BBQ Demon

Who: Thom, Kaysen and Tad
When: when the other fights are going down!
where: Chapel

Thom had been trying to time the intermittent attacks from the demons throughout the day, but there seemed to be no real pattern to them. Constant vigilance seemed to be the only want to ensure that they weren't taken by surprise - and it was only adrenaline and fear that was allowing him to maintain that. But still, he hadn't expected the attacks when they came. The black shape of a demon launched itself through the doorway into the chapel, just as Thom heard the sounds of shattering glass behind him.

For the first time since he'd been woken up in the middle of the night, Tad had dozed off. It wasn't a true sleep just a light dose. He'd been sitting on a pew, paying attention and then he he'd drifted off. The crash that came with the demons attacking from both sides of the chapel lurched him to waking and in his surprise he toppled over. Gathering his wits as quickly as he could he righted himself and then looked square on at a monster far worse than those that haunted his dreams as it made its way through their makeshift barrier. Tad had an instant to notice that their baracade for the door seemed to have the desire effect, shuffling the demon in a specific direction. "Thom!" His eyes found the other guy, who looked surprised and yet more together than Tad. "Kaysen!" Tad searched frantically for the girl.

Kaysen wasn't actually that far away. She'd been keeping the place heated, and that was something she could do continuously if she had the concentration. And she had, for the most part. She'd stuck close to Thom and Tad by choice, not especially wanting to be that far away from either of them. Sure, she hadn't said she was going to do anything of the kind, she just had. If they moved around she repositioned herself as much as she could, and she just...did that, and didn't say anything about it.

When they were suddenly being attacked in the room by fucking scary ass demons, she looked up and her first instinct was to panic. She'd done some things with the shadows, and she'd fried vampires, but both those times it had been with something resembling a plan. It had been thought through. Thom's magic had protected against the vamps, she'd been safely inside that perimeter. And the shadows...well. Thom's magic didn't stop them but they'd still had a game plan. This wasn't part of the plan. This plan had been to hole up in the church, and the demons could rail against the place all they wanted, just so fucking long as they didn't get in, which they weren't goddamn motherfucking meant to because they were demons.

But apparently, the demons were just tossing all the rules to the wind, and breaking the fuck in. So she panicked, heard her name and hopped up, looking at Tad, and that was more when she got herself together. She had fire. Hell, she had a little makeshift flame thrower. Which she should use. She fumbled for a second for the can of hairspray, and the fire she'd been concentrating on was still there, so she planned to use that.

Tad wasn't the only one glad to see that the barriers they'd put in place earlier on were slowing the demon that came at them. Thom heard the sound of gunshots echo through the chapel, but there was too much going on to concentrate on what was happening on the other side of the room and his first thought was for Kaysen. And, namely, to get between her and the thing attacking. And so he did something monumentally stupid - he threw himself into the way, slashing with the knife he carried and trying to draw the demon's attention to him and away from Kaysen. It worked, to an extent - the knife bit home as Thom ran past and the demon turned to follow him. Of course, that left Thom wickedly exposed and being chased by a demon he had no idea how to kill. Definitely a dumb move.

A wave of relief washed over Tad when he spotted Kaysen, still near her make shift fire, and not far from him or Thom. Whatever relief he had though disappated when Thom lunged at the thing drawing its attention away from himself and Kaysen, but squarely on Thom. "Kaysen, I'm gonna need you to burn the shit out of that thing once I'm outta the way. Or once I'm not moving." Tad looked at her, a flash of something important in his eyes and then he was gone, grabbing the discarded chair leg that Kaysen had been carrying earlier and chasing after the demon, coming up on it's blind side from behind, just liked he'd planned all along.

It was just as stupid as Thom's move, but Tad wasn't thinking about that. He wasn't thinking at all actually. Letting his thoughts slip away he focused on everything else, moving only with instinct, the same almost trance he would take on when playing his games. Reaching his target he swung hard, still in mid-run, shifting his footing slightly to take himself around the demon after the hit. The hit itself was hard enough, splinters from the chair leg cut his hands with the force, but the nails from the joint clutched, grasping hair and skin, throwing off his balance. Instead of running around the demon, he ended up sliding, hitting a nearby pew hard. He'd managed to hold on to the chair leg though, and the demon was howling in either anger or pain.

Boys needed to not be idiots. Seriously now, they needed to not be suicidal fucking morons. And while on some level, Kaysen greatly appreciated the fact that the guys were trying their damndest to protect her? Another part of her wanted to slap them both as hard as possible and tell them to start using their damn heads. She didn't have time for that though. She did have time to raise the lighter she had in her hand and she didn't even bother using the hairspray that she'd intended to.

