(OOC: Sorry, Thanksgiving weekend was hectic, hardly got to touch the computer at all)

The shadow beast hit the ground hard and was almost completely surrounded. He wrapped one arm around where the heart was, protecting it with more layers of it's shadows, and he lashed out with his other arm, attempting to knock away all of his attackers.

ooc: welcome back

Rabbit rushed forward and sunk her scythe into the demon's arm. As she felt the arm wrench, she knew the demon would rather take the scythe to use as his own instead of simply ignore the injury and slip away from her weapon. It became a battle of strength. Rabbit grit her teeth as she fought for control.

Lunas skipped that. He slashed apart the first two arms that came at him then hopped straight onto the demon and stabbed where the heart was. Then he stabbed again. And again, and again, and again.

Nate quickly formed an ice shield to protect himself, but it didn't prevent him from being knocked back several feet. After hitting the ground, he quickly attempted to freeze the Shadow being to the ground. A still target is better than a moving one, after all.

The shadow beast was slowly being frozen to the ground as Lunas stabbed at it, with it's arms busy trying to pull Rabbit's scythe from her, it was easier to penitrate deeply. With each stab, Lunas got closeer to the heart until her finally stabbed deeply into the heart. With a screech, the demon's dark body seemed to expload, filling the cavern with darkness one last time before disappearing completely.

"Did... Did we get it?"

"Usually when things explode, they are gone. And the fading shadows reinforce that." Zaus said from behind the group.

He had purposely done as little as possible in this fight, since there was no reason for him to if the rest of the group could handle things.

Lunas stood and muttered a prayer under his breath. The ancestral hatred of his order for the demonic faded to a dull thrumming in the back of his head.

"I'd say we can assume it was vanguished. And my applause to you all. You all fought valiantly."

Paige sheathed her sword and walked deeper into the cave. "We should probably check to see if there are any survivors left." No doubt the thieves want to fill their pockets as well...

Wen walked into the cave behind even Zaus. Much like Zaus he hadn't felt like he had been needed once the others' attention had been drawn to the demon's weak point. As a result, he hadn't even bothered to give chase back into the cavern until he had heard the death screech from outside.

He reached his hands up over his head and yawned as he made his way back into the group proper.