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“Raven she can’t see me.” Liliath said worried “I am supposed to get in trouble , not she.” Liliath sighed “all those people are stupid pumpkins , beside me You and Raven.”

“Where are all the normal people ?” “Now even my own mommy seems more normal and she is weird.”

“Lisa , let’s go home , i’ll Bring you there cause I am smart.”

Victi's only response is to turn her blinded eyes towards Raven, and shriek, sparks flashing across her open jaws, over her fur, between her ears, as she works to rip the man's helmet off, one of her claws already snapped. The tall, confident sorceress is gone for now, replaced with a raging feral beast.

"Girl, please slow down....what!?" The "what" goes for three points: that someone hit Liliath, that "Buggy" was dead, and that said insect had tried to kill her. For a moment, she's much less worried about her eyesight and more about Liliath's health. As she wraps her arms around the girl, she feels...sticky? Webbing and...blood? Blood. Someone really did hurt her.

"Don't worry about me; I want to help you first." She draws away from Liliath and starts fumbling around for her satchel. Bandages, she needs bandages.

“Seo hit me , cause I But energy cause she grabbed my arms , cause she didn’t want me to go to you.” “Buggy pretended that she was you and then she tried to kill me.” “Then I needed to hide in a basement and then suddenly the basement was underwater Buggy did that.”

“Lisa I don’t need help , I am a big strong Liliath it doesn’t even hurt,”. “It’s some old blood , nothing to worry about.”

"The HELL!?" Raven leaps back. Her back arches and her fur puffs in all directions. That...that's freaky, even for Victi.

Lisa hears the shriek too and responds with a strangled shout of her own. "What was that!?"

"Oh, nothing, just Victi turning into a feral dog! Deal with the girl."

"Raven, are you going to-"

"I don't know what I'm going to do!" Raven spits back and turns to the fox and her angry target. She thinks she understands what's going on. That scream, Lisa's blindness. Something the man did messed up both girls' senses and now Victi has no way to process whatever's happening, and it makes her mad. Murderously mad.

Shaking, Lisa turns to where she thinks Liliath is standing, and tries to stand herself. "We need to get away." Once on her feet, she reaches out, hoping the girl will take her hand. Pain is shooting through her body but she needs to ignore that and get who she can to safety.

“Raven stop it , we are the smart ones , we are not dumb pumpkins!” “We need to focuse on Lisa.” “And about the fact how I am going to hit Seo back.”
“She haves no right to hit me even if I bite her , but it was her own fault cause she grabbed my arms and didn’t allow me to go to you.”

“Lisa lets go home , this place is not save .”

Liliath grabbed Lisa her hand , “Yes let’s go!”

"COME ON!"

Equal parts rage and pain, the challenge was shouted in the general direction of the shrieking beast. Though seeing only spots of light in the darkness around him, he drew his Carifex handcannon, firing blindly but bravely. The roar of the gun drowned out his voices own as round followed round: one shot, two shot, three,. four, five...


All for naught. Struggling the creatures grasp was like fighting a hydraulic press, wrapped in corded steel. The shriek that came from it nearly ruptured his eardrums, seeming the claw its way into his very mind, just as its own claws scratched away paint and bits of enamel from his armored body. Is it any wonder that his vision narrowed, slowly becoming a single, solitary dot. Like daylight at the end of an eternal tunnel. As he slipped into unconsciousness, Ikari stabbed out at where he thought its face might be with the barrel of his gun. The last ditch defiance of a mortal man.

"I don't fear you, demon.."

He fingered the trigger, heard the dry click, and fell into darkness, disappointed.

Empty, the gun was empty...

“I am so super duper happy , cause my best friend is back , now we can eat cookies and celebrate cause we are best friends , and after this adventure I can gay with Lisa and Raven cause they are my bes friends.” Liliath singed happily

Gunshots. Thank the gods they were as loud as they were. Victi snapped back to focus, heart racing. Her pupils! She let them dilate finally. They were all the way open now, and she probably looked horrifying, but she could.... make out the shape of the man she had pinned down, at least, if essentially nothing else "Holy hell..."

She stopped pumping energy through her body, voltage normalizing, and her muscles cooling down from their mana-charged state. She could feel the numb throb of her right wing where his shots had punched through it. His gun arm was still raised, and she heard him finish muttering something, and then a sharp click. Out of ammo...

She rolled off him, out of breath, her body withdrawing from the survival rush. "H-hey..." she managed, "You're on the team now. Talk later," before she passed out

//Uh this may suck, just a warning.//

Adam simply sat in the same place they’ve woken up. They quietly listened to the noises around them, their dry mouth agape. They sat, crisscross,their breathing becoming uneven. Paite truly was horrified, though they looked amazed, and quite interested in the dark world around them. “Holy crud...” That’s all they could say, at the moment. They swept some of the dark hair out of their face, closing both their green eyes and mouth.

Bang!

More sharp cracks, shots from whatever that weapon is. Lisa screams and pulls Liliath close to her, sheilding the girl with her battered body.

