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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Medriev" data-source="post: 4801351" data-attributes="member: 21864">Chapter 8 - Ambush of the Outcasts (Part 4)Erlmoor felt his shoulder wound burning as he rushed at his enemy again and angrily shouted forth a prayer to give his blade and his body strength. His sword glowed brightly as it swung out high and though the cambion raised his own blade, the dragonborn’s sword smashed it aside. The divinely blessed blade clove into the cambion’s neck, tore through and out the other side, beheading the creature where it stood. Its head rolled back into the chamber and its body collapsed like a doll in front of Erlmoor. The paladin felt power surge through him and pain in his shoulder eased to a dull ache. Erlmoor stepped forward into the chamber with his eyes fixed on the third cambion.Enlishia raised her bow again, determined to aid Telkya and Litiraan in their desperate fight against the dark ones. She loosed an arrow that tore through the cloak of the nearest creature and then in a quick, fluid movement, she nocked another to her bow and fired again. This shaft flew true and drove into the hip of the nearest creature sending it lurching to its left away from the ranger. Enlishia looked to her right to see how Dulvarna fared and saw the warrior woman’s blade clashed again and again with the sword of her mortally wounded foe. Each time sparks flew from the cambion’s blade and each time, its strength waned visibly. Lavren saw this too and, deciding that his wife needed his aid more than Dulvarna and Erlmoor, he rushed to Enlishia’s side with his wand and his sword in hand. He raised his wand and loosed black, crackling energy into the side of the creature that Enlishia had just wounded. It staggered and lurched to its left again before righting itself unsteadily. Telkya turned and smiled at her husband and he knew that they would be victorious.Dulvarna saw Erlmoor fell the cambion he faced and knew that it was time to rid herself of her own foe. The third cambion charged forward from within the chamber and lashed its blade into the dragonborn’s leg forcing him back toward the doorway and Dulvarna knew that her companion needed her aid against this new foe. She feinted low and as he tiring enemy moved its blade down, she brought her blade up high and slashed it across the cambion’s throat. The half-devil’s sword clattered to the stone floor of the chamber as it reached both hands to its torn throat and then it fell to its knees before Dulvarna. As the cambion finally fell forward, Dulvarna moved forward into the chamber to fight beside Erlmoor.As the second cambion fell, the dark ones began to whisper to each other and suddenly, both ducked low to the ground and turned to flee. Telkya leapt forward as the creature closest to her turned away and drove her blade into its back, The sword drove out through the front of the dark one’s cloak and the creature exploded in a spout of dark shadow that engulfed Telkya. The elf maid waited for the darkness to clear from her eyes but it refused to and with a sudden panic, she realised that the death throes of the dark one had blinded her.Enlishia saw the second dark one flee around the bend in the corridor and rushed after it with her bow raised. She slowed as a bolt of flame from the mirror on the east wall lanced out and struck the wall next to Telkya but then she rushed past the dangerous panes and rounded the corner. Ahead of her, double doors in the south wall were closed while a pair of portals in the north wall remained open but as she made her way forward along the corridor, she realised that the surviving dark one was trying to close them. Lavren came around the corner behind the ranger and looked toward the doors.“We will not reach them before the creature closes them,” he said. “Unless we hurry.”The elf surged forward and moved to the left side of the corridor as he neared the doors lest the dark one ambush him. He raised his wand and loosed a bolt of black energy into the creature as it began to push the doors shut. It hissed its annoyance and pain while seemingly regarding the elf with its white eyes but as Litiraan rounded the corner and loosed a silver bolt from his wand, it pushed the doors closed.Inside the other doorway, the cambion and Erlmoor fought fiercely, the dragonborn keeping his foe at bay despite the wound in his leg. Dulvarna stabbed and slashed at the creature from its right but each her blows it met with its blade as well. It glanced towards the southern doors as they slammed shut and smiled at its enemies.“Seems you’re trapped now,” the cambion snarled in Common. “Your friends can’t aid you.”Enlishia raised her bow as she drew near to the doors but before she reached them, a bolt of flame seared from the mirror behind her and struck the wall close by. She looked back nervously and then carried on moving forward. Litiraan reached the closed doors ahead of her and rushed at the portals, slamming his shoulder into them. The dark one beyond was thrown back and the doors slammed open. The elf lashed his sword into the creature’s shoulder and drove it back another step and then a bolt of golden light struck the stone next to the doorway. He looked to his right and saw that Telkya stood beside Enlishia with her blade and amulet in hand, her blindness apparently cured. Enlishia rushed forward and loosed one arrow and then another. The first drove into the side of the right door but the second flew straight and true into the shoulder of the dark one. The creature staggered again and as it did, Lavren loosed a bolt of black energy into its side sending it reeling back from the doors. Litiraan surged into the chamber and desperately, the dark one raised its long knife to fend him off.In the chamber, Erlmoor was driving back the cambion, having slashed his blade across its arm and cut a deep wound. The creature lashed out desperately in response but the dragonborn parried its fiery sword and then shoved the creature back just as Dulvarna came in from its right. Her blade drove into its thigh and forced it back another step. It looked toward the southern doors and realised that the companions had forced their way in.“Our friends are coming,” Dulvarna said, seeing its glance toward the doors. “And no one can help you now.”</blockquote>

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