[IC] "Shadows of the Past", a Warcraft Roleplay

[Sinerathin]

Sharon stood behind and watched in a ceremonial pose from the ruined tower walls; hands folded together at his midriff and his silver battlestaff leaning against his shoulder; as he watched Mei dart off across the rooftops in a fashion Sharon would only have been able to describe as akin to a hero taken straight out of a marvel superhero comic book strip... if the High Elf even knew what either 'Marvel' or a 'comic book strip' was.

It was quite majestic, really.

However, Sharon knew that the whole trick was simply one dispel magic spell away from turning from cool and epic into a slapstick case of slamming hard face down into the cobblestone streets below in a really nasty fall!

Still, Mei didn't need to know that either.

"I suppose I should let her have her fun. Besides, if she falls, she's such a big girl that I'm sure she'll be fine."

Sharon thought to himself with a warm smile, watching Mei in just the same way as a parent or teacher would watch a little, over-enthusastic kid play around with a chemistry set that they had no idea how to actually use; but that little detail didn't stop the fun!

"I think we ought to join the fun, Vashi." Sharon finally concluded, turning to give the tall Night Elven mage next to him a look.
"We can catch a cab below in the district and drive from there. Common sense says that if the citizens of the mage district have half the self-preservation instinct that they should have, we are bound to find a couple of abandoned carriag,-"

"Not so fast, High Elf! You are not going anywhere!"

Another female voice sounded, as suddenly the shimmering flat circle of a portal was conjured out of thin air in the room they were standing in in the mage tower. As Vashi and Sharon turned to look, they could see a bright, blue portal that had just appeared out of air; out from which stepped a human female garbed in a heavy, thick layer of silk and velvet cloaks trimmed with layers of fine gold threat and jewelry hanging and jingling at from the edge of the fabric, causing her whole dress to jingle with every step she took. In her hand was a tall, bronze staff, and atop her head was an almost 3ft tall, thin canonical hat. Her face was mostly hidden behind a heavy, jewelry adorned veil, but she shared out at the two with two amber colored eyes amidst a toned skin.

"Surprised to see me?" Kalyssa asked with what Sharon knew to be a grin beneath her heavy veil, as the woman motioned towards the portal behind her, where Sharon could hear the clanking of heavy plate armor and boots emanating from within.
"A pity your overzealous knife-eared bodyguards have just left you all alone. I brought some friends along to make sure you played nice. Call it a gift from your broth,-"

"ALTER DESTINATION!"

Sharon suddenly called out as he pointed his staff at the portal behind a perplexed looking Kalyssa, just as the edge of two swords became visible on the other side. In an instant, the portal vanished, closing itself and disappearing. The tips of two longswords that had just managed to cross through the portal had been neatly severed and were lying on the ground, and for a moment, Kalyssa just looked dumbfounded as the sorceress stared back at where her portal; and reinforcements; had just been.

" ... "

"Sorry about that, I am just not a fan of gifts from family members and relatives that I don't really like."

"WHAT DID YOU JUST DO?!" Kalyssa exclaimed, the smugness and confidence now completely absent from her tone!
"WHAT DID YOU DO TO MY MEN?!"

"I just sent them on a small detour... "

Sharon shrugged nonchalantly, leaning back once more and resting his staff against his shoulder, before he threw a casual glance and comment over at the Night Elf standing next to him, Vashi.

"And that's why I don't like to use teleportation and portal spells on an active battlefield."

[rivaan]

'That's right... follow your instinct and just go in that direction!' Mei thought as she used strategically precise attacks, hair pulling and general annoyance and pain to steer Mali out of hte housing buildings and into the road and from there slowly towards the outside of the city. If she managed to get Mali to fall off the lake outside the city all would be well since any mage worth his weight would be able to freeze her. At least that was Mei's plan since fighting a giant demoness in the middle of a heavily populated area was not goint to turn out great for anyone. Sadly it seems a certain nelven warband's idiocy had flared as they pulled a wire trap of all things, forcing Malizia to plummet face first into the stone, forcing Mei along with herself.

Mei impacted into the stone, her heavy armor cracking it under the kinetic force, her head felt like it had just took a warhammer to the forehead as everything was spinning. The snakes that now made her hair were also half stunned as she listened to a certain night elf commander utter complete nonsense to hte point her ears felt like bleeding.

"Aghhh...." Mei groaned as she slowly stood up, using her dual two handers for support, her new hair slowly moving about as she had troubles focusing for the moment." Why..." She mumbled slowly facing towards Serphia.

