Melee in Maui (Bliss, Beerus, Video-Girl, Ultra Gang)

[Ink]

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Richard walks into the room where Ariana lies on her bed in shorts, a bikini top, and flip-flops, holding her phone up and playing Pac-Man.  He sighs and drops his bag, leaning in the doorway.  "Hey," Ariana says without peeling her eyes away from the tiny screen.  "You look tan.  Enjoying the resort?"

"Ari, your cousin and I were worried sick, about-"

"I wanted to cool off.  I told you where I was going.  Besides... I got bored." Ariana says.

Richard crosses his arms.  "You were only out in the sun for five minutes.  And we were getting ice cream."

"I don't eat ice cream."

"Ariana, put the phone down."

Ariana shrugs and drops the phone.  She folds her hands behind her head and stares toward the ceiling.  A 3D construct of the Pac-Man game pops up over her.  Her eyes follow the little yellow dot as it navigates the maze.  "Cool, right?  Didn't know I could do that 'til last night.  You know you Babs snores?  Like... really loud?  Think I'm taking your room, tonight.  That sound good?"  Inky and Blinky zero in on Pac-Man but the two ghosts suddenly redirect themselves with no rhyme or reason, ignoring the patterns they follow in the game.  "Sorry, you two.  But I have a high score to beat."  The number construct to the side meanwhile continues to climb.

"Isn't cheating how you got into this mess in the first place?" Richard says.

"Nooo, crappy engineering and weird science is how I got into this mess.  Cheating just happened to factor in a little," Ariana says.  "Besides, oh, woe is me.  I have awesome superpowers, now, that let me make a video game with my mind whenever I feel like.  Alack! Alay! Oh, what a cruel world!"  Richard walks up and catches the Pac-Man construct and plucks it from the game.  Ariana sits up.  "Hey!"

Richard opens the door.  "Unbelievable.  Honestly, Ari, only you could be in a place like this and lock yourself in your room.  Come on.  We're getting out for a bit."

Ariana pouts and blow hair out of her face.  She hops from the bed, throws on the Hawaiian shirt, sitting on the chair by the desk and follows Richard out, grumbling.  "Aliens. Godzilla. Something cool could happen. Anything. Throw me a bone here."

[Forceaus]

I-I'm not sure I'm ready for this. I mean I." A young man sitting up against a palm tree in the woods near the beach said to the two men that were standing nearby, essentially looming over him menacingly. He looked worried and afraid. They were near a beach in Maui, Hawaii and the beach had a bunch of visitors that were about to experience an unpleasant surprise.

"I promise you that you are more than ready. You're just nervous, that's all." One of the men responded trying to sound comforting and inspiring to the young man before him. That man was none other than the psychotic serial killer known as Deathbringer. He was here in Maui to try and find some possible members for the Ultra gang and recruit them. Yesterday he had found this here young man with powers that he had not fully identified as of yet. Deathbringer was hoping to see more of what this guy can do, and had come up with a way for that to happen. The one problem was that he seemed reluctant to do it.

"I don't know, man. I've never done anything like this before. I mean, what you're suggesting is just such a horrible thing to do, and it's far beyond anything I've ever done." the young man said, now shaking out of nervousness, and possibly fear.

"Just think of it as an opportunity to see what you can really do. You said yourself that you want to know what your powers are really capable of. This is your chance to tap into your true potential. Take it, and let nothing stop you from realizing what you can do." Deathbringer said with his voice now raised to motivate this guy into acting. He could see that they were starting to feel more confident about what Deathbringer had suggested they do. To put the final nail in the coffin that would convince this young man to act, Deathbringer added one last statement. "Trust me, once you get started, all of your nervousness will fade away and it will start feeling natural to you."

There was a pause before the young man eventually responded. "Okay. I'll do it." and then he got up and started heading towards the beach. The two men just watched him leave with amusement.

"I think this test will do for now. It's also a personal test for myself. Need to step my game up a bit and this is a good chance to experiment with some new methods. Tell me, what's your honest opinion about it?" Deathbringer asked the other man and no answer came. "Oh right, you can't talk. Well, you can tell me later. For now, let's watch how he does."

