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Olivia jumped slightly when Aloise fired off her gun at Darren, when she turned around to look at him to see if he needed medical attention she realized that it was just a rock salt round. Olivia closed her eyes letting out a soft sigh she was glad that she didn't have to tend to a gunshot wound. Even though it was really years ago since she had done anything medical, she preferred just examining the dead. Olivia watched as Aloise walked over to the young girl and closed her eyes, eyeing the large hole where she had been impaled with made her cringe slightly. Olivia then started to move over towards Gus' body as she went to inspect his body and try and find if there was any kind of useful information from his body or what was exactly going on.

Olivia stood up and started to dust herself off slightly, there wasn't anything else that she could do as Olivia looked at Aloise when she asked for a man named Liam she shrugged slightly. She had never seen him before, Olivia started to approach the giant door that was in the middle of the floor. She noticed the flame and smoke coming from below, Olivia hadn't gotten a foggiest clue how to close the door everything seemed to just blow out of her mind she didn't know what was exactly going on. Olivia took out a small pen from her pocket and then dropped it down into the hole to see how far the bottom was.

Olivia looked towards Danyial she got the creeps from the man now as she saw him holding the scythe in his hands and the dark hood covering over his face. Everyone was speaking about how to kill this Mullo thing, she never heard of a creature before as far as she knew she didn't want to see one. "Maybe we just run away from here as far as possible?" Olivia asked.

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Seraphina looked over towards Thalia for a moment as she tried to get a better look at what was going on with Cecily, as Seraphina turned her attention back towards the girl. She closed her eyes for a moment as she tried to find what was causing the source of the girl's problem and what was producing it. When she opened them again Seraphina looked at her, and realize that she was actually making it on her own. Seraphina eyed the letter for a moment, she was now pretty curious what it was that she was carrying, she would gently reach over towards it. "May I?" Seraphina asked, maybe the letter had information on what was going on with her, and maybe reverse whatever the effect was that was causing it.

When Aloise asked about Liam, she turned her attention over towards the hunter she wasn't sure who Liam was as far as she knew he wasn't here with them. "I haven't seen him." Seraphina said calmly as her attention went back to tending to Cecily, while Mallory/Danyial started to speak about Mephistopheles the demon that she had just killed moments ago to free them all. Seraphina did truly regret killing the demon, their only source of information was now gone along with Emmie.

"Well of course he would have had someone pulling the strings from the shadows. I do regret killing him, he did kill the young prophet there as well so we don't know who else he was working for." Seraphina said letting out a slight sigh as she went back to the letter and trying to find out what was going on with the young woman.

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Carolina slowed down the motorcycle until it came to a stop as she looked around for the girl that she had seen earlier while on her way into Coventry. She walked up to the treeline until she finally could see a backpack laid down on the ground against the tree, raising an eyebrow she wasn't sure why she had abandoned the bag for. Carolina kneeled down as she picked it up she was tempted to look into the bag, but she probably would end up getting attacked if the girl was nearby. She strapped it over her left shoulder while still carrying onto her own backpack over her right shoulder.

Carolina wiped a bit of the rain off of her forehead as she decided to try and go a little bit deeper into the woods to try and find the girl. As she checked her phone once more she saw that there wasn't any bars there yet, Carolina wondered why she wasn't getting any reception still. And Carolina was still trying to keep herself on edge in case OMEN agents decided to show up, they never really gave up that quickly. "Hey I found your pack, I was just on my way into town I felt bad if you want to come into town with me your more then welcome to." Carolina called out hopefully she would get a response from the girl, she didn't want to have something bad end up happening to her.

The conversations that were going on around her were interesting, though she focused in more on what was going on with the door more than anything else. Thalia's head was pounding from being near this thing, so there had to be a way to get rid of it. That door had definitely not been there before all hell broke loose with the time stream. They shouldn't break time anymore than they have already, she hoped they could at least try to piece things back together again with the bits they have blown around.

Her friend who has yet to actually tell her his name decided to stop being quiet, and this made her scowl. "Ooh, I wonder what your going to do. Clearly you all have screwed things up even more so than you thought right? This should be interesting to figure out what you all do about it," he said, standing next to her, though no one else could see him. "You still haven't told me your name," she whispered under her breath. Since he was a figment of her imagination, she shouldn't have to speak too loudly for him to be able to hear her. "So, no hopes at the moment of getting rid of this thing?" she said in a normal voice, directing her question to Fairfax and Folly.

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Katsumi was still working on wrapping her head around what was going on. One girl was turning things to liquid, a few other people were standing by some strange doorway that goes to a different time era, and the rest are talking to the one woman who shot a guy in the leg. Though she could understand that part, proving that he wasn't any sort of demon or what not, shoot him and see what happens. Thankfully she looked convinced that they were telling the truth.

