To say that the ferret was panicking from the sudden levitation was a lie; he was somehow not surprised. But as he heard the Doomspider not feasting for a time and saw it glance at him, he froze.
He froze and was pretty fuckin terrified - only to fall limp with a small, sigh of relief at the fact that it decided not to devour his existance.

"...Ya know there's a kid back in there, right?" He asked the Hands of whomsoever held him; he had no idea who it was after all. This was literally just him floating and something holding him, he didn't know if it was a saint, a poltergeist, concentrated dumbassery or what.
A few moments before he sighed again. "...Whateva'. Two people --- One and a ferret -- ain' doin shit t'a that. And the town's on fire, so---"


"..."


"Shit, the town's on fire."

Red Gritted his teeth as he felt the warm familiar taste of copper and blood he spit it out as he felt the pain in his back and one of his arms began to drip more of his life blood once again upon him along with that feeling and the soreness and wet feeling from his leg of a sign another wound was upon his leg the odds of wining this battle where beginning to look grim until a welcome surprise came.

Red was surprised when some of his allies take down another one of these fake knights "Indeed I do, We have many foes to slay and send straight to the other side tonight to meet there fate lets just make sure its not our last ones and the last sight these men see is us making sure we never let them do this again." Red said the sound of stubbornness courage, and rage was in his voice, Red refused to sound or look weak in front of the enemy,

"I hope your have a good doctor because I may need to see her and one of these men will defiantly be needed to make sure they tell us everything once were done with them." Red said his eyes now more focuess on the battle as he raised his shield and hammer back up into a fighting stance to form a perimeter with the two men and keep there attackers in front of them.

Cyntheria looked around as she set the ferret down. Her eyes quickly scanning everything before she took off in a bolt for Elisa. Her body shaking and as she held in her anger. She rushed to try apply pressure on Elisa's wounds while also grabbing for arrows still on fire to try and stop the bleeding. She muttered under her breath but enough to hear. Her mind focused before slightly sliding into a memory.
"This is my fault... I will not be you. I won't let anyone die. I will keep them alive unlike you. Letting your own men die and then letting mother die to. I will not die or let anyone else. I will never be a sick monster and watch."
Her eyes showing a slight pain but anger as she whispered one last part.
"You are the monster. I will be different and keep people alive. I will not stand by and watch like you. Laughing at your own wife's... I am going to save people then wipe you from excistance for everything you ever did. I will die studying everything I have to. To make what you did right.

The drain from the spell seemed to had hit Elisa at the worst time, given her lethargy lead to her getting an arrow in the gut and more in her shoulder and thigh, and a quick glance down to see her guts didn't exactly look in good shape. Still, she was glad for the sudden appearance of Cyntheria to help mend her wounds, given her wounds....

Even if the Mage was rather disturbed to hear what was coming from Cyntheria's mouth, with eyebrow raised to show her feelings on the matter. However, she wasn't going to let her wounded condition prevent her from fighting, so she loaded up another crossbow bolt and sent it flying at the enemy, not risking magic in her currently sorry state.

Arrow broke his helm's ornamentation and drew a line of blood across his cheek, awarding Noburo with yet another scar to place in his collection. The enemy organized themselves admirably and the samurai was already prepared to go on the defense as charging into a proper formation of soldiers would almost always lead into certain death.

However then the mage fired off her crystals and all hell broke lose, with it Noburo's plan of defending himself shattered and made way for another attack. Exploiting the current situation, the Kensei drove forward, stabbing one of the soldiers through stomach before pulling his nodachi away, dropping the man on the ground, still alive but barely, Noburo awarding him with a messy death. He killed once again, a simple slash opening another attacker's chest, killing him on the spot.

There were more of the enemies present and Noburo kept on coming, intent on killing everyone here before the day was done.

