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IC

The French city of Paris was as usual filled with vibrant life as people went
about there business; there day to day lives; existing, loving, and going to sleep to wake up and do it again tomorrow the small coffee shop on the corner was filled with patrons who read, drank coffee played on there laptops. Frenchmen on bikes rode past waving and greeting women who blushed at the attention It was like any scene from a romantic movie this was all about to change.

The sunny blue sky suddenly started to turn blood red with the fluffy white clouds turning thick black and fiery as if someone had set the sky alight the clouds started to rain, first water, then thick acid burning the flesh of any caught below. Before long the acid slowly turned to fire setting alight cars, people rooftops and tree's large balls of fire started to rain from the sky homing in on living things. Men, women and children were burnt to ash indiscriminately and mercilessly pillars of fire started to strike down from the clouds above like lightning bolts exploding buildings and casting in them aflame.

This scene was repeated all over France as a large circle of flame spread around the country sealing France from the outside world as this massacre of the innocent continued as more died the storm seemed to intensify as pockets of flame spread forming what from space would look like a giant flaming smiley on the surface of earth, hell was not without its sense of humour as people screamed in terror and fear.

All time seemed to stop momentarily as the first fiery portals opened in the sky, giant swirling vortexes of flame and demons started to pour out en mass onto the earth; the first spotted was around 7ft in height. Talons and claws as black as night and twice as ugly its skin red and deformed like sales its eyes amber yellow; carried with it a blood axe almost twice his size that dripped with fresh blood. It let out a blood-curdling howl to the sky.

Time returned to normal as with one 180degree swing of its mighty axe the crescent blade decapitated several humans around him before the Legions began there attack in Ernst satisfying there blood lust on the terrified French populous.

The French army tried to mobilise but they too found themselves besieged in there own bases by sky scraper sized demons that could literally rip buildings from there foundations with bare hands and use them to smash through the rest of the base crushing all beneath them.

A lone group of French soldiers around 20 or 30 approached a man guns raised; the man was dressed in all black and appeared to have paler skin than most his eyes were red and his head shaven. With a quick movement of his hands chains made of fire seemed to appear from nowhere under the soldiers, snaking around them and hoisting them into the air burning through there flesh and leaving nothing but bloody charred remains

Elsewhere
The White House was picture perfect; the madness that was overtaking France not yet reached the United States, President George W Bush had called for a high level meeting of government officials to discus what was going on. "Mr President, we've lost contact with France" an aid spoke frankly.

"Do we know what's caused it" President Bush asked; "Is it Osama Bin Laden?" he added.

"We Don't know sir; its not too early to rule that out; terrorists could be trying to get control of France's nuclear weapons" The Defence Secretary said.

"Well damn; we can't let that happen; we have to act now; can we send any planes through this 'barrier of fire' that’s appeared" VP Chainy questioned.

"No luck yet sir, we've tried sending a flight of F-16's from our bases in the UK to investigate but the higher they climbed the barrier was still there. They reached there maximum altitude before they hit the top of the barrier, we've sent a U2 to see how they'll fair" said the general of the air force.

The U2 flew at the outer edges of the atmosphere; almost orbital but it too could not break through the barrier that had surrounded France and it seemed that only satellites could fly over the country. At 16:10pm the Bush Administration declared France occupied by terrorists and ordered a nuclear strike against the mysterious barrier that surrounded the country in an attempt to liberate it from Terrorists

At 16:12 two ICBM Minuteman silos launched their missiles; the white cigar shaped missiles flew through the air gracefully before separating as the 16, 200kiloton war heads deployed around the barrier trying to breach it at multiple points for an invasion. The flashes of white light, the huge fireball, the radiation and the shock waves of multiple nuclear detonations resonated through the barrier as it turned white hot; the fire seemed to intensify. As a giant Tsunami of fire was sent out in all directions like ripples; obliterating all in their path when it was over, part of Spain, Germany and the southern most tip of England was obliterated and on fire; Belgium and Switzerland were destroyed in its entirety. When it was over 27,586,748 twenty seven million, five hundred and eighty six thousand, seven hundred and forty eight people were dead in the most painful way imaginable

In France demonic forces had all but subdued French resistance; Klieg the god of blood, fire and death say on this thrown of blood; the skulls of his victims piled up around the thrown and he smiled. "The Hell lord will be pleased; will be pleased indeed" the smell of sulphur, burning flesh and smoke filled the air and it was like sweet scent. Having secured France millions of hell demons began to march through the fiery barrier and into surrounding countries for now was the time to slaughter and kill; vortexes would appear all over the earth and every nation on earth would suffer the same fate as France…

The five lords sat at a table. They were studying the reports of what was happening in Europe, and more specifically what had originated in France.

"Why France?" Fumiko commented with a scowl as she tossed the report back on the desk. She was known as the Lowblood, and was quite beautiful, thought also quite driven. She looked at the others as she brushed back her raven locks, her hand brushing a vertical scar over her right eye.

"Who the hell knows?" Another woman, the closest to evil in the group, growled. Lyzolda was dressed in what might have been called a dominatrix outfit, thought was in truth the ceramonial garment of her blood cult.

"Who bleeding cares why, it's what we're going to do to contain it that matters." Teysa replied as she took a sip of wine. She was inarguably the most powerful of the group, and amongst the most powerful in history owing to her place as the scion of the Orzhov. She was quite gothic in appearence with pale skin, darkly shadowed eyes and raven hair.

The last two members, and the only men of the five Tibor and Lumina both had pure white, almost animeish hair and were indistinguishable. "Let's see what that bastard Bush does next before we commit any forces, we don't want one of the nukes that guy tossing around like toys to land on our forces." One commented, "And send an order to scramble the mages." The other added with a grin, which let the others know that it was Tibor as he had a strange love of scrambling the mages, which most thought was simply to watch them scurry around.

"What the fuck is happening?" asked Chancellor Blackhelm, when General Marcus Blueshield handed him the satelite images, as well as a folder full of other reports out of France. "Apparently, all hell as broken loose, literally. Demons are spewing out of now where, and France is sealed by a wall of fire"

"Jesus Christ. What do we do? Should we send soldiers into Spain? Yea, you know what Marcus do that. If the fire wall goes down, send them in right away. I am scared general. Is this the end of the world?" Chancellor Blackhelm asked

"I dont know sir, I just don't know"

700,000 infantry men, 750 XM-1 MBT's, and 1500 T-72's were deployed to the Spain-France border. The Chancellor then locked the dorr to his office, kneeled down, and prayed.

"What is this?" Asked Keene, "What's going on there?"

"Hell," replied General Blak calmly, "There's some sort of creatures running around and things are bursting into flame."

"The French will be mounting some sort of resistance, I expect."

"Yes, but they don't appear to be having much luck."

"I want the Mjolnir satellites warmed up. Does this barrier extend over the top?"

"Doesn't appear so sir. We should be able to use the Mjolnir satellites."

"Good. I want every satellite we have over France. Let's send them back to hell."

Serendipity felt it thru the air(The evil has come.) She got up and want to The back room of her house. She turned on the light and looked at the weapons there. She found what she was looking for twin Swords each 6 feet tall and 4 feet wide. One was bright as the Sun while the other was darker then a black hole. she put both on the her back and then grabed a rifle that she got from her Grandfather on her human side gave her. before she left she want out back to her family cematery"I'll kill them for what they did to you i promise" she ran to her fornt yard where a motocycle was parked she jumped on and guned it handing for water and hopful a ship taking her close to Europe.

"Rally the necromancers"! Cried the Leader of the First Horsemen of Hell, the voice screamed of blood and slaughter, of a deep craving, only quenchable by the death of all humans. Several demons showed, dragging behind them corpses that had been saved. Several jailors also appeared, pushing many humans ahead of them. "I hope you've made peace with your infantile god". The Commander said to the prisoners. One of the prisoners were pushed forward. The necromancers started chanting, Then the prisoner was beheaded, and several seconds later, one of the corpses got up, and instantly devoured the body of the man who had unwillingly given his soul.
This lasted long through the night, the screams of the prisoners lasting through the night.

Keene hadn't slept since the vortex had appeared, and it was beginning to show. His normally serene face was creased with frown lines.

"The gods have spoken," he began. "The hordes of hell have come to earth, and the gods have no power to act on them here. We must stop them ourselves."

"Sir, if that's true than everyone in France is for all intents and purposes dead."

Keene nodded. "The same had occured to me. Bring the fury of the gods down upon these demons. For the glory of the empire, and for the survival of Midgard, we will prevail."
***
The Mjolnir class satellites had been in position since shortly after the firey barrier appeared. Now they began unloading their ordnance. Napalm bombs and conventional missiles were shot at centers of heavy demon activity. The WMDs were being held in reserve, in case worst came to worst.

All in all, two hundred conventional missiles and one hundred and fifty napalm bombs were deployed.

Death Smiled and clapped her hands in tune to the screams of the people crying in pain and suffering."Best music I ever heard." She said to one of her lower demons. She then picked up her Scythe and then started to dance in tune to the screams and slashed anyone that she got close to" Blood will flow and make us whole" She chanted this and as she did blood started to gather arother her and flow up and around her.The blood flowed into the skulls that she wore when she stoped hunders where dead but her skulls' eyes where glowing red and voices poured out of them"Tell me you secerts Lords of the dead."

The Lord of Pain and death Stood in what had become his command centre; the building was ornate like 11th century gothic; it smelt of fire and death it was then that an upper level demon entered the thrown room; "My lord" he bowed.

"How goes the liberation?" the lord spoke his voice scarily soft for a hell verse overlord demon.

"Well my lord; 90% of the population of what the humans call 'France' has been crushed; should we begin the expansion?" it asked.

"Yes" was the only command given with a sickening smile. The lower demons; monsters crimson red with large talons and claws carrying large weapons from swords to Axes three times the size of them dripping with blood. They began to match through the fiery barrier there eyes glowing red against the dark flames giving a menacing appearance with larger demons marching slowly behind them in toe. The forces of hell moved toward the forces of man where the first epic battle in the earth realm 'liberation' would take place leading this force was the Azure Knight, the one known as Terror or Nightmare a being responsible for the slaughter of millions; he cast and evil red eye over the demonic forces that would soon be in battle his Azure and gold armour reflecting the fire as a mutated hand griped an equally mutated sword bigger tan he was (which was impressive)

In France fire once again rained down on population centres this time however it was man made fire not the supernatural kind and hundreds of missiles began to fell from the sky exploding in great fireballs the howls of demons unlucky enough to be caught in the flames filled the streets with unholy screams. The earth burned, the buildings burned, men and demon alike burned the VERY SKY Burned it was as if the world had opened up and decided to swallow France in flame this of course was but a minor set back for hell; there were always more souls to send to the fire…

Kast drank his wine as the chaos whirled around him. Kula and Draconis were somewhere in the city but he knew they could take care of themselves. These were not actual trained demonic knights like those of the Red Hand. These were just grunts. Cannon fodder for the initial strike, basicaly the pawns. Soon the more trained would appear. His sword rested on the table infront of him glinting in the fire light of burning cars and corpses. Finishing his wine he placed the glass on the table. And got up sliding the Sword of Anarion into its scabbard. through his sunglasses her surveyed the destruction. Anger boiled in him as he remembered his own homeland which suffured a similar fate. He walked down the streets of Paris until he came to a hoard of ill shapped beasts. One noticed him and came forward in challenge, as it rose to strike Kast with speed that barely could be seen broke its neck and ripped out its jugular, as it lay dieing its squeels of pain attracted its larger brethren. The group turned to face Kast who calmly pulled his sword and whispered though his voice could be heard through out the alley. "Whose next?"

