The Hall of Tales

[Míriel Málbrindal]

"It is curious..." Míriel whispered, thoughts trailing off.

[Nessa Erugenel]

“Indeed. Many things are.” Erugenel agreed. “Now, if you two needed to have a conversation I can leave.” She said glancing between the two. Both new each other, they were sisters after all, maybe they had not seen one another for a long time, but they were at least comfortable with one another. And she already had Neisa covering for her. She did not want to get in the way if she could help it.

[Míriel Málbrindal]

"Contrary, I was just wondering what my sister was up to," Míriel said passively. "I had not seen you since early this morning." She said to Neisa.

She looked to Erugenel. "And how are you this lovely afternoon?"

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OOC: *dances!* Make something happen!

[Nessa Erugenel]

Erugenel shrugged. “Content.” She said letting out a breath of air slowly. As soon as she answered the doors swung open and a soldier came in.

“My Ladies we are having a spider problem.” He told them.

[Mininirime]

On second sight they noticed it was not really a soldier, but Mininirime dressed in the garb of one. Seeing their surprise, Mininirime laughed. "I was training with the army this morning, and Prince Legolas felt that I would stand out less, if I was dressed in the same manner, so he was kind enough to get a uniform for me." Then, however she realized she was wasting time with nonsense. "We will need your help with the spider situation, so if you will follow me please." And out the door she rushed followed by the others.

OOC Where to now?

[Nessa Erugenel]

OOC: OUTSIDE WEEE!!!! Just keep the story going in this thread here, that’s what we did before things went down hill and we restarted.

Erugenel and Miriel hurried after her, but Neisa stayed behind watching them feeling completely helpless. Both recruits raised their brows at the small army of spiders. Mininirime laughed.

“Well, it was not this bad before.” She said shrugging obviously finding the sight amusing. Erugenel smirked.

“All right then.” She said taking out her sword. “Lets go then.”

[Mininirime]

OOC okidoki here it is ;D

Several soldiers were already busy trying to keep the gigantic spiders at bay, but not with much success. Mininirime looked around and far away to her right she say another host of elves come to the help the unfortunate soldiers. She recognized the Princes colors at once. "Of course Legolas comes to the rescue, doesn't he always." She quickly glanced sideways to see whether Erugenel had noticed, but she hadn't yet.

"Good" Mininirime muttered under her breath "Can't have any distractions right now."

She quickly followed the others, who had passed her by now, opened her bow, grabbed a few arrows, and released them in quick succession, directing them at the eyes of the eight legged freaks.

[Nessa Erugenel]

Erugenel took out her bow and strung an arrow. When they were in her hands time seemed to stop as she let them fly from her string. Of course she would be coming back for them later, but for now she would worry about the spiders.

With the new help the spiders were beginning to fall back, but they remained strong. Realizing she was now out of arrows she took out her twin blades and ran towards a spider. He saw her coming and making an ugly racket tried to stomp on her with its thin legs, but she easily avoided until she was directly beneath its belly. Spinning one of her swords she thrust it up and twisted it purposely making the wound bigger. She pulled it out when she noticed it sway over her. She was able to run out from beneath is just before it collapsed squirming to get up. Either two things were going to happen, it was going to get back up- or die. She was not going to take any chances.

Swiftly swinging her swords she cut off the spider’s legs one by one until another one kicked her mercilessly. She doubled over holding her stomach trying to catch her breath. She hated being caught off guard. To her relief she was able to spin around and run her blade over the hungry spider’s face making it shriek back. She continued to hold herself- she should be all right by now. She felt a pain on her shoulder and put her hand on the wound looking at it. One of them had bit her she realized, and had poisoned her she thought with a sigh. Already, she thought angrily. It did not matter though, it would be a while before she felt full on affects and until then she was going to continue fighting.

[Mininirime]

The spiders fought on ferociously, even though it didn't look like they were close to winning. But the battle wasn't won yet for the elves, and it could sway either way.

Mininirime had witched her bow for her long slender sword. It was beautifully crafted and obviously elven work. The long, slender blade shone and the pattern crafted into caught every bid of sunlight that crossed it's path. Mininirime held it lightly but firmly as it seemed as light as a feather in her hands.

She quickly and silently rushed to one of the spiders she had blinded and was now making a racked stamping around, almost crushing the soldiers who were backing away from the furious animal. Mininirime felt strangely free in he Mirkwood army garb, she was used to fighting in a slightly different dress, but this was surprisingly liberating.

When she reached the spider she raised her sword and with one fast swing she cut of all its legs from the knees down. As in slowmotion she saw the spider come down and had beheaded it before it hid the ground. The carcass rolled towards her and she jumped on top of it, seeing a spider coming down on Erugenel's shoulder.

She rushed forward as the vicious looking spider's head came down for another bite. Before the poisonous teeth reached the other shoulder Mininirime had stuck her sword in its side and drew its attention towards her, away from Erugenel. She made a few quick moves which, at first sight did not seem to have much affect, but a second later, this spider came crushing down as well.

She shot a quick glance at Erugenel, who had resumed fighting again, and so Mininirime let her be, thinking she was fine.

