Hmm, five reviews, an encouraging start, especially after getting told off about Troubles. It's kind of funny actually. Feel free to check the reviews out if you want. On with the tale.
Chapter 2--On the Road Again
They were on their way early the next morning. Drizzt spent most of the morning trying not to laugh at Kylia. She was singing softly in Drow, but that wasn't the joke. The joke was what she was singing. It was a really filthy tavern song that would have gotten a male's tongue cut out if a priestess heard it. Drizzt figured that both Shandra and Tarion would have died of embarrassment if they could have understood a word of it.
Finally Kylia stopped and sighed. "This is rather boring," she said.
"Would you prefer to be attacked?" Tarion asked.
"A fight would be fun. Unless you'd like to play instead, cutie," Kylia said pertly. She added a suggestive wink.
Tarion turned beet-red then quickly turned away and urged his horse forward.
Kylia looked at Drizzt, pretending confusion. "Was it something I said?" she asked.
Drizzt just laughed and shook his head. Suddenly he froze.
"What's wrong? Drizzt?" Kylia asked.
Drizzt didn't answer. He suddenly flung himself from his mount. He wasn't a minute too soon. An arrow hissed through the spot a heartbeat later.
"Ambush!" Kylia yelled. She dismounted as well then nine men charged them from the trees. Kylia began to chant softly. It was interrupted when Drizzt tackled her to the ground. She heard an arrow whistle over their heads then a soft thud. Drizzt hissed slightly in pain as the second arrow sank into his shoulder, but he didn't think it would hamper him. Getting off Kylia, he pulled Guenhwyvar's statuette out and tossed it to the ground and called her.
Kylia gasped when the cat appeared, but quickly regained her composure and started chanting again.
"Guen! Find the archer!" Drizzt said; drawing his swords he rushed to engage one of the men. He had to defend Kylia while she was spell casting.
Tarion and Shandra had abandoned their mounts and were standing back to back surrounded by five of the attackers. They fought well together though and were keeping them at bay.
Drizzt slapped his opponent's blade aside and thrust for his heart. The blow was blocked, but the other scimitar plunged into the man's side and he fell. Drizzt was fighting another before the first hit the ground.
Kylia finished her spell as a man charged Drizzt to stab him in the back while he was engaged. "No, you don't!" she snarled. An arrow formed out of a greenish liquid shot from her hand and hit him in the chest. The man screamed and went down as the acid arrow seared his skin, out of the fight for now. Kylia immediately began to chant again.
Tarion parried a blow aimed for his head with his shield and stabbed his opponent neatly through the heart.
Another moved in to take his place, but Tarion wasn't worried. The men were not skilled warriors.
Shandra severed one man's leg at the knee and he went down screaming as blood pumped from the stump. Shandra finished him with a quick stab through the heart as a mercy blow.
There was a loud scream as the archer tumbled from his vantage point. He hit the hard ground with a sickening crunch.
The would be attackers decided they'd had enough and fled. Soon they were gone.
Kylia cancelled the spell and started to thank Drizzt when she saw the arrow in the back of his shoulder. "You're hurt. Sit down and let me look at it," she said.
Drizzt didn't argue. It was painful and he knew better then to let a wound get infected to where it could be life threatening. Guenhwyvar joined them as Kylia worked and laid down beside Drizzt.
Tarion and Shandra joined them a couple minutes later. "Are you all right, Drizzt?" Shandra asked.
"I'll be fine. It isn't serious," Drizzt said.
"Good then you can explain to us where she came from," Shandra said, pointing at Guenhwyvar who yawned lazily…..
Hmmm, did this suck? I have trouble with battle scenes sometimes. R/R please!
