Siege of Racana

[Lyneya Oceanheart]

Lyneya had reached Racana just in time to see the line of Southerners and Pirates led by the king she couldn't remember the name of crash into the line of Naval Soldiers led by a woman Lyneya had never seen.

It was chaos, the buildings were falling apart and people were filling the streets, mothers carrying children, husbands carrying wives. The worst part was the dead children. Lyneya tried to hold back the tears; the children didn't even know they were dead.

The kept standing behind their mothers, tugging at their skirts and being ignored. Some, the realisation just dawning on them, were sitting in the street crying as people ran through them.

It was folly. Lyneya ran towards the beach, waving her hands in the air.

"Stop! Stop!" Was all she could think of to say. A stray arrow skimmed Lyneya's arm and she gasped, only to be knocked down by a woman wearing pirate attire as another arrow shot right at where her head would have been.

[chase]

Chase crept through the forests towards the rear of the Naval lines. They were just landing some large battering rams, but they had a strange head to them, like they were made to crumble walls... not doors. They had shields lined along the top of them to prevent the navy soldiers being shot by arrows.

The trees were thick here, and the ground was moist, muffling the sound of their feet on the earth. Chase kneeled down in the dirt with his crossbow at the ready. He made a hand signal and ordered the guards to move up in a line quietly. Maccenna and Geddo should be just behind him, with the massive pirate force Geddo had managed to gather in such short time...

A guard crept up beside Chase, "What do you see?"

Chase could see a Naval rearguard standing in the middle of a grove of trees, kicking some dust on the ground, bored.

"A naval soldier?" The guard asked. Chase lined up the helpless man in his sights, and killed him with a twitch of his finger.

"A dead naval soldier..." Chase replied. He turned back to Geddo and Maccenna, whispering. "Bring the archers up to the front. Keep the soldiers quiet until we get noticed..."

[Jarad]

"Yes sir." Geddo whispered. He made three hand signs and archers quietly walked out. He grinned at Chase. He waited for chase to give the order to fire, seeing as Chase was an archer also.

[chase]

Chase moved up closer to the naval army. He waited for the massive battering ram to arrive at the wall and halt there. He raised his arm and the archers loaded the arrows and bolts into their bows, taking aim. The giant head of the ram was pulled back, and then let fly into the wall with a thunderous boom.

Chase brought his arm down and hundreds of arrows soared through the woods, slamming into the rear lines of the army. The sound had been muffles by the ram, and most of the soldiers attention was solely upon it. He ordered the pirates to reload for another shot...

[ulyssar]

Lorian screamed, seeing the lines breaking. "Bring in the rest of the soldiers!" She called to lietenant on the longboat.

She leapt into the fray of the battle, swinging her large sword around her. She ducked under a Southerner's spear and jabbed him through the chest, jumping to the side to attack a pirate who's horse had been felled.

She stood over the pirate's body as tons of rock hurtled over the city walls, slamming into all kinds of buildings. Crumbling stone and flesh alike. Soon... they would strike one of those blasted trebuchets.

She rolled to the side and cut out the feet of one the horses, bringing her sword around to slice open the man, from groin to chin. The battle was raging on, and men were dropping all around her, from both armies...

[Henry]

Henry heard a small twange as the ram hit the wall. Some men fell from teh arcehrs. "Men! we are being flanked! Attack!" Henry and most of the infintry charged away from the wall and attacked the group of pirates. They easily outnumbered the pirates, but archers on the wall didn't help. Then Henry paused. Him! HOw dare he show his face here again to him! He saw his older brother, Geddo!

[khalora]

Khalora knifed the head of a soldier clean off of his shoulders, letting it land seven feet away. He was in a small clearing of dead soldiers. Every man who had attempted to attack him had fallen around him, and the rest were just that little bit wiser to hold back from him.

He was the greatest swordsman of the South, and it was easily being proven. He noticed the Fleet Admiral on the other side of the breach, attacking some of his knights, and the pirates. She was easily recognisable because of the gold threading all over her uniform.

Khalora ran at two soldiers and shoulder tackled them into the ground, stabbing down at them with his sword. More men arrived on the shore every minute, but there was nobody coming to aid Khalora's men... they were still alone... "Amory! Where are you!?"