"You..." She said, blinking a few times." Every... bloody... time... Every time I get her into a perfect position to deal with her... YOU GOD DAMNED IDIOTS SCREW EVERYTHIGN UP WIHTOUT A SHRED OF COMMON THOUGHT INSIDE YOUR HOLLOW HEADS!" Mei roared, swinging her sword at hte sone, causing shards to fly everywhere. The snakes she had for hair now hissing angrily at the night elves. With a flick of her hand she pulled a small round ball pill from a pouch on her belt. It was crimson red, covered in purple lines as she quickly swallowed it.

The berserker grit her teeth, grabbing her sword again. Her muscles flexed, her face distorted from anger, her lines growing sharper and sharper as the snakes around her head were pratically going berserk themselves. Veins were clearly destinguishable now, as she bore her teeth in crazed like manner. Low growl escaped her mouth as she narrowed her eyes at the warband and then Malizia.

Suddenly she started to scream curses in her native language before she suddenly kicked a nearby chuck on stone the size of her head at the night elven captain, before, hurling one of her swords at Mali's face while dashing to follow down at the captain with a slash of her crystal sword that radiated violent energy as the crystals in the islands north of Exodar did, all the while pulling a small cubic metalic device from her bag also. She just about had it with those god damned sentines in this god damned city. She was going to beat them half to death and then deal with the demoness... and if anyone stood in her way, she was going to show them no mercy!

[Feychild]

“It’s stopped pursuing us” the Captain snapped, in a tone that mingled relief and frustration as he tugged on the Gryphon’s bridle.

Kathlin peered back at the scene. It did not look, all things considered, to be what could be referred to as an ideal scenario in any sense. Malizia had managed to crush an entire block of houses and cause a miniature tsunami. Serphia had arrived on the scene. And the large Draenei had taken umbrage at the situation. “Oh dear. That’s not good”

“The church had a plan, yes!? To get that creature out of the city??”

“Yeeeess” Kathlin said doubtfully, after a moment. While technically Liaena could be considered to be ‘the church’, practically speaking it was a stretch to say the least. Her hesitation was not lost on the Captain, who glowered at her. “You said the paladins ordered this!?”

“Er, yes, they’ll approve” Kathlin said hastily, before pointing back at the carnage behind them. “We need to go back. I’ve got an idea”

“….”

There was a moment where the Captain obviously weighed up his odds of going monno-a-monno with the giant demon vs trusting the competence of the bizarre girl sitting behind him. It was a hallmark of the true carnage Malizia had inflicted on the range and file stormwind guard that he sighed, dug in his heels and urged the gryphon back towards the demon. The animal obeyed, albeit very reluctantly.

“Er, hello!” Kathlin said as she peered over the gryphon’s back to look down at Malizia. They were hovering above her, however just above grababble range. “Soooo….I don’t like this city, do you? I was thinking about going to the mountains north of here. Won’t you join me?”

The girl gulped as the demon’s eyes obviously focused on her, before addressing the Captain. “Run – er, fly. I meant”

[Rithy]

“Er, hello!”

[Insert Draenic Scream of Pure Rage]

*THACK*

Malizia was only given a short moment to glimpse up at Kathlin and open her mouth to grin at her - before with a 'thack' sound a (relatively) small draenei greatsword lodged itself between two of her yellow, demonic teeth!

"... wheally?"

"TENTACLED FOOL - I WILL NOT STAND FOR THIS INSOLENCE!"

Malizia would mumble as she looked down at the fight going on in front of her, as Serphia had drawn one of her sleek, curved elven swords and deftly parried a strike from Mei's own oversized weapon! Serphia, with her long, flowing and snow white hair would go on to exchange a number of lighting-fast strikes with Mei and her sprawling mass of snakes for hair! The Captain received a hoof-kick to her lower stomach that temporarily knocked the wind out of her even through her purple, steel-hard washboard stomach; but she would quickly return by neatly severing the head of three of the snakes on Mei's hair, effectively giving her violent 'haircut' that looked a lot more dramatic than it otherwise should have been due to the Draenei's hair consisting of a mass of living, writhing serpents!

"I WILL NOT STAND TO LISTEN TO THE VITRIOLIC RAMBLINGS OF AN ANGRY DRUNK WHO THINKS SHE CAN STAND BETWEEN ME AND MY RIGHTFUL KILL!"

Serphia announced loudly as she took a step back to point the razor sharp tip of her gleaming blade at Mei, now with a good six feet between them!

Malizia, in the meantime, would casually observe the two fighting women whilst curiously chewing on the sword in her teeth, before spitting it out as it landed on the ground, neatly destroying a barrel as the heavy weapon landed on it! Her shimmering and unholy fel green eyes would linger on the back of Serphia and Mei's furious face, before moving to the side to glance up at the adorable, the irresistible Kathlin hovering in the air and about to fly away...

"She's soooo adorable... "

... and then back at the two idiots in front of her.

" ... and they are not!"

