BenjaminBlue takes his mug carefully into both hands and scoots himself forward to see what Flash had been writing. "I see that things are going well then. Very good." Blue looked over to Devaine and Kade with a polite smile before leaning back in his seat, spilling a little of his cider onto his priestly robes. Blue didn't seem to notice as he took another sip before setting his cup on the table.

avelynmyre Cocks her head for a moment, curiously watching the ogre sit at the far end alone. She hesitated, and then followed him innocently.

Grumm looks at the young girl and speaks "Okfreshkla Unksch Oufleisch

[avelynmyre] She stops and blinks.

Grumm "Gunfrichsk?

Flash_Guardian beams eagerly at Kade and Devaine. "You can help me lay out my temple, that's what! I've been giving it some thought, and so far I've only managed to come up with a few requirements," he informs them, quickly scratching out some words across an edge of parchment. "Altar for prayer, common room, worship room for the masses, dojo, circular 'infinity' theme ..."

avelynmyre She looks down at her feet, shyly and mutters a reply, "Rheah."

Grumm simply nods and replies " Grumm!"

[avelynmyre] She looks up at the ogre with a glowing smile, then, pointing at the chair beside him, asks "Bjorwyf nyrae gat?"

Devaine_Hawk leans over the table, still standing as he studies the paper on it . Anyone looking might notice the dark rings under his eyes, and the almost plausible depression that hangs around his aura. “where you gonna put the bar ?” he asks in a weak attempt at a joke.

Kade nods back to Ben before he sits down himself, "Not sure how much I'll be able to help Flash, not to experienced with churches."

Grumm speaks furthur in his native tongue "Okfreinkst fah timkreshck juwashklemst tuids fahlomsk

avelynmyre Nods and proceeds to pull up the chair, setting her tankard down and crossing her arms as she looks way up at the towering behemoth with childlike awe.

Grumm breaks the top of the ale barrel open and takes a massive swig

avelynmyre Laughs at Grumm and also takes a sip of her own mead.

Flash_Guardian stops writing and places the tip of the pen in his mouth, thinking. "We could probably put a bar next to the ... wait a minute!" He scowls, looking back and glaring at Dev. "A bar?! In a temple?!" Flash chuckles at the joke, turning his attention back to the parchment before him. "Obviously I'm barking up the wrong tree with you two," he says, referring to Devaine and Kade.

Grumm glances over at the incredibly obvious and lewd couple on the other side of the pub and snarles. "Faklash! Cumbashohn jimkas!

avelynmyre Gets a mad glitter in her eye and heaves her leather sack upon the table in front of Grumm.

BenjaminBlue flashes a warm smile to Kade. "Life itself is the only experience that you should need. It takes no practice to become a helping hand," he said tilting his head forward as he spoke, letting some of his golden hair cover his face before looking back to Flash.

Kade chuckles softly, "You going to have a place for people to put up their feet and rest a bit too there Flash?"

avelynmyre Follows Grumm's gaze to the couple, stares with a slight smile, then looks back at Grumm obviously disinterested.

Grumm : turns his head and focuses upon what she placed upon the table

Kade nods slowly to Ben, "I'll be sure to keep that in mind."

avelynmyre Licks her lips as she eagerly unties the drawstring on her pack, and draws out several live rats tied by their tails.

Grumm reaches into one of his pouches and puts a peach seed into his mouth and seems to be chewing on it

Grumm notices the rats and glances. "Gorfoshknt?"

Flash_Guardian is taken aback at Blue's words, looking a bit sheepish. "Yeah, Blue's right. After all, a temple shouldn't be just about the deity or the religion ... it should be about the people." Flash looks back at Kade and Dev, smiling appreciatively. "And that's you guys." Flash grins at Kade's suggestion. "Yep, I'm thinking about putting in a common room with plenty of floor mats, or cots, or whatever we can get our hands on."

Alita appears rather nondescriptly out of the shadows.

avelynmyre Frowns at him, pointing at the peachpit's demise. "Ryynfaella?"

Devaine_Hawk finally slumps in a chair, nodding to Benjamin as he does . He pulls a pack of cowboy killers and a Zippo from his pocket and lights up. He constantly moves his eyes about the room, but not looking at anyone at all. No, he seems to be looking in the shadows, and where there isn’t or shouldn’t be anything to see. Blue white flashes of bioelectricity spring up I his solid onyx eyes as he does this and he seems almost in a trance.

Grumm he grins as much as an ogre ever grins. "Watchfeh!"

avelynmyre Chuckles and nods, drawing out her three and a half foot serrated cleaver.

Grumm turns his head in the direction of the lewd couple and suddenly spits the peach seed across the bar and right into didina's forehead

avelynmyre Sees this and snorts unladylike, unable to stifle her laughter.

Flash_Guardian glances sidelong at Devaine as he continues writing. "Maybe if I build a common room with beds, Devaine here will actually get some sleep," he mutters, grinning to himself. "I guess that means we'll also need a fair sized kitchen, and a place to store food ..."

Grumm laughs deeply and rather loudly for an ogre and then turns his focus to rheah' 3 foot cleaver and ponders. He seems to look closer and study the weapon with great interest

avelynmyre Taps Grumm's arm excitedly.

Alita rematerializes near Devaine's right arm and attempts to bum a cigarette.

[Kade] You're gonna end up with a apartment complex if you aren't careful Flash.

Grumm after watching the woman get up, he spits at her again, but this time without a peach seed . . .just a glob of spit . .

Devaine_Hawk looks back to Flash” trust me I sleep , not much, and during the day anymore.” he states before he goes back to studying the dark parts of the room.

Grumm laughs and looks to rheah. "Grashfheth!!"

avelynmyre Giggles

Flash_Guardian shakes his head at Kade. "I don't think that'll be a concern, Kade. Especially given the temple's location out in the middle of nowhere. And don't worry, we'll have rules about who is invited to stay at the temple and who isn't." He spares just one more prying glance in Devaine's direction before returning to his work.

avelynmyre She tosses the rats in the air, and with one swipe of her cleaver, takes the heads off of the rats, and catches the carcasses by their tails, sending the blood spattering upon her face. The heads bounce on the table like peach pits.

Grumm points over to the people talking about building a new structure. "Falfesh kulnft ytarshk glaishveth!"

Devaine_Hawk springs from the chair as the girl appears next to him. On his feet in a lightning quick movement his hand already under his jacket before he stops him self.” that’s a damn good way to get your self killed lady” he tells her pulling an empty hand back off from under the jacket . He reaches for the pack on the table and offers one to her .”I thought you where one of them”

Grumm stifles a laugh at the sight of the rat beheading ceremony!

BenjaminBlue folds his hands together and gently sets them on the table, exhailing a deep breath through his nose as he does. "Such a place wouldn't be open to those who would pass by as a sanctuary?" Blue leaned back and closed his eyes, letting his cap fall from his head into his lap.

avelynmyre She sucks on the decapitated rat carcass and makes crunching noises as she gnaws on the tendons.

Kade seems rather surprised at Devaine's sudden movement, having missed Alita's own sudden apperance.

Alita takes one and places it gingerly in her mouth, where it lights after a moment or two. "Hmm." She looks quizzically at him. "One of whom?"

avelynmyre Nudges two of the rats over to Grumm's side.

Flash_Guardian nods to Blue. "I would be hard pressed to turn down lodging to a weary traveller ... but priorities would of course have to go to those who cannot ..." He is interrupted by Devaine's sudden motion, whirling and looking over at the other woman standing nearby. "Geez, Dev! What on earth has gotten into you lately?" He stares at Devaine suddenly, shocked and concerned for his friend.

Devaine_Hawk shakes his head at her question, setting back down. “your better off not knowing any more than you do right now, but here’s some advice, stay in doors at night, and away from shadows, in a group if you can, “ he looks around the table at the other three men, “that goes for every body”

avelynmyre Swallows and wipes her face clean on her sleeve.

Kade looks at Devaine, rather puzzled, "I live in a tent, that's gonna be a little hard."

Alita looks very faintly disgusted. She takes a drag; the smoke trickles out of her nostrils. "Whom," she says, punctuating the word with a puff of smoke, "do you think I am? I prefer to know a danger than not, especially since what vexes you likely vexes me little."

avelynmyre She looks down at her retractable claws idly, then scrawls her name in runes upon the table in mild amusement.

BenjaminBlue opens his eyes and looks to Devaine with a firm look of affirmation to cover up his growing curiosity. Blue had heard something like that from this man before from a while back. Although he would have followed such advice without anyone's asking, it would concern him that it had been brought up. "It would be better not to question..." Blue thought to himself with a nod. "Yes, of course," he replied.

Devaine_Hawk looks over at Flash, “the other night I was out on the streets, working on that case I told you about.. I saw …something” he turns back to Kade, “then maybe you should think about relocating…” then the girl” trust me you don’t want in this , none of you do”

Flash_Guardian frowns at Devaine. "Well what should I do, Dev? I don't even have a tent, Kade here has one up on me." Flash sighs, but at least now he knows enough of the story to wager a guess.

Grumm stands up to stretch, however, with his massive height he rams his head into the cieling creating a loud thud!

avelynmyre Goes to take another sip of her mead and realizes that she's out; she looks over to Grumm, tilting her tankard indicating that it's empty, and huffs a sigh of boredom. She gathers her things and stands up.

Kade shakes his head slowly and leans back in his chair, "I'm safer in the woods then in side. But I'll keep your warning in mind."

Alita looks at Devaine levelly after taking a glance at Flash and Kade's reactions. She almost opens her mouth to say something, shuts it, and thinks a moment, her pale eyes snapping. "Really .... try me."

avelynmyre Realizes that the reason for the ogre's taciturn demeanor was because he, too, was about to die of boredom.

Kade glances over at Flash, "I know of a nice comfy ditch if you're looking for some delux acomadations."

Grumm lets out a loud and deep groan and out of a momentary fit of rage, grabs a chair, which happens to be the nearest object, and flings it! unfortunately, the chair flies and slams into the table which the folks debating on construction of a certain facility ar sitting. the chair crashes the table over and smashes into the documents, creating a quick rain of the parchments!

