SephietheEvil

Portal Hoppers *REMAKE*

The blackish-purple tendrils let out a horrific cry of their own from all 4 of their hosts upon being absorbed and cleansed by Srg. As they dissipate, the four infected beings fall onto the floor. Ammi, Cloudy, and Meora recover faster than Sephie does, however, as they weren't the beginning of the horrible chain. "What...happened...?" Cloudy murmurs, trying to sit up. "Sephie got us...S-Sephie!" Ammi turns to see that the girl lies on her side in the middle of the hall, still limp and unresponsive. "Sephie-sama! Ne, Sephie-sama!" Meora pulls herself up in a rush, sliding to a stop on her knees next to her best friend. "They'll....never forgive me..." Sephie whispers to herself. Tears fall from her closed eyes. "Sephie...?" Ammi asks while scooping Cloudy up into her arms at the same time. "...Daijoubu." Meora sighs lightly. "She's just having some weird nightmare-like thing, I think. As soon as she wakes up or snaps out of it, she'll be okay." In the air, Felixter is so relieved to see everyone okay again that he almost doesn't notice Karl attacking him until it's too late. Felixter dodges, and attempts to attack Karl back, but by then, the crazy stranger is already off attacking someone else. "I know I shouldn't say this...but I honestly wonder if things could get any weirder than they have been today..." Felixter lands hesitantly back on the ground, to approach his sister. In Michael's shadow noose, Nimika doesn't try to move. She grits her teeth as she's stabbed through the abdomen, but she quickly replaces her expression of discomfort to that of a grin. She catches herself somewhat shakily upon being released from Michael's powers and falling back down to the floor. She forces herself to stand, though she knows that she'll soon be forced to leave the body she currently occupies. "Hmph. It's fine anyway...this body was trash. I only needed it until I could find a better one....I was honestly hoping that one of you might die, so I could take yours...but, oh well." Nimika huffs. She takes the silver knife she keeps on her belt out of it's sheath, it being still slightly stained with Sephie's blood from earlier. "Guess it won't matter either way for you, mutt. You're a fool to protect these awful people, and now, it seems you'll die as such." Nimika prepares to stab Michael through the back, but she's just as soon shot in the hand, causing her to let out a cry of surprise and drop the knife. "Get away from him, aku-onna!" Meora is on her feet in seconds, with her pistol pointed at the witch. "You've messed with my friends enough for now. You're in tatters and rags. You're heavily bleeding. You're like a cockroach! Why won't you just DIE?!" "Tch...insolent girl." Nimika glares at Meora. "...You know, if I could, I'd already have used my magic and cursed you all by now...but I suppose that'll have to wait for another day. As for now, I'll admit, you're right. Therefore...I'll take my leave before you get the satisfaction of 'killing' me." "Nani? Ne, matte!" Meora is about to shoot at the witch again, but before she can, a black apparition with raspberry eyes, Nimika's 'raw' form, floats out of her body and escapes through the crack of a window. The body topples to the ground, and morphs from Nimika, back into the dead zombie it originally was before she took it over. "Body-snatching creeps...ugh..." Meora grimaces distastefully. She looks over at Michael, and goes to offer him a hand. "Ne, daijoubudesuka, Michael-san?" "A new game to play?!" Clancy gasps. "Oooooh, I hope this one's even more fun!" Amber jumps for joy, and both shadows race into the hotel. Outside, as Nimika floats away, she hides herself in the shadows of the trees nearby. "Master..." Nimika hisses to herself. A dreadfully familiar voice answers her telepathically. "Nimika." "Master, I apologize...it seems we were a bit off on our estimations of these new strangers..." Nimika sighs. "Things like this happen, Nimika...it's not your fault, this time." "Yes...but what are we to do now? Are you arriving soon?" Nimika asks. "Nimika, these new people are simply variables we've yet to fully understand...but variables in a system can easily be accommodated and weeded out, with the right information....as for me, I'm not sure how soon I'll be showing myself. I wish to study this land more through you, Nimika. I want to make absolutely sure I know most of what I should before diving in." "Sounds like you've already got another plan lined up for these mutts..." Nimika giggles. "What do I need to do now?" "I'll be sending in new bodies for you and your sister. Your other sisters may be joining you at some point too, and I hear that little Nelodine is on her way also..." "I see...very well then..." Nimika grins.

