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Roarin quickly loaded a bolt on the already drawn crossbow in his hands. He took aim at the dazed beast and fired. He gave slight snarl as it didn't go down and so he dropped the mechanism and drew a couple of daggers from under his cloak for closer combat. "Heathen," was all he muttered as he watched its movements looking for an opening.

(((o.0) so many people attacking the poor Nightling... it's gonna die... (TOT) jk, that's supposed to be a good thing xd ))

In all the confusion, Avi didn't notice when a man walked up to her. When he spoke, she spun around to face him. He called her Mistress. 'He must know who I am,' she thought. The man was struggling to stay concious, so Avalon grabbed his arm to hold him up. "Sir, you need to get out of here!"

The Nightling faltered, it had been attacked from all sides. Daggers, flames, arrows, all catapulting towards it. It screamed as it relocated the target. "My masssster.... needssss you," it hissed, glaring at Avalon with red eyes. It had traveled all this way only to be defeated...

It was too strong to be felled by just one of these attacks, but the prescence of Fire and multiple attackers were wearing down on the large beast. It lurched towards Avalon, spreading it's black wings. It screamed as it swiped at her.

Avi dove out of the way just in time. She had pushed the other man to safety. She screamed as one of the Nightling's talons cut into her skin. The Fear coating the creature's talons quickly spread through her arm. It wasn't a lot, but it turned her arm black. The effects of the Fear weren't active yet, but Avalon knew she only had a few minutes at most before she was rendered completely vulnerable.

The creature still loomed above her. She powered a ball of fire and thrust it at the Nightling. It scream and stumbled backwards. It was growing weaker.

Avalon labored for breath as the Fear spread through her arms and into her chest. Only a few seconds till it flowed up her neck and into her mind, where it would blacken her mind and encompass her in her worst nightmares.

The beast lost sight of the target as it stumbled backwards. It hissed as it headed towards Roarin.

"NO!" Marius shouted and she pushed him away. It was all because of the stupid vision... Of all the times! He had come all this way to prevent that attack.

With much resolve, he stood up and stumbled over to Avalon. "Mistress..!" Her breathing was becoming shallow and he cursed. "Come on, you are a strong one, you must combat it!" He had been trained to resist the Nightling's nightmares, but he was still a novice in helping others.

Marius pulled up his sleeves and placed his hands one on top of the other onto the slight wound. Nightlings affected the mind and if their victim had too weak of a psyche, they would fall into darkness. But if they had a little help in resisting...

He willed with all his might, concentrating his mental power on resisting the Fear. However, the vision that had plagued him finally won and he went limp, hands slipping off the wound. His help had hardly lasted for a few seconds, but maybe it could shake her into resisting.

((Sorry crying I'm making it up as I go along.))

Roarin saw the beast's eyes fix on him and stood his ground as it moved toward him. Then the fire sprang up and startled him. He took a few steps back from the blaze, straight through the other side, "What the...?" he uttered in his confusion. A man's voice was heard, "Everyone stay in those fire shields." Roarin looked at the flames then the creature, "Huh? Oh damn..."

((no problem (^^) I posted more info on Nightlings though... that should help sweatdrop ))

Avalon was blacking out from the poison. She hardly heard or saw anything going on around her, just the terrible images that were already starting to fill her mind. 'No, I've got to fight it!' She thought fiercely.

She felt a figure beside her. She couldn't see who it was, but they helped her. It wasn't much, but enough to give Avalon just a little more time to fight back.

...Raging fires, children screaming, the Black One hovering in front of her, calling her name...

The poison was in her mind now, and it was all Avalon could do to assure herself it wasn't real. She was screaming now, scratching at her arms to stop the burning that came from the wound.

...three cloaked figures, surrounded, can't get away, dark, fear, can't get away...

"Be strong, Avi. You'll never find him if you can't be strong," her mother told her. A little Avalon, still a child, stood crying after a nightmare. "Don't cry, silly! It's not real. Just memories..."

The Nightling slashed at the fire-phantoms as it jumped away from the flaming shield that had popped up out of nowhere. It located the target surrounded by fire but unconcious. It stumbled towards her as more fire people ran at him. It screamed as one hit him in the leg. It fell. It struggled uselessly to stand up again as it kept swiping at these fire creatures. It's forepaws were nothing but charred remains. It's eyes were wide in fear and it was foaming at the mouth. "My masssster needssss you!!" It cried. It attempted to fly, flapping its damaged wings. The winds from its wings extinguished some of the fire people. It roared in triumph.

The roar fully awakened Avi. Her skin was still black, but she'd be able to move and defend herself. She sat up and saw the figure of a the man who she had thrown to safety just moments before. He was unconcious. She looked at the dying Nightling and smirked as she drew her bow. She whispered a fire encantation as she drew her arrow and fired. A fire-bird erupted from the arrow and lodged itself in the Nightling's chest. It screamed in response. "So long, b*****d," she muttered as it fell. It lay on the ground, writhing and thrashing out, and arrow lodged in its burnt chest.

((*high fives Anglo* That thing got pwned 3nodding ))

((hell yeaaah!! and that is about as ghetto as I can get... xd ))

After shooting the beast, Avalon collapsed again. Her eyes glazed over as the poison took its hold on her again. She was deathly still until Soren spoke to her.

"Please, Avalon, you can fight this."

His voice was like a flash of lightning on a cloudy day: there was always thunder. The sound ricocheted around her head as she battled the nightmares of her past.

...a dying parent, a flaming house, the cloaked figures

getting closer and closer...
Slowly the images faded out until she could see the trees above her. Through the leaves she could see small patches of the night sky, nearly black against the dark green canopy. She breathed deeply as she calmed herself, pushing the poison away from her mind with sheer will. "Everyone still alive?" She croaked. Another voice addressed her. It seemed like there was a fog in between her companions and herself. She tried to form another coherent thought as she formed and answer in her head to his question. "It made nightmares... and who are you?" She asked weakly.

The creatures still thrashed on the ground a ways away from them. It screamed, causing Avalon to wince. It struggled to stand, but failed miserably.

"That. Thing. Needs. To frickin die," Avi said. Its screams were giving her a headache.

((so who's going to finish off the b*****d? pardon my french... xd ))

((Blech. I can't just have my character wake up right after he fell unconscious.. T.T *wants to kill the thing*))