St. Eleanor's Orphanage

[vo_dcc]

Spikes shot out randomly from the floor, where the blood he hid previously were, effectively skewering any one who ran towards him. Guards were being brutally murdered in matters of seconds, and the more people he killed, the bigger his tower became. Bodies were dragged into the tower and formed a semi-solid structure that was held up by Nora's blood manipulation.

The tower didn't move much from it's spot in the middle of the mess hall, but the tendrils reached far outside and sliced through the roof for the tower to grow. Nora stayed at the very top, seemingly unconscious. The relationship between Nora and the tower was strange--- it was more like the huge pile of guts was alive on it's own, and he was just a source of power that it needed to stay alive. So it protected him from any kind of projectiles that people decided to throw at him, but the killing was messy and without consideration for anyone, having only the intension of getting more corpses to join it.

As Sasha neared, however, the entire structure of blood and human decay began to wobble unsteadily, bodies litterally falling out from the sky.

It seemed to wake Nora up.

But there was still the manic smile, and the thirst for more blood shed. The tower was just a lot more precise in attacking, and it began to move out of the mess hall. Living guards was picked up as it moved, and they screamed as their body contorted into whatever structure that was needed to keep the tower together. Nora himself looked like he was a corpse, perched high on top. His skin had gone grey and he could barely keep himself in an upright position. His arms stayed limp by his side the entire time, and he was whipped from side to side like a rag doll as the tower wobbled.

It didn't get to move much longer however, as Sasha's power began to overwrite his. The bottom of the tower went first, crumbling as the bodies tumbled out one by one, blood gushing out onto the ground. The tower shrunk, and collapsed into a heap of human remains. A giant hunk of a man called Sasha climbed to the top of it, and easily lifted a blood soaked Nora off the ground with a grip on his head.

"Hey," he roared, looking at the remaining kids who survived the ordeal, grinning as he held out Nora with one arm.

"I'm quite happy today, because you see, this," he gestured towards the bloodied ground, and the pile of death and gore, "is not something one get to see everyday, don't you think?"

 

[angelic sparkle]

Nichole cursed and her water swirled before evaporating. She glared at Sasha and hopped off the table. Nichole bit her lip trying to figure out how to get Nora away from him.

She backed up and jumped over the corpses. Nichole crossed her arms and her eyes narrowed more. She was scared and worried for her friend but kept her face emotionless.

 

[Queen of the Black Hearts]

Leigh looked around to see if she could do anything to help get Nora out of Sasha's grip. Spotting Rosa still with a knife, she slowly crept over to her and grabbed her wrist that was holding the knife.

"How food are you at throwing knives, cyclops?" She whispered in a low tone as to not draw attention to herself.

 

[asentia]

"I'm fairly good at it," Rosa answered quietly, her eyes glinting with malice. She twirled one of the knives in her hand. "Should I go for the throat or the chest?"

 

[PixelatedLights]

Irene looked at ease as she skipped towards Leigh and Rosa. Tsk, tsk, Sasha was being so bad. He was going to break her toy. He always broke her toys when he was still at the orphanage, but he always got her a better one afterwards too. This one though, this one was special; with his powers, Nora was very interesting. She didn't want Aleksandr to die either though, she liked him, even if he did break her things. Contrary to popular belief, she only killed and to a lesser extent tormented, people who annoyed her. Granted it didn't take much to annoy her these days.

"I would aim for the chest, bigger target," She pipped, "lex'sandr doesn't like getting hurt, so he'll probably just drop Nora," although there's a very little chance of that happening she finished off in her head.

 

[Queen of the Black Hearts]

Leigh glared at Irene. She knew that the psycho and Sasha had a weird relationship when the nullifier was still an orphan. Looking back at Rosa, she decided to voice her opinion as was asked.

"Aim small, miss small. Go for the head or throat." She states; crossing her arms. "Listen well, cyclops. If you miss, hit Nora or so much as listen to Irene, I will fucking end you."

 

[vo_dcc]

"He should compensate for all the experiments that he had destroyed, shouldn't he?" Sasha continued to roar, shaking Nora. "I think--- he would make a lovely subject."

The whole time, Nora was awake. Just so weakened he couldn't move. After all, no one could be asleep after this beast started yelling. Dazed, he wondered why his ability wasn't working; if this continued for long he could seriously get sick. Below both of them were a pile of human wastes, filled with bacterias and viruses. Usually, Nora would not be affected because he controlled the blood, though there was always that risk whenever he used other's blood instead of his own. But now, since he was as good as a normal human, the risk was very real.

But his muddled mind thought:

"Well, that must mean that this guy is vulnerable too, isn't he?"

So he reached up to Sasha's arm, which was holding him up, and dug his nails into his flesh. He didn't know whether this guy was inmune or just dumb--- to come in contact with a guy in a pile of biohazardous waste was one of those things that one should never do. He pulled his hands down, easily scratching Sasha's skin open when his very dirty hands. Hopefully the man realized what he was doing. If not then... oh well.

The rest... he supposed he'd count on those four.

 

[angelic sparkle]

Nichole bit her lip looking at Nora in concern. She wished she could help but Sasha was really suppressing her powers. Nichole went to Leigh and whispered."got a plan?"

