01<@Ardweden> [Day: Sunday, September 26. Time: ?]
 01<@Ardweden> [Kali and Scathach are outside of a classroom, facing off 
against two professors in Hogwarts. Kali was just thrown into the wall 
with tremendous force from McGonagall's stupefy spell. It's supposed to 
just be a stunning hex, but that thing has a KICK to it. The books never 
covered that part.]
 01<@Ardweden> [Regardless, she's bleeding a bit from impact. She's 
welcome to describe.]
 01<@Ardweden> [Start!]
 06* Kali sits, grip still on one of her swords as two of her other hands 
go up to wipe her mouth. Her nose wrinkles a little at the trickle of 
blood, head still swimming with her eyes still on Gonagall. "Looks like 
we try things the hard way then..." Gripping her other sword, she bamfs 
and is suddenly in the air behind Gonagall, swiping with her swords.
 06* Kali 's slash turns crimson as her sword streaks with Gonagall 
blood, the other sword slashing upward even before she lands. Her stance 
seems a little woozy at that as the blood splatters on her face. "I gave 
you a chance!" she calls out.
 06* Scathach does nothing. Yet. But she does whisper harshly at Kali, 
"You are a fool. You may have single-handedly ruined Hien's chance to 
save her sister."
 01<@Ardweden> [McGonagall lets out a scream, and she staggers away, 
cluthing at the new wounds in her chest.]
 06* Kali turns towards Scathach, eyes glazed over a bit. "Yes, I saw you 
helping a lot." She points her swords to the two of them. 
"They're...hnnngh...they're *hiding* something! I know it!" Her nose 
wrinkles again.
 01<@Ardweden> [Nevertheless, with a steady hand she raises her wand 
again and yells, "Incendio!" Fire spews from the tip of the wood, 
immolating the four-armed giant of a woman.]
 06* Scathach holds out one hand, and the darkness around her coalesces 
into a long, solid bar of dark, with a broad sharp point at the front 
end. "I hope for your sake she was in time." Then she charges at 
MacGonagal, thrusting the spear-like object at her.
 06* Kali grits her teeth against the fire. She seems to be willing it 
not to hurt as much as it does. She's not doing a very effective job of 
it. "You know. I'm sick and tired of lectures from people who don't know 
anything..." If looks could kill, MacGonagal would be so murdered right 
now.
 06* Scathach thrusts the spear into MacGonagal, the darkness seeming to 
explode within her body as it enters her. The tip peeks out from the 
other side, blood oozing around it. "And you think you know better? This 
conflict could have been avoided." She jerks the spear back, drawing it 
out.
 01<@Ardweden> [Flitwick raises his wand and, with a voice much more 
powerful than anyone would expect yells, "Expecto Patronum!" The area is 
FILLED with light - it washes over Kali and Susano-O (who just stepped 
in) but does nothing. Scathach manages to hear/feel the attack coming and 
makes herself scarce - just barely - before the light bursts out to where 
she just was.]
 06* Kali squints at the light then, then turns her eyes darkly on 
Scathach, or rather where she was, flames simply making her more of a 
hell woman. Her voice is a hiss as she keeps her swords ready. "Not a 
conflict. War. And they fired first..."
 06* Scathach brushes her cloak off as though it were on fire.
 06* Kali then turns her focus back on MacGonagal. She seems pretty beat 
up, on fire, and not happy. But it's hard for her to focus on anything 
else. Her tongue goes up to lick her bloodied lips and she's suddenly in 
front of the wizard woman, moving to impale her with both swords.
 06* Scathach stares at Kali incredulously. "You are insane."
 06* Susano-o stares at the scene, and says softly, wonderingly, 
"Kali..."
 06* Kali thrusts her swords so the tips jam into the hallway through the 
woman, right through the gut. After making sure she's going to drop, her 
swords are withdrawn and she licks the blood off her sword, almost 
drunkenly before her eyes turn to Flitwick. "So. Are *you* going to 
answer?"
 06* Kali staggers a bit after she says that with a woozy stance, almost 
drug-like. Might be from bloodloss. Who knows?
 01<@Ardweden> [McGonagall dies, lying on the ground, and her blood pools 
out from her, spreading like an inky blackness. Flitwick's backing away 
from the growing pool in fear.]
 06* Scathach lowers her spear, keeping her attention split between Kali 
and Flitwick. She glances at Susano-o. "Was Hien in time?"
<Susano-o> In time for what? They are talking. Imp and Hien and her 
sister.
 01<@Ardweden> [As if to answer, the entire world starts to quake, and 
Kali can't maintain her balance.]
 06* Scathach keeps her eyes on Flitwick. "In time---" And then she's 
busy keeping her balance. "In time to remind her sister who she is?"
 06* Susano-o catches against the wall, and looks concernedly from Kali 
to Flitwick. "We have done nothing but. But she does not want to hear 
it."
 06* Kali slips on the blood now and catches her sword, landing in the 
pool. There's barely a sound of a squeak as she gets her feet, her bottom 
wet with the stuff. And starts laughing...yes, maybe she *is* insane. 
*Laughing*.
 01<@Ardweden> [Kali slips and falls into the pool - face first, in fact, 
and she almost feels like she's beginning to drown. Flitwick turns and 
runs.]
 06* Susano-o crosses quickly to Kali, and his eyes flash blue, before he 
puts his hands towards her, and summons some rain to fall on her. In the 
hallway.
 06* Scathach doesn't chase Flitwick. Her spear dissipates, returning to 
the rest of the darkness surrounding her. She glances at Susano-o.
 06* Kali keeps giggling, not noticing that Flitwick's going away, 
rolling over in the pool. She's an absolute *mess*. Hopefully it puts the 
fire out a bit. She waves Susano-O off with her hands, though it's 
questionable if she even sees him. "*PHOBETOR!*" she calls out.
 06* Scathach narrows her eyes at that, but has no comments. She stands 
still as a statue.
 01<@Ardweden> [The blackness separates from below Kali's face, and it 
merges back into a dark, rotting creature with burning red eyes and 
tattered black robes. As if to answer Kali's call, it shrieks - a 
thousand nails on a blackboard - and then flies forward to slam into and 
through the classroom door, knocking it clear off its hinges.]