An Amalgam of Odd Adventurers [Leo][Ana][Wicked][Ferr]

[Ferr Windston]

Once the smaller person was asleep, Damion took out a flask and downed a sip of ale to give him a shock. Now fully awake, the warrior took care to protect the perimeter of his slumbering allies. With his greatsword with him, he began to walk slowly around while keeping an eye out for any thing in the night. He thanked goodness that the moon was out to assist him with it's much needed light. 

[Codestar7]

Otto snapped awake at a sound from outside, then noticed it was just Damion. He started drifting back into slumber when he sensed something else. It wasn't just his companion, but something else was stirring away from the eyes of men.
"Damion." Otto whispered. "I think there is something in the forest."
Otto gestured to his left, where he sensed the shadow.

[Leornid]

Leornid woke up again. It was getting annoying how easily he could wake up. He woke up just in time to hear Otto say there was something in the forest. Slowly, he reached for his bow and nocked and arrow while nodding to the other two to make sure they knew he was awake. Crawling, he approached Inu and Cleatus and nudged them to wake them up. This might be trouble.

[Wicked Basket]

Cleatus merely waved his hand as if shooing away a bug and mumbled in his sleep. He probably should have informed the group that he was a heavy sleeper, but that's not something that usually comes up in casual conversation. He probably should have also told them that he really did not like being disturbed.

[Anadwen]

Inusaki sprang to her feet at the slightest touch, wiping her eyes with one hand, and looking up at Leornid. "What's it, Leo-Leo? Why're you waking me up?" she asked, and the confusion mirrored in her large eyes.

Why would someone wake her in the middle of night?

[Leornid]

"Hush, little one" Leornid said. "Otto said there's something in the forest. Keep quiet and try to wake Cleatus up. Be ready for anything." Leornid himself still kept an arrow nocked on his bow, and looked over his shoulder at the location Otto had said there was something.

[Ferr Windston]

Damion looked to Otto and unsheathed his blade. He pointed his greatsword at the location the man spoke of and started to inch towards it. "Please no demons. Please no demons." The warrior begged the gods. "Someone make a torch." He whispered back towards the group.

[Codestar7]

"No." Said Otto. Let us not risk it. Otto drew his own sword, just in time as thugs riding wolves surged out of the trees, weilding death deploying battle axes, polearms, hammers and swords. Otto sighed. "LOOKS LIEK ROUND TWO!" He yelled, charging. he wouldn't use his bow this time, he wished to conserve his arrows. So, instead, he emt the first wolf, and plunged a sword into it's throat, felling it's rider, who Otto stamped in the chest, crushing his lungs.

[Anadwen]

Inusaki let out an excited shriek as the bandits emerged from the forest, immediately drawing her swords, and leaping towards them. Her movement was faster than would be expected from a little girl. Once again, she didn't seem to have a slightest problem with fighting - the fact that she used the bodies that she stabbed, or sliced up, to launch herself higher.

It didn't take her long to get rid of five of the bandits.

[Wicked Basket]

The combination of shouting and Inusaki's screaming was enough to wake the slumbering Cleatus, and he was not at all pleased with being disturbed. Grabbing his warhammer he charged the nearest bandit and swung his hammer, sending both mount and rider flying to the sound of the sickening crunch that came from the wolf's ribs as the hammer impacted them. The rider was then squashed beneath Cleatus boot as he moved on to the next bandit. One should never wake a sleeping cyclops.

[Leornid]

Leornid let loose one of his arrows as soon as the first thug came out of the trees. He got a thug straight into his neck, and his next shot killed his wolf too. Around him he saw his companions also killing many. But still, it looked like there were many thugs still up, without counting the wolves too. Leornid let loose another two killing shots, then scrambled back to avoid getting into melee reach. He fired two more arrows, felling two wolves. This was harder than the last battle at least.

[Ferr Windston]

When the thug's wolves pounced at Damion, he stabs the chest of the leading beast. While in a rapid tactical retreat, Damion used the dead wolf body to protect himself from the other incoming fangs and claws. Once at a reasonable distance, he pulled his sword back, then flung the dead wolf at a group of three thugs with polearms, blocking them and stunning them for a moment. "Leornid! Those three!" Damion cried before blocking the advances of a man with a rather powerful hammer. The large  thug clashed with the warrior's blade, forcing him back with just raw power. Damn it, was all Damion muttered before stomping his armored feet and bull rushing the hammer wielder, gaining the advantage with the length of his slash.

[Codestar7]

Otto, still using his sword, felled another wolf and it's rider. All of a sudden, an arrow plunged deep into his shoulder. He screamed, and with all his strength yelled, "ARCHERS! FALL BACK BEHIND THE TREES!" He didn't mind if his companions continued, but they would get hurt too. He retreated, killing another rider on the way, slitting the throat of the wolf. His vision was fading, and it was getting hard to walk. Blood was seeping through the wound in his shoulder, which the 17 year old desperately held closed. He made a final dash out of the treeline, and blacked out.

