Alyson and Caliaphy kept up with the Swordsman and the ranger easily enough. As they made their way to the ogre, the terrain became steeper and loose gravel littered the exposed areas of the valley's hillside. Alyson had to adjust her footing here and there to prevent falling. Caliaphy went invisible and buzzed ahead to see where the ogre was and nearly smacked right into the brute. She scared herself enough to pop into full view of the monster. "EEEEKK!"

"HEY! A FAIRY! ME HUNGRY FOR FAIRY! ME WANT TO EAT FAIRY NOW! GET BACK HERE YOUUUUUU!" The ogre swung his giant club at the fairy.

"AHHHH! You MISSED ME! NAHNAHNAH!" The fairy angered the ogre enough for it follow her from its original path. "INCOMING!!"

The elementalist activated the gauntlets out of pure instinct and readied an earth based trap for the oncoming threat thundering towards her, Irzen, and Willow.

Willow pulled out his bow and arrow, nocked an arrow and readied himself to take a shot the moment the ogre came into view.

Irzen drew forth his sword and dropped into a battle stance as he waited for the ogre to stumble into their ambush.

"HEY! NO FAIRY SNACK GETS AWAY FROM ME!" The ogre stomped through clearing a path on the hill side. The creature swung his massive club downing a tree near the elementalist.

Alyson jumped back out of the way and in plain view of the ogre. She backed up several feet out the range of the pit trap she set up but kept the attention of the ogre. "Hey! Come and get me!"

The ogre pulled back his weapon up and over his head for another attack, when Caliaphy appeared in front of the ogre's face and blew fairy dust on him. The creature immediately began to sneeze like crazy loosing all concentration on his intended target.

Willow cut loose with an arrow and drilled the ogre in his right eye.

The ogre roared in pain grasping his head where the arrow lodged itself into. The creature pulled out the arrow with the eye attached to it, eye ball and all out completely. With the good eye, he swung the club across and down slamming into another tree forcing the ranger to move, or be crushed instantly. "PUNY ELF MAN! I CRUSH YOU NOW! I BRING YOUR HEAD TO GRUUMASHT! HE REWARD ME FOR ANOTHER KILL!"

Willow skillfully dived out of the way as the tree crashed just inches away from him.

"Caliaphy, can you get down here?" Irzen still in his battle crouch called out to the fairy, "I just had a delightfully mischievous idea that is tailor made for someone with your talents."

The fairy buzzed down to the swordsman with a mischievous grin, "What do you have in mind?"

"I want you to turn invisible, get really small, fly into the ogre's ear and shatter his eardrum," The Drow smiled back at the Fairy with an evil grin, "At the very most, the pain will knock him unconscious. At the very least, the shattering of his eardrum is going to take out his equilibrium causing him to fall like a ton of bricks. He won't be able to stand. And if you can't stand he can't fight. Can you do it?"

"I'm good but I'm not that good." Caliaphy shrugged, "Sorry, no can do. I can however, call up an insect swarm if you like. I haven't done that in really loooooooooooong time."

"ME KILL DARK ELF TOO! ME BRING TWO HEADS TO GRUUMASHT! FAIRY IS SNACK AND HUMAN IS PRIZE FOR GRUUMASHT!" The ogre boasted loudly enough for the entire hillside to hear.

Alyson didn't wait for the ogre to stumble into the hole in the ground instead she unleashed a torrent of loose gravel and rock shards into the mid section of the ogre knocking it prone. Glancing over at Caliaphy and Irzen chatting off to the side,"Hey, tweeledee and tweeledum, less talking and more helping!"

*****

Meanwhile, Serna began to make her way towards the Elves with Lazheros by her side, "Um, sir, if Willow's people cannot speak Common, can you please be the one to speak to them? I never learned any Elvish when I was coming up. Okay?"

"Of course, child." He said walking behind her through the thick brush between the trees.

"Thanks, you know, sir, I think we're going to make a pretty good team," Serna led the way towards the Elves as she used her shield to push through the thick brush, "That is, if all of this works out."

"Serna, you may call me, Laz if you like." The Bronze Man moved a low lying branch out of her way as they made their way to Willow's kin hiding up ahead of them.

The Shield Maiden giggled, "Thank you, sir, I mean Laz. That's very kind of you." The pair reached the spot where the Elves were hiding.

Upon coming out into the opening, a small elven girl popped out from behind a tree, "Are you here to help us?"