[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] Mika had some accurate observations there. Then, her mom could beat Mariette’s mom. Mariette didn’t exactly have an answer, but it was cute. [color=077ae6]‘… There is,’[/color] Mariette said about there being a reason she hadn’t told all of this before. The less that knew the better, if Ronja just decided to read the mind of the wrong person then Mariette’s life would be forfeit. When Su talked about how this was simply replacing one tyrant for another, Mariette’s expression grew pained. [color=077ae6]‘I am aware. This was not how these events were originally supposed to take place… In the original plan, Mother wasn’t here. But… we will adapt.’[/color] Mariette did have a response to how important her revenge was. That it wasn’t revenge, it was to free those Asengav had enslaved, and to prevent him from hurting or enslaving anyone else in the future. But, that was when the others were done… [center][url=https://i.imgur.com/5IgRkYY.png][img]https://i.imgur.com/GD9tVHf.png[/img][/url] [url=https://i.imgur.com/tsIAXJO.png][img]https://i.imgur.com/Ud1OZ8G.png[/img][/url][/center] The magical girl human warrior and the were-lamia monster-girl both charged into the freezer at once. Freya swung her sword, and noticed the magic that had been previously used to restrain Shelyn was now back under her command. With her swings, she cracked the walls, slabs of dirt came up as shields, before she sent boulders hurtling at their opponent, and then, disguised by the boulders, came Freya herself, swinging her sword. Shelyn, independent from Freya, darted around with intense speed, much more of a brawler or a hunter than Freya’s balance between the defensive and offensive, launching herself at the exposed identified weak points of the giant brute to try to tear them assunder. However, there she suddenly discovered an issue. The giant sent blasts of ice, mountains of ice formed from every slam… and even though they did not hit, Shelyn found that they hurt. Freya realized with a start. Of course she’d known about it, her previous bane. Ice was her bane. Because the were-lamia could not stand the cold. Freya had been excited, that she could now fight without being held back by such a weakness… but Shelyn could not. In fact, she was confused, why she hurt from even being close to the matter. The were-lamia felt her power draining, her speed slowing, and it looked like the giant would crush her with a slam of its icy club… When instead it struck stone. Shelyn looked up in surprise, and there was Freya. Defending her, a sword supported by rock blocking the attack, barely. Freya glanced back with a serious frown. Shelyn understood, albeit growled. They would have to work together. The fight continued, and Freya took the front-line, blocking ice attacks and fighting the monster head-on… but the monster was obviously stronger. But, here and there, Shelyn flashed in at the right time to cut its ankles, or throw a spear of rock that Freya had given her from a distance. Eventually, just as Freya looked like she would be crushed under the club, a rock thrown by Shelyn struck the icy monster square in the eye. Freya then summoned the greatest stalagmite she could and slammed it up into the air… where Shelyn grammed the stalagmite and with her superior strength struck it directly down into the chest of the monster, caving in its ribcage, shattering its lungs, stomach and heart. The beast fell with a great thud, and only because the two had worked together. Shelyn fell, gasping, still hurting from all the ice scattered around that still acted as her bane, while Freya ran over to try to care for her… [color=f4d18d]‘Right, we got to get you out of here… Great fighting. I suppose you won that,’[/color] Freya said, trying to pick Shelyn up. [color=95818C]‘Ssshhhhh…!’[/color] Shelyn glared at Freya, [i]intensly[/i] frustrated the only reason she survived the fight was because Freya defended her… the one who had kept her locked away for so long. Yet… yet she had defended her. … Shelyn would have to sort out her feelings on the matter later. The Queen was approaching them, and… Placed her sword on the shoulders of Freya and Shelyn, and pronounced them princesses. As she did, magic surged through them… deeply, deeply satisfying magic, and both of their eyes widened out of the surprise at the sensation. [color=f4d18d]‘Wh-whoa-’[/color] Freya got a bit dizzy, this felt like luxury and she hadn’t experienced luxury… ever. Neither had… [color=95818C]‘Shh…’[/color] Shelyn held onto Freya, who was still close, eyes deeply, deeply confused. [color=95818C]‘Vashal… Pinsheshesh…?’