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This was madness, all of this. Somebody, please, wake me up! - thought Wylfenne. To the Fae's misfortune, it wasn't a dream, no. Now they realized what the hunters were trying for, and what they just accomplished. They weren't trying to destroy the rooms, nor they were aiming to catch the students. They were placing something in the room: now, backthinking Wylfenne could remember the hunters' elders were placing something in the rooms. They were trying to bring Apocalypse to horsemen, - and they succeeded. The islands were gone... and Wylfenne was so infatuated by Conquest! They just fell in love with its architecture and gardens... Hunters. They took it, they took it away. What would be their next step? Would they try to take Halloween like this? Their own home? Wylfenne shivered imagining the Unseelie court destroyed like this.

But that shouldn't be too preoccupied with the hunters at the moment. Wylfenne raised their head and noticed... The Bird. Phoenix.

"What... is.. this?...", the Fae almost shouted, looking back to the other students they were fighting with.

When the explosions went off, everybody got a little distracted.

When the island started falling, Harrison stowed a sword. He plunged the other one into the ground, grabbed a fistful of Jordan's shirt with his free hand, and hit the dirt. "B0nez can take it," he said, trying to convince himself more than Jordan. "He can take the fall. Just hold on."

He didn't know if he could take the fall. But held on to Jordan tight, half-covering him and half-trying to make sure they both didn't slide straight into the ocean.

They hit. B0nez managed. The whole island bobbed, like a cork, and Harrison looked uncertainly at Jordan before loosening his grip. He used B0nez to push himself upright, then offered Jordan a wobbly hand.

"You..." he started, at least until his train of thought was cut off by one look at the sky. It wasn't bugs. "....s**t."




OOC:
Character Name: Harrison
HP: 50/50
Items: Runic Bandaids

She had reached out ready to grab a fist full of flowers when the world shook. How did a floating island shake? Explosions and light that was how. The whole world gave out beneath them as they dropped down crashing into the sea. Everything was chaos as she fell. Slowly she crawled forward lifting her body.

The boy was laughing, he was laughing at the death of hundreds. A civilization, suddenly the idea of the human world burning wasn't so bad. See how long he laughed seeing a whole population erased.

She moved forward again; "YOU VILE ******** BASTARDS!"

She grabbed a fist full of flowers in Rep's shoulder, planting a foot behind his knee kicking him to the ground.

"YOU ******** MONSTERS YOU ARE THE ONES. THE ONES WHO SHOULD DIE. TO THINK I WAS WORRIED ABOUT THE HORSEMEN DESTROYING YOUR WORLD I'LL SEE YOU ALL BURN IN HELL."

She pulled, ripping at flowers and roots dug deep into Rep's shoulders.

Jerry exhaled sharply as that shrill zombie's voice was back again, blinking out of his quiet mental escape as his blast hadn't quite reached the phoenix.

A phoenix meant something. It meant survival, no matter what. It was a sign, not an enemy, his battered brain decided, and shaking, managed to move again. He dragged Roar back closer, hefting him butt-down to climb upwards. One leg kept buckling, but his recharged Fear shield blocked most of the pain. He kept his weight on the other leg, limping his way back towards where his friend had fallen. He was tired, it had been a long battle, and they were special, they were equipped, but he was still only human as he wobbled and tried to gather a second wind. At least enough to try to swing his cannon like a massive club to fend the irate zombie back.

The island fell.

Jordan slammed Ferros onto the ground sideways, lodging the hammer's spikes into the dirt, and fell to one knee for stability, holding the weapon's haft with one hand, his other arm holding tight to Harrison. He closed his eyes. Falling.

When the ground had stabilized again and Harrison stood up, Jordan opened his eyes cautiously and took the hand offered to him, getting up and turning to see the massive hole in the water that had once been the site of the islands - and the huge swirling cloud forming into a dead-grey phoenix.

This phoenix was no ally. Jordan stared, feeling a vague sense of outrage bubbling up in him at the twisted threat of a symbol he'd come to think of as part of his identity. No. They weren't dying here, and that thing wasn't going to kill them. He'd fight.

The thing swooped and dove, but didn't come within range. "Dammit," Jordan growled. "Get down here."

(( OOC:
Character Name: Jordan
HP: 50/50
Target: Insanity phoenix
Damage: nope
Charge: 0/3
Effect:
Number of People Currently Attacking Me: 0/3 -
Items: Modified pendant, capture gun))

By the time Ryan was fully conscious again, there was a billowing smoke cloud above them. He didn't quite understand what had happened until he saw what was the remains of the island and even then, he still wasn't really sure what had happened. In the fray he had been thrown from the cu sith's back and hit the ground hard, only to come to his senses just now. So when he saw the massive, rage filled bird looming over them, he might have let out a startled squeak of surprise and swiped at the bird's tail in self defense.

It did crap all.

"Wh-wh-what's that!?" he stuttered, jumping back to his feet and gawking up at the phoenix filled with insanity.


Ryan's HP: 40/40
Target: Insanity Phoenix
Damage: 0
Effect: n/a
Number of People Currently Attacking Me: 0/3
Charge Attack: [ Used 0/2 / Charged 1/3 ] Ruby Light ( Y2 ) - The Chill

Appearance
Ryan is a 5'8" Caucasian male, with short scruffy blond hair, and brown eyes. He fights with claw tipped gauntlets.

"I love you too..." Mitsu replied softly, squeezing his hand one last time before he pulled away.

While Shun focused his efforts on the phoenix, Mitsu turned her attention to the Hunters still looming around them. Despite the giant bird she felt they were just as much a threat if not more so. Trying to pick a target her eyes darted from one hunter to the next. Everything was chaos again but her eyes finally focused on a darker skinned Hunter who had...thrown her weapon?

Feeling a sense of opportunity rising Mitsu lunged forward thinking that perhaps she could drag the other boot off the ghoul's feet. She had already rid herself of half the problem and it looked like she was a tad dazed. If she could disarm her the threat would be over and that would be one Hunter down.

Too bad Mitsu wasn't very stable from the fall either, her legs had yet to catch up with her. The first few steps of her run and she was teetering, a few more and she was dangerously off balance. She was within feet of the Hunter when she finally fell letting out a squeak as she landed face first in the dirt directly behind her rending her attempted attack worthless.

Oh gravity, you are a cruel mistress.

Reiko stared in abject horror as the spire exploded, and she definitely, positively screamed the entire way falling down.

What the hell was going on?!

What had the Hunters done? Because clearly it had to be them, the Four Clans wouldn't blow up their own spire, not with people inside, but the Hunters, the Hunters apparently would.

When the island hit the water, Reiko ended up on her back, but she pushed herself up quickly, wary of an attack and terrified for her friends. "Mitzi!" It was the only name she knew to scream, but she searched the crowd for the others in a horrified panic. The hell hound ghoul, the other ghost, where were they?

And then there was something else to see, something else to send horror racking through her.

The Islands of the Four Clans. They were falling apart.

They were not her home, but she had seen enough of two of them to know that they were vibrant, living, thriving communities. She had no doubt that the other two were as well. All of those people. Murdered in one disgusting fell swoop my the monstrous Hunters.

Her legs gave out from underneath her as the gravity of the situation settled on her. Was there nothing the Hunters wouldn't do?

Reiko no longer had the energy to scream. She barely reacted to the sight of the strange Insanity phoenix swooping over the battlefield. She was thinking of the forges of Death, of its jungles, of all the fascinating places she had visited in her training, of the crop rooms of Famine, of the oasis, of the desert, of the teruu. All of it was gone forever.

Because of the Hunters.

Reiko really ******** hated Hunters.