Ariamis — Roleplayer Guild

Alexander Shields

Alexander rose an eyebrow "Pushy? You?" He paused "actually...I'm not sure" scratching his head, he continued "I mean, you already do things that should bother me. Like when you stole my bed. The last time someone stole my bed it was an older kid at the orphanage that was making a power play. I responded by attacking him. Then there's your peppy attitude; people like that used to drive me nuts. Honestly. I should find you irritating and unbearable...but I don't. Hell, I actually like having you around, and I have no god damn idea why." Alexander sighed "so yeah. I'm not sure if you're pushy...but I also don't care. Is that weird?"@Card Captor

Lily sat up and listened to Alex with a small smile, and giggled. "But even after I stole it you don't seem to mind enough to want it back. Hehe, it is weird...Just like me~"

Alexander grunted under his breath "and now we have a serial kidnapper on our hands. Great, just what we need; more problems"@Card Captor

The green-haired girl turned on the TV. 
"It's not like I'm absolutely sure if Mariette's kidnapped others, it's just a gut feeling. Well, not that it matters since I messed up. We'll just have to look elsewhere for a shifter."
She tried to distract herself with a nature documentary about bats, but for some reason that only caused her to think of the eyepatched girl more. After five minutes, she turned it off, and dozed off in her room. Instead of dreams that night, she saw a nightmare.

Even days after the big fight with several other magical girls Janet felt like she was recovering. Not that she was still injured from it, but the whole idea of this mounting hostility was turning into some kind of war. And it seemed like there were other parties starting to jump in. 

Even more than before, Janet had started to visit one of the Beacon's meeting places. She was able to train there with her fellow Beaconites to try and prepare for what was coming. The exact details were still not revealed. The Beaconites were quite secretive and had procedures that they had a way of following. Which was fine in Janet's mind. They knew better what they were doing, having been at it much longer than herself. 

Like after the initial meeting things had gone quiet again. It was somewhat unsettling. Clearly there were at least two or three out there specifically against the Beacon, but with their numbers they could repel them. A benefit that Janet was glad to have, someone willing to back her up.

But right now Janet was back home and it was getting late. Sighing and getting dressed for bed she headed to the bathroom and brushed her teeth. Her parents were insistent that she keep up her hygiene even though she already knew that well enough. Admittedly she was becoming used to this life. Sure she had to go to school and listen to her parents but neither one of those was really hard. If anything this was the best deal she ever made. A nice home, loving family, friends, and youth. Pretty sweet deal from the alternative. It was sleep time now though and she lay down in bed to get some shut eye.

... Then, all of a sudden, she fell.

It didn't matter if she was awake or asleep. It didn't matter if she woke up or screamed. If she looked up, she'd see a circular shape in complete blackness leading to her room, a portal that was swiftly closing. Where she fell, what felt like hundreds of tentacles suddenly enclosed around her. Not violently, they merely gripped around her limbs and torso, holding her in place. She'd be free to scream, but any attempt to transform would be met with a tentacle wrapping itself around her head at mouth-level to shut her up. Here she remained for a few seconds, in complete blackness.

At first the magical girl was utterly confused. Was this a dream? Or a nightmare. She felt herself being restrained and determined it was the latter. Or was it? There was a magical presence which meant that this was real. How was this happening? Janet struggled to break free but that wasn't happening, and her efforts to transform were thwarted. It seemed that wherever she was the one that put here there knew what they were doing and weren't about to let her escape..

Then another portal opened, one leading to somewhere with a bit of light. The tentacles carried her gently through, and she found herself... in a parking lot, surrounded by walls and dampness. If she knew this place, she'd know it as the Penrose underground parking lot. To her right and left she'd see plenty of more restrained magical girls, held by tentacles from numerous mirrors that had been placed along the road on parking spaces. There were a lot of them, many looking panicked, despairing, or glaring angrily or defiantly at the present individuals. Which were...

‘And here's tonight's star, so freshly abducted she's still screaming!’ Deni, black liquid harpy with huge grin and tiny body raised her slimy wings to gesture at Janet where she now hung in mid-air. Not that Janet was necessarily screaming. Deni was currently in 7.5 year old harpy-form, because potential of needing to battle shortly.

