"What yer thinkin' about this adventure?" Hundel asked Sovellis.
"It seems very peculiar and dangerous," Sovellis remarked, "just our kind of adventure.
"Aye, I like the dangerous part, but I'm not a fan o' peculiar things," Hundel corrected.
"Is the strong, brave dwarf scared of a bunch of trees?" Sovellis joked.
"You better watch it or you're head will be on the spike o' me axe, damn elf." chuckled Hundel. The two were staying in a little room in the castle. It was small, but comfy. It had two small beds a small chandelier made out of antlers and a small card table. Ever since the king showed them their room they started to pack and prepare for the journey. After a few hours of packing the two adventures were exhausted and went to bed. Sovellis was thinking of his remark scared of a bunch of trees. He had a funny feeling that this was going to turn out to be a lot more than just a bunch of trees.
The next morning Sovellis and Hundel woke up five o' clock sharp. They got up from their beds and went straight to the feast halls for breakfast. The feast hall was very nice, laden with a myriad of breakfast foods. There were muffins, pastries, danishes, and much more. Sovellis took a muffin and a small danish and Hundel took four muffins, six danishes, eight pastries, and a whole bunch of other foods.
"No wonder why you are so thin," Hundel remarked looking at Sovellis's plate.
"No wonder why you are so fat," Sovellis said looking at both of Hundel's plates.
"I'm not fat stupid elf, in fact if I asked any dwarf they would say that I looked more like a bearded elf," Hundel remarked.
Hundel and Sovellis were met with by an unimaginable ovation of cheers once they left the castle's gate. Everyone from Greenhawk was there to watch the adventurers depart. They were yelling things like, "Three cheers for the dwarf and an elf!" and, "May the gods bless you!" Sovellis's keen ears caught a person muttering, "They're probably the cause of this crazy spell." The man was wearing a blue tunic and had short brown hair.
"You don't trust us?" asked Sovellis slyly. The man looked at Sovellis in fear and ran away. Sovellis just chuckled. Hundel was enjoying the attention. He was yelling things like, "This town is as good as saved!" and "Don't you worry, cause that forest ain't gonna be there much longer!" When they reached the stone gates the guards saluted them and ordered the gate to be opened. The gate was opened immediately with a loud creaking noise. The two companions advanced forward leaving the safety of Greenhawk eager for another adventure.
"Aye, I love the feeling of you and me on the road, seeking adventure," Hundel remarked.
"Yes, it's one of the feelings I'll never forget until the day I die," Sovellis agreed. While walking, Hundel spotted something that made him jump. An eight legged shadow scurried into the forest. He would have said it was a spider, but it had to be at least four feet long. He alerted Sovellis immediately who drew his longsword and put his keen elf senses to work. Their whole way to the forest they saw nothing. At the edge of the forest they stopped and studied there surroundings. Everything looked safe, no more huge eight legged creatures. With one comforting look back at Greenhawk the two advanced into the forest, weapons drawn. Sovellis loved the forest, but he didn't feel comfortable here. It felt very unnatural almost like a mirage. The forest was so thick that even though it was almost ten o'clock it was nearly dark in the forest. That was no problem for the adventurers, for Sovellis had a special gift that all elves (except for drow) are born with called low light vision. This special gift enabled him to see perfactly in poor lighting such as starlight or other poor illuminations. Hundel had no problem at all, because being a dwarf, he had a special dwarven sight called darkvision. Darkvision enabled him to see in the dark, although he could only see in black and white. There were many trees that Sovellis tried to communicate with, but not one tree said anything.
"These "artificial" trees are silent. They cannot communicate with me," Sovellis told Hundel. Just then Sovellis spotted something that he didn't like. There were thick webs in there path. And in the webs were bugs, birds, and even a human!" They were all wrapped in thick silk. Then Sovellis heard scuttling and realized that they were surrounded by colossal spiders. The smallest one was about four feet long and the largest eleven feet.
"Hundel, ready your axe they want us for dinner!"
"Aye, I hope they don't mind the edge of me axe for dinner!" the dwarf roared.
Sovellis leaped into a near by tree and fitted an arrow into his longbow.
"Now were did the damn elf go? Oh well more kills for me!" Hundel laughed. The nearest spider jumped at Hundel who was ready to chop it in two. Whoosh! An arrow streaked by Hundel's head and it hit the spider right between its eyes. It dropped dead green ooze dripping out of its wound
"Damn elf that was mine!" Hundel barked. With that Hundel rushed at the nearest spider implanting his axe in its head. Sovellis shot one in the mouth the arrow coming out of the roof of its mouth. Hundel chopped a spider in two green ooze gushing to the floor. Soon all of the spiders were in pieces. Then the forest started to shake violently.
"What the heck?" Hundel yelled. The two turned around to see a spider nearly twenty feet long. It was covered in brown hair and it's pincers were dripping saliva.
"Good," Hundel bellowed, "I was just getting started!"