[IC] Portal Hoppers *REMAKE*

[Snarfulblast]

"FRIENDS THAT HAVENT TRIED TO KILL ME." Karl yells at the daemon."Yes they followed us and they have been the nicest anyone has ever been since my mom." Karl walks over to the shadows drops on all fours and acts like a cat, rubbing against their legs and purring as well.

[ShadowVentus]

@SephietheEvil Morgan doesn't stop there. "Shadow Dragon's Roar!" she quickly uses this moment of opportunity against Noruani and exhales a blast of shadows at the witch, the attack engulfing her entirely with shadows, hopefully overwhelming her to the point of defeat or simple magic fatigue. "Alright, I hadn't planned until using this until later, but better now than never..Tactician's Seal!" While time is still on her side, she activates a seal that she had kept hidden for the longest time, doing so by summoning a bright flame in the palm of her right hand and simply crushing it, causing the seal to activate. Whether it'd been obvious or not, once Morgan activates the seal, this causes an invisible protective barrier to form on the door that her father and Sephie are currently resting in, preventing anyone from entering or escaping. Also, to add some extra defense, the seal alters the door, warping it into a door that contains three keyholes, each one of them currently locked. This hints that in order to unlock the door, one must track down and defeat the three guardians of that door or die trying.

[Ater FireSoul]

The Shade shivers when Karls windpipes were crushed and moved toward him slowly, but then stops seeing he was fine.

[SephietheEvil]

While watching the battle, Felixter and the others hear stomping in the distance, and turn to see a large wooden figure making its way through the forest in a rather destructive manner. All of them blink in surprise. "W...what is that?" Kayori asks. "You think the witches or the Master are behind that...?" Ammi frowns. "Regardless, if it gets too close, I'll turn the whole thing to ash..." "It doesn't seem like something they'd do...let us just monitor it from the side. The real focus of things is below us." Felixter shakes his head in response. Meanwhile, as the group is distracted, a small, fast orange snake slithers its way up the stairs and past their feet... Noruani continues trying to push against Morgan's torrent of shadows with all of her might, but it seems that once again, the most knowledgeable witch of the group is overpowered by the limits of her smaller body. It always happened that way for Noruani. While her sisters could actually strike someone on their own without magic, Noruani found herself unable to do so, because of her size and stature. At the moment, though, it seemed Noruani wasn't frustrated with that. In fact, as she started giving up and letting the shadows overtake her, she was giggling with glee. "Meora-chan....terminate..." Noruani whispered with a sly grin before she stopped pushing back the shadows with her magic completely. On the battlefield, Meora's ears perked up at the command, and she found herself trembling again as she fought for control over herself. She was still standing rigidly still in the same place, but now, the hand holding her pistol was slowly raising on it's own, and pressing the weapon up to her temple. In desperation, she struggled against that one finger on the trigger, the only thing standing between life and death for her now. Natasha glares at Joe after hearing his response to her proposition. She sighs, rolling her eyes. "These people...why, oh why do they always choose the harder route? Fine. It matters not, I suppose. In the end, the Master will always get what he desires...no simple little mutts like yourselves will ever get in the way of someone as powerful as he." Natasha smirks, shapeshifting into a large demon beast with shiny dark green skin, huge teeth and claws, and larger wings. Her horns become larger, but her witch hat still remains on her head. She dodges most of the oncoming fire and ice bolts, but the ones that hit seem to matter less to her now. She surrounds herself in violent green magic, turns around, and starts flying towards the edge of the battlefield, where one certain person still sits. "FOR SUCH INSOLENCE, THE INNOCENT SHALL PAY!" Natasha roars with outstretched claws. Mirui turns around to see a dark green monster heading straight for her, and starts to scream. "MIRUI!" Kiroketsu shouts with horror where he lies on the battlefield, having just put himself back together. He gets up in a hurry with his guitar in his claws, and goes as fast as he can. He arrives just in time to land a perfect shot, connecting his guitar successfully with the witch at last, and hitting her a few feet away. "YEAH!" Kiroketsu fist-pumps with a huge grin of satisfaction. Mirui is still shaking, but she lets out a large sigh of relief. "IT TAKES MUCH MORE THAN A GUITAR TO TAKE ME DOWN, BOY..." Natasha snarls, getting back up and facing Kiroketsu. "BRING IT, UGLY HAG!" Kiroketsu hisses back. Natasha lets out a demon screech of fury and zooms at the spirit guardian. He holds her claws at bay by blocking them with his guitar (which is surprisingly not scratched by any of this, let alone broken), while extending out his tongue and wrapping it around her neck to try and choke her. His face turns a bit green, and not just because of the witch's magic. "UGH...tastes....horrible...!" Kiroketsu chokes out. Nymne is about to say something else to her sister, when she hears someone behind them all of a sudden. Nymne turns to see Lucas standing there, and for a moment, contemplates whether or not she should dispose of the witness. Would he really do anything? And if he did...would it matter much? "It is none of your concern, boy. Nothing is wrong here. I am just having a rather important chat with my little sister." Nymne replies to Lucas with a complacent smile. Nelodine doesn't say anything, but doesn't give off the impression that she's really in trouble either. "I'm sure Queen Shadowelle would LOVE to have you down for a party!" Amber grins happily. "Yeah! We're the queen's favorites, so any friend of ours is a friend of hers for certain!" Clancy nods in agreement. "Well, I-" Nimika starts, but stops as soon as she sees Karl being attacked. Of course, she doesn't do anything to stop this at all, as it looks as if he deserved it. Nimika simply turns her attention back to the demon, walking along with his and listening to what he has to say. "Them?" Nimika glances back at Amber and Clancy, then turns back to the guide demon. "Friends? No. They just followed me here...but, really, I've had experience with those two. They're on the same level as Karl here seems to be." She explains, then nods at his explanation of the council. She grins. "Well, the real power comes from my commander, the Master, as he's called. However, as his top worker and representative, I'm sure I can do just fine with impressing the council..." Back where Amber and Clancy are, they turn to the next person to address them, and grin. "Oh, yeah, we followed you~!" Amber admits with a hum. "It seemed like a fun adventure to go on!" Clancy adds enthusiastically. Both of the shadows then notice Karl and start laughing again. "It's so good to know that there are such cool people till out there~!" Both of the shadows say simultaneously.

