Shadows of the Storm

Looking down into the courtyard, Victyria watched as the remaining elders, women and children fled to the keep. The gates were tall and thick but she could hear the rumble of the horses and the blows of the ram upon it, she turned to her elite and they looked up to her as she marched to a table and climbed upon it,

 "As many as there are out there, do not forget that they do not know this place! They do not know you! They think they are here to kill us, destroy us, burn us... They bring an army to our sacred halls!"

The barrage of the ram on the gate grew louder and louder,

 "You all have fought with me beyond those walls, I saw each of you put twenty of their so called 'soldiers' into the dust, I ask that of you again now!"

The cheers of the warriors were loud to accompany their stamping of feet,

 "For you!"

Victyria carried on, 

 "Each of you are worth an entire army and they bring just one?! Just one army to our gates! You! My friends, my family, we are this city, we are what is left, we were born of shadow and rock and trained in the nine lights, we are the shadows that bring storms to their throats! We are Samurai!"

The gate began to splinter, Victyria's warriors clashed their shields and drew their swords all while shouting,

 "For you!"

Victyria shouted on,

 "Follow me now! Follow me and we will meet this so called terror at our own gates and give them a hell they dare not speak of!"

Victyria placed her helmet onto her head and drew her sword, as she marched down and into the courtyard the blood on her armour glistened in the sunlight, she felt a tear of sweat on her brow and turned to face her elite. Behind her the gates were starting to break, the shine of the armour outside could be seen and their war chants echoed around the courtyard. Victyria spoke out to her warrior elite.

 "When those gates fall and they will fall, give them hell!"

The gate swayed and splintered some more, Victyria turned to face the gate with her companions beside her, swords drawn,

 "Brothers and sisters, Shadows of the Storm, we are the Hell!

The gates crashed open, Victyria pulled her helmet mask down, hundreds of warriors poured in and shouting a war cry. Victyria's samurai raised their swords and started to run forward, unanimously they shouted,

 "We! Are! The Hell!"