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A/N: Hi another chapter and another load of fun thank you to all me Reviewers and other readers and now on with the show.
Chapter 17: Bhaal's Realm
The next four days passed and everyone got together in the DADA room for the trip at 10:30 that night.
Mr Weasley showed up earlier that day from work and was now standing next to Mrs Weasley who was looking at a stone portal caved into the wall of the DADA room.
The Portal had carvings of the moon and runes of power all over it with the middle left as normal stone. Drizzt was next to the portal his armour on and his sword belt on and with in easy reach of his hands.
Liriel walked in then in her normal clothing but with a cloak on over that and her sword belt. She looked around the room at everyone.
Harry was in his muggle clothing and a cloak over that, his sword hilt showing from under it, the dagger on the other side not visible but she knows that it was there.
Hermione by the looks of it had borrowed some of Harry's clothes but had one of her dresses on. Her staff resting in her hand's with ease.
The Weasley's were all in muggle clothing and cloaks. Ron and Ginny were caring the weapons Drizzt was showing them how to use. Ron with his Battleaxe and Ginny with a staff like Hermione's and daggers on her belt.
Next were Dumbledore and Minerva who were in their standard clothing, their wands resting in a hip holster.
After she nodded to Mr Weasley who nodded back Liriel walked over to the portal. "Ok everyone. When the portal is open go through one at a time. You will find yourself in a wood and do not move from that spot. Drizzt will go first seeing that he is going to see a friend that can get us in the city. Ok, all of you are to keep your wands close and if you have a weapon keep it sheathed."
Everyone nodded then she turned around to face the portal. It was 8 feet high by 4 feet wide.
As everyone watched Liriel started to mutter under her breath her hands moving in front of her.
All of a sudden a blue mist filled the portal flowing from the top of the gate.
Liriel stepped back and nodded to Drizzt who got off the wall and walked through the mist. "Ok, now all of you one at a time and so you know if you find yourself alone on the other side just stay there. I will get you when I get there." with that she walked through.
Everyone looked at each other to see who was next. Hermione rolled her eyes and walked through, Harry not far behind her. Mr and Mrs Weasley nodded and went next, one at a time, then Minerva and the rest started to follow after that.
Dumbledore was the last through the portal. When he could see again he found himself in a clearing with oak and pine trees all around him.
Harry and Hermione were over by an oak tree talking to each other. Ron with his brother Bill and his sister Ginny were on the other side talking as well. Minerva walked out of the forest to the east just then and over to him.
"Albus, good you are here. Liriel just left to find Charlie and Mr and Mrs Weasley who appear to have arived elsewhere. Drizzt left not long after I got here saying something about a Inn and friend in the city." She was cut of then by a scream and a roar from the direction of the rising sun.
Liriel walked out of the woods from the direction the scream had come from a half-hour later, Charlie right behind her with the look of a thief with his hand in the till.
"Damn boy's and their hobbies. Why out of all the things in the world did you like DRAGONS?" She screamed the last part at Charlie.
"But I've never seen one that big before. I had to take a look." Charlie said backing up from Liriel.
"I do not care. Your just lucky that you answered that question right. Now stay here and wait for Drizzt or I to get back." She stormed off then, going to the north this time.
Dumbledore looked at Charlie "How big was it?"
"Oh Albus, you know how dragons on own world are as big as a two story home right?"
Albus nodded.
"Well this one was Gargantuan with scales ranging from forest green with emerald and olive green all through it's hide."
"And you had to take a closer look, right?"
Charlie nodded his head.
Dumbledore sighed then chose to take a seat on a nearby rock and wait for Liriel or Drizzt to get back.
Liriel got back with the other two and just looked at Charlie before standing next to Harry and Hermione.
It was noon when Drizzt got back with a sack full of clothes and next to him was an elf.
Dumbledore looked the elf up and down. He was tall standing over 6 feet and at first they all thought that his hair was white, like Drizzt's, but when he was in the light the faint colour of gold was there. His eyes were a light blue and held the test of time in them. His skin was almost white. His robes where black with red trimming around his neck was a gold chain with a ruby on the end and his hands each had a ring made of gold but his ring finger had one of silver on it as well.
"So. Drizzt my friend, is this all of them?" His voice was quiet but strong, holding the power of something that seemed far bigger.
Drizzt nodded. "Can you do it?"
"Of course I can." He looked at them all gathered around them both. "Any of you have a weak heart?"
