[IC] Portal Hoppers *REMAKE*

[Snarfulblast]

"Yes shiny town place of fun and death.THE SHADOWS GROW DEEP IN THE EARTH AND THE DARKNESS WILL CONSUME ALL." Karl calmly steps out of the lift and promptly falls asleep standing up. Uh yeah right Im putting up the barrier this time.* He turns and moves his hands again. This time a giant blue bubble forms around the now floating hotel.* Nothing gets past that. Joe: "Well Whipper Snapper looks like it's just you and me. Now first tell what you would do if you saw a pretty girl?" he slowly circles Kiro. Kyru who has been wandering the halls stops as if she heard something but dismisses it as the wind. She eventually returns to where it seems everyone as gathered."Hey whose the new girl?" she says as she walks over to the window.

[SephietheEvil]

"Well, yeah...it was pretty sugoi, I won't lie..." Meora grins, nodding in agreement. "Your father knows how to do things, for sure." "Wait, you didn't see her?" Ammi blinks, the comment giving her slight concern. "Sephie was left sitting on the floor next to the bed..." "Well, Kiroketsu did mention that she was having nightmares about family again...perhaps she hid herself. That's what she usually does. Maybe under the bed." Felixter suggests. "Ah, right...it's possible.." Ammi settles down at this. "That is also just as possible." Nelodine pipes up when Morgan mentions the chance of the other 5 witch sisters using their shapeshifting abilities to get into the hotel. "They're sneaky...and they don't have limits...no moral standards...they scare me." "When I see a beautiful girl?" Kiroketsu echoes. "Hmm...well, I'd probably give her a compliment. If that didn't work, I'd try another angle. Basically, I'd keep trying until something made her laugh in a genuine way. See, when you get that reaction, you know you got 'em hooked." "Ah, I see...but, regardless, this little thing was still but a disobedient subordinate." Nimika shrugs. She listenes closely to the explanation for the Dead Zone given to her, slightly interested. When the elevator stops, she steps out to view the golden city. "My, my...it is quite lovely." Nimika nods slowly. She turns to Karl, watching in slight confusion as he falls asleep right where he stands. "Hm...well...perhaps it's a useful skill..." She murmurs optimistically. After the three other witch sisters have all turned into butterflies, they attempt to infiltrate the hotel. However, by the time Fedora-man has put up the forcefield, it's too late. "Gah!" Natasha cries out in frustration. "GREAT! Now what do we do?!" "Hmm...perhaps, if we can't get in to see them...we can get them to come out here?" Noruani suggests. An evil grin spreads on the small girl's face. "I mean...aren't more of their friends on the way? What are the chance's they'll just teleport inside of the hotel? They'll be out here first...and we'll be the only ones around." "Hm. Smart. Guess we just wait then?" Numirra mutters. "...Guess so." Natasha huffs. "Come, we'll just blend in over here." The three butterflies go back towards the woods near the hotel, and turn into different woodland creatures. Natasha is a black fox, Noruani is a small songbird bird, and Numirra is a lizard. Nymne is traveling towards the lobby unwittingly, but halts as soon as she hears voices. She listens in on their conversation for a moment before a small smirk crosses her face. She shapeshifts into a beautiful woman with long brown hair and keeps her own eye color. The dress she's wearing changes into a silky brown evening gown. With this new look, she walks out in front of Kiroketsu and Joe. "WHOA. Hell-o, lady!" Kiroketsu grins brightly. "Hello there." Nymne purrs. She glances from him to Joe. "Sorry for barging in on your talk like this...my name's Nymne. I was wondering if there were any good books to read in this hotel, by chance?" "Well, I don't know about books," Kiroketsu moves a bit closer to her, "But you could read me any day..."

[Snarfulblast]

*SMACK*"Wrong, What you do is, this. Why Hello my name is Joe and yes there is vast library here. What kind of books where you looking for?"Joe after hitting Kiro across the back of the head, turns to the girl (saying what I wrote earlier damn it's to early for this carp). Karl while still sleeping turns toward Nimika."THE SHADOWS OF DEATH BEGIN TO CREEP THE BASTION OF LIGHT GLOWS WITH POWER AND THE SHADOWS GROW CLOSE. We are in for some visitors, I think we've been followed somehow." still asleep he turns again this time curling up into a ball and somehow holding up a sign that says 'Do not Disturb'.

