| 1 |  | Elves lie dead or dying in the arms of trolls who are being killed as they attack, trying to creep into the pass toward Greenhaven. Windblade warned Hawk about this and Hawk and Turo fight with other elves on their side. A troll picks up an elf and smashes him against a rock wall, while also putting his sword the upper stomach of another elf soldier and out his back. Hawk finds the leader, an arm pit licker and runs him through just as his sentences were getting longer. Turo tells Hawk they lost 20 but the trolls lost 24. Hawk is angry that if it is not the Srith, it's the dwarfs, and if not them the trolls. Trolls prefer to stick close to home. Windblade arrives with just his cape on and a necklace of a pentagram, lined to gold circular cups which go down his body to his small loin cloth. The trolls serve and fear whoever it is that is lining up the power in the ley lines. It is Lady Cloudshadow (looking a bit too Manga–ish and cartoony) with two elf boys (one on the other's back) trapped in a bottle, her pipes connected to the bottle, as well as a Gremlin smoking from a pipe. Nicho, a boy with a nose ring, ear rings, a left nipple ring with a skull dangling from it, a jock strap with points on it, and light hair serves her. There is digging for a prize. Cloudshadow wants Nicho to fetch her whip to raise a few good welts on his worthless body. She tells him not to whine. Alphonce, the Gremlin gets Nicho out of it. She tells Nicho to remind her to whip him later. She puts a creature in one of the bottles which starts torturing or eating the boys inside. Nicho tells Alphonse she can be such a bitch with that whip. Alphonse will tell her to use the puss of 9 tails, telling her what he just called her. The totally naked elf boys digging and sweating in the caves insult Nicho, the pretty boy who can't get dirty digging, pampered little bitch they call him. He makes Alphonse use a whip on them, making marks on them, then they dig faster. Alphonse says tote barge, lift bail. An evil dripping face comes out of the area and drips slime or water on one of the elf boy's crotches. A page boy thinks how lucky Turo is to lay with Hawk and Windy (who is bored). Captains Dao and Bran come in. There have been 6 troll raids in one month. Each raiding party was caught digging inside a cave or cavern. Windy is magiced out and is sick of maps. A page boy, hearing this, thinks he is a spoiled brat. Turo asks if what the trolls want is connected to the magic stuff Windblade found on the beach. Turo touches Windy's hand and back as he talks about what it could be...a token, talisman. The page thinks, "He's such an airhead." Windy wants to go to bed. He tells Hawk that getting involved is the natural way of things. Far away in Cloudshadow's Keep, Cloudshadow tells Nicho to do stop crying––the marks will go away soon...she thinks. She calls forth her darling. An evil face comes up out of an altar, near two boys, littering them with slime or...blood. Nicho wakes her up because she was dreaming, channeling. She tells him not to wake her and calls him a prick. She threatens to turn him into a eunuch. He sobs and sniffs that she told him to wake her up. She is up now and she will still make him a eunuch. She makes Alphonse beat the two elfboys at the altar––beat them until their backs are bleeding. Slime covered their backs too...from the monster head. Cloudshadow performs a rite while Nicho complains he doesn't want to be a eunuch. Ravenclaw comes back and body hugs one of the boys near the altar, thanking his love to invite him back to the land of the living. Her minions hid his head away for this day (this was the object they were searching for I guess). Ready to get revenge on all the elfin people, Cloudshadow wants the kingdom to run red with blood. |
| |  | by Barry Blair and David Mielcarek:
Troy and a very American looking lite haired kid named Eric fly in a plane near Monkey Island. There has been some weird sightings around the area...passing ships have seen lights, UFOs, monsters, Bermuda Triangle stuff. They land and Troy Adams makes Eric test the water to make sure there are no devil fish in it. Eric calls, "You prick." He is now in his bathing suit. Troy calls the monkey boys, Eric wonders if they got shy since the last time they were here. Fronz and Hans, German soldiers it would seem, shoot auto rifles at them. Troy tells Eric to get behind him, "Yeowzers!" Eric tells him he is hit (in the shoulder) and Troy tells him he noticed, "Now shaddap!" He gets the two but he tells Eric he thinks he's gonna have to be on his own from now on. |