[IC] The Many Mysteries of Lavenshade Mansion ~*Fantasy RP with Ghosts*~

[SephietheEvil]

Minako stifles a cry of agony before there's a sudden change of pressure. Minako and Makoto are no longer being sucked into the center, and are left floating in the darkness where they are. The red glow instead starts to expand and envelop everything, like an exploding star.
"GYORRRRRUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!" Outside, the monster of darkness howls in horrible pain as the red light pierces through it's skin. It explodes in a red flash, dissipates, and leaves Makoto and Minako laying on the floor, with some black wisps still floating around them. Minako's vision is blurry, and she's about to pass out once more, but before she does, she notes a strange feeling within her body, and possibly even her soul. It feels almost like she's famished...
Abernathy wakes up, opening one eye just a bit to check the progress of the battle. He opens both eyes fully upon seeing Makoto and Minako lying on the floor where Yorugiro had once been, as well as the brown-haired ghost in the white dress sitting just a little ways away from them.
"Well, well...maybe you're more than you seem, you living ones....that is, if they're still alive." Abernathy frowns a bit at Minako and Makoto, then walks over to the ghost girl on the ground.
"Yolani, are you alright...?" Abernathy extends his claws to the girl. She looks up at him with soft hazel eyes and the faint start of a smile.
"Yes...for now, yes..." Yolani takes Abernathy's hand, and he helps her up to her feet.
"NYAAAAAAAAAWWWWH...!" Ellysa gives out a loud yawn and stretches as she wakes up. A satisfied grin makes it's way across her face. "Haven't slept that well in a year or so...well, actually, I haven't really slept at all. Ghosts don't sleep, usually..."
Myriatte finds it impossible not to notice how quickly Lucas picked up his cat and walked away from her.
"Oh...okay, bye then..." Myriatte finishes off her performance by feigning sadness at how fast he left her in the middle of their conversation. In her thoughts, however, a very different story is being told...
'Hmph. How rude...but, I suppose it was the cat's fault. She knows I'm not as I seem, and because of that, she has warned her little human-boy companion. No matter, no matter at all. I sense someone better in the basement...and I shall wait to see them. I so dearly want new followers...or more lambs...' Myriatte thinks to herself, a small giggle making it's way out loud as she stands near the stairs down to the basement, waiting for her chance...

[Snarfulblast]

"OH NO YOU DON'T FROG BRAIN." Fred yells. "THAT'S right I can smell frog all over you." She walks over to the top of the stairs standing in front of Myria, effectively blocking her path. Riley jumps off of Minako's shoulder right before Yuro explodes. "Again I say, the hell. And why do you have tattoos?"

[ShadowVentus]

As Makoto lays there, the strange sense of hunger continued to grow, as if his very being were in need of a new source of energy. Having retreated to the collective consciousness of his mind, Makoto tries to piece together everything that happened before the continuous blackouts. 'Something terrible is going to happen...I just know it.' He thought.

[SephietheEvil]

