Beast Revolution: Part 2

[Junpei]

Making his way out of the mess tent Junpei looked around to notice the entirerty of the force moving towards the command area. Junpei, not being one to wait up and be told what to do, made his way to the front of the large crowd and waited for the orders.

As the orders were explained and the troops were told to move out Junpei smirked.

Loish, get airborn and check it out. I want to know exactly how big this force is and who im near. Pick out biggest energy signatures first.

Right Boss

The small dragon-liek creature took off into the air adn started to scout what was around. Four people popped up around Junpei and Junpei was relayed the info.This certainly woudl be interesting. Junepi was confident that whenever it did come down to a fight, the major spellcasters would fall back and those that were melee heavy would move forward. That was onyl his guess though.

[jyo]

Jyo heard the orders given and he mentally relayed them to Ember. The fire-wolf would be much better at dectecting the traps than Jyo. Soon Ember was in the lead of the group. He relayed in wind-band mental speech where any trap he could find was and what it did. He also sniffed the air but didn't detect anything for a while.

Jyo was still moving slightly off trail from everyone else right now as they all advanced. he took not of who was all there with him. Several good people from what he saw. And people who worked well as a team. they all somehow worked on their own goals but managed to now be in each other's way when they worked together. it may not be the most structured thing but Jyo knew it worked well and it would get the job done. he also knew the majority of the people here would not have such an amount of pride that they would ignore orders that could help them in this situation.

["The Priest"]

The Priest held his totem outward, the jewel glowing when any traps were seen. Not man, thankfully, as the beasts, although spellcasters as well, were more melee and ranged attacks, not magical.

Walking for a while, he caught eye of Jyo who was using Ember. He relied to heavily, on his animal, thought Priest, but decided not to say anything.

He continued walking...

[Darah]

Darah scanned the horizon from her lookout point and wondered if she would make it back home to her kid alive from this battle. When the beasts attacked the Sahara base a while ago, Darah had made it out of the battle alive but just barely. One may be asking how did Darah manage to escape death when so many other mages died on that day. The answer would be her kid, Gekko the basilisk. In his true form, Gekko’s fighting prowess surpasses even his mother’s. The son was a natural when it came to obliterating his enemies and the gifts of being a basilisk helped him even more. No one could ever survive a bite or a stare of a basilisk because they have the uncanny ability to petrify people and turn them to stone. Not to mention the paralyzing tail spikes that will sooner impale and kill you, making you shish kebab before actually stunning you. On the day the Academy’s Sahara base was attacked, Gekko and Darah became an immense fighting force which took out a whole squadron of minotaurs. However, Darah had to admit that most of the kills came from Gekko.

This time however, Darah did not bring her beloved kid along. Even though the couple of mother and son were an unbelievable power to be reckoned with, Gekko still got hurt when one of the minotaurs cleaved a heavy battle axe into his shoulder when the Sahara base was put under siege. The only thing which saved Gekko was the basilisk’s tough scales which were a few rungs under diamonds in the ladder of hardiness otherwise Gekko may have been cleaved right through. On that day, the minotaur went to hell with a slow and painful torturing death by Darah. She had slowly mutilated its body as it screamed and begged for mercy, all part of Darah’s vengeance towards the minotaur for hurting her son. When Darah was told that there was going to fight an offence against the monster’s base, she was forced to make the difficult choice of whether to bring her kid along with her this time. She absolutely didn’t want him hurt like when she had brought him to the Sahara base. The warrior in her told her that she needed him, but the love for him as his mother was stronger and she was forced to leave her child behind in the Academy.

"Okay ladies! Up and at 'em" The loud and gruff voice of a commander shook Darah away from that memory of having Gekko calling to her over and over again as she cried silently, walking away with her back turned to her son. She had promised him she would return. What if she didn’t? How would Gekko get by without her? She simply had to go back. Darah turned her head up to look at the commander. It wasn’t that the commander was very big, only that the young fourteen year old was very small. The commander as well as many other officers were riling up the troops, rallying the people and preparing everything for what was soon going to be the march to the battlefield. And on the battlefield, there will be nothing but death. It is rather funny to think that the commanders were actually ordering the soldiers to march to their deathbeds. Question is: Why was everyone moving about when the commander only requested for ladies? Darah was too young and immature to learn the true meaning of the commanders words and the hidden taunt that lied within them. After hearing a briefing on the mission by the commander, Darah learned that they will be performing some fancy named strategy which may as well have been named: storm the front. Jungle Strike. Who comes up with these sort of names. Darah couldn’t help but do her best to suppress her laughter otherwise one of the high ranking officers may get mad. Imagine if she had to apologize: I’m sorry for laughing sir but operation jungle strike has to be the most stupid name I’ve ever heard. That would instantly give her nothing but a boot to the behind.

