It was just another typical night in Kage Kai. Black Queen had called a meeting with Evil Rin, Shadow Amelia, and the Shadow Ojamajos.

"I would appreciate it if you came here a little early, Shadow Doremi!" Black Queen snapped.

"Gomennasai, Black Queen-sama!" Shadow Doremi stuttered, "It's just that-!"

"It's the same excuse as last time," Black Queen retorted, "Need I remind anyone that I do NOT call these meetings just so people could be late to them?"

"No, Black Queen-sama," Shadow Doremi glumly replied. The other Shadow Ojamajos nodded in agreement.

"I wouldn't miss these unless it was your command," Evil Rin said.

"I also wouldn't miss these," Shadow Amelia said, "Anything to discuss what we'll be doing to those light beings."

"Then we're at an agreement," Black Queen continued, "I would to propose-" Black Queen didn't get a chance to finish her statement due to a bucket landing upside down on her head.

Black Queen pulled it off and saw the looks that her minions were giving her. Then she noticed that her once darker-than-black hair had silvery paint in it. A barely-stifled laughter came from above. Black Queen knew that laugh all too well.

Black Queen looked up. "Skaj?" Black Queen said through barely concealed anger, "Didn't I tell you that you were banned from the Castle? !"

"Yeah," Skaj replied, "I just chose to ignore you."

"So you would rather ignore orders NOT to come inside the Castle just for a quick laugh?" Shadow Hazuki deadpanned, "Certainly reminds me of someone."

"Hey!" Shadow Doremi burst out.

"Well, laters!" Skaj teleported out.

Black Queen was furious at him for this humiliation. "Remind me to have his head ripped off!"

Evil Rin snickered.

"And what do you find so amusing?" Black Queen turned to Evil Rin.

"Gomennasai, Black Queen-sama," Evil Rin replied, "It's just that I find it hard to take you seriously when your hair reminds me of my precious snowflake."

Black Queen snapped her fingers. In moments, her hair was back to normal. "Now, if we're done with Skaj's-"

"Never gonna give you up! Never gonna let you down!" came Skaj's voice from somewhere outside.

Black Queen grumbled and face-palmed. "Evil Rin? Shadow Amelia?"

"Will do." They both said with frustration.

"Looks like I'm going to have to call this meeting short." Black Queen had vein appearing through her veil. "You will go back to whatever it was you were doing." Black Queen returned to her chambers. She was followed by Evil Rin and Shadow Amelia.

The Shadow Ojamajos remained for a while.

Shadow Hazuki sighed. "Another meeting Skaj has ruined," she deadpanned.

"Skaj really shouldn't be doing this," Shadow Aiko said, "He's going to get himself killed one of these days."

"Let him," Shadow Momoko smirked, "It'll be one less useless Shadow anyway."

Shadow Pop turned to Shadow Doremi. "What are you so dreamy at?"

Shadow Doremi turned to the younger Shadow with a start. "N-Nothing!"

"Shadow Doremi-chan and Skaj sitting in a tree," Shadow Hana mocked, "K-I-S-S-I-N-G!"

"Are not!"

"We saw you shooting Skaj those looks, Shadow Doremi-chan," Shadow Onpu retorted, "You can't fool us!"

Shadow Doremi remained silent for a moment. "I'm heading back to my room." Shadow Doremi vanished.

"Typical." Shadow Hazuki straightened her glasses. "She heads off when confronted on a crush." Shadow Hazuki slams her hands on the table. "And she claims she's nothing like Light Doremi!"


Shadow Doremi had made it to her room. To her surprise, Skaj was waiting for her outside.

"Skaj!" Shadow Doremi said with a bit of panic, "If Black Queen-sama finds that-!"

"Relax," Skaj replied, "I've got a proposition to make."

"And that is?"

Skaj snickered and whispered it into Shadow Doremi's ear. She soon smirked mischievously.


"Are you sure this is safe?" Shadow Doremi asked as Skaj put two exposed wires together.

"No worries," Skaj replied. Suddenly, the engine roared to life. "Joy ride? I'm driving."

No sooner than Skaj said those words had they driven out of the garage. The person they stole the car from, Keisuke Harukaze a.k.a. Doremi's father burst out of the house long enough to see the car being stolen.

"D-Did you see the look on his face? !" Shadow Doremi said through barely contained laughter, "Priceless!"

"Hell yeah!" Skaj replied.

He wasn't aware of the speed limit and drove past a police car. Said police car sounded its sirens and pursued them.

"Way to alert the cops," Shadow Doremi deadpanned.

"It'll be alright," Skaj reassured, "Just leave it to me and stay hidden."

Skaj stopped the car by the side of the road and allowed the officer, Officer Nakajima, to approach. He appeared near the window. Of the driver's side.

"Konichiwa," Nakajima greeted. Skaj rolled down the window. "License and registra-"

Shadow Doremi watched the scene from her hiding spot. She saw the officer's face go from a friendly smile to having a look of anxiety to finally having an eye twitch.

"Problem, Officer?" Skaj asked in a very slow, deep, and forced tone.

Officer Nakajima's eye twitched even more than last time. "Get the hell out of here!"

Shadow Doremi heard Skaj make a noise. Next thing she knew, they were speeding off.

"H-how did you do that?" Shadow Doremi asked incredulously.

"It's called the 'cool face'!" Skaj said with pride, "Also known as trollface."

Shadow Doremi looked at Skaj like he was insane. "Eh?"

