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Bender Of Iron Will wasn't passed out, though he was barely concious. He groaned softly as he attempted to get to his senses, which was not going so well. He landed unfortunatly chest first into the tree trunk. With his arm he hit himself on the head as he fell onto the ground. Blood was coming from his head as well as his bottom lip. The old sea captain didn't look too good.

Flavio's shot at the other hand hit its mark. The force of the bolt managed to split the wood of the rifle in half and pierce straight through the steel barrel, making it useless. The angry bandit threw his gun away and drew his sword, though Flavio had not to worry about him. Roughart has chosen this bandit to be his target. His gigantic axe swung around majesticly, but this bandit proved to be a seasoned fighter. These two were in a duel with eachother. But now Flavio had to worry about a greater threat. The Half Giant was flailing his way towards the Gnoll's make-shift wall. This time it seemed no one was able to help him out in time!

The blistering hot tabasco sauce hit its mark perfectly. Brenniken screamed loudly as the liquid hit her straight in her face, burning both her eyes as well as leaving a fiery sensation in her mouth. She emmidiatly let go of Arien and fell off of her horse into the dusty road, trying to rub the sauce off of her."You little rat!" She yelled angrilly, grabbing her other hand gun as she flailed it around blindly whilest on the floor."I'll shoot your balls off!"

"Hah! Like I'd let you do that. I just wasted all that sauce on you. I'm never going to get it back." Now that the tables were turned, Arien pounced on Brenniken, securing first her flailing gun hand and trying to pull the gun free. Once he disarmed her, he would try to tie her up with some rope pieces that had been scattered over the battlefield.

He risked a look over his shoulder at his fellow traveling companions to check on their progress and winced. He couldn't tell if they were winning, although it looked like they had taken out most of the rogues.

Flavio at last took his musket again, and was about to start loading when he saw the half-giant come his way. The gnoll had to think fast, and that he did. He ducked down to dig his claws deep in the dirt and then threw a cloud of dirt into the direction of the half giant's unshot eye. He hoped it would blind him long enough and ran towards a nearby thick tree to duck behind. To confuse the giant further he took off his hat just before he disappeared behind the tree and threw it across the road, and hoped it'd land on the opposite side so the half-giant'd be distracted for just a bit longer.

He had never loaded this frantically and fast before, he hadn't even taken the time to check if the half-giant was even blinded so as far as he knew the thing could be right behind him. Keeping his ears perched, but his attention divided tried to concentrate on his musket the gnoll poured powder and then a bullet into the barrel, given that he didn't drop anything he should have a bad shot ready soon.

"No! Don't touch me!" Brenniken screamed."Let me go! I have waited fifteen years to lead the Crimson Crows! You will not take this away from me!!" Her eyes were still closed due to the tabasco sauce and she gave but little resistance to Arien tieing her up."Stomp! Stomp, come save mother!!" She yelled in desperation whilest the rope was constricting her.

The dazed giant had no idea where his feet landed as he stomped his way around."Little puppy die!" He yelled loudly, trying to get the dirt out of his eyes. He was about to find his way towards Flavio when Brenniken called for him. Being fully blinded and partly deaf due to the many gunshots that were fired earlier he had to rely on smell. Half Giants weren't known for their great smelling ability, and the thick smell of grease and gunpowder did not make it easy for him. None the less Stomp was heading towards Brenniken and Arien clumsilly, stepping on almost every corpse on the way there."That's right, baby, come save mother! Stomp the salty man! Mother doesn't like him anymore!" She cried out with a wicked grin.

Bender Of Iron Will in the meantime was fighting to stay awake. Softly grumbling he was slowly reloading his handgun. The activity would keep his blood circulating so he would eventually get back to his senses.

This wasn't good; he was about to be squashed by a half-giant. He worked faster, tying the knots tighter until he was done.

"Crimson Crows, is it?" he asked. "Call Stomp off or I'll make sure your career as a bandit is completely over." He stepped over her and then hauled her to her feet, putting her effectively between him and the approaching half-giant.

"Stomp! You come closer and 'mother' will die. Do you want that?" Arien yelled. He didn't have any weapons near to hand yet, but maybe the half-giant couldn't see that well.

Flavio had finished loading the shot at last and turned around the corner to meet his enemy, who was no longer here but heading towards Arien. His ears caught the shouts of Arien, it seemed the man was in trouble and the gnoll did not think it'd be easy to call something as stupid as a half-giant off.

