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Illyanas Ghost Banishing 250127
On a cold night amidst the chilling ambiance of Arkwright Cemetery, Illyana, William, and Finn found themselves surrounded by an ominous black mist, conjuring demons and smoke monsters from the depths of hell itself. With the air filled with the putrid smell of brimstone, and the sinister silhouette of hellhounds and horned creatures emerging from the mist, the trio was pushed into a corner. William, unable to speak, communicated through his phone, revealing the severity of their situation and his focus on banishing the malevolent entities. As demonic dogs and hooded figures bore down on them, Illyana's anger ignited, her eyes glowing with a menacing emerald light. Together, the group faced their first assault; Illyana's furious combat with a hellhound allowed Finn to deliver crushing blows, showcasing their determination not to be overwhelmed by the infernal onslaught.
In the midst of chaos, William persistently worked on a ritual to banish the demons, drawing intricate circles and symbols on the ground despite the encroaching danger. Illyana, fueled by wrath, faced off against the smoke monsters with fiery daggers and biokinetic might, while Finn tackled the physical threats with sheer brute force. As demonic laughter echoed in their minds, trying to seduce them into sin, Illyana unleashed a storm of violence, her rage nearly causing rifts within their ranks. Yet, as William beckoned her over to complete the ritual with her blood, the demonic mist began to react, latching onto the smoke monsters and initiating their banishment. In a final stand, Illyana and Finn fought back with renewed vigor, safeguarding William as the ritual took effect, resulting in the dispersion of the malevolent entities and the restoration of peace to the cemetery, marking the end of a harrowing ordeal.
(Illyana's ghost banishing)
[Sun Jan 26 2025]
On the Sprawling Hillside of Arkwright Cemetery
It is night, about 17F(-8C) degrees, and there are a few dark grey stormclouds in the sky. There is a waning crescent moon.
There is the sudden smell of brimstone that fills the area, and along with a rising, black mist: smoke, coiling along the surface of the graveyard. It seems to form strange whorls and shapes, and as they draw close to %n they begin to look more and more like creatures -- horned creatures, with red eyes full of menace.
William nods his head, quite quickly picking on on the sickness thing and typing on his phone 'Feeding sickness takes around seven weeks to disappear for those who can't fight it'
"Okay," Illyana decides, grimacing at the smoke gathering around Illyana, Finn and William. "Demons. "Bill's on banishing, we protect him and kick their asses. Which is good," Illyana notes, "Because I need to cut loose.""
A twisted figure forms out of infernal smoke, shaped like a terrible canine shape. It's a hellhound, leaping towards Illyana with an awful snarl. When its mouth closes on %n, it has some phantom force, sending a vision of suffering in hellfire.
"I plan to, just finding my feet." He says before he double takes over to Bill "Wait, you still can't speak?" He asks him with an incredulous look "Who did you piss off?" He wonders out loud as he turns his attention to the horned creatures, slipping his brass knuckles onto his fingers "Are you, uh" He says, glancing to William "Are you, like, confident?" He asks, trying his best to ask the man if he needed Finn to cover him without seeming too condescending
Voicelessly sighing, William writes something else on his phone 'Fight as in feed. If you are human you are screwed with the seven weeks. Now, don't let those things distract me, I might take a bit longer with my voice completely gone'. And with that, he moves over to a side, not even bothering to find cover, considering the enemy was gaseous, and reaching for a hidden knife within his clothes, cutting his palm diagonally and letting the blood come out slowly
The first assault as it would happen is the hellhound. That's good, Illyana is angry. Angry enough that she's only barely holding onto humanity right now, so something to fight is very much welcomed. Her sunglasses are removed, and behind those lenses, Illyana's eyes are glowing, emerald incandescence, glimmering like gemstones blazing with a roiling fire from within, insidious and violent. The hound leaps towards Illyana, and as if it were nothing, the bohemian roars back at it, holding it at arms length with one arm, the beast hanging off of her in prime placement for Finn to punch. Then, as William begins his ritual, Illyana promptly-- And smoothly, punches the hellhound repeatedly in the head with the rage of a demon, those impacts as rapid as any angel.
