The Truths of Existence, (Roleplay/IC/Sign-Ins Only)

[Charmera]

Crowe

Crowe made his way into the bunker and found the girl from before alone with a man he had not seen before. "He isnt your boyfriend or something, is he? Then again, you two dont connect as a pair. A beauty like yourself i doubt would hook up with one of the the undead." Crowe chuckled, he wast fooled by the illusion, Crowe was a force of Magic, he used more than just his eyes to see. But he did not feel threatened by the man, instead, he turned to the girl, "Now i do beleive you owe me something." he said with a casual smirk.

Jason

Jason felt it get cold, he frowned. "I wouldn't let you do such a thing. But still..." he blushed, "I did not mean to offend you, ma'am. Just was stating how dumb your plan was. er, well...can we just get this over with?" when the fairy reluctantly volunteered, Jason raised an eyebrow, "Oh, and your plan is...? he folded his arms and waited for her response."

"Simple. They're all cocky crooks. And if theres a person it's easy to fool, it's someone who lies so much they cant tell the difference between lies and truth." Violet spoke. "This is the only game here which isn't based on random luck. "

Suddenly a gemstone descended from the ceiling. "Violet Petunia, Aruvia, Jason and Jade. You have faciliated the entrance of a banned member, and are now banned from the Infinite Casino." Suddenly, an extradimensional portal sucked them all in and then deposited them somewhere else. A land of tall green grass and rolling hills, an almost unnatural tint of colour seemed to be all over the place, reds and greens and blues all seems to come together. Flowers and birds and all sorts of fauna and flora. Fairies of every kind were seen, and a village was ahead.

Violet was first to speak. "I... Know this place... I know this place." She spoke.

"This is... my home..."

Aura paused. "It looks familiar too... There may be answers here..."

Jade smiles. "This place looks awesome! You guys are pretty great traveling buddies."

Aruvia paused. "If this is Violets homeworld, we may be able to find a fairy who can wish us there like she can... Perhaps even for free."

[Naval Monte]

Elizabeth

Elizabeth was surprised when Fauna jumped between her and the three guards, telling her to leave this place and that she would make them food if she agree with her. Before she can speak Celestia interrupted the occultist as the string not demand that they stay but claim that yet another bard was in the world, like the bard with them she too made her a promise of food if she agreed with the string. "There is no real wrong answer here if both options gives us food." Elizabeth looked at Tessy and Kyne to know what their responds her to the two girls demands.

"Don't look at me voodoo girl. I really don't care if we stay or leave this place." Kyne responded bluntly, Elizabeth was not really surprised with Kyne's answer. "I'm gonna have to agree with Kyne on this one." Tessy said back. Elizabeth knew that Adwith would probably say something similar to the two women, after all both options will bring him food. "When was I made into the leader of this group?" she muttered to her self as her shoulders slouched. Sighing she ran through the options presented to her.

"That deer lead us to this place for a reason and I felt the current of synchronicity also pulling me to this world as well. Now as for why Fauna would want us to be away from another of her kind does raise an interesting question, mainly why does she want to avoid another bard? Are bards competitive towards other bards? Is she the black sheep of the bard family or is she just really shy on meeting other members of her kind?" Elizabeth walked over to the wall and lean back on it, her arms crossed in front of her chest.

"Than there is the string wanting to learn things from the other bard. As much as I'm uncomfortable with that string getting more powerful maybe I can have that other bard act as a distraction so the string can forget about learning my skills?" Elizabeth let wicked smile form on her face, both Tessy and Kyne noticed the smile on her face. Tessy knew enough about Elizabeth to know that she has now made up her mind.

Moving away from the wall Elizabeth still had her smile as she walked in front of Fauna, the mage than ruffle the bard's hair and flowers. "I have a better idea. How about both you and the string over there cook us a meal and while you two are busy doing that me, Tessy, Kyne and Adwith meet with this other bard that your afraid to meet." Elizabeth than moved her hand away from Fauna's now messy hair. "Okay now that we have that matter settled take us to both your leader and to this other bard." she said to the guards as she placed her hands in her coat pocket, still carrying her smirk though now it appeared less wicked.

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Dimension 888,815

With the battle now over the remaining monsters still alive and still under the command of The Fates began to search out for the monsters that they lost control over and destroy them. Of course the search wasn't easy as some monsters are rather tough beings to face against and others like the reapers have long sense left this world. Most of the beings that were being hounded down were demons of Inferno, abominations from the realm of madness, a few creatures from both metropolis and the primordial wilds and most undead beings besides spectres, they were simply banished away from this realm.

Most members decided to go back to the HQ since now they have nothing to do. Once there most either took a smoke break, others passed the time by taking out decks of cards and gambling away their money and a few others just decided to sleep or at least try to sleep. The monsters that worked with the fates did not go outside to join with the ones bind into service. Instead they brought back their illusion to appear as normal either normal humans or elves, like the other fate members they became idle and lazy now that they have nothing to do.

Back with the bunker the archon now elf was not alone. Glad that she was left to her own devices she muttered a small incantation and soon the door was unlocked. She than walked in and found Alzis in a woman's body, a revenant with a powerful illusion and the same bard with incredible magic powers all together in the same room. "I apologize if I'm interrupting something between you three." the elf said bowing gently to the three, Alzis narrowed her eyes. While she has yet to realize what the elf truly is yet Alzis can tell that something was off about the elvan woman before her.

The elf than turn to face Crowe. "That song that you played... I never felt anything like it before in my life. Tell me who are you and how did you came upon such powers?" the elf asked, not realizing that she asked a question that Alzis and probably Dennis would have asked.

[Contamenesia]

Fauna

Fauna didnt like her hair beeing ruffled, but only because she was concerned about the flowers, she hoped none of them were damaged. She pushed Elizabeth's arm out of the way, though she was happy with her suggestion, and was about to get started when Celestia spoke up, much to her dismay. "No. Celestia will not leave Elizabeth''s side. Celestia must escort you to the being, then learn beings powers. Celestia will not let you wander away from her. Celestia deliver you, then food, not before." she said, her expression adamant, yet emotionless. Fauna found her to be hard to read, at some points, she was emotionless, devoid of any emotional trait, good or bad, then at other points, she was like a little child, pure and innocent. The way she fluxed between these two points made her very difficult for Fauna to read, that, and the fact that of she was made it no easier. One could see the look of disappointment on her face.


(OOC: I will post with Crowe after Generailia makes his post. ^^)

[Generailia]

Dennis

Dennis was obviously slightly irked by Alzis's response as he couldn't help but think to himself. Holy shit, I think I just pissed off a dictionary. But I wonder..what the hell is this "reveant" thing she keeps calling me? The thief was surprised by the Crowe's sudden entrance, but his surprise was quickly replaced with obvious amusement after hearing the bard's comment. But the amusement was quickly replaced with surprise when the creature realized that the "man" knew that he was at the very least undead. Yet the Lich was easily able to recover from his comment after hearing the feminine figure's rather harsh response. Then the grin that had begun to form across the mage's face twitched after hearing both the female mage's threat and quite random and pointless telling of at least a few things that he would have rather kept to himself.

Which had caused the creature to think to himself nervously. I swear, everyone here seems to be reading me like I'm a fucking open book. But at least she guessed a few things wrong..and I don't even know how far the new shit I've gotten with my current state could go anyway. But what the hell is this death magic thing? It sounds pretty stupid, but it's probably dangerous. Ah fuck it..I'm dead anyway and curious to see how far this circus show can go. So I guess that I'll stay for now, but worse comes to worse and I'll run like all hell. Then some female elf made a rather sudden appearance before asking the "bard" a completely reasonable question. So the thief casually leaned his back up against the wall and both listened to and watched whatever events were going to unfold. While the mage still kept his usual grain across his face and even began preparing the same spell he used to enter the bunker for use just encase things went a little bit more out of hand then they were already.

Adwith

Adwith was fairly surprised when Elizabeth suddenly stopped after grabbing the doorknob. But her response had troubled the Shienaran, and caused him to reach for his blade before stopping after the arrogant woman responded to his effort. Then after the borderlander heard the girl speak of a "diplomatic" solution he became noticeably more paranoid..since his personal attempts at such a thing tend to end poorly. Suddenly, the door opened to reveal two armed children with weird ears and rifles along with a teenager with a grin that really didn't belong on such a face. But the mercenary let this past as he silently eavesdropped on their transaction.

Yet the fairly cold expression that was on his face quickly turned to that of surprise when he saw the bard squeeze in between the two woman. Sadly, the guardsman ended up forgetting everything that the bard said and even Celestia's response being how his stomach suddenly ached when she mentioned food. Which wouldn't have troubled the man if he the ache didn't mix with the disgust of saidin's taint..so he spent most of the "string's" response barely keeping himself from vomiting on the floor. Yet the Shienaran regained his composure..just not his stomach when heard Kyne made a point that he agreed quite well. Being how the borderlander only wished for food, and nothing really more or less at the moment. Then the mercenary's stomach ended up causing him to blank out yet again after hearing the arrogant woman simply say the word cook.

The guardsman remained in such a state throughout Aeris's response being how he began to imagine what foods Fauna would cook even though he used a rather large amount of his willpower in an attempt to stop it. Then when the teen finally finished her response, he ended up running into a corner of the room where he immediately vomited. Which caused both of the elves to stare at him with disgust while the adolescent seemed as if she was suddenly about to burst out laughing. But the man was happy that it was over quickly..until he ended up tripping on his vomit and falling into the pile that he had just created. Which caused the guards to grin while the odd girl was barely able to hold her composure, before her face somehow went back into the same position that it had been in when they first meet. So Adwith simply got up and wiped looked at his ruined cloak worriedly as he let go of saidin..and learned never to seize the "power" if he was starving unless he wanted to vomit.

Aeris

Aeris could only faintly hear some parts of the conversation happening behind the door, but she decided to remain calm nonetheless while the two elven soldiers were starting to become both impatient and even fairly nervous. Yet one thing she certainly wasn't suspecting was such a pale but young seeming woman wearing a trenchcoat and covering in blood along with bandages covering her hands and even seeming to go up her arms. But the thing that surprised the demonic feline more then anything was that she gave off the same magical sense as Alzis with only a fair amount less power..and a rather faint wave surrounding her with an even fainter bit of power that was equal to that of a goddess. But the cat was sure that she must be imagining things being how the god-like power was so faint that it was almost nonexistent.

