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*But...the one thing that the note didn't mention was the night dragons. These beasts traveled at night, and though they were not nearly as powerful as the other breeds, used the fact that they were invisible in darkness to attack. They never traveled in groups however, for a nasty fight would break out.*

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The night dragons territory was the mountains because they made for a good hunting ground. They weren't native but they fit in so well that they flourished. Any people caught by a night dragon would almost certainly be killed. Avatara knew about these deadly beasts and knew that he would have to fend off a few of their attacks if he was to make it to the top. He went into the Village Magic shop and bought a few scrolls. These scrolls ranged from teleportation to a couple total annialation spells. These should fend off any attacks from the dragons that came through. Now all that was needed was a person of holy order to heal any wounds that would be dealt by the harsh conditions. He also needed another warrior so his group would be able to defeat his enemies faster as well as an enchanter to cast spells when his magic ran out

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theKestrel offered his services to Avatara, as the enchanter, "I have a very wide spell base, though I soon tire and cannot cast spells if I do some of the harder ones. I will follow and help as much as I am able." I hoisted my pack and stood beside Avatara.

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Talos offered his services as a mighty warrior, able to wield great swords and axes. He packed and joined the group.

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Avatara looks for another member to join the group. He needed someone adept in magical skills that would be able to use the scrolls he had bought. Since Avatara specialized in elemental magic, he was fond of having his sword enchanted, so he asked theKestrel to enchant it with both fire and ice.

Avatara then sat down, and with the help of DesertFox, began making potions to regenerate both mana and health in large amounts. Avatara carried most of them, but he gave five of each to every member in the group. (four to Talos-warriors don't need mana that much)

He waited then, resting as everyone else finished preparing.

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Lindor, the notable crusader for justice, approches Avatara.

"Might another warrior be of use? I heard of your journey from a friend of mine, and rushed here as fast as I could."

"I'm more interested in a magic user of some sort, do you have any skill in that area?"

"No. None at all, but I doubt if you'll ever find I better weapon master."

"I must think about it. I'll let you know when I finish looking for a mage."

Lindor walks over and sits down on the edge of a nearby fountin, gazeing into its wavering reflection.

Avatara gets up and walks over. Well, actually sure-we could use another warrior.

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Tired of waiting, the group decides to set off. 5 of them should be enough until another catches up. An enchanter, a priest, a crusader, a berserker (Talos), and a warrior-mage set out to the mountains to meet the many dangers.

*After a tiring day, the party went to sleep, after DF pulled the short straw. During the night there were some minor but vicious battles with packs of two or three blood wolves (nasty attack, venemous), but with a little magic and his sword and shield DF managed to survive. Before he woke the others up, he drank a healing potion. A blue aura surrounded Desert Fox as white magic rose from the ground and encircled him for a brief few seconds, very briefly making him shine with a gold light that hurt to look at. DF proceeded to wake up his companions.*

"Did you have an eventful night DF?" Avatara asked with a slight grin while eyeing the bodies.
"I had some fun" DF responded as his face lit up "By the way" he said as he kicked a rock "I need another healing potion, those damned blood wolves can sure fight nasty"
The group laughed at that comments as they started up the trail towards their first challenge.

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They had been going for hours when, suddenly, a sound was heard. A scream from the nearby forest. An older man, dressed in a blue coat runs out of the trees with a group of creatures following."Help me!" he shouts, as the creatures comes closer. These creatures looked like an accident...they ha the head of a harpy and the body of a wolf and a swamp gator. Their screams hurt in the ears of people miles away. The old man jumped and hid behind a rock, and the creatures stopped as they eyed the adventurers. The seven creatures came closer, and the adventurers drew their weapons. Suddenly the creatures screamed again. Something was annoying them. Everyone jumped high up in the air when the first creature exploded and sent lots of blood and meat everywhere. The second creature caught fire and burned up in a matter of seconds as a lightning fried the third. The fourth vanished into thin air and the fifth dropped dead for no good reason. The sixth was transformed into a slug and the seventh froze to ice. Everyone looked nervously around, all the time not saying a word until a figure approached them, coming against them on a path. "Greetings", he said, "I am Rogan. I heard you need a magician??" Talos narrowed his eyes and said: "What are your intentions?" Rogan replied: "To join you of course! I am a master magician and a good fighter as well". After a brief discussion amongst the adventurers, Avatara said: "Very well. You may join us". A smile came across Rogans face as he said: "Good. So what am I embarking on?"