Finn gets stuck in! He hangs back just long enough for Illyana to have the beast properly occupied, trusting her to have it covered, but sliding in the beat down commences! He tries to sweep one of the quadrepeds legs, taking two very full handfulls of fur as he rips downwards with his grips to try and hurl the thing into the ground so he and Illyana could rain down crushing heel onto the thing!
From the smoky mist, a circle of hooded figures seem to approach, chanting in unison. At first, they seem to be living people, but as they draw closer to Illyana it becomes clear they are smoke monsters themselves. They reach out as their chants increase in volume, and it is as if they are sucking the air out of the lungs of everyone present.
Finn but sliding in as the beatdown commences*
William on his side seems to be digging his fingers onto the dirt, staining the ground with the blood slathered all over them, and with practiced ease drawing a circle on the ground, though unlike other times, another one is soon to follow, slightly smaller, but almost the same size as the original, within it, creating some sort of ring drawing if looked on its own. His breathing slows down for a moment, just as the chanting figures begin to suck the air out of him, glancing hurriedly towards Illyana and Finn and aiming in the smoke figure's direction, before going back to working on the drawing
At first, Illyana doesn't notice the smokey figures within the mist. She is consumed by the hound, though as the air is sucked away, Illyana hisses. With a final solid hammer into the hellhound's nose, Illyana leaves its disbatch to Finn. Pathing closer to the figures, Illyana gets stuck in. Breathless, there's an employment of biokinetic ability; The unsettling ripple of skin showing that something internal is shifting in Illyana as she manifests between the figures, laying into them with a flaming dagger and plentiful fire. William has the ritual covered, surely.
Finn one eye squints as he falters, feeling the air leaving his lungs. The man remains stoic however, seeming to be able to keep his composure even without being able to breathe. He looks over to the figures, going to move towards them but stopping as Illyana is already next to them, figuring she'd be done before he gets there he looks back to the hellhound!
The creature stunned enough by the violent onslaught, Finn drops the ground as he wraps an arm around the creature's neck from behind! He locks the first arm in with the second and starts to SQUEEZE the life out of the thing, his head glancing back and forth for dangers as he slowly dispatches the creature.
Finn says "I've got this thing, you handle the shadow wizard money gang!"
For a moment, the dark smoke is still around Illyana ... but then a low, evil laughter begins to echo. It takes only a second to realize the laughter is echoing inside the heads of those who fight here, and with it comes a sudden urge to give into everyone's worst sin.
At the best of times, angels are not well known for self control. When emotional, that's worse, especially when said angels have demon blood, too. As air returns, Illyana turns, stares at William and Finn, then generates a ball of fire in a palm. The figures around her begin to vanish, but where normally there would be vainglory, today, Illyana is wrathful, and that explodes in a storm of violence.
Finn lets go of the Hellhound, leaving it staggered, but still alive as he slowly gets up to his feet. There's a bad look in the man's eyes as he turns to Illyana, seeming to forget she was a demon to be scared of at all as he dips a knee to the ground and charges straight into the woman for a tackle!
A trio of horned smoke-monsters advance out of the mist. They have twisted weapons formed of smoke, and they descend on Illyana, howling in an incomrephensible, devilish tongue.
As Finn charges, William and the graveyard is forgotten. There's just violence incarnate there, and Illyana's aura lashes out, burning as she slips to the side of Finn's tackle snarling in his face. "Why did you have to live when Kim died." she roars, a backhand striking back at Finn. The smoke monsters arn't noticed, though they likely will be, the two will have to turn their attention to them soon. And William needs them to not be distracted.
