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Further inspection of the wasteland once known as Deinoforaum was no better than the first glance. Everything was either abandoned or half-way demolished. Rain was better than before though, he walked along with Siirioc through the ruins of the town, something very grim was growing in his mind, a black shadow that told him something malevolent was close. Soon he realized that the sand was moving in one direction, and the wind was not strong enough to carry so much of it. Without even thinking about it, he began to follow the sand to wherever it was headed.

For a short while, Kampur followed Siirioc and Rain as they explored the ruins, but soon she unwittingly broke off and was on her own. It wasn't until she, too, noticed the odd movement of sand that she realized that she was seperated from them. Hit with a wave of panic, she franticly traced her steps back to where she had last seen the two natives. Usually, she wouldn't have been quite so panicked, but with her already bad experience with moving sand, the merciless heat, and not enough energy to pull off another stunt like before, she felt an unusual need to be near something that was alive. Anything that was alive.

She quickly found what was left of the tracks left in the thing layer of sand by Rain and Siirioc's feet, and began to follow them.

Siirioc took on a skeptical visage as the voice boomed out, and he grimaced several times during this. "Who the hell are YOU? What makes you think you can waltz in, destroy a civilization, and set up a throne?!" he yelled at the being. However, as the huge creature manifested itself, he looked up higher and higher, seeing it in all of its infernal glory. "I...don't see this kind of thing very often. Rain...what is that...?" he stuttered. He squinted a bit at it, and saw its strange eyes, and his hands wandered towards the cross strapped to his back. "Its eyes...crystal. If we can't escape...maybe...I should hit them?" Siirioc suggested.

Kampur had finally found Rain and Siirioc when the voice began to speak. She was begining to have a strong dislike for deserts. She was roughly ten feet from the two of them when the voice took the physical form of an enormous lizard-like creature with crystal eyes. Kampur took her rod from it's holster that was around her waist and put Siirioc's sword in it's place. If they were going to fight-which it seemed like they were-she wanted to fight with a weapon she was familiar with. Why she hadn't used her rod before, she blamed on the heat of the sun.

The stone at the end of her rod almost seemed to be giving off a black 'glow' as it absorbed the light that surrounded it, taking in energy. Being in the middle of a desert, with the sun still in the sky, gave her a near limitless supply of light and Kampur intended to use it to her advantage.

The sentinel's eye was indeed crushed, and his head collided with a broken-down house from the recoil of the impact. However, as he began to smash its head with his cross, the Sentinel simply threw Siirioc straight up as he flicked his head up. Then as he was in the air, he opened his mouth wide, a bigger, shining ruby showed out and blasted straight for Siirioc.

Rain pulled his arm straight back and leaped straight for the Sentinel's chin, smashing his demon arm straight through the encrusted sand, and grabbed for the gem inside of his throat. But the Sentinel's foreclaw came up and pushed Rain straight back all of the sudden and hitting a wall behind him, kicking up quite a bit of dust. The sentinel gained his composure and then looked around at the other of their companions.

As Siirioc flew up, he flipped a few times and re-coordinated himself, bringing his cross to bear. Using his psychokinetic abilities, he accelerated downward, adrenaline surging through him as his eyes focused themselves on the creature's neck. Siirioc threw the cross behind him, tightening his grip, and then swung it forward mightily right before he crashed onto the sand-creature's neck, at about the same time Kampur's beam attack would hit.

Soon after impact, he threw himself away from the beast, his feet landing on a building not far from it, about level with its head. He placed the cross next to him, holding it upright and catching his breath. Focusing his limited psychometabolic talent, he inhaled deeply, forcing his body to re-oxygenate his blood more quickly. Feeling somewhat refreshed, he hefted his cross and glued his eyes to the monster.

Kampur grunted, not only because she was now fighting a counter-energy to her attack, but because Siirioc was on the lizard, and if her beam ended up making contact with the lizard, she had no idea the affect it might have on the humanoid. Her concern about Siirioc was soon gone, though, as the beam hit and she saw him land on a nearby building.

"Energy: Low." a voice coming from the rod said as the beam started to fade. Kampur quickly cut off the energy and started to recharge the rod. Thankfully, the beam lasted long enough to knock the creature back and hopefully buy enough time to charge the rod up again. Charging in the direction the creature had been knocked back, Kampur saw a Servant Of The Sand attacking Siirioc. She slowed down her charge, not sure what to attack; the Lizard, or the Sand Bender. Both were large threats, but she didn't have enough energy in the rod to attack both. Where was Rain?

The Lizard stayed down, but the Sand Servant scattered sand some, but then reformed, and bashes a huge hammer hand against the cross, then pulled his hammer hand back far, and swung straight for Siirioc. With no time to lose, the demon made the sand engulf Siirioc as it grew huge.

Rain busted through one of the rubbled houses, and back into the street, debris following him as his demon arm dispersed, no longer able to support it with concentration. "Errrr!" Rain got back to his feet, his arm hurt, but still in rather good shape. But what walked out of the house caused the sands to shake. It was a large, almost 7 feet, completely sand-colored demon, its horns massively curled around his head and dipping down to his shoulders, his teet two fangs on top, two on bottom. He wore a loin cloth and walked on two gigantic hooves. He carried a black-flaming sword.
"Foolish mortals! I am Desmartus Koxonumach, Master of the Famine!"
"Daaaaii!!" Rain shouted, his entire body shining white and little crystal stars forming all over his body. "Daiizaaaa!!!!" He roared and many specks flew one after the other in a quick chain formation. The Demon was struck by these and showed great discomfort with them.
"RAH!!!!" He swung his large black sword, and swung it, a bad tent of black fell over Rain, he was not even directly hit and yet the effect was clearly seen as the rest of his attack was interrupted. He slumped, gasping, obviously in great pain.