Chapter one is up! I'd appreciate it if anyone who read this reviewed it, good reviews give a writer confidence and bad ones show him how to improve. 

It begins... 

 

Angela walked around the camp; trying to find some idiotic men to help her. She noticed a necromancer sitting next to a golem. "I can use him!" she quietly thought to herself 

 

"Hello" she said smiling very beautifully. The moon's light seemed to dance on her skin, bringing attention to her soft creamy skin quite nicely. 

 

"Er..." Neco seemed to barely get out a word. His skin turned bright red. "He...hello" he finally said. 

 

"Wow, this is the first time I've seen a necro blush...cute" Angela thought to herself "I heard you're a necromancer" she said. 

 

"Um...ye...yes I am...um..." Neco said still blushing like a rose. 

 

"Oh really? That's great! Listen, I need some help with this demoness named Andariel, and I was hoping to have some big strong men help me do it." she said while smiling with a odd sense of excitement. 

 

"Um...I'm not really big...or strong...but Bob is!" Neco said while pointing to his golem. 

 

"Bob?" Angela asked "Yes, Bob" said Neco "My clay golem". 

 

"Well I think I can use you both," she said while winking to Neco cutely "I could use all the help I can get". 

 

"Um...!" Neco blushed again, since he was not use to this sort of attention; usually women avoided him. "Sure I guess I can help, but I don't see what use I can be..." Neco said "She's really pretty...I wonder what she wants me for? Why not get a rogue?" Neco thought to himself. 

 

"Great!" Angela said happily. "I didn't even have to show any cleavage" she thought to herself. "We can leave in the morning. I need to see if I can gather some more people, bye…oh, wait. I didn't catch your name" she said.

 

"Um…Neco." Neco said still nervous and blushing. 

"Odd name for a necromancer…or perhaps fitting." Angela thought to herself. "Well then Neco! I'm Angela and I guess I'll see you later! Bye!" she said winking at him, and suppressing the urge to blow him a kiss. 

Angela walk slowly to another man; a knight of sorts, it seemed. "Hi!" she said with a kind of energetic smile on her face. 

 

"Hm? Oh, hello" said Seclaw in his usual uncaring fashion. 

 

"I couldn't help but notice you seem to be a knight of some sort" Angela said then suddenly thought "Hm I wonder if I'll have to sleep with anyone to get them to travel with me…Nah most guys I have to sleep with to get something from aren't worth it anyways". 

 

"I'm a paladin" Seclaw said; feeling a little insulted that she did not recognize him as one "Of the Zakarum." 

 

"Hmmm damn, a paladin will be harder to convince…or perhaps easier if I mention demons" Angela thought to herself. "So what are you doing here? " she asked him

 

"I was told to come here by my teacher and mentor Khalim. He wants me to kill a demon known as Andariel" Seclaw said, and he decided he'd leave out the part about being kicked out. 

 

"Really? That's interesting. You see me, and that necromancer over there are planning to kill her too." Angela said with her usual amused smile 

 

"A necromancer? Feh! If you want me to join with one of them, then forget it." Seclaw said. As far as he was concerned necromancers where no better then the demons he fought.

 

"Oh come on," Angela said with a happy smile "Sometimes even a mighty priest must visit a witch in order to destroy the greater of the two evils!" 

 

"..." Seclaw remembered his teacher Khalim once said that exact same thing. "Ok, you got me" Seclaw said "You can travel with me, but I get the final say on what we do and where we go." 

 

"Great!" Angela said with a smile. "We could use some cannon fodder." she thought to herself with a smile "Wait till tomorrow though. We all need to prepare." 

 

"I've been prepared," Seclaw thought to himself "But might as well wait for her...". 

 

Angela walked to Akara who was talking to an Amazon "Odd" Angela thought "there shouldn't be an Amazon here..." Angela walked to Akara "Hi!" she said with a fake smile. Akara saw through the smile.

 

"Ah, good you're here" said Akara "This is Isera, she is a mercenary from the-" 

 

"South" Isera interrupted her "I heard you're planning to kill Andariel, I'll help on one condition." 

 

"Which is?" Angela asked. She was definitely suspicious of this Amazon.

 

"I keep her head." Isera said.  

 

"Deal. We leave in the morning. I got two other companions to travel with us if you want to talk to them...there...over...there…" Angela stopped talking once she realized Isera had already left "Just like a Amazon" she thought to herself. She sighed and decided to relax for now. 

 

Meanwhile Gronk was in a den of evil trying to defeat a horde of fallen ones "GRONK SMASH!!" Gronk shouted as he cut through the fallen ones easily "Gronk, wait here till dawn" said a voice in Gronk's head, which was in the mask of evil "OK!" Gronk said and laid down falling asleep immediately. The mask knew Gronk could kill everything in this place except one thing...Corpsefire a zombie of very strong power...Gronk would have to wait for others.  

