[IC] Athalia Academy

[NaraK]

~Hell - Athalia Academy~

They finally arrived. Right in front of them stood Athalia Academy, a place filled with wonders. The footsoldiers stopped walking when Thane motioned them to halt. Apophis continued to take a few more steps before staring at the place with wide eyes.

"At long last," Apophis whispered, his face looking as if it were about to fall off. "It's nearly time. The battle nears, oh, friends of mine..."

The hollow man felt it. The presences of so many with power, agility, magic, and-

His eyes shot open from his trance. The angel was a little farther than he had anticipated. He felt something repelling his aura from a building that did not actually belong to the academy itself, but rather, someone else. It was an ugly feeling.

He quickly replaced the ugly feeling with a wide smile, grinning at the three footsoldiers as he whispered,

"We're here."

The soldiers gulped.

Thane, who had been eyeing the academy for some time with his arms crossed, turned to Apophis. The ninja did not exactly know what to do right at the moment, and as much as he hated to admit it, Apophis was a mastermind when it came to strategies. He wanted to at least hear what the insane deity thought they should do.

"Thane," Apophis said, his back turned to the demons, along with the cursed human, "watch over the soldiers. If they fail their mission, just drag them out of combat. And you soldiers should just fight, fight, fight anyone you see... And as for me, I decided..."

The orange-robed ninja cringed when Apophis turned around. The completely dark portion of his skin had begun to fall apart. Apophis had smiled too much. Dark energy seeped out of the flesh that began to become too loose for him to use. In fact, the energy was strong enough to make Thane back a step away from him.

"Her virgin soul requires analytic research."

He whispered laughs of madness, the impure thoughts of getting his hands on the foolish angel beginning to surface in his head. He would do more than just gut her alive. He would not kill her just yet. Lucifer ordered him not to do so, after all. But seeing how far her emotional and spiritual limits could bend... seeing her undoubtly angelic face twist and contort into cries of fear...

The hollow man just could not wait to see her. With that said, he raised his hands, letting them face each other with loose strength put into holding them.

Thane's eyes widened. Without a second thought, he dove toward the footsoldiers and slammed all of their bodies on to the ground, sticking to it as much as possible.

Suddenly, a violently-pulsing amount of demonic aura began to emit out of Apophis. Even the demon soldiers cringed in pain, though Thane's sudden jump seemed to greatly save them a lot of trouble. Demonic energy crackled between Apophis' hands, his eyes bleeding out unknown energy in the form of lightning bolts that seemed to glow black-and-white rapidly. The energy grew and grew, and soon enough, a large orb of dark matter and corrupt magic had been gathered. It was quite big, for Apophis himself had to raise his hands over his head.

The hollow man, with all of his might, roared,



He then smashed his hands together, silencing every single technological device within the academy. They would be silenced for about an hour or so. The smash also sent a violent shockwave of demonic energy at the Brakos' household, but it was also able to be felt by even humans.

The skies grew darker... and the footsoldiers, along with Thane, had disappeared. Apophis had just made a good chance to let them enter the academy. They were not going to waste that chance any sooner.

[FaithsRose]

Crash

Crash lifted a hand to his forehead, releasing a sigh as he tried to calm himself down. Maybe I should be thinking more on how to pitch this to everyone else? They’re going to be pretty pissed about this if I get it wrong...I don’t even know if or when these demons are actually coming He’d just lowered his hand when something heavy connected with the top of his head, a combination of the force of the object and the surprise made him stumble forward, both of his hands clamping down over his abused head as he yelped in pain. “Jeez! What the hell?!” He cursed loudly, scrunching one of his eyes closed against the throbbing that entered his head he glanced up at the ceiling, jumping as he noticed Kathy was stood up there. You’d of thought I’d think to check up there more often... “Kathy? What the hell was that for?” He asked her, pulling a hand from his head and checking it for blood, as he mumbled under his breath looking down at the floor he realized what she’d thrown at him...well dropped on him. He walked over to her shoe picking it up with an irritated huff.

“That hurt” He pointed out, looking up at her with a questioning look one hand still rubbing his abused head it was then he noted her folded arms and rather stand-offish look. She can’t be pissed at me already can she? I haven’t even fluffed up the explanation yet... “What’d I do now?” He asked, lifting his hands in exasperation. He held her shoe up waving it at her expectantly. When an almighty rumble passed through the ground, he felt his center of balance falter a bit as he stumbled. They’re here! And everyone’s still scattered... A growl rumbled through his chest as a wave of demonic energy passed over him his previous doubt leaving him as he felt the building quiver from the sheer force of the blast, his first instinct was to whip his head back to check Kathy was ok ignoring the pain flare through his chest as his canines elongated, he was stood directly beneath her.

