"Oh my goodness..." Ammi's eyes widen, along with everyone else's, at the sight of the dragon being torn apart by a single fluid motion.
"Should we go down there and join the others in battle, Felixter?" Kayori turns to the cat demon boy.
"Not just yet. It seems there's already many people on the field. Though there's strength in numbers, someone needs to stay here and make sure no one inside gets hurt. Besides...those witches seem to work better with a crowd, anyway...more "toys" to play with, in their eyes." Felixter shakes his head with a bit of a scowl.
"Hmm...seems he knows I'm a witch. Too bad. Oh well. I was just about on the last page of this here, anyway." Nymne shapeshifts back into her normal appearance, and goes to carefully place the book back where it had been in the library's shelves.
"You kiddin' me? As if I'd let you have all the fun! Ah, I only wish Sephie-chan could be out here." Meora grins back at Morgan before turning towards an orange-colored phantom claw-strike aimed right at her. At the last moment, Meora flips into the air, and lands on outstretched the phantom arm, balancing precariously for but a second before she runs down it and starts shooting at Numirra. Numirra throws the neko assassin up into the air with that set of claws to help her dodge the shots, and then goes about trying to fend off both Morgan and Srg's magic. After getting his a few times by both, Numirra takes on her normal, intensely bored expression again out of the blue.
"Screw this..." Numirra yawns. She shapeshifts quickly into a small mouse, and runs underneath Morgan. She turns back into herself again once behind her, and then pretty much just tries to strangle her. She tries to dig her claws, crackling with electricity now, into her neck as well.
Meora, in the meantime, flips several times in the air to try and help break her fall. She lands on her feet for the most part, and upon seeing Numirra's new tactic to defeat her friend, Meora tries to shoot the witch right between the eyes.
"I don't think so~..."
Meora is grabbed by the tail and thrown backwards onto the ground. As she scrambles back up, she sees the smallest witch walking calmly towards her with a sickly sweet smile. The small witch pauses for a moment to dodge Srg's magic, then lands back next to Meora with a giggle.
"Oh Meora...it's okay. I know you don't want to lose anymore friends or family." Noruani coos gently at the neko, using her own lavender-colored magic to bind her in place. Noruani's eyes glow, and they appear to have red rings in them now, much like a certain evil demon residing at the top of the Demon Highlands. "But...you can definitely be my friend, and you won't have to lose me...hai?" The young girl locks eyes with Meora, and the neko assassin finds that she's unable to turn away. Her pupils disappear, laving empty green circles in their place.
"Kimi wa tomodachi...hai?" Noruani uses Meora's second language to further pry into her mind.
"H....hai, Noru-c-chan...yamete......kimi...w-wa...y-yamete...s-sou janai...yo...!....tomodachi..." Meora is clearly still fighting against the little witch's hypnotic control, but she appears to be losing even still.
"Yoi~!" Noruani laughs, clapping her hands together with glee. "If that's true, then I want you to go help Numirra for me, kudasai~!"
"H..hai, Noru-sama..." Meora turns around slowly, eyeing Numirra and Morgan. She starts running towards them, aiming to shoot.
"Perhaps I'd make a fine puppet-master after all...just like Father...." Noruani grins maliciously from the sidelines of the battle.
"AGH! You people have no manners?! Don't you know how to treat a lady?!" Natasha shrieks. She finally pulls her wing free of Kiroketsu's purple glue, but then, ninja stars are thrown into them. Natasha's eyes glow bright with fury.
"FINE. I know exactly how to punish you people now. Someone else will just have to suffer!" Natasha huffs.
"What do you mean?!" Kiroketsu demands, getting ready to swing his guitar like a bat at the witch. She wags a claw at him.
"Ah-ah-ah, Kiro. You should know by now, you can't just kill a witch and break her curse." Natasha cackles. "Mirui has already been injected with my specialty curse. Her mind could belong to my illusions in an instant, should you choose not to follow my demands."
"Tch! Puh-lease! We've gotten your curses fixed before!" Kiroketsu growls. "You can't scare me!"
"No...but I can scare Mirui." Natasha gets a dangerous glint in her eyes.
"H...huh?" Mirui blinks as her vision starts to swirl all of a sudden. The scenery around her changes into an illusionary landscape of dark, jagged obsidian ground, and blood red skies as far as the eye can see. Mirui is alone for a bit, which frightens her enough, but then, she hears voices.
"Mirui..."
"We want ourselves back..."
"Give them back..."
"Our...parts..."
Mirui is suddenly surrounded by a mob of different creatures, all a deathly yellow, who appear to be zombies or ghosts. They're the souls of those who Felixter killed to get what he needed to create Mirui. Of course, she doesn't know that up front. In her deep subconscious the information lies...and Natasha has drawn it back out to the surface through her wicked magic.
Back in reality, Mirui's eyes have gotten huge, and all of a sudden she's started crying, and crumpling down into fetal position, clawing at her own scalp.
"No! NO! STOP IT, I'M A GOOD G-GIRL!" Mirui roars.
"M-Mirui?" Kiroketsu takes his eyes off of Natasha for but a second, but it turns out that's just a second too much. In that instant, Natasha is able to rip the guitar out of Kiroketsu's claws with her magic, and then hit him over the head with it like a bat, just as he was planning to do to her. She grabs the dazed spirit guardian by the ears and stuffs the guitar back down his throat violently, but only halfway, so he;'s left struggling and choking on the ground by her feet.
"Now, to repay the ones over there..." Natasha uses her magic again, yanking the ninja stars out of her wings and throwing them back at dangerous speed towards Kyru, Joe, and Srg.
"Games? We LOVE games! Our shadow queen hires us to create games all the time! And we also loooove playing games with out living friends too! Sadly, they don't seem to appreciate the fact that the high amount of danger makes them so fun~!" Amber replies to Karl with a huge grin. Amber and Clancy both gasp at the colorful bombs that Karl throws up into the air.
"I LIKE THIS GUY A LOT!" Clancy cheers aloud.
"HE SHOULD BE OUR NEW BEST FRIEND! WE SHOULD INVITE HIM DOWN TO SHADOWLAND FOR A PARTY, STAT!" Amber nods enthusiastically.
"WE SHOULD HAVE HIM HOST WITH US AT ONE OF OUR GAMES!" Both of the shadows cry out at the same time with laughter.
"Oh dear lord..." Nimika sighs, still trying to ignore them. Suddenly, the center jewel on her necklace starts to glow again, and she hears a familiar voice in her head.
Nimika...
"Master...?" Nimika whispers. "Is there something you need?"
"Not from you yet...I just thought I'd let you know what's going on back on the surface..."
Nimika is silent for awhile as she listens to the Master's description of the battle going on in front of the hotel. By the time he finishes, Nimika is grinning with satisfaction.