Connor looked over to were Paige spoke of "company". A vampire was going on a massacre, killing the unlucky humans near him. Connor stared as the brave soul charged the vampire from behind. A part of him wanted to help, but he felt useless without a weapon. "We need something, but I think all we can do is run," he said, feeling terrible for saying that. Retreating felt cowardly, but there was no way they could take on an armed vampire weaponless.

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The Manager was about to begin looking through the available humans when a knock was heard on the door. Giving a glance at his cameras and seeing Ishiya he yelled, "Come in Ishiya." The Manager looked back at Isaac. "I suppose we can speak about this later." He presumed Ishiya was just here to ask about the hunt and would be on her way after he granted her permission.

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Nixon did not see the human approach him from behind to give him a nice "pat" on the head, but could tell who they were: not the brightest. Nixon was knocked and staggered for a couple steps before turning. "Bad idea," was all Nixon said before he blinked behind the human from a few feet. "Heroic, but seriously, you don't even have a weapon. Did you have any thoughts of what to do after you punched me?" Nixon blinked again and appeared right in front of the boy, giving a wicked grin. He grabbed at the boy then blinked them up twenty feet in the air. Nixon let go and blinked away back to the ground. He felt like that was a good enough punishment. He considered sticking the human when he fell but decided to keep him alive. He'd be fun in the second phase.

Mars desprately tried to back away as the vampire teleported in his face but the vampire was too fast and the next thing Mars knew he was falling through the air. He landed on the ground and heard several cracks resound throughout his body, Well that can't be good he thought rather distantly and blacked out again.

Ishiya entered the office and she tried not glance at the lycan that was in the room though she was looking at him from the corner of her eye. "I-I was wondering if I can go out to hunt for a bit." She had to remember that she decided that it wasn't good idea to tell anyone that she wasn't hunting humans. It came to her attention that she was irritated at first and now she's acting like a submissive pup. "I don't want Jaitheia to know though. She would tell me that I should hunt more often than once a month to two." She said as an afterthought and shifted to one foot to the other.

The young lycan came in, who's name was apparently Ishiya, and was doing her best not to look at him. The scent of irritation she'd had immediately changed to a submissive one, if he couldn't smell that, her movements would have made it apparent. Now, a lycan can tell if another had eating a human before by scent, not why this was the case, but it was there. He finally looked at her, leaning forward to look at her face for a few moments before recognition showed somewhat on his face, "Oh, so you survived, pup? Then I assume the other recent worker is your sister?" This didn't agree with him, though, perhaps it was due to a slight sense of pride, but the fact a lycan he turned hadn't yet fed on a human irked him. "Tell us, pup, why is it that you haven't fed on a human if the two years you've been a lycan?"

Phil watched as the Mars fell from the ground. "Whatever..." Phil sighed. His instincts for some reason were telling him how to fight. He sprinted towards the vampire with the spear. His instincts took over and Phil and he threw a punch at Nixon while simultaneously knocking the spear out of his hand. Phil rolled away picked up the spear and impaled it into the foot of the vampire. "Easy..." Phil said tauntingly to the Vampire.

Nixon stared down at the spear, giving a small frown. "Very rude," he noted, blinking away in front of Phil, making the spear fall to the ground from where it had impaled Nixon. "Very rude." He pulled out his dagger and slashed Phil across the face. "But then again, I suppose I'm fairly rude as well. That makes two of us!"

Phil yelled in pain, holding his hand over his face. Nixon didn't even give him time. The vampire blinked behind Phil and held his dagger up to the hunter's throat. "I could kill you right now," Nixon proposed. "But I'll tell you a little secret, I don't really like just killing here and there. I'm just here to initiate the party. I'll come back for you though." Nixon threw Phil to the ground. "And I'd get that face of yours looked at." The vampire blinked away, distributing out more chaos everywhere.

Phil rolled around and clutched his face yelling in pain.