Portal Hoppers *REMAKE*

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@TheGodofTacos

Best description ever tenouttaten A+++

Portal Hoppers *REMAKE*

Nimika blinks blankly at Michael for a moment, and begins giggling. It slowly works up to a loud cackle. "Adorable little fools...so childish..." Nimika grins, despite the fact that she's almost being choked. "Why would you even want...to keep someone around...who has that much darkness lying inside of their very heart and soul?" "It's not her fault." Felixter defends with a scathing tone. "She could've been just fine if it hadn't been for you horrible monsters!" "Tch.....you can blame your mother...if only you'd been born cat demons like you were supposed to..." Nimika smirks at Felixter, then turns her eyes back to Michael. "That's all null and void now...in reply to you sir, let me just say....I can be just as merciless." Nimika lifts one of her legs, and kicks hard at Michael, stabbing him with her dangerously sharp (and already bloodstained from past battles...) shoes. She brings up her hands to Michael's, and starts digging in her claws. "I tore the skin off of someone like this once....want to see if I can do it again...?" Nimika cackles even more, clearly enjoying this, despite how much of a disadvantage she appears to be at. "S-Sephie-sama! Kudasai! You have to snap out of this! You can't let your own inner evils run loose like this! I mean, at the very least, you gotta keep 'em chained!" Meora pleads to her unresponsive fried, continuing to nimbly dodge and shoot back tendrils. A moment later, she turns into a cat and jumps onto Felixter's shoulder. She uses him as a boost, jumping onto the wall. Quickly, Meora climbs up the wall, and then jumps onto the back of her limp friend. As the tendrils fly after her, Meora shifts back into her regular form, grabs one to use it as a swinging vine, and then tries to shoot the tendrils loose from her Sephie's chest. There's another earsplitting screech from the depths of Sephie's heart, and the tendrils that have become detached from the area die. However, since they are so numerous, some still remain, and those wrap around Meora's ankles sooner than she can land back on the floor. They trip her, causing her to land on her face, then start pulling her backwards towards Sephie, where more tendrils rear up in preparation to strike at the prey. "Ungh! Chikuso!" Meora hisses, starting to shoot at the ones around her ankles. "Destroy her soul?!" Felixter looks worriedly at Srg upon hearing his suggestion. "No! Then we'd lose her anyway, wouldn't we? I-" "FELIXTER-KUN! ABUNAI!" Meora suddenly cries out, interrupting him. Felixter whips around, and jumps to the side before a cluster of tendrils can attack him. This time, they come from Ammi, who seems to have been infected the same way Cloudy was. Now both mother and child have blank eyes, and the numerous tendrils are flying towards everyone in the room to try and infect them as well. Meora aims to shoot at more of the tendrils on her friend, but as soon as she gets rid of those ones, she's grabbed just as fast by ones from Cloudy. When she goes to shoot these, ones from Sephie wrap around her wrists as well, and wrench her pistol out of her hands, throwing it to the floor. "G-GAH! FELIXTER-KUN! MICHAEL-S-Gwuh....ucghk.....glk...." Meora's cries turn into sounds of choking and suffocation as she's entangled the same way Ammi had been earlier. Her green eyes start to lose color and go blank. Felixter backs away a few steps, trying to keep his horrified feelings under control. As far as Sephie's group goes, he is now the last one who isn't infected with these horrifying...things... "Sephie...SEPHIE, PLEASE!" Felixter begins to cry out desperately to his sister. "She...can't hear you....." Nimika taunts maliciously. Sephie turns towards Felixter slowly, and lets out a low croaking noise from her throat, instead of her heart. Her eyes flash back to their regular blue for a fraction of a second, but Felixter catches it. "Sephie! Can you hear me?!" Felixter has a brief flash of hope within his mind. He now believes it possible to subdue her through pleas while trying to find a solution. At this point, the situation has gotten so bad that just taking care of Sephie and her soul wouldn't do. The others are infected. If all 4 of them were to gang up on Felixter right now, not even he would make it. The darkness. Felixter has a flash of insight. The darkness. The darkness! Nimika said that these things are given power and amplified by the darkness in one's heart and soul. Each one of the people infected here have a considerable amount of darkness within them. Even little Cloudy has enough to spur the infection. Felixter definitely does as well. He might even hold more than his twin sister. If someone were to arrive, though, who had little darkness...someone who was innocent, pure enough not to be able to give this disease any sustainability...it would stop by their hand! But who?! Who did they know who was that pure?! Omoinashika? No, no...the amount of darkness might actually kill her from the outside, just because of the energy given off by it... "...Mirui?" Felixter murmurs to himself aloud suddenly. Before he can even begin to think of how Mirui might fare in this situation, or how to even get her here that fast, Felixter hears the sounds of two newcomers approaching. They appear hostile. "More enemies?!" Felixter hisses. He backs up, but is quickly forced to run to the side and fly up to the ceiling with his wings when tendrils from all four of the infected start trying to catch him. "I've never had a situation like this..." Felixter mutters quickly, trying to catch his breath. His eyes flick over towards the rest of the hall. "If I could get one straight shot down there...I could fly away, and maybe call someone over..." "Catch Nimika?" Amber asks. "Ehhhhhhhhhh....she's mean though. Doesn't like to play. Hurt us a lot once..." "Besides, it looks like Michael's playing with her!" Clancy nods. "Ooh, what if he leans in for the kiss?!" Amber giggles. "Don't be silly! No one would touch that hag!" Clancy snickers.

