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"I see..well, I suppose those episodes of mine are a con of being a tactician for so long. However, I'd like to refer to that side of me as more of a "berserk mode", more than anything else. From what I do remember from entering that mode, I focus mainly on offensive skills. However, the drawback, as you've seen already, is that I can't recall who's side I'm really on.." He states, smiling sadly at Ammi as he explains just what he thinks of that side of him. He then turns to listen to what Meora has to say, his smile now on the borderline of sad and happy. "Kayori and Mirui, is it? Well, it's a pleasure to meet you both. While those nicknames are nice, I think I'd rather call them by their given names." He says to the gun-wielding neko. Then, hearing Ammi inquire about possibly remembering anything whenever he woke up in the room, he simply shook his head. "I'm sorry, but all I remember is sensing her being right beside me in the bed, asleep. However, I do now what you're talking about now. I can sense the energy coming from her all the way from here.." He responds. Next, hearing Felixter introduce Lucille, Michael quickly bows at the very sight of her, this being one way of him showing a deep respect to a person of a higher position than him. "It's an honor to meet you, milady. I do hope I have not wronged you in any way and hope that you can forgive me for my actions prior to this." He would give his opinion regarding Kiroketsu and Fedoraman's given mission, but right now, he does not wish to disrespect Lucille by moving without giving clearance to do so.
"I see..well, I suppose those episodes of mine are a con of being a tactician for so long. However, I'd like to refer to that side of me as more of a "berserk mode", more than anything else. From what I do remember from entering that mode, I focus mainly on offensive skills. However, the drawback, as you've seen already, is that I can't recall who's side I'm really on.." He states, smiling sadly at Ammi as he explains just what he thinks of that side of him. He then turns to listen to what Meora has to say, his smile now on the borderline of sad and happy. "Kayori and Mirui, is it? Well, it's a pleasure to meet you both. While those nicknames are nice, I think I'd rather call them by their given names." He says to the gun-wielding neko. Then, hearing Ammi inquire about possibly remembering anything whenever he woke up in the room, he simply shook his head. "I'm sorry, but all I remember is sensing her being right beside me in the bed, asleep. However, I do now what you're talking about now. I can sense the energy coming from her all the way from here.." He responds. Next, hearing Felixter introduce Lucille, Michael quickly bows at the very sight of her, this being one way of him showing a deep respect to a person of a higher position than him. "It's an honor to meet you, milady. I do hope I have not wronged you in any way and hope that you can forgive me for my actions prior to this." He would give his opinion regarding Kiroketsu and Fedoraman's given mission, but right now, he does not wish to disrespect Lucille by moving without giving clearance to do so.
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The shadows look at Karl, then look at each other, then look at Karl, then finally look back to each other with growing grins.
"What do you think, Amber? Should we?" Clancy asks.
"I think it'd be a big mistake if we didn't~!" Amber giggles in reply. The shadows nod to each other, then look at Karl. "We're going home to throw a party! And YOU should come with us!"
The two of them don't wait for a reply, and use their shadowy claws to grab what looks like just a space in the air. Then they rip that space out of the air, creating a portal swirling with purple and black colors. Amber skips into it, and begins to fall straight down in a tunnel of swirling dark energy, laughing all the way. Clancy grab's Karl by the wrist and jumps in after her. All 3 of them land on a hill overlooking a different world: Shadowland. The grass is dark purple, and the sky is blood red with a silver moon. There are flowers in the grass, but they're blue and half-wilted. In the distance, the silhouette of what looks to be an extravagant carnival sits.
Ammi nods understandingly at Michael. "Oh, it's fine, dear. No harm done this time, and even if there had been, I'm not sure we could have really blamed you justly. When you go into 'berserk mode', as you put it, your mind is somewhere else entirely, and you can't truly understand what you used to anymore. I know from unfortunate experience..."
"Ah, yes, it's nice to meet you too. We can always use more allies in this group, no matter what grade of 'crazy' they may or may not be." Kayori smiles kindly at Michael, then scoots closer to Felixter. He notices this, but does nothing except chuckle a bit.
"Yeah, it's nice to meet you! I like new people that are nice! Nice new friends are great!" Mirui looks absolutely joyful, despite the fact that she just saw this same person pointing his sword at all of her other friends but a few minutes ago. Now, Mirui starts looking around, before leaning down to ask Kayori, "Kayori, is there still gonna be a bubble-unicorn party in this floating bubble hotel? I want cake!"
Kayori laughs, and pats the monster girl's head with her good hand. "Well, I don't know about the party at the moment, but I'll try and see if I can't get you cake soon enough."
"Yay! Thank you, Kay-kay!" Mirui claps her hands together and bounces a bit where she stands.
Lucille is a bit surprised at Michael suddenly bowing before her, but she certainly doesn't find it unfitting or unpleasant. She chuckles. "Oh, my dear, you do not have to bow before me. I am not the queen of a living kingdom anymore. Just the queen of my own slice of Hell. However, I very much appreciate the respect, young man. Nice to know that some men still have that. You haven't wronged me, as long as you don't wrong these Cat Demon children, their friends, or other innocent women and children. I value the happiness and lives of all of these things. Anyone I catch who doesn't...gets a visit from me or my hellions here in the night."
"For a protector of innocent women and children, you seem a little...frightening..." Kayori murmurs.
Meora smirks at the happy group, then turns back to Fedora-man, listening to what he has to say. She takes the parcel, and nods "Hai. Don't worry, I've been to the Demon Highlands enough times to know my way around. I'd say the same about knowing what to expect too, but this time I won't be with Sephie-chan or Felixter-kun. It'll be...interesting. Guess we'll see if the Master has any interest in taking me without them there, eh? Tch, yeah. As if he could break me down. I'm not scared of that fluffy pink rat. I'm not scared of this Sochi guy, either."
"Be careful even still, Meora. The Master always has some kind of plan. He's always at least 5 steps ahead, it seems. If anything seems amiss when you're there, take extreme caution." Felixter's tone becomes gravely serious. "If you get captures, we'll certainly come after you, but I'd prefer if you tried to stay out of that sort of danger. Though...I understand how halfway-pointless this warning might be to you. I mean, you're my sister's best friend. Of course you're going to run head-on into the first sight of action and danger." He smirks a bit.
"Ne! Gimme so credit here! I know how to take care of myself in these situations. Seems like you keep forgetting who saves all 18 of your lives of a certain pair of cat demon twins in that one war, Felixter-kun." Meora snickers.
"True...just...take care, then." Felixter nods with more of a smile.
"If you need any help, feel no shame whatsoever in calling us. Especially me. I'll come right away. After all, I do see you as one of my children." Ammi beams warmly at the neko girl, then turns back to Michael. "The same goes for you. Even though you're not a child, you're still an ally and friend."
"Ne, matte. There's still one thing I wanna ask before I get going here." Meora has already walked up to the portal's entrance, eager to go and get this Sochi person, as well as maybe give the Master a piece of her mind, should the chance arise. "Are you all gonna be able to handle Sephie-chan up there okay? I can hear her yelling and banging on walls from down here. Is that Murasaki-baka Kiroketsu-kun going to be able to do anything? Will you all survive without me here to handle Sephie-chan? Daijobudesuka?"
"Meora, should the worst happen, I'm sure we can pull through and deal with it in your absence. You're a very important friend to Sephie, so we know how uneasy you are about leaving her like this, but you can trust us. Just go and kick some demon butt, okay?" Ammi grins.
Meora takes on a determined grin of her own. "Hai, arigatou, Ammi-sama. Right then. I'm off. Sayonara!" And with that, she takes the parcel she's been given, and leaps into the portal provided by Fedora-man.
Meanwhile, upstairs, Meora was completely right about Sephie. She's still shouting random, incoherent phrases and broken sentences in her own native demon language, while Kiroketsu stands speechless outside of the door, wondering just what he should do now.
"Man...I really just wanna say 'screw this' and go back down to hang out with Mirui...but Meora, Ammi, and Kayori are down there. They'll beat me into a pulp if I go back down there without results!" He whines. Suddenly, he screams and jumps, almost hitting his head on the ceiling when a set of enlarged claws stabs through the magically-locked door. Kiroketsu's eyes widen.
