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“A warrior by the name of Crow came running from the Wilderness, only yesterday. He reported to us that Zamorak’s army was gathering in deep Wilderness, hordes and hordes of evil creatures and even worse men. Of course, we sent scouts immediately, but only one of them returned. He confirmed the warrior’s story. If we are to believe either of them, then we are dealing with an army too great even for us.

They will come tomorrow at midnight.”

End of Chapter 11.

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Chapter 12 – (find a name)

The silence was eerie. No one could say speak after this, until the archer broke the silence.

“Sir, the strategy?” he asked carefully, his voice was deep and strong.

“Ah, yes. We best continue if we wish to live out the night,” he said, and turned to the maps again. “They won’t get through our wall, that’s for sure. Going through Edgeville and barbarian village to our west gate would diminish their troops too much; they surely won’t come from there. Going along our eastern wall and through the east gate would be simply stupid for them; our archers would kill them where they stand. Obviously, they can’t come through our southern gate, so that leaves only the north gate. We shall place powerful mages and accurate archers at the palace top, along with our cannons. Rangers and mages of average power shall be on the walls. We’ll let them come close, and then we shall bottleneck them at the gate. They will fall like water on rock!* King Roald stated, proud of his battle plan.

He hadn’t noticed that Kashan and the others were still in the room, and flinched when Timier spoke.

“Sir, I believe this might be a big mistake. If they are amassing for an attack now, they more than likely have some means to either enter the city, or get through the walls. We should meet them in open battle on the plains to the north,” Timier said concerned. He spoke fast.

“And just how should they do that? They can’t teleport in; we raised a magical barrier as soon as we heard of them coming. They can’t blast the wall down, it’s too thick, and I’ve made sure of that. No, they can’t get into the city. Now leave, we need to consider the details!” He replied arrogantly.

They bowed, as is customary, and turned to walk out when the door burst open and a monk came running through. Toin recognized him; it was Drezel, the monk that guarded the temple of the river Salve.

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“Sir! They’re coming! Vampires, werewolves! Morytania’s attacking! The temple’s gates are holding, but they won’t for much longer!” He panted as if he had run three marathons.

King Roald froze up, and his face went pale. The three men quickly began speaking together for the best strategy to counter this.

*I told you so…” Timier chanted in such a low voice that only King Roald could hear him. He didn’t react to this, however.

“How many are there and when will they come?” the warrior asked Drezel. His voice was deep, unusually deep.

“I… I don’t know how many they are. I just saw Ulizius running into the temple, screaming the beasts of Morytania were attacking, but I thought he was just overreacting like usual; until I looked out of the barrier myself. I saw vampires and werewolves as far as I could see. It will take them some time to get through the barrier, tough; I would expect them to get through around midnight tomorrow.” Drezel sounded frightened.

“They’ve synchronized,” the mage said, surprised.

“Bad things come in threes, now the big question is what the third is,” Kashan said.

“That has already come. Falador has replied our request for reinforcements,” The mage said. “They cannot spare any soldiers; goblins have risen up and are now attacking them. Even though the goblins stand no chance to actually defeat the city, they do prevent them from sending us troops.”

“Sir, I think our best chance is to send troops to stop them at the temple, bottleneck them there, instead of meeting in an open battle on two sides of the city,” the archer interrupted to King Roald.

King Roald seemed to snap out of his daze.

“Yes. Yes, you’re right,” he said, and then turned to Timier. “I suppose you don’t have any problems with that?” he asked cynically, but he couldn’t hide the sting in his voice.

Timier simply shrugged his shoulders.

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“Very well. You two,” he gestured towards Kashan and Toin, “will be under Reol here.” He gestured to the warrior, who nodded to Kashan and Toin, and they nodded back. “You,” he gestured to Arya. “Will be under Kai.” He gestured to the ranger, who stood motionless, staring at her. She returned his stare. “And you.” He gestured to Timier, “will be under Kareel.” He gestured to the mage, who bowed to Timier, smiling, and Timier did the same.

“They are my generals. There are also some commanders over you, one over each squad, and some high-ranking officers who will oversee the whole battle. Kai, would you take them to the armory and lend them some appropriate attire for the battle? They won’t do much good in red dragonhide armor, or no armor at all.”

“Of course, my lord,” was the reply.

They bowed and went out of the room, leaving only King Roald, Reol, Kareel, and a very confused Drezel. The last thing they heard before exiting the room was “Who have synchronized? What’s the third, or second? What battle? What’s going on!?”

“Where in the battle will I be? Or they, for that matter?” Arya asked Kai as they were walking down the extremely long corridors of the palace.

“That depends. Are you any good with that bow of yours? And you with that staff?”

“I’ll have you know I am the winner of the Edgeville ranging competition the last six years,” Arya replied quickly.

