[!] [HH 4 vs. ?] More Than Meets the Eye [M/S/T/X] Fin

[Blade Kuroda]

The insanity reaper turned towards the two unafflicted. The one who was Shun's fiance and his little sister. There was no recognition in his hollow blue eyes. All he saw were intruders in his home. No words were spoken. Instead, his foggy daggers were raised and he slowly began to approach them both. The blades were raised just before he began to slash at them both, trying to cut them down. They didn't belong here.

HP: 60
Damage: 11
Target: Mitsu, Xiu  

[Inu-Mitsu]

Mitsu was still too stunned to react, her eyes deadlocked on the creature before her. Xiu had tried to block for her but she never saw Tybalt's attack coming. It hit her hard enough to knock her back on her rear, her hands trying to brace herself as she hit the ground. What was even happening? Nothing made sense anymore. Her eyes focused on the floor as she blanked out in a daze. She wanted to wake up. SHE WANTED TO WAKE UP!

This was a dream! Nothing more than a nightmare. Curling in on herself Mitsu began to rock, tears filling her eyes as she shook her head trying to break herself out of this trance. It wasn't real. Shun was okay. She would wake up from this nightmare and he would be making tea or exercising or doing whatever else he did in her room while he passed the time while she napped. This wasn't real.

What broke her from her rocking was the quick succession of slices she received across her arm and back. The pain brought her back full tilt into this maddening reality leaving her at a loss. What was she going to do?

HP: 39

((Too stunned to...do anything 8D;; ))  

[Kaiyumi]

The last two blows left Xiu's vision flickering as she struggled to stay conscious, vaguely aware of something warm trickling down and side and sliding down her leg. It was odd--the strikes had sent a sharp, almost unbearable pain running through her, but as she sunk down onto the ground, she felt her body go numb. Her eyelids fluttered rapidly as she tried to keep them open, her gaze flickering to the side and focusing on the other ghoul.

Mitsu...why wasn't she running? The baku could vaguely make out the figure of the werewolf beside her, and she stretched a hand out, trying to give Mitsu a weak shove in the opposite direction.

"Mitsu," She hissed, "Get out of here...! You can find a way to save aniki...but only if you get away."

HP: 1
Defending: Mitsu  

[Blade Kuroda]

While the other insanity beast took care of the baku, the former reaper stared hard at the remaining living being. Once more, he was silent, having no words to spare for the quivering form before him. All intruders will die. No outsiders would be tolerated in his home. No matter who they were. Rather than lash out with his daggers once more, he reached out to try and pick up the frightened wolf, only to throw her back.

HP: 60
Damage: 6
Target: mitsu  

[Kaiyumi]

Xiu didn't even resist when she felt teeth close around her arm, squeezing her eyes shut as she waited for the inevitable. When she hit the wall, there was a brief moment of excruciating pain--her breath was knocked from her lungs, and there was a rather loud crack--and then she shattered, dissipating into tiny particles of FEAR.

As expected, the FEAR immediately began act, swirling and coming together as it worked to rebuild the dissipated ghoul within the Haunted House. However, it quickly became clear that something was wrong. Xiu knelt there on the ground, completely reformed...but she had become a part of the fog, a strange, soulless gray figure that only took the shape of the baku ghoul from before. Slowly, she staggered to her feet in an unsettling, jerking motion.

Almost automatically, she turned her head and looked at the sole uncorrupted person, her bright blue eyes fixated on the poor Lycan ghoul. There was a moment of pause, and she suddenly spoke, a faint whisper that escaped her lips.

"Home."  

[Inu-Mitsu]

Mitsu had felt the shove but by the time she turned around Xiu had taken her last hit. She watched in horror as the ghoul dissipated only to be attacked again from two directions. It was too much. TOO MUCH. This may have been a dream but she was going to fight if she could. She didn't want to just stand by and do nothing like she ended up doing every other time. She wasn't going to let them win.

Something inside her snapped and for the third time Mitsu found herself transforming. Her teeth were bared even before she grew into her wolf form and she was lunging for the throat of the insanity afflicted Tybalt. Friend or foe if they were going to attack her she was going to take them down.

HP: 21
Damage: 11
Target: Tybalt  

[Blade Kuroda]

Only one remained. She was persistent, but she would fall just all the same. All invaders would go. They would soon be insane.

She had turned wolf, but it mattered little. Strong they may be, they were all brittle.

Shun lumbered closer with daggers raised, before they came down to make her one of the crazed.

HP: 60
Damage: 15  

[Inu-Mitsu]

Her fight was a short one. The two that kept attacking her were too strong. Despite her size advantage she fell, her body breaking apart in dissipation once again. Somehow she avoided the pull of insanity as she reformed on the other side of the room but despite the lack of a physical affliction her mental stability just wasn't there.

The wolf stared at the now three wispy insanity beings, limping back to press against the wall. When she could go no further she panicked pacing slightly in one small area like a caged animal. Shun...how could she find Shun? She needed to get to him. Find out if he was okay. He wasn't here anymore and neither was Xiu. Tybalt was gone too. Maybe they had retreated and she had missed it? Yes, that had to be it. They were waiting for her elsewhere. All she had to do was find them.

Her heart was thundering in her chest as her eyes darted for an exit. Any would do. She just needed to get out of here and find the others. There! Her paws dug into the floor and she propelled herself toward the only door she saw. She had to find them. She had to save them.

((exiting))  

[Blade Kuroda]

The reaper did not stick around either. After the wolf dissipated, he lumbered elsewhere.

((Exit))  

[Kaiyumi]

And just like the others, when it became clear to the insanity creature that there was nothing left for her to do here, she turned and faded away into the fog.

[Exit]