All of them shook their heads in the negative.
"Good. Ladies where we are going is not pretty, just so that you know. My wife has tried to change that but the keeper of this place just changes it back every time, so everyone hold on." With that he closed his eyes but when they opened they had gone from the light blue to a jet-black in colour.
Everyone was plunged into blackness but they all heard someone say "Oooooh visitor's." before passing out.
Harry opened his eyes to see a sky of green and black clouds over head and the ground was hard as a rock.
Looking around he found that everyone was out cold except for the elf. He was talking to a small critter that was no bigger than two feet tall but was hovering in front of the elf with bat like wings and a tail as long as his body, with a stinger hanging behind it.
"But Master." It said "Me not nurse maid. Me butler and me make shinies."
Just then the elf noticed Harry was awake. "Ah, I see one of you are awake. Now we have to wait for the rest to get up." he looked back at the imp "By the way, I am called Merinid Coloara but you can call me Merinid and this is my butler, Cespenar."
Cespenar flew up to Harry and started to look him up and down. "He small one. Sure me can't feed him to demon's?"
"Cespenar!" Merinid said sharply "He is a guest, not a meal now go do what ever it is you do here."
Cespenar flew over to the other side of the room and started to play with some shiny things there.
Harry looked around some more and found that they were in a place made of black stone and had cat like eyes placed in it. There were five doors all around the room with a gate to the north that looked like a mouth on its side with clenched teeth.
"Not a nice place to stay, is it?" Merinid said walking up behind Harry.
"No." Harry said then "By the way, I'm Harry Potter." he then told Merinid everyone else's name. "Ahm, what is this place and what is Cespenar?"
Merinid smiled and then answered his question. "I own this place for this is the realm of the God of Murder, my father. As for Cespenar, he is a Imp that my father got as a butler and now serves me."
Just then Drizzt and Liriel woke up and the others were also starting to wake.
"Ah, I see that you are all awake or waking." Merinid paused to let the rest wake up. "Now if you will all stay here, Cespenar will see to your needs. I have to get that gate open to get back."
With that he turned around and walked to the gate while Cespenar flew over to them and offered wine for them all.
Liriel who was still sleepy looked around then her eyes went wide as she run to Drizzt and started to mumble. "Don't like her get me." over and over again into he's chest.
Merinid hearing this walked over to her and took her head in his hands. "Listen to me Liriel. This is many layers from the Demonweb Pit, so calm down. Lolth can not harm you here." Liriel calmed a little and nodded. Merinid looked at her for a moment longer then went back to the door and started to chant.
Harry and Hermione walk over to Drizzt and Liriel. "Liriel are you ok? Drizzt what is he? I mean, before you woke up he said his father was the God of Murder, so what is he?" Harry said to them both.
Drizzt sigh. "He is an Elf but he is also what others call a Bhaalspawn. A God but not a God if you know what I mean."
Liriel spoke then. "He is the last Bhaalspawn known now and this is Bhaal's layer of the Abyss."
All of a sudden the gate that Merinid was at opened, the teeth drawing apart from the lower edge, forming a toothy inverted V. "And there is the way out ... CESPENAR you told me you fixed that rip!"
Cespenar flew over to him "Oooooh, me knew me forgot something."
"Cespenar, there is a Balor in my door way." Merinid commented, like he had all the time in the world.
"But you big bad God. You can deal with this." he then flew over to the other side of the room, Merinid cursing his name all the way.
What stepped through the gate was something from nightmares. It stood 12 feet tall, with skin a dark red almost brown and his face was like an ape with horns. His huge wings were spread wide when he passed through the gate into the chamber.
"Drizzt .I know you're here. Now come out and fight me!" It screamed this into the chamber and everyone held his or her hands to their ears.
Drizzt sighed. "It had to be Errtu. Why is it always that one?"
"You know this thing?" Dumbledore said when he could.
Drizzt nodded as Merinid stepped up to it. "This is my realm, Tanar'ri and you are not welcome here. Now leave or face me."
Errtu looked at the elf before him. "You do not control this realm. No one does. It is a dead zone. No one controls it. No one."
Merinid smiled. "I control it and I will kill you now, Tanar'ri."
