As they moved down the tunnel the sound of several trolls enjoying their meal was heard.
"About time we got to business!" yelled Wulfgar. "It's been too long since I last sank my axe into something!"
Charging in the caught the trolls unawares, and began to rid the world of their vileness.
"Blood and glory!! noo ye die!" yelled as his axe split a troll's skull.
"Tor ilisar'thera'nal!" yelled Kathris as she unleashed a volley of arrows at several trolls, some of whom seemed to remain unfazed, and contiued to approach, with the arrows jutting out of their bodies.
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Thasador reemed with speed as he sprinted towards the group of trolls. Unsheathing his mighty Shuriko, Thasador slashed at a troll's hand and cut off his fingers, making the troll drop his club.
"May the heavens themselves, smite ye wicked into oblivion!" Thasador shouted as he finished off the troll with a swipe of his sword.
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Thasador began clashing his Shuriko with another troll and his mighty maul made from stone.
"They hold the strength, but cunning do not!"
Thasador removed his weapons lock as the mighty troll parried. With the hilt of his sword, Thasador smashed it between the eyes of his adversary. The troll was thrown back before Thasador finished him off with a stab to his throat.
"Ey, these brutes are nothing but muscle." "Lets end this noww and be on our way!"
Thasador then gets struck in the back with a fist from another troll.
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For every troll that fell, another seemed to take it's place. But from the looks one most everyone's face, there was hardly a sour face among them
"Come on Shamaness, show yourself" bellowed Wulfgar. "Wulfgar grows tired of killing fodder!! Come and Fight me!! Coward!!"
"Woold ye stop yer groomblin' an' start killin' stooff ye blasted bloody human!" Thoradin yelled. "Ae've half a mind tae kick yer arse aef ye goona joost stand thear an' yap!"
"RRRAAAGGHHHHH" Wulfgar cried decapitating a troll with ease. "That better, Dwarf!"
"Aye, noo tha' be more like aet" Thoradin said.
Suddenly the trolls began to retreat, almost like they were afraid of something.
"This is either very good, or very bad" Kathris said.
"Bloody weaklings roonin' away joost as things started tae get aenterestin'" Thoradin said. "Moost be me battle prowess, none too many can handle aet."
"As proud as you are of your ability to lop heads off, Dwarf, I think the Shamaness approaches" Kathris said.
"Good." Said Wulfgar with a large smile on his face. "Old woman said Wulfgar had to kill the Shamaness, and kill it Wulfgar wil!!!! You hear that Troll!!"
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The Shamaness appeared before the group., snarling and hissing.
"You should not have come here!" spoke the Shamaness. "You will not leave alive!"
"I'll be around long after you're dead! I'm gonna cut your head off and stick it on a pig pole!" Wulfgar bellowed. "Now leave here troll, or stay and meet your doom!"
"Puny human" the Shamaness said mockingly. "Is idle threats all you have to offer, muwhahaha, I shall enjoy eating your corpse."
"Talic guide my blade! RRRRRRAAAAGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!" Wulfgar cried as he charged head strong towards the troll.
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Wulfgar and the Shamaness exchanged several blows, but neither could land an attack.
"No effect?" Wulfgar thought to himself. "I need a bigger axe. No. Not a bigger one, another one! Dwarf! toss me your axe!"
"Ye'll get me axe, when ye pry it from me cold dead hand!" Thoradin grumbled. "If me axe is goona be used tae kill thee troll, it's goona be me th' does it!"
"I don't have time for words, your axe! NOW!" Wulfgar yelled.
"Fine then ye lant quaffer!" Thoradin griped. "But dinnae you break it or Ae'll be coming fer you next efter all these damn trolls!"
"HA HA!!" yelled Wulfgar. "Terrible furious justice shall be wreaked upon you Troll!"
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"Damn she is quick" Wulfgar thought as he swung away at the Shamaness with an axe in each hand.
Neither the man nor the beast appeared to have the upper hand. Blows were exchanged evenly between the two.
"Gotta end this quickly so I can kill the other one." Wulfgar mused.
"URGGHH" blurted out the Shamaness in pain as Wulfgar's fluury of axes hit their mark.
The Shamaness let out a deafening cry as one of Wulfgar's attacks slashed her clean across the stomach, shortly before her head was rended cleanly from her body. But not before she was able to plunge her spear into Wulfgar's torso, just below where the arm joins on.
Wulfgar fell to knees breaking the spear, leaving the head still in place.
"I told you monster, I would cut off your head, Arggh!! I need aid so.."Wulfgar groaned in pain clutching the spearhead and falling over.
"Wulfgar!" Kathris yelled.
"I do not make it through many battles without injury ha ha" Wulfgar said while trying to laugh off the pain.
