[@AdmrlStalfos19]

[b]Uchima Senior High - Main Building, 3rd Floor, Hallway outside Faculty Office[/b]

The oozing black limb was ripped out of the flesh with a violent tug, the sounds of a crack accompanying the snapping off of one of the claws. Blood, sickly crimson in the dull light of the hallway, sprayed into the stagnant air, the eerie extremity spurting with all that it had drained. All of Etsu's life fluids that it had stolen. The creature hissed. The fist connected. Teeth flew. Bone shattered. A wild, unceasing roaring shriek.

Its head snapped back, the disgusting carpet that was its hair flying everywhere. All over its face. Blood, mustard green, dribbled from the open hole in its greying, diseased cheek, the only escape for the pooling fluid inside its hurt skull. Etsu's blow had struck it hard. It had misjudged her power.

It wanted her.

Her potential.

Her will.

[right][i]h̴̸̷̺͚͙͋͒᷄᷆᷃͌͐͐͜ȩ̶̘̝͎̯͎̩᷊̂ͣͦ᷈ͧ͟r᷂̳̞̖ͩ͗͑᷁̈́͏͖͕ͭ͌ͥ s̶᷿̜̪̰̺̻͍̉ͥ͐̔ͬ̕͢e͖̲̙᷂̱̮̘͙᷇͆̌᷈̂ͬ̋c̼̼̮̻̘͕͛͑̇̊̇͐́̒ͧọ̸͉͇̺̳̦᷈᷅ͦ̒ͧ̀̔ͅn̵͓̥̳᷂̞͂͗᷆͐͏̱ͬ᷉̐d̸̢᷂̠̫̟͎̯ͮ̈́᷁͗̊͟ͅ c̣᷿̭̣̭ͮͣ᷄͌̔ͣ̍̈́͠͝h͎᷇͏̧᷂͍᷊͉̟͈͑̄̆ͮ͠a̞̲̺̺̫ͩ̽̾̿̓᷄᷇᷆̕͡n̢̛̛᷂̳͚̪̼ͯͩ͑̅̎ͫ͟ċ̟̟̮̪ͨ᷀̒͏̣͖̍ͬ͘ͅḛ̡̖̫̯̹̯̏͑̄᷆ͥ̔̕͡[/i][/right]

It wouldn't give her one more attack.

The grip on her left leg tightened. Constricted. The black, clawed appendage was as cold as ever. It skittered across the floor, slamming its frail, disgusting bulk against Etsu and bringing her to the wooden floor with a clatter. Its slammed its still bleeding appendage, black as night, down against her neck. Red licked at her skin. It was like a noose. A noose for her soon-to-be execution.

Its face, matted with dirt, loomed over her face. Its jaw hung loosely from the rest of its skull, revealing its bruised, indigo tongue, forked and spasming. Teeth, cracked and shattered, shuddered with every hiss. The green blood continued to dribble down, drops coalescing mere centimetres away from Etsu's vulnerable skin. Golden eyes pierced hers.

It would kill her.

Her options were few.

[right][i]"A simple test; can you state your name?"[/i][/right]