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closed || a hoard of secrets

WHO: Minako, Lucy, David, Tarr, and Koromaru
WHERE: Subway tunnels
WHEN: Sometime in January
WHAT: Team DVV (Dragons, Vampires, and Vectors) is heading into the tunnels too!
WARNINGS: None foreseen, let me know if this needs to be changed. Each header will have different sections of the tunnel exploration prompts from the main log, so tag into where you want to tag! Also, please excuse my shameless copy and pasting of header prompts from the other exploration log I posted.

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[The rat David set on fire shrieked hideously, running about in erratic circles and casting its macabre light as it went. The other rats seemed unperturbed, still bent on attacking the intruders.

But Tarr was right, in Lucy's mind. Knocking them away was slow. Inefficient. And there was an unknown amount of tunnel to explore still. They couldn't waste more time.

When the next rat scurried in range of her vectors, the telekinetic resonance pounced, driving into the rat's chest to sever its heart. They passed through most of the creature unharmed, but the moment the vectors withdrew the rat's angry shriek gurgled into an unsteady cough and it collapsed. Lucy paid it no more attention, moving on to silence the next one.]

[Time to go all out, then.

Koromaru charges at one, avoiding its jaws and sliding under its belly to attack the soft flesh there, while Minako sets her Evoker to her temple and fires. Samael explodes into existence and immediately wraps his serpentine body around another creature, squeezing the life out of it while Minako slams her spearhead into a third one, yelling out as she pushes it back.]

[ Okay, right, no time to make a smartass remark. David frowns - gaze flickering upward for a brief moment and he spins to quite literally kick away a rat that was attempting to pounce on him, slamming it into the wall to briefly daze it while he attempted to press forward, creating another small flame to try and deter their attackers. Well, he should've known that something like this would've shown up, and he's currently internally cursing lack of planning on his part. ]

[ Out of all of them here, Tarr was probably the least effective as in not having either the skills or the instincts to end this. So he fell back from the lead, taking out his sunglasses and pulling them on to protect against the flashes of light. Putting his back against the wall, he started calling out directions and numbers of rats moving on them. ]

[That's alright, Lucy has enough unresolved murderous rage to cover everyone.

A vector followed the rat David kicked aside, silencing its squeals before it could get up. While Lucy was distracted, one of the creatures snuck through to lunge at her ankle--and it kept going, or at least its head did. The headless body spasmed to a stop at her feet, still managing to get bloodstains on her socks.

...sorry, whoever ended up on the other end of that projectile.]

[That would be Minako.

It sails between her and the rat creature she's fighting, and while a huge splatter of blood lands on her face, she's able to use the moment of the creature's distraction to drive her spear straight through its throat, then yanking out with a heave of effort.

She's incredibly exposed though, temporarily blind as she is. Minako immediately backs up towards the wall to fire off the Evoker. Samael disappears, leaving behind the corpse of the creature it was strangling to death. An instant later Kartikeya swoops out in front of her, picking up his summoner's abandoned spear and dual wielding it with his to plow straight through two more enemies, leaving her to scrub at her eyes.]

[ David's eyes widen at the brutality, but he knows it's unfortunately a situation of "us or them" in this case. And he really couldn't talk, having set one on fire earlier, wrinkling his nose at the stench of blood mingling with burnt fur and skin.

And with Kartikeya having picked up the slack, as it were, David's shifted to cover Minako alongside her Persona, creating another small flame to fling at the next rat that tries to leap at them to make sure she was okay. ]

They're thinning out.

[ The shadows and the confusion probably made it look like there were a lot to the others, but to his night eyes, Tarr could see the number dwindle. Just a few more to go, and then the way would be clear again. It was weird though; starving rats would probably gone after their fallen others instead of focusing on the people fighting them. It was normal for the less amount of struggling prey would be better for them than dying trying to get a bite in. He frowned and then brought his baton over to jab at a body getting too close to David's side. ]

[Lucy...actually seems relatively horrified for once. Not at the rats, of course, nor at the fact she was so nonchalant about killing them, but at the fact that Minako got rat blood all over her face and it was definitely Lucy's fault.

Oops.

The next rat that got too close to Lucy was smacked away with her vectors, sailing off into the dark with a distant crack. That left two squealing voices Lucy could make out, but not ones she could get at right now.]

[Minako finally chances to crack open her eyes, that sliver of bright red almost indistinguishable from the rest of the blood on her face. Everything is blurry on top of the darkness in the tunnel, and with the sound of battle still going on around her, she opts to command her Persona to attack again.]

Kartikeya, flush 'em out with Myriad Arrows!

[The peacock swirls as high up as it can go, Kartikeya taking the briefest moment to check that his summoner's friends are out of the way before hundreds of arrowheads materialize and shoot off into the darkness. One of the squeaks becomes an agonized death screech as the arrows find another target-- but then the last rat creature dashes into their circle and pounces on the nearest person.]

