Tessa: "N! oh N!"
Dragging her battered body towards her all time favorite drone. He staggers confused, dazed, scared. The screams of the ballroom, the panic in the air. All of it blurring together. She doesn't know where V is, she doesn't know where J is. Oh god where is her mom and dad!? why would Cyn do this! She staggered to her own wobbly feet as she hugged her one light of comfort in the slaughter. She cupped her hand around the back of his head and hugged him close. He felt...wet...she pulled her hand away from the back of his head to find her palm smeared with a viscous black material
Tessa: "N!! y-your bleeding!"
His normal rational happy go lucky response did not proceed her words as normal, his voice did not make its debut at all
Tessa: ".....Nander?"
She gently and slowly pushed N away from her body with her hands on his shoulders. His head simply lulled backwards, his mouth gaping as if he was trying to breathe, that or say something. His optics merely stared off into a vast nothingness, no expression
Tessa: "NANDER!"
Her tears began to well up again as she shook him, screaming out for him but his door seemed to be shut
N: "HHHUUGGH!"
It sounded as if liquid had bubbled up in his throat. Tessa quickly removed her hands from his shoulders as his entire body violently lurched and shuddered.
Tessa: "N stop it....please stop it!"
N very suddenly dropped to his hands and knees on the floor in front of her. She began taking slow steps backwards with her hands up. She watched as N's back arched under great force
N: "AAUUUGGHHHHHHHH!"
He let out a horrific wailing scream of pain.
Tessa: "NANDER STOP IT!!! STOP IT! STOP IT!! ST-AUGH!!"
The back of her caught something and she toppled over backwards, landing on her butt. She looked down to see what it was she tripped over....she recognized that sleeve...the sleeve still cupped over the severed arm of her father's adversary. Tears spilled from her eyes as she looked up towards N once again. She gasped in fear as she watched his black helmet tonk off the top of his head as something bright vibrant and yellow pushed out from the very top of his head. Small around uniform lumps that admitted a brilliant yellow glow.
N: "HUAHAH!! AAHHHHGHGHH!"
His back suddenly lurched once more, quickly accompanied by a long thin chord tail sprouting from behind him. Instantly this new addition began to wildly thrash about, wielding a strange cylinder that shared the same vibrant yellow glow as the strange growths atop his head. Tessa began attempting to scramble backwards in horror. N's head suddenly slowly lifted, his optics meeting Tessa's eyes. He was crying! she'd never seen him cry before.
N: "T-Tessa!! h-h-help!"
His voice sounded strained. He began attempting to crawl on his hands and knees towards her
N: "Tessa!! h-help me!!! it-...it hurts!"
He pulled his lips away from his teeth and gritted as several snapping sounds could be heard. His shoulders seemed to ripple and move at odd impossible angles. He admitted a pathetic but loud whimper as he continued to seek comfort from Tessa
N: "i'm scared!!!"
Tessa: "I-....I-...I don't-...."
N: "i'm.....i'-....H-hhhhhhh-....hhhunnn! hun-....gry!"
A large yellow X flickered it's way onto his visor as his lips pulled into what appeared to be a large ear to ear smile. Tessa knew better, she'd seen that expression before on J. That wasn't a smile...that was an aggression grimace
Tessa: "....Nander!....NANDER STAY WITH ME!!"
She put an arm up towards him with a look of terror and tears.
Tessa: "DON'T DO THIS!!! NOT YOU TO!! PLEASE!"
N: "burr--burning!!! hun-...gry! eeeeeaaatttt eeeaaaattttt! EEEEATTTTTT!!!"
His voice began to drop a few octaves and gain an aggressive sadistic edge to it as he attempted to struggle to his feet