The young man made it to the beach and was just sort of staggering around a bit until someone eventually grew concerned and steadily approached him. The lifeguard that came to check up on him would find themselves impaled through their stomach by a blade that formed inside of him. Another one would find itself going through the lifeguard's chest and then he would collapse. Those that saw this happen started to panic and run for it, and the young man with this strange power was in hot pursuit and full of the intent to kill.

[Bliss]

The sun only set in Hawaii when it was time for a luau. And the mai tais never emptied. Partially because Bliss kept someone around for that duty. "These glasses are just perfect for clicking with my finger." A loud clank ran out from the glass with no response. "I said, these glasses are just perfect for-"

"If you want a refill just say so. And no, I'm not your drink girl." Abby lowered her book to her lap. She reclined in a lounge chair in a seagreen bikini with a pair of flip flops next to her chair.

"Other duties as required." The sun glared off Bliss' sunglasses with a more intense shine, possibly signaling the sun's displeasure with needing to spend too much time with Bliss. She pulled her hair nack into a loose ponytail with the strands hanging down over the straps of her black, floral bikini top. Her battle tested wrap stayed in perfect place around her hips; one day she would find the designer of the garment and find what secrets held the item together, but for now, she just wanted to stay fashionable. "It was in the job description."

"You didn't give me a job description; you just gave me money and told me to spy on people."

"That's a pretty good job. Especially the 'I pay you' part. You'd be surprised how little that happens. And I brought you on vacation. What's not to like about that?"

"The fact I don't know why you brought me. There's no way you're doing this out of the kindness of your heart. Mainly because you don't have kindness or a heart."

"Watch it. I pay you to be invisible, but you can let your brain be visible from time to time. I brought you because you are doing a terrible job with Seagirl. Just horrible. How many times has she almost died? I understand it is to Vexus, but still-"

"Venus."

"Not Vexus?"

"No, Venus. A lady who breaths on people and mind controls men and knocks women out. She tied us up with bank dividers once."

"Why do I give you money?"

"Okay, but Hanna would've died so many times without me. I probably stopped her from dying at least..."

"Who is Hanna?"

"Seagirl. The person you sent me to..."

"Oh my God, I now know more about this than I ever wanted to. Just shut up and get me a mai tai."

Seeing this as an opportunity to leave Bliss behind, Abby took the empty glass in hand and walked towards the bar near the dunes. Even though Abby still could not technically buy alcohol in the States, she could still turn invisible and steal it. However on her way to the bar, something terrible happened. Death approached with unrepentant approach, killing a man and beginning a mass attack on the beaches. The time came for Abby to be a hero.

So she turned invisible. Except for her clothing, because invisibility in many cases is stupid. Removing the clothing announcing her location, Abby hurried back to Bliss while carnage broke out. "Bliss! Trouble!"

"Abby, stop standing behind me, I can't-"

"I'm invisible right now, but-"

"I'm not talking to an invisible girl, people will think I'm Elaine."

"I'm not wearing any clothes though..."

"Ugh, you're the worst. What is it?"

"There's a guy attacking people on the beach. He has knife hands. I think he wants to enact a massacre."

"Of course, I come here for relaxation and this place turns into Normandy." Knowing what she needed to do, Bliss sat down her book while beginning to stand up. The drinking game took a toll on her equilibrium and sent her to the ground below. "Abby, the ocean is making me feel sick."

"Yeah, well, that's to be expected." Abby redressed so she could come out of her invisibility without the problems of beach nudity, but needed a better outfit. "Okay, so you just need to stand up." A small helping hand pulled Bliss up and pointed her in the right direction. Bliss just walked it in a weird way. "I'm going to get my suit. I'll get Mitsuko to throw something together for you."

"Who?" Putting one foot in front of the other took a little effort, but nothing jumping up and down couldn't solve.

"Your half sister."

"Oh yeah, well she doesn't get paid."

"I'm not getting paid for this either am I?"

"My thanks is your pay."

"I can't even buy self respect with that."

"You don't need it. You have superpowers. And, so do I. And, so does he." Eight fingers cracked and a great deal of hand clicked up to pelt the man pursuing the feeling pedestrians. Bliss would try to make a dirt devil blind the man and once he looked more staggered, Bliss could start dealing with him more appropriately.