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"We are on an adventure up this here mountain to find a wonderous treasure. The path is littered with danger and this should prove to be a challenge that may take us some time" DF quickly answered, obviously liking the idea of another joining in the group.
"That makes sense. The money shall be split evenly. That way greed cannot get us. I heard that the treasure hs a spell on it that requires all the power we can muster to break it" Rogan said while he thought "I shall join you all"
"Great" Avatara said with obvious delight
"If I may ask, why were those creatures chansing you? They appeared to be hellhounds but they seemed morphed" DF questioned.
"They were. I fought against a shadow demon up a little way. When he sent his minions to attack me, I tried to turn them with a transmorph attack. It changed their overall appearance and strength but they were too fixated with the demon's influence and attacked me. Then I ran for about a few hundred yards and ran into you. Your distraction allowed me to charge an attack to use against them." Rogan answered as a grin spread across his face "Why don't you all join me in an attack on this demon? I hear he holds some magic spells and weapons with him that could assist in our journey"
"Why do you want us to attack this demon?" Lindor asked with some concern showing
"This demon has journeyed out of the mountains and has terrorized my town for decades. He has killed men, women, and children. He has stolen all the weapons and spells that the town has ever held. Nobody dares enter or leave for fear of death. I journeyed out to destroy this demon once and for all but could not even hurt it. All of us might just be able to destroy it" Rogan answered with anger pouring out with the words
"I think this is a destoyable beast too, therefore, we shall go after it" theKestral said with finality and set off
"Well, I agree with him, let's go men" Avatara said as he stood and followed Kestral

After traveling about 400 feet the troop came across a clearing with a dilapetated house. Rogan directed the group towards the house and the demon appeared. Immediately Kestral and Rogan let out a joined lighning attack. This attack seemed to hurt the demon for it sent out several huge beasts to attack them. DF let loose a fireball at one of them as he drew his sword and attacked the other. Lindor drew his battleaxe and attacked the other. The creatures slashed and bit at the warriors but they held their ground and swung their weapons. With the help of a paralyizing spell from Avatara, the warriors were successful in slaying the beasts. Another spell was conjured up by the mage and the enchanter. The ice blast that followed would have killed any in the group. This froze the movement of the demon long enough for Talos to hit him with his scimitar. The scimitar was a magical weapon that Talos had recieved for slaying a green dragon which had been terrorizing a town. This one was 3 times as powerful than a normal one and it boosted the strength of it user, in this case, Talos. The demon reered back and sent a spell that took Talos by surprise. It hit him with such force that it killed him. The group, now enraged, attacked with no abandon. Avatara drew his sword of Godly Might which had been given to him from the church of Chrisheld. He had defended the church from a whole horde of orcs and ogres. This sword would protect him from all damage. It also hit evil creatures with ten times what a normal broadsword would do. Taking no time, Avatara drew this sword and attacked the demon. The demon hit Avatara with the same spell but the magic within the sword knocked most of the spell away, leaving Avatara slightly stunned but nontheless enraged. With a howl he attacked the demon. The demon tried to fight back but after three slashes, it was almost forever destroyed. With all of his strength, he knocked Avatara out with the most powerful spell he could conjure up. Then DF and Lindor attacked with their weapons and another round of spells from the mage and the enchanter completely destroyed the demon.

As the group wound down from the boost of adreniline, it realized it lost a partner. They didn't realize that Avatara was up and casting a spell. All of a sudden, Talos's body rose and started glowing with a light from the heavens. It was so bright it would have turned a person blind from looking at it. Then it shifted to several shades of blue and green then finally gold. After this, the body was set back to the earth and Talos reawakened.
"Thank you Avatara. I almost forgot that we had the assurance of coming back to life here" Talos said as a genuine smile ran across his face.
"It was no problem. I have know this spell for quite some time and am happy to use it on friends" Avatara said as shook his head "Now let's look at what we get here."

