[center][b]Ixion Farbright[/b][/center] 

As Ixion fired at a few more gathering masses, he noticed in the corner of his eyes Ase summoning a weapon. "Cool," he exclaimed, fighting the urge to pat her on the head given that she was shaking, partially because now was not the time, and partially because the hand closest to her was the one currently on guard. "We have to get off the roof," she started, rambling before being caught off guard and blasting off the small demon along a few others back into the face of the earth. In confusion, Ixion lowered his raised arm, wondering when he'd raised it in the first place, deciding instead to wash out his confusion with the statement, "Cool!"

"If you need a shield, call for me, but for now let's just get downstairs." 

Ixion raised his left arm and saluted, exclaiming, "Aye aye!" before starting for the door. He skidded to a forced slow as he ran past Ase, however, turning so that his left arm reached around the girl's waist and picking her up. He assumed, given her small legs, that this form of transportation would be faster, but realized even mid fire that carrying a princess like a sack was no better than not carrying her at all. "Alley-oop," grunted the blue haired student as he hoisted Ase up so that his arm was around her thigh and she was almost sitting on it, probably more comfortably than earlier. As he did so, he continued to run for the door, kicking aside demons when it didn't seem necessary to fire shots, but firing shots nonetheless given that no demons were better than some demons.

Opening the door with a bit of struggle, Ixion briefly glanced upwards to tell Ase, "Watch your head," noticing in the background the clearing storm. Though he shut the door behind him, some demons still managed to follow him out, the blue haired boy pleading to Ase, "Ah, please take care of my back, princess!" Alright, so while he was convinced earlier that a storm was nothing short of strange, he had to admit that it was strange now. Leaping down flights of steps, Ixion wondered if it was a natural occurrence for storms to carry demons, or for storms to end so quickly, his thoughts disrupted by a near stumble at the last landing. "Whoops," he gasped as he caught himself, but allowed for the small stumble to let Ase back on her feet.

With his now free hand, Ixion opened the door leading out of the staircase, allowing his shorter partner entrance first as he commented, "I think people should be patrolling these hallways. And it's high enough we can see the other lookouts without being... caught in the rain." He fought a smile as a funny thought popped into his head, instead following behind Ase as he tended to do- but what were the chances the 'excitable students' actually were watching over the school?

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[center][b]Gabriel "Angel" Avlon[/b][/center]

Angel had meanwhile distracted himself with flinging off other stray demons that had landed in his hair, the feel of disgust raising hairs on his neck with each falling ball of hiss that fell to the ground. It was no lie that he visibly jumped at a yelp, however, turning with a raised bow to attack whatever was hurting his... "partner", only to find that she'd handled it with her umbrella. Of course, the umbrella didn't exactly wipe it off the face off the earth, and just as Angel lifted his bow to stab the thing, his partner ran over another shocked demon with her wheelchair. 

With eyes that almost seemed welled with tears, the handicapped girl looked up to Angel and whimpered, "H- help?"

"Well, there's no helping," said the short male, shrugging as though he had no choice his bow swiping with ease against the two demons before they hissed and started away. Standing beside his partner, Angel searched through his skirt pocket for a slip of paper, his armed hand reaching behind him to pocket his bow. "Alright, listen here," he started as he fished out a four-by-four slip of paper with a predrawn magic circle, rising a thumb to his teeth until he bled, "I'm not gonna lug you and your wheelchair ass around so until we find some better way for fucking transportation-" Angel pressed his thumb against the center of the magic circle, the black ink coating itself in red as the paper ripped itself in half, summoning a large beast like demon with four legs and a saddle-

-"This is gonna be your ride. Got it?" Even as he said so the demon was already nudging his head against the girl's wheelchair to flip her onto his back, Angel climbing from the other side as he pulled out his bow once more along with the rest of Maria. The sky was already starting to clear but with no sign of the lesser demons disappearing, Angel's pretty face squinted to a frown as he chanted: "Hail Mary, full of grace the Lord is with thee-" his fingers starting to play at the appearing strings, causing the gathering mass of hissyfits to steam and shriek- "Bless'd art thou among women and bless'd is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus."

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[center]Meanwhile, in one of Platinum City's public malls, in front of an electronic store, panic ensued. A man, as witnesses state, seemed to have spontaneously combusted, blood spread over his detached limbs, covering glass walls and linoleum tiles. Later studies would show that the man had strange magic circles in the bones left after the explosion, but for now only faint hints of any demon involvement could be seen in bits of flesh not covered with blood. Five passerby's were damaged by flying bone and mental trauma, the rest of the mall in panic at the heinous sight. 

Kanaris' presence was too strong to hide in a normal mortal, it seemed, but he refused to stop there. Clearly there were better hosts in town, and if someone could find them, it was the Flame of Revolt himself. His sudden disappearance, however, seemed to cause an equal sudden disinterest, the lesser demons that had planned on joining and feeding choosing instead another town to raid. That said, the demons that were already there didn't seem to be leaving any time soon, and the recent mall implosion wasn't the only thing causing panic.

Union members posted in town suddenly recieved a flurry of calls at the sight of large demons dangling off of buildings, or peeking through windows, or just in general perusing. The largest seeming threat, however, was up north, towards the Academy, where a diameter of the forest had been subtracted, replaced with a mass of demons that had gathered together, moving as though a pool towards the school. Had the roof lookouts only stayed a bit longer they would have glimpsed the growing mass. Surely the hallway lookouts could spare a glance out the windows, however, and the ones on the balcony over looking the forest should be able to glimpse the unnatural darkness in the forest.

But even if no one noticed it wouldn't matter, given that the mass was heading their direction and would be easily seen in only a few minutes.[/center]