However, she stopped paying attention to that as the boy who was around her age and who was wearing the cloak spoke. No, it wasn't too surprising that the bad guy who was now dead had been working with others. He had died way too easily for him to be in charge. So their problems were just starting? This was going to be interesting, and there wasn't much she could do to prepare for something she had no clue what it was.

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Darren probably shouldn't have been surprised that Aloise wouldn't have been completely convinced by the lack of a flare in his eyes, or indeed by anyone trying to back up his story - he really shouldn't have even been surprised by her choosing to give him a more violent tests, but it still definitely caught him off guard as he heard the shot, and felt the salt round slam into his leg. "Son of a bitch!" Darren yelped in pain, hopping up onto his un-shot leg as he grabbed at the spot she'd hit, falling back onto the ground as he failed to keep his balance.

The fact that he had been shot in the leg by Aloise honestly didn't annoy Darren too much, he realized the intent behind it and considering the fact it had convinced her - he figured it was worth the pain and inevitable bruising that would follow. What did annoy him was her dismissal. It was clear to Darren that she was in her usual zone, something was very clearly going on here and she must have been involved for some time - but still, to his knowledge, the two of them were far closer than this. Aloise had never been a particularly affectionate woman as he had known her, but as far as he knew, they were still together, and he couldn't help but be somewhat hurt by her quick, uncaring admission that it was actually him.

"No, no, it's okay, I'll just y'know, help myself up, just came back from the dead is all..." Darren grumbled to himself as he saw Aloise begin to move off, sighing as he pushed himself back up onto his feet and moved to follow her inside, limping slightly on the leg which had been shot.

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James still took some time to adjust to everything that was going on. He had experienced what he believed to be some of the worst people and situations in the world - serial killers, drug dealers, sex offenders, he had investigated and tracked down the worst of the worst when it came to the criminal world, despicable human beings whom he considered to be among the worst monsters that dwelled across the world. He had indeed heard stories and even had passing encounters with many of the true monsters, but as time went along, the magnitude of everything was dawning on him.

In his mind then, there was no end - every monster he'd ever read of in a story was true, every horrible creature and myth, a real thing waiting to kill him, and now he was getting involved and dragging himself into that part of the world where he would be in their sites. A strong urge wanted him to run, to get back in his car and drive as far from Coventry as he possibly could, to go home, order a pizza and watch soap operas until the earliest hours of the morning. But just as strong, and even stronger - was the urge to keep going, the urge to learn more, and the thrill that came with this new world. The feeling was building up within him, and James still stood relatively frozen by the entrance of the tent, still needing to gather himself before he took a step forward.

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Eudora halfheartedly listened to the creature's response before drifting away, she wasn't really present right now. The constant death, strife, and stress had taken a heavy toll on her. She just felt so tired. She curiously almost missed her background days, where she'd just drift with the tide and watch life pass her by, maybe that's how she lived so long. Not because of any magical reason but because time just didn't bother with her she was that docile. And now that the whole world was crumbling in on itself, Eudora wanted nothing more to just sit down.

She heard a pop go off and that made her slightly jump, somewhere a reunion was happening, a door creaking open, the aura of gazing eyes. She didn't even lift her head to see what was going on. Too many things happening simultaneously, she couldn't keep up with any of it. What was going on? What should she focus on now? Was she finally going senile, well, more senile? Maybe it was for the best.

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Lilith was exhausted and yet, she would not find rest anytime soon. Not with another threat on its way. She couldn't do much, unless this Mullo had a weakness for Tarot cards and spirit readings (and she doubted that highly). She glanced over at the others, worry set in when her gaze fell on Folly. She was happy to have her back, but something was off. She couldn't tell, but something was there.

She didn't care for the creature's tone. "Considering until recently I hadn't even realized I was dealing with Mephistopheles himself, yeah I thought he worked alone. Can we get back on track and actually make some solid plans to deal with this Mullo thing?"

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Millicent was quite annoyed. They all seemed to be transfixed on their own thing rather than dealing with the threat. This was all beginning to be a bother. She didn't care about the fire that burned in the mystical doorway, she didn't care about some creature possessing one of the others, she didn't bloody care.

She wanted home. And this Mullo was preventing that. She would be damned if she let it continue.

She still had her dagger on her, but she lacked the mystical advantage some of the others held. But she could kill. Of that she was sure. If this thing could be killed, she would gladly be the one to do it.

"Yes, can we get on with it already? Can it be killed? If so, how? I'm in desperate need to hurt something soon."

