Silvertree Chronicles Bk. 03 Pt. 01

My job is to keep the enemies of the elven people as far from them as possible. I am trying to determine if you are an enemy of the elven people with your actions. In short, you better impress the FUCK out of me! Wait outside while we finish this up. You will be joining us for a briefing to the King."

He felt a hand beside him and it was his sister. She handed him the book, "Thank you for the advice brother."

He pointed to a door, "Be safe."

She walked in and she had the bottle of lube in one hand.

He looked around the table, "Non-team members please hit your bunks. Your commander will let you know what happens if we have anything further for you. Thank you for riding today. A couple of you have teleporter locations, we will have to take other mages to round out our collection. Be ready to travel in the morning. They nodded. He waited for his sister to get in and locked the door, "Block all entry until I say otherwise." They watched the door close up.

Travious looked at Goldeagle. "I have two wives. One is Elven and the other is a Gold dragon. Youngest daughter to Lord Regal. I believe you might know that name. By the request of the Gods, we are helping to build a half-dragon army for their return. There are eleven of them and two are married to elves now."

He looked at him "You have 11 dragons pregnant?"

Travious shook his head, "I have one who is married to me. The others are being done by other people. Our enchantress of the group designed this down to the banners."

He looked at all of this, "Why?"

Travious sighed, "The orcs have a new champion. The last time two champions met it destroyed over a mile of forest in every direction. They plan to strike when a dust storm hits. In 75-85 years. When the dragons will return, land and all. This will cause volcanic eruptions, earthquakes and a major dust storm as all that land crashes into the ground.

I do not know if the drow have anything planned at the same time or not. Fighting on three fronts would be a disaster. To throw the orcs off schedule and try and drag the champion out now we did our incursion and will continue to do so until he is frustrated enough to withdraw completely or reveal himself. He is an orog Magi. Part of the agreement to help the dragons helps us all. I asked them to recover the Eternal Forge.

One of the divinations showed dragon riders. The Lady of Dreams mentioned the need for the forge when she entered the meeting. I was having a meeting with the King, Queen Mother, Amy Tryst, and the one you know as Lady Silver Hair. That means dragon lances which can only be made on that forge.

They are working the recovery and moving it to the Dwarven Kingdom. That way we can get lances and more siege weapons ready for the dragon's return. We have no idea who will be in charge. Neither do they. We know we have to be ready. It will be a full out dragon war. RELEASE LOCKOUT allows those inside entry. Nobody else at this time."

He looked at him. "We need to go to your office and secure it. Then give a report on the fireworks to the King."

He still looked shocked and General Goldeagle looked at Zaria, "I want us to continue helping with this."

She sighed, "We will discuss it with the King."

Travious looked at her, "Start ramping up and filling all your ranks."

She shrugged, "We will see."

They walked outside, "Magister you are with us. Make sure your watches are on high alert for any retaliation."

He nodded. We went up to the office and secured it. Travious contacted King Goldeagle, "Good evening Your Majesty. Thought you might want to hear how my day has been."

He heard laughter, "Just family here."

Travious smiled, "I have my Aunt and General Goldeagle with me. Also, the Magister from Quatarsia. General Goldeagle decided he wanted to take a few units and have them exercise their horses' legs today. Saw some disturbances on the other side of the border.

Our losses came down to one Elven warhorse. We almost lost the mage who rode it but he did not know how to ride and fell off. The Magister sent him out here knowing full well that he did not know how to ride. I did the only logical thing. I stole the Magister from the Academy to ride with us for the next week."

He heard the Queen Mother laughing and the King replied back, "I take it he has not taken that well?"

Travious smiled, "No, Your Majesty. I don't even care if he knows how to ride or not. If he is willing to send an academic into combat then he better be ready to replace him when he fails."

The King laughed, "Well if that is all we lost what did we gain?"

Travious sighed, "Your Majesty. We also burned through thirty wands today. The estimated death toll on the other side was 15,000. We established 21 teleporter locations. Destroyed the barricades to the far end of the valley. We destroyed the one closest to Fort Ash and heavily damaged the other barricade.