Kathris removed the spearhead without much force and by applying a salve quickly was able to stop the bleeding. She studied the spearhead closer.
"Poison" she said. Her words were met by gasps from the rest of the group. "I can slow it down, but without knowing for sure what poison it is, I cannot easily make the antidote."
"I will not die to some poison, no Wulfgar will not." Wulfgar shouted loudly. "Such a death would be unthinkable. Wulfgar will die doing what Wulfgar loves best! Fighting!!"
"Will you shut up." Kathris said demandingly. "You need to save your energy. According to the old woman, you still have to kill the leader."
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Thasador dashed forward deeper into the cavern to cover for Wulfgar and Kathris. With his sword unsheathed and pointed to the abyss of the cavern, no monster was to come close as Kathris aided Wulfgar.
"What is needed Kathris? Tell me and I shall be swift!" Thasador exlaimed.
Thasador looked around to see if there was any signs of the poison or any clues as to what was covering the spearhead.
"Aarh! Wulfgar hang on!"
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"She uses a very special poison" said Maes. "And a particularly deadly one at that. There is no known cure for it. Take this herb, it will expell most of those poison from your body and not in a pleasing manner. But you should live, though you will have wrestle with the remaining poison for the rest of your life I am afraid. There is little else I can do."
"Wretched creatuuurrgghhhhh" Wulfgar blurted out along with a small amount of blood.
"We had best be heading back, you are in no shape to keep fighting." Kathris said with a stern look on her face.
"Bah!" Wulfgar scoffed. "As long as I can stand I will fight!!!"
"Noo there's the warrior Ah like seein'" Thoradin spoke. "Dinnae ye worry laddie, we'll get ye back tae the tavern, get ye a nice cold beer, an' then we can gae hoont doon the big troll"
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"Wulfgar will not die to some poison." he thundered. "Wulfgar will make it out of here, even if Wulfgar has to crawl!!"
They hurried as quickly as they could back to the village, should Wulfgar's condition worsen, and to report to Helfdain, the success of their skirmish and to inform him of the higher power at work. Upon returning to the village, they were greeted by Helfdain and the few warriors who still remained alive.
"You have returned! This is a most joyous occasion." Helfdain cried. "And you come back with our ranger, drinks in the mead hall for all!!! Wulfgar, you injured."
"Poisoned my Lord." said Maes. "By the Shamaness."
"quickly, prepare a bed" Helfdain shouted.
"There is no need Wulfgar is fine *cough* *cough*" Wulfgar said expelling more blood through his mouth.
"No you must rest." Helfdain said authoritively.
A bed was prepared for WUlfgar in the mead hall to better monitor his condition. As they drank they revealed to Helfdain what they had discovered.
"So the Shamaness and her trolls were acting on the commands of another." Helfdain said with a worried look on his face. "They must be a powerful individual to command the trolls so."
"Yes, and no doubt one of much evil" said Kathris. "Their wickedness taints the forest, to preserve the balance, it they must be destroyed."
"I hate to force such on a burden upon you, but yes, they must be destroyed." replied Helfdain.
"Fight, fight, fight." Thoradin mumbled as his drank his ale. "Tis all Ah dae an' tis wha' Ah dae best."
"My lord!" Bors screamed as he burst through the doors. "The trolls! They're back! Got a big one leadin' them!"
"TO ARMS MEN!!!" yelled Herger. " TO ARMS!! DEFEND THE VILLAGE!!"
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"Find the leader. If we can kill him the others will flee." said Kathris.
"Indeed, though I wish Wulfgar was here to fight beside us." said Maes. "His axe would be a boon, but in his condition he would be likely to do more damage to himself than the trolls."
"Bah!" scoffed Thoradin. "He is ae killin' machine he is. Thear be nothin' he'd want more than tae die fightin'! Tis a warrior's death."
"A worth death to be sure." said Bors. "But he will be no use if he cannot stand let alone fight. While his presnece would no doubt be greatly welcomed, that fact is it cannot be helped, we will have to fight with out him."
"Don't just stand there you lazy bastards!!" shouted Herger. "We got trolls to fight!!!"
"Ye be right." replied Thoradin with an evil grin on his face. "Alright trolls!! Who wants some!!!"
No sooner had the dwarf finished his sentence did several trolls break through the gate and began to run up the hill towards the mead hall as others clambered over the walls.
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As the other fought with the trolls, Wulfgar tossed and turned in his bed deleirous with fever.
"Where am I?" he asked himself. He rubbed his eyes with his palms then looked at them, they were youthful. "What is this?" he pondered. "My hands they look like they did during my dajemma." He looked around at his surroundings and sae a familiar sight to him. "I know that boulder, but I cannot be here, not here, not again."