When the group came closer to the house, they noticed a large shed in which Rogan had said where all the items had been taken. When they got to the shed, a huge swarm of hellhounds and hellbats came out of nowhere.
"Apparently he had one last trick up his sleeve too." Rogan said sarcastically
"Let us warriors deal with the dogs, you kill the things in the air" Talos said as he drew his scimitar again
The fight lasted longer this time. Around 50 Hellhounds attacked the warriors as they slaughtered each one that came their way. They took large amounts of damage as they started to attack with more than one at a time. The different sorcerors had their own time destroying the many, around 200, ariel attackers. The ones that got through used paralysis spells that disabled one or more of them for bits of time while other dive bombed them to bite them. After about 40 min of fighting, the last antagonizer fell and disappeared (as most demonic creatures do) and the group collapsed. The battle raised each of thier levels up one and wore them out like no other battle they had been in. Even Avatara's battle had breaks in which he could heal in. Their were many bright flashes as each of the men in the group used the potions to heal themselves. Now they were truly ready to find their treasure.

The chest contained a mountian of scrolls. Much too many to take all of them but enough for the wizards not to need any more. DF found a sword of healing that healed the used and hit for 5+ damage. Talos found a shield which would brighten even the darkest of tunnels. Avatara found a cloak which would grant him more mana points and a staff that did the same. When he found the cap he was elated. Lindor found armour which would protect him from wirtually any attack (raised his armour level up 50 pts!) and an axe which raised his strength and did +4 attack. The group, fully satisfied, stayed their the remainder of the night. Avatara thought of how nice the sky was and noticed that nothing attacked that night.

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When they woke up, they were feeling healthy, if quite tired from the previous day's battle. They looked around the house some more, and found a small amount of food, strangely preserved from the previous owners (Demons generally don't eat). Refreshed, they started their journey again...

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Rogan was having a hard time stuffing a pile of scrolls down in his sack. "Where the hell is my tome", he said to himself, "These damn scrolls". He was quite satisfyed, though. He had found a set of enchanted daggers in the chest yesterday, and they looked quite nice sitting in his dagger belt. Rogan finally found his tome. He read something from the book and the scrolls caught fire and vanished. He now knew even more spells. Fifty minutes later, the adventurers approached a river with an old bridge across. They looked around and decided to cross the river. Avatara went first, then DF, then Rogan. Kestrel, Talos and Lindor followed. "Over there!" Kestrel shouted and pointed at a small cave. "Propably a Mantis hive", Rogan replied, "Shall we take a closer look?"

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"Why not?" DF said as he drew his new sword "What could be the worst thing that could occur?"
All of a sudden, the hive became full of life as manitses jumped out. At least 40 mean looking mantises came out looking for blood. Fortunately for DF, he had already drew his sword and was able to block the insectoid attacks. The acid, on the other hand, was a problem.
"You picked a perfect time to say that" Kestral said as he flung a fireball at the mass of insects.
The insects, strangely enough, blocked the spell and flung it back at Kestral, knocking him down temperarily.
"Damn, these are no ordinary mantises, they are spellcaster mantises" Rogan said as he threw a dagger.
This particular dagger not only hit with it's sharp edges, it also had a magical power within it that would deliver a lethal blow of ice. The mantis that took the blow froze and died. Once this occured, the mantis group switched its focus from the three warriors that were delivering blows to many of them to the enchanter than killed with ice. A sudden spell came out of the group and hit Rogan with a mighty blow, knocking him to his knee. With all that magic, he forgot that his damage level was not of the highest order. He conjured up one of the newer spells he learned. A bright light appeared around him then surrounded the mantises. It froze the entire lot of them, either killing them or makeing it just a matter of punching the thing to kill it. Another spell was brought up behind Rogan and he turned to see Avatara hitting him with his own spell. All of a sudden, Rogan felt much better.
"Thought you might appreciate a good healing spell" Avatara said with a grin as he traversed toward Rogan "This is one of the newer spells that I obtained. It completely recharges whoever it is used upon. This cloak I found gives me a bit more spell points than I used to have and now I am able to use the spell"
"I'm just glad it works. I have no want to die" Rogan said as he faced the cave "What do you think they got so mad about?"
"A mantis tribe often protects its own grounds. They will only fight to obtain territory or to protect the territory it has. Apparently we are invaders and they were just defending. Let's head on out, I hate mantis caves anyway" Lindor said as he drew his sword and cut a path for the group to follow

