Nikki Drake (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=145695.msg6568989#msg6568989)<br/><strong>Location:</strong>Bleachers, Football Stadium<br/><strong>Tag:</strong>Hideo Saitou, anyone else.<br/><br/>"Do you really think she's joking?  Look.  What are the other teachers doing?  They either believe what the Dean is saying, or they knew she was going to say it.  None of them gave the same reaction as the students, and none of them seem to be all that perturbed by their boss's explanation."<br/><br/>Nikki didn't have much time to explain before something new was happening.  The entire field below began to shake as numerous fissures bubbled from the ground, displacing AstroTurf, concrete, and dirt.  The partially amplified instructions from Ms. Knight only caused confusion, as crab-like creatures began to pour out of the newly formed holes in the ground.  The crab-creatures reacted to the numerous screams and fell upon the nearest students, until nothing was left of their victims except blood and ash.  The same thing that had happened on the beach the evening before.<br/><br/>From high upon the bleachers, Nikki didn't miss much of the scene unfolding below.  Behind the swarming crab monsters, tentacles stretched high and wide, mindlessly flinging about looking for something to latch onto.  Then there was the cry from the forest beyond the school ground as if a horde of feral beasts were charging from that direction.  The last noise to join the cacophony of screams, roars, and shouts was the noise of clapping from near the goalpost.  Almost like an echo of the applause the student body had given just moments before.<br/><br/>Panic welled up in Nikki's chest as she looked for a way out.  She'd thought she'd be able to see anything approaching, but she'd never guessed they'd come up from below.  Now that the monsters were upon them, there was no time to flee.  There was no time to organize any type of evacuation or resistance, even if a good number of people had somehow called upon weapons of silvery light.  The boy with the sword the evening before had still died a slow and agonizing deah, cut in half by something.<br/><br/>It took all of her will to attempt to remain composed.<em>Think, Nikki.</em>There has to be a way out.<em>Down the outer ramp and out the tunnel.</em>Hopefully there wouldn't be any monsters there already.<br/><br/>"C'mon we gotta go," she said before grabbing at the boy's hand and heading toward the back entrance.<br/><br/>There was no way she could drag Hideo with her if he decided to stay behind, and she wasn't about to stand around and hope for a miracle.  If she was able to pull the tall Asian kid behind her, or if he pulled out of her grip, was completely up to him and fate.