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    "For God's sake," Chris murmured softly to himself as he looked over his work of the night. He planted his hands on his sides and lightly shook his head. This was an embarrassment. This was nonsense. It was sure as hell not going to work. What, some chalk lines and candles? Was he really desperate enough to sink this low?

    The answer was a resounding 'yes', he most definitely was. Sure, he was a man of science, but science had proved itself useless. Science followed rules, like he had done his whole life. And where had it gotten him? 'An accident', his mind echoed. 'You couldn't have seen it coming'. There was nobody to blame, except fate. It was the epitome of injustice, in his opinion. He'd done everything right, technically, but he still got punished. He was still hurt, and he needed to blame somebody. So he blamed himself. He should have seen it coming. Still, he followed the book, even after it all happened. First biology, modern medicine, psychology, psychiatry... then he had spiraled into theoretical physics, quantum mechanics, string theory. He had spent countless nights researching the strangest of theories and experiments created by mankind, and every night he found himself sobbing in utter despair because nothing provided him with a way to get what he wanted. What he desperately needed.

    He knew that his family was worried about him. He knew that her family was worried about him, and that did horrible things for his guilt. He couldn't blame them though. After he'd stopped going to therapy he'd been in a downward spiral that for many people would lead to a tragic end by their own hands. And he had certainly considered that many times. But he couldn't. He'd fix this, no matter what. Even if it was the last thing he did.

    When science forsakes a man... what does he do? Instead of giving up, Chris decided to check his ego and pursue more... supernatural means to get his way. There had been countless psychics on his journey, but most of them had turned out to be frauds. One of them was eerily insightful, but was still of no help. Astrology, then? Astral projection? Alchemy, even? Useless! All of it! This was clearly not supposed to be done by any man...

    So here he stood, sweating, covered in chalk, under the stark moonlight at... He looked at his watch. Three in the morning. He was about to break more rules than he could count. Not just rules he'd held up for himself, but moral rules as well. Perhaps even divine rules, but that didn't mean much to him. With a soft sigh, he took off his watch. Careful not to step on the lines he had drawn, he stepped into the middle of the chalk circle and laid down his watch on the cold stone of the cave entrance he was in. He might not have faith this would work, but he still wasn't stupid enough to do it in his own home. Just in case.

    He pulled out a small, leather-bound notebook from his jacket pocket. It looked worn and torn, as it had been on his entire journey with him. All his notes were in here. Especially the ones that explained what he was about to do. He flipped it open to a small version of the drawing he had made in chalk, and double-checked all his lines. It was a circle with a pentagram inside, and several other markings. He had drawn little x's where the candles were supposed to be placed, and now he quickly verified they were in their correct positions. He shook his head again, the voice of reason in his head insisting that this was ridiculous. How could some old, dusty book from a yard sale have any truth to it? How could he know this wasn't just some satanist's fantasy? The truth was, he didn't. But he had still copied the drawing and the Latin chant from the book, and brought everything to this place, for one simple reason: he had to try. He just had to.

    When he was certain he had gotten everything right, he took a deep breath and fixed his eyes upon his watch. A vessel. And a fitting one at that, at least so he thought. He did hope it wasn't too small, but he didn't have a better alternative.
    "Invoco te, o daemonium temporis," he murmured, a little hesitant at first. "Et in hoc carcere ligo." He took in a sharp breath through his nose, waiting to see if anything would happen. The book had said to repeat the chant, but now that the words were out of his mouth he got nervous. Scared, even. He felt a chill run down his spine, and then collected himself and said the chant again, louder and more confident this time.

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    "Please no m'lady, stop!", cried the poor soul that was hanging upside down in the demoness' lair. He had two chains tightly bound to his ankles and he swung gently from the craggy rock ceiling of the cave. Well to him it looked liked a cave, to Roxy it was just another empty torture room. One of the many within hell. Each soul created their own personal hell and she just happend to play out the fantasy. That was her role, a torture demon. On her off duty she was more into well, lustful dealings that still involved a dungeon of sorts.

    Roxy took the heated poker and branded the man on his chest. It was her initial RX and the amount of time he was to serve before his soul either became incinerated to cease to exist or he would have another go reincarnated into another life. That was the thing most humans didn't get. Yes there was a hell, but once time was served the soul was set free onto its next adventure. Hell was just a stop along the way.

    HIis skin sizzled and cauterized right away, the smell of burning flesh made Roxy's black tail twitch happily. What did the humans say above? Nothing like the smell of Folger's in your cup? Well to her there was nothing like the smell of burned flesh to get her going. "Now listen here you sorry sap of a soul. I am going to be your best friend for the next 200 years. You better play nice." The man's blue eyes dilated with fear. "Please..", as he was about to beg again she shoved the poker into the back of his mouth, to silence him. He coughed and gagged and tears fell from his eyes.

