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She, as usual, ignored the shadows the tore at her. To Lutz, she tilted her head and smiled gently. "No feelings that are hard, okay?" And then she was off, wrath still singing in her weakening body. Not for the first time, she thought longingly of how it could be if she were stronger, faster, more durable. She remembered her time in the dream, covered with crystal - she had felt almost invincible. But the crystal hadn't wanted her, in the end. She was not good enough for it.

Whirling through the chaos, she saw Mathias, beset by flame demons. The ghoul she did not recognize, but the boil.... She aimed a powerful kick at the boil's leg, finding this to be fairly effective.

The flaming fists (and calling out to Andrew) made Mathias realize just who her cousin actually was. Not that he got much time to think about it, between the red haze of rage that was clouding his judgement more than usual, and the way the demon ghoul began to pummel him, all he really had time to do was react.

Each punch burned, quite literally, with pain. He brought his arms up to block the brunt of them, teeth gritting as he backed up, until Andrew and Holly were also in view once more, the latter of which looking to be under fire herself (or under shadow...was it were...). With both cousins in his sights now, it seemed he had a choice. Both had attacked him, at one point or another. Both were equally and irritatingly awful, in his opinion.

Andrew, however, had behaved the most threateningly of the two, burning Mathias in a harsher manner, and being verbally more menacing. Somewhere in the back of his head, he also realized that by hurting one, he might also hurt the other. Not physically, but at least emotionally.

So, he growled at the ghoul. "No vorry. He vill not be on feet much longer."

And then he whirled towards the demon boil, lunging at him with a frenzy of slashes from his claws that he hoped made up for every single singe and burn that Andrew had given him.

He didn't know who she was at first, this smiling ghoul and her big fiery sword. By the time West realized it was Sammy she had almost passed, but he coupled his answering grin with a cheeky wave anyway, just in case she saw. It was a nice weapon, if a little blue for his tastes. The important thing was she was using it to kick some serious mafia a**. Or anyone's a**, really.

Attacking her family members made Danny VERY MAD.

(Or maybe that was just the influence of the wrath creature).

"No way! You're going down mister!!"

Really once Danny had joined the fray, the rabbit creature didn't stand a chance. Andrew pulled up another fist of flames and punched him hard. aiming right for the gut.

He had tried to hit him... Andrew was really glad the rabbit missed. Even more happy to watch it go down. but he was still angry. why was he so angry? He had taken down two, AJ and the rabbit. People around him with scorch marks and claw marks alike were dropping like flies.

Xiu was down... that made him angrier. When had she gone down? His tail blazed in irritation as he surveyed the situation. He still needed to get the ring... He had forgotten about it in his rage.

((messed upt he roll))

So that was that, huh? Xiu watched with exhaustion as the gang members scurried off, slowly rising to her feet as she felt the last lingering feelings of anger finally trickle away. This definitely had not been what she expected when she came to visit the school today, but she was at least glad to see that her friends had made it through the fight in one piece.

She had been about to figure out how said friends were holding up when she heard a quiet voice address them. Tired gaze flickering towards the source, the baku immediately perked up upon, a frown touching her lips as she stared oddly at the figure that emerged from the shadows. Barely taking any heed to his words--oh, she knew she was staying away from those guys--she instead turned and sought out Shun among the crowd. As soon as she spotted the reaper, she frowned and tilted her head questioningly at him. Was that...?

After a moment, she cleared her throat and looked away to scan the rest of the group. It was good to know that Shun was okay, but now how about the others? "Poke? Edel?" she called out, firing off the first few names that came to mind as she searched for their distinctive features, "AJ? Andrew?"

At this point, all she wanted to do was ensure that everyone was safe and sound before leaving the school. Both her mind and body wanted nothing more than to return home and sleep off her fatigue.

Edel braced herself for the worst as the beam erupted into blinding rays of red light. I was hoping I didn't have to pay a visit to the pumpkin patch now that I'm done with school, she sighed, closing her eyes.

She felt a tinge of something happening to her finger, and that was it. Oh.

The frost demon opened her eyes to find herself still in the room, intact. That was nice.

Her finger was still throbbing, and she wondered if it was a bite from the grunt as she took a brief glance at it. Then she had to pause and stare.

She could hear the two groups were backing out of the cave, shouting that the ring was gone. Hiding her hand in her sleeve, she waited for them to be gone, standing by the side as inconspicuously as possible. As they cleared out and the students began to stumble to their feet, she drew her hand out to look at the ring once more.

There was no mistaking it this time. She sighed and attempted to pull it off, wondering which authority she should be handing this over to.

Except she couldn't. Mild panic set in and the thought of slicing her finger off was briefly considered.

She really didn't need any more trouble in her life, REALLY.

"I think," she whispered, stepping beside Shun, "We need to talk." The tone implied a private discussion meant for elsewhere.

Nodding to Xiu, she figured she could trust the baku to get thing back in order with the rest of the students. There was a meaningful exchange of looks which the ghoul tried to convey that she would like to speak with her later too.

"I'll be sending the bill for my dry cleaning to you, thank you," she remarked to Danny on the way out, waving her off with her empty hand.

Only when she stepped foot out of the cave back into open air did she really let slip a quiet, "Oh my Jack."