The battle for goblin town.

I woke up later in the morning then I was used to but I had had a long day yesterday on the road. I grabbed my stuff and left the cabin and headed farther up the hill were a small forest set. I was surprised to see no one but I headed on it then passed through a magical barrier were two elves held out a hand for me to pass. A whole elven camp lied beyond. It seemed anyone could enter or maybe there was something different about the spell. All I knew is the elves had a small army camped just outside of the enemy stronghold. I walked through the camp to where I saw Willow standing at the edge of a cliff with the man who had been down at the cabin.

"So that is Goblintown." I said looking out over the city.

"Yep." The old man said holding out a spy glass.

"No thanks." I shook my head. "Oculis tantum auferetur." And my eyes zoomed in. There seemed to be no rhyme or reason to the city itself. What might be streets twist and turned as they built there houses wherever they could. What they lacked there they had made up for in defense. They had dug a trench around the place and used the dirt to build a hill on the inside of the moat and built the walls out of wood timber sunk into the ground. It seemed only temporary though as they where building a second stone wall behind it. There were dozens of towers and walkways along the walls. Only a few of them manned at the moment but they could all be manned by goblin archers during a battle.

"They built themselves a moat and put up walls around it. But their real defense though are slaves they keep near south gate in the pins there. They have a smaller gates to the north, east, and west but the gates or to small for a human infantry to fit through." He said. I could see the gate her talked about as well as the caged they kept the slaves in. I saw a naked woman who was bent over with her head and arms in stocks. A goblin stood on a platform behind her as he fucked her while two others stood behind him waiting their turns.

"Fucking little bastards. There raping the women." I said gritting my teeth.

"Everyday. They pick one at random or whoever steps out of line. They each take turns with her and then toss her back with the others. They like to keep the girls from getting any bright ideas but they seem to favor the older women." Willow said.

"Because they sell the virgins to the slavers. I saw a few when I was down south in the dark elf territory."

"If we can get them out I will burn that fucking place to the ground." The old man shook his head.

"How is it the scouts haven't gotten curious about this place?" I asked.

"There scouts don't make it back." Willow shook her head.

"They don't get curious that they sent out a scout this way and he doesn't come back."

"No, we kill them all no matter which way they go. They eventually stopped sending out scouts altogether." Willow smiled. It wasn't until nightfall that we found out Kasar was telling the truth as dozens of wagons came up the road. They were large wagons at that

"There is your slavers, right on time." The old man said.

"Now we wait. The king is in position with his men. The second the slaves are far enough away from the city we launch or attack and his Calvary will rush the city." Willow said. The lead wagon pulled in and a man jumped off and pulled back a tarp. It was loaded with gold ingots.

"That is a lot of gold." I said. The only question was were did the goblins think they were going to spend it. It wasn't like they could go to a human town and buy stuff with it.

"I will say. I worked in the mines for twenty years and I only dug up maybe half that in ore. Some one has some deep pockets." The old man frowned. Some of the wagons pulled in and the goblins lit a big bonfire to illuminate the area and they began hauling the girls out of the cages and into the wagons. Some of the wagons had to leave the circle around the fire and out the gate so others could come in to load up.

"Somethings wrong." Willow said as she saw the goblins talking to the man who had given them the gold and they began to argue. I saw one holding the gold bar and hand it to another.

"The golds not real." The old man said, It must have been to light and the goblins had noticed. A second later it all went to hell as slavers and goblins started killing each other.

"Shit." Willow said and turned.

"To the horses." She ordered and pulled out her potion drinking it and I did the same.

"Elves on me to the town. Centaurs take the slavers wagons." She ordered.

"Hey, let me out of here. I can fight with you." Sura said from behind a barrier they were keeping her in. Willow took a deep breath and reached in with her hand and Sura took it walking through. It was a neat trick. Reversing the barrier so anyone could enter but someone had to help you out of it.

We ran for the ran for the horses as fast as we could and rode hard around the hill and toward goblin town. A few of the slavers were making a run for it but a wagon full of slaves couldn't outrun a centaur. When we got close I saw a goblin in one of the towers firing down and popped him with a shot I aimed for another but someone else beat me to him. I fired at slavers and goblins who had taken the fight outside of the town as the slavers were trying to flee. I targeted the goblins trying to give the slavers time to escape if nothing else to get the women to safety so a centaur could kill him.

A goblin caught me by surprise as he jumped off of a wagon at me with a ax as big he was. I threw up my arm as his ax cut through bracer and into my arm before he fell to the ground. I drew an arrow and shot him before he got up good. I looked at me arm to see it had turned into wood tough there was a deep gash that slowly bleed thick red sap. I had cast the spell on reflex somehow or my whole arm might have been cut off.

One of the little bastards charged at Willow with an ax and took out her horses leg and as she fell off. I put an arrow through his head before he could finish her off. She smiled and nodded as she got up. I saw something in the distance like a thousand stars on the horizon as moonlight shined on metal. The dukes army was coming in full force.

"Their closing the draw bridge." She pointed and ran towards it. I rode for it passing her and got up on my horse planting my feet on the saddle and jumped. I made it just barley and slid down the drawbridge. I hit the ground and fired every arrow I had into ever head that wasn't human though the last slaver meet there end as a goblin took out his knee and then bashed his skull in. A goblin ran at me as I reached back and went to grab another arrow but I was out. He took a dagger to the face and Willow came up behind me.

"Use mine." She said as she threw off her quiver to me and drew a second sword as she cut through the goblins with the agility of a dancer. I slung the quiver over my back and started firing again. One came up my flank as he jumped into the air before he was cut into two separate pieces as Sura took up my flank.

"Can't let you take all the glory human." She smiled and took out two more with a swing of her great sword. They had to come around the giant bonfire to get to us which we used to our advantage. Sura taking one direction and Willow the other. I fired until I was out of arrows again then fired flaming coals with the spell Aurora had created for me. When I ran out of those I went to sword and hatchet. We had quit a collection of bodies around us but the goblins were coming faster then we could kill them. We might have been able to get the draw bridge down if it didn't mean one of us having to turn our back.

Suddenly Willow took a arrow to the stomach that went clean through her. She grabbed her side in pain and went down on her knee and drew an knife and slung it putting it into the skull of the one who had shot her.