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The rabbit could feel the ground rumble beneath her; what on Gaia was that? She looked around at the two other women to see that they were all ready had their game faces back on. Something big was happening, something that they should have saw coming. Her ears twitched, as she began to notice that some of the townsfolk were getting nervous. Maybe there was a reason for panic.



“I dunno if that’s such a good idea, Katie.” Madison looked up at her now with her ruby red eyes, which were framed by her black-rimmed glasses. For some reason, the idea of breaking out just seemed like a bad idea, considering that Katie had the shield and they didn’t.

“I mean, you have the shield not us. What happens if it’s something big! So big…that we need the shield, or even you!” Madison flailed her arms as she jumped around in order to express the size of whatever they may have to face. Of course, the time for arguing didn’t seem to be a very good option that they had right now. They need to come up with a plan quickly before the older side of town became nothing more than ruins.

Katie listened to what Madison had to say. She glanced from her to Asherah then back to Madison, making sure they were both listening.

"You're right. We have to hurry though, and we don't have time to make a plan. Let's just all keep up with one another and move as quickly as we can to get the people on the far east moved beyond the wall as Mr. Mere suggested. Whatever happens, if we lose one another just meet at the gate in the new town, okay?

And Asherah, I'm not sure sounding an alarm would be good. That might cause some horrible chaos. We don't need everyone running around like chickens with their heads cut off. It's bad enough that they are all frightened over the noise we all just heard. Let's just do what we can."

Without another moment Katie headed out the door. She was still open to suggestions from Madison and Asherah, but they couldn't waste valuable time. They would have to tell her their suggestions as they started towards the east.

As she headed out the door she grabbed the two-way communicator that Quinn had given her. She pressed the button.

Static.

She was continuing towards the eastern direction, wishing the static would ease up as she did. She hoped they heard her, but she didn't have time to wait and see.

"Quinn! It's Katie. I'm not sure where you two are, but don't come inside the city. You copy that?"

She wished she could forewarn Ichigo and Sakura. Even if she knew help would be good, she was always thinking of ways to keep other's from getting in harms way.

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"Hey! Wait! Where're you goin'?"

Ichigo continued to follow the green-haired man, weaving through the crowds as he did his best to keep the stranger in his sights. He had no idea what the guy was up to, but it looked like he was heading towards that large wall in the middle of the city.

Seeing the wall gave Ichigo an idea about just how old this city was. Not that he was able to recognize and date the wall by its art style...he could just tell it was pretty damn old. But that wasn't even a concern to him now that he was following this stranger.

Ichigo was hardly paused by the signs and barriers, since it would only deter him from following the man who seemed to have no qualms about trespessing.

That was when the quake hit.

"Gyaahh!"

Although he didn't let the barrier stop him, the quake had sure slowed him down. He nearly stumbled, but quickly regained his balance.

"What the hell was that?" he said aloud, most notably to Sakura as she would probably be following him. But now wasn't the time to worry about that. If anything, strange occurences were linked to strange people.

"Just hold up a second!" shouted Ichigo to the green-haired man, as he followed him to that niche.

Stephen cautiously moved over towards Quinn's location. The fact he hadn't been eaten alive or maimed or something was a fairly good sign. Still, he had his revolver trained over in that general direction in the case something big should come around.

"So... if there's nothing over there besides one of the missing people we were looking for... what threw that deer?"

He didn't say this expressly loud, but Quinn would no doubt hear his pondering.

Quin/Stephen:

The rumble would also be felt by the two men, and the quickly retreating guard with the child. The trees rustled ominously, not answering the silent question of the deer for either man, and night closed in around them.

The forest would settle, but no crickets chirped, no birds muttered sleepily. The place was as still as death. Then something, big, black, and dark landed between both men. There was a wail from it's back as the impact kicked up the ground in a circle of dust and grit.

Many things would probably go through the men's heads at once, but these key elements should be noted.

One: This was obviously the first view either would have of a shade, a pawn, as it were, about man height, six foot, and fairly plain looking, having only a simple covering of dark matter over it's body.

Two: There was a child strapped to it's back, still very much alive if a bit broken, and scared out of it's mind, that was what made all the sudden noise.

Third: It just stared at them, before making a break for the treeline, human cargo in tow.

Girls+Obliv:

Henry didn't get far, in fact, he barely made it out of the door before something large, black and imposing tackled him into a darker alley, where they both disappeared in a tumble of cloak and darkness.

As if that weren't bad enough, they would have no real time to register that their pseudo guide had been taken, before three more apparitions came belting down the street and turned a corner, headed deeper into New Town territory.

All of them had a choice here, and the screams of the people that encountered the squad carried up into the night. And these weren't the only voices raised in terror, all over the town groups of three or even four black, hulking shades ploughed through the streets, searching.

A window to the left of the girls smashed inwards with a mighty crash, and in rolled one. Nothing but blank determination on it's dark matter face as it straightened up and looked around, oblivious to the glass shards it stepped in.

"Yeah, yeah, Madison, what do you think we are doing?"



Katie then pressed the button to communicate back to Quinn. That's when she started to notice the dark figures, people screaming, and a smash that came from her left. Sure, Quinn would probably pick that all up, but Katie kept the talk simple with him.

"JUST DO AS I SAY!"

The communicator was shoved back into its spot. She'd glance behind her to see that their escort was gone.

"Madison! Asherah! Where'd he ********. They were going to have to follow through with the plan without him.

"Let's go this way and start pushing people towards the wall."

She'd point to her right. Hell, she wasn't sure, but she was guessing that was the old town and the part they had come through was the new town.

"If you can grab someone's attention that doesn't look too panicked, maybe we can ask them to make sure it's the old town."