Two his surpise an enourmas minautaur covered in platemail and armed with an incredibly large mase and shield stepped from around the corner. It bellowed its charge and ran to strike. Kast raised his hand and lashed out threads of thunder hurling it into a building. But the Minautaur arose unscathed. It was only angrier. Kast sent more thunder energy but its shield was made of spellcast armor and it easily tossed his attack asside.

"well aint this beautiful." The minautaur lunged ready to strike, but that was its last. A beam of light so bright that it made the other demons flee in terror, ripped into the skull of the minautaur pinning it into the ground as it shrieked in pain. As the beam subsided all that was left of the Minautaurs body was smoldering pile of flesh and organs. Kast looked away from its death throws up to the expected site of white wings.

Throught out the world, mages in service to the Five responded Tibor's call to scramble the mages. They began congregating at various points across the globe to recieve thier proverbial marching orders. The average wizard, mage, witch or any of the other various sub-groups was impotent compared to a demon, at least in a one-on-one confrontation, but by working in teams were a potent force.

As the groups assembled and began making preparations, the ruling group prepared likewise. Within the enclave, only one was active. The scion of Orzhov was playing with the white flecked black stone that hung around her neck. The ring on her finger glinted as she held it up to the light. The Moratorium stone and Transreliquat were two of her favorite artifacts of her inheritance.

Lyzolda was preparing to conduct one of the sacrificial rights of her bloodcult. Those who were in the cult each clambered to be the next sacrifice. Toying with the Rakdos Riteknife, a wicked blade used in the rites, glinted as she headed out to the cheers of the cultists.

Tibor, Lumina and Fumiko were less active with Fumiko practicing with her blade, the legendary Tatsumasa the Dragon Fang, while the twins were fighting each other, thought only in game.

Draconis decended upon the ally way, his hand and open with traces of holy energy lacing his fingers. "Its about time Drake" Draconis meerly nodded to Kast's riddicule. "So wheres Kula?" Draconis looked up and spoke. "we got seperated. Im not sure where she is but i know shes alive. we should wait here." "agreed"

However this would not suffice. The demon rabble had gathered more of their brethran and were returning in greater numbers. Suddenly they attacked. Scores of creatures, som small as dogs some large as trolls came crashing into the ally way.


Draconis and Kast turned to face their attackers. Draconis molded his wings into his body, and now looking human, prepared to fight. Elegently he drew forth Excalibur. Kast stood beside him holding Azaroth the Sword of Anarion. Kast murmerd to him, "should we keep a count this time" "why bother, ill win."
"boy im gonna whip ure tail when were done here."
"u cant defeat me,...u cant fly as fast as me."
"eh u have a point."
The backed farther into the alley hoping not to get surrounded, but more demons poored in blocking their escape.
Kast smiled and adjusted his sunglasses,"lets do this."

The Demons attacked all at once. Back to back Kast and Draconis fought. They were a whirl of steel and magic. Kast hacked with his sword and blasted with energy, sometimes fire sometimes thunder, while draconis did similar. around them the bodies and ashes of demons began to pile up. But still the demons came forth climbing over their brethran. Draconis being an angel could fight for days. but Kast was starting to tire. He looked up in despair as a particularly large manticore came forth from the lines. It charged, its hard skin barely succeptible to kasts magic, draconis couldnt react in time.

It roared its fury and bowed its head to strike smiting them both. As it charged suddenlly another demon smashed through teh wall as if flun into teh manticore knocking it aside.

Kast watched as his fiance stepped forth from the new hole and smiled bearing her fangs. her twin knives were out, but her sudden appearence spooked the demons giving them some time.

Kula raced over to the tatered pair. "you boys have fun with out me"

draconis was virtually undamaged, his angel body could heal quickly. Kast wasnt so lucky. He had a gash down his cheek and a cut in his shoulder which bled freely. He however tried to hide it. But kula knew after being together for 500 years when hes keeping secrets. She could see the pain in his eyes. "we should get out of here."
Kast nodded," agreed, Draconis could u get us through the flame wall?"
"I should be able to. Its demon magic so i should just be able to make a whole large enough for us."
"well lets go then."

Draconis let his wings mold out from his body again spreading 8 feet to either side. Kula climbed onto his back for she had no ability to fly. Kast though with out wings had his own methods. He rose on a pillar of air, bending wind to his will. They raced for the flame wall. Demons swooped in from the air but Draconis blasted what he could and those he couldnt met the their death on the end of Azeroth. Dragons, griffons, and Skal'tum chased after them but to no avail.

As they reached the flame wall draconis mustered as much strength as he could to blast a hole through the wall. The hole was created but rapidly collapsing. Draconis made it though but the end of Kasts jacket was singed off by the colapsing hole. "Damnit" Kula smiled from draconis's back. "Ill sew it Love, its wouldnt be the first time." But her smiled quickly faded as they saw that the demons were beyond the wall.

The Demon Lord sat in his thrown of skulls and blood; brooding he wasn't sure why but he had felt a disturbance in the flow of magic; it seemed earth was finally mobilising he wasn't concerned with the armies of humans that would attack. However the magic users would be more of a threat; they would need to be eliminated.

"My Lord", an underling spoke entering the large gothic room; "We have reports of some of our brothers being killed by…beams of light" the young lower level demons said bowing his head in respect. Beams of 'light' could only mean one thing; an angel and if the angels were mobilising to protect the humans then things would get out of control quickly.

"Do not be concerned; the forces of heaven are bound by their honour and rules; they cannot interfere with what we have done here without sacrificing their principles which they will not do" the hell lord spoke softly.

"But I do sense three strong souls…they are not of this world and they reek with sickening goodness…except for one; one harbours darkness more than a mere sliver; controlled, dormant inside but all we will need" he said with a smile. The only thing more terrifying than a god of pain, blood and death charged up on dark magic was when it smiled. It was true that an upper level dark god could find even the smallest sliver of evil and turn it into an all consuming darkness given the right ritual and time.

"Bring me one of the innocents; I will require a sacrifice, and assemble the thirteen priests and call the Seven" he ordered.

The Call for a sacrifice was nothing unusual most demonic blood rights spells required innocent blood even the calling of the thirteen priests was common for what he lord was planning but to call the seven this early was unprecedented and it was clear that the dark god was afraid.

Each of the seven commanded different magic's; dark and destructive but each unique for the seven were specialists, elite for the seven to be called it was for something big. If you were the target of the seven; only the four gods of the balance had a chance of saving you.

The Seven emerge from fiery portals that seem to contort and form limbs that turn to flesh living and dark; the seven stood in front of the Hell lord radiating dark magic like an aura. The first of the seven the strongest, and leader Hazanko stood forward golden shogun-esc armour forged in the fire of a volcano, cooled in Innocents blood and tempered in battle

"You have summoned us" Hazanko spoke his voice not booming but dripping with evil intent.

"There is a magic society they call themselves the lords" the hell lord spoke.

"Lords of what?" Hazanko replied.

"Just the Lords" the Dark god replied; "Eliminate them; turn who you can"

"As you wish" Hazanko said; as the seven one by one disappeared in fire to begin there missions.

Elsewhere
The Azure Knight; looked up as Draconis and Kast were punching through the barrier; one evil red eye glowed through his blue knight helmet; he seemed to look over them longingly for a moment

"I sense strong souls" he spoke in monologue; his voice sounding like a spectral lion talking to his somewhat pathetic shade of a son; "Blood Darkness come onto me!"

as he held out this mutated hand fingers stretched out in a spider fashion a black orb of darkness started to form above its palm. Bolts of black and red lightning cracked around him arcing wildly from his armour; some bolts cracked into the orb making it grow stronger and larger until the size of a basketball. With one movement of his arm the 'shadow orb' was launched like a rocket outwards toward Kast; A challenge from the Azure knight for a duel; if he survived the hit of course…

Kast watched the Azure Knights gaze turn towards him. Or rather he felt it. The being so evil was hard to miss. Kast stared him down floating some hundred feet above him. He drew his sword ready to fight as the Knight launched a ball of energy at him. Azaroth shined as Kast deflected the ball into the wall of fire where it disipated. He prepared for another missile but instead he was taken a back as Kula was thrown at him. He barely had time to move his sword out of the way.

"Draconis....... what are u doing?"

Draconis face was stoic as ever but his eyes shown with fury, and even more.....recognition. Kast spoke up. "Whats going on Drake? You know him?"

"Well. He's the Azure Knight, a powerful warrior. He massacered thousands of soldiers, entire armies even. Seeing the danger, i set out to kill him."

"Did you succeed?"

"Yes, but it was not i. I helped two young mortals a white mage of purification, and a wind priestess, end his wrath. He regained his sanity......in his death. But he has been reincarnated as happens in hell, a twisted and deadly creature.

"well you saved the world once. im sure u got rewarded and can do it again."

"defeat him i can, though he is much more powerful. however, for helping those two, i was banished from heaven. were not supposed to interfere with the happenings of Earth. but i couldnt let the mortals suffer. Someone had to break the rules."


Draconis sighed and calling forth engergy broke into his true form. His skin turned snow white. His clothes were ripped away being replaced by a mithril chainmail shirt and a mithril plaitmail breast plate over. His pants replaced by a strips of dragon hide armor skirt and his boots were replaced by mithril grieves that were beautifully crafted. Two more smaller wings grew lower on his body just beneath his main wings. A white tunic draped over his plate mail down between his legs and tied around his waist with a golden sash. Excalibur had changed. Its blade lengthend doubling its size, its hilt once simple became and ornate craft of beauty with gold and silver whiring down the hilt and over the gaurd. His hair became blonde and elongated to waist length, and a helm apeared on his head, it was mithril, it came over his eyes, with two crafted wings spreading out one from either side. When he spoke, his voice resounded with holy energy.

"This day I finish what i started!" with that he sent a hurl of energy at the Knight and tucked his wings in and dove with blinding speed, close to the ground he extend his wings catching the air and sped across the ground holding Excalibur beneath him. As he neared holy white fire seared along its length He knew the beam would be knocked aside, and as the Knight did so Draconis Reached him and rose on air and attacked with a mighty slash of his flaming sword."

Kast and Kula watched in awe.

The Confederate Army sat on the other side of the fire barrier. The Colonel in charge here, a man by the name of Prufrock, watched it through binoculars. He feared what would happen should anything get through the wall. Would his tanks damage them? Would his trenches be overrun? Hundreds of thoughts crossed Col. Prufrock's head as he watched the barrier.

In the field below the hill the colonel stood on, a massive trench network was being dug. It extended 5 miles from the barrier. Machine gun nests, barbed wire, land mines, and automatic grenade launchers. How effective these would be, the colonel did not know, but he prayed they could stop whatever would come out of what was at one time called France.