Flash_Guardian hears a loud thud from the far side of the room, sparing a glance ... the ogre. His attention quickly turns back to Devaine and the others, distracted from his temple plotting at the moment. Looking to Kade, he offers a suggestion. "A ditch, eh? Hey, maybe you and I should share a camp for a while, Kade. If you're willing to suffer my company, that is. Safety in numbers?"

Devaine_Hawk shakes his head again, “I don’t know what to do yet. And I’m not sure any place is safe, shadows are every where, inside out side, “ he stops looking around the room again as before “every where”

Flash_Guardian lashes out with a quick punch over the table as a chair comes nearby ... the chair cracks and shatters, sending splinters and bits of chair raining down around the group. Flash does not look amused.

avelynmyre Mischeviously whispers something to Grumm.

Grumm shakes his head quickly and pops his neck, regaining his quiet nature

Devaine_Hawk jumps back to his feet a split second before the chair hit’s the table. It’s amazing, a precognitive, and he was on edge already, someone remember to thank the ogre later.

Grumm ponders as he scratches his scarred chin and then grins

BenjaminBlue keeps to himself, quietly holding his hands together and listening to the others. Then all of a sudden, a stray chair would smash into the table in front of him! Blue pushed himself back immediately, almost making him fall backwards in his seat before he leaned forward to plant his feet on the ground again. "What in Heaven's name...?" he said, looking around to see who would've donw such a thing before looking to the ogre across the room. At that point, Ben would have nothing more to say and just sat quietly as he waited for the other's reactions.

Alita ducks, swears, and brushes wood chunks out of her hair. Her ears flick backwards and she shifts her wings around a bit, looking rather like a cat that's been splashed with water.

Kade grumbles as he pushes back his chair and stands, whatever reply he was about to make to Flash about sharing a camp is replaced by a curse, "What the hell was that...."

Alita makes a rude gesture at the ogre. What a lout.

Grumm turns his gaze to the currently disrupted party across the pub and simply grins

Devaine_Hawk pulls the twin Desert Eagles from under his jacket in a smooth practiced motion as he spins on the creature. The barrels line up on it’s chest, two little red dots of light pop up there from the laser sights as well. “you picked the wrong day ..the wrong bar .. And the wrong table”

Flash_Guardian 's face is flat, his eyes narrow. "That was rather uncouth." Saying nothing else, he calmly picks up the remainder of his scrolls of parchment from the nearby chair and stows them someplace safer ... underneath his chair. After that, he inhales sharply, leaning down over the table and blowing the remaining splinters off the table and onto the floor, swiftly rolling up his parchment.

Grumm obviously does not understand a word that devaine spoke, as it is of foreign tongue, and simply looks upon the guns with interest and curiosity, obviously haveing never seen that particular style of weapon before.

Kade takes a step away from Devaine when the guns come out, though he does keep most of his attention on the big chair throwing beast.

avelynmyre Giggles wickedly to herself and straightens her shoulders as she inches her hand toward a beheaded rat, then with one quick motion, flings its cold, soggy body at Deviaine's face.

BenjaminBlue aloofly turns his head back to the group and straightens his vesments. "Goodness, how rude..." he said in a voice matching his movements as he gingerly placed his cap back on his head.

Javier C'Zar stays outside of the pub from a good distance. His Tac-Ops Tango 51 sniper trained at the door. He knows Devaine Hawk was inside. He had tracked him all evening.

Alita looks curiously at the guns. What strange things to be carrying.

[Kade] I get the feeling this is not gonna end well.

Flash_Guardian sighs. "Well, looks like we'll be closing up shop," Flash says grudgingly. He watches the other girl who he had pitied earlier prepare to throw, ready to act in case Devaine didn't for some reason.

Devaine_Hawk keeps the guns trained on the beasts chest as he squeezes the triggers. As soon as he fires he feels the rat bounce off the side of his head. He ducks in to a low crouch and follows it’s trajectory back to the girl, the gun’s sights trained on her now.

Grumm grins at rheah and speaks ogre'ish again. "Ogglashfer ashfoush! ferleik kurshnak!

Grumm suddenly realizes the hostility that has now followed the incident of rage and obvious misguidance of a flying chair and yells aloud in a deafening warcry. "AFAAAASHH!!!

avelynmyre Leaps on the table with cat-like agility in front of Grumm, hissing at Devaine with slitted eyes. In a flash she flings her cleaver like a boomerang at one of the guns.

Illidan_the_Dark_Paladin melted out of the shadows, shimmering on the edge of sight, drawing attention of nothing, and everything in all the same time. His body rippled once or twice like water before becoming solid again. Not bothering to lower the hood of his cloak, he begins to observe the other beings scattered around the place. A slightly sardonic grin spreading over his lips, not that it could be seen. His eye color wavered between a deep, almost bottomless blue, and a stark, glaring red. However, this went unseen, the shadows cast by the hood hiding his face. Nothing sparked his interest, so instead he turned his attention to finding somewhere to sit, so he could observe these beings in quiet. However, that quiet may not last long…

Grumm reaches over and grabs rheah by the shoulder, yanking her to the immediate right and out of the direct line of targeting.

avelynmyre Leaps off the table and rolls behind the bar.

Flash_Guardian hears the gunshots ring out. No time to waste now! He quickly snatches up all of his rolls of parchment, the bottle of ink, and the feathery quill, stuffing the papers underneath an arm. "Let's go!" he cries, grabbing his pouch and whirling back for a spot behind the bar to seek cover.

avelynmyre At least she meant to leap off the table and roll behind the bar--in mid air, she was caught by a huge ogre fist by the shoulder.

BenjaminBlue quickly rises and moves himself as swiftly as he can out of the way of anything that might be exchanged between the ogre, girl, and Devaine. Blue stops by the bar and holds on arm out defensively, having an extreme aversion to conflict. "Let us leave, then. I don't wish to get involved in anything that I would regret."

Grumm just as he had moved rheah, one of the shots slams into his plate mail, however, bseeing as it is the weight and thickness equivelant of a cast iron potbelly stove, the bullet manages to make a crack in the chestpeice but not penetrate

Javier C'Zar eye's light up with amusment as he hears the all-too-familiar sounds of gun-fire ringing out from within the establishment. He would remove his hand from the trigger as the sniper rifle was set up with a ground guard. He spoke into his com-link radio headset. "This is C'Zar. Operations underway. Target is within parimeter. C'Zar out." The mercenary leaned forward from his crouched position in the dark shadowy woods, the perfect camoflauge He loaded a 7.56 NATO round into the rifle and awaited Devaine Hawk to decide he wanted to leave. C'Zar could wait all night long if need be.

Kade growls softly, his lips for a moment curling back from his teeth, but does not go for cover, "Devaine....you sure you want to do this?"

Grumm grins menacingly toward devaine, yet the grin changes to a grin of excitement and mischief!

Devaine_Hawk steps toward the beast, his aim shifting to it’s head this time and empties both clips, the cleaver sailing behind him as he moves, luck or did he know it was on it’s way?

Alita melts back into the shadows and watches...

avelynmyre Still dangling by Grumm's fist, she wriggles free and falls on her hands and feet nimbly. She gets a running start and vaults over the nearest table and gives Devaine a leg sweep.

Grumm simply and somehow strangely, manages to adjust himself in time to turn his shoulder to guard his face, the bullets meanwhile managing to crack and bust a large peice of the pauldron off of his shoulder

Kade reaches forward for Devaine after the cleaver goes flying past, attempting to drag Devaine to the ground.

Flash_Guardian quickly sets his stuff down behind the bar, then looks back at the violent exchange with distaste. "No regrets defending a friend," he says, quickly bringing back his hands and marshalling his magical forces. He rotates his arms in opposite spirals until his hands converge at the center of his chest. There is a burst of color inversion which envelops Flash, followed by a shimmering effect ... and suddenly there are four illusionary shadowy duplicates of Flash in front and behind him. The real Flash is easy to spot, but the shadowy time distorting effect is very distracting, making Flash more difficult to hit and his attacks harder to predict.

Illidan_the_Dark_Paladin sat calmly at the bar, despite the commotion around him. Not bothering to find the bartender who would most likely be hiding by now, he simply reached over and grabbed a bottle of Bloodwyne, and of course a glass to go with it.

Alita waves hello to Illidan from the shadows.

Grumm in one motion, he spins, extending his immensly long and powerful arm to grab devaine as he falls, and reversing his momentum, tossing devain across the pub into a table

BenjaminBlue stands almost paralyzed as the cleavers flies past Devaine to collide with the mirror behind the bar. It had past very close to Blue's head on the way. Looking rapidly back and forth between the cleaver and the fight, Blue scrambles over the counter and hides in his own cowardice.

Devaine_Hawk takes the leg sweep and goes down , shifting his weight to try and land on the strange girl as he falls. He quickly taps the toes of his boots against each other and a three inch blade springs from each.

Javier C'Zar thinks to himself as remains crouched looking up ahead at the Pub. "I wonder what kind of mess is happening in there," He murmurs quietly to himself.

avelynmyre Rolls to her immediate left. She perks her head up and begins to laugh as if it were all a game.

Grumm nearly buckles over in laughter

Grumm is obviously enjoying himself

Illidan_the_Dark_Paladin was starting to get somewhat annoyed at the actions taking place around him. Yet instead of getting up and leaving in search of somewhere more quiet, a grin spread over his face. Why leave when it would be more fun to join. From around his feet, dark energy started to twist and swirl heading up in an effort to cover his entire body. Seconds later, Illidan could no longer be seen, only the dark cocoon, its surface shifting constantly. Fire, ice and lightning crackled along it's surface, as bones are heard breaking, lengthening and rehealing, organs and muscles make sickening squelching sounds as they are moved and rearranged in his body. Suddenly, the cocoon bursts in all directions leaving the eight-foot tall demon form of Illidan standing there. His eyes blazed forth, pupil’s mere slits of ebony in shimmering crimson. His wings flexed on intent, flaring out before furling behind him. His claws extended, as if the demon tested his surroundings. Malicious intent met homicidal rage within the depths of his

Flash_Guardian 's temporally blurred form vaults over the bar, cartwheeling across the floor in the direction of the ogre. Very difficult to see amongst the confusion, but he seems to have pulled something from somewhere in to his hand ... something small and metallic.