[Snarfulblast]

"PARTY TIME!!! LETS GO!" Karl joins in the shadows laughter. Srg seeing Meora put her gun to her head, he runs up, grabs her arm and pulls it down so that the gun is pointing at him."Pull the trigger, I'll survive trust me little one Srg knows what he is doing." He tells her hoping she has enough strength to the fight the witches magic. "Okay family matters. If you really need help I think screaming will work." Lucas backs up and goes back to the room, which he now finds locked. "Okay guess I'll just sit here then." He sits down next to the door. "Hey now I'm the only one who gets to beat up Kiro." Joe seeing Natasha go to attack Mirui and then Kiro jumping between them, switches stances once more and does some awesome rolls to stand next to Kiro. He then throws a couple of kegs at Natasha covering her in beer, which he then proceeds to set on fire using his fire breath attack.

[TheGodofTacos]

Reaching the edge of the clearing where the battle was going on the wooden figure pick up and tree and it chunked it into the battle then charges into the battle after the tree. "Well why have you two followed us?" Gerose puzzled by the two shadows acting like Karl in many ways. "Are you in need of assistance?" Getting more and more confused with each question asked. "What the hell are you?" "How did you get in?" "Why are you two and Karl so much alike?"

[ShadowVentus]

Seeing Srg do what she and a few other people she knows would consider the most idiotic move ever, Morgan quickly transforms into a shadow and races over to them, jumping from the shadows and quickly grabbing the gun , diving back down in the shadows with it tucked safely away in a holster she also managed to grab off a close friend of her father's once upon a time. She then reforms behind a nearby tree, trying to catch her breath and regain a bit of energy. "Man...father, I hope you wake up soon...at this rate, I might not be able to fully focus in battle.." She states to herself, quietly panting as she slumps unto the ground, sitting under the shade of the tree as she now takes the time to heal any possible wounds she may have received during her recent chain of fights.

