-----As if on cue, the one-eyed orc stands among the trio of guards, hurt but still alive. Scanning the floor, his hateful eye focuses on the beautiful unicorn and utters a guttural word while motioning with its hand. Immediately, a large globe of darkness engulfs the unicorn, Garrison and Caranip. With her spell foiled, the orcs who Caranip held enthralled shake their heads and begin looking to join the fight anew.
-----With quick leaps and bounds, the huge cat and the wolf retreat from the fight narrowly dodging searching and prodding spears.
-----Being shrouded in darkness, Sarah charges in the direction she thinks the orcs are, hoping to gorge one accidentally.
-----Sol swings again and again, with the hunter by his side, intent on killing every orc in sight.
-----With the last kill, Raven is now totally covered in his foes' blood. Raven snarls at the orcs in front of him. The whites of Raven's eyes and white teeth against his blood covered face give Raven an unreal appearance, almost demon like. The Hunter is silent as he wades into the orcs again. He will let his swords do the talking.
-----The Lathanian blade swings to the right and slices into another orc's neck. Sol immediately swings to his left and slays yet another humanoid.
-----With a savage slash, Raven delivers a strike to the neck of an orc that fiercely decapitates it. The humanoid's head thuds to the steps of the stairs as the demonic appearance of the hunter makes the other attackers pause.
-----A galloping sound is heard and suddenly the dark sphere down on the floor is in motion. It moves forward and over a line of orcs that stand off to the right of the stairway. Caranip and Garrison are seen where they were last positioned near the doors of the stronghold. Orcish cries of excitement and anger are heard from the spherical blackness.
-----At the same time, Raven stabs and throws down another orc in front of him as he and Sol continue their ascent up the steps.
-----Sol swings his sword down toward the shoulder blades of the next foe facing him. The sword cuts deep through the chain armor, but doesn't totally kill this one. The orc then tries to chop at the young warrior with its axe in its off hand. The attack is clumsy and Sol prepares to finish it.
-----Three other orcs are left and they try to focus on the Hunter. All three wield their axes, but Raven calmly parries their attacks with a strange red look in his eyes.
-----Raven cuts his attackers down to two with a well-placed jab into an orcish eye socket. One orc stands in front of Sol and two in front of Raven. Beyond them are the one-eyed orc and his trio of guards. The one-eyed orc glares down at the two heroes slashing their way in his direction. He screams out to his guards, "Kill them!" as he takes a few steps up the stairs.
-----Below, Lovan downs another orc with a rocking slam to a humanoid's head.
-----With a vicious, upwardly aimed thrust, Sol tries to finish his injured opponent off, before heading forwards to take the fight to One-eye's trio of guards.
-----In two quick motions of his single sword arm, Raven destroys the two orcs in front of him. First, he jabs across to the humanoid standing to his left. The blade stabs immediately through the humanoid's neck, killing it. With a fierce backslash, Raven then flicks his blade across taking the head of the other orc. The Hunter's eyes then focus on the three guards.
-----The Lathanian sword stabs upward, taking the humanoid facing Sol off his feet. For a moment, the young warrior lifts the impaled orc and then drops it letting the dead orc body fall off the ancient blade. Sol then stalks forward and up with Raven.
-----Raven meets the first guard and with his off hand rips his sword across the astonished orc's face, injuring it. It tries to stab back at Raven, but the Hunter easily parries it.
-----The second guard rushes to meet the young warrior, while the third one remains with the one-eyed orc. The guard swings down with his sword only to have it ring upon Sol's sword.
-----As a chaotically bunched group of orcs begins to rush where Lovan stands, the storm priest suddenly raises his warhammer and points at them. "FEAR THE FURY OF THE RAGER!" he shouts at them. Just as sudden the entire group slows and pauses. In the next instant, a new chaos ensues as nearly a score of orcish warriors turns and flees away from Lovan. Most of the orcs that run drop their polearms. More confusion is added as the suddenly fearful humanoids push back on the orcs behind them that did not succumb to the priest's spell.
-----One orc does boldly rush Lovan and with a mighty heft of his axe, swings at the storm priest. Lovan takes a moment to spit at the orc as it misses him.
-----Sol sends the orc that rushed him into a hurt state with a quick slash.