[Illidan_the_Dark_Paladin] eyes. Now the only question was, who to play with first. Hmmm, that ogre looks promising strength wise.... was the thought that crossed his mind as he looked toward Grumm.

Alita looks at Illidan. ....

avelynmyre Snickers and looks up at the ceiling, then towards Flash. She leaps and crouches on the side of the wall, then scampers like a squirrel upside down on the ceiling and drops on Flash's head.

Grumm quickly comes to his senses as he catches a scent of somthing approaching at a high velocity. in response, he simply dashes forward and throws his shoulder into the charge, actually colliding with flash at combined momentums!

Devaine_Hawk bucks back to his feet, standing again. He looks to the ogre and a cold smile comes across his face as the blue white sparks cross his eyes ,once again.” let’s dance” he whispers, making a universal come and get it motion with one hand while the other slips in a jacket pocket.

Javier C'Zar would soon grow disenchanted with stalking his prey for a better word. C'Zar would rise to his feet leaving his sniper rifle in it's place as he brought his AR-15 carbine up sliding a magazine cartridge into it. He fumbled around with his com-link headset for a moment changing the frequencies. After removing himself from his camoflauged location, he would proceed toward the Pub calmly walking, of course with his assault rifle in hand.

avelynmyre Hugs Flash's head with her thighs, riding on his shoulders with a wild animalistic cry, trying ot bring him down.

Grumm unsheathes his immense flail, rather than using it, he simply drops it aside . . . obviously . . to him a bar brawl is a simple wrestling match . . . definitely not the type to go killing in the midst of fun!

Illidan_the_Dark_Paladin drew his katana from its sheath. The stark, soul-like energy burned into life, like a new born star. The energy twisted, trying to claw its way from the perfect, deadly steel that encased it. Runes, twisting and blurring as if alive, flared into new power along the deadly edges, twisting reality and space into a Nega Well. Slowly Illidan raised the blade, barring any damage from anywhere, sparks of Nega flashing and whirring with deadly intent from the blade. He grinned slowly, fangs flashing, until the dull, liquid like Nega encased them, too.

avelynmyre Backflips off his head and lands on the bar on tiptoe, arching her back and cackling.

Grumm nods at devaine, and for a moment a smile/grin crosses his face. he them slams his fists together and nods!

Kade moves away from where he was then, Devaine causing more trouble then he was willing to deal with. "A man starts a bar brawl, it turns into World War III...."

BenjaminBlue slowly places one hand on the counter, then the other as he pushed himself up to peek over the bar to the fight. All of it was chaos. All of this was already enough to make him go into hiding, but the sight of Illidan's form was more than enough to further dishearten him. "O my lord... A demon." Blue ducked back down again and watched, absolutely terrified. He would start to recite under his breath a quick prayer for his group's safety.

Grumm suddenly ceases and turns his head in the direction of the demon and instantly scowls . . .

Grumm he turns his head to devaine, and points to the demon. "Ugvfakst!!"

Devaine_Hawk pulls the other hand out of the pocket to reveal a set of solid steel “brass” knuckles on it now. Starting to circle the beast, the flashes in his eyes speed up as he waits for it to make it’ move.

Flash_Guardian simply rolls under the ogre's legs as Grumm charges him ... talk about a feat of agility, there! That also means that avelynmyre risks striking her ogre companion with her attack. He quickly comes up to his feet, brandishing his weapon of choice ... a short metallic rod. All at once the rod springs to life, sending crackling yellow energy out from both ends, creating a quarterstaff of bright yellow light. He looks back at the pair, sizing them up ... then quickly grimaces. As he speaks, his voice has an otherworldly echo to it. "No ... you both are not worthy of the fight." Sighing with obvious distaste, he simply walks back over behind the bar to reclaim his things.

Grumm 's attention then turns to the demon . . its obviously becoming a serious issue . .

Illidan_the_Dark_Paladin grasped his Katana with both hands, glyphs forming around it as it glowed a deep, sullen red. With a terrible grating scream the sword spilt, pulled apart as Illidan invoked one of the ancient spells, ‘Sister Sword’. Now, with one grasped in both hands, Illidan lent forward, the sword ends trailing in the ground. He pushed away from the earth, his demon wings unfurling from his back with a leathery thwack. Grasping both blades firmly he got closer to his intended target namely Grumm, and then swung. Both blades were at the same height, so when they collided with either a) Illidan’s target, or b) each other, they were pushed together, becoming the one Katana again. This move wouldn't kill if it hit, killing was not his intention, this was just his way of having fun.

Kade backs over towards Flash, muttering to himself, "Gonna have to have a long talk with Glyniss about the friends she keeps..."

avelynmyre Leaps upon Grumm's shoulders like a ferret and scowls at the demon.

Illidan_the_Dark_Paladin oocly kicks his typos....

Javier C'Zar made his way to the entrance of the Pub. Tilting his head with a wicked grin, he chuckled to himself listening to all the fighting within the place. "Typical fuckin' rejects...," He said to himself before using his boot to slowly open the door. Leaning forward he observed the proceedings with little to no amusement. He shook his head stepping; while doing so he raised his Ar-15 to his shoulder as the red laser sight would cross from person to person both male and female alike. He saw Devaine which actually made him grin. He also saw what was attacking him. He blinked. "What the fuck...," He mouthed out. No way was anything going to get in his way of claiming his target. His finger coiled around the trigger as a massive burst of gunfire rang out while several rounds went towards avelynmyre chest.

Grumm places up his hands to guard, both of his thick and solid bracers taking the brunt of the blow from the katanas, however, as the blades are deflected, his braces crack and shatter into a thousand metal peices

Alita reappears from the shadows behind Grumm and approaches the ogre stealthily with a cosh in her hand...

Devaine_Hawk backs away from the beast as it seems to find someone else for a dance partner, ever the opportunist he checks on Kade’s position and jerks his head toward where Flash and the priest is, not saying a word he starts to move that way him self.

Flash_Guardian quickly collects his things and ties the belt pouch around his belt once more, fuming like a dormant volcano. "Kade, Blue, Devaine ... Let's go. They aren't worth it. We're gone."

BenjaminBlue stands up and calls to Flash and Kade, motioning towards the door frantically. "Come on! Let us not cross swords with demons!" he shouted, moving from behind the bar with both hands covering his head as he scampered towards the other two. Blue looked up to them and jerked his head. "Please, let us make haste!"

Alita 's hair on the back of her neck prickles briefly before someone shoots in the Pub. She dives and rolls away from the gunfire, ending up in a crouch.

Alita shouts at Devaine. "'Ware the door, sir! 'Ware the mothering door!"

Devaine_Hawk drops into a combat roll that would carry him behind the bar at the sound of gun fire , “uh door’s not a good idea guys “ he calls to the others.

Grumm hunches forward, just in time to shield avelynmyre (rheah) from the onslaught of bullets, ricocheing in every direction as they slam into his plate backing! however, cracking the plate severely

Kade drops down as a burst of gunfire now breaks out, his first thoughts being that its Devaine again but quickly realises his error, "Bloody hell, back door people, use the freaking back door."

Flash_Guardian nods to Blue and makes a quick gesture with a free hand, focussing intently ... "Force Wall!" All at once, a brilliant vertical place of pure force energy, nearly unpenetratable, springs into being from floor to ceiling to provide them all with sufficient cover to reach the exit swiftly.

Illidan_the_Dark_Paladin grinned somewhat sardonically, he had fully realisd his swords wouldn't be breaking anytime soon, not when made out of this particular alloy. Suddenly, he sprang straight up, his size not at all hindering his speed, and then he was gone, simply vanished. In the same second, he appeared about 15 feet away from Grumm, as he normally would... but everything around him wasn’t. An alter stood behind him, raised to Elune, Mistress of the Dark Light of the Moon. A half form appeared upon this alter, chanting in a whispering voice words best left dead… ‘The Night has Come, Mistress Above, the Night has Come, Mistress of Ours.’ The moon rose, darkened, the night became a chilled, dead wasteland of sound, and very little else.

Alita pulls out a short, stout, and blackened blade and watches Illidan and Grumm fighting.

Javier C'Zar makes eye contact with Devaine as he remained at the doorway, you could say, blocking it rather effectively. He would lower the assault rifle to where it was at his side the barrel still aimed outward as he retrieved his 9mm. sidearm bringing it up to point at various people.

Devaine_Hawk carefully eases out from behind the bar looking to where his guns fell on the floor with him ealier. On the other side of the room, with all this mess between them, great.

avelynmyre Her eyes flick to C'Zar, instincts telling her to move, but as she turns, she feels a blow of agonizing throe hit her chest, not far from her heart, and she is thrown off Grumm's shoulder onto the floor, like a rag doll.

Alita scuttles near enough to Javier to throw a knife aimed at one of his gun hands.

avelynmyre She lies there, twitching.

Flash_Guardian irks, then looks down at Kade in surprising amusement given his dark mood at the moment. "Oh, yeah. Back door." Closing his eyes once more, he concentrates, shifting and displacing his magical barrier to instead shield the entire bar at the rear of the room, again from floor to ceiling. There is ample room to move around the wall of force, but one must go the far ends of the room to do so.

Grumm leans down and observes avelynmyre for a moment! he overlooks her and sees the wound that hit her is not mortal, yet paralyzing for a time, he picks the young lass up and retreives his massive flail and turns direction, taking off in a sprint towards the front door . . . barreling towards anyone in his way

Javier C'Zar jerked away as the knife made impact with the door, he looked at Alita for a moment before looking back at avelynmyre "Bullseye!..," He shouted out then returned his attention to Alita once more. The 9mm. aimed at her head, he would fire off three rounds. If one missed, maybe the other two would not.

avelynmyre Blood sputters from her lips and she grinds her teeth in pain, her gasping futile. She clambers at the floor madly with her claws, then goes into sudden peace.

Grumm feels angry! yet thankful it barely missed any vital organs . . barely missing her lungs after all!

Illidan_the_Dark_Paladin raised his arms as he appeared near Alita, a sort of opalescent silvery metal encasing them. This covered his body, then expanded, leaving him in a magical barrier. Any energy sent to attack this shield would surely get absorbed, then get spat right back out in the opposite direction, twice as powerful. Mirror Shield. Wonderful, ain’t it?

