A Valeween Night To Remember

Allies

"After a Cherubim has fed on the blue goo it extracts from a Witch, it will be able to mutate into its 'Adult form - While in this form, they are far more dangerous, and could very easily kill a Witch if it is not dealt with immediately. They are exceptionally harder to deal with than immature Cherubim, and whatever efforts are necessary should be taken to prevent a Cherubim from reaching maturity. Fortunately, there have only been a few recorded incidents of death relating from an 'Adult' Cherubim."
- Valeween for Witchlings, Chapter 6, page 59

The closest thing that Luz could compare the Cherubim arrival to was that of a swarm of locus.

Just far larger. In both number and in size.

Entire sections of sky were blocked out, with little snippets of the sky peeking through small gaps between the blotches. They fell into the Demon Realm rapidly, some not even bothering to open their wings up to fly. She could hear some of them smacking into plants and the ground, almost mindlessly as they descended on the Isles, and the flapping of their wings from the ones above was practically everywhere - A surreal mixture of what Luz imagined an angel's wings might sound like, and the buzzing of what she knew an insects' sounded like.

Like being surrounded by hornets.

Just the sound alone was unsettling - When Luz dared to glance back over her shoulder, the sheer scale of what was around her made her shudder to her core - Just how many thousands were directly over her head, only ignoring her because she was one of thousands of Boiling Isles residents, and the Cherubim above were still deciding which ones they were going to attack first.

Maybe calling it an alien invasion would have been a more accurate comparison.

"Keep it up, you two!" Lilith yelled from ahead of the Owl Lady and her apprentice. Lilith was used to situations like this from her time in the Emperor's Coven, and was calling upon her training and experience now, it seemed.

Something about that was reassuring.

Luz, Eda and Lilith all ran, as fast as they were able to run, aiming straight for the perimeter set up around Bonesbrough. They couldn't use Staffs to fly, or they would become immediate targets for the Cherubim to hone in on them, wouldn't be able to use them to quickly use Magic, and would have absolutely no cover if they were up in the air.

At least on the ground, they could duck underneath trees and shrubbery if needed.

For all the good it would realistically do - All of the plant life was still covered in eyes. Now that the Cherubim Gate was open, they were looking all around the place, keeping a firm eye on anyone who came into their field of view, creaking, snapping, and clicking with each new position. Luz did everything she could to ignore that little bit of cosmic horror, gripped on tighter to her baseball bat, and focused on just keeping up her running speed.

They just had to get to Bonesbrough. That was all they had to do. That was what she focused on.

Whatever was supposed to come next wouldn't matter if they couldn't get to Bonesbrough at least!

One step at a time.

Eventually, one group of Cherubim decided that the three Witches would make a good target, separated as they were from the rest of society, and swooped down towards them at a rapid speed. Wings outstretched, and wide, toothy grins displayed, they shot towards the group like a squad of dive-bombers.

Eda noticed it first. "Above us!" She yelled out, and used her staff to cast a Fireball Spell at the incoming batch. Her shot missed, but it told the rest of the group where the Cherubim were.