"Wulfgar, Wulfgar hurry up, We are going to be late." called a voice to him from the distance. "That voice! No it can't be her, she's dead." Wulfar said, but still the voice called to him. He ran over the heath and was met by the sight of his previous witch standing there alive and well, with a stern look on her face.
"There you are! dawdling around as usual" she said angrily yet also teasingly. "That is no way to begin a dajemma."
"I am sorry Sonya, I had to grab a bite to eat." said Wulfgar as he threw the boar slung over his shoulders on the ground. "It is a long way back to the village, I am not going to die of hunger before I get there."
"But you ate before we left." Sonya scoffed at him.
"That was 3 hours ago." Wulfgar replied. "I need my strength if I am to protect you on this journey. The road back from the Kae Huron foothills is full of danger, I will not see you harmed. Your brother would not like that."
"I wouldn't worry about Brom." shae said with a smile. "Father might tear you a new one, ha ha ha."
Wulfgar cocked his head to the righ, then the left.
"what is it? What's wrong?" Sonya asked.
"Company." Wulfgar replied. "They are close."
A large group of bandits appeared from out of the nearby thickets.
"Now what do we have here, a barbarian and his witch. This should be fun, come on boys!" yelled the bandit leader.
"The woman is mine!" yelled one of the bandits, with a lustful look in his eyes.
"You will regret that!!!" yelled Wulfgar. "She is a tough one, she will bite it right off!"
"Yeah yeah we will see." said the bandit.
"You ready Sonya?" Wulfgar said "I have been aching for some fighting, now it comes to me!"
"Just do your job Wulfgar." Sonya said with a slightly cold tone.
Several of the bandits ran towards the hulking warrior while a handful headed for his charge.
With several well executed swings, Wulfgar did away with the initial assulting bandits.
"Who is this guy! He taking these guys out, like their nothing, I’m getting out of here!" one of the bandits yelled.
"Where are you going? This weapon is blunt, it does not cut all that deep but it is much heavier and thicker than normal, if it doesn’t kill you in one hit, you will wish it had." Wulfgar said with much arrogance. "Don't just stand there, kill him!" yelled the leader. "You are all useless, prehaps you need better motivation, to the man who bests him I will give 3 no 5 times the bounty." "Did he say 5 times? Ok boys lets do this!" yelled another bandit. "Yeah, yeah that’s how bandits are supposed to be, RRAAGGHHH!!!!" bellowed Wulfgar.
"Ha Ha, I got ‘em" yelled a bandit as his crossbow bolt went through Wulfgar's hand.
"Good work now he can’t swing that massive axe so easily" said another. "He He Now things have gotten interesting." Wulfgar said mockingly as he closed his fist, breaking the arrow. "Muwhahaha!!" Swinging the large axe in one hand with ease Wulfgar slew another three bandits, without so much as breaking a sweat. "impossible!!" exclaimed the Bandit leader. "With one hand he still fighting!" "What? Is that all? By the time I cut your head off we will see the sun rise!" Wulfgar shouted.
"come on all at once! Get him!" yelled the leader of the bandits.
"What am I doing here?" questioned WUlgar to himself. "I am risking my life fighting. Is this for her? My father? No it is not. I have got no time to think now, I just have to concentrate on killing. That is all."
Not to be out done by her guardian, Sonya had managed to slay a few with ease, her arcane knowledge was vast, well vast for the those who lived a life sheltered from the majority of society. The bandits weak leathery armor was no respite from the onslaught of her bolts of firey energy. But the bandits soon gained the upper hand by flanking her, and then pinning her to the ground.
"you’ve caused us a lot of trouble girly" said the bandit with an interest in the young spell caster. "We’ll put you outta your misery soon enough, but you stuck it to a bunch of our guys, so as thanks we’re gonna stick it to you before you go"
Sonya turned her face up at the bandit who was now directly on top of her.