[Maccenna]

Maccenna stood amoung the archers,her bow tipped and arrow strung upon it, its shaft ending in feathered plume, brushing slightly across her face. She sought a target and found one. Focussing on him, MAccenna got ready to realease with deadly aim upon her victim, but suddennly she let her bow relax, as she watched the mans head suddenly roll off his shoulders under the Mighty stroke of the Southern King, and her captain, Alessio Khalora.

She looked up at him on the walls, dead men piled around him. It seemed he was an extreemly acomplished swordsman. She wished she could get up to him to help him, but there were still too many men where she was now to fight off before she could properly reach him.

Maccenna had held her bow too long as she thought though and soon found a naval soldier rushing upon her. with no other choice, she jabbed her arrow, which was close at hand, into the man's right side. He yelled in pain, but she could not hear him as she quickly pulled out her sword and slashed upon him. It was clumsy but it silenced him. She sheathed her bloody sword and then picked up her bow before, pulling her intact arrow from the dead man's corpse.

She felt sorry for the man. He probably did not wnat to be here, fighting for land when he probably had a family. This is where they, the pirates and the southerners, had the advantage. For everysingle pirate, every single southern guard, had a purpose that was meaningful to them for being here. They were not afraid of dying for their land, and suddenly niether was she.
Dodging an attack, Maccenna found Geddo.

"Geddo, Cpatain Khalora is up on the barrracks." she had changed from her timid being to a more bold person. "Do you think we can get a few men up there to help his own?"

She rose her bow andimed and released an arrow upon a man tat was heading towards them with almost an ease.

Seeing Chase, she called to him; "Chase, Khalora is up on the walls! He needs help. Where is Armory? Is she not the queen of the pirates?"

Men keot rushing upon them. There was an endless mass of them. She looked to the shore and saw something that made her heart drop. She had heard Chase say it, but seeing it knocked the reality into her. There were at least a hundred enemy ships on the horizon.

OOC: I feel like changing the color of the text. ;D

[Poker]

Poker was on the wall, still in the constant back and forth volley of arrows. He had commanded Archer behind him after he had almost been shot a second time. Poker could still hear his barks though.

What Poker would give to have a bow right now. Then he could assist more than just giving orders. The Pirates didn't really have much incentive to follow him anyway, he had just been the first to arrive at the wall and command.

Suddenly, Naval Soldiers began falling from arrows shot from the west. Chase was here was all Poker could assume. Last he had seen him was when Chase had taken his body back to Tritern. The yelling was making Poker's neck heard and he could feel the throbbing, soon he wouldn't be able to speak for a time.

Poker saw the leader of the Navy infantry in a sudden moment, something had his attention towards the other group of Pirate Archers.

"H-" Poker began to yell, pointing towards the leader, but his voice had cut out on him. The basilisk, even in death was defeating him. Poker reflected bitterly. All Poker could do was point desperately.

[Jarad]

Geddo slashed, cut, chopped, and bombarded the navy with his sword. His arm was bleeding from an arrow, and a navy solder who he didn't completly kill had stabbed his leg. "Maccenna, Chase. Good luck, get to the caption. I can handle it here." He killed another navy man. "Pirates! For your familys! For the seas! Give no courter, give no mercy, leave none alive!" geddo said as he charged into the mist of the group and started to slash some of the navy men. He was using his sheath to block attacks.

[amory]

The navy crawled onto her land... the Pirate's land. Her blood boiled. She immediately pulled out her claymore, the blade glimmering in the sunlight. Yet, no matter what time of the day it may have been, she could only see darkness. Something touched her leg. She looked down and saw Yasar, his tongue flicking out of his mouth. She would have smiled, but she couldn't force herself to do it. "Together." She looked up and saw Pirates running about, and this time, she could smile. They would win, she knew it. Suddenly, an arrow was shot at her. She barely dodged it and snapped her head in the direction of the archer, but something striked her arm. She gritted her teeth to refrain from screaming and swung around with her claymore. The enemy's head fell off. She looked around, breathing heavier than she was just before, and examined the area again. Something caught her attention. Or rather, someone. The woman was screaming something, as if she was trying to stop the war. An arrow hit her arm. Amory looked at who shot it and noticed that they were getting another arrow in position. She ran towards the woman, and the arrow was coming into their direction. Amory pushed her down and felt the arrow stab in between her shoulder blades. She closed her eyes. "Don't... try to stop this." She said the woman, walking away. She reached her hand over her shoulder and pulled the arrow out, grunting. She gritted her teeth again. She pushed through the crowd, striking any and all Navy soldiers that were in her way. Yasar stayed behind, traveling on his own, as he bit into the skin of any Navy soldier that may have still been alive, poisoning them to their death. The Southern King may think they weren't prepared for this fight, but he's underestimating the power of the Pirates.

