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Just as he was landing from kicking at the canopy of the robot, the thing starting... ticking... Oh s**t. Rather than landing, Aksaja tried desperately to fly away but of course, there was nowhere to go since they were inside. And the last thing he remembered was flying far too quickly through the air and not of his own power. Then there was a THUD that was dull and yet quite loud at the same time, and everything went black .......

(( TIME PASSES. XD ))

When the dragon awoke next, there was smoke everywhere and voices were calling out, making his head ring in a rather confusing manner. He coughed, and curled into a ball, all the damage he'd taken catching up with him now that they weren't in the middle of a desperate battle. Ah Jack, he hurt... he wasn't even sure he could move at this point.

But slowly... very slowly, the dark-haired male started to crawl across the floor, looking for the others. As he did so his fingers brushed over peppermints here and there, and he picked them up when they did, sticking them into pockets. Might as well ... get something out of this...

((Aww holy crap! Missed the end battle! Ah well lol least Livi survived XD ... but just barely!))

Everything had seemed fine to him last he could recall; the other students were fighting as hard as he was against that stupid mecha. Then Corbin flew in and he barely heard him saying that they needed to move away or something. The noise was just too great from the chaos of it all. He recalled trying to turn to follow Corbin's example and then... nothing.

The first thing that came to him as he finally came to was pain. A lot more than he had dealt with before and it was everywhere. Even shifting a bit caused nothing but intense misery through his body and, despite how he gritted his teeth, the hissing and sounds of pain couldn't be disguised. Hecate below, what happened?! Opening his eyes alone was a trial and they only opened so far, showing that he could somewhat see his pack nearby. He was on the ground now.. debris was on top of him and around him. It only took one slow look around to see that he wasn't the only one knocked about. Moving painstakingly slowly, he reached for his bag, his fingers moving over a few peppermint points, which greatly went unnoticed at this time. The pack held more importance right then.

Once it was in his possession, he had to look for a pill. The bag had now seen better days and he almost feared they were had gone missing... in his blurred state, he only found one but one was all that was needed at this time. But his fingers couldn't quite grasp it and he finally just gave up. It kept moving in the bag and he didn't have the strength or the power to move his body much more. Though he did shove himself into a sitting position to look around for the people he knew. "Corbin?" His voice was weaker than he would have liked but least he was still able to use it, despite the soreness it gave. "Aksaja?" he wanted to call out to the ghoul who had been with them. But without a name, it was quite a difficult endeavor to do. As he struggled for air, he glanced down and noticed the points. He still didn't completely understand what they were for, but he shifted the ones he could see closer to him with his feet.

Even that took awhile, as his body seemed to hate responding to him right then, but when he had them close enough, he just set the pack into his lap and rested against it a bit. He hoped everyone else was all right... Now he'd just rest a bit... and then try again to use one of his pills to heal.

((HP: 6))

Riley's hand touched a warm scale, and then another, and her fingers curled to grasp needily at the contact. She felt Jericho's nose against her, and rested her face against it in exhaustion.

I hate this place. She barely whispered out. Her voice sounded like it was miles away. I hate it, and I hate every second I'm here. I wish I'd never come to this school in the first place.

But even as she said it, she knew that was a lie, and she knew exactly why. She blinked into the dark, realizing that she was instinctively searching for Malodore even though she couldn't see a thing, and rolled her eyes harshly. The smoke stung at her corneas, and she shut her eyelids tightly closed and used what she could feel of Jericho to orient herself.

She tried to move, and realized what was wrong with her leg - where she had earlier obtained that ragged scar, at some point it had re-opened with a fierce rip - and now, that leg wasn't necessarily connected to her in all the right parts. It was a horrifying realization, and prompted an immediate reaction.

Okay. Pill time.

She flicked a pocket open and popped one of her pumpkin pills quickly, while silently thanking whatever deity existed that she couldn't actually see her leg right now. Within moments things were starting to re-attach and heal up faster than she could imagine, and before it was over she found the strength to grab onto Jericho's neck and swing herself over him - fully healed legs and all.