I Will show you the greatest Nightmare

Nightmare watched with a grim smile as the shadow orb was cast away as if it were nothing; granted that one orb was enough to obliterate a medium sized town. But it was only a small attack for the Azure Knight; still Kast had proved himself in the eyes of the Azure Knight and accepted the challenge. To say the least he was disappointed when instead of Kast stepping forward to fight him the angel had stepped forward instead.

Several Demons stepped forward to fight the fallen angel but Nightmare kept them back this was now a matter of personal honour his 'twin' had interfered with his challenge and would pay the price. He saw Draconis 'transform' and radiate with holy energy and knew what was coming next he had killed enough angels to know a smile of satisfaction spread across his lips.

"This day I finish what I started!"

"Your very sight irritates me! Disappear!" Nightmare shouted in reply

With inhuman speed and a swing of his fleshy demonic blade The Azure Knight swept the 'Holy beam' aside and brought the inhumanly sized sword back to block the flaming Excalibur; black and red lightning arced as the two blades clashed; one holy, the other demonic. The first battle of good Vs evil had just started in epic proportions…

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Else where
The Seven Emerge
The Seven; Taki the shadow master who can control all shadow, Mitsurigu the Storm samurai who fights with the power of a hurricane, Segnle the blood demon who can control blood and make it solid, Tyrol the Elemental mage; can control all elements and bend them to her will, Segita the huntress, twin to Segnle; Segita has an enchanted bow, Shimi the summoner can call forth other beings and finally Hazanko the leader and strongest of the seven a blue demon, feared even amongst demons Hazanko has the power to focus hell itself and turn it into a weapon he also has the power to transform into an arch daemon.

Alone, entire armies can fall before them; together, they are the seven; they are Hells assassins, Together they are almost unstoppable

Serendipity stared ahead to what was once the shore of France. she saw boat with demons on it making their way to the boat she had taken to get here"Well looks like now is as good a time as any." she waited intill one of the ships got close enoghe then jumped on the rail of her boat then to the demons boat. some of the demons saw her and fired flaming arrows at her

Serendipity drew her blades and started swing the sword of light at the in coming arrows. The arrows that were in a five feet of her burst complatle into flames in by the time she flew reached were they were they were dust.

She landed on the demons' boat rail and cut though one of the demons to close to her hitting it with the sword of darkness which when it hit the flash started sucking in the part it touched when she yanked it out the demon was cut almost to it's groin and was missing some flash and orgens that were where the blade touched.

Serendipity laped off the rail and landed in the middle of the Demon crew cutting and slicing her way though. When the Captain looked out off his cabin he saw that most of his crew was either ashes of just ripped apart flesh.

Serendipity laped from the demons on to the watchtower and jumped into the air before the demon their could slice her. The Captain was yelling at the rest of his crew"KILL HER". The ones still alive started firing arrows at her.

Serendipity put her blades back on her back and pulled off her Grandfather's rifle that he gave her before he was killed.She aimed it down at the boat and fired. what should have been a bullet turned out to be magic as a lance of light flow out turning the arrows into dust and then hitting the boat.

all was still for a few seconeds then the boat blow up.Serendipity landed on her boat and looked to the shore. she thought about this must be what they felt on D-Day

Draconis flipped over the Hell Knight as their swords clashed. He brought his foot down in the back of its head pushing himself off the demon. He turned in mid flight and landed skidding across the gravel on his feet and quickly turned to attack again. Excalibur shined with arcs of Fire as Draconis slashed and parried. Lightning launched from the two swords as the titans clashed, killing demons around them. Soon the demons learned to step pretty far back. He groaned as a glancing blow bounced off his shoulder, but the wound quickly healed. His opponent was skilled and he needed an openinging. He tucked his wings in and swung high drawing his opponents sword upward, and with his guard up high he extend his left wing into its chest and with it off guard launched beam of energy into its chest, not a killing blow, but a blow non the less.

France Spain Border
Nightmare Parried the blows with ease ducking as the angel fought; a battle this vicious had not graced earth since the Death Pirate walked the mortal planes Nightmare ducked and quickly the blow aimed for his head narrowly missing; and striking thin air. Nightmare turned one hundred and eighty degrees with a full crescent slash of his blade knocking Excalibur to the side but this was countered when his blade was parried high. The Azure Knight knew it was coming as the Angel Wing came around he brought his mutated hand up grabbing the wing with the talon claw catching the holy beam in its palm the flesh burned for a moment before being extinguished leaving the wing and claw steaming.

"If that’s the best humanity has to offer; I am not impressed" Nightmare growled clasping his cawed hand to crush the wing before he moved his arm to literally toss the fallen angel away. Wasting no time Nightmare charged forward, extending his sword in front of him and spinning it in mid air like a drill trying to impale the fallen angel. 6 separate lightning bolts struck down from the sky converging on Nightmare; the energy turned black as a sphere for darkness formed around his body before compressing and channelling down his sword; if struck and lucky enough to not be impaled the dark energy would take its toll.

While this epic battle was taking place the demons that didn't stop to watch continued their march; lining up like some form of medieval army they stopped with one unified stomp that could shake the earth. Demons stood and sat on horseback in formation holding swords, shields, axes, bows and arrows, polearms, war hammers, lances, maces, even whips, chains and bare hands.

"KHORN!" they all yelled in one battle cry as they thundered forward towards Blackhelm Confederacy; demons ranging in size from the simple 6ft grunt demon to the 100 foot Mr Stay puff sized demons massed forward many charged, many would die, but there were still many to replace them.

Elsewhere (Lord Territory)
The Seven flamed in outside a Lord Mage training facility; they didn't know which order it belonged to and didn't really care; the mission was simple, destroy the Lords and they were starting with the new recruits leaving them with no new blood to replace the inevitable casualties

Tyrol stepped forward raising her staff into the air; "firestorm" she said; this single one word command called down one of the most destructive forces to ever appear on earth. Clouds turned to flame as the sky burned and started to rain down a hail of fireballs small and bigger ones causing explosions on the ground all over the place; pillars of fire struck down from the sky like lighting bolts

The Assault had begun

Elsewhere (France Stronghold)
An upper level demon dripping with blood; black as night and twice as ugly walked in its very steps burning into the ground; it carried with it a young girl maybe 18 with short dark hair. She struggled but was no match for the demon's strength, especially considering she was bound at the ankles and arms. She was placed down hard on her back in front of the Dark God.

"As you requested" the demon hissed out as the girl winced in pain.

"Excellent; now bring me what I need for the ritual" he ordered.

With a wave of hand an orb of fire was created in mid air expanding into a mirror with a fiery border looking into it he watched with great interest as one of his Hell Knights battled what appeared to be an angel while the angels compatriots watched on. His eyes roamed over the woman he could feel her darkness inside, controlled and suppressed but still there. While it was a fallacy of gods of any kind - light, neutral or dark were Omnipotent or Omnipresent; he did have the power to sense darkness and awaken something latent inside. If she were closer he could do it without the ritual but over distance he needed the ritual as an amplifier. He smiled as the demon returned with everything he would need for the ritual; now all he had to do was wait for the right time to awaken his new pet.

Elsewhere (French Beach)
The Beach like most other places in France was mostly on fire with the barrier just a kilometre from the sand the heat radiated for miles further as demons; mostly grunts patrolled the area under the command of a single Hellspawn. The hell spawn sat on the roof o building brooding his green eyes cast towards the ocean and the flaming ship in the distance as his red cloak billowed in the wind.

"Ready the Soldiers!" he commanded jumping down from the building his chains breaking his fall with ease; they had visitors coming..

Draconis watched as the sword charged with energy struck down at his head. Time seemed to slow as the blade moved closer. Draconis moved his head just barely doding the blade which was impaled into the ground. Taking advantage of moment, from his wrist guards a blade of holy steel extended, which he then imbedded in Nightmares stomach. The blade made of the steel of heaven was lethal to demons but he had a feeling Nightmare would only be wounded. He broke off the blade in Nighmeres body and blasted energy into its stomach propelling him away. Landing on his feet he smirked at the demons who looked in aw. His wing crushed and battared, glowed bright white, when it was visible again, it was whole and unbattared. He drew excalibur from where it had landed.

"You will not be successful this day demon." And he stood ready for the next attack.


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Kast and Kula loathe to leave their friend, but Kast was wounded and couldnt keep afloat they headed for safety.

Trust you gave
A child to save
Left you cold and him in grave

I see faith in your eyes
Never you hear the discouraging lies
I hear faith in your cries
Broken is the promise, betrayal
The healing hand held back by deepened nail

Follow the God that failed

The colonel watched as the demon army came. "OPEN FIRE!!" he screamed. Tanks and artillery began hitting a massive demon. Machine gun fire tore through the air. It was not enough. Thousands of demons poured out into the trenches. Swinging their axes in unison, many of the men in the first trench were decapitated. A massive demon was downed by artillery fire, and it collapsed, killing nearly 100 soldiers under its massive body.

In 20 minutes, the demons had cleared the first lines of trenches, and advancing steadily. The Confederate army put up a valiant fight, but after an hour, they had to pull back.

"Is there a God?" asked a soldier. "Why isn't God helping us?" The army took over 200,000 casualties. The remaining 500,000 pulled back into Spain. Hopefully, the Spanish army would assist them. Confederate missiles screamed overhead throughout the night, smashing into the demon position, but the men had to ask themselves if it was really doing anything.

Kast landed in the Spanish BlackHelm Base. Kula had to support him. Soldiers with guns surrounded them, but Kast spoke they knew he was no demon. "I must speak with you CO. before you are over run."

Colonel Prufrock stepped forward. He was still covered in sweat, blood, and ash.

"I am the commanding officer here. What do you want?" he growled at Kast. The colonel was in a rather unhappy mood. Unless Kast was an angel, he would not be very welcoming. Trying to save the world can be a very stressful job.

Oribital Deployment Station X

Two small pods were fired, both at the countryside not far outside of occupied Paris, but one to the north, and the other to the south. Inside of each rode a single human.

The pods fell through the atmosphere, accelerating constantly, until only a few feet off the ground, the coushining rockets fired, allowing it to touch down without the inhabitants being liquidated.

Each door opened. From one emerged a huge man, carrying enough weaponry to win a small war single handed. From the other emerged a slight woman carrying only a small pistol. The wind rose up around her, ensuring that no demons with especially sensitive senses of smell would find her.

Colonel Prufrock stepped forward. He was still covered in sweat, blood, and ash.

"I am the commanding officer here. What do you want?" he growled at Kast. The colonel was in a rather unhappy mood. Unless Kast was an angel, he would not be very welcoming. Trying to save the world can be a very stressful job.


Kast looked at the man. "Your fighting these beasts in the wrong fassion. Guns, Grenades, bullets, they are all useless. A grunt demon can take 7 shots and itll just smile and keep coming. They feel no pain. They can only be fought with old weaponry. Swords knivs, Bows, All of which must be enchanted by a mage." He made thunder run along his fingers in arms..."which i will be happy to do"

"That is the stupidest thing I have ever heard. I saw those things. I don't think my men would be able to get close enough to damage them with a sword. And what about those 100 foot monsters? Kill it with a sword too? I think not. Fire a barrage from our G7's at him, and he can't stay up to long."

