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((Ghooooodeeeen! Do iiit! Involve Pat! I'm so excited....I can hardly hold my pee in!))

Cliff looked to Lili from over the brim of his glasses for a breif second then loked back down to his papers, "Fine, I suppose. He's one fine specimine, I'll say, though. He was in excelent shape. I'm hpoing with these blood samples, though, I can see what helped him heal and what exactly the final verdict on his death was." She scriobbled for a few seconds then added, "But don't go in there, he's still open."

Drake wrinkled his nose and said, "No worries, I wouldn't want to go in there. I can deal with it, but I'd rather not be in the same room as an open chest cavity."

Holly felt the feud between Rei and Alex, feeling guilty, but hiding it well behind her smile towards Richard. She turned to him again and whispered, "I'm sorry about the others. Just, lately, we've kind of been...Busy and on edge. We were just starting to calm down and then...this. But, I suppose it's safer to be on edge anyway. They'll warm up to you sooner or later; if Alex and Rei have gotten along for as long as they have, then things are going to be just fine for you. That is, if you plan on staying with us...If you don't you'll have to swear not to tell or else...We'll kill you, but let's not dwell no that. You will be staying right?" She felt like she was just balbbing on so she stopped herself, though her mind started to contemplate the supplies situation. Wold they enough for very much longer? They would have to get a new base soon...Something less dilapidated and more technical.

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Hannah snorted and rolled her eyes, "You know how grown ups are, they like to share cooties and kiss."
She was walking in the front of the group, now, not really leading, but just...walking. They were headed towards a run-down part of town where most of the houses where empty and rotten--unknowingly, they were heading in the right direction.

((Hmmm....Too bad I didn't add Ivy in there, then I'd have my entire crew, right?))

((TMI rose... T.M.I lol))

Rei glared and walked back to the soup he was cooking. It was nearly done. He stared into the pot angrily as Alex's words burned through his mind. They enraged him, but he let it go, so the beast wouldn't take over and cause who knows what.

Pat wandered his way down to the basement. "What a damn ugly creature..." He said walking over to Roman's corpse. He slapped the face and smirked. "Stiff as a board, but not as smart." He said with a laugh. He reached into his pocket to pull out his smokes, and accidentally bumped a small table. He heard something clink to the floor, but finished lighting his smoke before he took a look. He picked up the little black box from the floor and examined it. "Uh-oh..." He said noting the crack, and a bit of a black smoke flowing from it. "I think i broke it..." He said as he put it down, crack down, and hoped that it wasn't anything important. He then hovered over Roman's open carcass.

Mortified, Lili stared at Pat's corpse until she was pulled away by Drake. It was like she was watching the whole scene in slow-motion. Numb, she was barely aware that she was being dragged up the stairs by Drake. There she stood as Drake tried to get everyone's attention, watching Pat's death over in her head like an old film reel. Her face and eyes were blank due to the shock; someone was going to have to snap her out of it.

Rei wasted no time, He rushed past them all, not waiting for an explanation from drake. As he hurried down the stairs, he saw Cliff leaning horrified against the door frame. He slowed, and gripped the hilt of one of his daggers, and looked out past cliff. When he saw the huddled, bloody mass of his closest friend, Rei rushed over, and lifted him off the floor. "No... no no no no NO!" Rei yelled as he held pat in his arms. "s**t.. s**t s**t s**t!" Rei wasn't exactly sure of what to do. He then thought of Ivy. "Hold on buddy, It's not to late."

Pat's eyes were wide, as he collapsed to the floor, his body unresponsive. Strangely, He felt no pain, even though he saw Remus tare clean through his body. Everything around him was fuzzy and rushed, and his eyes began to gloss over. Suddenly, He felt himself lifted, and could see just one face. Rei's. "Aye me mate... It's to late..." He reached into his pocket shakily, and handed Rei a pendant. "Find my sister... And give this to her..." He said, placing it tightly into Rei's hand, before he coughed, his vision going black, body going limp, and with that, he passed on.

