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Alpersite

5

Alpersite continued running in the darkness, looking around wildly for Lopezite, hoping that he would find the other male soon. There were…there were things in this darkness, and he didn’t like them. Didn’t like how he kept running into them, and how he kept feeling them breathing on him, but when he turned away, when he reached back…nothing was ever there.

He hurried along, looking every which way, and finally he found who he was looking for and with a relieved sigh, the lieutenant skidded to a halt, grabbing his Captain’s wrist. “Okay…so…this is new. Just so I know I’m not crazy…this isn’t normal, correct? This is another one of those…dumb things like what happened over the summer?”

…Not that it had been so bad. After all that strange event had gotten him closer with his captain had it not? And it had given him some skills to…not die as easily. Sort of.

“This isn’t a test that you’ve set up, is what I’m asking, right?”

Lt. Lavendulan - Half Youma
5

Blinded by sheer terror, Laven swiped again when something, or rather someone, made a grab for her wrist.

“Let go!” she snapped and nearly bit the arm that grabbed onto her until she realized that it was not some shadow beast looking to rake its claws down the scales that protected her backside but rather an officer, like her, bathed in a soft light.

It’s me. he said. Wolfy.

It took a moment for his words to register as she stared at him with wide eyes “Wolframite?” her voice shook and body trembled as she wrapped her arms around him.

Laven buried her face into his shoulder “I thought you were-” a lump grew in her throat preventing her from saying the last work dead. Tears pricked the corner of her eyes and despite trying to wipe them away on his uniform, they would not stop.

Unlike the Rift, a world that resonated with her youma side, these shadowlands felt very very wrong.

Corrupt Sailor Makemake
9

There were things in the darkness. Things. In. The. Darkness. Every time Makemake thought she saw one of those shadows, she would let out a roar of a yell in it's direction. Cowering was an option, but appearing aggressive back was also one. She kept trying the maneuver around this distorted landscape when felt something brush her ankle. She stopped, stomped her foot, yelled, and stamped her feet some more.

"Stay. A. Way. Away!" she said, hands balling in to stiff fists at her side. One last stamp of her heel, and she continued on towards....was that carnival music she was hearing?

This was all a heaping load of NOPE.

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Asgard - Jupiter Page

Why.

Asgard whined, trying to remember why he thought attempting to power up was a good idea. s**t was just as spooky as he remembered it being. He wrapped his arms around himself, trying to stop himself from shaking to much.

There's something in the shadows... He can't see it, but he can feel it. Asgard tries to make himself as small as possible as he shuffles forward, doing his best to pretend it was his mind playing tricks on him and there really was nothing in the shadows.

The sudden sound of carnival music had him jumping out of his skin and staggering backwards with a panicked noise. He wasn't expecting to land against something solid. Let alone for it to make noise. He wasn't, but he should have been.

Lt. Lavendulan - Half Youma
5

Unable to verbally reply, Laven shook her head.

Behind him, her hands held onto the back of his uniform, sharp claws poking holes through the fabric into the heel of her hand. This wasn’t a dream, it was real, and though she should feel relieved that he was alive and here, Laven found it increasingly difficult to quell her anxiety or stop her stomach from churning.

Together they had sparred and she had even watched him fight against a youma, but those were attacks he had always seen coming. These unseen beasts, neither of them could have ever expected or seen them coming.

“Please- please take us home.” Back to the Dark Kingdom, to the barracks, his room… her room… it didn’t matter as long as it wasn’t here. If only this was just a dream where she could rouse herself awake and roll over to him beside her or across the hall in his own room.

Laven wasn’t sure what terrified her more, the shocking number of order auras in one place or the beings that brought them to this forsaken place. But the one thing she was sure of was that she would not complain about her small room again. It may be a prison but it was at least a place she was familiar with.

Einhornhohle - Page of Cosmos
6

Despite her adamant requests to be let out of work early enough so she could get home before dark. Work insisted that she not take her projects home despite the fact she had everything she needed there anyway.

For a few weeks they had respected her wishes but today some emergency came up requiring her to stay and work overtime because one of the other set designers had sprained their ankle running from one of those rabid dogs that she had been hearing about on the news recently.

The plan was, since it was so late, that she would simply power up and spend the evening, and next day, at her wonder. It was light there and she wanted to see the vivid colors of Fall time there.

Unfortunately, as things often go in Destiny City, plans are never as simply as you intend for them to be. Now that the witching hour was nearly upon them with October festivities in full swing it seemed like the shadows were restless. No sooner had she started saying the words that would bring her to her wonder did Einhornonle find herself so very far away from home

Creatures of shadow bumped into her, breathing down the back of her neck with cold breath sending goosebumps rushing down her bare arms. The Cosmos Page held her little tealight lanter out but it offered no warmth of comfort as the soft glow she emitted offered more light than it did.

“Hello?” she called out stupidly, catching the attention of another one of those things which shoved against her side with its strong muscled shoulder nearly sending her stumbling to the ground.

Damn it! Ein could feel her heart begin to race as the fear of the unknown crept up upon her. Startled, she swung her weapon which collided with … something solid… but whatever it was she didn’t stick around to find out and struggled to find a safe path through the debris towards a light, any light, it didn’t matter what group or faction it belonged to. “Hello?” She called out again, hoping someone would respond.

Super Sailor Adria

Total: 3

Adria was supposed to be at home, safe. He had been scaling up the side of his house when he'd felt something tugging on him. His henshin pen had still been in hand and, frantically--a bit recklessly--he'd powered up in an effort to break free of the strange darkness that was trying to drag him down.

He'd transformed, but it wasn't fast enough. He couldn't break free and fell through them helplessly.

The darkness was intimidating; briefly, it reminded him of the ambush into Negaspace. He had little time to adjust before madness descended. He could see little glowing lights--people, some closer than others.

And then something headbutted him, hard, while he was still standing up.

It sent him sprawling; he had to hurry and get up as quickly as possible but he froze when he realized something was breathing icy cold air down the back of his neck.

He had never gotten to his feet so quickly; he was panicking, running. He could hear something behind him, something chasing him.

He didn't know where he was running, just that he had to get away. He tripped and stumbled over all manner of things--things he couldn't see. A light appeared just in the corner of his eye and something told him to go.

He veered right at the perfect second; whatever was chasing him ran right behind him and brushed against his leg. If he hadn't have moved, he was certain he'd have been trampled.

"Hey!" he called to the nearest light, desperate for answers, or at least not to be alone. He couldn't see much, couldn't feel much, and he could only just barely make out the details of their back.

...Wait.

Wait.

He knew those colors. He knew that hair.

"--Meridiana?" he blurted, nearly skidding to a stop in front of her.