Star Beings: Dawn

Party full of corpses

For a moment, we all just stand there, staring at the limp body in front of us. Elian and Maxine are the first ones to move, both of them rushing over to Hades body without a word. Someone in the crowd sees the body and screams.
All hell breaks loose.
DJ starts barking out orders in an attempt to calm the crowd.
I glance over at Gabriel, who has yet to move or speak. His face is just... blank. Emotionless. All he does is stare at Hade. "Gabriel?" He finally moves, slowly turning around to face the balconies. He's searching for something.
Or someone.
He must find what he's looking for because he just stands, unmoving, for about a minute.
Then he glances at me, the only one left nearby.
"Run."

"Gabriel what-" before I can ever finish my sentence, a person clothed all in black slides across the marble, having just been thrown from a balcony.
Gabriel turns to the assassin, who's scrambling to get up and get away.
"I'm gonna kill you." Gabriel says, his voice barely a whisper.
"Sorry dude, but a job is a jo-" "I'M GONNA KILL YOU!!!!" The temperature drops.
My hair blows around my head like a fiery tornado, blown by wind coming from an unknown source.
I look up and notice strange clouds. Thunder roars, loud as gunfire.
"When have I ever..."
My voice trails away as I notice the strange metallic taste in the air, the dizziness that has come over me, and the odd buzzing that just doesn't seem to go away.
"Move..." I command myself, running away from where I was standing.
Lightning strikes the marble, sending shards flying. I attempt to dodge one and fall over.
That could've been me.
I turn to look at Gabriel, who is staring at the still body of the assassin. Smoke curls off their charred limbs. Gabriel's eyes glow with a golden light. "Anai!" DJ lifts me up off of the floor, basically carrying me over to the side of the ballroom.
She throws me into the wall.
"Shit! Are you ok? I didn't mean to..." DJ stops talking suddenly, reaching up to touch my forehead.
"What?"
As she draws her hand away, I notice strange black blood smeared across her finger tips.
Am I... bleeding?
"What's it like?" She asks, staring down at her hand. "What are you talking about?" "You know... the constant feeling clawing at the back of your brain. The one that says everyone is lying to you. And the other one. The ones that's been trying to tell you for days that something bad is going to happen. What's it like constantly feeling so paranoid that you were absolutely ready to spring into action tonight?"
She looks up at me, her eyes bleeding strange black tears. Her face morphs, becoming more pointed. But it's grotesque in the way that it can't seem to pick a face to settle on. It switches between three, all with black hair, red eyes, and pointed noses.
I wake up screaming.

"Jesus... fuck... I'm sorry about tossing you into the wall but do you have to knock out my eardrums?" I look around in a panicked daze, eventually realizing I'm still leaned up against the wall with DJ in front of me. "I think you knocked me out for a sec." I grunt, rubbing my head. DJ stares at me, searching for something in my face.
"Are you- MOTHERFUCKER!!!!" DJ shouts as an arrow sinks into her leg. I scream and scramble to my feet, panicking. "Alright someone is about to get their HEAD BASHED IN!!!" She yells, breaking off the majority of the shaft and limping away. I watch as a hammer materializes in her hands and she storms into battle, leaving me confused.
I stare out at the crowd. That feeling...
I think back to the faces I saw in that strange vision.
They all had a few things in common, the most obvious being the hair. They all had pitch black hair with red streaks.
I remember that much.
I scan the crowd, searching.
"Anai!" I turn, just in time to see an arrow flying at my skull. Without even thinking, I raise my arm and catch it.
Natalie stares at me, stunned. I stare back, equally surprised.
"Uh... a little help?" She finally says, turning just in time to block an arrow with her sword (when did she get a sword?)
I nod, tossing away the arrow and reaching for my dagger.
The same dagger I dropped when running from Gabriel.
"Shit."