‘Name, Janet Howell. Specialization, Water. Affiliation, Beacon.’ Another liquid harpy, Eli was saying as she was looking over her paper notes that she was holding with a slime-wing while presenting the data to whoever they were presenting her to.

‘I'd like you to note how she's completely unharmed,’ Deni walked over with a grin and ran the tip of her slimy wing over Janet's cheek. ‘Beautifully uncorrupted,’ Deni said obviously not knowing Janet's past. And then the harpy slid the wing back to pull on Janet's hair, lifting it for the public to see. ‘And just LOOK at this amazingly smooth and long, long hair...!’ She said in honest amazement.

‘All delivered just the way you like it~!’ Deni spun away from Janet facing those she was selling her to like a car-salesman or something. ‘Do admit, we've done good~!’

‘…’ On the side of Janet's vision, stood a girl about her age (compared to the tiny 7.5 year old harpies), a girl with exceedingly long white hair, dark dress, single blue eye present as the right was covered in an eyepatch, her arms clutching a single large stuffed bunny. Underneath her, shadowy tentacles were extruding pulling themselves into multiple small mirrors, which could be assumed to be those extending to wrap around the many Magical Girls inside the room. Mariette held her single eye on Janet during Deni's presentation, before she turned and looked at the audience.

A brief moment of struggle played out as Janet tried to free herself once again. What was all of this? Why was she kidnapped? Who were all the other magical girls similarly trapped? None of these questions could be expressed though as her protests were still being stifled by the shadow wrapped around her face.

Of course, by now Janet was a helpless observer to the scene that was presented to her. Which was Mariette, Deni and Eli presenting their catch to Justine, who clapped her hands, giving a courteous small smile. 

She was accompanied by Caroline, who seemed to drool at the sight of all the girls, Sonia who held a clipboard and made notes with a knife-shaped pen, as well as Minnie, whose clock eye had its hands spinning in various directions, smiling widely with teeth bared at the sight of all of these girls.

"How magnificent; it is like I am window shopping for the perfect magical girl~", Justine spoke as she slowly walked past the parking spots. Caroline was behind her, and giggled incessantly as she looked at all of the captured girls, focused on the long-haired ones in particular, her eyes staring at them with disturbing interest.
"Oh yes, my mistress, these are lovely, with such a tragic end meeting them!" As she passed by them, Minnie lifted her massive revolver, and shot at the girls; the girls seemed to completely freeze once they were hit with something invisible. Sonia then placed a hand over each one of them, and muttered a magical spell that caused them to disappear. One by one, the parking lot turned empty, until finally Janet was left.

As the captured girls were being taken away, Mariette watched the actions of the girls under Justine's control. Minnie could freeze them, and then Sonia transported them away... Eli was watching with her Third Eye, Mariette confirmed, it'd be something to collect for after. In any case. She glanced briefly to Caroline, confirming she was enjoying the show, and then turned to Justine, to say her part.

‘Our part is done.’ Mariette declared. ‘Your turn.’

Justine had her hands behind her as she leaned over and looked at Janet closer, her smirk growing. "Sonia, how many magical girls were in total?"

"Thirty-nine not counting the Beacon, my Lady. Out of them, twenty-eight had hair reaching past their shoulders." Justine smiled. 
"Excellent~ You are truly worthy of your reputation, Reflective Witch. To have collected so many fine vessels, and in such a short amount of time, as well. Justine reached out towards Janet, and stroked her cheek with her fingers; the bound girl could see her long nails, crimson red and sharp like claws.

The blonde didn't flinch at the touch, and simply glared at Justine. Who was this anyway? Some names were being thrown around but that didn't really help explain that much. So far it didn't look like she was in a good place to make many moves. She was outnumbered and overpowered in her untransformed state. Even transformed she probably wouldn't be able to fight them all, but she might be able to escape. She mumbled something that couldn't be made out.