    "I did not say you could speak, now let's try this again." She removed the poker, but his tongue was to swollen he could not speak at all. "There much better. Now where should we start...", she turned her back to the many bloodied knives on the table. Other torture devices lay about like thumb screws, head cage, stakes, and others just to name a few. Roxy was just about to pick up a device when she felt a tug upon her from no where.

    "What the-?", she was about to look around before a green vortex open above her head and pulled her in, sucking her away through the dimensions. All she did was let out a sigh. Must be another mortal summoning a demon to get their way. Well, it wasn't the best outcome before she was about to torture a new soul, but she could still have some fun. Most humans fell into contracts easily without reading the fine print. This would just be another soul for her to collect and notch in her belt of torture.

    The vortex opened above the mortal below who had summoned her and plopped her in the middle of his crude drawing. However, instead of falling the large demoness floated above the dishevled man before her. She looked down at him with her sharp purple eyes. "So...what is it this time? Lost love? Money? Fame?", she yanwed as she stretched her muscles, getting used to the mortal realm. Her being was more put together than transparent when she was in hell. "Whatever it is be honest and tell me so we can get this over with...", that was before she noticed the clock in the center, which was cracked. Her eyes became large with concern.

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    Chris was about to just slam his notebook shut and abandon this plan altogether, when a green shimmer appeared in the air above the circle. He frowned as he watched it develop into a vortex, and his heart seemed to stop completely when it spit out a whole person. He stared at her with wide, astounded eyes as the colour drained out of his face. This couldn't be real. She was just hovering in the air! He glanced around as if there might be somebody else with whom he could verify that he was actually seeing this, but of course there wasn't. He slowly turned back to the demon as she started to speak, and just gaped at her in utter shock. There was no way. This... This had to be a prank of some sort. Either that, or he had finally lost it. The latter option wasn't too far-fetched; to be fair, he was out here performing a demonic ritual. He was clearly off his rockers, but he hadn't thought he was far enough gone to... to hallucinate a thing like this.

    He glanced down at his notebook and pinched his nose shut to test if he was dreaming. When he was satisfied he wasn't, he looked back up at the demon, only to feel the same nauseating shock wash over him once more. He allowed himself to take in the details of what he was seeing, and could only come to one conclusion: this was real. She was real. There was no other logical explanation. Nobody could pull off a prank like this, and even if they could, nobody knew he was here. Nobody knew what he was planning to do. And he was fairly certain he wouldn't be able to hallucinate something with this level of detail. This was one hundred percent real.

    When she looked down at his watch, he followed her gaze. The urgency of the situation hit him and snapped him out of his dazed state, and he instantly started reciting the second part of the Latin verse again, over and over. The invocation had apparently been successful, but the binding still needed to be completed.
    "In hoc carcere ligo."
    "I bind you to this vessel."

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    Roxy growled at the mortal man. "You fool! You cannot bind me to this watch!" She reared toward him in agner, her talons drawn to knock the book from his hand. Though she did not know if she was successful in this aspect, she did feel contact with his skin. Some flesh falling underneath her nails. "This magic is way beyond you amateur! You do not know what you are doing!" She was trying to stop him from continuing the spell before the two of them fell to ruin.

    Just as she thought this the glass face of the watch cracked and the hands on the clock began to twist counterclockwise in a quick manner. This fool did not realize he was binding the both of them to this spell. But he did not realize he was trying to reverse time and using her demonic powers to do so. Whatever his intent was, he was lost in his own madness to not see the error of his ways.

    "This needs to stop now!" She lifted her hand and snapped her fingers. Suddenly a giant burst of flame appaeared and she was about to hurl it at this mortal, hoping to burn him and his damned attempted spell. All her efforts were in vain though. The green vortex appeared once again above the two of them and sucked both of them up like a vacuum with a helpless spider.....

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    When the demon slashed at him, Chris let out a yell and jumped back a little. He felt a searing pain in his shoulder and cursed, covered it with his hand out of reflex. He could feel that she had drawn blood, and slowly pulled his hand away. It was covered. Shit, this was bad... And oh God. This was real. Not only had he summoned this demon, it could harm him. And what did it say about him not knowing what he was doing? He was following the instructions of the book, wasn't he? Sure, they were a little vague and old, but he'd understood by now that none of this was an exact science...

    His head snapped in her direction when she produced fire with her bare hands, and his eyes widened. "Stop! No!" he cried out, and was about to take cover when he started to feel his body being pulled towards the demon. He let out a shaking breath as he was slowly lifted off his feet, and screamed when he saw the green vortex. He frantically reached down to try and grab his watch, but he couldn't reach it anymore, and before he knew it the world disappeared before his eyes.