"OH. THOSE ARE RESULTS. NOT GOOD ONES, BUT RESULTS." Kiroketsu backs up. The claws yank themselves out, then stab again, trying to tear through the door.
"RUNRUNRUNRUNRUNRUNRUN!" Kiroketsu flees right away to go warn the others, instead of staying and monitoring the crazed, now enraged demon girl. Possibly a bad move.
The shadows look at Karl, then look at each other, then look at Karl, then finally look back to each other with growing grins.
"What do you think, Amber? Should we?" Clancy asks.
"I think it'd be a big mistake if we didn't~!" Amber giggles in reply. The shadows nod to each other, then look at Karl. "We're going home to throw a party! And YOU should come with us!"
The two of them don't wait for a reply, and use their shadowy claws to grab what looks like just a space in the air. Then they rip that space out of the air, creating a portal swirling with purple and black colors. Amber skips into it, and begins to fall straight down in a tunnel of swirling dark energy, laughing all the way. Clancy grab's Karl by the wrist and jumps in after her. All 3 of them land on a hill overlooking a different world: Shadowland. The grass is dark purple, and the sky is blood red with a silver moon. There are flowers in the grass, but they're blue and half-wilted. In the distance, the silhouette of what looks to be an extravagant carnival sits.
Ammi nods understandingly at Michael. "Oh, it's fine, dear. No harm done this time, and even if there had been, I'm not sure we could have really blamed you justly. When you go into 'berserk mode', as you put it, your mind is somewhere else entirely, and you can't truly understand what you used to anymore. I know from unfortunate experience..."
"Ah, yes, it's nice to meet you too. We can always use more allies in this group, no matter what grade of 'crazy' they may or may not be." Kayori smiles kindly at Michael, then scoots closer to Felixter. He notices this, but does nothing except chuckle a bit.
"Yeah, it's nice to meet you! I like new people that are nice! Nice new friends are great!" Mirui looks absolutely joyful, despite the fact that she just saw this same person pointing his sword at all of her other friends but a few minutes ago. Now, Mirui starts looking around, before leaning down to ask Kayori, "Kayori, is there still gonna be a bubble-unicorn party in this floating bubble hotel? I want cake!"
Kayori laughs, and pats the monster girl's head with her good hand. "Well, I don't know about the party at the moment, but I'll try and see if I can't get you cake soon enough."
"Yay! Thank you, Kay-kay!" Mirui claps her hands together and bounces a bit where she stands.
Lucille is a bit surprised at Michael suddenly bowing before her, but she certainly doesn't find it unfitting or unpleasant. She chuckles. "Oh, my dear, you do not have to bow before me. I am not the queen of a living kingdom anymore. Just the queen of my own slice of Hell. However, I very much appreciate the respect, young man. Nice to know that some men still have that. You haven't wronged me, as long as you don't wrong these Cat Demon children, their friends, or other innocent women and children. I value the happiness and lives of all of these things. Anyone I catch who doesn't...gets a visit from me or my hellions here in the night."
"For a protector of innocent women and children, you seem a little...frightening..." Kayori murmurs.
Meora smirks at the happy group, then turns back to Fedora-man, listening to what he has to say. She takes the parcel, and nods "Hai. Don't worry, I've been to the Demon Highlands enough times to know my way around. I'd say the same about knowing what to expect too, but this time I won't be with Sephie-chan or Felixter-kun. It'll be...interesting. Guess we'll see if the Master has any interest in taking me without them there, eh? Tch, yeah. As if he could break me down. I'm not scared of that fluffy pink rat. I'm not scared of this Sochi guy, either."
"Be careful even still, Meora. The Master always has some kind of plan. He's always at least 5 steps ahead, it seems. If anything seems amiss when you're there, take extreme caution." Felixter's tone becomes gravely serious. "If you get captures, we'll certainly come after you, but I'd prefer if you tried to stay out of that sort of danger. Though...I understand how halfway-pointless this warning might be to you. I mean, you're my sister's best friend. Of course you're going to run head-on into the first sight of action and danger." He smirks a bit.
"Ne! Gimme so credit here! I know how to take care of myself in these situations. Seems like you keep forgetting who saves all 18 of your lives of a certain pair of cat demon twins in that one war, Felixter-kun." Meora snickers.
"True...just...take care, then." Felixter nods with more of a smile.
"If you need any help, feel no shame whatsoever in calling us. Especially me. I'll come right away. After all, I do see you as one of my children." Ammi beams warmly at the neko girl, then turns back to Michael. "The same goes for you. Even though you're not a child, you're still an ally and friend."
"Ne, matte. There's still one thing I wanna ask before I get going here." Meora has already walked up to the portal's entrance, eager to go and get this Sochi person, as well as maybe give the Master a piece of her mind, should the chance arise. "Are you all gonna be able to handle Sephie-chan up there okay? I can hear her yelling and banging on walls from down here. Is that Murasaki-baka Kiroketsu-kun going to be able to do anything? Will you all survive without me here to handle Sephie-chan? Daijobudesuka?"
"Meora, should the worst happen, I'm sure we can pull through and deal with it in your absence. You're a very important friend to Sephie, so we know how uneasy you are about leaving her like this, but you can trust us. Just go and kick some demon butt, okay?" Ammi grins.
Meora takes on a determined grin of her own. "Hai, arigatou, Ammi-sama. Right then. I'm off. Sayonara!" And with that, she takes the parcel she's been given, and leaps into the portal provided by Fedora-man.
Meanwhile, upstairs, Meora was completely right about Sephie. She's still shouting random, incoherent phrases and broken sentences in her own native demon language, while Kiroketsu stands speechless outside of the door, wondering just what he should do now.
"Man...I really just wanna say 'screw this' and go back down to hang out with Mirui...but Meora, Ammi, and Kayori are down there. They'll beat me into a pulp if I go back down there without results!" He whines. Suddenly, he screams and jumps, almost hitting his head on the ceiling when a set of enlarged claws stabs through the magically-locked door. Kiroketsu's eyes widen.
"OH. THOSE ARE RESULTS. NOT GOOD ONES, BUT RESULTS." Kiroketsu backs up. The claws yank themselves out, then stab again, trying to tear through the door.
"RUNRUNRUNRUNRUNRUNRUN!" Kiroketsu flees right away to go warn the others, instead of staying and monitoring the crazed, now enraged demon girl. Possibly a bad move.
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In a seclude glade in the Demon Highlands, a portal opens and from it walks Out Meora. The box she is holding bursts open and out pops a teddy bear,"Why did I have to be put in the box?" it says most likely talking to itself, it begins to grow stoping at around 5'9 turning around he walks up to Meora and reaches his hand in into the box pulling out a "toy" gun, like the bear it grows becoming a 50 calibre high powered sniper rifle,"Alright cat girl, seeing as you came from one of Fedora-man's portals I'm guessing your here on a mission so give me the details.", shortly after Joe walks out from the portal,"Hey Zed what's up man?. The mission? We are looking for a guy called Sochi, probably some hotshot working for that "Master" guy from this world."
Karl getting dragged through the "portal" stands on top of the hill... until he starts to roll down the hill laughing in a laugh of pure joy."Last to the carnival is a rotten fish head. OH YEAH."
Karl getting dragged through the "portal" stands on top of the hill... until he starts to roll down the hill laughing in a laugh of pure joy."Last to the carnival is a rotten fish head. OH YEAH."
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The Shade has been traveling for a while, and now is at the house now, Watching
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The Shade soon found himself in the middle of the lobby. Unknowing what brought him into the hotel he began to panic.
"Now calm down, I brought you here and I am the one your going to listen to." Fedora-man walks in front of the Shade, then slowly walks around it,"You know I could use something like you although... I won't personally control you I will give you orders."
"Now calm down, I brought you here and I am the one your going to listen to." Fedora-man walks in front of the Shade, then slowly walks around it,"You know I could use something like you although... I won't personally control you I will give you orders."
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"Oh aye, ifenne it ain't masters Joe and Zed. What brings you round to my neck o' the woods?" a deep grumbly voice is heard in the clearing, it's owner, a sturdy looking Dwarf, walks out of some nearby shrubs. "Why don't you two and your friend over there come over to my Inn, there's a couple of people who would love to see you again Zed."