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The group had only gone fourty feet when a high wailing sound was heard followed by many stomps and flapping of scaled wings.
"Dragons up ahead" Talos said with a smile "I would remember the sound anywhere"
The group charged ahead but they didn't expect to see a battle like this. A gold dragon was fighting 4 blue dragons. From the scars on all the dragons, it was apparent that both sides were tired and the blue would probably win if not challenged. The group hid in the brush nearby to avoid being sighted by the dragons as they discussed their battle plan.
"What should we do?" Avatara said in a panic "We can't take five dragons."
"No need to" Talos said with some of his dragon knowlege shining through "I have read that Gold Dragons are a tougher breed of dragons. They are noble and good. They dispise their evil cousins and will fight any that they see. I say we should assist this creature, he is just in his crusade as we are in ours. He can't handle 4 Blues on his own."
"I agree. We have nothing better to do right now" Rogan said as he stood
"Alright, let's go then" Avatara said finally and the rest of the group went to the battle scene
By now the blue dragons were pressing their advantage and the gold one was looking beat. The group intervened at the right time and attacked. While Talos and Lindor went for one of the blue dragons, DF stayed behind to help cast a spell with Rogan and theKestral. The spell was a massive fireball, one that none two of them could handle themselves, that immediately shot out and hit one of the blue dragons. The result was a wailing dragon that flew, not under it's own power, into a cliff. This promptly killed that dragon and dragged the other's attention to the group. With their attention diverted, Avatara snuck up to be right next to the Gold Dragon.
"What are you doing?" Graspel the dragon asked
"We are saving you. Now hold still for my spell" Avatara said as his eyes started to glow. He formed a glowing globe above his head and sent it to the gold dragon. It glimmered across its golden scales, healing them as it went. When it finally got to the dragon's head, it stopped and the dragon stood up.
"Thank you, noble priest. I shall give you and your friends a reward after we finish this battle" Graspel said
DF joined Talos and Lindor in fighting the second blue dragon. The mages decided to attack another one so that the three wouldn't have to worry about being attacked by three dragons. DF decided to attack the one that wasn't being attacked yet. He slashed at the dragon with his new sword as the dragon bit at him and slashed him with its evil claws. The dragon then jumped back as DF swung a mighty blow and hit DF with a fireball. This knocked DF down but didn't knock him out. He got back up and hit the dragon with the sword again. The dragon then proceded to bite him on the arm, injuring DF. With a yelp, DF leapt back and his eyes became red. He chanted a spell which binded the dragon to the ground. As the dragon screamed in its own language, DF walked up to its face and picked up his sword. With one heavy jab, DF's sword went through the beast's neck and killed it. DF then fell to the ground to tend his wound.
The other two weren't having much luck either. They split up and attacked from both sides. While injuring the dragon, they didn't do much to keep it from attacking back. After several strong swipes with its claws, the dragon knocked Lindor to the ground a bloody mess. He then turned his attention to Talos. Talos had faced a similar dragon before and knew that this was a stronger version. He dodged the many attacks that were thrown at him from the mighty beast and only attacked when the dragon could not retaliate quickly. After 15 minutes of fighting this way, he defeated the dragon, it falling to the ground with a loud thud.
The magicians didn't fare any better than Lindor. They were great at fighting from a distance with their magics but not as good fighting the Dragons up close. Even with the daggers Rogan fell and left Kestral to fight for himself. He did good considering he never fought one before but he fell also.
As Kestral hit the ground, Graspel flew in to fight the remaining Blue dragon. The fight did not last long. Kestral almost finished the beast but couldn't get his last spell off. With a huge fireball, Graspel knocked the blue dragon far off in the distance, killing it.