Portal Hoppers *REMAKE*

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.

Portal Hoppers *REMAKE*

XD Right then. My reply is coming up >:3

Portal Hoppers *REMAKE*

Whew! I broke the magic BEARrier!

@ShadowVentus

Pfffffffffffff X'D

Portal Hoppers *REMAKE*

Different world different spell. Anti magic bubble is like a grounding field which stops all magic from getting cast from the inside of the field or in this case bubble.

@Snarfulblast

Well, just how far out does this bubble go, because, if I recall correctly, you cast it to encase the "group", meaning Sephie's characters and my character. If that's so, then Michael simply stepped out of range and attacked Nimika outside the bubble.

Ventus, are you and Snarf fighting? WHY ARE YOU TWO FIGHTING VENTUSYOUSAIDYOUWOULDN'TFIGHTSTOPFIGHTINGSTOPFIGHTING D,8

@SephietheEvil

*goes to say something, but then facepalms*

@ShadowVentus

(X'D) *Crosses arms in front of my chest with palms outwards* ~NO FIGHTING~

Portal Hoppers *REMAKE*

Then it shouldn't be working Srg used anti-magic bubble which makes all magic but godly powers unusable.

@Snarfulblast

Huh, strange. I thought when one makes an anti-magic barrier, it blocks any magic from getting in. Meaning it would bounce off, but you would still be able to cast magic on the inside, you know?

@ShadowVentus

Ventus, are you and Snarf fighting? WHY ARE YOU TWO FIGHTING VENTUSYOUSAIDYOUWOULDN'TFIGHTSTOPFIGHTINGSTOPFIGHTING D,8

Portal Hoppers *REMAKE*

"Well, well, look how popular I've gotten all of a sudden." Nimika hums when everyone finally catches up to her. She turns towards Srg as he leaps at her, and with a flick of her wrist, slaps him backwards in midair with her magic. "Sorry, but I couldn't let them go if I tried, now." Nimika yawns. "But wow, I guess it really is true. Harm a child around people from the outside world, and they'll go ballistic! Hmph, those from the Demon highlands are much stronger. We send our children to war when they're toddlers." "CLOUDY-CHAN!" Meora skids to a halt in front of Nimika and the door, as well as Felixter. Ammi keeps right on charging at the witch, though. Nimika doesn't throw her back, but instead holds her in place by the neck, just out of reach. Ammi struggles furiously. "WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO MY BABY?!" Ammi roars. "It wasn't me. It was Sephie." Nimika shrugs. "All of this is really her. If she hadn't left the Demon highlands in the first place, none of this would be happening. On a more direct note, however, this event occurring at the moment really is her fault." "What do you mean?!" Felixter demands sharply. "The Master gave me an injection fresh out of the labs. He said it reacts with the darkness of one's heart and soul. Depending on the intensity and amount of darkness the person carries within...the effects are changed." Nimika explains nonchalantly. "These effects are because of Sephie entirely." "So how do we fix it?!" Meora shouts angrily. "...Heh." Nimika straightens her witch hat a bit. "Sorry girl...I've no idea. The Master only told me what to do with it, and what it did. He most likely didn't tell me how to remedy the situation because he knew of the slight chance that you could gain the advantage and try to force information out of me. Honestly, I would have thought you expected something of that sort. He's too smart to do something so foolish." "....GRRRRRAH!" Meora suddenly lets out a cry of fury, whips out her pistol, and starts unleashing an uncountable number of bullets at Nimika. Nimika throws Ammi off to the side, and then uses her magic to bounce each bullet back. Meora manages to dodge a few, but many end up hitting her. She falls onto the ground. "K..kuso...." Meora trembles. "Meora!" Felixter cries. Ammi gets up as fast as she can to tend to the girl's wounds in time. Felixter glares at Nimika. "You're an absolute monster..." Felixter shakes his head slowly. "Do you even understand what you're doing right now, and how horrible it is?!" "What a pointless question to ask. Of course I do." Nimika huffs with a smirk. "...I'm getting rid of undesirable flaws in my Master's nice little system." At that moment, the door everyone stands around, the door that Sephie is behind, begins to shake slightly. "...nngh....ugh...g.....ungg...G-GYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" The scream of pain, unmistakably Sephie's, leads to the door violently shaking, and tendrils of blackish-purple coming out from under the door at a rapid pace. They move to the opposite wall of the hall, and spread around like thick, ugly vines. They continue to move around, spreading on the floor and walls like a virus. "If I'm correct...this stuff is supposed to turn the darkness into something that destroys both her, and those she loves specifically. How convenient that a large group of them is right before me." Nimika cackles.

