Regina typically couldn't read minds very clearly when she was so far away from them. But Umeko was practically broadcasting her thoughts for Regina to find. The message made her wrinkle her nose in disgust.

	“Seems Umeko wants us to join the melee.”

	Elroy stood up and turned towards the battle. The tower shield on his back almost made him look like a giant turtle. Albeit a skinny one. “She called you darling again, didn't she? You only make that face when someone calls you darling.” 

	“She also said you'd enjoy the chaos.”

	“Well clearly she doesn't know me very well.” Elroy said with a chuckle. “I'm enjoying the battle EMMENSELY right now. I don't volunteer for fights I didn't start.”

	“I'm going to create a shadow veil so that they can escape.” Regina stood up and folded the handle and tripod in on her sniper staff. It now looked like a staff with a scope on it. “Then we'll take a closer look at all the twins in the area. There's quite a few of them. Maybe they can answer some of our questions.”

	“The ghost ones, I wanna know if they're really gay or just putting on a show.” Elroy looked away from the fight and at Regina. “Do you think you could read their minds for me and figure it out?”

	Regina groaned. “Siblings hug each other all the time.”

	“We never do!”

	The succubus's attention was snatched away by Caroline's mental transformation. She could sense a great shift in the vampire's mind. It was lit up with bestial urges. Regina looked down the scope once more and could see Caroline looking directly back at her. “We've been spotted.”

	“Really?” Elroy laughed. “I mean, I'm sure everyone knows we're here, but we've never been spotted before.” He looked out over the balcony again. “They can't possibly see us, I mean, we're cloaked in shadows right now.”

	“I can't tell you why, but she sees us.” Regina kept looking through the scope. “Maybe it's smell, keen hearing, I don't know, but we've been spotted. Get ready to escape.”

	“Escape from wha-” But then Elroy saw Caroline blasting through the air towards them. He watched with some amusement as she approached his sister. But Regina was able to turn incorporeal just long enough for Caroline to pass through her and impale her spear in the side of the building. Spider line cracks covered the wall as soon as she made impact. 

	“That.” Was all Regina said, phasing back into the physical plane. The succubus folded her staff in half and holstered it across her back. She was less scared than annoyed. There was still way too much of this magical girl business that Regina didn't understand. 

	Elroy however was not too keen on running away. Metal was his second magical specialization, and he could manipulate its shape with his mind. The incubus immediately took the rebar from the concrete foundation and beckoned it to curl around the vampire. It almost looked like Caroline was in the belly of some undead giant, with its ribs closing around her shape.

	“Your welcome Regina. Now touch this rascal and-” Again,  Caroline interrupted. This time by splitting apart her restraints with  a single swing of her spear. The metal fragments likely would have pierced Elroy's body had he not caught them with his magic. The fragmented rebar floated around his body, gently spinning in place. 
“You know up close, you're kinda cute.” Before the vampire could land her next attack on Elroy, Regina took hold of his shirt collar and pulled him out of the way. She then dove into a shadow on the floor with him. The twins came out on a balcony below and over from their previous vantage point. “I'm pretty sure she was about to give me her phone number.” Elroy commented. 

	“If you ran your legs like you ran your mouth, we'd have escaped already.”

	“You think we can outrun her?” Elroy reached behind his back and drew his tower shield. He held it in front of himself with his gauntlet covered hands. “You clearly don't know my fan base very well.” The chains running across the shield unwound themselves and spread out like a web. All eyes were on the upper balcony, waiting to see what the vampire would do.