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The mention of being used as 'bait' left a sour taste in Tomoko's mouth, the girl making a face and ignoring the idea of looking for any key. She didn't have any way to find it anyways. Either way, she heard a few familiar voices behind her, looking over her shoulder to spot two demons she recognized.

"Barth! West!" She called, looking behind her (cautiously), but not reaching out for them, paranoid she'd suddenly lose a limb if she did, though she did motion them over...if they were so inclined to come and join her and Junko. Though she did add a quiet; "Please be careful...I don't like this room." It was probably unnecessary, but...well..West seemed to thrive off of danger (she wished she could do that. She wasn't any good at it...), and she just wanted to hope everybody would stay alive, man.

She looked to Junko, and then to Jove again, before checking to area to see what else had happened......

Which it looked as though the one girl, Sin, had found a key. That was effective. Tomoko hadn't had to move too much for that (she was channeling someone!), but that was mostly out of a 'Who knows what else is in this room, man'.

"I hope our numbers will be enough for what is coming ahead of us..."

Things seemed to speed by Mandy like she was moving through tar, left with no time to react. A password needed, other students arriving (West, Tomoko!), the portal being Windows (Why?), violence to portal, it finally working. All passed by her without her affecting it. This state continued when she stepped through and maybe that would explain what happened next.

Darkness, complete to her poor eyesight, combined with the yelling and her disoriented state found Mandy tripping in the darkness, relying on her ears and nose. Maybe had she been less out of it she would have listened to the niggling in her brain that said that sound was so familiar (Jingleberry, the woosh of blades through the air.) and maybe when familiar voices screamed before silencing she might have been able to react and move herself.

As it was her final moments went thus:

A scent, familiar, friend - one she had been looking for since the crash. Pleased smile. Relief.

“BARTH”

Woosh, SHINK.

Scream. Chocking. Blood filling mouth. Cold, so cold..

Nothing.

Tybalt stared dumbly at the horsewoman.

What the hell was she talking about!? Pendants, batteries, keys---it didn't make sense! And aside from that... Who the hell were they? He had never seen either of them before, so why were they even bossing them around? Were they allies that other students encountered or something? He wondered; eying them both suspiciously.

Even if they were allies. He didn't much like the sound of bait.

Shaking his head, he soon found that he wasn't going to have to even try and locate the requested object. Luckily enough, another student, Sin, found it.

"Well that was quick..." He muttered.

Sammy turned for just a moment to look at conquest her eyebrows raised as a flash of light took place of him. He was dead. Another figure and possibly ally dead in this hell hole replace by yet another hooded monster. One of the reapers yet again.

She turned back to Barth her eyes narrow with rage, "I'll tell you what we do. We kill this son of a b***h and get the hell out of here." This was said as she turned hefting her mace up over her shoulder before breaking into a sprint running towards the Reaper, dipping left and right around falling stones she brought the mace against him in an attempt at a glancing blow before turning back to the others.

"DON'T STAND AROUND, KILL THIS b*****d FOR WHAT THEY'VE DONE TO OUR FRIENDS!"

Sammy was pissed, Riley, Malodore, Jericho, Emily, and all the others missing right now.

This reaper was going to pay.

(( Pass survival check, 7+1 = 8 - 6 = 8 damage, 19HP left ))

"What in Jack's name-?!" Aurian yelped as she emerged from the portal into a cramped dark space. Something jabbed her in the side. Her heel came down on something soft - a foot? a fallen student? - and she tried to shuffle along, saying "Sorry, sorry!" as she moved.

A whirring sound had been growing steadily louder in the background, initially hidden beneath the cries and complaints of the students. Suddenly one of the Horsepeople was screaming at them to move. Aurian dove to the side, still not knowing what was coming, just sure that the panic present in that voice couldn't be good.

She wasn't fast enough. There was a slicing burn through her back. Aurian had time to cough up blood and spare one last worry for all her remaining friends. Astra... Saviour, West... be safe. The red glow of her eyes faded, replaced by a pool of blood slowly spreading out around the fallen reaper.

And then. THEN. He came. The b*****d with the SCYTHE. From the woods outside the school. "I WON'T BE YOUR PAWN AGAIN!!!" Aksaja yelled, darting around falling stalagmites as he charged straight toward the newest figure, pipe raised.

This guy. Was goin' DOWN.

(( HP: 4
Damage Tried: 7 ? Unless we're still subtracting 6, in which case 1. XD ))

Bul HP: 16
(possible?) damage: 10

Before them unfolded a scene like no other. Standing there and breathing vicious air of death was the hooded figure.. that presumably was in charge of this whole isl- well there we go, he said it. Bul tightened up, feeling all the adrenaline pumping and sending shivers up his spines. If his FEAR was working right now, the half beast would be doused in disgusting red boils and soaking in his bloody sweat. Things were about to get intense.

"HEY!!" Bul screamed when Famine and Conquest retreated and snarled angrily. "********..." he paused and looked to the very few students that had made it. "Come on guys... lets do this... avenge all our fallen friends-" Bul's little speech was interrupted by the crash in the ceiling and the barrage of falling stalactites. "s**t LOOKOUT!" he cried and rolled out of the way but saw that a few other students were not so fortunate.

Wincing, Bul watched their bodies get crushed then looked back to the reaper. They were even shorter in numbers now and frankly... nobody was in appropriate shape to be fighting!

"Come at me bro.." Bul whispered to the figure before clenching his fists and rushing forwards in an attempted attack!

"Oh Whisper, I'm so glad you're ok!" The witch cried out, her one free hand wrapping around the girl as she slid her other hand around Carry who seemed hellbent and determined to get her through this. "I have to say, this is the WORST field trip I have ever been on!" What was she saying? Why was she saying it so casually? They were being attacked and-- And!!
And her brain was now locked down and only able to process very little from all the shock. Now she was just spouting words because they seemed slightly appropriate.

"A key? Whatever would we need a key for?" Belladonna paused to watch another figure exit from the cage looking very powerful and she titled her head to them. "Oh! Are we fighting? Lovely!" And with that she bounded forward, brandishing her sword just in time for a very large pile of rocks to fall on her.
One long scream escaped her mouth in a high keen before finally filtering off into a heavy sob.
One hand had escaped the fall and was outstretched to whoever was nearby, fingernails digging into the floor for purchase.
"Oh Hecate!" Her voice was ragged, her breaths shallow from the rocks pinning her to the floor. "Oh please don't let me die, oh please please please pleasepleaseplease!!" For a long moment she couldn't speak as she was choked with sobs, that grew shallower by the second. Blood started to seep from the rocks, creating a little pool of red around them, as though her hair had turned to liquid and had escaped the fall. "C-carr-- Whisp--Daisuke?!" One sharp breath dragged in and let out one more terrified scream before Belladonna's body dissipated away, the rocks settling further now that her body was gone.