The Dawn of the Raven episode 17 Read Free

abandoned all caution, and charged.
                  As the Gekken screamed and rushed towards them, the archers rushed as quickly as they could to reload, but their hands shook, and they struggled to load and aim their bows.  All formation for the Gekken was immediately broken.  Gekken stormed towards the archers who had spread out to fire from the side, and they had no hope of defending themselves.  They were butchered in moments.  The archers in the middle of the field were protected as Raveena, Prince Treyan, and the soldiers they led rushed past them and met the Gekken head on.  The archers on the hill still eagerly showered the Gekken in arrows, but within minutes the platoon Krex had sent attacked them from the trees, slaughtered the soldiers who had been placed there to protect them, and every archer was separated from life and limb.  In their place, the Gekken archers took their position.  They loaded their great bows and fired down on the human soldiers as they met the Gekken horde head on.  The Gekken arrows were large, and their bows great and powerful, and they were able to pierce the armor of many of the humans.  The human archers on the field turned their attention to the Gekken archers and fired up at them, and a great battle began between them.  As they focused on each other, the armies below crashed into each other in a sea of blood.  Limbs were severed, flesh, muscle, and bone cleaved.
     
                  Raveena took notice of the Gekken archers.  She was surprised by their appearance.  She hadn’t prepared for this, and she instantly felt a sense of panic.  The Gekken they’d fought before hadn’t had any archers amongst them.  Some of the Gekken archers held great bows that were made out of thick tree limbs that they bent with their massive strength, bows that stood from the ground to over their heads, that fired giant arrows that hit with such fierce momentum that they could burst through the strongest armor the humans wore.  She watched as one of the arrows burst right through the chest plate of a Kraulian warrior and obliterated him.  For the moment, most of the Gekken archers were focused on the human archers who were firing up at them, but that war would be won by the Gekken, she knew, and once they were free to take aim at the humans undeterred she felt that the tide of the battle would turn against them instantly and fatally.  She looked around, trying to think if there was some way to signal Shyrea.  She screamed for her, but it was no use.  There was no way to distinguish her voice from any other over any sort of distance, what with all the noise on the battlefield.  She screamed out Shyrea’s name at the top of her voice, but there was nothing, and in a moment two Gekken were upon her, and her focus was forced back to fighting for her life.
                 
                  Wrathe and his men continued their search.  He was angry that they were missing the great battle, the sounds of which could be heard in the distance.  They’d waited all night for the chance to fight, and now here they were, far from the action.  He wanted to finish this mission with as much haste as possible.  Their search had been fruitless, and he and both of his men were growing tired of it.  He ordered them to spread out, so that they may cover more ground faster.  If they found the source, they would signal one another, and if they found nothing, they would reconvene at a fixed point in half an hour.  One of his men headed northeast of their location, one headed south, and Wrathe himself kept going southeast, towards a spot where the terrain lowered into a ravine.
     
                  Kiella heard footsteps.  She shuddered as she heard him coming down the edge of the ravine.  She looked around her.  There was no hope, was there?  She picked up the bow.  She found a dip in the rocky floor of the cavern, a spot where she could