As he said this he smiled and shoots up to 9 feet tall and was broadening in the shoulders, his hair was still there but now a set of horns grew, almost flowing with his hair down his back. His skin was now as black as night and his hands had grown claws a foot long. The sound of ripping cloth sounded as from his shoulders two-razer sharp spines grew on each shoulder. His face grew longer in the nose, almost like a dog and his eyes changed to black. His teeth showed that they were now fangs.
"You wish to face me Tanar'ri? Then face this, the Slayer Avatar of Bhaal and your death." He then lunged at Errtu who formed a sword of lighting in one hand and a whip of fire formed in his other hand, ready to lash out when he got the chance.
"What is he? How can anyone want to marry that?" Hermione said as Merinid sank his teeth into Errtu's sword arm, forcing him to drop the weapon but Errtu's whip hit home on the back of his head.
Liriel answered. "That Hermione, is an avatar called the Slayer. He served the god Bhaal when he was alive but now he is free to do as he wishes."
Drizzt answered the second question. "Aerie married him because she saw past this form and into his heart and to the good that there is in him."
Just then Errtu screamed out in pain as the Slayer tore his arm off at the shoulder and started on the other one.
Hermione and some of the Weasley all turned their heads away at the sight before them.
"Liriel, what is the Slayer known to do?" Drizzt asked calmly while watching the match.
Liriel while keeping an eye on the battle before them replied. "It was the assassin of Bhaal, a tool for just killing other God's Avatar's. That is all that is know about it to the Drow."
When they all looked at the battle even Drizzt looked away at what they all saw. The Slayer had his mouth around Errtu's neck and Errtu's other arm was half ripped off of his body. One wing membrane was ripped beyond use. The Avatar had one claw running up and down the Balor's other wing and the other claw was on Errtu's mouth, stopping him from screaming in pain.
The sound of Hermione and Ginny retching behind the others was drowned out by the last high pitched scream of Errtu as the Slayer ripped out his throat and jaw in one move. Errtu looked at the Slayer who was standing over him, his face one of glee at what he had done to this greater Tanar'ri. Errtu looked over to Drizzt then fell to the floor.
The Slayer looked at the others but then returned back to Merinid's form his robes showing no signs that he had changed his form. "I gave him the chance and he turned it down. Now shall we go? Cespenar deal with that body and close that rip or I'll use you to plug that hole. Got it?"
Cespenar nodded as everyone walked by the body of the once great Errtu.
"Right, as I was saying, this is the gate back to the Prime Marterial Plane and my Inn in the dock region. Just stay there until I can get there. My wife well see to your needs until then." Drizzt nodded at this and walked through the gate, the others not long behind him.
Drizzt landed on his rump on the wooden floor of a large room with half a dozen large tables, each with at least six chairs around each.
Drizzt had just gotten up when Liriel and Hermione landed on him, dropping him back to the floor. The rest of the group dropped in like that all over the Inn.
By the time Harry, who was last through, got up the only person to see their entrance was an Elven woman not much taller that Liriel, sitting next to the fire nursing a baby in her arms.
"Ah. I see my Husband did find you with out any problems. Welcome to 'The God's Leave' one of the finer taverns in town." She got up then, showing that her hair was as long as Liriel's but sunshine gold and her ears were showing out for under the thick hair. Her skin was a light tan and her eye's were a light brown in colour.
After setting her robes back in place and moving the baby to her hip she continue to talk in a soft voice. "My name is Aerie and I, like my Husband, am an elf and this is our youngest draughter, Amra." She showed them the four month old little girl in her arms.
Molly was a sucker for children so she walked over to Aerie and offered to take her. Aerie smiled at her and handed over Amra for a while.
While Molly was looking over the baby Aerie looked at the others "So are you going to tell me who you are and how many rooms we need?"
Drizzt walked forward. "Aerie it's been too long, although you did have fangs the last time we meet and you did want to drink Merinid blood."
Aerie looked at him then smiled. "Ah, but Drizzt you know that I was not my self then and who are your friends?"
Drizzt smiled as well and told her everyone's name. By the time Drizzt was finished Molly was ready to hand Amra back to her mother. As she handed her over she felt something on the baby's back "Ahm, Aerie? Is there something on her back or is that the blanket?"
Aerie smiled at her. "No, that is her wings you feel on her back. You see, I am of the Avariel, or the winged Elves."
"But where are your wing's, Aerie?" Molly asked.
Aerie looked at the floor, her draughter asleep in her arms. "My ... My wing were cut off when I was a slave in a circus down the coast, when they became infected from being in a cage to small for my wings to move for years." she went silent then and looked at her child. "But all of my children can go home. The home of the Avariel, for they all have wings where I have not."