[Nessa Erugenel]

Her breathing had suddenley become heavy and hard and her shoulder burned. She moved it slightly and flinched, no she decided, she was not going to be moving it again. She span her swords around giving deadly blows to the spider in front of her. When she had directed him close enough to a tree she climbed it quickly and jumped on it's back. She knew right away he was displeased, but so was she. Spinning the antique looking blades she swiftly thrust them into the spider's head one next to the other and jerked them in opposite directions. She did not know if it was the spider or her who swayed, but she felt sick none the less. The next thing she knew she was on the ground wrestling her way out from beneath the hairy leg of her dead opponant. When she was up on her feet again she swayed but steadied herself holding her head while still gripping her sword and clmaped her eyes shut. But she opened them only to find her vision blurred. No matter she mused straitening up. She could fight blind, she had been trained to do so. And a good thing too for now there was another spider aproaching her and she would need her other senses to help her kill it before it killed her.

[Mininirime]

Mininirime fought like a crazy person, cutting of legs, more legs and an occasional head, as she made her way through what seemed like a forest of spiders. Ever now and again she looked around for a sight of her friends. Miriel was fighting with a strength like she could go on forever. Erugenel looked a bit off, but was still fighting in a controlled manner.

A rather vile looking spider came towards her, she made her way around it and jumped on it's back, and from there to one of the upper branches of the trees. She looked in the direction she had already seen Legolas and his troops coming. They were there as she looked and had joined them in the fighting. she lowered herself again, and landed on top of an unaware spider. The first time he noticed that something had land on top of him was when Mininirime severed his head from the rest of his body with her long blade, she got of the body with a nice headroll, standing upright infront of Legolas.

"Hail, Legolas!" She said, before she returned to the fighting.

[Nessa Erugenel]

"Hail Legolas? Erugenel stopped wishing she could see. But at the moment it could not matter, it seemed the spiders had sensed her injury and decided to take down the strongest of the weakest. She could not fight five spiders at once when she was falling over every two minutes though she fought off the spells it still affected her.

Still angry with herself Erugenel continued to fight taking down one spider now sensing four surounding her. It had obviously not expected a wounded- and blind opponant to be able to use her sword the way she did. But now the last four were cautious and she could feel them working things out in their minds. Spiders were stupid, but they were not fools. All at once they came at her. One from the left, another from the right, one from behind and she could feel the shadow of one hovering above her. She wished she had more swords, but she would do what she could. Deciding the one above might prove most fatal she raised one of her swords and stuck out the other in another direction. As soon as the two she had taken aim at ran into her they staggered back crying and twitching because of their injuries. But the other two were free from a blade tore at her the best they could while she was distracted. Lucky for her it was not long enough to prove fatal, soon she was swinging at the last two cutting off one's head the other deciding to be more difficult.

She screamed with frustration puting a hand on her head as she fell backwards a few steps. She shook her head a devils light in her blinded eyes. Her head shot in the direction of the aprouching spider and with one stroke she killed it.

[Mininirime]

Mininirime had passed Legolas before finishing her greeting and for a while she fought like a mad men, paying no attention to any of the others fighting on her side. All she had eyes for were living, breathing and still fighting spiders. Those she attacked and she tried to kill as many as possible. When for a moment there were none near her she looked around. Far to her right she saw Erugenel, and she looked like she was in trouble, though she was fighting off spiders with the same success as usual, she also seemed to stagger and fall a lot more often, and her eyes seemed different, blinded. Mininirime started to make her way to her friend, but she was hindered on her way by the spiders, whom she couldn't pass unless she killed them, which, of course, she did with pleasure. When finally she reached Erugenel, the other elf was still standing, even fighting, but she looked awful. Her skin had gotten a yellowish color and she seemed to have more trouble keeping her position. Mininirime hurried to wards her and helped her fight of sever spiders who seemed to have chosen Erugenel as their target. In a quiet moment Mininirime managed to get Erugenel away from the spiders, though that was not really what Erugenel wanted.

"Stop it! We need to continue fighting!" She screamed.

"No way Legolas and his troops have arrived, and the spiders are falling back drastically with every blow. They can handle it with out you. Or me for that matter. You need help. You've been bitten, you show all the signs."

[Nessa Erugenel]

“That is ludicrous.” Erugenel lied. But Mini would not be fooled, and Erugenel did not have the energy to fight it out.

“I am taking you to the Healers. And don’t you dare argue.” Mini warned. Erugenel let out an aggravated breath of air and let Mini take her wrists both of her hands still clinging onto her twin swords.

“Mininirime!” Legolas shouted, Mini looked in his direction as he stared. “What’s going on?” He asked seeing the angry look on the elf maiden’s face as she was being led away by Mini.

“Don’t worry about us Legolas-“ She felt Erugenel tense in her hand and glanced at her before continuing her sentence. “You and your men take care of these forsaken creatures and I’ll take care of her.”

[Mininirime]

Legolas shot he two maidens a curious glance, but a call from one of his men directed his attention to the work at hand. The spiders were no down to only a few, but after the battle, the cleaning will have to start.

Meanwhile Mininirime lead the still struggling Erugenel quickly through the corridors of the immense palace. Finally she reached their destination, the healers quarters. They stepped inside, there was no one to be seen, Mininirime lead Erugenel to a low couch. "Sit down here, and stay put, you have nowhere to go."

Mininirime looked around several doors opened to the room. The smell of fresh herbs came from a side room and Mininirime dashed through it, almost colliding with one of the healers, who had come to see who was in.

"What can I do for..."

Mininirime rushed the elf to the main room. "Erugenel has been bitten by a spider, I think. I'm pretty sure of that. It might have happened quite a while ago. She has already lost her sight, but because she kept on fighting it took us a while to find out that there was something wrong."

The healer helped Erugenel to lay down on the couch and started checking her vitals. "She has indeed lost her vision, but I don't think it is to late yet." He got some herbs out of the other room and went to work.