Fighting to Live

FIRST FIGHT

As we entered the first cave, I noticed that it was relatively dark. I was not sure how well my human companions could fare at seeing at this point, and I was thankful that I was gifted with my racial 'night-vision'. Following Nimohtah I realized that it was quite hard to see around his figure as well, so my vision only helped so much.

As we entered the next cavern, a shock was delivered to the entire party; a rough mud covered face about chest height appeared out of the dark, roaring what could only be classified as a war cry. He charged, directly at our party. With only split seconds to act, we had no chance of discussing a best move. Before I knew it, several of us had drawn our weapons and moved in defence, attacking the beast that attacked us. He was dead unconcious before he even got close to harming the rest of the group.

We gazed around the rest of the cavern then. There were several other humans dressed as guards, and some creatures that I were not familiar with; they were ant like, however roughly 5 feet in length and just under 5 feet in height. There were three ant like creatures, later to learnt as the race Formians, standing upright and holding staffs.

Before any of our immediately assumed enemies could act, Nicholas had suddenly casted a spell from behind me, firing it at the closest human. I was not expecting the reaction for the hit; the guard stopped in his tracks, screamed wide eyed at us, turn and ran. He slipped on the muddy floor, where he hit the cavern wall, and did not move.

Suddenly the Formian Wizard's, the ones holding the staffs, sent out these bright light missiles, aiming directly at Shadow and Sai. They tried to duck, weave and turn, but no matter where they dived the missiles followed them. They took the blasts to the chests, and fell - injuried.

I cannot remember much of the insuing battle. I find that when fighting starts, my mind clears, and all I do and think is how to beat my enemy. What are the areas advantages, and their disadvantages. What do I have to do, to sacrifice, to live longer than my enemy.

I do know that the next thing I remember is my party is standing over the unconcious, some of us with injuries and blood covering our bodies. Yet we mostly seem accustomed to pain, or at least not showed it to the rest of our party.

It was at this point in time that I realised that one of the human guards was missing - the one that ran.