"That is the stupidest thing I have ever heard. I saw those things. I don't think my men would be able to get close enough to damage them with a sword. And what about those 100 foot monsters? Kill it with a sword too? I think not. Fire a barrage from our G7's at him, and he can't stay up to long."


"You fool, You have no idea what ure up against." The wind wirled around him in a heavy gusts. "these arent people, they dont feel pain like we do, they enjoy it. im the only survivor of my own world because too late we realized the futility of our weapons. Dont make the same mistake."

Arsenal went over his weaponry. Command had replaced his usual ammo with some special crap designed to kill demons. Silver casing, with an iron interior. The two metals that were supposed to kill demons. As if that wasn't enough, three Holy Men had blessed every individual bullet, knife, gun, and grenade.

Aresnal unslung his minigun and trudged towards the town.

"Odd." Teysa commented as she watched the feeds from a number of satallites. She may have been the scion of the Orzhov line, but that didn't preclude technologies, in fact that was one of the ways they had managed to rise to the position they held.

"Appears some demons, powerful ones by the look of it, are trying to flash fry some innocents. Wonder if they were going after us, if so they're lousy at it." She muttered to herself. "It looks like a school."

She sent a message to the nearest meeting point to see what they could do about crowd, and demon control.

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At the meeting point, ten out of the local twelve had arrived and received Teysa's message. Leaving a message for the two presently absentees, they moved out to deal with the demons.

They call me leather ripper, they called me smiling Jack
They prayed to the heavens above, that I would never ever come back
can you hear the chidlren weep..
chills of fear, like a saw blade cutting me...
once again there Pain, I bring flames, I bring cold.
I'm the blood red sandman, coming home
On this unholy night I will make you my own..
Blood Red Sandman...coming home

Offer your souls...
Nightmare stumbled back slightly as the holy blade penetrated his Azure armour and entered his stomach if he was hurt he didn't show it. But for the first time in his existence he was happy for his human host that saved it from the holy blades effects if he'd simply been a demon he'd be dead now even though the wound burned with holy energy he was alive. Slowly he pulled out the blade that had been snapped in his body

"Offer your souls!" he said; a 100 demons dropped instantly as lightning pulsed through his claw hand and into his body regenerating the flesh and healing his body completely. Not even waiting for the regeneration to finish Nightmare was on the attack again, slashing with his sword from all directions at inhuman speed and strength black lightning and holy flame arcing each time the two blades clashed. It was unlikely that the angel could stand up to such an assault for too much longer, retreat or die it didn't matter either Nightmare would consider a victory.


The Legion Marchs on
The Demon Legions had overrun the black helm positions and 200,000 had fallen to the blood god they served known as Khorn, 200,000 skulls for the skull through, 200,000 souls to feed him. This was indeed a mighty feast as the demons cast their eyes over the ground stained red with blood. Human and demon bodies lay around haplessly some missing limbs one word described the incident - Carnage, beautiful, wonderful carnage; the demon Legions marched on…looking for more souls to feed to the blood god…


Lord Elementary School
The Seven continued there assault on the school unaware of its true purpose though it did strike them as odd that no one was fighting back with magic; no matter more to slaughter; with the firestorm no stopped the school burned. Women and children ran out of the building all in colourful costume fleeing the flame but it was to be for nothing as Mitsurugi unsheathed his Katana sword; he was dressed in half Samurai battle armour, blood red and black; his other side was bare with his long hair tied up in a horsetail. He stepped forward and in moments students and teachers began to fall 10, 20, 30, 100 all of them dropped one after the other as Mitsurigi tore through them like a hurricane. Blood, broken bones, screams and death filled the air it was wonderful…the other six simply watched in gleeful joy; Segnle rubbed her crotch in pleasure something about the smell of blood turned her on…

Draconis defended with ease, behind his helm he smiled finding his enemies weakness.......Pride and Underestimation... He matched Nightmares speed with ease parrying blow after blow. All the while he was feeding energy into the sword till it shone with a blinding light, the light was so bright and holy that all the demons neer were turned to ash. Kicking NightMare back he brought his sword down on to Nightmare's letting the energry forth, to destroy his opponents sword. The light from the battle could be seen for miles.

Kast winced as Kula pushed the needle into his flesh again. Sewing wounds was never painless. She placed the bandage over the stitches and gently kissed it looking up into him. The lull in the battle had given them some time alone. Before either of them could think their lips were upon eachother, clothes being stripped off. This small moment of passion to heal any wounds between them, and to declare their love before the future battles.

"Now what the hell is that?" Asked Arsenal, lowering his sunglasses to counteract the light. "Damn paranormals. Well, I suppose I'd ought to go and investigate."

Kast and Kula layed naked in eachothers arms in a mesh of flurs and blankets. Neither of them could sleep. Soon the dawn broke their rest and they began pulling their clothes back on. Kula turned around so that Kast could lace up her mithril lined leather corset. The two set off for battle, hoping that their friend was still alive.

"Sir, the army is on the move again!" shouted a radarman. "Jesus Christ. Contact the Spanish. Start constructing fortifications. We have to hold them here. And where the hell did that demon thing go, I could use its help" Col. Prufrock replyed.

All around the base, soldiers were rushing around, digging in, and setting up artillery.

Kast stood at top a spanish bunker on the front line. He watched as the demon army moved in. Thousands upon thousands of demons marched, All different shapes and sizes. He looked left and right at the gun placements and and soldiers with rifles, and he shook his head.

Another loss to the human race.

Kast knew he had to hold them back as much as possible. Summoning all his power for this fight. They had to hold them here, to give the world time to organize. Kasts entire form was shrouded in an aura of elemental energy. Kula atop a different bunker, looked on with awe. His powers were incredibly strong, but then again he had been practicing for thousands of years. As soon as the demons were in range he lashed out, ice from his left hand, fire from his right, combined togother they were a deadly force. The coldfire spread out in a spided web fasion, smashing into the front lines of demons, incinerating many. He lashed out again, and again. but still they came. soon they were in range of the Blackhelm forces.

The light from Kast and Kula momentarily blinded many of the soldiers around them, but hte shocked soldiers soon regained composure.

"FIRE!!" yelled the colonel. In order, the G7 howitzers fired one at a time going down the line. This was followed by a barrage from the XM-1 and T-72 tanks. Finally, one of the soldiers panicked and fired. This was followed by rifle fire going all down the line. A number of soldiers, remembering last battle, attempted to flee, but were convinced otherwise by their officers. The earth shook under the fire from the Confederate soldiers.

Colonel Prufrock stood with his soldiers, and prayed allowed as he fired into the demon ranks.

Kast changed his tactics, with his left hand he hurled spiderwebbed thunder energy at the incoming demons. Bolts of lightning spashed into demons, burning away their flesh and consuming them. With his right hand he sent and wall of Aether(i cant do the symbol) energy infront of allthe bunkers. As the bullets and artillery shells passed through they became enchanted with Aether energy. This would make them much more effective against the invading demons. He prayed that this would be enough to hold the demons.

The ten mages arrived to see seven demons raising cain amongst a school full of innocents. They divided into three teams, one of two, the other two of into a team of five and three respectively.

While each was use to being an individual, they'd all received some training in co-operative magics and thus were confident of success. The team of five began, casting an offensive spell that was amplified by the teamwork, sending beams of energy out to strike the rampaging demon.

The three were preparing and casting defensive spells intended to take the burnt of any attack, while the remaining two began calling down rain to extinguish the firestorm of the demons.

The Awakening…

As the Dark god stepped into the inner chamber flame torches around the room seemed to light themselves giving the room an ire presence as the dark god walked to the alter his robs flowing behind him. He turned to face the alter in the centre of the room; symbols on the floor painted in blood glowed red as thirteen robed figures appeared from flame on each of them there faces covered with hoods.

The girl from earlier was naked and placed spread eagle bound between two stone pillars; with a wave of hand the stone started to rise up into the air taking the girl with them; she was now hovering over a black symbol. The red blood symbols under each of the thirteen priests glowed as thousands of cuts appeared over the girl's body deep enough for her to bleed onto the black symbol bellow; it glowed red as her blood dripped onto it. The dark god caught some of her blood into a bowl and dipped his finger in to taste; it was sweet and he smiled drawing other symbols on the floor in her blood speaking a language as old as the Elder gods.

Then in perfect English he said - "Krillia, goddess of vampires I call you to awaken your young"

"Awaken!" he said

Beams of red intersected from the outer symbols to the centre and up through the girl's body; her life force; her blood; her soul and her very being would be used to amplify the dark god's magic and awaken Kula's blood lust and hunger.

The Howl
"Show me your madness!" Nightmare decreed

Nightmare continued to fight the battle was intense the two fought with speed no mere human could match the Excalibur blade glowed with holy energy as Nightmare was kicked in the chest he brought his demonic blade up to defend. The holy energy from Excalibur was unleashed on the demonic blade; the demonic blade responded in kind unleashing some of its pent up dark energy.

The resulting clash of dark and light energy created a gigantic explosion that would throw both Nightmare and the angel back from the blast; Nightmare flipped over and landed on his feet digging his sword into the ground to stop himself but still skidded back several feet creating a line in the dirt with his sword.

A normal demon blade would have been destroyed by such a torrent of holy magic but this blade was cast in pure evil; forged by Hesphetus god of the forge himself and turned evil by the countless souls it had consumed. The blade was the personification of evil; perhaps even the equal and opposite of Excalibur. Both swords were certainly weaker now; Nightmare couldn't speak for its counterpart but his dark blade would need to consume many souls to regain its full strength.

This Battle between dark and light was a draw though it had taken its toll; the grip of the host's control over the body was stronger now thanks to the holy magic still resonating through the sword. Nightmare growled in frustration; he now had two battles to fight; the one against the Angel before him and the one against the host Siegfried. Two people in one body; one seeks redemption; the other seeks slaughter, because of the holy energy from Excalibur the delicate balance of darkness and light now wavered within him…

"SHUT UP!" Nightmare yelled more at his self than the fallen angel to try and quell Siegfried who was getting stronger with each passing second.

"I want to make up for what I've done, to restore my honour and pride"; Nightmare said in a much more human voice.

"You are a Fool! All Men shall despair at the darkness of death", Nightmare said back in his demonic voice laughing.

Nightmare unleashed his assault on the fallen angel trying desperately to keep control of the body that was becoming increasingly resistant. He would have to end this quickly merely toying with the angel until now; now he was set on nothing but the angels destruction for then he could focus his efforts on quelling the battle within him and silencing Siegfried forever. Striking at the fallen angel with fury and power akin to a category 5 hurricane if the angel wanted to survive this battle then he would need to reach the good person inside that was fighting to get out…

The School
The Seven watched the carnage unfold as Mitsurugi tore though it Segnle still rubbing her crotch to get herself off it was then just as she reached climax that rain started to fall down and dampen the flames;

"Hey! I was enjoying that" she pouted knowing that her climax couldn't have brought the rain; explosions maybe but not rain. By this time Mitsurugi had finished off every living person in the area leaving their bodies to rot the seven spotted the 8 mages approach starting with offensive spells.

