Stella kicked Geralt in the groin and threw him off of her making him land on the witch. She knew he would understand and hoped it didn't hurt to bad. She ran out the door and quickly  ran out to see Jaskier talking to a girl.

"Geralt has been cursed or drugged! We need to run he is going to kill us!" She yelled as she took a break.

"Stella? What happened?!" He asked.

"Don't fucking ask just run!" She said as she she felt eyes on her.

She grabbed him and headed to Agata quickly. She drank a healing potion quickly and threw the bottle down and tried to find alcohol to clean her wounds.

"What got Geralt under a spell?" Jaskier asked.

"A witch did and I had to hurt him a bit, he didn't touch me but as long as that witch has him there isn't anything I can do right now. I don't have magic and," she paused as she felt like she was choking.

"You are very annoying!" The witch growled as Geralt grabbed her around her neck and the spell wore off.

"Geralt! That's stella!" He panicked. 

"Oh he definitely knows, he will never forget this," she growled as she opened up a portal. Bald Mountain the deadliest caves around," she smiled as Geralt threw her in without any hesitantsion.

"Stella, Geralt you killed Stella! She can't fight because of her injuries!" Jaskier yelled.

"I don't think I need you either, get rid of him. Give her bag it should help them live maybe long enough for you to find them," she smiled as Jaskier couldn't belive it.

Geralt tried grabbing him but he went willingly to find Stella. Geralt grabbed her bag and and tossed it after them. She shut the portal and sighed happily. After that she made Geralt go on a random spree, making him attack officials until they captured him and put him in jail.

"Fucking fuck!" Jaskier growled as Stella got up weakly and grabbed her back. There was a lot of supplies in there thankfully but it wasn't going to last long with the both of them.

"Jaskier get in the cave there will be a way out we just got to find it," she said as she looked over the cliff they were standing on.

"How the fuck is Geralt going to find us?!" He asked.

"Alive or dead?" She asked.

"Alive!" Jaskier answered

"Then just you not us. My wounds are going to get infected and I'll die first.  From the town we were in Geralt will take two weeks to find us maybe longer. We just got to leave things behind that he will find and hopefully find us but that's if we don't get eaten first. We don't have weapons," she sighed as she got up and headed to the cave.

It was starting to snow but Stella took off her necklace Geralt gave her and hung it up so he could see it. Jaskier saw Stella wasn't joking she was going to die first. He didn't want her to but her wounds were bad and needed to be cleaned out. He followed her into the cave and prayed that they were going to be found alive.

Geralt woke up in a cage and Yennefer was smiling at him.

"Finnaly you woke up," she chuckled.

"You made me hurt Stella!" He growled.

"I had no choice, I needed you for a side task and she said no. I honestly thought she was going die first by the Kikimora but she didn't so I had to think of another way. Now I can get you out of here but if you don't do as your told I will have to kill you," she informed.

"You better do it now before I do! Stella is important to me and I am going to find her up in those mountains!" He growled.

"Probably dead and your little bard to, those injuries were very bad and her cloths were wet," she said.

Geralt looked don at the ground as he remembered how hurt she was. She wasn't going to make it out alive but Jaskier might have a chance even if it was a small one. He was so angry but tried to hide it.

"Come on I need you for something I got rid of the two people that would have distracted you. They weren't worth your time, now except my deal already," she said.

"Stella meant so much more to me then you will ever realize, I would rather burn in hell then ever help the woman who killed not only killed her but out friend," he growled.

"If and that is a big if, if I get you closer to them. Like let's say a day away from them will you help me then?" She asked.

"Why now are you offering me a deal when you just murdered them? He asked.

"Because I want something back in return, I need to make a cure so I can have a child," she informed.

"You, a mother? You would kill that child within a day of its birth with you illness," he spat.

"I will let them die," she growled.

"Fine I will help you get one ingredient and that's all," he said.

"Three ingredients one for sending you a day away from the mountain and one for each friend," she informed.

"Fine three but if Stella or Jaskier is dead you can forget about this deal," he said as she broke him out.

"Deal."

Stella made a small fire to try to keep them warm but it wasn't going to last long. She split some meant she had dried out and gave him some. They ventured already pretty far into the cave system  and it was only getting colder. Some creatures were said to live in the caves but they haven't found anything living so far or dead for that matter.

"Geralt isn't going to find us is he?" Jaskier asked as Stella sighed.

"I don't know, I should have told that stupid witcher i loved him. I think I have ever since I called him a fat cow. I liked him so much I gave him the name of the town I was heading next. I didn't think he would actually fallow me," she smiled.

"You called him a fat cow?!" Jaskier asked.

"Something like that yeah, even after I called him that he still followed me," she smiled.

"He must have liked you to then," Jaskier smiled.

"What?" She asked.

"That necklace was a courting gift, he was trying to court you but without saying anything and when I sang that song he told me not to scare you off. Now I am telling you so you better live," he said as she sighed a bit.

"Geralt will find us, that necklace means a lot to him now," she smiled.

It was morning when Yennefer opened the portal. He stocked up both horses with as much as he thought he needed and headed to the mountains. He walked side by side the horses until he came to a neighboring town. They actually seemed cheery and happy and didn't seem to bothered by him being there with was a first.

"Hey witcher! Sorry but a brother of yours already got the job if that's what you came here for," a man said wearing a brown cloak and a yellow shirt. He had light brown hair and green eyes and tan skin.

"Another witcher is here?" Geralt asked shocked.

"Yes he is in the pub right now," the man said happily as he he hurried to the pub.