"Don’t look that way." said the bandit. "We’re gonna give you some fun before we send you to the afterlife, so much fun you’ll thank us. Don’t even think of biting off your tongue, I don’t want you to die before I get to have fun"
"I won’t bite off my tongue" she said. "OOHH now she is given in? She wants to play with us some more" said the bandit. "however, I don’t want you riding on top of me either." Sonya said "What?!" exclaimed the bandit. Sonya reached for a large twig on the ground and stabbed the bandit in the eye and freed herself. "ARGGGHHHH" screamed the bandit. "You'll pay for that!!!" "So there is some fight left in you, good." said another bandit as her grabbed Sonya. "WULFGARRRR!!!" Sonya yelled. "WULFGUGHHHH!!!!!" "whoops my hand slipped, hahahahahaha" said the bandit and he drove his knife through he back into her heart. Wulfgar having dealt with his immediate target, turned to see the tip of the blade protrude through sonya's chest. "SONYA!!! RRAAGGGGHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!" he yelled and in a fit or rage began wildy swing his axe, lopping on limbs and barely killing others instead of the much more accruate and dealy attacked he had dished out previously. "I think we made him mad, ooops" yelled one of the bandits shortly before he was decapiated by Wulfgar's axe. despite his ferocity and effectiveness with the one hand, the remaining bandits overcame him without much trouble. "Such strength, you will do will in the pit arenas my fine young warrior, though it was a shame you killed the girl, she would have made a fine slave. Wulfgar struggled within the net he was now a prisoner in. "I will kill you all!!! Mark my face bastards!! It will be the last you ever see!!! I will kill you!!!" He yelled. "Silence dog!" yelled the leader as he delivered a powerful blow knocked ensnared warrior out cold. Wulfgar sat upright in his bed, but a little groggy still from the poison. "Never again" he said. "Never again will Iallow it to happen, I will not let Kathris and the others die, before the Ancient Talic I swear this!!" Grabbing his axe that lay next to his bed, he rushed out the door to aid his friends, and prehaps more imortant to him, allow no harm to come to Kathris. "Let battle be joined!!" he proclaimed.
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Fighting their way through the throngs of trolls poruing over the walls and through the broken defences, the adventurers and the villagers quickly found themselves retreating to the higher ground.
"Damn" yelled Maes as he loosed an arrow into the head of a troll.
"bloody monsters. There is no end."
"quit yer whining ye bloody human! A SKULL CLEAVER!" yelled Thoradin as his axe split a troll's head clean in two.
"He is here! The Leader, he is coming!" yelled Bors.
"Good!. He is mine!" Wulfgar yelled, with a evil look in his eye, and a devilish smile on his face.
They all turned to see the large warrior, swaying from side to side, dragging his axe along the ground as he moved towards his foe.
"Wulfgar?" Kathris said. "You should rest, your still weak."
"Bah!! "I will rest when that thing! lies dead beneath my feet." Wulfgar proclaimed.
"I see there is no stopping you then, I will offer what aid I can" Kathris said.
"Troll, I am calling you out!!!!" Wulfgar thundered. "Come fight me! And me alone!!! I do not cower behind weak minions, Grant me the same honour!! COME FIGHT ME!!!!!!"
The throng of trolls that stood before the warriors quickly dispersed, and the leader stood, lone, staring Wulfgar in the eyes.
"I praise your battle prowess warrior, but you will not survive this encounter." spoke the troll.
"Ha Ha, hundreds of your kind have made that same threat, all have fallen before my the blade of my axe. Take care of the rabble" This one is all mine." Wulfgar said.
The troll grunted and snorted before he charged towardsthe warrior, who rested upon his axe swaying like a tree in the wind.
"Bring it on monster!" Wulfgar yelled. "Talic guide my blade!"
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"Jump on my blade while you can troll, I won't be as gentle!" Wulfgar yelled thunderously.
"Pretty words." said the troll mockingly. "Is that all you have warrior, HMPH!"
WUlfgar swang his axe with all the might he could muster but wasunable to do any real damage.
"So your still able to swing that axe of your's. Even after you body absorbed all that poison, muwhaha a worth attempt but futile... as your whole misbegotten race!" said the troll as it evaded Wulfgar's axe with ease.
"Less talk more fight!!!" Wulfgar bellowed intensly.
The troll snarled as if agreeing yet at the same time taking slight offence. The thrustsof his spear were more forcefull. One attack forced Wulfgar to lean back causing the trolls attack to only slice through a few layers of skin and tissue both above and below Wulfgar's right eye, blinding the eye in addition. The attack however left the troll's mid section fairly exposed to attack, an oppurtunity Wulfgar took full advantage of, slicing his opponent in half.
Seeing their leader cut down the remianing few trolls scurried away with a handful of Helfdain's men quick on their trail. Those that remained inthe village cheered loudly. Covered in the blood of his foe and that of his own, Wulfgar took nine stumbling steps backwards and plumped himself down on the nearby barricade and set his axe down with a thud.
"It is done, 'Lo there do I see my father. 'Lo there do I see my mother, and my brothers and my sisters. 'Lo there I see the line of my people back to the beginning, 'Lo and they do call to me, they bid me take my place amongst them. on the slopes of the Kae Huron, where the brave may live forever..."
No sooner had he finished his sentence did his remaining eye close and his body lean to one side and fall over.
"Foolish human." Kathris scoffed. "Quickly get him back in his bed!! Don't just stand there Thoardin! Pick him up!"
"Bark ye orders ye bloody wood witch!" Thoradin griped. "Dinnae ye be order me aroond, Ah'll nay be takin' any order from an elf!"
