Within the Fear [Joli, Henry]

IT wasn't quite what she'd expected, but she supposed this was what the work was all about. She knew that it would be dangerous, but well.. she hadn't expected things to go this badly. She'd been working with a medical unit in one of the settlements that were outside the immediate danger of the hole itself. Truth be told, she'd never even seen the hole, but she had heard plenty about it to know she didn't want to be near it. She'd been in a small camp, a spot where refugees had collected for a while, a temporary home. She'd been working to help the injured.


But something had gone wrong. Most camps had some shinigami and Vandenreich that were assigned to it. And the day before... something had happened. Some strange arrancar had shown up on the camp, and some of them had simply left. The Vandenreich had been in a stir ever since, there was only two of them, and they had been relying on the shinigami there to keep people safe, She did her best just to focus on her job. Comforting the patients, helping patch them up even as they too watched the conflict with growing anxiety. . And in the midst of all that tension, the hollows had found them.

IN the hot evening sun, Joli panted as she skidded to a hald just behind the wreck of a junked car, tumbling a little as she frantically put the car between her and what was behind her, eyes wide, panting a little, and casting a frantic look over her shoulder as she furrowed her brows, still catching her breath.

She didn't see it, but she knew it was back there. It had been following her for almost twenty minutes. A couple people had been running with her, but it had been picking them off one by one. Her heart pounded in her chest as she felt sweat beading at her brow. "Fuck..." She whispered to herself as she shakily reached into the bloody bag, rummaging through it. Trying to ignore the pieces of viscera that clung to it, its previous owner. Surely there was something, ANYTHING she could defend herself with!

"Helooooooooooo darrrrrrling."



A low, drolling voice cooed as the creature stepped out from a dark paw, its head poking out as it smiled behind its beaklike mask.

Joli almost fucking pissed herself when that vehicle suddenly SWERVED towards her! And in that moment, she stumbled onto the ground as she backed away from the vehicle, an exasperated "FUCK!" Belting out from her lungs as she watched that thing creak, not TOO close to her, but still, seeing a car speeding towards her had still been very jarring. And in the very same moment that he declared his intent to rescue her, that creature LUNGED towards her!

She didn't have time to beat this man over the head for almost killing her with the damn car. She grabbed the steering wheel from the ground next to the wreckage she'd been using as cover and promptly SWUNG! A loud PING as that weapon popped off of that beaked mask and a crack slithered across the tip, a SHRIEK escaping the monster as even with her entirely mortal strength, she managed to dent the damn thing.!

The creature reared back, its mouth parting as energy coursed in its throat.

She jumped into the back.

"GET THE FUCK OUTTA HERE!" She shouted over the shit in the bed of the truck as that creature then lowered its head and screeched.A blinding flash of sunlight bursting from it's beak, slamming into the back of the truck and promptly burning dozens of holes through one of the crates like a shotgun blast of sunlight. Joli's eyes WIDENED and she slapped the side of the truck urgently. "right NOW please!" She barked out as she began fervently rummaging through the contents of the truck bed for something to use as a weapon!