"That is horrible." Hermione said walking over to her and looked at Amra in Aerie's arms. She looked like her mother but her hair was the same white blond that Merinid's was.
"Yes, it was and I would have died if not for a gnome that was working at the circus, and then Merinid came alone and helped to bring me back from killing myself." She paused then contained. "He gave me a reason to live in this world, and so we became lovers and later marred." She smiled then. "Our first child was born on the road, since we were still hunting some of his brother and sisters."
Dumbledore spoke then. "Why were you hunting his brothers and sisters, might I ask?"
Aerie lowered her head. "Because the one's we were hunting killed without a care in the world. Merinid had to stop them for they all wanted to become the next God of Murder."
She looked at her draughter and smiled. "We killed the last of his brothers and he was give a choice to either become a God or to return to the world and live, then die and become the God anyway. As you can see he choose the second one."
Just then the door to the Inn open and a tall man walked in and over to the bar for a drink.
Aerie looked at him then at the people in front of her "Well, I have an Inn to run, so how many rooms do we need?"
Drizzt looked at the eleven people in the group. "Well Liriel and I will share a room, as will Harry and Hermione and Mr and Mrs Weasley. As for the others, well I do not know if they will share a room or not."
Bill and Charlie walked forward then. "We will share a room with Ron, then Ginny can have a room to herself."
Aerie looked to Dumbledore and Minerva. "And you two?"
Dumbledore smiled. "A room each will do, if that is ok?"
Aerie nodded then walked over to the bar, stopping long enough to give a tankard of ale to the man who had walked in. When she got back she was holding in one hand a ring of keys and in the other her draughter. "Here are your keys and the room numbers. I think you will be quite comfortable in there. I would show you but this is now rush hour for the men getting off work and such, so have a nice stay."
She was about to turn away when Hermione reached out and took Amra from her hands. "Harry and I can take care of her for now. You worry about the Inn, ok?"
Aerie smiled and thanked them before going behind the bar and starting to serve the other customers that are entering the Inn.
Dumbledore lead the way up to their rooms for the night for a fresh start first thing in the morning on this new world.
A/N: Hi another chapter and another load of fun thank you to all me Reviewers and other readers and now on with the show.
Chapter 17: Bhaal's Realm
The next four days passed and everyone got together in the DADA room for the trip at 10:30 that night.
Mr Weasley showed up earlier that day from work and was now standing next to Mrs Weasley who was looking at a stone portal caved into the wall of the DADA room.
The Portal had carvings of the moon and runes of power all over it with the middle left as normal stone. Drizzt was next to the portal his armour on and his sword belt on and with in easy reach of his hands.
Liriel walked in then in her normal clothing but with a cloak on over that and her sword belt. She looked around the room at everyone.
Harry was in his muggle clothing and a cloak over that, his sword hilt showing from under it, the dagger on the other side not visible but she knows that it was there.
Hermione by the looks of it had borrowed some of Harry's clothes but had one of her dresses on. Her staff resting in her hand's with ease.
The Weasley's were all in muggle clothing and cloaks. Ron and Ginny were caring the weapons Drizzt was showing them how to use. Ron with his Battleaxe and Ginny with a staff like Hermione's and daggers on her belt.
Next were Dumbledore and Minerva who were in their standard clothing, their wands resting in a hip holster.
After she nodded to Mr Weasley who nodded back Liriel walked over to the portal. "Ok everyone. When the portal is open go through one at a time. You will find yourself in a wood and do not move from that spot. Drizzt will go first seeing that he is going to see a friend that can get us in the city. Ok, all of you are to keep your wands close and if you have a weapon keep it sheathed."
Everyone nodded then she turned around to face the portal. It was 8 feet high by 4 feet wide.
As everyone watched Liriel started to mutter under her breath her hands moving in front of her.
All of a sudden a blue mist filled the portal flowing from the top of the gate.
Liriel stepped back and nodded to Drizzt who got off the wall and walked through the mist. "Ok, now all of you one at a time and so you know if you find yourself alone on the other side just stay there. I will get you when I get there." with that she walked through.
Everyone looked at each other to see who was next. Hermione rolled her eyes and walked through, Harry not far behind her. Mr and Mrs Weasley nodded and went next, one at a time, then Minerva and the rest started to follow after that.