Connor couldn't help but watch in terror as the vampire shot up twenty feet in the air with the man and let him fall, then continue on to beat down another human attacking him. Connor looked at the woods and back at the guy who blacked out. He sighed, knowing what the right thing to do was. Connor ran to him and gave a quick look over. He seemed fairly hurt, as anyone would from falling that distance. The hunter gently bent down and picked him up. He was fairly heavy, and now Connor was wishing that he would wake up soon. The hunter turned and started heading for the forest.

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The Manager glanced between the two lycans, slightly curious in what Isaac was talking about. Obviously he knew who Ishiya and her sister were. He hoped this wouldn't cause problems in his establishment. "To answer your question Ishiya..." the Manager said, checking his monitor. "We're already fully staffed for the event, so you're allowed to do so." He assumed that she wouldn't be hunting humans, but that was not his problem. "Keep your comm though incase I need to contact you." The Manager then slid back to his computer, checking a new report. "If you two have something to discuss I'd take it into the hall."

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Rand looked between Penny and the vampire, fear closing in. A vampire attack on weaponless, terrified humans was bad enough. Rand being helpless to stop the vampire was even worse. Of course, he had considered engaging the vampire, but after watching him blinking up one guy twenty feet in the air and slash the face of another, Rand reconsidered. He would be weaponless against a vampire who had a spear along with a dagger who was able to blink, so his results would probably be the same as the other two. Rand looked at Penny as she screamed in fear about the situation, and Rand considered what to say. Should he reveal himself for whom he truly was? It seemed like he should now, as the vampire did not hesitate to show himself. "Penny, you need to believe me right now. That right there is a vampire and yeah...you're right about getting out of here." He was still beating himself up inside for not helping, but Penny was truly right about getting out of here. Shouting to the others would draw attention to them and the vampire seemed focused in attacking groups. "Come on." He would need to find the others after they got away from the vampire.

Ishiya just nodded in response when she just looked at ground after she walked back into the hall. "Yes, she is. She managed to convince me to come with her after a couple hours of arguing and almost tearing each other's throats apart." She said while she continued to shift from one foot from the other. It wasn't until he asked why she haven't been hunting any humans that her shoulders tensed up. That was something that she didn't tell anyone about, but she has a feeling that Jaitheia knew already."I'm not like you or Jaitheia or anyone else for that matter that can kill a human without a second thought. I just want to live a life of some kind of normalcy without people pointing at me and call me a monster every time they see me, and eventually be hunted!" This wasn't the time or place for her to get angry that she would lose her temper and transform so she put her hands in her pocket to hide the claws that was forming. There will be consequences later, that she knows, but as long she doesn't get sliced opened with silver then she will endure whatever is thrown her way. "Forgive me... It- it wasn't my place to yell at you for something I willingly did to myself. I will trust you that you won't lead me astray." She said when she second guessed herself with what she said before.

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Azuriel slid down the side of a tree in order to catch his breath. Loud growling, accompanied with loud footsteps coming from his left. He pressed his back as far as he could until footsteps disappeared into the distance. Slowly getting up he continued to run until he can't run no more. "What's going on? Are we just being used for someone's twisted fantasies?" While he muttered to himself, he touched the side of his head and felt blood coming from the small wound on the side of his head.

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Luca, with her new alliance with the strange demon, was released from his strange realm rather close to the group of humans. She could instantly hear their panic, and smell their panic. Maybe this wouldn't be so hard after all, someone already got the hunting ball rolling. She began to sprint towards the group. Her transformation slowly taking place. She let out a deep howl once she was close enough to see the group. It was a clear stare tactic, many people were terrified by the sounds of a wolf howl. When they heard it they new they were being followed.

All of a sudden, a fully transformed wolf stood in Lucas place. It's eyes were full of hunger and bloodlust. She began to scan the crowd of panicking and running humans, trying to find one to attack. Luca spotted one NPC man, who made the foolish mistake of running away from the group. She charged him, sharp teeth shining. She sunk her teeth into his leg, pulling him to the group before she began to tear at his throat.

