Extra-Curricular (continuation)

[Dieter Helyanwe]

Dieter didn't miss a beat. He threw a few of his own caltrops with flag cast on them toward Ed's area. In order to throw off anyone watching Dieter loosed his rope dart. He knew that Thomas and Toutoa would be using their own counter measures. Ed had left himself extremely vulnerable. It would be hard to cast spells when you were going to the bathroom.

Thomas immediately raised a shield and Toutoa used a haste spell to move out from under Cylo.

((Feel free to take control of Hendricks I don't know what to do with him at the moment.))

[Cylo]

((He's probably fine just hiding for now. Wouldn't want him taking flak from Tom and Tou.))

"I guess they forgot their watches," Cylo said to no one in particular, from a position a good few feet in the air over where the pair had been. The moment the shield had been raised Cylo had shifted his full weight to it and used it to jump into the air again. The resulting force downward from his demonic strength would force the shield directly into Thomas. Unless he did something about it, it would probably be enough to bust up a couple ribs.

He used the momentum from his jump to bring him near the Haste-ed Toutoa, the grin of pure mischief still on his face. "Going somewhere?"

Ed hadn't been expecting the makibishi, since he had thought Cylo was the only one attacking his group, but by a bit of sheer luck he had turned away from the tree just as one was about to hit him in the side, and then he looked down to check his belt, avoiding the one that was headed for his head a moment ago. He came out of it not knowing that the two had been heading for him, but a third coming his way certainly got his attention.

"Agh! Mystic Strands!" he yelled in a panicked voice. The remaining projectiles went awry and missed him completely. In the dim light he could just barely make out the form of Dieter ahead of him, and he aimed a Flag spell desperately in his direction, but he knew he probably wouldn't stand a chance unless one of the others came to his aid, and soon.

[Dieter Helyanwe]

Dieter casually dodged the feeble flag spell and realizing mythic stands would foul up most of his projectiles he flung out a poison spell. Dieter kept moving to keep the other two seraphs from being in a position to retaliate. Toutoa and Thomas were busy managing Cylo's surprise attack as the nasty poisoning attack came toward Ed. Dieter didn't want to hurt him but made the toxin designed only to knock him out.

Dieter manipulated his rope dart to continue striking at Ed to occupy his attention away from the oncoming poison curse.

However, seizing opportunity, Kim asked Mr. McCullic to keep an eye on Sharice, left the tree, and started making a move toward Hendricks.

[Cylo]

Fortunately, Ed had wasted no time in using Reflect to preemptively block Dieter's next attack. He hadn't been first in his class for no reason. The already-weak poison spell shot back to Dieter even weaker than before, to the point where if it hit him it would probably only make him a little sleepy.

Meanwhile, the rope dart's course went stray as well, nearly tying knots in itself, but Ed kept his head and trusted the Mystic Strands to do their job, concentrating on trying to take Dieter out of the game before he was taken out himself. He could really have used some help though.

Where is my team??

"Goodnight!" Cylo said cheerfully, giving Toutoa a light bonk on her head. Of course, a light bonk from a demon on a goblin is easily enough to knock them out. For good measure he cast a Flag spell at Toutoa and her presumably inert/injured partner.

"Hendricks! You should be clear to come out now. Wanna help us take out this last one?"

"Force Wall!" shouted Ed, using the spell to push both Dieter and his rogue rope dart back until he could think of something else to do. His eyes darted to where his companions were and he noted that they had both seemingly been taken out. He knew he couldn't do this on his own, and he really didn't feel like doing it the hard way. There was only one choice.

"Alright! Alright! I surrender!"

If they didn't believe him, Dieter could just read his mind. He would much rather come out of this ordeal intact, and he thought he had done pretty well, all things considered, to hold off the Head Seraph for a while without his partner.

[Dieter Helyanwe]

"A good thing you did Edward." Dieter chuckled. The curse feebly bounced off a light shield Dieter absentmindedly put out to counter it. "Another second and I would've kept things even more interesting. Although you did put up decent defense a few counters would've gotten through that and then you'd have to deal with seven kinds of pain. Alright Cylo who've we got next." Dieter could see Mr. Kim coming from a mile away. With a flick of his ropedart Mr. Kim was entangled. He kept a force sheild up to keep Dieter from attacking but Dieter quickly dispelled it with a cancel. The rope dart squeezed tightly around him and kept his movement restrained. "Mr. Kim how nice of you to join us. Flag." Mr. Kim took a gasp of air after Dieter loosened the chains.

[Cylo]

"They got Ed," said the recently returned Billy to Helayanai, not even a shadow of doubt in his voice. Some sort of unknown power kept him informed of any deep emotions his twin felt, and he was sure of the result of what he had felt.

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"This is the second time this has happened," grumbled Ed. "It's always when I have to pee."

"You have to learn to drain the main vein when you're not in the middle of something," chided Cylo, though his tone was playful more than anything. "Now quit grumbling and help me with these guys. I don't want to do any lasting damage."

As Cylo spoke, he crouched over Thomas and used Mend to heal his broken ribs, offering the man a hand to help him up when he was done. "Sorry about that, man," he said with a sympathetic smile. While he did enjoy this sort of game, he always felt kind of bad for hurting people and did his best to make it up to them. "You good to walk?"

Ed snapped to attention and looked over Toutoa, who only had small bruises and cuts other than being knocked out. He used Heal to fix her up and then slapped her cheek lightly to try and wake her up. "Hey, lady! Get up!"

Cylo spoke to Dieter without looking, as he was still making sure Thomas was all set. "Who've we got next? Well, Mr. Kim's team is a member short now, and we could probably follow his trail right back to them. What do you think?"

"Well what do we do?" Ed asked Dieter, still crouched over Toutoa. "Just leave?"

[Dieter Helyanwe]

"Well you could always go for some good tea and watch the show." Dieter crouched and extended his senses. He wanted to make sure that no one else was pursuing. Dieter's eyes glanced around. "Hmm we can probably thin out the good ol' Scotsman and make our mark easy pickings."