Dumbledore was the last through the portal. When he could see again he found himself in a clearing with oak and pine trees all around him.
Harry and Hermione were over by an oak tree talking to each other. Ron with his brother Bill and his sister Ginny were on the other side talking as well. Minerva walked out of the forest to the east just then and over to him.
"Albus, good you are here. Liriel just left to find Charlie and Mr and Mrs Weasley who appear to have arived elsewhere. Drizzt left not long after I got here saying something about a Inn and friend in the city." She was cut of then by a scream and a roar from the direction of the rising sun.
Liriel walked out of the woods from the direction the scream had come from a half-hour later, Charlie right behind her with the look of a thief with his hand in the till.
"Damn boy's and their hobbies. Why out of all the things in the world did you like DRAGONS?" She screamed the last part at Charlie.
"But I've never seen one that big before. I had to take a look." Charlie said backing up from Liriel.
"I do not care. Your just lucky that you answered that question right. Now stay here and wait for Drizzt or I to get back." She stormed off then, going to the north this time.
Dumbledore looked at Charlie "How big was it?"
"Oh Albus, you know how dragons on own world are as big as a two story home right?"
Albus nodded.
"Well this one was Gargantuan with scales ranging from forest green with emerald and olive green all through it's hide."
"And you had to take a closer look, right?"
Charlie nodded his head.
Dumbledore sighed then chose to take a seat on a nearby rock and wait for Liriel or Drizzt to get back.
Liriel got back with the other two and just looked at Charlie before standing next to Harry and Hermione.
It was noon when Drizzt got back with a sack full of clothes and next to him was an elf.
Dumbledore looked the elf up and down. He was tall standing over 6 feet and at first they all thought that his hair was white, like Drizzt's, but when he was in the light the faint colour of gold was there. His eyes were a light blue and held the test of time in them. His skin was almost white. His robes where black with red trimming around his neck was a gold chain with a ruby on the end and his hands each had a ring made of gold but his ring finger had one of silver on it as well.
"So. Drizzt my friend, is this all of them?" His voice was quiet but strong, holding the power of something that seemed far bigger.
Drizzt nodded. "Can you do it?"
"Of course I can." He looked at them all gathered around them both. "Any of you have a weak heart?"
All of them shook their heads in the negative.
"Good. Ladies where we are going is not pretty, just so that you know. My wife has tried to change that but the keeper of this place just changes it back every time, so everyone hold on." With that he closed his eyes but when they opened they had gone from the light blue to a jet-black in colour.
Everyone was plunged into blackness but they all heard someone say "Oooooh visitor's." before passing out.
Harry opened his eyes to see a sky of green and black clouds over head and the ground was hard as a rock.
Looking around he found that everyone was out cold except for the elf. He was talking to a small critter that was no bigger than two feet tall but was hovering in front of the elf with bat like wings and a tail as long as his body, with a stinger hanging behind it.
"But Master." It said "Me not nurse maid. Me butler and me make shinies."
Just then the elf noticed Harry was awake. "Ah, I see one of you are awake. Now we have to wait for the rest to get up." he looked back at the imp "By the way, I am called Merinid Coloara but you can call me Merinid and this is my butler, Cespenar."
Cespenar flew up to Harry and started to look him up and down. "He small one. Sure me can't feed him to demon's?"
"Cespenar!" Merinid said sharply "He is a guest, not a meal now go do what ever it is you do here."
Cespenar flew over to the other side of the room and started to play with some shiny things there.
Harry looked around some more and found that they were in a place made of black stone and had cat like eyes placed in it. There were five doors all around the room with a gate to the north that looked like a mouth on its side with clenched teeth.
"Not a nice place to stay, is it?" Merinid said walking up behind Harry.
"No." Harry said then "By the way, I'm Harry Potter." he then told Merinid everyone else's name. "Ahm, what is this place and what is Cespenar?"
Merinid smiled and then answered his question. "I own this place for this is the realm of the God of Murder, my father. As for Cespenar, he is a Imp that my father got as a butler and now serves me."
Just then Drizzt and Liriel woke up and the others were also starting to wake.
"Ah, I see that you are all awake or waking." Merinid paused to let the rest wake up. "Now if you will all stay here, Cespenar will see to your needs. I have to get that gate open to get back."
With that he turned around and walked to the gate while Cespenar flew over to them and offered wine for them all.
