Kari held onto Aryn tightly as he spoke to her, her tears halting as she absorbed his words. Her blue eyes didn't stray from his, instead. . . Instead the resolve that was once there suddenly flickered back to life. Aryn was right, they needed to protect the<em>others</em>still. Kari had forgotten about them momentarily. Flicking her head toward them, she saw the beast and it's gaze upon the group, and immediately felt every muscle flexing in her body. Now was one of those moments you fought or you ran, and she wasn't going to run again. Squeezing Aryn to her as he coughed, she saw the blood come out and felt a few drops flick onto her cheek due to their close proximity. She felt him go limp in her arms and immediately felt her whole body turn ice cold.<br/><br/>She didn't know if Aryn was dead or alive, but something inside of her snapped.<br/><br/>Kari slowly rose from Aryn's limp form and turned toward the beast, slowly walking with her head down. Her right hand was still dripping blood all over the place, but it twitched and clenched, the gold chip worked its way out of her flesh and onto her fingertips. Slowly lifting her head, her eyes were on fire with rage and determination as she yelled at the creature. "Your game is with me! Did you forget that?" She screamed pointing at the bruising on her left side. "You are to<strong>finish</strong>me off first!" She hissed out angrily, taking an offensive stance.<br/><br/>The air around her was shifting, and the shadows on the ground suddenly began to dance around her. Slowly lifting her right hand, the gold chip suddenly turned to dust and began to move around in her hand, re materializing into a gun. She stared at it for a few moments before an insane smirk crept across her lips, almost as if her sanity was no longer solid. Slowly holding the strange pistol up toward her head, she slowly uttered out a few syllables. "Pe-r-so-na. . ." What she said made everything stand still in the area, even the masked shadow monsters halting in their advance toward the group. It was then that Kari's hand lowered to her chest, mirroring where Aryn had been hurt, and pulled the trigger.<br/><br/>A lone gunshot rang through the frozen place, as if time itself stopped.<br/><br/>Splinters of something emitted out of Kari's backside, and she gasped sharply as the bullet went through her form. It all happened in slow motion until Kari took a step forward to steady herself, the surrounding area suddenly ripping and shifting. Screams, horrible demonic screams started coming out of her mouth as her hand dropped to her side, the gun vanishing as her skin began to rip off of her body, her clothing shredding off as well. But instead of tendons and tissue being exposed, all that was underneath was darkness, pure darkness.<br/><br/>As her skin continued to shred off of her form, Kari's body twisted and convoluted as it began to shift and change, her hair flowing behind her and past her hips, her limbs growing longer and lengthier. Tendrils of darkness swirled about her form, as if being commanded by her will. She stood before everyone fully transformed, a creature of shadow herself. On her dark face, there was nothing seen behind the long hair until, ever so slowly, her eyelids spread and slowly opened, revealing glowing yellow orbs for eyes. Her lips were curled into a sadistic twisted grin, her whole form moving as if it were made of pure fog and shadow before she screamed out insanely, charging the shadows that were attacking the group.<br/><br/>Not even caring to adjust her pathway, the thing that was Kari simply jumped over the group, soaring into the air before landing smack dab in the middle of the shadows. The darkling form of their RA began to shred the shadows apart, their terrified screams filling the air as she continued to laugh hysterically, as if she were savoring each and every twist and rip of the other monsters. The large beast darted toward the group as well, running around them, and clamped its jaws down on one of the shadows masks, breaking it apart. The beast continued to stomp and bite at any shadow that came near it, killing them side-by-side the darkling form of Kari, nothing but chaos and carnage viewable to the group.<br/><br/><div align="center">(http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs11/i/2006/229/3/7/AntiForm_Kita_by_RyouGirl.png)</div>