lostcarnival | ⇨ DANGEROUS ENCOUNTERS

Shit shit shit- Holding up his free hand and digging his heels in, Joker calls back the blade. He's truly and unbelievably glad Sora got him this dagger that time a good while ago. Feather Blade are incredibly handy. But this isn't good.... "Leaf!" he calls to the bird, giving it the go ahead to unleash a spray of razor sharp leaves.

At the same time, he gives another throw towards one of the rose creatures, the same one as before, but if neither is successful....

He's grabbing Hinawa's hand and pulling her off along with him.

"No!" Hinawa yelps as Joker grabs her. She tries to hang on, but she's no match for him and she's pulled away.

Sunny just scurries behind them to hide.

So, it seems that's a no on taking the gift bone. It seems they've taken entirely the wrong idea, and now they're trying to take the entire skeleton.

He doesn't react in time to avoid being grabbed at, or pulled from the hammock. But the blasters are right there, active and ready. As the skeleton falls tothe ground he calls them to fire at the vines - some distance from his feet.

He notices the group seeming to cloister around Lion to help him, and he can't help feeling like it's a bad idea for everyone to gather in the same spot. Still he knows there's no way to convince them to let go with a carnival member in danger. His options are pretty limited as far as helping to take out the creatures pulling on Lion. Of course while he could try and throw the creatures around them off balance it would effect everyone else too. So instead he summons small flames to hid hand, throwing them at the plants whose vines have wrapped around lion, and trusting Susan to watch his back.

He's in the middle, enough to get a better look at everyone around him as he turns his head from left to right. The bigger issue is Lion with two people currently trying to free him from the vines and others attacking it. It's too much attention and he turns his head away, focusing on Papryus instead as he hears him hit the ground.

He sprints softly forward, his hand resting on Papyrus' back to apply his own touch, "Don't panic."

His other slides outwards and across the vine wrapped around Papryus' boot in an attempt to sever it with his Power to Choose as his hand passes through it. It's just, he's never sure how his powers are going to work when it comes to fae and their underlings.

The vine strikes Susan and he stumbles but he pushes on, needing to get to his brother. Of course Lauren can look after himself, but when it comes to magic he's the firepower (literally) and he can't just leave Lauren unattended. Especially not when everyone else's plan seems to be to grab onto the lion or throw daggers and pokemon moves at it. Why would you do that when you can just use magic? He isn't certain of exactly how strong the vines are, but he knows he has magic that can pull things easily himself, and so he summons up a telekinesis spell to try and enter into some sort of strange tug-of-war with the vines over Lion, pulling with all his magical might to try and get the beast away from the monsters attacking them.

A lot of things happen at once. Tyki's hand will severe the vine pulling Papyrus while the blasters shoot into the crowd, and Lauren's flames strike at the creatures that are tugging Lion away, causing them to squeal and jump to avoid it. Susan's telekinesis tugs on the thorns, but it's not enough to stop it-

At least, until a spray of razor-sharp leaves from Feathers severs the two whips dragging Lion's paws along in a super effective attack. The creatures that had been pulling volt forward as the tension is abruptly released - all except one.

That one is spinning around, lashing against the whip holding Lion's neck, who lets out another pained whimper. It's short-lived though - mostly because Joker's blade flies straight through the eye of the creature's blossom, and out the back of its head.

It collapses to the ground, dead. Stunned and terrified, the remaining creatures disperse, diving away into the concealing hedge of thorns.

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Hinawa is back on her feet in an instant and running over to Lion. Is he hurt? And how badly? She's gotta make sure he's okay before anything else.

Joker's grin is a little too sharp in its victory even as he holds his hand up to recall the feather blade. Hinawa's yell in his ear would have left a bad taste in his mouth, but it's fine. Everything's fine.

Well, everything is bullshit, actually, but he can't dwell on that. Feathers flaps up into the air, screeching out a warning to be as intimidating as possible ~~without having actual Intimidate~~, and Joker lets him. Best to whistle for Lion to come back to them while he goes to rest his other hand on Hinawa's shoulder.

"Anyone too hurt?" he calls out over his shoulder. "Because if not, we should keep movin' before they get their nerve up again."

Lion rumbles pitifully - he's miraculously not cut up around his paws and throat, given the length of those thorns. Instead, there are just small puncture marks in his fur and mane that are hard to see at first. Ultimately, he seems to be okay, even if he's not getting up from the ground quite yet.

He looks pretty exhausted from this already. He shakes the remaining vines off of him, grumpily.

Okay, well, they didn't actually kill the other monsters, but at least they're gone for now. Susan can take that as a victory, even if it's only a temporary one.

"If anyone is hurt, Lauren can heal." Not that he thinks anyone especially needs it, but because he just wants to make sure the offer is out there and he doesn't think his brother will tell anyone.

Overall though moving is a good idea, and staying in a group might be good too (even if it's only so he can help the others with his magic), and so he nods at Joker's suggestion.

"But keeping moving is good, as long as we watch out for more monsters!"

~~I roll to pet the kitty~~

Hinawa sighs in relief- just a few cuts and scratches. She gives Lion some gentle rubs behind his ears to try to put him at ease.

Sunny lets out a sad noise vocalization obviously disappointed in himself, but Hinawa gives him a reassuring smile.

"You were very brave," She tells him before looking over to Joker. "We've got to find a fast way back to the carnival. I don't want to stay out here another instant!"

He slides his hand off of Papyrus to remove his touch and will hold it out to him to help him up from his place on the floor. He's not going to hold it there for long. When that is completed he'll head back to the middle of the group where he can be the most utilized.