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Outside of Coventry, near the woods on the road to Salem, the forest wasn't out of the ordinary. The trees partially masked the sky from sight (although a good number of them had lost their leaves months ago), the noise of the bugs and the wildlife created a silent backdrop, and the light of the moon barely lit Carolina's path. The sun had already long since set and the temperature was dropping steadily. It wasn't the ideal place to be, but it also isn't a likely place for cell reception. Even if cell signal was normal in Coventry, it certainly wouldn't be in the woods.

"You can keep it!" a female voice called out from up in the trees. A moment and a thump later a girl with braids was standing in front of Carolina, having quickly scaled down the tree. Up in the tree, there's a little "net" à-la-Katniss-Everdeen, with a sleeping bag belted onto a steady branch. "You'll be doing me a favor--and hey, max out the cards in there if you want to. It's no big deal," the girl shrugged.

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Cecily glanced up at Seraphina in astonishment and confusion--mostly the latter. She hadn't had the letter out, with the thing crumpled up in her pocket, but somehow Seraphina knew what she was thinking about. The letter itself was incredibly personal, a letter from a father she didn't know she had. It was more than the typical "yeah, you're adopted" letter--it told her things she never knew about herself before, where she came from.

"I can't show it to you," Cecily said. She took a shuddering deep breath and the liquid around her solidified. Cecily then brushed bits of solid off of her hand, before she looked at the angel for a moment. "It's private, I'm sorry...I need to get back...I need to go see someone."

As for Aloise, the ex-marine's heart stopped for a moment. No one had seen Liam? She pulled out her phone, determined to call the prophet, but there was no signal. It wasn't an unusual problem for hunters to have with the bigger, scarier creatures, but it still filled her with a sense of dread. She didn't want to consider the possibility that Liam was in trouble, that he had gotten killed out there, but she couldn't rule it out. Aloise was so focused on thinking up all the possible things that could've happened to Liam, explanations for why he wasn't there, that she hardly noticed the hurt feelings of Darren.

"I've never heard of a mullo before," Aloise admitted. Darren wouldn't have either. The two of them knew about the same lore. "So if anyone knows anything...speak up. We need that information." Eudora and Seraphina both have information about the mullo--as well as Folly.

Folly, however, was more focused on the strange door. Fairfax seemed to be right--it really did look like it could've been the Coventry Fire from centuries ago. It had been one of her own ancestors that supposedly burned the town to the ground, but records weren't always the best kept. It could've been the ancestor of any one of the children in the circus, even if Folly's mother's records claimed it was their blood line and not another's. Long lived families tended to populate Cirque Anomaly. It was possible there was some sort of mistake made way back, even cheating or infidelity could've meant that Folly had no relation to the tortured soul who burned down the town.

"I would need to know how this door was opened in order to close it," Fairfax explained, having heard Thalia's question. He watched with bated breath as Olivia threw a pen into the doorway, not certain as to whether or not that was the best call. Unlike the wardrobe that Folly used to travel through time, he hadn't had a chance to study this. But to be fair, most of his studies of the wardrobe were through experimentation. Olivia's examination of Gus' body won't tell her much than what was already known--that he died from a stab wound inflicted on him by Seraphina, his body was covered in sulfur, and so forth.

Aloise glanced over just in time to see a hand reach through the other side of the doorway. One pen in, one hand out? The hand gripped the frame of the door and pulled, with eventually a person emerging. With long black hair that reached its feet and pale skin, the thing hardly appeared human.

"That's a mullo," Daniyal/Mallory said matter of factly. "Good luck. You'll need it."

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Olivia sighed slightly as she couldn't find anything off of Gus' body, except for the strange yellow dust that was usually sulfur that she had picked up from the bodies from earlier back at the morgue with Aloise. She was now slowly picking up the bits of information that it had something to deal with demons. She turned her head to look at Fairfax seeing the look that he had given her, and gave him a slight shrug she didn't know what it was exactly that would happen. Olivia looked over her shoulder as she looked towards Seraphina as she started to mention her information on what she had on the Mullo which was pretty limited in her opinion. Just as Olivia was about to give up on trying to find out what was down in that doorway, the hand shot up from the side of the door and pulled itself up.

Olivia quickly backed away seeing the pale white girl with the hair practically down to her feet in a white dress was now standing before the group. She started to see it as a threat, her eyes turning red for a moment as she backed up looking towards the others Olivia wasn't sure what to do or how to exactly would kill it. As Danyial/Mallory announced that it was the Mullo that they had all been talking about, she didn't have any information about them either and was just as clueless as to how to kill it.

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Seraphina decided to back away from Cecily since she didn't want help and she wasn't sure if the letter had the information in there or not on what it contained and if there were any answers as to what was causing her to produce the weird material. "Alright then was hoping to find out what it was that was causing your condition your body was producing it on it's own." Seraphina said as she watched Cecily brushing the now solid material off of her hand. She started to make her way back towards the group that was at the center of the circus, Seraphina looked at everyone there.