    When he woke up, he didn't know how much time had passed. He could feel the cold stone of the cave entrance touching his cheek as he groaned and blinked his eyes open. He was immediately met with a splitting headache and grabbed his head, squeezing his eyes shut. What the hell.... What the hell had happened?! He rolled over a little and forced himself to sit up as he tried to look around.

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    The last thing Roxy remembered was the green vortex opening above her again and pulling her into the void. This trip had not been as bad as when she was pulled from the demon realm into the mortal realm. She had plummeted and fell to the ground, hitting her head upon the rock wall of the cave and everything went black...

    When she came to she felt groggy and weighed down, which was unusual for her. She tried to float into the air, but she remained tethered to the ground. That was stange..why could she not call upon her powers? Roxy looked down at her hands and saw human flesh. That would explain it. It would seem she had no access to powers. Things were a lot worse than she thought. To an outsider she would now look like a normal human. Her normal hair was now platinum blonde that went down to her waist and her eyes the palest of blues. Her skin copperstoned and no horns or tail in sight. She cursed as she kicked at the dirt. Then she turned to her entrapper. She let out a low growl.

    "Do you know what you have done?! You have tethered us together! Your time spell took time from both of our lives and apparently an added cost my powers! Was it worth it?!", she shouted at him. "Looks like we are still stuck in this supid cave. Hopefully a forcefiled isn't holding us back.", she started to turn and walk away from him. She tried one last time to summon a flame, and a small spark sizzled at the tip of her fingers. "It's ok Roxy, looks like you might still have your powers even if they are subdued. Maybe I should try and devouring a soul to get my mojo back...", she said aloud to herself.

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    Chris jumped when Roxy started yelling at him, and scurried backwards with wide eyes. Was this the demon girl he had seen before? She looked nothing like her, but her voice had the same venomous snarl to it. A time spell? What on earth was she talking about? He hadn't tried to perform a spell, he'd just wanted to capture her powers... Had he misread the book that badly? Wait, did she say he had taken time off of their lives? What was that about?

    He watched her walk away from him, his head spinning with questions and dizziness from the trip here. Though, had it really been a trip? They hadn't moved an inch... In space, that was. He looked around himself, looking for signs that would either confirm or debunk the hypothesis that was starting to form in his head. A hypothesis he didn't like one bit. The trees looked... younger. And the sign stating the name and history of the cave that had been erected off to the side last time he checked, had disappeared. He got to his feet and started to frantically fumble for his phone to see if he had cell service. When he pulled it out of his pocket and saw nothing but empty bars, his heart sank.

    He looked around for his watch, or the chalk lines he had drawn, but they were all gone. The cave entrance was once more nothing but a cave entrance. He frowned deeply and looked inside the cave, but then his attention was caught by Roxy saying something about devouring a soul. He looked over at her, his phone still loosely in his hand.
    "...What happened?" he forced himself to ask. "You said I... You said I tethered us together? Why do you look different?" He stopped himself there, even though he had a million more questions.

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    Roxy was almost out of the mouth of the cave before the mortal's voice shattered into her head again. Ugh..he's still talking? She rolled her eyes before turning to face him again, not bothering to close the distance. He was not her problem, but this mortal seemed too smug to not be taken down a peg or two by truthful words. It would be fun to see his world shatter. Her voice was strong and reverberated off of the cave walls, echoing with harsh truth. She just hoped she could figure this out on her own without him.

    "I look like this because your spell zapped some of my strength. Which is fine I can get them back, it will just be messy to do so." She would actually revel in that fact, taking another's soul. Also the bloody mess that went along with it, dissecting her poor victim piece by piece. "What happened is you did a spell way out of your skill level. You are some second class scientist who thinks he can cut it as a spell caster? Your mortal coil couldn't handle even charging a battery. Time magic is ancient and strong, what you ask of it, it takes in return. Whatever you were trying to accomplish didn't work except for getting both of us stuck here. Now we need to figure this out or we both will be stuck like this.." She gave a wild gesture to their surroundings.

    She sighed. "Now if you will excuse me I have some business to attend to....", she turned on her heel and began to walk away.

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    Chris gaped at her as she spoke so casually about spells, and powers, and time magic. He raised his eyebrows in disbelief, and part of him started to feel detached from this whole situation. Again he found himself wondering if this was somehow a sick prank. He still couldn't wrap his head around the idea that he was talking to an actual demon. But then she turned to leave, and his eyes widened.

    "Wait!" he cried out, taking a step in her direction. "W-What business? And what do you mean 'stuck like this'? Don't tell me we actually..." He took a shaking breath, trying to compose himself but failing miserably. "...Did we travel back in time?" he asked, hardly above a whisper. He was too frightened of the answer.

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