On the ground, Minako moves slightly, finding herself feeling rapidly more and more starving. She doesn't understand why, but she knows she's craving something different than regular food. She fades in and out of consciousness, and in the meantime, her new marking on her neck begins to glow bright pink, and it feels like her skin is suddenly aflame. Lines of the glow spread around the rest of her skin like veins, drowning her in the agonizing sensation. She breathes heavily, unaware that she's gotten onto her knees, holding herself up by shaky arms.
"Miss? Miss, are you alright?" Abernathy is alarmed immediately, as he leaves Yolani's side to be at Minako's.
Minako can't reply with anything but sounds of pain, because her body is actually beginning to morph. Her skin becomes tougher, and a magenta color, and her eyes start to go green. With more glowing from her tattoo-like marking, the transformation is complete within a minute, and it's not pleasant. Instead of Minako, a large demon creature stands tall before the others in the basement, made of magenta, red, and russet-colored spikes and spines all around her body. The creature's face has a cat-like appearance, with large teeth and sharp, whisker-like appendages at the cheeks. She has a large pair of hostile-looking green eyes with no pupils, and then a smaller one above the original ones. Two big triangle-shaped appendages crown her head like cat's ears, and a line of curled spikes trails down from the back of her neck to the base of her 3 tails, which are basically 3 huge spider-ish legs, dark red in color. Her hands are two huge paws with 3 gigantic main claws, 4 smaller claws in between, and one claw coming out of the top of the paw itself. Her feet aren't much better, with two huge main claws, 3 smaller ones, and one at the back of each foot, like a raptor's talons.
Abernathy steps back immediately.
"What...w-what is..." Ellysa is more astonished by the sight than frightened, holding her sword close.
Minako lets out what sounds similar to a demon screech combined with a lion's roar at everyone in the basement.
"Frog brain?" Myriatte giggles. She gives up the innocent act around Fred, as she can tell she's with Lucas. "You know, you might want to be more careful about what you say around me...you don't know the kind of power I possess. I'm a goddess. I wonderful, kind goddess who looks after her tadpoles with the utmost care. Of course, to function, I require a sacrificial lamb every now and then...and from your words, it sounds like you're volunteering one of the living ones down there in the basement. Are you sure you want to do that...?"
Suddenly, before she can go on to say anything else, there's a horrific roaring noise from within the basement. Myriatte blinks, then grins wide.
"Oh....well, that's certainly not Yorugiro....how interesting~...." Myriatte laughs a bit creepily.

[Snarfulblast]

"Back off fool. Yoru is gone I feel it." Fred changes back and pulls out her spatula still standing in the doorway baring the way. "Lilly find Nelgoria, she might listen to you." Lucas puts down Lilly. "What are doing?", "Getting myself killed most likely." Lucas runs to the stairs and slips past Fred, hearing what Myria said about sacrifices he turns to stick his tongue out at her, He reaches the bottom of the stairs Lucas decides to do the most retarded thing ever. He walks up to the monster and punches it in the stomach.

[Ater FireSoul]

"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING LUCAS!?" yells Ater. "things are getting out of control!" Ater makes a rune out of thin air, using a smoke-like substance and shoots freezing winds at the monster to slow "her" down.

[ShadowVentus]

'Devour...Devour them all!' As soon as this thought comes across his mind, Makoto awakens as well, slowly getting up. Then, rather suddenly, he begins laughing like a madman, the black wisps that surrounded him earlier drawing closer as he begins his own horrid transformation, the tattoo on his right hand beginning to glow an eerie blue. As he brings it to cover his right eye, the light begins branching out, both the strange energy and the black wisps simultaneously engulfing his body. After the bright light fades, standing in Makoto's place is a human-like creature, utilizing its own wings as a cloak. An eerie dark blue glow pulses like veins on his wings. He lets out a roar of his own as his cloak splits into two large black wings, revealing a monster that's prepared for combat, with retractable razor sharp claws on both hands and what appears to be retractable blades on the bottom of its feet. His body is covered in feathers, which although are soft to the touch are actually as tough as steel. The same go for its wings. The room itself seems to drop a few degrees in temperature at the creatures presence. The next thing everyone knows, Makoto exhales icy breath at his allies in hopes of freezing a potential meal.

[TheGodofTacos]

"Oh really.." the shield protecting Me and Ater against the freezing winds I jump out of the bubble and forms a long sword and starts slashing Makoto over and over and over again circling his opponent getting strikes in every so often tired of the bull that I went through. "I Am done DONE!" The spirit changes color to dark red and forms a giant circle with drawings inside the circle opens up pulling both joerose and Makoto in a vortex traping them both.

[SephietheEvil]

