The Demon Arises

You find yourself leading the group, despite a complete lack of familiarity in the space you are being chased in. The expert, Lita, is the dail of the five, keeping a near constant eye over her shoulder. You hear beastly snarls in the background, putting a dreadful emphasis on a need to escape. Panic overcomes reason, and your instinctual reasoning moves to simply run faster, rather than trying to find a way out. You recklessly corner yourself, turning around to find a terrifying demon cautiously approaching you, preparing to strike. Beastly, quarduped, but mangy and deranged, with infernal green light in their eyes, and goblinoid face with enormous batlike eyes.

"What in Ten Hells is that?" Trevolia shouted in disgust, her first interaction with anything so sinister.

"Lord Diamant's hobby." Lita said coldly, "it was going to feast on your entrails after being **** to **** by a greater threat?"

"Wait, what!?" Clodagh covered the princesses mouth in **** hope to not provoke the demon, as Lita stepped forward, sticking her arms out on either side, her simple brown robes vanished to reveal midnight black leather outfit. Her physicality as well changed; her scars vanished, her horns grew more pronounced, and her dainty feet changed to cloven hooves.

"Enough!" She shouted, her voice sounding horse and gravely and entirely unnatural. The demonic beast responded in a loud growl, and the two seemingly conversed in an incoherent, demonic language. The demon sulked, and slowly walked away.

"Wait, that was it?" Joan let out , most surprised of all "You mean to tell me that in all of my years adventuring and fighting demons, I could have just had you around?"

Lita turned around, her eyes a bright orange flame, slowly dimming as she returned to normal; her brown robes reappearing "Don't get the wrong idea. Most Tieflings can't do that. I only learned how to communicate with demons with extensive practice. I don't know that it would work on beings from the lower levels?"

"Why's that?" You ask

"Heirarchy. I told him that even a half-blood like me has greater status than him, and especially the human pretender."

"That works?" Trevolia asked "a beast like that understands rank structure?"

"It would be more accurate to say that it recognize it's place on the food chain. I'll explain more later, but we've already wasted too much time. We need to leave before Diamant or his fetishists summon more threats."

Lita taken charge now, you are led out of the estate successfully and back out onto the greens. You make your way to the carriage, but are held back by Joan.

"Going out that way would get too much attention. I hope you're wearing your stretchy pants" Requiring some finesse and coordination, the five you are able to hoist yourself over the metal fence that seemed impossible from the outside. Being large mass to hoist the rest over, you came over last, eager to rejoin your four female compatriots.

"Okay, what now?"

"We need to talk" Trevoilia spoke up loudly, declaratively "All of us". A series of silent nods indicated a strong quoram had been met, and with that, the intrepid party returned to the Good Knight's Rest...