The Gensai named Akon was rather friendly, the other Gensai, the one I had to knock out was Shara. She wasn't friendly. She continued to flirt with me, then spouted out a number of explitives. Of course I needed to gag her again. Akon knows how to leave the Waste, and we started walking towards the gate. A gate was a link to another world. Strangely Akon didn't want me to kill Shara, not that I would, she's rather helpless now. So we took her with us. At first she wasn't too cooperative, so I strapped her to my back and continued on. The gensai was only maybe a hundred pounds. With all the training and fighting, this was nothing. As we get closer to the gate, someone appeared.

"Greetings mortals, what brings you to the Waste?" My hand went to Derra, and pointed it at the creature. "I don't think that is necessary." the creature said. It was six foot tall, with a fox-like head with a devious smile. From what I heard among "Boot Camp". It was an Arcanoloth, a greater Yugoloth, these are the most devious of the fiends, who will betray you in a second. "What do you want fiend?" Derra started sending me waves telling me that this was indeed a fiend, if I had any doubt, and thoroughly evil. Akon's sword was also trained on the 'loth. He didn't seem much concerned with him. "My aren't you testy. I mean you no harm."

Suddenly the straps on my back broke and Shara plopped to the ground, behind me. Her gag must have dropped off, because she spoke. "Help me Arcanoloth. I will pay you three thousand gold if you slay that Gensai and capture the Blood Warrior who captured me." A hideous laugh blasted out the fiend's throat. "Ridiculous, that is much too low a price and you don't have the gold." Shara answered "Fool! My power is the power of the thieves. I can get all the gold I need." The 'loth replied "He's too busy running from the Chaos Hound. The Berk. You are a priestess of the thief power, and I doubt weapon less you will be able to get away, much less defeat Bane." My eyes widen "How did you know my name?" The fiend replied "Easy Basher, ESP is easy for a Yugoloth! I know a lot of things. besides I'm here to help you." Never trust a fiend. "You don't trust me? I can get you to Sigil, I'll even set you up with some jink, even magic items that you might find interesting, and a gem." Derra spoke "Just kill him Bane, 'Loth's are the worse kind of fiend." The fiend smirked "So the fiend slayer sword speaks. I can offer your possessor a way out of this burg, and cash to boot, including this diamond." The fiend pulled out a gem the size of his palm. "The magic item, I can't touch. It's not very useful to yugoloths, but to you, it'd work just fine." Derra 'looked' at the items. "No he will betray you." The fiend smiled "No, actually if you kill this Baatezu group, and they are stalking after you anyway. your "friends" are coming for you. Slay them all and I'll give you the items and I'll teleport you and your friends to the Gate, and you'll be free to leave to Sigil."

"Well they will come after me. How many of them are after me. Derra is going to detect if you are lying." The fiend looks at me and says "twenty Black Abashai, and a Red Abashai leader." I turn to Akon. "Are you a good mage?" Akon replied "You aren't seriously thinking about fighting them all?" I nod. "I know they won't leave me alone, so they'll leave me alone if I kill them all. You don't need to aid me." Akon looked at me and lets out a sigh. "All right, I'll help you, but what are we going to do with her?" The thief-priestess was slinking off, trying to get away from us. "Let her go, she's not likely to get where she needs to go." Shara stopped, as if the realization of what I said struck her. She came back to us in a slow moping walk. "Bastard! I'll gut you. I hope those fiends rip your heart out!" A laugh pushed out "I guess I will have to disappoint you, I know these Abashai. They don't have the guts. Too bad you can't help us." The gensai grimaced "You think I am going to fight those fiends, you are plain barmy! I'm going out on my own." I smile. "Your choice Shara." I flipped her dagger to her. "Here's your dagger, poison free. You should survive just fine out here on your own." Her dagger rocketed towards me. My hand came up and grabbed it by the pommel. Her eyes raised in astonishment. "Don't want your dagger Shara? Fine. See you in the next life. Let's go Akon."

Akon has a big grin on his face. There was no place to hide, and I could see the twenty-one fiends coming our way. "Akon, can you cast a spell to hurt the fiends?" The mage nodded "Yes, but it won't hurt them much, but it will hit all of them." Quickly I say "Do it." The mage starts murmuring. A fireball streaked out and blasted the group of fiends. It staggered the fiends, none of them fell, but they streak down toward us. Akon cast another spell and three missiles streaked over and struck one of the Abashai. This one fell from the sky. I load some silver bolts as Akon cast three more missiles. I fired my hand crossbow, and two bolts struck one of the fiends. There were only 18 left. Akon and I take two more down before they were in striking distance. Derra blazed out and whacked the fiend and split him in two. The Air Gensai slashed one, and it fell as well. The fiends streaked down and clawed and bite.. They slashed at us and bit.

