Attack on Reanor

Maekrix lay sleepily near the harbor as the sun began to set.
For many of the villagers it was sight to behold, regardless of how many generations had lived in peace with these giants.

People were still busy trying to fix their roofs, doors or tending to the wounded, and it was painful for everyone to realize there had been many a casualty among their countrymen.

The pirates had come before dawn and had somehow avoided the watch and swiftly started moving up towards the manors.
The cats and dogs began noticing the strangers and soon people woke up and were startled to find the animals had been right about their alarm.
The surprise attack was momentarily rebuked, but the pirates were resourceful, numerous and strong, which lead the villagers to gather and make stands wherever they could. Helpless women and children had fled towards the top hills, in order to call for aid from the neighbor lands above.

Bells started being rung all over the village as some of the more able hands got ready to join the fight. Terevalis joined the fray while asking his mother to move his family uphill.
Being from the Order of the Core, she refused and ordered him to do his sworn duty as she would do hers.
Terevalis defended his family's gates along with his two older cousins, Sylvia and Brian.
Behind the gates his mother, Annesta, began chanting and the wind twirled around her as if by her command.
Along the walls the Ancient tongue started resonating, while outside many a painful cry rose and fell.

The whole village and the pirates fell silent and stared into the air as the Ancient words filled every space.
Terevalis noticed this and urged his fellows: Take them down!!
The villagers nearby roared with the new enthusiasm and the pirates were driven back for a while.
Yet there were too many of them, and Terevalis thought their attack had been too well calculated for them to withstand it for long. He feared a massacre.
Brian shouted: This is a diversion!, They're trying to get to the Order's Vaults!Let's move to the Harbor Square!
He kept on loosening his bows at any pirate that came too close to their walls while Sylvia, and experienced swords-woman disappeared into the house.

The fray got thicker around Terevalis, but he kept fierce despite the many villagers falling not too far.
By then the top hill alarm bells were being gonged and a strong sound merged with the Ancient summoning Annesta was trying to perform. Around her, the women of her house stood hand in hand, chanting a protection spell so that the summoning would go uninterrupted.

After a few minutes, Terevalis had no more foes to fence, and around him lay a pile of ill smelling bodies. He had some cuts and bruises of his own, to which Brian tended, after jumping from the wall. The water felt refreshing both on the cuts and down his throat, but they soon sprung up again as they heard a commotion approaching from the street above.

Enraged villagers were now running towards them, and they were about to join them had Sylvia not called them back into their gate.
" Terevalis, this has been waiting for your hands to wield it. We had hoped war would not come to us this far in our country, but these pillagers are proving too heavy a toll on our people. I have my own heritage to fight with alongside you, but it is your time now to wield the blade you have inherited from our forefathers, so that we can help our people as best as we can."
- Well, if it is our people we must help, then we should get to it instead of standing here and talking to each other!
Sylvia then uncloaked the blade and the glimmer in it struck Terevalis as if he had seen an enormous lightning cross the skies. He slowly took grabbed the hilt and his hand fit it perfectly.It had a good weight and the runes where in the foreign tongue his grandfather had taught him long years before. he read the lower symbols out loud and the sword's color changed from dark gray and silver to a vibrant purple and gold.
Up from the wall, Brian shouted, "To me my kin! Here comes another wave of sea trash!"
Sylvia and Terevalis looked each other in the brow and Terevalis left his other sword behind, laying by the steps at his clan's gate.

The three ran down the street to meet their fellow villagers in the fray, and there they kept their ground for a long while until the sun was way beyond its zenith.

It was when the pirates' colossal black ship approached the harbor that the people started loosing their grip and stamina. The worst was that the ship was no ship at all but a very old black dragon instead; it came to life and started shooting black poison on to the people on the streets. All that Terevalis and his fellows could do then was to take cover wherever they could, as pirates, fishermen and villagers were being burnt alive and alike.

"Such madness is not of pirate hands alone." Said Sylvia as she gasped after sneaking a tall and pale pirate. When the black dragon finally came to land and started knocking houses and peers down a immense shadow that was made of sunlight covered and crossed the sky.

At first Teravalis couldn't make it out, as shiny as it was, but soon his own sword was vibrating and giving him more strength to fight. A Guardian dragon had come to rescue Reneor, the northern fishing village.
The two giants fought fiercely in a ball of black and gold, where the sound of their jaws snapping, their tails whipping and their wings slashing the air was like listening to a thunderstorm and stone slides.

Terevalis felt with each blow of his sword that he was gaining speed and strength, stamina and agility. Fighting was becoming comfortable in a way it had not been with the other sword, which gave him the confidence to move forward and try to fence the remaining pirates on to the harbor.

Sylvia understood his intent, and tired as she was she followed him, while Brian kept on covering their backs with the second quiver he had brought from the gates of their house.

At last, the mighty golden dragon ripped the head out of the black dragons massive shoulders and the pirates lost all spirit to fight. It then turned his menacing golden head, roaring at the pirates at the main square by the harbor and all the fighting was considered finished.

The guards and villagers that had been defending their ground started cuffing the pirates while some of the children that remained in the village started tending to the wounded.

Terevalis bowed in thanks to the helping dragon who brought his big muzzle close to him and Sylvia and smelled them for a while.
In a low purr that also sounded like a roar the dragon whispered in human tongue: "You have proven your valor to your people here today, go tend to them and we shall see each other again tomorrow."

Terevalis took his cousins back to the streets in search of wounded or needy folk while the dragon slept quietly as the night crept in...