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Grus practically glowed as Babylon spoke, and nodded in agreement. "Yes, we senshi and you knights are allies till the end!" This kid picked a good time to go powered up. Already his first battle!

She shook her head at Babylon's inquiry, saying "I wish I could take the help, but my magic is spent right now." She lifted both her arms in a shrug, while inside she was berating herself for firing off the last of her magic recklessly. Her anger still boiled at the loss of the civilian's life though, and she knew there was no way she would have been able to stop herself.

"I'm sure there is another senshi who could use it though." She added, looking around at the freed senshi. "I'm going to have to stick to rocks though." Grus took a few steps back as Chronos began doing something. She watched from a few feet away curiously, keeping the spider in her periphrial.

Valhalla grimaced as the spiderweb spread around the room, preventing practically everyone from moving. "Stop struggling," he called over to Ganymede when it was apparent that they were going to have to think of a better way of getting out of this web than just wiggling around. Of course, he could be wrong and the only thing that could get them out was to be to flail about, but at the moment it didn't seem to help. Maybe if they didn't move the spider wouldn't be able to tell that they were there. That was how spiders found things in their webs, right...? If their prey moved?

Either way, Valhalla couldn't see what the spider or many of the others were doing, as he was caught with his arm mostly in front of his face to keep the web from wrapping around his neck when it had been sprayed about. Something did seem to be happening, though, and once the spider web disappeared, he was able to turn around and... realize that there was another knight with them.

But there was something wrong... Even as Babylon and Grus and the others greeted Celsus... there were people missing. He didn't know who, but as he looked around the room to count everyone again... some were gone.

"Who's missing? Does anyone know??" Valhalla called in the room, although he looked up when he heard Raven say something about Jett and another girl. s**t, were people really missing??

"Guys, check the rubble! Make sure no one got stuck under anything! Eliza! Be careful!" he called, as he counted everyone again, not thinking this was the best place to stand around. He quickly turned back to Ganymede to make sure the senshi was okay as well. "Are you hurt?" he asked, obviously concerned for him as well as for whoever went missing. Damn, he should have been keeping a closer eye on everyone.

"Babylon, your lantern can't help find people, can it??" Because that would be helpful. "I'm two down on my head count!"

It ate the crazy girl. It ate the crazy girl. IT ATE THE CRAZY GIRL. At least that was her best interpretation, and her terrified inner mantra at the actions of the spider. Gold light might be all that remained, but she wasn't too sure about that either. The closest she'd come to being comfortable with the 'Tinkerbell' nickname was applying it to Chronos, who did have some resemblance to the part. Besides, for all she knew, that golden cloud would strip the flesh and bones from anyone that touched it. Maybe it was even Monster-Spider-Poop. She wasn't planning on getting close enough to investigate.

...She also wasn't enormously thrilled when the giant spider started to move and try and get away. She wasn't even thinking deeply enough to know where it was trying to go, automatically assuming that it would be trying to march on the beds where the most grievously injured were waiting, like a platter full of Petit Fours.

She wasn't even terribly concerned with how slowly it was moving, though that may have factored into a burst of bravery mixed that mixed with her continued terror to let her reach for another rock, grabbing it with both hands in spite of the pain this caused in her wounds, old and new, and hurl it at the spider with a wordless, somewhat Amazonian scream.

******** Spider... wasn't going to eat HER.

Weather or not she hit the spider or some other poor soul though, that was pretty much up to fate.

Ganymede barely registered being released from the youma’s web, nor did he feel much relieved when one of the civilians became a knight before his very eyes, but instead began to feel quite lost in all the commotion, as old doubts and insecurities and fears began to bubble to the surface, and he wondered what he was even doing here. There was so much going on—this way, that way, every-which-way, someone missing, someone injured, someone dead, shouting and screaming and run, run, run, until it all sort of blended together in a rush of color and movement and muffled sound, and he had no idea what he was even supposed to be doing anymore.

Get rid of the youma, and then what? Wait for it all to happen again? Because it always did, somehow, days or weeks or months later.

He shook his head at Valhalla’s concern, pulling off a few stray strings of webbing as the commotion continued, looking around numbly at some of the others, at the new knight, at the cowering youma, and he shook his head again because he didn’t know how else to answer. “No,” he said, his grip loosening on the sliver of stone he still held in one hand. “No, I’m not hurt.”

He wasn’t hurt, but he wasn’t okay either, and he thought that anyone who claimed that they were were deluding themselves, because who could really be okay with all of this nonsense?

He picked up another rock and threw it, as hard as he could, though the movement itself seemed sort of mechanical, as if he were only doing it because he knew he had to, not because he wanted to. He picked up another rock, and another, and another, and threw them all in turn, then hurled his sliver of stone at the youma until he was empty handed, and he had nothing left except that small glimmer of hope inside that made him think maybe things wouldn’t always be like this, maybe there was a solution, maybe there was a reason to it all. But a glimmer wasn’t always enough.

Raven turned at all of the commotion, frowning as she saw the newest addition of a powered person...

Ah...a knight or something? Is that what they were saying? Whatever. She looked at the spider, hatred in her eyes. "Oh. You're going to pay. You're going to pay for all you've done, you stupid spider."

She reached down, picking up another piece of marble, throwing it at the creature. "I hate you. I hate this damn place."

Raven seemed quite smugly pleased when the marble made contact, and seemed to do at least a fair amount of damage. Once more she took Candice's hand. "Come on. I'm so tired of all of this. And I'm hungry. Let's go to Leo."

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Candice was tired of this. She just wanted to go home now. It seemed as though it was a little bit of a loneliness mixed in with her feeling of not being able to do much for the people here anyways. It didn't help that she wished that the strange space took her rapier along with her. At least that was something she was good at.

When Candice looked at the monster, what else could she really do. She looked back at the steel rod she was using as her weapon, half laughing at herself. "What am I really doing? Why am I even holding this thing?" Without another thought, she threw the rod towards the monster as hard as she could, hoping that it would do some damage. All in all, however, it seemed as though Candice's fighting spirit was reaching it's low point.

Even when Raven reached for her hand again, something felt wrong and felt like Raven didn't really want to do it. Candice failed at reassuring her that Jett was okay, but now she felt as though she couldn't even reassure herself of anything. She took Raven's hand, just for the sake of doing something. "Yeah... Sure... Let's get out of here..."

When Zephyr finally pulled himself free from the spider webbing, he felt an overwhelming urge to take a bath. "Ugh." A disgusted sound and Zephyr shook out his arm and coat. He was covered in webs, saliva, and god knew what else. Frolicking with a spider was not what he had intended today.

It was only the movements of the spider that would alert the senshi of wind's attention to the next events. Zephyr's blue eyes kept his gaze riveted on the stream of blood from Hawke's body, finally looking away as he heard the sound of her dead body hitting the surrounding. "Tch." Zephyr was clearly disappointed by the death of the girl, Hawke when he had clearly told her not to die. So this was what Chronos meant by the dangers and disappearances of the surrounding.

Seeing Chronos's transformation from the corner of his eye, and judging from the sparkle from earlier, Zephyr could easily deduce that one of their new allies had awakened. Zephyr pointed to the new knight of Chronos, Celsus , "How very interesting indeed." Whether it would be fortunate or not would depend entirely on him.