We will hit that again in the morning and reuse some of the teleporter locations only known to Commander Goldeagle's casters as we divided the valley. In short, we obliterated the forces in the valley. What they do tonight remains to be seen. We will send in only a token force in the morning to take care of the barricade.

Then make contact and establish teleporter locations with our human counterparts. Then this evening we will send in small teams to scout and establish a few more teleporter locations. We have intelligence, we will know what we will need to keep them out of the valley. We made a statement."

The King laughed, "A statement is an understatement."

Travious smiled, "Your Majesty, how do the negotiations for the wall and the strip of land into the valley as well as the expansion of the Gray Blade charters?"

The King responded back, "What are the Gray Blade and Duchy protection forces levels right now?"

His Aunt looked at the crystal, "With the assets he has stolen we have 280 out of 600 for the protection of the duchy.

The last set of assassins brings to 62 security personnel that were killed. The Gray Blades are right at 350 out of 600 at the moment. Total of 630 out of 1,200, Your Majesty."

The King responded, "We need to get that up to 1,200 quickly. I am hoping to be able to get the other three hundred but the negotiations are tough with those numbers."

Travious looked at the crystal, "Your Majesty what about the care packages from the dwarves? Are they onboard?"

The King replied, "We are close to it, it will likely be a couple of days. But as I said before a couple sappers are ready to join you. We just need to know how much you need."

Travious smiled, "I want to start stockpiling for the next 70 years if we can. While we wait can we work on a resupply of wands? We should have enough for a couple days. I will have casters switch over to casting and reserving wands as we wait.

The King was slow to respond, "We will look at sending another 50 of each while the Dutchess and Gray Blades get their forces up to full."

Travious look over, 'Your Majesty, General Goldeagle had a request to continue stretching his horse legs for a few more days. He wanted your thoughts on that."

The King responded, "He is asking because the Duchess is not in favor of the idea?"

Travious looked at her.

She sighed, "If we can keep his troops close to the fort side of the border, I have no objection considering the amount of damage they did today. If it helps to keep assassins out of my town. Having my nephew out of my town should help with that as well, Your Majesty."

The King chuckled, "Northern half of the valley the Gray Blades can assist provided it does not interfere with the escort duties. Excellent work everyone. Magister, know I am not pleased with your decision. Champion, keep him busy for a week but then let him return to his duties. He needs to find you a suitable replacement."

Travious sighed, "I was debating on whether to replace him. I might put him on night scout duty. That trip would be on foot or crawling around. Put him with Fangs and a blade singer as a 3-4 person recon team. Need to set up a few of those in the coming days so we know when and where to hit. A few sets of communication crystals would help with forwarding scouts reporting back for us to strike.

The King responded, "I will send six sets. Three for the Gray Blades and three for your assault then. Do you have a name for your assault team?"

Travious smiled, "'Shadow Riders.' I ride a shadow steed. I named Shi'Drakon. I have some cloaks already inbound on the next shipment for those on the team that wants one, Your Majesty"

The King chuckled, "I am surprised you did not name them Shadow Knights."

Travious smiled, "Your Majesty. If you were planning on knighting everyone on my team, I would consider it. I am cautious about who or what I put the word Knight too. My horse is the leader of the elven horse herd now. He works for me."

The King laughed as do others. The King asked, "What does that mean exactly?"

Travious smiled, "It means I could order every manned or unmanned elven horse to safety or into battle with shouted commands and no horse names.

They respond to me. I am linked with the herd leader. My horse can also teach new commands. He taught several of the protection forces horses how to detect strong poisons to track down those assassins."

The King responded back, "Is this true Duchess?"

Dutchess Silvertree looks at Travious, "It worked in tracking them down. He taught the horse who taught the others to respond to the command, Your Majesty."

He responded, "Sounds like the horse has the right title then."

They chuckle. He responded, "Tell your people good work and more supplies are coming. This information will aid in our negotiations. Anything else you would like?"