"Mariette Pedersen, you have earned your reward." She stepped back, leaving room in front of her, and lifted her arms up. "Oh, merciful and just Father, who will dye this sinful world in a pure color, heed your daughter's wish, and grant me a fragment of your supreme power; a shard of your endless scarlet." A crimson portal opened before her, swirling blood pouring out of it, and out of it stepped huge monsters; their every step caused the ground to slightly tremble as their heavy frames stepped out, their heads hitting the ceiling. They walked into a formation, and soon the underground parking lot was filled with the four-legged abominations. "For every every long-haired magical girl, I shall grant one of my Gorelions, and one for three magical girls with shorter hair. How many does that equate to, Sonia?"
The maid-like woman nodded and quickly wrote on her clipboard.
"Thirty-two Gorelions, my Lady.

"And for granting me a member of Beacon in such short notice, I shall give this." She carefully picked out something from a pocket in her dress, and lifted it up: it was a crystal just like the black ones the Visceral sisters use to keep in touch with their contacts, but it was a deep red in color. "I will give you the means to summon something even more powerful than the mighty Gorelions. However, I will warn you, that it may not follow your commands."

Mariette nodded to Justine's words, and then simply watched as she summoned the large monsters which quickly started to fill the room. Hm. These... would be adequate, they could help her forward the cause. Gorelions... Mariette connected portals and started opening wide portals to take the large beasts and ferry them into Asengav's dimension. It was straining to her to open portals that wide to that dimension from here, but she had multiple mirrors around her to assist her, so it worked out. So, guiding the portals with her hands, she took in the Gorelions, guiding them to a place where they'd wait until she needed them. 

‘Oooh...’ Eli made a bit of a noise as she inspected the Gorelions, writing a couple of notes in her notebook. For sure, their collective prowess in battle had just increased substantially.

‘Wooo. They'll be useful.’ Deni grinned, before looking towards Caroline. ‘Aren't you lucky, little maniac? Mistress went through a lot of effort gathering these long-haired dolls for y-’ Deni blinked a little as she got a premonition, watching Caroline's gaze. ‘Eh.’ Deni could only make a light noise of realization, looking at her from a distance, and trying to reason of what that would mean.

After Mariette was done moving the Gorelions, she gasped out a little, before turning to Justine. So, her reward for bringing a Beacon girl...

A tiny smirk appeared on Mariette's lips as she was offered the crystal and warned of what it might be. That... that's excellent. A portal opened from Mariette's hand to the crystal, and she reached through and quickly gripped it and pulled it back before dropping it into a portal to her Hammerspace Handbag, which was really just a dimension where she kept all her things.

‘Thank you, Justine von Visceral. You've certainly delivered on your part of the deal.’ Mariette said, keeping her smirk.

"A true lady keeps to her word, after all. Besides, I don't have the slightest care for how you will use these forces. After all, I am now ready to turn this world...into a pure one. Isn't that right, my sweet Caroline?" Justine looked over her shoulder to her little sister, and raised an eyebrow; the girl in red seemed to be staring at something to the exclusion of all else; she seemed to be slightly drooling as her mouth was left open.
"Caroline, you're making a mess! What is it now!" Justine snapped at her, and her teeth were bared in anger; her regal composure dropped and turned more ferocious.

Caroline lifted a hand, and pointed. "So long...So...pretty..."
It was then that Justine realized who it was that she was so fixated on; Mariette herself.
"Pretty doll...Caroline wants to play with pretty doll...with long, long hair, and...sweet, sweet red...sweet...RED!"

Before Mariette could react, Caroline leapt at her, her wings now fully unfolded and shining as she charged straight at the eye-patched girl, forcing her to defend herself on the spot as she was unable to escape from the incredible swiftness of the monster girl.

Mariette's immediate instinct upon immediately being charged would be to thrust up a wall of tentacles between herself and Caroline, but that likely wouldn't be enough. The second instinct was to open a portal between herself and the incoming winged girl, both as a shield and an escape route, as if Caroline flew through one end she could escape through the other, but it was unclear if she would be able to open said portal quickly enough.

Eli was too startled to act quickly enough, her eyes widening and her arms quickly deforming into a rifle to interfere, but nowhere near fast enough to fire in time, and her notebook which had been in her wing-hands got caught in the slimy rifle which forced her to pause to get it out of the firing line.