Our swords slashed and hacked at the fiends. Claws struck and bit our skin. Through all the black and red blood running through my sight was the Red Abashai. My sword cut through him like a knife through butter. I spin around, and more Abashai fell. I could no longer see Akon, but I could hear him still slashing. More fiends drop. I could no longer feel the claws cutting into me. The number declined and the fiends corpses are down. Akon fell, but it looked like someone was on him. I jump at the invisible intruder. The body was soft and supple, and when I try to hold her down I felt female parts. Her hand struck at me. I stopped it with mine. We struggle and I felt lips pressed against mine. Shara became visible to me now. She was an attractive woman, but venomous. I tried to pull away from her because I knew Akon was dying. She pulled me back to her. "Let him die, take me." Her lips savagely sucked on mine, and my body burned hot. Suddenly my mind kicked back in place, I slipped a vial with her poison in my hand. Quickly I forced a dose down her throat. "you basss........." Her struggle stopped.

I knew Akon was in bad shape. I started bandaging his body. He was still alive, but he'd be out for even longer than Shara. I wasn't in great shape myself. My bandages were wet with my blood. A groan issued out from Akon, but he rolled over and lay there asleep. Shara looked mad, and I started to regret a little about stopping our tryst, but if I hadn't, Akon would have died, and if it wasn't for him, the fiends would have beaten us. Not only did she not help, she tried to kill him too. My head felt really bad. I needed to get away from this plane. The fiend appeared again. "Greetings Bane, you did well. Here is your reward." He pulled out a bag. "The contents contain five thousand in Planar gold, the diamond I showed you previously, two teleporters, and a gate key to Sigil." I took the bag. "What are the teleporters for?" The fiend grinned "The first leads you to the magic items I told you about. The second will take you to the Gate." My mind still wasn't clear. "Fine, thank you fiend." The fiend snorted "Rude mortal meat aren't you, you don't even know my name." My eyes crossed him, and my hand moved to Derra, and pointed at him. "If you mean to attack us now." The fiend replied "Oh no, you did me a great service. One thing I like about good cutters is I can get them to kill my enemies but only if they are portrayed as being evil. We will meet again, and you will be apt to work with me again. The name mortals call me is Metran, by the way. Call me by name if you have more need for some jink." The fiend gave me a wink and then disappeared.

Akon wasn't looking good. His wounds were soaked with blood. His breathing was shallow. He would die on this plane if I didn't do something about it. "Derra? Can you heal Akon?" Derra's voice echoed out "Yes, but you need healing yourself." I replied "I'll live, but Akon won't if you don't heal him." Derra sent a pleasant buzz through my hands. "Touch my tip to him, and I'll heal him." I placed her blade down on Akon, and a white light filled him, and his wounds quickly vanished. Akon's sky blue eyes opened. "Welcome to the land of the living." I helped Akon up. "What happened?" I told him the story about using my sword to heal him. I refrained from telling her the story about the hot lip lock between Shara and myself. I showed him the teleporter and I pulled it out and Akon peered at it. Then he rubbed the teleporter. Before I could say anything, we were in a new place.

The teleporter took all of us, including the unconscious Shara. A Cave entrance loomed in front of us. It stank of fresh blood. "I don't like the look of this." A pair of large red eyes peered out at us from the cave. "So, these are the berks the Fiend sent for me. Good.... a lot of good eating." Akon and I drew our weapons. Flames lashed out of the cave, and we leapt out of the way. Shara was nowhere to be seen, but obviously she turned invisible and fled. The dragon came out of the cave. It's red scales glistened as it moved, they ran over his huge frame. I was no dragon expert, but this one looked like it just reached adulthood. "Don't want to be well-done? I could eat you raw too." I rushed the dragon and slashed with Derra. Derra cut into the side of the scales, they didn't seem as powerful as they looked, either that or Derra is more powerful than she looked. The Dragon slashed and bit at me. This distraction allowed Akon to cast a lightning bolt at the dragon. It hurt the beast, but it didn't stop him. Flames lapped out his mouth at Akon, some of them broke his bluish skin, he crumpled to the ground. The dragon growled in triumph "One down, one to go."

