[center][img]https://i.imgur.com/7ZSpmlc.png[/img][/center] [hider=Ronin & Miko][hider=full picture][center][url=https://i.imgur.com/kB6Km4e.png][img]https://i.imgur.com/kB6Km4e.png[/img][/url][/center][/hider] [u]Name:[/u] Ronin and Miko. Deni and Eli. Real names, Denise and Elizabeth Walton. [u]Age (Magical Girl):[/u] 11 [u]Specialization:[/u] Air and Reinforcement. [u]Weapon:[/u] The [i]Swords[/i]. Melee/Mystic. [u]Power:[/u] Twin Soul and Third Eye. [u]Stats:[/u] [i]STR[/i]: 7 [i]AGI[/i]: 7 [i]VIT[/i]: 6 [i]MAG[/i]: 7 [i]LCK[/i]: 4 [u]Perks:[/u] [list][*][i]Dual Weapon[/i] [*][i]Flexibility[/i] [*][i]Martial Training[/i] [*][i]Get out of Jail[/i] [*][i]Big Damn Heroes[/i] [*][i]Super Map[/i][/list] [u]Patron:[/u] Solo [u]Patron Benefits:[/u] [list][*][i]Free Agent[/i] [*][i]Genki Girl[/i][/list] [u]Patron Drawbacks:[/u] [list][*][i]Alone[/i][/list][/hider] So, the twins were doing pretty well knocking the pieces of armor to the ground, but actually making them stay down looked like it would take a spirit-specialization or someone with a lot more firepower. … That, or they could just run past them, like Lily was doing. And, of course, wherever Lily goes, Alexander follows. Or, perhaps entangling them with vines worked. Like what Gaia did. [color=55B7AA]‘Nice!’[/color] Ronin called at the display (assuming it worked as intended), and with that she leapt out of Miko’s grip and landed back on her feet, Miko looking a little bit embarrassed at the display. It had worked, though. [color=DC9495]‘Let’s not be left behind,’[/color] Miko called, and the twins ran up with the rest, Ronin nodding and throwing a couple more discs and sword-slices if needed at any armors trying to follow them. That aside, they’d be heading with the rest to get back up, with Miko trying to pull out the Super Map again to see if anything had changed while Ronin covered her. __________________ [center][url=https://i.imgur.com/D8A8SOp.png][img]https://i.imgur.com/OGWuw89.png[/img][/url][/center] [hider=Mayra McCullough][hider=full picture][center][url=https://i.imgur.com/D8A8SOp.png][img]https://i.imgur.com/w1TQUme.png[/img][/url][/center][/hider] [b]Name:[/b] Mayra McCullough, or “Flame Demon”, or “Dragon-Spawn” [b]Age:[/b] 15 [b]Specialization:[/b] Fire & Darkness [b]Weapon:[/b] Dragon body (Fists/Mystic) [b]Power:[/b] Duplication [b]Stats:[/b] [i]STR[/i]: 16 [i]AGI[/i]: 14 [i]VIT[/i]: 16 [i]MAG[/i]: 11 [i]LCK[/i]: 6 [b]Perks:[/b] [list][*][i]Purification Artifact[/i] [*][i]Enhanced Outfit[/i] [*][i]Big Backpack[/i] [*][i]Enhanced Sustenance[/i] [*][i]Dual Weapon[/i] [*][i]Awareness[/i] [*][i]Monstrous Metamorphosis[/i][/list] [b]Monster Girl[/b]: [list][*][i]Nonstandard Limbs[/i] [*][i]Chaos Engine[/i] [*][i]Second Specialization[/i] - Dark [*][i]Redirect Magic[/i][/list] [b]Patron:[/b] Asengav, Interdimensional Horror [b]Patron Benefits:[/b] [list][*][i]Minions[/i] [*][i]Magical Overload[/i][/list] [b]Patron Drawbacks:[/b] [list][*][i]Monstrous Form[/i] [*][i]Bane[/i] - Candles and being engulfed in water.[/list][/hider] The dragon grinned deliciously at her feet tore through Gryphon’s wing, and then landed on the same platform as Rachel while their enemy spun off. Rachel saw fit to give a backhanded compliment. [color=fc6828]‘For a hippie butcher wannabe priest judge, you’re not bad yourself!’[/color] Mayra replied to Rachel with more of a happy grin. Then, as the enemy started running and then Gryphon launched up in a green and yellow vortex… [color=fc6828]‘Whoa. Light show.[/color] … As she did that, Mayra took the opportunity to jump, falling back down to join the others. So, that was a scary giant monster, accompanied by scary song. It seemed to bend understanding of the universe itself. Which was honestly fine. They, too, had a power that seemed to bend understanding of the universe itself. Mayra landed with a smirk next to Magical Dream Princess, bending her knees and then making a tiny leap in her direction. [color=fc6828]‘YES! YES WE WANT TO SEE YOUR ULTIMATE WACKY TACKY!’