Mitsurugi stepped forward to fight them but Segnle stepped forward instead; "You've had your fun; let the rest of us have some" she said in a singsong childish voice; "I'm gonna tear you pieces!" she almost laughed out forming a ring blade in blood but still as sharp. Several blood Gollums exact replicas of herself formed from the innocent blood that had been spilled here 20 of them all crimson red and holding a ring blade of there own. The Blood Gollums charged forward blades high ready to slice anything in their path…

The battle
The demonic army washed forward like a giant Tsunami the magic killed hundreds as some were frozen while others were burnt to ash; the artillery and tank fire killed more; the gunfire more still. And yet they still charged forward even as their brethren fell they ran over their fallen bodies "KHORN!" they yelled in one thunderous glorious cry weapons raised high ready to feed more souls to the blood god they worshipped. Overlord Demons began launching fireballs the size of cars towards human positions

Serendipity stoode on the rail of the boat not yet close to the beach both hands on her swords not tacking them off her back but not drawing them. the heat would have more then affected her if she wasn't part demon. She watched the Hell spawn land and Called out" OUT OF MY WAY AND I MAY NOT CALL YOU"

The five mages cast another joint spell, as they finished, the clouds that the two mages who were involved in putting out the fires conjured, crackled as massive bolts of lightning struck down to smite the golems, one after another in succession.

The defensive mages lifted thier hands, causing a ring of stone, about a foot in width and eight in height, to lift up surrounding the ten mages to help keep the golems out.

ooc: I'm going to assume you mean Golems rather than the strange funny little dude in LOTRs

Redemption

Draconis, held back Nightmare's fury. He realized now the true nature of his opponent. This wasnt the beast Nightmare, or at least not entirely. He was a human reincarnated and possed by a higher demon, and now the Human was fighting to regain control. Due to his divided thoughts, his moves were becoming sloppy, and more broad. Draconis used this to his advantage. In order help this poor soul, first the sword had to be dislodged. Draconis ducked under a broad attack and brought Excalibur up charging it with more holy energy, as Nightmere completed his stroke his sword arm's wrist went into Excalibur, which was charged enough to sever its hand.


Holding back the flood

Kast continued this assualt of deadly magics. Though he was starting to weaken his assault was no less deadly. Soon he would have to stop, he needed to save his strength for hand to hand combat. Fireballs rained towards them but put uppon striking the Aether wall they exploaded and dissipated leaving the humans unscathed. He hoped they could hold out.

Resistance
Kula could feel the darkmagic. She felt something stir in her and she knew what they were trying to do. Sweet mother Using her own life force she battled the demons spell. He was vastley more powerful, she couldnt hold out for long she needed help. She sent her thoughts to the only one who could. Draconis,... hear me.

Arsenal lurked outside of Paris, his minigun, the recoil of which would knock a lesser man flat on his back, at the ready. He had a simple mission. Do as much damage to the demon forces as he possibly could. Of course, since they weren't likely to run out of rank-and-file foot sodliers anytime soon, that meant going after the more powerful bastards.

He moved closer to the city, or what was left of it after the Aesonic bombardment.

The Awakening Continues

The Thirteen priests started to chant in a language older than time, older than the gods, this language was the language of the lost ones; before the universe, before the Elder gods there was the lost ones birthed from the void itself. The Void is pure creation and destruction; the lost ones were the builders of the universe to invoke their power was to invoke the void. No mere Child could hold up against the void, no mere god or angel could stand against the lost ones Kula's blood hunger would be awakened and nothing would interfere with it.

"Awaken child of blood, awaken NOW!"

The being of the girl, the power of the thirteen; the power of the lost ones, the power of the void and the power of the Dark God himself was being used in the ritual. - Overkill definitely but nothing would stop this, nothing if they had to tear the universe apart to turn one person then it would be torn asunder…before this day was out Kula would drink human blood and any resistance would be eliminated

Dark and Light - The scream

Nightmare let out an inhuman scream that would shake the sky as his inhuman claw hand was severed the demonic sword falling to the ground with it. Still gripping the hilt. Thunder echoed around the sky as lightning struck randomly as Seigfried struggled within eventually with a will of iron he took back control of his own body.

"I will no longer bend to anyone's will" Seigfried shouted, "FATHER!" he screamed at the sky and black turned to blue as a beam of white light struck down from the sky over Siegfried engulfing him and the demonic sword in pure holy light born from Siegfrieds heart and love. The light burnt away his detestable Azure armour and demon flesh turning it to ash. His entire right arm so long a mangled messy talon regenerated into a normal human arm; his armour replaced by silver and white crested knights armour; even his demon blade was split into two one dark; one light; equal and opposite.

When the light faded Siegfried was left kneeling; panting for breath; his long golden locks framing his youthful face; he hasn't aged a day since he became Nightmare and his flesh was completely unblemished except for a scar under his right eye.

Siegfried picked up the sword of light; "Never again will I become that monster!" he said lunging the sword forward towards the demon swords evil demonic eye as it flamed out and disappeared barely in time leaving Siegfried to thrust his sword into the ground. He sighed; while that sword existed so would Nightmare in one form or another…

Siegfried turned to face the fallen angel holding out the tip of his new blade towards him; it was the same length as its evil twin but much more sword like and less wide. The teal blue steel was more like a cleaver with the guard spiked and made of the same metal as the blade; in place of any demonic eye at the centre of the hilt where the blade started to extend out was a large topaz blue gemstone.

"You!" he said; his voice booming and filled with resolve but lacking any demonic quality as it did before; "I owe you my thanks" Seigfried lowered his head in respect.

"Now we have work to do yes?" Seigfried spoke looking out at the sea of demons before them; "Sinners deserve neither mercy; nor sympathy" he said as he began to tear though the demon legions like a man possessed.

The Flood Continues
Thousands fell before the onslaught but thousands more replaced them where they were coming from was any ones guess higher level demons started to make there first appearances; Hell Knights dressed in traditional crimson armour carrying dripping blood swords and hell spawns started to charge forward there green eyes flaring…

The worshipers of Khorn were still charging but were being massacred they weren't very bright

At the beach - another battle starts.
The Long Hellspawn shook his head; "I can't do that; my master orders me to kill all who approach" he said; "But I smell demon in you…" the spawn said confused it cocked its head to one side. Still in a defensive posture it wasn't going to start a fight with another demon just yet but if she attacked first he certainly wouldn't stand by and do nothing.

At the School
The Blood Golems were struck down one by one by the thunder mage smoke to nothing but vapour; no matter this place was full of blood as more rose up and charged; other pools of blood were turned into long lances that were propelled towards the barriers with incredible speed to punch though…

Getting frustrated with waiting Taki made a seal with her hands and muttered a small spell under her breath; bringing the enemy mages very shadows to life and endowing them with there own powers she smirked it would be like fighting there own evil selves.

Redemtion atlast
Draconis lifted excalibur. Sigfried was doing well on his own. He prepared to join when thoughts from a far reached him.

Draconis,....hear me.....help me....

With an audible clank of armor he snapped his head in the direction of the thoughts. He could feel her pain. Instantly he sheathed Excalibur and ran and took off flying into the air. He called back to Sigmond, "another time my friend, take care of yourself." He flew as fast as he could, Kula's life depended on it.

Resistance

Kula fell to her knees in pain. She held against the spell. The chantings were pounding in her ears. She used all her strength to fight the spell,....but they were so strong. She gazed at Kast who stood fighting. If she failed she would never be able to be with him. Taking strength from the love she had for him she was able to stand, but she was weakening rappidly.

The real battle begins.
Kast ended the flow of magic. The demons kept coming. He looked to the blackhelm soldiers around him. "Prepare to fight them hand to hand." "Can we defeat them?" Kast looked down at him,"no we cannot, but we shall face them none the less." He turned to look back at the army of demons. "and we wont be alone."

He drew forth Azeroth, and lifted it high, He began to speak loudly in ancient elvish, His eyes turned solid black. The wind picked up around him and the thunder rolled lightning striking the sword and yet Kast still stood. And then it was over, the demons had stopped momentarily at this display of power. It was deathly quiet. The silence was quickly shattered by a Thunderous Roar, as Orm, Kasts dragon general dived into the demon lines, he flew over them and breathed fire down the ranks, 500 other dragons followed suit dive bombing the ranks and billowing fire.

Serendipity's boat hit the beach she stood there she still stood on the boat's rail looking at the hell spawn"Your just like the rest ok then" she landed and pulled out her blades"Demons for all those you have killed I shell put a end to you" she pointed dark sword at the hell spawn" Come and lets see how good you are"

By the Goddess' decree
The All consuming power of the void; the lost ones; the thirteen priests and the dark god himself was flowing through the young girl the all consuming power of creation and destruction being amplified by her. Images were being sent to Kula; images of herself drinking the soldiers; burying her fangs in there necks and drinking them, tasting them; and enjoying it taking pleasuring it; sights, sounds, smells all to make it real. She would taste the blood in her mouth, smell it, feel it, until her hunger was quenched for real she would see every one as a potential meal. The temptation to feed would be all consuming until she gave in.

Even the angelic magic wouldn't quench her hunger for the goddess of vampires had decreed. It wouldn't be Kast of course; he smelt like family the strongest sense of a vampire; no it would be one of the poor hapless soldiers that she would drink

Seigfried's vengeance

Using all the skills and grim determination he had as the Azure Knight; Siegfried tore through the demon army like an engine of destruction in his mind he could still hear the voice of Nightmare;

"Siegfried" it called

"It is a sin!" it said as Siegfried tore though several demons dusting them with his holy blade.

"It is a sin for you to be alive" it continued as Siegfried started to glow a holy blue.

"It is a sin for you to exist!" Nightmare shouted as Siegfried single-handedly plowed a path through the demonic army towards the Blackhelm lines.

"I no longer have doubts, I fear nothing, I have faced my darkness!" he said silencing Nightmares once and for all the holy light that blasted from him turning demons to ash as he ran with all his strength charging though there lines the light could be seen for miles….

A Nightmare reborn…
The demonic blade flamed in onto a table a decreped looking dark skinned old man with yellow eyes looked over the blade over tooting to himself.

"Tsk, Tsk, Nightmare, Nightmare, Nightmare, letting an angel beat you is once thing but losing your host…." He said with a sigh; "Good hosts are so hard to find; we groomed that one for years for you and you go and loos him; oh they won't be pleased, won't be pleased at all" the man continued his monologue.

Two demons brought in a young man in his 20's; they held him down on his knees; the old man looked up; "Host?" he asked. The two nodded silently; Nightmare was feared even amongst demons.

"What did he do alive?" the old man asked his eye changing slightly to look over the man's Aura which radiated black and purple.

"Human Assassin" one of the demons finally spoke

"He'll do" the man said he slowly placed the sword in front of the man and cast as spell in demonic tongue; the sword started to radiate a black and red flame and wrap itself around the assassin. Some of Siegfrieds blood that had been saved for an event like this was put into the flame as it snaked around the man and the two demons there was a howling scream as the three souls were merged into one infused with Seigfrieds blood in a flash of red Nightmare was reborn. This time though with none of Siegfrieds 'weakness' holding him back. His Azure armour glowed red as black wings came out of his back to reflect his stronger form; these wings burned and flickered with flame and power

The Azure Knight had arisen once more…

The Battle
"DRAGONS!" A demon Yelled before he was incinerated along with any of his Brethren nearby the worshipers of Khorn were completely perplexed at what to do against the flying power houses. They were big, strong, could fly and breath fire - how do you beat that? Seemed to be the question going through their mind. Still one answer seemed to come - "CHARGE" shouted a demon and the assault began again deciding they couldn't beat the dragons but would slaughter as many humans as they could before they died; more souls for Khorn to devour.