-34%-

Little Feather

After staring at the clothes on Liam's floor for quite some time, Little Feather was just about ready to give up trying to make a decision and pass the torch to Liam. Lion wasn't much help, he was just sat next to her watching Liam idly. "Ok Liam, I yield...I don't know where to start with...these" Little feather murmured, hoping Liam would hear her over the music. The demonic pulse caught her completely off guard and she inhaled sharply dropping the can of monster on the floor, Lion released an angry growl spinning round to face the direction it had come from his hackles raised as a snarl ripped free of his chest. "D-did you feel that?" Little Feather stuttered at Liam, standing still for a moment before she spun round on the spot springing at Liam's door pulling it open with a shaking hand, Lion sprang through the gap in the door inhaling the air as he searched for familiar scents Little Feather was right behind him as he ran down the corridor springing down the stairs two at a time,

They sprinted out of the dorm building running across the grass ignoring the two sparring guys and burst into the cafeteria, Little Feather was gasping for breath by now and a constant growl reverberated through Lion's chest as he paced around, searching for the offensive energy. . Little feather had no idea why Lion had led her this way, she had a feeling he didn't know, she was just grateful that there seemed to be people here, even if they did look like they were leaving. "E-excuse me!" Little feather called breathlessly running towards them, Lion in tow. "W-what's going on?" She asked, her hands were shaking even as Lion placed his head underneath them.

[Ebil Bunny]

Dani - All Hell Has Broken Loose
"Yeah, I think we should. It sounds important, come on!" Dani said, surprised. He wasn't scared, as an emergency meeting didn't mean something terrible. Maybe the emergency was that they weren't allowed off the school premises for any reason.
Dani got up, and ran out the door. When he passed Zivon, he started walking backwards, waiting for him.
"Come on, we don't want to be late!"



All the lights shut off, the air conditioning completely stopped. Everything was silent for a split second. Dani froze for a second, shocked. His eyes widened in fear, but nobody could see him.

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Matt - Death Is At Our Doorstep
“You guys coming?” Leroy asked. Matt shrugged.
"Seems important, I think we should." Matt replied.
"As long as you can carry there. at least I am small!" wheezed the cat. Matt was feeling guilty for punching the poor bakeneko in the stomach, so he picked him up carefully.
"Come on, let's go." Matt said, then began walking towards the auditorium.
They arrived there relatively quickly. It was filling up rather quickly. At the front was the red headed boy who told them in the cafeteria.



The lights shut off. Some kids screamed. Matt stopped.
"That... Doesn't sound good..." Matt said somewhat nervously. He lit his hair on fire as a torch so there would be a little light.

[Aeris]

Bael - Resolve

"Yes! Yes! Long live the Lord!" The demon shouted from the roof, laughing histerically for at least thirty seconds before he crouched down, hands resting on his knees. He took deep breathes, his senses slowly coming to him as his eyebrows furrowed into an intense glare. "Is Apophis trul-" Bael could feel the shockwave and his eyes instantly focused on the skies. They were dark now, there was no doubt now, the chaos had begun. Bael started walking around the roof aimlessly, trying to catch a glimpse of the demons; he didn't want to make his presence known, even though Thane or Apophis, being far too experienced, would likely feel his presence even without him being in his demonic form or using any type of spell. The boy crossed his arms in front of his chest, his lips twisting upwards in a sweet, docile smile. "Poor, poor Lily. Endangering her friends and every student like this." He paused, his smile turning into a frown nearly instantly. "And in the end, who'll be there to protect her? Who will be willing to die for her..."

He so badly wanted to see these questions answering themselves- and the only way of doing this, was to directly partake into the action. Bael descended from the roof with a graceful fall, his demonic-enhanced physique and agility being the only reason he didn't break a leg or another bone from the fall. Rather than confronting the demons entering the academy, he simply stood at the garden, where he landed, Just a bit more and they'd be deeper within the academy...

Tori - Disgrace

Surprisingly, Tori was still at the library, reading- when suddenly, a strange feeling crossed her. "W-What the hell..." Indeed, the pure form of hell. Demons. She could sense them, to certain extent- and their energies were so volatile that not even her grace, being twisted as it was, was capable of supporting such feeling without Tori feeling sickly herself. Quickly running off, leaving an open book over a random table on the library, the dark angel made her way into the main building's halls. There were some students running about, chaos itself already being created within the school even before their arrival... Then, a bewildering voice, loud as loud could get, shouting a hail to no one but Lucifer himself.