The elves were of course rather uncomfortable with the blood on Elizabeth's clothing and Adwith's sword that they only faintly noticed. But they decided to remain calm nonetheless..but turn the safety off of their weaponry just encase. So, the demon's grin grew at the odd stranger's comment on her group as she couldn't help but think. So, they think we're security. I can use this to my advantage if worse comes to worse..or just have the elves shoot at them while I run off. While the adolescent demon was thinking to herself while still keeping a grin across her face that he wouldn't have trusted if his life depended on it the sergeant and the sniper listened to the rather odd stranger's question, since they could have sworn that it was painfully obvious that they were elves but before they could answer the girl broke the teenage mage out of her trance-like state. Which had surprised her significantly, but she was able to keep her grin across her face as she silently heard what the mage had to say.

Then, when the unknown mage finished the cat's smile twitched as she thought. Yeah, I can see how some teenager being in a military fortress full of elves would be kind of suspicious. But it was either this or the cat-form..and I rather not even consider the third option. Sadly, before the demonic feline could answer some girl from the mage's group jumped in between them. But the girl completely ignored whatever the unknown "woman" was saying being how the power she sensed was very similar to the being she saw slaughtering entire platoons with ease as a song radiated throughout the entire battlefield. Which of course made the demon both intrigued and suspicious of the girl as she decided to hear what the nervous sounding girl had to say, though she ended up only hearing something about food. Then another woman who seemed to refer to herself in the third person spoke up, but the cat completely ignored her being how she considered such a thing to be a sign that the strange and oddly exited girl wasn't entire sane. But before she even had a chance to speak they began to talk among themselves yet again.

Then after they began gossiping to each other for no apparent reason the adolescent demon's smile twitched yet again being how she was getting rather bored and annoyed with the event that her curiosity seemed to lead towards. When they finally reached their decision the girl's eyes practically screamed that she was barely holding herself back from doing something sinister to them. But they went back to normal rather easily, as the demonic feline's smile grew as well. The reason why was because she found it rather amusing that they still considered her to be a guard..while the legitimate soldiers were both astonished and annoyed that they weren't given a chance to answer the questions asked of them. But then the gleeful madwoman spoke with the nervous girl and once they finished Aeris finally responded by getting off the wall and shrugging. "I'm not a guard and neither are these elves." The cat said elves as if she was educating a child simply because she rather not be interrupted before she could even get a change to finish. But then her soldiers fell as she flashed her usual somewhat sinister but excessively mischievous grin at the mage before continuing. "The elves are pretty much just grunts..or maybe not. Hell if I know or care really, but I might as well answer your questions." The girl's grin grew as she leaned back against the wall before continuing, while the two elves gave her a excessively cold glare. "I'm just a simple wanderer who was dragged here by the side-effects of a spell that a "friend" of mine screwed up horribly." The demon knew she was telling the truth..but not the whole truth. Since her old role in hell had forced her to wander the earth on what felt like a daily biases searching for a demon that may or may not actually be there. But she quickly continued after her smile only seemed to grow. "So I'm not bringing you anywhere, but I'm sure that your "escort" will be here soon enough. So I guess we'll just sit here and wait..since I'm coming with you anyway." Aeris's grin grew significantly when she finally finished, because she planned on killing or at least redirecting the group in front of her just encase they proved to be any really threat..or at least making sure that they never see the one being that would give her a fate worse then death if he was slain.

[Contamenesia]

Crowe

Crowe grinned as a beautiful elf came into the room. Alas, he knew it was not her true form, but that mattered little to him. He did a curtious bow, "I am Crowe the Bard, and it a pleasure to meet you, as for my power, i was born with it. I'm always born with it." he turned to Alzis,taking her hand gently, "Do not fret, my viscious, sexy, Dark Goddess, your beauty still astounds me,"
he turned to the elf, "But i also cannot deny such a Motherly beauty as yourself. However, me and the other Lady here were about to have a private moment, unless you wish to join?" he gave a wink, but left it purely for her to decide, he then turned to the undead one. "I'm sure you would love to see me, and/or these women in the nude, but i think they would rather have...privacy...." he said with a grin.

in the back of his mind, he noted the presence of another Bard, which intrigued him, as he wondered who it was. he hoped it would be another stunning beauty, but there was an equal chance that it could be another man like him, still he was interested.

Serena

Serena shivered. "What's the point? my curse hates for me to have any happiness..." she did not meet any of their eyes. She was glad they were okay, but she was still upset that her curse wouldnt allow her the sweet release, even though it was now slow close in hand, all she had to do was find the string, perform some horrid, possibly painful ritual, and poof she would be gone for ever....it sounded almost too good to be true, but she wanted it so badly.....

Jason

Jason sensed the portal, and was already prepared to deal with it. he saw the others get sucked up, but the portal was unable to snag him, as he could hear it in the Calm, and thus knew how to deal with it. a simple slash, and it would be gone. However, he decided it would be best to follow the others, so he instead jumped in after them. What he saw on the otherside reminded him strongly of home, yet there were several obvious differences. "Great. perhaps we can find a fairy who is far more trust worthy than this one. and Free would indeed be better." he said with a smirk.

Celestia

Celestia read the demon's expressions skillfully, and could see she had ill-intent. Part of her hand unravelled and she seized the demon girl, along with the two elves, wrapping them up so they couldnt move. "Celestia has read this girl. She has ill-intent. Celestia doesnt need an escort, She can sense the being from here, she'll find it easily." she said without emotion. She figured she would simply drag these three with her, once the group started moving that is....though at the moment it was still stationary.

[Naval Monte]

Elizabeth

"Of course the bloody string has to make things difficult for us." the irritated mage though as she let out a sigh while rubbing her forehead. "Your right that I would need an escort since I can't sense jack shit if this bard is like the one in our little group." Elizabeth muttered to Celestia, scratching the back of her head as she try to figure out of a different solution to the bard issue, as she felt her fingers moving around in the messy wild jungle that is her hair a spark of inspiration struck her, the mage couldn't contain the wild grin from appearing.

"On second thought my little string I think I have a better idea. You will stay with the bard and I will get the bard to come over to see you personally, hell if you want I can find a nice and pretty bow to wrap them up with?" Elizabeth jested as she took out the pack of cigarette and took out the last cigarette from the box and placed it on her lips. The mage than took out a pen that she has been carrying around in her pockets and once she got the point out she stabbed the pen through the box.

"Tessy do you know what your girlfriend is doing?" Kyne questioned as the two of them see Elizabeth take out a bit of string and wrapped it around the box so it can dangle in the air. "I want to see she is doing something relating to magic but I'm as clueless as your are as to what sort of spell she is trying to make." the two them than saw Elizabeth walk up to Fauna and pluck a strand of her hair. "Was there a reason for you to heart the kid voodoo girl." Kyne responded to the mage as she placed the hair inside the box, obviously disapproving on what Elizabeth did to Fauna. Even Tessy had to agree with Kyne on some level but was also hoping that Elizabeth had a reason for hurting the bard.

"Well I'm going by a hunch that these bards are either a race or have some sort of special connection with each other. So I figure I experiment why not perform an experiment to see if my hunch is correct." She moved her arm forward and stayed still has her make shift pendulum moved about due to both the rotation of the world and because of Elizabeth's movement. "Normally this would be nothing more but a makeshift divination pendulum but with Fauna's hair I can make a sympathetic link to this other bard assuming both her and the other due have a special connection. That way I can have a niffy tracking device to find our second bard." Both Tessy and Kyne gave the woman confused looks, even Adwith and the elves looked confused by the woman's words and actions.

"What? I never made the rules of my magic system, I'm just using everything I know about how magic works from my world while adding in my own creative flare to the mix." the pendulum than moved drastically and pointed at Fauna, it was rigid to the point that if Elizabeth turned it upside down it will still stand strong. "Oh come on, for fucks sake. Don't screw around with me now!" Elizabeth moved the pendulum around but no matter what she did the pendulum always changed it's direction back to Fauna. "Fan- fucking-tastic!" sighing in defeat she took the hair out of the box and put her now worthless pendulum inside her trench coat pocket. "Fine string you win. Take us to meet Fauna's musical magical kin." the mage muttered placing the cigarette that she has been holding with one hand back on her lips.

The mage than turned back to the elves and teenage girl, Elizabeth's eyes narrowed at the girl as she sensed something from her, something that she found disturbingly familiar. "Why is it that for a brief moment I felt as though I was in the same room with a sodding demon?" before she can say anything Celestia seem to have had the same feeling as her since she now has both the elves and possible demon girl wrapped up in strings. "Yeah I know how you three feel. I was in the same situation not to long ago. Oh as for why I have to question if you two are actual elves is because I meet an elf that wasn't an elf. Now looking at you two I can tell that you have no connection to the dreamlands or the faeries that live in there." the mage explained away.

Elizabeth than turned to Adwith once she heard him vomit from the corner. "Don't tell me that you getting sick due to hunger now?" she questioned. Elizabeth suspect that something else made him sick but right now she has to deal with the string first. "Fine you win you bipolar existential piece of cosmic fabric. Guide us to the other bard that Fauna here doesn't want us to see." From the corner of her eyes she saw Tessy over with Adwith checking up on him.

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Moon Sisters

"If we somehow find out who or what place that curse on you we will make the pay dearly for bring this much misery on you." Artemis threaten, her words carrying an icy fury as she wish death and worse to whoever cursed Serena. The three sisters soon casted several blessings on each other along with fortune spells to protect them from whatever misfortune the curse would strike at them.

Selene walked over to Serena and she reached out and gently grabbed the immortal by her cheeks, moving her face she would have to see the other woman's face. "I know it would be a slow and most likely painful process but right now as we speak the string is here. All we need is a powerful spell caster to memorize and perform the ritual well and soon all of your troubles will be over." She than helped the young woman back to her feet.

Hecate open a portal and soon both the Moon Sisters and Serena were back in the base. Hecate spoke up. "We're close to where the string is." she turned to Serena. "Do you wish to see the string?"

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Alzis

"I have a feeling that the words flattery will get you everywhere has been repeated endlessly to you right?" she said still retaining her smirk. Alzis didn't mind what her said about her, if anything is attempts at flirting with her are much better when compared with some others who tried in the past. Alzis turned to the elf in the room and saw that she tilted her head and was giving the bard an obvious look of confusion.

The Archon never once had someone flirt with her nor shown any sort of attraction to it like how the bard was showing her, she was also confused on how he could know that one of her many titles often had the word mother on them. Alzis on the other hand thought about why the bard used the word mother on the elf, sure maybe she was someone's mother but she felt that there was something more to that word. She looked at the alter that was used to summon an archon and the realization hit her.

