The Slayers Quest

[Ebiris]

Shaking off the disorientation, Gourry charges at his foe, focusing his first attack, not on Ekanna, but on his sword, hoping to leave him open for the second attack, a called shot to his neck.

[thepanda]

Amelia rolls with the kick, coming up in a crouch and releasing a Megido Flare, bathing the room in light.

[Merc]

The vampire roars, once more in pain, as he pants. "Fucking bitches..."

Driven by his agony and fury, he goes for the kill, hoping to take at least one of them with him. He focuses his entire attack on the princess of Saillune, who unable to really block the attacks or dodge around them in the limited space, takes all three strikes.

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ooc: Amelia takes 10 damage from first strike, 11 from second, and 30 from third as her EP shield fails.
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[Corwin]

"Leave her alone!" Lina yells, and charges at the vampire, both hands holding onto the hilt of her sword as she intends to impale him. As she runs, she silently casts the Flare Arrow spell, making multiple arrows of fire appear behind the vampire, as soon as he turns to face her, when she would launch them at his unprotected back and sides.

[Merc]

Gourry's focus on the sword surprises Ekanna, who's hold on the sword is loosened while Gourry switches to go for a neck strike and the sword falls. Though unarmed, his opponent is far from helpless while ducking under the high focused swing.

Making a grab for his sword, he instead comes upon his discarded sheath in his quick attempt, which he throws at Gourry's face. The sheath is knocked aside as Ekanna stands, his sword held ready once more in his hands. He's still breathing easy, but his body betrays him with many beads of sweat, showing that he is growing tired.

Though Gourry is pressing his attack, he shouts, "Flare Lance!" as a lance of fire forms at his side. He misses with the attack as Gourry jumps to the side, landing on his side against the table. The spell stabs into the wall, which begins to slowly burn, while Ekanna waits for Gourry's next move.

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Lina's plan succeeds as the fury driven vampire focuses his attention on her, and away from Amelia's heavily injured body. Distracted by the redhead's shouts, Amelia's pained cries and his own fury, he ignores his heightened senses as six arrows of flames appear behind his form, quickly impacting on his back at Lina's command.

Lit on flame, he gives one last cry of agony as he catches completely on fire, and his body dissapates into gas mixing with the smoke from his burned clothes. As the smoke creeps through the stone cracks, his sword cracks down on the floor, and Lina and Amelia can breath easier.

[Ebiris]

Acting quickly, Gourry leaps to his feet and makes a stab to Ekanna's chest, followed by a spinning slash to his side. The final blow of this series of attacks is an upwards cut aiming for the weak spot in Ekanna's armour, under the shoulderguards.

[Corwin]

Lina rushes towards Amelia, dropping her own sword on the ground. Noticing the other girl's state, she casts Boost quickly, and then puts her all into a continuous Recovery spell, until she sees that Amelia is in good shape once more.

[Merc]

Some time later, Amelia is breathing easier, having made a full recovery under Lina's healing care. She looks like crap, but at least she is healthy. Her body feels a bit lethargic though, from the lack of energy. Lina likewise feels tired despite being at full health due to low energy. Still, the enemy has been vanquished, and they're free to save Mr. Ashford now, and find the location of the dragon meat.

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Ekanna nimbly dodges the stabbing motion, while blocking with his sword the next move. He is unprepared for the next move, however, resulting in an unfortunate situation for the man.

"You cut off my arm!" Ekanna screams incredulously as he stares at the bleeding stump and he moves to wrap some cloth around it and his shoulder, forgetting about his blond opponent.

Gourry scratches his head confused as the man moved around, looking for something to wrap around the wounds. Weren't they just in a fight?

[Ebiris]

"So you surrender?" Gourry asks dumbly, wondering how good Ekanna can fight with just one arm if he elects to continue the battle.

[Merc]

"I've been bloody disarmed, you idiot! What do you think?" he screams still looking incredulous. He grabs his dismembered arm and shakes it at Gourry, "What am I supposed to do, slap you with this?"

[Ebiris]

Gourry scratches his head. "You could try if you thought it might help..." he offers uncertainly. "Anyway, you should probably go see a healer or something."

[Corwin]

Lina smiles at Amelia, and helps her up. Then, after leaning her against an adjustent wall, she heads towards her sword. Picking it up, the red-head moves towards the cell Ashford is held in, gathering the unnamed vampire's sword as she goes. Holding the two swords in both hands, she makes horizontal cuts on the bars, first at forehead-level, then much lower, allowing her passage into the cell. Moving inside, she checks on the unfortunate cook.

[Merc]

Ekanna twitches as he holds back the temptation to throw his limb at the head of the blond swordsman. After a few seconds of mental debate, he decides against it. "Just...go to the kitchen, you maniac..." he sighs as he drops the arm and casts Flare Bit on his bleeding shoulder, to cauterize the wound.

He coughs at the smoke, but is satisfied with the job. He picks up his arm and begins to walk towards the front door exit. Looking back, he glares at Gourry, "I'll figure out a way to repay you for the arm next time we meet, Mr. Gabriev. Count on it."

With that, he disappears past the burning wall where the Flare Lance had impacted.

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OOC: To the kitchen, ye scurvy dog!
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The old cook seems to be heavily injured with dry bleeding marks all over his body, perhaps having been tortured into making Dragon Cuisine, or perhaps just at the fun of the vampire. Some burns are also present, more than likely a result of Lina's and Amelia's earlier fire attacks. They're not heavy though, in part because of Ashford's toughness, as well as the vampire taking the brunt of those attacks. He bleerily cracks open his eyes as Lina enters, and he whispers, "...Daughter?"

His tired and injured eyes can't focus well on the image of his savior, but he resembles her so much that he pulls Lina into a strong hug, as he cries with joy, shouting, "DAUGHTER!"

[Ebiris]

Gourry shrugs, not overly bothered. Ekanna was pretty good, but nowhere near as troublesome as Zangelous had been...

Smiling at the thought of the duels they had fought, Gourry ambles into the kitchen to locate his well earned Dragon Cuisine.

[Corwin]

Lina pats him on his back awkwardly. "Right. Anyway, Mr. Ashford, we came to set you free!"