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Leo startled slightly as someone latched onto her arm and turned to look at the person. Oh, it was only Mei. She threw a smile at the other ghoul, happy and relieved to have someone she trusted there with her. She seemed to have lost the rest of the group somewhere along the way - or maybe they'd split up, she wasn't entirely sure.

"Not really. It's a bit sad really, since we're supposed to be allies and all." Her brow furrowed. "Do you think we can trust them, then?" Maybe the horsemen disliked the Amityville students enough to refuse to work with them when the time came.

Leo nodded to Mei's whispered words. "I... I don't really know. I'm not even sure I know what's really going on." She thought for a bit. "I guess we'll be going to rescue the kidnapped at some point, but I dunno if we have to do more weird ritualistic stuff before then." Or maybe someone would give them a few pointers on how to take down the enemy. That'd come in handy, for sure.

A chill went down her spine as she spotted Eisheth finally among the gathering clansmen. Resisting the urge to scurry over there was hard, but she had to concentrate on what they were here to do. Even though she knew once Medea had called the Horsemen that the Famine woman would possibly show up. When she thought she had caught her eye, Mei gave the Horsemen a small smile with a slight nod of her head in recognition.

Mizti popped up out of the corner of her eye along with her ghosty friend. She gave the purple haired Reaper a small wave to come and join her and Leo before her attention was back on the Mare who's arm she clung to.

"I like to believe that we can. At least most of them anyhow. They have their own motives but really can you blame them? If we were in their position we'd be the same way. Trying everything in our power to regain what little bits we could of what we had lost." She nibbled on her thumbnail thoughtfully. The Jiang Shi had more faith and less suspicion than most towards the Horsemen. But perhaps that was because she had spent more time interacting with them on a more personal level than other students. She had gone out of her way to be as welcoming to them as she possibly could. Even if they thought them merely children.

Clicking her tongue against the roof of her mouth she nodded. "I do hope we get to the rescuing here soon. I really don't like just standing around here.....it leaves us open too much."

Mei was glad the other ghoul seemed to be a bit more open minded than most. That was good, the Jiang Shi could appreciate that. There was no point to being over suspicious of the Horsemen. They were probably super suspicious of them as well and that would never get them anywhere in the long run. It would only hinder any efforts to create a livable co-existence. "I'm glad to see you are open minded. Unlike some others."

If the Horsemen did betray them, which she hoped wasn't going to be the case, perhaps she would be a bit more wary. But for now they all just needed to put their differences aside and work together. It was obvious to anyone that the Priestess and the Horsemen wouldn't be helping them at all if they didn't have something to gain. Help was never truly free. You could say you were helping your friend but in the end when you needed them they would be more than obligated to help you in return.

Everyone owed everyone.

"No, they aren't normal humans." She frowned. Even with the Hunters Mei wasn't sure about all of them. After the philosophical conversation her and Chryses had had before, before the missing students had gone missing. "But I believe we are fairly secure here for the time being. If they are busy...doing whatever it is they are doing."

Giving Junko a reassuring squeeze on the shoulders, dark lips set in a thin line. Anyone that knew him well could see he was worried, about their friends, those that stood with them now and those they were trying to save. What if something went wrong? What if they were walking into a trap? What if more of them were taken as a result of this fool hardy mission? The questions kept circulating through his head, but he ignore them as best he could.

Despite his worry, despite the obvious risks, they had to go. They couldn't leave their friends at the mercy of the hunters, knowing what they did about what happened to the denizens of Halloween that were taken.

The horsemen were joining them now, what remained of a once proud race, and still so obviously strong spirited. He couldn't help but stare as he watched them enter through the portal to stand with their priestess. If they were coming as well, perhaps their chance of success was a just a little higher then the hopeless prayer the ghost had thought it to be even as he'd run to follow.

As they began to move, so too did Seiji, weary eyes directed downwards at the black water that was licking along their legs. Not hot, not cold, but ominous all the same. He wasn't actually surprised when something grabbed at his ankles to hold him in place. Claw like skeletal hands climbing their way up his calves. Anticipation didn't make him any less happy about it though, and he tugged at his legs, growling at the unseen forces that held him, them, before Medea's voice reclaimed his attention.

When the chalice came his way he drank, one sip, before passing it to Junko, and just like that the pressure on his legs eased and faded away.

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Nergui had been resting when the call had come, but she'd wakened at once and readied herself. Heavier attire exchanged for something a little less constricting. They were heading into battle, and the priestess of death wanted nothing to get in the way. The hunters would pay, and pay dearly, for their sins against the clans and their allies. Finally it seemed, that ever burning pit of smoldering rage would be sated. Nergui was excited.

Through the portal she paused beside Medea, happy the woman as safe and unharmed, happier for the purpose she saw in the other's eyes. She hadn't worried over her departure, but it had left a distinct feeling of unease, one the Insanity had gladly taken advantage of.

At first the group of bodies before her seemed like little more then chaos, then faces began to raise up from the mass, familiar and safe, and she picked one among them to join. Soren, the guardian from the woods around their encampment. He'd aided her before, and gained her respect and gratitude. Of her own clan, it was him she felt.. Safest with. Not that the priestess couldn't hold her own, but the presence of the towering warrior was a comfort, and did well to calm the voices in her head.

She laid a hand on the large horsemen's arm, heterchromic eyes rolling up as she offered him a nod in greeting. She hadn't seen him since their run in in the woods, least not face to face. The other's around him were all given nods as well, the majority she actually recognized from the meeting Medea had called them to when they'd first arrived in Halloween.

Lizzy knew that she was not going to forgive herself easily for this, so when she realized that Amarus was the one who took the chalice from her, she paused... And then enveloped the ghoul in a hug, trying to find some resemblance of comfort from the arms and body of someone familiar to her.

Too bad it made her realize just how frightened she was.

"Soren." As greetings went it was lacking, but Nergui had never been much for unneeded niceties. As his arm beneath her hand relaxed, she offered the barest hints a smile up to him before settling comfortably at his side. They might not have been all that close as of yet, but he was a guardian, and she a priestess, and their positions were intertwined. Dark fingers shifted to the crook of his elbow, maintaining a loose grip. As one of the few she felt truly comfortable with Soren would find he'd just earned a second shadow for the time being.

"Ah well you catch more flies with honey." A small smirk came to her lips as she leaned in to whisper in Leo's ear so that none of the Horsemen might over hear her. "Its going to take us to be the bigger person." Moving away from Leo's ear she wrapped both arms now around the other ghoul's. Her long sleeves fluttering about her elbows. "Not all of them are so...." She searched for a word. "Snooty?" Yes, that would do.

A frown tugged threateningly at the corners of her lips, her eyes casting a glance to the ground as she pondered over what might happen in the moments to come. If history proved correct, things wouldn't go as smoothly as most of them all planned. There was always something that went horribly wrong, but she had to keep faith that they would be able to get in and get back out of there with the kidnapped students with little to no casualties. The Jiang Shi cast another glance to Eisheth before letting out a small sigh. "All we have is hope honestly. We can hope and hope and hope some more that things won't go horribly wrong but...." Shutting her eyes tight, she hugged Leo's arm more. Perhaps a bit too tight. "I just get this terrible feeling in the pit of my stomach Leo that something really bad is going to happen."