[color=ed145b]Myriatte is in the middle of cackling laughter when she hears a presence behind her. She turns around, but before she can do anything, she's hit in the head with Fred's spatula. Everything slows down for the cult leading girl as she feels herself fall towards the floor. While her eyelids close, she swears that she's surrounded by water, and that it's filling up her lungs...again...
"...Will...I'm...drowning again..." She murmurs quietly before collapsing completely. She tries to hang onto her consciousness for as long as possible, while her arm and eyes revert to their more human-like state. In this strange limbo, Myriatte becomes vaguely aware of a large figure picking her up and carrying her out of the basement. Out of the dark water...
"...Hah...I knew you'd..save me again, Will..." Myriatte carries a light, almost innocent smile on her face before passing out completely.
Meanwhile, the portals that Myriatte opened up for her "tadpole" followers have not closed yet, as she never commanded them to. Her demon minions are still hopping out in a steady stream, though without her strong presence and command there in the room, fewer decide to leap out and attack, or try to follow after Makoto.
Minako takes advantage of these continuous cult follower demons, grabbing them up and devouring them with a ravenous quickness. After satiating her own appetite, she notices Makoto leaving with Myriatte, who, at this point, Minako has connected with being a food source from animalistic instinct. Minako roars again, gets down on all fours, and bounds past everyone to follow Myriatte's trail.
"No!" Ellysa growls. She turns to look over everyone still in the basement. "Come on, then! We've got to go after them! We have to [color=fff200]figure out[/color] how to get our friends back, right?! Just as that girl said earlier, before we fought Yorugiro: No one gets left behind willingly!" The enthusiastic angel raises her sword again, and charges up the stairs from the basement to the ground floor.[/color]
[color=8882be]"Agh!"
"Abernathy? Are you quite alright?"
In the middle of traversing the stairs, Abernathy has just made a sharp stop, and is now clutching his head. Yolani floats at his side with a concerned look.
"I'm fine...though, it feels as if someone just hit me in the head. What;s more, I feel a little drowsy as well..." Abernathy frowns. "It's not too much for me to have to stop, but-"
The two ghosts both stop and turn to look back down the stairs when they hear the mighty whooshing of wings below them, coming out of the basement. Abernathy floats back down in a hurry, able to just catch a glimps of Makoto and a limp Myriatte speedily flying away. Abernathy is startled.
"M-Myriatte...!" He mumbles. "Was...was she dead...? No...not possible..."
"Abernathy." Yolani comes up behind him and places a gentle hand on his reptilian shoulder. "Go on after them. You know I can handle Negloria...she is my sister, after all."
"...Alright then, Mistress Yolani." Abernathy nods. He tips his hat to the young lady, then hastens off after Makoto and Myriatte. Yolani smiles warmly, then turns to go back up the stairs, towards Negloria's usual location...[/color]
[color=a187be]Negloria slowly turns at the sound of the voice near her. She notices Lilly, but doesn't say a thing. The small girl lowers herself back onto the ground from her chair carefully, then makes her way over to the left wall of the room. A poster made of torn, slightly yellowed paper is tacked precariously onto the wall with a bent screw, as if someone, having nothing else to hang up this precious poster with, desperately tried to make use of the screw in the place of a nail. The odd thing is, there are only 7 N's on the poster, all different colors, lined up vertically on the paper. One is crossed out.
".....[color=fff200]Why[/color]..." Negloria whispers almost inaudibly, looking up at the poster. Her empty-looking lavender eyes have been filled with bitter memory and despair.

[color=fff200]The poster looks like this[/color]-[/color]

[s]N[/s]
[color=ec008c]N[/color]
[color=8dc73f]N[/color]
[color=6ecff6]N[/color]
[color=f7941d]N[/color]
[color=bc8dbf]N[/color]
[color=a36209]N[/color]