Under Ogun's weight, the thrown cup had shattered like fine porcelain, going completely unntoiced by the giant as he found his target and listened to her words while looking for an exit. Bending slightly to better hear her, he nodded at her, understanding their predicament. It was much better to run than it was to fight in this moment and it was when he leaned down further to allow Parin to climb onto his bulk, that the fox girl screamed.<br/><br/>Following her eyes and quickly sidestepping in front of Parin, Ogun was pummeled with several bolts of ice. A sudden hiss as if ten thousand serpents had suddenly found life within his armor, emanted from the giant before a glaring red light flashed from between the metal plates. The hissing turned into a low hum as ice crept up and down his armor, pools of crystal expanding from each of the points where he had been hit. Scanning the crowd he could see the six Tainted staring at him with triumphant sneers.<br/><br/>Their unholy presence upon the lands of the Angels was infuriating but for the sake of keeping bystanders safe he had steadied his hand. Now that he had been attacked, there would be nothing to hold him back. The ice continued to exapnd while the Tainted inched closer, mumbling words under their horrid breath. They had assumed he was an organic being and that freezing him had not only immobilized him but was causing damage. Unfortunately for the bravest one, the ugly, heretical being that got close enough to inspect him, their assumptions were. The ice started to crack and splinter and as the Tainted's eyes widened, Ogun's arms and torso burst out of their prison, showering the Tainted with shards. Caught off guard by his escape, he was given ample time to reach to his back and retrieve a large blade that extended out into a massive polearm. Keeping an eye on the drunken bystanders that dove and trampled each other to get out of the way, he raised the weapon up and brought it down like Heaven's Wrath, cleaving the Tainted in two.<br/><br/>The others quickly sobered up then and backed away, keeping themselves out of range of the giant's polearm as Ogun smashed at the ice that had formed around his legs. Turning to yell at Parin to run he was then witness to the thief kidnapping her by lifting her up and then speedily running away. Swinging his weapon around, as best he could while his left leg was still frozen, he swung his polearm to try and separate the thief from his legs. Unfortunately, the thief very nimbly leaped up to avoid the blade while the giant roared in anger, his voice sounding like a hive of furious hornets. Pulling his leg out of the icy prison he was hit in the back with what his sensors told him was something close to a ball of fire that seemed to cling to his shoulder. Attempting to wipe it off with his hand caused his gauntlet to catch fire and while the other Tainted continued to chant some more powerful incantations, Ogun let out a bellow and brought his weapon down on a second Tainted that let out smoke instead of blood before dissolving into black fog as well. Poisonous mist that likely would have crippled an ordinary fighter and caused some of the panicking bystanders to keel over coughing and retching.<br/><br/>Of course no bar brawl was complete without broken windows and when they did in fact break due to the Molotovs thrown inside, Ogun was the first to react. Grabbing a table and using it as a shield, he brought it up to absorb the impact of one of the firebombs before discarding the burning slab of wood. The Tainted, panicked by the sudden turn of events turned to face their new attackers, a horde of Lizardmen that poured in like water. from a broken dam. The screams of the dying escalated as they tried to find an exit and were cut down mercilessly. Looking at the Tainted that looked back at him, a simple pause was enough to forge a temporary truce, Ogun charged at a nearby window and speared one of the first to enter with his polearm before arcing it up and throwing the foe away with the momentum. It was at this point it was obvious that he would not be taken prisoner and very quickly, he found himself surrounded by enemies unsure as to how to best approach him.<br/><br/>The most foolhardy charged with a menacing morning star. Ogun rapidly clamped his weapon to his back and changed stances, grabbing the weapon on the downswing and forcing the foe into the ground with its momentum before standing up and squashing the foe's head like a particularly crunchy bug. Intimidated by the man in armor there was a brief pause before they all started to breathe fire in unison, surrounding him in flame. Looking through the flames he could see the Tainted spellcasters from earlier linking hands and chanting. His sensors picked up a sudden lowering of his temperature to counteract the flames before the Tainted blinked out of sight. Charging<a class="externalLink" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15JCb6P60Vw" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">through the fire and flames </a>like a rhino, he grabbed a pair of heads and crushed them between his hands, taking ahold of a mace as it fell and bringing it down upon the head of a third. The crowd of Lizardmen started to jump up and around, trying to get on his back, arms, and legs to weigh him down so as to eventually bring him down completely. Fire and smoke danced around him as he tried to swat at the agile enemies that clung to his arms, slamming them against tables , the floor and each other. In this manner, the spikes they valued for defense became a weapon for Ogun. Though their swords would not penetrate his armor easily, some of the more skilled warriors were able to poke their blades into the gaps between plates causing his arms to start locking up with the blades and other debris caught.<br/><br/>Swarming over him like ants, he did all he could to fight them off, tearing arms, legs, heads and tails from his attackers. It seemed though that when one was throw off two more took its place with a new blade to jam into his joints and another breath of flame that wore at the cold enchantment gifted to him. As he forcefully punched through a Lizardman, he found himself unable to remove his arm from the corpse and several daggers jammed into his elbow. Undeterred by the fact that he didn't bleed, the Lizardmen cackled and hissed excitedly at each other in their own tongue as the flames roared and cackled around them maniacally, as if taking on an evil life of their own. Using his free arm to tear at flesh and scale, he tried to dislodge the weapons in his elbow but only succeeded in tearing off the handles and leaving the blades inside. Slamming yet another Lizardman into the ground, the wood started to groan. The fire ate away at its stability, the giant's weight was suddenly amplified by the weight of those Lizardmen that immobilized his legs and kept him still for their brethren. The wood moaned and cried like a wounded beast before starting to sag and splinter under the weight. Noticing the ground about to give way, the Lizardmen began to jump off the giant's body while he, oblivious to his surroundings beyond the next enemy, took advantage of the situation and grabbed fleeing Lizardmen by the tails and pummeling them to a pulp. As another jumped off him, the wood under the giant let out a dying scream before caving in. Grabbing the leg of a Lizardman as he fell, he caught sight of a particularly menacing Tainted, stabbing his claws into the back of a helpless woman.<br/><br/>As Ogun and the Lizardman fell, the giant pictured that Tainted in his hands, using the Lizardman as a place holder. A deafening buzzing sound emanated from Ogun's helmet as the Lizardman's eyes bugged out under the concentrated beam of sound, they popped and the Lizardman expired.<br/><br/>Hitting another floor, the orange light of the blazing fire illuminated those that were already gathered. The mistress of the brothel and her guard, the thief and...Parin! Ogun started to drag his gore-covered body with his unjammed arm, his legs equally clogged with weapons and chains, toward the thief. The body of the mutilated Lizardman slid off him with a sickening plop.<br/><br/><i>"You will not harm Miss Parin you unworthy wretch."</i><div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>