[Snarfulblast]

Srg seeing the gun disappear he drops her hand."Never mind little one but please forgive me for this." He knocks her out with a quick punch making sure that she isn't hurt he stands guard so that no more harm will come to Meora. Joe turns as he hear this giant woosh, seeing the giant tree and wooden figure coming he grabs Kiro and Miuri, and rolls out of the giants way. BOB continues to fire his magic thinking to his skeletal self, 'I don't like fire, I like ice though and lighting.' He stops shooting fire balls and starts casting frost bolts and lighting lances slowing and shocking anyone who doesn't have an anti-magic shield. Kyru turns towards the giant and thinking to herself 'What hurts wood? Fire but I can't use fire moves. Well wood is like grass and ice hurts grass. No that wouldn't work. Unless ...' waiting to see if BOB'S ice magic hurts the giant, Kyru dissipates her clones and watches hoping that she can use her ice moves on this lumbering thing.

[TheGodofTacos]

The Wooden Giant blocks all the frost with the tree it picked up and then destroys Bob with one great swoop then turns to Srg and slams it's tree into him trowing him back.

[Snarfulblast]

Srg flying backwards shoots a few FrostFire bolts at the giant, hoping that when he lands he doesn't die or lose a limb.

[SephietheEvil]

While Felixter and a few of Sephie's other friends continue to watch the battle going on below the hotel carefully, the orange snake from earlier has made its way behind all of them, and has soundlessly transformed back into Numirra. As the group of friends is distracted with concern for their other friends on the field, they are at a disadvantage. Numirra places one foot on the ground in front of the other, and the ground around her glows with faint orange energy. "It's charging right into the battlefield!" Kayori cries in regards to the huge wooden figure on the move. "Should I go try to burn it now?" Ammi growls. Before Felixter can make any kind of statement to either or them, all of them are suddenly grabbed by the ankles by tendrils of orange magic, and electrocuted for a few seconds, until they're dazed. Kayori falls over, while Ammi and Felixter struggle to recover. "W-what was...that...?" Felixter mumbles, shaking his head. "What? This?" Numirra yawns and does the same thing to them again. Nelodine and Nymne nod to Lucas, and watch him leave before turning back to each other to continue their conversation. "You want to help me? B-but...helping me would mean helping Sephie too. There's no way around that." Nelodine frowns slightly. "I'm aware. I have no problem with that for now." Nymne shrugs. "And I never will, if they don't choose to get directly in my way. Honestly, I admire how long they've survived, despite almost every possible factor being against them..." "S-so...what do we do? If our sisters come up here looking for me-" Nelodine starts. "-I'll pull the 'savage' card." Nymne cuts her off with a smirk. "They still think I'm a killer beast who only speaks through animal sounds. I could just attack them in an uncontrollable rampage, right?" "I guess so..." Nelodine nods slowly. Suddenly, both witches are hit with the sounds of the battle outside, specifically the large, hulking wooden beast stomping around, and also the sounds of dangerous electricity from the lobby. "Things are getting rougher now, aren't they...?" Nymne murmurs. "M-maybe we should try to wake up Sephie....um, I-I'm gonna go check on her." Nelodine starts running off in the directiont hat Lucas went. Nymne follows her at a less hurried pace. "W-what?" Nelodine blinks when she finds the door that Sephie and Michael are behind, but sees that the lock has changed drastically, and the door won't open. "What...what is this?" "Looks as if someone altered the door with some sort of magic." Nymne suggests when she arrives at the door. "It won't open without 3 special keys, or so it looks..." "Where do we get them? Are you sure there's no other way?" Nelodine turns to her older sister. "I don't know the answer to those questions, unfortunately, but I know that whoever did this must." Nymne responds. "And if I had to take a guess, I'd say the one responsible is someone out there on the