[Ink]

Ariana stands in the resort elevator, having thrown on the Hawaiian shirt over her bikini top and slipped into her flip-flops.  She leans against the back wall of the elevator, between Richard and Babs, with her arms crossed.  As the doors open, they are exposed to the pandemonium in the lobby.  People rush inside in a panic.  Through the resort doors, people stampede through the streets, many of the screaming.  Ariana grins and rushes from the elevator and outside with Richard and Babs close behind.  As they pass people running in the opposite direction, the frenzied chatter bounces through the crowd.  "I came to Hawaii to get away from this!" and "Barricade the doors!" on top of the occasional "An attack on the beach! Get inside!" Ariana pumps her fist and rushes toward the beach.

Richard chases after her.  "Ariana, where are you-?!"

"You wanted me to get out of my room, right?" Ariana shouts as she disappears into the oncoming flood of people.  On the way, her eyes turn to neon blue and a mini map appears in the bottom right corner of her field of vision.  On the map is a red blip and a green blip.  "Please be Godzilla, please be Godzilla, please be Godzilla."

Upon arriving at the beach, Ariana sees a couple of bodies lying in the sand.  "Okay.  Not Godzilla.  And now I'm pissed."  The red blip on the mini map is nearby.  Ariana looks around the beach.  Not far off is a woman, engaging a man with... bladed spectral tentacles?  Sand jumped up at him and, judging by the impale markings on the beach victims, he was the unfriendly one.  Ariana marks the other woman as a blue blip on her mini map, then runs toward them.  "If this lady doesn't leave me a chance to kick this guy where the sun don't shine, so help me god, I'll..."

[Beerus]

Beerus was laying on a large towel soaking up the sun rays, enjoying his time. He knew he had made the choice coming to Hawaii. Suddenly Beerus felt a killing intent, though it was immature. Beerus leans back and pushs off the ground in order to jump to his feet.

Beerus looked around seeking the direction where the killing intent was coming from. The source was close, so Beerus launched himself towards the blood thirst. As Beerus increased his speed the sense of death, many deaths, grew stronger. Beerus came to sudden stop only feet away from a man and a woman in heavy combat.

[Forceaus]

That lifeguard was dead, dead because of him, and he felt strangely elated by it. Taking that man's life made him feel powerful. It made him feel worthwhile. That guy was right, he was ready for this. He should see what his powers could really do, and this was just the start. He had taken the lifeguard's life because nobody had been guarding his life, and now it was time to see what else he could do.

The young man with the ghostly tentacles with blades at the end tossed the body of the lifeguard aside and looked around at the other beachgoers to decide whom he should kill next. With so many options available he just went wild and started attacking everybody he could reach. This was on the verge of becoming a massacre until some sand got in his eyes.

"Ow, dammit. Stupid sand." He said as he tried to wipe the sand out and away from his face. His eyes had grown a bit watery as he regained his vision, only to see some people in front of him. His vision was too blurry to tell who these people were, or if they were friend or foe. He doubted they were friends since he had so few growing up. Also because of the whole having just killed some people thing. Fear overcame him at this realization and he would attempt to surround himself with his strange tentacles to protect himself from these people. The only problem was that his powers were geared towards offense.

Meanwhile, back in the woods the events occurring on the beach were being monitored. Deathbringer and Killer Mime were watching how the kid fared with some interest through binoculars to get a good look at how things were going. They were planning on adding him to the roster after all. Gotta pay attention to whom you're scouting.

"It's like I said, once you get started it just becomes natural. Now that he's got a penchant for killing, he'll want to do it more often." Deathbringer gloated as he witnessed the results of the actions of his new potential protegee. "Now, let's see how he fares in the face of opposition. I just wish I recognized any of them so I had an idea of how he might do. Though I do believe that one of them looks familiar." he said as he checked out the three people that had ran forward after the attacking had begun.

[Bliss]

This guy did not seem fit to fight against anyone other than himself. Once Bliss entered the fray and threw sand in his face he seemed to stop killing people. Spectral tentacles surrounded him, not much better, but for sure not worse. If Bliss tried to keep him blinded he would just attack blindly and sometimes a stupid attack could do more damage than a well placed one. This guy had the stupid for sure.

Bliss had the well placed plan.

