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[img]https://fontmeme.com/permalink/220906/45d171115fb412c0373a6246af17f4e7.png[/img][/center][hr][center][@Nallore][@BlueSky44][@Achronum][@Trainerblue192][@Kirah][/center][hr][hr][center][color=f7941d][b]Genosha: August 22nd, 2021 - 10:40 PM [/b][/color][/center][hr][center][h3][b][color=935DB8]Veil[/color] & [color=#DAF7A6]Sunshine[/color][/b][/h3][hr][hr][b]Location:[/b] the Carousel 
[b]Skills:[/b] N/A [/center][hr][color=f7941d]The Stage[/color]

	Selene wasn't hurt from Andy's attack, but she was certainly [i]annoyed[/i]. Her eyes were flashing dangerously, a bit like a provoked animal, ready to attack the next thing that it saw. She was twenty feet tall now, glowing a luminous blue. Her giant blue god-ass was blocking the view of the chaos for anyone north of the main stage. [color=CDC0CF]"LUNA MINOR!"[/color] Selene shouted, her equivalent of screaming Andy's full name in anger. [color=CDC0CF]"Hoc est quod non possumus habere nice quod omnia,"[/color] Selene muttered in Latin, which roughly translated to - [i]this is why we can't have nice things[/i]. 

	Selene took a step forward, her giant blue foot almost crushing some more innocent mutants. She wasn't twenty feet tall anymore - no, she was [i]forty feet tall[/i] now, making the Hulk look infinitely puny by comparison. She crouched down to try to find Andy, her ass hitting the stage lights and sending them careening down to the ground, narrowly missing Dazzler, Lila Cheney, and Echo in the process. Selene hadn't even noticed them yet. They were like flies to her. 

	Selene spotted Andy finally, and pinched Andy's clothing between her finger and hoisted her up into the air. Selene stood to her full height, still rapidly growing with each mutant soul that she devoured. [color=CDC0CF]"Any last words?"[/color] Selene asked her, not able to resist an evil villain moment. 

	Meanwhile, Dazzler and Lila Cheney had thrown themselves into the song - Lila Cheney somehow having a guitar still on her that she used to play, and Dazzler using her powers to boost and amplify, as well as make everything ~aesthetic~ with a light show - 

	[center][youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0mfBt3mhtc[/youtube][/center]

	And then, as Dazzler made it through the chorus, the spell [i]shattered[/i]. 

	The Quiet Council was no longer under Selene's control. 

	But Selene was still forty feet tall and growing, glowing blue, divine, and eating mutant souls like they were candy... One problem was solved, and one problem was getting bigger and bigger by the second. 
	
[color=f7941d]Mutant Underground Table - [/color]

	Poor Legion was trapped inside of the box Miranda had made, sniffling and crying and begging to be released. The personality in charge right now was conflict avoidant, the sort of person to run away and threaten anyone who tried to follow with shaking hands. It would only be a matter of time though before a more violent personality would take over, one with a power that would allow Legion to break free of the box, and even though the spell had ended, who was to say this personality wouldn't kill Miranda anyways?

[color=f7941d]Shi'Ar Bartender Set-Up[/color]

	Pixie gave Callie a bit of a smile. "There's a spell for almost everything - except for your haircut, unfortunately," she said cheerfully. "I could give you the name of my hairdresser, she's really great." She was one of those people who was sweet and venomous at the same time - usually more the former, but Pixie was [i]incredibly[/i] stressed out. [u][b]And there was an unfortunate side effect of Selene's ascension, one that was afflicting all magic users all over the world - a pounding headache that was threatening to get worse and worse by the minute. [/b][/u]

	"Once I stop the chant, the spell ends - so hopefully you spot your friend soon," Pixie said, before beginning to chant in Welsh. Anyone within a one mile radius of Pixie who was cloaking themselves with invisibility was no longer invisible - which meant that for now, until Pixie stopped chanting, Callie would be able to go find Veil. 

	But it turned out that Pixie's spell wasn't needed. Veil would've removed her invisibility all by herself, as Dazzler, Lila Cheney, and Echo broke Selene's spell with a catchy tune. Veil suddenly appeared, blood on her hands, and bodies near her feet. She gasped and startled backwards, letting out a scream of anguish at the nightmare she had been plunged into. Veil didn't have any words. She didn't know what to say. All she knew was that she desperately, desperately wanted this to [i]not be real[/i]. 

	She was a protector of the innocent, not their killer! Veil's immediate impulse was that this had to be some sort of a trick. If it wasn't, if she had done this... then Veil wouldn't know how to live with herself. How could she face herself in the mirror, knowing she had stolen people's lives from them? How could she sleep at night, knowing the pain and suffering she had caused? Veil wished that she could have died instead. 

	She wished she was dead. 

[color=f7941d]Midway Between Shi'Ar Bar and Underground Table[/color]

	Ben didn't care that James had been mind controlled - not at first, at least. His best friend had been killed by him. Casper's blood was literally on James' hands. Whenever they managed to break James from Selene's spell, that fact wouldn't change. The anger and rage burned inside of Ben like a fire, as he contemplated just how [i]easy[/i] it would be to kill James, to just continue to tighten and tighten his grip, even as James' body adapted and turned into something like silly putty. 

	[i]"Fine,"[/i] Ben almost growled, releasing his grip on James and letting James fall unceremoniously to the floor. 

	He eyed Jack doubtfully thought. His information may have been out of date, but he didn't recall Jack being able to casually trap people inside of their own heads. And he had never heard Casper admit casually to being immortal. Sure, Casper had had dozens of near death experiences - some of which Ben witnessed as a ghost - but actually dying? Ben was skeptical. "How about you start elaborating?" he asked Jack, and it was clear by his tone it was somewhat of a threat.