The Fire Raged [Chapter XVII]

[Ayen]

Ranko was prepared, prepared to draw her blade and cut through the distance like it didn't matter and slice Leon into a thousand pieces and devour his soul in a single swing. But a flash of light came between them and pushed Leon back, away from the line of fire and Ranko's thumb only brushed across the hilt instead because of this. To think how easily she could have switched that motion into an attack before one had the chance to respond. She stepped forward and another came before her, the same as Leon.

"I hope you understand full well what you have just done by destroying a goddess. Our kind do not simply fade away after being killed... We gods can feel the deaths of our kin, and it doesn't feel pleasant..... at all... I hope you understand that you have set in motion events that you cannot control. I await the day your head is lifted atop a pike on the castle wall."

By the time the warrior's finished The Hulk was falling down upon Ranko's head. But before he could complete his fall he would feel an invisible force wrap around his body and then, through a surge of telekinesis from the demon blade, hurled towards Maelys crushing him underneath his massive body as the Queen simply walked past both men to join the rest of her armies.

“Puny god.”

[Linx]

Leon grit his teeth as Ranko set his eyes on him, opening his mouth to continue his speech, for no other reason than it was old habit when confronting things from the darkness that seeked to swallow the light. "I am..." he started before before being blinded by a quick flash of light and a solid thump on the head, swaying drunkenly for a moment. "I'm losing consciousness!" he said, slumping into blackness as he was dragged off, grumbling in his sleep. "Next time demon...next...ugh." he mumbles, continuing to grumble all the way back to the ships.

[Kragen]

Irony. Normally it was he who used hellfire against his opponents depending how prolonged a battle turned out to be. Now he was on the receiving end of it against an enemy who was unable to sense what he was. What he has been for over ten thousand years. Ghost Rider would soon find out as he brought up his arms, the chains and fire cutting and burning through his disguise and revealing the demon specter's within. His skull head revealed and hellfire of his own consuming it, repelling Ghost Rider's hellfire with hellfire of his own as he broke through the chains and aimed a punch for his skeletal jaw.

[Tenjou, Utena]

"Kara? Kara!?"
Just like that she was gone. Vanished without a trace or even a word to leave them by and that was how the former Champion of Ohtori knew something was seriously wrong as she looked back to the city from the ships in time to see the buildings crashing down by the demon armies' might. It was worse than she feared and if they were coming through that castle then they didn't have a lot of time.
"We have to get this ship ready to set sail."

[Maelys Knight]

[Transformation-3]
[Beam- 1]
[Lifeshield-]
[Melt -> Active- 1]
[Maximo Light Spear used]

“Puny god.”

"Are you referring to me?" The Hulk had indeed flown into her, however she was not physically there, unable to separate herself from Maelys' soul outside the temple. The image of the goddess simply puffed around the Hulk like smoke, merely to reform after the man had passed. Rosada folded her arms and gazed at Ranko. "Make sure you outrank someone before trying to insult them. Someone so lowly as a queen of the underworld could never amount to so much as a fraction of my power... hehehe....." Rosada's image dissolved into smoke that drifted away.

You realize she still possesses enough power to destroy Maelys at this moment? Oh quit being a party pooper... I like to have a little fun with my enemies... Maelys' body, still hovering about 15 feet away from Ranko, throwing off it's black aura, all but disappeared into the night..... literally. With the destruction of most of the enemies of the demon army, the dark of the night had reclaimed quite a bit of the battlefield. A glimmer of Light could suddenly be seen shimmering in midair, racing towards the ship that the refugees were using to escape. Maelys burst into existence from the glimmer, a spear of Light hovering next to him impaling the closest demon, disintegrating it unceremoniously. The Maximo reverted to it's essence orb form and began orbiting him. Maelys, dark aura still encompassed him, making him tricky to see in the black of the night for most people. He looked toward the ones still making their way to the ship. "Hurry!" He shouted to them. Maelys turned his gaze to Ranko, still standing far off in the ruins of the castle. He had to be ready for when, 'if' was most certainly out of the equation, when she came for the ship.

[DC Comics]

More demons came replacing those lost on the field as the god of Jherra was defeated. Obliterated by the Queen of the Netherrealm herself. How he both envied and despised the woman who had done all of this with what he possessed for so long before her. As the explosion erupted the Sorcerer merely walked forward into plain view of Demetrios. Laughing.

"You cannot harm me, Ajerian. Your efforts are as fruitless as your resistance's attempts at pushing back the Netherrealm."

