New Blood #12 Elfquest: New Blood #12
Warp, Dec 1993, colour.
1 New Blood #12 cover WARóóPART TWOóóWindkin cannot fly and can't see far enough to walk. Halek and Rosh are hurt by falling rocks. Scouter comes to Windkin and asks for his help. Savah tells Ahdri it is not time to die. It is not finished yet. Suntoucher tells little Dhan to find blankets to wet them. Bat being Tyldak tells Yun that she won't see Kahvi unless Kahvi wishes it. Yun tells Savah that she cut Kahvi out of her web to help them but she is after the Little Palace again. Savah tells her that is of no importance now. The relic is not in the same underground chamber but in another chamber. Tyldak finds the relic missing and tells Yun he can carry two off and then not far. He tells them not to give up, he will return. Riding their wolves, Dart and Shushen are turning the horse like Zwoots away from the village. Dart tells him the danger is like a tumble in the furs. Shushen tells Dart if he gets himself killed, he will have only Yun to tease, "To me you are like none other, Dart...smart of not!" Chot is about to say something with, "Let's gut the..." when the volcano lets more blasts fly. Someone of the Go Backs fires an arrow into Shushen's upper chest and he falls off his wolf. The arrow shooter kills the wolf, too and the leader tells him, "Good! You did the wolf, too!" The blond sees Dart and says, "I'll put a..." Dart, savagely, attacks, "You're meat to be wasted!!!" Dart rips the arrow elf's arrow and face and chest, killing him. He wants to kill more. Newstar's son, Kimo, a JackóWolfrider, tells Dart they are with him and the violence is mindless now as mindless as the erupting volcano. Kahvi finds Newstar, tied up in the underground chamber by her son and lifemate for her own safety. Kahvi sees the Go Backs, "By Guttlekraw's skull!" Jekko falls, blood out of his mouth. Kahvi runs out to kill using Jekko's own sword. Dart wants at her. The Go Back leader tells Chot, "You said she was dead." Kahvi goes after Zey, the Go Back leader. Panting, blond, blue eyed Mender is told he is a healer and must not give in to his blind rage. When this battle ends, his battles begin. He heals Savah. Mender sees elf Wing raising a sword over his brother's head and tosses him up over his head and down as Mender kkraaks the back of Wing over his knee.Tyldak and giant hawks arrive but Kahvi tells the Go Backs they are on her side, not on those who follow troll scat like Zey. Chot stabs Yun who insulted a Go Back. Yun tells Chot to just shut up and stabs and wounds him. Kahvi tells Zey he made mistakes, to make sure she was dead before he tried to replace her. She hits his sword as he pleads for her not to. She turns the sword in her hand and with Zey behind her back, plunges the sword backward into his upper midsection. He gasps, "Aakg...!" Kahvi is upset, "This isn't why I came for the palace. This isn't a raising up. It's a fall. A fall from whatever honor the Go Backs had left." Kahvi says, "We don't know what to do anymore with good things...clean things...but the Sun Folk seem to know...! Let them keep the Little Palace! Let them keep it...in peace!" Rain pours out of the sky as the whole area turns dark like night. Savah would choose to forget this day. The sky weeps she says. The colorful insectólike humanoid like Preservers are told to go to the one's whose Mender's touch cannot save to bind the gravely wounded in timeless slumber to "...keep them with us. Others who loved and touched us all...do slip away. Leaving those of us who live....behind...forever changed." Dart holds his dead Shushen as blood pours.