Phil, Velo, and the Pantheon fought side by side, attempting to keep the demons from reaching either Tayden or Mick. Phil had tossed his guns away, switching to tk based attacks, using ice fragments to batter the creatures. Velo used his laser gauntlets to a variety of effects.
"Media, can you use your sorcery to close the gate?" Aelous asked, while using the Antarctic winds to freeze as many of the demons as he could. "I will try, but someone will have to keep these disgusting creatures off of me!" Medea blasted away the nearest demons with enchanted force bolts. "Pandora, if worse comes to worse, you will have to use. . . it." Aelous continued, glancing down at the wooden chest that never left Pandora's side. "As you command, Aelous." Pandora responded. The leader of the Pantheon knew that this turn of events was having a negative effect on the woman. Too much like her own story. he thought to himself.
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The sounds of Vengeance's battle with Naecken echoed throughout the fortress. The composite being ripped chunks out of the floor and attempted to batter his opponent with them. Vengeance turned to mist, however, reappearing behind the demon lord and striking again with his flaming blade.
Vengeance's bike screamed into life again, firing
chains at Naecken from it's exhaust pipes. The demon lord was wrapped tightly in the adamantine embrace of the unearthly metal. Naecken struggled against the chains, seething. With one free hand, he blasted the bike with a powerful burst of hellfire. The bike emitted a sound that appeared to be a scream, immediately releasing Naecken from it's grip. "Well, that was most unexpected. . .but welcome. . ." Naecken thought.
Vengeance slammed into his foe again, striking swiftly with his flaming sword, he severed
Naecken's right hand at the wrist. The wound sizzled and charred over from the heat of
the blade. "GAAAAAGHHHHH!!!" Kwaiziel screamed. "You shall pay, Leshi Un! You
will know pain as none before!" Kwaiziel charged forth, attempting to grapple with his foe.
Exactly what Vengeance had been waiting for. Gripping his foe with both hands, Vengeance looked Naecken in the eyes as a yellow burst shot forth into the demon's body. "You think you've known pain? You've known nothing! Feel my touch. Feel it pulse inside of you. Know the meaning of my gift. The gift of. . .VENGEANCE!"
As Vengeance's pain pulse slammed into Naecken's body, causing him to feel all the torments
that he had inflicted on others throughout his existence. Naecken paused and reeled under
the strain of horrors from Kwaiziel's millenia of torment.
As Naecken slumped down to the floor, Vengeance once again brandished his flaming weapon. "Now, ancient foe, it is time to end your perfidy!" Vengeance closed in on his opponent, ready to gut him with the holy weapon. "Spirit of Vengeance, you are needed." A cryptic voice sounded from
nowhere. As a black garbed arm reached out from nothingness, grabbing Vengeance and pulling him away from the struggle. Vengeance's bike soon disappeared in the same manner.
After a few moments, Naecken began to shake off the effects of Vengeance's pain pulse. The Kwaiziel personality was not fully affected in the way a human would be. He began to take enjoyment in reliving the torments he'd inflicted for so long, and soon snapped out of the trance. Naecken looked around and could find no trace of his foe, the one called Vengeance. He began to laugh. "HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH! Truly the fates
are with Kwaiziel this day! None can stop me!"
