Glory, Becky, Martha, Kitty and Theresa
Glory grinned as she sent out her babies. Six cobras, all magically cloaked, slithered into the mansion and split up. Becky was sitting with Martha, knitting, when she felt something sharp prick her ankle.
"What was that?" she asked, before she slumped over.
"SOMEBODY! PLESE HELP!" Martha screamed.
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Theresa and Kitty were walking down the hall, when Kitty suddenly said that something had bit her, and fainted. Tracy screamed her piercing, supersonic scream.
Gwen and Bobby
Gwen was sitting with Bobby, talking about Physics when something slithered past her leg. She felt teeth sink into her foot and she zapped wildly under the table.
"What happened?" Bobby asked.
Gwen didn't answer, just slumped over the table.
"HELP!"
Dru
Dru grabbed Sabre's hand. "Glorificus is playing a nasty trick, kitten. All the babies are getting bitten!"
Chelsea, Demetria, Octavian and Sigurd
Chelsea was trying to do her homework in the library, when she felt something prick her ankle. She looked down and saw a cobra slither away, cloaked in something. "Oh...bunny." She crumpled to the ground.
~*~*~*~
Demetria stepped down onto the ground and ran after Octavian. "Tavvie!"
"Go away, Dem. I'm still kinda mad at you, seeing as how I'm going to be female for the forseeable future." And then Demetria fell forwards into her arms. "DEM!"
"Tav..." Demetria's eyes fluttered closed.
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Sigurd was cleaning his ax, and sharpening it ready for action to come. A cobra struck. He jumped to his feet, and brought the ax down. It struck the snake and cleanly seperated it into halves. The snake writhed, glamour disappearing, and then Sigurd went to one knee, breathing hard. "En slange...ASTRID!" HE went down onto the other knee, still gripping his ax as the poison coursed through his body.
Sabre
"That bloody blonde bitch..." Sabre muttered. "So. Let's get them to the doctor then, aye?"
John, Nico, Martha, Theresa, Jean and Dru
John heard Martha screming, and ran into the rec room. He quickly picked up Becky, and carried her into the hall.
"What happened to my sister?" Nico asked, his eyes wide.
"Something bit her, I think," Martha said. They all heard Tracy scream, and John quickly handed Becky to Nico, who held his sister close to him. John ran up the hall, and saw Tracy freaking out. He gently lifted Kitty up and carried her down to the medlab, he looked around and saw that several people had suddenly become ill.
"What's going on?" Jean asked, as several people were brought to her at once.
"Snakes," Dru said, as she ran into the room. "writhing little cobras. A gift of Glorificus."
Bobby and Gwen
Bobby picked Gwen up carefully and ran to the medlab as quickly as he could.
He put Gwen on a bed and pointed to her foot. "She got bit. Can we do anything?"
Nathan, Sigurd, Astrid and Nyx
"I didn't see this," Nathan hissed. "Gods mess with my eyes. Hiding. Cloaking. Do you see it, vampire? The darkness?"
"I killed one," Sigurd said from his hospital bed. Astrid fluttered her wings nervously. "Stupid to try and bite me when I have my ax, no?"
"Ligg ned, Sigurd. Behag."
"Jeg er fin, Astrid. Gjør ikke uro slik. Se etter barn. Jeg er en tøff gammel bjørn." He patted her hand, and she smiled at him with tears in her eyes. "So. Glorificus? Once I kill Cain, we can go after her. What is she doing walking this earth again?"
"What we all want to know," Nyx said grimly.
Willow
Willow's eyes turned white, and the snake that was slithering into the room was decloack. She picked it up, and milked it's fangs into a beaker, drawing out the venom.
"I can make an antivenom from this, it shouldn't take too long. But thus stuff can be lethal, I need somebody who's skilled with magick to try and keep them alive as long as possible."
Dru
"The stars tell me what happened. She struck the gatekeeper down, and dug her way out of the pit. SHe's no longer tied to the mortal boy, just god, only god, with no humanity. She wants to see the Slayer's friends fall, one by one, and anybody the Key loves. The Key dies last." Dru sang, then fall backwards onto the bed.
"Oh, it's too bright! Hurts my head, all wrong, all wrong!"
Astrid, Nyx and Sabre
"I can. One of them. Choose which one I look after." Astrid offered.
"I will try, I will." Nyx was looking very pale but she was game.
"Use me for power, Nissy love." Sabre sat beside his sister. "I can;t do it meself, but you can use me."
"Thank you, Sabre."
Nathan
Nathan was shaking. "I see blood. Blood and flames. When we are weak, the wolves move in. My head, ah, my eyes!" He looked at Drusilla, tears coursing down his cheeks. "I lost her in the darkness. Can you see through it, vampire? I see through the light and you take my darkness? Oh, I can't see. I'm blinded."
Willow and Jean
"Jean, help me." The two science people mixed several things together, and finally, about 20 minutes later, they had an antivenom.
"Now that we have this small amount, I can magically increase the amount," Willow said, waving her had as one beaker-full turned into 3.
"One injection per person should do it, but it may be days before they're all well." Willow said.
"I just hope we can find all these snakes." Meanwhile, Jean was injecting everyone one by one.
Dru
Drusilla reached over and held Nathan's hands. "I am darkness, I shall take it from you," and she pulled the darkness into herself.
Nathan, Sabre, Nyx and Astrid
"I can see them. I see what is, not what others see. Hidden things I find." Nathan was still shaking hard. "I can find them."
"And we can kill them." Astrid gripped the handle of her sword.
"Indeed we can!" Sabre laughed. "I like you."
"Ja, cat. We kill those that hurt us. Shall we hunt?"
"I can't. Oh, I need to rest." Nyx was a mess. "I can't take much more of this."
Nyx and Nathan
"I would take your light, if I was able. Can you hear the laughter?" Nathan shook harder. "Laughing...oh god, he always laughs."
"What?!" Nyx sat up. "Oh, dear goddess no."
"He's coming. Cant see when. Hidden behind a wall of flame, but he;s coming." Nathan looked Drusilla in the eyes. "Thank you, vampire."