Magica! IC

[xFavoritexPainx]

Videl watched the others fight from her position on the stairs. She was just about to where the stairs she was on met a set of stairs on the ceiling. She glanced at Haru and noted her eyes shut. Stopping on the third stair of the set on the roof she raised her voice to more than loud enough for the other girl to hear her as she pushed her hanging hair out of her eyes, “HARU!! OPEN YOUR EYES AND FIGHT! YOU CAN’T HIT WHAT YOU CANT SEE GIRLY. HELP YOUR TEAMMATES, OPEN YOUR EYES!!!” Positive that her words would reach Haru one way or the other she continued along the stairs. About halfway across the stairway disappeared and she fell. She sighed as she changed to her magical form and used her scythe to right herself. As she fell through a flock of crows in the process of turning into a harpy, she cut it down and landed lightly on her feet. She looked up to watch the stairway fade back into existence then looked at the door thoughtfully. There had to be a way to get to it. She was going to find it, she wanted to know what’s on the other side. Ignoring the birds and the fighting going on she went to another set of stairs and started her way up once more.

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“Zeek changed Skye. It’s highly probable that the team that is known as Neimeth may need help. He made a very powerful witch and I am not sure if the three left can handle it. I’d like you to go and see how they do. And if they want, I want you to take over team leader if Liam does not wish to take it. They could use your link to Chiara. Making a pact between those two teams would be a benefit to both. Go and see how they are doing, if they want help, help them. And join the team.” He spoke to her mind quietly and flicked the tip of his tale, dropping the knowledge of where the remnants of team Niemeth could be found. He then started to fade away. He knew Skye would do as he asked.

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Anger and hatred burned through the witch that was once a boy who was once human. It hated the intruders causing it pain through the pieces of its self. It began to call them back and reabsorb them. It took back the strength it had given them, took back the bodies it gave them, and took back disease it had put into them. It rose up to its full oozing height and howled its anger. Out of its mouth came a spray of black, sure death to all it touched. The blackness rotted away the roof above the witch and some of the walls. It would kill these intruders with rot and disease or it would die trying. Only its mind didn’t understand that. Its mind had rotted away shortly after it came into existence. It knew pain, it knew rage, and it knew what had caused these feelings. The way to it was clear, now it would wait, its anger causing more of its body to boil, and with every pop of its apparent skin, more of the room either rotted away from the blackness that came from the sores or was covered with more infectious diseases. The room itself was almost a death trap. Soon the entire Labyrinth would be so.

[Koden]

Liam who was happily marching onward caught something moving out of the corner of his eye. The corpses and splatter that was left behind by the minions that had assaulted them began moving slightly, then gradually began seeping further into the labyrinth all of it following the same path. Stopping in his tracks as all of this occurred he spoke into his scarf. "Well... That's unsettling." Moving forward a few more paces he could easily tell the stench was getting stronger as they followed the same path the liquid remains did. Letting out a long sigh turning to face the two girls who had been with him through the labyrinth so far. "This is it, we are about to face the witch...." Trying hard to think of what to even say with the uncertainty if they will even survive. "Well, just stay away from the goo... yeah.. Let's go." In truth he didn't want to think about anyone dying so he just kept the little speech as short as can be, before moving forward to the witch's rotting abode.

[Sylvia]

Lana's laughter stopped as soon as the stains the enemies had made quickly began seeping deeper into the ruins gore and disease and all. As Liam spoke into his scarf almost exactly what she was thinking she could only simply reply with. "Yeah.." She could feel her grip on her trident tightening as the began moving along with the gore. When Liam had turned around the way he started his sentence she was expecting a long heartfelt speech or just a quick little joke before jumping head first into a incredibly dangerous fight. You know the usual. She was slightly surprised at just his quick little bit of information that they all knew already before heading for the final room where all the gore had gone. "Yeah.. Let's do this." She said trying to act as nonchalant as possible even though she was actually incredibly scared as the stepped into the final rotting room, with the puss covered witch spewing a black liquid that was the culprit behind the room rotting. With the incredible putrid stench now almost over whelming and this gigantic disgusting threat right in front of them the only thing she could manage to cough out was "Holy shit."

