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Bewildered, Athena could do nothing but prepare herself to run--one thing, at least, that she would not need help with. She was a fast runner, due to the yokai in her.

as riser spoke Another person blast through ending up running against a wall. He stood straight up a 7 foot tall behemoth of a man in full black high tech armor. his eyes were glowing a Dark yellow the same color as the lights Kai saw. "JESUS you think you could have said somthing while I wasn't walking away? ... Hey wait your Ialo the owner of that company ... your one of the pricks that started this whole thing!"

"found the lights ... and did you say fast?" He grinned looking at athena.

"Alright. You want the honors?" He said looking to the Fallen God.

"Sure, why not." He stepped forward, his ethereal right arm forming from his shoulder. The massive dark arm grasped the doors, prepared to rip them directly off.
"Count of three, these doors go flying to my right. Get out of the way and be ready to go. One. Two. THREE." The doors went flying, and as the group ran outside, the source of the foul stench became evident.

Literally filling the streets were shambling abominations, their once human faces and bodies distorted and hideously mutated. Some had large growths across them, like man-sized tumors they hung and swayed with each shuffling step. Others had body parts fused to other body parts, while still more were either unrecognizable or seemed to be conglomerates of several people.
It was dusk. Night was setting in soon, and the streetlights flickered on and off across the horde. This was Zurich, and these were it's residents.

Athena stared in horrified awe at the creatures--zombies, she'd concluded. Freaking zombies. She was so glad she'd decided to hop along for this adventure. So frikkin' glad.

And it was the full moon tonight. She could feel its strength already, and her eyes reflected how affected she was, her irises growing in size to encompass all that could be seen and turning a brilliant shade of red that dissolved into purple around the edges. She was getting jumpy with the power that the coming night promised.

Ialo was the only one who did not run outside. He was right outside the doorway, paralyzed by the sights he saw. These people... It was like a cancer, a foul cancer caused by magic. They weren't human anymore. The couldn't be. He heard the shotgun bullets go right over his shoulder and past his head, and the sonic blast temporarily deafened him.

"... No," he said. "I didn't do this. It's not my fault. It didn't come from anything I did. Riser... Riser used all his energy, he said... he said... and I believed him..."

He turned around and stared at the man with wide eyes, and shook his head silently. The young dragon seemed to be having a meltdown of his own.

"What would happen if I set them on fire?" Athena asked. She didn't recognize them as human; they were only zombie to her. They couldn't have ever been human. She held no qualms in killing zombies.

"... Ash," Ialo repeated deliriously. "You... We... I.. I have to kill them? No! They... they're..."

They were people once, and now they are not, the Human observed. He did not approve of taking lives. Not really... But, were they still people, now that they were mindless insurgents, victims of intolerable magic?

They are corrupt! the Dragon roared. They are corrupt, they destroy harmony and balance, they do not understand their actions, therefore are corrupt and evil and they most be obliterated!

Some zombie-like creatures approached Ialo. The last thing they would ever see, before explosive fire and shimmering air, was a young man with white hair, and red eyes.

((So Ialo basically did some sort of ******** up thing that caused a few zombies to explode... essentially, from the inside out. The last thing they saw was themselves on fire.))