"The only reason the world mother would be used to describe you is because your not just an ordinary mother, but the Great Earth Mother." As Alzis said those words the elf's expression became cold. "It has been a while since we last met Malkult." the elf woman's body began to change. Her flesh was being replaced with mostly steel, glass and stone with strange blue glowing tattoo marking appearing on her body, some parts of her body was still made of flesh but it was cold and gray. From her back metallic wings being held by power cables and wires emerged, an ethereal light was being coming out from them. Her eyes were now blue but they appeared to be made of glass.

I see you haven't changed much Alzis. No that would be wrong of me to say, you normally don't have any interest on leaving far away from your usual territories that The Eyes of Fate own or should I say have the misguided belief of owning." Malkult said, her voice echoing inside the bunker. The Archon still kept her power down at a low level so no one would detect her yet but the three beings in the room can still that she was a powerful divine figure. "It isn't misguided for us to take land from both Metropolis and Inferno that no one is using, nor is it misguided of us on using the labyrinth to it's fullest extend along with a few shadowlands that float close by our world archon. I thought you would like all the accomplishments that a mostly human run organization has done." Alzis boasted as she moved over to the alter, moving some of the objects on it to the floor so she can sit on it.

"Yes I would be overjoyed on how much power and influence the Fates has back home but you Alzis are not human and The Fates exploit humanity as much as the other Archons, Daevas and other powers that wish to maintain the illusion, in fact you and The Fates also wish to maintain the illusion as well." Alzis only shrugged as she giggled at the archons question. "I'm simply picking the smartest business plan and so far I see more reasons on the illusion still around than it being gone. Especially with how much chaos there will be once it's gone and chaos would ruin my business." Alzis finished. In truth she doesn't mind there being chaos so long as it was either her or the fates that created it and control it for their own benefits.

"As much as I would want to spend my time arguing with you about your organization I rather move on to the more serious question one why you summoned me here." Alzis only responded with the archon to read her thoughts which it did, in a few minutes it learned everything that Alzis has been through. "I can see how this Maju and his forces can be a threat to you, he may even be a danger to our world. However should his forces even attempt to enter our world they will fail in their invasion. the archon stated cryptically, both it and Alzis knew why Maju's forces would find invading their world difficult.

Malkult turned to face the bard. "The presence of the revenant and of my self are both irrelevant. Just perform your mating ritual now so that way I can speak with you privately after me and Alzis are done with ours. the archon coldly said, not giving a true answer to Crowe's question on her joining them but she made no attempt on leaving the bunker nor an attempt on joining them either.

[Kaidou]

The Ice Corps
Supreme HQ
Dimension 888,815

Despite the damage done to the base, the elves and other soldiers of the Corps were already beginning to repair the Supreme HQ. Those who were not injured either got to work with repairs or tended to the injured, whom they brought into the hospital. For some reason, there were absolutely no corpses to be found. Perhaps they had been sucked in by the Bard's magic?

In any case, a memorial would likely be put up in the Hall of the Fallen, a large columbarium in the lowest basement of the Supreme HQ.

A soldier marched up to COL Rotehund (who was sitting by a portable stove, tending to a mildly sprained ankle and cooking a simple soup with nothing but onions and potatoes), saluted, and then spoke.

"Sir", he said, with a military sternness in his voice, "Father Christmas has orders for you to attend to some guests and to bring them to his meeting room." He took out a data pad from inside his coat and showed it to the Colonel; it was CCTV footage of Elizabeth's group, though Rotehund wasn't aware of their names. Another thing he wasn't aware of was that one of the people in the group was of immense value; in fact, it wasn't even a sentient creature (immortal, mortal, or otherwise), just a simple Thread of Existence.

Yet, knowing the powers or values of guests was never a prerequisite to carry out HR duties. As such, COL Rotehund stood up gingerly, draping his coat over his shoulders, and walking off to the room in which they were in now. He soon got to a large door, a door which led to another wing of the HQ. Pulling off one of his white gloves, Rotehund placed his thumb on the thumbprint reader, before stepping back and waiting for the door to open. It soon did, and the Colonel walked through into the room, towards the group.

"Good evening", he said rather hoarsely; his throat was still sore from the blizzards and the attack by the Giant Soldier, which, despite not being harmful, was still rather painful and annoying. He tried his best not to show his discomfort. After all, Colonel Samuel Rotehund, DuT-2 was one of the highest ranking officers in the Corps; letting his distress show would be most unbecoming.

"Father Christmas has requested that all of you be present at his meeting room, presumably because he needs to tell you something. Will you please follow me?"

…

Ah, Hecate. I presume your telepathy isn't disrupted by any external… forces? Good. Well, I need you to come up to my meeting room; There's something which I feel is important to warrant both of us present.

Just ask one of the officers for directions. They should be pretty easy to find; they're the ones with their ranks on their epaulettes.

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Arkenau

The Army and the Police had, in the absence of Chancellor Jayden Valheitler, assumed full control of the government, effectively installing martial law in Arkenau. By this time, the remaining members of the Cabinet had signed a document on behalf of the Chancellor, granting total control of the government of the Republic to two men; MG Henry Yoru, Chief of Defence Force, and CP Neujokka Mei, the Chief Commissioner of the Police Force and Checkpoint Authorities. The only condition was that the Cabinet, now represented by Law Minister Riao Fuga, would remain the Supreme Advisor, and would retain the power to revoke either the CDF or the CP's positions.

Not that it mattered anyway; both men had already demonstrated themselves to be fervent supporters of the People's Solidarity Party. That was the reason why they were the chiefs of their respective organisations in the first place.

Many in Arkenau wondered when their beloved Chancellor was going to return. The official Government stance was that Valheitler had fallen ill with a serious ailment, and was being flown out to the restricted planet Yarænathipolia-52 in order to receive treatment. "Thank-You" and "Get-Well-Soon" cards flew into the mailbox of the Chancellor's Office in the hundreds of thousands.

Little did they know that their Chancellor had betrayed them right from the start.

[Charmera]

Jason

Jason sensed the portal, and was already prepared to deal with it. he saw the others get sucked up, but the portal was unable to snag him, as he could hear it in the Calm, and thus knew how to deal with it. a simple slash, and it would be gone. However, he decided it would be best to follow the others, so he instead jumped in after them. What he saw on the otherside reminded him strongly of home, yet there were several obvious differences. "Great. perhaps we can find a fairy who is far more trust worthy than this one. and Free would indeed be better." he said with a smirk.

Violet would have frowned at Jason, had she not been overcome by the sight of her old world. She remembered when she was young, all the many sprites and other fairies. How even the most mundane things had the comforting reminder of home. She sighed, the colours filling her with amazement. "I... never thought'd I'd come back here." She remarked, and then absently walked towards the village, breaking out into a run. She ran home to the village, though when she came she noticed a sudden look of mournful grief, a morose look that contrasted her own. When they saw her, they seemed to turn even sadder.

Violet suddenly paused, standing in the middle of the village. Frowning, and then smiling. "I'm Violet Petunia. A fairly who came here. My father being Cherum Petunia and my mother was Chrysanthemum Petunia." She remarked. "Do.. any of you know where those two fairies are."

One fairy nodded. The village elder, Brightthorn. Violet lighted up.

"Wonderful! Can you take me to them? Oh and my sister Daisy! Is she home again... I know she went to study under the Sidhe but-"

She paused, seeing the elders silent sorrow. Then she started to realise. "Elder Brighthorn... what happened to my family?"

The Elder opened his mouth to speak, then closed it. Then finally, spoke after what must have seemed like an eternity. "I remember you Violet. Though you were but a child when you disappeared." He paused. Trying to find the right words to say it. "Your parents were killed. They're dead."

Violet stood in silence. Her head bowed in shock as she merely stood there.

[Naval Monte]

Elizabeth

"Father Christmas? Are we seriously in the North Pole right now?" The surprised mage shouted, her surprised expression soon gave way to laughter. Normally the idea of her being in the North pole would make her question what is going on with reality but with all of the new and strange things that happened to her both yesterday and today she found the north pole to be a humorous development. "Oh man, I needed a good laugh. You have my thanks mate." the mage manage to gasp out as she tried to stop herself from giggling.

Looking down at the string Elizabeth realize that she was going to complain about her and everyone else having to follow his orders. "Listen soldier, the little lady over there wants us to find this bard and I rather go out and find them before she decides to wrap me up with strings again." Elizabeth said as she referred to Celestia. "If you can take us to the bard first or better yet bring this bard to the same meeting room that you want us to be in than we will gladly follow you to that room."

[Generailia]

Dennis

Dennis was completely astonished when the bard began to flirt with both of the women in front of him. But the surprise quickly turned into a rather strong urge to escape and would have also caused a fair amount of disgust if the thief could still get sick as he began to awkwardly slide across the wall and towards in exit in a rather slow manner. Yet the creature stopped in his tracks as soon as the "elf" began to change as he watched in complete astonishment..though he was also fairly confused since the being that shared such a name from his world had both a different name and very likely a form fairly different from this "elf's" as well.

Then once the creature had finished her transformation a thought quickly ran through the his head. Shit, I'm way out of my lead with a fucking goddess or something and a one man killing machine. There is a chance that I could face my 'ally' but I rather not deal with the consequences. So I'll just kind of slide away..and hope for the best. Then the mage ended up ignoring the entire conversation as he slowly and awkwardly slide towards the door..and stopped once he heard the unknown goddess mention his name. But after he heard the word 'mating' come of of his mouth his usual grin came across his face as he thought while attempting not to laugh. I swear.. she sounds like that creepy old guy who calmly narrates what is happening while two squirrels 'have fun' in a documentary. Immediately after finishing his though the Lich cast the same invisibility spell to sneak into the room in order to do quite the opposite as he made his way past the group of Alzis's followers and into the hallway.

The thief has been moving through the hallways when he faintly heard a fairly surprised sounding shout appear from somewhere deeper down one of the corridors. So the creature of course followed the voice and only fully heard the last sentence that Elizabeth spoke as he thought to himself in shock. The bard..does she mean that weird guy who destroyed monsters as easily as a child could destroy a small spider? Why the hell would- Then the mage noticed that Aeris was tied up as he felt an intense rage run through him..being how he thought that the colonel was the one who tied her up and that the man was betraying him. So Dennis sneaked up on the elf, using both his current invisible state and his skill in stealth from his time as a master thief. Then once he was behind the figure he appeared with a sinister black-mist behind him as he touched the colonel in his blind fury and simply said in a harsh tone fit for some sort of demon. "Sommo" The spell was a rather powerful one..which would set even a grown elephant into a deep sleep for days.

