Chapter 6: Ambush
Mez, Sandra and Wanda walk threw the narrow tunnel on the path they had chosen, Mez with Drizzt's daggers in the front, prepared to slice down anything that gets in her way, and Sandra in back, her hammer at the ready. They soon come to a large valley, the only way across a small rope. Mez puts the daggers in her satchel and grabs hold of the rope and starts climbing across. Wanda casts a protective barrier on herself and starts climbing across herself. Sandra sighs, straps her hammer to her back and starts climbing across as well. Soon, the familiar whirr sound of incoming arrows is heard and a barrage of arrows comes from the sky. "Heads u…" Sandra starts, but is cut short as an arrow pierces her neck and she falls off the rope into the chasm. "NO!!!" Mez screams, but before she could do anything, one of the arrows cuts the rope and they swing down to a small ledge.
Bender runs down the corridor he chose, Stone Summit dwarves chasing him. "Man, I hope enough are chasing me to give Patsy and Grant a chance." While he runs, he raises his staff into the air and sends a blast of lightning into a half melted wall next to him. Half of the dwarves chasing him are swallowed by the lava, so Bender turns to face them. "Eat flames!" He sends out a blast of flames from his staff into the dwarves, and they drop in a flash. "he… he… that'll teach those dwarves to mess with a pro elementalist!" Seeing as how he cant go back threw the lava flow he had just created, he moves forward into a large chasm-like area. Looking up, he cant even see the ceiling with his flames. "Wow. Big room." He looks around and a body catches his eye. He runs over and discovers Sandra's corpse. "Man… Oh man… no…" He digs a makeshift grave, buries her, and preys a silent prayer.
While his minions do all the hard work and fight off the last of the dwarves, Grant pulls a lever shutting off the lava flow into Drizzt and Shiva's Prison. As the last dwarf falls, Grant screams into the room, "Hey! Drizzt! You in there?" Surprisingly, Shiva replies, "Ya, he's in here, but the lava got poured directly onto his head. He's hurting like hell." "Crap!" Grant replies. "Well, hold on, we'll get you out of there!" He orders his minions to attack the rock wall between him and them. Patsy binds a few more spirits to protect them from when the crash will hit. After about 2 minutes of rock busting, Grants minions finally break threw, causing a rock slide to crush all of them. Grant screams in agony as all of his minions die at once, but immediately regains his composition and runs in to check on Drizzt.
Mez and Wanda slowly climb down the rock wall to find Bender praying. "Where's Sandra?" Mez demands. Bender shakes his head, and Mez gets the message. They walk silently back threw the corridor, Wanda using her protection prayers to safely alow the to cross the lava, and they meet back up with Patsy who is tending to Drizzt's wounds. "Drizzt? What are you doing here? I thought you were staying back there to heal?" Mez stares blankly at him, confused. "Those jerks captured me and dumped lava on my face." Its then that Mez notices that his face is severally scared. "Shit man! Wanda!" Wanda is already running to help Patsy in her restoration magic. After about 2 minutes of straight casting, Drizzt is up and ready to go. "Lets go." He says grabbing his daggers from Mez. "I want revenge on these guys." He places his Assassin mask over his scarred face and adjusts it alittle to put it over his completely burnt out eye.