Eek, what's your worst nightmare? If it's being buried alive, stay away!

The open grave is actually a secret passageway which leads to Domain of the Vampires. But unless you're already a vamp or wish to be one, The Powers advise you keep your distance. They can smell life. And they don't hesitate to take it.

::still moving as quietly and swiftly as possible, Marc appears in the Open Grave and pulls himself out::

"Oh, a cemetary. The perfect place to end this little trip. Where else could I possibly end up?"

::quickly exits the Empty Grave, and walks out into the Cemetary::

::Luke appears at the open grave, looking down into the hole. He steps too close the edge as some dirt sliips from under his foot. Luke falls through the open plot and onto the Cemetary Pass.::

::Luke arrives at the open grave, containing his slight laughter with his hands.::

"The irony. I wanted a burial and not a cremation, yet that is how I died and now, I'll never have that burial. Go figure."

::Luke takes a closer look at the grave, as it becomes vaguely familiar to him. He steps away from the edge of the hole so that he wouldn't fall into the pit this time around. Luke, having enough of being with his fellow corpses, orbs randomly to the back alley of P3.::

::An orb cloud deposits Lirie over the open grave before returning to Azura's apartment.::

"Idiot."

:: Lirie grumbles and stumbles to her feet, dusting herself off ::

"Baka yaro!"

:: She hisses, noticing the dark passage in front of her. She shrugs and continues to the cemetary pass ::

(If I die, I'm coming back to haunt him... heh, Lirie teh Poltergeist. Whoo!)

:: Lirie emerges from the passage, taking a seat on a random tombstone ::

(They're probably long gone by now... I'm contemplating casting a trasportation spell... why am I so damn tired? Ooh, I wonder where Toots is...)

::Paz shimmers in.::

"Hey lover."

::Throws a shadow ball at.::

:: Lirie is thrown over the tombstone by the impact, Paz suddenly taking her by surprise ::

(EEP!)

:: She crouches, trying to steady the rapidly increasing heartbeat, and checks her pockets for any potions ::

(Rats!)

:: One measely unknown vial is found in her inner pocket, which doesn't give her that much hope. Sighing, she stands up, glaring at teh Paz ::

"Haven't seen you around for awhile... was kinda hoping you got your shadowy ass fried by some Big Bad...er."

"If you can't ramble coherantly, then I wouldn't bother wasting that precious breath of yours."

::Shimmers behind Lirie and kicks her in the back before shimmering back to his origional position.::

"I see you rabid animals managed to escape your pen and shake off your collars. No skin off my nose, I can just hunt you down one by one now. Oh how I love sport."

:: Lirie groans in pain and irritation as she scampers to her feet again ::

"Join the gym."

(What am I doing here? Why aren't I fighting? Running away? Anything!)

::He releases a cloak of darkness to claim Lirie's sight before stepping forward toward her and into the darkness, sparking up two shadow balls and propelling them forward to where Lirie stands.::

:: Lirie is hurled by the shadow balls right out of the darkness and towards the mausoleum wall. She liquidifies, thus splooshing into the wall unharmed and instantly cascading down. She seeps into the ground, hoping not to encounter any random body parts.

Quickly making her way back to the darkness cloak, Lirie senses up where Paz is standing from beneath the soil and reforms right bihnd him, sending a roundhouse kick to his head and liquidifying again, quickly slithering out of the darkness ::

(Oh my gods, I kicked Pazzie. I kicked Pazzie! Oh crap on a stick...)

::Paz spins to the side as he feels the kick connect, falling to the ground, he shimmers before he hits the floor and re-appears somewhere round about, pulling back his shadow cloak.::

"Glad to see you've got some fight in you Lirie. Not so wet after all."

::Smirks.::

"If I had my heat powers, I'd evaporate your ass."

::He sends a barage of shadow balls toward her, one after another.::

:: Lirie quickly sinks deeper into the ground and quivers in fear as the shadow balls thunder just above her head. Slowly making her way to the other direction, as the soil is more concentrated beneath the surface, Lirie reforms a few feet behind Paz ::

"Lucky me. All you have now is your measly shadows..."

"Lucky you indeed."

::He releases a cloud of shadows around him, obscuring his location, before throwing yet more shadow balls at Lirie.::

:: The first shadow balls send her pummeling into a tombstone, but again she liquidifies before the contact, slipping away ::

(Aren't you getting bored?)

:: She reforms, scanning the area around her for any signs of the O' Shadowy One, absently fingering her pockets ::

"Aren't you bored? I'm not match for you and you surely don't want to kill me, since you would've had done that when opportunity presented... what do you want then?"

::Shimmers within an inch of Lirie.::

"I really do want to kill you."

::He grabs her around the throat and squeezes.::

:: Lirie chokes, her eyes widening in panic as the pressure on her windpipe increases and she claws at Paz's hand, trying to pry it off. Logic finally kicking in, she gives up, dropping her hands down limply and rolling her eyes back into her skull.