battlefield as we speak..." Though she's trying her best to keep herself in control, Meora finds herself just about to pull the trigger, until her gun is suddenly swiped from her hands. She glances back towards Morgan with a small smile...and then she's suddenly punched, sent hurtling to the ground. She's sure that she passes out, but a second later, she opens her eyes in a dream world of some sort. She's been here before. It has always been a sort of "meeting room" for her, her soul, her conscience, and other parts within her. It looks similar to that of a quaint little Japanese tea room. "Hora..." Meora murmurs. "Konnichiwa, Meora-sama." Meora turns at the sound of her own voice from the other side of the room. A girl identical to her in appearance (besides this girl being much more groomed...) sits peacefully on a pillow at one side of a small table with a tea set. This Meora appears to be wearing a silky, emerald-green kimono with golden details, and a jade green sash. She gestures to the other pillow at the opposite end of the table. The real Meora sits down. "Why am I here again, Maore-sama?" Meora asks her calmer self. "Oh, I just thought you might like to take care of the little disturbance you've been facing here personally." Maore, as she's called, sips from a teacup, then points to a corner of the room. A small lavender-colored nightmare creature of sorts crawls around on the wall, turning it a dirty dark purple. It is undoubtedly the manifestation of Noruani's presence in Meora's mind. "Your weapons are in the other room. The door to the left." Maore is strangely calm and collected despite the monster in the same room with them. "Have at it, Meora-sama." "Hai. Arigatou." Meora grins as she heads away towards the weapon room. "This should be fun..." "Souka." Maore's small smile grows a bit, in a secretive sort of way, "I'm partially here to keep you intact, aren't I...?" And though all of this goes on in her head, in reality, Meora is out cold on the ground temporarily from Srg's punch, only twitching slightly every now and again. Noruani now lies on the ground, still breathing, but utterly exhausted, and unable to move much. She watches the battle continue on with a bit of a smirk still left on her face. She even giggles slightly, but it hurts to. What catches her eye the most is Morgan, as she runs to take cover after taking Meora's weapon away. "...Father......" Noruani pulls a faint, creepy grin. "GREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!" Demon-monster Natasha lets out a horrific screech as she's set ablaze, and immediately starts twisting around in Kiroketsu's grip to try and get away, so she can put herself out. In the meantime, Kiroketsu suddenly finds himself going from laughing like a madman at the burning demon witch in front of him, to tackled over, along with Mirui, away from something big in the distance. He ends up pulling his tongue back away from Natasha in the process, as the monstrously transformed demon witch swoops away in the opposite direction to avoid the tree flying into the battlefield. Mirui looks up at the huge wooden figure chasing after the tree it threw into the battlefield, and screams with fear. "What the hell is THAT?!" Kiroketsu cries, a bit intimidated himself. While letting Mirui cling to his arm, he tries to use his link with Sephie's soul to tap into her thoughts, to check if she's awake. "C-c'mon, Seph! WE NEED YOUR CRAZY MURDEROUS-NESS!" Kiroketsu begs aloud. "HECK YEAH, PARTY TIME!" Amber cheers aloud in agreement. "LET'S GO TAKE OVER AN AMUSEMENT PARK AGAIN!" Clancy suggests with a wide grin. Both of the shadows laugh aloud, giddy with thoughts of their future plans. They turn to Gerose to address his questions. "We don't really have a reason for following you here. We just wanted to see the seeeeecrets that could be hidden!" Amber giggles. "We rode along with Nimika's shadow on the ground there. See?" Clancy points to the witch's shadow. "We can melt into dark places. Including the cracks of the brain. That's how we possess people sometimes!" "As for why we're so much like Karl..." Amber begins. "...We don't know, but we think he's awesome!" Clancy finishes the statement, and both shadows laugh again.

