*Near the Peninsula Mountain Chain*

On a half a mile away from the mountain chain that seperate the Brards and the Minotaurs from each other, on the field next to the mountains was an army of 2000 strong warriors. They were all minotaurs. They are under the command of General Strong Arms, a bulky minotaur with spiky steel-plate armor and two swords on his back. He and his army marched towards the mountains to find these bear monsters and destroy them by the order of their king.

After two hours of marching when they began to get closer to the mountain, then all the sudden.... a large earth spike came from the ground like an explosion at the center of the army, sending over hundred minotaurs flying and land on both the ground and other minotaurs. That took them by surprise and they were completely in chaos.

"HOLD EVERYONE, HOLD!" General Strong Arms yelled out to his soldiers to reform them back to order, it did a little.

"Don't let that get to you all, we ha-" General Strong Arms was interrupted by a steel spear that came through his left shoulder and cause him to fall on the ground.

Right after that, came a rain of arrows, spears and boulders down on the minotaurs from the mountains and it killed over 700 minotaurs, causing the army to run for cover. It didn't take long before a huge stone wall was formed behind the remaining minotaur army, trapping them and prevent them from retreating. A minute after that came the roaring charge of the bear warriors down from the mountains towards the minotaurs. The Brards that attacks them now is a Jihebi clan, known as the Iron Tusk clan. They are led by a Brard chieftain, his name is Tug; also known as Fire-Claws. As his warriors are charging down towards the minotaurs, he used his transmutation power for a special technique. He transmuted his claws to be made of ignition, they'll create a spark when he rubs them together, and he futher his transmutation ability into the very oxygen in the air to create a road of hydrogen gas. When attacking, Tug raises the density of the oxygen surrounding his target to a level at which it becomes volatile and creates narrow pathways of hydrogen gas between himself and his target through which he can direct the ensuing flash fire that blossoms from the spark of his claws. As a result, he can incinerate any number of enemies in the field while deftly avoiding any adjacent allies. The 'snap' sound heard at the start of these transmutations is caused by the instantaneous speed at which the highly concentrated gases and sparks react together and pop, bombs on command.

Tug's bomb transmutations cause fire explosions on the minotaur ranks, killing many of them and create alot of disorder there. Making them easily slain by the charging Brards. The Iron Tusk clan was about 500 strong berserkers and they clashed against the remaining minotaur army of 1114 warriors. The minotaurs are at disarray, they were given no chance to react and they were easily slain by the Brard berserkers. Even though the minotaurs have the numbers and they are strong warriors they have disadvantages, they have heavy armors on which makes them slow and the disarray they were in cause them to falter. The Brard berserkers of the Jihebi warrior culture (that promotes warriors without armor) makes them faster, stronger and ferocious. The Brards of the Iron Tusk clan cut through the minotaurs like butter and to make matters worse... General Strong Arms couldn't do anything but to watch as his warriors are easily killed off by those bears, his own soldiers were falling faster like they were nothing but sand. The minotaurs were now 107 while the Brards were 478, General Strong Arms and his warriors were surrounded by the enemies. The stone wall was behind them and the bear warriors got them all cornered.

"How... is this... possible!?... We... are the... finest... WARRIORS!... we... are not suppose... to lose!" A battered and bloodied General Strong Arms said in denial, refuse to believe he and his warriors are loosing to a bunch of bear abominations. From the Brard berserkers came chieftain Tug the Fire-Claws foward to meet the minotaur general.

"The reason that you loose is because fate decided it. Because you and your kind are on the wrong side of this war. You all were doomed from the beginning the moment you came to these mountains. You have two choices; lay down your weapons and we will let you go, or fight and die like warriors." Tug the Fire-Claws spoke to them before General Strong Arms came forward.

"The Minos Kingdom will destroy you all! WE WILL BE TRIUMPHED!!!" General Strong Arms yelled as he charged towards the Brard chieftain but was quickly burned by his fire-igniting claws. That caused the rest of the Iron Tusk clan to charge against the remaining minotaurs and they all died like warriors.

After their victory, they attended their wounded and gave a fire funeral to both the fallen Brards and Minotaurs to honor them for their courage.

*A Brard Village outside the Mountain Chains*

In a village from the Mountain Chains, from the peninsula. It's a Brard settlement that is run by a Agnari clan known as the Savage Owl clan. With the help of their transmutation powers they were able to build their buildings more quickly, that includes their walls for defences and the trebuchets on the defence towers. It has been two days since they received the news about the death of a arrogant prince that sparks the war between the Horde and the Minos Kingdom + their allies. All their warriors prepared every weapons and equipments they can muster. They are about 1200 strong warriors and their chieftain, Chilkoot, was praying to the spirits of his ancestors for strenght and luck right after he sended his scouts to find any invasion force comming against them. He's been praying for hours before his right-hand bear came to him.

"Chieftain, our scouts has reported that there's a large group of armed creatures heading over here right now, these creatures are both bovines and avians. We think they have come to kill us." He said to his chieftain.

"Prepare the warriors, load our trebuchets and have our shamans ready with their powers!" Chilkoot ordered, his right-hand bear nobbed and ran back to the warriors. "May the spirits of our ancestors be with us all." Chieftain Chilkoot said before he exit his temple and join his clan.