For now the sharpshooter decides to take a look at Bender, who seemed to be in a bad shape. The gnoll would take his arms once there and try to hoist him up. "Come on Bender. You're made of tougher stuff, pull it together." the gunman encouraged, he if he got the gunner back on his feet he'd try and give him a few mild slaps to bring him back.

The Half Giant was in pure rage mode. He heard Arien, sure. But he didn't listen."You lie! Mother is sweet! No one kill mother!" With that, the half giant clutched his fists togheter and prepared a smash. Now Brenniken could see her idea of calling Stomp over was not a smart thing to do. He was too stupid to understand that his smash would kill Brenniken just as much as Arien."No, Stomp! Stop, STOP!" She cried out in vain.

Bender Of Iron Will had just finished adding the powder to his gun as Flavio came to get him up. His head was still a bit dazed. He took a rough hit after all."I'm fine, i'm fine." He couldn't help but chuckle when Flavio mentioned "tougher stuff" whilest trying to hoist him up by his steel arm. The screams Brenniken and Stomp were making woke him up entirely though."Lad, get out of there!" He yelled loudly as he fired his half prepared shot at Stomp, hoping it would disract him from smashing Arien.

Arien wasn't completely horrible; he dragged Brenniken out of the way of the approaching half-giant. "Maybe next time you'll train your pets better?" he asked Brenniken, as he reached for another vial of Tabasco sauce. He really hated using the sauce for a weapon, but he had no choice right now. He uncorked it single-handedly and then flicked it at the half-giant's face.

Then grabbing Brenniken, he retreated back. "Call off the rest of your crew!" he demanded, glancing across the battlefield to find Flavio and Bender more or less on their feet again.

Flavio raises his own musket towards the giant and looses a shot of his own when Bender opens fire. The gnoll decides he'll try and cripple the thing, aiming for the back of his kneecap. THey'd just have to kill this piece by piece.

Stomp's smash missed. Arien was lucky to have dodged so fast. Confused the half giant looks around a bit, slowly gaining his vision again.

"What crew? You've killed almost everyone!" Brenniken yelled angrilly."You better run, boy. Run and never come back. We're not the only ones. There's more Crimson Crows around, and they won't stand for this massacre, we'll hunt you down, I promise you!"

Bender Of Iron Will nearly fell back on the ground when Flavio's gun exploded." Whoa, lad. Y'alright?" He grabbed the Gnoll by his arm to make sure he didn't fall over."Take better care o' ya guns." He said as he gave Flavio his hand gun."Same thing as yer rifle." He explained."Just shorter 'n less reliable." The old sea captain took a hold of his sabre as he charged for the half giant. With a wide swing he slashed in the back of Stomp's knee, piercing through it.

Arien snorted at Brenniken's threats. "Lady you've got me confused with someone who's smarter. I'm not the type to run from battle. I've taken on wolves bigger than him." He nodded at the half-giant, who he saw was beginning to be attacked from behind.

"But if you want me to leave you behind, sure." He dropped Brenniken to the ground and backed away from the half-giant, trying to get himself clear of whatever Bender and Flavio were aiming in Stomp's direction.

When Flavio's gun exploded he quickly looked away, which saved his head from a piece of schrapnel from taking it off. His hands were signed but luckily his fur had dampened the blow ever so slightly. This all did not prevent the hyena from giving a loud yelp and throwing his wrecked musket on the ground.

With a weak grunt the hyena accepted the handgun, but it was hard to hold anything with his hands signed as they were. He still made an effort to load the handgun, but with his spirit shaken and his hands half burned, it wasn't easy.

Brenniken finally shut up. She admitted defeat. She was also trying to accept that Stomp was most likely going to die. The half giant was not going to stop its rage fit until everyone was dead. Such was the danger of keeping feral humanoids.

Stomp screamed as Bender penetrated through his foot."Big man going to die now!" He yelled as he swiped his arm towards the sea captain. With a sly smile however Bender managed to grab his hand with his steel arm. Stomp was stunned this man could match his strength, but it was too late by the time he was moving again. Bender used his sabre to slice his stumach open.

Stomp's blood and intestines flew out of the gaping wound and Bender moved out of the way before he got spewed over in dark red blood. The smell alone though was enough to make Bender nauseus. Eventually even a battle hardened man like Bender had to lose his lunch due to the mixed air of grease and blood."N...No...Hurts...Pain..." The half giant muttered as he fell to his knees and eventually collapsed to the floor.