"Would you shut up already and get him inside!" Helfdain yelled. "This man has saved my village, for such a warrior to fall here this day would be an abomination."
Grumbling under his own breath Thoradin did as he was told and helped lug Wulfgar back up to the mead hall.
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"If your intent is to aid our quest, proove ye valor and rid the monsters we seek to destroy"
"About time we got to business!" yelled Wulfgar. "It's been too long since I last sank my axe into something!"
Charging in the caught the trolls unawares, and began to rid the world of their vileness.
"Blood and glory!! noo ye die!" yelled as his axe split a troll's skull.
"Tor ilisar'thera'nal!" yelled Kathris as she unleashed a volley of arrows at several trolls, some of whom seemed to remain unfazed, and contiued to approach, with the arrows jutting out of their bodies.
"May the heavens themselves, smite ye wicked into oblivion!" Thasador shouted as he finished off the troll with a swipe of his sword.
"They hold the strength, but cunning do not!"
Thasador removed his weapons lock as the mighty troll parried. With the hilt of his sword, Thasador smashed it between the eyes of his adversary. The troll was thrown back before Thasador finished him off with a stab to his throat.
"Ey, these brutes are nothing but muscle." "Lets end this noww and be on our way!"
Thasador then gets struck in the back with a fist from another troll.
"Ey, thanks for the help Rugnir"
"Come on Shamaness, show yourself" bellowed Wulfgar. "Wulfgar grows tired of killing fodder!! Come and Fight me!! Coward!!"
"Woold ye stop yer groomblin' an' start killin' stooff ye blasted bloody human!" Thoradin yelled. "Ae've half a mind tae kick yer arse aef ye goona joost stand thear an' yap!"
"RRRAAAGGHHHHH" Wulfgar cried decapitating a troll with ease. "That better, Dwarf!"
"Aye, noo tha' be more like aet" Thoradin said.
Suddenly the trolls began to retreat, almost like they were afraid of something.
"This is either very good, or very bad" Kathris said.
"Bloody weaklings roonin' away joost as things started tae get aenterestin'" Thoradin said. "Moost be me battle prowess, none too many can handle aet."
"As proud as you are of your ability to lop heads off, Dwarf, I think the Shamaness approaches" Kathris said.
"Good." Said Wulfgar with a large smile on his face. "Old woman said Wulfgar had to kill the Shamaness, and kill it Wulfgar wil!!!! You hear that Troll!!"
*Thasador breathes heavily, awaiting in anticipation*
"Show ye self beggin! Feel the wrath of blade!"
"You should not have come here!" spoke the Shamaness. "You will not leave alive!"
"I'll be around long after you're dead! I'm gonna cut your head off and stick it on a pig pole!" Wulfgar bellowed. "Now leave here troll, or stay and meet your doom!"
"Puny human" the Shamaness said mockingly. "Is idle threats all you have to offer, muwhahaha, I shall enjoy eating your corpse."
"Talic guide my blade! RRRRRRAAAAGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!" Wulfgar cried as he charged head strong towards the troll.
"No effect?" Wulfgar thought to himself. "I need a bigger axe. No. Not a bigger one, another one! Dwarf! toss me your axe!"
"Ye'll get me axe, when ye pry it from me cold dead hand!" Thoradin grumbled. "If me axe is goona be used tae kill thee troll, it's goona be me th' does it!"
"I don't have time for words, your axe! NOW!" Wulfgar yelled.
"Fine then ye lant quaffer!" Thoradin griped. "But dinnae you break it or Ae'll be coming fer you next efter all these damn trolls!"
"HA HA!!" yelled Wulfgar. "Terrible furious justice shall be wreaked upon you Troll!"
"Damn she is quick" Wulfgar thought as he swung away at the Shamaness with an axe in each hand.
Neither the man nor the beast appeared to have the upper hand. Blows were exchanged evenly between the two.
"Gotta end this quickly so I can kill the other one." Wulfgar mused.
"URGGHH" blurted out the Shamaness in pain as Wulfgar's fluury of axes hit their mark.
The Shamaness let out a deafening cry as one of Wulfgar's attacks slashed her clean across the stomach, shortly before her head was rended cleanly from her body. But not before she was able to plunge her spear into Wulfgar's torso, just below where the arm joins on.
Wulfgar fell to knees breaking the spear, leaving the head still in place.
"I told you monster, I would cut off your head, Arggh!! I need aid so.."Wulfgar groaned in pain clutching the spearhead and falling over.
"Wulfgar!" Kathris yelled.
"I do not make it through many battles without injury ha ha" Wulfgar said while trying to laugh off the pain.
Kathris removed the spearhead without much force and by applying a salve quickly was able to stop the bleeding. She studied the spearhead closer.