Pondering on what next to, Malizia considered whether she should spend her next time hanging out to join in the "epic" fight of the two raging meatheads in front of her, or to go with the easier, far more enjoyable act of playing catch with that adorable little Kathlin girl.

It was an easy choice.

"Psst, mistress.. "

"STAND DOWN AND APOLOGIZE FOR YOUR INSOLENT BEHAVIOR, AND I MAY YET FORGIVE YOU!"

"Mistress!"

Serphia called out to Mei with a volume on her voice that was loud even for the Captain's already large form! All the while, off to her left, one of the sentinels had appeared from one of the alleyways and was frantically trying to get her attention, trying to whisper-shout to her as the Sentinel fiercely motioned towards Malizia - who was slowly getting back up; Aleena(and Liaena) sliding out of her bosom to land on the cobblestone; as the large, red winged demoness stood up to her full height over Serphia; turned around, and with a gleeful grin; threw herself into a wild (and destructive!) chase after Kathlin through another district!

"OH MY LITTLE BLOODSWORN DOVE, IT IS TIME TO CONSUMMATE OUR ETERNAL LOVE!"

One unfortunate Sentinel that had forgotten to let go of the wire around Malizia's feet suddenly found herself pulled out from another alley further up ahead, losing her grip mid flight before being flung through the window of a chocolate shop on the other side with a crash!

"Mistress! She's escaping!!"

"IF YOU DO NOT, THEN I WILL HAPPILY SHOW WHAT A MILLENNIUM OF KELDOREI DEADLY MARTIAL ARTS SECRETS CAN,-... what!!?!" Serphia continued, before she found herself unable to ignore the yelling of one of her sentinels any longer, only to turn around and see Malizia no longer present; the only things left in the streets being a single, disheveled looking purple haired Aleena, and some groans emanating from one of the shop windows.

"You!" Serphia's head immediately snapped back to Mei.
"YOU LET HER ESCAPE, YOU FOOL! YOU WILL PAY,- mmmngh... "

In a flash, the murderous intent of the Captain's burning, silvery eyes was replaced with a sudden look of satisfaction as Serphia turned her head to look off to the side, lips curling into a coy smile as her wide hips began shifting from side to side.

" ... mmhm, you'll pay... but later!"

[Sinerathin]

"Gyaaaaaahhhh!"

"Say, I think it is time we catch up with your tentacled friend, don't you agree?" Sharon asked with a casual tone as he glance dover at Vashi, before motioning towards the large hole in the tower wall in the vague direction of where Mei had flown off to.

Although he could no longer see the Draenei anymore, he could still easily make out the red, ominous outline of a winged red giant demoness in the distance as it seemed Malizia was once again charging through the city with reckless abandon and not a single care for property value!

"This is not the last you've seen of me, Dal'dieb! You got lucky this time, but let's see if it last the second time!"

Kalyssa said as she took a step back, her heavily adorned robes clinking with every move she made as she raised her hands to conjure a quick spell; all the while sneering at the two elves who seemed for the most part to be ignoring her!

"If you think I will stay and fight, then you ar,-"

"ALTER DESTINATION!"

However, without a word of warning, the High Elf would snap around in a split second, point his silver battlestaff at her, and Kalyssa could immediately feel a headache run through her brain as her control of the spell was scrambled.

"Arrg,-nooooOO *pop*!"

In a magical implosion, Kalyssa would disappear from the room into nothingness, leaving the room once again quiet except for the distant rumbling of a rampaging Malizia.

"Been doing that so many times on students, counterspells and the sort has become almost like a second nature. Sometimes I have to hold myself back to avoid instinctually messing with the spells of my allies and colleagues." He nodded at Vashi before he grabbed her and suddenly pulled the elf after him and threw them both right out into a freefall out of the large hole in the wall!

"Let's catch ourselves a demon!"

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"Alright, lads; go go go!"

In the midst of the showdown on the street with Serphia and Malizia, the air would suddenly grow quiet for a moment before an unntarual gust of wind blew across the street; as suddenly; a shimmering blue magical portal just opened 20ft away further up the street!

With only a moment of warning, a pair of broad shouldered men clad top-to-toe in heavy, burnished blackened plate armor would charge out of the portal; wielding maces and longswords; one of which seemed to have had the tip of his weapon chipped right off; and they were soon followed by two more rows of heavy mercenaries clad in similar heavy armor!

However, the enthusiastic band of overly armed mercenaries had taken but a few steps out of the portal before they suddenly skidded to a halt; glancing around through the narrow visors of their thick helmet in a show of seemingly confusion as they surveyed the street.

"GET 'IM!"

"Wait, where is the High Elf?"

...

