Navigating thru what seemed as an endless labyrinth of hallways I said silent prayer after silent prayer that Huthesis and hopefully my friends would be ok.
Finally reaching the room where I had seen the slight sign of life using my supernatural vision. I encountered two heavily built men standing in front of a frail slumped over form.
"I think you over did it Bob. You where supposed to try and get information out of her not knock her out cold again." Hissed the smaller of the two men and I'm being really generous when I say smaller. These two looked like flesh and bone versions of the Kool-aid man and the stay puff marshmallow guy .
"Oh.. Sorry Joe, I din't mean to slap the little elf around so much." slurred Bob in a deep southern accent. Great I was going to have to get into a fight with another team of Bob and Joe if I had a dime for every time this happened since the War started I would be a millionaire. "What we gonna do now, Joe?"
"Hit it with the amulet, It should bring it back. The boss said it would."
"Awww, Joe. It's a her I think," seemed like Bob was a stupid as he was big. This should have brought me some relief, but seeing Huthesis chained to a wall slumped over clearly gravely hurt only getting her out of here would bring me that.
"Give me that thing you Idiot." Joe snapped at poor stupid Bob, and ripped a clear glass sphere from Bob's hand and smacked Huthesis with it. I led out an involuntary growl, thankfully it was low enough for Joe and Bob to hear. The orb began to glow an bright emerald green, and I felt a surged of healing magic leave the amulet and it begun to repair whatever damaged Bubba and Twiddle Dumb had done. After a few seconds the emerald green light dimmed and Huthesis gasped, "Welcome back, little elf. Were where we? "
"We were at you getting very badly hurt." Huthesis responded her voice hoarse from either lack of use or from the damaged the two men had done.
"She's funny Joe, I like her. Can I keep her?" Bob interrupted the staring contests between Huthesis and Joe.
"You can keep whatever pieces are left, if the unnatural little thing doesn't talk" Joe spat out, and slapped Huthesis . To her credit she did not even flinch, I knew she intended to keep the attention of the two men while I prepared myself. I was sure she had sensed me the second she was brought back to conscious with the strange amulet.
"Actually, sweet pea. I'm more natural than you. I was made by the creator before you Apes learned to walk and talk. Well, in your case your apparently having trouble doing both."
Joe the slightly smarter of the two raised his hand to strike Huthesis again, but before he could I yelled, "Hey Bubba, why don't you pick on someone who is not chained up to a wall." And with a quick flick of my hands sent the two men smashing against the wall. I expected both my magic reserve and my body to complain, but they both felt re-freshed and ready two slap around Kool-Aid man and Stay-Puff boy.
"You gonna be sorry for that." shouted Joe reaching into his pocket and pulling out a small vile that look uncomfortably close to the ones we Others used to carry around potions in. It glow a soft white and I could feel the magic that had been worked into the concoction. Before I could react, Joe gulped down the contents of the vial, and his body began to violently shake. I could hear the breaking and ripping of flesh and instantly understood what the potion was. It was a shifting potion, It was meant to turn Joe into gods knew what but what unsettled me the most was that most shifters had a natural defense against most brands of magic and I was going to have to rely on hand to hand where Joe would probably have the upper hand.