Operation jungle strike was that the main body or the army, comprising of the Academy, Monastery, Blood Society and D-13 sweep everything in its path all the way to the enemy’s main base while the Eternity and the Security wipe everything out from the sides. The commander warned the Academy’s soldiers and mages something about not relying too much on the other factions. Was something wrong with the other factions? Darah didn’t care. Nor would she need to rely on anyone. She was an army of one.

Darah made her way to where the soldiers were starting to assemble themselves, getting into their squadrons for better order of the army. In all the din that was going about, Darah still heard a small little squeak coming from her bag slung on her shoulder. A very familiar squeaking which made Darah wonder why of all places and times she was hearing it here and now. Darah unzipped her bag and peered inside to find her kid looking up at her innocently.
“Gekko!” Darah cried furiously as she picked up her kid and placed him on the ground before weaving her hex+ spell about him, transforming Gekko into his true form, a juvenile basilisk. She was angry that her kid had disobeyed her orders and was now going to jeopardize his wellbeing by coming to this god-forsaken place.
“Mama?” Gekko asked innocently as he tried to rub his head against his mother, to show her his affection for her.
It was about then that people started looking at her and Darah realized her mistake. She had accidentally joined the Blood Society’s army and now all around her, the people looking at her were all vampires. However, they didn’t seem like they were interested in the scene she and her kid was making. They were looking at her like she was a little snack before they marched out to fight.
Darah ignored them as she held Gekko’s head in her palms and looked furiously into his eyes.
“I told you to stay at home, Gekko! You weren’t supposed to come here!”
Still Gekko innocently licked his long lizard tongue across Darah’s face. It was about all Darah could stand. She thought about what a good mother should do at a time like this and the answer came to her. Darah pulled her right hand back and gave her son a tight slap across the jaw. Gekko retaliated by lashing forward and nipped Darah’s left shoulder, drawing greenish black blood. Poisoned demon’s blood. The vampires who were interested in Darah before now shirked back. They could tell that the blood on Darah was not meant to be drained. They would sooner turn to ash drinking Darah’s blood than being put under the sun.

Gekko pulled his head back after realizing he had just hurt the one he loved the most. Wasn’t it justified? Darah had hurt him and he had hurt her back. So why did he feel so terrible and confused at the same time inside of himself. Tears started to well up in Gekko’s eyes as Darah suddenly felt ashamed of herself. Perhaps she was too harsh on her kid. Quickly she encircled her arms around her son’s thick neck as she whispered words of apologies to him as tear dropped from her eyes too. It was truly a touching and heartwarming scene and even a few of the vampires around thought it was a beautiful sight. However, that did not change the temperament of the vampires’ officer.

“You zhere!” He called angrily over to the couple of mother and son, screaming bloody murder “You’re not from da Blood Soziety! Ghet yourzelf avay from here immediately!”
Darah half wanted to knock him down to shut him up, half wanted to laugh from the vampires heavy accent and half wanted to just walk away with her kid. Oh wait… that would be in thirds now wouldn’t it?

Gekko and Darah slowly moved away from the vampires, walked through some werewolves and finally came to the Academy’s squadron. She was sure that this time, she was with the right faction. Darah thought about the Blood Society’s officer. No doubt he would complain to Byron or Kenji later and they in turn would report it to the Academy’s headmaster where she’ll receive some sort of punishment or scolding for causing troubles and in other factions’ camp to boot. No one ever treated her nicely besides Gekko which made her all the more sorry for hurting him.

