Go find your new home." Mab watched as Thor made his way to a large tent.
"Well, looks like we found home." she said. "LOKKEN! We'l take that tent."
Lokken simpley nodded.
Mab walked into the tent. A group of priest where in it. A boy stood against the wall."Okay priest, out! Lokken has given us this tent."
"And whom are you?" a priest asked.
"I am Mab. NOW GET OUT OF MY TENT! You boy stay here."
The priest exited, vowing to tell Lokken. Mab waved the boy over."Do you have a name?"
"I am Tav, M'Lady."
"It's Mab. Your under our protection now Tav." Thor thumped her in the back."This is Gareet, Ether, and this is Thor. Could you see that he gets a good rub down and something to eat?"
Tav nodded.
"Well, lets go see the troops. Ether maybe you should stay here."

 

[Cryo]

"Alright, but try to find me an open minded unit. Blue skinned half humans tend to arouse paranoya in the best of us." Mab smiled and nodded, then walked out with Garret. Alone in the tent, Ether decided to organize his belongings. First he unstrapped his saber and Katana from his back, laying them within easy reach. His precious Sapphire Cuirass came next, layed with care on a cold, dry, flat rock. He realized that he was a little hungry, so he went for a drink from his canteen. When he was sure noone was looking, he curled his hand into an "O" shape, poored a little water through it, and exerted his will to freezing the streem into a short icicle. Munching on this, he moved infront of his cuirass, and began silently praying.

 

[poohlive]

He couldn't believe they were so pathetic.
There was a lot of men, a lot. Garret thought that was good, but they knew nothing, had no skill, and more importantly they had no direction, no sense of togetherness.
"All right, LINE UP,"Garret yelled.
They all came up to Mab and Garret, lining up. It was a sorry sight, the lines weren't straight, people weren't standing tall, no one had the war look.
"What do you think, divide into three, and train seperately?" Garret asked Mab.
"Well, it might be more effective, we whip them into shape together," Mab answered back.
"We can do both, mornings they are together, afternoons we seperate and train individually."
Mab thought this over, rolling it in her mouth, as if she wanted to know if it tastes right.
"Yes, this is a good plan. I like it," she looked back at him. He smiled.
"Ok, Sunrise tomorrow, everyone is going to be here. You aren't here, I will hunt you down and kill you myself."
He saw the sudden fear in them, and was happy.
Mab went back to the tent, with Garret following. He couldn't wait to go to bed, too many things had happened today, he needed rest.

 

[Cryo]

Twilight was long since past by the time they got back. A fire was going, though Ether tried not to linger too close to it. His blue skin glistened eerily in the firelight. WIthout his Cuirass on, he looked much thinner and younger than before.
Garret paid all of this no heed. He simply walked strait into the tent and collapsed on his bedroll. Mab however sat by the fire, soaking in the heat. "I don't think you have to worry about your unit. Every one of those sorry buncha solders gives a new meaning to the word pitifull." She continued to tell Ether about the plan to train their troops. He simply nodded and munched on an icicle. "is there any food around? I don't think I hafta put up with field rations now."
"There's some smoked meat in the tent. I had Tev bring it a while ago."
She went and grabbed some, to munch on by the fire. Garret could be heard snooring, even from the outside. WHen darkenss had fully set in, Mab said "-Yawn- I'm going to sleep. you coming?"
"I prefer the cold outdoors" said Ether, lying back on the hard ground.
"Suit yourself" shrugged Mab, as she went back into the tent. As Ether drifted off, he heard a soft "youch" coming from the tent. Probably mab, making the mistake of touching one of his swords. He smiled, as muffled curses followed him into darkness...

 

[Morgoth]

lokken walked into their tent," How are the soldiers?" he asked smiling. " The sorriest group of idiots I'v ever seen", all answered."I assigned you brigade 10-9, which one did you get?" Lokken asked inquisitevley." 10-10", Garret answered."Damn, I'll have the commisioner's head. Anyone want to help?" Lokken asked angrily.