"The Mullo, all I know of them is that they are dressed up in white, and long hair that goes down to their feet and a disturbing feature on their body. They can also easily be detected by a dhampir, the offspring of a human and a vampire." It was very limited as far as she knew she wasn't sure how to exactly kill the creature, but it was a threat nonetheless. As her attention turned towards Olivia and the others wondering closely to the doorway, seeing the werewolf backing away somewhat. Then she saw the hand coming up from the doorway and then pulling itself up, her attention turning towards Danyial/Mallory as they spoke. Slightly grumbling to herself as she knew the kumatock wouldn't interfere with anything.

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As Carolina walked along the forest she started to take out her phone and used the flashlight function on her phone to light up her path as the sun had gone down a long time ago. It was getting harder to see in the dark, she looked up and barely could see the moonlight shining through. As she was about to give up on trying to find the girl she heard the girl's voice along with a loud thud looking at the girl face to face. The girl seemed to be pretty weird letting her simply keep her things and allowing her to max out her cards, she raised an eyebrow slightly.

"You do know that the temperature is dropping pretty quickly, its winter after all you know there is a hotel just down the road I could give you a ride. You'd probably end up freezing to death now if you sleep out here." Carolina offered, despite her better judgment to just simply go back to the hotel and just get herself a room for the night before going back on to where she was going. Though she was now going solo, she was now really missing her friend, she really wished she was here now with her to keep her at least some company.

She nodded in response to what Fairfax said about the door. It was basically stuck there, giving her even more of a headache than she had before, just what she needed to go along with the rest of the day so far. Thalia had no idea what they were talking about, what the heck was a Mullo? Whatever it was, it did not sound good from the things she was hearing around her. This was not going to end well from the sounds of it. "You might want to step away from that door," her little friend said, as he looked at the doorway.

When the hand started coming out, Thalia thought it was best to take his advice. She backed up as the creature came out. When she heard the boy in the cloak point out what it was, Thalia only had one thought, we are so dead! She did not know what to do, she was never could in these types of situations, and the fact that no one else seemed to know what to do about this thing was a little concerning.

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A Mullo? What's a Mullo? Katsumi thought to herself as she looked around to see what others were saying about it. It was understandable that she knew nothing about this creature, since she was still pretty knew to the whole hunter thing. She couldn't possibly know every creature right now, she was still reading up on things, and was happy to take out a vampire before she was yanked away and brought here.

She started trying to memorize everything that Seraphina had said about the creature, until she looked at the doorway again. When she saw the hand coming out, she freaked out a little. That thing was a little creepier than anything else she had faced, but she had to try something. There was nothing else that she could do. "Tawagoto! Anyone have any bright ideas about what to do about it?" she said as looked at the creature.

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The word "mullo" snapped Eudora out of her impassive trance. Her dark eyes light up with the esoteric knowledge she knew as she looked around, seeing everyone's confused expression and more importantly, the very disturbing girl straight out of a horror movie. "Mullo, mullo!" she repeated in disbelief herself, backing away slightly as she clawed her mind for anything that she knew about them. "Iron, hawthorn, pour boiling water on the body," she mumbled a series of randomly strung together words before finally leaping into action and going out of her daze. "They're weak to iron, steel, and hawthorn. Gotta decapitate her to truly end her, and then burn her," she advised while spinning her arms in her regular overblown, vaguely witchy manner, drawing from some deep dark recess of her power, mentally reaching out to the mullo while commanding, Freeze.

Part of Eudora always hated having to use Concilium, overriding a living thing's free will but it was a necessary evil. "They kill those who have wrong them, does anyone recognize her?" she called out to the group, still focusing on the creature. "Oh and don't let her get to your neck, she kills via strangulation," she added nonchalantly.

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Lilith looked over towards the door as the figure stepped out. One look sent small shivers up and down her spine. "Oh no, I didn't sign up for the Exorcist." She listened to the witch's words though. She didn't have much in the way of decapitation, but she could help to some capacity.

She held out her throwing knives, ready to use them should the thing get too close. Strangulation wasn't the optimal way to go at this point. She glanced around her, hoping the others had means to end her more efficiently. "No, she doesn't look familiar. Pretty sure she won't be choosey on who she kills though."

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Millicent stepped away from the door. Not out of fear, but to get a better look at the figure coming out of it. It appeared ghastly, with pale skin and long, black hair. It seemed not to care for appearances as Mephistopheles at least looked human. Still, if this thing wanted to kill her, it would need to do a better job.