BenjaminBlue swiftly moved to the kitchen and clasped his hands together, closing his eyes so that he may focus. "~Oh Heavenly Lord, one who grants us life everlasting... Please show us your love and mercy, form a shimmering veil of light so that we may proceed with Thy will... I pray to you, please protect us...~" he recited. A brilliant globe of light would form around him and the end of the bar, standing to deflect anything that would harm whoever would be inside. "Flash! Kade! Devaine! Let us go!" he shouted, before focusing again.

Illidan_the_Dark_Paladin should probably note that Alita would be in the shield as well....

Grumm on his way to the door, he takes the advantage of C'zar's distraction and slams his massive elbow right into his skull on his way out the door!

Kade hops up upon the bar, then down behind it as he moves to get the hell out of this mess. "God damnit when I'm the voice of reason...."

Alita bobs and weaves, but bullets are faster than arrows, and stronger; the first bullet rips through the left side of her cheek before Illidan raises the shield. A bit of the side of her face is torn away, revealing serried ranks of sharp teeth more at home in a nightmare creature than a wee young woman.

Flash_Guardian watches the others and awaits their actions. He appears to be standing sentinel for the time being. He follows Devaine's gaze curiously, yet keeps a watchful eye on the others at the far side of the room.

Alita 's eyes slit. "Thank you..."

Devaine_Hawk ducks back behind the bar, Thinking to himself , “ this is just not my day“. He reaches above him to pull a bottle of Vodka off the shelf, then a towel off the bar. Stuffing the towel in the bottle, he pulls his Zippo from his pocket and lights the towel. Letting it burn for a second, until it catches. He quickly stands and launches the make shift weapon at the gun man in the door, seeing his back turned and his attention else where at the time , the flaming projectile should catch him right between the shoulder blades.

Alita tests the force-field to see if she can get out of it.

Kade really hopes those shields that Flash and Ben created down rebound that flaming cocktail back at them, as he takes up a spot by Flash.

Illidan_the_Dark_Paladin lowered the hastily made barrier. "Not at all..." he muttered in reply to Alita.

Kade quickly scribbled don't, over down.

Flash_Guardian attempts to stop Devaine's throw by grabbing his arm, but quickly sees just what it is he's throwing. "What are you doing?!" he says, glaring at Devaine incredulously.

Javier C'Zar blinked watching Illidan, then watched from him to Alita. His facial expression would change into a grin which would soon fade as he spotted the flaming projectile coming at him, manuevering into a roll he would fire in sync at both Illidan and Alita however as he staggered to his feet from holding both a rifle and a pistol, he sent several shots from his sidearm toward Devaine's direction as he turned his head momentarily watching the Paladin and the female. "Cocked, glocked, and ready to rock..," He said.

Alita 's eyes are an eerie shade of blue-white, their pupils narrowed to slits. Her face is bruising and smeared with blood; she clenches and unclenches her hands rhythmically..

Kade is beside Flash, wherever he may be.

Illidan_the_Dark_Paladin said nothing as he drew in energy, drawing an ethereal blade into the Realm, the entire process taking less then half a second. With a small smile on Illidan’s part the blade began spinning around him, a protector he had summoned to his will. The Elriorh Blade glowed with a pale fire, giving Illidan a slightly satanic look.

Flash_Guardian notes that he didn't stop Devaine's throw ... and he is behind the bar and watching the action from behind his field of force.

BenjaminBlue stood still with both hands clasped and eyes shut, quietly reciting his prayer again and again. *Blue is by the kitchen door*

Devaine_Hawk was close enough for Flash to grab so we must be , ok

Alita shakes her head in irritation as she starts walking toward Javier, ducking faster now; a few bullets nick her extremities, but it looks like she has other things on her mind. She doesn't have any auras or spells or strange glowing things. She doesn't need them right now.

[Kade] Flash, grab one arm, I'll get the other, we'll drag Devaine out of here if we have to.

Flash_Guardian nods to Kade and moves to grab Devaine, preparing to haul him out the back if successful. This has gone far enough.

Illidan_the_Dark_Paladin raised his eyes to the heavens above and gave an ear-shattering roar. He snarled and growled menacingly as he started to shake and shiver uncontrollably. Illidan raised a blackish aura around himself as a truly dark power laced with Nega burned from deep within his body. Through the aura, he could be seen bending his back slightly just before spikes burst from the flesh covering his spine and trail their way down his newly formed tail, also erupting from his elbows and knees. His clothes disappeared into nothingness as dull red fur streaked with a shot of deep, soul-less darkness, the color of dried blood, covered his body except his wings. Illidans mouth stretched into a dog like muzzle and his feet each split into three long, clawed toes. From beneath his hair, two mighty horns exploded from his head and curved backwards, each covered in tiny razor sharp spikes. As he stood straight again, his body started to grow at an incredible rate, in a matter of a second, Illidan went from eight feet to fifteen,

Kade mirrors Flash as he reaches for Devaine, "Come on big boy, play with the other kids later."

Devaine_Hawk looks at both of them , an almost haunted look in his eyes, “that guy is company , CIA my past just caught up with me, I’m through running, damn it”

[Illidan_the_Dark_Paladin] his wings continuing to grow until they were twenty feet tip to tip. Illidans wings then started to morph and change from normal demon wings into black feathered ones. His muscles shifted beneath the fur, like eels in grease. His maw opened, revealing his lengthened fangs, and an ear splitting roar hit the back of the brain of any in the area, and slammed the button marked ‘Primal Terror’, then chilled the spine. A chilling howl rose, taunting and threatening. The transformation is complete, tremble and cower. Looking down to the sword he held in his hand, it looked slightly small compared to him and so he threw it to one side, watching it disappear as it hit t ground. Concentrating, he summoned more power from deep inside himself. The ground below him started to rumble slightly building into a small quake. Suddenly a katana, larger than the one he normally wields, bursts up from the ground to be caught by Illidan. This blade glowed like black velvet burning in a windowless room, giving of the distinct<

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Javier C'Zar wasn't allowing anything to stand in his way of his objective as he unloaded the remaining rounds from both his assault rifle & 9mm. at Alita. As the weapons almost in unison would go dry, he'd allow the rifle to sling freely from his shoulder as he holstered the sidearm, he would gradually step back as the female by now probably racked with some damage would continue advancing. He cracked his knuckles from his fingerless black leather gloves awaiting an innitially. Though not too far in his mind was Devaine Hawk He had tracked him this long. Escape would no doubtablly be futile.

[Illidan_the_Dark_Paladin] impression it was deadlier that it seemed. The blade was sheathed in dragonhide and silk of the finest quality, setting off the deadly grace of the blade with a beauty none could hope to match. The blade glistened as he removed it from its sheath, and even from the ground the steel could be heard humming as it is drawn.

Devaine_Hawk struggles in their grasp, “let go of me , this is my fight, and I have to get my girls, not leaving with out them” he shouts, the girls being the twin desert eagles on the floor.

Alita 's head swings around at the two roars. She hasn't changed shape, is still a fragile young woman with wings, but her demeanor speaks of jungle cats, of great coiled predators waiting to strike. She leers at Illidan in animal challenge, the torn bit of her face lending a distinctly Halloween flair to the proceedings...

Flash_Guardian pauses, looking to Kade for a moment. "Are you sure a fight with the guy is wise right now? Especially given the other participants?"

Devaine_Hawk sees the merc run out of ammo and strains harder between them. “let me go!!”

Flash_Guardian notes that the questions were directed to Devaine, by the way.

Kade growls, the sound inhuman as his body bulks up slightly, his hold on Devaine tightening. "Flash, can you hold him? I'll get his damn guns."

Alita gets hit in the chest with a few rounds and is knocked over. Still on all fours, she rushes very rapidly indeed toward Javier, aiming to close any space between the two.

Illidan_the_Dark_Paladin stepped towards C'Zar, moving at an almost leisurely pace. ((and can't think of anything right now, so that's it for the moment lol))

Flash_Guardian shakes his head at Kade. "Leave the guns to me. You hold him." Without another word, Flash releases his hold on Devaine and dives beyond the edge of his barrier, reaching out a pair of hands and bearing his will outward. He sees his objectives, a pair of pistols across the room on the floor. If he can just focus hard enough ...

Kade looks less human now, though it slowly fades away as he goes back to his regular size. He attempts to keep Devaine in place even without Flash to help.

BenjaminBlue looked up to Illadan's towering hellish figure and quickly trailed off into silence, dropping what little defenses that had been called. Blue frantically looked to the group again, pushed the door open, and moved halfway inside. He cautiously looked out to them and motioned towards his direction with more energy than before. "Hurry! Hurry!" he shouted. Leaving this place was about the only thing on his mind right now.

Javier C'Zar would remove his second 9mm. sidearm from it's left tactical leg holster, as he continued to fire at Alita He would smirk. "You just keep comin' don't you babe?," He in the midsts of all of this fighting still kept his sense of dark humor. Afterall, the C.I.A wasn't completely harmless. He watched as the large massive frame of Illidan came toward him as well. He, on the other hand would be a bigger risk. As he placed his hand behind his back continueing to fire at the woman until his gun was spent, he took a fragmentation grenade from his tac-belt and used his teeth to pull the pin. He'd gingerly toss it over behind the barcounter where all four gentlemen were. Increasing his steps backward he yelled out to them. "Come out and play.." He said with a almost demonic laugh.

Flash_Guardian lands on the floor on his side, arms outstretched, reaching out to the pistols with his magical will.

Alita is looking fairly torn up now, making only a nominal effort to dodge the .9mm shots; likely, since Javier is a good shot, one will hit her in the head. Watching someone try to crawl up your pant legs while their own brains are leaking out of their skull is probably alarming to even the best of soldiers.

Flash_Guardian notes that the grenades would all bounce off of his magical barrier and land back in the center of the bar. Forgot about the forcefield, didn't you?

Alita looks mindlessly up at Javier and lets her jaw hang open, displaying rows and rows and rows of needle teeth. Her tongue lolls out unpleasantly.