Rei gripped the pendant tightly, and a single tear ran down his cheek. He quickly wiped it away, and carried Pat upstairs, and out to the forest, not even bothering to wait for the others. He gently slung Pat over one shoulder, and grabbed an old shovel from the side of the house as he went.

He arrived at a clearing in the forest, and he gently sat pat's body against a tree, before he proceeded to dig. Once the hole was large enough, he walked back to pat, noticing that Pat had an odd smile, forever now to be on his face. He picked him up, and lowered him gently into the hole. "Goodbye my friend." By the time he had the hole dug, most of the others who had decided to follow were there, But Rei didn't really notice them.

He began to slowly shovel over pat's corpse, leaving his face till last to be covered. He gathered two sticks, and made a makeshift Grave marking, and placed it at the head of the grave. Rei sighed with a heavy heart, and placed an old bottle of whiskey at the base of the marker. Without another word, he walked slowly back to the house.

((The last bit spans over quite a while, feel free to post what your characters were doing in amongst that, even if they have some sort of interaction with Rei.))

Holly felt the fear and rushed into the house to see Drake and Lili standing at the top of the stairs. She watched in shock as Rei walked past her with Pat's body in his arms. Tears welled into her eyes and she followed Rei solemnly, though she was scared to death.

Drake turned to Lili and pulled her into his arms, resting her head against his chest. He put one of his hands on the base of her head carefully and helped to calm her mind. He didn't let her be more aware, but less so. He took away the shock and replaced it with a sweet array of thoughts--the affect similar to that of waves crashing on a beach. He leaned against the wall as he held her.

Ivy felt the pain of Remus ripping through Pat and knew she was too late before she had reached the house. She watched with a tear-stained face as Rei carried Pat's form to the grave, knowing she was too late to help, even if she could. She watched as Rei buried his dearest friend as her heart thumped wildly in her chest.

Cliff didn't leave the room. Instead he closed up Roman angrily, doing a terrible job. When he was finished he sat at his desk and put his head in his hands angrily as tears streamed down his face. "I could have stopped him...Damn it, I could have saved his life." He pushed all of the papers off of his desk in a flurry of rage and remorse, crying out in complete sadness afterwards as he crumpled to the ground.

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Hannah looked ahead and felt the presence of something similar to her...Something...more alive. Her eyes widened as she felt the power of the darkness coming towards them and grabbed Rachael's arm. "Get out of the way and be quite." She whispered as she tried to lead her dearest friends out of the way.

Remus was still laughing and mourning his brother manically as he licked the blood from his hands, face, and arms in his half-shadowy self. He flew through the air as a black spot of terror and menice. He didn't even notice the children below him as he pased over them, his goal to reach the labs.

((Wow....would you look at that? All of my characters lined up....If only Roman and Carl hadn't died...then I would have the ENTIRE crew from this RP...sweet. R.I.P Pat))

((Not to the death. We've got to have some more tangible bad guys. ^_* And a sworn enemy is always good to have around.))

Remus felt someone following him. He smiled to himself and turned completely into a shadow, hiding away amongst the other shadows behind a building.

((I intend to end it in a draw or Richard Loses but doesn't die.))

Richard Growled. "Dammit. He spotted me."

Immediately, He gave chase until he came towards the area where Remus was supposed to be. He scowled now, as there was nothing but shadows. He reached up, from the tip of the broadsword he pulled out the guardless katana. From the center of the Lance he pulled out the hilt guard for it. As he slid it down from blade to fit into the hilt, his eyes turned light blue and glowed in the darkness.

"Perception of Life and Death: Single Strike."

He looked at the building besides him and saw all these lines super imposed on it. Then there was the single dot that existed when all lines crossed at one point. The lines signified Damage Dealt. The dot signified Existance. In his eyes he saw all of life and all of death. He stabbed the dot. There was a large crumbling sound and the building collapsed on itself and slowly disintegrated. Its entire existence erased. leaving a lone floating shadow.

"Hello."