The old woman's words hit her as she finally took out her dagger she had strapped to her leg. If steel would help fell the beast, she would gladly take part. Decapitation was a gruesome method, but it did the job. "I can take a head off with the best of them, but I've a feeling it won't make it easy."

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Darren had never encountered a mullo. In fact, he had never heard of one in his years of hunting. He knew vampires, they were simple and common enough, so too did he know the stranger variants of some creatures, even pagan gods were at least vaguely things Darren had some idea of. However, a mullo was definitely something he had no clue about - and so as people shouted weaknesses and ways of fighting the creature, he was somewhat appreciative, even if he was slightly unequipped.

Regardless, the fact that a creature had now revealed itself and was clearly hostile, Darren almost felt relaxed, able to quickly forget and forgive the previous issues as he now was focused on taking down the creature in question, taking a mental note of what he had with him. He had his gun, along with salt rounds, he did have a few iron bullets which would ideally do something to it, not having his car with him, along with all of its particularly useful tools, was a pain, but he'd make do. Reaching into his jacket, he grabbed his handgun and a magazine, loading it as he took careful aim towards the Mullo, waiting for everyone to be clear of his fire before he took three cautiously-aimed shots towards the creature.

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As James had been attempting to gather himself, the new threat was - more than anything - an incentive for him to get it together and get back into the game. By no means were things okay in James' mind, and he still hadn't quite had the time to absorb all this new information as much as he wanted to, but James understood well enough that when a threat arose he did not have the time to linger on thoughts and desires of preparation, he needed to act.

He listened as everyone around tried to explain how this creature could be defeated. Iron, steel, both seemed fair enough, Decapitation and burning, yes, that would work for most things, he figured. Hawthorn. Hawthorn? That was the bit that didn't really make sense to James, but he forced the thought from his mind at that point, figuring the likelihood that anyone would have anything along those lines unlikely as he took a few steps further away from the Mullo, choosing to stay near people as he watched the creature, unsure of what to do.

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The girl with the braids nodded at Carolina, though she didn't appear to be particularly concerned. The entire situation hardly fazed her, as if this wasn't the first time she had done something like this before. But given that Carolina recognized her, it likely isn't too hard to work out what she's doing in the woods in the middle of winter or why she's particularly insistent on giving her things away.

"Got a sleeping bag. It's made for this weather," the girl said nonchalantly. "Besides, like I said, you'd be doing me a favor. You'll give them one hell of a trail to follow." She then turned and got a good grip on the tree, before pulling herself up once more, moving branch by branch. "I'm Guin, by the way!" the girl shouted out. She paused for a moment and flashed a smile down at Carolina, before moving the rest of the way up the tree and back onto the branch her sleeping bag was attached to.

Within Coventry...

Ever since she was a little girl, Folly's mother, Fiodora, had told her Roma folklore tales. Some of them were sweet and inspiring, meant to give hope and peace to those who heard it. Others were horrifying and induced nightmares, warning the Roma children of what they must do in order to survive. The tale of the mullo had been one of the latter. Some hunters had heard of mullos before, but not many. They had become less common due to Roma burial rites improving over the ages. Dhampirs used to be regularly employed to detect them, but their jobs had become irrelevant over the years.

Eudora's mental command stopped the mullo in its tracks, allowing the witch to get a good look at the creature. Aside from the long black hair, the mullo is the spitting image of Folly. And of course, a lengthy scar across its face, marring its features. Yet Eudora's mental control only lasts for a few seconds, allowing the mullo to dart out of the way of Darren's bullets. His second bullet nearly hits the creature, but it moves with unnatural and horrifying grace, nimbly dodging them all. Entirely silent, the creature then darted towards Eudora, wrapping its cold fingers around her throat.

Aloise fired a round off quickly at the mullo, but it missed. She had to aim a bit poorly to avoid hitting Eudora in the process. The marine readied another shot and aimed, watching the witch have her life slowly choked out from her. But a moment later, Eudora fell to the ground along with the mullo. Strong was on top of the creature, attempting to pummel it into submission, but he left the mullo's hands free. They wrapped around his neck and tightened, choking the life out of the strongman.

Before anyone could do anything, Strong was dead. Eudora was the lucky one--though she had sustained deep bruising around her neck. The mullo rose from the floor, before glancing over at Darren and charging towards him.

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Olivia listened to Eudora and Seraphina as they gave information on what they knew on the mullo, it seemed that they didn't have any dhampirs in the area. She certainly knew that there wasn't hawthorn at least on anyone that she knew here, iron, steel and decapitation were ways to weaken or kill it. She was really out of her league, she certainly did have strength and also her wolf form to help fighting the creature but she really didn't want to die at the hands of it. Olivia really wanted to just simply live and die a natural way, then the mullo froze for a moment looking at Eudora as she got a slightly better look at the creature. But she didn't get a good look at the woman's face.