[Koden]

Liam stood at the doorway with a light grip on his long sword as he simply stood there unable to make himself move at the moment due to the unbelievable sight before the three of them. His eyes where wide open in shock speaking quietly in disbelief. "T-That's Zeke?" He couldn't even fathom how the man he had looked up to for quite a while could possibly become such a hideous disgusting monstrosity. They were in more of a death trap then a room, luckily they had begun getting used to the stench created by this witch. If they hadn't this particular rooms odor may have been too over-powering. "This is.." Liam shook his head regaining his focus, noticing the black sludge and how parts of the room had rotted away around it he could easily assume that it was a bad thing. He gripped his long sword tightly again getting into a bit of a battle stance taking in the fact that the odds were really stacked against them, Just the normal gore would get them infected but now this black-sludge seemed to be even more deadly, and this he was visibly spitting. With his eyes trained on the witch he spoke into his scarf to the girls next to him. " I'm sure you already know this. But if we mess up once, fail to dodge just one of his black-sprays, then we are dead. We have to keep moving and try to fan out so he can't hit us all at once." Pausing for a moment and taking a more gentle tone as he turned towards the two girls. "Don't die." With that he was ready to fight, the temperature around him dropping several degrees as he glared down his former leader and began taking nonchalant steps toward him, ready to dodge and attack back although he still had no idea what the monstrosities weakness was. After a few tense quiet seconds of Liam walking forward he finally cackled mockingly "Ah, there you are. We could smell your bull shit all the way at the entrance."

[Akira_luna]

Nimah turned as she heard Videl yelling at Haru who had her eyes closed at the moment. She saw her step onto a stair case that was pure illusion and fall rather gracefully back to the ground. Nimah grew tired to the crows and harpies rentlessly attacking her team. and decided enough was enough. she swung her bow around her and a shock wave rippled through the room. The harpies and crows aged and disintegrated before her eyes leaving everyone else as they were. She walked over to Haru and put her hand gently on her shoulder, "Keep it together Haru, you've got this." She turned to address everyone, " Spread out and pick a stair case most of them are illusion find the one that's not." As she spoke the words Nimah started to test a set of stairs.

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Skye gasped as she got the information that Kube had planted into her mind and nodded as much as a bird could. She understood that the situation must be dire if Kube was out here telling her that she was needed. She shimmered and changed into a pariguine falcon- the fastest bird she could think of and flew towards the place Kube had planted into her mind. Once she got into the thermals they carried her with ease to her destination. She flew day and night stopping only to hunt. She really disliked hunting in animal form but decided to just go with it anyway time was short on this trip. She was quite tired but ready to fight and if. the bodies littering the ground were any indication she was quite a bit late...

[Kyratus]

"You're mine!" Leon said as he was about to burn the crows. "Eh? Nope not this time" he stopped in the middle of his rush to dodge Nimah's shockwave. For her to do an attack of this level, she must be either annoyed or getting serious. As the crows and harpies in the room were disintegrating, he looked around and noticed Haru on the ground. "I see you had a nice fall. It had amazing grace but at least your step will have spring. May?" He chuckled at his bad puns and jokes. At the most part he looked to make sure Videl, Haru and Natsu. They look ok but a bit flustered or so. I'll make sure they don't have to use too much of their magic for this witch. "Are you girls ok? We had a to fight a number of those annoying crows".

[AniahLiepard]

(Natsu left.)

Haru kept her eyes closed as Niamh put a hand on her shoulder. She could tell that it was all over, but what she saw wasn't over. She nodded at Niamh when they said to find the real stairs. She opened her eyes, and she saw the object again. A shadowy figure was beckoning her over to a staircase, and she had enough. "Go away!" she said, swiping at the shadow. She stepped on the stairs, and the shadow disappeared immediately. She closed her eyes again as she stood on the stairs.

Aki looked at her ex-leader. He was a horrible creature, and it traumatized her. "Gah!" she said, shielding her eyes. The fight hadn't even started, and the creature looked ready. She pointed her staff nervously at Zeke and shivered.

[xFavoritexPainx]

Videl watched as Nimah aged the birds then went to talk to her team mate. She shrugged off the older girls order. She had already been playing on the stair cases while they played with the birds. She was actually quite happy to know that gravity had no effect on the stairs unless you fell off, so walking on the walls and upside down was a large possibility.She picked another stair case that seemed to lead to the ceiling and began to walk up it, only to shortly find herself parallel to the floor. She let out a whoop of joy, the first time she had actually allowed her self to have fun and started to run along the stairs. "Come on you guys! This is awesome!" she called to the others with a soft giggle.

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It sensed them, they were in its lair. It turned its head with two empty eye sockets to look at the intruders. Its eyes had rotted out shortly after it came into existence, but somehow it still seemed to actually be looking at things even with its blindness. As the male began to wards it, it tilted its head trying to hear his steps better. Once the man had talked to it however, it was able to locate on to his position and its long dripping diseased clawed hand snaked out towards him. It wasn't very fast and that angered it more, pushing itself to try and hit the man before he was able to stop speaking and move, causing the thing to lose his position. It hated these three intruders who had hurt it so many times. It wanted them to rot. It was sure it could make them rot, one way or another. It would have vengeance for its pain.