Deni did react, however, and quickly deformed her entire side into a large, round and solid shield before jumping to attempt intercepting Caroline's flight from the side in order to give her mistress the time to escape, her face having a little grin of excitement of "guess we're doing this~!".

Blood flowed out of Caroline's open palms as she flew like a plane, and it formed into a oversized claymore that she wielded like a toothpick, slashing through the tentacles in spinning motions like a giant whirlwind of death, scattering the tendrils. The crazed girl bared her fangs and laughed in glee as it kicked Eli right in the face during her moment of vulnerability, causing her to fly back towards Mariette. She seemed to fly on pure instinct as she attempted to flank the portal and catch Mariette. 

"Hahaahaaahaa! SWEET...RED!" She laughed, and stabbed.

Mariette blinked as her awareness told her of Caroline’s dodging to the side. Eli had been standing on that side, but was kicked back in pain in behind Mariette. She knew where Caroline would appear, but her own reflexes couldn’t keep up. She was neither fast enough to dodge nor able to summon a new portal quickly enough, and even if she did Caroline would but sidestep that too.

Deni, however, had been ready since noticing the change in Caroline earlier. She charged straight into the way of flanking Caroline with her whole side having deformed into a solid shield, successfully predicting where she’d go. Deni grinned widely, responding to the other girl’s energy. ‘Quite the energetic one, eh. Sorry, can’t let you have-!’ She responded, but cut short due to the impact of claymore against her shield.

The sword stabbed right through Deni’s shield and her behind it. The amorphous harpy endured the strong blow as it passed through her. 
But then, in an insane move, Caroline released her grip on the weapon, causing it to melt into blood, and in turn it was absorbed into Deni's body. 

The foreign liquid seething with vile, corrupt magic caused her excruciating pain; it felt like poison as it burned inside Deni, and she was stunned from the pain, her body solidifying in an attempt to reject the blood.

While all of this was happening, Justine simply observed with an annoyed look. 
"Tsk tsk...Caroline, you simply can't control yourself, can you?" Sonia had a tray of teacups appear on her cupped hand, and she offered one to Justine. She picked it up and sipped calmly on it with an outstretched pinky finger like a sophisticated lady, even as she was witnessing something nightmarish. 
"Well, no matter. I have what I wanted. I can let my sweet sister play her little games for now~"

The sword went straight through the shield and impaling Deni’s body behind it, making her blink in surprise. Okay, so Caroline was significantly stronger than her, no issue. Fortunately, her body was fluid, so being impaled wasn’t that bad. Deni grinned and gripped the sword inside her, smiling at Caroline. ‘No issue, I’m just gonna have to hold you until- eh…’ Then Caroline let go of the sword and the sword started dissolving into blood inside Deni.

Now, Deni’s already corrupt to the core. But the blood was a volatile magic injuring her from within. She flinched, feeling the searing, pulsing pain, before screaming out from the burning magical poison within her, trying to stumble back.

In that moment, Caroline gripped Deni's shoulders, followed by her sinking her teeth in her neck, drinking the blood back to her, like something out of a horror movie. As Caroline was now occupied with slimy harpy, Deni managed to give Mariette a chance to escape before she was next on her dinner menu.

Deni’s immediate instinct was to become intangible, her last defense against enemies that got too close, but somehow the blood prevented her magic from taking shape, and unable to act, she could do nothing as Caroline grasped her shoulders and bit her neck, other than stare up in fright and shout out in pain.

‘DENI!’ Eli cried out in fright, even as Mariette was already heading through a portal of her own. Mariette blinked in realization, spinning about and looking with an alarmed glare. Deni was in trouble. Her own magic would be insufficient to help her at this point. Tentacles were too weak against Caroline, and a portal would just take Caroline with it because she was attached to Deni. It was annoying, but she had to rely on their last resort. Mariette channeled her dark power and swung her hand. Her portal-magic could be used to send messages through the dimensions, in rare occasions.

