[!] [HH 4vs?]CAUSE I WANT IT THAT WAY (Gal/Jud/Ott/Der/Bul)

[Pales]

Jude nodded to Deryk and Otto, "Yes we need to find out more, we just need to figure out where to start," He said as he dismissed his weapon for now. It made him feel a bit uneasy that they didn't have a lot of places to look into or rather too many things to look into considering the random nature of the place.

"Everyone alright? Should we move on?" He asked as he crossed his arms over his chest looking from blonde to blonde.

Cause let's face it, it's a blonde's party.

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[Pepzilla]

When the figures halted around them, Unstabul knew that it was not a place they needed to be. But they'd chosen to stay as a means of perhaps exploring their fate and something ominous called to him. Destiny. Or some bullshit like that. Watching the students being grabbed and consumed by the tendrils of insanity only piked his curiosity. With Mei close by he made one of the riskiest decisions of his life... and went into the fog after those weeping for home, knowing very well that this was NOT home. Home was a cottage on a hill, and that home had to be earned.

Upon a frigid scene he arrived, the Haunted House revealing itself the perpetrator. Bul tried to stick close to Mei but something heavy and woeful made him start reconsidering this whole thing- that is until he heard voices up the chilly corridor. Flashes of grey fizzled in and out but one thing was for certain he could feel the FEAR radiating from the group. "...this way Mei-" he whispered and remained close against the walls until coming across the room where the boy band just fought.

In no way was he truly hidden but he had to do everything he could to stay quiet until he scanned the boils' faces- to find much to his relief, Gale as part of them. But how to approach without getting netted or something? There were four of them, after all, significantly outnumbering him and Mei. Carefully, he let out a cautious rattle from his tendril-y spines. Maybe Mei would know what to do. You know, since Bul still didn't LIKE hunters. But with the absence of a certain whip-wielder..  

[Pales]

To say that a good majority of his run-ins with these sorts were bad was probably going to be a bit of an understatement considering it was usually when them being attacked first, being blamed for something, or just simply just a wash of blurry and often violent memories. Memories that made him gasp for air and loosen his cowl a bit from time to time.

He had promised Deryk that he wouldn't outright leap in for an attack but when he heard a mysterious rattle and turned to face it he was looking a little bit wary and tense, his lips pressing into a thin line as he stared uncertainly at the two new figures that had wandered into their little setting.

"Or someone can find us first," he said with his voice a little deadpan. In a show of his usual awkwardness he raised up a hand and waved. Oh yes, he saw you, little dumplings.

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[kuropeco]

The fog monster - thankfully - was dissipated much more easily than the bloody dragon that had destroyed Gale's house was, and he was grateful for it. He gave Deryk a somewhat apologetic look as he lowered his rifle, wearily leaning against it with both hands.

"One of the ones Caelius tagged, you mean?" he asked, gaze flickering towards Jude briefly. "We caught a few creatures earlier; he put tracking devices or summat in them," he said, by way of explanation. "But there's no point in asking the ones that have gotten this far - we won't be able to get anything out of them."

He straightened a little, and sighed, rubbing the back of his neck tiredly with a gloved hand.

<< Gale. >>

What?

<< Are you all right? >>

Just a bit tired, is all. Gale glanced at Jude.

"Let's keep moving," he said in agreement, and turned around, stepping down the hallway -

- and running straight into the two people he really had not expected to run into.

"...Mei," said Gale, half relieved, half uneasy at her appearance. The boyfriend was behind her, large and spiked. "Bul. What are you doing here?"

He lifted a hand, turning his head to the others.

"Don't attack - they won't fight us. This is, ah...Mei...and Bul. This is, er...Jude, Otto, and Deryk."

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[Blade Kuroda]

"Y..yes.." Deryk said to Gale before letting out a sigh. He didn't like this much at all. Shifting in place, he soon nodded and began to follow, only for them to run into some students not too far off. One, he recognized right away. He shot a glance to the others quick, but it seemed that Gale knew them as well.

"Y-yeah. Met Mei before," he said before relaxing. He hadn't been sure about the one called Bul, but if Gale said it was fine, then it probably was. He was going to ask what they were doing here, but the death hunter beat him to it. And so he went for a different question.