She overheard something about an emergency meeting at the Auditorium and after some small searching, she found herself there. Literally, she didn't know a single soul from there, so the girl just tried to blend with the faceless unknown students and get to the quietest corner possible- if this was at all possible with so many students in one single area.

[Theobromine]

– Leroy

Since Leroy had no idea how he was actually supposed to pick up a cat bakeneko without hurting him, he was quite glad that Matt decided to carry Seven instead. He noticed that another person, a girl this time, dressed in a rather eye-catching outfit was approaching them. “E-excuse me! W-what’s going on?” He shrugged, responding, “Not sure. But apparently there’s an emergency meeting in the auditorium. Come with us if you’d like.” Staring at the lion as he followed the others he thought, ‘There seems to be a lot of cats in this place.’

They arrived at the auditorium without any trouble, and just as he opened his mouth to ask another question, a terrifying roar interrupted him. At the same time, all the lights suddenly shut off and for just a split second there was an eerie silence as all background noise from motors and machines were shut off. Pretty soon, there were a lot of screams, including his own. Yelling out like he was in pain, Leroy took a few steps back and bumped into someone. Luckily, there was a source of light again as Matt lit his hair on fire.

However, it wasn’t enough. It was certainly better than nothing, but Leroy was on the verge of a panic attack. His eyes were opened wide with fear, and he quickly took in sharp breaths of air. “Dammit… Dammit dammit dammit, damn it all!!!” He yelled out, seeming angry and frightened all at once. Afterwards, he said a few more ‘creative’ curse words that must be censored out completely for the younger students. Finally growing quiet again, he bit down on his thumbnail as he looked around him. If he didn’t get more light soon, he was probably going to add to the problems these students had to face.

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– Kathy

Kathy felt a slight flicker of guilt when she noticed that her shoe had been a more effective blunt weapon that she had thought it would be. Then she remembered why she felt the desire to do it in the first place, and she felt at peace again. “What’d I do now?” Crash asked, evidently having no idea why she was cross with him. Releasing her arms back to her side she muttered, “Don’t worry, I plan on calling it even with that attack just now. I can give you a proper explanation if you really want one but,” She stopped for a moment and sighed. A sad look replaced the annoyed one on her face as she continued “… You’ll probably think it’s a stupid reason anyway.” Finishing her sentence, the look disappeared back to the silently angry one she had before.

As other students began filing in, she stared at her shoe in Crash’s hand and debated between going back down or staying where she was when a loud roar suddenly resounded through the auditorium. The lights suddenly shut off and a she felt a strange shockwave run through her. She couldn’t understand what it was, but it surprised her enough that she fell down onto the ceiling with her hands and knees. Thankful that she had managed to keep some part of her feet on the ceiling, she looked around in confusion. There was a light somewhere below among the crowd of students, but it was still dark where she was and Kathy could barely see out in front of her. ‘W-What do I do..? I can’t just jump down anymore, I might hit someone.’ And unlike her shoe, she was fairly certain she was heavy enough to become fatal for the average person. Not to mention she could mess up the landing and break her bones during such an important time.

She looked at barely lit darkness around her. The ceiling was mostly smooth, but there were the occasional thick cords, stage lights, and other obstacles that she couldn’t see anymore. ‘If I trip… I’m probably going to drop down in the worst position possible for a fall.’ Swallowing, Kathy crouched down and took off the other shoe, keeping a firm hold of it in her hand. She could get a better feeling for the surface under her now that she only had a pair of socks on. ‘The nearest wall was that way.’ Although she felt nervous and her heart was beating faster, she felt relatively calm. She kept her hands out in front of her (one still holding onto a shoe) and she slowly slid towards the nearest wall, being as careful as possible as she waited for her eyes to adjust to the darkness.

[Driving Park]

Carmen was enjoying her time in the garden. Terotrax and Garden were keeping her nice company, and everything was fine. She heard someone yelling about an emergency meeting in the auditorium, and paid it no mind. Probably just some unimport-

She hesitated.

Emergency meeting? What possibly could warrant an emergency...? she thought, confused. As if on cue, her question was answered with the arrival of a shockwave, "What..." was all she could utter as the shockwave was immediately followed by the sky darkening. It wasn't a normal darkening - it was an...evil one. Only then did she notice that it was also completely silent. If Garden could hear the flora, Carmen wondered if they were screaming. She almost wanted to scream herself, but that's not how she worked. She would only get totally silent when afraid, and this was one of those times. She managed to softly speak. "Garden...Terotrax...I don't think we're safe here. If other people are meeting in the auditorium, we should go there...immediately."