"We can't go until everyone Fedora-man sent with those two show up, Snarfulblast." Zed turns around to face the Dwarf.
"We can't go until everyone Fedora-man sent with those two show up, Snarfulblast." Zed turns around to face the Dwarf.
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Instead of following after Meora, the tactician instead creates a crow with the usage of his Sharingan, it now flying in after her. Exiting out the other side of the portal, it lands on the neko’s shoulder, leaving her feeling energized and stronger than usual. She then hears a voice speak to her. “I’m going to help the others take care of Sephie and my daughter. In the meantime, this crow will be my second pair of eyes. In addition, as you may have already realized, I’ve taken the liberty of sharing a portion of my power with you. I trust that since you’re a friend of my daughter and I, you’ll use it wisely on the battlefield. If you’ll excuse me, I’ve got some business to take care of..” With that last line being said both telepathically and aloud to those that are currently with him, the voice fades as the real Michael turns around to make his way back towards the locked door. “Oh, Felixter, do you mind accompanying me? This may be a two man job..” He states, before beginning his short trek towards the source of all of the commotion.
Instead of following after Meora, the tactician instead creates a crow with the usage of his Sharingan, it now flying in after her. Exiting out the other side of the portal, it lands on the neko’s shoulder, leaving her feeling energized and stronger than usual. She then hears a voice speak to her. “I’m going to help the others take care of Sephie and my daughter. In the meantime, this crow will be my second pair of eyes. In addition, as you may have already realized, I’ve taken the liberty of sharing a portion of my power with you. I trust that since you’re a friend of my daughter and I, you’ll use it wisely on the battlefield. If you’ll excuse me, I’ve got some business to take care of..” With that last line being said both telepathically and aloud to those that are currently with him, the voice fades as the real Michael turns around to make his way back towards the locked door. “Oh, Felixter, do you mind accompanying me? This may be a two man job..” He states, before beginning his short trek towards the source of all of the commotion.
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"Well now, I guess that means that everyone is here, even if they are technically here. Which means that you can come to my Inn, just follow me I'll lead the way." Snarfulblast walks towards the part of the clearing where he entered it and turns towards the three people standing near to where the portal was, for it had closed it's self after Michael's crow exited it, and beckons them to follow him.
"Well what should we do Meora, seeing as your the only person in this group who knows the Demon Highlands and what to expect there. And before you say that we are in the Highlands, I can say this for it is the truth that we aren't cause Snarf would have never built his Inn where it could be destroyed constantly." Zed says as he turns to face Meora.
"Well what should we do Meora, seeing as your the only person in this group who knows the Demon Highlands and what to expect there. And before you say that we are in the Highlands, I can say this for it is the truth that we aren't cause Snarf would have never built his Inn where it could be destroyed constantly." Zed says as he turns to face Meora.
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Meora is caught by surprise when the box she’s holding suddenly starts talking, and bursts open. Before she can even take one of her many guns off of her holster, though, she witnesses the toy bear grow to the size of an actual bear, and then pull out a gun, which then proceeds to transform as well, from a toy into a lethal weapon. A smirk makes it’s way across her face.
“...I’ll admit it. That was pretty awesome just now.” Meora chuckles. She opens her mouth to give an explanation, but Joe beats her to the punch. Then suddenly there’s a Dwarf walking towards them from out of some bushes (and Meora finds herself wondering what he was doing there in the first place...ugh. Kiroketsu really IS a bad influence), who Joe and this big teddy bear, apparently named Zed, seem to know. On top of that, the Dwarf’s name appears to be Snarfulblast. Not the weirdest name Meora’s known...but up there, somewhere.
Meora waits for Michael to show up, hoping for just the smallest bit of sense to be made somewhere, but instead a crow flies out from the portal and lands on her shoulder, which again, nearly makes the wary neko reach for her guns. However, Meora notices how much more powerful she feels with the crow on her shoulder, and then hears Michael’s disembodied voice, explaining the situation. She nods slowly once everything has been said.
“Hai….okay then....just, as long as this thing won’t peck my face or poop on my shoulder. Guh, I remember one of the other assassins at the Japanese base I trained in had a parrot. Kami-sama, was it annoying...so, then I ate it. The guy never found out either, but everyone knew it was me. I was thanked for at least a week.” Meora cackles a bit. She starts following Snarfulblast, along with the others, and then turns to listen to Zed.
“Ah, well...if we assume this Sochi guy to be one of the Master’s underlings, he’ll be in the rich part of town. The Demon Highlands have only a few significant features. The slums make up most of it. Then there’s the rich neighborhood surrounding the castle, and the Demon Square is the center of the place, leading to any part you would wanna go. Oh, yeah, and then there are some smutty clubs sprinkled around, some clinics that provide drug dealers with what they need, underground societies of every kind of horrible criminal imaginable, and back alleys. Lots and lots of back alleys. You don’t go into those. Well, at least, you don’t go into those with the intention of walking back out just fine and dandy.” Meora explains. “So, my suggestion is to head for the square, as Sephie and I always do when we have to venture through that place. Might be able to ask around for Sochi. Who knows? Maybe he could have a connection to some of the people I know who live in the Demon Highlands. Not in a friendly sense, though. The only people I know here are just Seph’s enemies.”
The group of friends in the lobby stand by as Michael sends a feathery replacement to head off on the mission with Meora and the others. The noise upstairs from Sephie’s rampage has grown worse in the meantime.
Felixter’s ears perk up upon being called by name. He nods in agreement. “Right, Michael. To be honest, I’d have probably accompanied you either way, at this rate…”
Felixter starts to follow Michael to the room where his sister is, but at that moment, the pair are almost run into by screaming purple blur. It comes to a halt in front of them, and Felixter sighs a bit at the sight of the fleeing spirit guardian.
“O-oh! H-h-heyyyyy there, guys! What’s up?” Kiroketsu calms himself down a bit and tries his best to play it cool. Unsurprisingly, Felixter isn’t buying it in the least.
“Oh, well, it appears that we were just going on our way to do your job, Kiro.” Felixter responds.
“Gyah! I-I didn’t expect such coldness from YOU!” Kiroketsu almost flinches at the remark. He clears his throat, “Look, I have been doing my job! I mean, besides you, I’m one of the most experienced when it comes to handling Sephie in this state. Everything is under control, thanks to me-”
Kiroketsu is cut off with his own startled squeak when more demon gibberish is shouted from the upper floor, followed by the sounds of what is surely a wall getting smashed…
“....Right. Well, we’ll be off then. Perhaps you should stay here.” Felixter starts to move past Kiroketsu, but the stubborn spirit just follows him.
“No! I won’t let you show me up in front of my beloved Sephie! No way am I letting you leave me behind!” Kiroketsu huffs.
“...See, the only reason you’re acting tough now is because you’re not alone. Now there are other people who are on their way to confront my sister. Others you can fall back on in case you should fail. Sorry, Kiroketsu, but you aren’t Marko. You’ve got no bravery.” Felixter shakes his head with a chuckle.
“D-don’t compare me to that other spirit guardian! That...that poser!” Kiroketsu cries, seeming quite offended. “Why do you guys prefer him to me so much, anyway?! Besides, he’s not even here!”
“Well, we were unsure about leaving Silversa and Marko alone, so they might be coming here as well. Though, now that the witches are her instead, I’m not so sure.” Felixter shrugs. “And we prefer him to you because he’s a gentleman, and is actually devoted to his job. It’s as simple as that.”
From the lobby, the rest of the people there listen in on the conversation between Kiroketsu and Felixter.
“...Tch. I expected no less. Such a foul spirit, that Kiroketsu…” Lucille growls under her breath.
“Do you think they’ll be okay…?” Ammi murmurs with concern.
“Oh yeah. Michael and Felixter are there. With them there, it’ll be fine.” Kayori laughs.
“What about purple-kitty-man- Er, uhm, Kiro?” Mirui asks.
“...Felixter and Michael are there. With them there, it’ll be fine.” Kayori answers.
Nelodine, all the while, is still wandering some of the upper floor halls. In the distance, she can hear Sephie’s mad roars, but tries not to pay it any mind with the hopes that she’s securely trapped within that magically-locked room. She looks back down at the marble-sized, saddening milky-white orb that Nymne gave to her before fleeing from a window.