"Boss, I think we're in the wrong place." One of the heavily armored mercenaries said to the other, making a gesture towards Mei and Serphia; with the gesture consisting of mostly leaning his heavy shoulderpiece in their general direction!
"All I see is some crazy snake woman you'd think was pulled straight out of an over-the-topic steamy novel, and an elf, but unless that High Elf git we were supposed to get had a rack that could stop a ram, or a set of legs that could kill an ogre; I don't think we got the right one!"

"Where in the blazes are we?!" The other mercenary said, looking about with a sigh of frustration.
"And where is that Kalyssa?!"

[rivaan]

Mei was already in murderous rage of her own even without the additional bloodlust induced by the medicine she just took. Her face was covered with angry lines as her muscles had stretched to the extremely. In truth she wasn't going to lose even to an orc berserker at this point in this state. She was ready to attack Serphia as long as she had to, her conciousness kind of registrating that the humans were pulling Malizia away from the ity yet again. Still working most by instinct right now, instinct vaguely guided by mind, she knew that Serphia must not hinder the drawing of the demon away.

The snakes hissed angrily, as Mei's muscles flexed once more, her grip of the great crystal sword turning into one of steel again. She was just about to charge teh night elf once more when something unexpected happened. Something or to be precise someone appeared and not one, but quite a few people! Right away her mind registered more enemies, but she didn't attack right away. Then the men spoke, the words at first didn't spark a reaction, but when they mentioned a high elf in need of killing, Mei roared as she descended at the men like an infernal!

"KRYYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" She roared something impossible to understand as as she impacted into the leading merk with her sword aimed at his head. With her strenght it took very great material to stop the head from being crushed under the impact." SHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" She roared once more, pulling into a huge overhead swing towards another man, holding her twohander as it's meant to be held with both her hands this time around. Without stopping anyhow she just continued to slash and slash. Suddenly she completely crushed the head of the first man she took down with a heavy stom of her hooved leg, her snakes moving madly and hissing about. Letting another roat of triumph over the fallen foe, she looked at the other mercenaries as if they were really tasty does to be chopped to pieces. She needed the stress relieve!

[Feychild]

“I can’t help but think that if I stay here, I will end up sharing space with Falere and Rithrynn. Serphia’s butt has its own gravitational attraction”
So were Liaena’s thoughts as she clung to the Night Elf’s hair like a lifetime, while in the meantime taking the chance to assess her options. On the plus side, Malizia was no longer actively making debris-angels out of the wreckage of buildings around them. Instead, they had the pleasure of a group of heavily armed men who had charged out of a portal to look confusedly around…late to the party obviously. Squinting at their insignias, the girl was unable to immediately make them out. Friend or foe?

“RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!”

….It would seem the decision had been made for them. Foe, apparently.

“For the love of the light, I am not staying here until I get sat on!”

Digging into her pockets, Liaena silently mourned the loss of her satchel – the instigating event of this entire mess – as she finally dragged a small vial out of a pocket. Upending it to down the contents, the girl let go of Alyssa’s hair to fall to the floor, growing rapidly as she did so to land neatly on both feet a moment later, normal size – for her – again.

A larger target, perhaps. But at least her fate would no longer involve a new role as someone else bowel stimulation.

“Captain!”

Speaking of which, Serphia was uncharacteristically separate from the current bloodbath now involving Malizia, hanging back from the fight with a far away happy expression on her face. Liaena gave the mercenaries a very wide berth as she headed over, waving a hand to catch the (somewhat vacant) Night Elfs attention.

“Captain – that demon will be lured out of the city to the mountains north of here! If you follow, you can defeat it!”

The girl glanced around her to assess their surroundings. There were currently no signs of the normal Stormwind Guard. Presumably because they weren’t suicidal. However with the absence of Malizia and depending on how Mei’s recent assault worked up, it was possible someone would pluck up the courage to make a few arrest attempts. “Also, Captain – the human guards may get in the way if you stay here”

A further boost to her mood could surely not hurt. The girl eyed Serphia’s midriff speculatively, then raised her voice slightly so as to hopefully attract the attention of the elves stuck inside it “They won’t appreciate you the way Rithrynn does”

[Rithy]

"Elune, I can't believe this. How am I ever going to get out? This is all Li's fault!" Rithrynn frowned, the furious little warrioress squirming angrily about in the darkness.

"That's what being a traitor gets you! It's going to be that wretched human's turn soon enough!"

The familiar, slightly muffled voice of Falere sounded overhead of Rithrynn. Rithrynn merely growled as she continued squirming.

"Shut up! With all the ass-kissing you have been doing with Mistress for the past years, you should be overjoyed at where you are... bitch!"

"Ohhh you littl,-"

"Wait!"

