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Message: <blockquote data-quote="megamania" data-source="post: 983165" data-attributes="member: 9255">UNDER A DARKSUNSEGMENT 088“Death Comes Already”The flying creatures flew in low and fast.  By doing this, they caused a miniature sandstorm that sometimes drove prey into easier positions of capture.  The blinding disorientation caused by it bothered the Sand Wyverns little.  Their unique nature adapted for it.  But most prey was not.As was the normal attack formation, the larger mother lead the “V” shaped flight formation across the sand and silt.  As prey was found, the half of the “V” nearest to the food were veer off and try to tear into the prey.  The mother and the other half would land and take care of the remains.  It always worked.  It has to today also.  There were young to be fed and they too were hungry.Stonecrusher saw the cloud for what it was.  He cried out a warning but the winds drowned out his voice.  Only Glaze heard him and she was more curious than concerned.  Dessantee moved to a different rock formation from the others and kept his head down.  The others could hear and see nothing but the wind and the sand and silt carried by it.  Then something…three somethings appeared out of no where.  Stonecrusher cried out as three Sand Wyverns each struck him.  Blood and tissue became air borne.  He fought back tears from the pain of the injuries and the air borne salt that got into the wounds.Mania instantly begins to glow as his psionic aura projects a cushion of energy around him.  Cosa castes a quick spell of protection onto herself that is similar to Mania’s field.  Glaze knows a battle is about to begin and stops and weaves a quick song of music and inspiration.  The winds drown out the words but the feeling gets through.  Stonecrusher, now angry collects his club and sets his grip.  He can see other creatures setting to land near him.  He will show he is not so easy to kill.The first wave made a mistake in Mania’s mind.  They landed.  They stood a better chance in the air.  He steps out from the sheltering rocks quickly and attacks a Wyvern.  A solid strike is landed that pushes the creature into the sand and off balance.  Cosa hits the same beast with bolts of energy that further injures it.With supreme effort, Glaze begins to sing a song of heroic levels.  She calls on Zev and his epic battle against a Brown Dragon said to have occurred near this area.  Stonecrusher swings high and hard onto an incoming flying beast.  He hits it so hard that one eye pops lose and it bits completely through it’s own thick tongue.  It’s one remaining eye goes cloudy and it teeters and falls, its brain crushed by the shards of its shattered skull.  A mysterious area of darkness begins to cover Dessantee’s hidden body.  No one notices.The beast Cosa hit drops so Mania moves onto a beast that is trying to get Cosa.  He hits it but knows it will take more than that to save Cosa.  Cosa, being more defensive than aggressive natured, calls up a spell that she used on the last dumb beast she faced.  Mirror Image.  The Wyvern shudders as it now faces six foes instead of two.  Glaze begins her next verse of Zev’s Epic Song.  Crusher sees an onrushing beast.  It is as big as he is!  He swings and an echoing thud is heard as its head is struck.  Enraged- the flock mother attacks him.  She bites him on the neck and tugs hard.  Blood sprays everywhere as the sandstorm settles down.  Her claws sink deep into his already torn body exposing organs to the air and then finally- her tail curls up between his legs and stabs him in the lower back injecting poison.  Stone crusher shudders.  He turns his head with a bloody smile….”bad….birdy…beast….” then falls.Cosa is struck several times and fears she may succumb to the creature after all.  Mania strikes the beast again.  Bones break and the beast is favoring one side now.  Cosa’s images spread out and surround the beast.  Confused and surrounded, it can not protect its injured side as she attacks it.  A bone breaks and punctures it’s heart from her sneaky attack of desperation and need.  Glaze breaks her song as she sees Stonecrusher topple over and spill out.  The largest of the beasts snarls at her in obvious defiance.  She back pedals quickly into…utter darkness!?!?!The four remaining Wyverns launch into crusher’s body.  They hack off a limb and step back.  One takes to the air pushing sand into Mania and Cosa’s faces.“Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!” screams Cosa and she and her four duplicate Mirror Images react to the site.  Mania knows they are outmatched.  He looks at the mysterious black area and pushes Cosa into it.From inside the globe an elf can be heard shouting something about being stepped on.  Glaze about “bad touch” and Cosa’s crying.  Mania swears…and swears.Outside…Stonecrusher…a 1/2 Giant looking for friends in the desert is torn apart to feed young.  His bloody smile is eerie and unsettling.  Stranger yet…one hand seems to have loosen it’s grip on the club enough for one finger to straighten out…in the direction of the mother of Sand Wyverns.</blockquote>

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