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Candace waited. And she waited. And she waited some more. And she would keep waiting until given an order to stop, in which case she would just find some way to carry his body or something. He needed to breathe. He had to open his eyes. Something! Anything! He needed to be alive...this wasn't fair! Why did that idiot have to go and protect her?! I should have been the other way around. But really, would she have done the same thing? Probably not. She'd have protected herself first and oithers second as always, without a second thought or a moment of remorse. She was the most important thing in her world, right? Nevertheless she waited, whimpering and pressing a light kiss against his forehead. Those ******** monsters. "What would you do if I sang out of tune?" Candace hiccuped, keeping her voice low. She did not sing, damnit. "Would you stand up and walk out on me? Lend me your ear and I'll sing you a song and I'll try not to sing out of key~." She whispered quietly, petting his bandaged face and sniffling. She felt so stupid crying like this on the battlefield but...damnit! This...idiot had to go and break her heart like this! Son of a...! "Oh, I get by with a little help from my friends...goddamnit, Jerry. If you don't wake up I'm goin to--" Suddenly his body lurched and turned to wretch on the ground beside them. Her eyes widened and she sat up away from him. Wait. Dead people don't throw up, right?

...Dead people don't throw up! Oh my god! Candace suddenly cried out with joy and threw her arms around the man to hug him against her body, sobbing into his shoulder. He asked her how she was and she squeezed him, laughing now. "Y-you idiot! Why did you go and...! You stupid piece of...I...I should just...!" Candace peppered his bandaged face with kisses, whimpering and clinging desperately to the newly revived man. "I didn't say you could die! You owe me a date, damn you! And to just throw yourself for me I just...you...! You're so...!" her fingers clenched and she curled up close against the man, breathing heavily as she worked to regain control of herself. "Thank you, Jerry." She whispered into his ear, hugging him more gently now. "I owe you something special, okay? Let me know when we get back to Deus Ex. I'll do anything." And she was a woman of her word.

"other than a few scratches and a burn patch here and there, I think I'm fine." Leon reassured the girl once she came up to him. He still had no clue that his glove had a few embers on it, but the safety goggles were a blessed item over his face. Still gave him a goldfish bowl effect when he had them on, but it was better than burnt eyeballs.

"Hey Nid, done pouting yet?" the boxer asked aloud to his suddenly moody weapon that refused to say even a word. "Cass I don't know if I upset it or what but Nid is not saying a word. Hell after the creature bit it, it went away so tell your own spirit to be careful around it." he warned her, the didn't need any other weapons getting all weird around them.

Jeremy looked like he got into a fight with a barbeque and lost. "Huh, if this was going to happen you'd think they would give us a first aid equipment or something besides bandages." he muttered toward the still singed Jeremy.

at least he smelled delicious.

.....................

Not even that made Nidhogg utter a peep, it was starting to become alarming.

Oh the other hand, watching Jude run around on fire was enough to send the life hunter into a fit of chuckles and started to bat at the cowled hunter with his coat. "So many jokes, so little time."

Harrison didn't duck. There was nowhere to go. They were in the middle of the field, and he was next to Caelius. The only thing he had time to do was put his blades up and wait.

And then it hit him.

B0nez shrieked in his head, like he was a towel being wrung out, and everything about the fire felt like it was going to rip him apart, which wasn't right, shouldn't it be B0nez who...there was no complaining. Only white noise. And then out of the static, a groggy, Harrison? I don't....feel so hot.

Shield gone?

No.

Okay, Harrison thought, lowering the blades shakily to inspect them. Okay, they looked okay, not cracked or anything...the screams of others came into focus, Hunters were falling to the ground, the creatures were disappearing completely or crying in pain, and some guy was on fire...

One of their guys was on fire.

He desummoned B0nez and rushed that way, through the gaggle of surviving Hunters.

"Hey! Hey, s**t, does somebody have a spare-" Everybody was busy. And all Harrison had was a turtleneck and overalls. A coat, a blanket, anything...


HP: 40
Charge: DOESN'T MATTER.

