The massive crowd of living demon-blobs that surrounded them were getting out of hand. The rain began to die down a bit, but that didn't stop the downpour from spawning those little bastards. Blake snarled at the creatures, bearing his non-existent fangs and continued to keep them at bay by delivering clean cuts as they jumped up at him. A feeling of unease had begun to set in his stomach as he noticed that the two wolves hadn't taken down the previous demon.
BANG
A gunshot rang out through the academy.
What? Blake saw the tiny groups of imps disperse from where the bullet had hit the ground.
BANG
More shots.
He whipped his head from where he'd heard the firing and thanked his lucky stars for having a sniper on their side. A deep sigh of relief left his lips, which was then accompanied by a sharp intake of breath as he realized the sniper's assault had stopped a few groups from forming, but that didn't stop the rain from pouring and spawning even more.
“Looks like this is our chance!” he heard his partner cry out amidst the chaos. The many ramblings the demons emitted started to sound like white noise to Blake. Within a minute, Jace had his spirit animals by his side while his hawk surveyed the area for the boys. However Blake didn't need a bird's eye-view to predict that if they didn't move somewhere now, they were done for. Jace's expression after the bird came back had confirmed it.
“We are in for a shit load of trouble” Jace quickly said, picking up his shield to get moving, “There is a huge hoard of demons coming from the north, we need to get inside, or we are dead” Oh my cheese nuts-
Blake could see it. He could see their impending doom flopping its way towards their direction over the trees.
A few moments later, the summoned animals had cleared the way to the door in order for them to escape. "Let's go!" Jace exclaimed. "GOGOGOGO" Blake chanted, proceeding to quickly skip behind Jace and gave him a starting push towards the door, all the while clenching his butt so as to not accidentally stab his partner.
-but where do they go from there? Up? Classrooms? Run through the halls and out the back door? Crap. Did they even have a back door?
"Y'know what SCREW IT, UP WE GO- ROOFROOFROOF" Blake yelled at himself, shaking his partner's shoulder to make sure he heard it clear through the noise. Blake hoped he wouldn't regret this later on as they gunned it for the staircase, almost tripping once but countered it with a sidestep. Glancing behind him, he could see the rain monsters piling in from the main door and yelped- "C'mon, c'mon hurry!" Blake turned a blind eye to anything else that wasn't the staircase as they kicked and dodged any of the imps that clung to their feet on the way.
Bites and scratches later, they had managed to shut the door leading to the stairs. More of those things were pouring from above the stairwell and Blake sighed as he stood behind Jace once again, depending on his shield to keep him safe while he did his work. Focusing on the creatures before them, Blake recited his emergency phrase:
"Ecce dabit voci suae- vocem virtutis, tribuite virtutem deo!" a torrent of energy had blasted its way up from the bottom of the stairs, strong enough to dissipate the rain demons, clearing a big enough path to the roof for them to quickly proceed. Blake lead the way, Jace and his buddies followed. He glanced at his partner, "Mind your head by the way, that shield of yours is pretty damn big." he advised as Jace hoisted the shield up onto his head, due to the narrowness of the ascending passage. The stairs were dark and slippery, proving quite a challenge for the two as they made their way up- slowly but surely.
