[hr][h1][i][color=Springgreen]Cindy Gabrielle Keagan[/color].[/i][/h1][hr]


After the little chit-chat with rat-girl, and clearing everything up, Cindy went back up to her apartment, fixed the window, and began reading the book again.

Even after that monster rainstorm started, Cindy was here, reading her book. Just to make sure that the window doesn't break and shoot glass all over the place, Cindy reinforced the glass. She wondered why she didn't do that like, years, earlier, but it was all a matter of hindsight, and laziness. This should make sure that it doesn't break if Rat girl comes back around again. Jackson went to go tend to the Candy Club, so she had the apartment all to herself. Though, she thought that it was a little dumb that he was running out to take care of his club in [i]this[/i] weather. But that man [i]loved[/i] his club, and she'd rather not hear him rattle on and on about it.

Cindy heard glass breaking in the living room. She rolled her eyes, believing it to just be the weather breaking it. What made her a bit more paranoid was the fact that the lights just went off. Her eyes widened. It was just like a week ago with the Purple Eyed Devils that nearly ripped her and Shizuka apart. It definitely warranted some investigation. She got up out of the bed, and started producing green glass from her arms. Which started floating up into the air, and formed sharp, triangle-shaped, constructs. She was a tad scared of what she would see. Which is why she was prepared. She had at least five with her, and they were big. They were going to give - wait, who is she kidding? Getting all scared over nothing. [i]Just the wind, just the wind....[/i] Cindy told herself as she opened the door.

On top of the broken glass was [i]another[/i] one. Standing tall and beefy like a panther. It's eye turned towards Cindy dramatically, and the girl just [i]froze[/i]. They stared at each other for a moment, and not another word was said.

"Oh shit... it's...." She couldn't even mouth the words before it rushed at her. Cindy, instinctively, sent the glass blades flying at it. They impaled the beast, making it stop. Before Cindy forced them as deep as she could, then made them explode, tearing flesh. Causing massive damage to the beast. It winced in pain, which gave Cindy a golden opportunity to finish it off. She produced more glass, which flicked off her body in shards and flew into the creature. Then she gathered as much glass as she could, and created a spinning whirlwind of glass that tore the creature to bits. It let out one final scream of pain before it dissolved.

Cindy let out a sigh, and wiped some sweat off her forehead, it's ove-

"Oh my God!" Someone screamed from outside, and made Cindy poked her head out the window and saw someone getting chased down the street by another one. She wanted to scream out to say something - but there were distant screams all over the city, and all sorts of chaos. That means that something is going on here.

There was a loud banging on her door, followed by a loud growling. It's more. Cindy can't stay here. She quickly formed the glass into a pane, and reinforced it to the best of her ability. She quickly ran back into her room, glass following behind her, and grabbed her cell phone, some boots, and a brown pilot's jacket (It's raining [i]and[/i] it's cold out there). They finally broke down her door, and Cindy looked back. She kicked the door shut, and locked it (Like what will that do?). She looked at her window, and it broke in half, and was added to the existing pane of glass.

She sent the pane of glass out the window, and stepped on it. Flying off into the rainy storm. Everything was going crazy underneath her feet, and it was whack. She didn't want anything to do with it. She knew what she had to do. Cindy pulled her phone out of her pocket, and unlocked it, quickly dialing her father. "Come ooooon... please, for the love of God, answer." Cindy continued saying to herself. No answer, it went to voice mail. Cindy didn't know why he didn't answer, but that meant that she was on her phone-

What the hell was she even talking about? She has all sorts of friends.

The only person she could realistically get to on time. Cindy phoned up Trevor, quickly sending him a text.

[u]Trev, shit's real around ere, I need 2 go 2 ur house.[/u]

She looked back at her apartment. There was no way she could go back [i]there[/i].


