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Amber and Clancy both grin wide at Karl’s suggestion, clapping happily.
“Whoa! A true visionary, this one!” Clancy comments to Amber.
“I know! I wish we could help him! I mean, if he was a shadow like us, he COULD make clones of himself to literally go both places at once!” Amber replies back.
“You think we should turn him right now, then?” Clancy blinks.
“Hmm...weeelllll, I’ve got absolutely no reason to doubt his potential for the role! Maybe we could bring him before Queen Shadowelle first? Or bring him after we turn him? Guess it doesn’t matter- if we approve of this guy, then she DEFINITELY will!” Amber giggles back, and both shadows then run to go catch up with Karl.
“CARNIVAL IT IS, THEN! FOR NOW!” Clancy cheers, skipping merrily along, suddenly wearing a shadow hood and carrying a shadow basket with him.
“This’ll be AWESOME!” Amber bounces along, suddenly having a rabbit headband and huge rabbit feet on.

[color=39b54a]“Kilt and Beard Tavern, eh…? Interesting name.” Meora nods in light approval as she follows everyone else into the tavern. She’s a bit unnerved by the presence of more new people, and nearly pulls her gun out on the angel when she runs for Zed, her assassin instincts telling her it’s an attack, but she quickly realizes otherwise when the demon girl steps forward to introduce herself and the angel. Meora is also quite entertained by the way Kylie explains everyone’s roles in Fedora-Man’s life.
“Nice...I see you guys got a pretty solid group of allies together then. And almost just as weird as my own best friend’s group.” Meora snickers a bit in response to Kylie’s words. “I’m Meora, best friends with a cat demon girl named Sephie, and ally to her twin bro, and all of their friends. I was trained as an assassin for 4 years in the Demon Highlands, and 5 years in Tokyo. I speak Japanese, English obviously, and also whatever language comes from that place.” Meora jerks her thumb in the direction of outside, towards the Demon Highlands. Her ears perk up when she hears the crow on her shoulder talk again. She smirks a bit at what Michael tells her.
“Well, yeah! It’s Seph, one of the most awesome people I know, if not THE most awesome. Just lemme know if you need this power share of yours back to handle her. Y’know, in emergencies, I CAN handle my own for a bit. Even if things get pretty bad down in demon town.”[/color]

