They stood before the Den of Evil, Macad and Aura, ready to dive in but first admiring the artwork around the place. On the top of the cave was a wondrous but evil painting of a huge creature with a ball of lightning billowing from its mouth. Macad had given in to the girl's pleas and decided to eradicate the Den from the Evil. She had grown better, Macad had to admit, she now offered far better protection to Macad's skeletons with her ice bolts, slowing tem down and even sometimes, blowing them into chunks of ice, but that was a major downfall, she destroyed the corpses necessary to cast Macad's minions, but that hardly mattered, he didn't really cast that much any more. She also had upgraded her equipment. She had found a nice little orb imbued with the power of strengthening her ice bolt, making it do a little more damage. Her helm, she found this in a chest along with a topaz, a rare and powerful gem was a skull cap made from the bones of some long dead creature. The helm was socketed and perched in the middle of the helm lay the topaz, gloriously spilling light everywhere enhancing her ability to find better items. Macad had pretty much stayed the same with the exception that he had found a wand that fired off volleys of teeth. It made him less offensive with his army of minions but he two now had a chance to help fight. Stepping over the rubble, Macad and Aura went into the dark Den of Evil. Inside were faint glows that were from old torches that hung on the grimy walls. A little ways ahead of Macad, he could see the faint form of a figure lying huddled on the ground. Going to step forward Macad found another thing. Off to his right were piles of wolves and he was standing in their very blood. Rushing over, Macad stood over the figure. It was a man. Clad in great fur robes and underneath him was a wretched form of a wolf. Macad reached down and knelt next to the poor man. He pulled out a hand and closed the eyes so that the man could sleep his eternal sleep.

"Please help me." The man croaked. Macad leaped back, bumping into a frightened Aura, but quickly regained hi composure he went back to the man, pulling out a healing potion from in his robes and fumbling it to the man's mouth. Wounds closed over the body rapidly healing the man. "Please, find Vercona, she is an Amazon and was my companion, please find her." And with that the man fell asleep, Macad could tell this due to the fact that the man's chest heaved. Macad stood up and told Aura to wait with the man in case he woke up and then he went off, summoning skeletons from the poor man's canine companions. He ventured farther into the Den, knowing that he should not have come here.

Sorry that it is short. Next chapter they eradicate the den of evil and venture forth to put a stop to Blood Raven, Thanks Desiree K. Troy for reading my story. Next Chapter should be longer and again review. Next chapter should be a thriller.