After the circles are done, William proceeds to draw on the ground probably the most stereotypical thing that would come to mind to someone when thinking 'ritual circle', that being a pentagram, the points of it not reaching to touch the inner-most circle, and taking a deep breath after such simple drawing, he begins to draw some runes, contained between the two circumferences he's drawn before.
That is when the laughter arrives, and the mental distress commences, gritting his teeth and closing his eyes to try to focus, his voice and grunts luckily, his eyes then slowly moving up to the angry Illyana and blinking a couple times, but unable to really use his words to really do anything about it, he shakes his head and tries to focus on the blood drawing, hoping that everything will resolve itself without the need for him to get targetted by the gal, he doesn't seem to mind Finn as an idea that much though.
So he keeps plastering the in between of the two circles with symbols and runes, smaller than they would be on the ritual he normally uses, but certainly visible, and once it is completely encircled. He moves instead to the space between each of the sections of the pentagram, now using way bigger shapes, more wavy figures, and curves, taking a couple deep breaths as the temperature in the cemetery starts rising.
Thankfully, William is actually focused, and likewise thankfully, Illyana has finally noticed the advancing smoke monsters. "Fuck." Illyana curses. "Fucking demon smoke. I didn't mean it. Sorry Fin." Illyana isn't sorry, but Finn wasn't an intended target, just a convenient one. Finn is slapped back, and Illyana turns to the monsters, that ball of fire, still in her palm growing insipid, an effulgent flame that's unleashed against the monsters like a flamethrower as Illyana moves between Finn and the chop from a sword, narrowly missing decapitation and injury against Finn, too.
With a howl, some kind of winged monkey-demon swoops down near Illyana, its body made of living smoke. It's all grasping claws, striking hard to leave psychic scars that hurt like deep slashes. Other monkeys attack anyone nearby, with similar screeching, rending claws.
Finn grunts in pain as he gets slammed down to the ground, the man glowering as his expression turns darker, the man getting almost immediately to his feet despite his arm hanging limply his side! He blinks himself somewhat lucid as he spots the sword swung towards him, taking a step back as Illyana saves him from it! "We'll, uhhh ..." He says, wondering whether to attack Illyana or the monsters before monkeys start to fall on him and better minds win out "Fuck, these fuckers again!" He growls as one lands on his back, the man tearing it off before pelting it hard into the ground where it scatters into shards of smoke!
William finishes filling up the spaces in between the different sections of the pentagram, the runes seeming squiggly and very round in shape, and then he has to move to the inner sections, leaving the center for last, he instead starts for each of the triangular spaces formed, adding in them even more symbols that, to people like Illyana or Finn, are probably just nonsense, other arcanist could probably make up a few, present in even beginners manuals or more conventional studies, shapes straight for the most part, looking a lot more letter-like
Focusing on one monster, Illyana leaves the other to Finn. William is working on. He's capable and the red haze is lifting now, though the wrath remains, and Illyana moves like a truck, slamming into her targeted monster as a fireball is thrown at the third. William is able to continue now Illyana has stopped being insensible, Illyana's guardian aura spreading to place herself between William and Illyana. Finn is prideful, and Illyana, in a show of respect is not treating Finn as though he cant handle himself-- Because he can, and of course, that doesn't happen soon enough as now, though Finn and Illyana have the monsters, the winged monkeys are coming. "Fucking monkeys." Illyana sighs, glancing to check Finn is still up and beating.
Finn steps back from another monkey soaring towards him, letting the thing faceplant into the ground as it misses him! The man needs to stay on his feet however as one of the horned creatures armed with a shadow halberd is slicing the weapon down at him! Finn closes in fast with the creature, bolting forwards surprisingly fast as he gets his hands onto the handle of the weapon whilst it's tip is still pointed high in the sky!
wrestling with the creature over the weapon, Finn returns Illyana's glance, giving her a nod to let her know he's alright "Finish off the others, I've got this guy!" He calls over to her as he returns his attention to the goat demon, rearing his head back to slam his forehead into the creature, attacking over the halberd's shaft!
