(OOC: Like have him attack Ciaran, and pull out a nice little sword duel in which we actually get to see Ciaran in a fight? Or were you thinking something a bit less obvious? ...Either way, I assume if he gets killed Ciaran will know there's some demons walking about.)

OOC: Possibly have him sabatoge your death field or something, then Ciaran dispatches of him. I would prefer if he actually did something harmfully. He doesn't need to though.

(OOC: ...Actually... that's... beautiful. I can think of how he could sabotage it in a way to give a very interesting post. It'll just have to happen before the heros get to Preos...)

ooc-Indeed. BTW, just as you all assumed, Ripel is not going to be there (By the time he realizes he has to do shit, the others are long gone. And there is no way he could handle Deamon at his level). However, Redael will be.

ooc-How about Co-Leadership? Dezil, Kilith (Sorta, I don't know how that would work out), and Blyr? Those three all have had experience in leadership...I believe.

ooc-As for sabatoge..that would be perfect. It would give reason for Ciaran to just not kill the heroes as soon as they see them.

(OOC: Deamon finished off Killith just as you opened the gate, I believe...)

ooc-Okay, a little change, make that co-leadership between Dezil and Ark.

ooc-Stupid me. Oh well...bleh.

OOC: One last time, to clarify, do you mean me Dezil and Blyr, since we haven't seen/heard from Ark in quite a while (Where is SS at, does anyone know?)?

OOC: I'm pretty sure that's what he means... and tomorrow is going to be really cool. I promise.

Naras looks up in time to see a bandit begin to bring his sword down upon him, ending his life, but the bright light from the gate blinded everyone, save Daemon and Black, and saves Naras.

Or so he thought. The next thing he knew, hordes of demons were pouring through the gate, and if the bandits had been bad...the demons would be ten times worse. He turns back and watches his attacker running away, stricken with panic, dropping his sword in his haste. He grits his teeth and snaps the arrow's shaft off, then removes the head from his stomach and stands.

He turns around and faces the demon hordes running after them, then removes a potion and pours it over his stomach without looking down, healing his wound to full. He drops the bottle and watches as Ripel say something to Blyr, then face the demons and prepare to do something. He himself also walks forward, straight into the horde, and raises his arms to the sky, looking up into the cloud of demons. Mystic chanting comes from his mouth as they draw nearer and nearer, increasing in volume by the word.

He shuts his eyes and concentrates hard, ignoring the ever louder cries of black death approaching, and finally he finishes his chanting just when the noise drowns out his voice and opens his eyes, staring into the cloud of demons still approaching. Suddenly a storm of chocobos bursts from the forest, running after each and every refugee and scooping them up easily by ducking their heads and bucking, then running off at top speed. For Naras' sake a whitewash of wind scoops him up, carrying him off in a mist of air and depositing him onto a chocobo near the head.

It's then that something really odd happens...the demons run for cover, cowering from the rather miniscule light coming down. Naras turns back and watches this, profoundly puzzled. "That is...strange..."

But if that wasn't weird enough, all of the chocobos suddenly sprout wings and take to the air, moving twice as fast as they had on the ground. Naras looks down, astonished, and nods his head, speaking to his Spirits. "Well...you certainly are...creative..."

However, there's one person left behind, since he'd disappeared in the cloud of demons and left Naras to assume that he wouldn't be coming along: Ripel. He doesn't seem to be in any immediate trouble, however. At least, not too much trouble.

(( My original idea was to have them all be whisked away on a huge bird of air, summoned up from bird spirits. But... So I went and added mystical, temporary wings to their rides...

*explodes* x.X I don't even know what I'm doing anymore...all stones in this direction, please. I'll delete this post if it went too far; just drop me a line. x.x ))

OOC: last I knew, he was doing some sort of student exchange thing and he's alllll the way on the other side of Canada than he normally is.... so..... But I'm not sure how long he'll be gone... He didn't mention anything to the group, so I'm hoping it's not TOO long.