It burned up the lighter. The small plastic thing really just didn't make it in the rush of flames that were sparked by it. It was fast, and thankfully she didn't set the ceiling on fire, but it was kind of a close call. She most certainly caught the pew she was nearest to ablaze, and the demon, of course, suddenly had a back and hair that was going up. It was mostly taking all of her concentration to try and make sure that it didn't get Thom. Tad was out of the wayish. Thom...Thom she needed to be careful with. It took her a second to realize that that high pitched screaming was coming from the demon.

Thom glanced back over his shoulder to find that he now had a pissed off burning demon behind him. At least the thing was screaming. But the last thing Thom wanted was for it to decide that Kaysen was a threat - he could only hope that the bracelet and her hoodie would help keep her from harm. That the demon simply wouldn't see her. He hoped. He wasn't entirely sure what the effect would be when she was attacking things. He needed to keep its attention and so he turned and ran at it, going to stab it again. He felt the blade hit home into the demon's nearest arm and he forced it downwards, severing most of the flesh and feeling the knife hit bone. He pulled the knife free - the thing wouldn't have the use of that arm again today, that was for sure. Unfortunately, it had another, which arced round towards Thom's face. The teen jumped back, but he wasn't quite quick enough, and the tips of its claws raked his face, not deep, but enough to draw blood.

Tad was a little shaken up after slamming hard into the side of the pew and he'd spent a few seconds on the ground, trying to get the air to go back into his lungs. The smell of burning hair though, caught his attention and he looked up in time to see Kaysen doing her damnedest to light the thing on fire. He'd seen her heat up and he'd seen the aftermath of what she do could, but actually seeing her control enough fire for a napalm bomb left him with his jaw dropped. Then the thing was screaming and Tad's attention turned back to the monster in time to see Thom lunge for it. A less than brilliant move, Tad could see that before the knife even hit, which sent him running, hoping to hit the demon before it countered on Thom. He timing was off, but the blow still landed just after Thom got hurt, hitting an exposed flank of the beast.

Kaysen really desperately wanted the boys not to be near that thing. Her heart about stopped when she saw it take a swing at Thom and make contact, and she didn't realize she actually screamed. When Tad got closer she drew the fire back some, or tried to, though fire by nature was an unpredictable beast. Either way she died it down some. "Get back!" she screamed at the boys, before she flared the flames right back up again, deliberately trying to race it down it's torso, down it's legs, trying to set the whole fucking thing up.

Thom world seemed to sway for Thom the moment he got hit, and it wasn't so much that he got back, that he stumbled over his own feet and half fell over a bench, slamming his head into the floor. Still, it got him out of the way successfully enough. He pulled himself to his feet straight off, feeling very much like he was going to throw up. He'd managed to keep hold of his knife and he turned, his centre of gravity going crazy for a second before he focused on the torch that was the demon.

If Tad had learned anything in the short time of his friendship with Kaysen it was to do as she said, especially if she was yelling at him. Contact made, he scrambled out of the way, following where Thom had stumbled to, seeing him topple over the bench. "You ok?" he asked the other boy, feeling the warmth of burning demon on his skin.

Once they were both clear, Kaysen really pulled out the stops. In an instant, the demon was just one big pillar of flames. And it dropped, not long after. It flailed a little, but the screams pretty abruptly died, and then down. And she stood there, staring at it, keeping it on fire. She wanted to make sure it was dead dead dead, and it had probably hurt Thom, and she was an unhappy little fire elemental with a vindictive streak. So it was smelling like roast demon and she was still letting it burn.

It definitely took some of the cold bite of the air out of the room for the moment.

As the demon went down, Thom let himself fall back onto the pew, pale and sweating, an arm clutched across his waist. He dropped his head and took a few deep breaths before hauling himself to his feet and staggering over to Tad and Kaysen. "You okay?" he asked them both, but he was looking at his protected.

Tad was wincing a little, realizing that as the adrenaline drained out of his system, that he'd hit that pew a hell of a lot harder than he thought. Still Kaysen was ok, even if she did look a little crazed. "Alright here," Tad answered turning from Kaysen to Thom. "You're the one who got the worst of it. You gonna hold up?"

Kaysen was still making the demon into a pile of ashes. Or, that was her goal. She didn't think she could do it, actually cremating a body was like way hotter than she could make the flames, right? Still, she tried anyways, narrowing her eyes at it as she still let it burn, forced it to burn. She heard the words of people talking around her, she just didn't quite register them in with anything she should be paying attention to.

Thom waved the question off, though the gesture lacked strength. "Yeah, I'm... I'll be okay. Just... It's just a scratch, that's all," he added, thinking about how Caleb had told him to avoid the claws. So much for that, but hopefully this would pass. He'd work through it anyway.