[center][h1][color=silver]Annabelle Irons[/color][/h1][/center]

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Now the mummies were fighting back?! And the guys had still be transporting a buncha people too, but she hadn't been able to really stop them....but why hadn't boss let her?! Then, of all things, some of the last few original guys in this area had been snagged up by the mummies protecting her? What was going on! The void-touched magical girl had no idea, somewhat lost in thought and out of awareness of her surroundings for a moment. However, the inky black orb floating near her pushed against her suddenly, as if trying to move her out of the way of-

THUNK

-....of something. The fired projectile of Rina grazed Annabelle's right side, slamming into the ground behind as it dripped with some of the horror magical girl's blood. It wasn't a serious wound, but all the same it was a distinctly wide "gash" of some description that had resulted from the attack regardless. Annabelle nearly fell over at the sudden disruption and injury, if not for the orb keeping her held up seemingly under the control of her "boss" still. 

Shock was written into her face as she looked up at where Rina was, disbelief written into her face as if she was surprised Rina did such a thing to her. Slowly she looked over at Amaryllis, then at Rina, then at herself. Realization began to dawn on her a bit about the entire situation as she grasped her right hand on the nearby railing and steadied herself standing again as the shock did far more than Rina's arrow could have done to shake Annabelle in this situation. The horror girl's left hand, having come to her side, was pulled up to look at, covered in her own blood. HER. OWN. BLOOD. 

[b]Oh no. OH NO. NONONONONO....[/b]

[color=silver]"W-Wha? W-w-wait! I didn't come here to be the villain!!! There's gotta be some kind of mistake here! Boss never told me he was gonna grab up these people!!! I-i-i just want to stop these mummies, i wanted to help people here!"[/color] Annabelle said with her blood-covered left hand stretched out and waving defensively in the direction of the other two magical girls, panic and fear tainting the tone of her voice, even as the warm feelings of pleasure coursed through her body at the sensations of physical pain from the attack, creating a more confusing dichotomy in Annabelle's mind that left her feeling more off-kilter than she was right now. 

However, as she noticed the squirming mummies out of the corner of her eye, whilst looking back again at what had otherwise happened, a pang of worry about them rang into her head. They had managed to take on individual grunts rather well....no, too well. Her mid a blur of activity, ranging from the oozing physical pleasure from the wound to the panic and sudden realization of her position, to the idea of the threat of the mummies setting in, the void-touched girl acted on her instincts in the blink of an eye. She put her left hand on the railing next to her, extending her right hand at the mummies. Perhaps in a panic, she felt doing something to these mummies would help her case? Perhaps it would make the others not attack her? 

Regardless of potentially futile thoughts, Annabelle's magic kicked into gear, an array of dark, magical chains appearing around the mummies. Many of them wrapped around the limbs of the creatures, their bodies in general even, binding them, grasping them, clinging to them even tighter and stronger than before. Other chains at the same time rose up along with hers, grasping onto the lances, seeking to pull them out. Annabelle's eyes opened even wider than they already were, even more horrified that....those chains pulling out the lances weren't hers! Was her boss...was he messing with her magic too right now?! 

As she wasn't paying enough attention to the matter, a second inky black orb formed near her, in front of her and hidden from sight as it sunk down through the stadium floor below. Down it moved an slinked and snuck, even into the shadows of one of the dugouts below. Seeming to merge with the natural shadows there seamlessly, as if made from the same fabric, another portal formed. Quickly, out from it poured more minions, rushing onto the field towards the mummies and remaining people, and others climbing up into the stands and rushing at the other two magical girls. Reinforcements. Limited, but reinforcements.

As she witnessed the additional "allies" rushing in to her defense, the swarm against spreading out with eager, devoted haste to Lord Soth as they also rushed towards the mummies and any remaining civilians, she felt stupefied. Why had boss stopped her from disciplining the guys? Why had he just fiddled with her magic when she was just trying to bind the mummies? She'd been afraid of other magical girls jumping in to stop her doing something good, not.....why was she the villain here?! Why now?! If nothing else, she was glad Regina and Elroy were not here, not in danger of what was going on around her. For all she knew her boss woulda' attacked them as well, though right now she was trying to mentally grasp a lot of what was going on in truth as disbelief overcame reason and logic. 

But right now....right now she wanted to get out of here, go back to base, talk to her boss if nothing else. He would be reasonable, right? ....Right? 

[@Ariamis][@BrokenPromise][@Rune_Alchemist][@ERode]

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[center][h1][color=blue]Nina Kujo[/color] and [color=violet]Alice Honorsby[/color][/h1][/center]

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It didn't take long for Nina to get down the contact information, and to pick up Alice as the other girl explained to her what had happened on her end and vice versa. Though there didn't seem to be bad feelings from Alice about things, Nina had admittedly felt...guilty about what had happened. For not being there, for not getting there sooner to help, just in case. Of course despite her usual demeanor masking such things her senpai had managed to figure it out anyways, before lecturing her and buying them out some pizza for dinner. But that was one thing Nina appreciated about Alice....the fact she could loosen the hell up after crap like this, where some might hold grudges or get petty. Hell, where some might have actually fallen for a metaphorical or literal "deal with the devil" as the saying went. 

In all honesty that other girl from the previous day, not the one who gave her the number but the other one, had felt familiar though. Like some part of her, almost like family of some kind just from looking at her alone. What indeed did that mean? Was it memories from her previous life kicking in or something? Yare yare. Was it something else? She had no idea, but she felt compelled to meet that person again, maybe talk with them if possible. Yes, that seemed rather right in terms of ideas, and even Alice had agreed after she'd explained the feeling. Maybe they had similar power or something?

Regardless, the new day seemed to be starting off chaotically, though not before she could stand on the roof with Alice, both in magical girl form, and contact the other duo:

[color=blue]"Ey, where are you two headed to right now? There's two incidents, one at the stadium and one at a cathedral,"[/color] Nina said over the phone in her usual tone, having used her "spirit-possessed phone" to make regular phone calls after some tinkering the previous night, albeit almost sounding annoyed if not for the words she was saying communicating otherwise.

Alice merely rolled her eyes for a second internally, though felt a small pang of joy in her that Nina had finally found some added contacts around here. Not that the seemingly "odd" connection at first sight thing for one of them was kinda strange, potentially suspicious, but then again she'd seen far odder things happen to good...and bad....ends. To her, this Chloe was an odd individual, depraved and sadistic in many ways, willing to indulge a manic state as she'd apparently pressed all the dark magical girl's "buttons" in the right way. It was kinda creepy, but at the same time kinda sensual as well in the end...er, an odd thing that was. At least she had more of an idea of this perpetrator of the prior day's spirit incident now, and more of an idea that this person's Patron and themselves were on a mission of sorts. What was their method? Recruitment of magical girls to them seemed to be one strategy, if her experience wasn't super-distinct in regards to that. 

Whatever the case for all of these things that had been running through her mind, she knew that taking down these monsters at two key locations would be necessary before doing anything else. Question is, where were their potential allies going to be heading off to? Surely the stadium was a task that couldn't be handled alone, but even the cathedral area was a potential risk depending on the strength of the monsters there as well. It would be sound to meet up with allies to do better work, though her and Nina's patron had contacted them with a reward promised if they could help get at least one of the situations under control. Not that they needed the prompting in this case, as the goddess fully knew about them. 

[@MadManMoon]