From the smoky mist, a circle of hooded figures seem to approach, chanting in unison. At first, they seem to be living people, but as they draw closer to Illyana it becomes clear they are smoke monsters themselves. They reach out as their chants increase in volume, and it is as if they are sucking the air out of the lungs of everyone present.
And then it's time for the middle of the ritual, the last bit of it. Though what William draws in it doesn't look like some glyph or rune anymore, it's more like some sort of drawing. Two hook-like shapes slightly apart from each other, facing in opposite directions and inverted, the shorter part on the upper side, almost like antenna, or eyebrows, maybe horns. And connecting the lower side of the two, what seems to be something like an stylized 'V', consisting of the sections of two circumferences, never meeting, their lower sides connected by opposing traces of the same nature, almost like making a rhombus with curvy lines and opening the top. But when that's done, William stands up and beckons Illyana closer, rushedly
Bluringly quickly and moving on light feet with a demonic fortitude, Illyana moves to snatch monkey after monkey out of the air. Finn can take care of himself, but William's casting takes the foremost attention. None of the monkeys reach William, thankfully, and between Finn and Illyana, they are largely skattered. The smoke monsters are met with fire, the creatures returning to the mist, but of course it's not that easy. Of course the air is sucked away, and with the lack of air, a lack of fire. No oxygen. That means Illyana is back to dagger, fists, knees elbows and headbuts/shoulder checks. Illyana is strong-- Monsterously so, but if not for Finn, this would be far far harder. Trusting Finn then, Illyana paths over to William as he motions, manifesting beside him with a questioning raised eyebrow.
William takes Illyana's arm more than her hand, positioning her palm over the center of the circle and facing downwards. He takes a deep breath before reaching for the hidden knife within his clothes once more, and without really much warning he makes a superficial cut on the girl's hand, letting a tiny bit of her blood fall on top of the ritual, which makes it start oozing some slowly gathering mist, the color turning a much deeper red, almost like he had activated with the girls blood some sort of demonic potion cauldron, in the form of a drawing. But as the fumes start spreading, they seem to latch onto the mist, not doing anything outright, simply lingering, and, if it all goes according to plan, everything should be banished, and disappearing within a couple minutes of the contact being made
The smell of smoke seems to peak, and then, with a rush of magical power, it's gone. The smoke monsters in the cemetery disappear, banished -- fading away as wisps of mist in the air around $n.
In the midst of chaos, William persistently worked on a ritual to banish the demons, drawing intricate circles and symbols on the ground despite the encroaching danger. Illyana, fueled by wrath, faced off against the smoke monsters with fiery daggers and biokinetic might, while Finn tackled the physical threats with sheer brute force. As demonic laughter echoed in their minds, trying to seduce them into sin, Illyana unleashed a storm of violence, her rage nearly causing rifts within their ranks. Yet, as William beckoned her over to complete the ritual with her blood, the demonic mist began to react, latching onto the smoke monsters and initiating their banishment. In a final stand, Illyana and Finn fought back with renewed vigor, safeguarding William as the ritual took effect, resulting in the dispersion of the malevolent entities and the restoration of peace to the cemetery, marking the end of a harrowing ordeal.
(Illyana's ghost banishing)
[Sun Jan 26 2025]
On the Sprawling Hillside of Arkwright Cemetery
It is night, about 17F(-8C) degrees, and there are a few dark grey stormclouds in the sky. There is a waning crescent moon.
There is the sudden smell of brimstone that fills the area, and along with a rising, black mist: smoke, coiling along the surface of the graveyard. It seems to form strange whorls and shapes, and as they draw close to %n they begin to look more and more like creatures -- horned creatures, with red eyes full of menace.
William nods his head, quite quickly picking on on the sickness thing and typing on his phone 'Feeding sickness takes around seven weeks to disappear for those who can't fight it'
"Okay," Illyana decides, grimacing at the smoke gathering around Illyana, Finn and William. "Demons. "Bill's on banishing, we protect him and kick their asses. Which is good," Illyana notes, "Because I need to cut loose.""
