Attacks [Forgotten Realms]

      **“Little one, allow me to be your arrow.”**

The bump turns into a slumped against you; As a mysterious voice seemingly whispers out of the aether itself.

After whipping your head around you regain control over yourself a split second later. Whatever the source, the woman was offering help. The situation is easily beyond dire, as you are unwilling to simply abandon the Drow woman Nathraena here, and any retreat would be slowed drastically by carrying the lithe, svelte, and beautiful woman. Whether you carried her, or if Djarrus was able too, is almost irrelevant to how it would end.

You can feel the plane of shadow draining the life from your bones. It was present with the wolves, but this woman appeared to embody the Plane of Shadow. Djarrus manages to hold firm despite his own insane fear, as the Lady of Shadow advances upon your group.

      **“You are far from alone, now quickly! Before it is too late.”**

There was the whisper again, but you realize whatever pact it was offering is undoubtedly better than allowing this creature to suck your soul out. Therefore, you drop your knife and ready your bow.

Djarrus visibly wilts as claws rake across his forum, from the Lady of Shadow. You swallow your own fear as you listen to Djarrus grunt in pain. Even the wolves and shades were unable to illicit such a reaction from him.

How exactly you are to use a mysterious voice as an arrow is a mystery; Until the string of your bow comes into view. A blue and purple electrical bolts and static bounces between the two ends. As you notch your arrow, the energy duplicates onto your arrow.

You release the arrow, its flight is pure and true. Elayna would be proud as it slices through the air in a blue and purple slash.

      **“You should close your eyes, little one.”**

You follow directions of the whisper, before the arrow strikes. Perniciously, there fails to be enough time to warn Djarrus.

What the enchantment does is something you are already beginning to suspect now. As a ranger with Elayna, you ran into clerics and mages who can purify. You suspected that Nathraena was casting a similar spell moments ago.

However, whatever the whisper provided was slightly different. Still behind your eyelids, the flash is nearly blinding.

The Lady of Shadow obviously thought that with Nathraena passed out, the last "true" threat was the Minotaur. That is why she ignored you almost completely until there was an arrow lodged in what should be her left breast.

As far as you can tell from the inhuman cries of pain echoing out from the Lady of Shadow is a brilliant flash of energy, magnitudes brighter than what Nathraena cast​ before.

Stepping forward as the Lady of Shadows rises from a knee she had dropped to from the blast. The fact that you could even see the slender leg seemed telling. Thus, you had already notched two arrows, and predictably they energized with the electricity again.

Shadow Queen by Eye-Crazy

The Lady of Shadow screeches at you with clear unrestrained fury. Balefully for her, she is unable to cross the distance quickly enough to reach you. Seemingly unaffected by the spell, Djarrus took the opportunity to slam his axe into her.

Djarrus tried to anyhow, as the axe failed to catch the Lady of Shadow torso as it began shifting within shadows again.

Before, the Lady of Shadow reaches you, the two arrows are loosed and again their flight is refined and echt. For whatever reason, their path split half way and one slams into the Lady’s spiritual third eye, as the other slams into her abdomen. For whatever reason, the enchantment saw through the shadows and pulled her body into being corporeal.

You shift your face away for a split second the moment you feel the arrows strike. The double exposure creates something new.

Melting by Turisas

As you look back you notice Djarrus, doing the same. Evidently he heard the whisper too. The Lady of Shadow was half there still, but the other half was filled with fire. The darkness that had surrounded her burnt away in the flash.

"Is she dead?"

      **“Oh My Goddess! no little one, you would have to travel
      to her home the Plane of Shadow. And, I would advise
      against that. She is much more powerful in person.
      I just allowed you the opportunity to destroy her foothold...
      She was cheating.”*

When the bow is brought back up, you notice the string is slightly glowing but nowhere near the level of power it was a moment before.