Newsgroups: alt.pub.dragons-inn Subject: [Mista][L] The Battle is Joined Message-ID: <92322.202357ASG102@psuvm.psu.edu> From: The Dreamer Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 20:23:57 EST > "Someone go get Trawm, he'd be interested in this. Serene, you might want to > call the Mists to keep the inn from burning." Without another word, Luthor > ran out of the front door to deal with the elementals. Luthor, less than a master in the art of combat, looked with his mage vision at the battle scene. He was looking for the lines of force which bound the elementals into service, what he found was unexpected. All of the lines of control ran to the huge earth elemental. If he was destroyed, the others might flee to their home planes...or then again, they might run amuck in the city killing Generica's finest. As one of the small, newly created creatures rushed him, Luthor concentrated: shifting, bending, twisting, and finally snapping the magic that bound the earth elemental to its larger master. It stopped, but only for a moment. Then it resumed its charge toward Luthor who side-stepped it. As it stopped and turned for another attack, Luthor surveyed the battle scene. Firecat had just run outside in his feline form, and tangled with the Fire elemental. The small Earths were making their way to the front of the inn as were the Water and Air. The master Earth stayed behind to control the others. Luthor carefully positioned himself in the scene. As the first Earth charged him, he remained motionless, not daring to risk failure. He could feel the earth shake at the approach of this heavy creature. He felt fear rise up within himself, but pushed it back with confidence in his abilities. He felt the anger of the Earth...'why did you disturb me from my rest...why did you bring me to the horrible surface...you must die!' A moment before being crushed into road kill, Luthor melted into the shadows of the lengthening day with the aid of his cloak. Unable to stop, the first Earth crashed into another who had been approaching from Luthor's rear. The two suprised Earths, full of inertia, created a ear spilitting crack as each was reduced to rubble by the force of the other. Back in the shadows, a glint of golden skin and a white flash of a smile :-) Love and Peace and An Object In Motion Tends To Stay In Motion..., -The Dreamer-