"Okay men!"Let's move out!" The commander called once more from the front of the squadron. Great… now he uses ‘men’. Could he please make up his mind?! Darah stood still with Gekko as soldiers and mages started passing by her. At last, one soldier grabbed her arm and started tugging her to follow the procession. If not from a disapproving glare from Darah, Gekko may have well bitten off the soldier’s arm.
“Come along, then! Onward to victory!” The soldier said in a British like accent. “We haven’t got all day.”
Darah simply shrugged his hand off and climb aboard Gekko and the two started heading for the front of the marching group. As they passed the British soldier, both turned their heads away with a ‘hmph!’
Mother and son made their way to the front of the group as they watched the formations of other factions take their place. The Academy’s forces were taking the center of the army. The Monastery was taking the right flank while the Blood Society covered the left flank. D-13 were well… all around the army. There wasn’t a particular name for the group that circles the army so you could give them any name you wanted to. Darah came up with names like: ‘The first to rush into battle and get their heads chopped off’, ‘the first to die in an arrow shower’ and ‘land-mine testers’.

At last, the army reached the jungle line where the lush green expanse met the brown dirt clearing. Darah knew that inside the jungle would lie the Beasts’ lair and pretty soon she and her soon would be caught in absolute mayhem. She didn’t mind fighting in a jungle though. Both Darah and Gekko come from the rainforests of Sumatera, the jungles were their homeground and teams did better on homeground. Still however, the commander was pretty smart sending in the zombies first. They didn’t feel pain, they don’t exactly have a brain to think for themselves (not one that’s not rotting/rotted anyways), and they can’t exactly be killed considering the fact that their already dead.

Darah reached into her bag and took the last contents out of it: her pair of platinum clawed gloves. She put them on her hands and strapped them on properly at the wrists before starting to click the each fingertip/tip of the claw with the thumb of that hand. She was just getting herself hyped up and she could feel her adrenaline levels rising, although not enough for hex+ to take over yet. She slowly led Gekko behind a few zombies and into the jungle, making sure that her child only stepped wherever the zombies stepped on. So far, no traps had befallen them so they were fine. However, Darah was ready to pick up that zombie walking beside Gekko to use him as a shield if there was any sudden arrow shower.

(sorry Auroth. 72 words away from the targetted number ><)

[The Designer]

Quickly....gun fire could be heard in the distance as well as magical spells....along with shouts and roars.......

Rushing back from the assault, a group of Covert Ops and Ninjas appeared from the jungle, some bloody, some tired, but all with weapons out. They stopped before the leading commander of the battle, tired from running probably.....

"It's bad, contact with the enemy was made and we were out numbered..... Anyways, they're coming right now!"

With that, a rush of zombies feel to the ground, burning in acid or arrows. In the distance were the Beast men archers and gunners, their weapons out as behind them, stood new beasts.... A giant spider was one of them. There were perhaps hundreds of them all over the place perfectly matching the jungle until they fired their acid. Regardless, behind them were giant ass snakes, and, on cue from he Beast men, launched themselves at thew Zombies, trying to eat them as the undead minions attacked the snakes..... While melee weapon equipped beast men stormed from the back

"Okay ladies" The commander said, giving comfort to the soldiers. "Lets go and kick some Demi-Human ass!"

With that, the D-13 Gun Mages fired away at the in coming targets as the three armies, Blood Society, Monastery and Academy, rushed down the jungle, their weapons up as they engaged the foe......

"If i were to die today" A Dark Figure (The same one from before) said, over looking the battle from hundreds of meters away" Then i will bring everyone down with me!

Large Spider:
Strength: 15
Dexterity: 15
Endurance: 15
Intelligence: 5
Wisdom: 20
Energy: 5
Weapons: Acid Shooting Mouth
Magical Abilities: None

Giant Snake:
Strength: 20
Dexterity: 25
Endurance: 10
Intelligence: 5
Wisdom: 10
Energy: 5
Weapons: Giant Fangs and Venom
Magical Abilities: None

[Hakfu Song]

Traps

Ah... best to be cautious. Hakfu was taking slow step after slow step. Looking around himself, he stopped crouching standing at full, still walking alongside the priest, but keeping a careful watch on Jyo as well. However, as his eyes travelled from the two people, to the surroundings, his foot landed on a rather, soft like-mesh!?

Low-sounding 'whistles' wailed, as Hakfu stepped back, just narrowly avoiding the three, air-triggered darts, making dull 'thud' sounds, as they hit the tree in the opposite direction of where the darts had come from. Too close. Looking down at his robes, he clicked with his mouth. It got ripped, the shreds seemingly wisting away in the air, exposing his right foot, which was carried on by his sandals. Taking care, as he walked slowly to where the darts landed, as quickly as he could, so as to not get left behind, he bent over, and examined the hit tree.