 

[poohlive]

OOC: I thought I was asleep.

 

[Morgoth]

OOC: He woke you up.

 

[Cryo]

OOC, does anyone realize that I was supposed to be sleeping outside?

 

[poohlive]

Garret thought that was really rude, he was trying to get some sleep.
"You guys go, I am going back to sleep," with that said, Garret turned over, blinking his eyes twice, and fell into a resful sleep.
He hoped he wasn't woken up again.

 

[Gateleader]

Mab smiled t Garret.
"tav, could you find me soething to eat,please?" Tav nodded and ran off. "Ether, I'll be with you in a moment. I just have to wake up sleeping beutey over here."
Mab climbed ver to Garrets bedroll. She ran her fingure up and down the bridge of his nose."Wakie,wakie." he swatted at her hand. She pulled the covers off his head. Grabbing his face she gave him a kiss. His eyes flew open.
"You aren't gonna lay in bed all day and lt m have all the fun ow are you?" Mab asked giving Garret the puppy-dog look. Groaning he rolled out of bed.
"I'll see you on the field." she said as she walked outsie.
Tav and Ether stood outside the door. With a jerk of her head she signaled them to follow. She motioned for Tav to come along, Mab let out a whistle and Thor came running up.
Mab swang onto his back."Well, lets go torture the troops."
Mab rode to the field. THE solders stood around waiting. She rode up and had Thor rear up, screaming.
"Get i line you lazy magots. I haven't got all day." she yelled as she rode Thor throught the ranks."My mother moves faster then you and she's dead!'
When the troops had lined up she rode before them."I am Mab. I will be leading some of you into battle." she pointed at ther."Thi is Ether, some of you will be following him." She pointed at Garret as he came on the field." Thisis Garret some of you will follow him." SHE circled behind Tav." And this is Tav, my trusted page. You will all treat him with the same respect you give us."
mab rode Thor down the lines.
"From this moment on you belong to us. You will not eat, sleep, fight, drink, or breath with out us telling you to. You will obey all orders or be punished. We expect you to behave as befitting your ranks. You will call us SIR. Any questions?"
The troops all shouted,"NO SIR!"
" Good. Now GET YOUR SOORY ASSES ON THAT FIELD AND PREPARE TO FIGHT!"

 

[Morgoth]

Lokken rode up just as the soldiers became disembarking to war." Halt!" Lokken shouted. He rode up to Garret." Garret, my good friend, here is your NEW brigade", he said. 1,000 elite blade demons marched out of the forest." You will find these quite satisfactory, I believe", he said, smiling. " I am going to join you with my personal gaurd, if you don't mind?" he asked them as 100 gold clawed, gold armored, and gold sworded demons walked into the clearing.

 

[Gateleader]

Mab watched Lokken bring his demonds over. She caught his eye.
"So I guess these sacks of worthless flesh are mine?"

 

[Morgoth]

Lokken let out an enormous laugh." These sacks of flesh are the fabled Death brigade. They wiped out an army of 2,000,000 elite dwarves unaided. You might actually kill something with these. My gaurds, on the other hand are mine alone", he told her, still laughing.

 

[poohlive]