[/color] she called, grinning as she leapt up to MDP grinning. [color=fc6828]‘In fact, let me help you get closer, so mister Wocky can see it better!’[/color] Without further ado, Mayra grabbed at MDP’s arm, and then spun, intending to swing the pastel Magical Girl with her. Then, she allowed a bit of Wonderland’s magic to influence her, because she wanted to sing a little. [color=fc6828]‘Big Jobberdock thinks he will us scare, Thinks he’s the baddest between earth and sky, He’s stupid and wrong, I so declare, YOU BETTER BEWARE THE CUTIEPIE!’[/color] -and with that, she blasted with firepower off the ground, spun with fire-empowered strength for a second, and then just threw MDP with all her might at the vorpal rain and the monster beyond it. __________________ [center][url=https://i.imgur.com/5o9ObXJ.png][img]https://i.imgur.com/Ih8oH7W.png[/img][/url][/center] Freya gazed, taking a sharp breath as the queen raised her blade. As far as she knew, this might be her end. She could be gazing at the blade that was about to kill her. Yet, she would let it. For what it could potentially otherwise bring… and the Queen sliced down, through a portal, and cut Freya in two. The two halves flew separately, beams of black light shining where they’d been cut… then an explosion enveloped them, and… It took not even a fraction of a second before one side swung a gigantic weapon, and the other side rose up high with claws ready. They spun around, the direction they needed to turn towards one another. One, still a lamia, gleamed with yellow eyes like a predator about to strike down its prey. The other, human, glared back in defiance as a huge blade sought to end the predator in the midst of its assault. They looked like they were about to cut one another down where they stood… Then they froze, both of them, glaring at one another from close, one with their claws about to cleave the little human apart and the human with a giant sword about to slice the lamia in half… There they stood, unmoving. [hider=previously, but not on-screen](https://www.roleplayerguild.com/posts/5292779 - This is basically a continuation of the collab here, except I’m the only one writing here) Freya sat calmly with her tail curled around her to make a chair. She’d been trying to meditate, as Penny had suggested. They’d exchanged text messages at multiple occasions over the past few days, discussing how to best tackle the problem at hand. That is, Shelyn. For those not keeping track (I don’t blame you), Freya is the Union Beast; a combination of two people. Herself and the recently named Shelyn. Herself, Freya’s a normal Magical Girl with a Stone specialization, albeit really low magic and rather high physical attributes. Shelyn is a destructive monster, a were-lamia, who when fused with Freya makes them both a Monster Girl. It also makes them hunger for human flesh, something Freya sees as a problem and Shelyn, well, does not. For so long, Freya had been the only one in control, with Shelyn constantly trying to influence her actions from within, until Penny stepped in. It was not until Penny stepped in that Freya even realized Shelyn was something more than just a violent beast trapped within her. [url=https://i.imgur.com/m4rTXOi.jpg][img]https://i.imgur.com/rMgrdyA.png[/img][/url] [color=fa898b]‘The preparations are complete. Do you wish to begin?’[/color] Ronja, the arachnid monster-girl in their group of allies, asked. Surrounding them were a number of magical artifacts, as it required a bit of a ritual in order to complete this spell. [color=C5DBE7]‘I’m ready. Do it,’[/color] Freya said. With her in this experience was also… [center][url=https://i.imgur.com/Y8OSnvr.png][img]https://i.imgur.com/OPMf9l2.png[/img][/url][/center] … Mariette, sitting calmly and simply watching. Freya had asked her to attend. [color=fa898b]‘Alright. I wish you the best of luck~’[/color] Ronja told, and placed a hand on Freya’s head… and immediately the world went black. For Freya, the world flashed into darkness, and she could no longer feel the hand on her