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[b]The Grande Diamond: Basement[/b]
It took a moment for Syed to risk releasing his hold on Moira, taking a couple of steps away from her. He wrapped his torn up hands around himself, looking back up to the floor above them. Where to start... where to start...

Then he felt another warm glow encompass his body. He looked around, finding himself suprised once more to find Amy clutching her glowing gem, muttering words he couldn't hear.

Syed averted his eyes again, feeling pretty awkward. He still didn't feel he really deserved her help, but she was right. "Thanks, Amy."

Amy moved on to Moira, who unfortunately had something else on her mind. Her face still contorted in fury, she could initially do nothing but stare blankly at the door the pair had left.

They weren't coming back.

"AAAAAAAAARGH!" she suddenly screamed, driving her fist into the ground and sending up a fresh plume of dust. Fuck them! Fuck the fucking fuck fuck fu-

BOOM.

Okay, this one was not coming from them for once. It reverberated throughout the whole building, coming somewhere above them. It wasn't in fact the first one, but thanks to their position in the basement the first few weren't as noticable.

BOOM.

Syed turned to look around to the others, wide eyed. "The others..." he muttered, staring with concern at Xan. "You don't think... it's that guy again do you? The weight guy?"

BOOM. This one was the loudest of all, practically explosive in volume.

Moira didn't wait, snatching the pipe back up and taking off towards the door. This time Syed didn't protest, gesturing towards the others to follow.

They ran down the corridor with Trixie as the fastest taking the lead. They finally found the stairs going up, a particularly steep and much less luxurious set than the ones upstairs. Yeah, this was definately supposed to be a staff area. They emerged from a discreet door in a corridor just off the practically obliterated main lobby.

Where were they supposed to go now? Both Moira and Syed looked somewhat desperately around for any sign of where the noise came from.

There! A hole at the end of a corridor, which looked like the doors had been torn right out of the frames. Now gasping for breath they scrambled forward, Moira's grip on her pipe tightening and Syed bringing his hands up and ready...

The pipe dropped to the floor.

There had been one hell of a fight in here by the looks of it. Syed's eyes immediately locked onto Estelle, his stomach knotting up in concern. Selan looked a wreck too, but he had no idea what had happened here. "Estelle! Are you okay, they didn't do..." he trailed off when he spotted Josette, leaning over one of the two unconcious men on the floor. He brought his hands to his mouth in horror at the sight of his wounds. "Oh Vayu...!"

Moira had her priorities straight.

"Ey, since when did Don have the fuckin' time to swap clothes with the stupid superhero guy?!"