Private Burning It All Away

Lizzy

Lizzy snorted when Rhett suggested launching her out of the wheelchair. "Honestly, sometimes I think you want me to get hurt." She said, following behind Rhett.

The moment she heard other voices, she cringed. "Well fuck. Guess Rowan's not alone." She hissed. She didn't recognize the voices, but could tell by Rhett's reaction, she could tell that they were not good news.

"You want to take care of our guests?" She asked. "You just need to distract them long enough for me to grab Rowan. If I can just get my hands on him. I can possess him, no matter what he tries to do." Lizzy would get ready to sprint towards Rowan. Sure, she was slow, and would probably be winded by the time she got to him, but she could do it. She had to do it.

"Ready?"

Both Index and Alt perked up at the voice of what seemed to be a stranger outside. “Kid, you know this person?” Alt looked at Rowan sort of confused. They didn’t sound like they were just checking in on Rowan or wanted to see the ritual in action. They were most definitely searching for them.

Index’s many eyes scanned the area as best they could for any possible intruders. “It is best to assume this person is searching for you for some reason. That would have been best to disclose to us if you thought people may have followed you. For their safety it is best they do not try to interfere with the ritual. Unwanted complications may occur otherwise.”

“You want us to do anything kid? We are here to insure your little thing goes off as best it can.” Alt asked, looking over to Index for confirmation. “Yes if things become troublesome we can intervene. However I understand people typically don’t want any trouble for their friends.” Index tried their best to sound as understanding as they could however it still had a clear Indexy tone to it. Alt just signed a little, at least the serpent was trying to seem like it cared.

Index looked at Altizica the second Rowan said not to hurt them. Alt looked fake hurt at the look but quickly chuckled a little. “Alright your little friends won’t get a single nick from me. But I’ll make sure they don’t interfere. I’m assuming your going to. make sure the ritual runs smoothly index?” Index gave a soft nod in confirmation to Alt’s suspicions.

Lizzy

Finally managing to get a good look at Rowan, Lizzy couldn't help but let out a gasp. She wasn't sure what was going on, but they needed to stop it. Now.

"Three, two, one. GO!" She yelled, not even waiting for Rhett to confirm he was ready to go, she made a beeline for Rowan. Of course, she was pretty slow to begin with, so she was really hoping Rhett could buy her enough time.

Finally she managed to get a hand on Rowan, and she began the countdown in her head. Ten seconds was all they needed to stop this, and figure out what the hell was going on here.

What did he expect? Certainly this. An awful feeling sunk into his stomach. Rhett could barely make out the figures, but at least could guess who was who, and it certainly helped Index was hard to miss.

While Rhett wasn’t expecting Lizzy to yell out so fast, he ran over without hesitation. One thing about Rhett is that whenever he heard “go”, he’d always gun it. Tonight was not an exception. He jammed his power bracelet into his pocket and took off. He didn’t need to think twice about flickering over to the guests. After all, the room was practically empty.

In a flash, he was right in front of the two of them, just standing there. He then remembered the kind of conversations he had with Index back in the community center and an idea hit. It had a one in ten chance of working, which was better than nothing at all. All he had to do was hold them off for a few seconds.

“ Hey Index… Sure is funny seeing you around here…” Rhett said, trying to sound nonchalant as someone reliving the events of last year could be. He held his bat with a death grip. “ What are all the digits of Pi? Er... You too Altizica."

Index was immediately entertained, or more accurately wasn’t going to do anything in the first place. Index began to list ever number of pi, their eyes still focused on Rowan though. Alt however was not in the mood for these sorts of things and transformed into their full eldritch form to rush at Rowan and get the girl off. However before he reached them Rowan started ritual and burn up into a pile of ash.

“Oh.....huh.” That was Alt had to say on the matter. It seemed to be of mild surprise that Rowan just seemed to go up in flames. “I assume that wasn’t supposed to go that way Index?” Altizica had never seen this ritual so they didn’t have any clue if this was according to plan or not. Index was quiet, watching the circle of a moment to analyze what went wrong. “No. The child had performed all the necessary steps however the entity that is attached to him must have proven to have a tighter grip on them than the ritual could assist with. That is at least my running theory at the moment.” Index didn’t have any shred of emotion to their voice, just cold and calculating as always.