Yew War 6 - Fourth Battle
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Title: Yew War - Fourth Battle
Author: by Grishnak
Grishnak leaned over the side of the ship The Broken Fang, and emptied the contents of his stomach into the sea for the fourth time.
"Har Har!" laughed Sugrod, behind him. "We nub eben get uut ob da bay yet"
Glaring, Grishnak turned back and heaved over the side again.
Far ahead, the assembled fleets of the Urban Navy, the Town of Yew, and Clan Moor waited. Vic Twenty, the Fleet Admiral, surveyed his fleet and pondered. His intelligence told him that 12 ships, carrying almost 50 Orcs was heading his way. Grimly he went about counting the number of arrows and greater explosions each ship possessed.
The Orc fleet made the turn out of the bay and into the Ocean proper. That's where things took a turn for the worst.
Signalling to the fleet to come about, the Orcs on the following ships looked at eachother.
"Wot dat means?"
"Err, means gwu rite!"
"Nub! Means gwu left!"
"Tupid! It means thwo da booom booms," and that miscreant triggered several on his own ship, obliterating the vessel.
As the Orc fleet got more and more bedraggled, a dark storm appeared on the horizon. Vic Twenty eyed the approaching storm with trepedation. Orcs he could handle, he hoped. Storms he could weather, usually.
Orcs and a storm?
That might be hard.
As the dark clouds blotted out the sun, the ships from the Orc fleet sailed into the waters surrounding the Yew Prison, Orcs intent upon freeing William Smit and installing him as Chieftain of Yew. The first clashes between Orc and Yewbie were undecisive, ships becoming lost in the waves. Soon the pelting rain was such that ships floundered, men and Orc thrown overboard, ships beaching themselve on any land and disgorging sea sick Orcs and Men.
Some ships actually came to grapple range and fierce, but short, battles raged across the decks. These battles had no weight against the storm however. Try as they might, the Orcs could not press home their attack while the storm scattered them across the ocean.
Yew would stand another day.