Razael looked at Sedran.

"Yes, I remember you. I never expected a fellow Stormer to be member of this group. And don't call my master a scumbag. He's very honorable, and only cares for the wellfare of this world. And as for the big guy sitting on me...LEON!" The Gaia mage looked over at Razael, and saw Risu sitting on him.

"RAZAEL!" With strange speed, Leon grabbed Risu by the shoulders, and lifted him up. He then tossed Risu off to the ground nearby. Leon gently picked his brother up off the ground.

"Razael, are you alright?"

"Yes, brother."

"Good." Leon stuck his staff into the ground, and large tree roots burst from the earth. The flung about like tentacles, and one grabbed Razael's staff from Samuel's hands. They then passed them along until it finally rested with Razael again.

"Ah. That's better." Razael's eyes glowed and crackled with electricity.

"Let me show you what power is. By combining both parts of the Storm Mage's abilities." Razael raised his staff into the air, and spun it in a circle. Slowly wind gathered, and then began to funnel around. Everyone could feel the pull as the tornado formed. When the large vortex of wind was created, Razael snapped his fingers. The tornado suddenly lit up and electricity zapped around in it's wind.

"An Electric Tornado. Have fun, kiddies."

"Pitiful worms... as though a mere lightning storm of this level would suffice against me."

Alyrium threw his arms apart, and instantly his body turned into a silhouette of itself, with only a pair of glowing green orbs where his eyes would have been. As the storm washed over him, the shadow burst into multiple lesser shades, each travelling away in a different direction, moving seemingly at random.

Distorted cackling filled the air as the shadows gathered behind Razael, and from a patch of floating darkness, a gauntleted fist, metal gleaming dully in the dim light, seized Razael by the neck.

"Go hence, my Knight of Ghosts and Shadows... Go hence, Nelo Angelo, and slay these interlopers!"

The deformed shadow of Alyrium stepped back, ragged edges blowing in an ethereal wind as the full eight feet of Nelo Angelo emerged into the world and tossed Razael aside like a rag doll, then brpught the gigantic sword at his side to bear.

Razael rubbed his sore neck, and began to laugh.

"Ah, a darkness summoning. I'm so scared. You know, I heard that darkness summonings could only be injured by light, so only a Light Mage can destroy one. Isn't that right, Leon?" Leon nodded. Razael looked at Nelo Angelo.

"It's too bad I can't make light. Wait...yes I can." While Razael was talking, large thunderclouds formed in the sky, and lightning struck the ground. After a few moments, the lightning focused in on the crystal on Razael's staff. With each bolt of lightning it absorbed, the crystal grew brighter. Nelo Angelo covered its eyes, and began to groan in pain. Soon, the crystal got so bright, no one could see except for Samuel and Riordian, who were used to the light. What they saw was Nelo Angelo slowly dissolving in the light, until there was nothing left of him. Then, the light disappeared. Razael remained standing and grinning.

"Come now. I was hoping for more of a challenge."

Jude swiped his hand and the cloud, being made of lots of drops of water, dissipated, revealing the glowing moon.

"Split them up, then we can take them on seperate as a group!" Jude yelled. He brought his staff straight up, summoning his Water Pillar. before it crashed in between them, he seperated it into two halves, an ice wall on each end, pushing the two brothers away from each other. He looked over his choices, and went with the Storm Mage.

Due to all of the storm magic, the clouds had began to seperate. The moon was finnaly revealed, and the light reflected from it began to affect Dire. His crystal began to glow slightly, and in moments Dire was transformed. In a few seconds, Dire grew and slotched over, his arms and legs growing in size and length. His hands thinned and his fingers grew long, while his nails sharpened up. Grey fur grew all over his body as his muzzle strecth out, his teeth becoming fangs. Then the rest of his body changed, and Dire was a werewolf.
(Think Diablo 2 version)

During this transformation, Dire had been moving. Once it was complete, his speed increased dramatically. While the mages were wasting their time gloating and talking, he had circled around the group. The Storm mage was the biggest problem, but the Gaia mage was his trumph card. With out him, the storm mage would run.

Dire was blinded by the light then, but used that time to contact Loki, who had calmed down since the danger had revealed itself. After the water pillar seperated the two enemy mages, Dire took that as his chance to strike. The giant wolf leapt at the Gaia mage from across the clearing, aiming directly at his throat, while Dire leapt from behind.

With the barrier in place, Risu whistled. His giant lizard thing charged up, and he jabbed a finger at the Storm Mage. But, instead of uttering the first command that came to mind, he changed it slightly.

"Subdue."

Risu dropped the double handed sword, and pulled his two smaller swords. He would go for the Gaia mage...probably hauling the wolf and Dire off of him. Or, he might be adding his own weight to the conflict.

OOC: Note this will probably involve the lizard tackling him, and chomping down on his arm to make him drop the staff. After jude does something to distract him of course.

Saviorus rubbed the spots from his eyes and glared at the Storm Mage.

"I see that you enjoy the manipulation of light." He called out mockingly. "But let's see you laugh when the power of the Sun burns you to ashes!"

As Saviorus spread his arms wide, the gem within his Iron Staff glowed, blinding in it's pure brilliance. Gouts of searing blue flame formed at his back, growing and morphing to take the form of a great avian.

He thrust his arms forward, sending the Blue Pheonix screaming toward Razael, igniting all within it's path in violent flames, leaving a trail of firey destruction.

Ooc: It ain't a summon or anything, it's just an uber projectile.

Sedrand saw Saviorus building up his spell and decided to try his own double team attack. He charged two balls of lightning in his hands and fired them at the same time as the pyro mage. The two balls plunged into the flaming pheonix and the projectile became filled with electrical energy.

Leon looked behind him and saw Dire leaping towards him. He reached out with his hand and grabbed Dire by the arm. He then tossed him over to the side. Not without a lot of cuts and bites on his arm, though. He was bleeding profusely, but he didn't seem to notice. He began to use his staff with his other hand.

Razael, on the other hand, wasn't having things nearly as good. He was trying to fight off the other mages, and he hadn't yet noticed the large pheonix spell coming towards him.

Samuel saw the fire Pheonix, and decided that he should also help out. He raised his staff, and several spheres of light came out of it. The spheres shot towards the pheonix, and were absorbed into the body. The pheonix grew in size, and light emenated from it. Now the pheonix was blazing with fire, crackling with electricity, and glowing with powerful light magic.

Razael turned just in time to see the spell coming towards him.

"Shit-" He had barely enough time to put up a shield of electricity before the bird hit. There was a large explosion, and fire leapt out everywhere. Electricity was zapping around in the sky, and the light glowed brightly.

When it all cleared, Razael was on one knee, breathing heavily. The shield had saved him. If he hadn't put it up, he would have been killed. He was now only greatly injured.

Leon turned to his brother, and saw him on the ground.

"Razael!" Leon ran over, and picked his brother up off the ground. He supported him on his shoulder.

"We must leave. We'll finish this some other time." Leon said. His crystal began to glow, and then both Razael and Leon were encased in stone. The stone tomb then lowered into the earth, and disappeared. They had run away.

Wiping a bead of sweat from his brow, Saviorus quickly subdued the fires which were still burning within the forest. The last combined attack had managed to light everything flamable within 10 meters of the blast on fire; but a the last minute control of the Pyro Mage had managed to spare the party from anything as bad as a singed robe.

Saviorus walked over to the Time Mage's staff, which was still frozen within the block of Ice. He blasted a small flame over the encased staff, melting the ice around it before picking it up and handing it to Kenyu.

"I believe this belongs to you." he said cracking a slight grin.