[color=0076a3]“H-huh…?” Nelodine blinks, hearing Lucas and watching him back away from her, as if something was wrong. Did something just happen? She feels like maybe something did, but can’t think of anything relating to the subject. Hearing the voices of her friends down in the lobby, Nelodine decides to just rejoin the group down there instead.
“Hey, guys! What’s going on?” Nelodine tries to push her uncertain thoughts back as she greets her friends.
“Meora left on her mission, and Michael took Felixter, and apparently Kiro, to go try and fix Sephie up.” Kayori explains. “Everything alright with you, Nelodine? You were up there awhile.”
“Y-yeah! Yeah! I feel fine. Just some...minor things.” Nelodine opens her palm back up to stare at the milky white orb. She remembers this being given to her by Nymne, and the haunting words about it she left behind, but Nelodine can’t help but feel as though something happened after that. Like a gap in her brain. She tries to shake it off as she turns her full attention back to those in the lobby at this time.
“So, do you think they’ll need help up there? I can try and use some magic…” Nelodine asks.
“No, dear, I think it’s best if you stay down here with us. Should anything happen, I’ll gladly volunteer myself to go up. I have the power to hold her off, and I can’t really be killed.” Ammi smiles in a caring way towards Nelodine, who nods and smiles timidly back.[/color]
[color=92278f]Kiroketsu and Felixter decide to quiet down in response to Michael, glaring at each other before following him up to the door. Kiroketsu and Felixter both get into prepared positions as they watch Michael unlock the door, Felixter looking more composed, and Kiroketsu looking more and more fake by the minute. However, once the door is open, Kiroketsu shoves Felixter out of the way and dives in first. He aims to tackle Sephie down, but he flies past and hits the scratched wall behind her, only soliciting a bit of attention from her. She whips back to face the doorway and tries to go for the escape, screeching bloody promises of violence as she does, until the barrier stops her. Felixter slips in and steps fearlessly in front of his rampaging sister. 
“Sephie, I need you to stop. Calm down.” Felixter locks eyes with his twin, and Sephie seems to pause for a moment before trying to attack him. Felixter dodges out of the way quickly. Kiroketsu shakes himself off and places himself next to Felixter.
“What do we do now?! Knock her out? I mean, I could do that, but it seems so ungentlemanly….she’ll probably remember it and hit me for it later, too.” Kiroketsu murmurs.
“Is that really what you’re worried about?!” Felixter huffs in annoyance at the spirit, all the while engaging his hellion form to act quicker and provide more strength to fend off his sister.
“Boys, boys, there’s no need for any of that…..”
Kiroketsu and Felixter are both startled by the presence of Lucille, who now stands between them and the ravenous Sephie, only holding the girl back with a single red-gloved hand.
“OH GOD IT’S THE EVIL SHE-WITCH-QUEEN FROM HELL!” Kiroketsu cries, trying to hide behind Felixter even though he’s nearly twice the boy’s height.
Felixter rolls his eyes, then looks up at Lucille. “Were you here the whole time? I swear I just now heard you from the lobby…..”
“Oh no. I came up here for a few reasons. I thought you’d need help, I learned of some new news, and I figured you’d like to hear a...deal I have for you.” Lucille starts to grin.
Felixter already didn’t like the tone that came with the mention of this…”deal”....but he figures he should hear her out anyway. “Right then...what do you want? What have you learned?”
“I know a way to get Sephie back the other portion of her soul. You know, part of the reason she can’t handle her own powers and is so unstable is because she’s still missing half of her soul, as I’ve explained before. So, I’ve finally found a brilliant way to fix it, that might help us all in more ways than one if it works!” Lucille explains. “You have to do something for me to be able to do it now, though. This might be the most perfect chance we have, because she’d hold no malice towards you if you did it now….”
“Do what now…?” Felixter narrows his eye.
“For me to take her down into the afterlife and get her the soul, I need you to kill her. Nothing big. It doesn’t have to be all 9 lives at once or anything. Just stab her in the heart or something quick and easy like that.” Lucille replies.
“SAY WHAT?! Felixter, no! You can’t! S-she’s your sister, man! And more importan- er, I mean, as a less important side note, you’ll be killing ME too, and then I’ll have to be down there with Lucille! Y-you can’t do that to me, man!” Kiroketsu begs.
Felixter, while ignoring Kiroketsu entirely, thinks over the deal. He glances from his crazed, insane sister, to Lucille’s almost deceptively pleasant smile.
“She would be normal after this….?” Felixter sighs.
“Felixter!” Kiroketsu shouts.
“More in control than she is now.” Lucille purrs back. “Side effects might vary, but they would do that anyway with any soul we got.”
“.....Fine.” Felixter gets out his claws.
“FELIXTER!” Kiroketsu raises his voice in desperation. He tries to stop Felixter, but Lucille lets go of Sephie, and now turns to hold Kiroketsu back. Sephie immediately lunges for Felixter, but with his long claws, all he must do is hold out his paw, and his sister is impaled in the heart from her own force. Felixter takes great care in removing his claws from his sister, as he doesn’t want to rip out her heart and instantly kill all 9 of her lives. Or, whatever number she has left. 7 or 6, possibly, by now.
“Thank you, Felixter, my precious little cat demon child. The other precious little cat demon child shall be taken care of. And I believe the result will be beneficial for everyone….” Lucille picks up Sephie’s body as a wispy black portal opens at the back of the room. Kiroketsu is already fading in color.
“Nooooooo…..” Kiroketsu whines, flopping onto the floor.
“So...who is this soul donor, anyway?” Felixter would’ve asked this earlier, but he realizes that Lucille probably wouldn’t have told him then, and probably wouldn’t right now either.
“If I told you, you wouldn’t let me do it. But honestly, it’ll work out one way or another. You just have to trust me.” Lucille gently sets Sephie down on the floor next to the portal, and then turns around to step towards Kiro. She grabs him by the tail and tosses the screaming 10-foot monster spirit guardian into the portal behind her as if he weighed no more than a plush doll. Which, as a spirit, he probably did weigh no more than that.
“...Right. I figured I wouldn’t get a clear answer.” Felixter frowns a bit.
“Worry not, my dear. If all works out as I expect, you’ll love me by the end of this.” Lucille pats his head, then scoops Sephie back up, and leaves through the portal.[/color]

[color=f49ac2]Lucille walks back into her home territory, Hell, with Sephie soundly unconscious in her arms. Kiroketsu lies on the hot red ground in front of her, his color returning.
“Uggghhhhh………..whyyyyyyyyyy…..” He groans.
“Come along then, Kiroketsu. Sephie should wake up soon, and we must make haste, lest our chance slips away from us.” Lucille says in a friendly tone, even humming as she walks past him towards the darker recesses of the eternal torture prison.
“Where...w-where are you taking her?!” Kiroketsu scrambles to get himself up, his duties as a guardian becoming much more evident to him now suddenly.
“Towards the person who will give her half of their soul. Or, rather, the creature….” As Lucille leads him forward, Kiroketsu can’t help but notice how dark and distorted it’s starting to get around them.
“It’s a good thing my eyes glow in the dark, man….” Kiroketsu whimpers.
“Hush, we’re almost there.” Lucille is still humming as they approach a soft red glow from further ahead. When they finally stop, Kiroketsu recoils in horror at the thing in front of them. Some kind of weird, transparent, fleshy chamber in the middle of a dark, dark room. The dark, illuminated by the reddish glow from the thing, reveals more of the details of it, like the veins pumping...something into the heart-like chamber, and holding it in place from all sides.
“Oh god, what the hell is this?!” Kiroketsu gags a little.
“The holding place of an old familiar figure of yours, who’s about to be released onto the world once more…” Lucille steps closer to it with Sephie.
From inside of the thing, something swims closer to the transparent walls, to get a good look at the group in front of it. Kiroketsu’s eyes widen in horror. The tiny figure, pink fur, black cape and boots, the tall ivory horns, one being crooked at the top...and those black and red eyes. No doubt about it, it’s-
“Well, well…..hello there, Lucille. Come to taunt me more about the fact that you trapped me down here for so long? It’s been over a year…” The Master sneers.
“No. I have something different in mind.” Lucille grins maliciously at the demon lord. “Something to weaken you before you break out this time.”
“Nng….wha…?” Sephie opens her eyes a bit, looking around in a tired, dazed fashion.[/color]