Date: Tue, 14 Jul 1992 13:41:09 EDT
From: The Dreamer <ASG102@psuvm.psu.edu>
Message-ID: <92196.134109ASG102@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: alt.pub.dragons-inn
Subject: [L] Lathan Finishes Off the Leader

ADMIN:  Sent to me by Lathan

     Lathan didn't see the leader pick up the dirt.  All of a sudden, he was
enveloped in a massive cloud of dust and everything went black!  Lathan
was worried at first but calmed himself down quickly.

     "I have been in tougher situations than this", Lathan thought.
Lathan heard laughing from the direction of the bandit.  Suddenly a sharp
pain shot through his leg.  Lathan reached down and grabbed the wound.
He felt the warm blood trickle through his fingers.  The heckling laughter
continued.
     Beserk with pain, swung at the man using his techniques he
had learned from many years of battle.  The laughter grew louder.
Lathans keen ears picked up the sound of a weapon being unsheathed from
a leather case.  The sound was brief but it was all he needed.  He knew
what was to come, so Lathan yelled out "Shirak Mirk".  Lathan suddenly
blended in with the trees of the forest. He put away his sword to
help his effort in hiding.

     Through the blackness, the skilled warrior heard a grunt of confusion
from the bandit.  Woosh!! Something whizzed by his head.  This was his
chance.
     "Take that, elf", laughed the bandit.
     Lathan charged at the voice and tackled him.  He smashed his fist at the
mans head.  Standing up he took the dazed bandit's hair and slammed his
head into a tree nearby.  He felt the mans body grow limp and then he
dropped it onto the ground by releasing the leaders hair.  Lathan ran
his sword through the half dead leader, finishing him off.  Lathans
vision was returning now... In time to see his dead opponent, but it wasn't
the leader.

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     Traenu stood in shock.  Just seconds before, his second-in-command
was standing at his side.  He laughed and cheered every time Traenu hit
the elf and now, he was dead.  The elf had just charged without warning and
beated his best friend to death in a rather brutal manner.
     "You'll pay for this you..." he hissed, the last words choaked off by
pure hatred.
     Traenu jumped in front of the cavalier and beat him furiously with a
strength and speed that came from revenge and adrenaline.  Lathan could
hardly believe that such a small human could posess such fury.
     Traenu didn't care that he would die here, like many of his band
around him, or that he would never see the 500 pieces of gold that he
was promised.  All that mattered was that he would do as much damage as
possible to this elf before he died.

     Love and Peace and Fury,
         -The Dreamer-