Those who were unfortunate or simply too slow to avoid the volley of bullets were soon consumed into a sea of spraying blood. Throughout it all, Marianne continued dancing to the sounds of battle and conflict, the gunfire itself seeming to have avoided the black dressed girl. And when the onslaught did almost reach her, they recoiled at the last moment, as if being repelled by some unseen force.

Noticing the human and sentient weapon now retaliating against them, the Fauns soon turned their sights onto the shape-shifting girl. The biggest threat right now seemed to be the girl, and so that was their intended target. Taking the living weapon’s glee of destruction as its sign of distraction, two fired off arrows in rapid succession towards Lucinda. 

By now, the girl had since freed herself from the shadows that binded her and both wooden projectiles were sliced apart in mid-flight. Startled, they soon backed off but it was too late. Death took them as they were sliced to bits under the attack. Realizing that this group was to be taken seriously, the masked menaces soon backed away from the battle scene, melting back into the walls of which they came. 

Soon, all of them had fled and retreated. Apparently they were not out for blood, merely to startle and stun their prey. After all, it couldn’t have been that easy now could it? As the battle soon came to a close, Marianne giggled as she looked around at the captured group’s expressions.

“Well? Wasn’t that fun? At least its all over, right?”

A sudden roar soon shook the ballroom, as the sound of thunderous footsteps suddenly became much closer than they all realized.

“Opps! Never mind. Guess this is where you start running. Or fighting.”

Walking over to the corpses of the dead Fauns, Marianne paid no heed to the monstrous growls that filled her ballroom. Instead, she snapped her fingers and summoned forth a pool of dark orange beneath each and every body. Pale arms crawled out and took a hold of the lifeless creatures, soon dragging them into the depths below. All of it only took a few seconds before Marianne snapped again and it was over.

Gone with no trace.

“Yes, those will prove to be very interesting…” she muttered to herself.

The roar continued to bellow throughout massive ballroom, ringing out into a hollowed snarl. Marianne only chuckled once before something large slithered into the chamber. Something…what was it? Where was it? It could be heard but it was not visible to the eye…

Suddenly, it lashed out. With a might heave, it grabbed Lucinda in its mighty claws, heaving back and tossing the machine onto the ground roughly. From hearing, it sounded like the unseen creature was now charging right for Doc and Anari.

Marianne giggled at it all, her single seen crimson eye glowing eerily as she saw what they could not.

“How interesting…an invisible creature? Dear me, but that sounds rather bad."