From: s9100433@win4.vut.EDU.AU (Duncan M Jurisic) Newsgroups: alt.pub.dragons-inn Subject: Helen and Firecat encounter orcs Message-ID: Date: 31 Jul 92 00:21:21 GMT Helen slips of her horse, leading him to a tree and tying him to a large branch. Then, on feet a silent as a cat's, she drifts off into the forest and disappears into the shadows, following the road at a distance. Firecat jumps down from the wolf, whispers to her for a moment and then steps away from her and transforms into his namesake. Within seconds, the flaming tiger and the wolf were loping along the road side by side, in the direction of the orcs. As the crossed a small rise in the road, they saw a group of about 10 orcs, and just behind the orcs, Helen slips from the forest. As the orcs are staring and begin running towards Firecat and Shadow, Helen throws a dagger from her boot. It thuds into the neck of one of the orcs, who stumbles and falls. Helen begins to runs after the orcs and begins swinging her weapons, a short sword in one hand, and a vicious looking looking longsword in the other. Just as Firecat and Shadow reach the group, and they howl in pain from the burns they receive from being in contact with Firecat, Helen reaches the group. She beheads one of the orcs with a single swipe from her longsword, and runs another through the back with the short sword. Shadow is fighting two of the orcs at once, and Firecat has ripped the arm of one orcs right off. He pounces at one of the orcs attacking Shadow and slashes him across the face with his flaming claws. The orc goes down and Firecat rips into him again and again. The grey wolf has grabbed one of the orcs by the next and her struggling victim is thrashing on the ground in agony. Helen has engaged with another of the orcs and is fighting fiercely, pounding and slashing into the orc as if he had no defence whatsoever. The remaining three orcs run at Firecat, trying without avail to get close enough to Firecat to hit him with their swords. Firecat obliges them and jumps straight at them. One of them manages to get in a lucky slash before Firecat is onto him, ripping and tearing at his body. Shadow has killed the orc and rushes the group that Fircat is fighting. She keeps at a safe distance from the flames, nipping at the legs of one of the orcs. Helen rushes into the fray, and attacks the last orc, leaving gashes across his face and arms. Firecat as turned the orc into a bloody pulp and looks up at Helen and Shadow. He realizes that Helen is fine, but Shadow is having trouble dodging the orc's sword. Making the quick change to gnome form, he draws his axe from its holster and rushes the orcs from behind. The orc spins to face Firecat, and swings his sword at the gnomes head. Firecat ducks and smashes the axe into the leg of his opponent. The orc howls in pain and goes down, only to be attacked by Shadow, who rips at his face with her fangs and soon finishes him off by ripping his throat out. In the meantime, Helen as stuck her longsword right through her orc and is pulling it out of his chest. She wipes her swords on the grass and looks to the orc without an arm. She casually walks over to the howling orc, removes a dagger from her belt and slits his throat. The is a gurgling sigh as the orc dies. Helen glances at Firecat, seeing the cut on his arm. "Let's get you back to the horse, I have some bandages in my packs." Firecat climbs onto the wolf and the head back to the where the horse is tied up. He slips off and sits on the ground as Helen tends to his wound. "Does it have to sting so much?" he complained. "I have to clean the wound first....now stop wriggling and let me finish" After the wound had been dressed, they rested for a short time and pressed along the road, even though they all would have appreciated a little sleep right now, but Helen's cause was very urgent. -- This is my .sig until further notice... Mail s9100433@win4.vut.edu.au with any comments, opinions, statements, or even facts.... Also known as: Fablox, Snowlock and Duncan .....in many different places...