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[color=fce420]”… Otten, Otten,”[/color] Yoko said, gently nudging Saskia awake. [color=fce420]”Wake up. There are people coming. We have to go.”[/color]

It was pouring down yet again.

[color=fce420]”It’s hard to discern any details due to the rain, but there’s at least two dozen of them,”[/color] Yoko explained. [color=fce420]”Wake up Turner and Brooks.”[/color]

[color=DC143C]"Can't we just leave them?"[/color] Saskia intoned, even as they turned around to violently shake Ella awake. They'd managed to position themselves on the outside this time with Ella in the middle, hugging Lisa as the smallest spoon like normal. As Ella woke up she jostled Lisa. 

[color=e77fbf]"Huhhh, what?"[/color]

[color=DC143C]"People. Get up."[/color]

[color=764820]”Well-”[/color] Lisa loudly yawned. 
[color=764820]”... Well, are they friendly people?”[/color]

[color=fce420]”From the way they speak, I can tell we should avoid them,”[/color] Yoko said. [color=fce420]”Pack up, we’re slipping out the back before they notice us.”[/color]

Yoko then turned to Ella, [color=fce420]”Disciple, it’s time to put your training to practice. Use Focus to discern their general vicinity.”[/color]

Ella closed her eyes, and took a deep breath. [color=e77fbf]"... We’re surrounded!"[/color]

[color=DC143C]"Sneaking out isn't an option then,"[/color] Saskia commented. They pulled out their knife, pulling it across their palm and beginning to coat their arm in the blood armour. [color=DC143C]"Let's still go out the back. Maybe we can pick some off then run."[/color]

[color=fce420]”Turner! Spiders!”[/color] Yoko commanded, and spiders came out of the hidden corners of the room. [color=fce420]” It's raining fairly hard, I wouldn’t recommend a fi-”[/color]

The doors were thrown open… And a hulking figure stepped in. It was a man, heavily deformed, and standing over six feet tall. He wore blue overalls and wielded a rusted double-barrel shotgun that was tapes together and chipped.

“... What are you four doing in Pa’s barn?!” He said in a thick accent. “He’s been dead for ten years! Have some respect!”

He raised the shotgun.

[color=e77fbf]”Sorry, we were just leaving!"[/color] Ella said, throwing her hands up into the air in a surrender position. 

Saskia didn't say anything, watching the deformed man carefully, blood creeping along her skin under her clothes and towards her back in preparation for a fight if need be.

“You ain’t going anywhere little lady!” He said with a grin. “You’re now tonight’s food!”

Yoko sighed, and in a burst of speed, appeared on the other side of the Hillbilly. She silently placed the Yokai Killer back into its sheath as his torso began to rot. Then the slash appeared, and he hunched forward, landing on his hands and knees, coughing up blood. The shotgun landed on the ground..

[color=fce420]”Surprised he’s still alive…”[/color] Yoko rolled her eyes, and looked over her shoulder. 
[color=fce420]”One of you! Finish him off! We may have to fight our way out of here.”[/color]

[color=DC143C]"Easy."[/color] Saskia shoved their blood tendril right through his throat, brutally ripping it out. They then went over and kicked his body over. [color=DC143C]"May? Definitely. Lisa, can you get a flying spider ready?"[/color]

[color=e77fbf]"It won't be hard if they're all like him!"[/color] Ella said, pulling out the Ice Scepter and practically skipping over to Yoko and Saskia.

Lisa nodded her head and five spiders were wrapped in glowing cocoons.

[color=fce420]”Let’s not get-”[/color]

A mutated fist went through the wall of the barn, only to get retracted. Then a lit stick of dynamite followed.

[color=fce420]”Shit!”[/color] Yoko shouted as she took a defensive position.

[color=e77fbf]"TAKE COVER!"[/color] Ella yelled, blasting the area around the dynamite with ice, trying to form an ice container over it.

Saskia swore as she backed away, blood armour covering her. Lisa quickly ducked behind a tractor, activating the exoskeleton. It went off, almost collapsing the building in the blast as sharpel was sent in all directions. Yoko stood fast, only moved backwards slightly as the explosion just singed her clothing.

Yoko sighed, [color=fce420]”Is everybody okay?!”[/color]

[color=764820]”I’m okay!”[/color] Lisa shouted, [color=764820]”But my babies aren’t!”[/color]

[color=fce420]”Oh, get over it, Turn-”[/color] Yoko was interupted by some shouting.

“... SEND IN GEORGE, BETTY, AND BILLYBOB!”

A few moments later, a hulking pig monster with the girth of a 18-wheeler came burst through the wall. It had freakish boils growing on the side of its body and plates of keratin. It loudly squealed before two more came in. 

[color=e77fbf]"NOT BILLYBOB!"[/color] Ella wailed, undamaged and spinning to change into her magical girl outfit. [color=e77fbf]"I'm not sure I can-"[/color]

[color=DC143C]"Just blast them,"[/color] Saskia picked herself up from the ground, grimacing as blood dripped from spots that had been caught in the worst of the blast. At least it was just the blood from her armour… mostly. They held up a hand and shot a blood bullet towards one of the pig monsters.  It bounced off, as it squeeled and charged Saskia - only for spider webs to bind its front leg and cause it to fall forward.

