[b]"Is that the best ye can do ye slobbering hounds?!"[/b]  Nariah, viciously she growled equally with her canine foes pouncing onto her, only to receive a face full of iron knocking them senseless and a brutal stab to the gut or a decapitation to follow.  All around her feet, the dead began to pile up and fester with the horrid stench of smoke and decay commingling.  Her sword, just as her face and the rest of her burned skin, was gleaming red, as were her eyes glowing angrily with frosty shades of blue.  More and more she kept fighting off alongside her fellow travelers and more and more the beasts came for them.  [b]"Gods!  Where they all coming from?!"[/b]  Suddenly under her feet, the ground cracked and split open belching smog and fire into the air.  Quickly the warrior backed away from the fissure and rose her shield before the fire nearly scathed her whole, the heat so intense she could feel it soaking through the hot metal into her skin, not to mention singing her hair a little.  From the burning fissure came a fearsome roar and as if being birthed from the flames themselves, here came more of the bastard demons, but there was....something else...something....gargantuan.

Following the lesser creatures, a massive iron claw rose from the ground and out the beast pulled itself staggering and snarling from the fiery chasm...until...it came into [url=http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2014/022/2/0/behemoth_by_der_reiko-d73ajev.jpg]full view[/url] towering over Nariah, eclipsing her in its deadly shadow.  The behemoth glared at the woman, its eyes ablaze with the same hellish fire it emerged from and as it roared again, a hot wind spewed forth from its gaping jaws damn near cooking the woman in her armor.  She trembled a bit before its horrible might and rose her shield staring it head on in defiance, although...she could probably use some help about now.  Nevertheless, she raised her sword high and charged forth giving a powerful war cry, but a fool's errand it was as in the blink of an eye the beast swiped its gargantuan claws at her and through the air she went flying, crashing through the ruined house behind her and skidding across the ground violently.