“...8...she said there were 8 of us...but, there’s only 6, right? Then...did he create more?” Nelodine murmurs to herself.
Before she can get much more into her thoughts, she hears a light tap on one of the windows near her.
“Nelodine! Nelodine, out here!”
“Hm?” Nelodine recognizes the voice as a little cat demon named Kieru, Sephie’s niece. She walks over to the window, but can’t see any sign of the little girl. She opens it and looks around outside, craning her neck this way and that to try and spot Kieru.
“Kieru? Is that you? For goodness sake...I-I thought we told you to stay home! The witches are already here, s-so it’s not safe!” Nelodine calls out of the window.
“But, Nelodine, you let Cloudy and her brothers come! And they’re younger than me!” Kieru’s disembodied voice whines at Nelodine, and all the while, something starts crawling through the window. A tiny little creature with fangs and claws, glowing with magic energy…
“That was for a specific reason...C-Cloudy and her brothers were in the heavens beforehand, and from there, they were able to see what was going on earlier, so they knew how to help the others. We had to take them here. Ohh...Kieru, please, I don’t know if Sephie would be happy for you to be here if she were of sound mind right now…” Nelodine continues with her explanation to the girl she assumes is there with her. The little creature she still fails to notice is on the windowsill, creeping closer.
“Oh? Sephie’s not of sound mind? Heh...then this’ll be even easier…sister.”
Nelodine is taken aback when the voice suddenly becomes that of her youngest sister, Noruani. Before she can ask, the creature on the windowsill lunges at her, and latches onto her throat. Nelodine stifles a horrified, pained gasp when it slices right into her throat, and crawls in. On the way, the creature severs her vocal chords, so she cannot scream. Nelodine feels as if she’s about to fall unconscious, and maybe die...but then, her vocal chords and throat heal themselves up. She feels strange, and has a weird sparking feeling inside of her body, but for the most part...relatively okay. Though, she had no recollection of what had just happened, or why she came close to collapsing just now.
Outside, the smallest of the witch sisters walked back towards the dark forests, giggling to herself as she recalled the instructions given by Nimika earlier, concerning Nelodine.
”What we’ll do, dear sisters, is relatively simple. It’s something we could only do so well by combining our powers.” Nimika began with a smirk.
“Ahhh, of course! I mean, there’s 6 of us for a reason….we’re powerful on our own, but together, we’re absolutely deadly…” Natasha’s own evil grin had stayed strong. “I already love this, and I haven’t even heard the idea yet, sister!”
“Well, I shall explain, then.” Nimika nodded. “As Noruani told us, Nelodine is sensitive and very fragile in her regular, conscious state of mind. But...what if we were to subconsciously alter this a bit? Maybe...control her, a little?”
“Control her…?” Numirra yawned.
“Now I’m extremely interested.” Noruani got a glint to her own eye. “Of course...being me, I think I know where this is going…”
“Yes, Noru. We’re going to combine our powers and create...something similar to a chip or a device. Except, it’ll be organic; a creature. When it latches onto her, she won’t remember that it’s there. Not even when it’s activated.” Nimika snickered. “See, Noruani was right. There’s a gentle balance between Nelodine thinking she’s useless, but could still come back to us...or thinking that she’s useless, and getting rid of herself completely. So, we have to gently ease her our way by controlling her through this...let’s call it a ‘Magic Bug’. Now, the easiest thing would be to just have her immediately turn on her ‘friends’ with this power over her...but that’d be too suspicious. No, we have to take it little by little. Noruani will be in control of the Magic Bug, and thus, will also be able to know what’s going on with our dear, lost sister at any point in time. Noruani will be our observer, and depending on what she sees, she, as well as the rest of us, will command what Nelodine should do at certain points. It’ll be like flipping a switch. We’ll make her act...’differently’ towards her friends. This way, we can cause a natural turn in her behavior and thoughts, as well as those around her.”
“That’s brilliant!” Natasha broke into a joyous cackle.
“Right then. Don’t you worry about a thing. Make the bug, and I’ll find a way to get it to Nelodine.” Noruani agreed with glee.
“Ehehehehe~! All according to plan...now the real fun can begin…” Noruani continues to giggle creepily in the dark of the forest, near the witch’s hideout...
“Oooh! Me next, ME NEXT!” Clancy cries, shapeshifts into a tire with a face, and then rolls down the hill after Karl.
“Wait for MEEEEEEEE!” Amber shouts, shapeshifting into a huge spiked rolling pin as she rolls down the hill with them.
Upon reaching the bottom, the two shadows flip into the air, transform back into their default forms, and land on their feet, hand in hand.
“Ta-daaaa~!” Amber sings.
“Right! So, what do ya wanna do first?! We could go to the shadow petting zoo-” Clancy starts.
“-Where ALL the animals have 5 rows of sharp fangs! Even the baby deer!” Amber interjects.
“-Or we could go straight to the carnival, which is pretty much the main part of this whole world!” Clancy continues. “And after we’re done in Shadowland, we can move over to it’s extension, Caria! That’s where Queen Shadowelle lives!”
“...I’ll admit it. That was pretty awesome just now.” Meora chuckles. She opens her mouth to give an explanation, but Joe beats her to the punch. Then suddenly there’s a Dwarf walking towards them from out of some bushes (and Meora finds herself wondering what he was doing there in the first place...ugh. Kiroketsu really IS a bad influence), who Joe and this big teddy bear, apparently named Zed, seem to know. On top of that, the Dwarf’s name appears to be Snarfulblast. Not the weirdest name Meora’s known...but up there, somewhere.
Meora waits for Michael to show up, hoping for just the smallest bit of sense to be made somewhere, but instead a crow flies out from the portal and lands on her shoulder, which again, nearly makes the wary neko reach for her guns. However, Meora notices how much more powerful she feels with the crow on her shoulder, and then hears Michael’s disembodied voice, explaining the situation. She nods slowly once everything has been said.
“Hai….okay then....just, as long as this thing won’t peck my face or poop on my shoulder. Guh, I remember one of the other assassins at the Japanese base I trained in had a parrot. Kami-sama, was it annoying...so, then I ate it. The guy never found out either, but everyone knew it was me. I was thanked for at least a week.” Meora cackles a bit. She starts following Snarfulblast, along with the others, and then turns to listen to Zed.
“Ah, well...if we assume this Sochi guy to be one of the Master’s underlings, he’ll be in the rich part of town. The Demon Highlands have only a few significant features. The slums make up most of it. Then there’s the rich neighborhood surrounding the castle, and the Demon Square is the center of the place, leading to any part you would wanna go. Oh, yeah, and then there are some smutty clubs sprinkled around, some clinics that provide drug dealers with what they need, underground societies of every kind of horrible criminal imaginable, and back alleys. Lots and lots of back alleys. You don’t go into those. Well, at least, you don’t go into those with the intention of walking back out just fine and dandy.” Meora explains. “So, my suggestion is to head for the square, as Sephie and I always do when we have to venture through that place. Might be able to ask around for Sochi. Who knows? Maybe he could have a connection to some of the people I know who live in the Demon Highlands. Not in a friendly sense, though. The only people I know here are just Seph’s enemies.”
The group of friends in the lobby stand by as Michael sends a feathery replacement to head off on the mission with Meora and the others. The noise upstairs from Sephie’s rampage has grown worse in the meantime.
Felixter’s ears perk up upon being called by name. He nods in agreement. “Right, Michael. To be honest, I’d have probably accompanied you either way, at this rate…”
Felixter starts to follow Michael to the room where his sister is, but at that moment, the pair are almost run into by screaming purple blur. It comes to a halt in front of them, and Felixter sighs a bit at the sight of the fleeing spirit guardian.
“O-oh! H-h-heyyyyy there, guys! What’s up?” Kiroketsu calms himself down a bit and tries his best to play it cool. Unsurprisingly, Felixter isn’t buying it in the least.
“Oh, well, it appears that we were just going on our way to do your job, Kiro.” Felixter responds.