head, either. It was like she’d been transferred into a different dimension. One comprised entirely of darkness… Freya shuddered. She knew another dimension full of darkness, the one of her master. It was not one she wished to ever see again. No, this one, it was the world inside her own head, or at least a manifested approximation of it. She was not alone inside it. [hider=shelyn appearance][url=https://i.imgur.com/tsIAXJO.png][img]https://i.imgur.com/hISPT8c.png[/img][/url][/hider] [color=95818C]‘Shhh…’[/color] Shelyn turned to see what strangeness had manifested her into a shape, for normally she was quite formless. Her gaze locked with Freya, who couldn’t help but recoil. It was her first time actually seeing Shelyn, after all, and she had the shape of her once hated enemy of her old world. Shelyn’s eyes locked with Freya’s for two whole seconds. Then the were-lamia burst up into the air, the furred tail slinging her up as she hungrily aimed for Freya, claws and arms all raised to cut through her host…! Freya calmly stood still as Shelyn’s attack came down on her and sliced straight through her. It did no damage. [color=C5DBE7]‘… This is not real,’[/color] Freya calmly said. [color=C5DBE7]‘Ronja has used her psychic powers to give us a plane to communicate on, but it’s not real. We cannot harm each other here.’[/color] [color=95818C]‘Sss…’[/color] Shelyn didn’t reply, merely crossed her arms and defiantly looked away from the one in control of their body. [color=C5DBE7]‘… Shelyn. I wanted to talk to you,’[/color] Freya forced forward. [color=95818C]‘… Why?’[/color] Shelyn asked. [color=C5DBE7]‘Because…’[/color] Freya took a deep breath. [color=C5DBE7]‘Because managing this body would be a lot easier if we’re not at each other’s throats.’[/color] Shelyn turned her gaze towards Freya, who stood there straight and honest. [color=95818C]‘… Feya want to work togethe?’[/color] Shelyn asked, and Freya nodded. Shelyn gave a brief, inhuman laugh, before turning fully back towards Freya with a smirk. [color=95818C]‘Shure. Jive me the body alf the time. It’s only fay,’[/color] Shelyn said, her arms still crossed, but a little smirk on her lips. [color=C5DBE7]‘Okay, one thing at a time,’[/color] Freya said… then recoiled as Shelyn got extremely close, gazing intently at Freya. [color=95818C]‘You ave ad the body fo so long. It not fay. I shoud ave it too…’[/color] she said. [color=95818C]‘But Feya not want to. Feya not tust me. Feya wood neve jive me I want.’[/color] [color=C5DBE7]‘Calm… down. I do want to let you out sometimes, if I can. But before that, I must talk to you. I don’t want you doing anything I don’t want you to do,’[/color] Freya tried to reason. Shelyn stayed quiet for a second or two, then tilted her head. [color=95818C]‘… Like hunting,’[/color] she concluded. [color=C5DBE7]‘If we can avoid killing humans, that’d be great,’[/color] Freya admitted. [color=C5DBE7]‘I have this thing called a “conscience” and it is really hurting from having to hunt humans from time to time,’[/color] she continued, glaring at Shelyn. [color=95818C]‘Shoundsh like it’sh getting in you way,’[/color] Shelyn said, giggling a little. [color=C5DBE7]‘Perhaps,’[/color] Freya replied, shrugging. [color=C5DBE7]‘but that doesn’t change the fact that I want to stop it. Can you work with me here?’[/color] Shelyn took a moment, staring at Freya… [color=95818C]‘I don’t think we ave a choice,’[/color] Shelyn eventually said. [color=95818C]‘It callsh fo me… the taste of flesh,’[/color] she said, showing her teeth and smiling. [color=95818C]‘Not eating… it’sh only joing to jet worshe,’[/color] Shelyn said, as if lording it over Freya. Freya grunted. She was afraid of that. It’s in their nature; nothing they could do would stop it. However, then… [color=C5DBE7]‘Alright,’[/color] she simply said. [color=C5DBE7]‘But I still think I am more okay with giving you control now. Say I go start a monster hunt, and then let you take over. Would that be okay with you?’[/color] Shelyn curled and laid down, but still gazed intently at Freya. [color=95818C]‘Why?’