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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tokiwong" data-source="post: 1562669" data-attributes="member: 961">Chapter 6 - Part 3She followed behind lazily breathing the water with little effort feeling the water fill into her lungs.  It was a strange feeling as she blinked her eyes trying to focus in the growing darkness, but it was becoming incredibly hard to see for her human eyes.  She hissed softly to Osan just in front of her, “I need light, I can’t see.”Dais agreed, “Yeah, I am fumbling around in the dark here, it isn’t like we need to mask our presence.  Thane do you have any magic to light our path?”Thane nodded and concentrated as he touched his hand to his medallion, a golden sphere with the face of a woman engraved into it.  He uttered a single word in Celestial, “Light,” and then touched his shield, causing a wash of golden light to filter through the cave, providing enough light for Ayala, Dais and himself to see.  Lain glanced to the light and sighed at the humans in her midst, somewhat amazed that their species had survived this long.Dais smiled, “Thank you holy one,” he turned his attention to the path ahead and continued walking forward behind Lain who half swam and walk along the cave path.  The cave took a steep decline into a large circular chamber, where two more fishmen watched the path anxiously, obviously on alert.Lain raised her hand and motioned for her companions to halt before the creatures could see them and tried to peer around the rocky outcropping she was using for cover to better see into the chamber pass the two sentries.  Within the chamber there was a purple hazy light illuminating the chamber and she could make out the shadowy silhouette of a figure looming within but the light and displacement of water made it hard to determine just what kind of figure it could be.  The obscuring effects of the water was really starting to grate on her nerves as she tucked her scimitar away and raised her shortbow, knocking an arrow.The sentries were attentive but the slender night elf had ways of staying unseen and unheard from even the most skillful of eyes and ears.  She pressed her body low to the ground and crawled down slowly.   Barely disturbing the water around her as the sentries scanned the cave back and forth, as their gills rose and fell slowly in heart pounding anticipation.Lain crawled up until she was within thirty feet of the room, allowing her a good vantage of the layout and its occupants.  The room was circular and lit by phosphorescent seaweed that swayed lazily in the current.  A single figure stood pensively in the center of the chamber.  Lain furrowed her brows in confusion as she focused her keen eyes on the strange feminine humanoid.  It looked like an elf with green-blue skin and green billowing hair framing a beautiful if sinister face wearing a rotted gown.“Sea elves?” she mouthed curiously to no one in particular.Lain glanced over her shoulder and saw her companions were poised for action, it was now or never and she raised her shortbow from her hidden spot in he shadows and let the arrow fly.  It caught one of the sentries right under its ‘chin’ and it collapsed gurgling blood and water as the second sentry shouted a warning and swam forward with powerful strokes towards Lain.Lain kicked back and slung the bow as she tried to swim back towards her companions, though it was obvious that the fishman was much faster in his natural environment.  She slipped her dagger from her waist and twisted her body in the water evading the sentry’s trident and running her dagger across its chest in a spray of black-blood.  The slash ignited a blood frenzy in the creature as it backhanded Lain and sent her whirling into the cave wall nearly knocking her senseless.Dais’ blade flashed into view just as the shark-like humanoid tried to sink its teeth into Lain.  He bashed his shield and knocked the creature back interposing himself between the frenzied warrior and Lain.Lain cleared her eyes still grasping her dagger, “Thanks,” she muttered.But Dais was fully focused on his foe as his blade moved in quick powerful strokes keeping the sentry on the defensive.  Lain pushed off from the wall and swam forward as a bolt flew under her towards the sentry catching it in the side.  She glanced quickly to see Ayala reloading her crossbow with a careful wink to the night elf, which only made Lain scowl as she turned to see Dais chop the creature down with a powerful blow laying the creature low.Thane shouted a warning as the strange green maiden loomed in the entrance to the circular room.  Her eyes were narrowed as she began intricate movements with her hands, and individual fingers.  A shimmer of light pulsed in front of her as she raised her hand with a shrill cry, a bright lance of light flaring into the chamber.Dais raised his shield as his vision went stark white, unable to see the young soldier flailed his arm about helplessly still holding his sword and shield tightly.  Lain stumbled as well as her eyes quickly readjusted to the flash of light, luckily Osan seemed unaffected as the tiefling monk swam forward and tackled the sea green elven seer.The two fell back into the circular room, but the elven woman was more powerful then her supple frame had let on and she rolled back and pinned the monk to the ground with a toothy snarl, revealing several needle like teeth behind the gentle façade of her sea-blue pouting lips.  Osan screamed as the woman sank her teeth into his shoulder, the razor like teeth rending his crimson flesh with ease.  The flowing of the blood incited a frenzy in the elven-witch and she bit and tore at the tiefling’s flesh with a savage hunger.Lain closed the distance in several strokes and stabbed her dagger into the elven-witch’s shoulder narrowly missing the neck, as she ripped the blade out and prepared a second strike.  The sea-witch shrieked and launched herself onto Lain, she caught the strike and clamped hr powerful hand around the raised hand holding the dagger as her second talon clenched tightly around the night elf’s neck.Lain gurgled as she struggled to swallow water, “Bitch…”“Suffer air breather, I don’t know how it is that you have come to my lair and disturbed my peace, but you will not have long to rue the choice of disturbing Mother Merrow’s lair,” the sea-witch snarled.“Don’t… be… so…” Lain coughed trying to swallow, as her mind struggled against the inevitability of the growing darkness clouding her sight.“Your suffering brings-” Mother Merrow’s gloating was cut short by a powerful strike to the back of her head.  She collapsed in a heap as Thane breathed heavily, holding his mace in a tight grip.“I have to tend to the,” Thane’s voice showed a slight hint of disgust as he uttered the words, “tiefling.”Lain nodded as she rubbed her neck and looked down to the sea-witch on the ground, with a sigh of relief, and then to her still stumbling companions with a mirthful smile.  But the smile grew into a grin as she began eyeing the trinkets and treasures strewn about the room, these fishmen and their sea-witch had been quite busy and very successful in gathering loot and precious riches.  Too bad she would have to share some of it…</blockquote>

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