After Avatara revived the three fallen warriors and DF used another potion, Graspel spoke.
"For helping me survive the fight, I owe you my life. Therefore, if you are ever in need of my assistance, use this whistle. Only I can hear it so only I shall come. I grant this to you, noble Avatara for saving me on the brink of death" Graspel said as he lifted from the ground. After a few seconds, the dragon was flying off into the distance to its own home cave.
"Well that was fun" DF said as he patched up his armour
"Yea, let's set cam here. Those blue dragons shouldn't be coming back" Rogan said
"I'll stand watch tonight" Talos said
No new threats revealed themselves that night but Talos knew that a night dragon was watching him all through the night.

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Eventually, night became day and the adventurers woke. Searching the area found little, although some somewhat-edible dragon meat was scattered in a few places. The more palatable looking pieces were taken, and the group returned on their journey...

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About three hours of walking made everyones feet hurt. "I suggest that we rest here", Lindor said. Everyone agrees. Resting for about half an hour, eating some dragon meat (yuck), they continued on their journey. Suddenly, the path stopped and a large forest area was in front of them. Rogan draws his sword and says "follow me" as he starts to hack his way trough the dense forest. "Careful", DF said, "these dark forests are favorite places of hellbats and blood wolves". Rogan hacked his way trough the forest, all the time swearing to himself. A sound was heard in the bushes about ten paces away and attracted everyones attention. Suddenly, an orc leaped out of the bushes and bit Rogan in the arm. Rogan slashed the orc with his sword, the Excalibur, and the orc died. Rogan casts a healing spell, but something was wrong. It didn`t work. Rogan glanced at his sword and noticed it wasn`t glowing red anymore. Kestrels sword Belenov wasn`t glowing either. "Son of a..." Kestrel was interrupted by a sound...something coming against them from the north...

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A Demonlord had been awakened. It subtly moved through the forest to find the group that had found its minion and destroyed it earlier. When it spotted the group, it cast a dark spell which disabled the magic in their weapons and canceled all magic from the group.

"Son of a..." Rogan spat out before the demonlord appeared before them.
"I commend you for getting this far but no furthur will you travel" the Demon said as he shot a dark spell at DF. DF was lucky enough to get his shield up in time and blocked the attack, which sent him back 5 feet.
"You are the one who can control dark magic. I shall destroy you first" the Demonlord said as he moved in closer
Not needing any more encouragment, the group sprang into action. The mages took out their clubs and the warriors drew their swords and axes. DF himself drew the Drangard, the mighty healing sword that he had discovered earlier in the adventure. The group surrounded the demon but it didn't seem to notice them. It fixated its attacks on DF and focused only on him. Even when the warriors started to slash at its body it did not waver in its attack. It cast spell after spell, all designed to kill, at DF. DF, in turn, blocked all the magic spells used against him. He then realized that the only way out of this battle was either dying, or using the dark magic he had learned so long ago. His eyes turned red and glowed and eerie glow as he chanted a phrase. Immediately the demon was knocked 10 feet back. Another chant came and the weapons from each person in the group began to glow red. Then another chant came and the group members turned red. They each felt a dark energy surging into them, binding them to one another for the purpose of one thing, killing the enemy. Then the demon saw what was happening. He attacked DF with a magic blast which destroyed the shield in his hand. Then Lindor led a charge at the Demon. The demon defended with magic and its own dark sword. He fought Lindor but found it impossible to kill him, no matter how much he hit hi. The others soon reached the demon and slashed away. Talos knocked the weapon from the demon's hand and DF himself charged. The weapon in Avatara's hand magically exchanged itself with the Drangard. DF's charge then stopped when the hilt of Avatara's sword was up to the Demonlord's skin.The Demon thus was destroyed and his magical enchantment of the area ceased. As the demonlord started to disappear it said something: "You are good, very good. Their is a place near the top in a Temple devoted to the study of demons. That is a place in which wizards are becoming demons like me. The power they recieve is overwhelming, completely corrupting them and forcing their destruction. If you want to be free of the menace that are demons, you will need to destroy that Temple. They will shift the planet in a way that will destroy everything if you don't"
The demon then vanished leaving the group completely spooked. the one thing they didn't expect on this trip was demons trailing their every move. The red glow on everything started to cease and their normal glows returned to them. DF handed Avatara back his sword and nodded to acknowledge that this indeed was a fine blade.
"Damn orc" Rogan said as he used the spell finally "I swear this is going to give me some disease"
"At least we got out of their, that place was creepy" Lindor said with a shiver
"DF, what the hell were those spells you were using" Kestral asked, frigtened in the fact that there were spells like that.
"Dark Magic. I'll teach you some. According to the demon, we will need all the magic of that alliance that we can get" DF said with a dour face
"When did you learn dark magic?" Avatara asked with concern
"Another day I will tell you that. Right now I am just tired" DF responded as he brought out the camping gear.
"I'll watch tonight I guess" Kestral said, grabbing his axe.

