When the night runs cold...

It had been some time since the blonde had decided to leave her house on some sort of walk. Ai had dressed in a simple purple dress which was similar to the one that she normally wore that had metal plates on it for some added defense. Her shoes were rather plain compared to her normal ones as well. Her hair was done as it usually was, in a large braid. As she walked away from her home, it was later in the day as the sun was still up but it wouldn't set for a few more hours, at least. As she walked through the outskirts of Magnolia, she'd make a detour away from it as she didn't care for her walk to take her anywhere near the town.

Her time during her walk simply had her walk through wooded areas though time seemed to go faster than usual there and as she had stepped out of the woods, the sun was already starting to set. At least there was enough sun for her to get to the nearby city. She'd sigh as she'd finally make her way into the city as the sun fully set and the woman walked into the city as the streets were lit up here and there from street lamps every now and again.

However, she'd make her way through, what she'd think to me a shortcut through an alleyway that wasn't lit up, in which she'd go through, not initially hearing any footsteps behind her halfway through the alleyway. However as she left that alley and moved through another one the figures from the last alley would follow her from alley to alley. This ally was a good bit longer than the prior one, so towards the middle of the alley, the group of figures would catch up to her, and another group would enter the alley from the other end of it and make their way to her.

"We haven't seen you around here. If you wanna keep going, you gotta pay our price..." One of the men in the group that had run up behind Ai had said, which would cause her to stop and turn around. Her red eyes looked straight at the man that had spoken, which seemingly pierced through the air. "And what exactly is this 'price'?" She'd ask, annoyance easily heard in her voice.

"The price is to strip down and do what we say and we won't have to rough ya up!" The man said, replying to the annoyance that was in her voice. She would sigh again as she heard the man name the 'price' to pass through, in which she'd hear another group stop behind her. "You're just outright pathetic, ya'know?" She'd say, while chuckling a bit.

The men in the first group that had made themselves growled a bit and the man would speak up again. "How dare you laugh at us and our price! The price has now changed!" The man said as a few of the men from the group that moved behind her from the other end of the alley had moved to keep her from resisting. "The price is now we'll strip you down and do what we want!" The man said, as he moved away from the group and towards Ai, brandishing a knife.

As she was grabbed, Ai's chuckling would stop, and she'd remain motionless and quiet. The man would soon enough move up to her, feeling her chest up before using the knife he had to start to cut the dress she wore, but before he could cut more than a few inches, she'd quickly headbutt him as he was a bit too cocky and got too close. He would stumble back a bit, dropping the knife and landing on his butt, and soon rubbing his head. Before he could do anything more, she'd smile widely as the small piercing just off to the side and under her eye started to glow slightly and above them, several rifles had appeared, landing on some mens heads, and the ones that held her had let go as some rifles had landed on their heads. She would quickly go for the knife the man had held as she let the rifles disappear as soon as she was let go. unfortunately for her dress, the knife had cut far enough for some of her bra to be revealed due to the man. "Oh, now you'll get it! Don't just stand there, after her!" The man would say as he got up and as the two groups of men made their way towards her. this was a time she was wearing the boots she had received from Rita before everything was found out and all, but for the time being, she had the knife that the man held, so she used it to slash at the men, being quick enough to defend from both sides until she had made enough minor cuts on them to have the air smell of blood in the general area in which she would throw the knife, with the blade landing in one of the mans head which would cause him to fall over with blood leaking out of the wound. The rest of the men would stand shocked for a moment before yelling and charging towards her, but the moment they charged, she had summoned her rifles to make them stumble again in pain.

"I give you one chance to leave before your blood runs cold..." She's speak, with a smile still on her face. They shook off the pain and continued on, ignoring her words, in which she'd grab two riles, making the rest disappear before any of them tried to use it and would start to laugh as she would fire them at two of the men. The two that had gotten hit had softball sized holes where they were hit, and as the shots were at vital spots on their torsos, they'd also slump down from the momentum they had before falling. Some of them would continue, but the rest would stop, at the knowledge that they were starting to get picked off. She would toss the rifles up slightly and grab the barrels of the rifles, as they only hold one shot before becoming useless, and swung them hard enough to cause the two leading the attack from her front and the one behind her to collapse in pain as a snap could be hear from them. What she didn't expect from that was the group behind her to continue after the one in the front most to continue and would grab at her, but tripping over their comrade had allowed them only to grab only her dress for enough time to tear it more than their friend had done, making the dress reveal more skin and more of her bra.

