Nightshift 28: Bus 2

[misterprince]

Sanji was blinking furiously, trying to figure out why he still felt awake though everything was dark. The sedatives, just recently injected into his system, were working full force and he was having difficulty figuring out which way was up and down. All the sounds were reminiscent of something out of a nightmare. Was that what this was

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[koukakurou]

Get out of the way if you aren't fighting, very wise words indeed. Now if only someone would listen past their panic. Oriya leapt to his feet as the nurses became... not of this world. Although he was weaponless and aching he could still hold his own and there were plenty of others who could barely hope to do the same. He could not afford to rest.

Whirling around and using the back of the seats as leverage, Oriya lunged towards on of the nurses in the front of the bus in hopes to distract them long enough for some of the passengers to escape. Or, in the very least, so those fighting in the back weren't overwhelmed by the nurses in the front.

[damned_nurses]

With the nurses engaged, that left the orderly. Lumbering and slow, but stronger than anyone should ever be, the distorted hulk stepped forward as the nurses began to fall. It didn't have much room to swing the heavy chain it carried, but it didn't necessarily need the chain. As Oriya dashed forward, the orderly threw a meaty fist out, trying to catch the man in the chest.

[Kaze]

[demon_beast]

[Hope its okay for Argilla to jump in ^^;]

Argilla watched in faint surprise as the nurses twisted and distorted into inhuman shapes. Huh... maybe this place was like the Karma Society after all. It was nothing that she hadn't seen before, but the shapes... ah, those were new. And she was starting to get hungry.

One was already down, the tempting sight of its flesh calling to her, but she had promised Roland that she wouldn't draw attention to their... condition. But there was another one lumbering towards a lone man and she couldn't leave him alone to fight it. He only weapon would give her away, so normal force would have to do here. She darted forwards, climbing over the seats and then making a grab for the chain when she was level with it. If she could pull it a little off balance...

[koukakurou]

[♥]

Oriya had little time to react. The swordsman had been in mid-lunge by the time the former human orderly attacked and with the cramped quarters, Oriya could only attempt to change directions in hopes to evade. With little success as the creature's fist slammed into his shoulder.

Such strength...! He stumbled back, momentarily dazed. Then again, this may have been the same orderly from before, and if so, it explained why no amount of struggling had allowed him to escape while speaking with Muraki. Muraki... Oriya shook his head before preparing himself to return to the fight. An unfamiliar woman had joined him, if they could now only bring this thing down.

[small_fortune]

He had seen... something. He couldn't...

The bus erupted into violence, screaming and shouting and people fighting the creatures that the nurses had become. He had almost complained about not seeing a monster in this place yet. Now he'd finally gotten to see one.

We're getting out. He crouched down as effectively as he could, glancing around at the bus and the fights on it. Some people were attacking the creatures, but the fights were all chaotic and disorganized. The man he'd been sitting with had sprung into action. Mark might be able to-- No, we are getting out of here now.

He managed to crawl his way towards an exit that his seatmate had made with some other unknown man, then slipped through. A small round body, he would hopefully pass unnoticed even in tacky bright clothing. As soon as he hit the ground outside the bus, he started running. Plenty of time to try to digest what he'd seen later.

[Headed out here]

[highlord_ofhell]

Saetan stood as soon as the confusion began. He'd not been paying much attention at all on the trip back, musing over the strange girl. But for the longest time--only moments but it felt much longer--he couldn't make sense of the battles. Then it resolved into a few patients fighting up front and the back, trying to overpower the nurses, a few trying to keep the middle isolated, and a few others making their own exits.

Largely, it looked under control. He could not sense Daemon anywhere on the other buses, and put it down to his dulled psychic senses and the tidal wave of wrongness flooding out from the warped and twisted nurses. But it seemed best to be getting out. He made his way to the hole and pushed his way out of the hole.

[dropping down to here]

[deathneverlies]

The ride back to the Institute had been a lazy one. Duo made himself content with slouching down in his seat and dozing off. If the past two nights were any indication, he wouldn't be getting any sleep later. He might as well catch up now.

It was the painful screech of the buses coming to a halt that jolted him back into full consciousness. "There already, huh?" he mumbled under his breath, glancing out the window. The fact that it was almost dark was a little disconcerting. Wasn't that when...

Duo didn't even get a chance to finish the thought before the world actually rippled in front of his eyes, and all hell broke loose on the buses. The sight of and the screams of agony coming from the staff had Duo pressed back against his seat in horror. Oh god, what were those things?! The way they twisted and shifted and reformed. Having seen more death and bloodshed than most men twice his age, Duo was hardly one to be called squeamish, but this? The boy pressed his hand firmly over his mouth to help keep from gagging. Humans were not

[daddyslilkiller]

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Omi wasn't exactly the sort of child who was allowed to believe in monsters under the bed when he was little. In fact, he'd learned fairly quickly that even if there were monsters under his bed, he had far less to fear from them than from the sort of monsters he hunted every night. The real monsters were all human.

Which somehow made the nurses that much worse. And, perhaps, that much more fascinating.

Well, he was a Takatori, after all.

Add to that the fact that this was his first run-in with a real monster (not to mention six of them), and it wasn't hard to see why he wasn't exactly paying much attention to Duo. Of course, it also wasn't hard to see that he wasn't used to losing his head like this just out of a little fascinated terror, so he eventually managed to drag enough of his attention back to Duo to realize he'd said something. "Huh?"

[deathneverlies]

There was so much chaos around them that Duo could hardly hear himself think. People shouting and screaming, didn't they know that only made things worse? Panic was the last thing they needed here. Stupid heroic antics were right behind that. But if people wanted to fight in a cramped aisle, that was their prerogative.

At least someone had the sense to start tearing holes in the bus. He didn't know how, but that didn't matter at the moment.

He couldn't blame Omi for being entranced by the newly formed nurses--hell, even he had to avert his eyes just to keep from staring, but that was something they didn't need right now.

"Off the bus. Now. Come on." Duo didn't like repeating himself, and it was already hard enough to keep from panicking. Grabbing Omi's arm and pulling him out of the seat, he headed for the hole that the odd white haired boy had made.

[To here.]

[razing_phoenix]

Guy had headed back to the bus with his stomach full. The burger had certainly hit the spot, though he, Claude, and Ashton hadn't had much time to eat before they had been gathered up and taken back to the buses. Even though Guy had gotten to do some looking around on the trip, he hadn't been able to explore nearly as much as he had planned to. If there was ever another time, hopefully he would be able to make his way through the town a little more efficiently

[razing_phoenix]

[ To here. ]