EntQuest, the Battle for Hector.

[tolkienfan]

tolkienfan walked up to the red-headed girl. "Excuse me, but you should know that there are orcs attacking. If you don't want to fight you may want to go deeper into the cave. I'd like to properly make your acquaintance later." with that tolkienfan headed toward the cave opening to help with the defense.

[Nautipus]

Nautipus swung his heave sword at a nearby orc grunt. The vicious serrated edge made short work of the nearby orc, but the heavy weight took some getting used to after sitting for so long unused. He was thrown off-balance at the cave entrance.

[The Sasquatch of Fangorn]

Sas pulled out of his pack, two one-handed crossbows and started fireing into the group of orcs "Die you stupid little-" after he ran out of ammo Sas yelled for Fredrico and changed the clips. "Keep fighting! To the last of them! HAHAHAHAHA!"

[The Sasquatch of Fangorn]

It was just then that Sas saw exactly how many orcs there were. Shortly after screaming and kicking an orc's head, he blew his whistle. "Fredrico, Issac!" Fredrico and Issac looked at him "Go on!" and with those words Fredrico and Issac, roaring, screeching, and Fredrico thumping his chest while Issac breathed fire, went deep into the ranks of the advancing orcs and started fighting fircely

[sisterandcousinandaunt]

Sis smiled briefly at the red-headed cook. "Pardon me. We don't mean to bring trouble, but, there it is. What's in the back of this cave? And what was Nicro going on about treasure? Or was he just joking, which wouldn't surprise me. 'Ware the spears." she added, ducking.

[Nicro]

Originally Posted by Mari

"Uhmm, Nicro? Did that orc just turn into stone?" Mari asked, as she was at the same time thinking that she should have practised more with her mace.
Then she looked into the cave and saw a girl cooking something. "Okay, I'm definitely not awake yet. I think?"

stoneybombs i call them i have lots!
but thats not all the cool stuff i got

[The Sasquatch of Fangorn]

"Everyone! Stand back a little!" said Sas as he pulled out a bow-staff "Meet X09528!" He shouted at the orcs. He pressed a button on the custom-made bow-staff and it turned into a mace, Sas screamed as he hacked away at the oncoming hoard.

[Nautipus]

"Gaah!" Nautipus could be heard screaming from the head of the cave, as a spear hit his shoulder, jabbed by nearby orc, as he began to be overrun, "You son of a-!" The rest was lost in the sound of sword meeting armor.

[The Sasquatch of Fangorn]

"NAUTY!!!!!!" Sas screamed when he heard the scream. Sas blew hard into the whistle hard, and Fredrico came charging "Freddy! Help Nauty!" Fredrico started swinging his axe at the orcs surounding Nautipus and took mast of them out, but they kept coming

[Eilonwy]

The red-headed girl rushed to Nautipus, throwing boiling soup in the orcs face. the orc grabbed his face and sas whacked him with the X09528. She pulled Nautipus back from the cave opening.

[Nautipus]

"We need to retreat farther into the cave!" Shouted Nautipus at Sas, while Fredrico began clearing away most of the orcs, giving Nautipus time to remove the offending weapon from his shoulder, "We just cant hold them hear, we need a tighter bottleneck where we can take full advantage of each other's abilities! See if you can send Isaac and fredrico off for a moment, then bring them back when the majority of the orcas are in the cave!."

[The Sasquatch of Fangorn]

"You guys go!" Sis started to protest but Sas stopped her- "Issac, Fredrico and I will try and hold them off long enough for you to get into the cave aways!"

[sisterandcousinandaunt]

Toward the rear of the cave, Sis was trying to convince some very unhappy horses that a narrow opening was a good exit. Not being convinced, herself, she wasn't selling any. "What the heck happened to Nicro, or that girl?" she muttered. "Nestor might go, because the air smells fresh to me, but I'm not wrestling the whole cavalry into a dead end. Where are Sane and the Banditos? And Gray Wolf? ANd Mari? And Hector, darn his eyes!"

She looked back to the cave opening, where the fighters were fighting gamely. "I hope they can fight them off," she said.

[Nautipus]

Nautipus was backing towards the rear of the cave, trying to help corral the horses, when he spotted an orc archer from short range readying his bow. His eyes were to Sas. Nautipus grunted and flipped his sword back, turning a small lever and revealing what the dagger on the end was for. It deattached and fell to the ground, trailing the serrated edges of the sword like a light chain. Nautipus flung the sword forward and it caught the archer in the ribs, left of center, Nautipus grunted again, flipped the lever back, and the chain rolled up, dragging the orc with it. He dislodged the dagger and finished off the archer, throwing an arrow frustratedly at his horse, "Fekking GO!" He shouted.

[Nicro]

nicro in the middle of the orcs puts down a disk

"stand back people" he said. moments later the disk exploded
throwing orcs everywhere

[sisterandcousinandaunt]

Finally having all the horse's eyes covered, Sis led them through the opening. The air smelt fresh, and the footing was fairly level, descending. Her improvised torch didn't reveal much but the arching rock above her. Her little packtrain was slow, but steady. A muffled explosion reached her and she prayed a little harder.

[The Sasquatch of Fangorn]

Sas screamed as he and his men fought hard. Fredrico started to swing his axe wildly while Issac had jumped ahead a little and started to breathe flames at the orcs. Sas meanwhile had pressed another button on the X09528 and it had turned into an axe. "WHY WON'T YOU DIE?!"

[Nautipus]

"Nicro! For the love of Christ and all that is holy, give a little more warning, yeah!" Nautipus pushed debris, organic and not, off of him and got to his feet. The blast seemed to have frightened the rest of the orcs back for a moment. Alright, let's get past that narrow spot there. We can really pile the bodies high there if we need to. Nicro, no more blasting farther in, K? We dont want a cave in of any sort."

[The Sasquatch of Fangorn]

"We can't hold them!" screamed Sas as he tried to kill as many orcs as possible "How far back are you guys?"

[Nautipus]

Nautipus looked around "I thought Sas was with us..." He heard him screaming from up ahead, "Sas! Get back here! We're at the cut off!, get Fredrico and Isaac through if you can, but otherwise send them away!" Nautipus hefted his sword and winced dropping it to the ground. His hand went to his shoulder, where a good amout of blood was leaking from between the tough armor plates. He looked at his companions, saw that no one had noticed, and heaved his sword painfully into its sheath.