[/color] [color=C5DBE7]‘One thing at a time, I figure,’[/color] Freya replied. [color=C5DBE7]‘Eventually, I was hoping maybe you’d befriend my companions, and maybe then we’d all be more agreeable,’[/color] Freya said. [color=95818C]‘Com… panionsh…?’[/color] Shelyn asked, that grabbing her attention. [color=077ae6]‘Yes. Like me,’[/color] said a voice, separate from the two of them. Shelyn jolted back up at attention. Mariette walked in through the mind’s fog, as Ronja’s magic allowed her to enter. [color=C5DBE7]‘… This is Mariette,’[/color] Freya said. [color=95818C]‘I know who she ish!’[/color] Shelyn expressed, having very much already seen Mariette through Freya’s eyes. The were-lamia was brandishing her claws, despite knowing how useless they were in here. [color=077ae6]‘That makes it easier,’[/color] Mariette nodded. [color=077ae6]‘I was hoping you would be our ally, Shelyn. Things become so much easier with a bit of companionship. We have some friends who would surely love to meet you,’[/color] she said. Briefly imagining Mayra and Shelyn together gave quite a mental image. [color=077ae6]‘But we can’t do that while you’re working against us by plaguing Freya here with inconveniences. I would also be willing to let you work together with us, assuming you’ll be nice to us.’[/color] [color=95818C]‘… Feh. Nishe…’[/color] Shelyn turned her head away. So this was what they were talking about. Shelyn had naturally heard part of the planning for this conversation by just being in Freya’s head, but like usual she tuned everything out because it never mattered to her. [color=C5DBE7]‘Please, Shelyn,’[/color] Freya said, her face pleading. [color=C5DBE7]‘I’ve thought about it a lot since the conversation you had with Penny, and I’ve decided I don’t want to be your enemy. So, please. Work with us? Don’t immediately try to kill someone next time I let you have control?’[/color] Shelyn’s eyes wandered to stare at Freya. She honestly looked so pathetic, pleading to this hostile soul in her head. Shelyn thought it was kinda hilarious. A large part wanted to point and laugh at Freya. That said… [color=95818C]‘… Shure,’[/color] Shelyn eventually replied. [color=95818C]‘I… want to be free. Sho… okay. I’ll ty… try,’[/color] she nodded. Mariette and Freya looked at one another and nodded. It seems they had managed to take the first step to making Freya’s life a bit more peaceful.[/hider] … The two were the beast and the warrior, from a world where the two had been at war. In the end, the beasts had been victorious, but the only thing they had won was the pleasure of starving to death because they had killed everything else. Freya glared at Shelyn, with the memories of all this creature had caused her. Shelyn looked down at Freya, the one she’d wanted to rip apart for so long, and yet… [color=f4d18d]‘… Shelyn,’[/color] Freya spoke. [color=f4d18d]‘We are free. We don’t have to fight.’[/color] [color=95818C]‘But I sho ve-y much wan to,’[/color] Shelyn replied, neither retracting their weapons. [color=f4d18d]‘Right. But don’t you know? There’s an entire world out there. Penny’s out there, too. And don’t you know?’[/color] Freya smirked. [color=f4d18d]‘Didn’t you hear the nice lady? There’s something she wants us to [i]hunt[/i].’[/color] [color=95818C]‘[i]Huu-unt…[/i]’[/color] Shelyn’s eyes narrowed, glaring at Freya. [color=f4d18d]‘Yeah. So how about it? Shall we see who can take it down first?’