Rana sped up, but the cold bit at his lungs and his muscles were sore from climbing the hill. He reached out again and his hand quivered. Two brigands suddenly topped over, and one twisted grotesquely.

Odinas chased after the bandits, his rage getting the better of himself. "BLOOD!! BLOOD!! I NEED MORE DELICIOUS BLOOD!!" he shouted the top of his lungs, swinging his sword like a madman. "I cannot control myself..." he thought "my body is unresponsive...this is bad."

"You mustn't die!" She'd remark aloud to Tekun, panting heavily as she yet again prepared another black magic spell; hair flowing in the wind; cold air brisk and stinging across her cheeks. An aura churning up around her figure; she was exhausted but had to press on regardless...her entire body would be cast in a dark violet glow as she conjured the next spell; pushing herself to her peak, no matter what the consequences might be..

Nechis screamed out in pain, then stopped himself as his arms reached for the intruding arrow. He winced, then lifted his axe. "It's a little... risky..." he muttered, then sent his axe flying like a tomahawk at the bowman retrieving an arrow from the quiver. He stood there for another second, and tried to bend his knee. He grunted at the pain he received for doing so, and frowned. He looked at the three bandits he had come against. "Believe me, you three, this is not where it ends for me." he said to them, his voice full of new found confidence.

Tania swung her lance around herself wildly, striking all the archers up close, when they were mainly there for long range attack. Her revenge against the archers for hurting Windy should have been able to satisfy her, but it wasn't. She wanted to eliminate any and every archer that got in her way as she charged through the archer front, no one would hurt Windy again. No matter how unladylike her actions were.

The two bandits continued to block, losing ground, they both knew they would soon fall if they did not do something to counter the crazed man's attack.

The axe Nechia had thrown his the man in the chest and stay lodged there, the man coughed took a step forward and fell on it. the other archer shot an arrow as Nechis dropped to his knee, if it wasn't for that, it would have hit either his neck or shoulder. The other one who didn't fire then began to knock another arrow, ignoring Nechis shout.

As Tania attacked in a berserkign rage, she lanced one archer and wounded another across the face. One mustered up courage and leapt at Tania, grabbing and pulling her off her pegasus.

Tekun continued to attack, and Eton joined in, slashing and guarding. It looked grim seeing as they were all greatly outnumbered.

"Don't over do it!" Tekun shouted. "I got this!" He continued to fight, taking a slash here and there, the way he fought, with such wounds, it seemed unreal.

"Kid, your alright." Eton said as he did his best the guard and attack, this was not his best situation, only having a dagger, he used to more one on one scenarios.

Tania struggled with the unusual musclebound archer, kicking at him and trying to wriggle enough room for her to utilize her lance. Windy didn't hesitate to kick at the archer with her front hoof, probably shattering a couple of bones in the archer's jaw. Tania climbed back up onto Windy, and nodded in silent agreement "You're right we should not let our emotions cloud our common sense" she said to Windy. Tania continued to strike at the remaining archers, making sure she didn't leave herself open to attacks.

Serene noticed Odinas in his rage and was perplexed. "How could he go into a rage such as that? I thought he was a peaceful man who healed people..." she decided to descend to meet up with the rest of the group.

Odinas continued his blind rage against the bandits. He started cursing profusely. "MORE!! MORE BLOOD!!! MUST FEED APPITITE FOR SWEET RICH BLOOD!!!" he screamed, chasing them, and slashing at whatever got in his way, including rocks. He suddenly sensed great power, greater than his own, and turned his head to find the source. He saw Endoh, and soon he felt his pulse grow even faster.

His words would fall on deaf ears; not that she hadn't cared; but the deep rooted instincts to survive had taken their control; the orb between her hands split into 2 separate spheres; each hovering above her palm; her figure resonating the malevolent radiance of darkness; hair flowing behind her; she had levitated slightly in her erratic conjure.

And with a light slam into the snowy ground; she'd drop back onto her feet and shove her palms into the snow which imprinted her outstretched fingers; and then began to erode as the spell had cast. A single large seal had formed several feet in front of the two men; about 10 feet in diameter, and swiftly opening up to the void underneath. Her eyes filled with hatred, the deep portal bursting out with an array of dark power; which swirling up into the air and dispersed into smaller worm like strands which pulled apart from the once massive main upheaval.

These nether serpents would plunge like rain; several dozen atleast. All zigzagging downward to serve oblivion to whomever they might swarm. Though like previous spells; this had been done without much focus; leaving the results to be seen..

