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Chapter 11: Decisive Battle

The screeches of the Demons could be heard as if they were right in front of Kain's forces. Soon the thumping of clawed feet hitting the ground grew deafening. The hoard erupted into view, their forces were uncountable, and the humans grew fearful, but stood strong, as they were taught to.

"FIRE!!!" Jalion yelled. The Catapults were launched, and the explosions were effective, but only put a dent in their forces, the front lines met as the catapults were reloading. The chaos ensued.

"Raziel, you are finished here!" Raziel turned to find a trio of Demons: Gas, Acid, and Lightning.

"Come and fight, you worms!!!" Raziel drew back the Reaver, and stabbed the Reaver right through Gas Demon. Using all his strength, he ripped it out the side of it and cleaved the Acid Demon in half. An electrical pincer flew down at him, and Raziel rolled out of the way just in time, and blasted the lightning Demon away. He fed upon the souls. He took a moment to look at the carnage of the battle, and saw that he was correct in judging the warriors of this age. They met the Demons with equal force, Raziel's confidence was restored.

He flew high up into the air. He looked and eventually found an area where their were none of his allies. He gathered up all his energy, and he created around twenty powerful projectiles, and several more weaker ones.

"Take these, COWARDS!!!" Raziel let them fly. They spread out as the flew, several Demons looked to see the barrage coming, however, there was no escape. When the light from the explosion faded, a huge crater was where about fifty Demons used to be.

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Kain teleported behind a Gas Demon as it slashed down on him, and re- materialized behind him, he turned his blade and stabbed behind him. The Gas Demon fell, and an Acid Demon showed itself in front of him. Kain pulled his sword out of the flesh of the Gas Demon, and swung the hilt up and struck the chin of the vile thing that dared challenge him. As its head flew up, Kain brought his blade down his sword upon the Demon's chest.

He saw Raziel's energy feet, and decided to make another one for himself. He jumped into the air, and created another ball of lightning, then another, and then another. They surrounded him, and started revolving, and as they did, each one let out its own thunder storm, killing an equal amount, if not more than Raziel.

He landed and cut a Lightning Demon down the middle.

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Jalion looked to see the explosions Kain and Raziel caused. He laughed, cut down another Demon. He decided to stop playing and performed his favorite, and devastating move. He created a ring of his energy around him, and it began spinning, and once it was fast enough, he threw it out in all directions. It cut the Demons around him like butter.

He blocked a slash aimed at his chest and stabbed right through the Acid Demon in front of him. He had plenty of energy left, he was confident of this battle.

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Vorador blocked until he couldn't contain his rage anymore. He threw his hands to each side of him, and the twenty Demons in his path burst into flame. He then used what was left to cut a line through their forces, he went berserker. He slashed, stabbed, swiped, and repeated in less than a second, this continued until Vorador was satisfied.

He stopped as he reached the end of their forces, to his amazement, his allies seemed to be getting the upper hand, all of what they'd seen had prepared them, he was proud. He blocked and cut through the Gas Demon in front of him.

He then continued battling, as did everyone else, the Demons were starting to worry, these humans and vampires had the same ruthless fearlessness that the demon hunters had. But they had the skills and strength to match theirs, they started to be overwhelmed.

Their side hadn't had these problems before, the presence of the blue one seemed to lift their spirits enormously.

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A huge surge of energy flew through the battlefield. All the Demons stopped fighting to look at the source. Any that was in the middle of a battle was slaughtered, and the rest started retreating.

It wasn't long until they found out why. After the last of the minor Demons disappeared. The Elder showed itself. Along with ten Fire Demons and five Black Demons.

"You somehow have overcome the forces of Demons, this was against the foresight of my master. But it doesn't matter, all ends here, go now my minions," The Elder lifted a sickening tentacle and directed the Demons into the fight. The battle was not over.

Author's Note: Raziel's in quite a predicament, can they defeat The Elder and win back the Pillars of Nosgoth? Janos Audron claimed that," The Pillars are the lock, and the Reaver is the key." What could this mean? They are the biggest card in this poker game, and only Raziel can end it. Please Review!!!