“Gyah! I-I didn’t expect such coldness from YOU!” Kiroketsu almost flinches at the remark. He clears his throat, “Look, I have been doing my job! I mean, besides you, I’m one of the most experienced when it comes to handling Sephie in this state. Everything is under control, thanks to me-”
Kiroketsu is cut off with his own startled squeak when more demon gibberish is shouted from the upper floor, followed by the sounds of what is surely a wall getting smashed…
“....Right. Well, we’ll be off then. Perhaps you should stay here.” Felixter starts to move past Kiroketsu, but the stubborn spirit just follows him.
“No! I won’t let you show me up in front of my beloved Sephie! No way am I letting you leave me behind!” Kiroketsu huffs.
“...See, the only reason you’re acting tough now is because you’re not alone. Now there are other people who are on their way to confront my sister. Others you can fall back on in case you should fail. Sorry, Kiroketsu, but you aren’t Marko. You’ve got no bravery.” Felixter shakes his head with a chuckle.
“D-don’t compare me to that other spirit guardian! That...that poser!” Kiroketsu cries, seeming quite offended. “Why do you guys prefer him to me so much, anyway?! Besides, he’s not even here!”
“Well, we were unsure about leaving Silversa and Marko alone, so they might be coming here as well. Though, now that the witches are her instead, I’m not so sure.” Felixter shrugs. “And we prefer him to you because he’s a gentleman, and is actually devoted to his job. It’s as simple as that.”
From the lobby, the rest of the people there listen in on the conversation between Kiroketsu and Felixter.
“...Tch. I expected no less. Such a foul spirit, that Kiroketsu…” Lucille growls under her breath.
“Do you think they’ll be okay…?” Ammi murmurs with concern.
“Oh yeah. Michael and Felixter are there. With them there, it’ll be fine.” Kayori laughs.
“What about purple-kitty-man- Er, uhm, Kiro?” Mirui asks.
“...Felixter and Michael are there. With them there, it’ll be fine.” Kayori answers.
Nelodine, all the while, is still wandering some of the upper floor halls. In the distance, she can hear Sephie’s mad roars, but tries not to pay it any mind with the hopes that she’s securely trapped within that magically-locked room. She looks back down at the marble-sized, saddening milky-white orb that Nymne gave to her before fleeing from a window.
“...8...she said there were 8 of us...but, there’s only 6, right? Then...did he create more?” Nelodine murmurs to herself.
Before she can get much more into her thoughts, she hears a light tap on one of the windows near her.
“Nelodine! Nelodine, out here!”
“Hm?” Nelodine recognizes the voice as a little cat demon named Kieru, Sephie’s niece. She walks over to the window, but can’t see any sign of the little girl. She opens it and looks around outside, craning her neck this way and that to try and spot Kieru.
“Kieru? Is that you? For goodness sake...I-I thought we told you to stay home! The witches are already here, s-so it’s not safe!” Nelodine calls out of the window.
“But, Nelodine, you let Cloudy and her brothers come! And they’re younger than me!” Kieru’s disembodied voice whines at Nelodine, and all the while, something starts crawling through the window. A tiny little creature with fangs and claws, glowing with magic energy…
“That was for a specific reason...C-Cloudy and her brothers were in the heavens beforehand, and from there, they were able to see what was going on earlier, so they knew how to help the others. We had to take them here. Ohh...Kieru, please, I don’t know if Sephie would be happy for you to be here if she were of sound mind right now…” Nelodine continues with her explanation to the girl she assumes is there with her. The little creature she still fails to notice is on the windowsill, creeping closer.
“Oh? Sephie’s not of sound mind? Heh...then this’ll be even easier…sister.”
Nelodine is taken aback when the voice suddenly becomes that of her youngest sister, Noruani. Before she can ask, the creature on the windowsill lunges at her, and latches onto her throat. Nelodine stifles a horrified, pained gasp when it slices right into her throat, and crawls in. On the way, the creature severs her vocal chords, so she cannot scream. Nelodine feels as if she’s about to fall unconscious, and maybe die...but then, her vocal chords and throat heal themselves up. She feels strange, and has a weird sparking feeling inside of her body, but for the most part...relatively okay. Though, she had no recollection of what had just happened, or why she came close to collapsing just now.
Outside, the smallest of the witch sisters walked back towards the dark forests, giggling to herself as she recalled the instructions given by Nimika earlier, concerning Nelodine.
”What we’ll do, dear sisters, is relatively simple. It’s something we could only do so well by combining our powers.” Nimika began with a smirk.
“Ahhh, of course! I mean, there’s 6 of us for a reason….we’re powerful on our own, but together, we’re absolutely deadly…” Natasha’s own evil grin had stayed strong. “I already love this, and I haven’t even heard the idea yet, sister!”
“Well, I shall explain, then.” Nimika nodded. “As Noruani told us, Nelodine is sensitive and very fragile in her regular, conscious state of mind. But...what if we were to subconsciously alter this a bit? Maybe...control her, a little?”
“Control her…?” Numirra yawned.
“Now I’m extremely interested.” Noruani got a glint to her own eye. “Of course...being me, I think I know where this is going…”
“Yes, Noru. We’re going to combine our powers and create...something similar to a chip or a device. Except, it’ll be organic; a creature. When it latches onto her, she won’t remember that it’s there. Not even when it’s activated.” Nimika snickered. “See, Noruani was right. There’s a gentle balance between Nelodine thinking she’s useless, but could still come back to us...or thinking that she’s useless, and getting rid of herself completely. So, we have to gently ease her our way by controlling her through this...let’s call it a ‘Magic Bug’. Now, the easiest thing would be to just have her immediately turn on her ‘friends’ with this power over her...but that’d be too suspicious. No, we have to take it little by little. Noruani will be in control of the Magic Bug, and thus, will also be able to know what’s going on with our dear, lost sister at any point in time. Noruani will be our observer, and depending on what she sees, she, as well as the rest of us, will command what Nelodine should do at certain points. It’ll be like flipping a switch. We’ll make her act...’differently’ towards her friends. This way, we can cause a natural turn in her behavior and thoughts, as well as those around her.”
“That’s brilliant!” Natasha broke into a joyous cackle.
“Right then. Don’t you worry about a thing. Make the bug, and I’ll find a way to get it to Nelodine.” Noruani agreed with glee.
“Ehehehehe~! All according to plan...now the real fun can begin…” Noruani continues to giggle creepily in the dark of the forest, near the witch’s hideout...
“Oooh! Me next, ME NEXT!” Clancy cries, shapeshifts into a tire with a face, and then rolls down the hill after Karl.
“Wait for MEEEEEEEE!” Amber shouts, shapeshifting into a huge spiked rolling pin as she rolls down the hill with them.
Upon reaching the bottom, the two shadows flip into the air, transform back into their default forms, and land on their feet, hand in hand.
“Ta-daaaa~!” Amber sings.
“Right! So, what do ya wanna do first?! We could go to the shadow petting zoo-” Clancy starts.
“-Where ALL the animals have 5 rows of sharp fangs! Even the baby deer!” Amber interjects.
“-Or we could go straight to the carnival, which is pretty much the main part of this whole world!” Clancy continues. “And after we’re done in Shadowland, we can move over to it’s extension, Caria! That’s where Queen Shadowelle lives!”
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"Well that was creepy and unexpected." Lucas having unintentionally walked upon the bug attack Nelodine, backs away slowly.
"Petting zoo or Carnival? HOW BOUT BOTH AT THE SAME TIME." Karl reaches the bottom of the hill does a back flip into a cartwheel into a walking handstand, walks (while still on his hands.) towards the carnival hoping he is on his way to the petting zoo.
"Alright laddies and lassie, thereat is the "Kilt and Beard" tavern happily owned by yours truly." Snarfulblast leads everyone into the tavern which looks like you expect it would. "ZED!" from seemingly nowhere an angel speeds past Snarfulblast and tackles Zed hugging him with an amazing amount of strength, "Oh Zed how have you been, hows Fedora-man, are you here on leave or on a job? Oh there's so many questions I have to ask.","Well it can wait." a daemon walks forward.
"Petting zoo or Carnival? HOW BOUT BOTH AT THE SAME TIME." Karl reaches the bottom of the hill does a back flip into a cartwheel into a walking handstand, walks (while still on his hands.) towards the carnival hoping he is on his way to the petting zoo.
