The Return of Sithis, Volume 1: Awakening

"I know you wanted to test your new crossbow. But did you really have to that in a place used by a cult?!"

It was a few days later, and Lorelei and Avenicci were inside an old fort, fighting for their lives. The doors had been locked and barricaded by cultists after they wandered into the room where an altar covered with blood was. The next thing they knew, they were surrounded by the necromancers who were armed with a variety of knives.

If I had to guess why they bothered to trap and ambush us, I would say they want us to be the next sacrifices...

She decided to cast Whirlwind Cloak, and then she cast a similar spell on Avenicci. That gave them a way to repel their attackers without hurting each other, and use that opening and the distance between themselves and their targets to ready their weapons and other spells.

For the next few days Siegemund and Nephle had been hunting down the thief who stole his uncle and Aunts weapons.
With the help of Nephle's hunting skills they had captured the Breton and now he was rotting away in jail.
Done, they we're know preparing for their mission in the ice cave.
They found Abheim and Adarya outside with axe and daggers respectively.

"Good, lets go Adarya said curtly. The trek to the cave was treacherous but they managed.
The group of four entered the cave and all but Abheim and Siegemund began to freeze.
Nephle shivered over the breeze, but pushed on , her bow in front of her and an arrow knocked.
She looked over to see Siegemund with his hand on his swords hilt.
He was alert, so that meant he hadn't lost his edge in combat.

It was far to quiet and then a frost troll came rampaging down the North cavern and roared.
"Lets go." Siegemund replied; rolling to the side.
Abheim buried his war axe into the trolls leg, it roared and swiped.
The muscles man grabbed onto its arm and held on, punching it.

Adarya was perhaps to quick for the beast as she struck fast, landing small cuts on its torso.
It managed to punt her away and then slam Abheim into the wall.
Siegemund decided it was his term just as an arrow found itself in the beasts knee.
Using his experience from before, he sliced t across the knee before jumping to the side and ten striking its back.
Abheim freed himself with a grunt, fell down, grabbed his axe and slammed it into the trolls toe.

The troll screeched and begun to swing widely,its talons managing to slice across the fur armor Abheim wore giving him a wound
It then preceded to turn around and punch Siegemund who slammed into a boulder.
Adarya was back on her feet an plunged a serrated dagger into the trolls right knee cap.
It buckled and feel to the ground and she proceeded to slit its neck.

"What a pain." Abheim muttered.

"I'm always being slammed into something." Siegemund complained.
Nephle lowered her bow and was quickly tackle down by Adarya just as a frostbite slide lunged from behind, its fangs barely missing her neck.
"Wow. A large, overgrown spider. Here bite me and maybe I'll turn into some half man half spider." Siegemund chuckled.
The spider screeched and jumped onto the walls eyeing them hungrily.

"Stop Making it angry." Abheim snarled.

"Time to turn up the heat!" He smiled as he shot jets of flame from his palms, immolating a nearby necromancer. "What a shocking turn of events!"

Avenicci was having way too much fun as he shot a Chain Lightning spell at a cultist who was about to raise one of their fallen comrades before arcing to another that the Frost Atronach tossed into the air.

The frostbite spider hissed and spat out a venomous glob.
Siegemund and the others jumped to the side.
"Maybe I would be able to shoot webs, stick to walls?" Siegemund mused aloud as the spider bared its fangs and launched itself at him.

Siegemund slid to the ground and brought stardust up, effectively cutting the spider in half.
"Well, that was interesting. Now to go deeper into this cave." He said to no one in particular.
"Something radiates power deep in this cave." Adarya whispered.
Abheim inclined his head,"lets split up, we can cover more ground." He suggested.

Everyone nodded and split into a group.
Siegemund and Nephle took the left passage.
The cave was mostly silent save for the few sounds.

"I don't know, maybe it's an ancient cult and most people were born into it over the years!"

Lorelei cast another Whirlwind Cloak, and then rushed into a group of the necromancers while taking out her own knife. As they were thrown against the wall, she finished them off as quickly as she could with the knife.

There can't be too many more... I think.

Lorelei was fighting against a cultist, both of their blades locked in combat, each trying to find an opening to finish their opponent. The sound of the knives hitting each other was all she could hear at that moment, so she had no idea that a cultist behind her was using a Firebolt spell until she was hit by it. While she was distracted by the pain and trying to figure out what happened, the man in front of her took advantage of it, and was able to stab her left arm through a spot at the joint of Lorelei's armor.

For a moment she grabbed her arm in pain, trying to stop the bleeding, until taking just a moment to finish off that cultist. She then turned around just in time to see and then avoid another spell, and before she could figure out what to do about that cultist, Avenicci killed him.

I'll be fine for now, I need to finish this. Once we're not in a fight I'll be able to worry about the injury, but not right now.

Lorelei began using a Lightning Bolt spell to attack, and she decided to stay close to Avenicci for extra help and protection since she only had one good arm she could use at that moment.

"There are only a few left, let's finish this quickly!"

One the smoke from the explosion cleared, and Lorelei stopped coughing, there didn't seem to be anyone else coming.

"Is it over?"

After that interesting display during there dual Fransis and Lydia decided to take a brake over lunch.

"First you have a talking wolf,". " "Then you are somebody important to this Hircine fellow,". "Finally, I find out you can use both thunder magic and healing magic," "All be it they are low level spells but still," said Lydia with a look of trying to take this in at once.

"Who would of known that little boy would grow up to be such an interesting individual?" said Lydia with a look of admiration.

"Lucy you don't even know the half of it," said Fransis as the two began to remince about the past

"Let me see that." Avenicci said as he sat Lorelei down on a nearby stone slab and ripped off a piece of his sleeve and pressed it against the wound before casting a weak fire spell for a split-second to help seal the wound. "The big guy will be up soon, so should we stick around and keep him down or just run?"