Renetta staggered back in surprise as Tiana began to run towards her without any explanation. She recoiled anxiously and yelped as she reached out and grabbed her arm, yanking her forward. The bigger girl's strength pulled Renetta forward easily as she dragged her out of the room. She was too preoccupied with her roommate's actions to heed her warning or look back.

"Tiana! What are you doing?! Where are w- AH!" The girl shrieked as they left the room, and she glanced down the hall. More tentacles had emerged, filling the hallway and blocking their retreat back the way they had come.

Tiana opned her mouth to explain, but Renetta's scream cut her off. She turned to look down the hallway to see still more of those tentacles cutting of their escape path.

"Oh shit, oh shit," Tiana panicked, instinctively placing herself between Renetta and the mass of slithering limbs, as if that would mean anything. She looked back at the other end if the hallway. It was still clear.

Tiana shifted her grip from Renetta's arms to her hand, and laced their fingers together. "We gotta run!" she yelled and took off, half guidng, half dragging Renetta along with her. There had to be another exit at the end of the hall right?

Right?

As the girls took off running, 263's tentacles quickly started to surge after them. Meanwhile, other tentacles running through the building began to rush towards them. From a distance, eye-tentacles watched the girls running towards the other end of the hall. Escape may have been possible that way, but 263 wasn't about to let the girls find out. As its tentacles pursued them, its mind started to reach into the smaller girl's, manipulating her thoughts.

Renetta turned as she felt Tiana's grip shift, having the same instinct to run like hell. She ran as fast as she could after her roommate, her short legs making it hard to keep up, but panic and the other girl's pull forcing her to find a way.

"What are those things?" she asked in terror as they sprinted for the other end of the building. She didn't dare look back, but she knew that those weird tendrils were chasing after them. They'd made it halfway down the hallway when even more of the squirming tentacles burst out of an air vent in front of them. Renetta shrieked as she skid to a halt, and the tentacles started approaching. She looked around frantically, noticing a hallway to their left.

"This way!" she shouted, taking her turn to pull Tiana down the only means of escape left to them. They could hear the tentacles slithering after them from behind.

Panic lent plenty of speed to Tiana's flight, but there was still the matter of not knowing the school well. All these hallways loose the same, especially when you were running for your life.

So when Renetta jerked on her hand to a empty hallway, Tiana trusts the more expended student completely, shifting her momentum to the left, slowing only a little as she let herself be yanked in her roommate's wake. Behind her she found here the loud thumbing and slithering. "Hurry!" she screamed. "They're right behind us!"

263's tentacles rushed through the building, both directly behind the girls, and out of sight. By now, it had them surrounded. Every exit from the building was closely monitored by tentacles, leaving them with nowhere to run but in circles through the halls. With no chance of losing them, 263 bid its time, toying with the girls. It subtly guided the smaller girl to lead them where it wanted - right into the center of its rushing appendages.

Renetta ran as fast as her legs could carry her, which was pretty fast. Despite her smaller size, her training in running helped her keep pace with Tiana as she led their way through the halls. Panic gripped her, but she felt an almost assuring confidence in their path. Despite the indeterminate doom rushing in around them, she felt like she could get them out of here. She just had to keep moving...

"This way!" she shouted, pulling her roommate around a left turn and down another hall. They weaved back and forth, tentacles rushing at them around every corner. Just as things seemed desperate, a door caught Renetta's eye. "In here!" she shouted, throwing open the door and rushing inside to find themselves into a classroom. As they entered, she turned and slammed the door. "Help me find something to bar the door," she said.

Tiana wasted no time and dove into the classroom after Renetta. As her roommate slammed the door, Tiana looked left and right for something's heavy...

There! A cabinet! Tiana had no idea what class this room was for, but the cabinet was nearly as tall as the door itself and heavy as fuck. She ran to the far side of it and with a grunt started to push it over in front of the door. It was heavier than it looked and took longer than she would have liked. But she didn't hear and of thumps and slivers of tentacles from the other side of the door so they were still safe. She hoped.

With the door blocked, she took Renetta's hand and led her to the opposite side of the room from the door, unconsciously placing herself between Renetta and the door. "I think," she whispered in between gasps for air. "I think we're okay now."

She saw the teachers desk at the front of the room. On the far wall she always saw one of those paper cutters with the long blade fixed to the side with a screw. She turned to Renetta. "Look, you hide under the desk ok? If... If those things get in and only see me, maybe they won't look for you..."

With that, Tiana took her lock pick tools to the paper cutter trying to free the blade so she would have a weapon.

Renetta looked around, heart pounding with fear. She didn't like Tiana's talk of drawing those things off herself, but panic and confusion over the situation kept her from protesting. Instead, she decided to follow her roommate's plan for now. Hopefully, she'd save the heroics for if and when those things got in, assuming her cowardice didn't get the better of her. As she moved towards the front of the room, she could still hear those things slithering outside, occasionally pounding against the door. The cabinet seemed to hold firm, and it didn't look like those serpents would be able to get inside. She could only hope that they'd get forget about the two of them soon.

Renetta moved quickly and quietly towards the desk. She was nearly there when suddenly, the panels of the ceiling in front of her fell away, and two long, thick tentacles descended in front of her. Renetta gasped as she skidded to a halt, but the tentacles were quick. They lunged at the surprised girl, quickly wrapping around her upper arms before she could move out of the way or defend herself. They wrapped tightly and coiled their way down, pinning her arms to her sides. Renetta screamed as they lifted her into the air, dangling her in the middle of the room, facing Tiana.