[/color] Freya asked, retaining her smirk, even as sweat was breaking out. [color=95818C]‘[i]Youuuu…[/i]’[/color] Shelyn replied, not so foolish as to not recognize someone trying to play to her likes, as few as they were. That said… Shelyn smiled, too. [color=95818C]‘[i]I will win[/i],’[/color] she postured. [color=f4d18d]‘[i]Prove it![/i]’[/color] Freya challenged. … And then, claws and sword struck against each other once, before the were-lamia and the human turned and charged as one at the great monster beyond the portal, who was already raising its limbs to enter battle…! [hider=Freya and Shelyn][url=https://i.imgur.com/5IgRkYY.png][img]https://i.imgur.com/b4W5B1m.png[/img][/url] [url=https://i.imgur.com/tsIAXJO.png][img]https://i.imgur.com/hISPT8c.png[/img][/url][/hider] Ronja and Suzette will be cheering for their freed comrade, Victoria will be egging them both on, Tullia will wonder why on earth Mariette isn’t doing the simple solution, while Lea still stood silently. Meanwhile. [center][url=https://i.imgur.com/Y8OSnvr.png][img]https://i.imgur.com/OPMf9l2.png[/img][/url][/center] [hider=Mariette Pedersen][hider=full picture][center][url=http://i.imgur.com/Y8OSnvr.png][img]http://i.imgur.com/TnA9sHf.png[/img][/url][/center][/hider] [b]Name[/b]: Mariette Pedersen [b]Age (Magical Girl)[/b]: 15 [b]Specializations[/b]: Oddball: Portals, Light. [b]Weapon[/b]: Mystic mirror. [b]Power[/b]: Tentacles. [b]Stats[/b]: [i]STR[/i]: 4 [i]AGI[/i]: 4 [i]VIT[/i]: 4 [i]MAG[/i]: 22 [i]LCK[/i]: 10 [b]Perks[/b]: [list][*][i]Gifted[/i] [*][s][i]Interdimensional Home[/i][/s] - The dimension has collapsed. [*][i]Blood Magic[/i] [*][i]Overcity Shift[/i] [*][i]Interdimensional Tourist[/i] - Joe. [*][i]Hammerspace Handbag[/i] [*][i]Ally[/i] - Mayra [*][i]Awareness[/i] [*][i]Absolute Direction[/i] [*][i]Sealing[/i] [*][i]Cuddlespawn[/i] - Demogorgon, the Prince of Demons.[/list] [b]Patron[/b]: Asengav [b]Patron Benefits[/b]: [list][*][i]Creeping Doom[/i] [*][i]Reasonable[/i] [*][i]Minions[/i] [*][i]Retrieval[/i] [*][i]Mystic Might[/i] [*][i]Mana Font[/i][/list] [b]Patron Drawbacks[/b]: [list][*][i]Quick-Tempered[/i] [*][s][i]Mind-Bent[/i][/s] - Removed. [*][i]Insomnia[/i] [*][i]Bane[/i] - Candles and cracked mirrors. [*][i]Health Sapping[/i][/list] [/hider] [color=077ae6]‘… Right, um,’[/color] Mariette turned quickly to Su and Mika. The queen seemed distracted, so she was going to try to talk quickly, while also sorta trying to pay attention to the life-altering event that was happening to Freya behind her because she cared about Freya. [color=077ae6]‘We’re going to try to kill Asengav,’[/color] she said, looking towards Su with a slightly shaky voice. [color=077ae6]‘To do this, we’re starting his ritual. The one he sent us all to Penrose to perform in the first place. It was because I knew I had this opportunity that I didn’t leave his command back then,’[/color] she said. [color=077ae6]‘It’s… it’s going to get worse before it gets better. We’re starting all the mirrors so they start draining the Nexus, and Penrose, of magic. When they’re all activated it will, um, be felt by people in Penrose, but because they’re all occupied with the Queen’s invasion, they won’t… interfere. That’s why we haven’t started the ritual until now. We wouldn’t win. Penrose would crush us.’[/color] [color=077ae6]‘The finishing touch will be made by Asengav himself, in a cave deep under Penrose. That’s where… the Queen claims she can kill him, and I have my own plan. But also-’[/color] her throat got caught in her mouth, as she whispered really silently. [sub][color=077ae6]‘[i]Each moment she spends helping me here, is a moment she’s not cutting down our friends in battle[/i],’[/color][/sub] she whispered. [color=077ae6]‘The Queen, whom I will refer to as “Mother” because she has-’[/color] Mariette considered how to say this. [color=077ae6]‘Because she says she’s my mother,’[/color] Yes. [color=077ae6]‘… She has momentarily taken away my ability to portal so I don’t leave. So I can be happy with her.’[/color] She could gesture to the queen-themed necklace (“the pieces of it looking like magnificently hued and multilayered crystals”) she was wearing, too tight to lift off her neck. [color=077ae6]‘She says she needs to kill Asengav to make a door in the Nexus so she can reach the Grand Magistrate and kill them. And I figured… we have a common goal, there. The first part, anyway. I don’t know what the second one means, entirely. She says they’re the source of all magic, and with the Storyslayer, she can write a happy ending for herself…?’[/color] And that… will do as a summary.