The Brard defenders on the walls has awaited a whole hour before they hear the sounds of hooves marching and wings flappings comming towards them. After thirty minutes, the enemy force is easy to see now. They all minotaurs and griffons, they are all armed to the teeth and ready for war. The Savage Owl warriors are about 1200 and they fight against a minotaur-griffon army of 6652 (4412 minotaurs and 2240 griffons). The only siege weapons that the enemies have is a battering ram and few ladders. Once the army has approaced and stopped, an armed minotaur came forward towards the wall, he's carrying a claymore sword in his hands, he came alone.

"I wish to speak to the one in charge here." The minotaur said in a calm and neutral voice, as if he tries to be friendly. There was a silence in a minute before Chilkoot spoke out.

"Why do you want to speak to him?" he asked in suspicion.

"So that before anything happens, a warrior can atleast know the other warrior. It's an honorable thing to do... I am General Bronze Fist of this legion along with our allied griffons." He said in a gentle tone.

"I am Chilkoot, chieftain of the Savage Owl clan. I'm the one you want to speak with." Chilkoot said to him.

"Chieftain Chilkoot. It is an honor to make your aquaintance. I'm sorry I have to come as an enemy." General Bronze Fist said friendly.

"Now that you are here, what will happen?" Chieftain Chilkoot asked.

"I have orders to destroy you all, but we can avoid bloodshed. If you agreed to leave and let us take this village, I will report to the king that you all left before I arrived. We have no need for slaughter, do we?" General Bronze Fist suggested.

"You are a warrior, are you not?" Chilkoot asked.

"I am." Bronze Fist answered.

"Then you know that it is not a warrior's nature to leave, run or surrender; and we need to fight and kill eachother. You fight for you kingdom, we fight for the survival of our race. If we take your suggestion, then the entirety our survival efforts to find a new home would be for nothing. You know as well as I know what a warrior's nature is. It is better to die in battle with honor, than to live in shame because you did not defend your people!" Chieftain Chilkoot spoke out loud. All his warriors roared in agreement while raising their weapons. General Bronze Fist sighed in disappointment.

"Then I'm sorry for what I must do." He said as he turned around and went back to his army. Once he rejoined his army he pulled his sword in the air.

"CHARGE!" He yelled and all the minotaurs and griffons charge forward with their weapons, ladders and their battering ram.

As soon as they were in range the Brard trebuchets began to fire, Brards used their transmutations to turn their rocks into molten rocks filled with lava within. As they fly in the air they make a fiery trail burning in the sky. Once the rocks hit either the ground or the troops, it release an explosive mass of magma around. Once they hit the ground or the troops, they cause extreme burning around the lava and instant killed those in the centre of the lava. The minotaurs on the ground who fell victim to the lava got burned and melted by the second.

As for the griffons in the air, they tried to take on the Brards from the sky. They began to skydive towards the Savage Owl clan with their swords, spears and their bow and arrows, ready to kill the bears. However, the Brards of the Savage Owl clan have utilized a style of combat transmutation. Many Brards picked up a solid rock that are big as their paws and they punched them in the air, using their brute strength to increase the speed of their objects and use transmutation to split the rocks into several iron spikes. As such, the Brards has shoot down over hundreds of griffons in the air as they also use the same technique on the charging minotaurs to kill them in the process.

As the Brards are killing many minotaurs and griffons they manage to retaliate with their own spears and arrows, and manage to kill some Brards. It didn't take long before the charging minotaurs came and begin placing their ladders and placed them on the Brard walls, the minotaurs starts climing them up towards the wall.

In a desperate attempt to defeat the invaders, Chieftain Chilkoot gathered up the courage to preforme a mighty transmutation on the wall, turning parts the stone wall into hands that fully pushed off the ladders down on the ground, bringing many minotaurs with them down. Then, as his warriors watch in awe and shock, Chieftain Chilkoot jumped down on the hands he created to charge down on the minotaurs. He jumped down and while he landed he slammed his fist on the ground; use his transmutation to create a explosive wave of fire in the air and magma on the ground that burned many minotaurs. They all saw their chieftain rose up from the ground as he looked up to his warriors on the walls.

"FOR THE HOOOORDE!!!" He roared so loud it echoed in the sky.

It was followed by a roar of bravery from his Brard warriors and all the Savage Owl clan rallied and charge forward, following their chieftain. They jumped down on the walls, using their transmutation explosion waves to make way. And all the Brard warriors of the Savage Owl clan charge forward in berserker mode. These display of power and warrior skills (along with the Brard's might of courage) has demoralized the minotaurs and the griffons. The Brards were once 1200 but now they are 1043, but for each dead Brard at least five minotaurs and three griffons died along. General Bronze Fist's army began to falter and their numbers are dropping down like flies as the Brards began to get closer to him. He began to pull his claymore sword and charged in to fight along side his warriors, he killed five Brards before he was struck by an axe on his face and that cause him to fall to the ground on his back. As he looked up all that he could see was his own troops and his allied griffons getting slaughtered by the Brards. Their fighting skills, their brute strength and their transmutation powers makes them more stronger than even a elite minotaur warriors, as such he saw his warriors are getting easily slaughtered. Fear got the best of him so....