"Good," Garret said, clapping his hands to try and break the tension.
"Then it is settled, Lokken, take your guards to the north side of the field, and start your taining" Lokken looked eager as he shouted out orders at the men.
"Mab," he said, looking right into her eyes, such beautiful eyes, "You get the demons, make sure they are lethal killer when you are done. Train on the south side of the field."
Garret felt the further away those two were from each other, the better.
"Ether and I will split these men, and take them, east and west,"Garret seemed pleased with the decision.
"I want to make sure my men are ok about being led by a half elemental."
Garret nodded, and watched as Ether slowly picked out about half of the men, whom he suited were all right for leading. He then headed east.
"Ok, Maggots. You are now being trained under the onriest son of a bitch ever born," Garret smiled, he always loved this speech, ever since his superior gave it to him, "I will be tough, but I will be fair, no one gets any special treatment, and you all obey my command?"
Garret heard a yes sir.
"Holy shit, Sound off like you got as pair maggots."
"YES SIR," it was more of a shout this time.
"Good, we are going to need wood, I want half of you to go out and chop down 10 of the biggest trees you can find, we need to make ourselves an obstacle course."
Garret saw as half the men went into the weapons tent, and left into the woods with axes in their hands.
"The rest of you, it is time for a little running. This field is about big enough. Ten times around, no stopping, and if any of you get in the way of the other soldiers training, there's going to be hell to pay."
Garret glanced over at the demons, and shivered, he hated those things. He couldn't trust anything non human, and he guessed he never will.
Garret saw everyone else was putting their men to work as well. (go for it guys, have fun seeing what crap you can make your men do)
Yes, today was a good day to train.

 

[Gateleader]

Mab nodded at Garret. She ofered her hand to Tav so he could swing up behind her. She lead the demonds over to her side of the field.
"Alright yu rotting piles of flesh. Divide into two groups. Group one will go with Tav and build some dubies.That shouldbe easy. The other group gets to stay with me." She grinned eily." Oh yes, if you hurt Tav i will kill you."
Mab took her group to the side of her field.
"Well, well well, lets begin. FORWARD MARCh." Mab begain to run the group throught the paces. She had grabbed a tee branch and would wack them when they got out of line. Mab riened Thor into the shadows of a tree. This wasn't really her, was it. she hated being cruel, even to demonds.
Mab weeded out four demonds. They were not good with the rest of the group."Congradulations, scum bags. You just got promoted. Your now my personal guard. The rest of you RUN. you four run beside Thot." Mab helped Tav onto Thor's ack and troted off after her men.

 

[Cryo]

so I guess I'm stuck with these guy's then, thought Ether. Well so beit. He noticed that a few of the guy's gave him a skepticle look. Well I know how to remidy that. Ether drew a ble bladded saber. "THIS" he pointed to the saber "Is the Ice saber!" the blade eminated a chill that made every one of his troops shivver. The blade looked wickedly sharp, despite the blue of the metal. "And This!" he pulled out another sword "Is the blizzard katana!" The katana was of the same color and shape, but twice as long and looked much more deadlier. Despite the chill, Most solders struggled to stand strait and alert. Fear is a good thing. "If you don't do what I say WHEN I say, If you Talk about me funny behind my back, If you even LOOK at me the wrong way, you will be killed, Painfully, and slowly at the hand of These blades." One solder stepped foward. he didn't have a cold or fearful look onh is face. He was simply skepticle.
"Bach, I've killed master swordsman weilding magical weapons befor using my own two fists. Why should you scare m..."
Before he could finish saying me, Ether drew his katana and sliced through his swordarm. The frozen limb fell off and shattered on impact to the ground. THe remaining stump, and a good part of the shoulder, were frozen solid. Then, to end his suffering, he slit his throat. Ether didn't want to do it, but threats are only effective when taken seriously.
"Now, let's get to those exercises!"

 

[Morgoth]

Lokken quickly put his gaurds to slaughtering each other. The ones left alive would rise in rank. The dead would simply be ressurected. Thrinta butchered his first demon in seconds. Soon the clearing was covered in bodies and blood. "Good, now I want more a death, understand? Thrinta should show you a few examples", as Lokken finished his words, Thrinta pit his claws into a demons chest and at the same time used it's sword and beheaded it. Then after he was done, he took it's heart out. Lokken noticed the new officers looking in horror and disgust.

