The Exemplar

[Atelos]

Atelos was being overwhelmed by the mass of skeletons when he foolishly decided he could defeat them all single-handedly. "Shang?" The spartan seemed to wait for hours with no help while he frantically parried and blocked the never-ending blows that was ongoing with the Skeleton warriors. The sorcerer didn't help the Spartan and he thought for a minute that he was alone. However, hope came through when a flaming skull knocked down the skeletons that were behind him. He took the opportunity and sprang up and backed away. He was prepared to reposition himself but he heard a battle cry and Shang sprang from nowhere, charging into battle with his weapon, followed comically by the two secondaries who had no idea what they were doing.

Atelos stood there, bewildered for a second before he charged in, next to Shang. He put his back against Shang's protecting him, while the two secondaries were hiding behind both of the primes.

"Thanks for the help…Brother."

Shang seemed a little surprised at the diction the Spartan and smiled a little bit. Atelos was not sure if he was joyful at the words he used or was it a laugh at the loose words he had used. Atelos just shook it off as over thinking and put his mind to the battle at hand.

"Hey whimps! Stand next to us. You can have our leftovers!" Atelos chuckled as the recovered skeletons began to stand back up and the two secondaries flimsily swing their weapons at the skeletons, clipping an arm. One of the soldiers swung loosely at the Skeleton and it hid soundly against his shield, causing the soldier to drop his weapon in surprise.

"My WEAPON!" Atelos sighed, did he have to do everything himself. Rather than continue to listen to the secondary who lost his weapon complain about how they were going to die, he just lent him one of his aura swords. The sword fell from Atelos' range of command and fell into the hand of the secondary, pulsating with its normal fire.

"Try not to break it." Atelos chuckled as more skeletons fell underneath the pressure of his shield. The battle seemed endless. Shang would destroy his entire front with his sword, Atelos would do the same, and the secondaries swiped at one or two that came their way, only to be cleaned up by the two primes. But the ranks never collapsed and Atelos tried to find something that was causing their numbers. They had to have an end. Atelos made another swipe and he got a clear view. The endless skeletons where continuing to charge the primes. Another shield bash, and he noticed a couple of enemies that were different from the rest. Then they were covered by the mass of skeletons. He cleared his wave and he saw them again, they were in dark cloaks and had a silver staff covered by blue magic? He saw more skeletons rise before them and he knew these were this was the source of the unstoppable onslaught.

"Shang i'm going to kill them." Shang looked initially confused because he had no idea what he was talking about. Atelos took back his sword and the secondary was reaching after it like a child taken a toy away. Atelos got his swords covering him and his shield protecting those in front of him. He charged in, fighting for his life.