With that, she turned towards the campus and began running, almost immediately morphing into her bird form and flying towards the auditorium as fast as possible. It was still completely silent, and remained so until she reached the auditorium, where the only word to describe the scene was chaos. Everyone was reeling and screaming at the foreboding events that had just occurred. Carmen flew in, probably conspicuously, and shifted back into her human form to blend in - as well as a girl in a dress holding a long trumpet could blend in.

[HylianRose]

Maria Cross and Brako - Fuming

She felt her back straighten as she heard the roar and the shock-wave. A bit of a snarl grew on her lips as her anger rose. She took a deep breath to calm herself and turned to look at Brako.

"Seems he's breaking the treaty." She spoke calmly, sparing a quick glance Lily's way. "And all for a little girl. A shame..." She continued, shaking her head. The small fry, she didn't mind. They were nothing to her. The students could easily deal with them. The problem she had was with the other two she saw in the distance. She whispered a small spell under her breath and her eyes narrowed as her eyesight became like that of a hawks. She could see the ninja clad warrior and the... demon headed for the academy.

Step foot in my academy and I'll have your head...

Crossing her arms, she thought of a plan, her thoughts slow and thorough. She should stay here and protect the girl...

With a sigh, she looked up at Brako. "Go. Go help the students. I saw quite a few of them heading for the auditorium. Help them if they need it, stay in the shadows." She told him with a cold calculating voice. She wasn't always like this. No, in fact, she was often much more cheery. But these... idiots had decided to cross her.

Without another word, she took hold of Lily and jumped over the balcony, whispering a spell under her breath to soften her landing. With Lily in her arms, she walked out towards the forested area to wait, watching for the demons should they decide to come for her. She knew very well what Lucifer was after with this. She had her connections and she had the money to pay for information. Nothing went on in her school that she didn't know about; nothing.

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Brako simply nodded and stood, putting the book down. He grew wings and silently flew down to the ground. Without a sound, he walked to the back entrance of the auditorium. He stayed as Ms. Cross told him and stood in the shadows, well out of sight of the students. None of them would be able to see him and just to be careful, he too whispered a small spell to hide himself. There he stood, leaning against the wall, watching the students. If there was any test for them, this was it. They couldn't let a moment like this pass by. They knew the students were safe in their hands so they just simply watched, waiting.

They must learn to stand on their own two feet. We won't always be there for them...

Eric - Zivon's room

Eric simply nodded to Zivon's words. The whole ordeal had him sweating a bit. As they ran down the hallway, he stopped when the scream bellowed through the school and the lights went out. He swallowed and waited for his eyes to adjust. Lucy was gone now, the only remnants of her was his tear soaked pocket. He closed his eyes to help the process and when he opened them, he could see the faint outline of the hallway and with that, he ran, headed for the auditorium.

It didn't take him very long to find it, he just followed the crowd of students headed that way. When he entered, he noticed several students already there. Crash, one of them. Eric took long strides over to him.

"What's really going on? That noise, the lights. What's going on?" He asked, panic in his eyes.

[Sukui]

Dendus and Isse
"Too slow!"

Dodging left, right, back and forth, Dendus landed a punch to the dark-haired boy's hip. Grunting in pain, Isse tried to land further hits to the formal-looking man, but not before all the lights around went out and with Dendus suddenly freezing still, feeling all the punches as if they were only a poke of a finger.

"Stop." uttered the formal-looking man.

"What?" Isse turned to him, apparently curious and a bit afraid.

"I hear something..." His ears turned to the direction of the gates

"What is it, Den-"


"Holy fuck."

"As taking the role of a Limbus, i can only watch. However, if they ever threaten my existence, i'll fight back. Even if i have lost some knowledge on my powers, i'd still protect my life, up until the very end."

"So what do we do?"

"Go to my dorm. It could be listed now. If still not, we'll go to yours. Since it's getting dark, could you light up a little flare ball and keep it on hold? Don't add magic yet, it'll tire you. Just keep it in your hands, that'll be our flashlight."

"Alright."

[Scallop]

Darwin

Darwin grinned at the Leroy guy who had asked him to change the colour of his hoodie. Darwin knew he wasn't really supposed to since it could threaten to actually poison the guy....but he knew it wouldn't bother him. "Sure! I just need to refill my skittles back at my dorm and I'll be straight back to change your hoodie....PURPLE!" He chuckled and walked off. He went to his dorm and took a king sized bag of skittles from his secret stash of super amazing stuff. He picked up his iPod at the same time. He needed music...

