New Knighthood chapter 9

     Horon wasted no time at all as he ran to his horse and picked up his sword. “What have you found?” asked Horon to Quin.

“We found foot tracks and lots of them” said Quin.

“Well then let’s go!” Horon said as he mounted his horse. So, everyone got on their horse and rode to freedom! Wait, no I mean they followed the foot tracks. Late in the afternoon they found where the foot tracks ended but where they ended was just a rock overlooking a small valley. “Father!” Horon shouted as he reached the top of the rock “where are you?” Just then he heard a cracking and then…BOOM! The next thing Horon knew he was falling down a twenty foot hole and then nothing. Horon opened his eyes but it was just as dark as when they were closed. He tried to stand but when he tried he fell down    “great,” he thought, “now my leg’s broken.” “Horon!” cried Quin as he descended down the hole using a rope. When he got to the bottom he picked up Horon and pulled him back up. After about an hour of getting to the doctor and getting a crutch they went back to the hole, went down in it and searched the place. “This must be the place where the raiders hid while gathering up more forces,” said Quin.

“Ye-” Horon started to say but just then a few guards walked around the corner.

“Get down!” Quin shouted 

“Did you hear something?” one of the guards said.

“No, but I do think that all that wine has gone to your head” another replied. Then, they walked around the corner and were out of sight.

“That was a close one,” said Quin.

“Yeah, we should find my father and get out of here” said Horon.

“Agreed.” So, after about an hour of searching they finally they found the jail cells. “Father!” Horon shouted in the loudest whisper he could make. “Who are you?” said a voice behind him “You don’t look like a guard.” Said the voice. Horon spun around “father, is that you?”  Horon said as he opened the cell.

“Horon!” said Alkon “it’s you!”

“Father!” Horon said in a voice that was much too loud.

“Hey, it sounds like someone is in the cells come on!” they heard someone upstairs say.

“RUN!” said Quin and that’s what they did… well Horon limped as fast as he could but I wouldn’t call it a run. A few minutes later they were out of the base and running towards the castle with about two hundred raiders behind them. Horon took Quin’s horn and blew it as loud as he could. Baaaaaaaaagggggggguuuuuuuueeeeehhhhhhhmmmm was pretty much what it sounded like. About ten minutes later a giant army arrived with the prince in the lead on a horse. Then all at once the battle began and everything was so blurry that Horon just swung and then he hit someone. First, he heard a scream and then he saw his sword in a raider’s leg. Horon pulled it out just in time to block an attack with his sword by the raider, bang! The swords hit together, whoosh!! The sword just missed Horon. Horon hit the raider as hard as he could with his crutch in the head the stabbed him in the chest. The raider fell to the ground dead and Horon was about to celebrate but he heard a crunch! As an axe broke his crutch and sliced his leg, “Ahhhh!” Horon screamed in pain. Horon fell to the ground was this it? He thought as the raider raised his axe. Horon closed his eyes “Ahhhh!”  He heard but it didn’t come from his mouth. Slowly, Horon opened his eyes and then he saw what had happened. The raider had two arrows in his chest. Horon turned and saw Quin holding a bow and smiling. Then all at once it was over, they had won!

Three days after the battle Horon was called to the castle but no one said why. When he got there he saw at least one hundred people, Quin, the prince and his father standing at the far end of the hall. “Come here, son” said Alkon. Horon walked up to end of the hall where blue banners hung above him. “Kneel,” the prince said. Horon Kneeled and then Alkon took a sword, dubbed him and said: “I dub you Sir Horon, the Fearless!”