[hr][h1][i][color=Dodgerblue]Lihua Vuhong[/color].[/i][/h1][hr]


"[i]Good grief, can't[/i] anyone [i]drive tonight?![/i]" Lihua said to herself, stuck in the middle of the traffic jam leading into the Priscilla Isle, from Chinatown of course. The last place she wanted to be trapped in was this damn bridge - and on top of that she was caught in the middle of one of the [i]worse[/i] rain storms to ever hit this city, and she's trapped in this car. Good grief. The woman just wanted to get to her house before anything else happens. Thankfully, she's got everything she needs in this car right here. Lijuan was in the seat next to her, tightly wrapped up in a baby car seat barely asleep. Lihua knew that the Estella isle was the most dangerous part of this god forbidden city. She unzipped her purse, pulling the pistol out, and quickly checking the clip. It was full, and she had two more clips in there. That should serve her purposes in case something happens. She slid the gun back into the purse and kept it unzipped. Having a gun out would not be a good idea if the police just so much as peek into her car. She doesn't have her badge, and they'll have a fit if they see her with a gun in this warzone of a city.

There were screams ahead - muffled by the fact that the windows were up - and it was followed by the stuff of nightmares. Long limbed monsters crawled from underneath the bridge to the top of it - jumping from the buildings. They were literally tearing people out of their cars and ripping them to shreds. Lihua, as per usual, had no idea what was going on here, but she knew that she'd have to channel that dark part of her if she was going to survive. She quickly grabbed that pistol of hers right as a long armed creature latched itself to the car, metal roared through the air as it attempted to pull it off.

Lijuan's cries immediately told Lihua what she had to do here. Her hand went into her purse at lightning fast speeds, and she drew her gun. Right when the beast yanked the door off, Lihua squeezed the trigger three times, and went deaf for a moment as three bullets rang through the air and went clean through the long armed beast. It had no choice to stumble backwards as a grey liquid came pouring out of it's body - followed by the creature dissolving into sludge. When her hearing returned, she let out a sigh of relief - but Lijuan's cries got much louder now as the infant was panicking. Lihua had no choice, she quickly turned around and unstrapped Lijuan and cradled the infant in her arms.

The matriarch stood straight up, and observed the area around her. People were getting ripped apart left and right. There were a group of beasts ready to tear apart a family. Hm. Lihua wouldn't be a situation of [i]exemplary[/i] behavior if she didn't help them. She raised her foot up into the air, and brought it down. The crash that followed it made it sound like Lihua had super strength. Cracks formed a path in the street ahead, knocking up water, and spikes came out of the ground and impaled the beasts. The family looked confused for a moment, and Lihua shook her head as she flicked her hand, and knocked over some of the beasts. Giving them a clear path to escape.

"Run! Run while you still have a chance!" Lihua shouted, annoyed. She already had wounds in her body from helping them, they better - ah - seize the day. They fled like they should have done in the first place - but it looks like Lihua drew a little bit too much attention to herself. Lihua looked around, and saw that the purple-eyed beasts were surrounding her. Taking position on the cars. "Good grief..." Lihua said, ignoring Lijuan's cries as blades of concrete pulled themselves out of the ground. Just as these... Aberrations were surrounding her. Lihua had raised a load of blades up into the air, forming a dome, in fact. Pointing in every direction. "Aberrations, I am not sure if you can understand me or if you were ever human...." Lihua said just as they charged her from all directions.

"... But you [i]all[/i] can go back to whatever disgusting whore you crawled out of." With a swipe of her hand, she sent the spikes of concrete shooting outwards in all directions at high speeds. A spin that gave them an extra force. They were all turned into living pin cushions. The blades digging[i] deep.[/i] They were launched back of not killed instantly. And not a single one touched her. She let out a sigh. There were more coming. She had no idea if this was a city wide disaster, or the Hands (Or their Changeling prostitutes) decided to send their personal army of aberrations after her.

Well, they're not taking her without a fight.

Lihua quickly dove forward, creating an elevated concrete path to run on as she stepped off the bridge. She knocked it over on a group of monsters and crushed them. She quickly ran into an alleyway, and, with a closed fist, swung her fist behind her - turning her whole body - and created a concrete wall to block the flow of monsters. It's a bloodbath out here, and she doesn't have just have herself to watch out her. Lihua pulled herself against a wall. She couldn't ignore Lijuan's cries anymore. She quickly started bouncing her infant up and down, trying to distract her. It was so hard to do so with all the screaming, and the rain hitting her hard. The violent winds nearly pulled her over. "It's okay, it's okay..." Lihua said, trying to attend to Lijuan [i]and[/i] keep her eyes open. 

Christ, she also has Meifeng to watch out for. Wait, where is that girl...? Lihua reached into her purse and... realized that she left her phone in her car's cup holder.