The wonders of science, she proclaimed in her normal, clear voice, before patting him down and keeping low against the dragon. Let's try to find the others.

((Riley's HP: 25))

Waiting for Riley as she healed up, Jericho wondered if he should try popping a pill as well since he wasn't quite feeling as well as he should. But for now he figured that he would wait a bit before doing so. As the Mindflayer positioned herself on his back once more, he tried to peer around once again. His wing flapping helped only a little, possibly because the smoke was still being produced by whatever remained of the mech.

He could hear a few of the others' voices, so he started to move on towards them. However, he was moving about slowly since he did not want to end up stepping on some student that happened to be lying on the ground from the blast.

"Hey! Everyone alright here?" he called out, hoping to hear from some of the others that he hadn't heard speak yet.

The smoke slowly cleared, still keeping a thick black film over the outer walls and blocking out any doors but pluming out of the two large holes in the ceiling made by the Scout mech's fist. After the explosion, Corbin's hearing sounded merely like a dull ring, no sounds piercing through it.

Dazed, dizzy, unable to see straight, the Wraith all but peeled himself off the floor and was quickly struck by a pain in his back and wings. Gently he stretched one, then the other, flinching as they twitched and the right one didn't move as much as he would have liked. In fact, the tip of it felt numb. Glancing back, his shoulders slumped as he saw the tip of the hollow boned wing was bent and mangled, several feathers missing.

This was what he got for agreeing to attack Christmas Town in the first place when it hadn't done a thing to Halloween; retribution against himself, he was sure.

With some effort, Corbin got to his feet and staggered through the smog. Wings limp and useless against his back, he didn't bother pretending that he would be flying anymore--at least not for a very long time. A croak of a voice came from nearby and he directed himself to it, black feathered ears pressed back and down, black makeup completely smeared on one side of his face while the other was not doing so bad. Stumbling, he took a knee just as a familiar green and white haired figure came into view.

"Livi," he responded with quietly, making his way to the demon clumsily. "You alright...?" Corbin's eyes drifted uneasily, searching for Aksaja and Laiha. After the fist came back through the ceiling he lost track of everyone. Taking a moment to hold his head, a dull pain searing through as his hearing cleared. He saw the demon fumbling with something in his bag and Corbin took over, hands grabbing a few peppermints and a pumpkin pill. He held the hand out, brows knit in confusion of which Livi wanted, if any of those.

Hopefully this was the end and they could get their stuff, then go back home. Corbin was tired, so tired of all of this.

Corbin's HP: 21

Oh good, everyone seemed to be okay. Junko was feeling very woozy, however. She wandered to Sin and Alcie, looking around to see who else was on their feet again. Seemed like Riley was up, her dragon friend, that green-haired demon boy...good, good. No one was down then? That was great! She rubbed at her temples a bit when she reached her friends, sighing and crossing her arms after. "I have no idea." Junko said in regards to how they would leave, looking to the door and then her friends again. "Maybe there's another exit further inside? I'm sure if we keep going things will become...er...clearer? Or something." Sure, going further would probably be a horrible idea but Junko was getting the feeling it was the only way to get out of here.

"But yes, I'm alright. I'm standing?" Junko chuckled. "I have a pumpkin pill left, but I think I want to save it for when I absolutely need it." Hopefully she wouldn't use it too late. Junko would just have to keep it on hand just in case.

((So I don't forget Junko's HP: 9))

Sin gave Junko a quick hug the bell ringing and healing her slightly, 1HP wasn't much but every little bit helped right? She would have to do the same for Alcie in a moment, the ghoul looked to be in poor shape. She looked around still disliking how trapped they apparently were.

"Stupid Elf..." She mumbled softly and pushed her hair back with an annoyed sigh. She moved towards Alcie then and gave her friend a worried look over. "Alcie you alright?"