New world chapter 6: The Ruins of Rhest

Upon investigating the Nissos It may have been here for a good 5 to 10 years the land around it had already began to claim it plant's and vegetation already growing all over it.
 
The others were studying the area around the ship, but Reeze was acting like her usual self by swinging on a vine and onto the ship it was nice for Reeze to be happy after what she told me last night about her nightmare.
 
I got her a little something to try and cheer her up, It was a dictionary I noticed her spelling was a little off... well actually quite a bit off but this should help her.
 
I suddenly heard a crashing sound above the airship, Reeze had fallen through the deck of the ship and was inside it I immediately halted my investigation looking for another way into the ship that's when Reeze ran out of one of the door being followed by a strange dragon abomination.
 
It pretty much cut into Reeze almost tearing her to ribbons but we managed to get it off of her with a quick Slow spell from Morvius and some trampling from Syrup.
 
It was then something else jumped down on top of the Strange dragon abomination it was a goblin carrying a meat cleaver, I of course having some bad experiences with goblins panicked and hit it over the head with my staff and I managed to knock it out.
 
It was then that Morvius decided to take charge for some reason and told me to investigate the airship and everyone else to take five I felt a little annoyed at that.
 
Oh I hope Movius does not read this I don't want him to know I found him annoying at that time he is nice enough it's just his constant tali slaps get on my nerves a bit.
 
We learnt that this goblin was called Knee knocker and he was actually with the hobgoblins at one point but he said seeing as the hobgoblins all decided to turn to the god Tiamat trying to bring her here and they even have powerful dragons working with them.
 
How did it get to this? I was once just a librarian and now I am tackling something that is far out of my league this Tiamat is also known as The undying Queen, The bane of Bahamut how can we even fight something like this?
 
We did not have much time to lose so after questioning Knee knocker he told us that they were doing something to dragons eggs to make them abominations like what we just fought.
 
This was all going down at the The ruins of Rhest, but we would have to get through the blockade first so that's where we went.
 
When we got there I sent Mordy to scout ahead and found several hobgoblins and even two ogres in there but the blockade was made of wood big mistake.
 
The plan for bringing this blockade down was for Morvius and Knee knocker to disguise themselves as hobgoblins and get the front entrance open and then bring this place down with as much fire as we can muster, while Maple and Syrup use my invisibility spell to go around back and make sure they don't escape.
 
The plan went off without many complications, but on the journey Knee knocker decided to touch the spell book that Cyrus had helped me build since I started my life as a wizard and that just pushed one of my buttons and I almost lost it.
 
I managed to get my book back but I swear if that thing touches my spell book again I will turn him into a toad.
 
When we arrived at The Ruins of Rhest I sent Mordy to scope the area however after a few minute a hawk began attacking him and seeing this through his eyes was plain terrifying I told him to dive down toward the water and pull up fast, but the hawk caught him first and he was dismissed.
 
Bells began to ring and we all decided it was now or never so we headed straight into combat going for the bell tower first to stop the alarms where there were what we thought were 5 hobgoblins.
 
We had to cross the river on Maple handy boat and with a few gust of winds from Zuni we arrived there rather quickly not too many arrow hitting us.
 
Reeze and Zuni went straight into the tower however Morvius and I saw a sixth hobgoblin drink something and start to fly away from the tower so Morvius tried to bring it down.
 
I could tell this was like the time with the bug bear so I cast dispel magic on it and it fell into the water below and started swimming towards it's destination.
 
It was around this time I saw Reeze fall from the tower I had no time to cast feather fall as she fell into the 20 foot deep water.
 
I was relieved to see her come back up a smile on my face this was just like Reeze and that why we loved her.
 
It was also that point when she tried to swim back that the same thing that she told us about from her dream came up from the water and grabbed her from behind and dragged her down.
 
I was absolutely terrified but I knew I had to help Reeze so I was about to run for the water even though I was scared I knew she need my help but as I was about to reach the water a giant whoosh of wind came and the whole lake was frozen over.
 
I clutched my staff tightly I will not accept another loss I am going to blast through that ice myself!