Nightshift 25: Discplinary Therapy Room Hallways

[norainu]

[from here]

Renji stopped himself from simply stumbling into the hallway by grabbing the door frame. There were nine people behind him, poised for attack and rescue. But it would be stupid to run in blindly.

He pulled the knife out from the back of his pants, holding it ready in his hand, then raised the flashlight to start illuminating the hall. He moved cautiously in. The others would follow.

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[sasuke-of-sound.livejournal.com]

Sounds of conflict -- something heavy -- Sasuke was pushed away, stumbling into a wall, and then the sickening sound of something meeting flesh and winning. A shouted name that he noted out of a frozen sort of habit, and Sasuke realised that someone had just taken a blow that had been meant for him.

Before he could begin to consider how to react to that (anger and mind-numbing fear swirled uselessly and took what resources he had available to feel at all in the aftermath), someone had his arms. He instinctively pulled back, coming just short of striking blindly (ha, blindly) when he heard the voice again, only it registered this time.

Sakura. He started to say something -- there was too much irrational relief flooding in him for it to have made sense -- when he was abruptly hoisted into the air and tossed over someone's shoulder. Sakura's? When had she been that strong?

A startled shout escaped him and pure reflex had him struggling to be released, hands searching for a place to strike and finding only the loose cloth of the Landel's uniform. His weakness was evident in the fact that even a grip on that slackened, turned sluggish.

[blazingsword.livejournal.com]

With a grateful nod, Jean took the scalpel. Finally, a bladed weapon! As she heard the sound of footsteps hurrying their way down the corridor and away, she grasped her new find and thrust it into the base of the creature's spine.

A spray of blood was her reward, though the claws didn't seem to be slowing down. Barely missing one sweep, Jean took up the metal bar and brought it down home on the back of the monster, bringing it down for good, hopefully.

[kaerutokoro.livejournal.com]

Rena wasn't sure of what to do. The poor guy seemed to be in such a state of shock, she was afraid of worsening the situation by acting again. Fortunately, the older girl with the pink hair arrived and managed what couldn't be done by the younger. Not that Rena had any chance of lifting him over her shoulders... (Wow, this girl was strong.)

"Good luck!" she managed as the pair slipped into the darkness. They should be fine; Rena wouldn't need to follow them. Jean probably required her help more, anyway.

The girl pivoted, her hand gripping tightly to the flashlight, ready to strike at a possible incoming threat. Instead, her eyes met with a large form tumbling down, its gold blood spilling every which way. Jean had done it; they had won.

Rena opened her mouth to cry out in relief when the last of the Head Doctor's announcement fell into her ears. In an instant, the world turned black, images and sounds of the hallway fading from her senses.

[byname-bynature.livejournal.com]

[Artemis is running over to get the blood!]

The boy skidded to the floor in front of the monster. Luck was on his side this time--the thing had fallen on its side. Quickly, Artemis pulled the scalpel out of the thing's back and pocketed it. His hands were slick from all the blood, but somehow he managed to open one of the bottles and hold it under the wound. The blood flowed out of the wound slowly, but Artemis wasn't expecting anything different.

A bottle and a half later, he was resorting to his first tactic of propping the body up and letting the blood run out that way. He filled another bottle and a half, making the total from this monster three, before his shoulder gave out again.

One more monster left, he thought, turning to the last felled beast.

[Jumping down to Gabranth/Larsa/Homura/Ed thread once it's clear]