The spots where the slim darts had hit against had already begun to quickly deteriorate... not quite smoldering, but, the tree had already begun to take a more, yellowish tone of color. Ugh.

In the midst of his observations, however, shouting could be heard, as some of the Monastary's ninjas suddenly appeared before the main commander, making Hakfu look back, to see what was going on..

Crap.

Whirling around, upon hearing the news, he gave a bark to the Priest and Jyo, and some other Arcane Academy student he hadn't seen before. He whipped out his readied tarot card as he did, going into this all in a stride, as the charging, the scittering of what appeared to be masses of spiders and snakes poured at them.

"Everyone, on alert! [shadow=brown,left,300][glow=blue,2,300]"Hirthos divinity watergo Kantan onsoona van firmanent des dei Sai."[/glow][/shadow]"

A blinding blue light burst from the tarot..

[glow=blue,2,300][shadow=brown,left,300]Sai: "Ish nuu."[/shadow][/glow]

Sai, the Healing Water Deity

Drifting into the battlefields, he took a step, beside Hakfu, who was shuddering.. searching his mind, searching... right, he was support! He pointed his fan at the Priest immediatly with his left hand also extending his two forefingers.

"Bless thee. Endureth further, firmament und Oceanus."

Sai slowly turned his head to Hakfu, who was shuddering, as it was, and put its hand on his shoulder. Hakfu looked up at the deity.. for some reason, he had always gotten a maternal sort of feel from his deity, whenever it was being 'Sai'. It gave him ponde-

[shadow=brown,left,300][glow=blue,2,300]"Ish nuu."[/glow][/shadow]

Raising its left hand, while still keeping its right hand on Hakfu's left shoulder, it pointed its two forefingers over at the Priest. It eased up, then showing its palm, and its eyes glowed a little more brighter. A rush of water began forming over the Priest, covering his whole body, a clear, pure see-through.. and the effects were immediate. Hakfu grinned, nodding at the Priest.

"Oceanic Blessing. A speed increase for the battle."

Looking over at Jyo then, he pointed his fan at his new friend as well..

"Protect. Slidius vater seemann defenthos und firmanent."

Sai squeezed a little harder on Hakfu's shoulder.

[shadow=brown,left,300][glow=blue,2,300]"Ish nuu."[/glow][/shadow]

An almost slimy like film began on show on the Jyo's back, soon covering his whole body. Hakfu, looking at the Jyo, gave him a thumbs up.

"Don't worry! It's just a precaution.. it's Sai's Water Shield. Attacks will be either deflected, or slide off you! Now go!"

Hakfu looked around, as the battle had begun.. ready to command Sai. Sai looked back at him, as he gave it a glance, his Deity's hand still on his shoulder. Giving a huge etheral sigh, Sai noted that it had not depleted much of its energy.. but it had already begun this battle with some fairly moderate-level spells. Hakfu felt a surge of emptiness in his left arm, as a part of his soul was already offered up to keep Sai in corperol form. This would be his true test. Again, he thought of Jyo.

"Just don't go crazy... its not a hundred percent attack proof.."

Hakfu Song has taken up a supportive role!

The Priest has been granted "Oceanic Blessing"! +1 Dexterity!

Jyo Mashima has been granted "Water Shield"! 4 Rounds of Moderate Water Protecting from Physical Attacks!

[Pesmerga]

Aboard the "Ascendant Justice" (USN CVN 00X)
Time- 0900 Local
Location- Atlantic coast of Africa

Pesmerga came in low toward the carrier and landed on the edge of the flight deck. Flight Ops had been going on for hours when he arrived and no one paid him much attention. He flew inside one of the hangers that was empty and quickly changed into a human form. He was now dressed in cammies with the rank insignia of a naval Lieutenant. He walked down a few ladder-wells and arrived in a marine berthing. The Ascendant Justice was a new carrier and had room for over 3000 marines, this berthing held roughly 200. As soon as he stepped through the hatch a loud "ATTENTION ON DECK" was heard and people snapped to attention. There were a few men that were still relaxed in their racks that didn't move, thinking it was just another Lieutenant. In one of the shadows a man was standing at attention but broke his stance and headed for the men who were still relaxed.

"WHAT THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU ARE DOING MEN!"

He started to tear into them.

