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[damage-girl.livejournal.com]

Navigating through bleary signals and Constantine's direction, Hell really is a lovely place. Through what looked like the shallow outline of a town (minus anything that looked like people), and down and down, avoiding the locals, into desert.

Still, they haven't been turned wrong. Corrine can tell Caleb's signal is getting closer, there's maybe a few more miles between them. She's not quite sure why they're doing all this "shh!" moving, they could probably toss any stupid little thing they come across. One of them could just go ahead and retrieve him, and there wouldn't have to be all this walking.

Yeah, she's grouchy. It happens. And it looks like there's activity up ahead... there's certainly a lot of noise getting louder.

"That sounds like more of the 'not awesome'."

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[blind-will.livejournal.com]

When the new commotion starts, Travis reappears, about ten feet to the left of where most of the attacks were coming, his displaced image still drawing most of the attacks from the horde while his invisible self suffered only from those of some of the more powerful.

Its enough that most of his clothes are smoldering, he has a lot of burns, a couple broken ribs, and his right arm is broken - again. Damn thing never finishes healing completely before someone snaps it. but he's up and fighting.

When he realizes that someone has finally taken some offense to the horde, he does what he does best - he adapts. Despite it being Calibusk, he shifts the displacement aura, so now it appears that there's two Calibusks as well as two Travises, the former now both able to smash through the ranks, but now having some added confusion and protection, while a relieved Lantern takes the opportunity to start fighting a retreat back to the group.

[johns-demons.livejournal.com]

Furious she is throwing a great many of her army in front of her to take the waves of destruction heading her way. Pawns can always be replaced after all.

Constantine will pay for this.

[jla-extras.livejournal.com]

The cohesion of her army begins to break down, as hundreds begin to run for it, fearful of death no matter what choice they make. Thousands more stay, though they do fall over each other to give the giant spider-demon-man-thing a wide birth.

Calibusk continues to press forward, crushing hundreds and routing hundreds more. Ancient power pours forth from all four hands, cutting massive swaths of destruction through the ranks of what’s left of her army. The panic of those fleeing is contagious, causing still more take flight. Almost a quarter of their number is already gone, the rest visibly shaken, but trying to regroup.

All eyes are on Chantinelle, even Calibusks.

[damage-girl.livejournal.com]

That's called an adequate distraction. Merlynne lays some fire for Travis, helping him pick off those around him in his path to them. Her concentration is mostly on keeping the group up and away from the chaos, but when Travis gets close enough she takes advantage of Ellie's distraction and teleports him in.

"Welcome aboard, soldier."

[johns-demons.livejournal.com]

Her lesser soldiers have served their purpose before they began to run away in keeping the destruction away from her. Now as Calibusk comes closer she takes the fight to a physical level using all her power over the demense to aid her.

Hell itself is her weapon.

[laughing-mage.livejournal.com]

He puts his hand on Tefe's shoulder where she's crouching beside Hank.

"You can stop her. Her blood, your blood."

[tefe-holland.livejournal.com]

It takes a minute for her to figure out what he means, but the blood within her helps her figure it out. She's got Nergal's blood same as Ellie and anyone with the blood can control her realm. John did it once, Tefe can do it better because she's an elemental on top of it.

Closing her eyes she blocks Ellie from the control of the realm.

[johns-demons.livejournal.com]

She presses the attack against Calibusk and suddenly the power wrapped around her as protection fails! In horror she looks at herself realizing for the moment she's only got the power of a succubus against Calibusk.

[blind-will.livejournal.com]

Travis fights his way back to Merlynne and the others, using the relative safety behind the remaining shields to shore up the broken bones, and to reassess the situation, noticing the sudden power flux from Tefe, and its corresponding loss in Ellie.

*Thanks* he replies to Corrine, before adding, *Sitrep? And who needs help?*

[caleb-z.livejournal.com]

Caleb gestures to his makeshift sling with an unsteady hand. He almost looks like he’s mildly shivering. “C-Compound fracture. The p-pain is starting to s-settle in, t-too.” Though if his pale color is anything to judge by, he’s in worse shape than that.