Then it suddenly struck and charged after Eudora directly, seeing the creatures unnatural speed as it gripped Eudora's neck in an attempt to choke the life out of the old witch. Olivia was about to say 'fuck it' before Strong came in and tackled the creature to the ground, watching him pumble the creature. Olivia was going to say watch out before the mullo choked the life out of the strong man, backing up again as she watched the strong man's body going limp, and Derren along with Aloise trying to shoot the creature. Seraphina however charged in to try and take down the creature.

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Seraphina listened to Eudora the elderly witch seemed to have more information on the mullo, slightly she twirled around her angel blade in her hand, steel, iron and hawthorn or decapitation were what needed to take the thing down, then burning and pouring boiling water over the grave. With the information Seraphina was about to charge in when the mullo charged forward, and Darren firing his gun at the creature all the rounds missing. Then the mullo was on top of Eudora trying to choke the elderly witch to death, when the Strong man knocked the two to the ground.

A few seconds later the man was dead, the mullo turning its attention directly towards Darren she wasn't going to let someone else die there were way to many deaths at this point. She charged forward to try and cut the mullo off while swinging her blade in an attempt to cut the creature's head off.

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Carolina wasn't sure why the girl was still on the run or even offering to give away her things either, raising an eyebrow slightly when she said that she'd be doing her a favor for spending on the cards there. She was sort of now on the run from OMEN after killing two of their agents back near the train station, they would probably not give up on the search either so easily. She introduced herself as Guin, even though she already did know that bit of information from her mother Maggie Fey Avaron. "Carolina, nice to meet you." She said as she watched the girl starting to climb up into the tree.

Carolina thought for a moment, the walk to the hotel wasn't that far she thought about giving her the keys to the motorcycle she had taken. But she also figured that OMEN knew that it belonged to Liam, and she didn't want to involve Guin or get her killed like she October did. Carolina decided to at least make a little bit of small talk the girl seemed to be dead set on letting her keep the stuff. "So why are you on the run anyway, parent trouble?" Carolina asked as she moved over to lean up against the tree, taking out her phone looking at a picture of her friend for a moment letting out a slight sigh.

Thalia did not appreciate guns shooting off everywhere. She was not used to this, though a few others in the group clearly were. The Mullo thing was driving her crazy, and she was already starting to think she was going insane. The creature hesitated slightly, so maybe they could do something about it. The old woman though, that thing seemed to have hurt her a little bit. Strong though, she hadn't really gotten to know the man as well as she should have, and she actually had forgotten that the rest of the circus crew was still there. Thalia watched as the Mullo killed him, and it made her wonder what they could possibly do to stop it.

She looked over and saw Seraphina charge in, trying to get at it, and it made her feel useless. There wasn't anything that she could do, as her little friend kept reminding her. "Wow, this is just horrible. The creepy old lady is bruised and the strongman is dead. This'll be interesting... Hey anyone have any popcorn? I want to watch this thing beat the tar out of everyone," he said, and looked over at Thalia. "Shut up, you are not helping".

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Kat looked to see people firing off rounds, and it caused her to immediately pull out her own pistol. She was more skilled in knife throwing, but she did know basic gun skills. The question was, what bullets should she use. Everyone else had fired off already, and she didn't know what bullets they had used. There were so many different things she could use, man did she hate being a newbie at this.

She only had a few bullets, so maybe a gun was not the thing that she should be using if she wanted to conserve her ammo. Katsumi put it away and went through the variety of knives that she carried around on her. She had no idea which one to use though, and she looked up at the creature as she watched it kill the circus strongman. The thing was now headed for the guy who was clearly a hunter. She knew she had to do something, so she pulled out her one iron knife. It never let her down before, since this thing did look like it could be injured by the metal, at least in her opinion. Hopefully this doesn't hit anyone else like the person charging at it, or the hunter guy, she thought to herself as she took aim, and let it fly.

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Eudora's stance loosened a little as she made the Mullo freeze, confident in her powers to keep the Mullo still as she looked it (her?) over. The striking resemblance to Folly shocked her, wait, was it Folly? Time was so broken it might be a version of her from another timeline, one in which she was killed. But the "why and how" didn't matter now, they had a monster in their midst they had to get rid of first. And as Eudora studied her hand to send a blast of magical energy to perhaps stun it further, it lunged. Eudora barely had enough time to register what happened when the Mullo hit her to the ground, its cold hands wrapping around her neck like thin snakes, Eudora's eyes bulging as her life was choked out. She saw her vision go fuzzy, the edges darkening before suddenly the pressure on her neck was removed. She inhaled sharply, the cool air stinging her raw throat as she scrambled up, seeing Strong on top of the monster.