Lihua looked up at the bridge. Which was getting overrun with monsters tearing people apart.

[i]God damn it.[/i]


[hr][h1][i][color=Red]Meifeng Vuhong[/color], & [color=Yellow]Mika Baozai[/color].[/i][/h1][hr]



"[i]Yeah, yeah, everything's fine, Mom.[/i]" Meifeng said in Chinese, her shoulder pressing her cellphone against her ear. After showing Rose around the city, there was a giant ass storm, and Nathan came to pick up Rose. While Meifeng immediately high-tailed it back to Central Valley. She didn't know what the hell was going on with all this rain, but she figured that she should wait it out. Meifeng honestly wanted to put some of this water to good use... but it wasn't [i]just[/i] water. It was the wind, and the lightning! And she'd rather not get shocked. So, she was sitting down on the stairs, playing with an orb of water. "[i]Just worry about getting out of [i]that[/i], and getting Lijuan back here safe and sound, eh?[/i]"

"[i]Just stay inside, and don't do anything stupid.[/i]" Lihua said on the other end. "[i]Zaijian.[/i]"

"[i]Zaijian.[/i]" Meifeng said, hanging up the phone. For a moment, she wondered if everyone was okay out there. Trevor, Cindy, Jen... she wondered how they were all doing. She should shoot them all a text later on. She just sat there on the stairs.

"Cousin." Mika said, as she walked up to the stairs.

"What is it, Mika?" Meifeng asked, raising her eyebrow. "Thunder got you scared?"

"No, no..." Mika said. "It's the fact that there's such a rain storm coming out of the blue in the first place." She nodded her head. "Have you heard about all the reports around the city about the rain?"

"Not really." Meifeng shrugged.

"... That's why you were never the brightest."

"Fuck off already, Mika." Meifeng rolled her eyes.

"You have to listen... I feel like something is going to happen." Mika said. "Something very bad."

"Ah it's nothing." Meifeng closed her eyes as she shrugged. "And if it does happen, I got it." She said in total confidence. A confidence in herself and her abilities.

A confidence that she'll certainly have to test very soon.

"You say that." Mika said, giving her a look that just said "I question that".

Meifeng rolled her eyes. "There's two kinds of people in the world. People of action, and people who aren't." She shrugged. "You see, why you were in those cushy mansions, getting fat off all those cakes, I was out here beasting. You can't see it.."

There was a massive crash in the distance that shook the house. Almost like it was an earthquake. There was things shaking, and she could hear glass breaking in the kitchen. 

"Oh shit!" Meifeng shouted as she grabbed onto the railing. "What the fuck is going on?!" She asked. 

Mika, unfortunately, didn't have the balance and fell forward. By sheer instinct not to hit herself in the head on the ground, she put her arms out, and landed on them. She bruised her elbows a little bit on impact, but she was fine.

The shaking stopped.

"Holy shit." Meifeng said, as she let go. Nearly stumbling forward, she quickly grabbed onto the railing to catch herself before she falls into the same situation as Mika. Second she gained her balance, she stepped down the stairs, and put her hand out for Mika to grab. "Here Mika." She said. Her older cousin grabbed on, and she hoisted her up. "Oh, you're heavy." Meifeng chuckled, earning a look of ire from her cousin. "Are you okay?" She asked Mika.

"Hurt my arms a litt-" Mika was cut off by the abrupt screams of terror that took place right out there door.

Meifeng immediately kicked open the door, and looked outside and her heart immediately sank. Right across the street there was this... thing was on top of one of the neighbors. Ms. Keelee. A older woman. But that wasn't important. There was this humanoid beast with gigantic arms that were horribly disproportionate to the rest of it's body. It stood on top of her neighbor, and raised it's arm in the arm. Which Meifeng knew would spell certain death for the woman. 

Pure instinct took over the girl. Rain slowed down around her, and quickly formed sharp arrowheads that froze into razor-sharp pieces of ice. They quickly shot across the room at the beast.