"Poison" she said. Her words were met by gasps from the rest of the group. "I can slow it down, but without knowing for sure what poison it is, I cannot easily make the antidote."
"I will not die to some poison, no Wulfgar will not." Wulfgar shouted loudly. "Such a death would be unthinkable. Wulfgar will die doing what Wulfgar loves best! Fighting!!"
"Will you shut up." Kathris said demandingly. "You need to save your energy. According to the old woman, you still have to kill the leader."
"What is needed Kathris? Tell me and I shall be swift!" Thasador exlaimed.
Thasador looked around to see if there was any signs of the poison or any clues as to what was covering the spearhead.
"Aarh! Wulfgar hang on!"
"She uses a very special poison" said Maes. "And a particularly deadly one at that. There is no known cure for it. Take this herb, it will expell most of those poison from your body and not in a pleasing manner. But you should live, though you will have wrestle with the remaining poison for the rest of your life I am afraid. There is little else I can do."
"Wretched creatuuurrgghhhhh" Wulfgar blurted out along with a small amount of blood.
"We had best be heading back, you are in no shape to keep fighting." Kathris said with a stern look on her face.
"Bah!" Wulfgar scoffed. "As long as I can stand I will fight!!!"
"Noo there's the warrior Ah like seein'" Thoradin spoke. "Dinnae ye worry laddie, we'll get ye back tae the tavern, get ye a nice cold beer, an' then we can gae hoont doon the big troll"
"Can you swim your way back out Wulfgar?"
"Wulfgar will not die to some poison." he thundered. "Wulfgar will make it out of here, even if Wulfgar has to crawl!!"
They hurried as quickly as they could back to the village, should Wulfgar's condition worsen, and to report to Helfdain, the success of their skirmish and to inform him of the higher power at work. Upon returning to the village, they were greeted by Helfdain and the few warriors who still remained alive.
"You have returned! This is a most joyous occasion." Helfdain cried. "And you come back with our ranger, drinks in the mead hall for all!!! Wulfgar, you injured."
"Poisoned my Lord." said Maes. "By the Shamaness."
"quickly, prepare a bed" Helfdain shouted.
"There is no need Wulfgar is fine *cough* *cough*" Wulfgar said expelling more blood through his mouth.
"No you must rest." Helfdain said authoritively.
A bed was prepared for WUlfgar in the mead hall to better monitor his condition. As they drank they revealed to Helfdain what they had discovered.
"So the Shamaness and her trolls were acting on the commands of another." Helfdain said with a worried look on his face. "They must be a powerful individual to command the trolls so."
"Yes, and no doubt one of much evil" said Kathris. "Their wickedness taints the forest, to preserve the balance, it they must be destroyed."
"I hate to force such on a burden upon you, but yes, they must be destroyed." replied Helfdain.
"Fight, fight, fight." Thoradin mumbled as his drank his ale. "Tis all Ah dae an' tis wha' Ah dae best."
"My lord!" Bors screamed as he burst through the doors. "The trolls! They're back! Got a big one leadin' them!"
"TO ARMS MEN!!!" yelled Herger. " TO ARMS!! DEFEND THE VILLAGE!!"
"Find the leader. If we can kill him the others will flee." said Kathris.
"Indeed, though I wish Wulfgar was here to fight beside us." said Maes. "His axe would be a boon, but in his condition he would be likely to do more damage to himself than the trolls."
"Bah!" scoffed Thoradin. "He is ae killin' machine he is. Thear be nothin' he'd want more than tae die fightin'! Tis a warrior's death."
"A worth death to be sure." said Bors. "But he will be no use if he cannot stand let alone fight. While his presnece would no doubt be greatly welcomed, that fact is it cannot be helped, we will have to fight with out him."
"Don't just stand there you lazy bastards!!" shouted Herger. "We got trolls to fight!!!"
"Ye be right." replied Thoradin with an evil grin on his face. "Alright trolls!! Who wants some!!!"
No sooner had the dwarf finished his sentence did several trolls break through the gate and began to run up the hill towards the mead hall as others clambered over the walls.
"Feel my rath foul beast and taste the ground!"
Thasador dismembered several trolls as he hit the ground.
"What is thee plan?" asked Thasador as he continued to engage the mighty trolls.
"Where am I?" he asked himself. He rubbed his eyes with his palms then looked at them, they were youthful. "What is this?" he pondered. "My hands they look like they did during my dajemma." He looked around at his surroundings and sae a familiar sight to him. "I know that boulder, but I cannot be here, not here, not again."
"Wulfgar, Wulfgar hurry up, We are going to be late." called a voice to him from the distance. "That voice! No it can't be her, she's dead." Wulfar said, but still the voice called to him. He ran over the heath and was met by the sight of his previous witch standing there alive and well, with a stern look on her face.