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The night passed slowly for theKestrel. It was at times like this that he was glad to have the help of a golden dragon, as he might need it. Besides from a few annoying orcs, the night passed uneventfully. When the sun finally came, they had the remaining dragon meat, some water from a nearby stream, and continued their quest upwards, ready for any demons that might come their way...

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*theKestrel adjust his sword, Belenov, and continues walking.*

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The group then wandered into an open field. Here they found a beautiful river and some large fruit trees. They decided to stay for a bit to relax.
After maybe an hour of sitting and eating and talking, Avatara and Rogan started to pack some extra fruit and rebottled the water they would carry. They weren't leaving, just prepareing for the time in which they needed to. theKestral and Lindor got into a friendly sword fight as the rest of the group watched. Lindor made a swift charge and swiped a the legs of theKestral, knocking him down. Kestral then hit Lindor with a charge that knocked him back 4 feet. He drew his sword and attacked the Knight. The clanging of swords brought some unseen attention to the group. Kestral and Linodr didn't seem to notice. Like expert swordmasters they each fought looking for a weakness to the other's attack. When Lindor jumped back for a moment, theKestral mistakenly charged up a magic strike and promptly got hit by Lindor's sword, dazing him. He did his best after that, even getting a few good strikes on Lindor in the process, but eventually he had no more power and had to submit. Avatara then cast a healing spell on each of them and they rejoined the group.
"Shhh, I just heard something." Rogan said as he placed a hand to his ear.
The rest of the group did the same and they also heard it. The trees in the nearby area seemed to be rustling. The trees were about 200ft tall so they could support anything. The group cautiously drew their weapons in case they would need them. It then happened in a moment. One moment all was still and all they heard was rustling, the next the were surrounded by a hundred gigantic spiders whose intent was to destroy each of them.
theKestral, already chraged from the battle, let out a doom spell that he had learned from DF the night before. This spell was similar to the spell that DF used on the Blue Dragon except that it wouldn't go as far as it and it would affect many more enemies. His eyes turned red and 20 of the spiders fell in heaps of agony. DF used a different appraoch to the problem. He started swinging away with his sword. The spiders bit him and poisoned him but he knew that this was better than unleashing the darkness within him. Lindor, also charged from earlier in the battle, ran around with Talos as he was using the Linslord, the scimitar mentioned earlier. The two of them were unstoppable. While one was attacking a new target, the other was keeping the spiders from attacking the one from behind. They cut through the spiders just as DF did on his own. Rogan used his special attacks to destroy the spiders from within. He transmorphed several into huge sabre cats which then attacked the spiders as well. He froze others with ice spells and burst several into flames with another spell. After all his spellcasting was spent, he drew the Excalibur,a mighty sword that he discovered in a tomb, and started wading into the spiders with that. Avatara also assisted in this battle. He charmed several spiders so they would attack their fellow spiders. He then drew the sword of Godly Might and assisted in the battle. The spiders were not evil so the sword did not do as much damage as it would against a demon but it worked well enough. After about 25 minutes of fighting, their were corpses all over of the spiders. They were oozing with the blood and ichor held within the pestilent bodies. One spider remained but this was on the group's side, thanks to Avatara. Fortunanly for the group, a few of Rogan's beasts survived the battle too. A few of the other ones were cut to pieces and poisoned to death by the spiders. It was then that the group realized that DF was no longer with them.
"Did any of you see him in the battle?" Avatara asked with concern "If we can find him soon, I can revive him from whatever ails him"
"I saw him early on. He opted to fight alone with his sword instead of with us or magic" theKestral said "I can see why he hates the dark magic though, it is powerful, tempting. I need to limit my useage of it or else I may fall to it. Now I see why DF hates to use that type of magic"
"Let's splite up, if we search by ourselves, we will find him faster" Rogan said as he leapt over one of the spiders
In a nearby tree stood DF. He had seen his gorup and heard their conversation. They wanted him back so he would fight for them. HA! He would rather soon die than fight for them. He leapt out of the tree and attacked Avatara with all his strength.

