Session+50

**While Her Heroes Make it Through the Shield, Chaos Demons attack the Destiny**
 * 7-6-2014 **

Towers and buildings on the side of a mountain, surrounded by a wall, stood surrounded by crowds of creatures chanting, "Thonak! Thonak!" Rain poured down from the dark sky, and lightning flashed in the clouds above us. Pale green fire lashed out toward Destiny from the creatures below. Pale green fire washed toward the castle, but before it reached any of the buildings... the fire stopped, flaring over some sort of invisible shield. Lightning crashed down from the clouds and Yuki hid behind Axton. A stray bolt hit a barrel on deck, sending it's lid sailing through the air to crash into Erevin, knocking him unconscious.

Captain Whitestrake looked at us, "What are your orders?" "We need to get into that castle to find Esme," Wren nodded. "Can we get through the shield?" Thorn looked up at her. "I'm sure going to give it a shot," she nodded, pouring some sesame seeds into her hand from a pouch to begin readying her spell.

A barrage of arrows rained on the underside of the ship, so we moved up to try and come down the mountain... but Destiny thumped against the shield, rocking the deck! Yuki slipped off the side, but Axton managed to grab her hand, leaning over the rail. A horde of creatures were directly below, clambering to get her dangling body. Yuki held tightly to his strong hand, but yelled up at him, still upset about missing Tyrion's celebration, the smelly barbarians and sleeping outside in the cold woods, "This changes nothing!"

Posy and Wren looked out to see a pair of enormous magnificent white swans carrying passengers and flying toward the city. The first passed through the shield, but the other was grabbed by a magic lightning net and tumbled to the ground! Yuki pointed toward them, "We need to save them!" Hordes of creatures were running for the downed swan and her passengers, but Destiny was faster and we flew to intercept.

Mali stood on the bars of the railing on the deck to see and dispelled the net around the swan. Scaled, lizard looking dogs were leading the pack, running for the swan! Wren nodded to the others, "You all get them on the ship... I'll go buy us time if necessary." She leapt off the rail to float down between the swan and the advancing army, waiting for them to grow closer. Mali rushed out onto the gangplank to yell out to toward the swan, "Get on!" An elder elf with dark skin, wearing robes and a ponytail, called back to her, "We need to get back to the school!" He pointed toward the city. "So get on!" She yelled back. "You can't get through," He shook his head. "Your swan can!" Mali yelled back. He nodded. She yelled again, "So get the swan on the ship!" "It doesn't work like that!" He yelled back. "Get everyone on the swan then and get Destiny out of here!" Wren turned around for a moment, before turning back to watch the approaching crowd.

Yuki rushed down the gangplank, hugging the beautiful swan and filling it with healing warmth. The burns melted away in pink-white light, returning the swan back to sparkling white feathers. Most of the passengers were young, around 14 or 15... students with their teacher. "They're kids!" Yuki blinked at the students, only a couple of years younger than her. "Yes," he nodded to her and Mali, "We were on our way back to the school. My name is Master Kaeso. Who are you?" Mali was eating a juicy peach that was dribbling down her hand, "I'm Mali Bramblebranch!" "Mali!" Yuki nudged her for talking with her mouth full. "What? Spell casting makes me hungry and these peaches are delicious!" the little halfling nodded at her. Kaeso looked over Yuki's strange holy regalia, not recognizing it, "Well it doesn't really matter... you've helped us! Would you like to go with us? We have room for six more."

Thorn and Posy grabbed Erevin and drug him onto the swan, joining Wren, Yuki, and Mali. The students looked over everyone curiously, not really sure what to make of Posy... and they seemed to avoid Maliumpkin. The swan lifted into the air with it's graceful wings and flew toward the city with great speed... Flickers of green light flashing below us. Everyone glanced back toward Destiny as the swan passed in through the shield to see the gangplank fade away and the ship lifting off just before seeing rents in the air... creatures appearing on the deck of the Destiny. "Oh hell..." Wren's heart sank a little as she 2nd guessed herself and considered returning to the ship. Mali sighed, "Good luck, Ursus!"

Saben and Thirteen were tidying up the bar below the decks, they could see the heroes boarding the swan through the glass dome bottom of the ship. As Destiny began to rise, creatures of chaos smashed through the windows. Without hesitating, Saben reached down and grabbed Thirteen's axe from beneath the bar and threw it to him, reaching down to take her longsword as well.

On opposite ends of the deck, Ursus and Crowe watched the swan pass through the shield and then creatures appeared on the deck around them. A horned helmed mage rode in on a spiked shield, leading the wave of demons. A fairly good looking man appeared next to Crowe, sighing, "You're all so doomed." The white haired witch glanced over at him, "Apparently you haven't met me before." "No... you're all strangers," Latnemele shook his head and wiped his hands on his robe as though they had some sort of dirt on them, "This ship isn't natural... you shouldn't be here." "We've simply come to claim what's ours and we'll be on our way," she nodded. "You smell like adventurers," He nodded to her. She nudged him over slightly to be out of her way as she moved to meet the chaos demons, " 'Scuse me, sweetie, but we have trouble..." adding a little insultingly, "man." "I'm no 'man'," he shook his head, meaning not 'human'. "Then you're the strangest woman I've ever seen," she shrugged. Latnemele blinked at her.