"Alright laddies and lassie, thereat is the "Kilt and Beard" tavern happily owned by yours truly." Snarfulblast leads everyone into the tavern which looks like you expect it would. "ZED!" from seemingly nowhere an angel speeds past Snarfulblast and tackles Zed hugging him with an amazing amount of strength, "Oh Zed how have you been, hows Fedora-man, are you here on leave or on a job? Oh there's so many questions I have to ask.","Well it can wait." a daemon walks forward.
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"Sorry to be so rude, my name is Kylie, and my friend down there is called Lucky." The deamon bows slightly,"You see I am the bodyguard to Fedora-man, and Lucky there is his guardian angel." Kylie walks over to Lucky and pulls her off of Zed."Zed if you don't know was Fedora-man's guardian angel until well, his soul was trapped in a teddy bear. Snarfulblast, is basically Fedora-man's adopted dad, but he is definitely more like the badass uncle everyone likes."
"Aye but ye can know that I only gave Fedora-man shelter, and the name he goes by now, and you'll never get his real name from me." Snarf has made his way to behind the bar.
"Aye but ye can know that I only gave Fedora-man shelter, and the name he goes by now, and you'll never get his real name from me." Snarf has made his way to behind the bar.
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“If you two are through, we’ve got a mission to carry out.” Michael interrupts the debate between Kiroketsu and Felixter before continuing the walk towards the sealed door. Upon reaching the door, he calls upon the flame that is the Tactician’s Seal once more, causing the remaining locks to shine brightly before temporarily dispersing, giving himself and the others a small window of time to get inside the room. Fortunately, knowing fully well this would give Sephie a chance to escape the room, he utilizes the flame to create a barrier in front of him, possibly forcing her to back up. “Felixter! Hurry and take her down!” The tactician orders, not sure how long he’ll be able to keep the barrier going since he gave Meora a portion of his power earlier.
“Damn...I almost forgot just how strong Sephie can be…” The crow says to Meora, it shivering slightly as if a chill had run up its spine. Despite this remark, Meora doesn’t sense any sort of change in the portion of power that was given to her, allowing her to believe that he’s currently holding his own at the moment.
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Amber and Clancy both grin wide at Karl’s suggestion, clapping happily.
“Whoa! A true visionary, this one!” Clancy comments to Amber.
“I know! I wish we could help him! I mean, if he was a shadow like us, he COULD make clones of himself to literally go both places at once!” Amber replies back.
“You think we should turn him right now, then?” Clancy blinks.
“Hmm...weeelllll, I’ve got absolutely no reason to doubt his potential for the role! Maybe we could bring him before Queen Shadowelle first? Or bring him after we turn him? Guess it doesn’t matter- if we approve of this guy, then she DEFINITELY will!” Amber giggles back, and both shadows then run to go catch up with Karl.
“CARNIVAL IT IS, THEN! FOR NOW!” Clancy cheers, skipping merrily along, suddenly wearing a shadow hood and carrying a shadow basket with him.
“This’ll be AWESOME!” Amber bounces along, suddenly having a rabbit headband and huge rabbit feet on.
“Kilt and Beard Tavern, eh…? Interesting name.” Meora nods in light approval as she follows everyone else into the tavern. She’s a bit unnerved by the presence of more new people, and nearly pulls her gun out on the angel when she runs for Zed, her assassin instincts telling her it’s an attack, but she quickly realizes otherwise when the demon girl steps forward to introduce herself and the angel. Meora is also quite entertained by the way Kylie explains everyone’s roles in Fedora-Man’s life.
“Nice...I see you guys got a pretty solid group of allies together then. And almost just as weird as my own best friend’s group.” Meora snickers a bit in response to Kylie’s words. “I’m Meora, best friends with a cat demon girl named Sephie, and ally to her twin bro, and all of their friends. I was trained as an assassin for 4 years in the Demon Highlands, and 5 years in Tokyo. I speak Japanese, English obviously, and also whatever language comes from that place.” Meora jerks her thumb in the direction of outside, towards the Demon Highlands. Her ears perk up when she hears the crow on her shoulder talk again. She smirks a bit at what Michael tells her.
“Well, yeah! It’s Seph, one of the most awesome people I know, if not THE most awesome. Just lemme know if you need this power share of yours back to handle her. Y’know, in emergencies, I CAN handle my own for a bit. Even if things get pretty bad down in demon town.”
“H-huh…?” Nelodine blinks, hearing Lucas and watching him back away from her, as if something was wrong. Did something just happen? She feels like maybe something did, but can’t think of anything relating to the subject. Hearing the voices of her friends down in the lobby, Nelodine decides to just rejoin the group down there instead.
“Hey, guys! What’s going on?” Nelodine tries to push her uncertain thoughts back as she greets her friends.
“Meora left on her mission, and Michael took Felixter, and apparently Kiro, to go try and fix Sephie up.” Kayori explains. “Everything alright with you, Nelodine? You were up there awhile.”
“Y-yeah! Yeah! I feel fine. Just some...minor things.” Nelodine opens her palm back up to stare at the milky white orb. She remembers this being given to her by Nymne, and the haunting words about it she left behind, but Nelodine can’t help but feel as though something happened after that. Like a gap in her brain. She tries to shake it off as she turns her full attention back to those in the lobby at this time.
“So, do you think they’ll need help up there? I can try and use some magic…” Nelodine asks.
“No, dear, I think it’s best if you stay down here with us. Should anything happen, I’ll gladly volunteer myself to go up. I have the power to hold her off, and I can’t really be killed.” Ammi smiles in a caring way towards Nelodine, who nods and smiles timidly back.
Kiroketsu and Felixter decide to quiet down in response to Michael, glaring at each other before following him up to the door. Kiroketsu and Felixter both get into prepared positions as they watch Michael unlock the door, Felixter looking more composed, and Kiroketsu looking more and more fake by the minute. However, once the door is open, Kiroketsu shoves Felixter out of the way and dives in first. He aims to tackle Sephie down, but he flies past and hits the scratched wall behind her, only soliciting a bit of attention from her. She whips back to face the doorway and tries to go for the escape, screeching bloody promises of violence as she does, until the barrier stops her. Felixter slips in and steps fearlessly in front of his rampaging sister.
“Sephie, I need you to stop. Calm down.” Felixter locks eyes with his twin, and Sephie seems to pause for a moment before trying to attack him. Felixter dodges out of the way quickly. Kiroketsu shakes himself off and places himself next to Felixter.
“What do we do now?! Knock her out? I mean, I could do that, but it seems so ungentlemanly….she’ll probably remember it and hit me for it later, too.” Kiroketsu murmurs.
“Is that really what you’re worried about?!” Felixter huffs in annoyance at the spirit, all the while engaging his hellion form to act quicker and provide more strength to fend off his sister.
“Boys, boys, there’s no need for any of that…..”
Kiroketsu and Felixter are both startled by the presence of Lucille, who now stands between them and the ravenous Sephie, only holding the girl back with a single red-gloved hand.
“OH GOD IT’S THE EVIL SHE-WITCH-QUEEN FROM HELL!” Kiroketsu cries, trying to hide behind Felixter even though he’s nearly twice the boy’s height.
Felixter rolls his eyes, then looks up at Lucille. “Were you here the whole time? I swear I just now heard you from the lobby…..”
“Oh no. I came up here for a few reasons. I thought you’d need help, I learned of some new news, and I figured you’d like to hear a...deal I have for you.” Lucille starts to grin.
Felixter already didn’t like the tone that came with the mention of this…”deal”....but he figures he should hear her out anyway. “Right then...what do you want? What have you learned?”
“I know a way to get Sephie back the other portion of her soul. You know, part of the reason she can’t handle her own powers and is so unstable is because she’s still missing half of her soul, as I’ve explained before. So, I’ve finally found a brilliant way to fix it, that might help us all in more ways than one if it works!” Lucille explains. “You have to do something for me to be able to do it now, though. This might be the most perfect chance we have, because she’d hold no malice towards you if you did it now….”
“Do what now…?” Felixter narrows his eye.
“For me to take her down into the afterlife and get her the soul, I need you to kill her. Nothing big. It doesn’t have to be all 9 lives at once or anything. Just stab her in the heart or something quick and easy like that.” Lucille replies.
“SAY WHAT?! Felixter, no! You can’t! S-she’s your sister, man! And more importan- er, I mean, as a less important side note, you’ll be killing ME too, and then I’ll have to be down there with Lucille! Y-you can’t do that to me, man!” Kiroketsu begs.
