[color=ec008c]At this point, after the spell is casted and Nimika is unable to use her magic, she simply rolls her eyes.
"Oh boy-GAH!" She doesn't fight back at all against anyone's attacks. By the time all is said and done, she lies on the floor, heavily wounded, but still laughing cruelly at the group.
"Foolish mutts..." Nimika grins viciously. "You can beat on me all your little hearts desire...but it's not going to fix a thing, is it? I can't stop Sephie. In fact, you're just wasting your time on me."
"Sou da...." Meora acknowledges the truth of the witch's words with a scowl. She gets up to her feet, Ammi having healed her wounds, and looks towards the door. "We shouldn't let the witch get off easily...but at the same time, we need to help Sephie-chan."
"Maybe I can burn this all away..." Ammi suggests. She holds up a paw to try and begin burning the horrible dark tendrils, which continue to grow across the floor and walls, but it's then that the door to the room opens a bit. The figure that steps out is none other than Cloudy, her eyes a bit spaced out, and her whole body wracked with endless shudders.
"Cloudy?! Oh, my baby!" Ammi forgets about burning the tendrils right away while her daughter walks up to her.
"M....M-Mommy..." Cloudy stops, facing forward, and not even looking at her mother. "...I...I'm s-s-scared...."
"Honey, are you okay? Look at me." Ammi crouches down to her level. At this time, Cloudy finally looks up at her mother. She opens her mouth to say something, and instead, a mass of black tendrils fly out and entangle Ammi. The goddess is stunned, too horrified to speak or react for a good few seconds.
"Dear lord..." Felixter recoils in horror.
"Mo ii-yo!" Meora cries out suddenly, and races over to the door. She flings it open, and is momentarily stunned with the sight that greets her. Inside, the tendrils have grown, completely encasing Sephie, and leaving almost no blank spaces on the walls, floor, or any furniture items in the room. Meora shakes off her shock and gets out her pistol. A few tendrils rise up from the floor of the room, rearing up like snakes, and then moving quick to strike.
"Meora!" Felixter is about to push her out of the way, but Meora flips out of the way of all the tendrils, hits the doorway, kicks off of it, and launches herself onto the top of Sephie's dark cocoon, where it is suspended from the ceiling. She presses her gun right to the connecting point, and unloads bullets into it until it breaks off and the whole thing falls to the floor. Meora does another flip backwards off of the thing, spinning her pistol around in one hand.
The tendrils move away from Sephie's body to reveal her, but in no way do they recede or let up. They move themselves from the walls and floor, still attached to Sephie's heart, and move her out of the room. Sephie leaks black wisps from her blank white eyes and her mouth, completely limp and unresponsive. From her heart itself, a monstrous shriek is sounded out, and the tendrils lash out at Felixter, Meora, and Michael in particular. Some of the remaining ones go on to attack the others around the area as well, but not a single one goes near Nimika.
"I told you..." Nimika works on getting herself back up from the ground, still laughing at her victims. "...It'll destroy her from the inside, and try to do the same with all of her friends..."
"Help them? Why? It's fun to watch them struggle." Amber giggles, growing out a pair of wings so she can watch the battle from outside. Clancy follows her lead.
"That looks like an interesting game they're playing! Ooh, and look how well Cloudy and Sephie are doing at it!" Clancy snickers. "What kind of game do you think that is?"
"Hmm....one about squids?" Amber suggests with a grin.[/color]