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There were several threads of conversation going. Johan was hard pressed to follow, trying to piece together what few clues he had gleaned from what the others said.

"Pendants? Zat vas Arel? Hallvay?" Johan repeated, confused, as he hadn't been party to... whatever had happened there. One ghoul in particular seemed to be quite angry, at herself, at the others. At everything, probably, Johan felt, and he could hardly blame her. Had they been bait?

Johan considered what had happened since they'd arrived. Hunters waiting in the area, with nets. Red as a double agent? But found out? Being sucked into a flamethrower. Fear and Hunter Weapons. Giant Red. It did look like the first part of this, at least, had been planned. Johan looked up at the great, circling beast, very much doubting that could have been the desired result of any trap.

"Ja. I think ve vere meant to be bait." he conceded, looking back down at Amrita, and the other students. "But ve are hardly helpless."

His mind kept going back to the rune flaring on Red's head. What if...?

"I haf an idea." he ventured, summoning magic to his fingers, and scrawling a quick rune into the air. "Those runes on her head. They vere ze only thing in color, ja? Ze one in ze center keeps flaring, too. I haf been studying them. I think I could recreate it." he finished, gesturing to the rune he'd drawn. "But I haf no idea vhat, if anything, that vould do."

"I didn't know no one had told me I didn't..." She fumbled for words and instead chose to simply grow quiet as more students gathered around. In a way it was nice to see them all gathered up like this. At the same time it made them a perfect target, but what could they do? Red was flying above them, or whatever was left of her.

She looked at everyone, gathering around, some of them spoke about trying to reach Red, but, was she really there? Or was that just a memory playing back, would she really listen? Or would she just crush them all in her attempts to kill the hunter leader?

"Maybe... we just do nothing... it's not like we can do anything at the moment." She looked up again watching as Red continued to circle. It wasn't going to end well at this rate she feared, but what could she do to change it now?

He'd made a mistake. He'd half-forgotten about the Horsewoman. Too much to pay attention to - the massive monster that he had known as Aria, Caelius, Madison, Ennea - and then he'd heard Jerry's puzzled, pained cry, and remembered all at once. Jordan spun, refocusing, a half-buried fury reawakening in him. He wouldn't forget again. Distraction could kill, or worse, it could betray him.

Jordan, Ferros said.

Eat her, Jordan hissed back, aware in some part of his mind that he was being irrational and utterly ignoring it as he attacked Eris once again. Too tired, still too distracted. His swing went wide, barely checked before it hit Caelius; shock rolled through him, and he stumbled back, tension fracturing in all his muscles. No, no - careless - no -

He needed something to hit. Leon was letting the irritation pile up for far too long and he needed the release. Hands were balled up into tight fists around the handle of the chainsaw, he was rather surprised that Nidhogg couldn't feel it.
But the shout that caught his attention prevented the chance of a crack in the weapons casing and he looked over to Marcus, indicating at the pony female trying to get a few cheap shots in.

Oh no, not on his watch. It might as well been a reflection as the boxer echoed back the grin as creepy as it was. "Lets do it."

Nothing more needed to be said as the boxer went charging toward the creature with the chainsaw in full rev and a sweeping arc to go with it. "How bout you back off darlin'. go deal with your rouge member and let us deal with it in our own way." He said with a rather horrid sneer, face contorting to match the rage within. It was a warning blow yes, not enough to hurt but more than enough to convey the message. "So why don't you run along before me and Nid here decide to make glue out of you."

Attacking: Eris
DMG: 4/2= 2
HP: 29/40
Fear/Charge Attack: Ravenous Roar (Battle Cry lvl 2) 0/3 :
Nidhogg's serrated teeth enlarge to four times their size
without the drawback of losing acceleration

Mot's eyes stared up at Shehk as she ruffled his hair. It shocked him at first, almost forgetting nothing was protecting his head anymore. The sensation of a hand brushing over his hair was so strange.

The reaper smirked though, laughing at the way Shehk eased over her tantrum. "Is that my official title? It's a bit of a mouthful." Mot smiled brightly at the ghoul again. It was good to see Shehk back to her old self. "Welcome back, little lady."

Aksaja's eyes widened at the voice, only now realizing . . . this was Red? Red?!! She had somehow turned into this, this . . . thing down there in the pit? Oh hell. This was bad. This was very, very bad. Especially when she suddenly took to the air.

Various Hunters and Halloween students stared as she soared upward, but Aksaja didn't even hesitate - bathed in the light of the beam of FEAR from above even as he also pushed off the ground, wings beating to propel him through the air.

He could feel the power from the FEAR light and let out a roar as he approached, choosing to target what was likely the weakest spot on the other dragon-like creature - the wings. Being smaller than it (she?) was, he was easily more agile in the air and quickly climbed up higher, then dove down with another roar, summoning lightning bolts to spatter against her wings as he passed. Then he executed a spin on one wingtip, aiming to soar upward again for a follow-up attack in a few minutes.

(( Target: Red's wings
HP: 40
Damage = 15.2 / 2 = 7.6
FEAR: Swift Strike Y2 level - may cause possible paralysis of limb(s) ))

Demi gave Shehk a pat on the back, going a bit light in case of a unforeseen injury. "Its ok, i think the stress of this made us all go a little bonkers." he said without shame at his earlier epidemic. "indeed, Welcome back." he joined in the chorus with Mot. And then turning around to the other boil with the plan, Johan. "at this point, I think we can try anything." he said eying the marking that the dragon had adorned as she slowly circled around them from above.