*Wandering around Hauntwood Marsh for the second time in his time spend in Imythess, he still had the unmoving chills from the ominous aura of the woods. Everywhere he looked, nothing but fog and marshland surrounded him. At a point, he didn't know where the murky waters began and where they ended. He was on full alert, his samurai blade drawn and at the ready.

Each footstep he took was his only way of telling how long he was here. He had taken about 1400 steps, all in one direction- unless he was walking in an unintentional circle. This though weaved through his mind every other minute, feeling weak because he could not find the exit.

As he was reaching his 1500th step, he heard another pair of footsteps in the area he was in. He turned from left to right, then made an about face, and returned to face the original direction he was pointing in. He was unsure what was around, but was surely prepared for just about anything.*

Munwithurix Stalked the intruder for quite some time, and just now the man seemed to relize he was being watched, which gave her some humor. She was in her human form instead of her normal one, which was comfortable, but she was able to blend with the silence more when she was human. When the man seemed to notice her presence she walked into a shadow infront of the man.

"Hello, and what are you doing out here in the swamps? With no caravan, you no that these marshs are dangerous if you wander them alone," She walked in front of the man, she wore her plate armor with her sword at her side, which she didn't touch, but she didn't have a normal appearence to her, for her skin had a slight green to it and was oddly dark.

"You better watch out, I have heard rumors of a dragon here, even though the time I have been lost here I have not seen it," She made her face with a sad look, humanoids always had strange face looks, "Do you know the way out? I want to get out of here, even though I think it could be that way." She pointed towards a dark spot in the marsh. She looked at the man waiting for his answer.

*He looked at the person who approached him with a confused look. He could have swore he felt something bigger than this following him, but he could just be tired from all the walking. Sheathing his blade, he stood before her, with his eyebrows furrowed at some of her statements*

"What am I doing here? I should be asking you the same question. I know that this place is dangerous solo, but this is how I chose to go through here. I am sure you chose the same thing for you seem quite confident by how you stand. And nah, I have no clue where to go to leave this place, which is why I find it so fun. I get to hone my skills in fighting and also my pathfinding abilities. A dragon would be a great challenge....I might just go looking for it. You can join if you want, but from what I hear, the dragons here are some of the toughest" *He awaited her response before moving*

A almost bored look came over her face as the man spoke, after he was done she gave a sigh and looked him straight in the eyes, "I am here because the caravan I was traveling with left me here for some reason, they over powered me and left me here," she made herself look sad again, "I wish they didn't leave...so you said you are gonna go and find this dragon? I wouldn't mind coming along." She turned and started to walk off towards the path she had pointed to.

"I hope you will come with me, I have been heading this way for quite some time, and it maybe should brings us to the edge of the swamp and then it might be easrier searching for this dragon, for I have heard it sometimes lands at the edge of the marsh and walks from there, I have seen this trail for myself. So I hope you follow me, it might be safer for the both of us incase we run into the dragon."

Munwithurix started to head towards the path, her back faced to Kore, a hopeful look crept up onto her face. Hoping for him to follow, for that would mean she would get to fight and play with her food before eating it.

"You'll help me find and fight this dragon? I guess if you're that confident of your skills, then surely I don't see it as a problem. You lead the way though- you know where you're going better than me." *He lowered one hand by his Katana, his thumb by the end of the sheathe, ready to draw his blade as quickly as he could. He still couldn't see great, but he was a little more comforted that he had someone who knew their way around, although he was curious as to who she was and why he didn't see or hear that caravan.

He looked from left to right, half a mile from the edge of the marsh.* "Hey, you said you were left here from a caravan, right? How come I never heard it and from memory, I don't remember hearing of Caravans coming through the marsh because of the danger here....Who are you anyways?" *He was slowly piecing things together and it was showing that this lady was lying to him about a few things, and the abnormal tint to her skin made him wary. He slowed his pace and let her walk a little further from him.*

Munwithurix gritted her teeth silently, the man was starting to understand who she was, "I've been here for quite a while, I was left here about two days ago, and there are some Caravans that cross the swamp to get to Balefire," her eyes watched the man, seeing his hand on the katana made her upset, this isn't where she wanted to be icase of a fight. "Now we go this way," she pointed towards a dark area, "I'm pretty sure that this is where the dragon might come." She turned to her right and walked into a darker place of the swamp.

There was a feeling in her gut that this man wasn't going to follow her, turning around she watched him, it didn't look like he trusted her anymore. So, she decided it was time to change. Walked further into the dark place her face started to grow, wings started to come from her shoulders, her whole body grew in size, arms and legs were large clawed feet, and in seconds where she stood before was a Black Dragon. She stepped forward she had a smile on her face, or for humans it looked like a dragon bearing it's teeth.

She let magic flow into her veins, and then she filled her acid glands, she casted the spell Haste to herself with the spell Bulls Strength, so now her speed and strength is more. To start the fight she spat acid at the man, it was green looking goo and it moved fast after she had spat it.