The force of attackers who had survived Elisa's spell were wary. Some pulled the crystals out of their wound in awe and fear, amazed how they glittered in the moonlight. One such puzzled imposter knight caught Elisa's bolt in the chest, piercing a lung effectively putting one of them out of the fight.
This brief moment of confusion bought Cyntheria time to do what she was doing without major interruptions.
The wound was hastily mended, but then Cyntheria caught arrows as well to her bicep and upper back. At least Elisa didn't get shot this time, thanks to Cyntheria being in front of her. More would have rained down on them if it wasn't for Gunther and Noburo.
The two warriors were an unstoppable onslaught, reducing their foes' numbers rapidly down.
They had not expected any capable resistance from this town, they had come unprepared, only to pillage not to do battle.
(You are allowed a few flavor kills again if you wish. @Valonox @Colapse )

As their numbers dwindled, the last few at last formed a counter attack. Noburo was distracted by a rock thrown at his helmet that didn't do much in itself but give him a good shake, then someone jumped on his back and started to choke the life out of him.
The samurai left himself open because of this and got stabbed in the gut. His vision started to get blurry but still found strength in his muscles to fight back. Someone also grabbed his sword arm and tried to wrest his nodachi from his hand.
From what he could tell he was being assaulted by three foes at once.

Gunther got pelted by arrows. Even his enhanced physique found this debilitating, forcing him to find cover or shield himself as best he could. When he was the least bit distracted, the remaining three imposters who were not assaulting Noburo, ganged on Gunther. He got stabbed and slashed several times before he managed to raise his guard up again, slicing his axe through the air to give him breathing room.
Gunther now had a quiver's worth of arrows sticking out of him and he was bleeding profusely. His three assailants surrounded him ready to attack again.

Cyntheria had carried Benjamin to this field of battle, he was still unharmed and hidden, free to do as he wished.

@Maleth @Colapse @Valonox @BloodySoulStealer @Vlayden

Seeing Asher the most immediate threat, two men charged him. The mercenary's tactic worked and he struck one of them fatally in the throat. The second one used this chance to swing an axe at his head. It connected, giving Asher a nasty shock even if his helmet absorbed most of the impact. The mercenary blocked and parried further attacks.

The remaining one looter attacked Ferdinand, making a running charge with a sword thrust. Ferdinand simply sidestepped and redirected the blow past him. The imposter knight crashed head first into a wall, falling flat on his ass dazed. Ferdinand had an easy kill of him.

"Now you're getting it!"
Shouted the one looter who was being savaged by Hay. He limped his way to a neighboring room were a fire raged, beating the stubborn with an armored fist all the way.
"Get in there!"
He began to mercilessly pummel the brave dog and tried to kick it toward the fire.
The whole building groaned and cracked, rooms were collapsing and the fire spreading.

@TuskatheDaemonKilla @ItsTime both of you can do one flavor kill if you wish.

With Ori at his side, Red managed a counter attacked against his foes. The two fought defensively and steadily gained ground. Ori stayed behind Red when arrows flew at them, his shield shielding both of them. When enemies got close enough Ori sprung into action and in unison with Red they tore their enemies to pieces.
As they took more and more ground slowly, their enemies backed away.
Some fell into the pits dug by Red and the peasants, not noticing them until too late for their backs were turned and the fighting distracted them.
Little by little, their foes' numbers were reduced. They were starting to flee, leaving only three of the most determined to fight.
From the left side, Ori got hit by an arrow to the side. Apparently they had been flanked by some of the archers. Red's shoulder and thigh got shot, drawing fresh blood. Using this to their advantage, the remaining three in melee shoved Ori off his feet and kicked him in the head while he was down.
Red's shield got hooked and torn to the side with an axe, leaving him open and he got punched in the face.
The mercenary felt the shock even through his helmet and it felt like his nose was bleeding.

@Vulpas You are allowed 2-4 flavor kills if you so wish.




Shaila's shield toss was impressive, if it had hit her target. Instead it hit the wall, next to the man bashing Gwyneth's door. Noticing something hit the wall next to him in great force startled him. He looked behind him and noticed Shaila.
"Who the hell are you?!"
He shouted. It was too little too late before Shaila had closed the distance with the sword wielder. He was about to bring the sword down on Ulrich before Shaila slashed at his sword arm. The armored gauntlet the man wore kept it from being lopped off, but it didn't stop it from breaking bones. Screaming in pain, he dropped the sword and held his wrist in agony, leaving himself widely open. (You can describe killing this one off if you like.)
The one who had tried to break in Gwyneth's room pulled out his sword and attacked. Shaila got locked in a sword duel with this one for a moment.