(OOC note - I REALLY like dragons >>; so I don't want to kill them; many humans are still gonna die though, even though the Khornites as I call them aren't very bright)

The hell Knights rose there shields; they lacked there leader but still they would fight; charging forward behind the Khorn Legion using them to plow the road and take the majority of the dragon fire away from themselves. Hellspawns and other larger nastier demons like Wraith demons and 10ft arch demons supported them; the Stay puff sized demons stayed back to give 'artillery support' launching explosive fireballs of black fire the size of double Decker buses

Paris
The Large Gun touting man was spotted by a pack of Wolf Demons; the 15ft furry man wolfs quick advanced forward to challenge the intruder to there territory

At The beach
The Hell Spawn leapt forward; forming the two parts of its billowing cloak into two red long swords that were chained to its back from the hilt; "I do what I am told, nothing more" was all he had to say as he stood defensively; waiting for his now enemy to make the first move; he still wasn't going to start this fight with another demon..

"That's more like it," smiled Arsenal, pressing the trigger on his minigun. Bullets rapidly flew out, slicing through the air towards the wolfmen. He swept it back and forth, to ensure a dispersal of bullets, and then slung it back onto his back, pulling out two of his knives to finish off any who had survived.

Serendipity looked at him"and if your master told you to kill yourself would you. Following orders blidely can get you killed" she kept her swords out just incase one of the demons attacked. She know some demons where like humans and tried to free as many as she could. it didn't work most of the time

The grace of heaven
Kula writhed on the floor with agony, the soldiers caught up in the battle had forgotten about her. Sensations and emotions ranged through her but still she fought, they had almost won. She tried hard still unwilling to submit but knowing its a losing battle. Someone.........save me........ The pain had reached its zenith and just when she was about to submit,...it ceased.

Kula didnt understand, why did they stop? She opened her eyes, and found herself in the shadow of massive white wings and shimiring armor.

The rescuer and revelation

Draconis kneeled protectively over Kula, his white wings sizzled with the dark energy that he was protecting her. He sent his own magic along the connection, more powerful than they expected, knocking the twelve onto their asses. His words powerful and holy filled their minds.

"You will fail, for I who fight against you am Draconis, defeater of Lucifer, and locked him in his firey prison. he had not the power to defeat me, and neither do you."

With that he took the life of the virgin girl, rescueing her from the pain. Her soul was escorted to the gates of heaven.

The battle
The dragons continued their bombardment racking the lines. 25 of the dragons raked across the front lines creating a fire while another 25 racked the stay puff sized artilery demons.

High above the clouds, the 100 Ice Dragons hovered in reserve. Kast waved Azaroth summoning them, and they knew what to do. They swooped down, not attacking but using their freeze breath to free the fire balls and whip the ice with their tails shatering them.

The battle was a pure blood bath. Chaos raked the Demon lines and still they surged forward. The roar of the battle was deafening when then all of a sudden, Draconis appeared sheltering Kula. Kast was glad someone came to her rescue, he had desperately wanted to but couldnt abandon his task. His prayers were answerd by Draconis.


The sudden appearance of an angel startled both sides. The battle careened to a halt. The blackhelm forces looked on with awe and hope, while the demons looked on with loathing and forboading, even the dragons had stopped. The demons had yet to return fire against them and not one dragon had been lost. Orm landed behind Kast. Kast jumped down from the bunker and climbed onto Orm's back. Sliding his feet into folds in Orms neck ment to hold a rider in place Orm lifted into the air rising on a warm up draft, and kast hovered above the fortress aback his dragon. The knew silence was broken by a rising cheer from the demons.

What new terror comes...

The shadow clones arose from Taki’s spell. They had the powers and ability to utilize the powers of the mages, and were evil. As they began attacking the originals, the two teams of defensive and offensive mages, began striking back. Fire bolts and magical darts were tossed back and forth, with the originals still utilizing team tactics while the dark clones. Even with the improved powers of teamwork, three of the mages in the circle were slain before the destructions of the shadows.

Meanwhile the two mages that had conjured the storm were fighting a much more ferocious battle with their reflections. Winds howled as devastating gusts of wind slammed into the four embattled combatants as lightning slashed down and thunder boomed. As the winds, rain and lightning swirled amid the battlefield, a devastating F3 multi-vortex tornado began to form, striking down and slaying all four. The storm turned it’s devastation on the demons, the last act of one of the two good mages before being sucked into the vortex and ripped apart.

The demon army was incredibly close to the Confederate soldiers now. They remembered the last battle. It was not a normal battle. Men were eaten, decapitated, torn to pieces. These men had seen war before, but this was not war. This was slaughter. As the demonic forces approached the first trenches, the men began to break formation and run, leaving behind everything, weapons, equipment, what ever they could drop to get out of there faster. The other lines held. Officers began screaming for the men to get back to their trenches. Finally, Col. Prufrock gave a difficult order. "Fire on the cowards!" he shouted. Soon, the guns slammed into the retreating men. The Blackhelm lines devolved into utter chaos.

Draconis stood up strait casting forth his splendor. Light radiated from his body drawing the attention of fleeing soldiers, who turned to look at him with awe. He spoke his voice resounding and holy in attempts to rally the soldiers.

"DO NOT GIVE INTO FEAR! CONQUER YOUR FEAR AND YOU WILL CONQUER DEATH! FIGHT WITH ME! DO NOT GIVE INTO DISPAIR! FOR THIS IS THE HOUR WHERE WE DRAW SWORDS TOGETHER AND SHOW THE HOARDS OF HELL WHAT MEN ARE MADE OF! FIGHT FOR EVERYTHING GOOD IN THIS WORLD! FOR YOUR FAMILIES AND FOR YOURSELVES! AND SEND THESE FOUL CREATURES INTO THE ABYSS!!!

With that he drew forth Excalibur and charged the Demon lines.
Kula sat on the bunker, and as she stood realized she had not been saved like she had thought. The thirst
It burned inside her, every soldier she saw burned the thirst brighter. She fell to her knees trying to resist...

A number of soldiers heard these words, and returned to fight. Many others were cut down by their countrymen.

A sergeant saw as Kula fell. "MEDIC!" he shouted. In seconds, a medic was up on the bunker, examining the collapsed woman. They knew she was vital to victory, and could not let her fall.

As the medic touched Kula she instantly turend on her and growled, bearing her fangs. "Stay...Away."

Kula before she could stop her self leapt onto the medic sinking her fangs into her jugular. Finally realizing what she was doing she left go and screamed her fury to the night. the medic was dead before she hit the floor.

Attracting attention…
The Wolf men though large weren't smart twelve of the pack went down with small howls it was like shooting a shotgun in a kennel for the most part. Four of the pack survived including the alpha they were now blood thirsty and angry there pack had been decimated with charged at the man slashing at him with claws and lunging forward to bite him and catch him off guard

The Gunfire attracted other demons hell nights with armour of crimson and black and Hellspawns in there black and white armour and red cloaks started to approach following the sound of the gunfire…

The Battle/Siegfrieds Vengeance
The demonic army continued to charge with Seigfried sprinting slashing his way in a straight line towards Blackhelm confederacy lines. Even he heard the thunderous holy voice his body was like a holy arrow cutting trough any demon that dared come near and any that were In his path were cut aside by his now holy blade. It was only when he reached the front of the demonic lines that he stopped a moment to catch his breath.

"Nice Speech" he said the stoic knight a man of few words allowing his brief respite to recharge his batteries before once again slaughtering his way single handed through the demon knights he once commanded.

Even hell knew when to call a tactical retreat. Losing there commander to the enemy meant the demonic lines were broken, not only that the dragons were unleashing a constant hailstorm upon them; and the new arch angel had revealed himself not to mention the humans were putting up FAR more resistance than they'd thought. In short it had gone to Hades in a hand basket in a rocket-assisted fashion.

"RETREAT" was yelled and resounded through the demon

Seigfried was indeed surprised but grateful for the rest as the demon legions turned tail and ran he panted for breath digging his sword into the ground to support himself upright.

The Battle for the beach
"If my master wished it…I would have no choice but to comply; that is what demons do is it not? Obey" he said his voice raspy and deep; he noted she still hadn't made an aggressive move yet so was not going to make one first.

"We Hellspawn are cursed to obey; it is our fate; at the moment of death we are offered a deal; to fulfil one last act we wish; anything at all; visit a love one, kiss a child goodbye, perhaps an act of vengence or a life long dream it is different for every spawn; but then we are cast into hell, and endowed with this shroud and armour and an unquenchable thirst for destruction, in servitude of Lucifer the ruler of hell, the shroud gives us power it also enlaves us"

The Battle at the school
Tyrol raised her staff into the air - "Wind, Obey me" she said and the vortex redirected itself drilling into the school until it burnt itself out

"Awww you ruined my FUN" the Blood demon said pouting at Taki having killed more of the mages than her

"You can have the entire village up ahead" Taki said smiling; the blood demon seemed to be very pleased with this jumping up and down in a childish manner.

The Inner Chamber Post Draconis Message
The power chamber resonated with charged magic; as the thirteen priests fell backwards from the brief overload the girl they had been using as a amplifier was dead her soul had been freed although her body was burnt the ritual was no completed. Which meant the lost ones they had invoked had not been paid; they were in deep crap; a pissed off lost one was the most dangerous thing in the universe next to the four gods of the balance who they'd also pissed off pulling this invasion…

This was not good; not good at all; the last priest who had managed to stay on his feet replied to the air his voice sounding with demonic tone - "Lucifer was but a higher angel; you challenge a god least you make his same mistake" the priest chastised Draconis

The Lost ones were not pleased; they saw Kula kill the medic knowing they had fulfilled there part of the bargain but the soul that had been promised to them was not delivered; no body double crosses the lost ones….
Amongst hushed whispers it was decided what must be done; neutral by definition the lost ones, fabricators of the universe would now take a side; it was unprecedented. A purple and blue portal opened and a lost one stepped through some called them the glue, others called them the grey men.

On the other side; the earth realm of Z 192 x y772 x y188 s 25; this particular earth in the multi verse a large man stepped through a shimmering purple tear in the fabric of reality. He was 7ft in heath and wide but it was all muscle dressed in a pin stripe suit and grey thin rimmed hat he looked like a 50's Mafia throwback; his name was Cain; he was one of the Grey men; and he was here to take names…

Kula's mind was confused and lost, she needed refuge, she needed relief. The blackhelm soldiers surrounded her guns raised. She easily dispatched the circle of soldiers with ease, but enough of her remained that she didnt feast on them, she hissed and bared her fangs, slashing at soldiers, she turned to attack another when she slamed into a torso. Looking up into the face of the man she loved, she was found again.

