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continue to fight until they run out of black powder. If they insist on fighting, I’ll release the army so that they may have human sport. I sure like the sound of that! With all this talk of games lately, human sport sure sounds like fun!” He grinned.
    “Sire, when I get old enough for proper combat training, I can tell you I’ll take great pleasure in human sport!” Teelena boasted as Travlgnal agreed.
    “Of that, I have no doubt. Travlgnal, I’ve seen you in weapons practice, and know you are highly skilled with a sword. Teelena, I’ve seen your skills with a hammer, and can tell you that you both already have what it takes to defeat any human out there. In fact, Teelena, I can see you and I as a mated couple, battling against the humans side by side…oh, I forget…” Grognor winked, remembering his greater plan of conquest, using the humans as allies. “Well, some kind of sport , anyway!”
    The three of them laughed.
    Almost as if on cue, the magma launchers engaged again, this time at a much higher angle. They flew at what seemed to be a forty five degree angle and nearly out of sight before rapidly falling to the shrouded valley below. An instant later, massive explosions blasted across the valley going up in bright, fiery mushroom shaped clouds.
    “Yea! They hit the humans’ powder cache!” Teelena exclaimed with a roar of victory.
    Grognor spoke again in the microphone, “RELEASE THE ARMY FOR HUMAN SPORT!”
    The massive door practically crashed open as the hooves of gigantic warhorses roared across before the door was all the way down. They sounded like rolling thunder. The powerful dwarven army expertly rode, ready for battle. Grognor was pleased.
    “Ok, time to go play. The fireworks were great, but I need some sport!” Grognor laughed and descended from the perch to where his massive warhorse waited. He jumped upon the steed’s back and rode off with the army, ready to fight. “Let’s go have some fun! This may be the last time we can really do this, don’t waste it!”
    Most of the army didn’t hear him, but it was understood. This may well be the last battle against humans. Sport, indeed. The thousand member dwarven army raced down Deepforge valley, storming toward the human army. Their hooves thundered over the trail, echoing across the mountains. The rolling thunder of the army could be heard far down into the depths of Deepforge, and out to where the human army scrambled to recover from the magma attacks. Through the smoke and fog, the humans saw a frightening sight. The large, heavily armored warhorses burst through the mist with the also heavily armored dwarves riding with weapons in each hand, the horses only needing leg commands. As soon as the dwarves came within sight, they all roared their war cry of doom.
    The humans saw them and stumbled over each other to prepare for battle. Quickly, before the humans could react, the dwarves attacked. The front line trampled across human carcasses, over the exploded remains of the black power wagon, to the first living humans as they stood for battle. The humans’ war horses whinnied in fear and began to panic. The first clash was of Kergnor as he swung his great sword down, crashing down upon the head of a mounted human, slicing him in half and also killing the horse by severing its spine. They both fell to the battlefield as several humans on foot attempted to shoot arrows into the raging dwarf. The arrows simply shattered on Kergnor’s armor as he laughed. Haansa laughed and jumped her horse into the middle of the fray, attacking with ferocity alongside her brothers.
    The line of dwarves clashed and fought with the humans, blood and gore. The sounds of battle echoed across the mountains, echoing back again so that it was magnified to an unearthly level. It was deafening. Metal clashed against metal, screams of pain and roars of war cries intensified as more and more dwarves arrived, their warhorses invading the scene and fighting just