h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

*the outer corridors run on the inside of the outer walls of the outpost. inner sanctums, rooms and floors can be reached from here*

*in a flurry of movement and violence, animals burst through a reinforced door out to the front gates*

*the drow were prepared for this, they start firing holding spells at the doorway immediately*

*animals are frozen in place, blocking the way from the ones behind them*

GRAAAAAAAAA!!!

*from out of the creatures charges a man though he looks more like a beast consumed with rage and one task*

*he looks like Lycan angry... only death is in his eyes*

*his sword sweeps easily through the holding spell and the creaures surge forth though they can't keep up with him*

*the drows try to cast another holding spell but are too slow*

*he reaches the first drow and slices off its head before it can raise its sword to defend himself*

*the other drow spin away from "Bad Lycan", dodging his sword lithely*

*three of them nod at each other and leap forward at him, each attacking him*

*one goes for his legs in a sweeping motion, another at his middle from behind, and the third in a downwards strike that should split his skull in half*

*Lycan sees the atatcks coming and he slices through the top one... the weapon seems to collapse into two pieces*

*he leaps over the lower two attacks kicking them both in the chest knocking them back*

*the animals swarm the two drow either side of him as he goes for the third that tried to split his skull*

*Lycan howls like a feral wolf, the black wolves with him do the same*

*he swings his sword in a complicated pattern trying to confuse the unarmed drow before thrusting his sword at its chest*

*the drow takes the sword in the chest and grabs Lycan's hands with his own, nails digging into his hand deeply, tearing the muscles and grinding the bones together before Lycan can react*

*that drow holds on whilst one of the others runs and leaps on top of Lycan. The third is busy helping all the other drow force shut the door to outside*

*he screams in pain a black wolf jumps at the Drow with his nails embedded in Lycans hand and brings his powerful jaws down on the drows wrist*

**Lycan plunges the sword deep into the drows chest pulling it down as he falls to the ground cleaving the drow in two*

*before he hits the ground another two of the black wolves are upon the drow one rips out his throat the other goes for the leg dragging the drow away*

*Lycan stands slowly to his feet and his animals regroup around him*

*there are two bears, 5 black wolves, 3 wild cats... and numerous ravens flap around with bats hanging from the ceiling above them.. rats climb the walls... their are still a swarm of insects buzzing around*

*blood drips slowly from Lycan's mouth*

*in the wolves tongue* [give it up now drow!]

*and then they surge forth again, Lycan using only one hand becomes one with his sword slicing apart muscle and bone*

*drow and orcs flood the corridors, spells, arrows and sword mixing in the air*

*they dodge around Lycan, avoiding him and concentrating on the animals surrounding him*

*he howls again and the swarms seem to take the place of a shield*

*the spells and the arrows seem to be deflected away from the swarms back at the drow and orcs protecting Lycan's creatures*

*the swarms themselves no longer seem alive but don't seem to take damage from the attacks*

[You hqave to kill me now... not the animals]

*he charges into the midsts of them so they can't cabn't so easily escape his sword starts to glow as he chops off the arms of his attackers going deeper into their midst*

*carnage ensues, the drow and orcs dropping dead*

*the swarms start to deteriorate no matter what Lycan does to stop them*

*behind the rapidly falling screen, animals shriek and drop to the floor dead, seemingly without a mark on them*

*a ways down the corridor the powerful drow stands camply*

*at a gesture, another animal shrieks and falls - some kind of death spell, unique to drow, that the shield couldn't stop*

*he lets out a shout and the shield shrink to shield ony the remaining three black wolves that surge forth to Lycan's side*]

*together they force their way forward towards the drow*

*the drow gestures again and another wolf dies*

*Khamsin stands face to face with the drow now bodies scattered behind him his rage is obvious from the death of the animals*

[once more and I cut off your hands! now fight ME!]

*the drow smiles and claps his hands, and disappears*

*two of the wolves choke and fall to the floor*

*the drow reappears behind Lycan and taps him on the shoulder, then springs over him to land a few metres away*

*he swings around to face the drow*

*Lycan spits some blood from his mouth... his clothing is torn but every part of his is covered with blood*

*his sword glows black from the blood*

*laughs evilally and then howls* [you fool]

*he grows and evry part of him changing till the he has taken on parts of all the animals and he is no longer human*

*he like a centur has four legs which crouch close to the ground but the the legs are more feline, close to the ground... he looks like something made to scare children*

*his feral face grins and without seeming to move is stood next to the drow his blade at its throat*

*his sword looks small in his hands*

*the drow raises an eyebrow*

You do not scare me, savage. My magic will beat you down to the dirt, will make you wish you had never been born!

*he mutters something, twitches his fingers, and suddenly Lycan is finding it extremely difficult to move*

< thats all I know... you are the real writer Fay!>

*an arm goes back to normal he sacrifices it to swing at the drow with his sword*

*the arm stops when it hits the drow's neck, drawing a little blood but simple not going in any further*

*the pressure around Lycan that seems to stop him from moving starts to increase, into actual pain*

< you are cute tonight Feuille I wrote 8 today...>

*his entire upperbody seems to melt into what it was before just so then he can kick the drow into the wall*

*his face seems over raught with pain and but the anger keeps him fighting and on his feet*

*the drow steps back with Lycan's blow, coughing lightly, but the pressure around Lycan nly grows*

*every time he breathes out, the constriction tightens, making it harder and harder to breathe at all*

*takes a single deep breath in holding it*

*he goes back to his normal form thrusting forwards with his sword at the drow his sword glows a venomous green colour as it strikes the drow*

*the drow takes the blow without faltering, pressing hard with his magics into Lycan's chest*

*the poison infects the drow, but he merely steps backwards, extricating himself from Lycan's sword and clicks his fingers*

*there is a moment of silence whilst the drow stares at Lycan eye-to-eye, seeming to sway and pale*

*a drow cleric appears, running at full pelt from an inner sanctum, and falls at the first drow's feet*

*she places her hands on the wound, and sucks the poison from him into her*

*she screams once, high pitched and full of pain, then collapses on the floor. The poison killed her*

*the drow mage hasn't broken eye contact with Lycan throughout this...a sudden sharp pressure around Lycan's chest and a flaring pain, and there is the sound of bones breaking*

* he lets out the breath in an agonising ear shattering scream*

*stumbling forward he swings his sword one last time then falls forward onto the drow knockin them both to the ground Lycan's blade pierces the drows heart and falls into darkness*

*lycan and the drow lie silent and still among the other corpes*