"PRIVATE JENKINS, PRIVATE DUBBO, WHEN AN AWARDEE OF THE MEDAL OF HONOR STEPS IN HERE YOU WILL SNAP TO ATTENTION OR SO HELP ME I WILL RIP YOUR HEADS OFF AND SHOVE THEM UP YOUR ASSES! DO YOU UNDERSTAND ME?!"

The two men quickly jumped to their feet saying,

"YES SERGEANT!"

The man who yelled at them, identified as a USMC Sergeant faced Pesmerga and saluted.

"Sir I apologize for these two, they will be taken care of!"

Pesmerga looked at the man and saluted back saying,

"As you were men."

He walked up to the Sergeant with a smile and said,

"Damn I thought you were Sgt. Major Johnson by now!"

"Yea sir, about that, I punched out an Ensign a while back and lost that. Only reason I didn't get kicked was the fighting we went through. Please come with me."

The Sergeant led Pesmerga back to a small secluded lounge. When they closed the door they gave each other a hug.

"It's good to see you again, I reckon you been busy."

"Yeah you could say that Avery."

"So what is it you're doing here?"

"Well..."

Pesmerga told him of the recent events with the beasts and how there was a battle about to be raged in the jungles of the Congo. Sgt. Johnson grew up in Del Ray Detroit and had known about magic and the different organizations for most of his life. When he fought in Desert Storm, Pesmerga was a Lieutenant who fought with him. He used his magic to help the man fight and in the end they both came out with a medal of honor.

"So let me guess, you wanna go fight and you wanted to share the wealth?"

"Yeah something like that."

"Well I can't get out there with any of my guys without orders. I'm sure you can take care of that though."

"Yeah that I can handle, but I want you to bring three more men you can trust and we need a ride. Anyone who knows about the type of stuff we will be up against would be nice so they don't freak out when we touch down. Also need a pilot we can trust."

"I have just the people, the two privates I chewed out are perfect. I also know a Corporal and a helo pilot, Captain Carol Rawley."

"Okay, I'll meet you at the hanger in a few hours, be ready for the orders to come through."

A few hours later in hanger bay 6.....

Pesmerga walked toward the CH-53 Sea Stallion and saw five people all dressed in jungle cammies awaiting his arrival. When he got close Sergeant Johnson snapped them to attention. With a grin he said,

"Sergeant Johnson, Corporal Locklear, and Privates Jenkins and Dubbo reporting as ordered."

"As you were."

Pesmerga faced the men and spoke,

"Ok I'm not going to bullshit you guys, this is what we are getting into."

He quickly gave them a brief on what was going to happen and of the battlefield they were going into. When he finished it up he added.

"If any of you don't feel up to it then you can go back to your berthing, otherwise, saddle-up."

All the men let out a loud "HOORAH" before boarding the helicopter. It was wheeled out to the flight deck and prepared for takeoff.

"This is Captain Crowley call sign echo-fourer-oner-niner preparing for takeoff."

"Your clear for takeoff, safe flying."

The men cleared the flight deck around them and all gave a thumbs-up for the go ahead to takeoff. Quickly they were in the air and headed toward the Congo jungles. In flight they asked Pesmerga a few questions, like how he got them orders.

"It was simple, I told Fleet Admiral Harper what was going on and he contacted Admiral Hood and gave him the go ahead."

The men were surprised by this but didn't care too much, they were just needing info to use when reporting back in.

A few more hours later...

Capt. Crowley turned to face the soldiers,

"Sir, the LZ is hot, beasts are coming from the jungle, I'm getting a lot of radio traffic!"

The Sea Stallion flew low over the allied base and the fighting was now in view.

"I want you to head to the left side of the advancing forces, we'll put down there."

"Aye sir."

The helicopter came to the left side facing the advancing enemy. In sight were giant spiders and snakes. The men all locked and loaded their M16's and the Cpl readied his M249. The side of CH-53 opened up and they all rigged up repelling lines. First out was Cpl. Locklear. As he hit the deck he let readied his weapon and let loose covering fire.

"I want the privates to stay with the helo, evac any wounded you find!"

An "Aye aye" was said from the two privates and the pilot then Pesmerga and Sgt. Johnson repelled down. As soon as they were loose the helo took off preparing to rain down cover for all allies and pick up wounded. As soon as they were all down they began to flank the enemies side, hoping to take down one of the giant spiders. As they neared it Cpl. Locklear opened up with the M249, and Sgt. Johnson and Pesmerga with M16's. Pesmerga focused on the creature and using his shifting abilities, covered it's mouth with a layer of skin to prevent it from shooting acid out.