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Jeho looked into the sorrow in the High Priestess' eyes as she called to him. Begging him to bring back Solomon who was killed in battle. But he could not. While he claimed to still be the god he always was he was in fact mortal and no longer had sway over the dead. Jeho quickly joined the other Aircano soldiers as Jehanne grabbed Miracle and they headed back to the ships.

"Make way!"

Jeho entered the ship and looked around to the others on board.

"Who's in charge here?"

[Garrus Vakarian]

Noob was separated from Miracle's shadow thanks to Leon but the damage has already been done. He returned with the other shadows and continued to assist the Netherrealm in their relentless assault on Jherrazad.

[Cap'n Failz]

He had sensed the demonic nature of this foe before him even before his disgusie burned away. In the midst of the chaos swarming about him, the exact nature of it had gone mostly unidentified. But as the human visage was burned and torn away, the image of just what he was fighting became clear to him. A demonic Spectre, risen directly from Hell and death in search of revenge. He had expected perhaps a demonic spirit inhabiting a human host, or some demon assuming a human guise in an attempt at trickery.

This revelation, however, caught him offguard, and as a result the punch collided with his jaw relatively unobstructed. He staggered back, his lower jaw hanging slack, knocked free on one side. He reached up and snapped it back into place with an audible crunch of bone grinding against bone. And then he spoke. "Hanzo Hasashi. Scorpion. Your soul is stained black with the blood of innocents and the lust for revenge." The fires on his head and in his heart erupted into a yet fiercer blaze, burning gold and crimson in a fountain of rage.

"You are Guilty."

And he struck out with a brutal uppercut with his left arm, aimed directly at Scorpion's own jaw. He followed it immediately with a swinging right hook, the chains in his fist whistling through the air as they glowed as if fire. Both of Ghost Rider's skeletal hands were ablaze with Hellfire, and if the blows connected, the Spectre would find his resistance to the flames of Hell for naught, as the emphyreal substance leaped out and scorched his very soul, leaving his physical body untouched.

[Miracle]

"Jehanne..."

Miracle was weak by the time she got to Jehanne's arms, drained both emotionally and physically as the Aircano forces were forced to pull back towards the ships. She just couldn't believe it. Solomon, the man she's known for as long as she could remember, was gone. Just like that she was taken from her. She'd never hear his voice or see his smile ever again. And what hurt the most...

It was her fault.

[Alex]

"I'll take the wheel. Hoist the anchor and get that sail up."

The Blind Assassin said while walking by Utena and Aminee. Reaching the wheel and standing behind it, taking the compass and using her power of touch to see the compass and the wheel in her mind to be able to direct them to their designation. And before anyone could ask.

"I'm handicaple."

[Sailor V]

Sailor V didn't wander too far away from the Moon Valley refugees in case things went south and that army managed to make it to their position. She was in shock along with everybody else when Kara suddenly disappeared and witnessed the destruction of the desert empire right in front of them. Hearing Utena speak to Aminee about getting this place to set sail Sailor V got the other Moon Valley refugees to help before looking over to Jeho who came aboard demanding to know who was in charge.

"That person isn't here anymore. If you want to make it off this place alive then I suggest you help us take off." Sailor V then looked over to Fukari taking the wheel of the ship and ran over to her. "Excuse me but how do you expect to steer a ship with bandages covering your eyes?"

[Aminee Starlight]

"You take left, I'll take the center. We need someone to climb the far right mast over here!" Aminee yelled out the last part before beginning to climb up the main mast of the ship to get it ready to set sail. Keeping an eye out in case any of those aerial demons came this way so she could warn the others.

[Kyrie]

Kyrie shook her head. Any other time and she would have laughed at the words that came out of Leon's mouth. Sadly this wasn't the time for laughter as she made her way to the cleared docks from earlier and onto the ship where the others were preparing to take off as quickly as they could. Setting Leon down she took her staff and was ready to push back any advancing demons with a wave of light if necessary.

[Jehanne]

The Knight in training left Miracle under the protection of Jeho and the other knights before running over to the remaining mast. Climbing up the mast and dropping down the sails at the top.

[Marvel Universe]

The Hulk was still on the ground. Demons crawling up on his body like insects. He got up in a rage and started swinging his arms to throw the demons off him but there were too many to combat. His body started to shrink down, transforming back to Bruce Banner and he became unconscious beneath the mass of demons now on top of him.