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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tokiwong" data-source="post: 1562661" data-attributes="member: 961">Chapter 6 - Part 2But luckily both Dais and Lain were quicker as the lowlander soldier hacked into its side and Lain slid her scimitar into its hardened underbelly.  Despite the thick skin, she slid her blade into the humanoid’s vitals.  It staggered back as Dai finished it with a quick slash that separated its head from its shoulders.  Murky blood filled the water as the creature drifted back from the duo.Lain kept her scimitar drawn as she scanned for the second fishman, and scowled as she realized that it had probably fled to warn its brethren.  Surprise was lost but at least they still had their health, no thanks to Dais of course.Osan swam up next to Lain, “Well that is one way to announce our arrival.”“Hush you,” she spat.Ayala had her rapier drawn as she swam up along side Dais.  Thane followed as quickly as he could as Captain Fletcher brought up the rear his glow having dimmed somewhat to aid the stealthy entry of his companions.  Ayala glanced to Captain Fletcher and spoke, “So is this one of those fishmen?”“Aye it is mate, it is indeed one of them nefarious scalawags,” the spirit growled.Lain turned from the discussion and watched the cave entrance as the hair on the back of her neck stood on end.  She raised her blade as four more murky shapes came into view, darting forward with great speed; more of the fishmen came into view as her eyes picked out their features.  Lain shouted a warning and then dove aside as one of the creatures tried to run her through with its hardened coral trident.Lain had no more time to think of her friends as the creature lashed at her in a frenzy, it was a like maddened shark enraged by the blood in the water, gnashing its teeth as it tried to run the night elf through with several frenzied thrusts and swipes.  She tumbled back and forth looking for an opening as the humanoid backed her up against a wall and swam forward menacingly.Lain glanced to her left for a moment to catch a glimpse of Dais fending off one of the fishmen while Ayala gurgled out a song, a song powered by the magical training in her voice.  Lain felt its energy wash through her, and she kicked off the wall moving upward right over the charging fishman and slashed her scimitar into its shoulder, the blade cut deep as the creature whirled in the water.  As she oriented herself in the water, she could already see the creature coming at her once more.  She turned to avoid the worst of the strike and felt white hot pain knife through her left arm as the trident struck home and drove her against the wall with a powerful slam knocking the water from her stomach.  The humanoid gnashed its teeth at Lain as she raised her scimitar to fend off the strike from the blood-frenzied humanoid.The fishman twisted the trident and then pulled it free of her limb ripping flesh and sending more of her blood into the water.  Lain struggled to focus her eyes through the blood and the intense pain in her arm.  She had to focus on her enemy or it would be over for her, and if she could help it, dying in this place would not be her fate.The humanoid was coming again, the bloody trident slamming into rock as Lain quickly ducked and stabbed her blade into the creature’s gullet.  She kicked forward and both her and the fishman tumbled back through the water spiraling as it raked at her with its claws and she tried to twist her blade free the creature.  The pain from her arm rippled through her limber frame as she finally freed herself from the creature in a bloody spray, ripping entrails from the creature as it slowly lapsed into death.Lain staggered to her feet as she scanned the cave entrance for her companions.  Not too surprisingly Dais was still standing over two corpses of fishmen, and was menacing a third as it tried to rip spit Ayala on its trident.  For a moment Lain fought down the temptation to smile, and instead swam quickly towards Dais, trying to flank the creature and hopefully run it through in surprise.As Lain swam towards her prey Osan fended off another quick jab by one of the still swimming fishmen.  The creature was nimble but between his innate infernal gifts and training he had avoided any serious injury, while gauging his opponent and hopefully buy some time for Thane to tend to Lain who out of the corner of his eye he could see needed some help.  But the quick thrust of the trident passing by his crimson face brought his attention back to the task at hand.  Thankfully the creature had left an opening its defense and Osan took it lashing out with a quick open palm strike to the chest, the water slowed his strike but his aim was true.  He focused his internal energies into the palm strike stunning the creature as he followed with a spinning kick, which looked even more graceful as he floated in the water, his foot crashing into the neck of the fishman with a thud sending it spinning away.Osan moved forward to finish the creature, but slowed his movement as Dais cleaved the humanoid in half with one neat strike.  The cave entrance was still as the final fishman fell to the floor in two bloody halves, a look of shock and pain forever etched on its shark-like face.Dais scowled, blood dribbling down his face from where a trident had glanced off his skull.  His armor was tinged with the black-red blood of the fishmen as she shook the visceral matter from his blade.  Ayala finished her song, as she swam lazily next to Dais, her eyes darting back and forth at the pale illumination from Captain Fletcher’s corpse.  Osan broke the silence, “I am not hurt, badly, Dais?”Dais shrugged, “Its nothing that will kill me,” ignoring the throbbing pain in his head as best as he could.Lain smirked her arm looking much better now that Thane had laid his curative magic upon it.  She rotated her arm, “It isn’t like he had much up there to damage anyways.”Ayala ran her hands softly along Dais face and over his wound, “Don’t be so heartless, night elf.”Lain narrowed her eyes ever so slightly at the words, “It was a joke, besides we are all fine and we should keep moving because we can’t give them time to regroup.”Dais winced as Ayala gently prodded his injury, “It isn’t serious, but a few inches more and you would be quite dead,” the sultry saltblood crooned.Dais answered by walking forward into the cave following Lain.  Ayala scowled as the others followed the night elf and the lowlander.  She sheathed her rapier and pulled out her light crossbow and swam after her companions, not wanting to let the lowlander or the night elf out of her sight for too long.  She saw the way that Lain looked at Dais, and the sly dirty looks that the night elf carefully tried to hide.  It was almost amusing how easy it was to toy with the two of them, and she had to smile inwardly at just how much she enjoyed the little game.</blockquote>

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