[chase]

"Geddo!" Chase called out to the pirate who was going ballistic at the naval soldiers, "I'm going up to the wall! Its all yours down here!"

Chase stabbed his longsword into a naval soldier who was running at him, but then a long spear was run into him from the back. Chase gritted his teeth, but it didn't hurt. He turned around to see the soldiers stunned expression at the spear just deflecting off of Chase's armour. "Its good isn't it?" Chase cut his chest open.

"Maccenna, you can come with me or stay with Geddo!" Chase then sheathed his longsword and ran full sprint towards the wall, where the ram had almost fully broken through the stone and mortar. Chase ran right up to a full line of naval spearman, but leapt to the left onto a tall tree. He scaled it nimbly, arrows breaking all around him, and the tree started to sag towards the wall.

Chase climbed higher until he was in line with the wall. And then he jumped over to it, grasping his hands on the battlements and hanging a moment, before pulling himself up and over. An arrow hit him in the forearm, just above his wrist, but there was nothing he could do about it. He leapt over and crouched behind a battlement, pushing the arrow through his arm and snapping off the shaft. He held it for a moment to try and stick some cloth to it to stop the bleeding. He stood up and drew his longsword, seeing Poker.

"Poker! We'll need to get some pirates on the other side of that ram! They're just about to break through... are you in the mood for some close-quarter combat?"

[khalora]

Alessio jumped off the back of Achilles, landing on the ground, his armoured boots thudding heavily on the stone. He smacked Achilled in the side and the horse bolted off, back the way Khalora had come from. It was the stage of the battle where a horse was actually a hinderance.

Alessio leapt again at a new group of naval soldiers, attacking about five at once, using his shield to take some hits and shoulder tackle half of them down, slashing his sword out to cut through the ones still standing. He swung the sword in an arc and took his shield away from the three on the ground, slashing across all of them, and then back again.

Sweat was breaking out all over his body inside his armour. He'd been fighting for quite some time. Suddenly he heard a deep rumble, and he saw the mortar loosen from the northern wall. "The soldiers are breaking through the wall!" But it was useless, nobody here could leave the fight, he just hoped somebody at the wall had heard.

Alessio turned back to the fight and beheaded a man who had been trying to kill him with his back turned. There was only a line of Southerners and pirates left, against a non-stop wave of naval soldiers. If somebody doesn't arrive soon, this breach is lost... and then the navy will have access to the city itself...

[Poker]

Poker could hear Chase yelling. Poker shook his head desperately. He wanted to relay the orders. He tried to scream the words to the pirates around him. All he could manage were some weak hissing noises from deep within his throat.

Some of the pirate's heard Chase's command and began sliding down the wall on ropes. Most however never heard a word and continued firing at will.

Poker couldn't do anything more on the wall. Poker sheated both his cutlasses and using all the muscle he could muster, picked up Archer. He held Archer's hump while the dog put his fore-paws over Poker's shoulders. The barking was deafening. Poker, with his free hand, threw a rope down over the edge of the wall. Poker leapt over the wall and slid down the rope. He could feel the skin burning away from his hand, but he couldn't scream.

Poker landed on the ground and Archer jumped away from him. Poker drew his cutlasses and together he and his german shepherd ran into the battle.

Poker could make no war cries and he could not give orders, but he fought savagely, cutting anything in his path as he whirled his cutlasses around him till to anyone else they appeared to be shining silver blurs around him. Archer's teeth quickly became red as he jumped onto his enemies, bowling them over and ripping their throats out in a spray of gore.

[Jarad]

Geddo slashed many of the navy solders. "For the pirates!" THe group of pirates where making good work of solders before they could rally. He saw his brother kill some of the pirates. "Brother! Flee now or die!" Geddo said in a thretning voice as he killed another navy man.