"There you are! dawdling around as usual" she said angrily yet also teasingly. "That is no way to begin a dajemma."
"I am sorry Sonya, I had to grab a bite to eat." said Wulfgar as he threw the boar slung over his shoulders on the ground. "It is a long way back to the village, I am not going to die of hunger before I get there."
"But you ate before we left." Sonya scoffed at him.
"That was 3 hours ago." Wulfgar replied. "I need my strength if I am to protect you on this journey. The road back from the Kae Huron foothills is full of danger, I will not see you harmed. Your brother would not like that."
"I wouldn't worry about Brom." shae said with a smile. "Father might tear you a new one, ha ha ha."
Wulfgar cocked his head to the righ, then the left.
"what is it? What's wrong?" Sonya asked.
"Company." Wulfgar replied. "They are close."
A large group of bandits appeared from out of the nearby thickets.
"Now what do we have here, a barbarian and his witch. This should be fun, come on boys!" yelled the bandit leader.
"The woman is mine!" yelled one of the bandits, with a lustful look in his eyes.
"You will regret that!!!" yelled Wulfgar. "She is a tough one, she will bite it right off!"
"Yeah yeah we will see." said the bandit.
"You ready Sonya?" Wulfgar said "I have been aching for some fighting, now it comes to me!"
"Just do your job Wulfgar." Sonya said with a slightly cold tone.
Several of the bandits ran towards the hulking warrior while a handful headed for his charge.
With several well executed swings, Wulfgar did away with the initial assulting bandits.
"Who is this guy! He taking these guys out, like their nothing, I’m getting out of here!" one of the bandits yelled.
"Where are you going? This weapon is blunt, it does not cut all that deep but it is much heavier and thicker than normal, if it doesn’t kill you in one hit, you will wish it had." Wulfgar said with much arrogance.
"Don't just stand there, kill him!" yelled the leader. "You are all useless, prehaps you need better motivation, to the man who bests him I will give 3 no 5 times the bounty."
"Did he say 5 times? Ok boys lets do this!" yelled another bandit.
"Yeah, yeah that’s how bandits are supposed to be, RRAAGGHHH!!!!" bellowed Wulfgar.
"Ha Ha, I got ‘em" yelled a bandit as his crossbow bolt went through Wulfgar's hand.
"Good work now he can’t swing that massive axe so easily" said another.
"He He Now things have gotten interesting." Wulfgar said mockingly as he closed his fist, breaking the arrow. "Muwhahaha!!"
Swinging the large axe in one hand with ease Wulfgar slew another three bandits, without so much as breaking a sweat.
"impossible!!" exclaimed the Bandit leader. "With one hand he still fighting!"
"What? Is that all? By the time I cut your head off we will see the sun rise!" Wulfgar shouted.
"come on all at once! Get him!" yelled the leader of the bandits.
"What am I doing here?" questioned WUlgar to himself. "I am risking my life fighting. Is this for her? My father? No it is not. I have got no time to think now, I just have to concentrate on killing. That is all."
Not to be out done by her guardian, Sonya had managed to slay a few with ease, her arcane knowledge was vast, well vast for the those who lived a life sheltered from the majority of society. The bandits weak leathery armor was no respite from the onslaught of her bolts of firey energy. But the bandits soon gained the upper hand by flanking her, and then pinning her to the ground.
"you’ve caused us a lot of trouble girly" said the bandit with an interest in the young spell caster. "We’ll put you outta your misery soon enough, but you stuck it to a bunch of our guys, so as thanks we’re gonna stick it to you before you go"
Sonya turned her face up at the bandit who was now directly on top of her.
"Don’t look that way." said the bandit. "We’re gonna give you some fun before we send you to the afterlife, so much fun you’ll thank us. Don’t even think of biting off your tongue, I don’t want you to die before I get to have fun"
"I won’t bite off my tongue" she said.
"OOHH now she is given in? She wants to play with us some more" said the bandit.
"however, I don’t want you riding on top of me either." Sonya said
"What?!" exclaimed the bandit.
Sonya reached for a large twig on the ground and stabbed the bandit in the eye and freed herself.
"ARGGGHHHH" screamed the bandit. "You'll pay for that!!!"
"So there is some fight left in you, good." said another bandit as her grabbed Sonya.
"WULFGARRRR!!!" Sonya yelled. "WULFGUGHHHH!!!!!"
"whoops my hand slipped, hahahahahaha" said the bandit and he drove his knife through he back into her heart.
Wulfgar having dealt with his immediate target, turned to see the tip of the blade protrude through sonya's chest.
"SONYA!!! RRAAGGGGHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!" he yelled and in a fit or rage began wildy swing his axe, lopping on limbs and barely killing others instead of the much more accruate and dealy attacked he had dished out previously.
