Blades of Blood: Kiaba can throw blades made from his own blood, which cut threw almost everything in their path. Has to draw blood from a wound and get some onto his hand.
Note: When regenerating body parts, the parts which have been grown back are covered with Kiaba blood.

Kiaba landed lightly on the stone street behind the barricades which the militia quickly built and repaired. Sharia seemed too have made a strong difference. "Wow, I was flying." the guardsmen said. "No, I was flying. You were being carried through the air." Kiaba said, annoyed that he wasn't getting the spotlight. "Get you facts straight, pal."

Sharia was on with him in seconds with Aribeth not to far behind. "Why, hello Ms. De Tylmarande. What brings you to this forsaken district?"

"She has two reasons but first let's debrief the guardsman. He might have useful information." Sharia answered. Kiaba waved his hand, ""No need. I know all we get from him already. Namely who's responsible for this."

"You mean they weren't at the warehouse?" Sharia said. Kiaba shook his head, "No. The corporate is probable in the cemetery. This guy at the warehouse was a leading the undead, but he wasn't a true necromancer. The he uses control the undead was given to him. However, he did tell be the name of the real culprit: Gulnan."

"Do you know Gulnan?" Aribeth asked. Again, Kiaba shook his head, "Not personally, nor have I heard of her before today." Aribeth then asked, "Then how do you know that it's a woman?"

Kiaba smiled, "Because it is one of thenamesthat isgive to those females that will become yuan-ti priestesses."

"Of course! The yuan-ti!" Sharia exclaimed, as she realizing how obvious it was, "The thought devourer caused a large amount of chaos to avoid recapture. Why wouldn't the yuan-ti follow it's example?"

"I can easily find the yuan-ti." Kiaba said as he extended his hand to Sharia, "Shall we go?"

"Aribeth has something to ask you?" Sharia said. "Aribeth?" Aribeth nodded before both women looked at Kiaba with a piercing gaze. Kiaba looked from one to the other. "Oh, great!" He exclaimed sarcastically.

"You see, we noticed that in the note, it describes you ability to heal wounds and regenerate body parts. It gives a detailed description to how one could end you life." Aribeth explained.

"So what?" Kiaba asked defensively. "So the person that wrote this note also knows you personally." Aribeth bluntly stated, "Other whys, how could they know how to kill you?"

Kiaba smiled before turning to Sharia, "You know damn well that I have a great number of admirers. Just because they know me, doesn't mean that I know who it is." Kiaba said, "All it means that it is an admirer. That's all."

Sharia knew that. Whatever blasphemy he committed was beyond any from of forgiveness to hell's children. "Do you have a guess?" Sharia said. Kiaba shrugged. Sharia let the subject dropped. "All right. Let's just be off. This militia soldiers are getting tired. I don't think they will last much longer."

"Mortals! No endurance!" Kiaba exclaimed as he picked Sharia up. Kiaba waved to Aribeth as they left the ground.

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"There!" Kiaba pointed as the landed to the ground. Kiaba placed Sharia down lightly. "There are major powers being used here." Sharia stated, "Nothing like a yuan-ti should have. Are you sure…?"

"There are two sources." Kiaba said, interrupting, "Gulnan's powers and some thing which seems to being givingher avery large boost to her powers." Sharia asked, "It the item evil or corrupted?"

Kiaba closed his eyes before saying, "Evil. Very Evil. But not demonic… not devonic… It's… DIVINE!" Kiaba opened is eyes as he turned to Sharia "A dark divine power."

"Cyric. There is probably a shine dedicated to Cyric here. That's where she got the power toraise this an army of undead." Cyric, the god of death, lies, and murder has the power over undead. Cyric was a likly divine power that responsable. "If we destroy the shine, the army will most likely be destoryed also."

Kiaba opened the door and walked inside, Sharia following after. As they entered, Kiaba was thinkingof the answer to Sharia's unasked question: how could Gulnan gain control over a shine to Cyric. Kiaba guessed that Gulnan was being manipulated by another power… and he had a good guess who.

The welcoming committee wasn't like they imagined, with the undead coming at them in swarms. In fact there was only one. Sharia had her fail at hand as slowly approached. "You seek to sacrifice me for your cure! I don't care about you plague! For this insult, you will grace my altar!" Gulnan said threw the mouth of the undead.

