Two weeks have passed.
Ranylle's arm had healed up, and she had begun her training schedule again. Every day she went out and practiced casting spells on a magic-proof dummy that she used to carry on her back. Fenthys watched her as he practiced on a punching-bag that was hung on a tree near Ranylle.
"You train quite a lot. Don't you ever want to take a break?" Fenthys said one day.
"Well, yes. But it seems like something is telling me that if I don't train enough something will happen to me." Ranylle said.
"Well the wood elves do follow the ways of Tunare, but it seems like Tunare never talks to me. I suppose she must be preparing you for something, but who knows." Fenthys said.
"One day she'll talk to you. I just know it." Ranylle said, and suddenly there was a rustling in the bushes.
"Come over to me! This may be it." Fenthys whispered just loud enough so Ranylle could hear it. They snuck over to each other without a word and pulled out their weapons to be ready. Then an ambush of what looked like ninjas jumped out of the trees and started attacking. They could tell they were goblin ninjas by the green skin and big ears. Soon enough the goblins had separated Ranylle and Fenthys and one group attacked Ranylle while the other attacked Fenthys. When Ranylle had gotten quite beat up, the goblins picked her up and jumped back into the trees.
"Ranylle!" Fenthys shouted, struggling to get out of the goblins' hold. He was struggling so hard that the goblins had a chance to attack him without him defending himself. 5 minutes later he was left lying on the ground beaten up.
"Ran…ylle…" he whispered, and the next thing he knew he had fainted. At night he woke up again and remembered the goblins. He tried to get up really quickly but his injuries kept him still on the ground.
Meanwhile…
"Let me out!" Ranylle demanded, pushing against the bars of the prison cell. She was being held captive inside the dungeon, where worms and rats were crawling about. She hated these, and every few minutes she was blasting fireballs at them until there were no more left.
"Yous nots gonna get outs if ya keep complainin. And those critters crawlin abouts aren't gonna go aways. Theres millions of thems down here." the goblin guarding her cell said in his scratchy voice.
"What do you want me for?" Ranylle said angrily. The goblin mumbled something in goblish to another goblin nearby and they started laughing. The other goblin picked up his club and went inside Ranylle's cell. While he was closing the door to it, Ranylle made a mad dash out and just ended up getting a beating of the club. The goblin closed the door before Ranylle could try to get out again.
"Yous had better bes quiet if yous donts wants another beatin!" the goblin said angrily. He raised his club as if he was going to hit Ranylle again and then put it back down. Ranylle closed her eyes and then heard a loud thump and woke up again. It happens this was just the goblin smashing a worm with his club. The worm had been slithering by his foot. But then she heard a shout and something dropping on the ground. She looked up and saw Fenthys standing at the foot of the stairs to the dungeon.
"Fenthys? Is that really you?" Ranylle said. Fenthys was bleeding on his forehead and both his arms and legs, and was holding his right upper arm. He was breathing very heavily. Just then Ranylle felt the club on her back again. The goblin struck her a few more times after that until she was lying on the ground with her eyes barely open.
"You…dirty…goblins… I can't believe that you would do such a thing to a helpless girl!" Fenthys said and went into a mad rage while attacking the goblins. "You better let her go right now or I'll destroy this whole fortress including every last goblin in it! Give me the keys!" All the goblins who were in that part of the dungeon were already down except for the one in Ranylle's cell. One of them, who was lying against the table, said,
"The keys–" He was interrupted by the one in Ranylle's cell.
"Don't ever tell him!" But Fenthys had already seen the keys that her on the table. He picked them up and walked towards Ranylle's cell. The goblin in there took his knife out of his belt, pulled Ranylle up by her head, and raised the knife to her neck. "If you come any closer, I'll kill her!" the goblin said. Fenthys stopped.
"I won't leave without her." Fenthys said in an angry whisper. In an instant Fenthys had unlocked the door, knocked down the goblin, and picked up Ranylle. He was just about to say something to her, but saw that she was fast asleep.