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~ [i]Into the Fire[/i] ~[/center]

The beast snarled at the other girls, setting itself into a defensive stance, prepared to strike at a moments notice. The only semblance it had Thalia was its Kitsune heritage. Anything else had been lost under a sea of emotional distress. She eyed Elroy, Alicia, and Suwako in turn, waiting for their attack. The creature wasn't something driven purely by emotions. Inside her head  was almost silent, static, a tranquility unlike normal monsters. It's tail swished like a metronome, and it took a breath, keeping the enemies within her vision.

The moment Scout fired the first shot, Thalia roared. A bestial, carnal sound, that echoed around the surroundings, reaching even to Julia and Jillian. In this form, her agility was matched by few. A piece of rubble flew past her head, then another, evaded in turn by the dancing wolf. Her claws dug into the ground and she spun in a circle, kicking up rubble and metal into the air as she went. It wasn't much of a smoke screen, but it acted enough as a distraction for her purposes.

Thalia stopped, pointed directly towards Suwako's voice through the dust. She saw the vines dragging away her friend, and in response let out a low growl, a sole announcement of the up and coming attack; one of her tails raised, bent, and pointed its tip towards the Woodland Mahou; then another; then all the remaining ones, in unison, lifted, poised like snakes, preparing to bite at their prey. Nine tails, in a fan around the Kitsune, which then lit up individually in a deep, blue flame. The fire then condensed, until it sat like a will-o-wisp at the tips of each tail.

In a heartbeat, the first fired. The vines it hit ripped apart under the force, turned to ash, and burnt from the heat as they came into contact with the beam. From the tail had been unleashed a thin column of fire, that zipped through the air to its target. The next second all nine came alive as Thalia let lose a barrage of fire upon the girl. These people were to hurt her friend, were they? Lay hands and magic upon her? They'd have to kill her first.

Her eye caught Alicia, prepared to fire. The beast spun to face her, and from the ground kicked up with her paw a piece of scrap, correlated metal from the roof of the shop. The moment it was in the air, she fired her tail cannons into it, propelling the scrap forward like a shield directly at the Bacon archer.

It was only then she noticed that Elroy had vanished. She glanced around the field, spying nothing, and let out a bellow. He was hiding somewhere, obviously... Thalia scampered in front of Penny, growling at Alicia, Suwako, and Scout from into front of her. Nobody would hurt her... nobody would... nobody!

All nine tails once again lit up into a blaze, but this time they didn't fire at a particular target. Instead, they ripped through the air seemingly at random, haphazardly aimed toward any and all shadows that fell upon the field. They had to be somewhere! They would not escape hurting her friend with punishment! They would die before the night was through! 

[center][@Shifter_Master][@Flamelord][@Hammerman][@Majoras End][@Shydot][/center]