the earth ablaze, vegetation obliterated in a quarter-mile strip, steam billows from the mud

[tereixa_zann]

[The now-smoking chunk of the park, Thursday, noon, July 30th (day 50)]
[Continued from here]Fiona and Kitty stopped by to see Miss Kaeli to see how she was, as did Zann. The four of them went out for a picnic lunch in the park, and all was good, and then Djinn crashed the party. He went after Fiona and taunted Kitty into breaking the binding on

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[fairy_fiona]

Smells like fire and smoke but everything's cool around me and it doesn't go to steam when I cry and the only thing hot is my arm is hot hot hurting but I can't let go can't let go or I'll fall and I'm still crying because it hurts!

"...make it stop make it stop I want Daddy..."

It was Zann who saved me flying through fire like magic but it still hurts and it's not going away make it stop I want Daddy...

[kaeli_whyte]

Fire, pain, light and death behind me and Zann mumbles cries and moans before me, Fiona clings to her and cries for her daddy. I can't move them both, won't leave one behind, their welded together skin to skin and I can barely move myself.

I place my hands lightly, carefully on Zann and close my eyes, everything runs slow but it still runs, from the ground to me into her. I cry as my skin heats and bubbles, not from fire now but from light I can't hold it now, and just moving it makes the fire inside me stir and fight. But I feel her skin cool and then heal and her heartbeat becomes normal and she is still marked inside by those flames but its just a mark.

She moans again or maybe its a sigh or maybe its mine, but their no longer welded skin to skin and I can fix the rest when we're away. "Terexia," I call in a firmer tone. I run a finger lightly along the side of her head clearing the cloud in her mind, "Time to go, we need to leave, now." That thing will come for us if it gets through the others and its not getting these two.

[bakeneko_excolo]

I can hear Fiona whimpering and whispers of Kaeli urging them to leave. Leave, please.

Oh, you foolish man, as a mortal's challenge lands him in a pool that is now dead and bubbling in heat.

Flames surround the angel, his beating wings seem to keep a blaze from starting, but still they rise around him.

This Djinn of spite will not be happy without death. Let him have one then.

I run towards him.

[daodjinn]

With the others briefly occupied and one dead I turn my attentions towards the beast that is now charging me. I shift back into my solid demon form to finish this properly. She moves with great speed but I show her the great speed and power of one made of fire. I grab her throat as she lunges towards me mid air. I smile as I draw the beast close to my face.

"You think it will be that easy?" I squeeze a bit harder as I let a little bit of life drain away. "For you I will let your mind show you all the things I am doing to your companions. Sometimes the mind can show you great things, more so that is reality. I will let you listen to the sounds your companions make when I go through them one by one. I will do this by taking your eyes, little one, and leaving your ears to be your true torturer." I laugh again as I raise my arm slowly and wiggle my clawed fingers to heighten the beast's anticipation before I take its sight.

[ironsid]

Flames shoot at from this monster like a dragon! The force throws me backward through the air as I wave my arms around hoping it will help guide me but it does not. I hit the water and think to myself 'ouch'. Now that IS a very very bad monster. As I am submerged I let myself form into my armored body with sword in hand, since no one can see me.

When it is complete, I slowly rise from the water with my eyes glowing and focused on the monster. It now has a child in its arms ready to strike. No time to waste, I run over as quickly as the light that creates this body allows me. Taking my sword, made of the same powers as this armor, I strike down upon the monster's arm before it does any harm to the child. Sparks fly as it slices through it and lava begins to pour slightly from its dismembered wound. When the arm hits the ground it bursts into flames for a moment and disappears. I focus my energy and light shoots from the sword into its wound.

[simon_klavec]

Zann and Kaeli are moving. The other child charges the serpent, who changes into the spiteful djinn and takes her by the throat. I stride forwards, breathing evenly, hammer held high.

And then a knight strides from the pool the mortal died (died?) in, sheathed in light and bearing a sword. He strikes its arm from its body. He may be able to stop this. But I have been active too long, and must end this quickly that I may retreat again into us. *breathe in* *breathe out* And the hammer comes down in a long *whoosh* of air, striking the creature in the head - just as the bell stills and the wings settle and something slides into a long hollowed space. Too close, and even so He may have noticed. Our mortal skill will drive it off, though I would wish dearly to strike that final blow.

[tereixa_zann]

"Time to go, we need to leave, now." Yes. Plan. Planlike planlike planlike. I roll onto my side, scrabble up to my knees with one arm still around Fiona, get to my feet. Smuts of ash pulling off all over me, and I'm stiff all over.

If you see a pyro tech running, keep up.

I look back over my shoulder, once, and oh fuck the lights. And then I'm stumbling forward and the moving helps, stiff gears easing into motion, friction warming grease, and the stink of burning's somewhere behind me and we just go.

[kaeli_whyte]

Zann moves, rolls over and I take Fiona as she first gets to her knees, ashes falling from her skin and clothes when she stands. Light and light and more light glows behind is making me moan in pain as it hits and burns in waves.

