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behind with Lord Marcello, King Angus, and General
Lang. After a few minutes, the staff of Marcello lowered to the ground again as
if the effort of creating the shields cost him dearly. He stood in the same
spot for minutes while he appeared to be recovering from the extreme use of
magic. His head snapped up abruptly and stared into the darkened skies overhead
and raised his staff once more.
    “And
so it begins,” said King Angus in hushed tones.
    Again
the wizard muttered something under his breath, and an eerie blue light went up
into the clouds. The hail of fire turned to a deluge of rain. Lightning ripped
through the sky as if the storm was only beginning, and booms of thunder tore
through the air so loudly that no one could hear anything at all. The rain put
out the fires at the southern part of the city and the several fires in the
forest north of Tarisdell. The high elves were bewildered by the change in the
weather and the ear-splitting thunder. As they looked around to see what was
causing these strange events, massive blue objects began hitting the ground.
The chunks of ice were fifty feet in diameter and were hitting the ground with
such velocity that the ground shook uncontrollably. After a few minutes of
this, the ice stopped and the rain came down fiercer than before.
    “Fire!”
order Commander Boaz. A volley of arrows flew through the air at the western
flank of the high elves. Several of the wicked elves went down. The battle that
had been between the elves and high elves had now taken on a new dimension. The
giants had arrived, and the tide of the battle turned in the favor of the
woodland elves. A portion of the high elves turned their attention to the
newcomers and a bloody confrontation ensued.

Lord Keb
     
    As
Kana made her way deep into the icy northern regions on her dragon, she
continued to mull over the glitches in her plans. Each strategy she had devised
seemed to have been discovered in part before its execution. The reports from
her network of spies had told her that the dwarves at Mount Carrick had been
ready for the attack. The elves in the southern part of the forest had been
made aware of the impending assault before her orcs could surprise them. She
just found out that the high elves had been ambushed numerous times before
arriving outside the outer wall of Tarisdell. The giants had appeared out of
nowhere and had the unsuspecting Lord Dükker surrounded. She could not believe
her misfortune and did not think that these incidents were merely coincidences.
She was going to get some answers one way or another.
    The
country below her turned to snow as she continued to fly high in the sky. She
was going to have a little chat with her old friend about what exactly was
going on. He would help her or suffer excruciating pain and endless torment.
She could not kill him, of course, but she could make his existence miserable
at the very least. She just knew that he had something to do with the leakage
of information about her plans, and he was going to answer to her for his
meddling. After dealing with Lord Keb, she would be free to pursue her war with
the people of Tuwa. She still needed to recruit some other allies and get them
involved as soon as possible. Even though her army was considerably larger than
the organized armies of the dwarves and man, she knew that her ranks were
susceptible to superior battle tactics.
    After
she had flown for what seemed to be hours, she came upon a mysterious dark
mountain that reached so high that it pierced the sky. It was completely
covered in snow, and yet it did not look white to the naked eye. The snow was
discolored somehow to look gray and dirty. As she approached her destination in
the far north, she took deep steadying breaths as she took in her gloomy
surroundings. The dragon tried to turn away as it neared the mountainside. He
instinctively knew what the place was and what lay beneath it. He did not want
to have anything to do with landing anywhere