Reddish humanoid demons with big black swords, scaled lizard-like dogs with claws, squat green demons with puss oozing from ever orifice, and seductive female-like demons with clawed hands were scattered over the deck and in the bar. Latnemele turned and released fast bolts of energy from his finger tips into one of the demons, causing it to collapse and die, and then gems lit up on his magic golden staff and a cone of cold blew over three more of them, frozen chunks blowing off of the ship. "Well," Crowe nodded to him approvingly, feeling a powerful ebb of elemental magic around him, "You've got promise to you yet." "Eh," he shrugged with his back to hers, "Trivial magic... I'm feeling a bit under the weather." Crowe glanced back over her shoulder at him, an eyebrow raised. Clearly he wasn't human. She stepped over and released a bolt of lightning straight through three of the demons. One of them fell, but two other demons behind her struck at Crowe, one of their blood covered blades slicing across her back! The helmed mage on the shield turned to Latnemele, "Power of this world... you will be corrupted! You will spread 'our' doom!" Lightning flashed toward the elemental sorcerer, but he avoided most of it... the magic of Destiny making him weaker than normal. He wrinkled his face a little in disgust, "Something is strange about this ship... I feel almost... human."

Below in the bar, a crystal dragon statue that had always been at the end of the bar came to life flew to Saben's side, cocking his head as if listening to her voice in his mind. She began to sing a bard song of Courage and the two moved forward together, surrounding a demon that she slashed into with her blade while the dragon stung it with his tail. The tiny little demons that looked like oozing snot attacked her ankles and started climbing her legs! One of the unnervingly beautiful female demons reached out with her claws to snip at Thirteen's "baby-makers", but she was surprised to find them exceptionally hard like steel! Thirteen lunged forward with his claws, ripping her apart as he bit into the woman's jugular! The demon melted into ichor, dripping to the floor. Saben gazed at the big troll a little surprised... He was always so gentle wiping the glasses.

Ursus let loose with a powerful fire snake spell into the demons surrounding him on the opposite side of the deck from the witch and the elemental mage. One of the sworded demons, slashed into the druid so deeply... blood continued to drip from his wound. Latnemele thrust open burning hands onto one of the demon, but it's chaos hide seemed to repel most of the damage... the strange mage stepped through a dimension door on the other side of the chaos mage on the spiked shield. The two demons behind the witch swung out as she moved with the female just barely catching Crowe's buttcheek in her claws, both painful and seductively inviting... Crowe turned around and winked at her before releasing a poisonous cloud over the front of the ship... the screaming and coughing of demons coming from somewhere within it. One of the beaked demons stepped out to blow a colorful burst of fire over her, but she managed to step out of the way, avoiding the main blast.

Saben turned and wove into her continuing song a melody of haste, her crystal dragon familiar stinging another demon with its poison. Crystal flakes formed out over the demon from where it was stung and it began slowing down. The little oozing demons continued to climb up her legs. Another demon slashed into Thirteen's back with it's sword, but the troll's amazing strength and quick healing made him a formidable opponent even from the back. Thirteen lunged forward, swatting away the oozling demons from a grateful Saben. Their bodies hit the wall with a sickly splat and he turned to see her shaking her head at the mess they'd made of her precious bar, and said encouragingly, "We'll clean that up later." He turned back to the female and sliced her in half vertically with his mighty claws!

The helmed chaos mage riding around on his spiked shield called out into the air, "My lord! My lord, Khorne... this is the ship! I beseech your help with this ship. We can bring chaos to so many worlds! Lend me your aid!" A deep rumbling growl thundered from the area and giant red-skinned four-armed demon with a red rune on it's forehead leapt onto the deck with it's large wings! It's gutteral voice was deep, "Blood for the blood god!"

Ursus prepped a spell while Black Fang rended into the demons around them, dropping another into nothingness as the chaos demons slashed into both of them! Latnemele turned to the arriving demon, "Well demon, Ice to see you!" He threw out a cone of cold from his powerful staff! "Just Chill!" Crowe glanced behind her where the demon appeared to see it covered in snow and ice, it's eyes burning... it did not seem amused by the elemental mage's puns. She took a step to the side and turned around to throw an empowered lightning bolt through the massive demon and the chaos mage and eradicating the little demon that spewed colorful fire. Latnemele chuckled behind the four-armed demon and his mage, "Shocking, isn't it?" The mage was smoking, rearing back as his helm was blown off... his head looked like some sort of half-breed of one of the beaked bird-like demons. Latnemele taunted him, "Polly want an ass-kicking?"

