SECRET EVENT: The Gravity of the Situation

[wrfiends]

[Ding!]

Hey, what's this?

[Just as the elevator doors open on the first floor of Garden to admit the two awaiting it, the cadet inside holds up a box that looks, for all the world, like a cigar box. No sooner do his fingers touch the lid, though, then a noxious black smoke begins to creep out of the cracks...]

[Cafeteria]

[You might have thought today would be peaceful, but no such luck. From behind the counters, a pair of massive bats crash upwards and into the air, their shrieks just on the upper edge of human hearing and like nails on a chalkboard. Even as the air shimmers around then, they dive to the attack...]

[Dorms]

[Wait, isn't that dorm room uninhabited? Then what's banging at the door?]

[Answer: a pair of massive, red-and-black wolves that a second later smash through that door, saliva and froth dripping from their fangs and flames curling around their claws as smoke spills out around them to engulf their intended prey...]

[Classroom Hallway]

[A crash, a clatter, a thud, and a curious crunch presage the door to the magic classrooms buckling, then shooting inwards as if it has been sucked off its hinges by a massive vacuum cleaner. A moment later the source emerges -- a black sphere with no features, no reflectivity, no nothing but smooth perfection and a seeming absence of light. The closer it gets, the more dramatic the pull towards it, but that doesn't seem to affect the smoke that's boiling out the door to surround it...]

[Elevator]

Who disturbs my sleep?!

[No sign of Garden, no sign of the elevator, and the hapless cadet is clutched in the massive claws of the demonic red-black figure that has appeared seemingly out of nowhere. Contemptuously, Diablos discards his first heedless victim, then turns his attention to the other two with him...]


[OOC: Welcome to the secret event! Each location has been sealed off by the power of the GF Diablos, and its inhabitants have been cast into a black rocky plain in darkness... so, not your best day, then. Don't worry, when the monsters you face have been defeated, you'll be freed from your imprisonment, and might even have the chance to help others if need be! Your randomly-determined location assignments are in the comments, so go wild!]

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ELEVATOR: Jin and Billy

[wrfiends]

[morphitudinous]

[Darkness. Fantastic. And Billy suspects that's the least of his problems.

He readies a spell, just in case. And to ensure he won't be hurting anyone in the darkness---]

If anyone isn't out to fight me, call out?

[wrfiends]

[His response is not a friendly voice, but instead Diablos itself, descending from the darkness to hover in front of him in midair.]

[morphitudinous]

That is...not a good sign, especially not when he's alone in the darkness. Billy guesses correctly that he is about to be attacked, and draws his sai.

For a battle strategy, he quickly decides on para-magic. The light and energy generated should help him be found if someone is searching.

"What's going on?" Asking's worth a try, he thinks.

[wrfiends]

{Diablos's answer is to rush forward, taking a vicious swipe at the Instructor with a sneer on its face.]

[morphitudinous]

[He swings his blades up to parry and jumps back, firing off a fire spell for some distance.]

You want to kill me. Right. I really should have come to expect that by now.

[He casts Protect as he says this.Given the creature's speed, he needs to stop it in order to be let go. He runs at Diablos weaving from side to side, blades drawn.]

[wrfiends]

[The fire spell impacts the GF and gutters out as its power is spent. Diablos lifts a hand and waves it about almost casually in the air -- though the might of Graviga descends on Billy like a fist from heaven trying to grab and squeeze him.]

CAFETERIA: Espio and Ahri

[wrfiends]

[9tailedtemptress]

[Nothing can usually jolt the calm and mischievous vixen. She's been through hell and back and has managed to keep a calm demeanor in the majority of situations.

However, screeching bats have completely stunned her due to her keen senses and sensitive hearing. She doesn't know what's going on, nor does she care. Right now she's huddled on the floor temporarily covering her ears from the brain numbing ringing.

Whoever did this better hope that by the time she recovers they're gone because she won't be holding back one at all and she has been rather famished for the past week considering she's been controlling her feeds as best she could.]

[wrfiends]

[One of the bats swoops down dive-bomb Ahri, its shrieks amplified to ear-splitting levels in an effort to confuse and distract her from its wicked bite.]

[9tailedtemptress]

[Ahri yells in pain as she tries to cover her ears. However, self-preservation kicks in and her body gets covered in her tell-tale blue fire as three orbs of fox-fire begin floating around her preparing to launch themselves at whoever comes close.]

[espio]

[I am alive...]

All right, who left all the doors and windows open?!

[Because that's totally how the freaking bats came in. Still, it seems that the cafeteria is somewhat on the empty side, which is good - less people to get in the way.

