Chapter 5: The Sacrifice
The group comes upon a fork in the cave.
"Great… now what" Grant says.
"We're splitting up" Mez Replies "Grant, you Bender and Patsy take the right path, Sandra, you and Wanda are with me." As Grant and his group head down the right hand path, Mez and her group go down the left.
"Mez…" Sandra starts "You have to calm down. I know they killed Warren but you're supposed to be the leader. You risked Bender and Grant's lives to keep us going. How would you feel if they had died in that lava?" Mez turns to her
"You don't think I know that? But those are 2 of the best in the group. I was positive they would survive. And if they didn't, they don't deserve to be in Ghost Squad." They keep walking with Mez's anger almost causing a black mist to flow from her.
Bender's group immediately comes upon a group of dwarves. Bender casts Immolate and causes 1 to become on fire whilst grant uses his necromantic powers to cause 1 to die in its tracks. He summons a bone fiend from the corpse and watches as his undead minions slowly take over the battle. Patsy watches in awe as her comrades fight with such power, whilst all she can do is stand there and have her spirits protect them. After a couple of minutes of fighting the dwarves, the battle is won and they keep on going.
"Hey Grant?" Bender asks
"What?" He replies
"Do you know whats wrong with Mez? I mean, I know shes pissed that Warren died and all, but she seems much angrier then the rest of us. I should be the one most upset because I taught him everything he knew, but she makes my sadness seem like a small tear."
"I don't know. I think she was having… relations… with him, she's the one who wanted him in the squad at such a young age. He was nowhere near ready to fight in such a dungeon as this."
"Are you serious?! Him and Mez? Wow… I never suspected a thing. No wonder she's so pissed." They continue walking and they see a large alter, with what appears to be a room on top of it. All around it are about 4 dozen dwarves, all bowing down to the alter. They then start pouring hot lava into the room.
"Shit!" Drizzt screams in agony as the lava is poured onto his head. Shiva runs over, grabs him, and pulls him out. "What the fuck!" He screams, crying from the pain. Most of his hair is burnt off and his Assassin mask is on fire. Shiva rips it off and stares shocked at Drizzt's burnt face. She doesn't stay shocked for long though as the lava starts spreading around the room. She pulls Drizzt as high as she possibly can and preys.
"Did you hear that scream? I think that was Drizzt!" Patsy starts running toward the alter, but Grant grabs her, covers her mouth and shakes his head. "That would just kill us as well. We cant go charging in blindly or they'll tear us to shreds. We need a plan." Bender walks into the room, just enoph for the dwarves to see him. "Uh… I'll just go…" As he starts to walk off to another corridor, more then half of the dwarves chase after him.
"That moronic little… Well he gave us an opening. Lets go Patsy." Grant charges in, smacks one of the dwarves upside the head with his staff, and creates a Flesh Golem from its corpse. The Golem slams another one onto the ground, and Grant creates a Vampiric Horror from its corpse, and the minions start killing. In the meantime Patsy puts up defensive spirits around them, still angry that she has to work with a Necromancer, and even more angry that this necromancer was so good.