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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wicht" data-source="post: 1240444" data-attributes="member: 221">Black Waters – Part 4The companions hurriedly moved back away from the water.  Zurmak splashed out, his armor still smoking from the acid breath of the small dragon.  Once away from the water’s edge, they stood and stared in stunned silence at the once more calm black waters of the lake.“I thought dragon’s breathed fire,” said Minlion.“Different dragons have different weapons,” said Durunak knowledgeably, “Obviously small black dragons breath acid.”“And can live in water,” said Leesarel.“Do you know what we need?” asked Durunak.“What?” replied Zurmak.“Sheep!”Leesarel, Minlion and Zurmak all stared at Durunak.In the brief silence that followed Hulmar’s voice suddenly rang out, “Do you know there is no ‘k’ in the elven tongue.”  Leesarel turned to look at her cousin.  He was standing about 3 yards behind her, involved in some conversation pertaining to linguistics with Bo.  Leesarel rolled her eyes, “Will you two pay attention, we need a plan,” and then to Durunak, “What would we do with a sheep?”“Use it as bait,… push it out into the lake and then when the dragon comes to eat it we get ‘em.”“We could throw more rocks in the water to get their attention,” said Leesarel, “that seemed to get a reaction the first time.  If that doesn’t work then we can try to get a sheep.”“Alright,” said Durunak,  “I have an idea, get me some rope,… wait I have rope in my pack, let me get it.”They watched the shaggy dwarf open up his pack and pull out his rope.  Then, hefting the rope on his shoulder he began to look around the shore line.  Finally he found a rock that seemed to please him and proceeded to tie the rope securely around the rock.“What are you doing?” asked Leesarel.“A fishing line of sorts,” grinned the dwarf through his shaggy brown beard.“You guys keep your eyes open on the water for anything,” commanded Leesarel as Durunak walked closer to the water.  The shaggy dwarf hefted the rock and then dropped it on the ground.  He grabbed the rope a little ways from the rock and proceeded to start spinning it.  Then when it had achieved enough momentum he cast it out into the lake, the rope trailing behind it and through his hand.  It landed with a plop in the black lake waters and immediately started to sink, dragging the rope down with it.  When he judged the rock to have hit bottom he began to pull the rope back in.“I see eyes,” shouted Hulmar, rapidly drawing the string back on his bow.“I see them too,” shouted Zurmak excitedly.“Well I did see them,” said Hulmar, for the eyes, which had been just out of the water had quickly dissapeared back under the surface of the lake, “It was the dragon, about fifty feet away from the shore watching us, just his eyes above the surface of the water.”Durunak finished reeling in his rock and hefted it now in his hand, wondering whether or not fishing for dragons with a rock would really work.“What we need is a boat,” said Hulmar.“You can do that yourself,” said Durunak, “I ain’t getting in no boat, especially not with a dragon ready to attack me in it and no where to go.”“Let’s get a sheep,” said Leesarel, “Who wants to go get one.”“I’ll go,” said Minlion, “I can probably find a shepherd, buy a sheep, and be back within a few hours.”“I’ll go with him,” said Zurmak.“Alright,” said Leesarel, “We will wait for you, don’t be long.”Minlion set off northward, Zurmak following along behind him.  The other four companions watched them crest the hill and then disappear from sight.“Now what?” said Hulmar.“We watch and wait,” said Leesarel sitting down upon the ground.They waited.  Durunak stood about thirty feet from the waters edge, casting stones into the lake and watching them dissapear.  Bo stood a little closer and did the same.  Hulmar stood silently nearby, bow in hand, his sharp elven eyes scanning the calm, black lake surface.  Time passed slowly.  Durunak gave up on the rocks and sat down watching the lake.  Bo, somewhat bored, began to practice skipping stones across the water.  Suddenly Leesarel jumped to her feet and drawing her bow in the same motion fired an arrow out over the water.  She had seen the small dragon head break the surface of the lake, watching them.  Her arrow hit the water near the head and skipped up and then shot down into the water.  She had missed.  The dragon’s small head disappeared.She moved closer to the water in case it should resurface.  “Do you see it,” she asked, “I saw it and then it was gone.”“I see a dragon,” said Hulmar, “but it’s a different dragon.”  He pointed out and up into the sky.  Leesarel looked and saw it.  Durunak and Bo strained to see it but could make out little more than a black speck that could have been a bird.“It took off from the other side of the lake about when you fired at the one dragon,” said Hulmar, “And now I think it is coming our way.”</blockquote>

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