There was a disconcerting amount of blood on his clothing. Johan brushed at it ineffectively, and noticed how crispy his hands were looking. He wiggled his fingers and the burns cauterized by the fire cracked open and oozed blood. Ow.
Ow.

Oh.

Amrita.

Why was she staring at him? Lizzy? Johan looked around slowly and carefully, finally taking notice of how many students were gone. Had they... died? The shock finally brought some clarity to his thoughts, and Johan stumbled slowly and carefully over to Amrita.

"Amrita-" he sucked in a breath and found he had no idea what to say. Awkwardly, he reached out towards her shoulder, and halted. Hand hovering over the ghoul, Johan fought to reconcile his phobia of touching, and the desire to provide some modicum of comfort to a grieving friend. Slowly, hesitantly, he lowered his hand until it rested ever so lightly on Amrita's shoulder. "I'm sorry."

Duely noted. That thing causes a significant amount of distress just from proximity... I can only imagine what it did for being bitten.

Cass nodded. "Nick says that the thing.." she pointed over her shoulder to Red, "causes enough problems via proximity and that the bite probably hurt Nid in some way. That's his guess."

With that, she turned her attention to the more..immediate concern.

Cass took a moment to rest Nicodemus's chain around her shoulders before fumbling through her pockets to get out a roll of bandages. "Alright, c'mere you." she said, motioning him over. "C'mere you, I'll patch you up." she offered. "Not sure how much good they'll do you, but you look like you could use 'em."

She didn't wait for the sun hunter to accept her offer, more or less jumping on him (not literally) to start wrapping up the worst of the burns that were available to her hands. "Man, this place sucks." she frowned as she finished up her task before she stepped back to admire her handiwork. Hopefully they wouldn't need that set of bandages later!

Then again, keeping everybody in working order was important.. even if she was going to have nightmares for a few weeks after this mission..if they got home. God, the words 'YOU ARE ********' went through her head without a single question about any of it. They really were.

"Bandages are better than nothing. This will hopefully prevent infections or anything of the sort in the meantime." she nodded once, before stepping back. "There! How do you feel, Jeremy?"

There was a pause when Jude began screaming, turning her head towards the general sound.

"Holy shi- STOP LAUGHING AT HIM, LEON!!" Cass punched the Boxer in the shoulder before moving to try and help pat the flames out on the blonde hunter who had earned the position of 'BFF'. For how long? No idea, but he was her bro, man!

"Jude! Jude! Damn!"

Cass has used 1/2 bandages to Heal Jeremy! O_O HE HAS FULL HP NAO

Tybalt's shoulders sagged a little when the were lemur shook her head. She hadn't seen them either... Did this mean they were really gone...?

"Y-you don't think they dissipated to somewhere else---like the last field trips do you?" He asked hope still clinging to his voice. If there was a chance that they were still alive, he wanted to believe in it! Even if it was foolish to.

He looked over to the ghoul that Natalia supported when she introduced him and offered a small light wave. He had seen her many times along the way, but he had yet to greet her and right now the ghoul looked like she was in serious pain. She must have been hurt worse than he had...

"Can I help you guys with anything..? I don't have any pumpkin pills though, Ren was holding onto those for us... and I can't find him..."

His ears perked a little again when he heard a familiar voice calling out his name, along with Night's.

Ah! It was Simone!

"Over here Simone!" He called back, unsure if she'd be able to hear him or not. But hoping that maybe--just maybe she knew where the others were.



HP: 25.5/40
Battle Status: n/a
Damage: n/a
Tybalt is back in student form!

If anything it just made Leon snicker louder. "But you have to admit it was funny, he was on fire!" Leon repeated for those who were by chance blind to the hilarious. "HE WAS FLAMING." was all that he could choke out before the laughter took a hold of his lungs and diaphragm.

And down to the floor the once proud boxer went.

"haha i kid i kid, so, how ya doing human torch?" he stuttered out behind barely concealed chuckling. by barely, I mean not at all.

The glare that Harrison was trying to give him was far too overpowered by his epic facial hair to even make him flinch at its icy stare.