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"Let's find out, shall w-" He broke off as he saw two more targets out of the corner of his eye. He swung around, shooting sparks and telekinetic force at one target, which was-a boy standing silently behind them. At the last second, he put up a barrier, bouncing the force to the other target, which was curling up into a ball as it shot over her head. {Great. I almost kill some of the new people.} He turned his attention back to the shadow hounds: three were laying, twitching, on the floor, one was about to leap, and the others were ramming into his barrier. "But if you try, you won't be protected by my barrier, because the only way to attack one like that would be to either let it in or let you out." He turned back to the other four. "Hey! Now would be a good time to use your powers!" He looked at Mara. "Telekinesis, right? Could you, after testing to see if a shadow hound will be penetrated, hold up the sheild? Just weave your psi around and through mine and it should sustain itself...and make sure your psi regenerates quickly." As he said it, he worked with a small ball of psi in his hands; a miniature sheild. He tweaked a small part here, moved a current there, and as he did so the big sheild quivered with anticipation. Finally, when he felt the minisheild was ready, he crushed it, and the large sheild mirrored what the minisheild had looked like. If he had done it right it would be sustained by any psi that touches the outside, while psi on the inside would pass through a hole that would automatically form. He tested it out by connecting his mind with one of the hounds', then causing it so much mental anguish that he hoped none of the people behind him had Empathy, or they would be screaming in pain right then. "Make it fast, my sheild won't last long!"

Eli noticed the new girl who seemd scared. She was scared and confused. He though about this for a moment. *You shoudn't be afraid. There's nothing to worry about. Everyone here is nice. I can tell* Without even thinking about he projected his message towards the girl, this new ability facinated Eli. He couldn't do this before at home, or could he? He didn't remember, he didn't rember much actually. Not even the name of the book he had been reading minutes ago. Or was that yesterday? He couldn't remember that either.

He was starting to get scared, he wanted to go home. But he didn't remember where home was. He couldn't remember his parents, he HAD to have parents. Didn't he?

Everything was whirling around in his head, nothing was making sense, and he didn't like this place so much anymore. His head swam, when suddenly a sering pain engulfed him. It hurt so badly, he couldn't think straight. Everything blurred as pain shot throughout his body. His muscles tightened and he fell to the floor in a ball. He didn't think he'd ever felt anything this horrible, because if he had he would have remembered it.

Eli lay on the floor in agonising pain. His head hurt so badly he couldn't stand it anymore, his head was screaming out loud without control. He was beggining to feel angry and hatred towards the group of people. He hated them, he wanted to rip their throats out. Wait, was this even his own feelings? He couldn't think, it hurt too much.

With whatever he had left of his strength, Eli sent a negative energy after out into the room to try and stop whatever it was that was causing him so much pain. He just wanted it to stop, it hurt so badly. He wanted everything to stop. Then the pain began to lessen and what was left of his strength vanished as he collapsed.


{{Ps. your doing pretty good so far Hearts}}

{{You can choose, although think about your options: Sometimes the semingly right choice can have horrible effects. In this case, the Shadow Hound Mara's about to stab has a Mindfang (see the beastiary) inside it.}}

Mathias swore, mentally using a few of his choiciest words and then some he didn't know he knew. {Great. First an attempted murder, now agonizing pain. Looks like I'm a lot of fun to be around.} He stopped torturing the Hound, and thought for a second. {Alright...Maybe if I did this...} Hesitantly, Mathias created a pocket of psi in each hand. He waited a second, then slammed his hands together. The sparks covering the hands shot out like a rocket, engulfing three of the hounds in one shot. One of the few remaining ones shot out a matching beam of shadows from its gaping jaw. The two beams collided, then a small black ball of shadow started streaking towards Mathias, who countered with a ball of sparks, whick hit the other, exploding it and revealing...another shadow orb travelling down the line of dark sparks, which was quickly countered with another pure orb, revealing two...three...five...eight...{I'm seeing a pattern.} Mathias thought. Did the Hound seriously think it could win that way? When the Hound sent out thirteen, Mathias sent out fourteen. Most connected, but the last one shot down the line like a rocket, colliding with the hound, which exploded. Not surprisingly, there was another right behind it, which lunged. Mathias, unconcerned, looked at Mara, to see if she had stabbed it, and at that crucial moment, the sheild broke near the top, with a Hound about to land on one of the other people behind them.

{NO!} Mathias thought, repairing the sheild. There was no way to stop it, and in ten seconds the fight would be over. If only they had more...time...With a yell, Mathias thrust out with his psi, crossing his arms in a defensive position as all around him, time stopped. He lowered his arms, then gently tapped each of the people behind him, speeding them up to his speed. "I can't hold this up for long! Quickly! Get rid of this pest!"

"Get...back...to the...sheild." Mathias grunted, the strain of stopping time beginning to affect him. {I've been using my energy poorly...Now...One of the books in this room said something about...Oh yeah! Using your energy to make more energy!}"I'm going to lower the time stop in ten seconds. There are only a couple of Hounds left...but still be careful."

Turning her attention back to the shield, she once more intertwined her energy with the boy's own. She couldn't help but wonder just what they were to do. The barrier wouldn't hold forever, and she was already starting to feel drained.

Calling over her shoulder, she posed a question, "So what do we do from here?"

She really hadn't meant to come off as condesending as she had.

{{Thanks for the heads-up, HEARTS. I, for one, appreciate it.}}

[[Small note, me and beyonds characters are unconcious if ou guys don't pull us then...*sigh* nvm I'll get up]]

Eli awoke to the sounds of gears and a door opening, he looked to where those wolves were and he felt even more anger and hatred. As if there were more sources.

He saw the group of people heading towards another door and it looked like they had forgotten about him. He saw the girl he was 'talking' to before was still unconcious.

Eli slowly got up and staggered over to the girl, lifting her with his hand underneath her shoulders and began to drag her slowly towards the door that everyone was going in, hoping that they wouldn't close it on them before he got there.

Though she knew she had to make a quick escape, Mara couldn't help but think that if the barrier fell before they all escaped, there was the chance th beasts would follow. Thinking quickly, though barely at all, she gave one last burst of energy, placing a thick wall of ice between the shadow-pups and the party's escape route. As quickly as she had thrown up the wall, she was moving. The two latest arrivals were just ahead, but seemed to be rather drained. Throwing the girl's free arm over her shoulder, Mara smiled to them both.

"Looks like we should be going, eh? Need a another pair of legs?"

Smiling once more, she turned her sights toward their exit.