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"D-daijobu..." Meora insists in reply to Michael's exclamation. "It takes...more than that...to deal with me." She maintains that weak, but determined grin the whole time. Everyone's help on the matter quickly deteriorates the magic binds, and allows the group a safe landing back onto the floor of the hall. Ammi and Felixter land on their feet, but Meora ends up on her hands and knees. Ammi is so enraged that she hits the ground running, following the others as they chase down Nimika without saying a word. "Are you going to be alright?" Felixter asks her, while he watches both Srg and Michael chase after the notorious witch. "Didn't I just say 'daijobu', Felixter-kun?" Meora pulls herself up with a growl. "I could have a bullet wound in my stomach and arm right now, and I'd still get back up and run after that witch. She's pushed me too far now. First and foremost, you don't mess with Sephie-sama, but to go ever further and start threatening Cloudy-chan...she's gonna pay." She loads up her pistol with more bullets as she talks. "I might not have magic like everyone else, but I've got extensive training. If I've stayed alive with you people this long, this witch sure as hell isn't going to take me down just like that!" "You've always had quite the admirable spirit, despite everything." Felixter smiles a bit at her. "Tch, well, if I don't stay strong and grin at the challenges...I'll just end up cryin', won't I?" Meora smirks before she takes off after everyone else. Felixter brings up the rear, in case any other enemies of theirs were to show up. The Master's forces, to Sephie's group, were similar to ants. If there's one or two here, more are bound to appear at some point... Cloudy continues to run off down the halls, searching for one particular hotel room. Nimika is hot on her trail the whole time, continuing to swipe at her with extended magic phantom claws. "What's the matter, child? You seemed so confident walking in here!" Nimika cackles. As she chases the little angel down, she morphs out of her Sephie imitation, and back into herself, as the disguise seems pointless now. Cloudy doesn't give an answer, too scared and too concentrated on flying down the hall as fast as possible. She rounds another corner, and stops in front of the very last door on the left. She jumps up, quickly grabbing the knob, turning it, and flinging the door open. She freezes in place with more shock. "S....Sephie...?" Cloudy whimpers. "...Oh no....it's...gotten worse..." Sephie is limp in the middle of the room, her arms and legs held in place by tendrils of eerie purplish-black darkness. The entire room is dripping with the stuff, actually, as veins of it branch out, covering the walls, and even the back of the door. What frightens Cloudy more than this horrific scene is where it's all coming from. The evil substance is branching out straight from Sephie's chest. From her heart. Sephie opens her eyes slightly, looking at Cloudy. She opens her mouth to speak, but all that comes out are wisps of a black color. She starts to cough, and more of the same substance covering the room drips from her mouth like blood. She closes her eyes again. Cloudy is too distracted by the gruesome scene to notice the witch now looming over her from behind. Slowly, Nimika walks up to her. Cloudy finally notices, but right as she turns around, Nimika knocks her into the room, and slams the door shut on her. She uses her magic to keep it locked. "NO! NO, PLEASE!" Cloudy gets back up and desperately tries to open the door. She starts crying with fear. "NIMIKA, PLEASE, DON'T LEAVE ME IN HERE! I'M SCARED! M-MOMMY! MOMMY, HELP ME, I'M SCARED!" Cloudy's ears perk up as she hears Sephie's breathing become harder behind her. She turns to see the girl struggle, and more tendrils of the horrible substance come out of her heart. Cloudy's pupils shrink, and she becomes dead silent. The tendrils shoot towards her. "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" The high-pitched, blood-chilling scream of unimaginable pain and fear spreads through the entire hotel. It goes on for at lest a minute, before the screams are stifled. Nimika stands in front of the door with a merciless grin as the screams become sobs, then muffled struggles, and then silence. Nimika can't help but begin to laugh once more... "Nimika's weakness..." Natasha murmurs. She twitches slightly while trying to struggle against the magic still, but it appears not to be working. "I....don't know...I never have...they don't tell me...I'm just a lower-level worker. We learn nothing of those on the higher level. She could be my conjoined twin...and I'd still never know a thing. Our employer....the Master, Kebaratsu...he's ruled the Demon Higlands for centuries....he created it...he controls everyone...he controlled Sephie and Felixter's lives until they left...they carry a secret...they must...be...destroyed..." Natasha continues. "Kebaratsu...is a powerful demon...a small appearance, but with frightening abilities...everything that ever happened in the lives of Sephie's family, Sephie, Felixter, me, Nimika, or anyone else....all by his direction...like actors in a play....like...toys..." "So much drama~!" Amber mutters excitedly, once again sharing a randomly-appearing bucket of popcorn with Clancy. "When do we get to the parts about who cheated on who?" Clancy murmurs with the same excitement.