On the Surface...
I do not own Drizzt or any other characters in this particular story. The only person that I own is Nieanna. Enjoy.
Chapter V
A small group of druegar had gotten away when the dwarves claimed their halls back. They traveled deeper into the Underdark, in search of reinforcements. Their leader was killed and they expected to get revenge for the dragon. Their search when on for weeks and weeks and they finally found some more druegar to help fight. They formed a plan an started to make more weapons, each had more and more hatred for the dwarves with each swing of the hammer. They wanted their Mithral Hall back, and they planned to take it.
"Alright, for today, you may not speak a word of drow today, Nieanna." Drizzt said, putting up his books. "You have learned enough the past two weeks not to."
"Yes...i know." She said. Nieanna still had to stop and think of the word that came in the sentence next from time to time. The words still felt weird when they rolled off of her tongue.
"Well, today Catti-brie and myself are going to go to speak with the barbarians with Wulfgar today, if you want to go along you can."
"No thank ...you Drizzt, the...uh...sun is much to... bright for my eye's."
"Are you sure? I won't be back until tommorow."
Nieanna nodded. She had become self reliant on Drizzt the two weeks she had resided in Mithral Hall. When she was awake, she was always around him, following him around. Nieanna was too prod to admit it, but she was scared. All of this was just to overwhelming sometimes, and on occasion, questioned her departure from Menzobarranazan.
"I am sure...that i can manage."
"Alright then. Regis is going to be here so you won't be to lonely."
Nieanna smiled. She hadn't really gotten to know the little halfling, but she looked forward to getting to know him.
"No problems Drizzt. Everything...will be ok while.. you are gone."
Nieanna's voice was still very thick with a heavy accent. He had been told by other dwarves that it was hard o understand her. He explained that it would be better in a couple of weeks.
Drizzt turned and put on his belt with his scimitars and pocketed the statue that held Guenhwyvar. Nieanna eyed it and looked up at Drizzt.
"What is that?"
"What is what?" Drizzt asked as he turned back around.
"That...figure that you put in your pocket on your belt."
"You mean Guenhwyvar. She our other companion. I can't believe i forgot to introduce you two." He took it out of his pocket. "Come to me, Guenhwyvar."
Smoke formed around the drow, slowly swirling around them and eventually took shape. The panther, much to big to be normal, took a step from the thinning fog and looked at Nieanna. She growled and took a giant step toward her. Nieanna backed off another step. Drizzt quickly got to his knee and stroked her beautiful black pelt.
"Guenhwyvar, settle. She is a friend," he whispered into the cat's ear. Guenhwyvar looked up at her Master and then back at the female drow elf.
"You have a magical...companion also, I see." Nieanna reached to her side and showed Drizzt a statue of her own. It as of a huge dog, as dark as Guenhwyvar's statue.
It has two small rubies for it's eye's with a small spiked collar around the neck. "Oh Xelos, ...come here my pet."
Even before she finished the sentence, a thick fog, similar to Guenhwyvar's came from it. The biggest dog Drizzt had ever seen stepped forth from it. Him and Guenhwyvar locked gazes; both magical animals about equal in size and weight. Xelos' ear stood straight up, his eye's glowed as Guenhwyvar growled low in her throat. Drizzt, stood wide-eyed, his hand holding Guenhwyvar back.
"Where did you get him?"
"I found... it many years before I traveled...from the Underdark. He was abondaned by his Master."
Xelos gave a menacing bark and was going to leap for Guenhwyvar, but Nieanna put a soothing hand on his head. "Now Xelos...try to make new friends, will you?" Xelos looked up at her and then at Guenhwyvar, then his eye's moving towards Drizzt. He sniffed the air and sat down. Nieanna smiled and stroked his head.
"Xelos may look mean, but if you scratch behind his ears, he becomes a baby puppy." Nieanna smiled.
Nieanna watched as Drizzt and his friends left Mithral Hall to speak with the barbarians. She squinted to see them as they walked over a hill. "Aluve' Drizzt!" She waved and yelled out to him.
Drizzt turned and saw her. He smiled to himself and waved back. "Aluve' Nieanna!"
Nieanna walked back inside, long after Drizzt disappeared behind the hill. Nieanna leaned on a wall and heaved a sigh. In Menzobarranzan, if a woman wanted a man, she would simply make an advance and take him. But as she journeyed to Mithral Hall, she noticed that young men and women would hold hands through town and whisper sweet nothings into one another's ear; Nieanna didn't understand this at all. Drow woman mated with men for he simple reason of having daughters to serve Lloth, and the men their servants. But, up on the surface, couples wanted to be together.
Nieanna decided to put it in the back of her mind. She walked back down into the mines, thinking about sweet lavender eye's.
Regis was talking and going over for some defense plans with one of Bruenor's top advisor's. They did not know anything about the druegar and what they were planning, but it was always better being safe than being sorry.
Nieanna entered the room. A couple of dwarves turned and scowled at her, she just scowled right back. All the others didn't give her a second thought. Regis looked up at what he was doing and smiled when she approached.
"Hello, Nieanna! What brings you here?" The halfling walked up to her.
"I was wondering if you would like to have dinner with me in the dinner halls?"
Regis looked back at the dwarves going over the plans. "Well...I am really busy. But...I'm starving! My last meal was around two hours ago. Let's go." He turned to the dwarves. "I'll be back in a bit guys, break time!"
The dwarves gave Nieanna a dirty look and looked back to the plans. Regis patted her arm. "Don't mind them, thy don't know any better."
"Oh, that is quit alright Regis. I am used to it now."
They walked from the room and started to head to the dinner hall. Not standing the silence, Regis tried to strike up a conversation. "So Nieanna, why are your eye's red?"
She looked down at the halfling. "All drow have eyes like mine Regis."
"Drizzt doesn't. Why is that?"
"He is one of a kind Regis. The only drow to have lavender eye's..."
"Hmmm...Why is he so special then?"
Nieanna could feel her cheeks burning. She was glad that her skin would hide it.
"I do not know. But...Drizzt was made special for a reason..."
Or for someone, Nieanna silently thought to herself.
There you go folks. I have had many suggestions to make my chapters longer, so there you guys go. On a side not, when thinking about his chapter, I thought it to be a little...boring, plain? What do you guys think? Maybe it's just me...
Review please!
Aluve' Drizzt Farewell Drizzt!