Kasts face was a look of worry and despair. "Whats happened to you?"
"Its the thirst." Draconis said as he landed transforming back to his human/angel form, and then molding his wings into his body takinga full human appearance. "she needs to feed now. when a new vampire is struck with the thirst they attack any human they see."

"can you help her?"
"no i cannot, only her god can remove this curse upon her."

Kula's, mind raced. but she was her self again, she looked up into his eyes. "Kill me..." she pleaded. Kast was so taken aback he even stepped back.
"what?...i could....i coudlnt....NO" '

"she needs to feed Kast, all she sees around her are meals."

Kast refusing to give up on the woman he loved, turned his gaze back to her. "Then feed off me"

this time it was kula's turn to look surprised. "no i couldnt." "do it" "no" "do it" "no" "DO IT!!" Before she could answer he forced her head to his neck and instinct took over, she bit into his jugular.

Kast winced at the pain, but willingly bared himself. kula kept drinking. Kasts head was starting to spin...he fell to his knees and then to his side and still she kept Drinking. Finally she let go. With blood dripping down her face she looked around, suddenly concious and aware of who she was. She looked down at her love before her. And she collapsed upon him weeping. She shook him " WAKE UP!" she tried to speak between sobs and hit his chest in frustration "WAKE UP"she hit him again" WAke UP!" she hit him again but this time collapsed on him "wake up..."


Suddenly strong hands were lifting her away as Seigfreid pulled her up. Draconis bent down to check Kasts pulse. He jumped. "Hes alive, Get medics HES ALIVE!!" (OOC: Sry gotta rp some peoples stuff here like animaria and blackhelms) Blackhelm medics rushed out with a stretcher as Draconis muttered words of healing over his body. He would be alive but he would need a fornights rest to recover full strength. In the meantime they would have to fend with out him.

Kula screamed in rage and pain. She thrust out her hands and what happened next startled all. Lightning shot forth from her finger tips. Startled she fell on her ass, and her face was as a deer caught in the headlights. She struck out her hand again and nothing happened.

"You have to will it Kula." Draconis stood behind her, ever the gaurdian. Nodding slightly she reached out her hands again, and Lighting shot from her fingers again destroying a hum V. She was amazed at how easy it bent to her will, she then shot out fire which made the flames burn higher, and then she shot ice puting the fire out.

"You will not have to feed for another moon." Kula looked over at him, "In the meantime," Draconis picked up Azaroth, and placed it in Kulas trembling hands." You must fight in his stead until he heals." Orm the great Fire dragon decended and landed near her. His voice was like a roar but all under stood. "I and the Dragons are at your service." "But you serve Kast?" "we serve who holds Azaroth, and since until Kast returns that person is you, we serve you"

The Blackhelm soldiers watched as the demons retreated. A massive cheer went up along their lines. Joyous soldiers fired their weapons into the air and danced around. The only unhappy man was Col. Prufrock.

"The people who were sent to help us...were vampires. WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS?? I thought God sent them! They help us one minute, and drain our men of their blood the next! We took more damage from those...those things...then we did from the demons that battle. Thats it. Dont let anyone else near our lines unless they are wearing a white robe and have wings! DO you got that!" he raged at a nearby sergeant. "Yes Sir!" the sergeant said, before running back to the front.

The coming of Cain
Cain walked through the battlefield over the fallen with little regard flames burned around him, bodies, the earth the stench of death he ignored it all his grey pinstripe suit swished as he moved towards black helm lines at walking pace. Demons ran past him seemingly ignoring him if this was from fear of if they simply did not see him; was not clear however there did seem to be a slight shimmering sphere of purple and black around him barely visible to the naked eye…

Siegfrieds repent
He could only watch as the woman drank the man that he had earlier Challenged as Nightmare; he come to learn from dialog that the woman was called Kula; and the man was called Kast; and that they were lovers. Siegfried was a man of few words; the stalwart soldier amongst soldiers.

"I swear I will destroy you Nightmare" Siegfried said looking out to the fiery barrier a few hundred miles away but still visible even here. "It doesn’t matter if I am saved; but I've made up my mind, I will finish this" he added; his new sword holstered on his back he glanced at his now human hand clenching his fist in resolve.

"I'm THROUGH with Nightmares!" He yelled out in a voice that resonated deep resolve.

G7 fire continued to pepper the retreating demons. Col. Prufrock came from his command bunker, and watched Kula over the collapsed bosy of Kast. "They too are from hell. Well, I've learned a thing or two about vampires." he said, loading silver bullets into his Colt 1911. He carefully took aim at Kula's heart, and squeezed the trigger.

The coming of Cain pt 2
Cain walked the gun fire not even phasing him as multiple explosions struck his body or more the very faint bubble that was around him; as he reached the front of the lines he turned around; to face the fiery barrier that was miles away. A large Tommy gun appeared in his hands that looked more like a piece of artillery than anything else.

He took aim from the hip and fired; instead of a bullet though a single golf ball sized sphere of black and purple energy shot out towards the barrier; a few moments later there was a large explosion. As the pure destructive force of the void was unleashed with the power of 10,000 nuclear bombs cubed and a pissed off farmer after you've just slept with his five daughters and leaving a crater twice the size of London

Cain had just made his presence known as anything near the barrier was just completely obliterated.

Kula's saved.
In a second; Siegfried drew his sword from his back; and had brought it down hard; blunt side first onto the man's wrist; likely breaking it and deflecting the gunfire away. He brought his sword around to the mans lower back once again blunt side first to try and knock him to his knee's before pulling a 180 and stopping barely a cm from decapitating the man

" Why hasten your death?!" the former Knight spat

The blade hit Col. Prufrock in his Titanium gauntlet, saving it from fracturing, at the same time that the massive explosion shook his lines. The G7 artilerry stopped. The lines once again fell into chaos and now, without the help of Kast and Kula, the entire Blackhelm military collapsed, and began a massivley disorganized retreat. Men scrambled from the trenches, and officers now went with them. Fighting was now seen to be suicidal. The men had prepared to fall all the way back to Madrid. It would hopefully give them time to prepare a counter attack. It seems like their victory was short lived.

With the demons distracted the five remaining mages launched a full out, sneak attack, with all thier power focused on ripping apart the demon responsible for the blood golems. It was a do-or-die attack, or most likely a do-and-die as it was most likely the rest of the demons would rip them to shreds for killing thier kin.

Draconis drew excalibur ready to fight, about to turn into if true form when he saw the only attacker. Instead off attacking he brought a fist up to his chest and bowed his head respectively. "Greetings Cain"

"Booya" he whispered quietly to himself watching the explosion.

Cain turned and nodded; holding his Tommy gun against his shoulder lazily he smiled grimly and lifted his hat up to reveal a short dark mop of cropped hair before place his hat back down.

"Draconis; hey there bud; still doing your part to save humanity I see" Cain spoke in a perfect New York Mafia accent; "This has turned into a real cluster fuck hasn't it?"

Siegfreid didn't know what to make of the man and was still holding the Blackhelm soldier at sword point. Cain looked at everyone obviously confused.

"I'm a lost one; also known as a grey man" he said with a smirk proud of his title; "if your looking for a higher authority; there isn't one. It stops with me", Cain added as he drew a cigar from his pocket and lit it with the end of his finger.

"Dark out isn't it?" he said waving his hands and a circle of the black clouds separated allowing daylight to pour through over the base for the first time in what could be hours or days it was hard to tell hoping his display of power would stop the retreat. "You folks got them on the run; I just took out a chunk of barrier for you, you should plan a counter attack" he said taking a big puff of his cigar.

Draconis shook his head, "always eager to join the blood bath arent you cain. Just like the crusades and inquisitions. Werent you behind all of those?"

Arsenal

Arsenal laughed as he dropped his gun and faced the charging wolves. One of his many knives, steel with a silver coating like the bullets, and also blessed, flew from his hand at the alpha-male's throat. Then the others were on him. Arsenal threw himself onto his back, lashing up, with a knife in each hand at the wolves.

Windspeaker

The demons were not the only ones that heard the gunfire. Outside of Paris, the wind suddenly picked up, and storm clouds started to gather. A slight figure was lifted by the winds, soaring over Paris towards the source of the gunfire. It started to rain.

Cain's Rant
Cain laughed out loud; "nah; as much as I would love to take credit for that hardy work; it wasn't mine; that was pure humanity all on its lonesome; I told you guys when we built the universe that your gods moulded. You made two mistakes first; you gave humanity free will; biggest mistake and threat to existence there ever is. Give a human a choice and he'll find a way to screw things up; second you gave him belief and a desire to please his chosen spiritual being. - A Choice, and a belief he or she is right and desire to prove it to please his god" Cain said.

"You add those three elements together, you know what you get? A blood bath; pure and simple" Cain nodded; "The crusades, the inquisition, the Catholic Church; Jihad they even frickin' Crucified Jesus Christ for crying out loud. Do you have ANY idea how annoyed Christian god was over that; you kill his only son and humans still have the stones to ask him for favours", Cain continued his rant.

"We Lost ones are neutrals; but ol' Lucy pissed off the Four balances pulling this whole invasion meaning we had to get involved before they do. Cos' if they get angry enough to come down 'ere and fix this there won't be much left of earth, or hell for that matter"

At the School
The attack happened and gash after gash appeared on her body as the attacks kept happening she screamed loudly calling up a solid sphere of blood around her to act as a shield. She tore forward calling the Goloms into her sphere shaping it like a arrow head she thundered forward towards the mages.

"I'm gonna tear your to pieces" hundreds of blood spheres shot out from her trying to impale the mages to disable them without killing them; she was going to make them pay as she bled them slowly.

With the draining nature of the attack and the retaliatory strike, all but one of the mage were slain. The last one was knocked unconsious, a number of wounds pumping blood out and in all likelyhood she'd join her fellows in death within a short space of time.

The Blood Demon Senegal was impressed by the damage she did she looked over sniffing the air one was alive she quickly found 'it' as she called the humans and looked it over; calling her friends she summoned the slain mages blood to heal her wounds and her prisoners; using it to manifest restraints to nullify her prisoners magic also.

Tyrol levitated the mage encasing him in a bubble as the seven headed for the village; it was only a short walk as they came over a hill and saw the large town lit up under the night sky it looked quite pretty. The prisoner mage was placed on its knee's and they waited for it to wake up…

The female mage woke some hours later, and shook her head groggily. She was completely disoriented and confused.

Draconis laughed resting excalibur on his shoulder. i guess u lost ones arent all knowing after all. Jahova wasnt pissed, he sent Christ to die on purpose. Maybe u and him should have a chat so he can tell you what really happened. anyway, its time to dig in and recover, wed counter attack but the hellspawn and Hell knights would destroy us. We need to hold atleast 15 days till Kast recovers."