If he was going to find Stella, two witchers was better then one. He needed the help but wondered who in there right mind would be here. It was sad spiders as large as grown men lived in the mountains and not a lot of people went there for that reason. Not even witchers. He walked in and froze in place seeing a face he hadn't seen in close to eleven years. He was presumed dead by all forty of his brothers but there he was sitting down and drinking.
He had long white hair that was braided and both sides of his head were shaved he also had a grey mustache. He had scars on his face from new battles.

"Marek?" Geralt asked softly as the man turned to face him.

"Geralt of Rivia! My dear old friend how have you been!" He asked cheerfully as he hugged Geralt.

"Everyone thought you died," he said as he shrugged it off.

"I have so much to tell you! I adopted this sweet girl named Stella fourteen years ago. Poor girl was sold there and I adopted her and taught her how to be a witcher. Well more or less, I heard you had a woman with you. Well actually my Stella to me accurate! Where is my girl?!" He asked as he left the pub and saw her horse.

"Well hello again you little bitch, nice to see you are around and kicking. Keeping this witcher in check?" He asked as Geralt paused.

"A witch sent Stella as well as another friend of mine to these mountains. I was two weeks away and the witch that sent here there I made a deal with her so I could get here faster. Stella is hurt bad and we need to get to her before her wounds get infected," he informed.

"Where the fuck is the witch that hurt my daughter?!" He growled.

"Here, but try anything funny with me and she dies. I made a deal with this stupid witcher and I will keep my deal. But I'm coming with you to make sure you don't bale on me," she informed.

"You bitch! There is spiders the size of men in those caves I was hired to kill them because they are eating these people's cattle! If Stella is hurt she can't heal herself! She is also a witch you snake!" He growled.

"Well what's done is done, now let's go before she dies. Our deal will be void if she dies," she informed.

"If my daughter dies, I will never stop hunting you down until I kill you!" He yelled.

"Your daughter?" Yennefer asked.

"Yes! Surprised that a witcher adopted a girl sold to a whore house?! Let's go! You are walking witch!" He hissed.

"Okay let's leave another marking," Stella said as she left a blood marking on the wall on a piece of cloth and left it on the wall.

"The torch is going out and we don't have anymore cloth that we can use," Jaskier informed.

"Then lets..." Stella stopped as she saw spider eggs further down the cave.

"Oh fuck, we found a nest," Stella informed.

"Fucking hell, we are going to die aren't we?" He asked.

"No, just um... sing something okay," she said as she was deathly afraid of spiders.

With no powers, no weapons she couldn't fight them. She started walking threw the nest and Jaskier started singing softly. Stella closed her eyes and took a deep breath. She quickly started walking threw the nest and Jaskier almost stop singing as some of the eggs started moving.

"What ever you do focus on me and not the eggs," she said as he heard clicking.

She froze looked up to see a massive spider above her head. It was larger then anything she had ever seen in her life, no wonder the tunnels were so large. She moved Jaskier out of the way as it's posion dropped near him. It melted the rock he stood on and he looked at her in terror.

"Don't scream," she said as she slowly moving past the eggs.

The spider screamed as she took Jaskier's wrist and took off running down the maze tunnels. She put out the fire and quickly hid in a small gap. Her heart was pounding in her chest but she started to calm herself down. The spider stood near them for a moment but then left as soon as three eggs hatched. She set the torch on fire again and she quickly walked away.

Geralt drank some of the black liquid turning his eyes black, Marek did the same and Yennefer rolled her eyes.

"You are not going to find her with that stuff," she informed.

"I know where the entrance is and the exit, so unless you want to go in and fight a bunch of spider by yourself I suggest you shut the fuck up!" He growled.

They entered the cave and Geralt quickly found Stella's necklace. He held her necklace and Geralt felt his heart drop. It wasn't broken so Stella placed here so he would find it.

"Looks like another girl was eaten," Marek sighed.

"No, I gave this to Stella as a courting gift," Geralt said as Marek looked at him angerily.

"Don't you dare touch my daughter! She wants children and you can't give her kids. Our lives are not with out risks either and I don't  want her to be a widow," he stated.

"I love your daughter and I won't hurt her," he informed.

"No you don't, stay away from her," he growled as he went inside.

"You should have gone after me," yennefer stated.

"Not in your life time," he informed as he headed into the cave.

"Run Jaskier!" She yelled as she quickly gave him the torch and she tried to deflect it but the spider knocked her down.

She got up quickly and she quickly went after Jaskier. She pushed him threw an opening which led them out into the open. The spider broke threw the mountain side and Stella tried to contain the spider but the spider broke threw. Stella quickly put up one last shield and she concentrated hard.

"Stella stop!" Jaskier yelled as her noise and eyes started bleeding.

"Run Jaskier and never looked back!" She screamed as she felt her whole body was getting ripped apart. She screamed and the spider was trying to kill her. Marek quickly cut one of the spider legs off while Geralt quickly gutted it as it fell.

"Geralt?! Dad?!" She screamed.

She put down her shield and her both of them hugged her. Jaskier smiled as she held them and Jaskier came back and smiled a bit.

"Get in here you idiot," she said weakly as he hugged her.

"Hey you idiots there are thousands more in this fucking cave!" Yennefer screamed as she was trying to kill as many as she could.

"Can you fight Stella?" Marek asked.

"No but what the hell," she said as he handed her one of her swords.

"Jaskier, want a sword?" Geralt asked.

"I don't fight!" He panicked.

"Then run," he said as Yennefer let the spiders loose. Stella held her sword as her father and Geralt.