*Kore listened to what she was saying and believed less and less of it. He had been travelling through these marshes for about a week and until today has found himself the only person around. Having a dark feeling that she was more than she seemed, his eyelids lowered halfway, a red hue beginning to form in them. He was gathering energy should she turn on him.

Playing along, he followed her with quite a distance between them. He stopped in his tracks when he saw her transformation beginning. He began to also draw on his dark energies to form once again the magical arm he has relied on for heated battles. Once formed a small ball of fire began to grow in his palm. Clenching his hand into a fist, the energy flashed from his hand, still growing. The woman's body had already tripled in size and noticable fangs, claws, and wings appeared.

Every muscle in his body tensed when he felt the immense power exerted by this behemoth. Without a place to hide, he chose to fight it head on. Seeing the acid billow in her mouth, he opened his clenched fist, the entering oxygen creating a micro-backdraft in his hand, allowing the fireball to grow faster. He pushed that hand foreward, unleashing the fireball just as the acid came flowing towards him.

The impact of both spells created a thunderclap-like sound, sending a shockwave of dark energy at both of them. Although harmless, it threatened to increase the distance between the two. Kore holding his arms up was pushed through the marsh, his feet pushing up mud and dirt. While the aftermath was still clearing, Kore made haste to draw both his Katana and his Samurai Blade. He stood there calmly, waiting for the dragon to advance.* "So, you are the fabled black dragon? You almost ensared me in your trap. Had you thought more on that I might've been quite the meal. Now however you'll have to work for it. I warn you though, necromancers have been known to cause severe indegestion and we're not all that tasty I assure you- so I must be worth the hassle."

Munwithurix flew back as her acid collided with his spell, she ended up on her side, growling she rolled herself to her feet, she sent a glare at the man but then she controled her anger and got ready to send other spells. She ignored what he said, most people tried to get her angry before the fight began, so she learned to just ignore them.

Standing where she was, in the palm of her claw lighting crackled then she threw the light towards the man. Then with the other hand she created a dark orb which with the help of quicken spell the orb was large hiding her face, then with the help of ebon eyes she could see anything through it.

To herself she knew this man might be hard to take down, but then if she did kill him she would have one less person to worry about to stop her from getting strong.

Taking a step closer she released the dark orb with the lighting ahead of it. After she threw the lighting and orb she started to cast another spell. If there were any creatures in the marsh they would all be filled with fear, as she casted the the spell cause fear, making anyone full of fear.

As the fear spell started to take effect her body started to fade and then soon were she was nothing was there, invisibility was a handy spell to use, she moved quietly towards her target, he felt strong with his magic.

*Standing there, waiting for her advance, he lowered his stance somewhat. He then saw her tossing a lightning bolt at him and he raised an eyebrow and threw his samurai blade at it. The metal from the blade attracted the lightning bolt and absorbed it. The power of the lightning though sent it far from the battlefield however so he had to recover it at a later time. He snickered and smiled as he yet again kept toe to toe with this amazing beast.

Seeing the dark globe she casted to hide her face, he in turn squinted his eyes, the color in them fading as he too casted ebon eyes, her demeaning face sending a chill down his spine. Unknowing of the spell she had casted to cause him fear, he realized how much of a chance he had of surviving. He had then in those short few seconds before she charged remembered how many times he was up against those odds. He still had the fresh fear, but the bit of reassurance he had prevented him from being totally gripped by it. Sheathing his Katana, he held his hands close to eachother, the power of the earth coming deep from the limestone rose to the murky surface, uprooting the ground, providing him with temporary shelter so he could shrug off whatever was bothering him. The uprooted ground also threatened to throw the dragon off balance unless it took the skies.

While Kore passively could detect where she was with her detect evil spell, he prepared something more offensive while he bought as much time as he could. He thought if he could get close to her that his Katana would make quick work of her. He wasn't looking to kill this dragon at the beginning however- he wanted a friendly fight to keep him on his toes and figured that a black dragon would have the intelligence to understand and comply, but today wasn't the case.*

Munwithurix hissed and then opened her wings and took off, for the ground was breaking open and she would have fallen down, the wind blew past her, it was cold but it comforted her. The invisible spell stopped working and she was back to normal. Her wings flapped only sometimes, for there were many updrafts, her eyes scanned over the ground and she found her target.

She kept to the air for a long moment thinking on what she should do next, he was worthy to fight with unlike many others she had fought with. Then she brought her claw out and the cold air seemed to form around her extended claw, an orb of frost grew there, the cold air helping it get colder and larger.

With the other claw she sent lighting at the man again, since he didn't have his weapon hopefully it will hit, but the again she was so much farther from him and it would take time for the lighting to hit and he might have time to get out of the way.

As the lighting went flying she threw the frost orb and then she started to utter something that wasn't in the normal human tongue, dark seemed to gather around her as she contuined to whisper, as she kept on speaking she lifted her left claw and made a fire ball appear and then threw it at the man.

Darkness seemed to gather more and more and then she brought both claws up and some sort of energy started to grow, it crackled and then she released it, negative energy went flying down at the man. The spell was one of her first she learned, it was Enervation and since she had been training in the Archmage ways her spells have grown more and are much stronger then she was.