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Apt 4

there's something wrong...even now.

Things are about to change....this room, this space...but we all must STAY in here TOGETHER!
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Still sitting next to Morgan and Karen while Mike sat in the back of them, Blaze turned from Alison to Barbas.

an unquiet spirit moves among us...but he's only just beginning!

us...standing together TONIGHT was the first REAL act of defiance, and he will ANSWER IT ACCORDINGLY!
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Nodding in agreement, Blaze squeezed her sisters and Karen's hand.

Nicolas, he's not REALLY in this room...not COMPLETELY.
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As Haleigh tried to bait Barbas, Alison's voice carried over the blondes.

QUIET! LISTEN!
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Looking around the room, Blaze tightened her grip on Morgan and Karen's hand. Her own heart beat quickened as the seconds ticked by. Keenly trying to listen to what Alison spoke of.
 
Walking with Alison and Delilah to Morgan's apartment, Alison knowingly asked about Hecate, Demeter, and Artemis facing Barbas before. Persephone nodded.

"I was only a little girl when Hecate destoryed him. And for whatever reasons, Barbas sent me those memories just a few moments ago."

Entering Morgan's apartment, Mike, Nicolas, and Blaze had already returned. Everyone was there, including Karen and Morgan who were extremely distraught. Karen held Morgan tightly as her daughter protest Nicolas being there. Saying he was going to kill her. They were both hysterical. :p Everyone was panicked....as they should be. Fighting your worst nightmares wasn't exactly like fighting a sentinal or the sisterhood. The battle had to be won within the person.

Haleigh quickly tried to calm the situation down in a way only Haleigh could. Yelling. ;) Alison also tried to defuse the situation, but Barbas soon made himself known. Atleast his astral form. He was as tall, lanky, and creepy looking as she remembered him to be. Haleigh and Nicolas both defiantly told him to back the hell off while Alison quickly interjected.

QUIET! LISTEN!
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Looking over to Alison, Ava's eyes shifted around the room as everyone instantly became quiet....
 
changes

<< Haleigh fronted of Barbas the best way she knew how. it wasnt QUITE what Nicolas was looking for, but sometimes, when dealing with a foe that broke all the rules, you had to do the same yourself and so...she did what she did best.>>

<< Alison indicated that something was coming, and for all of them to stand fast and last. >>

<< across the way Claudia was struggling as Barbas poured it on. but instead of drawing on the help and support of her sister, she closed off. it was what she'd become accustomed to doing...her own defense mechanism.>>


<< but she would come to learn how BAD that defense would be.>>

apartment 4 and apartment 6

<< the thunder crashes and the power is cut. its PITCH BLACK, robbing all sense of sight or space for those without the powers to compensate in someway. Delilah is the only one whose eyes require no time to adjust but it will not help her. Nicolas and Alison stay close, using telepathy and precognition to try to anticipate what's coming...but it is of little use.>>

<< the space around them began to tremble and quake...more and more. soon, the walls began to swell and crack with FIRE blasting out from the cracks.>>

<< on the floor...skulls and bones of victims long dead by the hand of Barbas could be seen as well as their pained screams echoing in the air around them.>>


<< through out both apartments, it seems that a MASSIVE earthwquake is happening. Clara cannot get into Claudia's room...the doorknob is WHITE HOT too the touch. >>
 
apartment 4

He wants Karen and Morgan....they are descendants of Verna Eckert, who last humiliated him ...of Hecate the one who FIRST DESTROYED his original body and left him looking....the way he does now. his true form.

:: she holds on to her time staff, keeping it out in front of her as a sort of barrier.::

:: just as she predicted, their envrionment was changing.::

:: the room began to grow hot...hotter still and underneath her high heels, she felt the old dry bones of victims long dead....their screams in the air.::

stay together!

:: Sharon and Haleigh back up...on either side of the bed where Karen held Morgan, who was now hiding her face again. Mike and Blaze stayed with them on the bed while Alison, Delilah Ava were now at the foot of the bed, standing side by side. Ava drew her mystic daggers and was battle ready. Nicolas was ahead of THEM, being the largest and strongest...most likely able to withstand a sudden onslaught. ::

no matter what happens...no matter what you see or FEEL...DONT MOVE...dont RUN! he's coming....FOR REAL this time.