Barely had the message been sent, before a huge surge of magic poured into the room. Vast portals swung open, each to a different dimension, but through them all thrust Asengav’s great black tentacles of darkness down at Caroline and Deni, first order of business being separating the two. A cry without sound echoed through the underground parking lot, and those in it would feel how powerful the being that had been called was, yet… this wasn’t even close to its full might. This was only a jab of the hand, to recover a lost underling in a distant dimension, far from its home.

Mariette frowned as she saw them descend, knowing that Asengav would forever remember that she had needed to ask for his help. But, there had been no choice. She opened a quick portal that swallowed the panicked Eli and sent her far away, while herself she quickly jumped back into her own portal, decreasing the size of it so she could but look through to see as the tentacles of Asengav did their job, to make sure Deni would be alright… 

Justine scowled, and placed the cup of tea back on the tray. She then and lifted her arms, and dark magic coursed through her palms. 

"O Father, will you let this lesser being, filthy and craven, deny Caroline her salvation? Please, teach them their futility before the power of purity!"

Then, crimson rifts appeared, like gaping wounds of reality, and giant red arms with sharp claws emerged from them and began to wrestle with Asengav's tentacles. Red claws and black tentacles slammed into one another above where Caroline held Deni, their massive power struggling against one another, a battle on a scale beyond the Magical Girls below. Suffice to say, the scene was unbelievable to behold, with two Horrors coming to a clash, something only seen but once in millenia. And, as one might imagine, it was a stalemate, neither side gaining the immediate advantage in their titanic bout for supremacy.

"Hmm, this is turning troublesome...Sonia, if you may."

"Understood, my Lady."
Sonia first lowered her hands, and then threw them up; a chandelier suddenly appeared, and was thrown high into the air, with a long chain running after it.. Sonia then jumped, and tied the chain up on one of the pipes in the ceiling, letting the chandelier and its countless candles shine directly upon Caroline and Deni.
With Asengav's Bane brought in full force, the Horror's tentacles flinched, screeched as the flesh burned from the light of the candles, and the huge tentacles untangled themselves from the claws and slipped back through the many portals which swiftly closed, leaving Deni behind. Mariette herself had to flinch in alarm and immediately close the portal, as to not suffer the consequences on the other side.

‘Ah...’ Deni suddenly felt the burning of the candle-light on top of the sensation of the burning blood within her and Caroline draining her from her supposedly liquid neck. She had felt a bit of relief when Asengav came crashing in... but it wasn't meant to be, was it? Sorry, Eli, big sis is going to leave you alone for a while, but if Mariette had been kept safe because of it, it was worth it. Oh, right, she was supposed to meet with Sue, too... D-don't worry, she'd be back eventually! The eternal cycle assured it! She'd make it all up for them...! ‘Hahaha...!’ Deni managed a final grin and little laughter, even as everything burned. Didn't feel right when she wasn't grinning.

Then she dissolved.

"Hehee...yummy..."

Caroline slowly descended on her emaciated wings down to the ground, smeared in what once remained of Deni, and shivered. She dropped to her knees, and looked at her open hands; her manic giggling echoed through the underground chambers.

Justine observed the ending with a look of boredom and apathy. 
"How banal. Now then, let us prepare to leave, Minnie, Sonia." She walked once more to Janet, and pressed a finger to her gagged mouth. 
"I have big plans for this one~" Before the bound magical girl realized it, somebody hit her in the head, and everything went dark.

The next morning, Lily woke up with a loud groan, and shivered; for some reason she felt like she dreamed of something terrible. Since she didn't remember the contents of her dream, however, she decided to brush it off.
She was eating breakfast when Ixion's rumbling voice emerged in her head.

Lily, the forces of darkness have emerged in mass! You must go to the iron horse! Hurry, bring balance to chaos!

"What? Are you sure?" Lily suddenly shouted at the breakfast table, causing Alex to wake up if he didn't from her earlier noises. 
"Ok, got it! Alex, where's the train station? There's monsters that need asskicking!"

True to what the Lesser Force and other Patrons in the city say, the train station was infested with monsters around the area; locals reported strange red unicorns without skin, their bodies coated with fresh blood. They were galloping around, attacking any poor civilian who happened to veer too close. Something had to be done, and fast.
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