Battle In LIMBO

[D'mnchyld]

She looked over at Nightcrawler, his hand out and asking to see Kevin's sword. "I um, well I guess so. It's not really mine and I don't think it would be good to actually use, Hardlight's stuff is kinda fragile so be careful okay?" She held it out for him trusting that it would better serve the group, if it did function as a proper sword, in the hands of somebody who knew how to use it. The crash of the Minotaur shocked her and she jumped along with TuneUp, holding tighter to him.

"Uh, I thought so too...?...weird, she looks kinda like my auntie. If she was young and skinny." D'mnchyld said allowing Sean to fold her into him with his embrace. She was really wanting to get home now because she so wanted to tell him what she was feeling. She found herself looking upward at the approaching woman still holding the sword in her hand.

"Here!" she said thrusting the weapon out for the blue fuzzy teacher to take hold of and use to protect them, since things were suddenly getting all the more scary now that her ruse was quickly unraveling. "She looks like she's coming this way, and I don't know for sure but I'm guessing she wont like me pretending to be her."

[Diesel]

Ian had been searching the crowd for Lorelai when the minotaur landed really close to him. It was the first time he had a glimpse of Aideen in real combat. It hit him then that she knew what she was doing, with combat and all, she'd definitely done this before. Man... that's kinda hot, he thought. "Alright bro one Fastball Special coming up," Ian said as he caught him easily. Practicing with those 400lbs weight at practice really helped him out. He aimed at the demons in the air around Aideen. Just as if he was in football practice, Ian threw Wolverine perfectly at the demons charging at her, since he didn't want to accidentally hurt his friend. He wasn't one of the star players back home for nothing. His hit looked good and he felt a spark of satisfaction when Wolverine hit right at the two charging at her. He trusted him to take care of Spitfire. Now he had to take care of his girl.

Ian looked back at the crowd and finally saw the peep of blue hair struggling in the crowd. "PIPSQUEAK I'M COMING HANG ON!" he yelled. He narrowed his eyes and took a couple of steps back and then gave him self a running start. When he got to the to the ledge, Ian pushed off with all his strength and jumped far into the crowd. He had his fist poised in the air and he landed right on top of the some large demon with a shield Ian brought his fist straight on top of the demons head, with the green glow around his fist. The demon went down easily.

That's all Ian needed. He barreled through the crowd looking on the ground for wear his girl was. Some of the demons were watching the chick that came in on the demon but he had bigger stuff to worry about, like his girl. "Lorelai!" he cried as he spotted her on the ground. Ian elbowed the demon she had crawled under and scooped her up fast. The demons next to him were too busy staring and that was all well and good with him, as he cradled his girl.

"Aw Pipsqueak babe, I shoulda got to you faster. You shouldn't even be here," Ian said as he hugged her and cradled her to him. "I got ya babe. I ain't lettin' go," he muttered, giving himself the chance to just hold her before the fighting began.

[Frostbite]

At hearing Hardlight call out to her Lorelai stopped for a moment to turn her head to see a glowing hoop spinning around him and slicing up demons. She had a small hope that he would get to her so at least she wouldn't be attempting to fend for herself, but it was gone as soon as he was knocked out. She yelped as a demon poked at her and she continued to crawl until she heard Ian call her name, and she froze in place when the demon was pushed away from her. Then she was off the ground and he was holding her, and she threw her arms around his neck and buried her face in the crook of it. "Oh god, Ian, oh god" she mumbled, her voice shaking as she clung to him, feeling a myriad of feelings- happy, safe, comfortable, just right. Her mind and thoughts went wild, everything was scattered and few coherent thoughts could be formed.

Even though they were still in Limbo, she never thought she could feel more relieved and happy, and wished she had better control when she started crying in the midst of everything she was feeling and was trying her best to hold in. It was now that she let loose "Oh god, I want to get out of here I was afraid for you and scared," she babbled, shaking slightly as she looked up at him, letting it sink in that he found her and she was saved. Unable to help herself, Lorelai reached up a little to kiss him, bringing a trembling hand to his face.

She broke away softly and glanced around through blurry eyes at the demons who had been after her. They had just been standing there watching them and began to come to their senses. They started closing in on them and she looked back at Ian. "They're coming closer," she said, looking back at the demons as she clung tighter to him.

[Hardlight]

Owww my head Kevin thought as he found himself coming in and out of consiousness. He opened his eyes and saw gross stomping feet all around hima nd then he started to panick. He knew he had been hit hard and his head was stingging and he worried if he was bleeding. He reached up quickly and fet to see if there was blood and then he remembered his hoola hoop and sat up trying to see if he had cut his own legs off.

