‘[color=f26522][i]Everything. Everything is going wrong. Everything.[/i][/color]’ Maggie thought to herself, as she smashed into the gym floor. ‘[color=f26522][i]I wanted to be brave. I wanted his bravery. I wanted it for my own.[/i][/color]’ she stared at the ceiling, as her vision desperate sought to resynchronize with reality and the headbash. ‘[color=f26522][i]He was so strong. I could have been that strong. But, everything is going wrong. Everyone got in the way.[/i][/color]’ Maggie blinked her eyes, ‘[color=f26522][i]My cheeks are wet. How angry am I? How sad am I? How pathetic am I? Why am I crying?[/i][/color]’ [[color=f7976a][i]Because, my little flower, you have no allies in this garden. All are naught but weeds, hindering your standalone beauty with their ugliness.[/i][/color]] Maggie sniffled, as she groaned; crying from how much of a failure everything had become. [[color=f7976a][i]He gave you five minutes. You, and you alone. And, yet, all these weeds entangled themselves. He left, because of them. They wasted your glorious change to bloom.[/i][/color]] Maggie drew a strangled sob, drown out beneath the rumble of the building and the cacophony of the magical horn. [[color=f7976a][i]They ruined it all. So ruin them, in return.[/i][/color]] [hr] For a moment, the Assassin-keeper was posed to congratulate the Makoto on his success, but, the regeneration of Flamma’s head had nullified that impulse. ‘[color=a187be][i]How strong. Frighteningly so. I thought that would be able to handle him.[/i][/color]’ thought the skirted teen, as he shifted his posture. Flamma was not heading to them, but he could not be off-guard in case of someone new. However, his guard didn’t need be applied to his awareness, but his fortitude, as the magical horn trumpeted into the world. ‘[color=a187be][i]Hell is that!?[/i][/color]’ [[color=8882be][i]Some form of magic, if I had to access, McQueen-dono.[/i][/color]] answered his Class Card, [[color=8882be][i]Designed for massive crowd control, or perhaps, siege against masonry and woodwork.[/i][/color]] Gritting his teeth, the Assassin-keeper held his hand flushed his ears, and braced against the pain. [[color=8882be][i]Something is wrong, McQueen-dono. I can feel a spike in magical pressure, but, it’s not like a Noble Phantasm. Not like the one deployed, but -- Virgil! Get in there, now![/i][/color]] Narrowing his eyes, the Assassin-keeper, Virgil McQueen, dashed beyond Mokoto without a word, and into the collapsing gym. ‘[color=a187be][i]I hate when you are right, Hanzo-chan.[/i][/color]’ [hr] It was with a scream of anguish and madness that Maggie surged off the floor; her hair glowing, as if made of magma. Madness had overtaken her faculties from tip to toe, as she flung herself at Tsukiya; smashing through the skeletons that were yet to fall apart. “[color=f26522][b]Nnnrrr!![/b][/color]” she growled, throwing her fist against Tsukiya’s cheek, listening to the bone shatter into pieces and bit, before her eyes turned into empty, black space, and she burst apart into a nothing. Tsukiya would fit herself relocated to the bleachers, while Maggie threw herself to the next target of her undying rage. Blindly, she lashed out with strikes that were increasingly becoming harder to predict, until her fist smashed into Rebecca’s chest; the twisted brick of flesh and bone caving in her rib, and lashing them across her heart. “[color=f26522][b]Raaaah!!![/b][/color]” Maggie roared, as she was treated to the same trick as before; Rebecca poofing into nothingness. Nothing was dying! Everyone that hindered her was not dying! Angrily, she screamed, and threw herself at at Makoto. She had to destroy him, the most interfering of all. [hr] Virgil formed his left hand into a fist, pressing his curled pointer at the base of his balled right hand, before extending his right pointer and middle fingers skyward. “[color=a187be][b][i]Noble Phantasm,[/i][/b][/color]” he says, “[color=a187be][b][i]My lonely shadow; Fans out like branches on trees; Through which I reach all.[/i][/b][/color]” As he completed his haiku prayer, his shadow whipped up and off him; forming into a copy of Makoto that took his place, as Maggie killed “Rebecca”. ‘[color=a187be][i]This is a tough one. Usually, they only look like me. Fortunately, if I let you do it, then it works out much better.[/i][/color]’ he sighed. He didn’t receive an immediate answer. ‘[color=a187be][i]Are you mad at me, Hattori-san, because I called you Hanzo-chan, by accident? To be fair, you called me Virgil, first.[/i][/color]’ His Class Card huffed in annoyance. [[color=8882be][i]You weren’t being aware of the situation.[/i][/color]] Virgil scoffed, and rolled his eyes, before looking at Tsukiya, Rebecca, and Makoto. ‘[color=a187be][i]I think, I’m doing alright. Now, if anything, these bozos will trust me.[/i][/color]’ he says. ‘[color=a187be][i]But, before that, need to claim down the Beast, and only the Beauty can do that.[/i][/color]’ Virgil drew Hanzo’s tanto, and ran out the hole; meeting Maggie’s rush back in with a lancing trust. [hr] Maggie froze, as the tip of a sword bit into her throat. It didn’t send her to her ass, but, he brought back memories. Memories brought back anger. Anger called forth retribution. “[color=f26522][b]NNNNRRR!!![/b][/color]” she growled, raising her fist to hammer Virgil into the earth. However, the skirted boy skipped backward, and she smashed the earth, alone. “[color=a187be][b]Catch me, if you can, Beast. Let this Beauty lead you to the roses you seek,[/b][/color]” he offered, pressing his tanto against her jugular. Maggie screamed, and whirled around with an arm extended. Virgil ducked it, and hopped back, as she brought a knee to bare against his crouch. “[color=f26522][b]....rrrrr...[/b][/color]” she snarled, before tossing her fist at her sky, and roaring to the sky. “[color=f26522][b]UUURRRR!!! [/b][/color]” Virgil grinned at her, and hopped backward, as she, savagely, charged forwards. He didn’t have a plan beyond keeping her far away from people, but he did had the rein to this wild beast. All he need to do was find a way to leash her.