:: she shouted even as it seem the entire building would come crashing down on them. she knew that a critical element for them was the FAMILY bond...the group. But would even THAT be enough? ::

LOOK!

:: the door knob to Morgan's bedroom was turning...everyone was tense...but ready to strike/protect.::
 
apartment 6

<< Claudia was experiencing the same "changes" that the others were...but she was ALONE. Clara's screams to get in were drowned out by the screams of tortured souls.>>

<< but there was, forced to face whatever was coming.>>

<< her door knob was turning just as the one in apartment four was.>>

<< Clara and Johnny were left to see and feel what looked like the beginning of HELL on earth in their apartment...with no one but each other to depend on, not knowing WHAT was happening to her or if she was still alive.>>
 
Apt 4

The earth shattering clap of thunder caused Blaze to jerk forward. The sound was very identical to the traumatic experience she had from her near fatal car accident a few days ago. Clutching onto Morgan and Karen tightly, Blaze glanced around only to see pitch-black.

"Its okay Morgan, Karen."

Her first instinct was to keep those two women calm. Raising her free hand a hovering ball of fire would flow before she hurled it around to ignite each of the candles inside Morgan's bedroom.

The flickering flames would provide some semblance of light as skulls and skeletons lined the floor. Gasping out, Blaze quickly turned Morgan's face AWAY from the gruesome sight.

The apartment would tremble and quake as fire would seep through the cracks. Reaching out her hand towards the air to try and seep the element into her without harming the others.

Harbinger warned not to move or run. The ceiling above them would crack as the ceiling beam would collapse.

"Don't look! If you can't see it you won't be afraid."

It was worth a try, especially if Barbas could cast illusions. Which would only accelerate one's fear.

Alison advised everyone to look. Opening her eyes to see the door knob to Morgan's door was moving. All Blaze could do was hold onto Morgan and Karen with Mike supporting all of them in a big bear hug.
 
Apt 4

Alison: "QUIET! LISTEN!"

The seer called… and silence fell around the room. Alison suggested that Barbas was after Karen and Morgan, looking for revenge on Hecate and Verna. The power went out, leaving the room pitch black as the temperature began to rise to uncomfortable levels… skeletons scattered across the floor. Haleigh switched over to night-vision, glancing around the room, everything taking on a green hue. A skull appeared near Haleigh's foot… and she gave it a swift little kick to get rid of it-- just in case the bones took on a life of their own. ;) Alison called for them to stay together as the quake began… fire broke out and Blaze tried to control and contain it as Haleigh reinforced the structure of the room, mentally enhancing it with steel, coating the broken ceiling beam with metal as it began to give and lifting it back up mentally… WILLING the room to stay together even as the rest of the complex threatened to come down around them.

Alison: "LOOK!"

The doorknob was slowly turning. Haleigh tensed up…. Ready to attack the SPLIT SECOND Barbas came through the door.
 
MP -- Apt 6

Clara sipped her brandy, seated on the sofa, leaned back against the armrest with Johnny 'next' to her, her legs stretched over his lap. He supported one of her knees with his right hand as he used his left to extract all the glass, gently wiping the lacerations, applying neosporin and strategically placing bandaids. A slow smile creeped onto her face… first of all… she couldn't help but noticing how tender his touch was [and DAMN her sister ;) for putting the idea in her head that Johnny liked her, because now she couldn't ignore ANYTHING]. Secondly --and this was the more amusing part-- he was SO CONCENTRATED on patching her up, she could swear he was in some kind of ZONE.

Thunder crashed and darkness enveloped them. Clara felt Johnny pause, she lit the immediate area with a plasma sphere in the palm of her hand. They exchanged 'oh well' glances. Johnny mentioned the candles Claudia'd had all over the bathroom. Clara gave a nod, draining the last bit of her brandy and sitting forward a little, about to withdraw her legs from his lap when the earthquake hit. Still illuminating the area around them, Clara clasped her other hand on Johnny's shoulder for stability. Books and other objects rattled off their shelves, glasses fell out of the cabinets. Both of them were unsure of what to do… this WAS, after all… their first earthquake and it was quite an intense one… a little scary. Unsteadily, Clara set her glass on the coffee table [only to see it vibrate its way off the edge and fall to the floor], and offered a suggestion:

"Let's go get my sister. We can't leave her in there to face this alone."

