It had been a normal night, 1 year, 2 weeks, and 3 days since their last 'battle.'
The hostel was quiet, the runaways all going about their business and not acknowledging each-others presence, when suddenly, everything went wrong.
Gert came running out of her room, screaming like she never had before.
"What's going on?" Chase asked her.
"Uh... guys?" Nico said.
Chase and Alex turned, and watched, dumbfounded, as Nico's legs gave out in a cloud of dust and she withered away.
Chase tried to say something, probably a muttered 'what the hell' but his voice didn't escape, probably because his throat was turning to ash.
Alex and Molly, who'd ran out at the sudden silence, stared blankly as Chase vanished.
"What's going on?" Karolina yelled, running out of her and Nico's room.
Gert looked down at her hands, as if waiting for the same thing to happen to her, but it never came.
"Lace... she- she just- turned to dust- just sitting there."
Karolina practically jumped off the stairs in her sudden fear, staring down at the pile of Chase.
"What's going on?" She repeated, a little teary-eyed.
"I don't know," Alex said. "But it can't be good."