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."It was too base even for you!" he finished with a scream and a lunge.Vhok retreated and blocked the attack."No one should have to suffer such a transformation.Until today, I wouldn't even have wished that upon you! You should have killed him!"Vhok glared at the angel and waved his blade threateningly."And you should never have tried to bind me to your service," he said."I am not your lapdog, angel."Tauran felt righteous anger overflow."That has nothing— nothing!—to do with Micus." He launched another furious flurry of blows at his foe.With each one, he punctuated it with a word."He.did.not.deserve.that!"The rain of attacks drove Vhok back, then down to one knee.Letting his rage engulf him, Tauran drew back for one final pounding."Tauran, look out!" Eirwyn yelled, leaping in from nowhere.She collided with the other angel and knocked him out of the way as Micus swung Myshik's war axe at him from behind.Tauran went sprawling, landing in the shallow water.The blade caught Eirwyn instead, biting into her shoulder andback.Blood spurted everywhere as Eirwyn crumpled to the ground, crying out in agony.Tears filled Tauran's eyes as he witnessed another of his friends suffer.Rising to his feet, his mace still clutched in his hands, he snarled, "You're finished."He lunged at the cambion and swung his mace.As he did so, he channeled all the divine power he could muster into the holy weapon.Kael watched, sickened, as Eirwyn dropped to the sand.He had tried to corral the raging beast, but Micus would not be denied.He had pushed past the knight, heedless of the half-drow's weapon, and tried to cut Tauran down.Kael felt helpless panic rise when he saw what was about to happen to his mentor, but before he could do a thing to stop it, Eirwyn had flashed into view.Swearing oaths that would have gotten him punished as a youth, Kael leaped toward the aberration and brought his blade down hard.The thing saw the movement and danced to the side.Kael's attack cut harmlessly into the damp sand.Micus used the moment to counterattack.He leaped into the air and soared past the half-drow, attempting to slice at him with the axe as he went by.Kael barely managed to get his blade back into position to block the strike, but the force of Micus's blow spun the knight around and sent him sprawling face-first into the sand.Kael scooped up a handful of the stuff and flung it from him.Rising to his feet, Kael saw Micus soaring out over theopen sky, away from the Lifespring, but the abomination was already banking in a sharp circle to come back around.A few feet away from Kael, Pharaun made a few strange, complex gestures and flung a fist toward the cursed thing.A large glowing ball of crackling energy appeared in the air between Pharaun and Micus and, as the wizard gestured, it zipped forward, headed for the winged beast.Micus dipped and dodged and managed to evade the dangerous sphere, but Pharaun did a little spinning motion with his hand and had the ball racing back toward Micus from behind.Just as the cursed creature alighted upon the sand between Kael and Pharaun, swinging his axe at them both, the sphere reached its mark and struck Micus.The energy of the sphere dissipated, sending spidery tracks of electricity all across the thing's body.Kael expected him to have a bigger fit than he did, imagining how much punishment such a spell would deliver.But the aberration only started in surprise and turned to see what had hit him.-"Immunities," Pharaun grumbled in disgust.Micus, perhaps realizing where the attack had originated, turned on the drow wizard and lunged at him with the axe poised to strike.Upon seeing his foe turn his attention away from him, Kael leaped close and sliced at the thing, cutting a deep gash in the aberration's flank and ruining one of its legs.On the opposite side of the beast, Pharaun retreated and gestured at the ground in front of himself.A set of snaking, black tentacles wormed up out of the very rock and quickly latched onto the abomination.The tentacles curled around its legs and climbed to engulf its body.Howling in rage, Micusthrashed and kicked and fanned his four wings, trying to break free.Impressive, Kael thought.Don't get caught up in those
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