Liriel who was still sleepy looked around then her eyes went wide as she run to Drizzt and started to mumble. "Don't like her get me." over and over again into he's chest.
Merinid hearing this walked over to her and took her head in his hands. "Listen to me Liriel. This is many layers from the Demonweb Pit, so calm down. Lolth can not harm you here." Liriel calmed a little and nodded. Merinid looked at her for a moment longer then went back to the door and started to chant.
Harry and Hermione walk over to Drizzt and Liriel. "Liriel are you ok? Drizzt what is he? I mean, before you woke up he said his father was the God of Murder, so what is he?" Harry said to them both.
Drizzt sigh. "He is an Elf but he is also what others call a Bhaalspawn. A God but not a God if you know what I mean."
Liriel spoke then. "He is the last Bhaalspawn known now and this is Bhaal's layer of the Abyss."
All of a sudden the gate that Merinid was at opened, the teeth drawing apart from the lower edge, forming a toothy inverted V. "And there is the way out ... CESPENAR you told me you fixed that rip!"
Cespenar flew over to him "Oooooh, me knew me forgot something."
"Cespenar, there is a Balor in my door way." Merinid commented, like he had all the time in the world.
"But you big bad God. You can deal with this." he then flew over to the other side of the room, Merinid cursing his name all the way.
What stepped through the gate was something from nightmares. It stood 12 feet tall, with skin a dark red almost brown and his face was like an ape with horns. His huge wings were spread wide when he passed through the gate into the chamber.
"Drizzt .I know you're here. Now come out and fight me!" It screamed this into the chamber and everyone held his or her hands to their ears.
Drizzt sighed. "It had to be Errtu. Why is it always that one?"
"You know this thing?" Dumbledore said when he could.
Drizzt nodded as Merinid stepped up to it. "This is my realm, Tanar'ri and you are not welcome here. Now leave or face me."
Errtu looked at the elf before him. "You do not control this realm. No one does. It is a dead zone. No one controls it. No one."
Merinid smiled. "I control it and I will kill you now, Tanar'ri."
As he said this he smiled and shoots up to 9 feet tall and was broadening in the shoulders, his hair was still there but now a set of horns grew, almost flowing with his hair down his back. His skin was now as black as night and his hands had grown claws a foot long. The sound of ripping cloth sounded as from his shoulders two-razer sharp spines grew on each shoulder. His face grew longer in the nose, almost like a dog and his eyes changed to black. His teeth showed that they were now fangs.
"You wish to face me Tanar'ri? Then face this, the Slayer Avatar of Bhaal and your death." He then lunged at Errtu who formed a sword of lighting in one hand and a whip of fire formed in his other hand, ready to lash out when he got the chance.
"What is he? How can anyone want to marry that?" Hermione said as Merinid sank his teeth into Errtu's sword arm, forcing him to drop the weapon but Errtu's whip hit home on the back of his head.
Liriel answered. "That Hermione, is an avatar called the Slayer. He served the god Bhaal when he was alive but now he is free to do as he wishes."
Drizzt answered the second question. "Aerie married him because she saw past this form and into his heart and to the good that there is in him."
Just then Errtu screamed out in pain as the Slayer tore his arm off at the shoulder and started on the other one.
Hermione and some of the Weasley all turned their heads away at the sight before them.
"Liriel, what is the Slayer known to do?" Drizzt asked calmly while watching the match.
Liriel while keeping an eye on the battle before them replied. "It was the assassin of Bhaal, a tool for just killing other God's Avatar's. That is all that is know about it to the Drow."
When they all looked at the battle even Drizzt looked away at what they all saw. The Slayer had his mouth around Errtu's neck and Errtu's other arm was half ripped off of his body. One wing membrane was ripped beyond use. The Avatar had one claw running up and down the Balor's other wing and the other claw was on Errtu's mouth, stopping him from screaming in pain.
The sound of Hermione and Ginny retching behind the others was drowned out by the last high pitched scream of Errtu as the Slayer ripped out his throat and jaw in one move. Errtu looked at the Slayer who was standing over him, his face one of glee at what he had done to this greater Tanar'ri. Errtu looked over to Drizzt then fell to the floor.
The Slayer looked at the others but then returned back to Merinid's form his robes showing no signs that he had changed his form. "I gave him the chance and he turned it down. Now shall we go? Cespenar deal with that body and close that rip or I'll use you to plug that hole. Got it?"
Cespenar nodded as everyone walked by the body of the once great Errtu.