Rithrynn's ears suddenly twitched, as a familiar, though heavily muffled voice could be heard emanating from far away, on the outside. Upon listening closer, she immediately realised it was Liaena's! However, the initial hope that it had sparked in Rithrynn's chest was soon overtaken by a huge frown that suddenly landed on her face, as she heard the rest of it!

“They won’t.... appreciate you... the way Rithrynn does”

"Heh, seems your accomplice has finally and inevitably betrayed y,-"

*KICK*

"LIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!!!!"

Falere's taunting and gloating was promptly shut down as the now enraged Rithrynn shot a kick right up into the other elf, shooting Falere straight up and deeper than ever into the depths of Serphia's large amazonian butt!

"LII! I SWEAR ONCE I GET OUT, I WILL SHOVE YOU UP FALERE'S ASS, AND THEN SHOVE HER SO FAR UP SERPHIA'S ASS, NO ONE WILL EVER BE ABLE TO RECOVER EITHER OF YOU!"

Rithrynn screamed through furious teeth as she squirmed and wriggled like mad, trying to get out in a frenzied storm of motions!

*

"Mmmm?" Serphia only half registered the approaching human as she addressed her, moving one silvery eye lazily over to look down at the shorter girl.

"It is I who am in charge here, you better... mhm!" Serphia's eyes would once again close for a moment as the towering Night Elven Captain suddenly pushed her chest slightly forward, and clenched her large buttocks firmly together around her loincloth as she suddenly felt Falere just thrust herself up inside of her. To the skilled listener, one could almost hear the series of unspeakable but heavily muffled curses from Rithrynn, emanating somewhere deep within Serphia's wide rump!

" ... hhhh, I can't believe I didn't give you this job earlier... " Serphia muttered, half distracted, before remembering Liaena, and turned to look down at her.

"I see your point. It is only fair that I be the one to kill the demon! The situation around here is under control regardless... "

With that, Serphia turned to look over at the berserking Draenei and the now terrified mercenaries, just in time to see the heavily plated, and severed, upper torso of one of the mercs fly above them overhead, and land in a bloodied mess on the cobblestone a few feet away.

The heavy armor of the mercenaries seemed to offer them little protection against the oversized blade of he 8ft tall draenei berserker, and some of the Night Elven Sentinels whom had watched the scene from above the rooftops and had nocked their arrows, slowly seemed to lower their bows. The watching sentinels were apparently coming to the conclusion that the fight was already decided, and that to add arrows would not just be unnecessary, and overkill, but a totally unnecessary overkill beyond what would normally be considered overkill as Meirie was going about like an unstoppable tornado of blood and death!

To call the whole thing a bloody mess... would be an understatement!

"Warriors! We are leaving! We have a bigger prey to catch!" Serphia would take a break from her enjoyment to announce loudly to the rest of her warriors as they dispersed, some mounting their nightsabers!

With a sharp whistle from the Captain, a huge, black furred nightsaber with a terrified girl bound and tied on top of its back would charge out from one of the nearby houses and skid to a halt on its razor sharp claws next to them.
The tall Captain would easily mount the already large nightsaber, before she'd suddenly reach down and grab Liaena by the collar before effortlessly plopping her down between herself and Silje!

"Please! Let me down, let me down! I don't want to go on this ride any further!"

Silje desperately pleaded from right behind Liaena, although Serphia firmly ignored her, instead giving Ripfang a firm command as the large nightsaber began to leap and bound through the half-destroyed city streets, the initial momentum almost threatening to throw Liaena right off, if it had not been for the other human girl tied and bound behind her to stop her! Serphia, on the other hand, would also inch a little back, her large rump now firmly smushing Liaena between herself and Silje!

As they rode through the city, following the literal trail of destruction left behind by the over-eager giant demoness that was currently chasing Kathlin like a dog chasing a butterfly, the Captain would tilt her ashen her slightly as she looked back at Liaena(or what she could see of the little human) with one silvery eye.

"Say, human... " Serphia started, but between the clear enjoyment that the Captain was taking from the bouncy ride; thanks to the 'extra passengers', there was an obvious sound of hesitation in the Captain's voice for whatever she was about to ask.
"This demon was your fault... do you have any ideas on how we are to take her down?"

...

"Let me emphasise that I, as a devoted warrior of the goddess, am fully capable of doing this - alone if need be, but... if you have any suggestions, I might hear them out... !"

[Sinerathin]

The spinning wheels of the cab were jumping up and down against the rough cobblestone of the streets of Stormwind as it raced through narrow streets that were in various states of disrepair and devastation, some parts of Stormwind having been lucky enough to be spared the worst of Malizia's clumsy rampage.

"I swear, the last time we encountered a giant demon, things didn't turn out THIS bad."

The High Elf manning the reins of the cab thought as he lashed his whip out above the galloping horses, quietly observing his surroundings on the mad chase.