Travious thought and sighed, "Cart filled with barrels of oil. We should burn those bodies completely before they become an undead army. Your Majesty."

The King responded back, "We will have several barrels teleported out in the morning until we can get you a full shipment."

Travious sighed, "Thank you. Your Majesty."

The crystal went dark and he looked around the room. "Seeing how you are restricted to the northern half of the valley I would like your men to start establishing teleport locations every few hundred yards. Give us some options."

He nodded, "We will map it out and clear any stragglers."

Travious nodded, "I want to finish destroying the one barricade and make contact with the human forces in both locations. I will see if we have any movement in the morning. I think it will take them at least a day or two to amass any significant forces. No troops or horses should leave without me giving them delay poison in case they put assassins in the valley."

They nodded at him as he shut off the crystals sealing the room, "I will see you in the morning."

He left his office and headed to the courtyard and into the secure shelter. Looked as though everyone had found a room. He walked up to his sister's room and all was quiet. He knocked on the door and there was no answer. He opened the door and they were spooned together on the top of the blankets. He walked over to his sister as she awakened and he extended a hand.

She took his hand and Travious sent healing energy into her and she looked shocked. He looked at her, "Need you in the saddle tomorrow. Your toy stays. I have work for him. No riding. If you can put your ass on the line for the Kingdom, he can grow a sack and do the same."

She smiled, "Thank you for keeping him around. I know you did it for me. Thank you for the advice. I did not want it, but I needed it. They convinced me after telling me what happened during their first time."

He looked at her, "I want you happy. I know how hard it was for you to wait this long to lose your virginity. I saw you loved him and told him as much. Did you do everything?"

She nodded. "Did you enjoy everything?"

She smiled, "I am keeping that lube."

He smiled, "I have more with me and the ladies have some at home. That is not the issue. You run out there is a shop in town that Eagle-eye can show you that has that in addition to all kinds of toys."

She smiled. "I will talk with her when I get back."

He walked out of the room and saw Bree. "The King was pleased with what we did, including seizing the Magister. The negotiations are going slower than I hoped. They are sending more supplies to help us until everything is in place. My Aunt's forces are only at half strength. Not the best time to be running so low.

She is under orders to ramp up her recruitment and get to full strength. Plan on casting offensive tomorrow to save on wands. Please let the others know now so they will prep the right spells. Teleportation circles are still in place. They are our means across the border."

She nodded and headed off to a room. He walked into the big bedroom alone. He secured the door with the crystal and got out of his armor and grabbed a shower, then slid into bed and slept.

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Frogtusk had his commanders there, "I want a force armed with all of the latest enchanted weapons in the center of the valley. Give me numbers of what we have available."

He sat there and listened to them rattle them off and smiled one he totaled it up, 120 Magis, 46 giants, and 5,045 Ogres are 7,000 orc troops. All sergeants and above equipped with an arsenal of enchanted weapons his enchanters had been putting together for the last 80 years.

"Keep the worg riders, Ogre elite units in reserve at the entrance into the mountains. In case any get cute and try and make a break for our mountains, we will chew them up for the effort. The Giant commander looked at him, "You want giants to fully support you, you better show some success and destroy this other champion you are raving about. Else they will never answer the call with you as the leader."

Frogtusk did not like his leader's comment but right now he was one of the few leaders he needed. The only giant leader, a hill giant, that he had. The other giants had not gotten behind him yet as they worked through their own feuds. Another Major failure and the hill giants might abandon him or this position in direct opposition to what his god directed him to do. Else they might try to kill him themselves.

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Travious did not get the easy dreams he had hoped for. Instead, he saw hundreds of orcs snaking their way down into the valley. They had ogres, Ogre Magi, and 30-40 giants with them at least. They appear to be set up in the middle of the valley. He awoke and thought. "Change in plans."

He got down and got through his prayers still naked. He got dressed and went out and found Fangs at the table, "Go get Commander Goldeagle now!"

He nodded and was back in 5 minutes. He looked at Travious, "What is going on?"

