The cut off units had little time to complain. From the southern forest ran in 2 units of Marauder axe wielders. They wasted no time in slicing through the archers. Pyxen, as all Kender, felt no fear and he approached Cromlek. Pyxen aimed his crossbow at Cromlek with perfect accuracy. With quick reflexes, Cromlek parried the arrow with his great axe. He followed the parry by raising the axe behind his head and lunging it into the skull of Pyxen. This Kender was sent on his final adventure.

The axe wielders defeated the archers and crossbowmen with little resistance. The two units then ganged on the sole Coalition unit remaining outside the city gates, an Arkanian infantry unit led by the Kender Pepe.

Unusual for a Kender, Pepe was skilled with the sword. Many times he narrowly avoided the swipes of axes and countered with skilled thrusts of his blade into the sides of Marauder men. One by one Pepe's unit was falling. Pyros's flame had burned down quite a bit and the battle outside the city walls was visible to the fighting armies inside. Cerias, a marauder axe wielder cornered Pepe with a combination attack of two small axes. Pepe's blade parried the strongest swipe, but his blade shattered into peices. Pepe knew it was his time to die. Without fear he watched the axe of Cerias raise up above him.

The loud neigh of a mount hurdling the flames caught Cerias's attention. His reaction to this event was too late. The New Thalos Knight Faelson had leapt on his mount over the flames. With sword drawn to his side he slashed Cerias in the front middle of his throat. Cerias died choking on his own blood.

The axe wielders surrounded the Knight and Pepe. They could not defend against them all. Luckily for them, Althainian Calvary led by Epyon and Lenith came to the rescue. Aside from a few mounts with missing limps, the Calvary rode through the axe wielders ending their domination.

The forces rejoined the other inside the Arkanian south gate and full battle was restored for many more hours. It wasn't until an hour after nightfall that the Marauders forces were forces to retreat to the northern part of the city. The hurting Coalition did not pursue and both sides made camp well equipped with scouts and guards. For the remainder of the night, this city was to be divided.

Under the night sky, not a cloud was in sight, dark or white. The only thing to be seen was the bright light that seemed to grow brighter from the heavens each day, and a white and red moon.

(End of Day 5)