"Hey uh.. Mei.. you aren't feeling ... er.. crazy are you?"

Since she had been one of the captives too.  

[Zoobey]

"Are you sure you trust them?" The voice would be heard only by Jude, spiteful, venomous and bitter. "They are your enemies, they will find your weaknesses and kill you." For a second, the trainee would feel something else, a flicker of doubt, even towards his allies.

Deryk too would hear another voice. "You are useless anyway," It hissed, reconfirming old suspicions, "All you do is mess things up. They will replace you, and then you will be killed, like the worthless bag of meat you are-" An image flashed through his mind of everyone around him turning away, leaving him, laughing at him, mockingly - for a moment it seemed real-

- For Gale as he turned to Bul and Mei, he could hear another voice. "Is this the right choice? You are trusting Halloween creatures, they could betray you. They'll betray you, they'll betray everyone, you will be crushed you will love everything you worked for and -" A single bloody, tattered jacket hanging from a raised pole. A voice, vague and distant, a hand pulling towards him -

- The whites shifted just slightly, but it was almost unnoticeable in the fog.

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[kuropeco]

"Mei was one of the ones who..." Gale started to say, but a voice interrupted him, a snide, sneering, amused voice that did not come from any of the people standing around him.

"...you will be crushed - "

He spun around, eyes flickering to each face in turn and then all around him. "Who said that?" Gale demanded, his fingers gripping the barrel of his rifle so tightly that his knuckles were white beneath the glove. "Who - "

And then he saw it - a white, bloodstained coat, fluttering, a hand -

"Stop it!" Gale gasped out, staggering backwards, his heart slamming into his chest. The fog around him was thick, but he could still see the people in front of him - and the coat -

" - they'll betray you - "

"Shut up," he snapped, his head beginning to ache. "Shut up, I know what I'm doing - "

Zoobey

 

[Bittiface]

Oh great. Halloween creatures. And he was on orders not to attack them. Well, fine. He'd 'play nice'. When introduced the small hunter just rolled his eyes. What would these people know, anyway? Well, maybe he was just bitter. There was a chance they might know something.

Questions were being asked, but then Gale began acting... weird. Otto hated Gale, sure, but was this normal? "Gale, why the ******** are'ya wiggin' out?" Otto grouched at the lunatic hunter.

His thoughts moved to the insanity that was sure to be filled inside the surrounding fog, and he put two and two together.

"Careful guys. Keep your heads straight. Somethin's goin' down." His icy gaze flicked to Bul and Mei. "You two stay sharp, too." If they really were 'freindlies' they'd best stay that way. "One false move and I'm knockin' your heads offa your shouders."  

[Blade Kuroda]

Some blood drained from Deryk's face as he heard a strange voice speaking to him, calling him useless. His eyes widened for a moment, and he took a step back instinctively.

"Wh-what? N-no... That... that won't happen!" he stammered back at the voice. He missed Gale's own little episode, especially since he saw everyone turning away and mocking him. The dorky trainee with the morality issues. The sympathizer. The one who screws up. The hunters didn't need someone like that.

"No.. S-stop that!" he shouted at the others.

It was too bad he couldn't see the irony of the situation given his question to Mei moments ago.  

[Pales]

Sure enough Gale wasn't the only one hearing voices and it was a little too late for Otto's warning. Jude tensed up and took his attention off of the two newcomers and looked around but it was only just them...? The doubt that he felt turned him against his fellow Hunters. It was them wasn't it. They did something to him. There were always some sort of weird effects going on back home making him think he was a Dolphin Princess and making him feel so much Joy he didn't know where to go with it, goodness knows what else.

Agitated, Jude yanked off his cowl, "I am staying sharp, Otto, very sharp. I know exactly what everyone here is trying to do," He said with a bit of a paranoid gleam in his eyes. He wasn't going to let them see any of his weaknesses. Oh no. Definitely not.

They can just stop what they were doing right there. He stared at his fellow Hunters for a long moment and then toward the other two, maybe if he....