Johnny nodded and they helped each other to their feet… wobbling a little as they tried to make their way to Claudia's room, Clara lighting the way, though her plasma wasn't TERRIBLY bright, it was enough for them both to see down the hall and so she didn't bother amping it up to a small star… they didn't need it… or so she THOUGHT. Her heel caught something on the floor awkwardly, and she took an uncharacteristically SPILL right there in the hall, slipping out of Johnny's lose supportive grip. Her 'light' went out in surprise and so she wasn't sure WHAT it was but as she landed haphazardly on the carpet, catching herself with her hands but still crashing down on her hip, something CRUNCHED beneath her and she could feel some hard objects scattered around her on the carpet. She was going to create more plasma-- but a FIRE erupted nearby and lit up the area… and she got a look at what was on the carpet… there were…. BONES…. ALL OVER the place! She gasped as Johnny quickly lifted her to her feet, pushing her down the hall to avoid the fire.

"Ugh… what the…"

They reached Claudia's door, and she instinctively reached for the handle, only to shriek with pain as she got BURNED by knob. In her rush she'd somehow missed that the doorknob was glowing WHITEHOT. The earthquake wasn't letting up…. The fire RAGED and now Johnny and Clara were trapped in the hall. Clara BANGED on the door, yelling loudly for her sister to let them in, to no avail. She tried to blast the door open with plasma energy… but succeeded only in scorching it badly. Any 'stronger' an attempt and she risked setting the door itself on fire. The earthquake ITSELF was scary enough… being trapped by the fire created even more tension… but the bones… they were everywhere… there was… screaming… a chorus of wailing surrounding them. It was unlike anything she'd EVER experienced and it was terrifying!

"Johnny, what's HAPPENING?!?"

Johnny: "I… I don't know! Come on, we've got to get OUT of here before this place comes down on top of us!"

He reached for her, ready to transport them out of the apartment but she turned back to the door to her sister's room, renewed efforts to get in.

"No, we can't leave my sister! There's a fire extinguisher in the kitchen! Claudia! [banging an open palm on the door] CLAUDIA!!"

Johnny disappeared and then reappeared again, fire extinguisher in hand, doing his best to hold off the blaze while Clara tried desperately to get through the door. She could SWEAR the doors weren't THIS STURDY earlier! They weren't back in their mansion where thick oak doors were custom… this flimsy, hollow apartment door should NOT be holding up so well and Clara was doing her BEST to keep a calm head.
 
Claudia's mind raced with what could be happening to her. As she got dressed in a pair of bootcut dark wash jeans, black stiletto healed boots, and a a black turtleneck [to cover her scratches], she was going to head out for the night. Get away from Melrose Place....get drunk. Get laid. SOMETHING. Anything to get her mind off of whatever was happening to her. The first logical conclusion she came up with was she was going insane like her father. Everyone always said she was exactly like Anthony....maybe she was more like him that she thought, or even WANTED to be. Why else would she be hearing voices? Waking up from dreams with wounds on her body? Seeing images in the mirror? Unbeknownst to her, she wasn't the only one going through this ordeal...being attacked by a demon called Barbas.

Zipping up her boots, Claudia rolled down her pants so they covered them. Standing from her bed suddenly the lights flickered off. Everything was pitch black, and unlike others in the building, Claudia's eyes were like any other human beings. She couldn't adjust to the darkness. Thinking it was a normal power outage, the brunette was oblivious to what was about to happen.

The room began to tremble and soon the trembling became even more violent. Claudia knew there could be earthquakes when living in California, but experiencing one a week after arriving was insanity.

"Clara!"

Calling for her sister, Claudia lost her balance and quickly grabbed her bed post for support. But what she thought was a normal earthquake was anything but. FIRE soon began to errupt from the walls causing Claudia to scream in shock. Extending her hands out, a stream of water rushed forward in an attempt to put out the flames, but the trembling room caused Siren to loose her balance and fall to the ground.

"CLARA!"

Worried for her sister, Claudia managed to get to her knees, trying to steady herself through the shaking. Climbing to her feet, she grabbed her bed for support, heading toward the door. But as she began to walk, the ground seemed to transform....bones...screams filled her room!

"CLARA! CLARA!"