At this point, Ulrich had violently choked one of them to death and finally they managed to pull the knight commander off his victim.
Two men held his arms in place while another two started punching and kicking him liberally. Ulrich raged and struggled with all his might, and he even nearly got free. The two men holding him still had to really put all their effort into it. Ulrich spat out blood and he began to lose some of his strength, slumping a little.

Shaila's duel progressed. Her opponent had evidently received some training in swordplay, he could be counted on being competent.
He managed to pass Shaila's guard and put all his force on one blow. It hit Shaila fully on her chest plate. She did feel the impressive blow and it left a dent on her armor. Shaila had been put through worse and she shrugged the blow off thanks to her armor and perseverance. Her foe was now open and she delivered with an upward stab straight through the gut and out the back.
The imposter knight fell on the floor, bleeding to death and whimpering.

@Shadhunter

The moment the blade had dropped from his hand Shaila wrapped a free arm around him and pulled him tight, her blade pierced flesh as she thrusted it through his gut, all the way to the hilt. She gripped him tightly and violently tossed him off the floor as she pulled her blade free.

Her duel had been short lived but the blow had managed to force her to her knees for a moment. She took in several deep breaths as she gripped the hilt of the fallen sword with her free hand. She got back to her feet, a blade in each hand. She approached the others from behind, slowly. Her grip on the blades tightened as she attempted to plunge them both deep into the backs of those who had been pummeling Ulrich. "I advise the rest of you leave, unless you'd like to meet your god sooner, rather than later... Because I have no intention on meeting mine today..."

Gunther enjoying the accompaniment of the Easterner. He thought them as a good pair , but he needed to cleave his way to him he did not wish him to fall like a bull charged the impostor bandit in-front of him to knock him onto the ground to make his way to his samurai friend. Gunther then dropped his axe an pulled his short swords for greater mobility and attempted to cleave through the impostor surrounding the samurai starting with the the one choking the life out of him then the Samurai then the one attempting to take his weapon.

Red Growled under his helmet as he began felt more warm blood begin seeping down his armor from his shoulder to his thigh and even down his nose, This would not dissuade him from the battle. As he felt his Sword tripped from his arm a pent up rage began flowing from him, Swinging his hammer down onto the attackers arm a sickening crack could be heard as Reds hammer connected with the mans arm causing his axe to drop, Grabbing the dagger at his belt he stabbed forward at the mans cut aiming for the under side of his armor for a sweet spot to start guting stabbing between the grown and stomach, Fueled with rage and adrenaline red began stabbing and tearing to the sideways as he ripped his dagger out as the man began to scream parts of his guts would begin falling out as the mans one useful arm he was once using to try and push away red tried to catch his guts and try to put them back in.

Looking quickly red quickly jumped back as another bandit tried to use his stabbing time to get a hit on the merc. dodging back Red picked up his shield quickly raised his hammer high again, blocking the blow and shoving the man back with his shield Raising his hammer again he swung it aiming towards the helmet and finding purchase at the mans jaw, The jaw flying off and blood beginning to pour soaked the merc and caused the man to fall back as pain and blood losses began to take him.

pain ringing through the mercs nerves he knew he needed to assisted Ori then begin slowly moving back as they were being flanked by archers. Raising his shield he charged forward with what speed and energy he had left bashing a man that managed to kick Ori in the head while he was down bringing his hammer upwards the Merc eyes only showed a merciless rage as he looked into the man eyes, before bashing downards and crushing the mans skull causing more cranial liquids, brain matter and bone shards to go flying into his armor.

"Ori we need to get up and begin moving back we are being flanked by more archers." Red said to the man wondering if he was still consciousness getting no response he raised his hammer as one of the attackers with a bow raising his shield he manage to catch two of the arrows as a third one managed to get his pauldron. "Dammit we need to move." Putting his hammer to his belt he grabbed Ori and began moving backwards with his shield raise to cover him and Ori as he moved them both towards town and towards the others.

With the rather pitiful attack by the fake knight failing utterly Ferdinand simply lifted the back of their helmet and drove the dagger home. The imposter went limp and Ferdinand was becoming more aware of the fire around him. He would need to get out of here quickly but not before he ended the bastardy who was hitting the dog. As such he moved as quickly as he could towards the remaining imposter with dagger in hand.