Nearby, another Demon laughed. He had cast a dark spell to control the one called Desert Fox. This was the demon's style of retribution for the trouble DF cast with the demon society. Now he would use the strong one to destroy the weaker ones. Hahahaha.

Avatara was shocked when the blade hit him. He was even more shocked when it hit him again. He was shocked more than before when he saw DF doing it.
"What are you doing DF?" Avatara asked as he blocked a blow with his sword
"Destroying all of your evil ways" DF's voice came out as a monotone
Immediatly Avatara knew something was wrong. He kept blocking and Rogan announced he saw something. theKestral ran out of the brush to see when he saw DF fighting Avatara.
"What's going on?" Kestral asked as he ran to the two fighters
"DF's been hit with some odd spell that is controlling him" Avatara answered as he withstood another blow from DF.
Kestral then jumped in and fought DF. DF, in responce, knocked out Avatara and focused on theKestral. Kestral swung the Belenov at DF but DF easily parried and hit Kestral with a dark spell. This sent Kestral reeling back and froze im for a second. Then DF cast another spell in which Kestral tried to block with the Belenov but it just knocked the Belenov away. theKestral was in a panic as it appeared DF was charging another attack.


Rogan had found something alright, he had found a concentrating demon. Something was amiss though. What was this demon concentrating on? Talos and Lindor soon joined him and they agreed to attack the demon while it was still helpless. They hacked and slashed and soon after the demon was defeated. This wasn't so bad, they though as they set off the join the other group. What they saw shocked them.

theKestral then noticed Avatara's sword right next to him. He picked it up to block the next attack and did so just in time. The attack hit the sword and dispersed. The odd thing was, it kept coming. DF's outlook changed which meant whatever had taken him over had died but it was posthumously controlling him. Kestral then tried to fight the beam away but couldn't. He was pinned to the ground. It was then that he saw Lindor charging with his sword at DF. The others were close behind but without their weapons drawn. Lindor reached DF a couple seconds later and stabbed him. He then slashed at him until he was knocked out and bleeding.
"What the hell is going on?" Rogan asked as he used his healing spell on Avatara.
"Ahh, better. DF was enchanted by an enemy. Apparently you broke both him and the spell" Avatara answered as he pointed at DF.
"Hehe, he was attacking theKestral. I had to do something" Lindor sheepishly answered as he helped theKestral up.
"You were right in doing that" Avatara said "Now we must revive our fallen comrad"
DF's body glowed with that familiar glow of revival and healing.
"Thank you Avatara. I'm sorry Kestral. For some reason, I couln't handle my body. It started in the middle of the spider battle. I was fighting several of them at once. Then my body started to rebel against me. It didn't do what I wanted. It fought on but it used the dark magic to do so. I don't like using dark spells. Then I attacked you Avatara, Im sorry. I was a spectator to what I was doing and I hated what I was seeing. Kestral, Im glad I taught you some of the magic spells. The only reson that first spell didn't kill you was that you had the ability to use it yourself within you. I'll help you find your sword. Im sorry" DF said with a sad face
"I found a demon out in the forest. Once I killed it, you seemed more in control. That must have been what had taken you" Rogan said with a degree of certainty
"That is the only answer" DF said as he picked up the Benelov from the ground and tossed it to theKestral, who caught it with one hand and sheathed it "Thanks for stopping me Lindor"
"Any time you want to be knocked out, just ask me" Lindor said with a smile. "Would you take night duty tongih for me, I need to rest"
"No problem, I just need this poison the spiders put in me taken out" DF said as his face strained with obvious pain.
"I'm on it" Avatara siad and after a few words, DF was glowing green then stopped
"Thats better. I'll keep the spiders away tonight" DF said as he wiped off his sword