He shifts the cigarette to the side of his lips as he speaks, "And go where exactly?" Not that he doubts Joker's judgement nor is he ignoring everyone else that suggests moving. He looks up above them as his hand lifts to allow the Tease to flit around in the air near him. He's not sure how high up the hedge goes nor is he willing to abandon everyone down here to try to take a better look at their surroundings from a high vantage point.

With Tyki's offerred hand, Papyrus bounces back on his feet in no time, spinning as he checks around them that the fight's really over. Looks like it is. At least for the moment.

"Hmmm... Lambert said everyone should get back. That seems the safest place to be, in the Carnival." Familiar ground - for all it's been changed by merging into the library - with everyone's belongings and things. The perfect place to regroup when things get a little thorny.

"I think it's... that way?"

Lion closes his eyes as Hinawa gives him a rub, obviously appreciating it. He sinks down low as the people speak, relaxing and letting himself recover - that is, until he seems to hear something in the distance. His ears perk up, and he gets to his feet, giving Hinawa enough time to get out of the way.

He starts moving in the direction that a bunch of the creatures ran, not paying much mind to the rest of the group. He's definitely zeroing in on something.

Lauren doesn't know Lion well, but he does know Lion isn't your typical large cat. Even if he didn't he'd be able to guess the creature was special simply from the way the others tried to keep it safe. So when Lion runs off, Lauren follows, not even stopping to check with the others first. In fact, leaping forward he takes the shape of a lion himself, just to try and keep up with the creature.

Susan doesn't wait either before pursuing, although he doesn't shift like Lauren does, instead just chasing on foot. He doesn't know Lion either, but it seems whatever he's doing is important.

"Well, we could always ask Lion ta help-" Joker manages, before said large big pink cat decides to fuck right off of his own accord.

Followed by the dumbass teenager and his little brother.

"Oi, oi!" Exasperated, Joker doesn't waste any thought in chasing after the two, plus Lion. "Don't just go runnin' off like that!"

It looks like he already knows where he's going. Sorry, Tyki.

He doesn't like to assume but he figures he's talking about the Lion. Or he would've responded with some skepticism on the matter. He wants to know who named the thing first off and what a lion can actually do other than use its nose.

That is until teenager and his brother run off after the now moving lion and with a hard stare he'll watch Joker run right off after them. He sighs heavily and then takes a deep breath of the cigarette, inviting the sweet poison into his lungs. Joker was going to kill him at this rate.

He doesn't bother to gesture to the others before running after Joker, "Take your advice for once!"

Yuya wishes the ice prison had been the end of things, but it's pretty apparent things are getting a lot worse before they're getting better. He's had his radio on, so he's hearing the people going missing, Fae showing up, nobody being able to find their way through these shadows... which are frankly unsettling and make the library even worse to navigate. Yuya's not even sure what they're doing, except moving around so as not to get caught by the Fae.

That's probably less successful when you run straight into Fae territory, but more important: there's other carnival members here. That's safer than the two of them alone, right? So Yuya gestures for his friend and then jogs to catch up with them as they start pursuing Lion.

He stops, briefly, when he sees the carcass of the rose creature, and then runs faster to squeeze in with the other carnival members. "What happened?!"

Lion leaps over a thick vine that's grown across an archway and towards the sound. It may become more clear what it is as everyone gets closer. The most obvious sound is that of a Chikorita growling like a guard dog. Second to that, is the soft sound of someone crying.

The creatures that just fled through here can still be seen running off into the darkness. Curiously, this is also where they'll find Steven, sitting on the floor in what would have been their direct path, staring off after them with a look of utter grief on his face.

Lil is growling. Bud is cowering by Steven's side. He almost doesn't notice the people arriving until Lion has reached him, immediately beginning to check him over. Physically, Steven looks fine.

"Lion!" Steven gasps, caught totally off guard. He turns a little and sees the others approach as well - but he's too stunned to explain himself, at least for the moment.

Lauren ignores them. He can't talk like this anyway, so he'll let the others share information to figure out what's going on. Lauren takes this moment to stalk around the immediate area, looking and sniffing for anymore of the plant-like creatures from before.

Out of almost all the things they could have stumbled onto, this is one which really speeds up Joker's pace into an outright run. "Steven! There ya are!" Behind him, Feathers is rising up, circling cautiously for any other sign of those creatures. Lion is soon going to be joined in his check up of the boy.... so long as Lil and Bud let him, anyway.

"Are ya alright!?"

Steven hugs Lion's neck as he's being checked out, tears rolling down his cheeks. He doesn't know whether to nod or shake his head. Either way, he's incredibly relieved to not be alone.

"They were people," Steven manages, too emotional to explain his thought very well, but trying. He shakes his head, rubbing away his tears. "I'm sorry. I'm okay."

Meanwhile, Lion is looking at Lauren dubiously, as if just noticing that another male lion has popped up out of nowhere.

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Ah, Steven. Another kid. Tyki slows to a stop once the goal is in reach and he walks over the rest of the way to allow Joker and Lion to smother the kid with affection. He keeps a few steps back as not to get his smoke blowing in their direction.

A few Tease slide into view from behind him to flit into the air at attention. He doesn't want anything sneaking up on them while they are having a lovely reunion. He looks around to check how open the space is, how much more the thorn growth is here, and whether or not anything more ominous is present at the moment, "People?"

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Establishin' Gon's presence here with Usagi's permission

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