However, she was too slow. The beast slammed it's fist down on her head, and turned what was her face into a bloody pancake. Meifeng immediately gasped for air the second the creature raised it's fist, and bits of her brain and blood were stuck to it's fist. Meifeng just couldn't believe her eyes, she was shaking. It was horrible as when that thing ran through Jen. It turned towards Meifeng and Mika, before it quickly began a berserk charge at them. Mika raised her hand up into the air, and created a transparent white-shield. Which stopped the Purple-Eyed beast fist. The point of impact sent a bright-white ripple throughout the shield - but the fist bounced off.

They both let out a scream. Mika dropped the shield as she ran backwards, and Meifeng gathered as much water as she going, and swung her hands upwards like she was holding a bat. The water followed the motion, and the beast was knocked backwards. Which Meifeng quickly followed up by pulling her hands back, forming the water into an orb, and shooting her hand forward, which made the forward shoot outwards like a cannon that sent the beast flying through the fence they had. Hitting it's back against the car, nearly smashing it. Meifeng ran forward, leaping high up into the air, assisted by her water powers, and brought the finishing blow on the beast by slamming down all the water that she had on it. A powerful attack. The beast let out one final wail before it dissolved into grey sludge.

With the combat high wearing off, Meifeng realized that chaos was taking place all around her. People were being attacked left and right by the same beasts, and it was a complete [i]bloodbath.[/i] Jen. She had to help Jen. Meifeng quickly ran back inside her house, and ran up the stairs. She needed to get some stuff. Stuff that she'll need to get through this. She opened up her closet, and pulled out her dark-brown Bo-staff.

... Everything she needs.

Meifeng quickly stepped into some sneakers, before she turned around and ran down the stairs.

"Cousin?" Mika asked, genuinely confused as to what to do next.

"We're getting out of here, come on!" Meifeng said as she grabbed Mika's arm and ran out of the building.



[hr][h1][i][color=aqua]Jennifer Marissa Caspin[/color].[/i][/h1][hr]


It took Jen a little while to finally come to terms with the fact that she was a Metahuman, and everything that happened.

Well, relatively speaking. She was handling it well. Though... the regenerator had to realize that she was boxing out her friends because of her fear. She was staring out the window of her room, watching the rain fall harder than ever before. She even opted out of going with her family to dinner on the Crystal Shores. Which would have been the perfect opportunity to meet up with Trevor. But, no. She was here, in her room. Playing videogames. She took in a sigh of pain. It was her fault - all her fault really. Jennifer disconnected herself from her friends, and all the wonderful people she befriended. She had no one to blame but herself for this. They probably all hate her for this.

Jennifer powered off the game, taking in a low sigh.

Jen got back up to her feet, and walked out her door, taking steps downstairs. The rain was all that she could hear in this empty house of hers. She walked into her kitchen, and opened up the refrigerator. Grabbing a cup out the cabinet was followed by her pouring herself a cup of water. She downed it, and looked at it for a moment. Scanning it very closely with her blue eyes. Jennifer felt like she should stop being scared for a moment, and just talk to those people she calls friends. She let out a sigh. She enjoyed it. Feeling like she wasn't in the background. Even if she isn't front and center like Meifeng.

She understood that some people are just meant to be in the spotlight.

She just wasn't one of them - and she was fine with that.

While reaching to grab the picture of water, a purple light appeared in the corner of her eyes. She turned right towards it, and dropped her glass. There it was, a beast that walked on all fours, built like a panther. It's sole eye shining brightly against it's grey skin that Jen could [i]barely[/i] see. Jennifer stood there, frozen. Staring at the beast, wondering what the hell it'll do next. She barely got time to react before the creature lunged through the window. She did the first thing that came to mind. Loudly scream, and dive onto her stomach.

The Purple Eyed demon collided with the fridge, followed by glass. Before Jen could get out of the way, the creature slashed at her back with it's claws, leaving three deep gashes in her back that were oozing blood. Jen let out a loud scream of pain. The creature was on it's feet just as Jen was reaching the door. She quickly unlocked the door, and slammed it shut behind her. Holding it shut as the creature impacted it. She knew that it wasn't going to hold on for long. Good god. Her heart was fucking [i]pounding[/i] against her chest. She didn't even waste another second before she took off down the stairs and put those legs of hers to good use.

Though, outside wasn't doing too good either. There were monsters [i]everywhere[/i]. Killing... killing everyone. That made her heart downright race. It reminded her of the attack on the Fair that she was in the middle of... yeah, reminded her so much of that.

There was no choice but to run.