One moment she is lifelessly still and the next she's a puddle splushing right through his fingers. Coughing, she sinks into the ground and quickly reforms behind him, driving a knee straight between his legs ::

"Then do it already!"

::He shimmers away as soon as Lirie trickles from his grasp, missing her attack on him. Shimmering back in facing the girl, his face remains firm.::

"I would, if only you weren't so fucking watery."

(I need a new way of doing things. The way i've gone about has gotten me nothing.)

"I assure you Lirie, one of us will die. I will kill you, or I will force you to kill me to save yourself. I'll look forward to it."

::Shimmers to the market.::

:: Once she is sure Paz is not about to pop out from nowhere, Lirie gulps hard and slumps onto the ground, bracing herself tightly and forcing the tears away. Shivering slightly as light frigid breeze travels about the cemetary, brushing her in the most discomforting of ways, she squeezes her eyes shot, letting droplets of water slip down her cheeks and soon the tears become heavier until her whole liquid mass trickles down, slowly carrying her home ::

::Luke arrives and jumps into the open grave, heading to the Domain of the Vampires.::

::Andrea and Azura hurry out of the passage, and the little wiccan stops on seeing where they are.::

"Well I never thought I'd have to do this again..."

::Again? Andrea? WTF? She begins to claw her way up and out of the grave.::

:: Azura stops and stares up, letting Andrea scramble her way out first. The grave is kind of suffoctating, so she quickly begins to haul herself out of it as well.::

::Turning around, Andrea lies on her stomach and grabs Azura's arm, pulling as hard as she can before realising she has telekinesis. Seconds later, Azura's enjoying a rough landing beside Ands, who's panting.::

"Okay... let's..."

::She swallows, and continues to breathe hard.::

"We need to keep moving. They're probably following."

:: Azura curls up as soon as she lands, she really is exhausted from everything that has happened. She looks at Andrea knowing she is right, but still making no move to get up.::

::Andrea gets to her feet and stands over her friend.::

"Az... come on. We need to go. No offence or anything, but I'm not sure if I can carry you all the way to the Halliwell's."

:: Azura just stares at Andrea stupidly. Yup. Just stares, and again makes no move to get up. Ever been so tired that you can't physically move? Yeah. That's what Az is like.::

"Fine."

::Andrea leans down and tries to pick Azura up, and with much use of her power, manages. They look really weird, someone as tiny as Andrea carrying someone as tall as Az. But hey.::

"You better be grateful."

::She begins to hurry through the cemetary.::

::Paige orbs up out of the grave and looks around, not seeing them anywhere.::

"Argh! Stupid whores!"

::Cora leaps out of the grave in a single bound and sniffs the air.::

"This way."

::She goes with Paige through the cemetary.::

::Paige bounds out of the open grave and smiles to herself as she stretches both hands above her head and stretches, her spine cracking. With a satisfied sigh, and runs her tongue across her lower lip and looks around.::

(Where to?)

::Extending her fangs, she walks across to the cemetary.::

::Wesley arrives at the open grave...or rather through it because he falls into the Domain of the Vampires.::

::Wesley gets out and clutches at his ribs. He wanders off to find a hospital but manages to find CW Apartments first, so he goes there.::

::Dante lands on his back and looks up, seeing the rectangle of cloudly sky framed by dark earth. He whimpers under his breath, hoping he's not on a coffin, then scrambles to his feet and is soon pressed up against the earthy wall. To his relief there was no coffin, just a well worn patch of earth leading to some kind of passage. He crouches and looks at the footprints leading into the passage and purses his lips, weighing up his options::

(Death by boredom or death by the unknown? Or I kick arse. Yeah. That)

::He tries to release Sera's power and arm himself with fire to get some extra light in the passage but the damn thing won't leave his system. He sighs and walks through to the Domain of the Vampires::

::Wesley emerges from the open grave and stops run, now remembering how hot is out here. Rather than stand here to catch his breath here, Wesley walks to CW Apartments instead.::

::Sharon stops over the grave and peers into it, seeing what appears to be a secret passageway.::

(I haven't explored in years...)

::She feels an odd yearning, connected to her childhood. She's been responsible since the age of ten. It's time for some fun. Carefully, but clumsily, Sharon sits down on the edge of the grave and then drops into it. Taking a deep breath, she makes her way into the domain of the vampires.::

::At the sight of the open grave, Wesley frowns for the first time he was here, he fell down by mistaken and met with the vampires and the most recent time, he was running for his life away from the demons in the market. With a deep breath, Wesley clenches his fists and steps through to arrive at The Great Hall.::

::A wind funnel suddenly rises from the open grave with Wesley inside. After gaining several feet above the ground, the wind dies out and the once-again mute comes crashing down into the cemetery at the plot adjacent to the open grave.::

::Natalie arrives and looks upwards towards the sky. She frowns.::

(Funky.)

::The bitch jumps up and grapples with the edge of the grave, pulling herself up and over into the cemetary.::