The cave was deep and the creatures were fast. Faster than the aproxamitly hippo sized spider and the bird that were already a while ahead of Johannes due to their natural speed. About an hour later Johannes would come across the beasts again and this time get a better look at them. Now it turned out the spider was fairly close to a scorpion with it having two crab like claws (much like a certain cave spider species) instead of mandibles. It got warmer as the cave went deeper, eventually leading to some sort of wooden village, but not the cozy warm ones…

The village looked like it come out of a twisted nightmare as there were bodies hanging from the ceiling of the cave that held the rotten bodies of elves of the same species as Sylvia. Their backs were all open, showing excessive whipping wounds and moreover, none of them were alive anymore save for one. Sylvia was hanging from one of the many chains that decorated the town with dead, rotting elven bodies. There was a red hellish glow originating from below and the entire village was filled with these horrifying long limbed creatures and equally ugly orcs. Sylvia was hanging close to a ledge and had her back whipped opn as evident by one of them walking away with a whip. She hung there almost lifeless but twitched her leg every once in a while wich prompted the animals to attack. The bird mainly distracted the creatures wich gave the spider plenty of time to ravage the village with it's sheer weight and array of attacks.

When he entered the old city like structure he smiled. "Hah, just like back home." As he let his view flow over the area he noticed the spider like creature and the bird from earlier fighting these strange creatures. They seemed humanoid but with disgusting long limbs. As he looked further around he smiled at all the rotten dead bodies. "In the end all worlds are the same huh?" Then he saw her, hanging on a chain with blood dripping down her body. "Oh nonono thats not how you should treat a guest." he whispered angry. He walked towards her, ignoring any distraction until he started to get surrounded by lots of these creatured. He kneeled down putting his left hand onto the ground. "31….that's the best you can do? How dissapointing..". His sword gets surrounded by darkness as he casts another darkness sword into his left hand. "Lets do this you freaks." Some of the creatures charged right at him as he started cutting them down while spinning himself and his swords around like a crazy person.

While Sylvia hung there seemingly dead while the animals ravaged the village, orcs could not handle a bow so the bird was relatively safe and the spider who had an array of weapons including clows, spitting acid, venom fangs, the strength and webs it can leave behind was a leaugue above the orcs in terms of strength. They provided an excellent distraction for Johannes to simply wander to Sylvia and remove her chains. But there was one catch, the location at wich they hung her was tricky to reach as it was above one of these pits that werent desirable to fall into.

As he finally finished the last creature he approached towards Sylvia. As he comes closer he noticed her hanging right above some kind of pit. He has to get her down there somehow and he needs to hurry up. The spider and the bird played a good distraction for most of those creatures but they get cornered more and more. As he finally reached her he noticed something. Every time her leg moves the spider kills one of these things. "Hey, hey Sylvia can you hear me. Wake up girl theres no time to be unconscious right now. If you can hear me send that spider ofer here to get you down there, i'll cover us."

He didn't know how but the spider cut the chain and dropped Sylvia right into his arms. As the spider then attacked the creatures between them and the exit he knew what to do. He gave the spider a moment to kill the first creature and the started running towards the exit. As soon as he did that the spider went full tackling mode, stopped killing the creatures and instead using it's fairly massive body to ramm everything that stood between it and the exit. It worked, as soon as it reached the exit it climbed up the wall letting Johannes just enough time to pass before it jumped down again impaling several enemys with it legs. He hadn't much if a choice now, either stay in the cave or try making it to a village nearby before the storm arrives. The choice was clear, he had to reach that village but he wasn't sure if she'd survive it. As he carried her he knew exactly how painful it must be for her, he is touching her whipping wounds, after all he didn't had much time to do anything against it. He decided to throw her into the snow outside, hoping the cold would stop her pain a bit. He didn't knew if it worked but he hadn't tome checking that. He continued running as fast as possible until he finally saw lights in the distance as he fell to his knees. Suddenly he couldn't breathe properly. First he didn't realize what's going on but then he felt it. A terrible pain in the back. At some point he must have been hit by a spear that drove right into his lower back. "C..Come on…you…survived….worse…"
His vision went cloudy as his arms lowered letting Sylvia slide into the snow in front of him. He just felt his body oressed against her's and his head falling into the snow.

As he opens his eyes he stared right into Sylvias eyes. It was strange but he couldn't watch away. After what seemed to him like eternity she spoke to him. He didn't realize what she said because she kissed his cheek just moments before which made his mind go numb for a short moment. Then he realized how weird this situation must be and quickly turned his head away. "Johannes….the name's Johannes…and it seems like i owe you my life too. So i guess were even now." As he spoke those words he troed to stand up which for some reason just wouldn't work. He still felt quite some oain in his lower back but that's nothing that would stop him from getting up. His head hurt and he didn't know why, he can't remember beeing hit there. Then he remembered about her wounds. His arms are still covered in her blood from when he carried her. "What's with your wounds? Do you need help? I guess you couldn't reach all of them." He spoke rather fast, he didn't knew why but he just wasn't able to talk slower. He took some deep breaths. "I only posses small healing spells but i guess thats better then nothing." As he slowly approached towards her she didn't seemed scared of him at all. A rather rare situation after some witnessed him slaughtering dozends of armed creatures. But she didn't seemed to mind as he kneeled down behind her and started holding his hands near her wounds as a pale green light started glowing around her wounds. She had taken some disgusting wounds, her skin ripped apart and deep cuts into her flesh. He tried to distract her. "So why have you come here? What is it that you want from the dead? If you don't mind me asking."

"I see.." He wasn't sure how much pain she must have felt but it had to feel like hell. As he tried to heal her back as good as possible he felt sorry. If he wouldn't had left this whole thing never happened. "You are lucky…a few more hits and they would have damaged your spine…" He sure had seen worse wounds than this but its less the sight of ripped flesh and exposed bones then the actual smell of blood, raw flesh and other things that happen to come out such wounds. "My healing magic is limited to cell regeneration, i can do nothing against the pain." As he finally finished his work Sylvias new grown skin turned slightly pink. "You should give your back a break, if you touch it or lie down on it it might rips open. We should sleep…save our energy, this storm is surely lasting a few days." He stood up and went to a fairly dark corner of the cave.