Long Lost Betrothed

The Sunken Tomb Part 2

Word Count: 1769

"Vex stay where you are!" I heard Vax call out to his sister, as I rested my hand on the stone wall praying to the Dawn Father that Percy would be okay until I could get back to him.

"Well, no use waiting around here." Zahra spoke as I turned to her, Pike, and Grog making my way over to them as Vex kept staring at the now closed wall.

"Guess we're stuck with her." Pik grumbled quietly not sounding too pleased about it. Eventually I gently grabbed Vex by the shoulders and led her to follow the rest of us as Trinket stood by her side in comfort. "Hold up." Pike said drawing our attention to her after we had been walking for a bit stopping to use her powers to light up more stones that were embedded into the walls of the hallway. We walked into a room that had water at waist height for most of us while Grog had to pick up Pike because it was gonna go over her head and she kept lighting the stones for us as we walked.

"Damn, I make this look good." Grog said as I turned back to see Grog admiring himself in the water making me chuckle softly. "Oh, yeah." He then started flexing at his own reflection making me shake my head a smile on my face.

"Whoo! Yeah, big boy." Pike said encouragingly making Grog feel even better about himself.

"Well, that's not ancient." I heard Vex saying drawing my attention to her as she was kneeling in front of a rock, walking over I noticed she had blood on the tip of her fingers from a bloody handprint that was on the rock.

"Well, that's not good." I muttered quietly resting my hand on my rapier.

"It seems something moved into this tomb after it sank." Zahra said standing in front of Vex and I.

"Ugh, Grog, did you just fart?" I heard Pike asked as a horrible smell filled the large room.

"Like, how recently?" Grog asked before we heard the sound of a deep growl making me quickly draw my rapier. Just then a Kua-toa launches from the water at Pike and Grog tackling her off the top off Grog as he shouted her name before another Kua-toa launches at him.

"More Adaro." Zahra shouts as a creature attacks her and she uses her magic to blast it. I swung around lifting my rapier last second slicing through the throat of one of the creatures before it could slice me with its claws, only to be tackled by another one coming at me from the other side, luckily though I was flexible enough to get my leg into the space between us and kick him off to the side before quickly getting up and stabbing him through the eye blood gushing out of it, I had enough time to watch as Vex saved Zahra only to have Zahra immediately save her, and of course Vex flipped her off making me shake my head lightly in amusement before fighting off another creature narrowly avoiding its claws as it tried to slash at me. I had just defeated the creature slashing at me by stabbing my rapier through its stomach getting coated in blood as I did so when a huge splash of water slammed into me throwing me, and the others back while making Grog hit the roof.

"And they've got a mage!" I said angrily glaring at the creature from across the room.

"Last one's always the toughest. But don't worry, I'll save you." Zahra said sassily to Vex.

"Bullshit, I'll save you." Vex said glaring at the Tiefling, as they both shot off a shot at the mage at the same time only to have the mage block off the arrow and magic with a spout of water before using water to wrap around me, Vex, and Zahra locking us in a tunnel of water cutting off the air from our lungs as it started to drown us, suddenly the water dispersed around us, glancing up I saw Percy, Vax, Keyleth, Kash, and Scanlan standing on the other side of the room from us. The mage sent a large wave of water towards them as Scanlan created his magical purple hand lifting them from the ground and Kash didn't get to hold on and was washed away, which I didn't feel bad about, however the mage created a water vortex shooting it at them as Keyleth was trying to battle it off with wind. Unfortunately, she couldn't keep it up for long and they got hit by the water vortex it wrapping around all of them next as I quickly snuck up behind the mage and shoved my rapier through its neck and slicing outward effectively cutting off the head as blood poured out of the body. The water vortex then dissipated around the others, and they landed on the ground on their knees getting in deep breaths of air.