"I guess that's the reason why the good big monster stories always take place in a city."

"KRYYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"

The High Elf recognised the crazed scream of unconfined fury. A scream so wild that it could come from only two sources that he knew of, the first one being a wild, uncontained housemaid that hadn't been paid for four consecutive months straight, and the second being Vashi's assumed girlfriend, the Draenei berserker Mei.

And the High Elf felt a degree of confidence that it was the latter, for he hadn't had a housemaid in at least two years, and most acts of vengeance tended to happen within the first 12 months.

"A-hop! *SNAP* I think we found your hero, Vashi!" Sharon called out to Vashi who he had placed in the cab as he raced forward, cracking his whip with renewed vigor over the horses as they galloped through the streets.

It did not take long, however, before the High Elf would arrive at the scene of the ongoing carnage, the first thing he noticed being the blood splattered pavement and the scream of a defeated mercenary.

"WE'VE BEEN BROKEN! RETREAT! EVERY MAN FOR HIMSELF!"

Sharon barely managed to brake in time as he saw a terrified man clad in heavy, darkened plate armor scurry madly across the street, throwing his weapons and helmet away as he was in full retreat; his facial features a mix of horror and complete panic!

Stopping the cab was easier in theory than it was in practice however, as the hooves and wheels would slide dangerously far on the blood soaked streets as the whole cab made a dangerous sideways slide into the street, before coming to a stop!

It was then the High Elf saw Mei, the Draenei berserker covered in blood and gore and surrounded by a scene of utter carnage.

"Oh... "

For a brief moment, there was a visible hesitation in Sharon's expression, as he temporarily questioned whether this was indeed the Draenei he was looking for.
However, before anyone else could act, he decided to cast a simple spell by tapping his staff on the back of the cab, causing the side door to open and revealing a concerned Vashi sitting inside.

"Quick, get inside the cab!" Sharon called out as the High Elf held the reins at the ready.
"We got to catch the demon!"

He paused, noting the blood, before adding.

" ... and there is a towel in the back if needed."

[rivaan]

Mei exhaled, her breath heated so much that it almost condensed the moment it hit even the warm air. Her eyes were focused, but had a mad like sesnation to them as they danced across what once was a company of mercenaries that had the bad luck of appearing near her from a portal and mentioning needing to deal with a high elf. Mei's already crazed psycke back then just connected the dots with pure instinct and there she went as a calamity upon them.

Blood was dripping off her body as she stood as stone statue for a moment, her sword frozen in her grip. She had decimated pretty much everyone and currently her blue skin was covered in so much red splatter that she almost seemed as red as Malizia herself. Her eyes were quickly drawn off to the side of a carraige arriving and Sharon showing up. She blinked, her snakes also blinked as she suddenly hurled herself in that direction, landing on her feet just in front of the carraige's door by Vashi. She now once more had her twin swords as she had grabbed her second one once more during her dance of death with the mercenaries. Her expression still apparead crazed as she looked at Vashi, but it softened somewhat as she closed her eyes for a moment. THe muscless on her face relaxed, her features turned less sharp and the opressing air around her lessened.

"Vashi..." She mumbled stepping into the carriage, her swords dropping into it's floor as she crumbled onto one of the seats. Her breathing was slowing down now, her demeanor turning slowly back towards her usual one as she kept her eyes closed and her body relaxed." Just hit me with a splash of water... It will wash all the blood and frankly this carriage is already beyond recovery." She stated to her adorable night elf mage and shoed to the window of it to inform Sharon.

"It appears your human girlfriend has formed a plan to lead Mali out of Stormwind by using bait... I was also going to lead her out of the city, but Serphia and her cheerleaders screwed up and made me fall off Malizia. I kept htem occupied while the humans pulled hte demon away though... THe captain managed to chase after them while I was dealing with those mercs that portaled in..."

"I'm ashamed to admit it, but when the mercs showed up and revealed their intentions, I switched to obliterating them in my rage, leaving the sentinels on second plan. My apologies..."

[Feychild]

"Let me emphasise that I, as a devoted warrior of the goddess, am fully capable of doing this - alone if need be, but... if you have any suggestions, I might hear them out... !"

“Well, don’t I feel special”

Liaena bit her tongue to refrain from the instinctive pithy comment, while reminding herself that this was what passed for diplomacy in the land of Serphia. Evidently Rithrynn and Falere between them, were doing wonders for her temperament.

“…How would I destroy that demon?”

The girl’s only experience of fighting gigantic demons had come from that incident when they had travelled through the ghost woods and fell afoul of Sharon’s Ex. Liaena herself had taken on the creature then, she recalled. It had been an eventful journey.

