From inside the cave three more goblins came flying out and collapsed on the ground dead. Out came the black-shadow draconian, Dragolem. He gave the swordsman a toothy grin as he caught another mid air and snapped its neck like a twig. "Took you long enough, swordsman!"

"What can I say, Dragolem, I've always been late for dinner but I've never been late for a party!" Irzen smiled from ear to ear, "Take your pick! You want the Goblins closing on Willow or the half-blind Ettin? Serna and I will take your sloppy seconds but choose now!"

The black-shadow draconian tripped up three more with a tail sweep and followed through with a body slam. The goblins did not get back up.

"Dragolem! You're back! YAY!" Serna leaped for joy, "Boy, do we need your help! Can you help us?"

Dragolem growled menacingly at the shield maiden, "This is a grownup fight! Get lost! Go and help out the ranger!"

"EEEP!" Serna jumped back a step at Dragolem's menace, "Okay! I'm going!" The Shield Maiden ran towards Willow's position.

"Dragolem, take care of the rest of the Goblins and the Ettin!" Irzen commanded as he raced after the Shield Maiden, "Serna, wait! You need someone to watch your back!" As the Swordsman closed with Serna, Irzen sliced through three other Goblins that tried to get between them without even breaking a step.

"The kid can take care of herself, Irzen," The draconian spat acid on the ground in front of the ettin just before it took a step.

The ettin having enough of being target practice for the ranger picked up a boulder and threw directly at him. It crushed some of the goblins as it rolled up and over the ridge on direct collision course with Willow.

The Prince saw the boulder coming at him, pulled three arrows from his quiver, nocked them and charged towards the boulder heading his way. Willow leaped upward, landed upon the boulder, launched himself off of the boulder as it went by, turned in mid-air and fired all three of his arrows into the heads of three Goblins before he landed upon the ground behind the attacking Goblins who were now running in the wrong direction.

Alyson felt like a fifth wheel and found a spot to watch the battle from a safe distance. ~ Gee...I feel like chopped liver here! Do this, do that! Hmph! This isn't even his home turf and he acts like he knows what he's doing! Oh, well I guess I will go and get those people out of there before the mountain side collapses.~

The elementalist looked briefly at Lazheros before she sank into the granite stone and popped up behind the prisoners, who were a group of dwarves tightly bound together. She pulled out her knife and cut the ropes, when one of them turned around to see who was freeing them.

Alyson held up a single finger, "Shhhh. My friends are keeping the ettin and goblins busy."

When the dwarves were freed she gave them their weapons. "You can't stay here. The cave is about to collapse but I can get you out."

Reluctantly the group of four dwarves agreed. They had enough of being used as punching bags by the goblins. The elementalist placed a hand on them and they were teleported outside on the path behind the bronze man.

"Well done, Alyson. Now go and help your friends. I will provide heals to these fine men." The bronze man pulled out his holy symbol.

Caliaphy gasped and collected her courage by flying over to Serna just as a goblin was trying to cut her off. "Oh no you don't, you mean green ugly fiend!" The fairy zapped the goblin with a shot of fairy dust and immediately dropped its weapon and started skipping around acting all goofy.

"Thanks, Caliaphy!" Serna raced onward to help Willow.

The elementalist ran up and over the ledge to help Serna up, "Take my hand, Serna! Nice job, Caliaphy!"

"No body messes with my best friend!" The fairy declared proudly.

Serna eagerly took Alyson's hand, "Wow! Caliaphy, I'm your BEST friend?! I know we are friends but I never knew you were my BEST friend!"

When Irzen saw Alyson and Caliaphy helping Serna, the Swordsman turned about and charged towards the Goblins playing the war drums. His intent was to cut them down and silence them for good.

Willow landed upon the rocky slope to the rear of the charging Goblins and slid down towards Alyson, Serna and Caliaphy coming to a stop right before them. "They're going to turnabout and charge at us in a few minutes. Are you all ready?"

"Ready as I'll ever be, Willow," Serna activated her shield, "I can stand my ground with the best of them."

"Uh-huh!" Caliaphy said stoically posing like Supergirl with her wings flowing in the wind like a cap.

The elementalist stepped in front of them, "Willow get them back up on the ridge. That fireball I sent into this area five minutes ago caused a chain reaction. Irzen didn't see it but I did. This whole area is prone to rock slides, and the vibration just made it worse. So, unless you want to buried alive, stay near Lazheros, and I got the captives out too."

Dragolem speared the ettin in the back causing it to fall forward right into the pool of acid. The screams of pain from the creature echoed all throughout the narrow ravine. The sound of falling rocks from above started coming down crushing anyone near the cave entrance. The draconian jumped out of the way of a boulder that hit and rolled over another two goblins before it stopped completely. Spreading his wings he took off and grabbed the swordsman just before another rock of considerable size came tumbling down on him.