Myriatte doesn't bother wasting another word on the stubborn elf-ghost-cook in front of her, staring down past her into the darker depths of the basement. Hearing all the noise, she frowns, looking concerned.
Of course, not for their wellbeing.
"I'm going to miss all the fun..." Myriatte voices her true concern with a huff. She watches Lucas slip past Fred and run down into the basement. By this time, she's had enough, and a wide grin spreads across her face.
"Well, I guess you really aren't wrong. I am a bit like a frog. Why shouldn't I be, as the sole goddess of the Kerokuoni Cult?!" She laughs crazily, then leaps almost impossibly high up for a normal person, much like a frog would. She hops over Fred, landing on one of the middle stairs, and rushes down into the basement. Her grin only gets bigger when she witnesses Minako and Makoto's monster forms.
"Demons...demons of such wonderful, wonderful power! And they've come here!" Myriatte claps her hands together with glee, then holds them out towards the two beasts. "Brethren, I beseech you...join forces with me immediately! Waste no time with these fools, these subordinates, these...these worthless lambs..." Her eyes take on a darker, more pronounced evil...
"Oh no..." Ellysa raises her sword with a glare aimed at Myriatte. "It's the violent froggy sociopath...!"
Minako lets out another screechy roar at being hit by Lucas, and from a lighter pink stripe running down the front of her body, more sharp spines spring out in defense to try and stab the attacking prey. She brings up a set of 8 claws and tries to swing at Lucas. Her attention is lightly caught by the sounds that accompany Makoto's transformation, and Joerose's attack on him.
"Oh dear!" Myriatte gasps as Makoto is sucked into the vortex with Joerose. For the first time in awhile, a deep, deathly scowl crosses Myriatte's face. Her beautiful blueish-green eyes glow bright with fury, as well as transformation. Suddenly, one of her arms is getting larger, and gaining bumpy, frog-like blackish-green skin, along with long claws. She grows a tail of the same color, which looks much like a tadpole's, save for the deadly spikes lining the sides. Myriatte puts on a jagged grin, and outstretches her transformed arm towards the scene.
"MY TADPOLES, YOUR GODDESS COMMANDS THEE! RESCUE OUR BRETHREN! RETURN A SACRIFICE IN THE NAME OF YOUR LORD, OR DIE INSTEAD!" She cries aloud as two glowing red portals form at either side of her above. They open up, and multiple demon creatures, looking a bit like what Myriatte has started to transform into, but smaller, flood into the basement. The poor souls look as if they could have been human once...
Most of the demon creatures go for Joerose's vortex, trying to claw at the opening to assist Makoto, as their goddess had commanded them. The rest are left to attack whoever looks worth it. Minako's instincts override her powerfully while she watches the creatures flood in. She can contain her hunger no more, and lunges at an unaware minion of Myriatte. After crunching down on it powerfully a few times, Minako swallows the creature whole. She feels a bit better, but not much. She wants more.
Myriatte cares not for this, and only laughs aloud hysterically. "YES! YES! PROVE THAT YOU HAVE EARNED THE PRIVILEGE TO BE A TADPOLE FOR THE GREAT GODDESS MYRIATTE!"
"SHUT UP, YOU FALSE PROPHET!"
Suddenly, Ellysa flies towards Myriatte with her wings, sword in hand and preparing to land a blow. Myriatte turns towards her swiftly, grips the blade with her bare claws, and sends Ellysia face-first into the wall behind her. Myriatte continues to cackle uncontrollably.
"ANGELS ARE USELESS IN JUDGEMENT!" Myriatte raves on as Ellysa scrapes herself back up from the floor. "CORRUPTION LIES EVERYWHERE, EVEN IN THE LIGHTEST OF HEAVENS! YOU CAN'T ESCAPE IT. A HIGHER POWER MUST HELP YOU. I AM THAT HIGHER POWER! I SHALL TURN THE WORLD INTO MY OWN, AND WE SHALL RULE THE DAY, ONE AND THE SAME, TADPOLES AND FROGS MAKING BEAUTIFUL MUSIC UPON LILLY PADS OF HUMAN FLESH AND RIVERS OF WONDERFUL, WONDERFUL BLOOD, AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"
Ellysa is stricken with a deep feeling of dread at the "goddess" and her utter hysteria...it's one of the few times that the angel has ever shown a true look that held any fear in it...
"Mistress Yolani," Abernathy turns to Yolani in the background of the fresh battle taking place, "We should get you out of here and find Negloria."
"Huh, why?" Yolani murmurs, taking Abernathy's hand and letting him lead her through the walls of the basement, back up to the empty ground floor of Lavenshade Mansion. "Did something happen to her...? Something...else...?"
Abernathy gives the young lady a sympathetic, knowing look, showing that he clearly knows something hidden behind her words. "No, no...nothing else. But, I don't want to wait for anything else. When Myriatte gets out of the basement, if she's not successful in getting a sacrifice for herself down there, she'll go after Negloria again. I...don't want to lose her."
"You've always been so kind to Negloria..." Yolani smiles softly, but Abernathy shakes his head as the two start floating up the stairs to find Negloria.
"No, Yolani." Abernathy replies. "...I was talking about not wanting to lose Myriatte."
Up in the nearly-empty attic of the mansion, a lone little girl in a white dress sits in a lonely, bandaged and broken chair, looking out of the top window. She stares unblinkingly at the scenery outside. Slowly, she turns her empty lavender eyes up to the ceiling above her. A noose hangs down from the rafters, and hanging just a few inches from the top of her head is a fluffy pink demon plushie. It's button eyes are black with red middles, and it has two tall ivory horns. It's black cape and arrow-shaped tail hang limp as it sways ever so slightly in the attic air. There's an insignia on the cape, that looks almost like the symbol you'd find on the flag of an evil country or land...
Negloria stares at this plushie for a long time. Both are still and silent as the grave.
Suddenly, Negloria hastens over to a broken picture on the floor, grabbing a blade of glass with her bare hand, and trying to cut her throat with it. Blood is shed all over the picture and wall near it, but it's an unnaturally dark color. A gaping wound is made in her neck, but it only lasts for a few seconds, before her flesh and veins regenerate. She drops the glass, sulking back to her chair to sit down. She hides her tears behind her long black hair...

