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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rel" data-source="post: 2341866" data-attributes="member: 99">Those who had barely known Capito would recall only seeing the shining Mace hanging in the air before Bale.  But about what happened next, there could be no doubt.  The explosion was tremendous and seemed to knock the orderly progression of time out of its normal track.  The world stood still.Both Mace and mace were destroyed in the blast.  Bale again seemed more shocked than harmed but the same could not be said of his closest minions.  A score of Blood Ferals were blasted to liquid and nearly ten Ogres were rendered boneless corpses by the detonation.  The foot-deep marsh was blasted back in a spray that left the ground bare for sixty feet in every direction from Bale before the water rushed back in to reclaim its place.  Bale held his once mighty weapon in front of him and now held only a shattered staff.  His howl of rage chilled the blood of every many present and seemed to cue time to resume its normal course again.The Paladins of St. Cuthbert plowed their lances into Bale but his body of Blood offered little resistance and their weapons served only as an annoyance.  He smote one of the riders from his mount to land senseless in the mud below.  This man tried to rise but was surrounded in seconds by a fresh batch of Blood Ferals who swarmed from their master’s blood to do his bidding.  These were joined by the swooping Dragonkin who dove down to attack the other Paladins who fought fearlessly despite impossible odds.The companions stood back, hoping that the Paladins would and could disengage and fall back.  Their attack was brave and none could deny that Capito’s Charge had deprived Bale of one of his fiercest weapons.  But it ran against the careful plan they had made.  All of them knew that the only way to defeat Bale would be to separate him from his army and the best way to do that was to let him charge ahead of it, not fight in place and allow them to catch up.  If only the Paladins would fall back then they could all engage Bale himself without having to defend themselves from his countless minions.But the Paladins fought on amid the blood and mud.  And they found that aid had arrived from an unexpected quarter.  The air around the Dragonkin filled with feathers as they were slashed by beak and claw from the dozen or so Dire Owls and Dire Hawks that now beset them.  Great Root’s army had arrived.But these new allies could not delay the fate of the Paladins for long.  Bale struck down two at once while the Dragonkin killed another pair.  The last one stood, hopelessly battling against two score foes.  He struck out with his sword, hacking away at Bale’s invulnerable body of Blood when a shadow appeared over him in an instant.  The Lizard-Thing appeared out of thin air and slashed him down with its daggerlike claws.The fallen Paladin was incinerated as Holy Fire washed over the entire cluster of evil creatures at the guidance of the Shining Lady.  She would meet that valiant knight again in Celestia and commend him for his bravery.</blockquote>

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