From: s9100433@win4.vut.EDU.AU (Duncan M Jurisic)
Newsgroups: alt.pub.dragons-inn
Subject: Helen and Firecat encounter orcs
Date: 31 Jul 92 00:21:21 GMT
Organization: Victoria University Of Technology, Melbourne, Australia


 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.
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