A twisted figure forms out of infernal smoke, shaped like a terrible canine shape. It's a hellhound, leaping towards Illyana with an awful snarl. When its mouth closes on %n, it has some phantom force, sending a vision of suffering in hellfire.
"I plan to, just finding my feet." He says before he double takes over to Bill "Wait, you still can't speak?" He asks him with an incredulous look "Who did you piss off?" He wonders out loud as he turns his attention to the horned creatures, slipping his brass knuckles onto his fingers "Are you, uh" He says, glancing to William "Are you, like, confident?" He asks, trying his best to ask the man if he needed Finn to cover him without seeming too condescending
Voicelessly sighing, William writes something else on his phone 'Fight as in feed. If you are human you are screwed with the seven weeks. Now, don't let those things distract me, I might take a bit longer with my voice completely gone'. And with that, he moves over to a side, not even bothering to find cover, considering the enemy was gaseous, and reaching for a hidden knife within his clothes, cutting his palm diagonally and letting the blood come out slowly
The first assault as it would happen is the hellhound. That's good, Illyana is angry. Angry enough that she's only barely holding onto humanity right now, so something to fight is very much welcomed. Her sunglasses are removed, and behind those lenses, Illyana's eyes are glowing, emerald incandescence, glimmering like gemstones blazing with a roiling fire from within, insidious and violent. The hound leaps towards Illyana, and as if it were nothing, the bohemian roars back at it, holding it at arms length with one arm, the beast hanging off of her in prime placement for Finn to punch. Then, as William begins his ritual, Illyana promptly-- And smoothly, punches the hellhound repeatedly in the head with the rage of a demon, those impacts as rapid as any angel.
Finn gets stuck in! He hangs back just long enough for Illyana to have the beast properly occupied, trusting her to have it covered, but sliding in the beat down commences! He tries to sweep one of the quadrepeds legs, taking two very full handfulls of fur as he rips downwards with his grips to try and hurl the thing into the ground so he and Illyana could rain down crushing heel onto the thing!
From the smoky mist, a circle of hooded figures seem to approach, chanting in unison. At first, they seem to be living people, but as they draw closer to Illyana it becomes clear they are smoke monsters themselves. They reach out as their chants increase in volume, and it is as if they are sucking the air out of the lungs of everyone present.
Finn but sliding in as the beatdown commences*
William on his side seems to be digging his fingers onto the dirt, staining the ground with the blood slathered all over them, and with practiced ease drawing a circle on the ground, though unlike other times, another one is soon to follow, slightly smaller, but almost the same size as the original, within it, creating some sort of ring drawing if looked on its own. His breathing slows down for a moment, just as the chanting figures begin to suck the air out of him, glancing hurriedly towards Illyana and Finn and aiming in the smoke figure's direction, before going back to working on the drawing
At first, Illyana doesn't notice the smokey figures within the mist. She is consumed by the hound, though as the air is sucked away, Illyana hisses. With a final solid hammer into the hellhound's nose, Illyana leaves its disbatch to Finn. Pathing closer to the figures, Illyana gets stuck in. Breathless, there's an employment of biokinetic ability; The unsettling ripple of skin showing that something internal is shifting in Illyana as she manifests between the figures, laying into them with a flaming dagger and plentiful fire. William has the ritual covered, surely.
Finn one eye squints as he falters, feeling the air leaving his lungs. The man remains stoic however, seeming to be able to keep his composure even without being able to breathe. He looks over to the figures, going to move towards them but stopping as Illyana is already next to them, figuring she'd be done before he gets there he looks back to the hellhound!
The creature stunned enough by the violent onslaught, Finn drops the ground as he wraps an arm around the creature's neck from behind! He locks the first arm in with the second and starts to SQUEEZE the life out of the thing, his head glancing back and forth for dangers as he slowly dispatches the creature.
