ITP: Consolidation.

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Punishment- Starting Day 6, Evening- Viewable

[floreatnoctem]

What is it, what is it, what are you-?

Medea has never failed her before.

Even as she moves forward, Chidori can feel Medea try and scan the thing holding the rest of Strega captive, can feel the power swell, sweep forward- then falter and dissipate completely. No matter how she pushes, how many times she uses her evoker, there is nothing- Medea can't scan it, can't hurt it, can't stop it. It holds the others effortlessly in shifting tendrils of itself, keeping them immobile, keeping them defenseless. Ken is already hurting, his small frame not quite able to bear the strain of the grip it has on him, and his cries make her try even more desperately to summon Medea forth once again. There is nothing but silence in her mind in response as her evoker clicks uselessly beneath her chin, and she gives a frustrated noise in time with the yelp- helpless and unintended- that escapes Jin, one of his arms snapping-

-(she can hear it, sharp and crisp, like someone's stepped on a twig)-

- the lower part of his forearm bending outward at an unusual angle. She doesn't hear anything from Minato, but she doesn't have to- the clench in his jaw even as he gags on the blood that comes up through his gritted teeth says all she needs to know.

"Let them go-!"

Her voice sounds raw and desperate to her ears, and it frightens her because she has never, ever sounded that way before. But then, she's never been this helpless before, been this close to losing the only thing she has in the world that she will fight tooth and nail for. It seems like no matter how quickly she moves, she can't quite reach them before it starts to really hurt them- and each moment that passes with her unable to help them, they suffer for it. Her axes can't reach at first, but even when she gets close enough that they hit, they just bounce off and clatter to the ground, skittering to a stop at her feet. She pulls them back into her hands and tries again, but too late, she can hear the sounds of it tightening its grip on the other members of Strega even as it lashes out and sends her sprawling, her axes falling from her hands, evoker slipping out of its hidden pocket and landing nearby.

Her ribs are cracked- she can feel that much- but she rolls onto her stomach and pushes herself to her hands and knees regardless.

Will your failures ever cease, I wonder?

Medea's voice, cruel and mocking, as she struggles toward her evoker and pushes herself back to her feet.

She halts with it halfway to her temple, and it slips through her fingers as she looks to the creature once again, eyes locking onto her teammates- or rather, what remains of them. Jin's limbs are all at odd angles now, head lolling backward against the back of one of his shoulders, blood spilling onto the limb that had been wrapped around his neck, fragments of his vertebrae scattered in the pooling liquid. Ken looks smaller than normal, as if every bit of him has caved in on itself, blood welling beneath his unbroken skin like a full-body bruise, its only escape through his mouth and what remained of his eyes. Minato looks like its tried and failed to pull his bones clean from his body, skin split neatly along the lines of his skeleton, but only pushed halfway off, pale and bloodless and oh God-

The music on his headphones is still playing as one of them dangles dangerously on the ear closest to her.

It turns then, offering them forward like someone showing off- look what I did, isn't it neat?- and the bile rises in her throat, hands going to her mouth as her stomach threatens to empty itself. At this angle she sees Minato's heart beat in the space between his exposed ribs- once, twice, shudderstop- and then it drops him and the others to the ground, the sound they make as they hit the ground slick and unpleasant.

She doesn't realize she's been screaming until she chokes on her own voice as the monster turns on her at last and her vision goes dark, eyes squeezing shut-

Pathetic.


She opens them again to the sounds of Ken calling for her help once more, sees them all in its grip again...

It's all she can do not to let her screaming begin anew.