 

[Gateleader]

Mab begain to drill her troops. She had them attack the dummy, each other, in groups, alone. till she wasn't happy.
"Worthless. Your all worthless. RUN! Keep running tell i tell you to stop."she yelled." You four. Get over here. show me what you have."The four demonds begain to fight for her.
"Enought. You'll do. You are to keep the others drilling. Tav go tell Garretthat my personal guard is drilling my men and to watch them. Tell him I need soe time alone."
Tav sprinted off to tell Garret. Mab kneed Thor."Well old friend, I could use a bath. Find me some water."

Mab rode Thor to a spring. It wasout of the training troops line of sight, yet close enought she could hear them practicing. Mab slide off Thor's back."Watch for people coming" Mab slide her cloths off and slide into the water. She lay in it. After a few minutes Thor snorted. Mab could hear a demond in the bushs. She grabbed on off her nives and threw it at the noise. he heared a girggling. She rse and puled the knife out of his throth. dressing sshe tied a rope around hs ankles and dagged him back. He was one of her men. She thundered up to them.
"This is what happens when you do't obey me!"

 

[Morgoth]

"Enough! I have lost enogh demons for one day", Lokken bellowed at them. He casted a bright light and the demons rose up." Now, your first actual mission. Encircle the Eastern part of the castle. Act as one. Take a few siege machines with you and begin to fire", Lokken told them, calming down.

 

[Cryo]

Thor snorted again. The air suddenly got really cold, and Mab, naked, shuddered. She grabed another knife and threw it at the source of the cold.
THe knife bounched harmlessly off Ether's cuirass as he stepped into the Open. "Damnit Ether, what are you doing here?" she quickly went for her cloths.
"Human modesty is something I never could understand." he said, uninterested in anything but her face. "Lokken is sending his troops to attack a castle, seige engines and everything. I'm not sure who's castle or even if it's just a drill, but I thought you should know"

"Well what are you doing here? what about your troops?"
"I left them tied up. it's an interesting exurcise I should tell you about sometime." Ether left. Going back to his troop, he saw the last guy standing Hogtie another guy. Everyone of his troops (with one exception) were bound and gagged on the ground. smiling, Ether said "Ok troops, untie yourselves. We might see some action soon, so be ready

 

[Morgoth]

"I am joining you. And I don't care if you mind, this is important. The Eastern side of the capital is too much to lose. Also, Thrinta's army will be joining us. The added strength of our forces will be 6,000,000. Any questions?" he asked as Mab walked in.

 

[poohlive]

Garret looked at Lokken, "Yes. My men aren't ready. To train these sorry bunch of men into fighters takes at least two weeks, we haven't even had two days. Give us more time, some of us actually have men, not demons we can resurrect if they die. I need my men to build strength, immunity, and that killer instinct that only comes from hard training."
Garret had spoken his peace, he couldn't believe Lokken, no wonder these men didn't know how to fight, they were trained like crap. Some of these men don't even know the difference between forward march and lie on the ground so the enemy can kill you.
Garret stormed off, not wanting to talk to Lokken. He had wanted to become a god by claiming this land, yet he was going about it the wrong way. It wasn't numbers that win a battle, it is experience and strategy.
"Even if there are 6 million other soldiers joining us, 1 million trained soldier can kill 6 million untrained pieces of crap."
Garret went into the forest, not knowing where he was going, soon he came to a nice pool. He saw two people on the other side, one was Ether, and the other was...
Garret opened his mouth, it was Mab, and she was naked in front of him. Tears started to swell up in his eyes, he couldn't believe it.
"You think you know a girl," he muttered as he went back to camp. He could see no sign of Lokken, probably went to his own tent. Garret went up to theirs.
He lied down, wondering why she was kissing him if she didn't like him. He thought they were a couple, sort of, or something.
Garret guessed not. He turned over, not wanting to sleep, but not wanting to stay awake either. In the end he went outside, and started punching some bags. It relieved the pressure, but the pain was still there, it wouldn't go away.
Why wouldn't the pain go away?