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Levi was about to protest, even though he was half-scared to, when her attacker suddenly released his grip on her, and lunged towards him. As he did, Levi saw the pure primal rage and bloodlust in his eyes, and managed to sloppily get out of the way.

Apparently that maneuver had not been expected, as the one that had lunged ended up slamming into the wall, and grasping at his head, howling in pain.

"Damn it!" Levi cursed.

"Someone help! Ally's been attacked!" he shouted out.

He then looked over to see how Ally was doing.

His fangs started to plunge deeper into her neck, when he stopped, having been startled by a sudden exclamation.

"What the HELL!?" Levi, who had heard some commotion, yelled, seeing Alyssa being attacked.

"What are you doing!?" he exclaimed further, as Alyssa found herself, swung around, used as a shield.

The fangs were still in her neck, but they weren't going any deeper.

For now.

But she could tell that she was one quick movement away from being in even more serious trouble.

Giana continued to try and struggle against the rune, but the more tenuous Kiah's grasp on her sanity became, and the more stress that Giana was putting herself under, the worse it got for her.

She lost her strength, and her will to try.

And she started to collapse in on herself.

"I'm... sorry..." she said quietly.

"Eri..." she started to whisper further, before she was unconscious, completely and utterly.

If there was ever any debate on whether or not efreets had souls... this seemed to provide validity to the side that said they DID. Because Giana immediately froze in place when the rune touched her.

"NO!" she exclaimed.

"Curse you! CURSE YOU!" she yelled at Kiah.

She then tried to struggle, but the rune held her too well.

"Do your worst! Nothing is worse that being subdued and oppressed here!" she then spat at the Remmington-Fyrane.

Giana looked ready to just explode on anything or anyone. She stared down Kiah for a moment, before shaking her head.

"No! No talking!" she yelled.

"Talking is how you subdued me and shackled me to this life!" she then declared.

"She said so, herself!" she went on, as the flames around her grew more intense.

Then, she launched herself directly at Kiah, tackling her to the floor.

Again, Gia snarled.

"Shut up!" she exclaimed, as her body started to become cloaked with flames.

"She got me thinking straight for once! The brainwashing you've done to me has been undone!" she said further.

"I will repay her by burning this place to the ground! Then we'll BOTH be free!" she then declared.

As she went on her rant, the ambient temperature started to rise.

Drastically, and quickly.

Hal and Ilias watched her go, with Ilias about to say something, but she was gone before he could.

"...I don't like the feeling of all this..." he mumbled.

"Same here." Hal agreed.

Meanwhile, Gia whipped her head over towards Kiah, and practically snarled at her.

"Stay away from me!" she yelled. "All of you pathetic humans stay away from me!" she said further.

"I must burn this place to the ground! It shackles me from being my true self!"

At that particular moment, they heard a commotion from somewhere else in the lab. It sounded like someone had entered, and was sounding EXTREMELY angry. And they sounded female, too.

"DAMN THIS PLACE!" she shouted. "DAMN IT TO HELL!" she yelled further.

Kiah and Ilias recognised it immediately as Giana, one of the techs that worked at the lab. She was a minor-class efreet with impressive fire mana proficiency, and had a bit of a history of being a pyromaniac in the past. However, she had been completely rehabilitated, and had been one of the best acquisitions the lab had ever gotten.

"...Giana...?" Ilias asked quietly.

"I'LL JUST BURN THIS PLACE TO THE GROUND!" Giana then declared, seemingly talking to herself, not knowing others were there.

"Wait, what!?" Ilias exclaimed, as Hal just sighed.

"Whatever." he said. "Granted." he said further.

"No, wait-!" Ilias tried to intervene, but it was too late; Hal had already snapped his fingers.

And, sure enough, Kiah was given a whirlwind of SOME information... before she felt herself mentally slam into a wall of static, which seemed to almost engulf her, throw her out of her little mental journey, and caused her to violently stumble back, ready to fall over. However, Hal had been prepared for this, and had raced behind her, catching her as she did fall, and guiding her into a chair that was nearby.

"Well, that confirms THAT..." he muttered.

"Kiah, no!" Ilias exclaimed, before gnashing his teeth.

"God DAMN IT!" he shouted angrily, punching a nearby wall.

With his bad hand, instinctively.

This caused him to recoil immediately, and yelp out in pain.

"...ok, what the hell happened." Hal growled.

"Walked in on him having some 'fun time' with Robyn, who was sitting there like a literal goddamned doll." Kiah explained. "So I intervened, and he tried to use his abilities to get ME in on it." she said further.

"I arrived just as Kiah punched him in the abdomen." Ilias chimed in. "...that didn't stop him, and he continued to exude his influence. And... after what had just happened with Sebastien... I kinda... lost my temper..." he admitted quietly.

Hal looked at Ilias, and then at Virgil, before sighing.

"Broken nose on HIM, busted knuckles on YOU?" he asked.

"Yeah." Ilias replied.

"It's fine. You're not in trouble." Hal assured him. "Though whether or not this is the same thing with Virgil will dictate what happens to HIM." he went on, as Ilias paused a moment. He then looked around before looking at Hal.

"...only one way to know, and I'm willing to take that hit." he whispered, though Kiah had heard that as well.

Ilias just sat down on Virgil's chest, pinning him to the floor, and nodded.

"Got it!" he called back, before they heard his phone ping. It was still with Kiah, and odds were good it was a response from the medical wing. He knew she'd give it bakc eventually, but for now, it was best if she held onto it.

Sure enough, while Kiah was tending to Robyn, Hal showed up, finding the scene he saw rather confusing.

"...what the hell is it THIS time?" he asked, exasperated.

"Kiah'll explain when she gets back." Ilias responded.

"Back?" Hal inquired.

"...again, she'll explain." Ilias sighed.

As Ilias had hit Virgil, his snakes had come out full-force, and were hissing menacingly... before Kiah placed her hand on Ilias' shoulder. About half of them, Helena included, immediately turned towards her, and were flicking their tongues about her hand, as though asking if she were all right.

Ilias, meanwhile, just sighed.

"Well, Virgil's nose is... busted. And pretty sure it's doing the demon equivalent of bleeding." he told her.

He then raised his hand up, and moved it slightly.

"...aaaaand a couple of knuckles are broken." he lamented.

".......ow." he then muttered, as the anger and adrenaline wore off.

Virgil just continued to laugh a little, before looking at her.

"Ah-ha... ah-haha..." he chuckled.

"Facing Sharp's wrath... is worth it... if it means you will throw yourself at m-" he started to say further... before Ilias rushed past Kiah, and slammed his fist into Virgil's face.

Hard.

So much so, Kiah swore she heard a bone or two break... but the question was... where? And who?

"LEAVE MY GIRLFRIEND ALONE, DAMN IT!" Ilias yelled, as Virgil fell backwards and landed flat on his back, his active aura/presence all but disappearing.

Virgil had not been expecting that, so he crumpled slightly when she punched him in the abdomen. He clutched at his midsection and stumbled back, falling on his ass, but laughing some.

"Oh, violence-play, huh?" he asked.

"We can do that, absolutely!" he told her, as Ilias came rushing in.

"What's going-!?" he started to say, before seeing Virgil... and then Robyn.

"What the FUCK!?" he exclaimed.