But the elf's immense power made the thing only last for two hours sadly, and once the soldier collapsed onto the floor he grinned at a fairly attractive female in a trench coat quite triumphantly as he said. "Why hello there strangers, I'm glad to see that the soldier didn't put you through the same fate as my "friend" here. Since I'm not much of a fan of leaving such beautiful damsels in distress..I decided to assist you." Then after attempting to untie the demonic feline as she gave him a rather shocked look he simply got up and continued with a fairly disappointed look on his face. "Damn..that is some weird fucking rope." The Lich immediately turned back to the group as his smile returned while completely ignoring Adwith's presence while he continued. "By the way, I'll lead you to the bard but I think he's kind of porking some goddess or whatever the hell she is at the moment. But if you still want to meet him..then follow me." The mage ignored the elven guards completely since he was far too busy attempting to save the girls and his 'demon'. But he looked down at Aeris for a minute before he turned back to the group as asked. "I'm alright with leaving whenever..but I suggest we hurry. By the way, can you untie the teenager on the floor? Since she's saved my ass a few times and I figure that I might as well repay the favor." While the words that came out of the thief's mouth weren't completely true..since he never believed that the 'cat' had saved him at in point and actually made things harder. He was getting used to the evil little thing, and he rather not abandon it for no apparent reason.

[Naval Monte]

Elizabeth

Elizabeth felt a dark presence enter the room. She looked around for the source but at first she didn't see anything, that was until she saw a distortion in space appear behind the colonel. Soon a black mist took up the place were the distorted space was and touched the colonel, before she can even do anything the mist spoke in a harsh tone saying a single word as the colonel fell down on to the floor. "Shit we're stuck with a mini Daeva! Okay stay cool Lizzy, don't show any fear in front of this thing otherwise it's going to get off on it." As the mage kept a cold look on her face Tessy was obviously scared while Kyne looked ready to fight if needed be.

Elizabeth looked into the mist and found a skeleton wearing old raggy torn clothing inside it, it's power and aura changed, no longer was he feeling like he was the offspring of a Daeva sent after them. Elizabeth looked at the elf colonel was saw that he was only asleep. "At least now we don't need to deal with body disposal now. Still we have this bipolar thing to worry about." she saw the aura change into a whitish color, one that is often seen whenever a person thinks they have done the right thing with a any action they have done.

The skeleton grinned at her and began talking with them while trying to break the suspected demonic teenager. As it worked on trying to free the girl Elizabeth turned back to the group to see how they are holding up. "Kyne is ready to kick this things ass, Tessy is worried but I know she can deliver some nasty blows if given the right weapon, Adwith looks like he is sick again but is ready to fight this thing and we have to powerful cosmic level beings. I say our chances of winning a fight against this thing are more than good, hopefully things won't decent further down into hell."

Elizabeth turned back to look at the skeleton just as he was talking about the bard, she couldn't contain her laughter once he mentioned on the bard having sex with a goddess. After her laughter calm down Elizabeth had to decide if this creature was telling the truth, after all her usual skills at knowing when someone is lying is by seeing the small little messages that their bodies make and he is a bloody skeleton, but his aura hasn't changed it's color so he may be telling the truth.

"Hate to break this to you mate but us damsels were not in distress until you showed up and knocked the colonel unconscious, if anything he was going to take us to meet Santa Claus. But since you knocked our guide out cold we have no choice but to meet the bard, hopefully he and this goddess haven't gone to far in their shagging cause I know I wouldn't like having some random sod barging in while I'm busy, I dread to think on how an angry bard and goddess would react when we come in." Elizabeth replied, chuckling on the thought of them barging into the room while the two beings were in the middle of their love making.

"Hey string think you can let those three go? If the girl does anything than I will deal with her. I already suspect the damn girl is a bloody demon and I'm what you might call an expert when it comes to dealing with their lot." Elizabeth gave the string a grin as she also pointed at her still unlit cigarette, asking for the string to light up for her again.

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Moon Sisters

"No external forces can disrupt our telepathy or at least we have yet to meet such a being who could. We will head to the meeting room now, we found the immortal that can help us with the ritual. Right now she is with us but we have to be careful, her curse is not afraid on harming people who are close to her." The crone replied, she than shared the telepathic discussion with her sisters and Serena.

"I think we might find an officer with the group with the string yet that would also posses a problem since we can't let the string see us right now." Selene stated as she looked for an officer that can lead them to the meeting room. Artemis uses her power to create a new familiar, a white dove, and had it fly off to check on the group with the string. The dove had a telepathic bond with it's creator, allowing her to see what it sees. Once the dove reach the group it saw that the colonel was down and that the lich was now with the group. "Oh no, that damn liche is causing trouble again." the other two sisters sighed.

The dove flew towards the group and landed on top of Kyne's head. "If you wonder why your team mates don't like you is because of the way you act. You act without thinking on what the consequences of your actions will be, think for a moment what would happen once Father Christmas finds out that you knocked one of his colonel unconscious?" the dove than flew off once Kyne tried to shake it off her head, the dove landed on Fauna's shoulder.

"Right now it is for the best for you all to meet Father Christmas, after all your team leader expressed her wish on not wanting to interrupt both the bard and Alzis." the dove heard Elizabeth laugh again when it mentioned Alzis. "Of course Alzis would want people to call her a bloody goddess." she manage to while laughing.

Back with the sisters they went to find an officer to take them to meet Father Christmas. Eventually they manage to find officer that was looking for them and after briefly introducing each other they followed the elf to the meeting room.

[Contamenesia]

Crowe

Crowe chuckled as he watched the undead one leave, only to make himself invisible and "sneak" past them onto the other direction. Crowe pretended not to notice. Plus, Crowe only noticed because he himself was Magic, and could easily detect other magic, even a spell of invisibility.

he turned to the Archon, though clearly no longer elf or human, she was beautiful in her own way, though he did ponder if she still had reproductive parts, but figured he'd soon find out. he could tell there was a history between the two girls, but decided not to get in the middle of it. "Ah, i was not aware you two also had plans for intercourse..." he said jokingly, pretending to misunderstand what she meant. He gave her a wink, then turned his attention to the woman, whose name he now learned, was Alzis. "Well, if you dont mind it, then, let us get started shall we?" he pulled her close and kissed her. "I can tell you are a woman of business, and i am a man of pleasure....let me show you a world of no worries...." he said, kissing along her neck before kissing her lips once more.

Serena

Serena frowned when she heard one of the girls vowing to make the person who did this to her pay. A deep sorrow fell upon her face, as she looked up at them, "though that is a nice setiment, i'm afraid it is useless. The person who did this to me is surely long dead and erased at that history's end. I should know, I'm so much older than you guys, older even than this hotel, not even gods live as long as i do, surely she no longer exists...." her tone was that of sorrow, she sounded as if she were near the very brink of breaking down and crying...

Celestia

Celestia let the demon and the elf guards go, though was a little annoyed by all of the delays, but when she heard that the other Bard was doing, she blushed, though she was not aware she was doing so. "w-wait, their mating? Celestia wont interrupt that. She wont make that mistake again, Celestia knows mortals wish to Mate in peace...." her cheeks were a bright red.

Jason

Jason didnt like the Fairy girl, but that didnt mean he didnt understand what she was going through. In fact, before Jason had learned who his father was, he had grown mup most of his life believing that both of his parents were dead. well they both were now, but that was besides the point. "Hey....are you okay?" he asked gently, stepping towards her, but gave her enough room for personal space.

[Naval Monte]

Alzis

"That's one voyeur gone and one still here." Alzis though as she watch Malkult, so far the Archon has only took a few steps back but it made no attempt on leaving, Alzis can't tell if it was watching them now or if the mind left the body and is now exploring the realm it was in. "Hopefully it is the latter cause I don't need to have this thing using this encounter as black mail material." Alzis was brought back to reality when Crowe made his joke about her and Malkult.

"Trust me on this bard this one is only interested in scientific and magical experimentation, I'm pretty sure your charms will not effect that being." Alzis stated with a smirk on her face, the Archon still had a blank expression on it's face. "Now I'm wondering if both the string girl and Malkult are related cause they both have that same blank expression on their faces." Alzis than saw the bard come up to her by the alter. The bard kissed her on the lips and at first she didn't returned it back, she wanted to see if he was a good kisser and so far he has proven himself to be one.

"So far you have proven yourself as a man who keeps true to his words. If you can please me well than I may reward you will a free service from my group, no price or debt to worry about." Alzis than let out a soft moan when the bard began to kiss her neck, once he kissed her on the lips again she returned it with force, plunging her tongue inside the bard's mouth has she grabbed the back of his head with one head and the other clawing at his back as she pulled him closer to her. *fade to black*

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Elizabeth and Moon Sisters

"Well string it looks like we both found something we can agree with." the mage said has she chuckled, finding both her respond and reaction about the bard having sex amusing. "Well now that our horny bard is unavailable for now I saw we visit Santa Claus? If I end up on his naughty list, which chances are I am, I can try to bribe the old man with milk and cookies." the mage said letting out a short lived laugh. "It sure would be nice to go there if a certain someone didn't send our guide into dreamland." she said loudly, obviously referring to Dennis.

Back with the Moon Sisters both Selene and Artemis put their hands on Serena's shoulders. They don't know what to say to her since they have never dealt with something that was the byproduct of a previous history of existence. Hecate ordered the group to stop. "I believe we need to help the strings group yet again due to that lich putting that colonel asleep." agreeing with their elder sister the three sisters worked their magic on the white dove that was with the group.

The white dove flew off of Fauna's shoulders and as it moved away it began to glow, soon the glowing being landed down and once the lights dimmed in place of the dove was a gray wolf. The wold took a few steps forwards before it stopped to look at the group.

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Tandem

"Damn I thought today we might catch just a small glimpse of a wendigo but looks like fate was not on our side huh Tom?" Alice asked as she kept her eyes on the road as she drove both herself and Tandem to Montreal. The sky was now in it's evening phase and at any minutes the sun would finally be gone for the day. "Well who knows maybe next time you will get lucky on seeing one." Tandem lied as he smiled at the young woman, in truth he hopes that those creatures don't exist in this world for the sake of the woman he just met today.

"Your right. That was just the day time investigation, tomorrow we will go back at night to track through the woods to see if we can find anything there." Tandem tried his best to contain his groan. Alice than explained that she does both a day time and night time investigations for her videos and she edits the two tapes as one after she is done filming. "I know it gives me more work with my videos but I honestly like doing the investigation and filming parts of making my videos than editing." she explained as they finally enter the city.

The two of them drove by several streets and stopped at a street light. "So Thomas what do you do besides having your friends dropping you at the woods?" Alice asked giggling, Tandem blushed both to keep with his act and because now he was regretting on going with that lie. "I'm just a drifter who wanders from city to city simply so I can experience the different cultures and people that live within them." Tandem said, being half truthful with his explanation. "Cool. I'm just your typical college student simply trying to pass all of her classes so I can have a good future later on while juggling between my private real life and my internet life." the light than changed and Alice moved the car forward.