The next day... 

 

Gronk quickly attacked the zombie Corspefire, but his attacks had no effect "Run, Gronk!" the voice shouted in his mind, but Gronk had too much pride to run "Fool!" said the mask "He is immune to physical damage! Only a wizard can harm the likes of him!" 

Meanwhile... 

 

The four were ready. Seclaw had finished talking to Kashya, leader of the rogue army. He had challenged her to a fight earlier, and lost horribly. He was currently asking her for combat advise "Don't get killed" was the most he got out of her. 

Akara had told them to first fight the demons in a cave near-by. The cave had become a small outpost for the demons and if the demons inside were destroyed, the constant attacks on the rogue settlement might stop. 

 

Neco was talking to Akara. She seemed to enjoy his childish personality, although she questioned his ability to fight in combat "I'll be fine!" he said to her "I got Bob to help!". Akara knew one clay golem could not defeat the evil in the cave, but perhaps with a paladin, an Amazon, and a sorceress to back him up they could do this.

 

Angela wait by the gate. Isera had left earlier to find the cave, and clear a path to it "Over confident, just like all mercenaries" Angela thought to herself with a quiet smile. "Hey guys! We need to hurry!" she shouted to the other two. 

 

"Coming" said Selcaw as he walked to Angela "Ok!" shouted Neco as he ran to her. 

 

"Isera went off ahead, she should be back so-" Angela was interrupted by Isera. 

 

"I'm back" Isera said "Follow me, and I'll lead you to the cave." Isera walked in front of them. As the others followed they noticed a few dead quill rats and zombies on the way. Seclaw also noticed something "Your face" he said "You've got a cut across your nose" 

 

"It's nothing" Isera said "Don't even think about healing it paladin, I don't need to owe you anything". 

 

Seclaw was a bit taken back by this. He shrugged and decided to continue on. 

 

The cave... 

 

They reached the cave. Neco had raised a skeleton on there way there. They entered the cave and immediately everyone but Isera backed away. "What is that smell? " Angela said to no one in particular. "Fallen ones are not the cleanest of the animals." Isera said.

 

They noticed that a lot of the monsters here had already been killed. They killed a few fallen then noticed a zombie attacking a barbarian. The barbarian was badly wounded, and covered in blood "Gronk...SMASH!!!" the barbarian said with renewed fury that did him no good against his opponent "Come on!" Seclaw shouted "We cannot let this unholy monster take another innocent life!" 

(Note: If you fight Corpsefire in hell difficulty level, he is immune to physical damage so I decided to go with that.)

The first battle... 

 

Seclaw quickly charged after Corpsefire, but was knocked away as the magically enchanted zombie hit him across the room.

 

"Damn" Angela said out loud, and she began to prepare a fireball while Neco sent his skeleton after Corpsefire 

 

Corspfire easily destroyed the skeleton with a single blow, but while he was doing it, he himself was knocked to the ground from a large blow to his waist. Bob the Golem had hit him, but sadly caused no damage.

 

"What kind of zombie is this?!" Seclaw said. He was very angry, and suddenly he got up, and slashed at Corspefire with his sword. His sword had no effect "What...the...hell!" said Seclaw right before being knocked back into the wall of the cave once again. 

 

Isera sent arrows flying at the zombie, but they did no good. She quickly changed to her magic arrows, and sent one screaming through Corspefire's right leg. 

 

Corspefire screamed in pain, a bloody scream that caused bits of flesh to fly away from his mouth. Quickly he rushed to Isera, but was stopped when he was blown away by a fireball "Yes!" said Angela happily. 

 

"...That's it!" said Seclaw "Magic! Only magic hurts him! Neco, use your teeth spell! Angela use your fireballs! Isera use your magic arrows! Me and Bob will try to distract him!". Seclaw said as he rushed to the zombie, but was quickly knocked to the ground yet again. Corpsefire was a bit more then annoyed at this point, and grabbed Seclaw by the throat. His hands burned Seclaw's throat and the paladin could feel the demonic anger within this rotten corpse. Corpsfire ignored Bob, and the others despite the damage they where doing to him. He was determined to take one down when suddenly he felt a strong blow to his head. An axe hit him hard, and he dropped Seclaw and flew into the cave wall. "Finally" Seclaw thought "Now he knows how it feels". 

 

Seclaw charged at Corspfire with the barbarian. Corspfire was now more annoyed at the barbarian and began to attack him viciously. Yet again he ignored the others.