I was certain I was dead, but I certainly couldn't run. Derra cleaved into him again. This seemed to hurt him even more than before. I was too close for him to blast me. "I'll eat you raw!" His huge maw came down and engulfed me. I was standing inside his mouth. I jammed my shield down his throat, and it definitely caught. Flames sputtered out past the shield. I slashed the dragons tongue, which was underneath me. Derra cleaved it in half. The Dragon shrieked, I shot out his mouth with my shield and flames. I crashed with a thud, my whole body screamed out painfully. Turning to look at the dragon, he was in shock looking at his fallen tongue laying on the gray earth. I lifted Derra and my shield and ran straight for the dragon. Even though I was far from quiet, I was able to catch him off guard and drive my blade through his upper shoulder. Derra was lodged in the beast and I couldn't pull her out. The big beast thrashed around. Without Derra, my only weapon was my crossbow. I quickly loaded it. Two bolts flew and bounced off his scaly hide. Flames blasted towards me. I pulled up my shield to block the flood of flames. Most of it was stopped by my shield, but my lower armor was cooked by it. The hot metal was burning into my legs. I took out my silver dagger and slashed the straps that held my grieves on, so they fell off. My thighs were burnt and my shins were red and burning. Two more bolts bounced off his massive frame. Suddenly another bolt of lightning struck the dragon, Akon was still alive, still in bad shape, but alive.

The light in the beast's eyes died out, he stopped moving and his lids shut for his forever sleep on this hellish plane. I walked towards the dragon, and pulled Derra from his shoulder. "Excellent work Bane, you are a warrior worthy of me." I flushed with embarrassment. "by the way, the water gensai didn't leave, she's in the cave." I looked over at Akon who was trying to recover himself. "Will you be okay Akon?" The Gensai's skin still had a reddish glow, but he nodded. He was in bad shape, but he looked like he would be okay, so I rushed into the cave.

I could hear someone in here, but no one could be seen. A large amount of treasure was here. Gold, silver and platinum coins, some glowing items lay in the pile as well. "Look out!" Shrieked Derra, and I dropped to the ground. A flash of blade streaked over my head, and I could feel a body above me. I jumped at the body and it felt like I hit a soft form. I grabbed, and caught a leg. The body dropped. A glowing dagger came at me, and it slashed my side. A screaming pain echoed through me. It hurt much more than what a dagger should have done. I punched at the invisible form and struck it's face squarely. The body stopped moving and the dagger dropped on the ground. The body materialized, and I wasn't surprised to see that it was Shara. I tried to pick up the dagger but it burned my hand. The gensai jumped up and kissed me hard. Shara had a succulent taste to her lips, and my body grew hot as her body pressed tight against mine. Our lips parted "Take me." This was one strange woman. She tried to kill me, and now she wants to have sex. As evil as I know she is, it was difficult to not do what she wanted me to do. She already had her hand down toward my cod piece. I grabbed her hand. "No." I said to her, even though every fiber in my being wanted her. The only thing that held me back was that I didn't know whether we would finish the act, or if she would try to kill me again. "Why? You won me. I am yours. Ravage me." She brought my hands up to her breasts. Her body felt like running my hands through water, but there was definite firm mounds. She moaned with desire as my hands ran over her. "I've always wanted someone who was worthy of taking me." She reached down and pulled off the lower portion of her leather armor. I stood up. "No. Not here, not with a woman like you."

Shara's eyes flared "What do you mean `A woman like me?' I am more woman than any normal man deserves. You should thank your power that I am giving you this pleasure!" I replied "An evil woman like you, one who tries to kill me?" Shara looked at me sweetly "I had to try, if you had died, you wouldn't be worthy of me." In an insane way, it almost made sense. I looked at myself, I was still blood stained, hardly something that would be attractive to the opposite sex. "Well....." I was rather stunned that she would want me. While she wasn't human, she was built like a woman, but with smooth greenish skin, firm shapely figure and long black hair and sultry green eyes. While a thing of beauty, I could see the angst in her, and looks definitely like the evil seductress she is. Derra spoke for me. "You are an evil bitch is what he's trying to say. A woman without any sense of honor or love." Shara smirked "You'll have me, you wait a little longer and you won't be able to resist." Sadly, she was right, it took all I had to resist her now. It helped that I wasn't really in the mood for coupling as it was, but if I wasn't burnt, bloody, and she wasn't trying to kill me........"Bane, the treasure!"