Travious looked at him, "They moved a force into the center of the valley including giants and ogre magi in the group. At least another 10,000. A vision. We only had a few giants in the valley and they have 30-40 or more out there now."

He nodded. "I will get the casters and we can decide what to do." Travious went to his sister's room. "Boy Toy get your spells prepared you are going on a reconnaissance mission. Wall of force teleport circle times two. If you see anything close to you get a dome over you. You will be going in with Fangs so get your ass moving. Morning Sister. Meeting outside here in five minutes then you can prep spells just get dressed.

He closed the door interrupting her morning ride on her boy toy and he heard her continue muttering, "He can fucking wait, your mine."

He switched rings, called on his armor, and switched rings back, and got his sword and shield equipped. He walked outside and saw Goldeagle. He pulled him into someone's small quarters and activated the crystals, and called the King GoldEagle, "Your Majesty can you talk?"

He was quiet, "You can now."

Travious looked at the crystal, "Your Majesty, Vision last night showed them putting a force of 10,000+ into the center of that valley including 30-40 plus giants, and at least a 100 ogre magi if not more. Is there ANY WAY that we can get 3 of those dwarven packages together for delivery from a thousand feet up?"

He sighed. "Let me contact the Dwarven King, get me confirmation of the troops then contact me back."

They went inside, "I need one Blade Singer and Fangs. I need a show of hands of all casters who have this teleport location. He saw three hands go up. He looked at Boy Toy. "You are going with them. You and you. The four of you over here. I want you to step outside, lay on the ground, and face west. Your job Boy Toy is to lay on your back. If you see anything close to you, a wall of force in a dome over your group and then the other caster, the Blade Singer, can teleport you back out. I am betting you see a mass of bodies. No talking about it until you are back in here."

He went around the table and looked at the group and pointed out locations and who knew which locations while he organized them into teams. Travious awaited the return of the recon team and Fangs came in, "Clustered right where you said they were. Thousands of them in this area."

Travious looked at the map. "If we had 3 dwarven specials dropped into the middle of this. We have three who can get there. A fourth who can get them to the dwarven rendezvous from the last war."

Travious looked at the group and passed out the last of the wands. "If this goes off you will teleport into your locations I identified to each of your groups prone just as the package hits. Get all your gear and horses out of here. It will not last forever. Break up into your groups and spread out. Stay standing until we know what is going to happen here.

He looked at his sister, "You are glowing this morning. But his ass is mine to drop from 500 feet so when I say move that means move. Wake up earlier if you want a morning ride. No sleeping in."

She glared at him as they got their horses, "Better than you thought?"

She laughed, "Different than I thought. I wish he had a little more staying power."

Travious smiled, "Ask Eagle-eye to send you a cock-ring with a command word. He cannot release until you release it."

She nodded, "You use one?"

He shook his head, "They call me 'stallion' for a few reasons, I cum in buckets like a horse."

She chuckled, "Why would that stop you?"

Travious smiled, "I can also climax over twelve times straight before going soft. I can fuck through my own climax and have."

She looked at him, "That explains why I saw your ladies walking funny the other day."

She laughed at her one joke, "So why not the ring?"

Travious looked at her, "Imagine standing on your head under Silent Falls while the water pours into your cunt. Twenty and thirty times. That is without a cock ring. I would kill someone with it."

Travious got mounted up. He rode out of the room and through the dining-room door and out into the main room "Goldeagle, we got a King to contact."

He nodded and the door was open. He rode out and put his shield on his arm. He pulled the crystals out and went into the same guy's private quarters. Goldeagle came in. They secured the door, "Your Majesty, it is confirmed. We have someone who can take others to the old rendezvous point if we have the resources.

The King responded back, "He wants two observers to see this. They will be at that location with the resource you requested."

He looked at their casters, "Get the two observers, put them with Boy Toy and Fangs. They will be the first in and last out. Everyone on the ground in your groups. When you hear the explosion, you go in and rendezvous with the team. You give us two minutes to get the observers into place. Bring the observers here. Everyone has their assignments.

He jumped upon Shi'Drakon, "Goldeagle get the observers with Boy Toy."