[ David shifts back before the arrows start to fly, giving Tarr a nod as he knocks away another one of the rats from hitting his exposed side. They were slowly making their way through this, it was just a matter of pressing the attack -

But the one rat that was flushed out and not struck down flies at him, causing him to try and put his arms up defensively. While it clamps down to try and bite his arms, however, that's at the very least prevented due to the scales going up his arms, giving him enough time to grab it, try to set it on fire, and fling it against the wall. ]

[ He really didn't like being cruel to animals. He didn't like hurting them, but these weren't acting like what he expected from real animals. Despite that, he still didn't step up. It was clear that the others had things in far better control than he did, so he waited for the last dying twitch, before turning off the baton and sliding it closed. ]

Real rats wouldn't be attacking like this; they would go after the wounded and dying instead of us.

[ He squinted at the others and then looked down the shadowed tunnel before them. ] Let's take a few minutes to regroup, okay?

[Minako hums in agreement, taking her handkerchief to her face and scrubbing the blood off vigorously.]

I'd bet they were here to try and keep us out...is everyone alright?

[The first thing Lucy did after Tarr gave an all-clear was scramble to Minako's side, weaving around David to do so. She didn't chide anyone for overdoing things, she just immediately started to help blot blood away from her friend's face with a sleeve, face twisted in an apologetic grimace.

It was the only bit of remorse she'd shown all day.]

...I'm fine.

[Minako shoots her a warm, reassuring smile and then huffs, shaking her head when she realizes what Lucy's blotting her face with.]

That's gonna be a pain to wash out, I hope you know.

I don't have anything else. [Lucy grumbles, a more usual tone of voice for her.]

[Another fonder shake of her head and then she glances to the others.]

David, Tarr, you guys okay too? If you have any injuries I have a first aid kit in my backpack.

[ David's still slightly keyed up on adrenaline, but after a few deep breaths, he finally seems to have calmed down a little. His gaze flickers from Lucy and Minako to his own arms - still scale-covered, but no visible injuries - and he shakes his head. ]

I'm fine. That last one didn't bite through my scales, it looks like. So I'm good.

I didn't do much, so, no, I wasn't touched.

[ Because really, what did he have to offer in the way of fighting? Unlike the others, he was still a squishy human with only the added bonus of being able to see in the dark very very well. He swung his bag around his shoulders and dug out a small packet of wet wipes and held them out to Lucy. ]

Here. This will work better.

[ He glanced at David, double-checking and then moved to the tunnel to peer down it, his expression tight. He really needed to step up his game for this kind of thing. ] Sorry I wasn't much help.

[Lucy was still muttering under her breath when she caught movement out of the corner of her eye. She glared at David first--but Tarr was the one moving towards her. It was a benign movement, just offering her a small packet of something.

Lucy was still tensed up and wary, and only took the packet after a moment's hesitation, a vector lifting it out of Tarr's hand so she didn't have to take her own away from Minako. It was just some wet wipes, and far better than her sleeve. After her vectors carefully tore the plastic open she spoke, scrubbing the blood off of Minako's cheek.]

You didn't get in the way.

[It was Lucy's idea of a compliment.]

It's fine, dude. You know that.

[ David reaches to pat him reassuredly on the shoulder, taking a deep breath. The familiar itching with his scales wanting to retreat is starting to creep up on him, but he wills them to stay for the time being. It'd be easier for all of them.

He awkwardly shifts his footing, moving forward to try and help Lucy clean Minako up after everything, only to stop mid-step and stare ahead, eyes wide as a memory dredges itself up:

It's him, Tarr, the golden-eyed man from his previous memories along with one unfamiliar figure - but they all were running, running through tunnels not terribly different from the ones that they were currently exploring. There's yelling, a crash, and Fafnir turns his head to snarl at something in the darkness behind them trying to catch up, a large flame already starting to form when the golden-eyed man shakes his head and draws a hand back to form a large, flaming sword and shoot it into the shadows -

There's an awful screech as something falls behind them with a loud thud, and the quartet continue to run.

"The entrance shouldn't be much further, once we get in there, we grab the kids and burn the place to the ground." It's the unfamiliar figure that's saying it, and Fafnir can tell he's tense, his words even more stern than usual.

"Burn the ashes too, no point letting them rebuild after this one," the golden-eyed man replies, his expression pinched into an uncharacteristic deep scowl. Fafnir knew that he never wanted to see him like this, but they had a job to do first.

David shakes his head furiously, taking a few deep breaths to shake himself out of the memory and look back to the tunnels, not even realizing that he's saying it out loud: ]

No. It's not the same.

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