Kiaba blinked for a moment…

…then he began to laugh.

The undead turned to him. "You're going to sacrifice me!" he said as he laughed, "I don't care about their plague either but… wait… you're serious! In that case, let me laugh harder!" Kiaba laughter could be heard throughout the halls of the crypt. He thought of this as a funny joke. When he finally quieted down enough to speak, he turned to Sharia and said, "Let's kill this bitch and rip her heart out. Let's see how well she talks tough in hell!"

Kiaba was still laughing as his claws sliced through the undead that Gulnan spoke through. Kiaba march forward, with Sharia close behind. The Cleric of Tyr was suddenly fearful that a trap was set for them. She knew that Kiaba did care. He believed that the snake-woman wasn't any really threat.

Sharia noted the two on each side of them hallways to other rooms in the crypt, but Kiaba still marched forward toward another door. An adventurer would have to pick the lock, or cast a spell, or find a key to open the door, but Kiaba like his way best; destroy the door. It almost always worked.

As they neared the door, four ghoul lords, two on each side, suddenly came out of the darkness of the hall ways. Sharia was about to react with Sunrise but Kiaba was also expecting the trap. Kiaba fired four Dark Missiles at the ghoul lords with quick and efficient accuracy. They were destroyed before Sharia was got halfway through her prayer.

The door was made of heavy iron, but Kiaba fist still hit it hard enough to knock it off its hinges. The iron door went flying to the other side of the crypt. Inside was defiantly a shine of Cyric. However, the shine was transform and converted to another god. The room was expectly filled withan undead horde. In fact, the only thing that was still living was the yuan-ti snake-priestess a pyramid on the left.

Kiaba noted quickly that there was a second pyramid on the right, with an altar filled with dark power, the source of Gulnan's power boost. Kiaba smiled, "Hey! Snake bitch!" When he was positive he had the snakes attention he said, "Say goodbye to most of your powers!"

With that said, Kiaba jumped the right pyramid, while Sharia was turning the undead way from her to prevent them from ripping her apart. Kiaba slammed both of his fists into the altar. As the altar began to crack under power of archdevil, the yuan-ti turned to him. "Cursed creature of darkness!" Gulnan screamed, "You will pay with you life!"

The spell was launched before Kiaba could react. Gulnan's acid arrow hit him in the left side. Surprised that the snake got an attack in, Kiaba fell back under the power of her spell, which was still assisted by the powers of the altar.

As the altar crumbled to pieces from Kiaba's double fist attack, the undead crumbed to dust before Sharia's eyes. She looked around confused at for a moment, before she gave out a sigh of reliefthat Kiaba destroyed the source of Gulnan's power over the dead. The moment of relief was short lived as Gulnan turned towards her.

"Your false god can't protect you from my wrath. Prepare to die!" the snake-priestess said as she started to cast. That was when Sharia heard, "You shouldn't turn to another opponent until you kill the first one!" Both women turned to the archdevil, who was back on his feet.

Kiaba hand was covered with he's own blood, but he seemed to be in no pain. Sharia found is strange that he hadn't healed to wound yet. Gulnan turned her spell to Kiaba to cast it. While she finished casting the spell, Kiaba was no longer in the same spot. That was when Sharia was made numb with shock.

"Blades of Blood!" were the words which came out of Kiaba's mouth, the magical sound of power as clear as the sun is in the sky. Kiaba threw the blood on his hand at the snake-priestess. The drops of blood turned into the shape of blades… which was exactly what they had become; blades made from blood. The blades cut through the pyramid and Gulnan. Gulnan's body was suddenly in several lifeless pieces.

Kiaba landed in front of Sharia who was still staring at him. Never had she seen that ability, never be as scared of his power was she was now. What else could he do? What other abilities were not suppressed?

Kiaba walked up the corpse of Gulnan and literally ripped out her heart. He then placed the heart in a bag and held it up of Sharia. "Are you ok?" Kiaba asked with out emotion. Sharia took the bag as she nodded in answer, unable to speak. Kiaba walked past and urged her to follow.

By Tyr, how much power does Kiaba truly have!