[i]A test of our abilities.[/i] It was a weak, yet somehow obvious answer. To expect the council to trust them all immediately would be folly, even if they were all but ensured loyalty in return for their [i]generous[/i] offer of continued existence. But even then, something about it didn't sit well with Lily. 

She had been given no reason to believe that the Watchers could even be touched by anything; might or magic, and so when the supposedly most powerful of them all required them to keep enemies at bay? Not to mention his claim that getting hit, even if such an attack would just go right through them. Whe Watchers that had been 'hit' by Fenn's slaps and half-hearted attacks up until now had shown no signs of even noticing them. 

[i]That means that he's either telling the truth and it's just a test of our abilities, or there's something more to it, and the Watchers[/i] can [i]be harmed. The only question is how.[/i] Lily pursed her lips as Panoptos went about getting the portal opened, with the aid of the sentient tin can. It was a question worth pondering, but, for now she had a task to do. 

She glanced behind her at Fenn, cocking her head towards the portal before she entered herself.

Immediately after entry, a sense of vertigo assaulted her senses. A profound sense of wrongness came over her, and the source was revealed as gravity pulled her [i]up,[/i] rather than down. She barely caught herself with her hands, tumbling gracelessly to her feet, gritting her teeth as dizziness continued to assault her senses for a few moments afterwards. 

Her senses about her once more, the Demoness glanced around, and suddenly understood why this place was called the [i]Undersky.[/i] She'd glanced enough about the concept of Mass and Gravitational force in Earth's science books to know how gravity functioned, but evidently the Undersky had decided to well and truly shit on all forms of continuity with other planes, and so had decided that you were repelled by great masses of matter, instead of actually making sense. 

Her silent rant about the lack of logical physics in the Undersky was cut short as the sound of creaking, screeching metal reached her ears. She looked up in time to witness the arrival of three beasts, more machine than anything alive. 

She didn't even hesitate.

Right eye and scar lighting up pre-empted her body bursting into flames, body remade into that of a fiery manifestation of herself, hovering a handspan above the ground. "FENN!" She shouted before firing an explosive orb of concentrated fire magic, aiming for the very middle of the three beasts.