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Everything went to shit a lot faster than Oscar had expected it to. He barely had time to slam his hand up, bookmark glowing red in his pocket to part that water that came directly towards him. He cursed under his breath, even as he watched in something close to awe when the two imposters transformed. He wanted so desperately to know how that worked. His mind was only half on the scene unfolding in front of them as he quickly latched onto considering the new magic. 

Tuyen was knocked back by the wave of water, slamming against the wall with a hiss. She’d just bought this dress for the occasion! She wasn’t exactly made out of money like this family was! Her mind quickly moved past this, pushing herself up to her feet. This was not good. Water meant that Justin couldn’t use his abstraction. Which put them in a tight spot, seeing as she had no idea how much help any of the Vanburen’s would be. Or [i]her[/i] for that matter. 

[quote=Arabelle][color=804061] “There’s more of them down the hall! She let them in with a portal in the bathroom. They must be using some sort of cloaking spell so that I couldn’t see them, but I know they’re here.”[/color][/quote]

More of them? That was great. Typical. Tuyen tried to push down the anxiety crashing into her mind, the shadows flickering in the corners of her vision. Why could it never go well for them? Nevermind that one of the Vanburen’s themselves was brandishing a knife at all of them and seemed to include Tuyen and Justin in the two he wanted out. 

[color=Gold]“I don’t think he’s going anywhere,”[/color] Oscar commented, eyebrow raised as he witnessed the sheer efficiency with which Alexander wrapped the imposter in chains. Even so he manipulated the water that soaked everything around them, drawing it out so it floated over his hand. [color=Gold]“It would be better to speak before I treat you to a taste of what you did to us.”[/color]

[color=MediumSlateBlue]“Or they could just leave!”[/color] Trisha spoke up from where she was pressed against the wall, laptop back hugged to her chest like it was a lifeline and a particularly vicious scowl on her lips. If her laptop, the only thing that let her use her stupid abstraction, was broken because of this? There would be hell to pay. [color=MediumSlateBlue]“Ezra said to get out, so we should just throw him out.”[/color]

As if she was ever one to follow the orders of their eldest brother unless they benefited them. 

Oscar opened his mouth to comment that there were other intruders to worry about- when right on queue a demonic scream ripped through the mansion. 

Tuyen shuddered at that. The man they’d caught in here seemed subdued enough but whatever they’d just heard? She was quite certain it was coming for them. 

[color=MediumOrchid]“Justin,”[/color] she said quietly, taking a step towards her friend. [color=MediumOrchid]“You can handle him, right?”[/color] She nodded towards the chained man. She continued, loud enough for the rest to hear. [color=MediumOrchid]“I’ll go towards whatever that was.”[/color]

She then glared at her side. To the others, it looked like she was staring down with an empty space. Internally Tuyen was battling with the shadow that slunk around her. She [i]needed[/i] it to work with her for once. Even if this was a terrible idea, it would be worse if whatever could sound like that got into a room full of people. She [i]would[/i] make this work. She was not going to let her abstraction refuse to do what she wanted it do, after all the times it had before. 

Tuyen let out a visible sigh of relief when The Shadow physically manifested, a solid but inky black version of herself coming into view beside her. She took quick steps towards the dining room entrance, shadow clinging to her each step of the way and eerily flickering towards more monstrous (but still small) versions of her. She stopped when she reached Ezra, where he stood with a glowing orange knife. 

[color=MediumOrchid]“If you would let me past. Unless you want whatever that was to come in here.”[/color] She spoke with a confidence she very much didn’t feel, but was doing a good job of pretending. 

As soon as the demonic cry had been heard, Trisha had pulled out her laptop and knelt down with it. Thankfully the water didn’t seem to have damagic it (probably because of the spirit or whatever inside of it), and it booted just as fast as normal. Which wasn’t as fast as she’d liked. She muttered at it as it finally turned on, pulling up her programs and hurriedly typing away. It wasn’t difficult when she already had the base code written, and what she needed was simple: to look and see what it was. She hit run and after a painful few moments hoping it wouldn’t error out, a single tiny blob like creature appeared beside her. It instantly ran out the door, past Tuyen and under Ezra legs, and out towards where the scream had been heard.