Bang, bang!

Two more, she grits her teeth and braces herself for more pain. None comes; the shots aren't meant for her, but she can't know.

Bang!

Bang!

Then silence.

As she let go of Liliath, the girl starts singing some sort of song; making the lyrics up on the spot. Lisa kneels by her, in shock. As she blinks, she starts to see spots of light in her vision. She can make out a few shapes again. Liliath, bouncing and singing. Raven, staring dead ahead at two forms lying prone on the ground, unmoving.

The man, hands splayed out, palms up toward the dark sky. A smaller weapon lies on the pavement beside him. He must have dropped it when he fell.

And Victi.

Lisa thinks she sees her jaws move as she mutters something, then she, too, falls silent and still.

Are they...?

Slowly she crawls toward them and places a hand on Victi's chest, remembering the fox's earlier warning with a wry smile. You're in no shape to break my elbows now. Victi's furry chest rises and falls a little unevenly, but she's alive.

Now, the strange man.

She feels a little bad for attacking him now; whatever blood he shed is on her hands. All she can do now is check his pulse. He has a heartbeat.

Spirits, she dreads the moment this man wakes up.

"Girl," she addresses Liliath. "I hate to ask you, but is there any chance the person who struck you is nearby?" Her vision is still dull; her head is throbbing. She will need help dealing with the wounded.

Raven shakes her head like she can shake off the horror of what she'd just witnessed. It's bad enough to know that one guy wants everyone dead, but now she worries that they're going to kill each other before Vincent gets another chance. She tries to forget about it for now and bury her worry.

Lisa kneels by Vicit and the armored man. She stalks toward her cautiously.

"Liz; you're gonna hate me, but I have to ask."

Lisa heaves a sigh. "What, Raven?"

"You...aren't a shapeshifting demon, are you?"

"No, Raven. I'm not."

The cat smirks. "Liar."

There's a beat, a moment where Raven thinks she's made a mistake. Then Lisa chuckles and says, "You sound like that racist old man from the village."

And it's almost like old times. Said old times only go back about a day or two, for the record.

Big structure! Good roost, hive point. Rest here, wait for light. Mother said "don't trust the small abodes" . This one large, far. Safe. Logic demands!

[The bursters do their best to crash through a window on the upper floor of the large mannor, to rest there. They don't see in the dark well.]

Liliath shrugged , she didn’t really want to talk about that anymore. “Why did the shoot in us?” Liliath asked curious . “Anyways , we should go , cause this place is not safe .”

“Raven , come we are going home.”

"I think," Lisa says. She pauses. How do you explain this to a child? "He was scared, like me. Perhaps like you. We're all scared and that's why the fight happened."

"But he can't hurt us anymore, so I'm done trying hurt him." Now all that's left to do is get them inside and treat their injuries, but neither Liliath or Raven can help her carry them into the police station and the girl doesn't seem interested in fetching more adult help.

So she does what she can.

Now that she can see again, it's easier to get her supplies from the pack. She starts with Victi, who has the most obvious injuries on her wings. Small, bloody holes. So that's what his weapon does. At least they aren't arrow wounds; those can be horrible to treat. She prods the bullet holes, looking for anything she might have to remove, but whatever it was mostly blazed straight through the wing.

She normally would first clean the injury, but she has no access to water. Lisa doesn't trust any water here to be safe anyways.

So she first finds a vial of her healing salve. As she removes the cork, a faint antiseptic scent wafts through the air. Lisa smiles and lets that distract from the ever-present scent of decay while she dabs the concoction on Victi's injuries.

Then come bandages, long stretches of gauze wrapped over the fox's wing. She tried to make sure they'd limit mobility as little as possible, but the job isn't perfect. No time for perfect.

After all is done, she sits back and wipes her brow. Her finger tips are stained with the medicine and Victi's blood. The dull throb in her head is growing into pounding. I definitely have a concussion. She looks at the man. How badly injured is he? She sees no horrible injuries on him; there are bruises, some scrapes, but she has no idea what Victi did to him. He could have internal injuries that she can do nothing about.

Nothing but sit and watch him die.

Or wait for him to wake up and try to kill her.

God, her head hurts. If only she could sleep some of it off, but now is a really bad time to take a nap.

Lisa is working, and Raven is stuck taking care of the girl.

"I don't think we can go home that easily," Raven says. "We should wait, anyways. Liz has a job to do."

The mansion does not appreciate being broken into. As the bursters shatter one of its upper windows, a low rumble, like an earthquake, strikes the building. It grows into an unearthly shriek as the floor they touch down on begins to crumble. All of this is felt as a small tremor to the people on the town's outer circles. To the bursters, it should send a crystal clear message: Get out.

Tremors.... floor damage. Grip to walls. Secure roost unless mother orders. Good place to rest. Rest on walls.

[Without direction, these creatures have no self preservation instinct and very little decision making ability, their brains kept small for efficiency and rapid gestation. They are little more than biological seeker missiles]