 

[PixelatedLights]

"Nah uh," Irene wagged her finger, "Go for the head or throat and one tiny slip, oopsie daisy you've hit poor little Nora," She kept her eyes locked on the struggling pair still precariously balanced on the tower of dead bodies, blood and shit. "Such a small, small target isn't it? And if you miss Leigh here will kill you,"

Irene casually flicked off the blood from her knife, as she watched the skinny boy begin to move, digging his nails into the muscular arm holding him up. Her grip tightened as she watched the sweet, bright red blood slowing drip down. Sasha roared, other hand smacking Nora in the face before joining its partner in crushing the skinny boys neck.

"Better make your decision quickly, times running out, doesn't look like Nora's going to last much longer," Irene lied. She knew that Aleksandr didn't like such messy kills, especially not if he mentioned Nora becoming a test subject. No, Aleks game had always been torture. Slow, and painfully, every last second of it. Either way, even if the one eyed girl didn't make a move, Irene would still be able to react in time to get Nora out alive.

"Tick-tock, Tick-tock, times a-wasting,"

 

[Queen of the Black Hearts]

Leigh looked back at her and whispered her plan of having Rosa throw the knife at Sasha to distract him, then she could run in, grab Nora and then make a break for the front door. "I need you to get the younger kids and find a way through the gardens to escape. I trust them to you. Hopefully, when we leave this hell hole, we will meet up again." Leigh states, making sure to speak low enough for only Nichole to hear.

A roar caught her attention and she saw Sasha starting to strangle Nora. Eyes widening a bit, she quickly picked a knife off the ground and, with great strength, throws the knife, only able to lodge it deep in Sasha's thigh.

 

[angelic sparkle]

Nichole nodded and said"got it I'll meet you guys out there but first." She ran to the kitchen and picked up her heavy cast iron skillet before aiming. Nichole tossed it straight at the base of Sasha's neck watching it hit then ran upstairs quickly to gathered the young orphans. She packed two duffle bags one of food an water the other blankets and such.

Nichole opened her window and dropped some mattresses out then eased the kids out to safety after making a long rope of sheets for them to climb down to the mattresses on the ground.

 

[asentia]

Rosa took a deep breath and stared at the brute.

Breathe in. Breathe out.

Before Rosa could overthink things, she pulled her arm back and threw the knife. It landed soundly in Sasha's eye with a sickening squishy noise.

 

[Queen of the Black Hearts]

Leigh made a run for Nora the second Sasha dropped him. Dodging the psycho's flailing arms to get the knives out of him, she grabs Nora's hand and makes a beeline for an exit. Nora was her priority and she would be damned if she left him here to die. Seeing that there were no guards at the entrance like usual, she reached her hand out and grabbed the handle. With one push, the door finally opened and the outside air hit their faces like a ton of bricks.

 

[PixelatedLights]

Sasha screamed, throwing Nora to the side, and after a bit of fumbling yanked the knife out of his eye. He howled in pain as blood gushed from his eye, guess it hadn't gone far enough to hit his brain.

"Nice throw, hope you don't make a habit of making people one eyed," Irene smiled. She made to dash in and grab Nora but a purple blur sped past her first.

Looking at the chaos around her one last time, Irene chucked her knife at a nearby battle, and followed the younger girl out the entrance.

 

[angelic sparkle]

Nichole climbed down with kaito after getting the last of the kids down. She picked up her duffle bags then told them to follow her. Nichole lead them into the dense forest and down a few paths. Once in a clearing Nichole sent up a large frozen bubble as a signal to her friends.

 

[vo_dcc]

Nora tumbled after her, legs barely working. It looked more like he was being dragged along like a potato sack than he was actually running behind behind her. He stared at Leigh for a while, and then spoke.

"Don't touch me... you'll get sick," he mumbled, staring at his bloody hand that was clapsed in hers. "Seriously. You never know what's in this stuff." On another hand, hopefully Sasha die from a septic shock due to the infection-- or get hepatitis or something.

As soon as they get out of the range of his powers, Nora would have to do a thorough cleansing. While it wouldn't fix any damage that was already done, it would prevent any more problems from surfacing. Hopefully none of them had an open wound.

 

[angelic sparkle]

Nichole sat in the grass with a sigh and gave the children water to drink. She petted kaito and gave him some water too before waiting for her friends to come. Nichole counted the kids and nodded to herself seeing that they were all accounted for.

 

[Queen of the Black Hearts]

Leigh barely registered that Nora's hands were bloody as she kept running. After a bit, she decided to stop them to get some air and rest for a few minutes. Looking back at Nora's bloody form, she let go of his hand and grasped his chin, turning his head from side to side to see if he hurt his head anywhere.

"I don't care if I get sick from holding your bloody hand, Nora." She states, moving his head back to face her. "I was worried about you, you know?"

 

[asentia]

Rosa grinned as her knife lodged itself in Sasha's eye. She didn't wait to see how the giant dealt with it and ran after Irene and Leigh. The outdoor breeze was cool and felt almost like a slap in the face. As she ran, Rosa kept a careful distance behind the blood boy. Based on what she had seen, he could manipulate blood. She shouldn't have picked on him...

They stopped to take a breather and Rosa looked behind her. Pillars of smoke were rising from the converted warehouse and she could hear the wail of sirens. Maybe the government would dare to send the national guard after them.

Nearby the orphanage, there was a strange bubble in the surrounding forest. Could it be...?

 

[angelic sparkle]

Nichole surrounded herself and the orphans with a bubble to protect them. Then waited and bit her lip worried for her friends. Did they see the ice bubble in the sky? The moonlight was shining down upon it.