"FALL BACK, FALL BACK!!" He yelled and so he and his army of minotaurs and griffons began to run and flee away from the battlefield.

Chieftain Chilkoot and the Savage Owl clan stopped and saw the enemy forces retreating. They all starts roaring in victory both for the clan and the horde, their new home was finally safe.

*In the city of Kenai-Urus*

In the Peninsula where the Brards has made their new home, Warchief Sitka has received news from other about their battles with the minotaurs. He was glad that they are all victorious and that the enemies gained no ground. But that doesn't prevent him to worried that the tide of this war might turn, unless he go for the attack. He remembered his time with Tempest Shadow and Captain Celaeno telling him about the new world, the Peninsula and Minos Kingdom. Part of that includes where cities are and he remembered that there is a city in the Minos Kingdom that acts as the center of their trade routes. If the minotaurs are good at something it is both combat and trade, the city of central trade is called Bullrlin and it was not so far from the Brard's borders. Sitka's plan is to conquer Bullrlin and seize control over the trade routes. Now he walked out from his hut to meet his army of the Horde, it is time to give morale support.

"Warriors, clans, my kins! You are all here because we are in a terrible time once again. We are at war, a very war that we worked hard to avoid. I wish we could reverse it so that we could finally build our lives. As you all are aware, The minotaurs have brought themselves into this fight. They attacked first, but that is not the worst of it. They have allies and they have brought them along in this new war! As we speak! These monsters are gathering up armies that is meant to destroy us, eradicating our very existence!!!"

The Brards shouted in outrage before allowing their leader to continue his speech.

"We left our homeworld, we left everything behind for our survival. We didn't do it by choice, we never choosed to leave everything behind us nor did we never ask for yet another war to plague us!!! The natives of this world has now forced our paws to this, we have no choice but to fight as warriors once again."

Slowly the clans broke out in a mighty roar with the sound of their weapons rumbling like thunder.

"My kins, hear me, for there is little time left. All that remains of our race, our very existence, are those that stand beside you now. Over millennia, our kind has spilt each others blood over Kremlore for our differences. All of that for just one goal that was pointless and meaningless; to become the mightiest warriors in history. But now, that goal is no longer pointless, cause now in the new world we fight for the belief that our kind has not seen its end; that the Horde proves that we can stand bound by a belief in unity; and that we Brards will together become greater and mightier warriors than before. We know that warriors are not born and they are not made, warriors create themselves through trial and error, pain and suffering and their ability to conquer their own faults. Remember, courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior!"

Once again every Brard roar in agreement.

"Clans, chieftains, warriors, all Brards I ask of you all. Trust each other in the fight ahead! Strike as one rage! Our war of survival and honor will burn a memory so bright that we will be known throughout eternity!!!" Warchief Sitka raised his weapon high into the air with the warriors of the horde shouting louder than ever as they marched out to war at last.

Through the mountain chain and into the open field a full army of the Horde of 12 000 Brard warriors marching towards the great city of trade of the Minos Kingdom. For a while things seemed calm when a Brard scout came to Sitka.

"Warchief, there's a fight going on down the hill, the minotaurs are attacking some odd looking creatures and they are surrounded!" The scout said in a hurry.

"I want the horde to keep moving forward, but the Blue-Storm clan and four others will come along, we'll be back very quickly!" Sitka commanded as he and the clans followed him in a hurry towards the fight where the minotaurs has surrounded a shield wall of these 'odd' looking creatures.

Those creatures were about to take the last charge from the minotaurs, the said minotaurs were going to charge but they were intercepted by boulders and iron spikes that both killed many minotaurs and surprised the strange creatures and the minotaurs. When they looked at were those came from they saw the charging Brards with their Warchief leading. The Brards were using their brute strength, combat skills and their transmutation powers in union, making the minotaurs more easier to kill. As for the creatures, the moment they saw those bears killing the minotaurs and not them they rallied their bravery and charged along side the Brards. Despite their immense size, the minotaurs were no match for the might of the Horde and were instantly cut down to the last.

When the fight was over Sitka along with the Brards approached those creatures as they looked at the Brards with gratitude. They make way for a... smaller version of those creatures to come toward Sitka who has to kneel down to speak to him face-to-face.

"Thanks man! These bulls almost had us, I thought we would never made it. How can I ever repay you for this favor?" He asked in a pleading tone.

"Me and my horde is going to conquer the city of central trade, we are more the those you see now. If you assist us and tell us about you all." Sitka said to him.

"Yeah, sure. Nothing would please us more than to help the ones who helped us. Right guys!?" He asked his fellow creatures as they all roared in agreement.

"Then welcome. I am Sitka, Warchief of the Horde." Sitka said as he offers his hand in friendship and the little creature took it with joy.

"I'm one of the surviving commanders of the Storm Troll race. Name's Grubber." He answered.

Author's Note

The Brard's combat skills in combination of their transmutation powers goes like

Warchief Sitka's speech goes like

And Grubber has finally arrived.