[/color] she attempted to pronounce the words she didn’t understand. But, whatever this woman just did to her… she wanted more of it… [color=f4d18d]‘…’[/color] Unlike Shelyn, Freya had been paying attention during the briefings, and was aware who the Queen was… but better follow, and see what happened for now. She wasn’t exactly the princess-type… Meanwhile. By Mariette. [color=077ae6]‘… After the one in the freezer, one left on the surface. After that, it will be the main one…’[/color] she replied to how many mirrors there were left. Then the Queen came by and lifted her chin, and Mariette did her best to not show her fear. She did her best to nod to her words. [color=077ae6]‘… Yes, mother,’[/color] she said. Now, first she had to walk over to put her hand on the mirror in the museum, because she hadn’t, and start that one. Seen for the first time by Su and Mika was the a whirlpool appearing in the mirror, nothingness swirling in the center of the mirror on display as magic from the outside world was starting to be drained into it, and each person present would feel a tug on them. Mariette would then turn, to head for the next one… [center][img]https://i.imgur.com/sKJ5riZ.png[/img] [img]https://i.imgur.com/rMgrdyA.png[/img][/center] [color=ffd230]‘Hey, so, sorry I gotta ask, but are we not following the plan, then?’[/color] Suzette asked, pointing at the mirror and then looking over at the Queen and Mariette. [color=ffd230]‘Because she sort of told us to follow her,’[/color] she said, meaning the Queen. [color=fa898b]‘The protectors of each mirror were to stay by their mirrors when the ritual started, to protect them,’[/color] Ronja explained to the Queen. [color=fa898b]‘Me and Suzette by this one,’[/color] indicating the one in the museum. [center][img]https://i.imgur.com/P2tVfst.png[/img] [img]https://i.imgur.com/u1b416E.png[/img][/center] [color=6cbad4]‘Y-yeah, and me and Victoria in the freezer,’[/color] Tullia added. [color=6cbad4]‘[sub]albeit how we were to be there when the uncooperative monster was there is beyond me[/sub]’[/color] [color=9c87c9]‘We were supposed to jump out and finish off the exhausted attackers after they managed to take down the monster,’[/color] Victoria chuckled thinking about it. Suzette nodded. [color=ffd230]‘Yupp. And then Mayra and Jelena on the warehouse one, albeit I guess both of those are out…’[/color] Jelena because a bomb had hurt her badly, and Mayra because… well, Suzette didn’t know, honestly. Wasn’t she with Mariette last she knew? [color=ffd230]‘And Freya’s supposed to be backing up Esther in the little forest.’[/color] [color=077ae6]‘Yes, that was the original plan…’[/color] Mariette confirmed. [color=077ae6]‘But, do as mother said. Follow… [sub]unless?[/sub]’[/color] she’d throw a glance at the Queen to see if she changed her mind hearing this. Regardless, after that was determined Mariette would walk into the freezer, past the corpse of the giant monster, and then put her hand on the mirror in there. The same swirl started there, in this freezer located in the often monster-infested sewers of Penrose. With that done… [color=077ae6]‘Alright. You can open the portal to the last mirror now. And… keep your distance from it,’[/color] Mariette urged. [hider=The Last Mirror]The instant the portal was opened… It would explode. Small, circular objects were sent incredibly fast. One would detonate and try to cover those outside it in foam, that would lock them in place. Some others would detonate with explosive force, trying to tear those who would dare show their faces apart. Fortunately, Mariette had told the others exactly this would happen, so they could keep their distance when the portal was opened. On the other side of the mirror was a regular, two-room apartment. There was a kitchen, a living room with couches, a bedroom, it positively dripped with how normal it was, the same as virtually any other in Penrose. If anything, what made it weird was the lack of stand-out features, nothing to make it recognizable as being lived-in by someone specific. Like nobody lived there at all. The one major exception was that, where one would expect the TV, a mirror instead stood. In front of it, in-between the couch and the would-be TV, stood a solid, rock throne, and to the left and right of it lay an amassed pile of eccentric items, standing out sorely from the otherwise boring apartment. It didn’t look like it would belong to any apartment at all. On the throne sat a single, aquatic monster-girl, no clothes on her body, her hair like tentacles, a single staff in her hand, red eyes with yellow irises glaring at the spot where the portal had appeared. Around her, lifted by her Gravity-specialization, were numerous more circular items and long metal spears with magic properties devised by her Artificer-specialization. ... And next to the monster-girl was a human magical girl with blonde twin-tails smiling. [color=2a9283]‘That was not Mariette’s portal. That means you’re an enemy.’[/color] [color=fcedae]‘Woo, are you alright out there!?’[/color] [hider=This is][center][url=https://i.imgur.com/sqHfYs3.png][img]https://i.imgur.com/hpiwaCl.png[/img][/url] [url=https://i.imgur.com/OoibQu3.png][img]https://i.imgur.com/EPzBVPj.png[/img][/url] [img]https://i.imgur.com/qXVwWBs.png[/img][img]https://i.imgur.com/UZad3rZ.png[/img][/center][/hider] [color=077ae6]‘The last mirror is guarded by Taihei and Josefin,’[/color] Mariette had probably already said. The two remaining agents of Asengav that weren’t accounted for. [color=077ae6]‘I can talk to them… though I foresee that Lea may have told her I’m not to be trusted, prior to our meeting,’[/color] Mariette said.[/hider]