The abandoned mine was very dark and Orchyd shivered as she huddled in the shadows. Vampire bats flapped around wildly, looking for prey and Orchyd hoped she did not become that prey. She pressed against the wall and crouched slightly, in an effort to merge with the shadows.

Hurrying along the dark corridor, she passed corpses piled high...miners and ninja moles lay in bloody pools and the stench of the drying blood made her gasp for air. A liitle further along the dark passage, a small dimly lit cavern opened to the south, she stopped abruptly as she heard voices. Peeking carefully into the cave, she saw a horrific sight....skeletons and bones littered the floor and a small fire lit the cave dimly. Two armoured knights with pumpkins for heads and a great, brutal looking behemoth were taunting a child who was cowering in one corner of the filthy hovel. The poor child was paralysed with fear and looked as if he would pass out at any time but the knights and behemoth didn't care about that, they were having fun, poking and prodding and laughing at the poor thing.

On closer inspection, Orchyd noticed that one of the child's hands was tied to a rusty ring embedded in the rock wall. Without stopping to think about her own safety, she slipped into the cave behind the monsters' backs and hid herself behind a couple of boulders which sat in a corner, not too far from the child, she managed to catch his eye and motioned for him to be quiet and not give her away.

"So, you pathetic creature,"  boomed the voice of the behemoth,   "you come in here with your little lisping voice asking for Twick or Tweats, well this is a fine trick indeed, I DO hope you are regretting your foolish words! but if the trick is not to your liking, here is the other thing you asked for!"

One of the knights gave a loud, piercing whistle and suddenly in flew a 2 meter tall budgie flapping his wings and yelling "TWEEEEEET"

"Muhahaha" cackled the knights and Behemoth, "now you have had a 'twick' AND a 'tweet' hahahaaaaaa."

The child was crying softly, too scared to do anything else, he must have thought his end was near when Orchyd remembered the hairstyling equipment she was carrying in her backpack. She waited patiently for a chance and when the knights and behemoth moved to sit around the fire, drinking some murky liquid from filthy glasses and roaring with laughter, she slid her hair scissors over to the child, who just managed to reach them. He carefully cut through the filthy rags which tied his hand to the ring and made a mad dash to the door. The monsters stood up to rush after him and Orchyd was convinced he would be killed when suddenly she heard familiar voices in the passage outside.

"Hey there child, what's the big hurry?"

She recognised the voice as her guildmaster LordGalcian, another voice spoke and another, voices of her guildmates Cynic and Grim, the squeaky voice of tiny Blessed, the tinkling voice of HuiPing, and several other voices she recognised from the guild!

"Oh, thank all the Gods in the heavens, we are saved!" She thought to herself.

Through a gap at the bottom of the rock she hid behind, she saw a line of armoured feet blocking the cavern entrance. The monsters were outnumbered by far, there's no way they could stand against her whole guild!

She leapt to her feet and rushed from her hiding place, shouting "Help me, help me, don't let those beasts escape!"

She looked up to meet the gaze of her guildmates and almost fainted dead away.

"Hahahaaaaaaa, it's that new girl in the guild," Laughed Galcian, "she will make a fine lunch, get out the spit behemmy and we'll roast her alive!"

The behemoth did just that, reached over and grabbed the spit from over the fire and began to twirl it menacingly.

Through terror filled eyes as she slipped into unconsciousness, Orchyd could see that every one of her guildmates had......

PUMPKINS WHERE THEIR HEADS USED TO BE!!!!

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