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Message: <blockquote data-quote="talien" data-source="post: 4534378" data-attributes="member: 3285">Heart's Blood, Fire's Vengeance: Part 6b – In View of the EyeSaggy, hooting lemures hopped through the portal behind the chain devil.  “Can’t you close the portal?” shouted Beldin.  He batted aside an animated chain.“The dagger!” shouted Sebastian.  He clawed his way towards it, battling wind and chains. The portal was a roaring maelstrom of fury, belching demon after demon.  “Remove the dagger!”Vlad sliced one of the lemures in two.  It melted away into a nauseating pile.  “I can’t reach it!”Sebastian moved closer.  If he could just grab hold of it…Chains snaked towards him.  Sebastian put up one hand.  “Magis arma!” A glowing field of force deflected the barbed chain.  He rolled back towards the dagger and grabbed it with both hands.“I’m not…” Sebastian gritted his teeth.  The wind was so strong that he could barely see.  Tears streamed from his eyes. “…strong…enough!”“No one is, mortal,” the devil echoed in his head.  “Look upon me and despair.”Sebastian caught sight of the chain demon’s face.  They parted.  It was his mother’s face.“Why did you abandon me?” she wailed from between the chains that wreathed her face.  “Why should the people of Nishanpur deserve a better fate than I?”“Stop it!” howled Sebastian.“Let me try!” shouted Beldin. The dwarf hacked a lemure in half as he pounded his way over.He skewered his waraxe into the ground and then got a solid grip on the Eye of Sarish.  He pulled hard.Nothing happened.Sebastian was on his knees, the magical shield flickering as chain after chain lashed at him.  His magic was the only thing keeping him alive.“It’s in too deep!” shouted Beldin.  The dwarf released the dagger and rolled, grabbing his axe as he did so.  A lemure pounded at the spot where he had been standing. “Vlad?”“Little…” Three chains danced around Vlad.  One snapped around his shield arm, dragging him forward.  “…busy!”“That’s it,” said Sebastian.  “Nishanpur is ruined.”There was the sound of a bullet striking metal.  The chain devil’s head snapped up to look at the source.  “Who dares?!”Another bullet ricocheted off the hilt of the Eye of Sarish.“No!” reverberated the devil’s cry.  All the chains turned as one with feral intelligence to focus on Kham.Two more pistols were in Kham’s hands.  He fired both just as every chain in the room spiraled towards him.Kham’s aim was true. The Eye of Sarish shattered.All was silent as the portal stopped spewing its hellish fury.  Then it reversed, as if taking a deep breath.  One of the lemures hurdled backwards through the portal.“I will not be denied!” snarled the devil. The chains that wrapped around the devil shot outwards, firing through solid stone to anchor it in place.  More dretches flew past it into the abyss.Vlad fell on his back, sliding towards the yawning portal. Beldin grabbed him by the wrist.  “Got you!” The dwarf was nigh unmovable when he wanted to be. Sebastian slowly rose to his feet.  His mother’s face was still on the thing. “I’m suffering in hell, Sebastian!  Look what you did!”“I’m sorry, mother.” Sebastian extended both hands.  “Incendaries globus!”The blast of flames exploded inside the portal, consuming the devil.  It shrieked as its chains melted and snapped.  The devil was catapulted backwards through the portal, roaring as it went.With a sound like a tombstone dropped on concrete, the portal snapped shut.  The air was still.Kham holstered his pistols.  “Okay, so I changed my mind.”</blockquote>

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