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Aurian gave a guilty start when Famine went looking for the black pieces of paper that had fallen out of her cloak. She'd grabbed some of those before crossing the invisible bridge, hadn't she? The Reaper went rumaging through her bag.

"No," she said, as her first try brought out one of the student notes they'd found. "Uh, that's the flashlight... Hmm, ah, here!"

Making her way over to Famine, Aurian offered up a few sheets of black paper. "Sorry, I grabbed a few of these earlier when your cloak tore. And here's one I found in a shed down by the beach several days ago..."

The earliest piece was marked with a "3". The ones she'd retrieved from Famine, she hadn't had time to inspect yet. Mixed in with both sets may have been a few extra map pieces from the time Aurian had lost her bag and gathered up its spilled contents without checking that everything was hers.

"Will these help us use the portal?" she asked. She couldn't think of any other reason why they would be needed before escaping the ruined schoolground.

BALLS I FORGOT TO ROLL THIS IS FOR MY PIECES OF PAPER POST

Jove only barely heard the insane ghoul's muttering, but he rooted through his bag absently and pulled out the map piece he had found earlier... Hadn't he found more when his items disappeared? The pup was no longer surprised to find things missing, there were too many strange occurrences to be surprised, and too many frightening things for him to care. He handed the piece to the strange ghoul, not able to suppress the scowl that formed as he remembered how she had teased him back in the hallway with the lockers.

With that grudgingly done, he turned back to see how Seiji and Junko were faring, had they crossed behind him? Were they safe?

He looked just in time to see Seiji struck from above, and topple off the bridge. The pup's eyes widened in shock, and he dashed to the very edge of the giant rift in the ground, almost slipping in himself as he peered into the darkness. He whined, getting down on his hands and knees to look harder, as though the older boil would be making a heroic attempt to claw his way back up the side, or floating back up with the others in tow... But there was nothing there but empty space.

After a couple of seconds he took a deep breath, and shouted with surprising volume, "Seiji!"

But there was still nothing. His ears almost disappeared into his fluffy hair as they flattened back, and the pup broke out into another whine. The older ghost wouldn't be coming back...

((The map piece is #3, like everyone else I'm not sure about the three rolls we did while grabbing more pieces.))

"Ten seconds."

It was hard to think straight through the pain of a broken nose, let alone a broken nose that happened to be leaking all over oneself in the midst of some grand scuffle.

"Nine."

For better or for worse, Elaphe remained sadly incapacitated through the chaos of the battle, his swearing garbled, muted even, as he found himself tugged along in Tomoko's trail like a toy on a pull string. His vision was blurring from the sting, his ears were ringing, and oh, how badly he wanted to lash out, to yell at her, to hiss, to bristle, to do anything and everything in his power that might help purge the feelings of uselessness--

"Three, two, one-"

And then there was a percussive explosion that deafened him completely, every other thought coming to an abrupt stop. Third hand still clasped desperately to his bloodied face, he frantically looked around and up. The school… oh, Jack, no; the building itself was coming down?! Even his turtle-shaped luggage seemed suddenly panicked at the realization, flapping its flippers desperately as if it might spur him into motion. He needed to run. He needed to run now.

Instinct and fear were ultimately what possessed him to take off on the tail of the closest familiar body he could see. Frantically trying to keep up with Tomoko's fleeing back, he stumbled after her, lagging horrendously, periphery a blur, senses overwhelmed, heart ready to pound right out of his chest. He was scared out of his mind, scared for his life, running, fleet-footed, across something he couldn't even see in the hopes that, somehow, following in the little kitsune's footsteps as best he could through with eyes watered to the brims.

... Perhaps that had ultimately been his undoing when he managed that lone misstep, suddenly feeling no resistance beneath his foot. Before he knew it, he was toppling sideways, swept up in a split second's weightlessness with a rising flutter in his stomach before the bottom promptly dropped out of it. Terror. That was all that filled him. There was no chance to catch himself, to be righted, or even saved at the cost of his pride... just a moment to loose one raw little scream, before he pitched into the haze, and out of sight.

