Whatever the flying creatures were, they hadn't swooped low enough for Daemon to do anything about them, but Renji's sword had better reach than his. Too much better apparently, as the redhead attacked, slaughtering something overhead. Whatever it was had a backlash, however, because Renji went to one knee even as blood and body parts rained down around them.

"Renji?" Daemon exclaimed, crouching beside him, his expression concerned. Perhaps the monsters out here were more of a challenge than he'd anticipated. "What happened? Are you injured?"

One hand rested on the Shinigami's shoulder as he probed the dark sky above them. There were dozens of bodies up there. Possibly hundreds, it was impossible to tell. The sky was literally crawling with things, one indistinguishable from the next, although some were far too distant to pay them much attention. The massive amounts of fodder let loose this night was making it difficult to pinpoint anything not distinctly human in form.