The weapons all turned back to human forms and Death surveyed the injuries. All of the meisters were bleeding from somewhere, but Patti and BlackStar had the worst injuries.

"What was that? And where have you been young lady?!" Rowan's mother demanded, her pine green dress swishing angrily as she stomped towards her children.

"We have no clue what's going on, and I've been here the whole time." Rowan lied.

Memoria huffed and surveyed the ground, soon bending over to pick up three square pieces of paper with red stylized letter M's on the back. When she flipped them over she took a sharp breath, going rigid. Her husband was looming over her shoulder in an instant, an angry expression soon adorning his mask. The papers in Memoria's hands burst into a purple flame, but when they didn't char she resorted to tearing them up and letting them loose to the gusty wind and stormed off.

"I think it would be best if you all went to the dispensary immediately." Lord Death said in his comical voice before following his wife.

"Patti, BlackStar, are you two alright?" Akira asked grimly, walking over to his weapons.

"I'll be fine!" Patti said cheerfully.

"You know I've had worse!"

"That doesn't answer whether or not you are okay." he replied through clenched teeth, more to Patti than his other friend.

"I think the question is more if you're okay man," said Zadkiel, wiping cerise blood off of his forehead and staining his arm, "You're wavelength is so off you have two."

"Mavis is pissed as hell at you sis." says Akira, ignoring the comment about his souls.

"Oh please, that's a regular." Rowan said dismissively.

"Yeah, well you'd better take that metal out of your ears and cover your ink unless you want the hour lecture to turn into three. Now come on, we need to get to the dispensary."

Everyone looked at their friend in concern as they walked ahead.

Rowan hung to the back of the group, and with a wave of her hand, made the torn up pieces of paper come back together and re-bind. When she flipped them over her suspicions were confirmed.

The cult and its entity were claiming responsibility in the brutal murders of her sisters.

Birch's scorched body had been dismembered and strung up from a tree with twine. Holly was punctured and drained, buried beneath where her elder sister hung. Willow was found beaten and drowned in a sealed casket, washed up on the bank of the river.

The pictures captured the siblings Rowan never knew in painstaking detail. She stored them in the shadows, and followed everyone else out of the second campus.

"So how's your brother?" Zadkiel asks Rowan, Akira being the only one who left after Patti and BlackStar went into surgery.

"I don't know," she replies monotonously, arms crossed, sitting on the bench next to him outside of the emergency room and staring at the wall in front of the two as if it had personally offended her.

"Are you worried about him?"

"How can I not be worried about a situation that I don't understand?"

"Well, it's not like you're the only one who doesn't understand what's going on. Nothing like this has ever happened before, it's not like anyone would have any experience to-"

Rowan shot up from her seat, startling Zadkiel to a stop and making the others waiting in the hallway stare at the two of them.

"JUST SHUT UP ALREADY!" she screamed, "I AM SICK AND TIRED OF HEARING ABOUT HOW I'M A FUCKING UNIVERSAL ANOMALY THAT NO ONE KNOWS HOW TO DEAL WITH JUST SHUT UP ABOUT IT ALREADY!"

"Mav that's not what I meant-" Zadkiel stammered.

"LIKE HELL THAT'S NOT WHAT YOU MEANT! 'NOTHING LIKE THIS HAS EVER HAPPENED BEFORE'? DON'T FUCKING SUGAR COAT THINGS. YOU MEAN NOTHING LIKE MY BROTHER AND I HAVE EVER HAPPENED BEFORE AND YOU KNOW IT. OUR DAMN PARENTS DON'T EVEN KNOW HOW TO DEAL WITH US!" The princess's eyes were the color of a violent stormy ocean, tearing up out of rage, her teeth shining like lightening and just as pointed. "THEY'VE HID THE TRUTH ABOUT US OUR ENTIRE LIVES BECAUSE THEY'RE AFRAID OF WHAT THE OTHER TWO ARE GOING TO THINK. ELDER AND I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW WHAT WAS WRONG WITH US UNTIL FIFTY YEARS AGO! I'VE HIDDEN HALF OF THE SHIT I'M CAPABLE OF DOING FROM MY MOTHER BECAUSE I DON'T WANT HER TO BE AFRAID OF ME!" She stood there, shaking and breathing quickly, before storming off.

No one followed her.