Kai smiled. “Perhaps a demonstration would be better. You see that shield at the end of the corridor, on the armor display? Shoot it. If you hit it in the dead center, you can be with us elites on the top of the palace. If not, you’ll be with the other average archers on the wall.”

“But that’s got to be at least hundred yards away! You can’t expect her to hit from that distance!” Kashan objected, but Arya didn’t mind that.

She quickly drew her bow, noc*ed it with two steel arrows, and let it loose, all in one fluid motion. They couldn’t see where it had hit; it was too far away.

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When they reached the end of the corridor, they saw the arrows had both pierced the shield’s crest, a purple background with a green cross, directly to the middle. She yanked them out and replaced them in her quiver.

“Good shot,” Kai said with recognition in his voice. “To be honest, I didn’t really believe you would hit, but clearly you belong with us at the palace top.

“How about you, mage? Are YOU any good? I won’t offer you to shoot anything here, but the mage training room is next to the armory, we can check that while we’re there.”

“No need, my strength is not in combat spells,” Timier said as he raised his staff. Instantly, a white lighting struck from the ceiling, forming a wolf on the floor in front of him.

“A summoner, are you? Not many of these in Varrock; only Armadylists learn summoning, and they live almost exclusively in Kandarin,” Kai said, then seemed to get an idea, and quickly added, “Let me ask you a question, if I were to place you somewhere high, would you be able to summon monsters into a group, far away from yourself?”

“Yes, but it** more costly then summoning close to me. I would need more runes.”

“The armory is stacked, I’m sure you will find what you need in here,” Kai said, and pointed towards a large iron door to their left. They had reached the armory.

Toin walked in first, but stopped when he saw the equipment inside. He stared in awe at the wall directly in front of him. hundreds and hundreds of plate bodies, platelegs, full helms, medium helms, kite shields, square shields and other armor, along with countless battleaxes, longswords, scimitars, daggers and other weapons, stacked up on the wall, too numerous to mention. On the wall to the right, there were multiple stacks of runes, each stack going at least ten feet into the air, and loads of magical robes. On the wall to the left, there were hundreds of bows and ranged armor, along with many thousand arrows, neatly stacked together.

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On a pedestal in the middle of the room, there were loads of amulets, rings, armored gloves, and boots.

Timier rushed to the rune stacks, choosing what runes he needed, while Toin swiftly got to the melee armor wall, examining each piece of equipment carefully, as if trying to see any cracks in their making. Meanwhile, Arya had gone to the range armor wall, and taken full black dragonhide armor, loaded her quiver full of rune arrows, and grabbed a magic bow. Kashan smiled at their enthusiasm, then slowly walked to the pedestal, and took some of the various rings that lay there.

Meanwhile, the others had gotten what they wanted from their chosen wall. Toin had a glitter of fascination in his eyes, but no changes to his own armor or weapon. Timier had multiple rune pouches tied around his waste, but other than that, there were no changes to him, and Arya was now wearing full red dragonhide instead of blue, and a mage bow instead of a yew one. They now crowded the pedestal, all taking grayish gloves, similar to Reol’s, and a ring or two as well. Toin also took a ruby amulet of strength, and rune boots.

Timier took, besides the gloves and ring, a sapphire amulet of magic, and Arya took an emerald amulet of defense. Her face was lit up with joy, under normal circumstances it would have taken her months, even years, to save up for all this. While they were raiding the jewelry, Kashan went to the range wall and took a few throwing knives, which he then sheathed in his belt.

Kai walked to Kashan while the others were checking their new equipment. “Don’t you want some armor? You’re awfully bare like this, and probably won’t be much good in a battle,” he said.

“Armor would just slow me down. I need to be able to move fast and easy in battle,” Kashan replied.

“As you wish.” Kai said, and then turned to the others. “Remember, this is not YOUR equipment.

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The city of Varrock is lending you weaponry for the upcoming battle, and will recover it when the battle is won, or Varrock in ruins,” Kai announced. The faces on them turned from cheery to glum. “When you are finished getting your equipment, you can go to the Jolly Boar inn. There you can sleep, eat, and prepare for the battle tomorrow any way you see fit. I shall arrange the payment of your rooms,” Kai continued.

They poured out of the armory, following Kai out of the palace.

When they got outside, into the garden, he said to them, “I suggest you enjoy your time here tonight, for it may be the last night you have.

“Tomorrow, we march for war.”

End of Chapter 12.

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Chapter 13 - Romance in the bar

When they got out of the palace, it was almost three ‘o clock in the afternoon.

“Now then, shall we go to the bank for the runes?” Timier said to Toin as they were walking through the grand palace garden.

“I can’t see why not. What kind of enchantment should I put in the staff?” Toin asked.