Soon the two of them parked near an apartment building. "I just recently moved there, I want to show my dad that his little girl is now old enough to take care of herself." she smiled back at Tandem just as she unfasten her seat belt and left the car, Tandem follow suit. The two of them than went through the hotel lobby, boarded the elevator and after reaching the right floor and walking down the hallway to reach the door that leads into Alice's apartment. "It may not look much but it's nice and cozy." she said as she unlocked and open the door.

Inside Tandem found that Alice was right about her apartment. Most of the walls were painted white and by the look of them seem to have been a recent paint job, the wooden floor while showing some signs of age still look remarkably well. On the wall photos and painting were hung as to give some variety to the room, Tandem also found some plants in the living room almost as though to give life to the apartment. He found that the living room had a sofa and loveseat. There were two tables in the living room, one in front of the sofa and seat and another holding up a flat screen tv, Tandem found some shelves that were holding stuff in them most of them being books.

Tandem walked in and found that the ketchen was next to the livining room and found a hallway that lead to both a bedroom and the bathroom, the other doors he figured were closet doors. "I'm just going to put my stuff away and change, in the mean time you can use my phone to get someone to pick you up." with that Alice walked down the hallway and went into her room. Tandem walked over and picked up the phone sighing. He knew that he was wasting his time with this effort as there is no one that would come by for him... at least no one that isn't an agent of the Ahmarhan. "Hello Earth to Tom did you manage to get someone to pick you up." Tandem broke away from his thought, he realize that he has been standing still lost in his thoughts.

Turning to look he found Alice now wearing large and bagging clothing along with sandals, she was drinking some sort of soda from a can. "Nah I couldn't get anyone. Thank you for allowing me to use your phone and for the drive but I think now I should leave and try to find a place to stay for the night." the Alvaranian said ready to leave the apartment. "Instead of spending your cash on some crappy hotel how about you stay here for the night for free." she replied back taking a sip from the soda can. "How are you sure that your not inviting a dangerous felon into your house?" Tandem question, earning a raised eye brow from the woman. "How are you sure I'm not an insane woman who is going to keep you locked up in my apartment for the rest of your life." she said with her best attempt at a psychotic smile before she burst into laughter, Tandem also joined in.

After they were done laughing Alice spoke. "I'm pretty sure your an okay guy. Sure it was strange that you were out there in the woods on your own but I doubt you were out there dumping a body." she thank told him that she was going to be in her room surfing the net and for him to relax for now. As she walked back into her room Tandem sat down on the sofa, thinking on what to do the next day.

[Charmera]

Jason

Jason didnt like the Fairy girl, but that didnt mean he didnt understand what she was going through. In fact, before Jason had learned who his father was, he had grown mup most of his life believing that both of his parents were dead. well they both were now, but that was besides the point. "Hey....are you okay?" he asked gently, stepping towards her, but gave her enough room for personal space.

Violet paused, then sighed. "I'm not okay. I haven't been okay for a long time." She remarked, turning to Jason. Then sighed. "But I'll live." She remarked. She turned back to the elder. "What about Daisy? Is she still alive?"

The Elder nodded. "She's still alive. Though we're not sure where she is anymore. The Sidhe don't like to make the whereabouts of themselves or their servants aparant."

Violet sighed. "Typical. Never there when you need her..." She muttered. Could be worse I suppose.

"If you stay here for a while, I'll see if I can find a trace to your sister." The Elder requested. Violet paused, then turned around.

"Daisy was one of the best wishmakers in the village. Better than even I. She might not nessecarily be free, but she'll take you to your home."

[Contamenesia]

Fauna

Fauna watched the magic change form. She decided to speak with its castors, as she could tell there was more than one person weaving the magic. She gently put a hand on the beast. "Hi...i know your trying to be helpful, and we much appreciate it...but might i ask you are? I am Fauna the Bard." she said gently.

Jason

Jason gave her a skeptical look. "If she's as trustworthy as you are, which you are not, then i'm not so sure..." He turned to Jade, "you seem to be the least bothered of us here, kind of strange, dont you think?"

Wasp

Wasp stood atop a building, watching Crow and Termite fight random opponents. Wasp wasnt sure why they were even bothering, either of them alone could easily kill every living thing on this planet with just one attack, there was little point of them play fighting like this. none of their opponents were any real challenge. "I take it you two enjoy pointless fighting?" he called down to them, making his presence known to them.

[Generailia]

Dennis

Dennis was honestly rather surprised to hear both Elizabeth's comment and her outburst of laughter. Then after hearing the fact that the colonel was supposed to be their guide and that they weren't in any really trouble the Lich's cheeks would have become red if he was still believe as he scratched the back of his head nervously and thought. Well shit, I fucked up pretty badly didn't I? Well maybe the asshole should have tried to help the 'cat' instead of just standing there like a fucking idiot and ignoring her presence completely. Then after he heard the unknown woman ask some rather odd looking girl named "string" to let Aeliz go he couldn't help the amused grin that came over his face which was quickly wiped away after hearing her claim to deal with demons.

Since the mage had defeated a fair number himself so he was quickly able to tell that she wasn't lying..but he learned that exorcist tend not to be very accepting of what he had been turned into as well. It was also quite sad really, being how the thief had considered the girl to be at least somewhat pretty before learning of this fact. Then the creature was quite surprised to see the sudden appearance of a pigeon that began to immediately bitch at him as if it were his mother. So the Lich quickly ignored the thing's comments completely as he was easily able to determine by both how sudden the bird had appeared and that fact that it knew a rather high amount of information about him without ever meeting him that it was either some sort of god..but he was unable to tell whither or not they were minor or major as he examined the creature in an attempt to determine what sort of god/goddess would use such a thing as a familiar. Yet the thief's train of thought was suddenly broken by Elizabeth's laughter as she seemed to consider the being he had been with to be the same "Alzis" he had spoken to in the area where Shelis has transformed from a kitten into a full-blown and rather bitchy demon.

This sudden change in development began to cause the fairly adult images he had occasionally imagined of the woman to turn into the man that he had met before. Which easily drifted his attention away from his current situation at a astonishingly quickly. Yet Elizabeth's comment brought him out of the land full of images that he rather not see again as he quickly turned his attention back to his surroundings only to be greeted with the adolescent demon's amused smile. This he would have considered unsettling if he didn't know from experience that he wasn't very good at keeping a straight face when such images crossed his mind. When suddenly the pigeon turned into a wolf for no apparent reason as he stared at it with a look of complete astonishment across his face. But the mage was easily able to cause his usual grin to reform when he noticed weird guy who seemed to be wearing a faintly military uniform along with a very real looking sword stared at the thing hungrily. So Dennis quickly commented in a fairly amused tone. "Someone better save the puppy before it turns into this guy's lunch." The creature pointed a finger at Adwith who was slowly beginning to approach the thing while slowly unsheathing his sword. While the sergeant was attempting to awaken his commander..which the Lich knew was quite pointless while the unknown female elf who had calmly ignored the wolf and the bard petting it was currently examining the outside hallways for any of her comrades.

Aeris

Aeris had been surprised when some sort of robe was thrown over her and the guards for little to no apparent reason..and after the 'woman' who did it gave her explanation the elf sergeant was clearly amused. Since he found the fact that the woman was rambling about fighting people for no reason to consider a fairly hostile change in expression to be enough reason to be tie such a girl down to be kind of hilarious. While the elven sniper simply glared at her captures coldly while plans of her escape and their demise already ran through her head at an astonishing rate. Yet the demonic feline completely ignored everything that was going on behind her as she thought. Alright, can I use such a thing to my advantage? Since I doubt that this 'rope' could held against either my dagger or a sudden transformation into my feline form. Yet they might also bring me with them simply because they consider me to be helpless..I guess we'll see then won't we? Then the face of a elven colonel she almost killed appeared in the doorway.

The colonel seemed to ignore both her and the guards to her sides completely, when an eerily familiar shadow appeared behind him as the cat thought to herself. Well then, I think I just saw every chance of talking my way out of this situation go right out the window with one simple word. Yet to her surprise the idiotic mage seemed to consider himself to be saving her and the unknown group that captured her from the colonel! Such a misconception was so random and idiotic that a part of her wasn't even surprised. While Merlin's face was murderous as he glared at the undead thief..until he was able to see that he simply misunderstood the situation. Which was something the sergeant hoped his commander did as we, because he knew that if he would ignore the presence of two captured comrades might be considered a sign of a traitor.

But a part of him knew that he would immediately lose if he brought such a case forward simply because of his rank alone. While the sniper seemed to be relieved that he had been knocked down for a second before her face became as cold as steel yet again. But the girl wasn't suspecting the appearance of a bird whose power reminded her faintly of the power that some god/goddess's familiar gave off. Yet she ignored this completely, since she planned to simply kill the thing if it shows any hostile intentions. Then a fair amount of time after being let go the demon noticed that her summoner's face was that of horror..so she was easily amused and she made sure that the man knew that she was able to tell that he was seeing something rather unpleasant. While the two elven guards were attempting to awaken their superior..to no avail. Then after the thing turned into the wolf the sergeant commanded. "Corporal, move up to the doorway and try to redirect any patrols that come by..and if they try to enter distract them until I can wake up the colonel." The sniper seemed hesitant to obey but after retrieving a rather harsh glare from her commander she calmly walked past the bard and the wolf and stood at the entrance to the room and examined the hallways. While Aeris stood next to bony rather silently while she began to plan their escape just encase his actions had harsh consequences.

Adwith

Adwith had been relieved to see Celestia tie up both the odd teen and the two guards, since the grin on the girl's face reminded him of the first Myrddraal he had ever slain. Then after hearing Elizabeth's comment the Shienaran was about to answer when Tessy came over to check on him. So the borderlander calmly reassured the woman that he was alright..which was at least fairly true since he felt far less likely to vomit ever since he let go of the source. But he really wasn't that surprised to hear the long dead aes sedai whisper in a excessively paranoid tone. We need to kill the girl and the guards now..before they find a way to escape or are let go. Since her grin belongs on the face of a fade while the thing is "having fun". The mercenary was astonished to hear the madman at least sound a bit more sane then he usually does, even if the only reason for this was a ridiculous amount of fear and paranoia. But this was quickly replaced by the memories of the few times he had seen a fade enjoying itself. Which is never very pleasant and include breaking either the minds or bodies of their victims rather slowly in a attempt to entertain themselves. Then the guardsman heard a nearby door open as he saw a faint figure enter their room.