Illidan_the_Dark_Paladin suddenly stopped, loud growls and snarls echoing from his throat. He spread his wings, Nega crackling over them, swirling into balls at the very tips. His hands opened, Nega flashing into life around them, forming into orbs in the same manner as the balls of Nega at his wingtips. He grinned almost lazily as both arms rose, holding the balls away from him. A short concentration… then the balls grew, absorbing as much energy as they could. Nega crackled and grew larger as the energy was absorbed, only fueling it. With a short laugh Illidan flung all four of the orbs away, and they spun for a second, before homing in on their target. The orbs spun gently on their orbit as they sped towards C'Zar, leaving only a very faint impression behind them.

Flash_Guardian can't seem to get a decent magical grip on the pistols ... not from this distance, at least. They wiggle and dance a little bit, and one of them starts to move toward him a few inches, but that's it. Flash's brow wrinkles in frustration ... and then he catches sight of grenade bouncing off of his barrier and landing in the center of the room. Eyes wide, he curses and dives back behind his barrier.

Kade will then try to drag Devaine out towards the door and towards where Ben has gotten to.

Javier C'Zar managed to see the grenade land outspread in the middle of the room, as Alita was crawling, or attempting to slither up to him he'd allow himself to fall backwards which would probably cause her to land onto him as Illidan's glowing orb was heading in both he and Alita's direction, C'Zar managed to brace himself for double impact as both the grenade and the orb would surely bring abit of fun into the mix, his eyes glared into Alita's.. "Get off me dammit," He murmured out struggling to contain himself from the soon rioting explosion.

Devaine_Hawk feels the stronger Kade dragging him and uses language that would make a sailor blush in protest. His eyes awash with blue white sparks now, they lock on Javier across the room ”this is not over!!”

Alita digs her wee talons into Javier's body, holding onto him as the explosions send them against something/someone..

Flash_Guardian utters a quick chant from where he sits behind the bar ... He rotates his arms in opposite spirals until his hands converge at the center of his chest ... "Haste!" A bright reddish glow shines forth, surrounding Flash and suffusing him with energy for a moment ... and he is suddenly moving much quicker than before, now even more of a a blur thanks to the combined effects of Haste and Time Shadow magic.

BenjaminBlue steps back and pulls the door open so that they may enter the kitchen and exit through the back entrance. Blue's eyes were wide with fear and excitement as they approached, his eyes rapidly darting between all the different sorts of conflict. Ben looked towards Flash and extended his hand and began to pray again, surrounding Flash with the same shimmering globe of light as before. A voice would echo in Flash's mind as he prayed, "~Drop your defenses! He is watching over you! Grab them and let us be off!~"

Kade mutters as he holds onto Devaine, waiting in the doorway for a moment and worried about flash, "Damn right this isn't over.....Flash! Get your ass in gear."

Javier C'Zar thankfully the orbs would miss both he & Alita as they spun in a spiraling motioning colliding into the wall, their bodies in sync would fall onto one another as she dug her nails into his body, also thankfully his kevlar vest kept the damage to that of minor squeezing, he brought his fingerless leathered gloved hand to her forehead trying to keep her from biting hm as he struggled to gain his composure. "You are dealing with the wrong person girl.." He spat as blood trickled from his mouth.

Alita lets a low sound loose from her throat. Like a wolf's howl, the sound is rough - it evokes a low-hanging moon and wide dark forests with hiden watchers.

[Flash_Guardian] The grenade explodes in the center of the room, augmented by several half empty drinks, sending flaming bits of wood and shards of glass flying in all directions ... most of which clatter harmlessly off of Flash's barrier. Flash wastes no time, quickly darting forth from his hiding place with incredible speed! Darting this way and that amidst the carnage, he wheels and tumbles past everyone and everything ... just one thing on his mind. He quickly zips across the bar, snatching at a pair of objects on the ground on his way, and quickly tumbles out the door with them. Once outside, he doesn't stop, just keeps wheeling and dodging ...

Devaine_Hawk looks at Kade, “if you let go of me it will be , one way or the other real quick” his voice low now, and having a cold edge to it.

Alita snaps at him like a rabid pit bull and shifts, very quickly, one of her hands toward his throat.

Kade grunts and twists now, trying to half push, half throw Devaine out the back door, "Sorry, if you get hurt, Glyniss'd kill me."

[Illidan_the_Dark_Paladin] simply stayed where he was, letting the grenade blow up quite close to him, afterall, demons are hard to kill with grenades, though it will do considerable damage to his body. He stood, and then dropped to his knees, blood dripping to the floor as the smoke, debris and whatever else cleared. After falling face first to the ground, his mangled and ripped up body letting this pour out onto the ground under him. His opponent would no doubt think they had won at this point, but such would be proven not to be the case. Presuming they’re close enough, his opponent would hear one muttered word. “Bloodlust…” From all around Illidan, the blood that had leaked from his body would begin to move and shift back towards him. It would encase his body, ever moving and ever shimmering, like molten rock. Slowly the giant mass of blood would begin to grow and expand until it was double the size it had started at. Then moving like it had a mind of it’s own, the life liquid of the demon would flow back through his

[Illidan_the_Dark_Paladin] wounds and into his body. The wounds closed shortly afterwards, leaving the fully rejuvenated form of Illidan laying there. Slowly he rose to his feet, raising one clawed fist. Three orbs of blood circled this, spinning in an oblong trajectory. A small grin passed over his features. Illidan now happened to be thirty foot tall. Not much changed, eh? Of course, a 30 foot demon isn't going to fit in the pub, so if you can imagine roof kinda being ripped off as he grew, well yeah you get the point...

Devaine_Hawk gets tossed out the back door ,how embarrassing. As soon as he hit’s the ground he’d be on his feet and headed around the out side of the bar to his car, he told them this wasn’t over.

Javier C'Zar managed to get himself free from Alita's grasp, raising up as he blocked her hand from his throat, he shook his head as the blood poured from his mouth. "Not yet.." He said quietly, as he would jerk away from her, he would realize, his knee had been hit with a piece of sharpnel. He winced lightly before managing to stagger to his feet. Along the line, his assault rifle would have been lost in the fiery explosion of the handgrenade, but his 9mm's were intact in their respective holsters. He would begin to load a clip into one of them eyeing Alita his knee braced up against her would keep her at bay for a short time.

Flash_Guardian darts quickly around to the rear of the Pub to meet up with the others, Devaine's pistols safely in tow. He does not drop his forcefield until he sees them safe.

BenjaminBlue quickly made himself dissapear, running as fast as his legs could possibly carry him out the back door. By now, the sight of a thrity foot tall demon was sure enough to shatter what resolve he had and make him the sniveling coward that he know was. Blue would continue to run until something would stop him.

Flash_Guardian stops abruptly, spotting Devaine. Flash is little more than a blur of red, white, blue and yellow colors at this point due to the magics affecting him, but he offers Devaine his pistols. "Here," he says, his voice echoing strangely.

Kade is out the door as well, and unless they are near to where Devaine is parked, he asks the million dollar question, "Hey, whered Devaine go?"

Alita butts Javier's knee aside and lunges for him. Yes, jungle cat metaphors are entirely appropriate. It seems like Alita has trails, a dark ghost image that stays where she was for a moment before dissipating.

Illidan_the_Dark_Paladin laughed as all six blood orbs appeared around him, hurtling down towards the ground. Illidan raised his arms, shadows sleeting down him. Blood Tide rose in six directions around him, twisting and turning, making no real direction. Balls of red energy appeared after this, flashing and shooting directly out from Illidan. Too many to be counted, the tiny, spiked balls rushed at Illidan’s enemies.

[Flash_Guardian] The yellow forcefield protecting the bar quickly shimmers and fades away into the nothingness from which it sprung.

Devaine_Hawk races along the wall of the pub and watches the roof get torn away by the demon, now there’s something you don’t see every day. Finally he reaches his car, and pops the trunk open. Reaching in he pulls out the Burg Elli Semi Automatic pistol grip shot gun out , slamming the trunk.” right here !” he shouts back at Kade.

Kade may not be around much longer, its past 6am for him, and he needs to be up at some point. "How many guns do you freaking have Devaine?!"

Javier C'Zar would clench the handle of his pistol as Alita lunged for him, he in turn would grasp her around the waist colliding into the wall; only this time he and her were on level ground. He struggled to get free of her as the orbs came rushing at them. "Dammit..," He murmured seemingly pulling his own weight with Alita, he would actually shield her from the blasts as his body was propelled across the Pub landing over a table knocking off several bottles of beer, he would crawl toward his dropped 9mm. grasping it, before looking back at both Alita and Illidan. He was growing angry for the first time through the course of these events. He unloaded the entire clip at the Paladin, as he struggled to reload the weapon. His eyes soon fixated on Alita.

Devaine_Hawk looks around trying to find the merc who came after him , before looking back to the towering demon. “I’m getting the feeling not enough, at least not big enough ones”

Illidan_the_Dark_Paladin grinned suddenly, darkness spreading around his form. This rose into a pillar of night, the moon just seen on the edge… in a split second three things happened. First: Illidan laughed, his arms rising above his head. Two: the moon came into view, spilling its brilliant diamond glow around Illidan, and lastly, Illidan brought his hands down, the light shimmering around him. The Moon Wall has risen, and any attack coming his way would get lost in the three inch eternity that was the wall.

BenjaminBlue would on his way to who knows where trip and fall to the ground, sliding a good distance on his face in the direction he would be running. Immediately upon stopping, Blue turned over on his back and pushed himself away from the bar with his legs until he would back into a tree not too far from the parking lot in which Kade and Devaine would be in. "No, no, no, no, no! This is not possible!" he shouted to himself, bringing his arms up protectively around him.

Illidan_the_Dark_Paladin oocly has to go and so ICly.... He allowed the dark swirls of energy to encase him again, and as he slowly became incased in the dark liquid like swirls, he grinned. This grin was not one you ever, ever wanted to see, but in any case, you did. As the energy became liquefied and drained away from him, it dissipated and became his shadow. He smiled somewhat, and looked around. “That went well…” He muttered to himself, his human voice returning now that he was no longer in his demon form. With that, he wandered in some vague direction away.

Flash_Guardian watches Blue run far off into the surrounding woods, noting which direction he had gone. After that, he simply stays by Devaine's side, holding the pistols out to him and keeping a watchful eye out. "... I believe these are yours ..." he says, his voice still preceded and followed by temporal echoes, as is his form when he moves.