Some hours later, kast lay next to a burning campfire, gause bangage rapped around his neck. And a blood IV running into his arm. He slept peacefully. Kula sat next to him feeding the fire more wood. Thousands of other camp fires dotted the terain inside the Blackhelm Base as the humans took rest from the day.. Dragons patrolled the skys and the nearby coast while The humans got what rest they could. shouts of laughter and sounds of prayer could be heard round the fires. Kula looked over Kast, and startled when he open his eyes. He was so weak still, and he only managed two words before going unconcious again. ...love.....you...... Kula wept over him(animaria im gonna rp Seigfried for a bit nothin major just talking.) She pulled out one of her pistols filled with silver bullets, and placed it against her heart, she was about to pull the trigger when Seigfried coughed loudly. Startled she dropped the gun almost shooting herself in the leg. She looked up at the knight, who stood only in a lose fitting tunic, some leggings and leather boots. His face was stoic as ever and he spoke gently. "Do not dispair fair maiden. Though i have never met either of your kind, but i can tell your hearts be not evil. A noble thing he did, risking his life to save yours. This was his choice, it was not your fault, he knelt before her, but i promise you this, if i can be any help to these two" he nodded towards Draconis and down at kast" in finding you a cure, you have my services."

Draconis searched for Cain and found him atop a bunker looking at the barriar. "I require your assistance, you and your brethren gave the demons and the vampire god the power to unlock Kula's thirst. Is there any way to reverse this effect?"

As the sun crested, Kula rode atop the great black beast known as Orm. She patrolled the country side, with 12 of the other hundred dragons.

"Smoke, and bad magic, i can smell it." Orm spoke into the dawn. Kayla inhaled deeply but couldnt smell anything. This drew a chuckle from Orm. "Dragons sense much greater than you do." She looked across at the other Dragons. Each had a figure on its back armed with swords. They had come with the dragons. They were the only elven warriors from Anarion willing to come fight. On the horizon Orms powerful eyes spotted demons overlooking a town with a mage kneeling before them. "We should move to intervene." "Agreed" She sent hand signals to the other riders. and the dragons lined up in an attack formation going in silently.

Cain laughed out loud "You higher angels think you know everything; arrogance lots of arrogance; we built the universe; we don't know everything nor do we claim to; the human wrote it like that to feel less guilty 'oh he died for our sin, yeah we didn't murder him honest!' you should talk to your god sometime'" he said.

Cain looked out from his spot on the bunker; at the barrier, which now hard a large section breached; "We made a bridge between the big bad; the vampire goddess and your girl there. The Goddess awakened that which was already there she didn't place anything inside her, didn't alter her she just awakened that which was dormant " Cain said.

"As for helping her I co…" he was cut off as lightning thundered overhead and clashed loudly he looked up; then looked back at Draconis; "Short answer - no"

"Long answer; things have already progressed to much; and the balance has already be royally screwed with; and altering her directly would have…consequences; not just for her but for the multi verse. And, while you are the gods might not worry your heads about the multi verse we have to, any cure if it exists will have to be found through mortal ways" he said. Cain Sighed he really did want to help but what could he do when his hands were tied.

"Its part of who she is; something would have triggered it if not this something else, she can't help drinking any more than a human can help eating; it doesn’t make her evil or bad its just her nature. As long as she drinks once every 24 hours it'll be fine; if she goes more than 24 hours without drinking - even a minute she’ll go into a blood frenzy drinking everything in sight until she's satisfied so do NOT let her starve herself. If you have to PUT a human down in front of her and make her drink it; its better in the long run of things" Cain said.

"One more thing; the sight of blood; will make her hunger for it unless she's just eaten"

At the School
"Oh he's awake!" the blood demon said in glee; "Now you can see what you have done" she replied launching several blood orbs at the town which in mid air turned into thousands of blood locusts and descended upon the towns inhabitants beginning a fresh slaughter. The screams could be heard for miles flames briefly surrounded them as the teleported into the Town Square to watch the fun; keeping the mage alive to watch all the innocents here die.

Attracting attention
The 'wolf pack' went down rather quickly but they were soon followed by Hellspawns, Overlord demons, hell knights and all manners of upper level demons.

Nightmare's plot
Nightmare looked over his newly formed 'airforce' they looked akin to Pterodactyls with red demon eyes and larger talon claws. They were no match for the dragons but would serve well to distract them in the next assault hundreds of them were lined up at what was once a French air base; a fitting Irony

The Inner cathedral
(Set just as the explosion hits)
the gigantic blast shook the earth violently the lost one had made his self known and even the dark god quaked in fear

Arsenal

"Gods, I love this job!" Shouted Arsenal, throwing both the knives currently in his hands at approaching demons and drawing a pistol in each hand. He rapidly fired, throwing the pistols themselves at the demosn once they were empty. Then he dove, and grabbed his minigun, again spraying death towards the attackers.

The mage watched what the demon was doing, and decided on the truely last ditch attempt to destroy them. Reaching up to around her neck, she broke open a small vial, the liquid quickly disappating into the air. Sending the last vestiges of magick, and in fact life itself into the spell, she quite literally exploded as her entire body was turned into a very powerful explosive.

Col Prufrock had heard most of what the two demons said. He scrambled back to base during their conversation. He was a broken man. He lost almost all faith in everything. Everything that he believed about God being the only one and about creation was a lie. He walked into the command tent, and began contemplating suicide. He was making plans to lead a suicide special forces attack on the demons, so that it would not look like he killed himself on purpose, and his family would still have their honor.

Draconis looked out over at the barriar. "Believe what you want Cain. Youre not the one who has to worry about dieing. And as for kula, she wont have to feed for atleast a month. Elven blood is much more potent, and she drank more than enough" He sensed along way off the demon once defeated risen again. A smile came to his lips, it should be a fun battle.


(Im rewriting history just for fun.) The blood locusts decended upon the town. Their golden pincers hungry for death, when a ear splitting roar shattered teh morning silence. Fire consumed the locusts as one of the dragons dive bombed the locuts burning them to ash. Their elemental fire burnt easily.

Orm dive bombed to where the mage was. She was prepairing to commit scuicide. Flipping upside down in midair he flew over the mage and seven demons taking them completely by surprise. Kula reached out grabbing the robes of the mage, hoisting her away as Orm cut the seven down with the long bone blade on teh end of his tail. Spiraling up into the morning, Kula placed the mage behind her and told her to hang on. The other dragons dive bombed the Demons, 6 billowing fire, 6 billowing ice. They two spiraled allowing the elves to strike with swords. The demons fought back but the tough scales of the dragons protected both them and rider from harm.

Draconis stood beside Seigfried an Cain on the bunker. He turned to Seigfried, "you may want to strap on your armor, i have a feeling another battle may soon begin."

Death appered on the beach looking around" Ah thought i smelled a half-breed Hell spawn kill this idiot girl and get back to work"

Serendipity looked at her and knew this was going to get tough if this woman got involed" You don't have to listen to her you can break free of hell now they can't do anything unless they want to tell people were they are."

im putting out a bumpoozle on this thread

I'm waiting for the demon army to move..

Animarnia where are u

OOC: Sorry for the delay; had to do a bit of thinking for this post

IC
Army base
Cain almost laughed; "8 days, maximum. You obviously don't know much about vampires do you? Elf blood will get her 8 days before she has to drink again, don't believe me that’s fine just letting you know so you can at least try to save her from going into blood lust. If she don't drink in 8 days she'll go on a kill spree that’s how it works and it has to be live blood, dead blood is poisonous to a vampire" he said in his New York Mafia accent.

"Look you don't like me; that’s fine; I'm just trying to help you folks out, give you a fighting chance and all that" Cain said. With a wave of his hand purple lightning came down from a blue cloudless sky and where it struck were now at least a hundred wooden crates.

Cain smirked with his cigar still in his mouth; "Weapons courtesy of the lost ones, Holy blades, Echo rifles and Spirit guns" Cain added.

"What are these weapons of which you speak" Seigfried asked confused

"Ok Junior; with an Echo gun; Each bullet is infused with a little spirit energy which Is stored within the bullet. When fired; the spirit energy shard is released from its entrapment upon its target and then disappears its kind of like shooting mini exorcists" Cain explained as he was opening one of the crates and hoisting what looked like a P90 in the air.

Cain hoisted a larger rifle into the air, encrusted with gold and looked like an oversized M16. "This on the other hand is a spirit gun; the spirit guns ammunition is infused with life energy. Spirit guns are exceptionally powerful because of this however due to the draining nature are dangerous to the user as well as the target; Fire once will leave you drowsy, fire twice you'll be half dead" Cain explained; "So no multiple discharges"

"Holy blades are blessed by every higher angel and all of the gods; all five thousand of them and infused with holy magic deadly to demons if you get in hand to hand use your holy blades" Cain said.

"But all of this is just a delay; the more we kill the more old' Lucy will keep sending; so the way I see it we have two objectives. Slow down hells advance into this world and second; restore the Vail" Cain said. "When Lucy came through he blasted a hole in the fabric of the Vail between worlds; its what separates everything from everything else; close the tunnel we only have to deal with what's already here", Cain explained.

"And how do we fix this; Vail?" Seigfried asked.

Cain seemed to smile; "Six stones found in the mortal world, each representing an element; fire, water, earth, air and spirit" Cain nodded with a grin

"You said six" Seigfried raised an eyebrow.

"So I did, the last stone is a shadow stone; pure shadow and darkness with a hunger for souls its said Nightmares blade carries a fragment of a shadow stone. Only a shadow master of strong will can use one without being consumed by its hunger or turned from its power" Cain explained; "one problem is the only shadow stone known to exist to us; is in Old Lucy's inner chamber sanctum even he couldn't master it" Cain added.

"When you have the six stones; take them to the hole in the Vail; cast a spell and bingo the gates of hell are closed; then its payback time" Cain said looking around to see if everyone grasped it.

"Getting the stone's won't be easy; each comes with its own trail and I can't tell you what they are or how to get them that's against the rules; but I can send you to where you have to go" Cain nodded.

The wind seemed to blow ominously and Seigfried looked on at the barrier "Nightmare"

At the Town
The fire and ice rained down not only on the blood locusts but also on the buildings as they were set aflame and others turned to ice and people ran out on fire screaming.

"You took my PET!" The blood demon screamed in anger as blades of solid blood started to slice through the innocents and buildings alike waves of anger coming off her literally causing a blood storm like hurricane destroying anything

The Remaining six began to attack windstorms, lighting strikes, fire rain, shadow demons the skies fell and drains ran with blood it was a massacre and as more feel it only served to intensify the blood storm

The mage had passed out as soon as she was swept up by the dragon.

Interesting. Seems like they might be a bit more annoying than otherwise believed. Teysa thought as she watched the proceedings through the Transreliquat. She was only utilizing the least of the artefact's power to do so as she ideally considered dropping a meteor on the demons head.

The Town

Kula arced through the sky on Orms back, and tossed the mage to another dragon. This dragon swept up into the air and away. Kula then gazed and down and saw the destruction. She reached within her, to the power inside gained from Kast. Spreading her arms rain poured from the heavens, dowsing the flames. She then willed Orm to dive toward the blood demon, and as she neared she drew Azaroth, its holy steal shining, Orm turned upside down in mid air giving kula the room to strike. Azeroths blade cut a deep gash in the back of the Blood demon.

Black helm Base

Draconis looked out over the field. He felt more than heard the approaching wings and the approaching darkness of Nightmare. He gazed up at the hundred Dragons left to gaurd the camp. Drawing his sword he pointed it out to the field. Excaliber exploaded into fire, and Draconis's form changed back into his Six winged angel form. "And so the fight of our time, begins."