Legends of Belariath
Slag
Hellhound Quest
It was a cold night but didn't notice the cold much as he talked with three other form's under the pale light of the moon. One of the form's look's at Slag and say's "it is only one hell hound the four of us could kill it and split the reward." Slag thought for a bit then replied "but what about the wand this add talk's about do you plan to break it into four parts so we may have it?. With this said the other two form's looked to there companion with hate in there bright yellow eye. "you didn't say anything about a wand Gornis!". "So gornis you were hoping to keep the wand for yourself and give us nothing more then the mehrial to split four way's?". The other two form's start to move closer to gornis there hand's hidden under there long fur cloak's. Slag put's his hand out and tell's the two others to back off then he stair's down gornis "I will come and help gornis but if you want to keep the wand then you will have to bring Garnik and his men along as well". Gornis smile's happy to be alive and reply's "yes yes I will Slag I will send word for him and his men right away ....... but there fee is not cheap it will cost us 20 mehrials for there add".
Slag snaps at gornis almost yelling at him in a high tone "Garnik owe's you for saving his family from the poison water that the human's drop'd into his camp's well. Call in your boon and let us be on are way!". Gornis jump's back half out of fear and half out of reaction "fine Slag I will call in my boon but don't forget the wand is mine alone to keep!". Slag nod's a yes to gornis and the four start on there way into the wood's. After walking most of the night the four finally come to a small camp. Gornis leave's the group and walk's into one of the larger hut's as the other three wait outside many unseen eye's fall upon them. Not long after gornis come's out of the hut clearly upset about calling in a boon as he is followed by two goblin warrior's and two ogre's. All four are armed to the teeth the goblin's using long metal spear's and chain mail armor and the huge ogre's wielding giant club's made from tree trunk's. The lead warrior walk's up to Slag with no fear of the shaman he stand's before and states quickly "we are here for Gornis boon when hell hound is dead we leave you can find own way back. Makti here is me best tracker we find the hell hound the ogre's killing it and we go home boon done". Slag nod's to Garnik and they start walking into the forest with Makti leading the way. Slag and the other two shamans keep a close eye on Gornis and the warrior's for fear of being backstabbed.
After three hour's of walking the tracker finally come's to a halt Makti slowly point's to an area just over some rock's and when Slag look's up he see's a very large hell hound ripping apart what's left of a troll at least Slag think's the remains were a troll at one time. Very slowly Garnik and Makti move to the hell hound's flank's Slag and the other shaman's get there weapon's at the ready and start to move forward being careful to stay behind the huge ogre's. Within seconds Garnik let's out a war cry and the two ogre's lumber into the small clearing knocking over some tree as they push there way past. At almost the same time both Garnik and Makti jump from the bush's attacking the hell hound with there long spear's.
Both shocked and mad the hell hound jump's over Garnik's spear and bite's down on Makti's spear his teeth ripping the spear in half. One of the ogre slam's his club down onto the hell hound but misses as the hell hound dodge's the slow attack very easily. All four shaman's start to chant and magic bolt's of fire fly from there finger tip's setting ablaze to everything around even the hell hound itself. The flames enrage the hell hound as he jump's onto the ogre that swung at him his teeth ripping into the soft skin of the ogre's belly causing his entail's to spill out onto the ground as he fall's over hitting the ground with a loud THUD!. The second ogre swing's his club wide and hit's the flaming hell hound right in the rib's sending it flying into the air. As the hell hound hit's a near by tree with a loud thud gornis cast's another fire spell at the beast but misses and set's the whole tree on fire. The hell hound move's with lighting quick speed and seeming to be unhurt by the attack's leap's at gornis his gaping jaw sending drool everywhere. No sooner does the hell hound make contact with gornis pinning him to the ground as a spear hit's the hell hound in the side causing it to flip over. As garnik run's to attack the hell hound again he leap's into the air coming down on the hell hound spear end first but the hell hound is to quick and dodge's just in time the spear hit's the ground right next to the hell hound.
Slag and the other two shamans start to cast a blindness spell on the hell hound but are cut short as a large burning tree branch fall's on them pinning one of them under it and cooking him alive. The ogre and Makti run to the shamans add and are able to pull Slag and one other away from the flame's.
The Hell hound attack's Garnik swinging it's mighty claw's at him garnik is able to dodge most of the swing's but three or four hit there mark and garnik fall's down to the ground his chest bleeding badly. The hell hound leap's into the air over garnik coming down on him but right before it make's contact the beast is hit in the side of the head by the ogre's club knocking it out cold.
Slag and the other shaman run over to the hell hound and garnik as slag attends to garnik's wound's the other shaman push's the hell hound off of garnik and take's out his knife about to skin it. Just as the shaman stick's the hell hounds gut with his knife one of it's fearsome claw's race's upward's and cut's the shaman's head clean off at the neck. The hell hound now turn's to slag and garnik about to leap at them when garnik trusts his spear up impaling the hell hound's head on the spear.
After Slag see's to garnik's wound's the ogre pick's up garnik and both the ogre and marti head back to there camp without so much as a word. Slag slowly skin's the hell hound and pack's some of the meat into a bag for later use then rises and walk's over to gornis's corpse. Slag flip's gornis over and take's a small dart out of his back. Slowly slag place's the dart into one of his dart kit's where one dart was missing. Without taking the time to bury the remains of the dead or even try to stop the now larger fire he make's his way out of the forest.