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Carried by Sun's grip on her belt, Sey only had time to notice Flare's dreadful wounds, before fatigue helped her slip into unconsciousness.

Aiolos didn't need any more pushing, he was wobbling, about to meet a watery grave. He blew his whistle once more and the wind him and the mage to the Dead woods.

The water would smash all of them against the ground with such a force, in nearly an instant, that it would be a miracle that any of them survived. There would have been some time to move if the damn hadn't suddenly gone up in smoke- but no, the water simply started coming. Stryphe was clear of the riverbed at this time, having gone after Hein. He looked back, saw Sey, unconcious, and the rest of his comrades. There was no time to save anyone or anything- he could only get as far out of the way as possible and search for survivors later.

As soon as he'd caught hint of the oncoming flood, he dashed madly for the trees. He'd avoid the impact of the water, but he'd have to endure flood.

There was nothing he could do- though, if Sey ended up dying, he'd known soon enough wether or not how effective Sunstrike's spell was.

Kalis could only stare up as the bridge started to split down the middle.

And, laughing his head off, maniacly so, sprinted out of the water's way as it came a pouring out like the gates of some very wet hell had just opened.

And that was when the cascades, brutal waves and waves of- ho s**t- water not very happy about being pent up for so long came down and jumped on poor Kalis' head like a monster truck, just as he came near the edge of the river bed and out of harm's way.

Now this must be the first thin here that didn't happen to me back home.

Water crashed over him with crushing force, pulling him downstream as he dug in hard with his hands, gripping as much as he could with all his weight and strength to keep himself pressed against the surface, and pulling, struggling out. Clinging, he clenched his teeth and gritted harder than he had for years upon years, dragging himself upward as he dragged slowly away, somehow not crushed flat yet.

His hands grasped at the bank, digging in to roots and rocks, dragging himself up with all the determination pent up in his greatly soring body. Further. Further. Just a little... damn... further...

Bits of the dam would be missing him narrowly, and he grinned that he'd made it far enough out to the side to be out of their way. Only edge water caught him, and even as it raged, there was just slight enough ebb; all he needed.

Kalis dragged himself from the river, wreathed from head to toe in a faint glow of light, obscuring his body, nearly black with the deepest of purply tinges.

And as soon as he caught his footing out of that water, the glow vanished, and he RAN LIKE HELL, laughing his head off.

"Sun...if you can put my magic to better use than I can, take all I've got to give," Flare said, keeping her voice strong though her body was weak. "Might be able to evaporate some of that...slow it...but not with it coming like that."

She was still building up her energy, hoping against all better sense they would survive.

And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. And the Lord said, "I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them."

And the Lord said to Noah, "And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die."

And He said, "For yet seven days, and I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights; and every living substance that I have made will I destroy from off the face of the earth."

And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.

But that was all just flowery bullshit to Shouyin, who was very close to being drowned something fierce. Despite his valiant effort to bring that great black monster under the ground, with a flash of light the dam was broken, the wood splitting apart with a horrendous sound as the half-golem raised his head to look upon that great amassment of nature, all set to wipe him from this plane. And this was his face:

The over-concentration of Sokugoku that saved him from Zen, and the large mass of sheer will that'd brought the Rook to its knees left the half-golem much more drained then he ever had been before, but he couldn't swim, and there was no money in his pockets to pay the boatman to take him 'cross the river Styx. So, focusing the last of his strength, he pulled a dome of stone overtop his entire body, rooting it firmly to the ground and making it two or three feet thick, that he might be spared from buffeting pieces of wood.

And as Jello is my witness, the Velvel prayed to God.

And G.O.D. did say, Velvel was spared... though he'd have to drag himself to the riverbank as soon as the floodwaters passed.