The Shadows of Battle

The Shadows of Battle is a fight to the death contest written by User:Tomix2010.

Prologue
It was another cold, dark night. The wind rustled through the trees. The Rahi were sleeping, as was all intelligent life in the area. But one thing was not staying still.

There was a crash of leaves and a green blur as something swished past. It was travelling incredibly fast through the forest. The Rahi jumped up and scattered to let it through. It roared through, out of the trees and across a long bridge over a deep chasm. Finally it stopped at the gates of a vast, imposing fortress.

Sahmad reined his Spikit to a halt and jumped down from the Baranus V7. He pulled a large sack off the back of his chariot and walked up to the gates.

Two Rahkshi blocked him. Sahmad fished into his bag and held up his pass. The Rahkshi stepped aside. The gates opened, and Sahmad led the Spikit inside.

The shadows started to warp and twist into a familiar shape. Sahmad forced his fear down as the form of his master materialised in front of him.

'Do you have him?' the being of shadow said telepathically. "Yes," the Agori answered, opening the sack. The dark being looked inside. 'You are dismissed, Agori,' he said telepathically. "Of course," Sahmad said, and led his Spikit back to the stables in the only way possible-with a food lure.

Yes, thought the cloaked being, grabbing the silver Toa out of the sack and dropping him to the floor, where a group of Rahkshi took him to the holding cells. I will sent them to the arena, the place where anything can happen. Winners can become losers and the battles can end with results beyond imagination.

Silently, the Dark Assassin vanished into thin air. Once more the dark entrance went silent. But in the next few days, it would get very noisy indeed.