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[hider=💀][color=silver][center]20 | Female | Maverick Alternative | [s]So[/s](ME)[s]thing[/s] On Your Mind
Kiss & Make Up | Handgun | Physical | We Are But Dust and Shadow
Hellspawn | Streetside Devil 
Friends on the Other Side | Shadow | Abyssus Abyssum Invocat
[Obfuscate, Intangible] Damage X (6), Restrain (4), Blink (4), Minor Heal (2), Summon (4), Enhance (2), Powerful (0), Homing (2), Avoid (2), AoE (2), Bend (0), Construction (4)

DAMAGE: B | SPEED: C | SENTINEL: E | 1000

PHYSICAL: D | ARCANE: D | CHAOS: E | 12[/center][/color][/hider][/CENTER]

What fired at them first was not whatever the GEMINI psycho was charging. It was a stream of childish toys and treats that turned into a barrier, glistening in the sky like a rainbow, courtesy of... that [i]one [/i]cosplaying freak. An attempt to distract them?  

The light at the end of the Esper's wand collapsed.

[color=#7e4393][i]Two.[/i][/color]

A beam blasted towards them, visible one moment, already past them the next. Ciri expected to hear an explosion somewhere further away, braced herself for dust and debris. 

She didn't expect an impact right behind her.

[color=#7e4393][i]One.[/i][/color]

It burned.

A scream tore from Ciri's throat. It started as pained, but by the time her lungs had emptied of air and the realization of what happened had struck her, the scream had turned into an outlet for her anger. She screamed because she couldn't find the words.

[i]The dragon. [/i]The goddamn stupid, [i]careless [/i]fucking dragon, did it not have the sense to lower its dumb, empty head when [i]shot [/i]at?! 

[color=#7e4393][i]Zero.[/i][/color] Wherever Amanda was, she was on her own.

Ciri fell, but not long enough to panic. She'd barely registered the wind on her face, the sinking feeling in the pit of her stomach and the approaching concrete, when a familiar, soothing darkness wrapped around her. 

The impact with the ground wasn't as bad as she'd expected, hard as it was. Maybe whatever she should've felt had been buried under the burning pain in her back, or stolen away by adrenaline, or cushioned by It, wrapped around her in a formless mass of shadow. All the same. All Ciri knew was that she was [i]alive [/i]and [i]hurting[/i], and that meant she was going to make the GEMINI bitches hurt ten times [i]worse.[/i]

They hadn't even meant to do this to [i]her[/i]. They'd meant it for the girl. They'd meant it for a crying, scared [i]teenager [/i]that hadn't even raised a finger against them.

There were only two monsters in Dante's diner tonight, and neither of them sprouted horns, scales, or fur.

A roar shook the very ground Ciri was struggling to stand on, and she didn't have to look for its source for long. Even with her mind hazy and vision swimming, Boteg was impossible to miss. He stood taller than the buildings around him, and as he prepared to breathe death upon the GEMINI, Ciri wished she had the oxygen left to cheer him on. 

And then [i]It [/i]ruined it all.

[color=#7e4393]"Wh-what the fuck? Why are you--"[/color] Flabbergasted, she started trashing to get out Its grasp, but she had no strength left to try and fight shadows that could change their form, giving way where she pushed, then gathering back around her. She clawed at her partner, desperate, as if trying to find whatever part of Its form was responsible for communication, so she could rip it out and silence It. [color=#7e4393]"Don't![i] Don't![/i]"[/color]

[i]More [/i]suffering!? Good, that's what she [i]wanted! [/i]They'd suffered, the GEMINI bitches had not, how was that fair!? She didn't care if all of them lived, as long as the two [i]monsters [/i]died.

It didn't listen, and so neither did the dragon. With one final display of power Boteg [i]could [/i]have used to turn their enemies into statues, they fled, and Ciri screamed again. But this time, it wasn't out of pain. 

[i]Physical[/i], anyway.
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