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Date Posted: 03:14:36 12/19/01 Wed
Author: Isobel and Barry
Subject: Die, hideous beast!
In reply to: Tristan and Laurel 's message, "Almost over?" on 00:45:00 12/19/01 Wed

Isobel almost laughed as she saw Barry squirt out of the creature's eye. She wondered what the skull had been doing in there, but the insects and other vermin pouring from it gave her the answer. "Barry you foolish skull! You should have finished it off while you were in there!" she muttered under her breath as the thing sent Barry hurtling against the floor.

She quickly picked up her sword, sparing a glance and a slight grin for the naked Tristan and Marz, then turned back to the creature and prepared to wade into the water to hack at it some more. But Laurel stepped up to the water and began to cast spells, so Isobel moved back to get out of the way.

Tia and Corum were washed up onto the shore of the pool and then Laurel caused stalactites to rain down on the gigantic beast, nearly finishing it off. She saw Laurel sag then, dropping to her knees and moved toward her to help her, but the woman stood once again and Isobel gave her a nod of respect before turning back to the creature in the pool.

The thing was thrashing around screaming horribly and Isobel grimaced. She was sure her ears would soon be bleeding! She would have to kill the thing in order to end these painful cries.

She leaped into the water and made her way to where the thing was thrashing, hacking at the tentacles as they flailed about her, cutting off first one then another. The python Barry had gifted the thing with had pinned a couple of the tentacles down and the accumulated injuries had weakened and slowed the monster.

She positioned herself carefully then lifted her foot, pressing it against the thing's body where a tentacle stump met it... and she shoved hard, lifting it partway. There it was! "Dado, bestia horrible!" she cried and rammed her sword deep into the creature's beaklike mouth. The beast wrapped her in a tentacle and began to squeeze, but she kicked the hilt of her sword, pushing the blade deep into the creature's brain. The disgusting monster shuddered then seemed to collapse in on itself, the tentacle that held her loosening and slipping away. The beast sank beneath the pool, dead, dropping down into the underwater passage that must have led to its lair.

Isobel sighed in satisfaction, though the burns from the suction cups on the tentacle that had held her itched like mad. Then a terrible realization hit her. "NOOO! MY SWORD!" She threw herself beneath the water. She did not know what she intended to do... swim all the way to the thing's lair to retrieve it? But she did not have to. There, beneath the water, laying beside the entrance to the lair, lay her sword waiting for her.

She retrieved it and waded out of the pool, oblivious to how wet and bedraggled she must appear. She narrowed her eyes at one of the native women and marched over to her, giving her a terrible tongue-lashing in Español that surely should have flayed the skin from her bones. Then, her eyes flashing furiously, she backhanded the woman.

"You foolish bitch! You tried to kill our people! You will pay!" She raised her sword to cut the woman down, but a hand grabbed her arm, stopping the blow. She whirled, furious, her dark eyes flashing as they met those of Erlic. She held his gaze for what seemed a very long time, then Isobel nodded very slightly and lowered her arm as he released it. She looked around the cave to make sure all her compadres were recovering and saw that they were... in fact, Laurel and Barry seemed to be rather cozy as did Tristan and Marz and Rowan and Tia.

"The hospitality of these people leaves something to be desired, Frio" she remarked.

*~*~*~*~*~*

Barry could hear what was going on but couldn't actually see anything because he was turned at such an angle that he could mostly only see the ceiling of the cave. "Hey! Somebody get me out of here!" But apparently the din of battle was too loud because nobody paid him any attention just now.

Suddenly he heard horrible shrieks and wails coming from that pikin monster in the water and he wished he had hands to cover his ears (well... he didn't have ears exactly but he could still hear... magic is a funny thing). He thought he was going to shatter from the vibrations the horrible cacophany sent through him!

Then he felt soft hands pulling him free and he looked up as Laurel turned him over. “You fought bravely, yes?” she asked him and held him close.

"Ohhhhh...." he replied, enraptured. "Yes... very bravely... I'm sure the thing was nearly dead by the time you all got here. Did you see me fly into its eye? Yeah that took a lotta guts... uh... well, figuratively speaking." He hadn't been able to see what Laurel had done to the thing, and he was gonna milk this one for all it was worth.

He nestled close to Laurel. "Hold me... I feel so vulnerable right now."

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