Ashes to Ashes

[Rift]

London, England 1:00am


The foggy night sky was turned red with fire. Screams of anguish and pain filled the air as a flood of people ran for their lives. In the distance Big Ben, long a symbol of the country exploded, a fiery sphere in its wake. Sirens were drowned out as an unearthly roar filled the night.

Inside the nearby cathedral, Father Jean-Michel attempted to silence the screaming children, reassuring them that all would be fine. He doubted his own words as the deafening roar shattered the expertly crafted stained glass above. Saying a silent prayer he barely noticed the whispered question.

“Is-is it a demon?” asked a young girl.

“What?”

“A demon. I saw it. Its red and black, it has horns and a pointed tail, like Satan himself.” She replied.

Standing he rushed to the door and opened it briefly looking across the street. Seeing the beast he nearly screamed like the children. Large and scaled, with glistening teeth the creature marched through London like nothing stood in its way, reducing the buildings, new and old to rubble. A terrible sound, like that of a massive drill echoed in his head.

The creature stopped to watch the fleeing crowds, regarding them with a strange bit of interest. Father Jean-Michel could have sworn the thing smirked for a moment, snorting in contempt. Then it released a stream of flame that engulfed the sea of bodies. Just as the stench of burning flesh began to reach his nostrils, he ran back inside to the safety of the cathedral’s inner sanctum.

“Is it a demon Father?” asked the girl yet again.

Jean-Michel just stood, mumbling a prayer and closing his eyes tight.

A boy across the room who stood on a pew and looked out a shattered window, suddenly yelled out.

“It’s a dragon! A dragon!” he yelled.

Whispers of dragons spread throughout the area from young and old alike.

“Will it kill us Father?”

Then their world faded away as flame engulfed the cathedral. Outside a loud, vicious roar was their only answer Alastor continued his rampage as London burned…

[Goji]

As Alastor roared, somthing hit him in his back, hard. It hit him with enough force to send him spawling.

Behind him, at quite a distance, a large, mechanical Velociraptor lowered the sniper rifle from it's eye, and let out it's own shriek.

[Lord Vader]

The heat of the London blaze was horrible and intense. Even from as fair as France, the roaring fires could be clearly seen. The smoke and flame attracted thousands who ran to the shorelines to watch the blaze and the small figures in the distance which seemed to move about in a dance of death. The fires also attracted another.

Soaring above the fires of London, the flaming alicorn Malumusma looked down on the blaze with a delighted smirk. Easily, she could see that the large dragon like beast was the souce of the destruction. The odd creature with the strange looking skin grabbed her attention as well. Swooping down low, Malumusma added to the blaze, spewing flames this way and that way.

Landing directly on the House of Parliament, Malumusma reared back on to her hind legs and released a gruff cry before slamming her forward hooves forward. A ring of flames leapt from her, tearing into the city and only adding to the horrible blaze...

[Rift]

Alastor found himself on the ground having landed face first. Taking only a moment to clear his head he stood once more.
Back on his feet Alastor roared in anger, his drill tail twisting in agitation. There were two in the area, but for the moment the raptor-like thing was his priority. He’d make a decision on the other as he observed how events unfolded.

His eyes glowed with an electric blue hue as he approached the thing that had dared to attack him. Cocking his head to one side he snorted at his opponent, the gesture both disgusted and amused. Suddenly he reared back as a beam of fiery blue energy tore from his mouth, streaking towards his foe.

[Lord Vader]

Malumusma moved back a bit, not really wanting to battle just yet. She did, however, take great pleasure in spreading the fires that Alastor had started. Great burning slipstreams leapt from her wings, knocking buildings to the ground and engulfing them in flames at the same time.

Several ships sat the Thames, firing their cannons at her. In response, an arc of lightning leapt from her horn and struck the Thames. The ships were consumed in torrents of electricity, their crews being electrocuted as the ships lost control and collided or ran ashore.

During her rampage, Malumusma kept an eye on the two combatants. If needed, she would intervene...

[Guardian Fang]

Suddenly the ground shook violently for a few minutes as if something huge was moving beneath it. then the shaking stopped. a dark and penatrating voice sounded in the minds of those above. "My slumber has been broken. you have unleashed my wrath apon yourselves." there was silence for the next few minutes. then slowly a patch of ground seemed to wetten ans a puddle of orange liquid oozed up from the earth. it soon took the form of a giant writhing column. atop the column, a single huge eye blinked into existance. from the mountain of flesh, thousands of tentacles formed, some twisting together to form limbs, others snaking out around the battle feild. eyes appeared on the tips of some of the shorter ones. the large eye blinked and several tenticles shot out to ensnare the mechanical dinosaur.

[Goji]

Thunderclaws let out a surprised shriek, and began to swing his razor sharp claws around, hacking away at the tentacles the held him. He clamped down on the largest one with his jaws, and shook it viscously.

[Lord Vader]

Malumusma watched the battle unfold and unfurled her wings. She had no purpose here. In fact, she felt a calling to head elsewhere. Releasing a final barrage of flames, adding to the fires consuming London, the mighty alicorn took to the air, heading south...

[Rift]

Rearing back Alastor roared in anger. Thunderclaws may have attacked him, but this other thing was just as much a nuisance, in his way of destroying his would be attacker.

He had already sent his warning to the humans by causing great damage in their city. If they again sent their metal fish to enter his territory, his next retaliatory act would cripple them. However amusing this battle may become, he had other things to do. Turning around he started for the water where he planned to return to the depths near Scotland…

[Guardian Fang]

Watcher glanced at the two departing foes and then back to the Machine that was posing little threat. "You're no fun." he said, tossing the still flailing mech, then slamming it's bodymass down on top of it. "Go find someone els's time to waste." he said as he liquified and dissapeared into the ground.

[Goji]

Thunderclaws slowly got back to his feet, and scanned the area. All of the attackers seemed to have fled. Letting out a victorious mechanical shriek, Thunderclaws carefully made it's way to the rendezvous point for pickup.

[End.]