The lifeguard stand broke down quickly, falling towards the bladed malcontent. Once the stand hit the ground, Bliss would go to work whipping up a digging team to try and carve out a large enough hole to fit the man in. Planks of wood would try to strike at him to keep him busy and oblivious to the fact his ground slowly wore away. Once the hole grew large enough in size and the man looked disoriented enough, Bliss would start filling in the hole with the displaced sand, hoping to trap him under enough weight so he could not escape with the mere flicking of his blades.

Abby tore through the hotel until she found Mitsuko hard at work stealing towels and clothing from the laundry room. "Mitsi!"

"They want you to take the towels!" Holding a pair of torn silk pajamas and a bag of ill gotten gains, Mitsuko pushed the pajamas into the bag before grabbing a few more towels. She wore a simple Hawaiian shirt with a pair of white shorts and a bandanna acting as a head band to hold her pony tail in place.

"No time to explain why what you're doing is wrong. We need you to use this stuff you stole to help people."

"That's why I was stealing in the first- wait up!" Mitsuko chased after Abby with her flip flops clanking in the wake.

[Ink]

The bladed whips of ghastly light wildly lash through the air as sand rises from the earth.  "Oh, I get it," she says.  "All right, just like the Pharaohs of old.  I can spin that."  As the sand obscures her view of the psychotic, Video-Girl squints.  "Too much sand and too much movement."  She snaps her fingers.  "Duh.  Video-Girl.  Lock-On!"  In Video-Girl's field of vision, a red outline surrounds the psychotic and his tendrils.  "There we go."  Video Girl reaches into her inventory bag and plucks out a gold ring, spinning it on her finger and catching it.  It glows and but a moment later, a blueish aura surrounds her.  She looks around as an 8-Bit theme just begins playing loudly from seemingly nowhere.  "Game on."

Video-Girl dashes around, running circles around the massing sand tomb at speeds inhuman, sweeping up extra sand into a maelstrom... a very hot, sandy maelstrom.  While running, she rapidly recites an enchantment with no breaths between words.  "When what is real dost cloud our sight, you reveal all with burning light, thy dream becomes unrivaled might, unleash your fury, MEGABYTE!"  In the sky over Video-Girl, a tear appears, leading into a dimension unknown.  Through that tear emerges a blade longer than Video-Girl is tall.

Video-Girl holds out her hand and the blade, Reality Rend, soars toward her, landing its hilt directly in her palm, just as she swivels low and evades a swipe of the tendrils.  As she comes back up, she deflects another wild tendril swipe with the oversized blade and continues to work on controlling this flailing to keep the TK woman from taking any unwanted hits while she carried through with her plan.

As she parries, she works her way over to the woman, making sure to guide any stray swipes away.  "Hey, uh, lady.  Video-Girl.  I have an idea.  You wouldn't happen to have Force Lightning or something, would you?  Or a flamethrower conveniently tucked in your swimsuit?  Enough heat and we can turn this guy into a ceramics workshop."  She continues swinging the BIG F***ING SWORD like it were made of paper-mache.  "I guess I have bombs, but I'd like to kick this guy in the stones and it's only gratifying if he's... you know... alive."

[Forceaus]

The young man with the power to form bladed tentacles suddenly found himself dealing with people that were opposed to the killing spree he had just started. He surrounded himself with his strange things his powers created to protect himself after having been briefly blinded by one of these people when sand got in his eyes. He wished he knew which of them was responsible for blinding him, because they would be his first target.

He could feel whatever it was that was hitting his wall of tentacles. Each blow to the wall pulsed through his nerves as if these things were apart of him. Not wanting to feel anymore of these sensations, he started letting pieces of his wall fly outwards to try and hit the people that were attacking him to get these blows to his wall to stop. He couldn't feel himself hitting anything, but what he did feel was the sand beneath him moving. He looked down to see a hole being formed where he was standing, and began to panic. Somebody was trying to bury him alive. Somebody was seriously trying to bury him alive. This sent him into a frenzy were the bladed tentacles started whipping around frantically. He was trying desperately to escape and didn't care who got hurt due to his efforts.

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"I see he's not faring very well. Also that sword is huge. Who would wield a weapon that large?" Deathbringer mused as he watched the fight going on at the beach. He could see that the young man that he was aiming to recruit was not handling this opposition very well. It was looking like he wasn't going to pass his test after all. "You know what? I'm not interested in seeing this end so soon. You think you can get him out of the predicament he's currently in?" he asked of Killer Mime.