She couldn't hear Clara. She couldn't hear above the screams....was her sister screaming as well? Were her screams muffled among the others? Was she hurt? Claudia began to panic, wanting desperately to get to Clara. To see if she was alright. With her arms wrapped around her tall bed posts, Claudia was about to move forward toward the door when soon she saw the handle slowly turning.

"Clara..."

Something was off....Clara wouldn't be taking her time to open the door. She just burst through the bathroom door fifteen minutes earlier when she heard Claudia startle awake from her nightmare....whomever was opening the door was definitely NOT her sister..
 
apartment 6

Apartment 6

<< the Zaccharas were getting a taste of hell unlike anything they'd expected. their lives had been more rooted in "reality" than the Six's but NOW? this was the beginning of change...and change never came easy.>>

<< the water spout created by Claudia interacted violently with the violent outbrake of fire, creating an extreme amount of smoke...more like MIST. it seemed to at least put out the flame, but NOW she was almost IMMOBILIZED by the mist and as the door knob turned to her bedroom door...it suddenly flew open! Clara and Johnny now had access to Claudia and Claudia to Clara!>>

<< the mist was still ever present...but who couldnt get past that RIGHT? The sisters reunited while Johnny stayed nearby...if they were going to do something, now was the time, while it still seemed that THEY were in control ;) >>

<< they havent learned that where The Six AND their surroundings are concerned...ANYTHING is possible...and since they dont know who they are actually being attacked by...it makes them even MORE vulnerable.>>

<< at apartment 4>>

<< as Harbinger pointed and everyone looked with intense feeling...the doorknob turned...once one way, then the other...then it shaked a bit. the silence that followed also saw the fires in the room receding and the quake smoothing out.>>

<< but they knew Alison couldnt be wrong about what she "SAW".>>
 
Smoke mixed with thick mist clouded Claudia's room and made it nearly impossible for her to breath. Coughing out violently, her ebony eyes burned as she watched the door fly open revealing Clara and Johnny.

"Clara!"

She shouted across the room in between coughs. Stumbling away from the bed post she was holding onto, she managed to make her way across the bones that covered her floor and to her sister.

"Are you alright?!!?"

Claudia continued to cough, the smoke seemingly getting thicker and the mist making itm ore difficult to see around her bedroom.

"We need to get out of here NOW!"
 
MP -- Apt 6

Smoke was everywhere… the door refused to give, and their confined space seemed to be getting SMALLER.

"[cough] John! [cough]"

I did NOT finally escape Daddy and Trevor only to die in an earthquake! MY obit will NOT say I died in a dinky old APARTMENT, damn it!

She thought, creating a small STAR in the palm of her hand and SLAMMING the door with it, fire hazard or not. Now was the time for desperate measures… Johnny's exclaimed, over coughs of smoke, that he was running low and the fire was getting stronger. The door FLUNG open, more than easily, almost as if it'd been open all along…. It didn't matter if it HAD opened… the door it self was nearly OBLITERATED under her attack.

Claudia: "Clara!"

Clara's ears perked up, she thought she heard her sister's voice over the roar of the fire… there was coughing too!

"CLAUDIA! [cough cough] WHERE ARE YOU?? I can't [cough] SEE!"

There was mist and smoke surrounding them… it was WORSE in here than it had been in the confines of the hallway and that was really SAYING SOMETHING. Her sister came stumbling into view, and Clara helped to steady her, relieved that she wasn't gravely injured.

Claudia: "Are you alright?!!?"

"[cough] NO…"


She lamented, as her sister suggested they get OUT of here. She nodded, guiding the way back towards Johnny… who immediately tossed down the empty fire extinguisher and teleported them OUT of the apartment…. Taking them down the street to the apartment Claudia had arranged for him to live in.
 
the final pass

<< the Zaccharas and Johnny tried to escape, but even as they were moved through space by Johnny an odd thing happened, as their visual and spatial perception was blurred, almost NEGATED and they found themselves, RIGHT BACK WHERE THEY WERE...INSIDE the apartment. it was dark, still very warm, the mist from Claudia's water blast hanging in the air and the bones on the floor...>>