Anyone can roleplay the helicopter and it's men for evac purposes.

["The Priest"]

The Priest felt his legs juice with energy, giving him a bonus to his speed. Grabbing a pistol in one hand, and his totem in the other, he summoned Loki, who would hurl spells at the enemy...

Charging forward, he met a group of downed Zombies. Focusing his powers into his hands, suddenly, they reanimated, and began to steam with dark energy. He forced them onwards...

Commanding Loki, a single burst of energy...

Pyro MACHINA!

A fire ball salted the air between the two forces. Acid was burned in mid air, saving a group of Arcane Tracers.

The Priest fired two shots at a giant snake, which moved toward him. He commanded two of his 5 zombies, and they immediatly moved toward the snake. The Snake attacked them bye eating them.

Suddenly, though, its entire head erupted in a fountain of gore, spraying the trees around them. Using one of his more devestating techniques, Dark Energy Explosion, he used the Zombie's bodies as vessels for his destruction.

He began a movement toward a Giant Spider, batting at Beast-men as they came charging. His totem made quick work of any standing enemies, and as he ran, he shot them in the head as they were on the ground.

Hakfu! Jyo! On me! We are taking one of those spiders down! The priest yelled in his Russian accent.

[Baalthasar]

Baal, who snapped out of the trance he was in... saw "The Priest", and the two men he was talking to, and materialized his version of Masamune in his right hand. Baal started on his own charge, that would land him between the spider "The Priest", Jyo, and Hakfu were charging, and another one to it's right. He started leaping from left to right, while getting some forward movement, and swinging his sword in the direction he was bounding. This was the fastest way he knew of moving while constantly batting enemies away.

[jyo]

Jyo chuckled.
Oh no no. More than one will go down. Jyo thought hearing what Priest said. he made sure none of his allies were in the way as he raised his right hand letting out a bright white beam. It slammed into one of the spider's putting a large hole in it. Even though the blast didn't go all the way through the creature now bled to death.

Ember was being attacked by multiple weak creatures. He was ripping them to shreds and blasting them with fireballs.
"Well Jyo it seems we are not to be back to back in this battle. Best of luck to you." He said in Jyo's mind as the battle seperated thema nd Ember ended up with the others instead of Jyo Hafku and Priest.

Jyo was now beside Priest and Hafku. His sword flashing dangerously in the battle field as he met his foes head on.

[Junpei]

Junpei could here traps being disarmed, set off, or even being ignored altogether. Junpei almost laughed at the attempts of some people to disarm a trap and have it backfire in their face. That's why Junpei had his nether bolt and Harlow, together he coudl destroy, trample, scrifice, or disarm any trap. It was almost fun to see how many traps were here after all.

AS Junpei steadily advanced he caught three others in his eyes, "The Preist", Jyo, and Hakfu. He had seen all three around school and even met Jyo, although he had been rude when he had done so, which he regretted now. Maybe bow woudl eb a good time to make it up to the man.

AS soon as Junpei heard the roars from the Demi-Human's across the feild his adrenaline surged and his hands tightened, he wanted to spill some blood now. Bringing out his even familiar knife JUnpei slashed over his ahnd and then set one hand over the other, blood dripping to the ground. AS JUnpei began to start his summoning chant the blood on the ground formed intoa seal and otu raised Harlow. Smiling wickedly Junpei felt his own demeanor change from that of a bright and battle ready boy to that of a blood thirsty killer. This is what happened when Harlow was out, all fo Junpei's negative feelings would be applified ten fold.

"Kill, them all Harlow. Clear out the lower ranks so that we may crush the commanders and heavy units. If yu fail me, what god did to you in heaven will look like a cake walk Harlow."

Harlow gulped, he had never seen his summon master this angry before, never. Maybe this was the effect of stying more black magic and being in the heat of battle. Whatever it was Harlow only knew that he was given full control of his actions. He could kill any Beast member he could manage to adn he was in heaven once more.

As Harlow took off into te ari and a fireball made it's way oevr the battlefield Junpei Taltosmoved forward and stood on the front line, readying himself for the comining combat. As the two sides took off Junpei noted that the three from earlier were after the large spider, but then again so was Junpei. Trailing behind them slightly he followed them up and just before any of them would be in attack range he smiled to himself and lowered his voice.