Eudora held her throat in her wrinkled hands as she watched with horror as the Mullo killed Strong. He risked and lost his life to save her. She could feel the oppressive force of the guilt and shame about to break down all around her but she distracted herself from it with by thinking of destroying the Mullo just long enough so that she wouldn't break down. "Find something made of metal to bash her with," She barked while she readied another spell. "Age nunc intellectum. Age nunc intellectum atque voluntatem omnem meam." Eudora choked out with her hoarse voice, still massaging her sore neck while with a free hand she pointed at the beast, hurdling the same Auditory Attack Spell that killed so easily not too long ago, careful she was pointing it at the Mullo. She prayed she'd get lucky.

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Lilith took out her knives. However, it didn't hit her until she saw the thing attack that it looks familiar to her. At a better glance, she saw its face.

It looked like Folly.

Lilith's heart began to race. What the hell was this thing? Surely it wasn't Folly. Did it take on her appearance? Be that as it may, it was clearly there for a fight and a fight it would get. Lilith took out her knife and threw it. However, the knife bent at a weird angle. Like something else controlled it. Before she knew it, the Mullo was at her and knocked her down to the ground. She felt the hands on her neck. She could barely breathe. She had no idea her knife was now sticking out of someone she never meant to hit.

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Millicent was armed for battle, but there was too much going on. The fact everyone seemed to want to do their own thing rather than coordinate attacks would surely be the downfall of them? Before she could issue this notion, the creature went after one of the other women there. One who had attempted to hit the beast with a knife. Pitiful attempt.

As Millicent inched closer, it appeared that any attempt she could make to down the thing would result in the woman being seriously hurt, or worse. Probably the same fate as the other woman who now had that knife in her chest.

"I cannot do anything without harming the girl. If I am left with no choice, I will strike, but if someone could get it off of her, that would be best."

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Darren swore as he saw his bullets miss the mullo. He had hoped that one would hit, but the creature moved far, far quicker than the man had anticipated. He watched as Aloise began to fire as well, and as the creature suddenly leapt over to Eudora and attempted to choke her, before choosing to end the life of the strong man instead. That's when he saw it turn towards him, and his heart sank for a second. "Aw, son of a bitch..." He muttered under his breath, watching as the Mullo began to charge towards him.

Out of the corner of his eyes, Darren could see everyone burst into action as the mullo began its charge, and he went mostly on instinct before the creature reached him. He dropped his gun, not even bothering to shoot at it as he grabbed for his iron knife instead, holding it ready as he stared down the creature. "Alright, c'mere you..." He kept a firm grip on his knife, ready to go to town on the Mullo the second it got to him or grabbed hold of him. He'd cut the hands right off if he had to.

That was until he saw the flash of movement before his eyes. The Mullo wasn't charging for him anymore. He saw as it went for Lilith, her hands wrapping around the woman's neck, but he saw something else as well, Darren's eyes not following the Mullo, but the knife Lilith had thrown...

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James was somewhat taken aback by the Mullo's sudden burst of speed and action, having not expected anything of the sort from a creature he thought was essentially taken straight out of 'The Ring'. As it killed the strongman, he stared and did very little, but he was taken aback as it started to charge towards Darren then. While he had decided against his own gun, and many of the others around seemed to be focusing on knives, James certainly did not have such clear thoughts right then, reaching down for his belt as he wrapped his fingers around his handgun.

Drawing it, James levelled the weapon with the charging mullo, about to pull back on the trigger when he saw the creature change direction. He watched as it jumped toward Lilith, climbing atop her and starting to choke her now. James took only a few moments, adjusting his aim as he took a few careful shots at the mullo, hoping to at least get it off the woman.

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Outside of Coventry...

"Why are you on the run?" Guin countered, raising an eyebrow at Carolina. Even with the low lighting of the woods, Guin's face was incredibly expressive. Her pale features were illuminated by the bits of light that came in through the trees. It definitely had put her on the defensive however, Carolina's question. Yet given who her mother was, it made sense. Carolina's ask about parent troubles basically tipped Carolina's hand, admitting that she knew who Guin was. People who knew who her parents were tended to try to take advantage of that.

Within Coventry...

As the mullo strangled Lilith, attempting to drain her of her life force, another body hit the ground. Lilith's knife was imbedded in her heart, the blood blossoming out and staining her shirt. Eyes that were once so vibrant, filled with passion and courage, were now dim. A mind that idealized service and justice, protection and kindness, was nothing more than a clump of grey matter. Aloise Zamora, ex-Marine, had survived the apocalypse. She had come back from the dead after being killed in combat, more determined than ever before to be a light in the darkness.

