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A yelp of pain accompanied the Child as Caine brought the deep human to his knee. His other leg was gruesomely twisted beneath the trunk of his body and Caine's boot had a glistening film of blood, leaving evidence of what had transpired. The Child's yelp of pain was short lived however, as it ended in a ragged breath as a silver saber cut through the Child's shoulder and refused to stop until it bit deep into his spine. Almost immediately after, the late deep human's partner, a dark elf, recovered from the blood-drunk human's onslaught. Too bad it was too late to save his partner a painful death. The Child response was to immolate Caine with a fiery spray, and erase him from existence. However, a little flame wasn't going to stop the berserker.

Caine ripped the silver saber from the deep human almost as an afterthought as he lunged towards the dark elf. Caine tackled the dark elf, a spurt of flame shooting past Caine's shoulder and blackening his pauldron and singeing his ear and hair. Not like the raging human could feel the pain, but he did feel the ribs of the dark elf crack and break under the force of the human's tackle. Caine followed the child to the ground, hearing even more gruesome sounds from the elf's chest as well as an accompanying squeal of pain and... Terror? Yes, terror. The child opened his mouth one last time for a desperate attempt at taking down the monster of a human with flames. The flames never got the chance to even lick at Caine, as a heavy fist holding the saber crashed into the child's forehead hand-guard first with a sickening crunch. Caine followed with with another strike, for good measure. Nothing.

Caine rose off of the Child and looked ahead, looking for his next target. He was barely aware of the sticky crimson on his cheeks and forehead. He was aware of a slap- a friendly tap- on his shoulder. He looked over in time to see Mikana pass him while pointing at a set of stairs leading to an entrance in the wall. Caine nodded, figuring it had something to do with raising the gates. Why else would she actively enter the wall? Although Caine just saw it as an opportunity to cause raise his body count. Place the berserker inside inside in close quarters, and the man was dangerous as a caged- no, make that two caged animals. One for each sword.

Mikana was their first. The elf was lighter and faster than the beast of a berserker, so it was no surprise to him. What did surprise him was when she swapped spots with one child at the top of the stairs for her position at the bottom. Caine couldn't help but grin. Damn elf and her flashy powers. Speaking of flashy powers, he passed behind the light puppet of Mikana's as it delivered death to it's target via face melting. He arrived at the top of the stair where Mikana stood in time to hear a number of children rising from inside the wall. He glanced at Mikana, the swath of scar that cut diagonally across his face only intensifying the madness playing across his face. "My turn," he said and stepped over the threshold and into the wall.

Almost immediately he was set upon by a spear and a scimitar. He immediately stopped the thick scimitar with the black katana, and merely slid out of the way of the spear. "Missed," He taunted as he cut the spear in half with his saber. He turned and faced the owners of the weapons in the narrow hallway. Narrow enough for them to refrain sending a gout of flame at him, narrow enough for only two children to stand abreast at once... Or one wide-stanced berserker. The thought of sliding over to make room for Mikana tickled his mind, but decided against it. These two were his, she could help out with the others.

Then the berserker pressed his assault. He stepped and swung wildly with the katana in his left hand, blocked by the scimitar. Another step and the saber dug into a wooden haft. He pressed the two children away from the the opening and Mikana, who should have followed him in and had his back. He did not check the hallway behind him. He felt the saber tug in his hand as the Child with the haft tried to wrench free. No such luck as Caine hauled the Child in and gave her a nasty shoulder block, sending the useless haft out of her hands. A thump that rattled her whole body was her reward. Her partner behind gasped in terror. A silver blade had emerged from her back. However, Caine wasn't done. He pushed forward, Child still skewered on the silver sliding in a puddle of her own blood. The other child didn't move. He didn't know whether to flee or help his partner. But it was too late. A black blade cut through his should and stuck in his chest. With a final shove, the two Children fell back as one, both leaving the mortal coil together.

Caine merely grunted and looked back at Mikana.

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Arrows were becoming a precious commodity, and Lily knew she wouldn't be able to keep up her aerial assault up for much longer. She had already exhausted the arrows in the quiver on the draconian golem and the arrows in her quiver were beginning to flag... She was going to have to land. Soon. Lily had made her way back to the wall, where many of the archers had fell. There were bound to be quivers full of unused arrows. Had to be. Not all of the archers had a chance to empty them. She began to descend on the wall, and the Blackguard focused in view. The Mialee twins and their constructs were clear in the fray. Golems weren't that hard to miss at all. They had things well enough in hand... However, further along the wall-

Further along the wall, Talae, Pel, and Kisikoni were looking to be worse off. Plus, Koni looked... Off- strange.. Injured. If she was going to land, then hell, it might as well be to provide backup for her friends. Lily's golem landed on the wall a ways from the group, and the huntress was off of the mount in moments, an arrow nocked in her bow. Her last arrow. The arrow left her bow with a twang and traveled the span between Lily and her comrades and slammed into the back of the Child that had attempted to roast Talae. Probably made contact at the same time Talae kneecapped him as he fell backwards and sent the arrow further into the Child.

Lily quickly ran to her comrades, stooping and taking a quiver of arrows from a dead archer on the way. On arrival, Lily outstretched a hand to Talae and gave her a sweet smile. As she did, she asked, "Are you alright? How about Koni? Pel?" She said, worry bleeding through the Huntress's tone. She looked up and saw that Koni's legs were torn raw. She gasped and looked at Pel wide eyed- wishing there was something she could do to help. And then she remembered. There might be something. The golem sauntered up behind the elf.

"Take my Golem. She should be able to support you and Koni, Pel- At least far enough away to help him. You can't do anything in the middle of this fray. At least not until he's back on his feet." The golem was strong, but carrying both of them would be slower than just one of them. If they opted for her idea, they were going to be slow targets. Simple for a determined Child to target from the ground with fireballs. She glanced over at Talae, eyes asking an unasked question: "We'll cover you." Lily didn't know if it would help a whole lot, or if her idea was completely useless. She just wanted to do something. Anything. She wasn't going to see one of her friends die. They were closest thing she had to a family.

She then looked to Talae. Another idea formed in her mind. She remembered the dark elf's affinity for poisons... So she shook her newly acquired quiver, "You have anything give these a bit more bite?" The Huntress asked.