Vesh had no idea that Robor would endanger himself, thinking that the disciple had fallen under sway of his hedonistic vampiric ways. It was a major shock to the creature then, when Robor abruptly pulled him across the gauntlet and into the raging inferno of the melting railcar.
That, coupled with the direct light pouring through Beats' sun-gate, was enough to incinerate the blood sucker almost immediately. Unfortunately for Robor, the conflagration was so intense that his own hair and skin also burst into flames - saying nothing of the radiation he was also absorbing by proximity to the glowing industrial sludge.
It was all Robor could do to step sideways again, back into twilight, before passing out from the extreme trauma.
From Beats' vantage point, he saw two figures appear in the midst of the superheated fires, before both took flame and appeared to be consumed. Trying to contact Robor mentally after that, brought only a dreadful silence - abruptly broken by thunderous roars of the approaching hoard now coming into sight.
Beats had seen some truly disturbing things in his short tenure as a disciple - but these revolting creatures sent chills up and down his spine. These abominations were not demons; and while monsterous, they had not been born so. These were human beings - mind and body twisted and deformed by some ungodly power.
There were twenty four of them initially, fat, naked, bloated things without necks - their faces jutting from round barrel-like chests below the shoulder-line with mentally diminished features and a horrifying snaggle of long flat teeth. Their limbs, in sharp contrast to the obesity of their bodies, were rail-thin and branched at the middle joint - creating a double set of forearms and legs beneath the knee.
They screeched and howled as they rushed forward, coming up short, as they approached the flaming subway car. For a moment, it looked as if the inferno would keep them warily at bay - until the two towering abominations of fused madness lumbered up behind the group and began punting their smaller kin into the area, literally sending them flying through the air like cow-sized footballs.
These massive things... they were like a dozens of their smaller brethren smooshed together into a grossly humanoid shape with the parts of larger animals thrown in for perverse pleasure. They were easily large enough to reach the tunnel's arched ceiling and actually had to crouch to keep under the collecting smoke that progressively filled more and more of the area.
They looked massive enough to lift a subway car in their own right and plodded on three elephantine stumps for legs with three long scythe-like appendages sprouting from their girth. They also had a profusion of dull eyes peering out from seemingly random locations all over its bulk and one tremendously large mouth, reminiscent of a giant ape's, that could easily bite off the front of a small car as if simply eating a sandwich.
The smaller monstrosities meanwhile, apparently more afraid of their giant overseers, swarmed forward and around the burning railcar. Clambering onto the subway platform itself, they turned this way and that - looking for something to rend limb from limb...