Due to the unfocused state of the attack, it spread and was not nearly effective in killing but simply in buying time. Nearby, a angry roar was heard, something was coming and Endoh knew what. He grinned to himself, they were beat up enough, he began heading away.

"Fall back!" He shouted. "Let the Snie take care of em." Those that heard his shout followed and most of those who didn't would follow the other's like sheep. In about two mintues, most were on there way but two archers and a swordsman. In the distance a creature could be seen dashing towards the spread out group. As it ran it leapt onto the wall and started climbing on it while maintaining it's speed and direction. A large angry reptilian beast on the hunt, and it had found it's prey. It appoached where Tania was, with the two archer's. The two stopped focusing on tania and looked at the beast who had already descended upon them. It sank it's fangs into one of the men, into his shoulder and neck, digging it's claws into him and then tearing, nearly decapitating the archer. It then starred angrily at the other archer and Tania, licking the blood of it's mouth as it did so.

Windy grabbed Tania by her hair with her teeth almost causing her to scream out with pain. She bit her lips trying to contain herself, hard enough that her teeth broke skin and she tasted her blood. Windy continued to pull Tania away hoping that the archer would shoot the beast. Windy took flight and Tania grasped for the foot holds of the saddle, and climbed onto Windy's back. She flopped over onto Windy's back allowing Windy to fly where ever she deemed worthy, and cried. She cried from fear, from exhasution, from pain, and from the worry she had gained about suddenly remembered the others were in danger, but she didn't have the strength to call for them.

Her chest heaved as she stood; almost collapsing. Legs looking as if they were about to give way. Arms limp at her sides as she simply tried to catch her breath. The aura was gone and the spell was finished, but now she felt weakened. Suddenly she'd drop onto one leg, unable to go any further as the bandits shoved off. Hair strewn over her face.

"Whats..going on" she'd say between breaths. The roar had sounded within her ears, but she knew not what it was, nor had the strength yet to stand up and look..

The roar startled Serene as she was descending to the ground, but she landed perfectly and started moving down towards the rest of the group. "I hope they're all okay..." she said to herself focusing on the path ahead.

The loud roar shifted Odinas' target. He turned towards the sound and scanned the area. His rage was knocked out slightly, and he could control his body more than before. "That's better..." he muttered, stretching his limbs to get ready. He could still feel the screams for blood inside his head. He shook then off, and saw the girl ont he Pegasus that found him earlier, galloping down towards him.

The beast looked the archer who drew an arrow and then backed up, as he knocked it, the creature whipped its til out nad wrapper it around the man's throat and squeezed. Eventually a loud snap was heard as it released the man who fell limp to the ground dead. It then set it's sight's on the pegasus rider.

Eton and Tekun approached Tara.

"Damn it. You went too far, we need you yet." Tekun said to Tara with concern and a hint of fustration. "Don't put yourself at risk like that....please." He knew he was one to talk, wounds littered his body here and there, he believed he had reopened at least one or two previous ones. On top of that, he had some serious ones, and here he was complaining to Tara about how far she had gone.

Eton looked up to see the beast leap out at a crying Tania. It swiped is it clawed and scraved the pegasus's back end as it came down, about thirty feet away from the group.

"Tara, we need to move. Now." Eton said looking at the creature.

Barbas sighed, his right shoulder pressed against the cold building. He reflected on the day. "I left my home, because I didn't want to join the army." He said to himself in a mumble. "This isn't any different from that. I'll have to leave, find somewhere else to go. Somewhere less boring, but not somewhere where I'm in an army." He yawned as he lifted up his head, standing straight.


A woman approached him. "Why aren't you celebrating?" She questioned, it was clear she was making her way into the building. "You're an archer, right? So shouldn't you be in there celebrating? You had to have something to do with it all if you came back alive and unwounded." She stated, not giving time for Barbas to speak.


As Barbas opened his mouth to say something, he was interrupted. "Don't tell me you aren't the partying type. Everyone likes to party." She expected a reply, but Barbas stayed quiet, expecting her to go on. "Well, don't you speak?" She asked, her eyebrow raised, making a tap to the ground with her left foot.


She's annoying. Barbas thought. He wasn't going to say it to her, but he couldn't help it. It had been a long day. "You're really annoying. If someone doesn't want to talk, you shouldn't ramble on and on. Oh, and try giving a guy time to respond when you ask a series of questions."


Charisma blinked. "You're rather rude." She stated, turning around.

"Yes, well, your hair is an odd color." He responded.


(( I'll give you time to respond if you want, if not I'll go on. ))