Saben struck out again and again with her blade, taking down another of the invading demons, it's body dropping to a pile of ashes blackening a spot on the floor. She sighed looking down at it. Thirteen nodded to her, "We'll clean that too." The troll turned around slaughtered the last demon in the room as they heard demonic screams, lightning, and explosions coming from up on deck.

The enormous red-skinned demon servant reached out one of his massive hands and grabbed Crowe, squeezing her with his claws digging into her flesh, and pulled his sharp blade to point it obscenely below the witch as he glared down at the elemental mage, "Surrender, herald of doom!" Latnemele's shoulders weighed down heavily as he looked at the elven woman about to be skewered in only a way a demon enjoyed his mortal women. Seeing the real consideration the mage was putting into the request, Crowe struggled in the demon's grasp, shaking her head, "Don't you dare surrender to this filth!" The massive demon squeezed her tighter as he continued to stare down at Latnemele, "Or I'll make this one 'mine'!" She growled out defiantly, "He can 'try'!" She glanced down at the sharp blade coming for her. Latnemele held firm, trusting in the power of the strange witch who refused to give in to her captor, and the enormous demon shot out bolts of colorful chains over him, one of them striking into his shoulder! His shoulder is burned and for just a moment a face started to grow out of his shoulder, it's mouth opening up... but the elemental mage shook it off.

Fang shredded the lizard-like demon biting him and Ursus released a bolt of lightning from the clouds to obliterate another! Latnemele empowered a fire ball, burning down another demon and the mage on the shield finally fell... black hands reached up from under the chaos mage to collect him. With the demon's sword brushing the fabric of her clothes and low on health, Crowe pushed herself through a dimension door to appear on the deck out of his grasp, "Sorry, but you're not my type." He looked from his empty hand to the sound of her voice on the deck behind him. His gutteral voice was deep and booming, "I love it when they play hard to get. I'm going to have fun raping 'you' ...AND your corpse!" Even the witch's face scrunched up in disgust, ew.

Saben got to the top of the stairs, her beautiful voice singing out with inspiration, to see the massive four-armed demon standing in the middle of the deck looking her way as she came up near Crowe. "Another one!" he exclaimed in his deep gutteral voice, "There's plenty to go around." He turned back to the elemental mage, bringing down his massive sword to leave Latnemele barely alive.

Thirteen came up from behind Saben and she nodded over to him, "Be careful. That thing is big! I'll help if I can." The troll grinned at her and opened his claws, preparing to run at the massive demon head on. She shook her head with a smile, "Go get him then... just remember that bar isn't going to clean itself. I'll need help." She sniffled just for a second as he rushed fearlessly forward, "...Best bouncer ever."

Fang was overtaken by puking as one of the demons caught him in it's colorful fire. Ursus brought down another bolt of lightning, dropping another demon. Latnemele stepped through a dimensional door to the other end of the ship out of the reach of another strike of the massive demon's sword while Crowe put much needed healing over herself.

"Go find the fool who ran away so I can heal him," Saben sent her crystal dragon familiar out to Latnemele to bring him needed healing before she stepped behind Thirteen, continuing to sing Courage into their friends. The elemental mage nodded gratefully to the little crystal drake, "I'm going to keep 'you'." Thirteen rushed in slashing with his claws and biting into the enormous red-skinned four-armed demon! Crowe stepped back, feeling the mighty power of the demon and troll crashing into each other! The demon chuckled darkly, "You're all going to die!" "Not today we're not," Crowe shook her head. "Oh not you... I have other plans for you," the red-skinned demon looked over the troll down at the witch.

Ursus brought down a bolt of lightning into the demon servant of Khorne as Thirteen dug in his claws. "Fleas! Fleas sting me," the demon muttered, irritated. Latnemele sent out a quickened magic missile followed by an empowered magic missile raining down a storm of energy into the back of the enormous demon, causing it to growl over his shoulder at the mage, but Thirteen kept him in place as the four-armed demon swung his sharp blade out to hit Thirteen, Saben, and Crowe with mighty strikes!

Thirteen continued to rip and shred into the massive four-armed demon until it started to fade into dust... the body exploded outward, knocking everyone over on the deck and catching them on fire! Finally dropping the last of the demons, everyone looked around to see that the Destiny had been moving up and away from the battle, but Whitestrake was having trouble with steering, putting his muscles into it as they moved away... rents of air behind them as more demons continued to pour out, just short of the ship...

"The ship has been damaged... we need to find a place to repair it," Gregori nodded to everyone, "Azarius says the controls were damaged." Crowe nodded, "Do so then." She glanced back with the others to see the mountain with it's magic shield disappear with their loved ones inside... "Well... that can't be good." They pulled back a wall of clutter that had slid across the decks to trap the others on the boat.