[hr][hr][center][img]https://i.postimg.cc/FKJKRczH/the-gifted-591b350cc9ba7.png[/img][/center][hr][center][@Nallore][@BlueSky44][@Achronum][@Trainerblue192][@Kirah][/center][hr][hr][center][color=f7941d][b]Genosha: July 31st, 2021 - 5:50 AM[/b][/color][/center][hr][hr][center][h3][b][color=935DB8]Veil[/color][/b][/h3][img]https://c.tenor.com/1_IfrmQYp9wAAAAC/lorde.gif[/img][hr][hr][b][color=935DB8]Location:[/color][/b] House of M Ruins 
[b][color=935DB8]Skills:[/color][/b] Invisible Energy Manipulation[/center][hr]	Polaris looked like she had gone through hell. Her body was sporting numerous cuts and her green hair was matted with blood. Her nose was broken and a blade was embedded in her stomach. Green magnetism surrounded her hands as she used her mutant gifts to drag five bodies out from the rubble with her, all of their throats cut with some sort of jagged blade. There was a certain numbness in her eyes as she saw the strange creature Kristina had blasted, and with the flick of her wrist, metal shards slit the creature's throat. [color=A9F8C7]"Father, Moneta, you survived,"[/color] Polaris stated. 

	With the creature dead, Veil and Jack were both freed from their illusions. Veil took a deep breath, suddenly coming to her senses, and she made herself visible again. Everyone seemed to be okay - well, Polaris looked like she was in desperate need of a doctor and then a quiet moment to herself, but otherwise, they were fine. By some miracle, no one had died. [color=935DB8]"What were these people?"[/color] Veil muttered, but she knew that there were probably still other places on the island that needed them. They had just showed up to the tail end of the fighting here - from the psychic messages earlier, it seemed like every inch of Genosha was under attack, so odds were, they were needed elsewhere. 

	[color=FF5733]"Yes, although we cannot say the same for the [i]meshugener[/i],"[/color] Magneto commented. There was a hint of concern in his eyes. [color=FF5733]"Elixir, would you attend to Polaris?"[/color] Magneto requested. 

	[color=A9F8C7]"I'm fine,"[/color] Polaris said, her voice void of emotion. [color=A9F8C7]"See?"[/color] she then pulled the blade out of her stomach, blood gushing out. Her pale fingers were stained with her own blood and she must have been in immense pain, but it didn't show. She was numb to the world - likely because of the senseless bloodshed that had just happened, but it was fine - they were all alive - so what had her so shaken?

	"Um... I'm going to heal you anyways, okay?" Elixir said timidly, looking like he was worried Polaris would carve his insides out with metal as he approached her. He gently put a hand on her, before his eyes widened with understanding. "Oh.... [i]Oh[/i]. I see... I... I can't do anything about [i]that[/i]... I'm so sorry..." 
	
	"You can't heal her?" Aurora asked, confused. 

	Veil saw Elixir's hands heal Polaris' wound, but it didn't change the heartbroken look on his face - or wash away the clear trauma in Polaris'. Her eyes widened slightly as she realized what must have happened. She didn't know what to say about it - she hadn't known Polaris that well, they used to have been more or less friends, but that had been years ago. And she [i]definitely[/i] wasn't about to ask Polaris if her dead unborn child was Havok's. Now wasn't the time. It would never be the time for that. 


[hider=Yiddish Translation]Jewish characters will likely know these words - 

meshugener = madman [/hider][hr][hr][center][h3][b][color=DBA1DE]Casper[/color] & [color=#DAF7A6]Sunshine[/color][/b][/h3][hr][hr][b]Location:[/b] Hellfire Manor
[b]Skills:[/b] [color=DBA1DE]Mediumship[/color][/center][hr]	The minds of the ghosts must have been harder for Spark Plug to access, as she simply couldn't get a grip on them [i](2 on a d20)[/i]. But perhaps, with another go at things, she could be more successful. Selene slurped down another dozen or so of the ghosts, with at least thirty left in the room to deal with. Horrifyingly, Selene was more or less eating their souls, the ghosts ceasing to exist once she consumed them. It was really for the best that Selene was one of Genosha's upstanding citizens and not a villainous foe. 

	[color=CDC0CF]"He's right - we'll have to kill him. That or if you could use your magicks to stop his mutant power,"[/color] Selene suggested to Max. [color=CDC0CF]"We could attempt the spell together, although it may be permanent, rendering him human... Such a waste of an omega."[/color]

	Unfortunately for Maria, Ben had been knocked out, his ghostly form fading away as he left this plane of existence for the moment before he could answer her [i](another 2 on a d20).[/i] The ghosts were more or less rushing at Echo and the clones as a mob, their combined force causing the clones to stumble backwards, decreasing the distance between them and Casper, to the point that if the clones were to move back any further they'd be stepping on the unconscious and glowing mutant. 

	[color=#DAF7A6]"We aren't killing the idiot!"[/color] Sunshine shouted, catching the container of salt that Max had thrown at her. [color=#DAF7A6]"Just... just kill the ghosts faster!"[/color] She could see that they were making progress. Pixie had stabbed another three ghosts with her souldagger and they dissipated like mist. One ghost apparently was in the mood for pranks, pulling Zarina's shirt up and over her head, effectively trapping Zarina's head inside of her shirt and blinding her. The ghosts holding Andy decided it would be really funny to [i]drop her[/i]. 

	Horrifically, one of the ghosts got a hold of Marrow's bone spikes and stabbed her through the heart, the life leaving her eyes as Sunshine screamed in horror. [color=#DAF7A6]"MARROW!"[/color] she shouted, traumatized at seeing Waverley die not long ago, and now, her wife too. She didn't listen to Max. She didn't draw a circle around her in salt. Instead, she poured salt into her hand and balled her hand into a fist, dashing for her wife. Each ghost that popped up in her way she punched, her salty knuckles causing the ghosts to flicker in and out of being. 

	She made it to Marrow, tears pouring through her eyes as she cradled Marrow in her arms. 

	"I can heal, you know," Marrow wheezed. "I'm not going to die on you, Sunny."