Derra's voice brought me out of my thoughts. I turned around and saw glimmering gold and silver coins in a huge pile. It definitely looked as if someone took a portion of it for herself. Of course she didn't lift a hand to help us. A beautiful shining shield with a black rose as the standard lay in the pile, along with a number of other goods. Potions, scrolls, gems and jewelry. "The Shield would be perfect for us. It radiates strong magic. So do the potions, the scrolls, and an amulet hidden under the mound of coins. It's radiating an aura of good, it may be the magic item the fiend spoke of." I filled my coin purse with coins. And pocketed some huge gems, diamonds, emeralds, rubies, and such. Underneath was a large gold amulet. It glowed with a white aura, that couldn't be squelched by the gray waste. "He must have collected this treasure for a long time. Why didn't it turn gray?" Derra replied "Magic, the dragon had a spell to keep everything in this cave at it's current glamour. Now that he is dead, it will turn to past, and become gray." A noise came from cave entrance, I turned and saw a burnt Akon, I also noticed that Shara was scooping coins, putting coins in every hidden spot in her body. I would have complained more, but there was more than enough coins here that even the three of us couldn't carry it all. "Are you all right Akon?" Akon grimly nodded. "I am fine, where was the she-bitch when we could have used her help?" Shara smiled sweetly "I'm helping carrying the treasure." I whispered to Derra "Detect magic." A few rings on her hands glowed and so did her dagger, most powerfully. A stab of pain struck me in the side. I looked and found that the wound that Shara stuck me with, it was getting worse and bleeding profusely. I issued a bellow. Shara looked up. "Hmm..." She walked over very sultry and examined the wound. "Looks bad. I can heal you, for a price." I replied "What price might that be? We have plenty of gold." Shara smirked "You know what I want."

I knew what she wanted. I tried to staunch the bleeding, to no avail. "It's no use Bane, this dagger is magical, and it's not going to stop bleeding until you get healed by me." I looked over the potions that were glowing in the pile. I lifted a blue bottle and popped the cork. Akon smiled, but looked warily with anticipation and hope. I lightly turned over the bottle so only a drop hit my tongue. The liquid tingled in my mouth, almost a numbing feeling on my tongue. The liquid was sweet, I swallowed a little more, and I could feel the wound start to close. For some reason I figured a bluish potion would be a healing. Akon came over to me as soon as he noticed that the potion was a healing one. I handed him the bottle which still had plenty of fluid in. He gulped the whole thing and he recovered completely. Shara scowled. I noticed that there were two more with bluish liquid, a bottle of red (couldn't be too good) and a green one (again, a little bit leery). I picked up the potions and gave them to Akon. He pocketed them in his pouches, which were the only articles of clothing that weren't scorched.

I fished through the pile of coins and found an amulet. The power was glowing off of it like a bright sun. It felt good, it's energy was emitting, beckoning me. I put the amulet on, and I felt like I was touched by God. A light filled me, and I felt protected. Akon looked at the amulet and said "Let me see that amulet." The blue skinned man came up to me and looked at the symbol on the amulet, which was a burning red sky with a sword pointing down to the bottom. "It's a Godsman artifact! This was what I was supposed to find." He tried to pull the amulet off my neck, but it wouldn't budge. I realized that it was the least I could do was to return it to him. I pulled the amulet off, and it released easily, but I could almost hear it tell me not to take it off. I handed it to Akon. "By the Source, Ambar will be pleased to see this." Something else was glowing in the pile that I didn't notice before. It was a large gem. I sifted through the gold coins to pick it up. There wasn't much light in the cave, but the gem was pulsing with energy, a blink of light in this large blue gem.

Shara came over to me and the pulsing in the gem grew, twice as large as it has been. "What's this?" She brought her hand up to try to take the gem. I grabbed her hand harshly. "It's not yours, you took enough treasure as it was." Shara gave a false look of shock. "I only took some gold..." Her only redeeming quality was her beauty, I broke in "and some rings and the dagger you nearly killed me with." Her dagger came out "Maybe I should kill you with it now?" I pulled Derra out and slapped her hand with the flat of her blade. The dagger flew to the back of the cavern. "Don't mess with me, or your corpse will be rotting on the Waste." Shara's face turned from actual shock to her own smirk.

"You wouldn't hurt me, not only do you want me, but you are a goodie-goodie basher, who wouldn't harm a woman." She was almost right. Derra slashed at her and struck her shoulder, her blood trickled down her sensual figure. "You are really going to die for that!" She was taken aback, but I didn't impress how serious I was about this. I rushed her and slammed her down against the coins "Don't fuck with me bitch." Shara's face softened. "Take me Bane." She pushed her lips against mine. I pushed her away. "Are you insane?" She smiled slyly to me. "I want you." My eyes rolled in their sockets. What am I going to do with this woman?