A/N: Things are going to get a little more active now. I know this has been a little dull in the things like battles. But alas, we cannot all be master battle writers like Mr. Salvatore. Probably not much more until the end of part one.

Disclaimer: I do not own Drizzt and Co. They belong to R.A.S. Kagome belongs to Rumiko Takahashi, as do the rest of the Inu crew. The only thing I'm getting from this story is something to do.

Read, read, read!

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Chapter Twenty-Five: Infiltration

"How many are in there?" Kagome asked.

"So far I can smell twenty in the first few chambers right now. There's a lot more deeper inside. Perhaps, seventy?" Nira replied. "I cannot be sure."

"But the others are definitely in there." the girl stated. "We're going in anyway."

"You have a plan?" Nira asked.

Kagome nodded. "Yes. We go in and then split up. We can cover more ground that way and get to the others faster. Neither of us will have trouble fighting the drow on our own. The faster the better."

"Let's go then." Nira replied.

The main entry was empty. Nira sniffed the air, but there were too many different scents for him to sort through. Kagome tugged on his sleeve and he looked over to her. She pointed to herself then to one hallway then pointed to him and another one. He nodded and they parted ways.

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Kagome stalked silently down the hallway. She became shadow itself, perfectly cloaked in the darkness.

She quickly cut down a group of three drow who got near her.

The hallway twisted and turned for a bit of a way Kagome ducked into a small side chamber before she was seen by another group of drow. She again made short work of them.

There was no way of knowing how many drow were in the fortress, she had to keep herself unknown.

She ducked into another side room. Storage, she guessed as she looked at the crates inside. Something caught the scent of something intriguing. Wild flowers.

She sniffed the air of the room delicately, there was no mistaking the sent. Kagome carefully opened one of the crates, yes, this was where it was coming from. The box had a lot of flowers inside, none native to Calimshan. Flowers from the north she realized and, grave dirt? Why was the box full of grave dirt?

Then it hit her, Drizzt's family had been dead, he told them that. Kagome focused for a moment, calling her energy to rise. Within moments every crate was incinerated.

Now all she had to do was destroy the drow.

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Nira walked through the tunnel he had taken silently killing any drow he had found.

So far, he had killed about twenty. There were many more than he had originally thought.

The tunnel ended in a large circular room, a sleeping chamber of some sort. It was completely empty. He examined the contents of the room more closely something was out of place, he meant to find out what it was. He pulled back the covers of one bed roll, he was greeted with the smell of rotting flesh. There was no body inside the blankets though, only a small pile of what seemed to be ashes.

The smell was coming from the pile.

Nira examined all of the other bedrolls and found the same thing in three of them. He noticed something else as well, there were runes on the blankets with the piles. They had been wizards.

The wall opened behind him, a drow woman charged forward with her weapons drawn. "You will not destroy our plans! I will destroy you and bring your lifeless body back to the Matron.

Nira dodged a wild swing and grabbed the drow by her throat. A priestess he noted. She tried to cast a spell but he crushed her windpipe. He let her fall to the ground and headed back the way he came there was nothing else down this way. He went to find Kagome.

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"Matron they stir!" the call came from one of the guards.

The three were not yet awake but they were moving now, they would be soon.

'Excellent' Malice thought. A wicked smile spread across her face. This was going to be fun.

A large bang from the far side of the room broke her train of thought. The double doors crashed open.