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Turning to the boy, Rouge shook her head. "In a language I speak if you dont' mind Zah. I need to know where you're going before you go. I don't want you to get hurt or lost in this-whatever it is. Okay?" she tried to be reasonable with the boy. After all, being unreasonable would end you up with a rather downtrodden child who dislikes you.

Unfortunately, Neveah wasn't able to skirt the grey spots for long. In fact, the entire headquarters, or whatever was left of it that hadn't been touched with grey, immediately became victim to the plague.

Now no ounce of color was left, save for the people inside. But even then, their color was slowly, very slowly, beginning to fade. It was gradual and only if you were really looking were you able to tell.

But it was becoming more and more obvious that something was not right.

Moments later, the headquarters gave a lurch, a giant tremor sweeping the entire building and gardens. It was enough to send all inside sliding to the ground rather painfully. It didn't end there, however, and the entire building and gardens began to rock back and forth as if a longer earthquake had taken over.

The shaking grew more and more violent and a loud, high pitched wail filled the room followed by childish giggling. The shadows on the wall multiplied and one particular shadow reached out, a clawed hand touching Rouge on the shoulder.

The touch left a VERY noticable gray spot where it had been before sinking back into the wall. After that one hand, hands began sprouting from all edges of the wall.

This is when the portal to the wand shop collapsed into itself, sending a blinding light to light up the darkness that had previously been in there - and once more the doors slammed shut. However, this time it was differentl. A very distinct locking sound could be heard.

They were trapped, with no way out (or in for those who haven't entered yet). However, it was no longer so black that it was impossible to see. The lights had apparently come back on.

Well wasn't this spiffy. There were hands reaching from the walls and one had left a grey mark on her already grey formerly black trenchcoat. "Okay then. Right about now I want to see what's on the other side of that wall." all right so Rouge was a bit bored of all of the random things popping out of the wall and creeping everyone else out. Seriously the face dots were interesting but this was just pushing it. Crossing her arms over her chest after she stood up(as she'd fallen during the tremors) and walked closer to the wall, waiting to see just what it did next. "Something more interesting please?"

Shira saw the grey suddenly fill up the rest of the room. She didn't have time to think about it when the trembling of the whole Headquarters happened. She let out a small scream as the whole place shook, jerking her forward and her body following. As her chin collided with the ground the building continued to shake. She groand and rubbed her bruised skin while getting back up, looking around to notice the speck's new behavior and hear the loud wail and giggling. Needless to say it shook her nerves quite a bit. The quaking hardly allowed her to keep up her balance.

And then witnessing the hand upon Rouge, and multiple others flying out, cause Shira to gulp and take a few steps back to look at the whole area. The Monotoned area and stale air set an eerie mood, with the strange giggling and grabby hands added? That was a big warning sign in Shira's book.

It wasn't until the room was lightened did Shira speak. "Rouge? Rouge are you alright?" She tried to draw her away from getting dragged in by the wall of clawed hands.

"Predictable." she grumbled, half squatting and closing her eyes. One hand was braced against the ground and there was sweat on her brow. She was fighting hard to keep whatever was left in her where it was.

About that time the small glowing crystal that had been glittering in Rouge's hand went out. The woman took a heavy breath and fell onto her face. Her calm had saved her some energy-not much to be sure, not even Rouge was all powerful- but enough to keep her from completely passing out.

Right now she was going to stay put, keeping her eyes closed and her brain off. She was weak and she was tired and she had to replenish her energy. Her color wasn't that important. A tanned woman with blonde hair, blue eyes, and a completely black outfit isn't going to be completely interested in her color. And she wasn't. She was trying to regain her strength. To anyone who saw her right then however, she looked dead.

What was going on. Everything seemed to be happening so fast. First the color began to drain then the HQ began to rattle and roll. Being dragged around by the butterfly Neveah. Kyocho couldn't get a word in edge wise.
Something was wrong here...

Oak wasn't helping with the fact that he was scream and wailing his head off, but soon he began to simper down. Being filled with a sense and feeling of death and at such a young age. Oak was running through a whole variety of emotions... that’s until a small child by the name of Vanaja entered the room. A sense of life returned and filled the tree boy from his feat to his head.
"Ahh?" Oak dug his head into his guardians shoulder and settled down at last.

Kyo took a deep breath.
"Finally."

But it wasn't over for the two. A huge earthquake struck the HQ. Sending the two falling on the pale grey grass.
Clinging onto his charge, Kyo tried to defy gravity and won. Landing on his back side... rather painfully. The elf held tightly on to the treeling.
"Oak, don't worry. I've got you!”

Thankfully, Shira's stay in the closet wasn't long. The entire headquarters lurched once more, all the doors except for the exit unsealing and sliding open at the same time.

The lights flickered only once and then the entire place was still. No new shadows appeared but there was a bright light that seemed to fill one of the windows for a split second before going out once more. A childish giggle ran across the entire place before silencing once more.

It was back to normal, except for the gray staleness....for now.

Shira was leaning on the door trying to nurse her headache away when it opened, her falling through and flat on her face...again. She rubbed her twice abused jaw and looked around to find herself in a hallway. She heard the kid-like giggle ring throughout the area, and shivered at it's slight eerieness.

But the good thing was, the lights were on, and she was out of that damn closet. She slowly picked herself up and began to walk to where she thought everyone else might be, still needing to check up on the group originally caught in the fight with the shadows. Maybe everything would be alright...for at least a while...