Which had of course surprised the man, but he was easily able to regain his composure as he examined the figure before him. What greeted him was either some sort of guard or soldier in a strange uniform..but his eyes practically screamed that he was some sort of officer along with the way he held himself. But the experience shown within the odd "elf's" eyes were easily topped by both his own and a large amount of the older and more experienced borderlander soldiers and mercenaries he had worked with in the past. Yet Elizabeth's response had easily brought him back to his senses, as she began to ramble of some unknown land and rather odd man as well. But he quickly stopped paying attention after hearing the arrogant woman accept the soldier's offer. When suddenly, a dark and misty figure appeared behind the figure from out of nowhere. Which had faintly reminded the Shienaran of a Myrddraal since it appeared to quite literally emerge from the shadows..until the thing spoke in a far louder and more harsh tone then any fade he had met in the past as the 'elf' in front of him collapsed. This had of course astonished the guardsman..but he quickly reached for his blade out of per-instinct as he took hold of saidin while doing his best to ignore the immense urge to vomit yet again. But the borderlander had been easily confused when the mist took the shape of a man with the eyes of a corpse, but for some reason also had the grin of a rather skilled and arrogant thief across his face. Which Adwith only recognized due to his many encounters with the rogues..and after awhile he moved his hand off of his sword while giving the 'man' a immensely cold glare that he ignored completely.

The mercenary hadn't paid attention to either the unknown figure's odd speech or Elizabeth's response. Since the man attempted to let go of the source only to feel that the madman somehow held a rather small section of it in his grasp. Which had baffled the Shienaran as he thought to himself. By the light, why are you still holding saidin you bloody madman! Leonel only seemed to chuckle wildly and for a extensive amount of time before answering. This 'thing' can not be trusted! It's arrogance shall be the death of us all! We must slay it before it even has a chance to betray us! I could have sworn that a voice in my head would know that. Then after a short pause the long dead aes sedai burst out laughing madly before continuing. Oh light, I am arguing with a flaming voice in my head! So the borderlander used this chance to seize back saidin which caused the voice to suddenly disappear after emitting a rather shocked gasp. Which brought all of the guardsman's attention on the sudden appearance of a talking bird. Which had of course surprised the mercenary..but it tempted his stomach as he was barely able to keep his eyes off of it. Suddenly, Celestia announced that she had changed her mind. Which would have caused the mercenary at least a bit of relief if such a thing wasn't followed by the pigeon's sudden transformation into a wolf. So, the man was barely able to keep himself from glaring at the thing hungrily as he slowly drew his blade out of it's scabbard with the intent to kill the thing.

[Naval Monte]

Crow

Crow and Xyri have just finished facing against their latest opponents when they heard Wasp calling down to them. "I don't know about this being pointless but anything is much better than just waiting around for orders to arrive." reply the crow themed assassin. He knew that pretty much any opponent he would face would easily be defeated by him, especially if he decides to go in for the kill.

But even though he is an assassin he only saves his killing blows for his targets, leaving other beings alone even though who would guard his target's life. Besides he likes challenging himself and placing self made limits on himself helps make what would normally be lack luster fights somewhat exciting to him. "So why are you here Wasp? I take it that your next mission is related to this place?"

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Elizabeth and Moon Sisters

"God fucking damn it, this isn't the first time that flaming fool tried to eat a familiar." Elizabeth muttered as she face palmed as Adwith got closer to the wolf, she heard the wolf growling at the mercenary as he got closer to it. She walked to Adwith and before he can fully pull his sword out she grabbed him by the back of his cape and began to pull him away from the wolf. "I know your stomach is being a cruel bitch and you want it to shut the fuck up so it can stop complaining about it being hungry. But one this thing is own by a powerful being who would most likely be pissed off if you killed their pet, second you would be giving the poor elves the gruesome task of having to clean both your blood and the wolf's and I rather not have to explain to them were all that blood came from." she explained to him as she finally let Adwith go once he was away from the wolf.

The wolf gave a slight bow almost as thanks before it turn to Fauna as it spoke, it's voice a mixture of the three sisters. "I have no name. I'm a familiar of Artemis, Selene and Hecate or the Moon Sisters if you wish to refer to them as one entity." the wolf than hear Elizabeth whistle and saw a smirk on the mage. "So your pet belong to the Triple Goddess huh? This day just keeps getting better." she spoke in a deadpan tone. Tessy than asked Elizabeth what is the triple goddess. "It's one of the primary deities in neopagon traditions, often it represents the three figures of the maiden, mother and crone. The three names mention are often three Greco Roman goddess that are often tied to those three archetypes."

The wolf chuckled at the mage's respond. "Normally we would ask if you follow any of those neopagan faiths but we already know that you best fit with those who practice chaos magic. It's much more flattery than you being called a magical thief." Elizabeth walked over to the wall and lean on it with both arms behind her head. "Your right, I'm a walking encyclopedia on all things occult and one of the ways I gained my knowledge was by experimenting with every tradition I found and take what I like about them while adding in my own improvised creations to the mix." the mage said proudly to the wolf, with it snorting, mainly cause a piece of dust got into it's nose.

"What may not know about us is that we are also guardian spirits of the Hotel." the wolf stated as it saw the elf sniper go pass it to reach the entrance. "Not surprised that realm would have some sort of being acting as the guard for it, do you also act as the administrators as well?" the wolf shook it's head. "No our job is simply to ensure the hotel's continual existence by protecting against anything that would threaten it. As for maintenance and administration the hotel does it on it's own." the wolf heard the mage make a off hand comment about the labyrinth. "I don't consider them to be that similar. After all the only thing that makes them similar is that they act as a nexus to many realms, otherwise they are two separate realms."

Elizabeth didn't pay too much attention to the wolf when it started ranting about the labyrinth, though Tessy seem interested in learning everything that was being said by both the woman and beast, mostly so she can know what was going on. Kyne kept her eyes on Dennis and Aeris with some occasions turning to look at the wolf. "Are you people ready to move on?" the wolf asked. "Of course we're ready to move on, especially since the further away we are from the KO colonel the better." the mage said moving away from the way and sliding her hand inside the coat pocket in which the vortex generator was located in, ready to use encase soldiers burst into the room.

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Tandem

Tandem woke up in a cold sweat, getting up from the sofa he slept on he walked over to the bathroom and washed his face, taking a look on himself on the bathroom mirror he saw that the implants changed head to appear as he originally looked. The memories from what he saw when he returned back home after his long trip away still haunting him to this very day. "Come on Tandem don't freak out now. At least do so after your far away from the woman." he than commanded the implants to change his appearance to look human once more.

He watched a few shows from the living room tv waiting for Alice to wake up and soon he heard the door opening and saw a still sleepy Alice walking into the living room still brushing her teeth. "I didn't think it was possible for her hair to get even messier." the Alvaranian suppressed a chuckle on seeing the woman, she said something but due to her still brushing her teeth while muttering Tandem couldn't quite hear her out. Alice walked back to the bathroom and after a few minutes came back to the living room. "I was trying to say that I'm making breakfast and if you want anything?" Tandem replied that he would have whatever she was having.

After the two of them ate their breakfasts Alice went back to her room to change, once she came back Tandem saw that she was carrying a bag. "Today I'm going off to be my classes so either your going to be house sitting until I come back or you can spend the day outside, it doesn't really matter which one you pick. If you staying than there is an old laptop you have free permission to use, just don't use it to download stuff from the deep web please." she said with a smile. Tandem wish he didn't knew what she meant by the deep web, he had some rather horrid experiences from the deep web back in a few worlds that were similar to this one. "Don't worry going in there is the last thing in my mind." he said scratching the back of his head.

The two of them talked for a while until Alice said goodbye and left Tandem alone. With no one else around he went into her room, the room was already if a bit messy in one corner. Finding the old laptop underneath a game console Tandem noted that it hasn't been touched for a while as dust covered it. After removing the dust from the machine he turned on the laptop and sighed when he realize that it was moving slowly. "If I had the necessary parts I can take this old thing apart and upgrade it to run much faster." but since he lacked those parts he decided to just grin an bare it for now. Once he was able to use the internet he checked many sites to know more about the world, like he suspected this world was similar to all of the other modern time periods. "So monsters are either relegated to pure fantasy or paranormal stuff that people believe exist along with magic, nice to know that when Alice goes back to those woods there will be no wendigo out there to meet her."

Of course in the back of his mind he knew that there was the possibility that this world could have supernatural elements and that it can be hiding in the shadows, this world would not be the first one to have that sort of scenario. As Tandem surf the web he came across a site talking about a mental illness called Cyclic Psychoaffective Disorder or CPD. This illness according to the blog causes people to see otherwordly beings and to have normal reality overlap with an imagery reality caused by the person's mind. The site goes on to explain that this illness is global and allegedly is contagious, once more it mentions that governments, psychological community and news media refuse to acknowledge it's existence. "Okay I stumbled across a rather interesting site dedicated to an internet urban legend." Tandem muttered, finding the idea of a contagious mental illness to be ridiculous.

The site than show audio and visual interviews with people who are said to have CPD and each one describes what they saw, while hearing this Tandem found the art section and saw images drawn by the people who have this showing what they see. "So either this community is really dedicated to this legend to do all of this or there is some truth to this disorder." Tandem was now thinking more on what CPD can really be, sure there was the possibility that it was an actual mental illness but Tandem suspects that it isn't that simple.

After spending his time on the laptop for some hours looking at other sites while doing some research on CPD he finally shut down the laptop, but not before he deleted his search history. Tandem than walked out of the apartment and when through the hallway, along the way he heard a woman moaning loudly from behind the door, Tandem stopped when he heard her. "Okay I don't think this hotel doesn't provide that kind of service" sure enough when the woman moan again he can hear that it was in pain. Tandem walked up to the door and gently knocked. "Miss do you need medical attention? If you want I can call an ambulance for you?" Tandem at first heard nothing from the other side.

He than heard several locks being moved and saw the door creaking slightly, enough to show the face of a woman who was obviously sick. "I'm alright, I just caught something from my trip in Egypt. I just need some bed rest and I will be better soon... thanks for caring though." she than closed the door and locked it. Tandem shook his head and made his way to the elevator, his mind still on the sick woman. When Tandem finally step out of the hotel he saw that it was already evening. "I spend the whole day surfing the web, brilliant." he muttered. He than saw Alice walking up to the hotel, she waved at Tandem once she saw him.

