Ssarak Dyreackthanose and Meirin Kurenai

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As Ssarak was charging forward, he noticed Meirin use her magic to spring into position behind the guard captain, but despite the general noise of the fight and the fact that she was out of his line of sight, he reacted immediately, and with surprising agility. Had he not known about he might have assumed that the captain had very acute hearing, but as he sprang away behind Meirin, Ssarak recognized what was going on quickly, as it was a strategy he had used countless times himself. The guard captain had been warned by the psychomancer; something that would make this fight much more difficult. 

Before he even started to think of a counter, Ssarak rushed to help Meirin, though there was no way he could do anything physically in time. Thanks to his training with Satori, however, his mental reactions were almost as natural to him as any block or parry. To the captain, he gave an illusion, one that was subtle enough not to require a high level of detail. As he was beginning his swing, Ssarak attempted to alter his perception of depth enough to make Meirin seem closer than she actually was. Hopefully, his swing would either miss entirely, or at least not be ideal, and therefore easier to block.

Meirin was sure that she would have been tripped the captain. Yet somehow he was able to jump over Meirin. Was this another illusion or did that really happen? She didn't think about it for long; illusion or not she didn't feel her weapon hit anything so she missed, and she couldn't see the captain in front of her so she needed to move. Meirin dodged to the side and felt a tug on her sleeve. When she looked she saw that the captain had just her arm, but just barely. Nothing that would stop Meirin but it was very close.

If she had to guess the captain must be getting help from the Psychomancer. There was no way he could have seen Meirin get behind him. She had to be careful too however; that Psychomancer could do the same trick to Meirin, as she could still see the demons trying to attack her. She had to block them out from her sight and try not to flinch everytime a demon took a swing at her. [i]"This is getting annoying Ssarak... I know these demons aren't real but they're getting in the way."[/i] The worse things these demons were doing were just blocking her view. She made some weak swings to "knock" them away, but they were presistant. She at least knew were the guard captain was at and made sure that he didn't sneak an attack on her while the demons pestered her.

The guard captain noticed something off with his sight. He couldn't tell what, but whatever it was it made him miss the red haired girl. It was two against one now and he knew that both his opponents were very skilled. The red haired girl was one of those warrior monks from the mountain, so he knew she was a fighter. The eysire was obviously a threat. The worse thing that could happen to the captain was if he left himself get flanked again. He had only a few seconds to weigh his options and charged the eysire. While he had no doubts that one solid blow could kill the warrior monk, she was fast, likely faster than he was, and if he tried to focus his attention on her the eysire warrior could land a blow that would kill him. No, the captain would need to make sure to take advantage of his speed against the larger warrior rather than match speed with the warrior monk.

Keeping his shield arm between him and the dragon warrior the guard captain juked to the eysire's left. As he did so he also stabbed his sword into the a fold in the eysire's leg armor. He wanted to try to peirce the flesh, but failing that he could at least get his blade lodged in to try to trip up the eysire.

Given that Meirin was not armored in the same way as Ssarak, he had expected that the guard captain would go for her, but he was ready for his attack nonetheless. The captain was ill-equipped to deal with an armored opponent. Slashing attacks were all but useless against, plate, which meant the only way he could be effective was with thrusts. Therefore, as soon as he dodged to the side, Ssarak had a reasonable guess as to what kind of attack was coming. As the captain was starting to thrust forward, Ssarak grabbed onto the head of his maul with his left hand and yanked it upwards, acting as a lever to snap the haft down onto the blade, hopefully knocking it to the side. At the same time, he decided to give his own, unique counter. In a more direct application of psychomancy than he had been using, Ssarak concentrated some of his magic into a psychomantic breath attack, which shot out through the small, grid-like holes in the front of his helmet. The collection of generally calming effects it produced could make him rethink his decision to fight, or at the very least, its effects would certainly not be helpful in such a fast-paced fight. The captain had put Ssarak between himself and Meirin, but it would still only be a few seconds before she was on him as well. 

Either Meirin was scarier than she gave herself credit for or the guard captain was trying something when he attacked Ssarak first. She at least could guess that he was trying not to get stuck between him and Meirin since he tried to put Ssarak between them, but Meirin was fast enough to follow him. Just as Meirin got into position to attack Ssarak countered but not in a way she had ever seen him do before. He breathed some sort of smoke into the captain's face. She knew that Eysire could use breath attacks based on their magic but she had no idea what a Psychomancy breath attack would do. Whatever it was though, it would at least blind the captain. 

Instead of attacking the captain directly Meirin took this chance to use a weaving movement. She thought back to her lessons Ghell and one technquie that would be most effective here. She needed both hands however so she had to drop her monk's spade and took her stance. First she focused on the captain. Than she held her hands close to her center, like she was holding a ball between had palms. She rotated her hands around the center of her body until a small spinning orb was formed between her hands. Than she launched this ball towards the captain, where it grew as Meirin continued to motions until the captain was surrounded but a sort of wind barrier. Normally this was a technquie used defensively, but Meirin learned how to use it offensively by sucking the breath out of those caught inside of it as well as pushing objects away from the orb. Ssarak would feel the wind pushing against him, but the purpose of this technquie was to make sure the guard breathed in all of Ssarak's breath attack. Meirin continued to maintain the movements until she felt that the captain was no longer a threat, or somehow escaped, whichever came first.

The guard captain stepped back from Ssarak when his attack failed. He was about to try to get behind the eysire to attack his wings when he breathed a thick smog in the captain's face. This certainly caught him off guard as he raised his shield to try to block the attack, but still breathed in the smoke. His eyes watered and he began to cough as the effects of the smoke immediately began to try to take hold of his mind. He waved his shield around trying to blow the smoke away but than Meirin's wind vaccum prevented that from working. The gas surrounded him, forced him to breath in Ssarak's breath. The captain's vision became blurred, his mind was starting to go blank. Thoughts and visions flashed before his eyes as he both tried to keep fighting and wanted to do nothing more than drop his weapons. The captain flailed forward in an attempt to break out of the wind tunnel, but after he did he collapsed. He was foaming from the mouth and his eyes were blood shot. His last memory was that of a woman that he knew back at his home. Slowly, he closed his eyes as his faded from consciousness.