“The best way of getting rid of it is to have Sharon, Vashi or some other mage open a portal to a different dimension” The girl finally said after a pause. “They’ll need to be a powerful mage to create anything large enough, and you’ll still need to shove the demon in somehow….”

Liaena hesitated, as she allowed her mind to continue along this natural train of thought. Behind her, the sounds of crying, terrified Silje were very evident. “….or make them go…”

“….ehhh, that’d be kinda mean. Even if she did work with the white hand”

Looking back at Serphia, Liaena gave the back of the Night Elf’s head a hard stare as she continued. “Currently, regardless of skills you’re going to have problems pushing that demon around when you are so much smaller than her. I might be able to fix that for you”

“….”

“….But!” Liaena was quick to continue as she held up a finger – just stopping short of poking Serphia’s backside authoritively. “If I was to do that, in return you’ll agree to not attack any humans, or draenei, and stay outside of the city until I’ve given you the antidote. Is that fair?”

“….”

“I might even be able to extract Rithrynn if I’m really luck….although I’m still not sure she deserves it”

[Rithy]

“If I was to do that, in return you’ll agree to not attack any humans, or draenei, and stay outside of the city until I’ve given you the antidote. Is that fair?”

"What makes you think I would continue the demon's rampage after tossing her useless ass through the portal?" Serphia would be quick to inquire, turning around to narrow a silvery eye on the non-terrified human passenger behind her, before turning her focus back on the road ahead as they raced through the streets on the back of Ripfang!

"Well, I may stay around after the fight a little bit, but only for poses and that to show off my awesome victory... but, alright human! We have a deal... 'Liaena'!"

*

The simple matter of outrunning the crazed, giant demon on their heels(wings) would prove to become only more difficult for the gryphon riders the longer the chase went on!

Although Malizia's 'romantic enthusiasm' had neither faded nor grown, having stayed on its usual extreme level, the ex-draenei-now-turned-demon's control over her new size was seemingly improving! The constant tripping, falling or inadvertent barrel-rolls that had previously characterized Malizia's wild chase earlier(and which had had -devastating- consequences for Stormwind and its citizens) was much less prevalent now than earlier! Malizia had become a lot more used to her new size, and had even managed a few seconds of sustained flight during some jumps!

It was still not perfect however, as Malizia had still in one instance ended up face down, ass up in a failed flight attempt and against the side of a solid wall instead!

"Sweetness, you don't have to be in such a haste!! If you want to go to the mountains, I can carry you there!"

Malizia called out in her demonic yet forlorn voice as she more leapt and bound right behind the low flying gryphons. A big, red clawed hand swooped down right next to Kathlin and the Captain's gryphon, merely missing them with a few feet thanks to the Captain and his mount quick dodge!

Another Gryphon rider was not as lucky as both she and her mount vanished into the grips of one of Malizia's greedy, grasping hands, the demon stopping to open and inspect her hand like a enthusiastic little child who had just picked a lottery ticket - only to frown heavily upon finding out that the catch was not her beloved Kathlin; toss the disheveled gryphon and rider aside, and continue the chase!

They had already reached the outskirts of the city; the gryphons flying effortlessly over the wall, whilst Malizia more like threw herself halfway over the wall(and the guards on the wall threw themselves off to save themselves!).
Not far behind, a pack of converging Sentinels riding atop of their nightsabers flooded out through the abandoned gatehouse and up through the more narrow mountain passes in pursuit of Malizia's red flailing tail and gigantic butt as it escaped up the mountain pass!

The nightsabers, although they might not match a horse in sheer speed in a plain, wide open field, more than made up for it with their dexterity as they were easily able to climb the uncomfortable slopes and rocks that characterised the mountainous terrain, leaping from rock to path and charging upwards muddy inclines!
It was a bouncy and rough ride for both rider and passengers as they charged up, down and sideways, but Serphia seemed very happy with the route, smiling and looking quite distant the entire way.

But instead of charging straight at the demon, Serphia brought her warriors and their mounts around and up onto a mountainous plateau overlooking the path through which Malizia chased the Kathlin-bait!

As the Night Elves reached the top of the plateau and slowed down, Serphia was still lost in her deep smile, taking a few seconds to 'calm down' before she glanced over at Liaena.

"I hope your friend stops the chase soon. We don't need her to drag the demon all the way to Khaz Modan!"

[Rithy]

"Well... "

Vashi responded as she fiddled gingerly with her staff in the cramped confines of the carriage as the blood caked Draenei stepped into it, her snakes-like hair now taking up almost half the space within the chariot.

"The laws of the cosmos would have it that if you didn't deal with those mercenaries now, they would become a problem that would come to bite us in the butt later." The mage explained with a soft smile as she seemed to have finished scribbling a rune on her staff, before suddenly aiming it at Mei.

"Just close your eyes for a moment!"

...