Only laughing could be heard from her as she turned to the group that had arrived later and gathered magical energy in her mouth before using her Shout to brutally murder them, which quickly had the other group of men to start scrambling their way to where they had entered the alley. However, she'd use her rifles once more to stop them, though not by hitting them on the head a third time, but to just block the exit. Her laugh could easily be heard now as she grabbed the knife from the mans head she had thrown it in. There weren't too many people left compared to the total of both groups, but she would cause several of the guns blocking the exit to disappear and for them to converge into a large gun that seemed to be more akin to a cannon than a gun. Luckily, she was a few meters away from them, and as she fired, she didn't notice that three of the men had hit the dirt just before she fired, causing those who didn't who didn't to take the shot, losing most of their body in the process, causing blood to fly into the air, painting the buildings they were between and the ground, and even some drops of blood hitting Ai.

After the shot, the gun would disappear, but the ones blocking the exit were still there, and her sight had allowed her to notice that two men had just ducked down to dodge the shot in which she'd throw the knife to kill one of them, before slowly walking up to the second man she noticed and had raised her foot to stomp down onto his head. The final man, and the one who spoke out earlier, managed to stay hidden among the blood and corpses, as Ai caused the guns blocking the entrance to disappear and stepped among the dead men to leave the alley. As she stepped out of the alley, she'd stand still, laughing a bit louder, not caring who exactly saw her right now, with her torn dress and blood splattered onto her. However, she didn't hear the man among the bodies get up, retch, grab the knife from his buddy's head and slowly move to her. Her laughing continued until the blade that the man had pierced through her back, though it had missed anything really important, and she could feel the trembling through the knife. She'd silently wince at quickly moving around before grabbing the man by his face and moving to slam him into the ground, slamming his head down several times.

Once she was finished with it, the back of his head was crushed with a puddle of blood underneath his lifeless head, spreading out as every second passed. His face and her hand were also covered in blood by the time she was finished, and she'd stand back up, the knife still sticking out of her back, her dress cut down a few inches and then torn down to an inch or two above her navel. Blood dripped from her hand, and she had some blood splatter across the rest of her body and more on her dress, while her shoes were almost bathed in the blood. What would happen next? Who knows?

Jiyu normally found it impossible to stay in one place for very long, keep indoors or outdoors, upstairs or down, she always had to be moving or doing something else, at least she had once upon a time. These day's? Change had happened in the young mages life, and while wanderlust would always be part of her existence, it was no longer the kind that made her dread coming home. These days Jiyu looked forward to coming back to the Guild, to the place she now called home and, that was as far her brain could get. Anything beyond the simple concept that she had come to accept Black Rose as the place she called home, was too much for the young wind mage, she was incapable of further thought right now, after all she had been through in life. Thinking of complex ideals and deep things? Was just not something the half demoness was ready to do at the moment, even if she was always thinking of something.

       Today she had been thinking as she slept in her bed, a soft blanket made from a predatory sheep wrapped around her body. For once? She woke with her cloths on, but the sensation that woke her was the important part, a small pink tongue lapping across her nose. 'What Maka?" The small harsh textured body part belonged to a kitsune only one foot tall, a creature who Jiyu had likely saved by taking her in! The bright eyed fox kit was laying in the canine's arms, twin tails laying across her hip, however the pup seemed concerned about something. Since she had just woken up? Jiyu's sense's were not exactly revved up yet, but it took only a single second to find the scent of blood heavy in the air. "Oh Shit!" something was happening, had she already slept throught the action, and talking to herself that had to stop! Jiyu shot up, running towards her door, Maka racing ahead of her to grab Night Hunt, so that Jiyu only had to put on her quiver, not seek out the bow itself. "Koto stay here, your too little to come with." the small creature yipped angrily, but did not move to follow Jiyu as the mage raced out the door and nearly flew down the stairs.

      Hopefully? Other guild-mates would guess something was wrong with the way she ran out, or one of the other sensitive demons, half demons or just non humans, had raised the alarm. Jiyu? Had not been awake to think about doing that, she was only conscious enough to run out the door, follow the scent around and try to pin point where the blood was coming from. However the half dog demon was making a mistake in seeking out blood, sadly she did not even know it yet! When she first scented the blood? No problem existed, she had been somewhat distant from the blood, and it had been unable to invade her sense of smell effectively, but as she got closer, something started changing. Jiyu did not even realize how her steps got a tad bit faster, her pupils dilated and her tongue darted out to lick her lips and fangs! Kazehime's body was lusting for the blood it smelled and she did not even realize it yet past her urge to track down the scent and whatever it was attached to. Kazehime was drawn towards the scent of blood, and her own life giving liquid sparked further into life as if being triggered by it. Considering her demon blood had been woken by consuming blood? This was not shocking, that it would have strong effects on her, that she'd be a 'blood hound' of sorts, crave it and chase after such things without realizing what she was doing.