Alita 's afterimage makes a strange dark ribbon as the first leap fails. While Javier is firing and reloading she roars and leaps again.

Kade looks at Ben, then back at Devaine, "Look, we're all in danger if we stay here. You want to be Rambo? Fine do it another time, but lets do when we're all not about to get ate by the Godzilla the Bane."

Flash_Guardian looks over to see the 30 foot tall demon disappear. "You mean like now?" he asks Kade flatly.

Devaine_Hawk slings the shotgun over one shoulder long enough to take and reload the weapons.” fine we go for now.” he states eyes still locked on the bar.

Kade simply gives Flash the finger in response.

Javier C'Zar rocked his form backwards as his legs grasped around Alita's waist, he was doing more out manuevering with this female than he's ever done he thought almost briefly to himself as he managed to roll away from her, he edged himself against the opposite wall near the back bracing himself as he stood up. He shook his head wiping his mouth off. "You are a persistant little bitch, I give you that," He said coldly, holstering his Berreta He would stand almost propper on both feet, getting into a fighting stance watching Alita. "Let's see how you pan out on a little CTU combat," He grinned. Devaine Hawk Would get his in due time, he just had not expected an off subject confrontation to this degree.

BenjaminBlue peeks through the gap in his arms to find the creature gone. Blue leaned forward with both hands flat on the ground and tried to take slow, long breath to try and still his beating heart. Blue's cap fell from his head and landed on the ground, catching a lot of dirt as it landed. Blue's eyes were still wide with terror as he stay near the ground, starting to regain his mind.

Alita stands up a bit unsteadily. She's been losing a lot of fluid. She produces what looks like a slightly outsized K-bar from somewhere on her person, and waits.

Devaine_Hawk looks around him and snarls his lips in disgust at the whole situation. “Someone get the priest so we can go?” he asks.

Flash_Guardian just seems to watch Kade's reaction to his question ... the blur of light a motion that seems to surround him makes it rather difficult to read his face, and he isn't speaking. Instead he zips off towards the wood, following after Blue to check on him with his magically augmented speed. He comes off into the woods near Blue, only a dozen feet away, and looking in completely the wrong direction, not seeing the priest at all. "... Blue? ..." he calls with his echoing voice.

Kade splits early, or his player will have a keyboard stuck to his face.

Javier C'Zar smirked as he watched the female, Alita display a larger version of the K-Bar knife. He regained his composure for a moment staring at her. "Little girl's shouldn't play with knives..," He then unsheathed his military issue k-bar combat knife. He would extend his elbow inward as the blade was aimed sideways. He'd move toward her, and await her attack. "Bring it bitch..," He said staring deep into her eyes.

BenjaminBlue jerks his head up and looks around, his breathing returning to normal. "Yes... Yes, I'm coming..." he said in a timid voice as he shakily stood to his feet. His vestement were know covered in dirt and the cider stain he had obtained earlier this evening. His hair was mussed up his hat wrinkled and dirty. He was a walking tradgedy by this point. "Yes, coming," he softly said again, picking up his hat before moving towards everybody else.

Alita sits down on a table and waits. With her free hand, she fingers the various wounds within reach that she's incurred ..

Devaine_Hawk takes a look around. Let’s see here , Kade left, Flash is busy with Blue, now would be the time. He calmly light a smoke, pump cocks the shot gun and starts back toward the bar.

Flash_Guardian starts to lead Blue watchfully back over to Devaine's Astin Martin in the parking lot outside the pub, dropping the magics that surround him as he does so, his appearance and speed going back to normal. He manages a half-smile and looks back to the priest. "You alright?" he asks, seeming rather confident and unafraid in spite of the events.

Javier C'Zar blinked watching her. "Is that it?" He asked almost as if she stole a piece of candy from him. "You coward," He laughed putting the knife up. He too would sit down for a moment on a chair from a different table. He grabbed his other Berreta and loaded it. "You know, whatever you are, you should be dead," He said harshly, before standing up heading toward the door, his sensitive ears listening for her to make a move.

Devaine_Hawk stands just off to one side of the door , out side and waits. Looks like the tables have turned on the merc, hey? He levels the shotgun to cover the exit and waits.

BenjaminBlue tightens his grip and hunches forward in shame, one tear forming below his right eye. "I'm sorry..." he said in a meek tone. "I.. jus... It was all too much..." he managed to say as he turned himself away from Flash.

Catrěona enters, a tall stately looking woman, long white blonde hair half tied back with a silver clasp, curls falling about her face. Blue eyes search the room, falling on each and every thing within it with a wary gaze. She pulls her cloak around her tighter, nimble fingers tugging at the expensive cloth. A pretty girl, if not a little sad looking. She eventually sits, once happy with her seating choice and watches the near empty room.

Alita 's just kicking it for the time being. There are lots of fluids coming out of her braincase and body. She has a large knife. If only there were some way for her to order a drink.

Devaine_Hawk tightens his finger on the trigger , hearing the Merc’s voice from inside the bar as he comes out the door .”hello sunshine, want to drop those guns before I drop you?” he asks in a cold voice.

Flash_Guardian reaches a reassuring hand out to take hold of Blue's arm and silence him. "That was no ordinary pub brawl we just witnessed back there," Flash reasons. "There is no shame in cowardice when friends' lives are on the line." Flash smiles appreciatively at the priest, a smile that spoke volumes of respect for the man. "You did well tonight."

Devaine_Hawk levels the shot gun at Javier’s mid section and watches him coldly ready foray sudden tricks . Think about it, he has him dead to rights , with a shot gun , no way he can move far or fast enough to get out of the buck shot’s spread .

Alita watches Devaine and tries to keep Javier's attention on her...

BenjaminBlue twists his cap around in his hands and keeps his head bowed. This wasn't the first time his fear had made him flee. Blue slowly looks up, letting his golden hair shield his eyes from view. All he could do was nod, still twisting his cap further. "Just too much..."

Javier C'Zar would pause standing there with dried blood on his mouth, and a slight limp as he eye'd Devaine's shotgun before re-directing his eyes up into Hawk's own. C'Zar smiled warmly, as he stood there. "You know Hawk, even in the field I admired you..hell, I even wanted to recruit you. But you know.. the one thing you never did learn..was teamwork," He said rather harshly, as the faint sounds of radio chatter responded upon his com-link headset. He licked the dried blood from his busted lip as he spoke into the small microphone. "If he fires, take the shot," Of course, he himself knew teamwork intimately. Devaine unbeknownst to him would have several rot dots trained over his upper body and head. Yes, snipers in the field. How pleasingly quaint.

Flash_Guardian looks back towards Devaine's car, suddenly frowning. "Wait a minute ..." he states flatly searching the area around the car for signs of life. At length, Flash's eyes slowly close, and he grits his teeth in frustration. "Dev's not at the car."

Catrěona looks around, studying the other patrons of the pub. She moves to the bar, graceful steps one after the other, then ordering quietly in a soft, warm voice for a glass of wine. She pays with a few coins and moves back to her seat, sitting once more.

Alita takes the opening Javier presents and flings the largish K-bar at his head very, very quickly.

Devaine_Hawk grins and leaves the gun trained on the man. “well well well, “ he chuckles “I think they call this a Mexican stand off, looks like we both go out in a blaze of glory,”

BenjaminBlue looks up with two glassy eyes and motions towards the bar again. "He went back... I'm sure he is still in danger," he said, trying to mask his disgrace. "You should go and aid him. I will remain here," he simply said, lowering himself to the curb.

Flash_Guardian looks down at Blue. "Let your words be my strength, Blue." With nothing further, he takes off at a dead run toward the pub once more.

Catrěona watches the louder patrons of the inn with a faint frown. Such uncivilised creatures, to speak to one another in such a way. And in a public place, where there are ladies? The mere thought are almost too much to handle....

Alita gets up deliberately and makes her way toward the back of someone not paying much attention, where she then attempts to affix her mouth to their throat.

Javier C'Zar smirked at Devaine tilting his head with a low grin spread across his lips. "Well son, i'm taking you in, one way or another," The mercenary remained still, as the radio chatter kept on. He would speak into the microphone once again. "Initiate extraction EVAC, ETA...," He paused watching Devaine for a moment, before smiling as if he had just won the Nobel Peace Prize. "ETA - five minute..," As C'Zar and Hawk stood out into the parking lot. The sounds of steps rushing on the roof were heard while above them on the Pub's roof where now three other soldiers, grunts efficiently armed with MP5-K's all silenced. C'Zar winked at Hawk before nodding his head briefly. "Better be sure son..," He would wait for Hawk's reaction.

Flash_Guardian is seen barreling towards Devaine, sprinting at speeds that only a race horse could normally manage, straight for the place where Devaine stands. And then he sees movement up above ... he veers off course, redirecting his run toward the pub walls.

Devaine_Hawk stands calm and steady the shot gun still at hip level trained on the other man. He puffs on the smoke dangling from his lips, “I’m sure of three things. I’m not your son, I’m not going any where with you, and we all die someday. What about you ?”

Flash_Guardian whips low, then launches himself from the ground straight upward, high into the air! He quickly reaches a spot in the air above the three grunts, seeming to hover for just a moment. "HAA!!" he says, crashing down among them before they can react, slamming down against the previously shattered roof of the pub hard with a single foot ... just enough impact to send the remaining rooftops crashing down, very likely bringing the three grunts with it.

Javier C'Zar nodded his head once more, before looking up to meet the man's gaze. "I know one thing, I died along time ago," as he ended his comment, he would side step Devaine bringing his arm up to push the barrel of the shotgun in an opposite direction as he blurted into the headset microphone. "Now!," Upon that single command, the three mercenaries on the roof which had already trained their sights on Devaine's chest, would immediately begin opening fire, as to add to this the sounds of the MP5 live fire were nothing to the large unisoned blasts of the four tactical sniper rifles being fired at the same time as C'Zar was moving sideways, he'd reach for his Berreta going to bring it up and fire at the man as well.

Devaine_Hawk notes De'vs not dumb enough to be that close

Flash_Guardian wants to know what Javier and the three grunts with MP5's are doing as the ceiling of the pub is raining down around them all.

