Day 2: The Worst is yet to come…

In the morning, we came down for breakfast and noticed the remnants of our game and decide to pick it back up while we dine.

The Captain of the Guard wandered in and was staggering around a little.  I made the comment that it was a little early, which caused my sister to giggle with me for a moment until I cut her off abruptly.  The large one that we assisted last night had stood up slowly, purposely and strode over to him.

We couldn’t hear what they were saying, but the large one jabbed his equally large finger into the man’s chest a few times until he was in our line of sight enough where we could see how WIDE those eyes of his were.  I made a comment to my sister to not tick off the large one and she nodded silently in response.  The man finally fled upstairs at which point the mayor came back out, saying he’d have to cancel the festival if the town’s missing children weren’t found.

Children were another matter entirely, and my sister and I were of one mind that we must assist.  The large one was going too, stating he’d found out from the man the location of what could be a camp of the same sort of creatures that we came up against last night.  The taller skinny man also joined us and I could see that my sister was pleased with that.  (I think she may have a bit of a crush on him.)

We’d found some tracks leading toward the river and followed them until we came across a clearing where the little creatures had made a camp.  We didn’t see any sign of the children, but we did notice a cave just behind them, so the challenge would be to clear the way to the cave.

I noticed the watchtower, and pointed out to the others that it was going to tip them all off unless we did something about it.

The large one noticed it looked rather unstable and suggested he could ram it over.  So to provide a distraction, I threw up a sound that would have indicated one of the creature’s brethren was in danger.  He turned to look and the large one barreled in and managed to knock down the tower, flinging the creature to the ground.

This attracted the attention of the other two nearby who also joined in the fray.  My sister was always the clever one of the two of us and managed to sneak behind them.  The four of us, handled the three of them quite readily… so it was time to clear out the rest of the camp  which also, didn’t take that long. There was a few battle cries about defending their candles… or… about us taking them… or something?  I am not sure, but I thought it odd.

I’ll be the first to admit it, the cave was very creepy.  Darkness and myself never truly got along, so I cast a light on the large one’s shield.  (He was leading the way anyway, so it was only logical that would be the object held out in front to shine the way.)

The first two rooms heralded very little, but I still found my hand clasped around the amulet at my neck, silently praying for protection for us all.  What in the world had we gotten ourselves into?

The next room wasn’t as pleasant as the two non-eventful ones.  This room contained another barely able to hold the leashes of two very large lizards, upon seeing us, he let the leashes go and ordered them to sic us.

I will not lie, it was the most horrific battle I’ve ever faced.  I was deathly afraid for myself and my sister, and I just prayed we’d make it out alive.  We did, and just barely.  We took a moment to compose ourselves, get healed up and such because we still weren’t done.

But I really wish we were…

~ by feydragonelfies on June 29, 2008.