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Bastion was mindless, letting the scimitars slice and skewer, but behind the black wisps that made up his body there was a man, and he was crying for the loss of something he held dear. The loss of his loyalty, his self. He was attacking Medea, even if she wasn't herself anymore.

With each strike, he felt like he was attacking himself.

Arms that were quickly lost in the formlessness of his own body surrounded him, and he sucked in a hard gasp, ready to swing his scimitars back behind him. It was her voice that froze his hands in the air, wild eyes turning back to look at the goddess his cousin had become. He had become no god, only a monster. But she, as he should have expected, returned with more glory than Medea herself had ever held.

His scimitars dropped to the floor, and he was suddenly hugging her, having never actually turned - simply shifting in body from front, to back, until he was facing her.

He had lost his way. More than ever before.

"Please." He begged, whispering childishly against the goddess. "Please."

Noemi looked at Jasper sadly and shook her head. "you will....You will not. Stormy will be alright, she will be okay. I'm...I'm sorry. But if you...if you come near MY cousin..." She didn't bother looking at Maebe or Cami, since they hadn't acknowledged the leaving pair. And she didn't bother finishing the threat seeing as she probably couldn't carry it out anyways.

She kept close to Stormy to make sure the girl didn't attack again or get attacked when she felt...FELT...the only person who could keep her calm when chaos broke. It didn't take long but she saw Milo's head over the chaos of all the people.

"Milo...Milo" She rushed over to him, almost abandoning her post from Stormy only to grab the sun hunters sleeve. "Milo, This place...This place is making everyone crazy." She shook her head, "S..Stormy is attacking other hunters...I don't know what's wrong with her." She looked at the group, "A...And...."

All of the noise was easy to filter out. They seemed very intent upon the belief that she was one of them, but it was not her job to correct their illogical argument. If someone seemed keen on defending her, so be it. Her job was simple.

"And you need to learn your place," Stormy said scathingly.

The sword struck out at the mouthy human.

Well, it wasn't exactly the sort of thing he had expected to be told when he finally got out of that sudden pit of fire and death, ow he hurt all over. And as usual, Koume was not really all that pleased. But still, the news. Though, maybe it should have been a little expected - how many times had Power Rangers turned on one another because of some sort of spell or something?

Anyway. What really caught his attention was that Noemi was here, really here and she looked to be pretty okay. A little banged up but still, "MagiBlue." He still had to smile even though he wanted a hug, it wasn't the right time for one. Well, maybe. Because yeah, what she was telling him. "She the only one?" He looked around. Yes, there was some crazy stuff going on - when wasn't there? He might have pulled her a little closer to him, just a bit by the shoulder. Just in case, you know?

Reaching up to touch Jasper on the shoulder her voice was quiet. "Thank you. It's okay now." He was always there and Cami didn't feel nearly good enough to earn what she could see as obvious affection. Somehow clawing it from inside people like Otto and Maebe meant she had worked for it, she had earned it, was worthy of it because she'd helped create it. Yet this open and obvious thing she'd done nothing to earn? It was harder, somehow, to accept and she didn't know how to handle it. So instead she simply smiled wanly and moved down to wrap her hand around his calf to keep him nearby.

And then a dagger hit her in the chest and instead of hurting like it should have it made her feel safe. Looking up at Lex it was clear she was stunned but not unhappy. "T-Thanks? What..." Trailing off, she shook her head and simply watched Noemi walk away with relief. Later, when they were back on the island (if they ever made it back) she would seek the girl out and apologize. Tell her that it was simply an attempt to protect what was hers and shock what was Noemi's into awareness.

Maebe, however, got an arm wrapped around her waist as the short-haired Sun leaned her head against the blonde's hip. "I can't wait to get away from all of this. Go home. Worry about normal things like being set on fire."

Harrison greeted Rin as she hopped in. "Glad to have you, doc. There's plenty of uh...patients-" he gestured around.

Harrison watched as Mengyao stabbed another wounded-looking ******** rubbed his chin, which needed a shave. Anybody that knew Harrison would notice he looked older. And minus his scars.

"Gonna take that as scavenging. Look. They're not, you know, officially Blue. But they got nice coats and me and Fido are gonna have to draw a line somewhere."

It earned him a startled look, and for a moment at least the shadow and the student were of one mind, what they said, what it said was very close to what it might have said had he still been himself.

"… Not really…. but that's not the point, is it? We're all here to take HER down, hunters, students, shades… what have you…anyone of a mind to do damage where it is due"

The shade blinked its eyes at him, almost owlishly, bloodied and battered from the damage the shadowy queen had felt with each successive strike he had in accordance - delt to her.

"It's the nature of sacrifice, isn't it? Laying down your life, if need be so that others can be heroes, not that that was my original goal, but I suppose I always come back to that."

//Yes… we do// Agreed the 'true' Pachua. who for all his flaws understood what the shadow, the shade was doing, for all that they did it for reasons that seemed different, regardless of the common root. They might share the same heart, the same center like a great tree… but they were different too. The alien appearance of a mirror image, somehow more pleasing to view, yet alien to see.