"I think we made him mad, ooops" yelled one of the bandits shortly before he was decapiated by Wulfgar's axe.
despite his ferocity and effectiveness with the one hand, the remaining bandits overcame him without much trouble.
"Such strength, you will do will in the pit arenas my fine young warrior, though it was a shame you killed the girl, she would have made a fine slave.
Wulfgar struggled within the net he was now a prisoner in.
"I will kill you all!!! Mark my face bastards!! It will be the last you ever see!!! I will kill you!!!" He yelled.
"Silence dog!" yelled the leader as he delivered a powerful blow knocked ensnared warrior out cold.
Wulfgar sat upright in his bed, but a little groggy still from the poison.
"Never again" he said. "Never again will Iallow it to happen, I will not let Kathris and the others die, before the Ancient Talic I swear this!!"
Grabbing his axe that lay next to his bed, he rushed out the door to aid his friends, and prehaps more imortant to him, allow no harm to come to Kathris.
"Let battle be joined!!" he proclaimed.
"Damn" yelled Maes as he loosed an arrow into the head of a troll.
"bloody monsters. There is no end."
"quit yer whining ye bloody human! A SKULL CLEAVER!" yelled Thoradin as his axe split a troll's head clean in two.
"He is here! The Leader, he is coming!" yelled Bors.
"Good!. He is mine!" Wulfgar yelled, with a evil look in his eye, and a devilish smile on his face.
They all turned to see the large warrior, swaying from side to side, dragging his axe along the ground as he moved towards his foe.
"Wulfgar?" Kathris said. "You should rest, your still weak."
"Bah!! "I will rest when that thing! lies dead beneath my feet." Wulfgar proclaimed.
"I see there is no stopping you then, I will offer what aid I can" Kathris said.
"Troll, I am calling you out!!!!" Wulfgar thundered. "Come fight me! And me alone!!! I do not cower behind weak minions, Grant me the same honour!! COME FIGHT ME!!!!!!"
The throng of trolls that stood before the warriors quickly dispersed, and the leader stood, lone, staring Wulfgar in the eyes.
"I praise your battle prowess warrior, but you will not survive this encounter." spoke the troll.
"Ha Ha, hundreds of your kind have made that same threat, all have fallen before my the blade of my axe. Take care of the rabble" This one is all mine." Wulfgar said.
The troll grunted and snorted before he charged towardsthe warrior, who rested upon his axe swaying like a tree in the wind.
"Bring it on monster!" Wulfgar yelled. "Talic guide my blade!"
"Nightfall"
"Jump on my blade while you can troll, I won't be as gentle!" Wulfgar yelled thunderously.
"Pretty words." said the troll mockingly. "Is that all you have warrior, HMPH!"
WUlfgar swang his axe with all the might he could muster but wasunable to do any real damage.
"So your still able to swing that axe of your's. Even after you body absorbed all that poison, muwhaha a worth attempt but futile... as your whole misbegotten race!" said the troll as it evaded Wulfgar's axe with ease.
"Less talk more fight!!!" Wulfgar bellowed intensly.
The troll snarled as if agreeing yet at the same time taking slight offence. The thrustsof his spear were more forcefull. One attack forced Wulfgar to lean back causing the trolls attack to only slice through a few layers of skin and tissue both above and below Wulfgar's right eye, blinding the eye in addition. The attack however left the troll's mid section fairly exposed to attack, an oppurtunity Wulfgar took full advantage of, slicing his opponent in half.
Seeing their leader cut down the remianing few trolls scurried away with a handful of Helfdain's men quick on their trail. Those that remained inthe village cheered loudly. Covered in the blood of his foe and that of his own, Wulfgar took nine stumbling steps backwards and plumped himself down on the nearby barricade and set his axe down with a thud.
"It is done, 'Lo there do I see my father. 'Lo there do I see my mother, and my brothers and my sisters. 'Lo there I see the line of my people back to the beginning, 'Lo and they do call to me, they bid me take my place amongst them. on the slopes of the Kae Huron, where the brave may live forever..."
No sooner had he finished his sentence did his remaining eye close and his body lean to one side and fall over.
"Foolish human." Kathris scoffed. "Quickly get him back in his bed!! Don't just stand there Thoardin! Pick him up!"
"Bark ye orders ye bloody wood witch!" Thoradin griped. "Dinnae ye be order me aroond, Ah'll nay be takin' any order from an elf!"
"Would you shut up already and get him inside!" Helfdain yelled. "This man has saved my village, for such a warrior to fall here this day would be an abomination."
Grumbling under his own breath Thoradin did as he was told and helped lug Wulfgar back up to the mead hall.