Because The Shield Maiden was able to draw the full attention of the Bullywugs, they had their backs to the rest of the Adventurers. And because of this fact, the others were in a position to take full advantage of the situation.
"WHATT?!" Croaked the leader pulling out a horn and blowing it, "BULLYWUGS ATTACK NOW!!"
"YAAHHH!!" Irzen charged out of the brush with Evenflow in hand and in a single downward blow cut down two Bullywugs before they knew they were dead.
"Oh no you don't!" Caliaphy appeared with a stick and poked the leader in the eye, "Hah!"
"Arrghh!"
Another bunch of bullywugs popped out of the ground behind the kurori and missed grabbing her completely. One of them lost its footing and tumbled into the leader.
Alyson jumped down on top of one trying to sneak up on Lazheros and sent it into unconsciousness. "Wooo! This is fun!"
The Bronze Man polymorphed into the rage drake again and tackled the group on Serna. With a powerful swipe of his tail they all went down hard. Then proceeded to knock over the rest for Irzen to dispatch.
As they fell before Lazheros' whip-like tail, Irzen sliced and diced the Bullywugs before they could regain their footing or recover their weapons.
Getting to her knees, the Shield Maiden redirected the magical energy of her shield and sprang forward executing a shield bash that sent the Bullywug leader sprawling out on the ground unconscious.
"That's what you get for being a bully, you mean, nasty froggie!" Serna declared proudly.
"Uh, Serna," Alyson looked towards the clearing, "Celebrate later. We need to free the gnomes and get out of here."
"I'm with Alyson," Caliaphy flew over to the shield maiden, "Those gnomes look really, really scared and maybe they'd tell us what's going on someplace else?"
"Oh, yeah, right!" Serna replied as she collected herself, "Sorry! I got caught up in the moment."
As the rage drake turned around he went behind a large shrub turning back into himself, "Hmph! I can honestly understand why Armendes gets upset from time to time now."
While Irzen dispatched the last of the Bullywugs, The Shield Maiden lowered her weapon and approached the once-captured gnomes, "Hello! We're not going to hurt you. I'm Serna the Shield Maiden and these are my friends--Alyson the Elementalist, Caliaphy the Fairy, Irzen the Swordsman and Lazheros the Cleric. We're here to help. Who are you?"
After a few minutes of having their lives threaten by the group of bullywugs, one of the gnomes was brave enough to peek up and see a group of children looking at them.
"Eh? Who are you lot? Never seen any of you 'ere before?" The male gnome in grays and brown garb addressed the shield maiden.
Then another popped his head up, "You dolt, the lass just told us who they are. Me, names Gimble. We thank you for the help squishing those bullywugs. They've been harassing my people for a long while ever since Venger learned that we have mine filled with some kind of magic gem. We had left the gems alone and lived in peace for many decades until the overseer came."
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