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Lattice didn't know Red from any of the professors to be quite honest but that didn't mean she had no reason to feel mournful. The moment the shield faded away she wandered over toward the remains and knelt carefully her hand reaching out to touch against the front of the skull quietly petting at it as if to let it now that the struggle is now over.

"You probably want to go home, too." She murmured softly at the remains quietly uncertain what to do or say. Inky uttered a small questioning meep.

She had not known Red for very long, "We should take you home, but you are far too large for us to carry on our own, I think."

Piece by piece they could take her home, set her pieces on shrines or bury them in some significant way rather than just letting them sit here to be 'forgotten' by time. She couldn't just take a small piece because it would seem that most of them that were loose were perhaps taken by the Hunters as 'trophies'. She wanted a memento something to remind her that this event had indeed happened.

She quietly took a nearby rock, "I do not do this to tarnish your memory. I do this to take you home, please forgive me, Professor."

Shutting her eyes tightly behind her mask she struck the rock down on the area she'd been touching earlier.

The piece came free from the skull and she quietly took it up cradling it gently in the palm of her hands, it was a quiet and reverent moment. If anyone thought less of her for wanting to take Red home, even if it was in pieces, then so be it.

"Thank you, Professor." She murmured quietly as she walked away from the skull with a bit of a sad gait.

Inky for the most part disappeared into Lattice's hair to rest and wait to see what would happen.

He'd chosen a bit of horn to try and take, and after the first hit, it seemed a little looser . . . so he tried again, carefully gauging the force. It wouldn't do to have it crumble.

(( try 1
hit: 2 ))

Mitsu had just managed to push a boulder into place when it seemed Red wasn't done. Her head turned up toward the large creature as it spoke. Her words left a bitter taste in Mitsu's mouth. While it was true that normally those of Halloween couldn't die permanently it didn't mean they couldn't. Sometimes...you just didn't come back. Mitsu understood that the Professor was trying to help but she still worried about her friends. It was such a terrible way to go.

Then the creature reared up again and Mitsu could feel the fur between her shoulder blades rise and bristle. She didn't even have time to move, if she had she would have shielded Shun. Thankfully this time the fire that Red rained down on them did not burn them. Instead it created an icy barrier between them and the Hunters. She was...protecting them.

It was almost relieving until Mitsu looked up seeing the last of the light fade from Red, the color around her completely gone. The creature had grown still permanently frozen in place. Her act to protect them....was the last thing she would ever do. "Professor? Professor!"

Mitsu made her way to the barrier with Shun still in tow, her claws scrapping at the dirt but it was really no use. She couldn't get passed the wall to help as the Hunter began to break what was left of Red into pieces. "LEAVE HER ALONE!" Hadn't they done enough? Couldn't they see that there was no more life to be snuffed out from the creature? That thought...left a heavy feeling in Mitsu's chest. Red's or rather the monster's body was still there and yet Red was gone. She had not dissipated into fear. They would never see her again.

It took a while, a long while but the Hunters finally left the area, a few of them venturing toward the barrier before they did. Once they vanished from sight the barrier was gone and the students were free to move. The first thing that Mitsu noticed was everyone moving toward Red and she heard Lattice. Take her home? Yes, perhaps that would be the best. She would obviously not be going on her own.

Mitsu apparently wasn't as gentle with the process in her larger form though. She had gripped a piece in her mouth to pull away but it turned to dust in her mouth. She made a face as she tried to rid the flavor from her mouth. This might not work out very well. She was also tired.

Carefully the lycan wiggled the piece she had grabbed. It hadn't turned to dust instantly like the last.

It was hard to see anything now, she was sobbing so much. Everything was a blur of color and anguish through her teak soaked eyes, that she almost didn't see the blue barrier that had kept them safe, dissapear.

"W-wait! don't go!" She called out to the retreating ice, the last act of kindness that Red had done for them. But the barrier melted away, and Astra was left there crying her eyes out.

She continued to hold her head in her hands, crying like a lost child, until she looked up again and noticed the massive skull. Rubbing her eyes, she stood up and staggered towards it.

She wanted to bring Red back with her to halloween, but there was no way she could carry the thing back. The only way was to take away a small peice.

Her first attempt was dismal; She tried to use a leaf to sheer away some of it, but she ended up forcing it into the bone to forcefully.

In a moment of unsteadiness, her hand slipped, and the piece fell off to the floor and turned to ash. Astra choked back a sob; couldn't she do anything right?