      Suddenly another scent attacked her sensitive nose,  brought her out of her blood haze slight, and the wind mages eyes widened in horror. Marschal leigh. Around the scent of blood, the taken over area, consumed space where she doubted any scent besides blood existed? Was his scent! Fear gripped the girls heart as she realized he had presence in this. Lately? She had been somewhat avoiding running into him when possible, not wanting him to realize she was half dog demon, fearful of what he would think; Now, the thought he could have been hurt, it took control of her body and overpowered the fear she held, the nightmares of how he could react to her now active dog demon blood. The very notion she could end up loosing him physically? Was enough for her to no longer care about loosing her savior emotionally due to their differences as cat and dog! Normally she would have went into the scene indirectly, gotten to high ground or such to make the most use of her powers. Jiyu's fear for his safety prevented her from doing things in a truly rational manner, the only thing she could do was round the corner into the alley, pray to see him standing there alright, and when she did everything in her head changed.

      How could she have been foolish enough to think Marschal would ever need any help, especially from her?! The half panther had saved her life, not the other way around! Only she no longer carried the scars to prove what had happened back than, the only remaining marks that she had once been in that position was minor discoloration on her wrists and lower legs. Taking leave now, was no option, even if she had momentarily convinced herself that he did not need her here, walking away from this scene was impossible. Some? Might think that walking away was impossible for her because of some moral code; However the truth was, the moment she'd confirmed Marschal was unharmed, the blood had taken over once more. Without even having known it was possible for the scent of blood and severed body parts to over take her? Kazehime had already been borderline consumed by the carnage! Marschal? Had been born half demon, he knew what could affect him and was used to his half demon form. Jiyu was anything but, she had lived as human for so long, and this was the first time she'd been exposed to blood since awakening her dog demon blood and transforming. Now? The mere scent of blood made her mouth water, her tail wag, ears angle forward and mouth gaped slightly, pupils dilated. Luckily, her expression itself did not clearly speak to her growing blood lust, or maybe that was bad luck, since someone might not know to stop her.

The delay in her arrival and any noise from her was odd when Jiyu was concerned, she suddenly let out a small giggle. Once she heard that sound? She realized the state she was in, remembering when she had tried to kill that large feline during her training, after biting it and tasting its blood. If she was in that state from the mere scent? What would happen if she actually consumed blood like this. Somehow she had to get control back of herself. Finally her voice pipped up in a slightly hushed velvet tone, balled fist in front of her mouth as she looked over at Marschal. "I thought you're a cat? smell anyone else besides us, her and the corpses?" Why did he need to ask if she had been the one to kill them? Jiyu chose to focus on that instead of the heady scent of blood around her. However it was impossible to tune out the metallic scent entirely, and even if her head was now being distracted, her body's reaction did not change. Kazehime caught sight of the other girls bra from her torn dress, and looked between herself and Ai. Once more? Jiyu looked like a street whore compared to the other nearest girl, dressed in only her bikini top and daisy duke shorts. She had to keep thinking of something, anything but the blood.

"So are we actually going to do something about this mess, or just stand here?" the Ace Of Hearts spoke up, not realizing she could likely make that call now, being a higher mage rank than marschal and one of the guilds aces. The only thing really in the grinning dogs mind? Was how quickly she'd have to move to tear the other girls throat out! Taking another breath, Jiyu glanced over at Marschal once more, taking a step closer to him, before locking onto their opponent once more. Maybe, just maybe? His scent would calm down the torrent in her head. Of course, if she knew he was thinking of bedding the other girl? She likely wouldn't care about staying calm anymore, even if she had yet to admit the full stretch of her feelings for him.

A green haired demon had been lurking up on top of the rooftops of rose garden when the scene below had played out, Sol had been here to relax and have some of the food coked in this city but it got late and he had dozed off watching the stars though at the sound of a skull being crushed into the ground like a melon the slayer woke and yawned before he put his fedora on and dusted himself off before he sat down on the edge of the building and looked down at the scene before him, their were bodys and blood everywhere and the smell was making him hungry as he glanced at the three blow not knowing who the man and the woman were but the last one the woman covered in blood he knew her scent from long ago but he wondered why she was here.

“My my what a mess we have here if you need help cleaning up Id be more then happy to help” he said with a smirk on his face though his golden slitted eyes held no kindness in them and more of a predatory look in them, his guild mark was covered so unless Daiki told them who he was he was sure he wouldn’t have any trouble.