Aurora watched, relieved that she managed to aim correctly despite her broken equipment, as her arrow flew towards her target, burying itself in the vampires arm, cutting throw his armor as if it didn’t exist. She allowed herself to gloat, laughing out loud, as the look of pain welled up in Katsu’s face. “Let’s end this foul creature,” she spat while loosening her sword in its sheath. She watched with a smile on her face as the vampires blood mingled with the rain, staining his cloak, the red a stark contrast with the rest of the dark gloomy village. Her smile faded as he dug his naginata into the ground turning the sloshing mud covered street into a torrent of water and the fire from the inn become alive again and leap towards the man in the street. She started to panic as Katsus preparation came to an end and the huge wall of elements cam thundering towards her.

She quickly shouldered her bow, hearing it creak in complaint, and cursing, ran to her opponents right, aiming to get behind him and upon reaching the edge of the building leaped off to land on the roof of the next. She looked across and saw that wall was an ever expanding circle of chaos, getting closer all the time. “If that attack hits me not only will me spell be cancelled out but I may not be able to get up again” she thought bitterly. Looking around desperately for a way to avoid the attack the spotted the town temple a short distance away. “If I can reach the top of that in time I may be able to leap over his this wall of death” she spoke to herself.

A thunderous crack brought her spinning around, expecting to see some tree or building struck anew by lightning but astonished she gaped as building after building toppled under the onslaught. She heard the screams of people inside as they were consumed by falling debris and a catastrophic melee rolling over them. She shook her head, sending a spray of water off into the rain and came to her senses. She turned and started sprinting desperately towards the shrine behind Katsu. Leaping from rooftop to roof top she became confident once more as it became clear she would reach safety in time. “Two more to go,” she rasped breathlessly to herself. As she reached the edge of a small house, the attack now only a few meters away, her foot slipped on the wet edge. “No!” she screamed as she tumbled from the roof towards the mud covered alley below. She landed on her feet, her back to a dead end, sending a wave of mud and water onto the side of the building, and looked up to see the mass of chaos bearing down on her. With nowhere to go she whipped out her katana and shifted into a defensive stance in one smooth movement and roared as the wave overcame her.

The onslaught threw her up and forwards out into the crater of what used to be the village. She lay on her side in the mud, her once black coloured clothes now tattered, torn and stained red and brown. As she came to she opened her eyes, and climbed to her knees, and saw Katsu some distance ahead of her. She could no longer feel the effect of the Vanish spell over her and knew the magic attack that had just hit her had cancelled it out. As she summoned what little energy she had left into a spell, she could only hope the vampire had not noticed her land behind him. She raised her arm with tremendous difficulty, even the rain hitting her dirty mud strewn arm felt to her like it weighed a ton. “This has to hit,” she prayed “I don’t want to, but it looks like there is only one attack left I can use to beat him and I need his energy.” She launched her Steal Will spell at him and once more un-shouldered her bow, broken and beaten almost beyond use and notched 3 arrows to the string and held it down in front of her ready to counter or attack depending on what happened next.