New Mission, p2

[Kender Bard]

The man shuts up. Whatever desire to converse there was in him, quickly died.

[Devon]

Darin glances at the man and feels he should make an attempt to apologize so he'd go along with what Darin already had planned. "Don't feel bad about it, I was just being a jerk. You were just talking down about my lady. We'll get this job done, and get rid of your boss for you."

[Kender Bard]

"Thanks," he mutters again, and lapses into silence. "So when you set the fire, I go running to get the boys, right? That's all I have to do?"

[Devon]

Darin nods, "After you get the boys, you can slip away. If you want to wait until you see if Pandora and I make it out do so a good distance away from here." Darin turns away from the man to look at a few shrubs nearby. Rubbing his hands together, he reaches up his sleeve and touches his fire sign. Closing his eyes for a moment he lets loose a decent sized fireball from his hands. Catching the shrubs on fire, he fans the flames for a moment hoping to catch something else on fire along with it and to create an abundance of smoke.

"That should do it."

[Kender Bard]

The man flinched as the flame spread and then turned, running as though his life dependeded on it. In a way, it did. By this time Pandora had found a suitable hiding spot and was just finishing up poisoning her third dart for the blow gun.

"Fire! Fire!" he shouted. The men roused, looking confused.

Out of the thick, a tall, well dress man approached. "What are you babbling about? Where are the others?"

"They got taken by the fire," the man yelped, pointing into the distance where the smoke was rising.

The other man looked off and nodded slightly. Almost everyone ran off to go put out the fire - save five men who hung behind, guarding their leader.

Pandora sighed; bad odds. But she could work with them. She waited, patiently, lined up a shot. And when that window of opportunity came...

Thht!

The Leader reached behind and touched the dart stuck in his neck, a confused look on his face. Then he collapsed.

Pandora was feeling mighty good about herself until two bolts of lightning struck so close to her that she was blind and deaf for a moment, and she fell out of the tree with a hard whump.

[Devon]

Darin stayed where he was for a moment, drawing his new crossbow he aimed and fired at two of the five men who stayed behind. He had to use his hiding spot effectively and after those two shots he could no longer stay still. Switching to his sword, he dashed out in the open to confront the men, hoping to get an even further jump on them by swinging his sword first.

[Kender Bard]

The remaining three men attacked fiercely. One of them sent a lightning bolt at Darin's sword, hoping to shock him into submission. The other man was chanting quietly in the back, half hidden behind the Storm. The third, a Horse-Affinity beast, simply charged at Darin, planning to either trample or bull rush him.

[Devon]

Darin felt the beginnings of the jolt through his sword and quickly dropped it. Knowing the Horse-Affinity beast was still charging at him, Darin decided to let himself drift with the flow of his charge, throwing himself back he reached down and drew the hidden dagger strapped to his ankle. Driving it upwards he aimed to strike the Horse-Affinity from beneath him.

[Kender Bard]

The horse man stumbled, hoof-feet stamping dangerously close to Darin's vitals as he staggers and collapses.

The chanting man finished his charge and the earth rumbled, walls of stone shooting up abruptly all around Darin, trying to close over him to form an earthen prison.

[Devon]

Darin breathed a sigh of relief, he was always dangerously close to getting hurt. Getting up to his feet, he shook his head really missing that Earth sign he used to have. Touching his own Fire sign he shot off a quick fireball at the Earth signed man and tried to get out of the prison before it finished closing up.

[Kender Bard]

The earth ducked and rolled, avoiding the fire, but leaving his stone prison half finished. If Darin could jump and scramble up, he'd likely get out.

At this point Pandora had gotten her wind back. As the Storm tried to get on top of the prison so he could rain lightning down on Darin, Pandora tackled him, dragging him off the structure, and grappled with him.

[Devon]

Darin jumped and grabbed onto the edge of the stone prison. Pulling himself up he scrambled out of the prison and landed on the ground. Giving a quick glance to Pandora, he kept his mind focused on that earth man for now. Dashing forward he grabbed his sword and lunged at the earth man, hoping to pin him down and end it there.

[Kender Bard]

The man dodged again, but without a little time to focus, he was having trouble maintaining his ability. He gave a had stomp, shaking the ground.

There came mingling of cries from Pandora and Storm. The storm hand his hands firmly around her, sending volts of electricity into her but it wasn't helping his situation. Pandora had her fangs in his neck, her arms not able to function enough to grab one of her weapons. The more he shocked, the harder she locked down.

[Devon]

Darin stumbled and tried to steady himself as the man caused the ground to shake. Hearing Pandora's cries, he tried to wrap things up with his enemy even faster. Darin made a feint, like he was going to jump forward at the earth sign, anticipating that the earth sign would try to roll to the side of his feint, his true attack was a swing of his sword from left to right.

[Kender Bard]

The earth fell for the ploy, and neatly gutted himself on Darin's sword. With nothing more than a gurgling death rattle, he slumped and lay still. Over by the other two, there was silence and a lack of movement as well.