[sand-hawkins.livejournal.com]

"I'm fine." Sand says weakly, despite bleeding in two places and having a somewhat glassy look to his eyes. "Hank's not good, though. What he coughed up is internal blood, he's hemorraging somewhere. Not sure how he's staying conscious."

[blind-will.livejournal.com]

Travis nods grimly. Compound fractures he knows. He scans Brainwave, then Caleb, and sets bones, as well as setting their environment properly to help slow onset of shock.
*I don't dare risk quick healing here, after seeing what this place did to Merlynne's wounds - and she's hell-resistant as is. But this should help them keep it together til we're out of here, and I'll speed up the process a little. I can also keep us together and moving down the path, if I can get a guide to keep me on the ley lines?*

[jla-extras.livejournal.com]

As far as Calibusk is concerned, her ability to defend herself is inconsequential. He can’t go home until he settles his debt, and in order to settle his debt, she has to die.

With a sweep of his forward two legs, the demon wipes the last of her defenders away, and lunges for her, hoping to kill her with a single squeeze of his enormous hand.

[laughing-mage.livejournal.com]

Ellie goes down in a screaming heap, there's blood all over Calibusk's hand and Ellie is resembling a broken doll more than a demoness at this point.

"Reason number two I didn't have him teleport us t'the surface." He puts the Ace of Winchesters to his shoulder and aims carefully, don't want to waste bullets after all.

When the bullet hits there is a flash of power released from Calibusk leaving him a hollowed out shell. Ellie slips from his hand to flop brokenly across the ground and the huge form of Calibusk falls like an avalanche, dead before he hit the ground.

"Now how about we kip on out of here?"

[caleb-z.livejournal.com]

The army begins to cheer as Calibusk's dead shell impacts the ground, and Ellie's battered - but still quite living - body emerges. Those who haven't broken and run yet are filled with confidence: The Outsiders they can handle, it would appear, and the newcomer is no longer an issue.

Caleb closes his eyes, and offers a silent prayer for the strength to endure just one more spell. A moment later he taps back into the magic rolling off of Corrine, and goes to work on the ground beneath Ellie's broken form.

The pain begins to mount, as his body vehemently objects to the continued use of magic. After the Al Koyet he is completely spent, but he can't let that deter them. He pushes harder, but his body just doesn't have it left in it to channel large amounts of magic anymore.

He improvises, trying to use a small amount of directed magic to corral a large amount of ambient magic into action. It works. The ground beneath Ellie opens, drawing her into a ten foot pit before slamming shut, creating a growing mound that marks the spot of Ellie's living tomb. Caleb's concentration is broken by a coughing fit that results in his coughing up first stomach bile, and then small amounts of blood.

Around the Outsiders, the last of the army's will to fight is finally broken, as the entire body of demons decide to take to the hills, many trampling their own comrades in the mad panic to get the hell away from these people.

"W-What …. The BLOODY HELL … was that!?" He demands of John.

[laughing-mage.livejournal.com]

The rifle is tucked under his coat again as he gazes calmly at the furious Caleb.

"So you'd rather discuss this than get your dyin' teammates out of Hell? An people talk about my priorities."

[damage-girl.livejournal.com]

"Considering you both got us into this I'd say it's about time you both shut up. The extra weight won't be missed." Corrine's focusing on making the sphere a little more comfortable for folks. It's taking a lot of concentration and she's wounded herself and trying to keep that adrenaline high from making her want to smack Caleb and Constantine.

Right now she's actually pretty pissed about shooting the guardian. Maybe it was a demon but it was just trying to repay its debt to go home. Paid in full means a bullet for no reason, but willing herself to verbally defend a demon hits an old wound so she just stays quiet.

[laughing-mage.livejournal.com]

She might be a little less sympathetic if she knew exactly what they'd found in that old church where the demon wore a dessicated body of a child. Guardian of the ley line that had existed on blood and pain and rage...going back to it's job wasn't a good idea.

But all he does is shrug instead of complaining.

"Ready when you are Sunshine."