White Blade // Black Night

Flay leapt from one body to another, climbing the pile of Black Formian corpses, and reached the top of the outer walls. Dances with Leaves was behind her, her co-commander in the vanguard, with Warmth in the Clouds leading from the rear -- his booming voice swallowing the sounds of battle, and bringing strength and hope to their people.
There was a great commotion as she waved her blade, which crawled with a White Flame, stark against the deepness of the night. After nearly six weeks of playing defense, and two weeks besieging the Formian spire, they'd finally breached the outer walls.
Dances twirled around her, catching an oncoming group of the beasts as they came to intercept, and Flay ran towards the gate, her white blade a beacon to all who watched from the battlefield. A wicked, barbed arrow dug through her bamboo armor, catching Flay in the side, but it was swiftly removed by her combat medic -- Life of Whispers -- and healed with a muttered spell. She nodded thanks, rushing up a set of stairs to cut down the offending archer, and then kicked a chitin lever set into the wall.
The gate boomed open, crushing several of the Formians still defending it, and the collective warriors of the Ikal Expanse dove through. Ysoki began to appear all over the outer walls, taking down defenses and overcoming the other two gates, silencing all who dwelled between this wall and the next.
She opened her senses, listening for one of the remaining nine Daemon leaders, but they were all inside the spire, as they had been since yesterday. That fact alone was enough to make her second guess the plan... But there was no room for uncertainty now, so she squashed it.
Clouds joined her just as a flag was raised on the eastern front, which was followed by a second in the west. A great roar took over the battlefield, every Ysoki screaming victory to the night sky, as Black Formians shouted from the inner walls, making desperate attempts to reinforce them before the next rush.
Clouds: "This next step will not be so easy..."
Flay: "They'll give up before we do."
Clouds grinned, and patted his niece on the back.
Clouds: "That's the spirit."
The vision fades...