Darwin plugged in his earphones and smiled proudly. He loved this song. He began strolling along the corridors when he heard a kinda drowned out noise thanks to his music.
"All hail Lord Lucifer? Hehehehe some people." He continued to stroll down the corridors when he relaised he was alone. "HEY GUYS!" HE shouted. "I GOT THE SKITTLES! THEY'RE FRUITY!" He shook his head and made his way down the dark weird ass corridors while 80s music played in his ears.

Vanessa

Vanessa had heard the sounds of chaos. She knew something bad was coming, when evil came she could smell it, she could feel it. She shook her head and made her way to the audiorium where she found another group of people. "What the hell is going on?" The crow girl asked the group as she noticed a pheonix, she supposed his name was Matt. She had a cold expression on her pale face. "It seems hell has brooken loose huh?"

[Sukui]

Anedine
As the boy said his words a bit nervously, Anedine did what was told, hand over the baskets to Ryuu with an assuring smile, take out her pocket money, and proceed to pick up more items. Just as she was about to grab the spices on the shelves, however-

LONG LIVE LORD LUCIFER!

All lights turned off within that very moment she heard that phrase. Where did it come from, who uttered it, was a complete mystery to her. Although she felt there was indeed someone who knows what's going on, the white-haired meek girl would just have to wait for the power to come back on before she deposits her groceries at the counter.

"Ryuu, what is going on out there?"

[Destinyfailhorror17]

Zivon

"Come on, we don't want to be late!" Dani said but then as they were all going to the auditorium…

LONG LIVE LORD LUCIFER!

The blooming shout echo the area, with complete shock Zivon hugged the nearest person, which was Dani at the back. ‘W-hat…was that?’ The lights went out and everything was nearly close to silence. He didn’t stop hugging Dani, whatever had happen he defiantly freaked out. Luckily both of them were able to go to the auditorium. Panic run a mock nearly everywhere, he could hear shouting and screaming and the lights were still out. Still shivering he hugged Dani tighter, this was again too much for him…There was so many students, the lights were out, he could feel panic…too much. If there is panic it fuels him, it scares him even more somewhat even more that birds, even though he can’t see much it still frighten him. He dropped down on the floor, closed his eyes and ears with his hands, trying to not hear the panic. “Ju-st…breath-e...br-ea-the….” He told himself, just hoping to calm himself down. But as he put his hands on the floor the area around him somewhat felt crumbly and cracked…”Ju-st...re-lax!”

Seven

Luckily the Matt guy carried him all the way to the auditorium but as they were there…

LONG LIVE LORD LUCIFER!

A loud shout sounded the whole auditorium causing the lights to go out and panic to happen. He looked up too Matt who somewhat had his hair on fire or maybe lit his hair on fire. As for being as bakeneko he could see very well at the dark, he could see some people panicking, Leroy wasn’t doing well to himself. He jumped down from Matt carrying him and explored the whole auditorium, the pain was still there but yet he felt something unnatural…something really bad…being a bakeneko is being a cat but with higher senses and well he sensed something evil. He turned invisible and climbed higher up top the whole area. He couldn’t change to human form, as he didn’t have his clothes they were at the cafeteria. Something was coming fast and evil, he was sure know that things will not end up good…

Garden

A loud noise stop everything, the music the movement…everything. Garden stared at the flora…they were…screaming, she panic and tried to calm them down. “Relax…its going to be okay!” She tried to reassure them yet she couldn’t. Lady Carmen said about heading to the auditorium, it was an emergency, if the flora had stop it must be dire. He curtsied to the flora. “I will be back! Be safe okay!” She told them with a scared voice, then she ran off, she tried to follow Lady Carmen but she couldn’t as she turned into a bird and move faster. Ofcourse she was amazed that lady Carmen could do that yet her priority was to get to the auditorium. She wasn’t that fast enough so she lost Lady Carmen quickly and ended up with no idea where she was.

She looked around, she could hear the flora, screaming and panicking. Garden…she needed to know why that was happening, something caused it and she needed to know so the flora could be happy again. Walking towards the same oak tree from before.

“You again! You should go, something evil is coming!” Sir oak tree told her, she looked atr him with worrying eyes. “Please tell me what’s going on here?” She asked.
‘ “Look! Leave and go to the auditorium!” The tree begged her. She shook her head; she wanted to know what was happening and yet she didn’t know it was getting really close.