[TheGodofTacos]

"AAAAAAAAAAAH!" screaming in pain shifting between human, angle, and demon suddenly grabs onto Makoto and pulls him close as the vortex started getting bigger and bigger sucking all in that were unlucky to get close. On the inside the vortex cracks started appearing everywere as more and more cracks appear hands started coming out and then started grabbing anything that is close and tried to pull them into a blank world of nothingness. "THE PAIN, THE PAIN." Joerose speaking in a distorted voice."LET SHARE THE PAIN WITH YOU!" Joerose yells into Makoto's face as this was happening bubbles were appearing through out the body with each pop of an bubble is another stab at Makoto.

[Ater FireSoul]

Ater starts making a rune in the air, and when finished he sends a stream of fire down on the Tadpole Creatures. "Get away you ghastly creatures!"

[Snarfulblast]

"OH SHUT UP YOU TOADY WITCH." Fred has now walked up behind Myria and has her spatula ready to hit her in the head."GET SLEEP CURSED.",she cast one of her stronger sleep curse and puts it on her spatula so when she hits Myria in the head she goes night night. "So is this what you do?" Lilly's voice reaches Nelgoria, Her back is to the room."Don't worry I won't look, I just want to talk."

[ShadowVentus]

Makoto lets out a pained howl as he retaliates against Joerose's onslaught of violent attacks, the feathers on his body now jutting out like spikes, slitting Joerose's wrists to the point where he can no longer keep his grip on the demon, making them unusable. Using this window of opportunity, he then brings his hands down upon the cracking vortex in hopes of smashing his way out. Fortunately, this seems to work, for he's able to break free and quickly fly up and out of the vortex. Almost immediately after breaking free, the winged nightmare swoops down and begins devouring Myriatte's minions, grabbing two at a time, and eating them one by one, feeding his extremely massive appetite.

[TheGodofTacos]

Still holding on to Makoto for dear life. {You forgot about that tiny detail} the bubbling starts getting worse to the point that hestarted generating heat getting hotter by the second small tendrils of smoke started coming off of Makoto and Joerose and any minions that were close enough "HEAT IT BURNS! THE HEATBURNS!" Joerose yells about to use whatever devastating move he knows in his mind.

[ShadowVentus]

Caring less about whatever illusion Joerose is currently under, Makoto continues to prey on the tadpoles until he feels certain that he has had his fill. Once he devours the last tadpole, he lands beside Myriatte, folding his wings back into a cloak and now treating her as if she were the current dominant force in the room, kneeling before her with his head lowered slightly. Recognizing that she was knocked out, he quickly grabbed his new master and escaped the room with her, flying at a speed too fast for anyone to keep up with.