Alita looks at Catriona. She is covered in blood, a bit of her face is missing, and the beautiful silver liquid that's dried across her face is probably from the bullet hole in her forehead. "Hh....h'h."

BenjaminBlue nods and begins to recite. "~ Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace. Where there is hatred, let us sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith; where there is dispair, hope; where there is darkness, light; where there is sadness, joy. It is in pardoning that we are pardoned. Be our safeguard against the wickedness and snares of evil. May the Lord rebuke him, we humbly pray. By the power of the Lord cast into the abyss all the evil spirits who wander through the world seeking the ruin of souls. Amen...~

Catrěona She screams quietly, looking over at Alita* My Lady?

Devaine_Hawk squeezes the trigger even as the man moves. From this range the buckshot can’t miss. Then he drops flat on the ground in the blink of an eye, feeling several shots dig into the Kevlar vest under his shirt as they slam into his back. The other shots trained on his head pass harmlessly, at least to Dev over as he dropped.

Alita drums her fingers on her opposite arm as she thinks of how to alleviate the communication problem.

BenjaminBlue 's prayer would offer no more than good fortune and luck to both Devaine and Flash in their endeavors.

Alita was always terrible at talking to people without words; simple erudition was generally good enough. She tries to give Catriona the idea of getting into a barfight, then a sense of lost time and now something that resembled nothing so much as the hangover in the aftermath of a really, really good party.

Flash_Guardian brings the rest of the roof down and takes whatever grunts were near him down with him, landing hard on the floor and crashing through an unoccupied (lucky!) table, quickly yet shakily rolling back up to his feet and looking around for the CIA agent. A subtle blue glow begins to envelop the mystical ring on Flash's right hand ... someone, somewhere, is praying for his safety.

Catrěona looks at Alita. "My Lady?"

Javier C'Zar would be hit into the underbelly as debree scattered out from his kevlar, thankfully protecting him, though the initial blast, hurting like hell, C'Zar kept his gun trained on Devaine as he squeezed off several rounds..at their distance it would be almost unavoidable to miss every shot, the snipers meanwhile would quickly disengage their spent casings only to replace them with a fresh batch of shells, opening fire on the man once again, the mercenaries would move in closer fireing their MP5's at the man who wielded the shotgun, Javier himself would fall back onto the ground once his ammunition was spent, struggling to catch his breath from the impact against his kevlar.

Alita feels a fool and finds a pen and paper. Ma'am, she begins writing in a hand that is highly legible to the point of slight fussiness, I apologize for vexing you so severely, but an impolite fellow shot me with some kind of bizarre super-sling and I can't remember what happened after that. I would appreciate it if you procured some kind of sacrifical matter, like blood, or people...

Catrěona she reads the note ,wide eyed she looks up at Alita." My Lady...a sacrifice? I do not know...would animals do?"

Devaine_Hawk already dropped, but he never stops, he just rolls, staying an inch in front of most of the gunfire aimed at him, feeling another round slam into his back, thank God for Kevlar, right? He rolls under a near by parked vehicle and stops just long enough to let the shooting cease . “How bout we settle this man ‘o man ?” he calls out .

Flash_Guardian growls and glares back at the three MP5 toting agents. Flash had just knocked them off a roof, as best he could tell, and they just kept coming! I mean, they certainly can't be on a roof that no longer exists, can they, so they must be firing from inside the pub. Flash quickly springs into action, sending a flying leap over at the nearest one of them, landing just short, and springing up into a powerful uppercut aimed at the mercenary's jaw.

Alita writes furiously. Not so much; it is as much the spirit of the thing as the body. I suspect you all think this is quite barbaric

Devaine_Hawk crawls out from under the vehicle, and crouches next to it, keeping it’s frame between him and the snipers in the woods and the ones in the pub. “come on you want me so bad come and get me , but o you need your little army for one man? Stop this before an innocent catches a round “

Catrěona she smiles faintly, shaking her head. "Indeed it is not how my people would do things, but that is not to say it is barbaric...those 'gentlemen'" she looks over at the loud men " Those men are acting barbarically. You are truely quite civilised... I will help you find an animal should you require it of me..."

Javier C'Zar was helped up to his feet by one of the three mercenaries as the other two moved into a crouch formation, ready to fire upon seeing a hint of Devaine from behind the vehicle. C'Zar rocked back and forth for a moment, holding his side. "How about you come peacefully, before you really piss me off?," He grabbed the comlink headset and slung it out from around his neck, he brought his index, middle, and four finger to his mouth whistling. The snipers would begin firing at the vehicle shattering the glass before a moment of sureal silence. "That.. was a warning, next time.. it's the gas tank!," Javier, motioned for the standing grunt as he handed C'Zar his MP5, the now unarmed mercenary would retrieve his Desert Eagle 44. magnum and train the laser aimed sight on the vehicle. C'Zar checked his watch. "I never thought this would go the distance," He murmured, as the sounds of a chopper was approaching.

Javier C'Zar laughed. "No one is innocent Hawk, another lesson you have failed to learn. You are combat ineffective soldier!," C'Zar checked the magazine in the MP5 awaiting Hawk's either surrender or apparent one man army as the attack and evacuation chopper was approaching.

Devaine_Hawk stands on the other side of the car and grins “oh realy, and what will dear old Uncle Sam think if you bring his long lost nephew back in little pieces?” he flicks glass off his jacket. “You know they want me back in one piece, I’m to valuable “

BenjaminBlue looked over to Devaine and Javier, thinking to himself that is was a wonder that a stray bullet had not found its way to him. Blue stood up and brushed himself off, placing his wrinkled up cap back onto his head again. Both hands could hide themselves in his sleeves and watches the pair, hoping to himself that neither would reach an untimely end.

Flash_Guardian follows the MP5 wielding grunts and keeps attacking as before ... they seem to be distracted, guns trained on Devaine. A flying kick from the side is sent at one, followed by a spinning backfist at another one nearby as Flash's momentum continues, sending him headlong into the group.

Devaine_Hawk lowers his gun, “Flash knock it off before an innocent catches a bullet, it’s me they’re here for, I thank you for the effort but this day was bound to come “

Javier C'Zar for the first time actually stopped his actions to think about what Devaine had said. He was valuable to the D.O.D, however being contracted out by the C.I.A. was their mistake. For, Shadow Company, the largest, and most organized freelance operation actively running was headed up by Lt. Col. Javier C'Zar, and the really scary part, was C'Zar had lost his mind during his service as a S.E.A.L. team Captain. Granted, he was sane, he just happened to be a sociapath. "Well son, why don't you come with me, and we'll forget this event happened..," He stated, as the Chopper was now dropping off more soldiers, who were issued in Military Marine Expeditionary BDU's. As the mercenaries trained their pistols on Flash, as he started to attack them, the Snipers would open fire onto him as well while C'Zar cautiously backed up toward the now landed chopper.

Devaine_Hawk nods , “call your dogs off Flash and I’ll come along “

Devaine_Hawk turns to Flash, “stop, it’s over , just tell Reikia…something, will you make it up, like I went out like a champ alright?”

Javier C'Zar reached the chopper as the Sgt. of the Marine group saluted him, C'Zar made no effort to return the salute as he reached for the speakerphone, he spoke into it. "This is Colonel C'Zar, as of right now, Target is secure. Disengage and mount up. We're leaving once we've got him aboard." Upon that command The soldiers fighting with Flash would stop, though they were highly aggravated, they'd gather their gear and begin boarding the EVAC chopper as the snipers had their own exit planned. C'Zar along with about a dozen U.S Marines headed toward Hawk's location. C'Zar would look at Flash and nod to a couple Marines as they stood their ground eyeing him. He walked toward Hawk smiling. "Now see, what compromise will get you?," he said with an arrogant glee in his voice.

Flash_Guardian watches as the guns begin to orient on him, quickly leaping and spinning, his red cape lashing out and swirling distractedly, quickly becoming a whirlwind of motion. It isn't truly apparent what is happening as the gunshots streak in his direction. Quite a few of them miss, some of them seem to ricochet off of some sort of yellow energy shielding springs into being upon contact, while several others find their way through flesh. "No!!" he protests, continuing the fight, ducking behind grunts to use them for cover and landing blows where he can, stomachs, kneecaps, whatever. Surely these mercs can't keep dodging his attacks forever.

Devaine_Hawk looks over to Benjamin , “Father, check inside, make sure no one got hurt, it’s ok , “ before turning back to Flash. “I said stop, “

Javier C'Zar looked over his shoulder as the marines trained their M-16's on Flash.

BenjaminBlue looks to the seemingly futile situation and shakes his head before moving back to the pub in low spirits. Perhaps all of this was meant to happen and lead to this sort of end. Blue really didn't know but hoped deep down that some good would come from this. He pushed his way through the back door, moved through the kitchen, and into the main dining area. Looking to the once proud establishment now in ruins without any colour in his expression, he took a seat at the bar and started to brood. "Absolutely distasteful... Was this all part of His plan? It must be," he quietly says to himself before reaching over the bar to retrieve a bottle of white wine.

Devaine_Hawk steps to meet the man, “you got what you came for, be more careful what you wish for” and blows smoke right in his face before moving toward the chopper, placing his now empty hands on the back of his head “Flash remember, tell her…something”

Flash_Guardian isn't about to stop. This isn't right, and nothing short of subdual will stop him, already wounded as he may be. "Dev ..." A kick to the back of one soldier's head. "You can't!" Double fist to another merc's gut. "It's not right!" He is about to launch another attack when suddenly his ring shines a brilliant and piercing blue, some unseen force stopping Flash's hand in midair, rendering him immobile. "Wha-?" Flash looks at his rigid hand, confused.

Flash_Guardian stares at his glowing ring in growing disbelief and shock. "No ... you've gotta be kidding me ..."

BenjaminBlue was typing that one for a while. *looks to post* Once catching sight of Flash, Blue extended one arm to him and sighed. "Let him go his way... There is hope, but only futility through this conflict..." he said in a solemn tone.

Devaine_Hawk stands in the door of the chopper looking back at Flash” tell her… and remember watch the shadows”

Flash_Guardian stands there, physically struggling against some higher power that holds him at bay. "Dev ... you've gotta be kidding me ... Dev!" Flash looks up at the man desperately, unable to do anything.