[TheGodofTacos]

"What!? But how?" The man suddenly surprised wipes both his hands over his face seeming to have calmed down. "Fine whatever they are they won't make it in." Pulling out a sheet of paper soon founded to be a schedule and gives it to Nimika "I assume that you did't come all this way for chit chat, so the schedule shows the times when the council are open to the public." starts heading forward then stops "Oh and welcome to my night mare." then the man walks off leaving you behind.

[Snarfulblast]

Karl gets up putting away the sign."Hmm did I do something? WE NEED ANSWERS THE VOICES TELL US WE NEED TO BE WARY." he looks at Gerose "Is there any food here? THE BODY NEEDS NOURISHMENT SO THE MIND MAY LIVE."

[TheGodofTacos]

Still walking he states. "No food doesn't exist here so ask a manager and fend for yourself." Then he takes a turn and disappears leaving Karl and Nimika behind.

[ShadowVentus]

"Heh, you've got that right! He's a tactician for a reason!" Morgan says, happy as can be. "Hmm...well, now that I think about it, I thought I saw something laying under the covers beside my father..that might've been Sephie." She theorizes. "Oh, and in case it was unknown, I'll be filling in for my father until he recovers. I've definitely got some big shoes to fill!" She announces, giggling excitedly over the idea of being able to make her father proud.

[Snarfulblast]

"Cool I haven't met your dad but he seems cool from what I heard." Lucas says to Morgan.

[TheGodofTacos]

The Puppet looks up and sees the flying hotel and jumps on the bottom and starts climbing to one of the windows and breaks it open then climes through the window and walks to the main lobby.

[Snarfulblast]

YOU WHAT ARE AND HOW THE HELL DID YOU GET PAST MY BARRIER!*YELLED IN RUSSIAN* Sorry, again what are you? And how did you get past the barrier?

[TheGodofTacos]

The Puppet tilts it's head in confusion and gives Fedora-man a scroll then bowing down it goes off and exits the way it came in leaving an air of uncertainty.

[Snarfulblast]

*Fedora-man opens the scroll* Umm can anyone read this? * He shows the other Three in the lobby* If you can tell me later I want to see who sent that guy. *He hands it to Joe. Then follows the strange creature secretly following it's every movement.*

[TheGodofTacos]

The Puppet not caring for your presents jumps onto the trees and crawls from tree to tree with surprising speed making it hard to keep up with it. (the scroll states) They are plaining to attack you are in grave DANGER. The place Dead Zone has one of the witches and a big army of the undead and if the council agrees to help her and her sisters out they might become to strong for your barrier to hold. The only reason my Puppet got past your barrier because one of you let him in I will not tell, but we mean no harm. Well I mean no harm if you don't trust me just burn the scroll and ill never bother you again. Sincerely. A friend

[Snarfulblast]

*Fedora-man stops* Wait a minute I can read that scroll. *He heads back* Joe give me the scroll. *He hands it back* Ahhh thats what it says ok Prepare our defenses we need to prepare for the witches and possibly an army of the dead.

[SephietheEvil]

"Well, yeah!" Meora grins, agreeing with Morgan's statement on her father. "And an awesome one at that and-...m-matte, nani?!" Meora's expression flips to confusion after she hears Morgan's guess at where Sephie went. "Should I...do something about that...?" Ammi looks at the door to the room a bit uneasily. "It's probably fine. We don't want to disturb either's rest. Especially not when Sephie's in the middle of memories. She could wake up in a state of delusion, and then the heads would roll..." Felixter replies. "Well, alright then. No one wants that..." Ammi nods. "GAH! Hey!" Kiroketsu complains, rubbing his head where he was hit. "I'm not a pet, dammit! Don't try and treat me like one! Besides, my name isn't Joe." He sticks out his long tongue. "Ah, thank you." Nymne bows to Joe and Kiroketsu. She stands back up straight with a pleasant smile. "What kind of book? Oh, anything interesting. Maybe something of a somewhat higher concept and vocabulary. I just want to sort of 'stretch' my mind, if you understand what I mean." Natasha, Numirra, and Noruani wait outside of the hotel for awhile in their animal forms, waiting for at least one more member of Sephie's group to show up. They don't have to wait much longer before a portal opens up on the ground, and 4 familiar figures step out. "Is this the place? A flying place?" The largest of the new arrivals, a monster-like girl with bluish-green skin views the floating hotel in awe. "I never heard anything about it flying..." The second new arrival, a young girl in a red kimono with a huge set of limp shadow claws dragging on the ground behind her for a left arm, looks puzzled by the sight. The two smaller creatures behind her, a young, nearly bear cub-sized black fox with a silver tipped tail, and a white cat with eerie eyes and fangs about 3 times his size, don't say anything. "Kayori, are we gonna fly into that bubble and go have a magical floaty party with Felixter?!" The monster girl's eyes light up at the prospect. "U-um, well, Mirui, we gotta get inside first...and I'm not so sure we can get through that bubble. It depends what kind of magic it's made of." The girl in the red kimono laughs somewhat nervously. "Do you think...I could...?" The scary (but still somewhat cute) white cat asks quietly. "Cloudy's in there...I want her to be safe..." "Maverick, I'm sure your sister's fine. Ammi's in there too, supposedly." Kayori reassures him. The black fox starts writing a message on his white board, and upon flipping it to show the others, it reads, "Regardless, we should probably find SOME way in. That, or a safer place than out in the open like this." "You're right, Ryoku." Kayori nods, turning back to look up at the floating hotel once more. "There's gotta be some way in..." Natasha, Numirra, and Noruani all sport grins in their animal forms, and slowly creep closer, out of the woods... "Followed? With how fast and sudden you dragged me over here, I don't think-" Nimika starts with a strange look towards Karl, but she's cut off when she hears giggling coming from the floor. An annoyed look takes over her face, and she turns to glance down at her own shadow on the ground, which not only seems darker than usual, but has two pairs of bright yellow eyes blinking within it. "Hiiiiiiii, Nimmy!" The girl's voice greets happily. "Don't mind us! We're just here to watch..." The guy's voice snickers. Nimika turns away with a haughty sigh, glances over the schedule she's given, and takes in the necessary information. She watches the mysterious man leave her and Karl to fend for themselves, slightly uneasy, but remaining completely calm overall. "Well, at least he was fairly concise..." Nimika mutters partially to herself.