 

Seclaw saw his chance, and quickly spilled some of his own blood on his sword. "Tonight you sleep in hell!" Seclaw's sword began to glow with a white light and quickly he shoved his sword in Corspfire's rotted stomach. Corpsefire was badly hurt, but not dead. He picked up Seclaw, and was ready to rip him apart when a large fireball hit him in the head. His head blew up in a gory explosion of fire and flesh, Then his body fell to the ground. He was as dead as a zombie can be. 

 

"GRONK SMASH!" said the barbarian right before passing out. As Corspefire fell down, Seclaw went with him. Seclaw rolled on the ground a few times then got up, and looked at everyone, then at Gronk. "...Let's take him back to camp." Seclaw said while wiping gore from his sword and armor. Suddenly a holy light shined inside of the cave "...Looks like we did it" he said with a slight smile.

 

"Yes we did" said Angela smiling her usual way. She was quite happy with all this, that she had delivered the final blow, that she was the first one to seriously hurt Corpsefire, and that she didn't get any ugly zombie flesh on her.  

 

Isera put her bow away and looked at Corpsefire "I wonder who you where in life" she thought for a second then quickly ignored such thoughts and began to walk out of the cave. 

 

"...That...was a lot" Neco simply thought this, and began to follow the others. After awhile he became happy again and started to skip a little as he walked. 

 

They have been victorious against the zombie Corspefire, but a new enemy awaits them. One who is stronger and has a large number on minions to back him up. Bishibosh, a fallen shaman waited silently. A messenger ran up to him "Corpsefire has been killed" he shouted. "What?! " Bishibosh was amazed, the rogues where too busy defending themselves to attack. After he heard the whole story, or at least what the demons knew, he knew that the heroes would soon come to the Cold Plains. He decided to prepare a warm welcome for them. 

That night... 

 

Everyone was at the fire, waiting for Gronk to wake up. Charsi, the local blacksmith, seemed rather eager to meet him. Akara said that Chari has some barbarian blood in her, and gets excited anytime a true barbarian is around. "So his name is Gronk right?" she said like a excited love struck school girl. 

 

"We think so" said Seclaw who was sharpening and polishing his sword. 

 

Gronk slowly woke up "WHAT SMASH GRONK!?" he said with a booming voice. 

 

"A demon" said Seclaw who still was more interested in his sword then the huge barbarian next to him

 

"GRONK GO SMASH DEMON!!!" Gronk said loudly 

 

Charsi looked at him in awe. She has never seen a man this huge. His muscles seemed to actually stretch his armor. His muscles where huge and definitely the biggest she had ever seen. She smiled

 

"Woah hold it there…Gronk is it?" said Angela as sweetly as possible "Maybe we can help you defeat those evil demons!" she said trying to look as cute as possible. 

 

"At last" the mask Gronk wore thought to itself. "Gronk, accept whatever proposition they bring forth to you". 

 

"GRONK ACCEPT WHATEVER PROPOSITION YOU BRING FORTH TO YOU" Gronk said. 

 

"...What?" said Angela with a confused look on her face. 

 

"...Just say ok, Gronk" said the mask. 

 

"OK GRONK!" said Gronk. 

 

"...Close enough" said Angela "We can go in the morning, it's too dark to go out no-" Angela was suddenly interrupted by Kashya. "You four!" she said demandingly. "Five" said Angela. Kashya gave a crossed look at Angela. "You five are to come with me to the graveyard, my rogues are needed here for defense and I need some people to help me" Kashya said 

 

"Wait one second" said Seclaw, angered by her demanding tone "We are not your lap dogs! 

 

Kashya just gave Seclaw a glare and said "Do you want a horde of undead attacking this camp?" 

 

"Well...no" Seclaw said with his nose still a little snarled. 

 

"Then help me. A old…ally named Blood Raven has been corrupted, and I need to stop her...and I can't do it alone" Kashya said 

 

"So the almighty Kashya is asking for help?" Seclaw said right before being hit with a small shield that Angela was carrying "When do we leave?" said Angela brightly. 

 

"Tomorrow." Kashya said. She was a bit angered at Seclaw's comment and made no attempt to hide it. 

 

"We will be there," Angela said 

 

Angela's weapon... 

 

Angela walked to an old chest of her mother's, and began to open it. "Never thought I'd have to open this. well mom now's the time you talked about...a time for weapons and battle... ". Angela picked up a blue glowing sword with a red vein going in the middle of it. "Azurewrath...the Sword of Angels...I'll use it wisely, mom" she closed the chest and sheathed her new sword then walked out to see the others. "...Maybe this will be fun" she said smiling and walked to the campfire.