[center][img]https://img.roleplayerguild.com/prod/users/16a8bf35-d965-4909-ac95-0db9781b733e.png [/img][/center] [center][img]https://i.imgur.com/udsgqgr.png[/img][/center] [center][hider=Connie and Mia Stats] [center][color=DarkOrchid][h2]Connie[/h2][/color] 3 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 3 5 | 4 | 6 | 17 | 5 Oddball: Nightmares | Tentacles Enhanced Weapon | Power Artifact | Mystic Artifact | Ally | Interdimensional Home Focused | Mental Link | Hidden Death | Mana Font | Mystic Might Alien Mind | Formless | Rival Force | Clueless [/center] [hr] [center][color=SpringGreen][h2]Mia[/h2][/color] 3 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 5 | 8 | 7 | 17 | 5 Wood | Barrage Enhanced Weapon | Dual Weapon | Purification Artifact Blessing | Divine Competence | Gifted Item | Mana Font | Mystic Might Rites| Arrogance | Big Brother | Clueless [/center] [/hider][/center] [center][hider=MDP Stats] [center][color=DeepPink][h2]Magical Dream Princess[/h2][/color] 3 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 3 4 | 9 | 4 | 19 | 8 Oddball: Sweet Dreams | Barrage Wealth and Resources (not while tf'd) | Enhanced Weapon | Power Artifact | Dual Weapon | Natural Aging | Money Focused | Mental Link | Hidden Death | Mana Font | Mystic Might Alien Mind | Formless | Rival Force | Clueless [/center] [/hider][/center] [center] [@PlatinumSkink] [@Ariamis] [@Flamelord] [@Majoras End] [@AtomicNut] [@MadManMoon] [/center] With Sonia’s help, Tenebra was able to create a rather crude, but nonetheless effective, portal. Unfortunately, before anyone standing on Ronin’s barrier platform could make their way through it, a gargantuan tentacle emerged from a portal directly below the barrier and shattered it with a single, mighty blow. Connie yelped in alarm as she and the others fell towards the portal below them. Things were looking exceedingly grim, but then she heard a cheerful voice call out. [color=DeepPink]“Don’t worry, girls~! Magical Dream Princess is here to save the day~! (giggle!)”[/color] Enlarging her cloud to more than quadruple its normal size, MDP raced over to catch her falling friends and carry them over to where Tenebra and Sonia had made their portal. No small number of writhing hands and tentacles sought to bar their path, but MDP was having none of it. [color=DeepPink]“You icky wicky tentacle wentacles and handsy wandsies are, like, total wotal meanie weainie heads! Magical Dream Princess thinks you need to go bye bye~! Bye bye~!”[/color] she called, while sweeping her wand across the writhing mass. This sent out a mighty wave of rainbow energy, which disintegrated every last one of the twisted appendages in a shower of prismatic sparkles. After racing through the portal, Sonia quickly closed the spatial tear, but not before a few tentacles managed to poke their way through. Having been severed by the portal’s dissolution, the tendrils squirmed on the floor for a moment, before MDP blasted them with a few glittery beams from her wand. [color=DeepPink]“Magical Dream Princess said it’s time to go bye bye, you nasty wasty thingie wingies!”[/color] She pouted as she finished off the last of The Collector’s severed appendages. They found themselves in a gothic-style corridor, which branched off at a 90-degree turn to one side of them. For now, they all took a moment to catch their collective breath, before planning their next course of action. [color=SpringGreen]“My sincere thanks, Tenebra,”[/color] Gaia said with a smile after they had made it safely through the silver-haired girl’s portal. [color=SpringGreen]“I, for one, did not wish to remain in that chamber of horrors a moment longer than I had to.”[/color] [color=DarkOrchid]“S-S-Same h-here,”[/color] a trembling Connie agreed, while clinging tightly to Gaia. [color=SpringGreen]“And my thanks to you as well, your Highness,”[/color] the verdant magical girl added, while turning to face MDP. [color=SpringGreen]“If not for your timely rescue, I fear that very few of us would be standing here. I am truly in your debt.”[/color] [color=DeepPink]“Like, Magical Dream Princess was super duper happy wappy to helpsie welpsie~! (giggle!)”[/color] the childish magical girl replied with a big smile. [color=DeepPink]“If her friendsie wendsies are in trouble wouble, she’ll, like, always be there for them~! That’s, like, her super duper pinky winky promise~! (giggle!)”[/color] Before anything more could be said, bolts of energy started flying their way. The source of the attack was soon revealed as a series of gun turrets emplaced in the corridor walls. Ronin was quick to put up barriers to deflect the shots that might have struck Connie, Gaia, or MDP, but she couldn’t block them all, and her barrier couldn’t hold out for long… Thankfully, Alicia skillfully dispatched most of the turrets with several precise shots from her bow, while Ronin managed to slice another apart with her sword. As soon that had been dealt with, another threat made itself known: the sound of an approaching monster patrol. While the others prepared to engage them the moment they rounded the corner ahead, Gaia raised an elegant hand, calling for attention. [color=SpringGreen]“If I may be so bold,”[/color] the verdant magical girl began, [color=SpringGreen]“Perhaps my dearest Connie would be best suited to seeing off these adversaries?”[/color] [color=DarkOrchid]“I-I’ve, uh, b-been g-getting b-better w-with my n-nightmare m-magic,”[/color] the masked girl explained. [color=DarkOrchid]“S-So, um, m-maybe I c-can s-scare t-them off, s-so we w-won’t h-have t-to f-fight t-them…”[/color] If everyone is in agreement, Connie will send a medium strength nightmare pulse in the direction of the approaching patrol, causing the monsters to experience their deepest fears/nightmares and hopefully run off.