The Invasion. (The Spire continuation)

[DragonMasterX]

"Oooh, thanks for the the lift, Eth!" Mar smiled, landing on the concrete of the roof, stepping up with one foot. He was back to intently watching the action in front of them soon, his eyes trying to focus on the cloud of dust that had been kicked up thanks to the connection of the massive imp-demon's attack to the spot where Prisma had been standing on. Rubble had already begun raining down the street; the demon's muscles didn't seem to be just for show.

The dust slowly began clearing, Mar's eyes widened at the scene that unfolded before everyone's sight.

The gigantic demon's feet were dug onto the remainder of the spot he had crushed, "Y-you survived?!" the muscular imp blinked its red eyes, his fist had been stopped by the crystal staff Prisma was holding in front of her with both claws on it.

"Foolish demon," panted Prisma, "Your brute strength cannot hope to accomplish anything against me."

With that confident statement, Prisma attempted to side-step, but the demon caught on before she could do anything and lashed out with a massive hand, instantly catching her in his strong grasp. Prisma groaned lightly, the dark liutenant engulfing her in both hands. "A brute, eh?! Let's see what you can do against a brute's TRUE strength! I'll crush you into dust!" he boomed. Prisma's eyes widened as Alexis appeared from behind, a morning star impacting on the demon's head. A loud thud was heard.

Mar was about to cheer, "She got him!" he jumped, "She... Huh?" his eyes locked onto the scene. What he couldn't discern was the fissure that was spreading along Alexis' weapon. Strong as it was, the demon's hide and bones had nearly tripled in density, making physical attacks almost obsolete to the point that the impacts would be absorbed and redirected. The fissure continued to spread until eventually the morning star's head shattered to pieces; the force so strong that not even the handle survived. "Holy shit, that guy's head's hard!"

"Hm? What was that?" the bulgy demon grunted as if a mosquito had just tried to sting him. He turned around and then all of a sudden his now longer tail reached up, wrapping around the elf's legs. "I'm busy, wench!" it roared, pulling down with all its physical might, attempting to crush the elf against the walls of the building underneath him.

"Elf-girl!" Mar shouted, "Damn, I'm too far away!" He began jumping from roof to roof with all the might his legs could muster, but he wouldn't make it in time!

[Shadowknight]

OOC: Katt: Wow, he could give mar and Shadow a run for their money.

IC:

A solid red brick suddenly collided against the side of the demon's head, shattering into dust on contact, a few rooftops over Shadow grinned next to a large stack of bricks, "Batter up!" He shouted as he chucked another brick into the air, swinging his sheathed blade at it and sending it flying into the demon's head, again shattering into dust.

[Crimson Fox]

Alexis groaned as she was ensnared by the demon's tail, surprised that the blessed silver of her weapon had minimal effect on the creature. Her elven reflexes came through in the nick of time as she braced herself against the impact. "Ahhh!" she cried out in a fair amount of agony. Her body was more durable than a mere human's, but it was clear that the demon was stronger in this advanced state. With her weapon flung away, the only thing she could do was the grab the tail that was holding her before sending a direct bolt of holy magic through the appendage. "Let go!"

[DragonMasterX]

The bricks kept shattering into dust as they crashed against the bulky creature. It seemed to be impervious to any and all physical attacks. "You are all pathetic!" he roared.

But Mar didn't care. He began dash-leaping through the ceilings, circling the area until he was in range with the liutenant. He made use of his dragon strength and kicked hard on the ground, propelling himself with his swallow held out, attempting to impale the demon to free both Alexis and Prisma.

However, Mar merely bounced on the arm he was aiming at. "God-damnit! How tough are you?!" he cursed as he fell back to the floor. He was shortly grabbed by the liutenant holding him up with his free claw. "Ugh!"

"You, stupid, brats!" he roared again, attempting to crush the weakened dragoness against the white-haired human, but all of a sudden he arched back and let out a howl of pain. The magical electric current flowing through his body considerably putting some hurt on his body.

"G-guys!" Mar groaned, an eye closed and teeth clenched. The strength that the demon was exerting in an attempt to crush them bare-handed would've already reduced any other human to bloody red pulp. Mar endured the pain though as he felt the magic radiating from below and yelled: "Use magic! He can't defend against it!"

[Crimson Fox]

"With pleasure." Alexis quickly got back on her feet, panting a little from thrashing around with the demon's tail. She put her hands back a little and focused, summoning a large sphere of lightning before hurling it directly at the lieutenant demon. "Bulls-eye."

[Erethzium]

"Heheh, should be easy enough." Ereth smirked, holding one arm out and then bringing his left claw out and pulling it back as if drawing an arrow from a bow, a magic arrow forming on the "bow", before he released his left hand, the bolt shooting down at the demon, hitting him square in the back of the neck, right where his shoulders started.

[Shadowknight]

"Easy for you to say," Shadow growled, hurling another brick at the demon as he jumped over to the rooftop, "Some of us can't use magic remember?" he said as he drew his sword.

[DragonMasterX]

As the dual magic attack struck it, the giant demon suddenly went off with a loud blast, Mar, Alexis and Prisma being sent to air from the force.

Before any of the former could say anything though, Prisma shifted in air, free of the dark oppression, and dove left and right, catching and sending both the human and elf to the nearest roof to safely land.

She then kicked the 'air' and back-flipped to land on the opposite place.

Mar landed on his feet, gasping as he recovered from the death-grip he had been on until now. "Ahhh... gahh... Huh...?"

The smoke was quickly blown by the wind and on the place of the burly demon now remained its former impish form. Mar caught wind of both this and Shadow's readied katana.

"Shadow!" Mar yelled, "Cross-Slash!" he said, dashing over to the liutenant to slash it across now that the demon was stunned thanks to Alexis and Ereth's combined attacks.

[Shadowknight]

"Now that I can do," Shadow grinned as he tightened his grip on his weapon. He dug his feet into the ground before charging at the Demon in unison with Mar, both seeming to run through eachother as they attacked the demon together, "Whoot, love doing that."

[DragonMasterX]

Weakened by the barrage of magical attacks, the liutenant's bulk disappeared and its true frail form appeared instead. With Shadow and Mar's combined strength, the demon's body was sliced in four from a cross shaped slash.

Mar spun as he skid to a halt and slapped the upper blade of his swallow in the air. The boy smiled as he saw the imp disintegrate from the overwhelming amount of damage it had sustained. "Yeah! We did it!" he cheered.

Prisma stood there with her arms crossed, staff lodged under her bust in a horizontal direction. "Interesting display of resourcefulness," she thought to herself, "White hair, blue eyes, skinny human body... It's definately him." Her eyes narrowed as she felt the dark energies starting to gather in a very close direction; the Demon Lord would soon make itself visible to them. She back-flipped without any prior warning to the others and dove straight to the ground below.