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Firebrand flapped off as the beam shot off, piercing red light punching a hole in the dark, swirling clouds that blanketed the sky. He watched the armor stumble, fall to its knees, and topple back under the combined assault. It rested against a building, like a monument to fallen warriors everywhere. Firebrand tensed himself for what was next. A shaft of sunlight shined down through the hole it had created, lighting the last act of this evil little drama like a spotlight. Then the armor opened up and its occupied staggered out. 

It was a surprise. Firebrand had expected someone much bigger. He'd imagined the armor peeling off and a giant emerging. He at least expected someone half as large as that armor, but he wasn't even that. He was bite sized compared to it. It was disheartening. He could see the young brave fool, stripped of all his armor, readily draw his blade and charge headlong into the jaws of death and the sight brought a smile to his face. That is, until he saw where the fool was headed. That was no good, Firebrand had promised that young man his protection. He reared back and dived.

He didn't beat his wings, but shot down like an arrow. His shadow fell across Viral's back. It was probably the devil may care attitude of a man convinced he was about to die, or perhaps some hunters instinct, that caused the beastman to leap through the air at his prey with the demon around. As he fell upon Viral all of Firebrands limbs lashed out, even his tail, to lock the beastman limbs and drive him into the dirt before he had a chance to complete his leap and strike Damien.