Oh good I'm still alive and in one piece and my heads just bleeding a little bit. Who hit me? He looked around and saw that there were evil eyes staring down at him "AAAaahhhhHHH!" he screamed before he could think of anything else to do he was grabbed up and thrown from demon to demon and they pulled at him and ripped his clothes and he was feeling hands grabbing him and fingers trying to stick all into a place that he didn't want all torn up by demon claws. He was saving that place for somebody special. "NOOO! STOP! I don't AAAHHH!! STOPPP!" he screamed "HELP ME SOmeBOdDDYYY PLEEeEaaASE ! LoRREaAaELLllaAIeee HELLLP!"

[Haven]

Falling unceremoniously to the ground Niki Sanchez, albino demon mutant pain in the ass, stood up and brushed herself off. She didn't really have to nothing could get her dirty through her forcefield, but it just seemed the thing to do that moment. "Thanks, you fart biters." she said looking up at the girl in the sky.

She looked familiar in a way, but different. To Haven's eyes Ember was no one she knew, not really but there was a vague recollection. Like an image from a dream that she knew she'd dreamed. But as it was all a dream for Niki- her life before Limbo- even as it was the worst thing she had ever been through, it would be nothing compared to the hell she would be living now. Little did she know how hellish her life would become.

She looked around at the demons, each one slowly and they all had looks on their faces that she had seen before. She knew the looks even as she couldn't place the names with the faces which had bore them, but the faces flashed in her mind now as screams of a little boy being finger raped nearby sent her memories swirling. Visions of days in foster homes where the children were molested in nearby rooms one at a time. She would soon learn her place here in this hell. She would need to rely on her forcefield, her mutant gift, the remnant of her humanity, if she would have any hope here in her new life. A sadness filled her, slowly it gathered and climbed up out of the pit of her stomach, slowly it replaced the hate she was filled with before.

[Shadowkat]

Shadowkat tried to stay close to her two students so that no demons could sneak behind her, but what with everything going on it was the slightest bit hard. Just as she had twirled her sword into a demon that got past her defenses she saw off to the side Ember burst into action, sending the corpse of a winged minotaur to land in front of her and Nightcrawler, whom she answered, "Same Kurt! I missed ya!" She jumped back to avoid being hit by it, only to see the demons start to be distracted when a woman on a beast descended down. The woman looked familiar, but in what way Shadowkat couldn't figure out.

Regardless, she glanced around again at her comrades. She saw that Diesel and Wolverine had done a Fastball Special aimed around Ember, and then Diesel had launched himself off the stage to go save his girlfriend. She moved her gaze and saw poor Elixir. She was wrapped in makeshift bandages from her clothes, and the poor thing seemed to have lost her eyes in the process. The sight hurt Kitty to see, and she felt a pang in her chest as she wished she could've done better to protect her in the first place.

She looked out into the crowd to see the rest of the X-Men and the students, mixed in with the demons and fighting with them, and looked closer to see if Haven was still crowd surfing. It seemed they had put her down finally. She turned to look at Sean and k'8. "How you two doing? You alright?" she asked, hearing a demon come up behind her. In reaction she stabbed the sword out behind her and it ran into it. In a fluid movement she slid the sword out and saw as k'8 was handing Kurt the light sword she had been holding onto and turned to the side, half watching her kids, half on alert for more demons.

[~ N.P.C. ~]

The woman had stepped off of the back of the hell beast and from under her tattered cape two emaciated and withered wings had spread out. They looked to be incapable of holding her aloft but she did not fall to the ground. Obviously more magical than physical, her flight was based on a different set of physics here in the realm of Limbo. She came before the group on the stage and descended to hold a position hovering slightly above the surface of the dusty raised dais where they all stood fighting off her minions.

She had been speaking first to herself it seemed and then to TuneUp as she noticed him standing holding D'mchyld, and ultimately to D'mnchyld herself, which was in retrospect a complete circle...of sorts.

She came to hover right before Nightcrawler and D'mnchyld and without a moment of hesitation she reached her hand into the blue fuzzy X-Man. It was not an attack so much as a grasping of some otherworldly manner. Her hand did not injure him in so much as it reached into him as if it was ghostlike, however the result of her reaching into him did cause him harm.

Withdrawing her hand in a fluid pull she brought forth a blade the likes of which the assembled X-Men recognized immediately. It was the sword of the realm, a manifestation created by Illyana Rasputin in her time here, it was....

THE SOULBLADE.

[Nightcrawler]

He hadn't quite grabbed hold of the glowing blade of light before the one who was now D'mnWoman had reached into him drawing forth the soulsword. He had not known it was there, he now in an instant recalled the moment of it being placed inside of his own soul to keep it hidden and safe.

It had burned and bit into him when it was enshrouded by his own soul, but that was nothing compared to the pain he felt upon it's release. It was a ripping and searing sensation, it shredded his soul much like a hyena tearing at a carcase on the hot dry Serengeti. Agony - burning agony - ripping burning soul decimating agony.

"AAAAkkkkkk!!" he cried out as it was pulled from him. His spirit ravaged, he collapsed on the deck. His will to press on pressed beyond it's capacity, he let go of consciousness and fell into darkness.