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Liam, Little feather dorm room

She looked up at little feather that just couldn't decide which clothes she would want to put on. Liam laughed at the look on the girl her face "maybe I should just pick for you then." As she was about to stand up a shock went through her body. The lights went out just like her music, her mind became hazy as her eyes became lifeless. She stood up and saw Little feather saying something to her "D-did you feel that?" Little feather ran out of her room short after that. Liam formed a smirk on her face as she tilted her face slightly up, one of her eyes light up from the lights outside leaving the other eye black by the shadow "Yea, I sure did" She left her room with the door wide open walking down the hallways with only a few people in them. Most of them paniced and started running everywhere. Some voices said that there was a meeting in the auditorium for this. Liam decided that she will go there and see for herself. Some people were dragging lights with them even one person lit his hair on fire but Liam could see clearly in the darkness of the hallways. After a while of looking around she finally reached the auditorium and saw mostly unfamiliar faces. She saw a person hugging the person that was with her last night and walked over to them. She whas standing behind Zivon that was almost about to cry as she slowly breathed into on of his ears. A somewhat evil smirk appeared on her face as she did.

[Sukui]

Dendus and Isse - Screw the Auditorium
"Come on, come on... let's see... 112.. 114.. 115!" His fingers ran across the words imprinted on the bulletin board. "Wait a second, the auditorium they say? Fuck no! That's just concentrated bait for whoever's lurking just outside the school!"

"Wouldn't we be caught by the school officials?" The dark-haired boy questioned Dendus's motives, but still seemed to go fine with his idea.

"It's better than getting in the hands of those Lucifer-worshipping bozos. The auditorium is an obvious evacuation place to all the people who have visited here even for the first time, so for starters we'll stay at my dorm. Speaking of which, i accidentally left my bag right under this board so it's perfect that we came to this place." The leather bag, although heavy in the arms of a normal-strength person, was easy to lift for the Limbus thanks to the black wings he had. With all things settled, Dendus grabbed Isse's hand and began to ran towards the room, where they shut the door quickly.

"Whew, that run took longer than i've expected. Now we're in the safe room, well uhh, maybe, we'll just take a rest until the demons come. If they find us, it's fight or go down. So, we'll just lay beside each other in the bed and have more talks? No strange thoughts though."

"Alright then. Sounds fine." Isse nodded in agreement. He did have some strange thoughts though, but that went out of mind as soon as Dendus assured that there will be nothing of it.

[Ebil Bunny]

Dani - GET HUGGED!
Dani jumped when someone hugged him, the realized that it was Zivon. He wasn't exactly used to being hugged, so he felt very weird. However, he didn't push Zivon away. What are friends for, right?

Dani led Zivon to the auditorium, as he could see in the dark being a spectre. The room was filled with panicking students. Someone had even lit their hair on fire. The panicking didn't help his friend one bit.
“Ju-st…breath-e...br-ea-the… Ju-st...re-lax!” Zivon murmured to himself.
"Everything... Will be fine?" Dani said, but his voice made it painfully obvious that not even he believed it.

Suddenly, a girl popped out of the crowd and blew into his friend's ear. It was Liam, the girl with whom Dani spent the entirety of last night watching movies with.

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Matt - Today's Lesson: Don't Light Your Hair On Fire Unless You're The Phoenix
Seven jumped out of Matt's hands and ran across the floor to who-knows-what, and Leroy began experimenting with some very colorful words. Meanwhile, Matt was just thinking to himself.
I'm not leaving this time, I'm not leaving this time, I'm going to stay and fight, I'm going to stay and fight. I must help Lily, my friends, and the entire school!
The reason for this was the previous time his school got attacked by evil things from hell, he ditched the entire school and shot off in an airplane. Sure, back then he couldn't use his powers, and the place he was going was someone he thought could help him with his powers, but still.

[Destinyfailhorror17]

Zivon

He was too scared; he felt like he was going to have a panic attack, what made it worst was someone who blew at his ear. “GGYYAAH!!” He screamed really loudly and kind of girly in a way. He fell back down on the floor actually started to cry, “Uuh…uuhh…” He covered his face with his hands trying to dry up some tears. He didn’t want anyone to see or hear him cry like that. ‘I...am…just a b-aby…’ He said to himself as he wiped his tears yet he couldn’t stop it. Never even bother to look at the person who did that he just sat there on the floor crying.

Seven

He turned visible back again as he jumped down on the floor, He tried to be carful as anyone could step on his tail as for being a small little bakeneko. He dodged and squirmed his way from the panicking students. He had walked again to Matt, who is obviously noticeable with the hair on fire. He mewed to him, “Sorry I had to look around, and you can feel it right? This is not good…” He said to him as he jumped up to at least reach his height.

