Essentia Animus

20-Security Breach

As Sryine and Vwyx started cleaning up after the suddenly concluded lunch rush, Riyxia's spectre stepped out to go and get a better look at what else was going on outside. Vwyx caught the departure of the spectre and started covering for Riyxia who would be thus otherwise distracted.

"Okay, yeah, I think we have bigger things to worry about all of a sudden." "Oh, is something going on?" "A lot of 'something', many different 'somethings'. A lot of vicious creatures are on a rampage, causing some serious damage to things near the bridge. And.. a really big one is now heading this way." Riyxia's spectre retreated completely as she flung Vwyx out of the way, the wall they were both near suddenly splintering into fragments. Taking the place of the completed wall was a towering beast, around 10 Uyn tall and over twice as long, looking something like a hybrid of a boar and a bear if anyone in Celese were familiar with either. In this case, the creature wasn't familiar to any of the three girls, all they knew was that it seemed angry and was clearly dangerous. Whatever it was, it didn't seem to especially like the three girls either, turning it's angry gaze upon them before rushing forward again, crashing through tables in the process.

Vwyx and Riyxia managed to tumble out of the way, but this new rush landed Sryine now trapped in a corner. Sryine was all pale and terrified, realizing that she herself had no way to dodge the creature if it were to charge her too. Vwyx noticed Sryine was in trouble and responded quickly, picking up a large shard of broken table and forming it into a wooden spike. Thrusting into the beast rewarded her with a pained roar and the beasts undivided attention. She quickly ran outside and dodged to the side, the beast charging her once again but now being out of the building. Vwyx then set about trying to constantly dodge the beast, as she tried to consider any other productive actions they might take, the spike having been further fragmented as it was still embedded in the beast.. until it was sent through the wall in its exit during a rushed charge.

Riyxia took up her spectre form and tried to approach the beast safely, considering the beast had no way to harm her in such a state. However, she also discovered that she had no access to her gift from her spectre form either. It did make sense, considering the gift itself came from a person's blood, and her spectre had none. Since all she could do was then watch in that state, she took the opportunity to look around. Given this advantage, she was able to finally spot a flicker of the reporter dodge from the shadows of the bus stop just before the beast charged through it, tearing up the bench and tossing aside the bus stop sign. Vwyx however was in no position to notice, being too busy dodging. The reporter dashed towards another building and dove into the shadows.

"Sryine, that reporter guy is here, and has probably been here a while. Some kind of shadow walking gift. My spectre is somewhere around where he's hiding, and I really don't think he's safe there. Can you go pull him out somehow, and try and get him somewhere actually safe, while I try and figure out how to help Vwyx?" Riyxia was really over-extending herself at this point, trying to have her spectre help Sryine as her physical self slowly now made it to the broken wall to look around with another set of eyes. Sryine rushed off as instructed, fully aware that she was being blamed for his sudden appearance like this. To help her movement, she threw up another perfect invisibility, as she cautiously approached the also undetectable spectre, which itself retreated on her arrival.

Vwyx was not enjoying being on the defensive, as it left her at a disadvantage. She picked up the fallen metallic bus stop sign and reshaped it into a bladed spear with a fluid motion just as the beast charged at her again. As she lunged aside the beast, she also swept forwards with her new weapon, slashing the back of one of its forelegs. It was a good strike, but her foe was far stronger than she was, weathering the blow with only a bleeding cut in response. Such endurance was bad news for Vwyx, who was running out of breath quickly, not being used to such a style of activity. It was only in the fleeting part of that moment that she was left wondering how she might be doing this well at something she wasn't actually used to, but she didn't have any time to ponder such thoughts.