The man in the strange costume nodded and started focusing on what's going on at the beach. In a matter of seconds the young man with the tentacle power was starting to fly out of the hole that the one woman was attempting to bury him in. He was floated high into the air and landed on the other side of them, but wasn't aware of this and was still lashing out desperately.

[Bliss]

"Nope." Bliss welcomed her new participant without any real mention of any kind of attention diverting away from the man she tried to bury. "I've got an invisible girl somewhere. She might actually be around here." The ideas the bright girl gave her sounded good, but unfortunately, Bliss could only bury this guy. Good enough she thought.

She thought wrong. Whirling blades of rage flew out, giving Bliss a split second to shoot a quick blast to divert the blade from lobbing her in half. Bliss moved around to keep the disoriented man in front of her. "I'm not touching that. You wanted to take a shot at his stones? By all means." Each one of the slashes shot with enough vitriol to let Bliss know the business end of these things would sever all ties she had with living. "Try not to use any bombs. Judging by how he's throwing those tentacles around, he'll just bat it away towards the dunes or something. Unless..."

Bliss thought of a way to possibly detonate explosives around this tornado of delusions. Serving as the decoy, Bliss would move to try and draw the man's attention away from Video-Girl with several blasts of energy. None of those blasts would serve a real purpose of destruction, but it should be annoying enough to keep him discontent. Once she put the man between her and the ocean, Bliss would try to lodge a powerful blast to throw the man into the ocean. Bliss never stopped to ask if the bombs worked underwater, but these plans always have a way of falling apart, at least this way she could hit someone.

Abby and Mitsuko started to get out of the hotel, but were still a good ways from the actual fight. "Maybe they've got it taken care of?" Abby watched as Mitsuko took off towards the beack with enough bandages to take care of the carnage of the beach.

[Ink]

As the nut rises into the air, Video-Girl takes a step back and follows him with her eyes.  She jams her sword into the sand and reaches into her magic satchel, rummaging through it like a purse.  "Okay, if we're playing it like that, then... aha!" she says, plucking winged blue shell from the pouch. Then, with one hand, she pulls the BIG F***ING SWORD from the sand and hoists it over her shoulder.  As Bliss gets around the guy and launches TK Volleys are him, Video-Girl dashes along the beach.  Ooooh. I see what she's doing.  "Ah, the good ol' dunk booth maneuver.  He did need to cool off a bit." Bliss unleashes the volley to try and submerge the jerk and Video-Girl tosses up the Blue Shell and uses her sword as a bat, sending it flying off towards him. The blue shell flies after him like a homing missile, leaving a blue streak in its wake and sounding like a fighter jet was racing by overhead.

[Forceaus]

The man with the ghostly tentacles didn't even realize that he had lifted out of the hole in the sand and into the air to be safely placed back on the ground. Panic had set in and caused him to just attack relentlessly. He kept doing so for a moment after having landed again before realizing that something had happened. Once he noticed that something was different, the young man with the power to create ghostly tentacles with blades at the tips, otherwise known as Haulani would drop the wall he had generated to see that he was no longer in a hole and about to be buried. Instead he was on the beach and there were those people that he was fighting, still on the attack.

It was at this moment that Haulani was wishing he had left that wall up as it had been providing him with some protection against the attacks being fired at him by these two. The first attack hit him square in the chest to send him backwards a bit and nearly knocked him off of his feet, and it hurt way more than he was willing to allow. He put the tentacles in front of him to try and block the rest, but kept getting pushed backwards, towards the ocean. Not feeling like allowing them to attempt to drown him after they already attempted to bury him, Haulani created four tentacles with trident like blades and sent them all at the asian woman that was sending these blasts at him.

As his trident blades were flying towards the one that kept blasting him with telekinesis, the other woman with the gigantic sword sent some weird object like something straight out of a video game at him. Purely out of fear of this thing, Haulani tries to form another wall and the object hits the tentacles and explodes, knocking him to the ground. "Could really use some help here." he said pretty loudly. Haulani really wanted those guys that were aiming to recruit him to help right about now. After all, the way things were looking right now, they weren't going to be able to soon.

