Sam walked between her two allies. The trio was huddled close together, the poison-user on the left, the ice-user on the right. The ice user, whose name Sam had forgotten, was using his power to form a sort of barrier around them that prevented the snow from coming into contact with their skin. The barrier blocked some of the wind, too. Plus, Sam was in the middle, so the mass of the two Hunters blocked even more of the wind. Granted, Sam was still shivering violently, her teeth audibly clacking together every time the wind gusted. She more or less ignored the Hunter on the right complaining about the demons not using fire to keep their hosts warm, though she was thinking kind of the same thing. "We should head back soon. It's too cold for us to do much else without warmer clothing." The Hunter on her left grunted an agreement.<br/><br/>Then something weird happened. It was like the ice...twitched. Before Sam realized what was going on, a horde of translucent, glittering beings jumped on her patrol group. The poison Hunter tried to throw up a miasma as a shield. The frozen legionnaires dashed through the toxic fog, unaffected. Sam pulled her allies back, trying to get away from the fog so she could have room to fight without getting poisoned. "You, on the right, use whatever weapon you ha-" she was  cut off by the Hunter's hybrid of a gurgle and scream. One of the ice soldiers ran through the fog and speared him through the lower-right torso. The other ice creatures leaped on him, tearing him to shreds in moments.<br/><br/>Sam's eyes widened as the frozen horde then turned to her and the ice-user. "Alright, kiddo. You gotta fight fire with fire," she said, raising her fists. "Watch my back, and I'll watch yours. I think we can get out alive, kid." She grit her teeth and prepared for the first wave of attackers. A soft mumble reached her ears.<br/><br/>"My name is Travis..."<br/><br/>Hardly a second later Sam was already struggling to hold her ground against the razor-sharp ice of her assailants. She dodged a few icicles, swatted two more aside, and threw up her left arm to block what could have been a fatal stab. A long, jagged cut reached from wrist to elbow, dripping globs of Sam's steaming crimson blood on the snow. She growled slightly before sliding underneath the latest attacker, following up with a hook to its back after she regained footing. The being shattered into pieces. Instantly, she turned to her left with a knee into the center mass of another frozen soldier. The sound of shattering ice drew her attention to her back. Travis did his job and saved Sam from a blind attack. The redhead winked at him and hopped back to his side, sliding around behind him as the icy legion formed a circle around the duo. "Well damn. Stick close, kiddo," she said, still referring to him as 'kiddo' (though she looked younger than him).<br/><br/>The icemen charged quickly, spear-like limbs aimed to kill. Sam shoved her ally to the ground and ducked under the multitude of icy spears, sweeping the ground in front of her with a kick. She tripped three, grabbed one's arm, and shoved it into another's chest while simultaneously pulling it into her elbow. Travis used the snowstorm to create a shockwave that pushed the remaining fighters away from the Hunter pair. Sam noticed now that each time she attacked, the shattering ice raked across her skin, opening wounds that were made worse by the knife-like wind that was already cutting straight through her. It didn't help that ice was now<span style="font-style: italic">literally</span>cutting her. She wasn't sure if she'd be able to take much more. Panic was setting in as she realized how many adversaries she and Travis had to face.<br/><br/><span style="font-style: italic">Young one, use it.</span>Ahriman's rumbling voice resounded through her consciousness.<br/><br/>Sam's lips parted in a snarl. The sleeve on her right arm tore away as if from an invisible force, followed by parts of her skin bursting, sending out splatters of black liquid. Her arm seemed to have a layer of purplish muscle covering her skin, with a jagged black wire-like tentacle thrashing about. She swung her arm in large, sweeping motions, like a conductor; the wire swept across the closest of her enemies, carving deep dashes  through their frozen exteriors. The next wave charged over the first, but Sam was ready. She used the motion from her wire attack to bring her first back, sending it forward when an ice soldier leaped at her. The redhead's punch instantly shattered the soldier, sending the minute particles of its body, along with the ice and snow already in the air with enough force to partially corrode the surface of the legionnaires behind it. Sam turned around and shoved Travis. "We can't fight them here, RUN!" she shouted, grabbing his arm with her non-transformed arm and practically dragging him along. If these things could just appear out of nowhere, what was stopping them from appearing next to the other groups, or even near Hatsu and Adeline's group?<br/><br/><span style="font-style: italic">We need to meet up...Hatsu, I really hope you'll remember to send up a signal if you see them...</span>