Rand gently lifted his head as several guards entered the room and tranquilized the guy Mike, then quickly dragged him away. [i]Nice, screw that guy...werevamp...bloodlycan? Whatever he is. Now just forget about me and-[/i] the guard with the tranq really didn't brighten his day as he injected it into his neck. [i]You know what I'm finding a common recurrence with these places? Knock out devices. Gas, tranqs, stun-guns, brutality to the point where I'm out cold for a day. They have it all.[/i] Rand drooped his head back, the tranquilizer doing its effect.

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Anthony cocked his rifle and looked down at the dog running at him. Continuing his whistling, he took out his sword and Apophis rose up from it. Apophis stared at Anthony for a moment as if confused, then turned and bared its fangs at Pain, lashing out with its fangs right when the dog got close. Anthony threw the sword down in front of him with Apophis still out and raised his rifle again and fired several more shots at anyone who wasn't in cover yet.