...or, you know, watch him embarass himself. It's hard to fight when you've had several nights of disturbed sleep.

He glances over to the woman in the cafeteria with him. She looks prepared to take on at least one bat.]

You just stick with that one! I'll handle the other!

[Once he gets high enough. Good thing he can run up the walls so easily.]

[wrfiends]

[Sizable though these bats might be, they're skilled flyers. The one hunting Ahri dodges the fire balls as it peels off the attack, but it appears to be coming around for another assault.]

[Meanwhile the second one comes in for a swoop low against the wall, trying to just, well, snatch up Espio and devour him.]

DORMS: Grolla and Ed

[wrfiends]

[rewritethis]

[Ed has the reflexes to fling himself well clear of the wolves the instant they leap out into the corridor, long before what they actually are registers with him, but that vigilance evaporates when he abruptly finds himself sailing through the wall - well, more like where it used to be. He stumbles, retaining barely enough presence of mind to put his weight on his left foot as he drops. The sole of his boot crunches unpleasantly as it lands on... rock?]

The hell...?

[All right, taking stock. He's good at that, at least. His eyes are still adjusting to the sudden lack of light, but there's no overlooking those wolves - looks like they're just starting to notice that they missed him the first time. Oh yeah, plus they happen to be on fire. Sheesh, and people wonder why he doesn't like magic.

Behind them - is that a figure up ahead, or just a shape in the smoke? If it's a person, are they responsible for this, or...?

Ugh, no time to wonder. Best way to find out is to go have a look. And the quickest path to it is a straight line, right through the middle of those wolves.

He claps his hands together once and bursts into a sprint, not even waiting for his armblade to finish tearing through his sleeve.]

[grollschwert]

[Grolla quickly braces herself as the door bursts open and the landscape appears around her, ready to move the moment something attempts to attack her.

Plains, with no visible features whatsoever. Darkness.

Not ideal, but it would do. Now then, about those giant wolves...

Grolla attacks the instant they get within sword range.]

[rewritethis]

[One question answered: it's that stuffy lady he's run into once or twice. Which by itself might not have been enough to clear her of suspicion, but given how friendly those wolves are acting... yeah, he'll go with it.

At least until he takes a swing at the nearest slavering hellbeast and, rather than slicing through it the way he was hoping for, finds his arm pressing up against the edge of her sword.]

Hey, get outta the - [He cuts off with a yelp, narrowly sidestepping an incoming claw from the wolf he wasn't paying attention to. Okay, taking that back. Don't get out of the way.] Cover my back and I'll cover yours! Deal?

[wrfiends]

[From behind the charging one, the second wolf lets out a howl to the invisible heavens as it summons magic. The air around them begins to condense painfully as the wolf summons a powerful Demi spell, gravity magic that would neatly halve their health.]

[grollschwert]

[Wow, it's a good thing proportional damage can't be doubled!

The swordswoman begins storing power in her blade, manifesting as a visible magic circle. This does not hamper her mobility at all.]

I would do so even if you hadn't offered!

[As long as they are members of Garden, she would protect someone.]

CLASSROOM HALLWAY: Marco and Grell

[wrfiends]

[redcinemareel]

[Upon seeing this... phenomenon, Grell just wished she hadn't come this way. She feels a tug and her heeled shoes slip against the floor. Gritting her teeth, she whips out her DEATHSCYTHE and sticks it into the ground to stabilize herself, for now.]

What in Fates is that?! [It looks so familiar...] A Guardian Force...?

[fierybluebird]

[Bro, Marco doesn't even care that it could be somebody in the Garden's GF, or a friend or ally. Nope. Marco is zooming in phoenix form to kick the thing into the wall, switching to hybrid at the last minute to deliver more force behind his kick.]

ANARCHY!

[Best battle cry ever, amirite?]

[redcinemareel]

THE BLOODY HELL ARE YOU DOING GET BACK HERE!

[Grell yanks the weapon from the ground, rushing after him. Whether she's going to help or pull him back isn't certain, but more than likely she'll have to bail out his butt.]

[wrfiends]

[Grell may have the right of it. There's no actual surface to this thing -- where it looks like Marco's foot ought to slam into it, it just starts sliding into it like it's being pulled. Painfully pulled. The flames splash off the surface, unable oddly to penetrate, and where they touch strange wrinkles and folds appear in the pristine surface.]

[fierybluebird]

Oh shit.

[Luckily Marco's flames are incapable of even doing damage in the first place, but that is not good. Noooope... not good at all. He should have at least tried using haki, but he's been too cocky without other haki users around.]