Finn says "I've got this thing, you handle the shadow wizard money gang!"
For a moment, the dark smoke is still around Illyana ... but then a low, evil laughter begins to echo. It takes only a second to realize the laughter is echoing inside the heads of those who fight here, and with it comes a sudden urge to give into everyone's worst sin.
At the best of times, angels are not well known for self control. When emotional, that's worse, especially when said angels have demon blood, too. As air returns, Illyana turns, stares at William and Finn, then generates a ball of fire in a palm. The figures around her begin to vanish, but where normally there would be vainglory, today, Illyana is wrathful, and that explodes in a storm of violence.
Finn lets go of the Hellhound, leaving it staggered, but still alive as he slowly gets up to his feet. There's a bad look in the man's eyes as he turns to Illyana, seeming to forget she was a demon to be scared of at all as he dips a knee to the ground and charges straight into the woman for a tackle!
A trio of horned smoke-monsters advance out of the mist. They have twisted weapons formed of smoke, and they descend on Illyana, howling in an incomrephensible, devilish tongue.
As Finn charges, William and the graveyard is forgotten. There's just violence incarnate there, and Illyana's aura lashes out, burning as she slips to the side of Finn's tackle snarling in his face. "Why did you have to live when Kim died." she roars, a backhand striking back at Finn. The smoke monsters arn't noticed, though they likely will be, the two will have to turn their attention to them soon. And William needs them to not be distracted.
After the circles are done, William proceeds to draw on the ground probably the most stereotypical thing that would come to mind to someone when thinking 'ritual circle', that being a pentagram, the points of it not reaching to touch the inner-most circle, and taking a deep breath after such simple drawing, he begins to draw some runes, contained between the two circumferences he's drawn before.
That is when the laughter arrives, and the mental distress commences, gritting his teeth and closing his eyes to try to focus, his voice and grunts luckily, his eyes then slowly moving up to the angry Illyana and blinking a couple times, but unable to really use his words to really do anything about it, he shakes his head and tries to focus on the blood drawing, hoping that everything will resolve itself without the need for him to get targetted by the gal, he doesn't seem to mind Finn as an idea that much though.
So he keeps plastering the in between of the two circles with symbols and runes, smaller than they would be on the ritual he normally uses, but certainly visible, and once it is completely encircled. He moves instead to the space between each of the sections of the pentagram, now using way bigger shapes, more wavy figures, and curves, taking a couple deep breaths as the temperature in the cemetery starts rising.
Thankfully, William is actually focused, and likewise thankfully, Illyana has finally noticed the advancing smoke monsters. "Fuck." Illyana curses. "Fucking demon smoke. I didn't mean it. Sorry Fin." Illyana isn't sorry, but Finn wasn't an intended target, just a convenient one. Finn is slapped back, and Illyana turns to the monsters, that ball of fire, still in her palm growing insipid, an effulgent flame that's unleashed against the monsters like a flamethrower as Illyana moves between Finn and the chop from a sword, narrowly missing decapitation and injury against Finn, too.
With a howl, some kind of winged monkey-demon swoops down near Illyana, its body made of living smoke. It's all grasping claws, striking hard to leave psychic scars that hurt like deep slashes. Other monkeys attack anyone nearby, with similar screeching, rending claws.
Finn grunts in pain as he gets slammed down to the ground, the man glowering as his expression turns darker, the man getting almost immediately to his feet despite his arm hanging limply his side! He blinks himself somewhat lucid as he spots the sword swung towards him, taking a step back as Illyana saves him from it! "We'll, uhhh ..." He says, wondering whether to attack Illyana or the monsters before monkeys start to fall on him and better minds win out "Fuck, these fuckers again!" He growls as one lands on his back, the man tearing it off before pelting it hard into the ground where it scatters into shards of smoke!