“I can choose? Well, this will require some thinking…” he paused for a moment and pondered the possibilities. “Is it possible for you to make the staff have infinite life runes, like other staffs have infinite elemental runes?” he asked, excited about the possibility of never having to buy runes for summoning and healing again.

“Rune embedding is fairly simple, but requires many runes of that kind. I can do it, if you have 15,000 life and cosmic runes,” Toin replied.

“But of course,” Timier said smiling.

They went to the bank, and Timier withdrew the runes he needed.

“Aren’t you going to enchant it, then?” Timier asked excitedly.

“Enchanting takes some time, contrary to most other types of magic. I’ll enchant it at the inn tonight, don’t worry,” Toin replied soothingly.

Timier didn’t seem quite happy about that, but held his tongue. When they got to the bar, they found that their rooms had already been paid for, and a small mistake in the booking; there were only three rooms instead of four. That would have been all right, had it not been for Arya. After some thinking, they decided that Arya and Kashan would share a room, and Arya would sleep behind a screen wall the inn owner had in the storage room.

Toin went directly into his room with Timier’s staff and the runes to enchant it.

“I’m going to have a drink, who’s with me?” Timier said after Toin had closed the door behind him.

“I am,” Kashan said, faking enthusiasm.

“I’m not. I’m going to get cleaned up, get the travel dust off me,” Arya said as she turned to open the door to her room.

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Kashan and Timier had been at the bar for almost a half an hour, drinking beers, eating meat and talking to people, mainly about the upcoming battle, when Toin walked down the stair from the rooms, holding Timier’s staff. It had no longer a white orb at the top, but a cyan one.

“I’m done! This is now no longer a mystic air staff, but a mystic life staff!” he announced proudly, holding up the staff.

Timier took the staff, and tested its balance in his hands. He raised it, and muttered a few words, forcing a white lightning from the ceiling, forming a wolf at the ground in front of him, much to the shock of the other people at the bar.

“It works!” he said smiling and the wolf disappeared. Toin watched the staff as it moved, smiling as well.

“Now I’m in the mood for some food and ale!” Toin said, partly to himself, partly to the barman, who immediately poured some beer in a glass and handed it to him.

“This one’s on me,” Timier said happily, as Toin was handing the barman a few gold pieces. “This staff is worth it, and then some,” he continued as he handed the barman some gold.

“Oi! Where are you going?” Toin yelled to Kashan, who was in the middle of the stairs.

Kashan blushed, and then replied, “I need to talk to Arya about something. I’ll be right down.”

Timier smiled roguishly at him, making him blush even more, but Toin didn’t notice anything.

“All right, don’t take too long,” Toin absentmindedly said to him, as he turned to his beer.

Kashan walked through the hallways that lead to his room, nervousness shone off him.
He took off his amulet, the amulet Krystal had owned and cherished, and gripped it tightly in his hand. He could have sworn the dark part had grown bigger, though so little it was barely noticeable. He shook those thoughts off; he was just growing paranoid.

He walked into his room, and went to the edge of the screen wall.

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He turned around the end of it, and immediately sprung back behind it, almost knocking it down in the process.

“Whoa!” he exhaled the word loudly as he jumped back.

Behind the screen wall, he had seen Arya’s bed up against the end wall, a dresser next to it with a couple flowers, and Arya, lying in bathtub full of water. Even though she was facing the other way, these were still not respectable circumstances.

She flinched so hard when she heard his rather noisy exit, that she knocked almost a fourth of the water on the floor.

“What are you doing here!?” she yelled to him angrily when she had recovered, stretching her hand out for a long evening gown, which hung from the wall next to her.

“I… I was just… umm…” he stammered, then coughed and seemed to pull himself together. “I just came to give you this,” He said, holding his hand around the edge of the screen wall, showing the amulet to Arya.

“It’s ok, you can come in now; I’m decent,” she said as she tied a knot on the fine rope around her waist, over the gown.

Kashan walked around the screen wall, hesitantly at first, but more securely when he saw she was dressed. He held out the amulet, hanging around his hand on the chain.

“I just thought that, seeing as how you’re her niece, you should have it,” he said, kindly.

“Thanks,” she said, gently. “What was she like? Krystal, I mean,” she asked after a moment’s hesitation.

“She was…indescribable,” he said, lost in his thoughts. “She was never unhappy, and if anybody around her was, she would bring them out of it within a second out of it. There was never a dull moment with her. She was very observant and resourceful, and had the eyes and ears of a fox. I’m telling you, those things mixed together can get rather annoying.” He laughed the last words, and he spotted a large smile on Arya as well. “She was almost exactly like you in appearance, actually, except her hair was blonde,” he continued, stroking a lock behind her ear.

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