Getting Started with an Epic



Title: Maximillion The Great



Setting: The Land of AmeRica


Characters:

Dianna: Wyatt’s evil gypsy sidekick
Pablo: Wyatt’s black evil pet bunny
Tiffany: Princess of AmeRica
Hank: Max’s puppy

Hero:MaximillionThe Great
Description: Prince of AmeRicacowans
Challenging Force: Wyatt: the Dark Lord
Description:Rulerof planet CaliForNiA

Plot:

The Beginning
Maximillion and his army travel from the great mountains to the long river, to speak with the Princess of AmeRica.
When Maximillion enters the lands of the AmeRicans, he is met by the Princess and her army.
Maximillion: “I have come to the meet the Princess of the AmeRican’s, I am told that you are in war between the forces of the Dark Lord Wyatt and his Gypsy Queen, the AmeRicacowans offer myself and my men to your cause.”
Princess Tiffany: “By what name do you call your self, sir?”
Maximillion: “I am Maximillion of the AmeRicacowans, their Prince in peace, and their leader in war.”
Princess Tiffany: “Then Prince Maximillion, you will be a great service to me and to my great army, of 20 Legions.”
The Princess looks to the dog that stands at the side of Maximillion, “What do you call the animal that follows you?”
Maximillion responds, “This is my dog of war, Hank, he has fought with me in all of my battles, he is my scout and most trusted friend. These are the finest fighter’s of my people, all hand picked and proven in battle, my men and I are the finest warriors that you will ever know.”
Princess Tiffany asks, “I have heard of the Great Warrior of the AmeRicacowans, I have heard you are indestructible.”
Maximillion responds, “When I was younger an old witch did bless me once. She said, “T his prince will always be protected from danger.”
Princess Tiffany: “We accept the help of our brothers, the AmeRicacowans.”

The night before the battle Wyatt the Dark Lord asks Dianna, the Gypsy Queen, to look into her crystal ball and speak of the battles outcome.
Queen Dianna: “My Lord, I see your armies marching through the armies of the Princess of AmeRica, but she has help my lord. I can see him, it is... Prince Maximillion… He leads the armies of AmeRica against you. But, If the Prince fights, he will be destroyed!

Wyatt the Dark Lord is going to take over Western AmeRica, and Prince Maximillion is leading an army to stop him.

Maximillion and Wyatt the Dark Lord’s armies meet in a valley.
Maximillion tells Princess Tiffany that before every battle he has fought in, he has had a vision. But, before this battle, he had no vision of the outcome of the battle.

At dawn the two armies face each other across the battle ground; it is a broad flat valley with no hills and few trees. The Army of Maximillion of less than 450 men is spread out in front of the Wyatt the Dark Lords, the Dark Lords numbers over 13,000 warriors of the Dark Lords followers. Princess Tiffany’s army is close to 12,000 of the finest warriors of AmeRica.
Maximillion orders his men to form a line across the valley, with Princess Tiffany’s army in waiting over the ridge to catch the Dark Lord's army by surprise.



The Battle
Maximillion looks across the field and his eyes fall to Hank. “We’re going to need a lot more men!”
The dog looks up and yawns, then Maximillion smiles and makes a motion with his hand. He waves his hand in a circle and then points his arm forward.
His warriors of AmeRicacowan start to move out at a walk toward the enemy.

Wyatt the Dark Lord asks Dianna to speak of the battle, “I can’t see what his thoughts are, my Lord I cannot see these things.”

Then across the battlefield the line halts, but one man continues to walk toward them, it is Maximillion.
Wyatt the Dark Lord marches out to meet Maximillion, “Since I came to this planet, I have heard your name," he said in a quiet voice. "Like you were a god, but now I see you are no more a god than that beast at your side!” Hank growls at the Dark Lord. “I have come to give you a chance to surrender, now Wyatt the Dark Lord of CaliForNiA, if you don’t I will kill you.”
Wyatt the Dark Lord waves his forces forward, they charge into battle. The two armies clash with sword against club, lance against ax.
Maximillion is charged by six warriors, he draws his sword, his trusted sword given to him when he was a young Prince from his father, the King of the AmeRicacowans.
First down goes one of warriors, then three, and finally they all fall to his swift sword.
Then, through the confusion of the battle, Wyatt the Dark Lord steps forward and Maximillion confronts him.
“You have a death wish, young Prince. Then come and fight me!”
“I’m coming Dark Lord,” says the Prince. Then he charges the Dark Lord.
Wyatt the Dark Lord carried two swords, while Maximillion carries a single sword. Wyatt the Dark Lord swings both swords in a back and forth action. Maximillion swings his sword to block those of the Dark Lords and while he blocks them a follower of the Dark Lord grabs Maximillions arms. Defenseless, the Dark Lord moves in for the kill, but Hank springs to action and grabs the follower of the Dark Lord and takes him to the ground. Maximillions arm is freed but too late, Wyatt stabs him in his side. Maximillion breaks the sword from his grip, with a slash of his sword.
He drags the long sword from his side and throws it to the ground, then with a slash he cuts a long gash across Wyatt's chest. In shock, he staggers back, while Maximillion grows weaker from the wound.
Wyatt the Dark Lord raises his sword with his left hand to deliver the final blow to Maximillion. But the prince, with all the energy left in his body, swings back his sword and cuts off the Dark Lord's left hand below his elbow.
Then the army of AmeRica’s charges over the ridge, and the Wyatt’s army begins to retreat. Dianna the Gypsy Queen flees the battle by her ships. The Dark Lord's army runs in fear of the AmeRican’s and the AmeRicacowan’s.

The End

Maximillion stands over Wyatt the Dark Lord, his bloody sword in hand. The Dark Lord lies there, staggering around on the ground, bleeding from the wounds he has received.
Maximillion looks to the Dark Lord saying, “You are finished, Wyatt the Dark Lord is now finished, you can never be what you were before this day. Now go, go before I kill you.”
Wyatt the Dark Lord is taken back to his own ship, and with the help of his evil little rabbit Pablo, they travel back to planet CaliForNiA.
The battle is over; Wyatt the Dark Lord has lost more than 6,509 warriors, while the losses of the AmeRican’s were close to 4,579 men, AmeRicacowan’s losses were much greater, of the 450 men, they lost only one man, which was much worse than losing a thousand.
When the fight was over, Maximillion was carried to the camp of Princess Tiffany, and then he asked, of his men, “When I am gone, don’t build me a monument, just a small hole and leave me there. That’s all I want, bury me here on this battle field.”
Maximillion lay there, his breathing became shallow, and it came in gasps. Maximillion spoke, “My friends, today I go home by a different road, it will be a long journey. I think I will rest before I start the journey.”
He was buried on his final field of battle, then after the armies of Princess Tiffany and the army of Maximillion left the field; everyone had left, but Hank remained.

Then, an old witch appeared from the smoke before Princess Tiffany.
“Take me to the grave of Maximillion!” she demanded. The Princess said, “He is buried on his last battlefield, in the valley below us.”
She walked to the grave of Maximillion, as she walked she changed form, into the Gypsy Queen, Dianna.
She spoke, “I told you once that I would protect you from all danger.” Then she began to work her magic spells, the clear sky became dark, then a bolt of lightning shot from the sky.
In a flash she was gone, Hank sat there in the rain waiting. Then he turned to go, but he stopped to look back at his fallen friend. He turned staring at the form that stepped from the grave.
“Let’s go home, boy!”

Theme: Princess Tiffany is in war with Wyatt: The Dark Lord, who is trying to take over her kingdom. Maximillion the Great hears of her troubles and comes to her rescue.