William finishes filling up the spaces in between the different sections of the pentagram, the runes seeming squiggly and very round in shape, and then he has to move to the inner sections, leaving the center for last, he instead starts for each of the triangular spaces formed, adding in them even more symbols that, to people like Illyana or Finn, are probably just nonsense, other arcanist could probably make up a few, present in even beginners manuals or more conventional studies, shapes straight for the most part, looking a lot more letter-like
Focusing on one monster, Illyana leaves the other to Finn. William is working on. He's capable and the red haze is lifting now, though the wrath remains, and Illyana moves like a truck, slamming into her targeted monster as a fireball is thrown at the third. William is able to continue now Illyana has stopped being insensible, Illyana's guardian aura spreading to place herself between William and Illyana. Finn is prideful, and Illyana, in a show of respect is not treating Finn as though he cant handle himself-- Because he can, and of course, that doesn't happen soon enough as now, though Finn and Illyana have the monsters, the winged monkeys are coming. "Fucking monkeys." Illyana sighs, glancing to check Finn is still up and beating.
Finn steps back from another monkey soaring towards him, letting the thing faceplant into the ground as it misses him! The man needs to stay on his feet however as one of the horned creatures armed with a shadow halberd is slicing the weapon down at him! Finn closes in fast with the creature, bolting forwards surprisingly fast as he gets his hands onto the handle of the weapon whilst it's tip is still pointed high in the sky!
wrestling with the creature over the weapon, Finn returns Illyana's glance, giving her a nod to let her know he's alright "Finish off the others, I've got this guy!" He calls over to her as he returns his attention to the goat demon, rearing his head back to slam his forehead into the creature, attacking over the halberd's shaft!
From the smoky mist, a circle of hooded figures seem to approach, chanting in unison. At first, they seem to be living people, but as they draw closer to Illyana it becomes clear they are smoke monsters themselves. They reach out as their chants increase in volume, and it is as if they are sucking the air out of the lungs of everyone present.
And then it's time for the middle of the ritual, the last bit of it. Though what William draws in it doesn't look like some glyph or rune anymore, it's more like some sort of drawing. Two hook-like shapes slightly apart from each other, facing in opposite directions and inverted, the shorter part on the upper side, almost like antenna, or eyebrows, maybe horns. And connecting the lower side of the two, what seems to be something like an stylized 'V', consisting of the sections of two circumferences, never meeting, their lower sides connected by opposing traces of the same nature, almost like making a rhombus with curvy lines and opening the top. But when that's done, William stands up and beckons Illyana closer, rushedly
Bluringly quickly and moving on light feet with a demonic fortitude, Illyana moves to snatch monkey after monkey out of the air. Finn can take care of himself, but William's casting takes the foremost attention. None of the monkeys reach William, thankfully, and between Finn and Illyana, they are largely skattered. The smoke monsters are met with fire, the creatures returning to the mist, but of course it's not that easy. Of course the air is sucked away, and with the lack of air, a lack of fire. No oxygen. That means Illyana is back to dagger, fists, knees elbows and headbuts/shoulder checks. Illyana is strong-- Monsterously so, but if not for Finn, this would be far far harder. Trusting Finn then, Illyana paths over to William as he motions, manifesting beside him with a questioning raised eyebrow.
William takes Illyana's arm more than her hand, positioning her palm over the center of the circle and facing downwards. He takes a deep breath before reaching for the hidden knife within his clothes once more, and without really much warning he makes a superficial cut on the girl's hand, letting a tiny bit of her blood fall on top of the ritual, which makes it start oozing some slowly gathering mist, the color turning a much deeper red, almost like he had activated with the girls blood some sort of demonic potion cauldron, in the form of a drawing. But as the fumes start spreading, they seem to latch onto the mist, not doing anything outright, simply lingering, and, if it all goes according to plan, everything should be banished, and disappearing within a couple minutes of the contact being made
The smell of smoke seems to peak, and then, with a rush of magical power, it's gone. The smoke monsters in the cemetery disappear, banished -- fading away as wisps of mist in the air around $n.