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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Medriev" data-source="post: 4785616" data-attributes="member: 21864">Chapter 6 - The Chamber of Ice (Part 3)The demon came forward out of the doorway and stabbed out with its trident, driving the points into Lavren’s left shoulder. The elf reeled back and retreated a few more steps until he was back to back with Enlishia. He raised his wand and hurled a bolt of black lightning at the demon but it flew wide and struck the doorframe next to the insect-like creature. The demon snarled and took another step forward.Next to Lavren, Erlmoor ducked under another wild swing from the zombie he faced. Telkya turned towards the zombie and raised her amulet to loose a bolt of golden fire into the creature that sent it lurching to its right and staggering as though it were about to fall. Erlmoor saw his chance and surged forward, driving his blade into the zombie’s chest. It opened its mouth but no last breath came out and then it exploded into shards of icy flesh. Erlmoor raised his arms to protect himself from the flying flesh and then turned to face the demon as it emerged from the southern doorway.Dulvarna rushed at the zombies before her, momentarily forgetting the chill in the room as battle fury surged through her. She lashed out with her blade, cleaving a deep wound across the left thigh of one zombie and then driving her blade on into the leg of the other. Both lurched back clumsily as Dulvarna pressed forward and as she did, Litiraan raised his wand and hurled a silver bolt of energy into the side of the nearest creature. It staggered again, bleeding now from several wounds but still it would not fall. Instead, it lashed out at Dulvarna who ducked under its flailing limb. The other zombie swung at her from her right but again she ducked and then raised her blade to keep the undead at bay. Enlishia moved towards the doorway where Litiraan stood but found her cold-numbed legs would barely obey her. She lurched to where the wizard stood and then turned to raise her bow with an arrow nocked to the string. She loosed an arrow at the demon but it bounced aside, defeated by the creature’s chitinous armour. She nocked another arrow and fired again but this flew wide and clattered into the stone beside the demon. The creature snarled and lurched forward, stabbing out with its trident to drive the points into Lavren’s left shoulder. They drove in deeply and the elf cried out while the demon roared in apparent triumph. The creature jerked the trident toward him and pulled Lavren with it, the points of the terrible weapon lodged firmly in his flesh.“Let me leave here and the elf lives,” the demon growled to the companions. “If you do not, he dies where he stands.”“Never,” cried Lavren. “You will die here, not me!”Despite the pain he felt, the elf drew forth his longsword and lashed out at the demon but again, the creature’s armour protected it and turned the blow aside. Desperately, he tried to wriggle free of the trident’s points but they were buried deep and all he succeeding in doing was sending more waves of pain down his left side. He cried out again and in the corner of his eye, he saw Telkya start forward.“No!” he called out. “It would be senseless for both of us to fall here.”Telkya hesitated and Lavren relaxed his struggle as numbness spread down his left arm, though whether it was from the cold or the wound he had suffered, he could not tell. Telkya raised her voice in prayer and held out her amulet. As she reached a crescendo, a column of divine dire descended from the ceiling of the chamber toward the demon. She realised almost at once that her aim was awry as the light descended behind the creature. Ice melted and then boiled with a hiss but the demon stood unharmed with her beloved husband a hostage on its trident.Erlmoor stepped forward beside Lavren while chanting his own prayer. He swung out with his sword and as he did, the blade glowed brightly. The demon reacted quickly and jerked its trident to its right to parry the blow with the end of the shaft. Lavren cried out as he was jerked towards the demon again but he kept his sword raised, lest the creature snap at him with its terrible, insect-like jaws. It did not but instead cackled at his pain and the elf gritted his teeth, determined to die here with dignity if that was his fate.</blockquote>

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