[Snarfulblast]

Karl stops dead in his tracksturns to the shadows and whispers reverently, "You thinkI'm awesome." He faints, gets up and hugs them both. "Oh hey again. Yeah the doors locked." Lucas looks up from his book at witches now in front of him. After finally hitting a tree Srg falls to the ground completely out cold. In his head Shadow Srg walks up to him."Well now hasn't the little boy been beat up?" Srg looks up, "The hell do you want?", "Let me out I will stop this giant, you know I can.", "No if I let you go you'll just wander off and take the darkness from everyone, leaving all of them at your mercy.", "Wrong my power may grow with each and every shadow and darkened soul I take, or at least absorb the darkness from them, that I grow in power. And the last shadows I took were enough to power me up to fight the giant in combat and win. Also the witches make prime targets for shadow stealing.","Fine go." Shadow Srg smiles and then is gone re appearing in front of the knocked out Srg. "Time to kick some axe." He pulls out his weapon a battle axe. "Well that was close." Joe stands up just to see Srg go flying by and hit a tree, and then see Shadow Srg appear. "Well fudge nuggets." Fedorman turns and punches the orange witch in the face so hard it sends her flying backwards.

[TheGodofTacos]

Seeing the new shadow Srg the head of the wooden monster started flashing random assortments it then started to swing it's arm in a windmill like fashion getting faster and faster the more it swings until it got to the point wind was forcefully pushing everyone away from the monstrosity. It also starts walking forward to shadow Srg looking like it knew what to do when it came to shadows.(>>>"Hint,Hint."<<<) "Well..." Clearly unsure what to say next. "Why do you take over amusement parks?" Walking away he then states. "Never mind you keep your games to between you three." taking a left turn disappearing from their sights. "Well i'm sure you will do just find." Walking up a long set of stairs leading to a big dome made of gold like the rest of the city, but the dome is sparkling with gems and jewels to much even for the richest of kings. "With my vote and those that can't help to be." he stops thinking for a second then adds. "Charmed by your looks." gives a quick nudge. "And the 2 Elder Deamons will like your idea if you show them what good it will do for their city."

[Snarfulblast]

"Oh alright come here big boy." Shadow Srg summons up a lot of his power to cast a powerful ice blast seeing if it will freeze the giant in place, after he teleports to Joe's shadow.

[TheGodofTacos]

Knocking the ice out of the way with one of its arms in one swift motion (slowing that hand down) it then slams its tree into joe casting him along with shadow srg back into the woods. Running after them changing his other hand (Slowed one) into a pendulum torture device swinging it back and forth.

[ShadowVentus]

@SephietheEvil Quickly taking advantage of the situation, Morgan turns into a shadow once again, this time returning unto the battlefield to retrieve Meora. Once she reaches her incapacitated friend, she grabs takes her into the shadowy side of things and runs off, moving with her comrade as a shadow.

[Snarfulblast]

"Oh crap that guys strong." Shadow Srg gets up and unleashes a torrent of ice upon the wooden giant, seeing that his previous attack had slowed it down. Joe gets up, looking up at the giant. "Nope I'm out." he rolls out of the way getting back to Kiro to help him and his crush.

[TheGodofTacos]

Blocking most of the ice base spells with its tree few getting past to hit the giant the tortured started slowing down with more and more ice spells hitting him until its "jaw" opened up and released fire turning its head 360 degrees speeding it back up kicking shadow Srg into the air and slams him back down with the tree it was using as a shield.

[Snarfulblast]

"Oh screw this." Shadow Srg rolls out of the way if the tree when he hits the ground. "ARMY OF THE DEAD." As he shouts this an veritable army of undead appear from the ground mostly Warriors with a few Mages in the army. The mage cast ice spells on the giant most of them aiming for it's face. The warriors attack with their icicles, witch break as they hit the giant causing more ice to appear on it's legs. Then the hit it with their fist, trying to distract it from their master. "Ok now for a reappearance, BOB!" This time BOB re appears but this time bigger and no longer just a mage, he has been turned into a Lich due to Shadow Srg's power allowing BOB to use better spells and take more hits. BOB summons a skeletal minion of his own which shoots ice magic at the giant, BOB moves farther away to cast his ice magic from a safe distance.

[TheGodofTacos]

The tortured creaking and groaning under the heavy onslaught of ice base spells but shows no signs of stopping it grabs a hand full of trees and start chunking all of them at the army, after smashing the tiny army starts sprinting toward Bob crushing trees along the way it picks up an tree.