#'I NEED HEEEEAAAALP'

[dcviated]

"HUH?! NO! I MEAN YOU TOUCHED EM EARLIER! When you were doing whatever the hell else you were in here while playin' dress up, moron!" Anger begets further anger, each of them becoming increasingly ignorant of their surroundings (ironic) until a shift in the air and everything else has both of them shutting up. It'd be a mercy to any spectators, and frankly? That would have been nice to have because who the heck else is gonna believe a rat swarm appeared in this goddamn place?!?!

"WAHHHH! What the-!? What the hell are these things? Fuck outta here!!!" Harima makes a few attempted punches and whacks with a nearby wooden statue (sorry!!), but they were completely ineffectual against the first strange creature monster THING that had assailed him. Knocks it back, sure, but he may as well have just given it a playful toss the way it just redoubles. No second tries either way, as the Irish Girl urges him back with ...

How the hell's she this strong? Looks puny! Pervert strength?! You learn something every day when you're a huge stupid idiot huh!! If you're lucky, even two things. By the grace of terror and reality Harima isn't back-talking or calling her a pervert anymore (true it may be), following orders like a good kicked puppy. "Th-the window? Damn. Okay! You don't have to tell me twice."

Harima abandons sense in the name of necessity, scrambling to the other side of the room while some kind of magic happens behind him. With some measure of effort he yanks open the small window leading to the service alley. Gah. Is this a prank? Doesn't feel that way! Why's the weird shit gotta happen to him anyway? Why did he forget his bag today of all days?!

...is he going to get fired?! That's not fair!

"OH YOU GOTTA BE SHITTIN' ME!"

...damnit, apparently Harima needs a diet or something. Or to stop working out. Because he's stuck halfway out of the little access window. The storage room only offered so much. It's not like you're meant to look and peek in there after all. Gahhh!!! Just his freaking luck!

"I'M STUCK! HEEEEAAAALP! NOW THE RATS ARE GONNA EAT MY ASS!"

Rather pathetically Harima is left flailing his legs in far too early a defensive gesture, and wrenching with his arms as he works to squeeze his hips through the small passage that would get him into the alley. Freedom? Yeah right that's a tall order. But at least it'd get him out where he could come up with another idea.

...and he didn't even grab his bag!!!!!! IT CAN'T GET ANY WORSE.

This guy was a lunatic. Holly considered blasting him for good measure. Interesting that he just so happened to be here of all places... The site of her mission... Was it so far-fetched that he was the one who actually summoned the creature? The people she fought often weren't all there. And if he wasn't her enemy, the beam from her scepter probably wouldn't hurt him. Holly had never had to use it on the innocent before, and it seemed to have one of two effects on things: the blastee either calmed down and returned to their normal form, or evaporated.

Would it be so bad for the latter to happen?

Now wasn't the time to find out. Though there still was a hill she was willing to die on. "Seriously?! You can't even say thank you?! Unbelievable! You-" Cut off by the clattering of dishes, her eyes dart toward the sound outside of the storage room. "I wasn't touching your stupid displays! I've been here the whole time! With you! Are you a moron?!"

And then she feels it. A lot of its.

Sixth sense firing on all cylinders, she pushes past Harima, looking for the source of the noise. What she finds is terrifying. How had she missed this? How had her senses not been triggered when there were this many? The mouse-like creature from before had friends. They almost looked like ocean waves, scurrying over top of one another, rising and falling from the floor as they climbed and fell, crashing into surfaces, causing more dishes to clatter to the floor. Hundreds of red eyes fell on her as she entered the room. The wave calmed for a moment as they took each other in... And then it attacked.

Superhuman strength has Holly almost flying as she bounds back down the hall and into the storage room, pushing Harima in and slamming the door behind her. "AMETHYST AEGIS!" she screams out and a thin veil of light surrounds her and blocks the door. It isn't long before the creatures are slamming into it behind her. Digging in her heels, Holly flourishes her hands, and her scepter materializes as if out of thin air. Purple irises bore into Harima. "RUN. THROUGH THE WINDOW." She's sweating now, the hinges of the door buckling under the immense pressure.

Was there still time to take back the dying on the hill sentiment?