The Andre Miller Saga

Andre Miller 51 The Violation

The bullet slammed into Caleb's body armor knocking him back triggering the inbuilt shield rune creating a body-sized field of force that stopped the next two shots.

Andre launched a shove rune at one of the attackers but he dove out of the way at the last moment and fired three rounds in rapid succession, all three of which missed.

Frankie was using an invisible hand of force to grab and throw attackers down the road while maintaining a shield, which should have been impossible, but the rules of what was and wasn't possible were malleable for Frankie.

Kyle took cover behind the van and popped out long enough to cast an icy rune on the ground under the attackers, covering the ground in a thick sheet of slick ice.

The demon with the attackers tried to move closer to the group to attack in melee but slipped on the ice and landed on one knee.

Tilly had her shield up and was protecting herself, Janice, Conroy, and Celeste.

Kris was tossing volatile potions from her bag and ducking behind cars nearby.

The attack had come out of nowhere, the group had been out for a family dinner, and as they left the restaurant bullets began to fly and a demon appeared in a burst of smoke and flame. There were 12 attackers besides the demon, three of which had been given flying lessons by Frankie having landed half a block or more down the street.

One of the attackers was a mage of some sort and tried to counter Tilly's shield, but she endured the attempt with a grunt.

"Caster!" cried out Tilly as she held her shield tighter as it took several shots from the attackers battering and weakening it.

Janice fired her tazer across the street at one of the attackers scoring a hit on his face and causing him to go down into a convulsing heap.

One of the attackers tossed a smoke grenade near Frankie and he kicked it away back towards the shooters. A cloud of gray-green smoke began to fill the street. "Kyle gust that!" he shouted.

Kyle leaned out from behind the van and activated a gust rune causing the growing cloud to blast back onto the attackers and disrupt their line of sight. "Tilly move for cover!"

Tilly and the others fell back behind a nearby truck and huddled behind the engine compartment and Tilly let her shield drop so that she could join the fray.

Caleb recovered from the shot that had rocked him and created a lightning rune, causing three strokes of lightning to come down from the sky and strike the demon forcing it further down to its belly and it roared in pain.

Andre created a ball of fire and launched it at a group of three of the attackers and it exploded causing them to fly away and catch on fire. He then ducked behind a car.

As the attackers began to be thinned out, a second demon rounded the corner and sent a spike of ice hurtling towards Caleb, it broke against his shield but the shield shattered at the same time.

Kris drank one of her potions, grew to twice her normal size, and charged the newest demon grabbing it like a rag doll by the head and shoulders, and hurled it into the caster as he was beginning to create another rune. She yelled in fury and charged another of the attackers.

Andre popped up from behind cover and launched an ice spike of his own into the downed demon pinning it to the ground and it stopped struggling.

Frankie grabbed the second demon with his hand of force and used it as a club against the caster, beating him into a pulp and then began squeezing the demon like an overripe fruit.

The last of the attackers began running away down the street and took a corner away from the line of sight of the group. The second demon let out a pitiful roar and then was crushed by Frankie, ichor, and bits of skin and horn dripping and falling to the ground and he tossed it away. Caleb sent one last stroke of lightning into several of the downed attackers, making sure they stayed down. They did a call-out to make sure everyone was ok. Other than the shot into Caleb's vest and some scrapes from ice shards, everyone was OK. They continued to hold cover until the police arrived. Once they did Andre got up with his hands up and began explaining what had happened. Two demons and 7 attackers lay dead or dying on the street and there were bullet marks on many of the vehicles that they had been hiding behind.