<< the apartment seemed to groan and creak, from the damage of the massive quake, but they were unaware that outside, NOTHING had changed....>>

in apartment four and six

<< while the trio of new residents and the family of the Six stood in the two apartments...trying to grasp what was happening and keep each other safe, Alison's prediction came to frightening conclusion....as the door to Morgan's bedroom flew open and the main door to the Zacchara's apartment flew upon,...the sound of a sharp, frightening scream, followed by the haunting toll of a bell heraled the sight of the SEIGE PERILOUS...now EXTREMELY large and covering the opening of the door way! the geme looked so large and gleamed with energy before the ruby gem face flashed and the cosmic doorway opened, the TERRIFYING VORTEX that the Six had seen during MASTER MOLD was now upon them and for the Zaccharas, it was the first time...and maybe the LAST they would experience this terrifying and unexplainable event.>>


<< everything that wasnt nailed down began to FLY through the air. the din of the siren like winds filled the room as the vortex pulled with a DEMONIC glee!>>

<< in apartment 6 johnny was the first one lost...with the sisters now left to try to survive what they couldnt possibly understand happening. in apartment 4 NICOLAS was pulled forward, and was about to be consumed, he felt as if he could come out of his very SKIN. not even HE could over come the power of this dangerous cosmic, mystic gem. Alison came flying toward him...while Sharon and Haleigh did their BEST to be anchors for 5 other people!>>
 
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MP -- Apt 6

They were out of there like bats out of hell… Clara recognized the 'pull' of Johnny's spatial movement and was relieved by it… but not for long. Something wasn't right… they reappeared back in the apartment, right where they'd been!

"Johnny.. What's--"

Johnny: "I don't understand… that's never happened BEFORE… something is KEEPING us here!"

The apartment made the most unnatural sounds… live it was barely standing after all the damage but at LEAST the earthquake was over. The nightmare was still going strong, though…. The front door flew open violently… Johnny instinctively stepped in FRONT of the two sisters to protect them from whatever was going to come through the door, but it wasn't what was coming IN… it was everything going OUT! Johnny was pulled right off his feet and disappeared from view. Clara, clamped onto her sister and the door frame, visibly flinched as he was GONE and into view came the VORTEX in the threshold of the door.

"JOHNNY??! JOHN!"

Anything that wasn't fixed to the floor went FLYING into the vortex, including things from the bedroom behind them. Clara was blinded as a sweater got caught on her and wrapped around her face, obscuring her vision and then she got BEAMED on the side of her forehead by something hard and sharp.

"OW!! Son of a BITCH!"

NOW she'd had ENOUGH… she'd been scared silly for the last several minutes, unable to understand what was going on but NOW… her anger kicked in. She didn't know WHY this was happening… or HOW… but She'd just seen Johnny SUCKED out of the room and experienced the insult added to a long string of injuries. Hot heads RAN in the bloodline… that much EVERYONE knew and though Clara had managed to make the most of her fuse… one that was slightly longer than Claudia or her fathers… even SHE had her moments and as she ripped the sweater from her face… there was an angry determination that steadied her spirit even as she SHOOK from the strain of staying rooted to the spot.

She turned her back to the vortex… creating a star the size of a basketball in her hands… then ACCELERATING it's lifespan and 'killing' it-- creating a manageable BLACK HOLE to offset the vortex across the apartment. The gravitational pull of the Black hole, even a modest sized one, should do well enough to counteract the vortex… especially in the LOCALIZED area where the sisters stood. All sound was SILENCED… sucked into the black hole and most of the objects flying by STOPPED in midair…. Suspended there, stuck between the force of BOTH vortexes… and Clara and Claudia found themselves steadied in the 'limbo' between the two.
 
MP -- Apt 4

They were all fixated on the doorknob… it turned back and forth… then rattled a bit… then nothing. The fires receded… the quake stilled. Haleigh raised an eyebrow.

"That's it? [flippantly] Kind of anticlimactic, right?"

But of course…. That wasn't IT… after a few moments… the door FLEW open to reveal the seige perilous… and it was HUGE… and it was in vortex form again… the vortex they'd lost Morgan to during the Master Mold fight. Every loose item in the room immediately took flight…. The sound of the wind was DEAFENING and even Nicolas began to slide towards it, as Alison went CAREENING at him. Sharon and Haleigh had better odds… because of their design they were 'denser'…. And served as anchors, but everyone on the bed BEHIND them was not and Haleigh had to steady herself as she felt SOMEONE pushing against her back to try and stay put.