Meanwhile Roughart was finished fighting the last remaining bandit. He carried the man's head on his belt as he watched over the nearly dead half giant. The only ones who were remained alive were Brenniken and two bandits who were unlucky enough to hang upside down without anything to cut themselves down with.

(ooc: I'm so sorry!)

Arien wasn't far behind Bender when it came to losing his lunch as well. That stench alone was beyond nasty as he watched the half-giant crumble to the ground.

"Bender! Are you okay?" He managed to rasp as he recovered enough to talk. A glance at Brenniken showed that she wasn't going anywhere anytime soon, and the men still suspended by ropes had more or less given up as well.

Arien looked around for Flavio as well. He'd heard the gun explode though he hadn't realized what it was at the time. "How's Flavio?"

Flavio threw the handgun to the ground and stood up, glaring angrily at Brenniken with his teeth bared. It seemed the gnoll inside of Flavio had surfaced as he advanced towards the woman in a gait that was quite unlike the musketeer. He had now blamed his hands and even the loss of his gun on her, and if nobody stopped him he was going to also work it out on her. The way he opened and closed his mouth, and how his eyes fixed on her throat, his upcoming plan should be clear.

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Bender Of Iron Will coughed loudly when he was done spewing a nasty dark brown liquid on the ground. Spots of the stuff had spat onto his boots, but the sand would take care of that filth."I'm fine, lad. Ya might want ta check on the hyena though." He said through his coughing. When the old sea captain looked around to find him, he emmidiatly saw what was going on and he couldn't help but grin."Oh, this's new."

Brenniken was familliar with Gnolls. And perhaps this was not a good thing for now she fully knew what was coming."No! Keep this animal away from me!! Don't let it kill me!" She tried to shuffle herself away from the nearing predator. She wasn't even weeping for her Half Giant anymore. Not when she was about to get eaten.

Arien wasn't so certain of Bender being well, but he did turn his attention to Flavio--and saw the hyena looking ready to tear out someone's throat. Quite literally.

He quickly inserted himself between the predator and prey and threw his hands up in front of him. "Flavio! Snap out of it! We need her alive for the moment. You can eat her later!"

Then to Brenniken, he said, "You'd best cooperate or I'll let him eat you."

Arien's voice seemed to bring the gnoll back to his senses, Flavio only shows this with a quick blink and slurping up the slobber that had been gathering at his lips. It didn't quite make him any less angry, but he managed to supress the urge that he hadn't felt before.

The sharpshooter opened his mouth to answer, someone, anyone, but eventually seemed to decide he wouldn't for now. He instead gave the most diabolical look at Brenniken he could manage, although it could not possibly beat the looks he'd given her a moment ago.

Bender strugged to walk straight. He kept his fleshy arm across his ribcage, where the loud crack came from when he hit that tree. It was pure adrenaline that allowed him to finish off the half giant, but now that his rush was over, his pain intensified.

"Thanks fer ruinin' the one fun moment, lad." Bender grumbled. He really wanted to see Flavio's wild side. To him Flavio seemed rather lax. The old sea captain went and took his gun as he notices Ghen'Drak getting up."Little help!" She yells as loudly as she was capable. She was hit pretty hard in the fight, having to stand the pain of two bullets through her body. Bender picked her up with his steel arm and allowed her to support on his shoulder.

Brenniken's heart was beating like crazy. She almost litteraly faced death in its jaws."W-Well..." She said as she tries to get her brave composure back."Well done... You just killed my entire gang. A group of ugly misfits just killed trained young men and a half giant.."

Arien looked over at Bender in surprise. "You wanted him to eat her?" But seeing that Flavio had control of himself again, he stepped aside. "Well then," he cleared his throat. "Warn me before you chow down, will you?" He wasn't all that keen on seeing human carnage. Although the bodies of bandits strewn around didn't seem to phase him much.

He looked at Brenniken. "I wouldn't be too upset if I were you; you might be joining them shortly. Now...is that everyone?"He crossed his arms over his chest and that was when he realized his shirt sleeve was soaked in blood. His blood.

He blinked. He didn't remember...oh wait. Yes, he did, he'd been hit back then. All the adrenaline that had been surging was beginning to ebb, and now that his brain realized he was hurt, he was starting to feel pain. He hated how his body worked sometimes. And that coupled with his teleporting...oh boy, tonight was not going to be fun.