[Bliss]

"We aren't hitting him hard enough." A quick surveying of the area let Bliss know more work needed to be done in order to take this guy down. Just one guy put up this much of a fight against two competent- well, Bliss could count herself, one, possibly two competent heroes. It really made Bliss wonder about this whole being a hero thing. Right until a trident flew at her. Bliss managed to brush the tridents off to the side, but she failed to take full consideration of the life the tridents still possessed as aberrations. One of the  tentacles wrapped around Bliss' ankle, putting its blade against her skin. "Woah, too creepy!" Vanguards of ply wood flew towards Bliss to fight off the wandering tentacles.

With a divided attention, Bliss went back to telekinetically attacking the wall of tentacles Haulani constructed. Plywood dug deep into the sand, holding the appendages in place, giving Bliss enough room to maneuver without any grappling of her legs. Once her attacks subsided, Bliss got an idea. She grabbed one of the tentacles with telekinesis and cooked up a plan to use the tentacle as a whip to beat Haulani even as he hid behind his wall.

Mistuko found the first of the wounded and began to wrap her towels around the woman's abdomen. The gels within the towels began to seep into her torso, closing the wound. "Find me the next one Abby." Mitsuko got up to look for the next when she noticed no response coming. "Abby? Abby? Are you invisible?" With no answer coming, Mitsuko went to work finding the nearest person bleeding profusely.

Abby closed in on two villains doing stupid things. This seemed good enough. Unfortunately, Abby got lost looking for victims and as such, did not go invisible, leaving Abby and her false sense of security, a little shaken when she realized people could see her. "Uh-ay-huh-ay-uhm-ug?" And on that note, Abby turned and started to run.

[Ink]

Video-Girl pauses for a moment. The telekinetic lady forces the creep back with volley after volley of kinetic force and and resists with all his might. She looks out to the ocean and a pixel lightbulb pops up over her head.  V-Girl, you're a genius.  Then she turns to the telekinetic woman.  "Hey! Pushing him toward the water! Keep doing that!" she calls out.  With that said, she reaches back into her magic satchel, plucking out item after item. A few more shells, a banana peel, a red and white ball... then a grin stretches across her face. She pulls her arm out and on it is a mortar: The Buster Cannon. She presses a button and it lets of an electrostatic discharge. "When we're through, the eels are gonna be his new besets buddies."

Video-Girl glances up and back flips from the path of a wild striking tentacle. She lands on her feet but the protective aura of her ring dissipates.  "He wants to attack with tentacles? Okay. We'll send him to the sea, where he belongs." she chimes as she points the Buster at the guy and holds the trigger to build up a charge of electrical energy.  "So, lady, you like Calamari?"

[Forceaus]

Despite a near endless assault of bladed tentacles, Haulani was just unable to stop these two from continuing to attack him. He was also finding it more difficult to form new tentacles. They were being damaged faster than he could regrow them. This was looking like a bad situation for him. Time to get out of here. Screw this killing spree, it wasn't worth this. Haulani pulled back the tentacles he had flying outwards and started stabbing them into the ground to try and push himself into the air. At first his efforts got him nowhere, then he was suddenly fifteen feet up in the air. He turned to his right and started to try to walk away, and was doing so rather slowly and awkwardly. This was something that he was going to have to get the hang of quickly if he wanted to escape.

"Okay yeah, you were right. Ripe coconut is not very tasteful. The aftertaste just lingers for far too long." Deathbringer said after having eaten a piece of the cracked open coconut he held in his hands. He wiped his mouth clean as Killer Mime gestured something in sign language. "I should try what instead?" he asked, not knowing what one of the gestures that Killer Mime had done even meant. The armored man started gesturing again before suddenly stopping and pointing towards the beach. Deathbringer turned to look in that direction and saw that their potential recruit was attempting to retreat.

"Looks like he's had enough." Deathbringer said before holding the binoculars up to his eyes to get a better look. "I can see why too. He may be a bit out of his league." he stated as he looked at the two women that were fighting Haulani. "He fared well enough for my tastes. Time to retrieve our newest asset before we lose it." Deathbringer told Killer Mime as he moved the binoculars away from his face. Deathbringer took a step to his left and noticed that they had a visitor. Some young woman was standing nearby and when they noticed her, she took off running. Killer Mime looked over at Deathbringer who nodded, and the armored man would fire a telekinetic blast at the lady in her wake as she tried to run away.

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