I sway a little under the added weight of Fiona in my arms and Zann leaning on me, but we balance and we go, go back to the school. Into the building we stumble and I lean then slide down the wall, shaking while I rock the burnt baby in my arms. "I..I'll fix it, Zann. In a minute...I'll fix it," I say quietly.

[bakeneko_excolo]

Caught in leather skin and claws, gasping for breath, wheezing choked off by pressure and darkness flickers at the corner of my vision competing with the light.

Light.

It shines forth and swings beside me, dropping to the ground I gasp air through bruised throat and look up just in time to see a hammer drop right on the djinn's head. An absurd laugh falls from my throat, pain flaring once more.

[daodjinn]

Pain and Light shoots through my arm unexpectedly and it does not cease. I let go of my prey and grab where my arm once was in shock and confusion. Panicked I look up just has a hammer of the angel comes down upon my head. I fall to the ground in anger and panic. Before I can even think my will to survive turns me invisible and I hurry away in the wind. I need all my strength to stop the light searing through my essence, trying to destroy it. There will be vengeance for this!

[ironsid]

I kneel down and pick up the child that is injured and look towards the...guy with...wings??

"Thank you good sir for your assistance!" I

look over to where Lady Kaeli ran with the rest and run over to see if they need any assistance. I run to the school house and run inside accidentally grazing the sides and top of the door way. "Ooops!" I whip around quickly looking at the damage as my feet push through the floor as if I'm treading through a swamp. "Ahhh!" Looking at the group, I make my over, now trying to quick high step it to Kaeli I yell quickly, "I am here for your assistance! Do not fear!" I lay the child down next to them and put my hand on lady Kaeli and ask, "Are you all all right?"

[simon_klavec]

Standing in the part with the hammer in my hand. There's a glowing metal man shouting and helping the schoolteacher. There're scorch marks all about, but the air's chill around me. Seems still, silence broken by whispers and shouting, but it all seems outside me. Seen at a distance.

Someone's been burnt. Stench of it fills the air, but no one's screaming or dead. Look around helplessly. Don't know what's happened, why I'm here, or why there are feathers, dark and grey, clinging to my clothes.

Head back to the butcher's. Need to talk to someone about this. Soon.

[tereixa_zann]

Kaeli's holding Fiona, they're all folded in on themselves and each other over by the wall. Saying she's going to fix it, I don't know how she's going to fix it, oh my god we so need the Doc right about now and I'm starting to stagger towards the door when the thing comes in and bits of the doorframe and floor crumple and break around it like dry mud. It's got Kitty and it's heading for Fiona and I think the most dangerous thing around is a chalkboard eraser but give me two minutes just two minutes and I'll think of something--

"I am here for your assistance! Do not fear!"

--what the fuck?

It puts Kitty down and bends over to touch Kaeli and says "Are you all all right?" It's--he's, I think--shining like metal on clean steel, and the doorway's all ragged, and there's people kind of starting to collect on Main Street outside, way way on the other side of the street and down a bit at a safe distance but still there and looking.

This, of course, is when I realize that my skin--hell, I'm not even blistered. And my hair's mostly

[kaeli_whyte]

Light bursts into the room, literally, knocking the door down as it steps through the floor in the form of a knight. It's carrying Kitty and sets her down next to me. "I am here for your assistance! Do not fear!" When he puts a hand on me, I can see lines of smoke coming from my skin as it burns,"Are you all all right?"

This light creature is Sid?

I wince from the pain and nod, wiping blood from my nose, "She says she'll fix it all, would you please prop up the damn door!" I try to focus my eyes and look at Zann trying to cover herself and then over at the open doorway as Sid leans the door back in the jamb. "S'clothes in my room upstairs Zann," I mumble, distractedly. "Take what you need."

"Sid," I murmur holding out my hand, "I need your help..and you light, I don..don't have any anymore."

[bakeneko_excolo]

I barely had time to choke out the laugh before the djinn was gone and I was swooped into arms of light. Running my fingers across the shoulder, my fingers told me it was metal, but my senses read nothing but humming Light.

Wincing as we enter the schoolhouse to breaking wood, I sit up when the being places me beside Kaeli. Looking closely, her energies sputter and flare.

"Sid, I need your help..and you light, I don..don't have any anymore."

I lean against her back, take one hand and start stroking from top to bottom. Soot both physical and energy staining is clinging to her. Closing my eyes, I picture fur being cleaned and groomed into place. Top to bottom, up to down. Stroke, align, smooth.

[ironsid]

"Sid, I need your help..and you light, I don..don't have any anymore."

I look over my shoulder cleverly trying to throw them off, "Sid? I don't see a Sid but I can help you in his place, Lady Kaeli..errr...ma'am.." She holds her hand out to me as she says this expecting me to put light in it. She's always been very strange indeed. I don't want to hurt her feelings, so I humor her by reaching out to place my hand over hers, "There you go. Some 'light' just for you."