Board Thread:Role Plays/@comment-4681758-20140805162745/@comment-4681758-20140906004911

"No.  You didn't.  Whatever you saw, it wasn't real.  That gas was probably screwing with your mind... But what you saw didn't happen.  Just focus on me.  I AM real.", Brand said as he held Aster.

"Ugh... Fine... Then what's... Your plan...", Newman said as his voiced trailed off as he fell unconscious.

Despite everyone around him now appearing to be gigantic and deformed Grimm, and an incoherent whispering in the air, Rogan did his best to make sense of the situation.

''Ok... All my friends and enemies are gone, and they've been replaced by Grimm. Either this gas is messing with my head, or they've done something to alter the arena. Honestly, neither would surprise me.''

"No no no no no...", Iona said as the gas took hold of her. Unlike the others, who began to see Grimm, she saw the others around her as someone she feared far more, someone she hadn't seen in over a decade. As she fell to her knees and started crying, the whispering began to sound like things she'd heard as a child, and she was paralyzed with fear. "It... It can't be you..."