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Message: <blockquote data-quote="talien" data-source="post: 4896779" data-attributes="member: 3285">Castle Ambrose: Part 24 – Fire and the Second GuardianFlames leaped and crackled off the walls and ceiling of the long corridor. “Are we in hell?” asked Vlad.Sebastian shook his head.  “Another guardian’s lair.  It looks like it is possible to walk down the corridor without getting burned as long as you stay in the center of the hallway where the heat is least. My magic will protect you from the rest.”Beldin and Vlad nodded and advanced ahead of him.  It was difficult to hear each other over the roaring of the flames.As they neared the end of the corridor, the flames coalesced into a massive conflagration with yellow eyes.“Elemental!” shouted Sebastian.Beldin struck at the thing, but Windcutter sliced right through the flames.  Sebastian lifted one hand and a sphere of cold appeared in his palm.  “This should help!”  He threw it, and a great blast of superheated mist billowed up where the ice hit the elemental.The elemental surged forward, the superheated flames causing the edge of Beldin’s shield to begin to melt.“I’ve got it!”  Vlad thrust his flame-quenching blade, Grungronazharr, into the heart of the elemental.  With a shriek, the flames abruptly went out all around them.“Everyone all right?” asked Sebastian.Beldin nodded.  “Just a little singed.”Sebastian counted to three and opened the next door.A fourteen-foot tall giant thrust its club through the doorway, slamming Sebastian backwards back into the flame-filled hallway.“Giant!” growled Beldin.  “He’s mine!”The dwarf barreled into the room, rolling beneath the stone giant’s clumsy swing.  It had gray, rock-like skin and wielded a large stalactite as a club. Wham!  The giant swung the stalactite downwards where Beldin had been a moment before.  The dwarf rolled to his feet and swung Windcutter in a wide arc, slashing the giant’s left calf.  It roared in pain but swung again.WHAM!  Cracks appeared from the impact, but it just missed the dwarf.  He rolled to the other side of the giant and came up again; with the same motion, Beldin hacked into the giant’s ankle.Bellowing in agony, the giant collapsed to one knee.  Beldin bashed the stone giant’s kneecap.  As it fell, he struck it in the face, splitting its head in twain.Sebastian joined them.“He used to BE a giant, right?” Vlad asked Sebastian.</blockquote>

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