Chapter 3: The Battle in the Mines
As the blood drips off of Drizzt's daggers, Shiva draws her bow and scans the horizon. Wanda steps behind the two, preparing her Holy Branch to heal any wounds the two might take. After about 35 seconds of waiting, two dwarves appear over the horizon. The first is greeted with an arrow threw the heart, and Drizzt shadow steps to the other one, slits its neck, then shadow steps back. After the initial easiness, all hell breaks loose. Hundreds of the Dwarves pile in from all directions. Shiva lets loose a huge barrage of arrows that kills a few dozen, but the rest just walk over the corpses and keep on coming. Drizzt fights a few one on one, dagger on hammer, until he exhausts all of his energy and shadow steps back to Wanda's healing and Shiva's cover fire.
"This is suicide!" he yells over the chaos "We have to run deeper into the mines and look for cover!" The other two agree, and they run through a corridor deeper into the mines.
While Kevin is escorting Savon to Yume, a light clicks on in his head.
"Wait a minute…" he states "Gorgal Hammerfist… that's the name of a Captain in the Cult of Heaven! Drizzt and the others are walking into a trap!"
"What?" Savon yells. "We have to help them!"
"YOU are not going anywhere. Yume's going to help you recover. After she starts to stitch you up, I'll get the rest of ghost squadron together to help them." 30 minutes later Mez, Grant, Patsy, Bender, Sandra and Warren were heading out of Lions Arch to help the rest of their squad. After they reach the Mines, they try to fight their way in.
"You do know they're dead by now, right?" Grant says nonchalantly, not even phased that his undead minions are collapsing all over the battlefield.
"Shut up you idiot" Patsy replies "If we thought like that, why the hell would we be trying to rescue them?" She raises her staff and summons another bound spirit to help them in the fight. His necromancer ways are starting to piss me off she thought. Nearby, Mez casts her degeneration spells on a dwarf that charges her. It is dead before it reaches her. Bender summons a shower of meteors onto another group of dwarves and kills them quickly. Warren casts his wards to help protect his team while Sandra slams her hammer into a dwarf's skull. Grant immediately uses all of the dead bodies to create more undead minions to help in the fight. After about six minutes of fighting, they reach the entrance to the mines where they discover Gorgal's dead body.
"Looks like Drizzt was feeling creative," Mez states. She sniffs the blood. "He's been dead 8 hours tops. They might still be alive."
"I wouldn't count on it" Warren says, "By the look of these footprints, I'd say their outnumbered at least 500 to 1." Sandra puts her hammer over her shoulder and starts heading into the mines.
"Then we would better get going," she says.
Drizzt and Wanda hide in a pile of rocks as a large group of the stone summit pass them, Shiva unconscious in their arms.
"Drizzt, we have to help her!" Wanda whispered into his ear.
"We can't," he replies, "We would be captured as well. The most we can do is pray that they want us alive and not dead."
As Yume applies the stitches to Savon's wound, she asks Kevin who the Cult of Heaven are.
"They are a religious sect of the stone summit," Kevin answers, "They believe that Balthazar is the only true god and that he would want them to defeat all non-believers of their sect. Every 3 years they take 2 powerful people and sacrifice them in the name of Balthazar. The only hope we can have is that the three of them have split up. They won't sacrifice only one."
Shiva wakes up in darkness. She tries to stand up but her arms and legs are bound. She tries to scream out, but her mouth is taped shut. She manages to get on her knees and crawl a little, but she gets hit in the stomach with a hammer. A dwarf whispers into her ear: "Don't try to escape human… The second sacrifice will be here soon, and then…" he can't finish on account of Shiva's Head slamming into his face. She tries to escape, but she gets slammed in the head with a hammer and falls unconscious again.
"Bender…" Sandra says "If you're going to light the way with fire… MAKE SURE I'M NOT IN FRONT OF YOU." Bender smiles innocently.
"Sorry." He says. Warren snickers. They walk deeper into the mines trying to find any trace of Drizzt, Shiva or Wanda. They find another set of footprints leading deeper into the cave.
"Look, it looks like a struggle" Mez states. "Looks like someone was dragged off. It's a petite form… must be Shiva or Wanda. Lets go guys"
"Shh! I hear footsteps" Drizzt whispers to Wanda, "It only sounds like 5 or 6. I can take um" He leaps out of the rocks and is stopped in midair by Sandra's hammer to his face. He falls and rubs his nose. "Ow! Sandra! That hurt!" he wipes the blood off of his face as Wanda walks out from behind the rocks. "Well, now that we have help, we might be able to get Shiva back. How did you know to come help us?"
"Kevin recognized Gorgal's name when Savon told him the story," Mez replies, "Lets go."
"Sir, our spies report 6 more humans have entered the mines" a dwarf states to a much larger dwarf riding on a wyvern. "They seem to have made contact with the other 2 humans and are heading into our base." The large dwarf smiles
"Good" he replies "let them come" He laughs a demonic laugh.