Tomoko whirled around almost immediately when Jove yelled, ears perking up. What was happening to Seiji??!

For Tomoko, it was a really horrible sight for her, her brows furrowing together as it seemed almost slow motion to see Seiji misstep and go over the edge of the bridge. It wasn't just Seiji either, unfortunately. It was almost on the ghost's heels that the boy that Tomoko had pretty much bludgeoned unintentionally also went over.

Noooo!!!

The Kitsune made a choking noise, followed by a whine similar to Jove's, eyes staring to tear up. She just..this had been a horrible thing to wake up to. Maybe she should have stayed out cold. THen she could have at least died in her sleep rather than leaping into the uncertainty of the situation they were getting themselves into.

It was just...horrible. She dropped to her knees, staring down at the ground seeming as though some part of her had just been kicked in the gut. ANd quite a bit of her -had- been. This whole thing was sucking.

Seiji was gone. Mei was gone. Elaphe was gone. Where was Junko? Was she okay?

She really didn't want it to dwindle down to some poor sad numbers....

((Rolling with this in case I needed to and the roll wasn't map-related last time. DON'T WANT TOMO AUTO-KO'D FOR FAIL REASON. ))

Junko was at a loss. Everything was happening so fast! She was hit by a piece of falling debris that hurt, but at least not terribly. But..but people were disappearing. That's all, right? They were just...dissipating? Right? Right?! MEI!? Wh-what was she--no! And then Sarias?! That idiot! Why was she just...ugh! She didn't like either ghoul but...but why..?! Junko whimpered and tried not to look at the chasm, wishing even more to just..go home. Wait, who was that? The...er...'daughter of Famine' was back? What was she doing here? Was she just going to fall into the chasm like the others?

...No...there was a path! Junko looked hopeful now, clinging tighter to Seiji as her eyes widened. They could just cross that, right? Forget the fact that the ghoul over there was chanting and very politely asking that they all die! Yup, just going to ignore that. Clearly this path was the way to go--or..or not. Any glimmers of hope Junko had had that they would be okay were dashed by the first student falling, followed by Holly...so many students were just falling--quite literally!--left and right!

Was Tomoko okay?! And Jove?! And Elaphe? Where was he? Junko closed her eyes as Seiji hugged her and kissed her head, turning back for just a moment to make sure the two were okay. Wait! Where Tomo--oh. She crossed already. Thank goodness! And Jove was alright. She breathed a sigh of relief and turned back to Seiji.

...Seiji...Seiji was...

Junko's eyes widened and her jaw dropped, her heart practically stopping as she watched him shrink. No, no..he wasn't shrinking. He was falling. "SEIJI!" She cried, reaching out to grab his hand, his backpack..something and missing completely. No..nonononono! No! "Seiji? Seiji?! SEIJI COME BACK!" No...no! This...no! He was okay, right?! He had to be okay! This was like in Christmas Town, right? He'd just...reappear at the 'infirmary', their portal! She had no idea the portal was down back at the main base. As far as Junko knew everyone who was disappearing was coming back safe and sound like nothing had happened. He had to be okay. He just had to be. She whimpered and clamped a hand over her mouth, turning a burning glare toward the daughter of Famine. This. This was all her fault.

Junko took a step out onto the invisible path, her footing shaky but she managed to keep it. And then another step, and another. She made it across the chasm, fists balled up at her sides so tightly her knuckles were turning white. Students were getting hurt, students...no, Junko would not admit students were dying, but it was all this...this...b***h'S fault! Was Junko's anger misdirected? Possibly only slightly, but she had been the one asking them to die. All these damn reapers, and these 'mysterious hooded figures'. Junko was sick and tired of all of them. And so she stamped her foot down on the ground when she was on the other side, glaring darkly at the ghoul trying to figure out the password to the portal. Good, served her right.

((Junko's HP: 14
Rolling for if she falls or not first?))