The more people showed up, the more obvious it became that there was something... very strange going on. If it hadn't already been clear the shady guy hadn't done [i]all[/i] of this, it certainly was now. She didn't resist his attempt to lower her bokken, but that was only because she was already lowering it herself. Still, she wasn't going to entirely let him off the hook. Something seemed shifty about him, and Ayumi wasn't about to back off when it came to that. However, attacking him didn't exactly seem like it should be a priority, even if she didn't really believe him about a skeleton. No matter what she had seen.

"... Even if something did grab me," she began, "I don't buy that it was a skeleton. Still, something weird is going on... what happened to the sky, and how did all these other people end up over here?"

To say Ayumi was concerned was an understatement. Whoever was responsible for this would get a piece of her mind!

As if on cue, a roar and an enormous crashing sound echoed from behind them. Ayumi turned on her heel, and her eyes widened as an enormous skeleton pulled its way onto the stairs. Both hands on her bokken, Ayumi took a weak step back. This... this had to be a dream, and... and so she wouldn't let herself just back down... even... even as the other skeletons began to crawl out from under it... she didn't truly realize the electrical currents that now visibly circled her head, even as her hands trembled lightly.

This had to be a dream, but... even so...

"... E... Everyone, get inside the shrine!" she called, backing up. It really was a... a huge skeleton... it was coming closer... Ayumi's grip tightened on the wooden sword, as one of the smaller ones came closer.

She acted almost on instinct, swinging the bokken in an arc that struck one of the skeletons in the side, detaching bones from one another and sending it tumbling loosely to the ground. She began to swiftly retreat, unable to ignore she was afraid but unwilling to show it as she made her way up the stairs, trying to cover the retreat of the others.