Haleigh threw up a defense… Right in FRONT of the doorway she constructed, after quite a bit of struggle against the pull, a 'screen' of sorts… it looked like very HEAVY DUTY chickenwire fencing… but it was made of ADAMANTIUM and it was ROOTED to the structure of the building, right down to the FOUNDATION on the ground floor… and it kept anything larger than a QUARTER from passing into the vortex… though MOST of the loose objects in the room had already been lost… that was no worry, really. Haleigh was trying to prevent PEOPLE from being sucked in but it was a very INTENSE strain to try and HOLD the thing in place… not only was it MASSIVE and very HEAVY… but it was NEAREST to the vortex and subject to the strongest pull. How LONG she'd be able to will herself to hold the 'screen' in place was anyone's guess….
 
Holding onto Clara, Johnny quickly took them both and attempted to transport them out of the apartment. But as they reappeared they were STILL in Claudia's bedroom.

"What happened?!"

Yelling over the chaos, obviously whatever was happening wasn't natural OR elemental. It was an attack, and whomever was trying to keep them in the apartment was probably the same person or thing that was tormenting Claudia.

"Come on! We'll just have to get out of here the old fashion way!"

Stepping through the mass piles of bones and debris, Claudia kept her grip firm on Clara as they made their way from her bedroom and into the hallway. The earthquake had stopped and the fires were less violent, but the apartment seemed to groan with every careful step they took. But what seemed to be the 'eye of the storm' soon ended as the front door flew open, causing Johnny to instinctively jump in front of them. But what greeted them wasn't a foe, but a vortex. Everything from the apartment that wasn't nailed, strapped, or bolted down began to fly into the vortex....even Johnny!

"JOHNNY!"

Screaming out along with her sister, Claudia watched in horror as Johnny disappeared from the hallway and into the vortex. Being sucked forward, Claudia grasped Clara's waist and managed to hoist her weight over to the bathroom doorway, so they had something to hold onto. Claudia's hair whipped violently in front of her face, her hands gripping the wooden frame with everything bit of strength she had.

Clothes, books, candles, furniture, EVERYTHING flew past the girls and disappeared into the vortex. Claudia could feel the back of her body being beaten with different objects as she stood in the doorway seperating the bathroom from the hallway. Clara was getting beat up pretty bad as well, and soon her temper got the best of her. Seeing her sister let go of the frame, Claudia quickly grabbed for the first thing she could get her hands on; Clara's shirt. With a fist full of fabric, she knew that it would only be a matter of time before the shirt would tear and Clara would go flying into the vortex.

"WHAT ARE YOU DOING!"

She demanded, seeing Clara produce a miniture star, accelterating it's life cycle and turning it into a black hole. Soon, everything stopped in mid air. Everything became quiet. The black hole was counter acting the vortex and putting a stop to the madness. Out of breath, Claudia let go of the door frame and her sisters shirt before hitting her roughly on the arm.

"Next time WARN me before you let go!"

Her voice filled with more concern and panick than anger, Claudia took Clara's hand as she scanned around the apartment, then to the vortex. She knew Johnny was gone....and she knew her sister was devestated whether she showed it outwardly or not. Squeezing Clara's hand, Claudia knew right now they needed to find a way OUT of the apartment before Clara's black hole faltered or the vortex was able to overpower it. Later she would comfort her about Johnny.

"Come on...maybe we can climb out one of the back windows.."
 
Standing nearest to Alison, Ava's eyes watched as the door handle leading into the room began to turn slowly. Gripping her Mystic Daggers firmly within her hands, she was prepared to fight off whatever came through the door. But as the screams subsided and the earthquake stopped, the door flew open revealing nothing.

"That's it? [flippantly] Kind of anticlimactic, right?"
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"I'd say.."

Lowering her hands, Ava wasn't sure what was going to happen next....but she certainly didn't expect the Seige Perlious to be an option. Everything in the room began to get sucked forward; Ava included! Stumbling forward, her feet gave out from underneath her and Ava literally came off the ground, heading for the vortex.

"SHARON!"

Screaming for Sharon, Ava grabbed for her hand as she whipped past the mutate, heading for the seige perilous.
 
Nicolas stood firmly in front. He was readying for anything he THOUGHT, and when Alison warned him of things changing, he nodded quickly as the lights were cut. Nicolas immediately abandoned using his eyes, relying completely on telekinetic scans, but the scans were...troubled, not consistent. This demon was changing things around them as if he could make and unmake the world itself!