Javier C'Zar stood stood there smirking as the smoke slowly faded from around his face, he turned and took Devaine by the hands clasping ultrasheer plastic cuffs around both his wrists securely tightening them barely allowing blood to continue from his wrists to his hands. He chuckled. "I don't wish for nothing, I follow my orders," and with that being said by the man He'd shove Hawk forward as two large marines took him by the arms guiding him into the chopper. Once inside, they'd fasten him down and place leg shackels around his ankles, the other Marines would slowly head back to the Chopper getting in one by one, C'Zar himself would smile confidently, as he looked from Ben then to Flash. "Show's over...seek life elsewhere," He said cruelly, going to get into the Chopper as the pilot began to start it up, sunrise was starting to show itself as Javier grinned. "All in a night's work..," he murmured to himself.

Flash_Guardian spits back over to Javier. "This isn't over ... this may have been pre-ordained, but I swear to you this isn't over! DEV!!" Flash looks pained, clutching his wrist still suspended in midair and trying to wrest it free in vain.

BenjaminBlue moved forward through all the dibris and moved over to Flash without a sound. Upon careful inspection, one would notice a faint blue aura surrounding him as he approached. It would serve as a sanctuary against the remaining troops. So long as he made no hostile movement, they would be compelled to follow the same course. Blue finally reached Flash and waited for the troops to return to the chopper.

Javier C'Zar slowly, the chopper would ascend into the air, before slowly harrowing away high above the sun lit skyline...the best has yet to come.

BenjaminBlue would note to Soti that it kinda went from one to the other through the night... Very disorienting.

BenjaminBlue moves behing Flash and places his hand on his shoulder. "Sir Flash..." was all he could muster.

Devaine_Hawk sits shackled and cuffed in the chopper , right across from Javier, surrounded by armed troops . But wait, is that of all things a cold smile on his face ?

BenjaminBlue lowered his head and gave him a weak nod. He didn't really know Devaine but still such a situation would have upsetted him anyway. "I know Sir Flash... Today is a heavy day for us all." Blue scanned Flash for injuries and made a quick note that he had been shot a few times. He stayed silent for now, allowing Flash to make the next move before anything would be done.

Flash_Guardian just stands there, eyes closed, breathing ... focussing ... calming himself amidst the pain. His red cape is torn with bullet holes, looking like a red sort of swiss cheese. Flash himself doesn't look too great. He has gunshot wounds in several places, two in each leg, one on each arm. One in particular seemed fairly bad ... one of the marines had gotten a lucky shot off, peppering Flash's left shoulder with gunfire, the bullets still lodged in his shoulder blade slightly. For his injuries, Flash seems to handle the pain well ... or does he?

BenjaminBlue silently bobbed his head and looked to his side pocket for a small bottle filled with a clear liquid. "Come, Sir Flash. You are injured," he said in an weary voice. Tonight had definately taken a toll on him. "You should be tended to."

Flash_Guardian suddenly seems to relax, collapsing to the ground onto all fours, grunting in pain. He grits his teeth once more, eyes clenched as he slams a fist of defiance into the ground. "Blue ... that man risked his life for me. Once during a slave market raid ... once during fight in the gardens ... and another time aboard the Triad. He risked his life for me, and for what?" he says looking back up at Ben in frustration. "I can't just leave him to those men. I just ... can't." Looking down once more, he slams another fist into the ground as he continues to bleed. Apparently the motion throws off his wounded shoulder, as Flash cries out and falls to the ground, showing the pain of his injuries for the first time. Tears begin to form at the backs of his eyes.

BenjaminBlue kneels down beside Flash and gives him a sympathetic frown. "Understand this, Sir Flash. Why was your hand stilled this night? It was not you who refused to pursue him. It would be the wish of the divine itself that you do not. You are a servant of the divine, Sir Flash. So long as you stay faithful, your hope will set him free once more."

Flash_Guardian just looks hurt, offering no measure of protest to Blue's words - the comfort that they provide seems marginal, true as they may be. Flash just lays there on the ground, overwhelmed by the pain in his body as well as his heart. He offers no resistance to Blue's ministrations, just lays there silently, fighting tears that just don't seem to become him.

BenjaminBlue moves forward and gets close to the ground to get under Flash. Gently, he would bring Flash to sit upright against the wall and take a deep breath. "Do not further comdemn yourself for tonight's events. I am sure that he would not wish you to grieve for him." Blue removes a clean white hankerchief from his front pocket and soaks it in a little of the liquid from the bottle. It would be Holy Water to help with his healing. "You fought bravely, which was more than I could ever accomplish. Be proud of your devotion to your firends. Your virtues will be rewarded in the end..." Blue presses the moist cloth against the wound in Flash's arm and closes his eyes to focus.

Flash_Guardian winces at the contact of the soaked rag for a moment, but then just lays his head back against the building, eyes closed as a single tear winds its way down his cheek. Flash thinks he feels a drop of water against his foot ... perhaps from Blue's bottle, or perhaps the first signs of a coming rain? Who knows. "Why, Chen?" Flash says, uttering words that he knows are meaningless. "Why ..."

BenjaminBlue begins. "~ Heavenly Lord, I ask for beseech Thee for aid in this task I perform in your name. May your purifying waters cleanse this gentle soul of all impurities, I pray to you. Let this faithful servant be bequethed the honor to serve you once more and to vanquish the dark entities that plague your children...~" The waters would seem to steam and sizzle against his skin as he finished his prayer. Upon removing the cloth, the wound would be nothing more than a memory to him.

BenjaminBlue continued this process until all of Flash's major wound would be healed.

Flash_Guardian seems a bit calmer after the healing magic works ... for some reason the process seems to go a bit easier than perhaps expected, gods willing. Flash looks back to Blue, looking completely drained. "Thanks, Blue," he says in a soft whisper, his face trembling slightly as he looks at him appreciatively.

BenjaminBlue nods and sits against the wall with Flash. "Of course Flash. If I have one purpose on this Earth, it is to make sure that you do not die before you are meant to. If that is all I am meant to do, I will perform it proudly." He spoke with a somewhat comforting smile to Flash before turning to look at the pub. Everything was a huge mess. Never had Blue felt so unclean before. "You will do what you were meant to do. What you do for each person is a different blessing. Do not dispair Sir Flash. Truly, you do nothing but good for all those who stay by your side."

Flash_Guardian shakes his head, smiling at Blue. "No, Blue. No. There is more purpose to you than just keeping me on my feet," he says, chuckling lightly. He seems completely drained at this point, both emotionally and physically. "You have a duty to your own church ... and to your lady ... and the people around you. You have a destiny to be proud of." Flash nods at the man. "Take it from one who knows." He also looks to the pub behind him, chuckling bitterly and shaking his head. "Wow."

BenjaminBlue nods and lays his head back, closing his eyes. "If I hadn't seen such a thing, I wouldn't have believed it were possible. Such hatred... Such destruction. I'll never understand how such thing can occur." He removed his cap from his head and set it beside him, putting both of his hand in his lap as he rested. "At least I still have my good looks, eh?" he said, trying his best to crack a joke.

Flash_Guardian chuckles a little ... then laughs a little more. There is a lingering twinkle in his eye even as he sobers up momentarily. "There are two sides to every coin, Blue. Where there is love, there is hate. Where there is creation, there is destruction. Hate and destruction may come easier, but love and creation are far more rewarding. Everyone chooses their own path, whether it was the one they were meant for or one of their own devising." Now he's just babbling, it seems. He must be quite out of it. "Wonder if we should help fix the pub, eh? Think the barkeep will let me wash dishes for a year instead of having to fix that roof?"

BenjaminBlue smiles and shrugs. "For a year? I would think that you could repair the roof within a day with your amazing speed. Never have I seen someone move so quickly!" he said almost excitedly. "I am sure that someone will have it fixed by tomorrow as always. It is rumured that gnomes, dwarves, and sprites of all kinds repair this place when nobody is watching. I would not be surprised if that were true."

Flash_Guardian just shakes his head, smiling. "Thank you ... but building a roof, like anything, takes precision, a skill that one must trade for the speeds I can reach." Flash chuckles to himself again. Slowly, though, a thought crosses his mind, causing his visage to droop. He looks awkwardly over at Blue. "Hey, uh ... Dev was saying ..." he says awkwardly, swallowing his pride. "It's dangerous out, especially by yourself and in dark corners. I think that's what he said." Flash kicks himself for not remembering exactly.

BenjaminBlue points one finger in the air, eyes still shut. "Stay indoors at night. Stay out of the shadows. I beleive that was what was said." Blue sits up and smiles. "But so far being indoors and in the open has not been the safest place to be either," he jokes. "But I am sure he warned us for a good reason. Just be sure to be mindful of your surroundings and I would think you should come to little misfortune."

Flash_Guardian seems thoughtful for a moment, committing the words to memory. At last he nods. Slowly, he pushes himself off the wall, standing with a groan. He quickly dusts himself off, then reaches out a hand to help Blue rise. "It's been a long day. Perhaps we should retire."

BenjaminBlue accepts Flash's hand and pull himself up. He moved to dust himself as well, but could only laugh as he looked to his vestments stained with dirt. "Yes. I would agree. Perhaps next time we will meet on a more peaceful evening."

Flash_Guardian claps his hands together, mystic energies circulating between his palms. With a smile, he slowly moves his hands around Blue's outfit. Wherever his hand seems to pass, his magic wills the soil and grime of the day to melt away, leaving spotlessly clean cloth. It's the least Flash can do.

BenjaminBlue spreads his arms out to get a good look at himself before tipping his cap to Flash. "Thanks friend. I shall see you another day." Blue moved towards the front door, nodding once to Aislinn as he was on his way out. (I'm beat Good night folks!)

Flash_Guardian nods to the priest. "See you around, Blue." With that, Flash turns and starts to walk away into the night ... then he hears Devaine's last words to him repeated in his head, wincing slightly. He stops, and looks aside ... then turns right back around and enters the pub once more, garments still torn and full of bullet holes, covered in grime. No sleeping out in the cold, defenseless and at the mercy of whatever creatures Devaine had warned Flash about. Tonight, Flash pays for a room, a good, safe room.