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Having quickly caught of with Japi, Risika stood beside her, her eyes constantly moving around their new dark surroundings.

" You'd think I'd be able to hear something," she muttered to herself. The fact that she culdn't hear Xia or even maybe the steps of what ever took her put Risika on edge. She hadn't been this weirded out in years, and it took a lot to weird her out.

While Japi searched with her flashlight, Risika would gaze at the spots that she had just searched and the spots that seemed to be the darkest. If someone were to flash a light at where you were, you wouldn't just hop out and go " HEY HERE I AM!" You would wait until the light passed and then hop out to move further along.

Wouldn't you?

(( The entire museum is in lock down, not just the basement. In this case Bao and Lymar didn't make it downstairs. I do still need someone active upstairs. Hint hint wink wink. ^.~ ))

The guard made sure to keep himself in front of the girls for various reasons. One, he should be the on in charge here, not them. Two, it was his job wasn't it? Three, they wouldn't see the fightened look on his face if he was in front of them! Though as he waved his own flash light around in the dark, the flight flickered from the shaking of his hand. Afraid? Yes.

Though each girl searched, there was nothing there in the darkness to find. Nothing but occasional spider webs or a mouse trap here and there. Everything was in order, and in an unsettling way.

As they rounded the corner of a corridor, the man ahead sighed. "Perhaps we should split up? I can heard voices of the other guards down here, I'll go ask them if they seen anything and if they can get the power back on soon."

(( you got it !! *shakes the dice in her fist and rolls* X333
had to delete my last post o-o
i refreshed to make sur eno one else posted and it got rid of my dice action >
Risika frowned at the guard before them. Split up? That was deffiantly the worst idea Risika could think of. Sure it would have them covering more ground, but she didn't trust whatever took Xia, and she deffiantly didn't trust it alone with Japi or this guard.

She looked to Japi for her say in the matter of "splitting up." Risika didn't want to be making choices when there where two others to decide. If majority ruled, she would be s**t out of luck.

" Well Japi, what do you think about spliting up?" She had a small frown plastered upon her face, so it was pretty obvious what her choice in the matter was.

"It may be more dangerous... but also more effective. There isn't much place to get lost down here, just follow and pipes on the ceiling. If you find a dead end turn around and go back. But there's only two of them here." The guard explained, scratching at the back of his head.

"We need to find that girl as quick as possible, even if splitting up is the case. Um... Here." He reached onto his belt holding out a can of mace. "Once of you two can take this, I only have one. It's the only protection I can offer you at this moment."

"Umm..." Japi shifted nervously back and forth on her feet. "Okay." She took the mace when Risika rejected it but wasn't sure if she'd really need it.

Japi could not see Risika's smile, but she could hear it in her voice. She shined her light after her new friend and then went off into another direction. "See ya soon," she said to the guard, mostly for her own comfort.

Sika sighed as she walked down the hall, her eyes constantly darting around, taking in her surroundings. She was worried now, for she had no clue as to what happened to Xia and now she was wandering around in a dark basement with some creature on the loose. Any other day she would have just said "******** it I'm outta here." But with the combined reasons of the place being locked down and the fact that she actually cared that Xia was missing, made her choose otherwise.

She slowly came toward a deadend and slowled down a bit as she slowly caught sight of a hunched figure. From what she could tell it didnt seem to looke like Xia, so she approached slowly, but approached nonetheless, her hands flexed out at her sides, ready to defend herself. She was nearly there when the thing's head shot up and it took off down another hallway.

She had jumped at the thing's movement, and took a few steps forward as it began to get up. But it was already down the hallway, before she could have even really reacted.

" s**t," she said breathly, still recovering from the shock. She gazed down where the thing had been crouched, and her eyes narrowed.

Crouching down, she reached out toward the strands of hair with a gloved hand, her fingers gently grazing the blood as she lifted the strands from the ground. She brought the strands and blood to her nose, taking in a deep breath. Her eyes darkened as she recoginzed the smell of blood, yet didn't recognize the smell laced within the hair.

She growled and stood up from the ground, wiping the blood off on the leg of her pants.

" s**t, either that thing was bleeding, or it was eating something." She paused as a small frown crossed her face. " Of someone..."

With that thought now vivid in her mind she took off down the hallway the thing from before had gone. She didn't care if it'd be smarter to walk rather than run, something was wrong.