A Warrior's Redemption (The Warrior Kind)

He looked up at me with an awful comprehension in his glassy eyes and I said, "This is for Treorna, the Kurts and me!" I said savagely as I brought the brightly arcing blade down with all the force I could muster.

As my sword struck him a bright light exploded and consumed him where he lay and as the blade of the sword carried on through to hit the ground, a corresponding shockwave of terrific force radiated outward, knocking every enemy soldier to the ground within the compound and even to the ditch beyond the dirt work enforcements.

I remained standing even as my fellow warriors gathered in a tattered line in front of the Shrine of Remembrance did also. The ground itself coalesced into a consuming fire that devoured the enemy both alive and slain, but left the bodies of my fellow slain warriors untouched.

Flin went to one knee beside me and I swung onboard as he lifted up and away. Together we rode through the field of fire untouched by its flame, to the top of the mound. Flin reared back screaming a challenge to the shattered remnants of the attacking force beyond the burning ditch and I yelled out one of my own.

I held the sword aloft as Flin's front hooves crashed back down onto the top of the mound spewing chunks of burning wood all around us in a fury of lit embers.

"The Lord my God is the God of battles, of whom shall I fear! He is Master of all and there is none before Him! To Him all glory and honor is due! Behold this day our Creator fights for us, as our cause is just and His mercy is great for those that call upon His name and are faithful to His Holy Word! He has heard our cries and taken our fears captive, even as we will be avenged this day!"

My words lashed out over the battlefield like words of thunder even as a white light too bright to look upon shot out of the end of the sword I still held aloft into the dark clouds of war above. A crescendo of echoing thunder rumbled out over the battlefield.

The remnant of the attacking force dropped their weapons in their haste to flee back to the mass of the larger part of the enemy army still gathered farther back on the plain from us. As I sat there astride Flin I watched as the retreating soldiers were cut down by their own men. As the last of the retreating men fell, I watched the army gathered on the plain start out slowly for us.