[SephietheEvil]

Myriatte is in the middle of cackling laughter when she hears a presence behind her. She turns around, but before she can do anything, she's hit in the head with Fred's spatula. Everything slows down for the cult leading girl as she feels herself fall towards the floor. While her eyelids close, she swears that she's surrounded by water, and that it's filling up her lungs...again...
"...Will...I'm...drowning again..." She murmurs quietly before collapsing completely. She tries to hang onto her consciousness for as long as possible, while her arm and eyes revert to their more human-like state. In this strange limbo, Myriatte becomes vaguely aware of a large figure picking her up and carrying her out of the basement. Out of the dark water...
"...Hah...I knew you'd..save me again, Will..." Myriatte carries a light, almost innocent smile on her face before passing out completely.
Meanwhile, the portals that Myriatte opened up for her "tadpole" followers have not closed yet, as she never commanded them to. Her demon minions are still hopping out in a steady stream, though without her strong presence and command there in the room, fewer decide to leap out and attack, or try to follow after Makoto.
Minako takes advantage of these continuous cult follower demons, grabbing them up and devouring them with a ravenous quickness. After satiating her own appetite, she notices Makoto leaving with Myriatte, who, at this point, Minako has connected with being a food source from animalistic instinct. Minako roars again, gets down on all fours, and bounds past everyone to follow Myriatte's trail.
"No!" Ellysa growls. She turns to look over everyone still in the basement. "Come on, then! We've got to go after them! We have to figure out how to get our friends back, right?! Just as that girl said earlier, before we fought Yorugiro: No one gets left behind willingly!" The enthusiastic angel raises her sword again, and charges up the stairs from the basement to the ground floor.
"Agh!"
"Abernathy? Are you quite alright?"
In the middle of traversing the stairs, Abernathy has just made a sharp stop, and is now clutching his head. Yolani floats at his side with a concerned look.
"I'm fine...though, it feels as if someone just hit me in the head. What;s more, I feel a little drowsy as well..." Abernathy frowns. "It's not too much for me to have to stop, but-"
The two ghosts both stop and turn to look back down the stairs when they hear the mighty whooshing of wings below them, coming out of the basement. Abernathy floats back down in a hurry, able to just catch a glimps of Makoto and a limp Myriatte speedily flying away. Abernathy is startled.
"M-Myriatte...!" He mumbles. "Was...was she dead...? No...not possible..."
"Abernathy." Yolani comes up behind him and places a gentle hand on his reptilian shoulder. "Go on after them. You know I can handle Negloria...she is my sister, after all."
"...Alright then, Mistress Yolani." Abernathy nods. He tips his hat to the young lady, then hastens off after Makoto and Myriatte. Yolani smiles warmly, then turns to go back up the stairs, towards Negloria's usual location...
Negloria slowly turns at the sound of the voice near her. She notices Lilly, but doesn't say a thing. The small girl lowers herself back onto the ground from her chair carefully, then makes her way over to the left wall of the room. A poster made of torn, slightly yellowed paper is tacked precariously onto the wall with a bent screw, as if someone, having nothing else to hang up this precious poster with, desperately tried to make use of the screw in the place of a nail. The odd thing is, there are only 7 N's on the poster, all different colors, lined up vertically on the paper. One is crossed out.
".....Why..." Negloria whispers almost inaudibly, looking up at the poster. Her empty-looking lavender eyes have been filled with bitter memory and despair.

The poster looks like this-

N
N
N
N
N
N
N

[Snarfulblast]

"So sad what happened.",Lilly keeping her back turned to the room purrs aloud."So sad that you don't have someone to comfort you. You know cats are great at comforting people if you talk to me I could help you."

[TheGodofTacos]

"NO NO NO NO NNOOO..." Joerose losing his original target was spinning his head back and forth until he notices the portal he then jumps toward it and pulls the portal and those monsters into himself and explodes leaving behind a ball of light.

[Ater FireSoul]

"NOOOOO! JOEROSE!"

[TheGodofTacos]

"NOOOOO! GEROME!"

@Ater FireSoul

NOOO Joerose