Then fire shot out of the walls and they found themselves trampling skeletons underfoot. Nicolas pushed against the sire as it tried to come inside, creating a buffer that managed to keep everyone unburned at least, as he wondered what was next...

The flames eventually died down a bit and then the bedroom doorknob began to turn, opening the door...revealing nothing at first. Then the Siege Perilous manifested just in time to suck Ava' sarcastic comment inside.

Nicolas immediately slid towards it at first, the pull of it painfully sucking even at his skin as it was attached to his flesh.

AAARRRGH!!!!

Nicolas roared in pain and determination as he managed to halt his slide and attempted to connect everyone else to him and each other, holding them somewhat more easily in place as they resisted the vortex's pull. he looked as metal began to manifest in front of the Siege's gaping maw, keeping everything in. He could feel the strain of the one responsible for this and he responded to her mentally, his mental voice more like what she remembered before all of the madness with Set.

Thanks Hales for the idea. I will assist...

Nicolas did two things: He used the link between his mind and Haleigh's to lend to her some of his will power, his pure force of mental might to bolster he action as she strained against the vortex's pull, and he reversed the field of his TK, anchoring all of them to the ground and the base of what Haleigh had created. This would allow their combined physical might to bolster the screen Haleigh had erected.
 
Mike held onto the pair of witches, doing what he thought he could do best here: trying to reach them, comfort them, re-ignite their fire and place it's fury against the source of their troubles.

As the lights were cut and the fire manifested, Mike held onto them, even tighter, kissing both their foreheads as he spoke to them, trying to provide a counter-argument for whatever was eating away at their confidence.

WE will get through this. We have before and we will again. TOGETHER. That is why we were spared by Athena and Hecate and sent to Aerie. Because together we can do anything. Set and now Barbas want to divide us, because that is the only way that they can win. Remember the good times and what we have fought for, died for, bled for. Dont. Let. Barbas. Win.

Then Mike looked up to see a large gate, and the suction of it was enormous. He grabbed at items to keep them pinned but it was not working very well, and they were being pulled in. It also kept him from maintaining his hold on the women, and he could no longer speak to them.

Suddenly, he noticed the pull being counteracted, and that he could regain his place beside them as they sat there. He looked up, and it was Nicolas, his face contorted in a pained grimace as he took the brunt of the gate's suction. In the next instant a metal grating covered the vortex, not allowing anything to go past it. It was obviously Haleigh, and he felt his movements become even more easy relative to the initial assault thanks to their combination of efforts. He took the opportunity to speak again to the witches, using the present example.

Karen honey...Morgan...LOOK. Look at who is standing with you, to help you. Nicolas, who has sacrificed his body, his ALL time and again for all of us. He is not your enemy here. Haleigh, who may not have a way with people, but has a knack for being there when the chips are down. Everyone in the Six family has gathered here to FIGHT. For all of our warts...TOGETHER, we are still a team, and you <<lifts Morgan's chin gently>> are OUR leader, our friend, our loved one. We need you to subdue this fear, rely on the true evidence. Nicolas did not come this far with you here, in THIS timeline, to harm you...ANY of you. He only came back tonight to help...he AND Haleigh. Do not let Barbas undo all they have done in spite of their mistakes. And YOU...Karen Verna Victoria <<looks into Karen's eyes>> are at given moment the mightiest sorceress ALIVE. You are your Grammie's namesake for a REASON. With these WARRIORS and your daughter by your side, Barbas CANNOT win. WE WON'T let him! Do not succumb to fear!
 
As the door flew open and the demonic screams came, Blaze's light form was not secure by Mike. Her body would tumble backwards off the bed. Crashing to the floor as she began to slide towards the vortex. Yet, the fiery elementalist refused to give up while Haleigh and Nicolas would attempt to secure a screen to try to take most of the blunt. Yanking her hands around the bed post as her hair whipped around wildly.

"AVA!! MORGAN!! Think you can TAME those winds?!"

Clenching her teeth before she lost her grip before her hands would coil around Haleigh as her form was pushing into the blonde.

"Keep it up, Haleigh!"

Trying to watch as Haleigh's form would stumble with both of their weight.

"Someone grab Delilah!"

Everyone was either held on by someone or something else, too afraid to be taken by the seige perilous.
 
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