(OOC: I'm just assuming Kairi is doing her best to piolet her Magitek and help out at the same time. ^^; )

(OOC: Well...Krylo did say something about something like a Boss Monster...and, well, I OK'd it. I was assuming that he would be the one to start it. If not...well, I'll do something.)

The cave began to shake and rocks and stalactites began to fall from the ceiling as the demons assaulted Preos far above them. Ren was forced to jump out of the way of more than one in order to avoid being impaled or crushed, and she, along with the refugees, had begun to run. There was no telling how long before they reached the throne room, or if the death field would stop them... plus they needed to get out of the caves as soon as possible.
The cave began to widen and seemed slightly more stable after a few moments, although the rocks were still falling. For a moment Ren was relieved that the threat of being caved in upon was lessoned, but that didn't last long as a pair of large red eyes appeared in the cave, and a few moments later the glow of the A/M fields illuminated a large Draco-lich which opened it's mouth and fired a ball of acid that enveloped a nearby suit of magitek armor. Within moments, filled with pained screaming from the pilot, the A/M field it produced flickered out, and the suit was reduced to a puddle of dissolved metal and organic material.

"Shit!" growled Ren. "I don't have time for this..."

She ripped a chain from around her waist and jumped onto a boulder, snapping the chain around the draco-lich's mouth, effectively locking it shut and keeping it from hocking anymore acid lugies. She gave the chain a yank, pulling the dragon down low enough for her to fling a dagger into it's eye, giving her time to tie the chain securely around it's mouth.

"Shitshitshit," she mumbled as she worked.

[OOC:] I'm assuming the hero group caught up with Ren by now... [/OOC]

Blyr saw Ren work on the dragon-like creature form a distance. She's good, but we don't have time. I'd shoot off a laser, but I don't think this would be the right moment, as a stray shot could collapse the cave even further.

Blyr hit a button on the radio console in his Magitek to call up Dezil. "Is there any guns we could use to wipe this thing out, or do you suggest hand-to-hand combat using the tek blades?" he asked over the comlink.

(OOC: I'd assume so as well... but we do have a good number of the citizens of Preos, so there'd probably be some distance if you were still taking up the back... unless you moved up nearer the front after catching up with the group of refugees... which we'll say you did. Also... do magitek have comlinks? I don't really care either way, I'm just curious if I missed something.)

Ciaran heard the screaming of the melting magitek pilot near the front, which was far enough ahead that all he could see was a the large shadowy shape of a dragon-like creature battling a nimble shadow, as that he chose to take up the back and watch for demons. He assumed the nimble shadow was Ren, as that it seemed quite a bit like her fighting style, from what he could see... which wasn't much. The dragon was jerking around a bit, however, and seemed to be stuck.

"Must everything go wrong today?" Ciaran asked no one in particular as he pulled the haste amulet out of his vest pocket and put it about his neck, beginning to move at incredible speeds.

'I should have known something like this would happen... these caverns haven't been used for over a century, it's no surprise some nasty creature decided to move in. But I've no time to dwell on that, who knows if the death field generator is still set up, and if it's not... when the demons will find this passage...' thought the, now homeless emperor, as he sprinted between people, moving quickly enough to seem a blur.

(OOC: I'm not going to have him reach the dragon until my next post.)

OOC: Since the dragons are attacking, so is everything else...

IC:
The dragon's breath had done enough damage to please Deamon, and with a large blast of black fire every demon attacked Preos.

[OOC:] I'm just assuming they'd have comlinks to set up ambushes and such, but FZ is the magitek improv-master, not me :D [/OOC]

Blyr waited for an answer, but saw that time was running out. He moved his magitek towards the front earlier, mostly because he wasn't used to the calibration of the acceleration pedal, thus causing him to move faster than the other armors. I gotta do something, but what?

He spotted Ciaran behing him rushing into certain danger. Blyr noticed all the rocks falling, and slapped himself in the forehead. Duh! I should have thought of this earlier!

He stood up in the Magitek, and thrust out his hand, focusing on a slightly loose, rather large chunk of rock above the grotesque creature Ren was fighting. It started to loosen form its spot. Now, if I can just get it to fall on that thing, we could continue on...

[OOC:] Whether or not Blyr drops the boulder on the thing depends on you guys. Should I do it now, or wait? [/OOC]

Ren growled, jumping away from the creature and jerking a bottle of poison from a strap on her thigh. She drew another dagger, dipping it in the poison, and then throwing the dagger at the dragon's good eye, lodging the venomous blade in its eye.

She replaced her bottle and drew her sword, holding it in both hands.

(OOC: Fine fine... seeming as no one else wants to show any reactions from the dragon...)

The dragon reared up it's head in pain, smashing it's skeletal skull against the ceiling of the cavern, which caused it to stagger back a few more steps, while shaking it's collosal skull in shock. It was blinded and in pain... and more than a little pissed off. I HATE humans! It's large skeletal tail, which still had bits of rotting dragon flesh attached to it, whipped out along the wall, moving toward Ren, and also toward some of the nearest magitek and refugees.

Ciaran was now close enough to be able to see this all and drew his enchanted blade quickly as he ran toward it, planning on cutting the tail off, hopefully before it could take out any more magitek or civilians.

(OOC: Giving Ren time to jump out of the way of the tail herself before lopping it off... and you can drop the rock whenever you want... jus' lemme cut it's tail off before you kill it. Don't want to have run up there for nothing.)

Ren saw the large skeletal tail coming towards her and leaped off the ground, touching her feet to the wall for a second before jumping again, landing safely on the other side of the tail.