"So I take it your day went well while I was away?" Tandem said that he got distracted by the internet causing Alice to laugh as she can sympathize with him. "Yeah there is a reason why the internet is called the eternal distraction of the 21th century. Since your out I'm planing on going to this pizzeria for dinner and I was wondering if you want to join me?" Tandem smiled and agree to go with her. As she lead him to her car Tandem asked her a question. "Alice do you know that one of your neighbors is sick?" She gave him a nod. "Yeah, her name is Julia Browne and she worked with some team that helped this professor on an expedition in Cario. I talked with her a few times and it seems that during the expedition she got separated from the team and got sick as a result. She didn't tell me much on what made her sick and what she and her team were doing." they both reach the car and as Alice stuck her keys inside she unlocked the door to her car.

"For now let's focus on getting something to eat cause there is a good chance you haven't eaten anything since breakfast. My day was so shitty that I couldn't even eat lunch so right now this is both lunch and dinner for me." she explained amusing the Alvaranian as he entered the car. The two drove off to the place that Alice mention, along the way Tandem mention some of the sites he went to and told her what she saw, leaving out the site about CPD. Back in the apartment, the sickly woman known as Julia Browne, was laying in her bathtub as she was wailing. Her body was covered in self infected scratch marks and her hair was falling off, the water on the bathtub was pink, she knew it was not suppose to be pink.

[Contamenesia]

Fauna

Fauna sighed. "It seems my little group is composed of the less than brightest portions of....existence..." she mumbled to herself, both for concern for Adwith's behavior and Elizabeth's rashness, which was combined with the oddity that was Celestia. Tessy and Kyne seemed to be the only two actual level heads besides herself. but of course, looks could be decieving. The Undead one, and the demon's presence didn't make anything better. And as for the Moon sisters, well they weren't all that special really, so they weren't of any concern. Fauna shook her head. all she needed to do was simply bring a moment of pure to joy to these people, but now definitely did not feel like the moment for a song, which made her frown. She was also still really unhappy at Elizabeth for pulling one of her hairs. She was actually pondering whether or not she should use one of the poisonous flowers in her collection, perhaps maybe one of those that contained powerful neuro-toxins.....

Fauna shook her head, she was just in a bad mood. A bad mood that Elizabeth had caused, but she was better than that. She composed herself. "No offense, avatar, but you are wasting our time. Just open a portal already. if you won't, then i will. I do not mean to be rude, but all this lollygagging for the sake of mysticism is a waste of time. for once, i actually agree with Celestia here, get to the point. Take us to Santa. A Portal would be preferred. and if you can't make the portal, then say so, and i'll do it for you, it will be no trouble..."

Wasp

Wasp folded his arms. "No. Bear has given orders to round the two of you up. She wasn't happy, though i don't quite think you two are in trouble....apparently she has a mission for the three of us....odd for a mission to require the need of more than one Ahmarhan, but orders are orders."

[Naval Monte]

Elizabeth

"I can't create a portal but my creators can. Just for them to due so." the wolf said trying it's best either ignoring or not minding the fact that the bard was patting it. "Since your creators seem to know about me and skeletor over here mind telling me why Alzis send a string to kidnap me?" Elizabeth asked still leaning on the wall. "If you want to know the reason than you will have to ask them in person. My creators know the why they wanted you but they feel that it is for the best that you get it from their mouth not ours. Bet I will give you this hint, you were taken simply because you were tied to what they really wanted." the wolf finished cryptically.

Elizabeth wondered to herself what can be tied to her that Alzis could have want. "Chances are it most like a magic relic that I own but the real question would be which one cause I own a lot of them." she reach inside her coat to take out one of the relics that she owns, the first one was her knife. "Of course, it had to be the bloody knife, typical. His or her type are ones that often desire that which they can not have. This old girl is no exception." Tessy came up to Elizabeth so she can get a closer look at the knife.

"Why does this Alzis fella want your knife for? Sure it looks intimidating but I don't see how a simply knife would cause someone to kidnap the owner... unless that knife is somehow tied to magic." she said know realizing that the knife wasn't a normal one, in hindsight anything tied to Elizabeth was probably not normal. "Yeah this old thing is both enchanted and cursed. Was a normal knife when it was made but being surrounded by centuries of freaky magic and rituals along with drowning in some much animal and human blood it became a magical relic." she explained turning the knife to the other side. "Reason why Alzis can't hold it is cause the same curse that gives the knife it's power also kills anyone who it doesn't chose as it's master."

Tessy gave Elizabeth a confused look. "It kills those it doesn't chose? You make it sound like the knife is live?" Elizabeth gave Tessy wicked smile, normally she would find it charmy but now she finds it slightly intimidating since Elizabeth was holding a knife. "Well it doesn't breath, eat or drink but it is sentient. Sentient enough for it to chose who can wield it." she than put the knife away, allowing Tessy to sigh in relief. "Any more voodoo props that we should be aware of?" Kyne asked Elizabeth still keeping her smile as she responded back. "All good things come to those who wait knife girl." Elizabeth lean away from the wall and let her arms fall down. "Oi wolfy what's taking so long?" before the wolf can respond the portal opened behind it.

"If your all ready Father Christmas is excepting you all." said the wolf as it walked into the portal. "Well let's see if I'm on his nice list or his naughty list." with those words Elizabeth went inside the portal. Kyne soon entered with making any noise follow by Tessy. The wolf turned to Celestia. "My creators and Father Christmas have been waiting for you thread." it said as it too went into the portal.

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Crow

"Wait Bear has ordered all three of us to work together on this mission?" Wasp was right it is strange for more than one Ahmarhan to being working in one mission. "Could the abyss be involved in this assignment?" Crow shook his head, he knew that even with matters relating to the abyss they would still only send in one. "I guess every single hell dimension has finally frozen over cause now we are working together on a mission." Crow said in a joking tone, the fact that all three of them were being sent on a mission and he was working with Wasp was already making this latest mission a strange one.

[Charmera]

Jason

Jason gave her a skeptical look. "If she's as trustworthy as you are, which you are not, then i'm not so sure..." He turned to Jade, "you seem to be the least bothered of us here, kind of strange, dont you think?"

"She's more trustworthy than me. It's just..." She sighed. "It doesn't matter. All you need to know is that she will grant you a wish. Though considering she works for a Sidhe now she will likely have to gain their aproval, and they can be whimsical and unpredictable at best." She remarked.

"Um... Well... I barely know her. I mean to be honest I barely know any of you." She remarked. "And I'm a bit distracted... I mean this place smells and looks and sounds so... nice."

Wasp

Wasp folded his arms. "No. Bear has given orders to round the two of you up. She wasn't happy, though i don't quite think you two are in trouble....apparently she has a mission for the three of us....odd for a mission to require the need of more than one Ahmarhan, but orders are orders."

"It should be fun. I mean, I don't know about you guys, but it gets a little boring having to do missions all on my own. I like the company." She remarked. After all she was often alone, and being completely alone was something she hated, though she was almost always on her own. "Though, I wonder why Bear would need three for a mission. More than one of us tends to be extreme overkill..."

[Contamenesia]

Celestia

Celestia frowned, as she did not know what the creature meant, she was certain she had never met this Father Christmas before, nor the Moon Sisters, so how did they know of her? Her frowned deepened, but she stepped through the portal, after Adwith.

Wasp

"Usually. I don't know what the mission entails, so gonna need you to come with me to find out. So, are you guys going to finish up or what? The sooner we get going, the better...." he said in a rather bored tone. It wasn't often that he was able to see Crow, though this was not his first time meeting Termite, they had crossed paths several times, though never shared a mission. Sharing a mission was indeed very unusual for the Ahmarhan, usually just one member was enough to get even the toughest jobs done, which made him worry about what this mission might entail...

[Naval Monte]

Moon Sisters

The Moon Sisters waited patiently for the other group to arrive after creating their portal. "Should we make one for the other bard?" question Artemis, her older sister responded back. "Right now I think it's best we leave him be, after all his still busy on getting to know one of the women of this alliance." Artemis at first didn't know what Hecate mean by her words but soon she realize it and she blushed. "Why do I have the feeling he would try to do the same thing with the three of us?" the younger sister asked. "If he does show up than we always change our forms into something that would not interest him." Selene replied back.

From the portals they saw three women appear from it along with their familiar. "It's nice to meet you three, we are the Moon Sisters." they greeted as all three bow to them. Tessy and Kyne returned the greeting and told them their names, except for Elizabeth. "You three already know my name so I don't see a reason why I should say it now." Tessy walked over to Elizabeth and gently bonked the mage on her head. "Don't be rude Elizabeth." Elizabeth only smiled at her, she was about to say something when Fauna, Adwith and Celestia came in with the wolf.

"Ah the group with the thread of existence is finally here." all three turn to Celestia. "Yes we are aware of who you are thread and we know about your mission and about Apox. Your existence while not a direct yet your impossible existence posses a great indirect danger to both the hotel and to many lives." the wolf came to the sisters and once Hecate patted the wolf it vanished.

---

Crow

"Wait for a few seconds." Crow used his celerity powers to rapidly move throughout the arena, scoring the ball in the other teams goal. The crowd once more booed at him for ending the game too quickly. "Okay now we can go." Crow said loudly over the boos and hisses from the crowd, some began to throw stuff at them but the shield around the arena prevented anything from getting near him and the other two Ahmarhans.

[Generailia]

Adwith

Adwith had been surprised when Elizabeth suddenly stopped him, and the Shienaran was able to slowly regain his composure as the girl continued onward and when she finished he sheathed his almost fully drawn sword and stepped back a very short distance as gradually returned to his normal state when the 'wolf' suddenly spoke with the voice of three woman. Yet the borderlander ignored both this and Elizabeth's response being how most of his concentration went to keeping himself from both grabbing saidin and lunging at the canine in front of him. But he was honestly not expecting Fauna to have such a sudden outburst like that..and after attempting to eavesdrop yet again he quickly decided to just let them speak in peace.

Yet another reason for the mercenaries odd and fairly blanked out state for a fair amount of time was because he thought that they would enjoy some privacy nonetheless. But the sudden portal that appeared had both astonished the guardsman, but such a thing couldn't compare to the feeling he had felt when he watched them walk through the portal of a talking wolf. Which the Shienaran considered to be highly suspicious..but he followed them while the mage and the teenager entered a fair amount of time after Celestia herself. So the only thing the borderlander witnessed was the disappearance of the wolf and one of the odd woman finish speaking about something that he still didn't understand completely. Which was when the idiotic thief and the not fully human girl entered suddenly as well, which only added to a already baffling situations and had caused the mercenary to just give up on listening to whatever anyone was saying and just watch for any hostile movement as he kept his hand on the hilt of his sword just encase. While the madman seemed more then ready to kill the goddesses and was even starting to beg for such a thing to happen before they get a chance to attack.