"Anun oDeli aqua voosh!"

*PPFFSSHOOOOOSSSHH!*

In an instant, the shimmering blue crystal on the tip of Vashi's staff would be turned into a high-powered water hose, showering the entire Draenei warrior in a high powered sideways shower! Red colored water burst out of the back of the carriage, popping out the back window in the process as Mei was soaked from top to toe!

The whole spell lasted only a couple of seconds, but by the time it was over, half the interior of the chariot was dripping wet. Whatever blood may have been on Mei's person was now long since gone, alongside a couple of years of grime and dirt that may have gathered in the more minute crevices of her armor and clothing. Mei's snake hair, which had previously been writhing in every direction, had now been neatly combed backwards by the water blast.

"There, good as new!" Vashi said with a small smile as she eyed the draenei warrior across from her with a look of satisfaction.

[Sinerathin]

Sharon passed a casual glance over the grizzly scene left behind by Mei's rampage, half of the street now having gained a distinctly red paintjob.

"I hope no children stumble across this scene before the cleanup crew arrives. It might mentally scar them for life."

"There is no point in crying over spilled milk... " Sharon commented as he swung the whip overhead and cracked it, sending the horses of the carriage to charge forward.
"Let's go find them, I don't want to leave them to fight alone against the de,-"

*PPFFSSHOOOOOSSSHH!*

Sharon's eyes widened as the entire carriage suddenly rattled as a flood of water just shot out from the back of the vehicle! Risking a glance behind during the high speed ride of the carriage, Sharon saw that fortunately, the carriage was still intact regardless of whatever magical shenanigans the Night Elven mage had just pulled!

"Is everyone okay back there? You know, there are cleaning spells that are both less dramatic and just as effective." Sharon commented, before turning to focus on the chase.

Finding the Night Elves was something the High Elf had long since given up on. However, finding Malizia was a lot easier, thanks to the not-so-subtle fact that Malizia was also a 50+ft tall giant demoness, which meant that Sharon could easily make out the top of her red wings over the rooftops in the distance, or at least the giant clouds of dust that were pumped up into the air as a byproduct of the demon's mad chase!

Following the demon through the city and out the gates was relatively easy. None of the guards who'd usually stop him to ask about his carriage license or speed limit were currently out, seemingly not wishing to get in the way of the rampaging demon, a move for which Sharon really couldn't blame them.

The real challenge came however when they reached the mountainous roads outside of the city.

Sharon could see the the tail-ends of some Night Elves riding atop of Nightsabers as they rapidly disappeared up into the mountainous pass ahead!

"It seems we are catching up to Serphia and her girls!" Sharon called out to the passengers in the back of the carriage as he cracked his whip once more; a hint of enthusiasm coloring the tone of the High Elf's voice; and the horses pulling the carriage charged upwards across the narrow mountain path ahead. However, the incline was a lot steeper than previously anticipated, the ground muddy, and the carriage obviously not designed as an all-terrain vehicle!

They had barely gotten a hundred feet or so up one of the steeper parts of the narrow path before the carriage slowed down drastically, and slowly but steadily, started sliding back down despite the best efforts of the horses in front.

" or not... " Sharon commented, a distinct look of dismay forming on his face.

[rivaan]

“Alright...” Mei replied closing her eyes, though the snakes hse had for hair continued to look about like they owned the place. Then there was water! A pretty powerful jet hit her, causing all the blood that was covering her to be pretty much blown away from her, leaving both her skin, armor and swords very shiny and new looking. Hell that armor hadn't looked this good since that one time she got blown out a cliff and into the sea below. That was 'fun'. At least this didn't involve a 60 feet drop.

“I'd say cleaner than new...” Mei added after the water jet finally ended, water was dripping off her skin, but otherwise she appeared fine.” This... for some reason I wonder if this basic idea could be made into a public service... imagine how much time it would save.” She mumbled, noting that the high elf was using everything he had to keep the carriage in straight line.

“Yes, we are fine.” Mei replied to Sharon, quickly throwing a look outside to note how the chasing was going down.” For some reason I have a really BAD feeling about this... almost as bad as when Malizia got hit by that growing potion...” Mei said with low growling voice.

“For crying out loud...” Mei growled when they began sliding back down the steep mountain road. No way this carriage would make it up this not paved and way to steep hill.” Leave the carriage... we ride the rest of the way. It would be faster anyways. Since I assume Vashi cannot ride a horse, she can ride with you, I'm already heavy enough with my armor and weapons for my horse to also carry another person.” Mei stated, quickly moving to grab the reigns of the horses directly at them, waiting for Vashi and Sharon to join, since the moment they freed the horses, the carriage would just slide and crash all the way down there.

“Let's get this done before this bad feeling I have becomes a reality...”