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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Medriev" data-source="post: 4790021" data-attributes="member: 21864">Chapter 6 - The Chamber of Ice (Part 4)Dulvarna looked over her shoulder and knew that she had little time to finish the zombies if she was to aid Lavren and the others. With a guttural roar, she rushed at them in a fury, her blade slashing left and right into both with single blows. The zombie that bled from several wounds was slashed across the chest and belly while the other was wounds in the side and the leg. Both staggered back but the first reached down to its belly as its putrid and frozen intestines began to burst from the wound. It looked down with its dull eyes and then fell over backwards. Dulvarna knew what was coming next and raised her arms to protect herself as a moment later, the creature exploded in a shower of frozen flesh. Litiraan raised his wand before the other zombie could recover and loosed a silver bolt into the creature. It lurched back and, sensing the urgency of Lavren’s plight, he raised his wand again and filled the northern part of the room with a wave of searing fire. The zombie lurched and staggered another few steps away from Dulvarna and the warrior woman raised her blade and started forward to follow it. As she reached it, the undead creature lashed out backhand with its right hand, smashing Dulvarna across the face and sending her reeling away in turn. The horribly burned zombie hissed something unintelligible and then lurched back toward its enemy.Enlishia nocked another arrow to her bow and raised it, taking careful aim at one of the joins in the demon’s chitinous armour. She let fly with the arrow and felt sure that she would hurt it this time but again, her arrow clattered off the armour and landed on the floor nearby. She cursed and retreated towards Dulvarna, looking back over her left shoulder at the battle between her friend and the last zombie. The demon roared then, drawing the ranger’s gaze back to its horrible, insect-like form.“If you will not let me leave, then you will all die here,” the demon called out and then roared again.As it roared a second time, a thick, noxious fume spewed forth from its mouth. Lavren coughed for a few moments and then reeled and swooned on the end of the demon’s trident while Erlmoor ducked low and covered his mouth with his arm. Telkya reeled back against the east wall of the chamber and did not see Lavren swoon. Only as she recovered did she see her beloved slide ingloriously from the points of the trident and fall heavily to the chamber floor, where he lay unmoving. Telkya cried out and took a step toward Lavren but then she realised that she could yet save her husband. Raising her amulet, she chanted a healing prayer to Corellon and divine light engulfed the fallen elf. His eyes flicked open and as the terrible wound in his shoulder closed, his hand left closed about his wand and the other grasped his sword.Erlmoor glanced down at the elf and saw his eyes open. Realising that he had to buy his companion some time, he rushed at the demon and lashed out with his sword. The creature brought its trident across and parried, snarling at the dragonborn.“You will be next, wyrmkin,” it hissed in the paladin’s face and then twisted Erlmoor’s blade away as it raised its trident again.Dulvarna twisted around on the spot as she tried to shaken off the numbing cold of the wound that the zombie had inflicted on her. Using her momentum, she lashed out a huge blow at the undead creature, cleaving her blade into its side and smashing into its left lung. It staggered again, halting its advance and as it paused, a silver bolt from Litiraan’s wand drove through its chest and out of its back. The zombie lurched to its right and then collapsed beside the ruined body of its companion. The last zombie exploded in a shower of frozen flesh more quickly than its companion had and Dulvarna was showered with pieces of its corpse. She fell back as the chilling flesh splinters pierced her body and then she turned away to face the demon.Beside Dulvarna, Enlishia raised her bow and fired two more arrows quickly but both bounced off the thick hide of the demon. The creature looked at her, snarled, and then leapt toward the doorway. As it did, it stabbed out with its trident, driving the points into Enlishia’s leg. She cried out and fell pack, the weapon tearing painfully free from her left thigh. Behind the creature, Lavren rose to his feet and levelled his wand before cursing at the creature in elven. A bolt of black, crackling energy flew forth but missed the demon by a hands-breadth to strike the wall behind it. Telkya rushed to Lavren’s side, flashed him a smile and then raised her amulet to loose a bolt of golden light into the demon’s side. It lurched to its left into the wall beside the outer doorway and Erlmoor charged.The dragonborn lashed out with his blade with a prayer on his lips and as the blade struck the demon’s left hip, a pulse of divine light flowed into it from Erlmoor’s hand. The blade clove through the creature’s armour and drove into the flesh and bone beneath. The demon snarled and reeled back toward the dragonborn but as it did, Dulvarna charged in from its left and plunged her blade into its side. The demon reeled back and roared its pain and defiance. From behind it, in the doorway, Litiraan loosed a silver bolt that struck it in the bottom of its back and again it roared. Two arrows from Enlishia’s bow clattered off its armour again and the enraged demon leapt into the doorway where Litiraan stood. The demon turned to its left, snarled at the elf, and drove its trident into Litiraan’s shoulder.Litiraan cried out and Lavren answered him with his own cry of alarm. He raised his wand and hurled another black bolt at the creature but it struck the stone next to the demon, doing it no harm. Telkya moved forward as quickly as her cold-numbed limbs would take her and raised her amulet, uttering a prayer as she did so. A bolt of golden light lanced out and struck the demon’s chest, searing through its chitinous armour and piercing its black heart. It snarled one last time and then fell over to its left, one of its arms reaching toward the freedom that it had so long sought.“We should get out of this cold,” said Dulvarna.“Agreed,” said Telkya as she reached out to take Lavren’s hand.Next.....The Chamber of Monoliths</blockquote>

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