Saillune

[Carthrat]

Kylen turns and rushes towards the noise, hand on his bow..

[Bean Bandit]

Raquel's hand drops to the hilt of her sword, and she glances at Caelena, raising an eyebrow as they watch the smoke curl into the air. "Should we...?"

[Asrana]

Caelena nods, slowly beginning to move towards the explosion.

Beneath her cloak, she begins the gestures and chant of an Air spell, Raza Klouva, in case it's needed...

[Bean Bandit]

Raquel follows, careful not to overreact, but hurrying behind Caelena, her hand on her sword...

[Merc]

As Kylen approaches closer to the source of the explosion, he begins to notice how it's getting hotter and harder to see.

Through the wavering hot air and some smoke, Kylen slowly begins to make out two large blurry forms, and a number of smaller ones as well, all moving. Occassionally, one of the smaller forms screams before falling to the ground.

The two women, still a distance behind the vampire, can only hear the occasional scream as they approach, not able to see through the hot air and smoke in addition to their distance, though they can still see Kylen fine.

[Carthrat]

Kylen uses his natural powers to emphasize the fog and smoke around him so he's invisible from sight, then quickly brings out his wings, floats the the top of a nearby (and not on fire) roof, then puts them away and takes a better look at the big forms.

[Merc]

Kylen's body seems to be hugged by the smoke as he moves closer as well as a small fog that forms around him. Disappearing within, possibly a surprise to the two trailing after him, he soon lands on top of the closest rooftop not on fire, which is also a bit closer to the figures he saw earlier.

Focusing his sight on them, and with less of the distorted hot air around, as well as the smoke dispersing better at the higher altitude, he can make out the forms to be soldiers fighting with two monsters, though he cannot tell what sort they are.

One is blue, with scaly skin, but a body otherwise much like an ogre up to its head. Its head sports pointy ears and lots of hair resembling a wild mane around its disfigured face.

The other is redish in color and more closely resembles a humanoidal crocodile, except this one is missing the scales that would more likely be apropriate to its look. Oddly enough, its reptilian face also sports a mane of hair, with it's hair spiking backwards.

Then Kylen notices something he'd almost missed due to the lack of movement. Just barely visible past the door to the main source of fire, a burning building, he can make out what looks like the border of a shield of some sort, keeping whatever is inside from burning.

"ZELAS BLEED!" a rumbling voice cries, causing Kylen to whip his eyes off the shield and seeing as a head explodes when a bullet of black and white light impacts the head. The guard's body lumps to the ground, headless.

One of the few guards still not retreating, growls out, "WHERE ARE THOSE BLASTED SORCERERS?!?"

[Carthrat]

Kylen pulls back on his bowstring and unleashes a trio of brilliant red bolts towards the spell-slinger..

[Merc]

The arrows fly true, and seem like they would impact the blue monster in the chest. That does not happen however. Before the arrows can hit, the monster shimmers for a second as he disappears, the arrows impacting the ground. Before Kylen can wonder what happened, the creature almost immidiately reappears a few feet away from his prior spot looking as confused as his companion, at least until a deep male voice comes from the burning building.

"Careful, Zhenix. You were almost hit for being careless."

The blue creature, now known as Zhenix, growls. "Shut it, Lofaum. You..."

"I have a mission to finish," the voice interrupts. "Are you done with your carnage, yet? The sorcerers being shouted for will be here in a few minutes, and you know how I hate white magic."

The two monsters growl, but look towards the reaction the arrows came from, straight at Kylen with narrowed eyes.

"Ah, so be it. I'll come back for you later then. Maybe."

The same shimmering effect that surrounded Zhenix appears barely visible within the shield before the shield collapses and the fire moves towards the spot previously left unclaimed.

[Carthrat]

"Always 'later'. Never 'now," shoots back Kylen, irritated, firing two arrows at the monster.. then firing a third a short moment after, hoping to catch the creature as he phased back in.

[Merc]

Zhenix grunts as the arrow impacts on his palm, while the red crocodile simply kicks up a dead corpse to catch the arrow. The third arrow impacts nothing, the mysterious speaker not reappearing as Kylen had expected.

"There's the hit I owed you, little man," Zhenix calls out before turning to look at his companion, who is shaking his head. "What?"

"Moron," is all he hisses out back, before pointing his arm at Kylen with a shout of, "Fireball!"

[Carthrat]

Kylen calls up a conveniant fog and flies straight up as he hears the name of the spell being called..

[Merc]

Zhenix smiles coldly as the fireball flies into the fog, apparently missing. "Why Mitade, I think he'd prefer to be my prey."

An angry hiss is his response, before the guard who spoke some time ago suddenly finds himself in the presence of the monster known as Mitade, who grasps his head. Screaming, the guard tries to struggle, at least until his head explodes in a gory mess and his arms fall to the side limply. "...Your prey?" he hisses quietly. "I think not."

Zhenix shrugs, his cold smile still present. "Alright, we can share."

[Carthrat]

From his position up high, Kylen blankets the entire area below him in a thick fog which only his advanced vision can penetrate, then fires a single, incapacitating arrow at the fireball-slinging monster..

[Merc]

Mitade's eyes glow yellow, as he raises the corpse of the guard he still holds by the remains of its head. The arrow impacts the body, but penetrates through not just the corpse, but the arm of the monster.

He gives a shrill cry, though it seems likely to be more from anger than pain.

Zhenix raises an eyebrow, going, "Ohoh..." before smirking upwards in the direction of Kylen. "Hell blast," he almost lazily casts, pointing his arm at Kylen.

Apparently, the pair can both still tell where Kylen is in the fog.