[Snarfulblast]

I smell new friends.* Fedora-man looks outside the front door* I was Right get up here. *He opens the barrier and as he does a stair case mad from the same stuff the barrier is appears* "You may not be called Joe but you are still a failure." Joe says to Kiro. "The library is past the dining hall and to the left." "THE SHADOWS SPEAK TO THOSE WHO ARE WORTHY." Karl turns to Nimika's shadow and walks up to it."Hi wanna play? WE ARE NOT WORTHY."

[TheGodofTacos]

In a strange room not in the same realm as fedora-man two creatures were in the same room one human with a suit and a demon "Take a look at this Gerose." In the hand of the demon he holds an orb with some familiar people then he give the orb to Gerose "What? is that?" Gerose seeing the Puppet at first didn't understand what it was. "Well it looks like it would be a perfect pet to have." said the demon "Say no more sir i'm on it." Knowing his boss he knew what he wanted so he set off to find it.

[ShadowVentus]

Morgan giggles at Meora's sudden confused outburst regarding her theory. "Oh, don't worry. You can trust him to not do anything bad while we're away. He usually sleeps for a long time when he's used up a lot of energy.." She states. "Oh, yeah, that's definitely something we'd want to avoid." She adds as she hears Ammi and Felixter speak about the possible consequences of waking up Sephie. "So, Meora-chan, what say you and I partner up to take down these witches? For old time's sake!" The young tactician asks, recalling the countless times when they went on missions together.

[Snarfulblast]

"Well I'm going back to reading this book so I can learn some new stuff." Lucas goes back to his room. "Hmmph like I'd let anything happen between those two." The group can hear Srg grumble. "Besides if they did try anything Im sure I could stop it completely." he grumbles a bit louder than before.

[SephietheEvil]