Paige watched in stunned horror at the charade, feeling numb and helpless as people ran in a panic. She hadn't felt this way since that night freshman year when she was attacked. She had felt so alone, and she was so glad to find that her dad had been there the whole time watching over her. But daddy wasn't here, was he? She found her feet and her tongue loosened as she ran towards Connor. "Here," She said "Let me help you." She helped shoulder some of the weight of the other man. She tried to turn deaf ears to the screams of terror, her heart bled for those people, understanding what they were feeling. She looked around, hoping to find all the hunters.... "Where's Rand?" She said loud enough to be heard over the chaos.

Phil was dazed and confused. His body took over his mind. Phil picked himself off the ground feeling blood drip down his face. He felt as if he was a target at that point. Phil needed a second pair of eyes to look at the wound to understand to repercussions of the attack the vampire had. Phil assumed the would would scar over, but he pressed the matter out of his mind and looked for a place to run. He had a few options. Go with Rand or go with Connor...Or better yet run off by himself. The last option would probably be better... "after all I don't want to depend on anyone while injured." Phil said to himself. "Why do people depend on each other? In the end you're on your own...Like I am now.. I have all the skills I need to survive. I can do this." Phil started to run towards the woods a bit to the right of Connor and Paige; however, his actions started to conflict with his true beliefs. "That's a lie. I don't know anything. I'm confused. How can I do this? Someone tell me... Someone...? So I'll end up having to work with others after all..." Phil sighed and ran towards Connor and Paige carrying a man on their shoulders.

"Where's Rand?" He heard Paige asked.

"Forget about him for the time being. We need to focus on getting this guy out alive." Phil motioned to the man on their shoulders. "Then, we can find Rand if you so desire. Plus, the guy seems to be able to handle himself." Blood was dripping into Phil's eyes. He wiped his face. "I'll go ahead and try to find a place for us to hide for a bit. You'll be slower carrying this guy. I'll be back to find you. If I don't come back in twenty minutes, assume I am dead for some uncanny reason and go the other way."

Phil didn't wait for a reply from any of them. He hauled off looking for a place to lay low. Phil ran deeper and deeper into the woods wiping his face of the blood every once and awhile. Soon Phil came to an opening from the vast amount of trees he had been running past. He spotted a small cave opening up a small path. It looked barley big enough for a person to fit through. Phil decided to act upon his finding. "Better than nothing" he said to himself. He started to run back the way he came. After a little while he found Paige and Connor carrying the man. "Cave...A little bit into the forest..." Phil said panting "Let's move"

Stepping out the door with Ishiya, Isaac said to the manager, "I trust that you will pick the best female subject for the test." He closed the door behind him.

Isaac did not fail to notice the claws that had started forming on Ishiya's fingers. With the manager's door shut, reached out in a flask and grabbed the girl's jaw, "I see you have a short temper. Be warned, that is something we have in common." He released her then, irritation showing clearly in his eyes, "Pup, one thing you learn in this world is that as soon as you are a supernatural, born or turned, you are hunted. There are many that would kill you on sight just for being a lycan, others hunting you for being a supernatural."

He stepped back and turned around, "I want to see you hunt a human, to feed on them, as you won't reach your full strength until you do. Wildlife isn't all we eat. You just have to learn to cover your tracks and not to become... addicted." He turned back to her, arms crossed on his chest, "If you can do that, I won't punish you for your outburst."

Connor felt grateful as Paige came to help him carry the guy. He muttered a thanks as they kept going. The hunter had to look away as a lycan was suddenly in the fray, chowing down on a victim. Don't think about them now, Connor thought, but still clenched his fist. Right when he was going to respond to Paige's question Phil was suddenly there. He looked very messed up with the blood dripping in his face, but Connor did his best to not look phased. He hadn't really been used to the killing yet, hell he hadn't even killed a supernatural himself yet. "Phil's right, I'll look for Rand after we find some place to hide out." After that Phil left them behind to scout ahead, and his news back was very...convenient. "Cave is great, let's head there," Connor said, picking up the pace.

