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Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2012 9:06 pm
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"Why do you need to apologize? It's not your fault." Keeping a steady pressure over the boil's wound, Xiu offered him a weak smile. "Just...hang in there, okay?"
Her mouth tightened into a thin line at Shun's question, and she shook her head slowly. "Not good," Xiu admitted quietly, willing herself to keep calm, "If anything ambushes us again like this..." In some ways, Halloween creatures didn't need to fear "dying"--after all, they never truly disappeared, simply dissipating and reforming somewhere else. However, after what had happened to Red, and ever since this insanity business...
She spared a quick glance to the side to check on Shun and Mitsu, twitching automatically when her gaze fell on them. She didn't even need to ask how Mitsu was doing--the baku could see the blood staining her white fur as clear as day, a sight that had Xiu quivering. She drew her hands back then, but only so that she could pat herself down, searching for something that could be used as a makeshift bandage. In the end, she settled for the obi-like ribbon on her current outfit, pulling it free and biting at the seams with her teeth until she could tear it apart into two long pieces. One of these strips was tossed over to Shun.
"Do you have enough energy to shift back, Tybalt?" She methodically ripped the long strip of cloth into thinner pieces, giving them sharp tugs to test how strong they were. They could bandage Tybalt and Mitsu up and then, as Shun suggested, retreat. Preferably before another of those creatures found their way over.
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Posted: Sun Sep 30, 2012 9:14 pm
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OnionGrump rolled 1 100-sided dice:
3
Total: 3 (1-100)
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Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2012 12:19 pm
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Even with the pressure applied the blood continued to ooze out, seeping through the Baku's fingers. Every feature in his face was riddled with pain. Despite this, there was a slight toothy grin in response to Xiu's smile, but it was a mere shadow of what it usually was.
He wasn't scared of dying. After all, he was a ghost. But what if he reformed into something like Amrita? What if he began attacking his friends, like how Amrita had attacked him? He couldn't bare the thought. He didn't want to hurt anyone! But the longer he lay, the less he thought about these things and the less it hurt. Until gradually he didn't feel anything at all. Only the cold and the sudden desire to go home.
By the time the Baku asked her question, it went unheard. Everything was a blur and then--
With one last shaky breath, the black dog's form stilled and he too dissipated into a black cloud. Though rather than fade away, like it normally would have, it twisted and gathered in the air and turning a strange gray. It hung there for a moment longer, before finally, it took form.
(( Way to go Tybalt >8U ))
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Blade Kuroda rolled 1 8-sided dice:
7
Total: 7 (1-8)
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Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2012 1:26 pm
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Inu-Mitsu rolled 2 4-sided dice:
3, 1
Total: 4 (2-8)
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Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2012 1:39 pm
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Kaiyumi rolled 1 8-sided dice:
8
Total: 8 (1-8)
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Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2012 2:01 pm
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"Wha--Tybalt!"
Xiu stared, stunned as the boil dissipated right in front of her. Had his wounds...really been that bad? He had been losing a lot of blood despite her attempts to treat him. Slowly, the baku sagged, letting out a heavy sigh. At least he would reform somewhere--a fate that was better than laying here in pain--and hopefully he would reform somewhere safe. Somewhere out of this place, like the school.
But of course, things could never be that easy.
When she realized that Tybalt was reforming right here, she knew something was wrong, rising to her feet and staggering backwards away from the swirling, graying FEAR that had once belonged to the ghost boil. Even though a part of her already knew what was happening, Xiu's breath still caught in her throat when the creature finally formed within the fog.
"But Tybalt wasn't...and I thought..." She glanced over to Shun, pink eyes round with confusion and terror. Tybalt hadn't been among the students taken and tagged, right? So...why? If it turned out that any of them were susceptible to insanity if they so much as dissipated...
Despite the reaper's order, Xiu rushed over to where he and Mitsu were, instinctively moving to help shield the injured lycan ghoul. "Do you think you can pick Mitsu up and run, aniki?" If she could help it, she would rather flee than fight this battle.
HP: 18/50 Target: Mitsu Defended for: 8 (+ Shun's amount)
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OnionGrump rolled 2 12-sided dice:
10, 9
Total: 19 (2-24)
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Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2012 2:44 pm
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Blade Kuroda rolled 1 8-sided dice:
2
Total: 2 (1-8)
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Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2012 3:17 pm
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Inu-Mitsu rolled 1 8-sided dice:
3
Total: 3 (1-8)
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Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2012 5:22 pm
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Kaiyumi rolled 2 10-sided dice:
9, 4
Total: 13 (2-20)
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Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2012 5:46 pm
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OnionGrump rolled 2 12-sided dice:
9, 2
Total: 11 (2-24)
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Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2012 6:10 pm
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Blade Kuroda rolled 1 100-sided dice:
21
Total: 21 (1-100)
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Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2012 6:56 pm
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Inu-Mitsu rolled 1 100-sided dice:
95
Total: 95 (1-100)
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Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2012 12:29 am
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Kaiyumi rolled 1 8-sided dice:
6
Total: 6 (1-8)
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Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2012 11:52 am
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Xiu opened her mouth to yell, to demand that Tybalt snap out of it and then Shun and Mitsu get out of here now, but the words never left her lips. Her voice caught in her throat as the watched the ghost boil--a friend who had fought with them for most of these battles--move past her and tear through her friend and her big brother like they were toys.
Clutching her mouth over her hand, Xiu forced herself to look away as the two dissipated, finding that she was shaking. Would they reform here, as Tybalt did? More specifically, would they reform as the dear friends who she had known for the past year...or would they become one of these mindless creatures?
Her hand slowly slid down from her face, falling to her chest, where she tightly clutched the fabric of her dress above her heart. Slowly, she turned to look at where the particles of FEAR were swirling, watching as they began to come back together and reform. Come on, you two. Come on. She wanted to get out here, to find a way to revert the insanity corruption so that all the students could finally be freed...
...But as stated once before, that apparently wasn't how things worked.
When she realized that the Mitsu that had reformed on the spot was her Mitsu--her sweet, quiet, lycan friend--Xiu breathed a heavy sigh of relief. So it wasn't guranteed that anyone who dissipated would turn. Then Shun...? she turned to look at the reaper hopefully, only to feel her heart stop when her gaze fell on him.
No. No no no...!
But there was no time to stand there and stare, as much as it pained her to see what her "big brother" had become. She took a deep breath and, moving as fast as she could, the baku wedged herself between the insanity reaper and Mitsu. As she spoke, she turned her head slightly so that she could look at the lycan from over her shoulder, her ears drooping slightly but her eyes bright and sharp. "Someone will find a way to cure them, but for now...Mitsu, you need to get out of here right now."
HP: 18 Defending: Mitsu for 6
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OnionGrump rolled 2 12-sided dice:
5, 1
Total: 6 (2-24)
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Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2012 12:06 pm
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