[color=00aeef][center][h3]Cassandra Moore – Obelisk Blue[/h3][/center][/color]

It wasn’t hard to find the source of the trouble. Even though it was deep in the woods and the middle of the night Cassandra had no trouble following the feeling of foreboding in her chest like a compass towards the centre of this mess; the ritual that Haruko had created and was still in the middle of.

Even though, traversing the woods at night wasn’t easy and Cassandra stumbled out of the dark into the ghostly glow of the clearing with her jacket scuffed and scraped by branches and her face and hands marred by dirt where she had tripped over roots. She was breathing heavily as she approached the mass of spirits, both from exertion and also because the feeling in her chest had reached a peak; the feelings of anger and pain and misery emanating from what she could now see were dozens if not hundreds of discarded spirits.

It hurt her heart too, just being near them.

Feeling a nudge at her elbow, she looked down to see Naga at her side, or at least peeking out from behind her back. The duel spirit met her eyes and nudged her arm again before pointing towards her duel disk. [color=00aeef]“Duel them?”[/color]

The snake girl nodded, before retreating behind her back for safety. Cassandra turned back to the maelstrom of abandoned spirits, to the girl who had awakened them and the other girl and spirit who was trying to fight them. She felt for these spirits, because they were hurting, but the only way to calm them down might be to fight them first.

[color=00aeef]“Hmm, okay then.”[/color]

Pulling out her deck, she readied her duel disk and stepped forward.

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[color=ed1c24][center][h3]Leo Wilde – Slifer Red[/h3][/center][/color]

[color=ed1c24]“Huh? What do you mean they're missing?”[/color]

Leo’s eyes drifted towards the forest. Could they have gone there? It was the first thing he thought of, but to be honest he wasn’t sure why; why would anyone wander into the forest in the middle of the night? They’d have to be stupid. More likely they’d headed down the path towards the main building or one of the other dorms, sneaking out to go see someone else or, he didn’t know, have a late night duel to settle something? Maybe they’d even gone to the docks, trying to run away because they couldn’t cut it.

Any of those were more likely than them heading deep into the woods at night, and yet…

[color=ed1c24]“Alright, I’ll help. Where should we look first?”[/color]