In the midst of the music intensifying, the emotions - particularly negative emotions - of the party were also intensifying. Carmen watched the crowd closely as they became increasingly restless. Soon, a large slam was heard and she saw someone smash another person through a table. Her eyes darting to focus on that, she came to a sudden realization in her mind. [i]The dragon boy from the auditorium...[/i] she thought. Unconsciously the chords she was playing underneath her own trumpet solo were building tension as her own emotions were a mixture of anger, uncertainty, and a distinct concern that the music would end soon.

As if on cue, the DJ next to her whose drumming the was really digging suddenly stopped playing, leaving Carmen hanging over on an extremely loud, extremely high note. She turned abruptly to him as she laid down deeper chords to try to compensate for the change, but as she looked at him he was staring at the crowd, and his boombox-drumset began transforming yet again. As he began to run towards the fight, he winked at her. By this point Carmen was trying to contain the situation with the music she was playing, and her eyebrows went up at the wink. Her eyes followed him into the crowd, and it was at that moment that she completely stopped playing, only able to stare. Hell itself had been brought into the party - this fight would not end well. More and more people were joining the fray, only making the fray bigger and worse, and now Satan's soldiers were marching in.

Carmen needed to do something now if she had any hope of helping the situation, which now could get them all in trouble because of the property damage caused when the dragon and demon chased each other down a hole freshly burnt into the floor. The authorities were already likely on their way, so Carmen felt it a perfectly appropriate time to...intervene. The two aggressors were just one floor below the party and still underneath it, making their way to the balcony, so Carmen took action. The beasts were no longer in the room, but they could still chaos. Everyone could hear and feel them and Carmen was certain that some harm would be caused unless she did something. Up until this point, everyone at the Academy had only heard Carmen's good side - the soothing, uplifting music she played. Perhaps some thought that her abilities were completely useless in a combat situation.

Well, they would now be proven wrong.

Carmen put her trumpet to her lips with fire in her eyes and created the lowest, most massive wall of sound imaginable. It shook the floor, it shook eardrums, it shook eyes, and it shook peace of mind. While it would certainly not be a pleasant experience for those in the room, the building and indeed the entire campus, Carmen focused the terrible sound's waves directly at the dragon and the demon. It would be much more unpleasant for them. The sound lasted for several long seconds and then dissipated as Carmen fell, nearly passing out. As she was untrained, that one outburst had used all of her combat energy and she lay onstage breathless, hoping what she had done had caused some good.