Jude started walking backwards to see if he could find a nearby wall to cover his back but then Deryk spoke up and he snapped, "No, you stop that."

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[Bittiface]

Otto's demeanor shifted as he witnessed that now Jude and Deryk were both acting strangely. Despite his feelings toward the Halloween creatures, they were the only ones who seemed sane.

"G...guys?" What was up with them? It had to be the fog, after all. "s**t.." Otto didn't know what he was supposed to do here. Observe? Or help? Since he didn't know how to help, all he could do was watch and wait.

"What's goin' on? Who the ******** ya'll talkin to?" He asked wearily, getting out his phone to take more notes.

Otto's Cell Phone

Notes:
Team mates acting funny. Yelling and paranoid. Talking to empty space. I don't seem effected yet. The Halloween students don't seem hostile yet either.

 

[Pepzilla]

Oh good, Gale called them by name-



And then they proceeded to freak the hell out. Were puny human minds just as feeble as hi- "Gale we're here cause there was s**t happening after our special Fright Night cleanup. You know since its a regular occurrence nowadays." Bul nervously looked at Mei, tail curling defensively behind them while Gale seemed to struggle with uh himself. "Try and uh stay focused on that if you can I know it's cold but you are all boiling up compared to me," he snorted now looking at Otto.

He feigned a sniff of insecurity and then stood up on his tippy toes, no longer hidden in his little corner with Mei and cupped his hand, pressing the front against his brow. Yea he was being a little passive aggressive but smart a** remarks for the only guy not talking to himself right now seemed hella stupid.

Deryk recognized Mei by name. Had they met before? "Buddy I'm starting to wonder if you're feeling cray or what.." he said slowly stepping forwards. The. Jude started getting jumpy and Bul could tell he was feeling a little trigger happy. In fact, they all were looking not just weak and scared but very physically incapable of blowing his a** to kingdom come.

"...close Mei..." he whispered to not cause alarm to the hunters. His skin however started dripping red. If need be he was ready to throw up a little snot to shield them so they could book it last second.

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[Zoobey]

"Are you sure that's even Mei?" As the voice whispered to Bul, the figure that should have been Mei slowly turned its head, eyes a sickly yellow, skin grey, crackled more so than ever, wispy and hollow as her body began to dissolve piece by piece revealing nothing more than clay and mechanical runes underneath. "Are you sure that this is same Mei you know? Who knows what the Hunters were up to, look how they hide secrets from you. They know something and they won't tell you, and now you're stuck with a puppet instead of your real ghoulfriend. You're being manipulated by a puppet to go willingly into the Hunters' hands ...."

Meanwhile Otto would hear a snide laugh. "Trying to look smart are you? Trying to look busy? Or are you just trying to hide the fact that you are useless, that all you are good for is being thrown away? You're lucky to even be alive, perhaps last time, but you know what they say about lightning striking twice in the same place...." A strange emotion began to bubble in the Death trainee's mind, festering. Paranoia. Confusion. Uncertainty. An image, the flash of a familiar dungeon cell, the smell of dank, stale water. The squirm of insects, crawling against his spine. "Or perhaps you've begin to realize that you still need to wake up. That you never left the dungeon all this time.."

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[Zoobey]

"No. The question is. What can you do?"

Who said that? Was it Gale? Or one of Gale's friends? The way they looked at her, they way they eyed her suspiciously and cautiously, the way they examined her, just like they had back on the Island, back with the other Hunters, treating her like a dog, no, lower than a dog, lower than a puppet -

- Even though she said she willingly helped, how much of it was really her?

"That's right," The voice confirmed, sounding very much to Mei like herself. "That's exactly so isn't it? You didn't come back from the Hunters normal. There is something wrong with you. There is something even more broken than usual and you're just hiding it all this time and the Hunters know, they know and they're waiting for you to slip up, waiting for you to fall into their arms, for you to finally lose the tiny bit of will you have left and to take your boilfriend. Take everything that is yours."

A stab off feeling. Loss. Jealousy. Hatred. Confusion. Trepidation all at once as the voice whispered louder to her through the torrent of emotions she could no longer control. "They are going to take YOUR HOME."

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