The next pig, Betty, turned towards Ella and charged her while Billybob went after Yoko.

Ella screamed as she dodge rolled out of the way, flipping over and shooting beams of ice at Betty's legs. Freezing Betty’s front leg.

Saskia used the advantage Lisa had given them by stopping George to launch themselves into his back, bone spears shooting out of their knees to dig into his back between armour. Penetrating the Pig, and causing him to squeal in pain. However, he quickly rolled around. Saskia snapped off the bone spears in him and leapt of, landing on the ground awkwardly with a groan.

Billybob opened it's maw to bite Yoko, only for her to hold the Yokai Killer sideways in a defensive position. When Billybob bit down on the sword, his teeth began to decay and fall out. He loudly squealed as he relented. Yoko charged forward to finish the job, but Billybob rammed her with his boa and sent her skidding backwards. The Yokai Killer clattered against the ground.

[color=764820]”Yoko!”[/color] Lisa shouted, before opening her mouth and spewing spiders onto Billybob’s side and they detonated in acid. Billybob squealed, thrashing on the ground as his intestines hit the floor.

[color=DC143C]"Get the others too!"[/color] Saskia shouted, lashing out with a blood tendril at George’s face, slashing it open and spraying blood. Only to vomitted on by Lisa and the spiders detonated in acid, dissolving his face and then he slumped over dead.

Ella leapt at Betty, jumping up onto her back, and slamming electrified hands into her back. The pig monster loudly screamed as it fell over, and attempted to roll with Ella on top. Ella kicked herself off the pig, rolling away with a grunt.

Yoko grabbed the Yokai Killer, and swung it directly at Billybob’s neck, and decapitated him in one swing. His head rotted away into nothing upon hitting the ground. 

[color=e77fbf]"Sorry pig monster who did no wrong!"[/color] Ella shouted as she shifted around on the floor, shoving her hands out and spraying flames at Betty. Who backpedaled away from the fires, however massive spider legs burst from underneath her and impaled her. Yoko ran up, raised the Yokai Killer overhead and brought it down on Betty’s neck.

Her head dropped to the ground and decayed afterward. Yoko paused for a moment, before saying, 

[color=fce420]”We’re still surrounded! I suggest we pick a direction and blitz it!”[/color]

[color=DC143C]"That way,"[/color] Saskia pointed the opposite direction to where the pigs had come in. They only waited a moment for anyone to react, before moving over. [color=DC143C]"Ella, kick it down, then electrocute everyone outside. It's raining, right? Just don't get caught in the rain too."[/color]

[color=e77fbf]"... Right."[/color] Ella looked at Yoko, then kicked the wall, taking a chunk out that was large enough for them to get through. Electricity surged down her hands and she shoved them through it, shooting it wildly all around the outside vicinity.

[color=fce420]”... It's raining, Brooks!”[/color] Yoko shouted.

A crowd was formed outside the hole… Scattering for a moment before a shotgun blast rung out directly at Ella.

[color=DC143C]"Idiot."[/color] Saskia's blood tendril wrapped around Ella's waist and yanked her out of the way.

[color=e77fbf]"You told me to!"[/color] Ella wailed. 

Saskia shrugged… quickly holding out her hands. Thin nerves shot out her fingers, crawling across the floor like mycelium, seeking all the people outside and trying to embed into their skin. As soon as they connected they'd start paralysing… And they suddenly stopped moving.

Lisa opened her jaw and began spraying spiders in all directions at the Hillbillies and they exploded into acid and chitin fragments mid-air. They screamed and hollered, and Yoko put the Yokai Killer away and pulled out the Dragon’s Wisdom. She held the blade in front of her on her thumbs.  The rainwater was collected around her as she closed her eyes, breathed in deeply.

She shot her hands forward. 

The water burst out like a wave and launched Hillbillies aside as Yoko gestured for the others to come along before she sheathed the sword and hopped into the air. She kept her hand on the Dragon’s Wisdom as she hit the ground.

Ella ran out first, legs glowing a soft rainbow that made her faster. She kicked any Hillbillies strewn in their path to the side so that they could run. Saskia grimaced, pulling back in her nerves - they should still stay paralyzed for a couple of minutes - and followed right behind Ella. Spider legs erupted from Lisa’s back as she flung herself forward.

Yoko ran into the bushes, followed by the others.

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They approached a pond… Much like the rest of the farm, it was tainted brown from waste and debris. Yoko walked down the path, and got on her knees, closing her eyes, [color=fce420]”... I can’t sense anyone.”[/color]

[color=764820]”... Are we in the clear?”[/color] Lisa asked.

[color=fce420]”Possibly,”[/color] Yoko said.

[color=e77fbf]"I don’t sense anyone either,"[/color] Ella said after a moment of silence. 

[color=DC143C]"We should keep going anyway,"[/color] Saskia suggested, looking around with narrowed eyes. Who knew when something would jump out and attack them. [color=DC143C]"We rested enough."[/color]

Yoko unsheathed the Yokai Killer, and raised it high into the air.

[color=fce420]”... Onwards, friends!”[/color] Yoko valiantly said. [color=fce420]”To the Kingdom!”[/color]