[Leornid]

Leornid shot three quick shots at the thug Damion told him to shoot. Damn, but this was hard. He then heard a familiar sound, and fell to the side just as an arrow flew through exactly where he was standing. Mere seconds afterwards, he heard Otto shout something about archers. Turning towards him, he saw him stumbling to the treeline, clutching his shoulder. He saw him get into the trees and fall. The battle had just gotten harder. He rushed back to the trees himself, and did his best to hide, shooting arrows all the while. Turning back to the others, he shouted: "EVERYBODY FALL BACK TO THE TREELINE! PROTECT OTTO, GET HIM TO A SAFE PLACE!" He himself stood right in front of Otto, felling thugs and wolves with his arrows. He was running low on ammunition though. It would be time to get into melee soon.

[Wicked Basket]

Cleatus heard Leornid shout something about protecting Otto as he sent another wolf and rider flying. Turning to see what was up, he saw the unconscious Otto laying on the ground. Cleatus bounded over and picked up the small 17-year-old with ease. Then he remembered the mention of archers as an arrow hit him in the arm. Unfortunately, Cleatus was a large and incredibly dangerous target, so he seemed popular with the archers. Cleatus carried Otto into the treeline, his sheer bulk protecting Otto from any more arrows. Those archers would have to go.

"Inusaki," Cleatus called. "Do you want to fly?"

[Anadwen]

Arrows could be a problem, that was sure. But not for someone that could leap and run faster than them! Like Inu.

She used the tree-trunks and bandits themselves to leap off and avoid the flying arrows, ignoring what orders were given to her. Like that, she managed to get behind the archers and cut down three before an arrow got caught in her hair. There was no damage to anything but her hairstyle done, but it still flamed her up, and hissing like an angry cat, she started slashing whatever got near.

Then, when Cleatus called her name, she retreated back, slowly calming down. His offer, however, surprised him. "If I wanna fly? Sure thing!" she called out, with a long leap bringing herself onto his shoulder.

[Wicked Basket]

"Good," Cleatus said plucking her off his shoulder. "Then you can take care of those archers."

Cleatus threw Inu like a football high and long towards the archers, and he threw much harder than Leo. She should be high enough to be out of the archers' field of view until it was too late. Cleatus picked Otto back up and took him a bit further into the woods. The fight wasn't suited for either of them anymore. Otto was wounded and Cleatus was too big of a target for those archers. He was going to have to ask someone to pull the arrows out of him that he couldn't reach.

[Leornid]

Leornid saw Cleatus throw Inu up in the air just as he was using up the last of his arrows. He really hoped she would take care of the archers, because now both Cleatus and Otto were out of the fight. "Damion!", he shouted. "It looks like it's just us now. Let's make them bleed!" He cast aside his bow and charged the nearest thugs. At least these guys were not that good separately.

[Anadwen]

A loud yell escaped Inu's mouth as she was sent flying up like a small cannonball. The wind was wailing in her ears, and her coat was billowing like a flowered flag, till she started cascading down. With her blades aimed, she collapsed right down onto one of the remaining archers. Some others screamed as she broke through the trees and completely smashed the body of one of them underneath her quickly-moving blades.

She didn't stop, no way she would stop. Like a bullet, she threw herself at the other one of the archers. He attempted to shoot after her, but she was faster than the arrow, and got him right when the shot left the bowstring. The main rule in a melee-versus-ranged combat was to keep moving, and Inusaki got her body moving pretty well. Soon, there was just a couple of archers left.

One shot after her, but instead, the arrow burrowed into a tree-trunk. The pink-haired girl kicked the man down, and slashed him into the neck with the blade in her right hand. She used the collapsing body to launch herself higher before the bandit would hit the ground, and grab onto the branch of a nearby tree to avoid an arrow, sent flying her way. Then, she jumped back down, and slashed the last man. He managed to kick her off and toss her at a tree, but she quickly got back to her feet, and bolting forth at speed that was completely unexpected, considering her size, she stabbed him into the abdomen, repeatedly thrusting her blades in and out, till he had nothing but a bleeding hole in the middle of his self.

[Ferr Windston]

Damion nodded as he heard Leornid's words. "Aye Aye." The warrior said before giving a mighty swing of his blade in the direction of a polearm. The swing broke the wooden shaft of the weapon, and cut through the thug's chest as well. In an increasing rage, Damion followed through with the motion by flinging the large sword to the side, impaling a thug with a wolf in a gruesome position. Damion had reached to the ground and took the head of the polearm before rolling out the way of an ax. The warrior had moderate dexterity, but not much grace with his roll. After finishing his roll, the white haired man threw cut down a rather unlucky brute with the falx he ripped off from his enemy's polearm.

"Might be a good back up." Damion muttered to himself before glancing a hammer blow off with his forearm. He felt the bone nearly give way under the force of the blunt weapon. In return, the warrior drove the blade of his new Falx into the skull of the attacker. Once his blood began escaping, Damion threw him to the side with great force. He was now beginning to gain a look of terror from their opposition. Quickly running to the side, he placed the falx to his side. He reached the pair of dead bodies which were impaled by his blade. Drawing his scarlet tinted blade, Damion turned to the thugs and roared with a mighty battle cry for intimidation. "How many more do you see?!" He called back to the archer.