[open] and i'm miles from where you are
Elena Gilbert can't believe this is happening. She fell through the Rift earlier today, immediately aware she was far, far away from Mystic Falls, Virginia. She simply wasn't aware how far. Not until she was stopped by a far-too-bubbly angel named Phoebe Donovan. Phoebe proceeded to explain in great detail what had happened. She fell through a Rift
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"Bloody hell, can't leave your house in Chicago without running into a monster." She glances at the girl at the bottom of the stairs. "Get back!"
She aims the gun at the thing's head, what looks like its head at any rate, and fires two shots at it. They do not miss their target. The big question is going to be whether or not it's enough. She has plenty of experience with monsters that seem practically impervious to bullets.
If that's the case, they're going to want to get in the Tower until someone with a sword or a blow torch comes along. She left the grenades in her other purse.
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The monster is the kind that is rather impervious to bullets.
The narration, however, is very impressed with your badassery, Martha. It's not a word, she realizes.
She sure is going to dash into the Tower now. Her hand drifts up to flatten over her chest. "What was that?" she asks Martha, gaze still trained on the monster stomping down the street.
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She aims again when they seem to have no effect on the thing, but it's leaving. Martha holsters the gun once it's turned around the corner, not trusting it to not turn back until then. She looks at the girl, frowning sympathetically at the look on her face.
"I can't quite say. It could be anything from any universe unfortunately, which is what makes them so difficult to fight. The people who know their weaknesses are in whatever universe they came from," Martha says, sending a text message off to the hunting group at the Tower. Whoever's on call will know to try to track it down at least. "You're new to... the city, aren't you?"
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This is taking it to a whole new level of weird. She turns toward Martha and nods in affirmation.
"Yeah, I am. I can safely say I've never been anywhere like this before," she says, once she's gained her bearings. Her voice is leveled and calmer. Her eyes take in the whole of the lobby. People that are probably like her--without their homes, their friends and loved ones, and this woman is most likely one of them, too.
"I'm Elena," she adds. "Thanks for the help."
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He chucks a tightly-packed snowball at the monster with wicked accuracy, trying to get it to leave this poor woman alone. He glances at her as he kneels to get more snow, not exactly sure what would be appropriate to say to her.
"How fast can you run?" he finally says, because he needs to weigh the odds that he'll have to go hand-to-hand with this monster. He hopes it doesn't come down to that.
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"Uh..." Elena recovers quickly, stumbling back as the steps take her closer to Vaughn. "Pretty fast, what about you?"
She might be new in town, but she wouldn't leave Vaughn to fight the monster alone. With snowballs.
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He also saw what you did there, Elena, and he's not buying it. Vaughn's a freaking Boy Scout, and he's not going to let you put yourself in danger in the middle of his rescue mission. So he's just going to ignore that last part and start giving you directions.
"Okay. I want you to run, as fast as you can, up the street these four blocks." He indicates the direction, pointing back the way she came from. "Do you know what the Kashtta Tower is?"
With any luck she'll run really fast and can send back-up before Vaughn has to fight the monster with his hands.
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She gives him a firm nod. "Yes, I was taken there earlier today. I'll be right back, okay? Please don't do anything."
She starts to run before he can answer her, as fast as her feet can take her. Elena bursts into the Tower and starts to shout for help.
Not even two minutes later there's a gun shot. Hello, Vaughn. It's Jo behind you with her favorite rifle. She runs over to him once the shot pierces right into the thing's forehead. Elena isn't far behind. "Vaughn! You okay?"
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She's heard whispers about this happening, things coming out of the Rift that are less than human and very unfriendly, so she's started to travel with weapons. She doesn't much care for guns, she would prefer arrows but people look at you oddly when you carry arrows through a ctiy.
(She may have tried doing this earlier. She won't say)
Knives though, seem to work the best. You can carry more than one easily and considering it's winter, her coat hives them well.
She throws another at the creature before looking at the girl. "If you have any sense," she commands. "You'd start running."
She wants to know when she took on the hero role. Cruse this world, curse it yet again for making her do things she never wanted to do.
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They pierce into the monster and it howls in reply. Elena's eyes widen, having never seen anything like it. She's seen vampires and she's seen plenty of weird things, but never anything like this. It keeps her rooted in her spot until Aurora speaks.
She doesn't need to be told twice. She starts to run, and when she looks back, the last knife Aurora throws is enough to get the monster to crumple to the ground for good.
Elena slows down her running, attempting to catch her breath. She's within earshot of Aurora, and wants to ensure she's okay.
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"Are you all right," she questions, looking back once at the thing to make sure it wasn't planning to get up again.
She had no real desire ot properly fight anything but she already got involved, she wasn't going to leave something half done.
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"What about you? And what was that?" she asks, pointing toward the corpse of... whatever it is.
She isn't a mythology expert, but she's never heard or seen anything like it.
And Elena's seen a lot of things.
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