Felixter, while ignoring Kiroketsu entirely, thinks over the deal. He glances from his crazed, insane sister, to Lucille’s almost deceptively pleasant smile.
“She would be normal after this….?” Felixter sighs.
“Felixter!” Kiroketsu shouts.
“More in control than she is now.” Lucille purrs back. “Side effects might vary, but they would do that anyway with any soul we got.”
“.....Fine.” Felixter gets out his claws.
“FELIXTER!” Kiroketsu raises his voice in desperation. He tries to stop Felixter, but Lucille lets go of Sephie, and now turns to hold Kiroketsu back. Sephie immediately lunges for Felixter, but with his long claws, all he must do is hold out his paw, and his sister is impaled in the heart from her own force. Felixter takes great care in removing his claws from his sister, as he doesn’t want to rip out her heart and instantly kill all 9 of her lives. Or, whatever number she has left. 7 or 6, possibly, by now.
“Thank you, Felixter, my precious little cat demon child. The other precious little cat demon child shall be taken care of. And I believe the result will be beneficial for everyone….” Lucille picks up Sephie’s body as a wispy black portal opens at the back of the room. Kiroketsu is already fading in color.
“Nooooooo…..” Kiroketsu whines, flopping onto the floor.
“So...who is this soul donor, anyway?” Felixter would’ve asked this earlier, but he realizes that Lucille probably wouldn’t have told him then, and probably wouldn’t right now either.
“If I told you, you wouldn’t let me do it. But honestly, it’ll work out one way or another. You just have to trust me.” Lucille gently sets Sephie down on the floor next to the portal, and then turns around to step towards Kiro. She grabs him by the tail and tosses the screaming 10-foot monster spirit guardian into the portal behind her as if he weighed no more than a plush doll. Which, as a spirit, he probably did weigh no more than that.
“...Right. I figured I wouldn’t get a clear answer.” Felixter frowns a bit.
“Worry not, my dear. If all works out as I expect, you’ll love me by the end of this.” Lucille pats his head, then scoops Sephie back up, and leaves through the portal.
Lucille walks back into her home territory, Hell, with Sephie soundly unconscious in her arms. Kiroketsu lies on the hot red ground in front of her, his color returning.
“Uggghhhhh………..whyyyyyyyyyy…..” He groans.
“Come along then, Kiroketsu. Sephie should wake up soon, and we must make haste, lest our chance slips away from us.” Lucille says in a friendly tone, even humming as she walks past him towards the darker recesses of the eternal torture prison.
“Where...w-where are you taking her?!” Kiroketsu scrambles to get himself up, his duties as a guardian becoming much more evident to him now suddenly.
“Towards the person who will give her half of their soul. Or, rather, the creature….” As Lucille leads him forward, Kiroketsu can’t help but notice how dark and distorted it’s starting to get around them.
“It’s a good thing my eyes glow in the dark, man….” Kiroketsu whimpers.
“Hush, we’re almost there.” Lucille is still humming as they approach a soft red glow from further ahead. When they finally stop, Kiroketsu recoils in horror at the thing in front of them. Some kind of weird, transparent, fleshy chamber in the middle of a dark, dark room. The dark, illuminated by the reddish glow from the thing, reveals more of the details of it, like the veins pumping...something into the heart-like chamber, and holding it in place from all sides.
“Oh god, what the hell is this?!” Kiroketsu gags a little.
“The holding place of an old familiar figure of yours, who’s about to be released onto the world once more…” Lucille steps closer to it with Sephie.
From inside of the thing, something swims closer to the transparent walls, to get a good look at the group in front of it. Kiroketsu’s eyes widen in horror. The tiny figure, pink fur, black cape and boots, the tall ivory horns, one being crooked at the top...and those black and red eyes. No doubt about it, it’s-
“Well, well…..hello there, Lucille. Come to taunt me more about the fact that you trapped me down here for so long? It’s been over a year…” The Master sneers.
“No. I have something different in mind.” Lucille grins maliciously at the demon lord. “Something to weaken you before you break out this time.”
“Nng….wha…?” Sephie opens her eyes a bit, looking around in a tired, dazed fashion.
Amber and Clancy both grin wide at Karl’s suggestion, clapping happily.
“Whoa! A true visionary, this one!” Clancy comments to Amber.
“I know! I wish we could help him! I mean, if he was a shadow like us, he COULD make clones of himself to literally go both places at once!” Amber replies back.
“You think we should turn him right now, then?” Clancy blinks.
“Hmm...weeelllll, I’ve got absolutely no reason to doubt his potential for the role! Maybe we could bring him before Queen Shadowelle first? Or bring him after we turn him? Guess it doesn’t matter- if we approve of this guy, then she DEFINITELY will!” Amber giggles back, and both shadows then run to go catch up with Karl.
“CARNIVAL IT IS, THEN! FOR NOW!” Clancy cheers, skipping merrily along, suddenly wearing a shadow hood and carrying a shadow basket with him.
“This’ll be AWESOME!” Amber bounces along, suddenly having a rabbit headband and huge rabbit feet on.
“Kilt and Beard Tavern, eh…? Interesting name.” Meora nods in light approval as she follows everyone else into the tavern. She’s a bit unnerved by the presence of more new people, and nearly pulls her gun out on the angel when she runs for Zed, her assassin instincts telling her it’s an attack, but she quickly realizes otherwise when the demon girl steps forward to introduce herself and the angel. Meora is also quite entertained by the way Kylie explains everyone’s roles in Fedora-Man’s life.
“Nice...I see you guys got a pretty solid group of allies together then. And almost just as weird as my own best friend’s group.” Meora snickers a bit in response to Kylie’s words. “I’m Meora, best friends with a cat demon girl named Sephie, and ally to her twin bro, and all of their friends. I was trained as an assassin for 4 years in the Demon Highlands, and 5 years in Tokyo. I speak Japanese, English obviously, and also whatever language comes from that place.” Meora jerks her thumb in the direction of outside, towards the Demon Highlands. Her ears perk up when she hears the crow on her shoulder talk again. She smirks a bit at what Michael tells her.
“Well, yeah! It’s Seph, one of the most awesome people I know, if not THE most awesome. Just lemme know if you need this power share of yours back to handle her. Y’know, in emergencies, I CAN handle my own for a bit. Even if things get pretty bad down in demon town.”
“H-huh…?” Nelodine blinks, hearing Lucas and watching him back away from her, as if something was wrong. Did something just happen? She feels like maybe something did, but can’t think of anything relating to the subject. Hearing the voices of her friends down in the lobby, Nelodine decides to just rejoin the group down there instead.
“Hey, guys! What’s going on?” Nelodine tries to push her uncertain thoughts back as she greets her friends.
“Meora left on her mission, and Michael took Felixter, and apparently Kiro, to go try and fix Sephie up.” Kayori explains. “Everything alright with you, Nelodine? You were up there awhile.”
“Y-yeah! Yeah! I feel fine. Just some...minor things.” Nelodine opens her palm back up to stare at the milky white orb. She remembers this being given to her by Nymne, and the haunting words about it she left behind, but Nelodine can’t help but feel as though something happened after that. Like a gap in her brain. She tries to shake it off as she turns her full attention back to those in the lobby at this time.
“So, do you think they’ll need help up there? I can try and use some magic…” Nelodine asks.
“No, dear, I think it’s best if you stay down here with us. Should anything happen, I’ll gladly volunteer myself to go up. I have the power to hold her off, and I can’t really be killed.” Ammi smiles in a caring way towards Nelodine, who nods and smiles timidly back.
Kiroketsu and Felixter decide to quiet down in response to Michael, glaring at each other before following him up to the door. Kiroketsu and Felixter both get into prepared positions as they watch Michael unlock the door, Felixter looking more composed, and Kiroketsu looking more and more fake by the minute. However, once the door is open, Kiroketsu shoves Felixter out of the way and dives in first. He aims to tackle Sephie down, but he flies past and hits the scratched wall behind her, only soliciting a bit of attention from her. She whips back to face the doorway and tries to go for the escape, screeching bloody promises of violence as she does, until the barrier stops her. Felixter slips in and steps fearlessly in front of his rampaging sister.