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Azuriel slid down the side of a tree in order to catch his breath. Loud growling, accompanied with loud footsteps coming from his left. He pressed his back as far as he could until footsteps disappeared into the distance. Slowly getting up he continued to run until he can't run no more. "What's going on? Are we just being used for someone's twisted fantasies?" While he muttered to himself, he touched the side of his head and felt blood coming from the small wound on the side of his head.

Right behind Azuriel Nixon leaned against a tree holding his spear. "I wouldn't say someone's," Nixon said casually, tipping his spear. "More like a lot of people's fantasies. I'm not the only one here you know." The vampire indicated the lycan. "Enough chaos you think? I believe I did a good job. Then again a corpse to fling around at people would be fun," Nixon gave his twisted grin and gripped his spear, cocking his head at Azuriel. He was about to move in when he received a call from the Manager. Nixon sighed and held a finger up to Azuriel.

"Nixon? You did a fine enough job. I have another task for you. Isaac has a little experiment and we need a female test subject for it. Can you grab one for me?" The Manager said over the comms.

"Yeah Boss, I'll go get one," Nixon replied, turning off his comm. He'd have to save this human for later. Nixon blinked away, looking for a good specimen.

Lyre walked into the Manager's office, the very blue-themed maiden walked with a prefect step. Her balance seemed befitting to do that silly thing humans use to do with keeping books on their heads to seem more proper. However for Lyre, she didn't need any fancy training, or at least that is what she thought, since every part before coming to this hotel has been a blur, however for her best recall, she believes her grace comes completely naturally.

She keep her beloved golden enchanted lyre on her back, for one, its presence seems to always have a very calming effect to it. It serves like an anchor to keep her in the present, while still trying to hold on to the past. And plucking at its marvelous strings seemed to always calm her down or allow brief solace from the mundane nature of paperwork. Not only that but you can never be to certain. She is rather powerless against humans without, for normal sirens rely on their singing, a gift she doesn't own, that or it was taken from her, she still can never remember; she relies on her lyre. It and the clothes on her back, though she has obviously changed since then, where the only things she remembers bringing away from the assault that robbed her of her memories.

When she approached the Manager, she stood straight up and bowed slightly. While the message she delivered was rather regular and mechanical, she still addressed it very seriously and as properly as humanly, or in this case inhumanly, possible. "Sir, I would like to inform you that the my routine paper-work is finished, filed, and digitally recorded. Is there any other work you wish for me to attend to? I hear their might be some complaints in the cafeteria about them not having enough humans to prepare do to the hunt."

Paige was so frustrated with herself. She supposed for being someone so cold and cut off, she couldn't suppress the human instinct of compassion. She felt herself die a little with each scream she heard as she ran away. She nodded to Phillips and kept running alongside Connor. The poor kid looked scared, but he was holding it together well. When Phill came back about the cave she sighed a bit in reliefe, though she wasn't sure how she felt about a cave; it was safer than nothing she decided. "I'll take a look at your head when we get there she said to Phill. "If you want."

"I don't know if I will be able to...I will show you to one of the doors in case you don't remember where they are or don't know where they are at." Ishiya muttered while she walked towards one of the doors. Glancing over she saw that Jaitheia was doing something weird with some water, and she could have sworn that she can manipulate shadows, not water. She just shook her head when she remembered every time both her and Jaitheia got injured, she will heal fast but she would heal almost like she was human again. Opening the door to the hunting area Ishiya transformed and ran into the forest. Doubt ran through her mind when she had to find someone to kill and to feed on.

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Azuriel's eyes widened as he tried to speak until he heard the noise of crunching bones and snarling. 'How did he get behind me? I didn't see anyone here...he must have been in my blind spot and was very quiet.' He thought. This man didn't have to the him that he needs to be quiet when the shock would not even let him say a word. When he suddenly left, Azuriel took his time to get away from this lycan that was stating on its unfortunate victim. "Don't let that thing sees me. I don't want to be food to some wild animal."