"Oh, I don't know if you really want to talk to them, they're-" Nimika starts, but a realization dawns over her. This person she's standing next to actually does act a lot like the shadows in some respects. "...Never mind." Amber and Clancy look up at Karl, blinking at him from within Nimika's shadow. They both suddenly grin, and jump out of the witch's shadow on the ground to stand before Karl. "I like this guy! Hi, I'm Clancy! I like waffles!" Clancy greets. "Me too! I'm Amber! I like pancakes~!" Amber giggles. "Oh, and we also both feed on dead people!" Clancy cheers. "Can't go wrong with a fresh cadaver soaked in fear~!" Amber sings. "Oh goodness...what have I done...?" Nimika sighs under her breath to herself. Kayori and the others look up at the bubble when it opens up and produces a staircase. "Wow. That's pretty neat..." Kayori grins. Mirui looks excitedly up at the bubble. "I knew it! It's a magical bubble party, Kayori!" Mirui squeals. "Alright, Mirui." Kayori chuckles. "You go up first, kids." Kayori turns to Ammi's two sons, who travel up the staircase. Kayori starts climbing up, but halfway upwards, she realizes that Mirui isn't following her. Kayori turns around. "Hey, Mirui? Wh-" "LOOK, KAYORI!" Back on the ground, Mirui looks as if she's about to burst with excitement. It appears that three shining white unicorns of different sizes have come to approach her. "Oh man!" Kayori grins. "Mirui's waited forever to see a real unicorn...!" The tallest of the unicorns steps forward, and touches her horn to Mirui's shoulder. Mirui can hardly keep her excitement contained...until things start to change. "H-huh?!" Kayori stands in alert as soon as a magic translucent green box forms around Mirui, and the unicorn steps back. Mirui knocks on the box, but finds it completely solid. Suddenly, the three unicorns surrounding her change shape. Mirui and Kayori are both struck with the utmost horror. "What a foolish monster." Natasha cackles cruelly, along with Noruani and Numirra. They turn towards Kayori and the hotel in the floating bubble. "You should run along now, girl, before we get impatient." Noruani hisses at Kayori with the utmost malice and a fiendish grin. "Go on, go tell your little boyfriend Felixter. Because, you see...Mirui isn't just trapped. Show them, Natasha." Natasha nods to her youngest sister, and looks around. She spots a bird in the sky, and using her magic, summons phantom claws to stretch out and grab the bird. She pulls it back down, and puts it into the same type of magic box as Mirui. Then, with a snap of her fingers, the inside walls of the box grow sharp spikes, impaling the bird from every angle until it is but a bloody mess of feathers. Kayori's horror grows even larger, and Mirui begins frantically pounding on the walls of her box prison, freaking out. Even though she's smaller than Sephie or Felixter, and younger as well, Kayori doesn't flee so easily. She starts to run down the stairs again, using her anger to try and control her huge shadow arm. The witches snicker at this, not seeming worried in the slightest. Numirra uses her orange magic this time to catch Kayori by the gut, and shot her fast back up the stairs and right into the wall across from the front doors in the hotel. "Good to know. That must sound like music to Ammi's ears over here." Meora chuckles. "Like I suspect Michael of anything." Ammi rolls her eyes. "I just worry that Kiroketsu did something. He could have possessed Sephie, or-" "It's obviously fine." Felixter shakes his head with a sigh and a smile. "Just let it go for now, Ammi. Morgan's right anyway. No one wants Sephie waking up only halfway from a dream like this. She could become unstable in seconds. The walls don't need to be repainted red." "Ooh...y-yeah, that's definitely something not to desire..." Ammi grimaces. "Partner up again with you? Hai!" Meora nods enthusiastically. "As one of the few people I've come to truly trust, I'd be happy to." Suddenly, there's a loud noise from the ground floor. "What was that...?" Felixter murmurs. "F...FELIXTER!" "Is that Kayori?" Ammi's ears perk up. The group looks at each other, and they rush down the stairs to see Kayori picking herself up from the floor. "It depends on what your definition of failure is." Kiroketsu huffs at Joe before turning to Kayori. "Heeeeyyyy, it's Kay-Kay! How're you doing? Ooh, ooh, is Mirui here?!" It was common knowledge between the group of friends about something that happened between Kiroketsu and Mirui long ago, and that Kiroketsu currently has some sort of crush on the monster girl, for whatever reason. "As if I'd let her anywhere near you." Kayori growls towards Kiroketsu. "Kayori, are you okay?" Felixter runs over to her and helps support her as she stands. "I-I'm fine, but Mirui's in trouble. She's out there trapped by some of the witches!" Kayori replies quickly. "Oh good lord..." Ammi groans unhappily. "Mirui's in trouble?!" Kiroketsu gasps with horror. He then puffs out his chest and turns towards the door. "DON'T WORRY, MIRUI! YOUR KNIGHT IN SHINING ARMOR IS HERE TO-GWWWAAAAAAAAAAH!" Before anyone can stop him, Kiroketsu runs outside of the hotel, but promptly trips on one of the top stairs, and tumbles the whole way down to the ground, landing on his face. "Purple kitty man!" Mirui gasps "Are you okay?! Why did you fall on your face? Stairs aren't a fun carnival ride!" "Kimi wa jitsu ni baka da na...?" Meora puts her face in her palm at the sight. "Thanks..." Nymne nods towards Joe, and makes her way towards the library, following his instructions. It's about then when she hears the commotion back from the lobby, about how her sisters have captured Mirui. She narrows her eyes. "Hm...I was sure they'd go for the little "damsel in distress" Kayori..." Nymne murmurs to herself, and keeps on going until she finds the library and heads inside.