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Three riflemen would direct their fire towards the remaining crossbow Shades, the other two would take aim and fire shots overtop their comrades charging into battle, aiming to slow down a Rook or two. Five guards would slow their pace, taking the time to settle their stance and give the Rooks a sweet 12 gauge caress. The other three would get all reckless, falling backwards and sliding foot first at the Rooks' ankles, aiming to either sweep the lead units, or slip between their legs to shoot upwards at the Melee Shades.

And Shouyin was stumbling and rolling, bolt in the leg and all that s**t. In a manner similar to what he'd done with that first bolt in his left shoulder, he used stone under the skin to force the bolt out, and then pulled it free with his left, 'bandaging' the wound with a layer of rock. Fighting through the pain, he'd get back to his feet, continuing to survey the area from the plains' edge. Keeping an eye on where he'd grounded Stryphe and his pawns, Shouyin would switch his assault rifle to single shot and fire four times at the bishops and their protectors, aiming around the neck or head. He'd move in soon, before the fire completely seperated him from his foes, but those guys hidden in the grass were making him a little uneasy, if they were all dead, then fine, but if not, he'd be running into who knows what.

Running Guard Count: 5 Rifles, 8 Shotguns

Lenne could hear the gun shots, something else had caught her attention. Her senses had picked up on something now approaching from the ruins area, now she was still quite away still from there. Her hand that had reached around her back while she had been crouched there had grabbed upon her M16A1, pulling it silently around to her front she quickly prepared the weapon, it was all ready loaded and she was then ready to fire. Lenne would wait in her position silently, the things that had just arrived were still a good distance from her as she stayed hidden in the grass.

It was not wise to move at this moment in time as she heard more noise, she would stay down and silent for now. Her energy had been building as she had been crouched there in the grass, she was prepared and had her barrel pointed towards where the things had come from the ruins but would remain hidden.

When will the miners learn. Rooks. Don't. Stop.

Well, one did. Pegged with rifle fire and a dude hitting his heels, soon that dude would find a rook falling on top of him. The other two simply didn't stop, trampling the two brave shotgunners; crushing bones, ribs and skulls under their heavy feet.

A well aimed shot on Quin's part took one of the melee shades down. Shot through the heart, and he's to blame. Quin gives love a bad name.

When the charging group finnaly reached the shotgunners, the rooks swung wildy with heavy fists. Two of the melee shades had spears, and stabbed at the gunners through the gaps between the rooks. The others sat tight.

Shou would find firing on the preist protectors would do very little. They had full body tower sheilds at the ready. The bullets sparked off and suddenly the two of the protectors, sheilds up, began to march towards the half golem. A shadow bishop follwed behind the two and began to charge a spell.

TORNADO EDIT: Unfortunatly for Allios Noel was around. The null mage stood up and began charging arcane energy around his fist.

"That can't be natural." Noel muttered as his palm flew out foward.

An orb of clear energy would fly out, it would do nothing to people... But magic. One the orb reached the tornado Noel closed his fist, with that the orb exploded. And the nullfying energy ripped through the spell making it extrodinarly hard to mantain.

To whoever cast it, it would be like getting punched in the gut hard enough to knock him down.

Flare began to charge her fires, her hands glowing as she crept cautiously after Sun, sticking to the cover of the grass, keeping her head down.

Hakan followed too, though he was more or less hidden as he moved, due to his wilderness skills. He had his bow at the ready, and considering the situation, had an ice arrow instead of a fire oen charging. Setting the plain on fire wouldn't be fun.

The tornado died out, but the ice it was holding was still there, and the only logical way to go was down. Good luck with that.

Roll for damage And you know you wouldn't have Shou <3 But the thought counts, punk.

First is Shou
Second is Meh...

Edit: ((o_o I can't believe it...))

"SHOU!! JUST WAIT TIL I TELL YOUR GIRLFRIEND YOU'RE HERE!" How...did he know?

Magic. whee