"Tiana!" Renetta screamed. "Help me!" More tentacles slowly began to descend as Renetta twisted in the air.

Tiana had just freed the paper cutter and holding it by the handle like a sword, she was just starting to feel better about their chances when she heard the thud of falling tiles and Renetta's scream. She spun around and her jaw dropped as she saw her roommate being pulled into the air by those -- things --, even as more emerged.

Tiana felt her heart leap into her throat. "Renetta!" She yelled. Without thinking, Tiana charged toward the tentacles, swinging her improvised weapon like a bat, blade out at the limbs emerging from the hole to knock them aside and hopefully cut a few. She didn't know how successful she was in hurting it, all she was focused on was reading Renetta.

Using her running momentum, she hopped on top of a desk nearest to where Renetta was dangling and began to swing the cutter at one of the tentacles holding her up.

"Let go of my roommate, motherfucker!" Tiana screamed, fear and anger making her voice shrill.

With their prey in their grasp, the tentacles began to slowly explore Renetta. One of the tendrils that had descended towards her stroked her cheek, while others slithered down her body, over the binds holding her suspended. To 263's minor disappointment, it could already feel that the girl's chest didn't offer much to be excited about. Still, she was sure to entertain in other ways. And at least her friend had a more bountiful offering where her breasts were concerned.

Speaking of the other girl, 263 rounded part of its attention on her as she screamed and charged the mass of tentacles holding her friend. It watched her approach with a mix of amusement and annoyance. It was rather cute the way she leaped towards the squirming arms, as if she could hope to beat them. What was less cute, however, was the giant blade she swung. Quick strokes slashed into the tentacles still descending from the ceiling, leaving long gashes in them that bled a yellow ooze. The tentacles squirmed and withdrew quickly. Such an attack would have convinced most raktar to retreat entirely, but 263 had long-since evolved past that kind of instinctual behavior.

So, when Tiana turned her assault towards the tentacles holding Renetta, 263 was ready. Tentacles sped out of the hole, aiming straight for Tiana's chest, arms, and legs. The shot forward to strike her and knock her back to the ground.

"Do. Not. Do. That." a low, raspy voice suddenly echoed in Tiana's mind.

Terrified but determined, Tiana charged the tentacles holding and molesting her roommate. She had to get Renetta free. She just had to. In the moment, Tiana never thought to question why the other girl was so important to her.

She soon had more important things to worry about though, as a missed swing at some of the tentacles left her exposed and off balance, which the other tentacles soon punished, striking her hard enough in several places to knock her off the desk onto the floor on her back. The back of her head met the hard linoleum and there was a flash of light across her vision and pain.

Dazed, Tiana dropped her blade even as she struggled to get back up. That's when she heard it. A voice in her mind.

She shook her head, grabbing her dropped weapon. "So you can talk huh," she said her word sluring only a bit from her blow to the head. "Well lets see if you can understand this: Fuck you, asshole. You let Renetta go right now or I'm going to cut you! And I'm going to go on cutting you 'till your just ooze and a bad memory! You feel me?!"

In truth, Tiana's head killing her and she felt dizzy and oddly naseous. She kept her balde up threatinly, but was basically all talk at this point, hoping to bluff theirnway out of the situation.

Renetta nearly screamed as she watched her roommate get hit to the floor. She could hear the sound of her head hitting the ground even from where she was. She knew it must have hurt. She watched as the girl shakily got to her feet, still holding her blade towards the monstrous tentacles. "No! Tiana, run away! Get out of here!" she shouted. But a moment later, her breath caught in her throat as she felt the tentacles against her. They were crawling down her body and across her face, stroking gently yet firmly against her body. She didn't know what they could want.

It became much more clear a moment later, as more tentacles touched her ankles and began to slowly stroke upwards, drawing closer and closer to her shorts. "N-no," she whimpered as she felt their touch, their purpose hard to mistake.

263 watched Tiana with amusement as she got to her feet and held her weapon aloft. It could sense the disorientation in her mind, and knew how ill prepared to fight she was. "Will. You. Now?" it taunted her, as more of its tentacles descended through the ceiling, angling towards her. "Don't. Worry. ... You. Can. Share. In. Her. Fate." The tentacles lurched forward towards Tiana, coming from all directions at once. Many of them shot towards her blade, trying to slap it out of her hands, while others moved to wrap around her waist and arms.

It looked like she wasn't going to Scary Black Woman her way out of this one. With a yell that echoed in her aching skull, Tiana charged the tentacles holding her roommate again swinging wildly. She even manged to hit one or two.

But there were simply too many this time, and coming from too many directions, including behind her. One lashed at her hand like a whip, striking her wrist hard. With a yelp the blade was sent soaring out of her hands to land across the room. It might as well have been on the moon, for a soon as she tried to dive after it, and otehr larger tentacle coiled itself around her waist mid jump, and held her aloft, her feet scrambling off the ground.

"Let me go!" she yelled, knowing full well it was pointless, ans she tried to pull and hit the tentacle around her waist to free herself. Panic hit her full force now, with her pound of her heart only making her head hurt worse. She paused just for moment, trying to shake off the pain, but that's all it took to give the... thing a chance to coil around her arms, pinning them to her side.

Now as trapped as Renetta, Tiana slumped, beaten. She looked over at her roommate. "I'm sorry," she whispered.