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Siouxsie sat up and began walking towards nothing in particular only wishing to find people to interact with. Taking her time as she looked around the site of no one around made her wonder for the first time why there were so few people around when not too long ago she could walk into any town or city and there would be dozens of mortals to pester and entertain her. "This is getting on my nerves" after saying that she released her wings letting them stretch out before she took flight into the air looking below her to find some sort of movement.

Things were happening. An explosion. Near the Pentagon. The dragon-man was hit, but not irrecoverably. He was also advancing towards the being who appeared to be on the offensive.

Mark seriously needed to figure out what was going on here.

He didn't want to leap into a fight and start hurting people he didn't want to hurt, yet it was pretty clear who was making the offensive movement.

Then the dragon spoke a word. From context, it was a proper noun, something that was unusual for the language Mark was learning. The dragon was referring to the two beings in front of him. And in Mark's mind, "purify" could easily mean destroy. These were the people. Or at least a group of them.

So he did the logical thing. He punched out a manhole on the surface of the bridge, leapt up, and started running for the combat, the blocky twin-barreled energy SMG growing on his wrist again.

A massive explosion rocked the entire city of Washington D.C.. Amadeus almost fell down from the force of... he didn't know what it was. He had no idea what could cause an explosion that big. It definitely wasn't an earthquake: they don't make massive bomb-type sounds. His first thought was that terrorists had somehow managed to wreak some serious havoc, and the most likely place they would strike would be...

... The Pentagon.

Turning to look in the general direction of the building, Amadeus's stomach plummeted when he saw a massive dust storm erupting where the Pentagon was. He had no idea what was going on, but if terrorists had indeed struck at the central hub of America's military, things were going from bad to worse very quickly. He took off at a run for the National Guard's headquarters. Without his weapons and equipment, there would be nothing he could do, really. He needed to get his assault rifle first, then he could help combat... whoever had caused this.

((DANGIT! Its a six >.< I'm trying to figure out how you can frighten him though, since he is most afraid of water, and drowning in it>.<))

Ryn stood there, as a single, deadly fear floating to the surface of his mind.

It was him, alone, in the middle of the ocean. He was flying, for all he was worth, but he knew he couldn't make it to land. He was in the middle of the ocean, no land in sight, and he was getting tired. Slowly, he drooped towards the water, screaming, knowing he was going to drown, to his death.

He gasped, shuddering, before roaring,"PURIFIER!!!"

His sword slid from its sheath, the four foot long blade sliding slowly out, the metal sound like a note on a piano, drawn out far to long.

At that moment, Sakeri's entire world went dark. Her hazel orbs flashed an emerald green before they faded black. Wisps of gray smoke began to fly off of her as Kin dove toward the earth.

When he set her down, a large wolf thudded off the figure in a cloud of grey smoke. It left one lone figure standing in her place. A young man. His shagged platinum blond hair hung over a pair of metallic yellow eyes, which glared at Kin with silent rage. He knelt next to the wolf, concern gripping him to the very core. He ran a coarse hand through her soft reddish fur, cursing himself for allowing harm to come to her. Amati cradled the canine carefully before placing her on his shoulder.

Spotting the curved blade aongst the greenery, he snatched it up from the grass. Almost immeadiently, wisps of grey swirled aroud it. The blade straightened itself as it grew in length and small feathery, leather threads burst out the end of the handle. Amati's hand gripped the blade with a vengence as he glared at the shifter, but he remained silent. Sakeri wouldn't violence to begin in their already small group. So, he remained silent, yet ready to protect her at any given moment.

A low rumble began to shake the earth, and a whir of gears began to sound. Out of nowhere, soldiers and tanks began to pour out from every direction. Soon, even helicopters thundered the skies. Amati moved accordingly and lowered himself into a defensive stance.

"This isn't going to be easy," he thought quietly to himself.

"Hmm?" Kin turned around to see all the insects flood the area from every direction, but he wouldn't let them interfere that easily. He finally got his chance,a nd he wouldn't like the jellybags getting in his way. He spread his arms low, and breathing out, a second winged Kin somewhat came out of his ghostly essense, and flew up into the sky. The second Kin clasped his hands together, and sent a strange wave that cleared the atmosphere and spread the hovering clouds of dust flying even faster away than they normally should.

"This is delta five, approachin- what the heck?! Turn back! Turn back! Aaaah-ack-" An immense amount of rock and dirt hammered their way through the tough glass window of the helicopter, and penetrated into the immediately suffacating pilots. The very dust darkened the once clear blue sky, and launched themselves like immense tidal waves. "Argh!" "Waaah!" "Oh my- ack!" From the inside of the tank, these disturbing cries were accompanied by the incessant thuds and cracks far worse than that of the pounding of heavy rain, "W-what's going on?" asked one nervously, despite his trained attitude. Th other, who was watching through the scope for outside vision could only stay silent, his mouth wide open in awe, "What are those?" The rapid dust went through the armor of the tank, and the last heard of them was a horrified shriek in the tank's explosion.

"Hahahahaha! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAA!!!!" The Kin over the air laughedout loud as he watched copters and jet crash down and explode upon hitting the ground, the surrounding infantry create a blood bath from their own systems, and the tanks get penetrated, have their turrets get stuffed with dirt, and blow up one by one. The other Kin in front of the deffender merely gave a malicious smirk, as he continued to work on hsi nightmare visions while actually drowning the being with real water.

More in shock than anything, Craig looked at the tattered pieces of the tanks and people. He was more than likely interested in his job at hand, but something drove Craig to the nearest tank. He walked and stepped into the ruin, there were two people, one obviously dead the other alive, but with his legs trapped. The soldier looked at Craig with fear, but Craig didn't care, he was worthless.

However, something drove Craig to walk near the person, he knelt down and stared into his eyes. The man was bleeding to death and Craig noticed a part of the soldier was fighting for life. He soldier spat at the ground towards Craig. "Freak, Kill me, after all, who ever the hell made you obviously lost some points on originality!"

Craig looked shocked at the man. "You don't fear me?" he then lifted the object of the soldier and pulled him to face Craig. "Why don't you fear me?"

The soldier gave a weak laugh. "Because I know, deep down, that man has seen worse than you. We've fought worse than you. Bring down your monsters! Humanity has something much worse inside of them than anything you can bring out in us! We've seen what humanity can do to each other, and we've seen what we can do together... Oh, you may individually be more powerful than a human, but you don't compare to what humans can do as a unit or country...O...Rah..." He then passed out.

Craig looked at the broken man, then over to the defender fighting a purifier. For once in his entire being, Craig didn't listen to orders. He walked towards the Purifier, known as Kin, carrying the soldier over his shoulder. "Purifier! PURIFIER! This man doesn't fear us! We are failing!"