The Manager looked over as Lyre entered. He gave a small nod as she filed her report and glossed over what displayed on his monitor. "Yes, I'm well aware of the shortage. You may tell them that Sarah is bringing a new batch when she returns," he said, switching back over to the cameras. "If you wish you may attend the hunt if you so please but remember to keep your comm if you do. I may have some other work if you do not wish to participate."

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Rand nodded in agreement about shelter. Getting somewhere safe was good, and when he confirmed it was he could go out to look for the others. Right now in chaos there was no way. He just hoped that Connor was alright and could stay alive, maybe even help out some others. Rand looked up when Penny indicated the giant rock. Rand gave a small grin, that was almost perfect shelter. The rock could virtually seal someone inside to protect them from outside attackers. The problem was getting in.

"I think I can get us in, just make sure the coast is clear," Rand said as he walked over to the rock, inspecting it. Moving it entirely would remove its use and I don't even think I can move it, Rand thought. Hm...maybe squeezing through will do the trick. The hunter inspected the rock but failed to see any openings that they could fit under. Rand frowned, he may have to make an opening by lifting it up. "Penny, I think I found a way in. All I need to do is lift up and go under while keeping it up. After I'm in I can keep it supported for a while so you can slip in," Rand said, looking back at Penny. After I make sure the cave is safe I can go look for Connor and the others, Rand thought. Althought...the rock is going to be hard to lift up again from that side. I'll have to take a long break after lifting it the first time.

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Connor pressed hard to keep them going as fast as they could until they got to the cave. When they finally arrived Connor laid the boy down on the floor. "Right," Connor muttered, leaning against the wall. "I'll be the first to say I don't know first-aid whatsoever, so I mine as well go back out to look for others as soon as we're situated." He didn't want to inform the other two that he was probably the least-experienced but Phil was already injured and Paige seemed like she had some sort of medical training that the task should fall down to him.

Edward looked through the hunt magically, looking for a nice victim. He wanted someone who was strong-willed, as weak-willed people were hardly anyone who was fun, though preferably someone already hurt as they would be easily to lure and quicker to break. He would want his errand-boy properly trained before the end of the day. Quickly scanning the seen, he seen the prefect subject. Well, possibly the prefect subject. He didn't really bother looking to hard, if this one wasn't right, he could always just throw him back into the hunt or give him to the cafeteria. He heard they had a bit of shortage anyways.

However, he didn't wish to appear in the chaos of battle. So instead, he conjured in front of his soon-to-be foot-servant a very slightly and short dust devil like effect. A person, slightly wounded, leaning against a tree. (Azurial). Over the short dust devil was a soft blue light which projected a sound that said, "I can get you away from this hunt if you deserve, however I need your permission to help. Allow me to help you." that sound was that of the blue fairy, as Edward had a bit of sense of humor.
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Lyre shock her head no to the offer of the hunt. "I am sorry. Hunting those bags of flesh is not what I would call entertaining. And sorry to intrude, but how is Sarah? She appears to take an unusually long vacation." she said. She know the implication of that and that Sarah was probably up to something and that the Manager knew, however she knew it wasn't her place to know until it was her place to know. It might make for a fun story once it all said and done though.

She then decided to sit on one of the chairs in the office to wait for further instruction. To help pass the time, she took out her instrument and gently and lightly plucked at its strings. It song it made was expertly preformed, as though she has played the lyre, if not her particularly lyre, for all her life, which she knew was over one thousand, though not much more than that.

Azuriel stopped suddenly and almost lost his balance when he saw a blue light. With his paranoia at a all time high he was a bit untrustful of it until he was told that it could get him away from this supposed hunt, more like a slaughter to him is more like it. If this blue light thing can get him out of here then why not take it up on its offer. "I don't care, as long as it takes me away from that wolf thing. I got a headache ever since I woke up, and getting hit by a particularly large branch and worrying about getting eaten. Just please get me the hell out here." He said quickly and softly in case that large wolf can hear him. Waiting for an answer Azuriel checked his blind spots in case that crazy murderous man was behind him again.