[FaithsRose]

Crash

Crash watched Kathy with an almost sheepish look, feeling he should probably know why she was angry with him. His brain wouldn’t allow him to think on it though...he was pretty sure he’d been a jackass somehow, otherwise the shoe wouldn’t have been hurled or dropped...though it felt like she put force into it...He raised an eyebrow at her as she spoke Don’t worry? Red light! Crash lifted his free hand and rubbed the back of his neck. “How do you know that? Come down here and tell me, I’m not shouting at the ceiling...” Crash answered, almost bracing himself for another aerial assault, he wasn’t sure whether he’d mixed his wording there...it was him so he wouldn’t have been surprised. He glanced up as a few students begun to bundle in through the doors, great he was stood in the center of the room holding a shoe above his head like Simba from the Lion King, he quickly lowered it with a shrug and a sheepish grin.

After his initial reaction to the pulse Crash was looking up at the ceiling squinting against the dark. “Kathy!” He couldn’t see her, which made him panic he was sure she hadn’t fallen. He was distracted from his search as a familiar voice startled him, he was just able to recognize Eric through the darkness thanks to the glow from Matt’s hair. “Its erm...“ Crash seemed completely distracted as he shifted from foot to foot before in a pouf of purple smoke he shifted into a crimson furred jaguar, rearing up on his back legs eyes scanning the ceiling, his ears pricked forward as he saw Kathy moving along the ceiling, he was unaware her shoe was currently hanging off of his front paw. “I can explain, but I need to explain it to everyone...just give me a moment” Crash spoke to Eric quickly...dropping back down to all fours, he gave Eric an apologetic look before with one clomping foot as it was still in Kathy’s shoe he slid through a small crowd of students, guilt apparent in his face as he padded across the floor head tilted skywards, he’d wanted to tell Eric and help calm him but his own selfish thoughts made him move just under Kathy before he shifted back to his human form. He knew walking on walls was her thing but he felt better being there in case she needed him...he did after all still have her shoe. He looked back over the crowd of people, fear and uncertainty had settled like a cloud over them, he couldn’t even see them all, he could just hear the hysterical voices and cries as they huddled together in the darkness.

This chaos was getting ridiculous. “Everyone, listen up!” Crash raised his voice at the crowd, having to shout pretty loud to be heard over the chaos and hysterical tones. Though for the most part it seemed to make everyone stop and listen squinting against the darkness no doubt trying to locate him in the dim light of Matt's glowing hair who was luckily stood quite close to Crash. “I know you're all wondering what the hell is going on and I know some of you are afraid, but running around screaming isn’t going to solve anything you need to calm down” Crash's voice was strong and calm despite his inner feelings, he looked at the faces in auditorium. “We of all people are not helpless; we can stand our own against whatever made that pulse. And as long as we stick together we’ll be ok" Crash felt a knot form in his stomach, he was absolutely crap at speeches he wouldn’t be surprised if no-one paid him any mind...yet again they were here weren’t they? And he seemed to be the only one with answers "I for one am not going to stand here and do nothing to protect this school or all of you. If we work together we'll get through this...now please anyone with passive abilities or unwilling to fight move to the side of the auditorium and stick together. Anyone ready to stand against whatever the hell is out there come to me" I’m not being very straight forward with them all...yet again I can’t offer them much of an explanation, but I can at least explain myself if they come over here...maybe we can work something out, a way to counter whatever that..thing is

He had taken his eye off of Kathy for a moment, realizing this he quickly snapped his head back squinting up at the ceiling trying to find her again, his eyes had adjusted to the light so he could just make out her shape. In his mind whoever came towards him was more likely to be prepared to stand their ground against the opposing demons. Crash was but he couldn’t help feeling like he should have looked for Lily, she after all was the one that warned him about this...Did she find Maria Cross or Brako? What if she didn’t and she’s knelt somewhere in agony because of these things? These thoughts did not sit well with him...but he wasn’t able to query them for long, the pull to remain here was too strong to resist, his canines were prominently elongated at the moment and his forehead glistened in the light. He lifted his arm to his face wiping away the moisture that resided there.

-42%-

[NaraK]

Ryuu happily received the basket.

When suddenly, the fire nation attacked. Sort of.

Out of all days, some sort of powerful force came from behind him, crossing through the entire academy.

"OH FU-"

The power shut down, and a few shelves were knocked down by a startled otaku. He lay still on a pile of shelves, raising the basket high up in the air. It was, thankfully, still alright, though he was feeling quite concerned about what just happened. After all, that one dude who crossed by DID say that something bad was going to happen. Maybe it was just a power outage? Or maybe it was something completely different...

Either way, he realized that he was leaving Anedine all alone in the dark. The otaku got up from the shelves, apparently unharmed, before raising his free hand slightly in front of him.

