It was nearing the end of a long day on the road.

The cobbles seemed to go on forever and it was becoming more and more obvious that the Sun Gods needed to rest. They stopped by the side of the ancient road and set a fire in order to cook the meagre provisions that they had with them. As the fire crackled away shadows seem to dance around and the wan light flickered as the players rested.

All of a sudden, Xholmundi sat up. As if a little voice in his head had alerted him to imminent danger he looked around to see that a single shadow near the edge of the fire was not moving in the gloom like the others. He barked out a challenge. "Who are you? What do you want?" he demanded. As the others began to chuckle at him, the shadow stepped forward and resolved itself in to the slender shape of an Elf.

This Elf was not like the others the Sun Gods had encountered before. He had a haughty yet haggard expression and he seemed somewhat jittery as he surveyed the scene. Other shadows stepped forward and there was an unspoken challenge in their postures. Xholmundi raised his teammates who were now totally alert and in the shadows of the roaring fire the two disparate groups lined up across from each other.

As the kick from Tihex soared in to the air, Tlaxconqua saw something glistening in the half light. A weapon of some kind? Unthinkable! As he was thinking this, the knife flashed out and scored a deep groove along Kailoq's armour. This wouldn't stand! Bellowing a challenge, Tlaxconqua surged forward. With a mighty sweep of his arm, the emaciated figure was smashed to the ground. A rattle escaped his lips as he breathed his last on the pitch. With that, the game resembled a battle. Xholmundi was knocked out and in retaliation Kailoq broke the hand of one of the Elves. These Elves appeared to be a darker, more malevolent breed of the species and they kept driving forward trying to press their advantage from scoring early.

Another fell. Kailoq was possessed as he kept pounding on the shadowy figures managing to badly hurt another of them. His stalwart brother Itzakai followed his lead, forcing another of the Dark Elves to slink off in to the night cradling his mangled hand as well. By the end of the first half there were only 6 of the Elven interlopers left on the pitch, one of their comrades having tripped on a stone in the semi-darkness and being dragged off to safety. Xholtoc scored at the end of the half to make the scores level. The Sun Gods felt they had a real advantage now and resolved to maintain their discipline.

And so, the Sun Gods received the ball and slowly began to march down field. Pressing their weight of numbers on the suddenly hard pressed Elves, they managed to move towards their end of the field. The danger to them now was a frenzied female. "Witch!" yelled Tihex in disgust as he gouged her eye and forced her off the field as well. Now very short on numbers, the Elves tried everything they could but it was no good. Tihex seemed inspired and joyfully shouted that he now knew how to guard his teammates. They knew it would be a very important epiphany and was truly a gift of the Old Ones.

Xholtoc scored his second of the game right at the death and with that, the game was over. The Dark Elves tried to main a Sun God with the last actions of the match but thankfully, the team thought, they were unsuccessful.

And like that. They were gone. Suddenly left alone the Sun Gods returned to their camp and settled in for the night.

Tomorrow would be a long day.

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