Hell on Earth

[Maya]

((Ok, bored now, and as Jessy and Pepper have been bugging me, i have decided to start it- and no, i do not have a set pattern of what i wanna happen, so feel free to have fun. But dont make it easy! These bastards are gonna be HARD TO KILL!! ;D ))

So here we stood, a group of friends and allies who had been through everything, from hell to death, together. We were in a circle in the main room of the dojo. To my right was Joshua- we werent holding hands or even touching, but mentally we were clutching each other. To my left, with my arm around her shoulders, was Aila, her expression showing no fear, but tense anticipation. I looked round at the others- Doc, his jacket donned, weapons consealed in every possible place; Jessy, eyes starring blankly at something on the opposite wall, her jaw set with grim determination; Jack, looking frankly scared, but valiently trying not to- this was his first major fight with us; Pepper and Chime, their identical faces showing very different expressions of Anxious readiness, and dark amusment; then Tpot, who kept glancing at Pepper, as if she would be snatched away from him any second; Rogue looked almost bored, as if in her long life this was no more than another battle; Aredhel and Aralin- the elven sisters stood together, grogeously carved weapons of all sorts fitted about their persons, and expressions of respect for what they were about to face- they were the eldest of us all, but they would never make the foolsih mistake of underestimating an enemy; finally, my eyes fell upon Charlotte. She too had been looking round the group, and our eyes met. Each of us knew the other well enough to know we were intelligently fearful, but each also heald a steely look of never failing grit- neither of us would give in until our lives were ripped from us. There were more of our allies out there, positioned round the city, the country and the world too.... I glanced down once more at the ancient book in my hands, at the primitive drawing of a huge spider like creature with twelve legs which lifted it to tower above the tiny people drawn below it, the tallest of their heads coming barely close to the knee joints of the smallest demon. The massive bodies were caked in a thick armour-like hide, and ominous, gigantic black eyes dominated the heads the size of trucks, great mandiples protruding... one pair of which held a full grown man and sported the only colour in the whole scene... i had a horrid feeling it was real blood. I snapped the book shut, causing several people to start, then sigh. The silence stretched, broken only by the sound of blades being sharpened, or the odd awkward cough, until suddenly, we all heard it, or rather, felt it...
A deep, bone chilling rumbling, getting slowly louder. Weapons were drawn, or checked, or shifted in hands. Josh squeezed my hand, and then i rested it on the hilt of my light-soul-saber. With the barest of glances at Doc, he, I, Josh and Aila at my side, led the way towards door.
This was it.

[Aredhel]

This was it.

I knew Maya was thinking it. In times like these, it was hard to control a naturally telepathic mind, and even harder to control your thoughts from projecting. It was second nature to Maya to hide her thoughts, but it hit me as barely above a whisper. But the lasting implications hit me like a solid stone wall.

This was really it.

Aralin stayed firmly at my side, arrow notched to bow. It would be hard to fight with it once we were in close proximity with the demons, but until then, it remained her most trusted weapon. I knew the feeling - I, too, was ready with an arrow notched.

After this, nothing would be the same. We would kill or be killed, and the rest of the world would follow our example, unto the utter end. Not even the most skilled fortune tellers knew what would come of this (and I had consulted many gifted elves). Only we could determine the outcome. We would do it gladly.

I looked around, at friends old and new, my eyes suddenly resting on Maya.

"Can I get you a drink? How's acid sound?"

If I could chose my second death, it would be right here, beside these wonderful people. They were my family, my life, my soul.

Then again, it would be really cool if none of us died...

((hope I got that quote right, Mai... aaah, the good old days...))

[Maya]

((Hehe, yeah! Thats right. Aw, the good old days... *sigh*))

I glanced at Del, smirking as i heard her reminiscent thought.
"Ready?" She asked me with a quirking smile as our gaze met.
"Always." I replied, and the group of us emerged into the sunlight. People in the streets were murmuring in confusion at the shaking ground.
"get inside and stay there!" Doc yelled at them, and many ran screaming at the sight of the group of us laden with weapons anyway. The rumbling was almost deafening now, and tiny cracks began to form in the street. We watched in horror as an area of street crumbled to give way to the enormous beast rising from beneath- it gave a sickening screech, and its fellows followed...

[TPot]

((A bit of mush....))

I walked beside Pepper. "Here..." I said to her, handing her a whistle "You need help. "Blow on it and I'll be there in a second. And I mean it."

((Anyone got problems with that?))

My sword appeared in my hand. "Time to make pure demon puree demon." I looked around. "Can I throw the first fireball?"((I don't know who to do the acent thingys.))