"Kor'Tallah Yanis Porison..."

Three blakc bolts shot out from Junpei's right hadn towars the large and impossing spider before him. With Jyo ahead swinging his sword Junpei didn't have to worry about an attack on him. Harlow landed behind him and played rear guard, no flanking him now. AS for Hakfu adn "The Preist", well Junpei had seen that hlittle trick Hakfu had pulled, they all had some sort of healing amplifier or shield maybe. Either way. With all of them working on one target, the thing would not last long.

"You three look like you could use a dark mage in your little group. Mind if I tag oalong?"

Junpei said as he lowered his right hand. The three nether bolts were crackling across the sky at the spider, the only quesiton was wether or not they would hit.

["The Priest"]

Without taking his eyes from the new corpse that he had to work with, the Giant Spider, he spoke.

I'm the only one I see, but you could tag along if you wish.

The comment was not meant to be insulting, because honestly, all he saw was himself and this huge beauty of a corpse.

Summoning the final amounts of mana within him, he plunged both hands into the gigantic spiders body. Grasping it from the inside, he shot the energy into the Spider. Suddenly, it lifted, The Priest riding atop it, with his hands thoroughly buried. Although a Spell Caster, the Priest wasn't a god among men when it came to magic, so he had to have direct control with such a beast. Aiming it toward two other spiders, he commanded it to destroy.

Two huge gobules of acid rained toward them. Without them knowing, their bodies exploded as acid broke through their bulbous end sections, eating through, and connecting with more acid. THey popped like giant water baloons, raining acid on the beastmen below them, as well as a few higher-up types of units. The Spider bucked with The Priest riding it, and kept launching its deadly spray across the forest into the enemy levelling trees left and right with its might.

[The Designer]

Upon realizing "The Priest" was a threat as he raised the bodies of dead foes, the spiders turned their attention to his entourage. Quickly a flurry of acid rained down on him and his army of zombies, trying to take him, Jyo, Hakfu and the raised dead out in a single flurry. Meanwhile, the spiders have noticed the helicopter, and began to fire their acidic fluids at it, hopefully burning through the metal to destroy the lone air ship. However, it wouldn't be lone so long....as a plethora of D-13 and Academy Helicopters made their way to the jungle...

Meanwhile, Monastery monks and Vampires from the society quickly followed up to the sides of Priest, quickly giving him melee cover as they advance onto the army..... Off to the side, D-13 squads were fighting against Beast men, firing their guns before they sought cover only to do it again. Already they were breaking the back of the army, creating confusing against the back ranks....

"We need back up" A D-13 Soldier called out during the fire fight, as the squad was slowly getting pinned down by Beast men fire..... "If we can break the back, surely the front will fall two, come on! I need more soldiers!"

[jyo]

"No!" Jyo shouted and as in the last battle he stuck his weapon in the ground and raised a shield to cover his whole group. He couldn't do anything about the raised dead. But the people wo mattered were safe. he felt a slight drain but nothing like last time. He retrived his weapon and got closer to the group seeing Junpie the guy who ingored him at the Academy.
"Another hand is always helpful. But if you see another group needing help join them if you would as they may need it more." he said not having any reservatins about another person helping out.

[Junpei]

"If you act as shield I can act as sword. Just be sure you don't lose your head."

Junpei nodded to Jyo and then watched as Preist raised up one of the giant spiders. He grinned devishly as Harlow moved to the front and began to quite literally cut a line through the Beast ranks. Taking the initiative Junpei hhoped onto a small raise of land adn looked around him. From here he woudl be able to shout orders to the smaller groups aroudn him and Harlow would act as a second sword for Junpei.

"Alright! Bolster the right line Harlow, make sure they don't lose themselves. Jyo, if your willing to help then do so and take the left. As long as we can keep those damnded Beasts pushing back we'll have the upper hand."

Taking matters into his own hands Junpei set out his right hand adn another nether bolt flew out and struck into a group of three Beast melee units. Smiling again Junpei watched Harlow spur the right flank as he set a minotaur aflame with his longsword. Junpei was loving every second of this. The adrenaline in his system was rivetting and Junpei's eyes flashed black for a second as Harlow's influence once again pulle don him. Two more Nether Bolts did the trick to sent down a single Minotaur.