Yet rather than have a hero's death, she died at the hands of an ally.

Like Millicent, Seraphina was not able to get a clean angle of attack on the mullo. Driving her blade forward would easily injure and potentially kill Lilith as well. It'd be a choice between the lesser of two evils, at least for now. Katsumi's knife throw had a similar outcome--it narrowly missed the mullo, but it almost hit Lilith. It ended up clattering to the floor about seven feet behind Katsumi's target, but at least no one had been hurt. As for Eudora, the attack spell had no effect on the mullo. Perhaps it's resistant to the spell, perhaps Eudora's concentration wasn't enough. It could be either of those two at this point. The mullo still is in the process of choking Lilith, but Lilith is staying surprisingly strong for now. Unconsciousness hasn't yet set in.

"Amiyra, it looks like you," Fairfax observed. The mullo paused for a second, its grip on Lilith loosening, before it resumed its murderous attempts a moment later.

"That's my ancestor," Folly said quietly. "The one who burned Coventry to the ground - the one they call curse."

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Olivia watched as the Mullo quickly changed its target from Darren towards Lilith, tackling the girl to the ground as she watched the knife sail through the air. She froze and watched the knife imbed itself into Aloise's chest, Olivia stopped as she watched the hunter collapsing to the ground. Olivia quickly ran over to the woman and checked for a pulse, looking down at the knife where it had hit Aloise's heart. Olivia closed her eyes and sighed to herself, it felt like her home town all over again as she closed the hunter's eyes and stood up.

Olivia watched as the others sprung into action as one of them threw a knife at the mullo missing its target, she thought about wolfing out in front of everyone and tackle the mullo down to the ground. But that would risk hurting Lilith as well she watched as Seraphina stopped. She overheard the man Fairfax and Folly speaking to one another, she hadn't gotten a good look at the creatures face, when they mentioned the name Amyira and the Mullo froze temporarily before trying to choke the life out of Lilith. "Whats her name then?" Olivia called out looking towards the two maybe Folly knew, seeing that the mullo temporarily froze.

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Seraphina stopped when the Mullo tackled Lilith to the ground as the woman threw her knife hitting Aloise in the chest, watching the hunter going down. The mullo had changed targets to the other woman, she was about to attack but she didn't want to injure Lilith either Seraphina noticed when Fairfax and Folly were talking to one another that the mullo had paused momentarily.

Seraphina put the blade away she didn't want to risk hurting the woman Seraphina quickly moved forward if she could possibly use her ability to smite the creature, there were some she knew were immune to the ability. She reached over and tried to lift the mullo off of Lilith in an attempt to smite the mullo as well in the process.

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Carolina paused for a moment looking up at Guin when she asked her question avoiding the one that she had just asked, looking down for a moment. She had killed two OMEN agents just a few moments ago with her friend, she quickly shook her head and turned her attention back towards Guin. "I never said I was on the run from anything." Carolina lied as she tried to change the subject to something else. "I was traveling around with a friend of mine we met a couple of months ago at a school." Carolina said rubbing the back of her neck.

"Are you really sure you don't want to get a lift? Coventry isn't that much further." She offered again, the weather was cold and it was also pretty dark. Carolina wasn't really sure if she could leave the girl behind to fend for herself and there could be other animals that could come out in the middle of the night.

This was not going their way. At the rate things were going, they were all going to end up dying at the hands of this crazy thing. Whatever it was, mullo or something like that. She still wasn't sure what was going on, and back up even more so, away from the chaos. The mullo was trying to kill Lilith, but Thalia was not used to this sort of thing, she had no idea what to do. People were attacking it, but nothing seemed to be able to hit it.

The woman who had come in and instantly started waving a gun around was down though. She wasn't too sure as to what had happened, but she thought that it was probably when Lilith tried to hit the mullo, the knife deflected and hit her instead. She didn't really know who she was, but the fact that she hadn't even really been killed by the monster looking thing was kind of sad.

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She was glad that her knife hadn't hurt anyone, not like the one lady's. She didn't really care for then woman who had been killed by friendly fire, but she hadn't even died from the stupid mullo. No one was doing any damage to it, and those who were trying were hoping not to hit Lilith. This was problematic if you were trying to kill or destroy something.

She saw it pause for a moment, after Fairfax and Folly mentioned it, but it started trying to kill Lilith again immediately after. That was strange, and she had no idea why this thing stopped for a split second. This thing was a complete mystery to her, but at least some people seemed to know about it. She was out of ideas, and it was clear that projectile weapons weren't working. Unfortunately that was generally the type of weapon she used, so she was now a sitting duck.