Dennis

Dennis had watched the situation between Adwith and Elizabeth for a extremely short amount of time before immediately looking back towards the unknown familiar. While Aeris seemed to be glaring at the thing with a mix of wariness and confusion for one reason or another. Then after the thing spoke the thief was fairly surprised at first, but he listened nonetheless and stopped once he heard it's claim to be a familiar of a few fairly major goddesses while he thought to himself nervously. Great, fucking gods of all things. Well at least they aren't pissed..or berserk at the moment. So I might as well play along until they try to throw me away like most of their kind do simply because 'my usefulness is at an end.' Yet his attention was quickly grabbed when the arrogant woman began to speak..and after hearing claim concerning the occult and some sort of experimentation he couldn't keep his grin from falling into grimace as some rather harsh memories of the many mages who were either homicidal or hiding behind a mask of kindness in a simple attempt to increase their own knowledge and power.

But this along wouldn't have been enough reasons, since the main one was the simple fact that the man who betrayed and slew him was a mage as well. Thankfully, the creature was able to calm himself down before he ended up in a situation very similar to the one that Adwith had been in just a few minutes ago. When the Lich suddenly and faintly heard Fauna mention some sort of portal while the demonic feline had begun leaning against a nearby wall. So the thief listened to their conversation out of a odd mixture of bordem and curiosity when a portal that was very likely the one that the fairly innocent girl had mentioned suddenly appeared. But what astonished the mage was how easily the group trusted the goddesses..since such beings can even be worse then demons at times. Dennis turned to see that Aeris was glaring at him as if she somehow heard his thought. So the creature waited for a bit longer before he entered with the cat following close behind him and he was rather surprised to be greeted with three woman who at least looked halfway decent..but a part of him screamed that he should either run or prepare for combat even though they just met. Which the Lich found rather odd, since he never had such a urge before in his brief encounters with gods who were both significantly minor or major when compared to one another. So the thief decided to yell while his usual grin covered his face. "Hey, did I miss anything important?!" The reason why he had done such a thing was to both find out the information and kill the excessively dull feeling in the room..while the demon glared at him with the intent to shove him onto the wall again if he tried anything else both unexpected and seemingly pointless.

[Naval Monte]

Elizabeth and Moon Sisters

"You haven't missed much Jack Skellington, we just got through introduction." Elizabeth said as she faced the lich and his demonic partner, if this was her world she would think he was a necromancer working with one of the Daevas, what she felt from the lich pretty much gives her plenty of reasons to think he was an agent sent by them but the fact he only acted cause he thought her group needed saving pretty much ruins that idea.

"Why would they try to save my sorry arse after all the times I ruined their plans and sent their top demons and agents back to the pit? I'm just being paranoid with this guy, hell I bet he wouldn't even get a clue if I mention those infernal tossers." Elizabeth heard one of the sisters make a fake cough to get everyone's attention. "Before we can begin to discuss why we want you here we have a question for you all. Why did you believed us? Surely you all most have doubted our intentions?" Elizabeth was the first one in the group to respond.

"For starters string here pretty much forced us to go inside the hotel and was going to take us somewhere, whether it was here or a different dimension who knows and quite frankly I don't care right now. Second the reason I trusted you three on not setting a trap for me and my mates is because my sixth sense wasn't setting alarm bells in my head warning that you were going to stab us on the back. Finally the third reason, the fact string here was sent by Alzis to drag me here cause they wants both me and my knife for some sort of insane plan that is most likely going to have someone getting cut to pieces by it." she than giggled while letting a grin form. "Of course I wasn't expecting Alzis to just end up shagging some random bard right as we get here. What I would give to be a fly on that wall."

Both Kyne and Hecate muttered about Elizabeth having no shame. "Speaking of shameless behavior how much do you three know about us?" Elizabeth asked to the three sisters to which Selene was the one to reply back. "We keep tabs on all spellcasters and anyone who is touched in anyway by magic. So know plenty about half the people in this room." Before Elizabeth can even ask why Hecate interrupted her. "The reasons why we do it are classified, why we do it is not important, what is important is that we settle the issues with the string before she falls into the wrong hand." Elizabeth, Tessy and Kyne gave the sisters odd looks when they mention about Celestia falling into the wrong hand. "That will be explained once the meeting begins. But first we must ask on how much do you really know about Celestia?"

Elizabeth than explains to them everything that they know about the string... of course she twisted some things like saying that Apox was her lover which was true in a way. "Well at least you people know that much about the string, unfortunately that information is not yet known to some people attending the meeting like those two over there." she pointed towards the Dennis and Aeris.

Elizabeth took out the last cigarette that she has and saved in her pocket was holding it between her fingers. "So we are going to get a repeat of what we know while hearing new shit." she than placed it on her mouth and before she could go to Adwith to tell him to use his powers to light the cigarette it lit itself, Elizabeth looked at the Moon Sisters. "Thanks for that luvs." she said as she began to smoke the last cigarette that she own. The mage than felt a new pack appear inside her pocket. "We also refilled your lighter cause we need you are addictive to those cancer sticks." the crone said in a almost disapproving tone. "Come you old hag we both know that it would be a bloody miracle if lung cancer ends up being my killer and if I do get cancer than I have a sexy doctor on my side to help me recover." she said with a grin as she turned to Tessy, giving her a wink. Hecate only shook her head along with Kyne as they both muttered something while Selene and Artemis tried to hold their laughs.

[Kaidou]

The Ice Corps
Supreme HQ
Dimension 888,815

As the group stepped through the portal, the unconscious body of Colonel Rotehund began to glow a bizarre red, before suddenly melting into the ground. Apparently, though he was still asleep, the recovery spells cast on him had had some effect. Right now, he was barely conscious, able to pull himself through to the other side of the portal with some difficulty.

The moment he got through, in the form of a pool of lava innocuously following through, a large splattering of the molten rocks leapt up into the air, before regenerating into the figure of the Colonel. With a heavy hand, he crashed against the wall, both of his fists glowing menacingly, veins throbbing on his forehead and on the side of his neck. He glared deep into the thief's eyes with his own, gritting his teeth and barely preventing himself both from melting the bastard and from collapsing onto the floor into unconsciousness.

"You… you thing you…" he hurled, barely containing a burp (probably a by-product of the spell on his body. "What… the fuck do you think… you're trying to do?…"

It was then that a door opened, from which Father Christmas stepped out, draped in a furry white cape and his trademark floppy red hat. He briefly glanced at the people gathered in front of him, before laying eyes on his Colonel. He could, more or less, guess what was going on.

"Don't worry about him", he said to the Colonel, softly but audibly. "Ignore him, and he'll soon get bored."

COL Rotehund cleared his throat violently, (still maintaining his glare, directed at Dennis) before leaning against the wall, trying his utmost to keep himself awake.

With that, the old man turned to face the rest. "Well, I must apologise for all the snafu that has prevented our meeting till now", he said, "but what's most important is that we're all together now, ergo we can get down to discussing our future courses of action and the current situation." He gestured at his lounge.

"Do come in."

…

Infirmary
Supreme HQ
Dimension 888,815

By this time, Hiccup had already recovered fully (apart from a scar on his chest), and had been discharged from the ICU. The doctors and orthopaedic surgeons had offered to replace the Chief's "clumsy" prosthetic with a state of the art mechanical limb created specially by the Ice Corps, to be used for their wounded. Hiccup, however, declined.

"I'm more used to this one", he said, smiling. "Besides, it reminds me of…"

As he was discharged from the hospital, both Felix and Toothless stood in the large hallway, awaiting his return. He looked visibly thinner, and was wearing a simple combination of a dark green sweater and pants, but he was still very much recognisable.

"You would not believe what has just happened outside", said the Angel. He pointed his thumb at his throat and slowly slashed across like a knife.

"Is it bad?"

"Well… it's been resolved already. And we've also gotten a couple of new allies…"

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Tajiurijnhras
Dimension 364,017

Several centuries ago

The Imperial Hall of Tajiurijnhras was, once again, filled with the Elders, who had convened to speak on various matters pertaining to the running of the planet and of the tens of billions of Tajiu who lived on it. There were about 200 Elders in total, each one representing a certain city on the planet, in which every single person lived.

The meetings were always extremely long, lasting several days on end with little to no adjournment. They seldom resulted in the promulgation of new legislation, only in small actions that could be taken here and there to improve the daily lives of the people.

This time, however, the Elders had been convened for a different reason. The moment all 200 of them were seated in the throne room, the Grand Speaker, Arittikollu Shritnau stepped up to the podium, before placing a stack of papers onto the stand and clearing his throat.

"Gentlemen", he said in Tajise, his elocution perfect. "I shall not attempt to beat about the bush any longer than is necessary. Recently, my magi have gone to take the annual census of Tajiurijnhras. This, you all know.

This time, however, what perturbs me is the unearthing of a clan of patricians who display among themselves an unprecedented spiritual awareness. I do not have any desire to impress any sort of floccinaucinihilipilification upon the immense imperilment that this could potentially pose to our society. However, it is also in my interest to maintain the dignity of the nobility of Tajiurijnhras. As such, I shall open the floor to you."

The moment he sat down, another Elder stood up; Rok Tiak, an 88 year old Elder who had served on the council for over 60 years. "Who is the head of this noble house?" he demanded.

"It is Earl Goimossossa Ái Nii-Aru Revik Hyaakudzhu, the ruler of Tomasr City."

"How could it be him?"

"That's what we're all trying to find out."

Amidst the confusion, the Grand Speaker, once again, rose from his seat, taking to the podium. "I believe you may have something to say about this, Illushu?" He tapped the table with mock impatience. "After all, you govern the City of Omell in which Earl Revik Hyaakudzhu resides in."

Illuneo Takboleh Illushu was an eccentric person; he dressed in a bright pink feathery coat and flamboyantly coloured trousers, with a polka dotted party hat sitting on his head that had become largely synonymous with his name. As if that wasn't enough, he spoke with a bizarre twang that most people didn't know the origin of.

Nobody dared to laugh at him, however; if they did, he would shred them apart verbally, regardless of the topic of their altercation. He was famous for that, and for carrying a gigantic golden mace along with him wherever he went.

"I myself haf noticed zis anomaly in ze House of Revik Hyaakudzhu", he said. "Howeffer, I didn't consider zis a zreat, especially not viz ze knowledge zat Omell has alvays been very rich in all sorts of mystical minerals." He adjusted his party hat. "Besides", he continued, a trace of humour in his voice, "ve can alvays monitor zem if zere ist any sort of zreat in ze future."

"If that is the case", said the Grand Speaker, "then I suppose we can go on to discuss other matters for now…"

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