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The night came and went without any more dramatical events than the usual gang of annoying orcs and by sunrise, everyone was ready to continue. Spider carcasses were still lying around, making a mess. When they approached a small mountain, Lindor sighed and said "when are we going to reach this treasure?" "Patience" DF answered, "We need to get over this mountain first". "Looks like nice rock monster territory" Rogan said, "better stay alert". The party reluctantly stared to climb...

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The group walked and climbed slowly and deliberately, watching for any signs of rock monsters. After considerable scrambling over a rock face, they came to a long, wide, and flat plateau of rock. Besides from a small pathway upwards and the face downwards, there were two shear drops on each side of the plateau. Suddenly, there was a noise...

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The group turned around for the noise was coming from behind them. Whatever it was, it had them trapped between it and two cliffs. The adventurers drew their swords and prepared for battle. The noise got louder until the creature making them appeared. It was a ...

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A few rock monsters came from a cave nearby. They apparently smelled the party.
"Your swords aren't going to do much good" Avatara said as he started to cast a spell "They are generally undamaged by sword swipes."
"Oh, you just haven't seen my sword yet." DF said as he finally unsheathed the sword he carried.
It was latched down and contained in a double thick sheath to protect it and to protect others from it. The blade was very sharp but also freezing to the touch. All of a sudden, Rogan knew what it was.
"Is that, the Iceblade??!!" Rogan said with shock.
The Iceblade was a godly weapon that had been stolen. It was believed that a swarm of powerful dragons protected the sword in its final resting place to make sure that nobody could get their hands on it. Nobody had ever dared to check to see if somebody had gotten it.
"Yes it is." DF said with a smile "Damn Red Dragons almost killed me for it but I had the fortune of a Gold Dragon coming to my rescue. It left without words and I went up and grabbed the sword. It was only then that I realized what an accomplishment that was"
"I heard of the Flamesword but not the Iceblade. I take it that this sword will do a ice magic as well as normal damage" Lindor said as he gawked at the sword with awe
"Yes. Are we going to stand around and talk or are we going to fight?" DF said as he stepped up to the Rock Monsters.
Kestral shot a fire blast at one of them but it had no apparent affect
"Remember, fire doesn't damage earthly creatures" Rogan said as he shot an Ice blast.
This spell froze one in its place, totally immobolizing it. DF then met up with another of the monsters and fought it. Despite the fact that the rock monster was 10 feet taller than him, DF was having no trouble. He dodged most of the attacks of the beast and delivered many of his. Every swipe of the blade brought forth another Ice blast at the point of the sword, injuring the beast even further. Every once and a while the beast would find its mark and knock DF back several feet but DF didn't stop. After a few more swipes of his blade, he stood victorious over the beast fighting him. Rogan threw his Ice dagger at the immobilized Rock Monster and killed it. Lindor, Talos, and Avatara went forth and attacked the last beast first. It was slow going and the beast hit them quite a bit, but despite their obvious weapon flaws, the group outlasted the rock monster and killed it.
Tired but not completely worn, the group decided to go to the Ice cave in which lie their next challenge. They camped at the mouth of the cave and left Rogan, at his request, out to watch.

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