"Right, as I was saying, this is the gate back to the Prime Marterial Plane and my Inn in the dock region. Just stay there until I can get there. My wife well see to your needs until then." Drizzt nodded at this and walked through the gate, the others not long behind him.
Drizzt landed on his rump on the wooden floor of a large room with half a dozen large tables, each with at least six chairs around each.
Drizzt had just gotten up when Liriel and Hermione landed on him, dropping him back to the floor. The rest of the group dropped in like that all over the Inn.
By the time Harry, who was last through, got up the only person to see their entrance was an Elven woman not much taller that Liriel, sitting next to the fire nursing a baby in her arms.
"Ah. I see my Husband did find you with out any problems. Welcome to 'The God's Leave' one of the finer taverns in town." She got up then, showing that her hair was as long as Liriel's but sunshine gold and her ears were showing out for under the thick hair. Her skin was a light tan and her eye's were a light brown in colour.
After setting her robes back in place and moving the baby to her hip she continue to talk in a soft voice. "My name is Aerie and I, like my Husband, am an elf and this is our youngest draughter, Amra." She showed them the four month old little girl in her arms.
Molly was a sucker for children so she walked over to Aerie and offered to take her. Aerie smiled at her and handed over Amra for a while.
While Molly was looking over the baby Aerie looked at the others "So are you going to tell me who you are and how many rooms we need?"
Drizzt walked forward. "Aerie it's been too long, although you did have fangs the last time we meet and you did want to drink Merinid blood."
Aerie looked at him then smiled. "Ah, but Drizzt you know that I was not my self then and who are your friends?"
Drizzt smiled as well and told her everyone's name. By the time Drizzt was finished Molly was ready to hand Amra back to her mother. As she handed her over she felt something on the baby's back "Ahm, Aerie? Is there something on her back or is that the blanket?"
Aerie smiled at her. "No, that is her wings you feel on her back. You see, I am of the Avariel, or the winged Elves."
"But where are your wing's, Aerie?" Molly asked.
Aerie looked at the floor, her draughter asleep in her arms. "My ... My wing were cut off when I was a slave in a circus down the coast, when they became infected from being in a cage to small for my wings to move for years." she went silent then and looked at her child. "But all of my children can go home. The home of the Avariel, for they all have wings where I have not."
"That is horrible." Hermione said walking over to her and looked at Amra in Aerie's arms. She looked like her mother but her hair was the same white blond that Merinid's was.
"Yes, it was and I would have died if not for a gnome that was working at the circus, and then Merinid came alone and helped to bring me back from killing myself." She paused then contained. "He gave me a reason to live in this world, and so we became lovers and later marred." She smiled then. "Our first child was born on the road, since we were still hunting some of his brother and sisters."
Dumbledore spoke then. "Why were you hunting his brothers and sisters, might I ask?"
Aerie lowered her head. "Because the one's we were hunting killed without a care in the world. Merinid had to stop them for they all wanted to become the next God of Murder."
She looked at her draughter and smiled. "We killed the last of his brothers and he was give a choice to either become a God or to return to the world and live, then die and become the God anyway. As you can see he choose the second one."
Just then the door to the Inn open and a tall man walked in and over to the bar for a drink.
Aerie looked at him then at the people in front of her "Well, I have an Inn to run, so how many rooms do we need?"
Drizzt looked at the eleven people in the group. "Well Liriel and I will share a room, as will Harry and Hermione and Mr and Mrs Weasley. As for the others, well I do not know if they will share a room or not."
Bill and Charlie walked forward then. "We will share a room with Ron, then Ginny can have a room to herself."
Aerie looked to Dumbledore and Minerva. "And you two?"
Dumbledore smiled. "A room each will do, if that is ok?"
Aerie nodded then walked over to the bar, stopping long enough to give a tankard of ale to the man who had walked in. When she got back she was holding in one hand a ring of keys and in the other her draughter. "Here are your keys and the room numbers. I think you will be quite comfortable in there. I would show you but this is now rush hour for the men getting off work and such, so have a nice stay."
She was about to turn away when Hermione reached out and took Amra from her hands. "Harry and I can take care of her for now. You worry about the Inn, ok?"
Aerie smiled and thanked them before going behind the bar and starting to serve the other customers that are entering the Inn.
Dumbledore lead the way up to their rooms for the night for a fresh start first thing in the morning on this new world.