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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wrahn" data-source="post: 1797049" data-attributes="member: 9191">Elly (or better know as she with too many names)~Elias smiles at her, “You certainly know how to make this difficult, don’t you.”  He leans down and kisses her gently, but breaks off before it can become more serious, “If we start that I will never leave.  Come, get dressed, if you want to see me off, we need to get away from the town.”The two lovers make it out onto the road, out of the sight of the town without too many more delays.  Elias looks around and then locks eyes with Elly and smiles.  And then he is gone like a memory.  In his place stands a beast, magnificent in it’s splendor.  The moon and even the stars seem to reflect a thousand ways off his scales.  He is as large as a house, his sheer size is intimidating.  But as Elly looks at him, she can still see him in his eyes.“I will return as soon as I can.”  His voice is still the same, except several octaves lower.  He lowers his head to her and lightly nuzzles her, a draconic version of a kiss.  Then his muscles bunch and he springs into the air, his great wings beating in the air, carrying him aloft.  He makes one circle, to insure Elly sees him in silhouetted against the half moon and then quickly fades into the distance. Elly begins returning to the town, to gather her possessions and to get underway, since she was already up.  She is almost at the first building of the town when she feels “funny”.She looks around to try and pinpoint a source, but doesn’t immediately notice anything.  She is almost ready to give up when she notices the sun rising.  It is far too early for the sun to come up.  She is strangely not overly concerned about it, almost like it was a dream.Time seems to increase in it’s passage around her.  Soon days are flying by and soon after that it is almost a strobe effect as the day passes in a blink of an eye.  It is impossible to say how much time passes when the effect finally stops, but at least decades, maybe centuries.She still stands outside of the town, but the town has been fortified.  It has a strong, thick stone wall, bristling with spears, which looked silver tipped.  There is a moment of silence as the scene comes into focus and then she watches a silvery bolt of energy streak from the town and thunderously explode behind her.  As she turn to see what the bolt was firing at, the entire scene comes to life with the deafening sound of battle.She turns to look and sees a scene that will she will carry with her to the end of her days.  A horde of demons, so large that she could not see the end of it.  Every shape and size, every imaginable and unimaginable form moving in the sea of seething demon flesh.  The sky is likewise filled with flying demons.The town looks battered, and there are sever steaming demon corpse around it, but it is obvious that nothing can stand against a horde so vast.  As the army advances on it, more silvery bolts shoot from within the confines, killing demons by the score, but it like taking a bucket of water out of the ocean, there is little discernable effect.  When the demons get close to the wall, however, they twist in agony.  Some explode messily.  The town has some formidable protections, apparently.  Yet the horde pushes forward.  Demons die by the hundreds, some try to turn back, they cannot resist the wall of bodies pushing them forward, to their doom.Eventually the tide parts and the town is completely engulfed by the horde, except a hundred feet from its walls, there is a circle of dead demons.  It is hard to tell from Elly’s perspective, but there is a seems to be a ripple through the horde and then terrible screams of pain coming from the horde.  It is difficult to understand exactly what is happening, but some of the demons have fused together to make one larger demon.  Horrifically all the demons are still alive and seem to be in terrible pain, screaming horribly.The screaming changes pitch and Elly realizes the thing is speaking through the screams of it’s victims, “Shulvoros is not amused mortals, it is time to die.”  Shulvoros holds it’s hands out and incants a spell.  Three silver bolts strike it, but seem to disapate without hurting it.Shulvoros completes its spell and there is a distortion around the town.  Then it is gone and the demons surge forward.Just before the demons reach the walls there is an immense roar heard from above the clouds.   It stops the demons in their tracks, looking up.  The roar is answered by another roar and then another.  The demons seem to know what this is as they start scrambling back from the wall.Decending from the clouds is an immense Red Dragon, larger than anything Elly has ever seen, it is flanked by two dragons nearly as big, a Copper and a Green.  Their breath destroys anything that caught in it, as the strafe the fleeing demons.  More dragons descend from the clouds, magic erupting from them.  Cyclones decend from the clouds, wrecking havok on their flyers and ground forces alike.  Scores of dragons do battle with the horde.Elly had heard legends of the dragons coming together in the time of the Star Comets.  The stories did not do the power of a wing of Dragon credit.  She begins to hope that victory may indeed be possible.One Dragon catches Elly’s eye, a silver, Elias.  He is much larger than he was, but she is sure it is him.  He is battling what looks to be a Balor.  Elly tries to go to him, to help him, but she is just an observer here.  Exhaling his freezing breath finally sends the demonic thing crashing to the ground.  He spreads his wings to gain some altitude and is caught full in the chest by a bolt of dark energy coming from Shulvoros.  She could swear that he looks straight at her and then he falls from the sky.Seconds later, a Gold, as large as the first red carried a half dozen demons that are attempting to claw through its hide, and itself, crashing through Shulvoros, his component demons flying apart.The disorientation flashes again, she looks back to the city, it is barely a pile of rubble, there is no life anywhere around it.  Skeletons of dragons litter the ground, only to be buried by blowing dust.</blockquote>

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