The Anvil (62 page)

Over
the
next
few
days
they
continued
these
kinds
of
attacks
,
each
time
choosing
a
new
spot
,
until
they
decided
to
not
only
have
archers
,
but
send
in
groups
of
warriors
,
hitting
them
where
weakest
.
Almost
every
night
that
week
they
could
see
where
tents
were
burning
in
the
Ilemart
camp
.
There
had
been
no
large
scale
battle
,
the
Ilemart
must
have
been
planning
to
starve
them
,
but
as
they
were
losing
troops
every
night
,
the
Arstanian
forces
often
takeing
food
in
the
raids
,
and
the
already
large
stores
of
food
at
Eagles
’
Keep
.

Tom
and
everyone
else
knew
that
soon
the
Ilemart
would
attack
,
but
instead
of
useless
worrying
they
all
set
about
bettering
the
defenses
of
the
castle
,
training
or
raiding
the
Ilemart
camp
.
As
Tom
sat
cleaning
his
weapons
and
thinking
of
this
,
he
heard
the
alarm
bell
.
Tom
stood
,
put
on
his
armour
and
ran
to
the
courtyard
.
He
saw
Alex
and
ran
towards
him
,
Alex
looked
at
Tom
then
pointed
at
the
sky
“
That
is
where
we
fight
.”
Alex
said
,
and
Tom
followed
his
finger
.
He
saw
what
looked
like
a
loose
black
cloud
,
after
a
moment
he
saw
that
it
was
hundreds
of
wyverns
and
griffins
,
the
Ilemites
had
taken
the
idea
of
wyvern
riders
,
but
very
few
were
trained
as
well
as
the
Arstanian
Riders
.
He
spread
his
wings
and
flew
with
Alex
,
he
looked
behind
him
and
saw
hundreds
of
griffin
and
wyvern
riders
,
along
with
the
other
Dragon
Guardians
.

As
he
flew
he
raised
his
crossbow
and
shot
at
one
of
the
enemy
wyvern
riders
near
the
front
.
The
man
looked
official
until
he
fell
off
his
wyvern
with
a
bolt
in
his
chest
.
He
slammed
into
another
man
,
knocking
the
man
off
his
griffin
.
He
landed
in
the
griffin
’
s
saddle
and
loaded
his
crossbow
again
as
he
turned
the
griffin
back
towards
the
enemy
shooting
.
All
around
him
people
were
falling
,
flying
and
fighting
.
He
aimed
the
griffin
at
another
enemy
,
then
jumped
off
in
the
confusion
.
He
flew
behind
the
guy
and
threw
him
off
.
He
sh
ot
his
last
bolt
at
a
wyvern
rider
then
grabbed
his
axe
off
his
back
and
started
fighting
again
.

Soon
he
was
covered
in
fresh
cuts
and
bruises
,
even
some
of
his
shirt
had
acid
on
it
.
Tom
found
Alex
and
John
,
saw
they
didn
’
t
need
any
help
,
so
he
went
to
find
Zack
and
Dejoni
.
He
found
them
fighting
a
scar
covered
wyvern
and
rider
.
Tom
landed
on
the
wyvern
picked
up
the
rider
and
threw
him
at
a
griffin
rider
. “
Thanks
!”
Zack
yelled
,
and
they
dived
down
to
find
another
enemy
.
Tom
saw
the
enemy
supply
tents
and
thought
of
the
oil
the
Ilmart
used
for
their
arrows
and
other
weapons
.

He
turned
the
Zack
an
d
Dejoni
“
Follow
me
!
I
have
an
idea
.”
Tom
yelled
and
flew
towards
the
tents
.
They
fought
through
the
enemy
until
they
only
had
to
pass
the
archers
on
the
ground
.
They
flew
high
above
the
archers
out
of
their
range
,
then
as
they
neared
the
tents
they
dove
as
fast
as
they
could
.
They
landed
and
quickly
went
to
work
,
they
heard
men
yelling
and
running
towards
them
.

Tom
swung
his
axe
at
a
barrel
and
picked
it
up
,
then
laid
a
trail
of
oil
.
Zack
followed
his
example
,
while
Dejoni
stood
watch
.
After
making
the
trail
they
cut
open
more
barrels
of
oil
then
Zack
turned
to
Tom
“
Now
,
I
have
an
idea
.”
then
he
got
a
piece
of
rope
,
soaked
it
in
oil
then
made
a
hole
in
the
barrel
and
stuck
the
rope
inside
.
He
lit
the
rope
then
rolled
the
barrel
towards
the
enemy
tents
and
troops
.
The
barrel
burst
as
the
oil
burned
,
spilling
burning
oil
all
over
the
enemy
troops
and
tents
.