“Sephie, I need you to stop. Calm down.” Felixter locks eyes with his twin, and Sephie seems to pause for a moment before trying to attack him. Felixter dodges out of the way quickly. Kiroketsu shakes himself off and places himself next to Felixter.
“What do we do now?! Knock her out? I mean, I could do that, but it seems so ungentlemanly….she’ll probably remember it and hit me for it later, too.” Kiroketsu murmurs.
“Is that really what you’re worried about?!” Felixter huffs in annoyance at the spirit, all the while engaging his hellion form to act quicker and provide more strength to fend off his sister.
“Boys, boys, there’s no need for any of that…..”
Kiroketsu and Felixter are both startled by the presence of Lucille, who now stands between them and the ravenous Sephie, only holding the girl back with a single red-gloved hand.
“OH GOD IT’S THE EVIL SHE-WITCH-QUEEN FROM HELL!” Kiroketsu cries, trying to hide behind Felixter even though he’s nearly twice the boy’s height.
Felixter rolls his eyes, then looks up at Lucille. “Were you here the whole time? I swear I just now heard you from the lobby…..”
“Oh no. I came up here for a few reasons. I thought you’d need help, I learned of some new news, and I figured you’d like to hear a...deal I have for you.” Lucille starts to grin.
Felixter already didn’t like the tone that came with the mention of this…”deal”....but he figures he should hear her out anyway. “Right then...what do you want? What have you learned?”
“I know a way to get Sephie back the other portion of her soul. You know, part of the reason she can’t handle her own powers and is so unstable is because she’s still missing half of her soul, as I’ve explained before. So, I’ve finally found a brilliant way to fix it, that might help us all in more ways than one if it works!” Lucille explains. “You have to do something for me to be able to do it now, though. This might be the most perfect chance we have, because she’d hold no malice towards you if you did it now….”
“Do what now…?” Felixter narrows his eye.
“For me to take her down into the afterlife and get her the soul, I need you to kill her. Nothing big. It doesn’t have to be all 9 lives at once or anything. Just stab her in the heart or something quick and easy like that.” Lucille replies.
“SAY WHAT?! Felixter, no! You can’t! S-she’s your sister, man! And more importan- er, I mean, as a less important side note, you’ll be killing ME too, and then I’ll have to be down there with Lucille! Y-you can’t do that to me, man!” Kiroketsu begs.
Felixter, while ignoring Kiroketsu entirely, thinks over the deal. He glances from his crazed, insane sister, to Lucille’s almost deceptively pleasant smile.
“She would be normal after this….?” Felixter sighs.
“Felixter!” Kiroketsu shouts.
“More in control than she is now.” Lucille purrs back. “Side effects might vary, but they would do that anyway with any soul we got.”
“.....Fine.” Felixter gets out his claws.
“FELIXTER!” Kiroketsu raises his voice in desperation. He tries to stop Felixter, but Lucille lets go of Sephie, and now turns to hold Kiroketsu back. Sephie immediately lunges for Felixter, but with his long claws, all he must do is hold out his paw, and his sister is impaled in the heart from her own force. Felixter takes great care in removing his claws from his sister, as he doesn’t want to rip out her heart and instantly kill all 9 of her lives. Or, whatever number she has left. 7 or 6, possibly, by now.
“Thank you, Felixter, my precious little cat demon child. The other precious little cat demon child shall be taken care of. And I believe the result will be beneficial for everyone….” Lucille picks up Sephie’s body as a wispy black portal opens at the back of the room. Kiroketsu is already fading in color.
“Nooooooo…..” Kiroketsu whines, flopping onto the floor.
“So...who is this soul donor, anyway?” Felixter would’ve asked this earlier, but he realizes that Lucille probably wouldn’t have told him then, and probably wouldn’t right now either.
“If I told you, you wouldn’t let me do it. But honestly, it’ll work out one way or another. You just have to trust me.” Lucille gently sets Sephie down on the floor next to the portal, and then turns around to step towards Kiro. She grabs him by the tail and tosses the screaming 10-foot monster spirit guardian into the portal behind her as if he weighed no more than a plush doll. Which, as a spirit, he probably did weigh no more than that.
“...Right. I figured I wouldn’t get a clear answer.” Felixter frowns a bit.
“Worry not, my dear. If all works out as I expect, you’ll love me by the end of this.” Lucille pats his head, then scoops Sephie back up, and leaves through the portal.
Lucille walks back into her home territory, Hell, with Sephie soundly unconscious in her arms. Kiroketsu lies on the hot red ground in front of her, his color returning.
“Uggghhhhh………..whyyyyyyyyyy…..” He groans.
“Come along then, Kiroketsu. Sephie should wake up soon, and we must make haste, lest our chance slips away from us.” Lucille says in a friendly tone, even humming as she walks past him towards the darker recesses of the eternal torture prison.
“Where...w-where are you taking her?!” Kiroketsu scrambles to get himself up, his duties as a guardian becoming much more evident to him now suddenly.
“Towards the person who will give her half of their soul. Or, rather, the creature….” As Lucille leads him forward, Kiroketsu can’t help but notice how dark and distorted it’s starting to get around them.
“It’s a good thing my eyes glow in the dark, man….” Kiroketsu whimpers.
“Hush, we’re almost there.” Lucille is still humming as they approach a soft red glow from further ahead. When they finally stop, Kiroketsu recoils in horror at the thing in front of them. Some kind of weird, transparent, fleshy chamber in the middle of a dark, dark room. The dark, illuminated by the reddish glow from the thing, reveals more of the details of it, like the veins pumping...something into the heart-like chamber, and holding it in place from all sides.
“Oh god, what the hell is this?!” Kiroketsu gags a little.
“The holding place of an old familiar figure of yours, who’s about to be released onto the world once more…” Lucille steps closer to it with Sephie.
From inside of the thing, something swims closer to the transparent walls, to get a good look at the group in front of it. Kiroketsu’s eyes widen in horror. The tiny figure, pink fur, black cape and boots, the tall ivory horns, one being crooked at the top...and those black and red eyes. No doubt about it, it’s-
“Well, well…..hello there, Lucille. Come to taunt me more about the fact that you trapped me down here for so long? It’s been over a year…” The Master sneers.
“No. I have something different in mind.” Lucille grins maliciously at the demon lord. “Something to weaken you before you break out this time.”
“Nng….wha…?” Sephie opens her eyes a bit, looking around in a tired, dazed fashion.
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Karl still on his hands turns to Amber and Clancey, "You guys have a queen? LET US MEET YOUR RULER! After we've had some fun of course." He turns back and flips back to his feet, which while flipping he strapped rockets to, lights the rockets and flies forward.
Lucas turns and follows Nelodine to the others. He walks over to Ammi and whisper to her, "Hey I may or may not have witnessed a weird bug thing attack Nelodine. I'm not exactly sure it was a bug but something did attack her."
Kylie nods,"Well yeah but if you had time I would give you the full history of Fedora-man, but I know he sent you here for a reason so lets get down to business."
"So Lucille this is who you brought Sephie to." Fedora-man bursts into laughter, "Also Kiro Shouldn't you be dead? Or is it because We are in Hell you ain't dead? But never mind that I kinda wanna know how I got here?"
*Sniff*,*Sniff*,"Hey Blue, you smell different." Srg says sniffing the air close to Nelodine.
Lucas turns and follows Nelodine to the others. He walks over to Ammi and whisper to her, "Hey I may or may not have witnessed a weird bug thing attack Nelodine. I'm not exactly sure it was a bug but something did attack her."
Kylie nods,"Well yeah but if you had time I would give you the full history of Fedora-man, but I know he sent you here for a reason so lets get down to business."
"So Lucille this is who you brought Sephie to." Fedora-man bursts into laughter, "Also Kiro Shouldn't you be dead? Or is it because We are in Hell you ain't dead? But never mind that I kinda wanna know how I got here?"
*Sniff*,*Sniff*,"Hey Blue, you smell different." Srg says sniffing the air close to Nelodine.
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I also declare this RolePlay Dead!!!
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If thats what you think or want to think. I see what I see and I believe you don't have to get mad at me for saying what I think.
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Reality itself unravels, and everything that has every existed is now nothing...
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