He then generated a small orb of plasma, lighting the room with a brilliant red light. The student never even thought of using his powers as a lantern before. Oh, how stupid he was to not use it during his anime-night marathons.

"Looks like a power outage," Ryuu said, eyeing the lights that had turned off. "From what I know, though, that felt completely abnormal... Even for just a regular power outage."

The otaku turned to Anedine, awkwardly putting the basket around his shoulder, as he reached out for her.

"That dude who just came by... He said to come by the auditorium because something bad's gonna happen. I don't really like that place, but... unless you have any other bright ideas, I suggest we go to that place."

At this moment, Ryuu's regularly evil face was gone. He looked normal and collected, which meant that he genuinely felt something different in the current atmosphere. The otaku personally went through crazier things... though, he was getting a feeling that things were going to escalate soon.

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Apophis neared the main building. His eyes wide, some of his flesh beginning to leave a disgusting trail of skin, the hollow man moved confidently and swiftly. There was nothing to stop him right at the moment. He wanted to- he needed to- meet that girl.

With that said, he noticed that the angelic aura moved toward somewhere else. In fact, it was ever-so-slowly moving to the demons' initial positions.

Apophis' head snapped around, shattering his durable spine, as his body suddenly made an extremely fast run for the target. Something was wrong. The angel simply moving around freely when she could clearly notice his presence was wrong.

He liked wrong things.

With that said, he made a mighty leap, temporarily soaring alongside the skies, before falling toward the forest area again. This time, however, someone that did not belong to the demon army was waiting for him.

He knew it. There was someone guarding the girl.

The hollow man giggled right before he landed. Dirt flew everywhere when he landed, and he left a fairly large crater for someone who jumped a fairly short height. A short height for someone of his caliber, that was.

Apophis' right eye gleamed a black light, his other eye shining brilliantly, as he slowly stood up. He had caught an unfortunate bird during his few-second-long jump in the air. With one more bite, the bird disappeared into his infinitely wide stomach. Half of his face- the darker portion of his face- had been torn off in his flight, and only his true eye was visible underneath the dark smoke that slithered out of his cracked disguise.

"I give my apologies for shutting down this... academy... missus," he said, making hand motions as if the academy were some holy place. "I accidentally did that, you know."

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Thane and the footsoldiers remained missing...

[Ebil Bunny]

Matt - Light of the World auditorium
Matt's hair wasn't giving off that much light, but people could see a little bit now. He made it brighter, making it hotter in the process.
"It seems hell has broken loose huh?" asked a girl behind him. He turned around.
"It sure seems like it..." Matt said.
“Sorry I had to look around, and you can feel it right? This is not good…” Seven said, returning. He jumped up and floated at Matt's head level.
"Yeah, it feels... Dark. I don't think we should stay in this cramped place. We can't fight when we're stuck like this." he told them.
The red-headed boy began talking to them, even though it was quite hard to hear him. Very few actually listened, almost everyone was panicking and scared. Even people who weren't normally afraid of the dark. There was a feeling that was different. As if the night was just a small taste of what darkness really is.

Matt turned to the others.
"I'll be right back." he said, then jumped. He transformed into his bird form and flew over the crowds to where Crash was, where he transformed back.
"We need to get everyone outside, the crampness of this small area isn't good for everyone. And we need more light. I can only supply so much." he told him.

[Scallop]

Darwin

Darwin strolled through the corridors happily tapping away on the walls of the school without a care in the world. He genuinly had no idea anything was going on, he was too occupied. He took out his phone and sent Ryuu-san a text. "Ryuu-san" He said as he wrote. "Where are you? I found a bowl of chicken wings on the floor, they're delicious." Out of nowhere he took out the bowl of chicken wings and began munching on them. Laughing and eating, he made his way back to his dorm to place the chicken wings somewhere safe. He knocked on the door, realising it was locked. His new room mate must've arrived. He had seen the register....Dendus he thought his name was. As he knocked his headphones fell out and began playing out a song for all to hear, even the people in the room.

[Sukui]

Anedine
She never knew this was coming.

There were probably many students who saw this kind of happening, but Anedine was one of the few who didn't get the cliched sensation about the blackout. However, she indeed felt that something, something terrible was going to accompany this outage. Whether that be an earthquake or an incoming kaiju, it felt it was going to be major.

"That dude who just came by... He said to come by the auditorium because something bad's gonna happen. I don't really like that place, but... unless you have any other bright ideas, I suggest we go to that place." The words of the interestingly weird man echoed within her ears. Seeing that it's still early, the time to go to safety became a priority for the white-haired girl as she began to tightly grasp Ryuu's hand, turning to him and with a determined serious look, she nodded, and made a step towards the exit.