The group began to whittle down the would-be assassins one by one. Sheo's surprise attack taking out the archers made the battle tip in their favor, as the archers were killed by Sheo, Anora, and Ardur. That only left the Hellhound, who was proving to be quite a nuisance. Atisha tried to slay the beast with some of her Water magics, but the flames from the demon were much too strong for the attacks she could muster. She tried to at least entangle the beast, but again the flames destroyed the vines faster than they could take hold. She was starting to think of what more drastic measures they'd need to take when she heard a voice call out to them.<br/><br/>"Mayhaps you could use some aid, casting it out."<br/><br/>Atisha turned her head towards the sound of the voice and saw a large orb of fire heading towards the beast. Atisha had her doubts what this fire was going to do; the beast was piratically made of flames! Sure she heard the term to fight fire with fire, but even this seemed like a bad idea. At least until the beast was hit by the attack, roaring out in such pain and agony that it was more unnerving when it went silent. When the attack was done, all that was left was a smoldering gouge into the ground. The last of the attackers were killed with an axe through his skull, thanks to Sheo.<br/><br/><span style="color: lightgreen">"Atisha! What were you thinking, having a fight without me!? I was so worried!"</span>The hulking woman sheathed her weapons and walked over to the lithe lass. She embraced the smaller girl who showed visible discomfort, but didn't really try to push her away.<span style="color: goldenrod">"I had some things to handle. I don't need you to watch over me all the time. We handled that perfectly fine."</span>Atisha looked towards the bodies on the ground. Despite what she said, this was<span style="font-weight: bold">not</span>fine; now they had a bunch of bodies to dispose, with little evidence of who they were or what they wanted. She could only hope that perhaps they had something on their persons to help identify who they work for, and use that as evidence to show the guards they weren't crazed murderers or whatever lies these assassins might have fed them.<br/><br/><span style="color: goldenrod">"Let's search the bodies of anything useful. We need to get out of here before the guards start pointing fingers at us."</span>