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Solana and Eira paused before the portal in front of the Elder Isaac.

"Ready to enter the fray, Eira?" Solana looked at her apprentice. Eira nodded after a large swallow.

"All I can say is, watch out for the dragons." Solana sighed and smiled and rolled her eyes.

"And look out for flying men. Don't get in their way when they are fighting. They might get a little defensive." Solana paused.

"Oh! I almost forgot! Do you have all the medical supplies? We might be used as medics. Totally fine with me. I'm still sore from fighting that stupid wind adept who took out the city."

"Yes ma'am. I understand and I have everything with me."

"Good. Let's go." Solana nodded to Elder Isaac then jumped into the portal, sword in hand and Djinn flying about her. Eira sighed, puffed out her chest and followed Solana with her Djinn and weapons.

Solana and Eira entered into the demon realm.

"I can't tell where they are yet, but I have a feeling that those flashes of light will help us locate them. What do you think?"

Mortimer reached out a hand to Makko helping him up off the deck of the ship.
"Conspiracy anyone? Oh well, once we get to the port its not our problem any more."

Eira followed after Solana. She brought out her Djinn. She remembered Solana's words: "Stay away from the dragon"

Kassion felt Meteor building. He knew it wouldn't kill the whale-thing, but at least it would do some needed damage and slow it down. He didn't have a weapon in his hand. He called forth the building psyenergy into his hands as he clamped them together as if he was holding a weapon. They began to glow a bright blue-ish-white.

His invisibility faded at that instant, but luckily the attention was shifted from him, now. He looked to see what it was that the whale was focusing on and noticed a small figure, now in the hands of one of the summoners.
He didn't have time to analyze the situation, so he focused on the distracted target.

"Meteor!" He bellowed.

He then released all of the building mars energy in a downward swing of his clamped hands. The meteor materialized in the sky and plummeted down.
It crashed into the whale, forcing out a scream of agony from it, blasting Kassion's thoughts from his head.
The creature, a being of water, wasn't too harmed, but when the fire, smoke, and debris cleared it was burned and scarred very badly. It was steaming, or so it seemed. It tried to counter the searing pain by coating itself in layers of summoned ice and water, but it was instantly evaporated.
Regardless, the thing was alive and now obviously much angrier than it was before. It was looking at Kassion, too.

"Oh, bloody hell!" Kassion broke into a mad run for the ledge of the ravine, trying to get back in it so the whale couldn't get to him. It started a low "hum" and watched Kassion's movements.

Searing water spouts erupted from the ground right in front of Kassion. He was nearly impervious to fire, but burning hot water was a different story altogether.
He skidded to a halt and moved to run around them. More emerged from the ground, blocking his path.

Kassion stopped, focused his energy and ran right into the spouts. He used his minor jupiter abilities to create a force field around himself for a split second, just to push the water away from his body to get through. More spouts came up and he did it again and again. The ravine was only twenty yards away. Fifteen. Ten.

A spout blasted the ground right beneath him, catching him before he could move it aside. The force blasted him from his feet, the air from his lungs, and the skin from his arm. He grunted and gritted his teeth as he slammed into the ground. He forced himself up on his good left arm, but the whole right side of his body was burned very badly.
He immediately called on healing powers, but the whale unleashed another attack. Kassion saw it coming and pushed most of it away, but the force threw him from his feet again. Five yards from the edge.

He looked up and saw it. He lept to his feet, despite the pain, and jumped from where he stood.
He cleared the edge, but not before he was clipped by another spout, burning his left side very badly and knocking the wind from his lungs again.

He tumbled down, bumping along the sides, gained knew gashes each time. His armor saved him many times, including a nasty smack on the wall with his helmet.
Barely able to see straight, he enacted a pulse of energy to counter the force of the fall, abruptly stopping him three feet from the ground and allowing him to fall just those three feet and lie there.

He mumbled a few healing words, closing the worst of his wounds, but his strength was mostly gone. He sat upright and thought about the fight. He had exhausted himself, teaming with Maxwell against the tree, and now running from a major assault on and from the whale.

He stood there for a few moments, listening to the sounds of battle.
He would do what he could, but that wasn't much at this point.
He floated up to join his comrades.

((Didn't know we were ready to continue, lol.))

Focusing more and more energy into the psynergy orb he now held in front of him, he looked over to where Kassion had dove off to evade the whale.
"Curses...this will have to do."
Letting lose the demonic energy inside the weapons on his body, and that of the surroundings, he slammed the orb down into the ground.
"Dullahan!"
He shouted and called forth the ancient knight from the abyss. It's armor shown a pale purple as it walked over to the edge and saw Kassion floating back up.
"Umm...Dullahan? We could use your help, not your spectating."
He said as Dullahan turned back around and threw out one hand, letting the lightning blade form around an invisible sword. Charging forward, it jumped into the air, and drove the energy deep within the thrashing whale, making it's entire body shake with the new wound it tried to heal.
"A bit...crude, but effective. Master!"
Maxwell shouted out and ran over to the edge, seeing Kassion move closer and closer.
"Need a hand?"
He said and reached out to him, seeing that most of his strength was already gone from this fighting. His was as well, from all the repeated uses of the demonic psynergy, but, at the same time, being restored thanks to the enviroment.

Kassion crested the ledge and took Maxwell's offered hand, even though it wouldn't have been much help if it wasn't for psyenergy. Kassion was over twice his apprentice's weight.
He looked over as Solana appeared next to him.
"What is going on? Who are they?"

Them? Well, my guess is as good as anyone elses, but I'd say that they're the ones sending those demons from the shadow realm to our realm. I would be willing to expand that guess, safely, and assume that they're a part of an organization. They are probably running out of room in their own realm, so they probably seek to take ours.

"And please tell me that you do NOT have the Mars Star in here!"

Fortunately, I'm not that irresponsible! I left it with the elders. On my original trip to the portal I sent it through another miniature portal to the council at Prox.

He sighed and gave a quick sarcastic glare Solana's way.
He patted Maxwell on the shoulder and said, "You know, I've never liked being around such dark abilities, but they seem to be of no minor significance in such a realm to manifest them. Just be careful in your use when we make it back to our realm."

"Solana, how do we kill each of these things? I can't seem to finish off the whale, though that's obvious enough to the reason why. The sapling was annoying, but it didn't take well to fire, as we figured. I believe my role in this battle is finished. Do you have any regenerative spells for my own psyenergy? I'm all out. A star would do quite nicely. We could find out who these oppressors are as soon as we're ready."

He indicated the phoenix, "And who is to take on the bird? The other ones are pretty much taken care of, but that one is my only worry. No one has touched it, so far."