[Maya]

"Go for it, T. This damn fight is a free-for-all." I considered this, having a sudden urge to yell CHARGE!, but i held it in- Josh however grinned at me, and from amused expressions, i think i might have projected it anyway.
ANd then everyone did, Tpot lobing the first attack- a huge fireball...

[Jack]

((Can some of these fly?))

I watched as the fireball exploded, crispying quite a few. "Very nice." I said.

"As always." was the reply

"But I don't think they like you anymore." I pointed. They were getting back up. One of them fell over with twice it's weight in bullets in him.

[darkmoon]

((You forgot me! Ahh weellll.... Time to make my stunning appearnce.))

I walked out of nowhere.

((Very stunning!! ;D))

[Maya]

((Jack, please try to remember what i said about them beign humongous and hard to kill. twice its weight in bullets would be about all the bullets in the whole of california.))

I ran straight beneath one of the leading demons, swiping at legs on either side as i went. The saber sliced into them, but failed to sever them,
"Goddess." I murmured- this thing could slice steel like butter. I glanced upwards at the belly of the screeching creature, and jumped with all my slayer might, thrusting the saber up into the softer hide. It sunk right in and i got coated with a spray of demon blood.
"Oh gross." I exclaimed, but the demon was staggering, so i grinned... until one of its many legs swiped at me, knocking me flying, then tumbling and rolling down the middle of the road.

[Jack]

((Ok. Mabey there are smaller ones then? Cans some of them fly?))

[Maya]

((na, i dont think so. They're all one race, so sure, maybe some are smaller, but otehr than that theyre roughly the same))

[Jack]

((Ok then.))

"Hey Doc." I called. "What did you say this one did again?" I asked.

"I didn't give that to you." He replied.

"You sure? I've never seen it before. Shall I? I got a hell of a lot of them?" I loaded a magazine of them into the gun.

I aimed straight at a demons chest. I fired. The bullet flew straight towards him. Then it blew up. A bright flash came from it A second later, demons were covered in a white flame.

[Jessy Jackson]

Time to take advantage of the skies. As a dragon I took to the sky, swooping between the demons. One of the demons was turning towards a winded Mai. "No way Jose," I growled. Even as a dragon I was barely half it's size. Snapping wildly I circled it, distracting it from Mai. But then, with a swipe it knowcked e from the air. My wing, or rather, arm was injured badly. Shifting again I beacame a panther, darting between huge legs, snapping and scratching. I was fast but I had an idea that at the end I'd be the first to fall.

[Peps]

"May the Goddess be with you" I whispered as I saw T-pot fighting. This was it.

"Time to fly" I said to Chime, we nodded and shifted in unison, as spirits we drew our soul daggers, 'Teramor" We whispered , an ancient spell word only said once before.

I felt the power cousing through me, almost painful. I looked at Chime and saw a similar expression on her face and watched as Crystal armour grew over her spirit form, knowing this was happening to me also, we were shifting into the highest form our kind could achieve -warrior angels.

Our armour was made of soul crystal, forming lynx head shaped helmets, claws, wings and the usual stuff. We would be unrecognizable to everyone, anyone who saw us would immediately think we were a bad dream, something from a nightmare. Only our identical daggers gave us away.

"Ready, set, GO!" We whispered and sped off towards the oncoming army.

[Jessy Jackson]

I felt the transformation. The power radiated from them, pure spirit energy. I felt it and I knew that the shifters across the world, every one that was fighting, would feel it. The queens were among us, and the ancient shifters, the ancestors of old lived within them, within us. We were the body, they the spirit. No matter how human we were, who our parents were, we knew that at that moment the pure shifter inside us had been released. We might not all be here but this was one pure race agains another. With some other races thrown in. "Here we go," I growled.

(((Do ya mind Peps?)))

[peps]

((Thats fine))

I was speeding towards one of the demons when two of them surrounded me,
they looked like they were...smirking.

"Hey there guys!" I said, falsely cheerful. "Eeugh, you sure need a makeover" I exlcaimed, turning to one of them. The other one sniggered gently.

"Although, from the looks of you, maybe its runs in the family" I contemplated, turning to the other one.

They snarled, bearing their fangs, suddenly a blade appeared, protruding through the chest of one.

"Hey sis!" I yelled to Chime, we turned to the remaining demon as it lunged at me, tearing a wound in my side, suddenly I felt a strange power in my blood.

"No!" I growled, grabbing Chime's arm. "We can't use that one. Not yet. We're saving that for the big finish." I said softly as a bunch of fireballs burned the spider to a crisp.