As the first cries through the cold air, Benitora jerlked his head up.

Goblins!

He spat the remnants of the natto out, and reached for Shizune, snatching her up and carrying her away from where the others were fighting. He quickly undid his armor and placed it on top of her, and then, for good measure, covered her with a straw raincoat so she wouldn't be obvious to them.

"See if you can keep up with a Unicorn boatman." Matt had the arrow ready and let his fingers slack, sending the arrow wizzing past his face and into the face of a spear thrower.

The arrow flew true striking a goblin in the throat. He fell dead into the river. The last visible Goblin threw another flint spear at samoht and wasn't nearly close. Tenshi spoke words in an unusual langauge and a shimmering transparent samurai materialized. She was dressed like a matsu and her eyes shown with hatred.
"Attack the goblins." Tenshi said in the language of the spirit worlds. The Toshigoku matsu yelled a war charge and flew towards the remaining goblin naginata in hand.

ooc: New round: Raiden is still stringing his bow.
Spirit
Goblin Warmonger
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Goblin
Krylo
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Tenshi
Goblin
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IC: The Ghost Matsu Charged closer to the remaining goblin when a Goblin wearing tattered armor arrived He barked orders in the shrieking goblin language and other goblins appeared ontop of the cliff. One threw a spear through the Toshigoku spirit the spear passed through the incoporeal spirit.

Benitora looked around for a weapon to use, and spotted a bow lying on the ground. He grabbed it and the small package of gut string and began stringing it as quickly as he could. After all, as a warrior, he had to prove that he could make war.

Rhyoukushen noted the matsu spirit charging the goblins and their subsesquent lack of interest in the boat. He quickly decided it would be a good idea to get them all the hell away from there while the chance remained.

He drew from his satchel the scroll which contained the secrets of summoning the elements, and once again began to move through the motions, attempting, this time, to summon an air kami to speed the boat along by way of its makeshift sail.

The goblins continued to focus on the spirit. Tenshi watched as the Toshigoku spirit moved on towards her objective.

As the goblins focused on the spirit warrior, Matt's bow had been nocked again. "I'm taking out the dressy one." He declared, pointing the bow and letting the arrow fly.

The arrow flew through the matsu ghost and imbedded in the Warmongers armor doing no damage.

ooc: Raiden, and Benitora are string their bows
combat round order tenshi is leaving combat.
Goblin
Goblin
Krylo
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Goblin warmonger
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ic: The goblins kept their focus on the toshigoku spirit. Who was entering range for her naginata.

Samoht finished attached the gutstring to the bow, and tied it to a tight elasticity. His feet were still moving the rudder, which made tying the string a wee bit harder. After much frustration, he finished stringing his bow.

The Air Kami responded to Ryoukushen's summons. They swirled around him, and a light breeze gathered. The flame of his earlier fire kami waved about under their power and so did his clothing. They hadn't accepted his summoning yet, however. They were merely toying with him as they discussed it. It was their way. Childlike and playful.

'He's caaaalllling us,' one of the kami spoke mentally.

'Maybe he only wanted one of us?' another responded.

Yet another mental 'voice' rang out, 'He got us all, though. We all came. It's not fun to come alone.'

The wind picked up slightly, but just around Ryoukushen, and his hair was ruffled, as the kami laughed soundlessly. Ryoukushen could 'hear' perfectly, however. They 'sounded' like small children playing ball.

He chuckled a little bit in response to their playfulness, despite the battle going on around him. Forcing himself to forget that was easy enough. He was able to meditate and think of nothing, removing the thought of death from his mind was a relatively simple matter, particularily with the goblins ignoring the boat, so long as he didn't look toward the battle.

'I don't mind if more than one of you comes, it just makes the 'game' more fun,' Ryoukushen's mental 'voice' said, with a tone that seemed equally as playful as the kami's tones.