"Nevermind." Skaj turned up the speed. "On three, we teleport outta here!"

"Naze? !" Shadow Doremi's eyes went wide.

"You'll see!" Skaj replied. "One!" Skaj sped up to maximum, taking care to avoid traffic. "Two!" Skaj turned into a back alley at high speed and drove in. "THREE!"

Skaj teleported himself and Shadow Doremi to the top of a building just as the car crashed into the wall with a resounding "SMAAAASH!"

Shadow Doremi looked down at the wrecked vehicle. "Sugoi!"

"And that's not even with a license!" Skaj replied with pride. "Next?"

"Eh?"

"Or do I get to choose again?"

Shadow Doremi gave some thought. She then smirked. "The TV station! Light Onpu has a recital today. And since Shadow Onpu-chan is busy and generally doesn't prank Light Onpu…"

"Let's do it!" Skaj said.

Both were off in a matter of seconds.


Shadow Doremi and Skaj were both on top of the TV station.

"Ok, so what are we gonna do?" Skaj asked, getting pumped up in the process.

"We'll, uh," shadow Doremi stumbled, "Um?"

Skaj sighed. "Be right back." Skaj teleported. He returned a few moments later with four disks. "These each have one memetic song that's sure to annoy everyone!"

"So what are you planning?"

Skaj smirked again and whispered his plan into Shadow Doremi's ear. She got a look of surprise.

"Are you sure that's even possible?"

"Could be worse," Skaj replied.

"Alright!" said a man with a camera, "We are go in five…four…three…two…Begin!"

An entire crew of people was in front of the stage. Onpu stood on top of it with a mic. She was preparing to sing a brand new song!

The music began.

Dansa med oss~

Klappa era hander~

Gor som vi gor~

Ta nagra steg at vanster~

Lyssna och lar~

Missa inte chansen~

Nu ar vi har med~

Caramelldansen!~

"Eh? !" Onpu jaw-dropped at the music.

"WHAT THE-? !" The crew went ballistic.

"Who put Caramelldansen? !" one crew member yelled.

"I swear, it's not my fault!" cried another.

"Forget about it!" called another, "Just shut it off and get it back going!"

"Hai!"

The music stopped.

"Ok, let's try this again!" a crew member said.

The music began again.

Never gonna give you up!~

Never gonna let you down!~

"Oh COME ON!"

"Maybe we should-" Onpu piped up. Her comment was lost in the loud music of Rick Ashtley's "Never gonna give you up" song.

"Shut it off! Just shut it off!" The head member said as he face-palmed, "Find out what caused it so we can get back on track!"

The crew shuts off the music a second time. On the rafters and out of everyone's sight were the two who were Skaj and Shadow Doremi. Skaj was stifling laughter while Shadow Doremi looked down.

"Replacing the music?" Shadow Doremi quietly asked, "That the best you could do?"

Skaj chuckled. "Nope. But the juicy stuff is what you're gonna do." Skaj turned back towards the light beings. "That is, if you can do better…" Skaj withdrew into the air vents. "You coming?"

Shadow Doremi followed Skaj into the vents. Just before closing them off, she smirked and used her magic.

The crew restarted the music.

Dansa med oss~

Klappa era hander~

Never gonna give you up!

Never gonna let you down!~

"Oh GOD, WHY? !" the crew members groaned in frustration.

Shadow Doremi snickered before vanishing into the vents.


"What's next?" Shadow Doremi asked.

"That's up to you," Skaj replied.

Shadow Doremi got an idea and whispered it into Skaj's ear. He smirked.


"And in other news," said the news reporter, "We-"

Suddenly, the news cuts off and is replaced by Rick Ashtley's "Never gonna give you up!" music video.

In seconds, half of Misora was laughing. As for the other half? They threw their TVs out the window.

On top of the TV Station, Skaj and Shadow Doremi were listening to the sounds of broken and smashing TV sets and savoring every one of them.

"Not bad, Shadow Doremi," Skaj praised.

"I try my best!" Shadow Doremi replied with pride.

"Now what?"

Shadow Doremi snickered again. She used her magic on the dish and had it travel throughout the entire complex. A few moments later, more people had thrown their TV sets out their windows.

"What'd you do?" Skaj asked incredulously.

"I glitched up their gear," Shadow Doremi replied, "What do you think?"

"Other than being a little contrived, not bad," Skaj said.

"But you have to admit," Shadow Doremi began, "That'll be one bug-" Shadow Doremi put on a pair of shades, "-that they'll never squash! YEEEAAAAHHHHH! ! ! ! ! !"

"Glasses meme," Skaj said, "Can't go for a minute on the internet without seeing it once."

"Well, I'm bored here. Let's go!"

Shadow Doremi got on her broom and flew off. Skaj summoned a card and used it as a board to fly on. And they had left the TV Station as a chaotic mess.


"And they'll never know what happened," Skaj said triumphantly as he and Shadow Doremi left a house. They both knew that the owners were due to be home any minute now.

"Hey Skaj!" Shadow Doremi called, "I've got the perfect idea for what to do next!"

"Do tell."

Shadow Doremi explained her idea to Skaj. They were too quiet about it.

A few moments later, the homeowners came back into their house. They went inside.

"WHAT IS THIS, I DON'T EVEN-!" the man of the house screamed.

Skaj and Shadow Doremi hooted with laughter at the home owner's audible anger.


"It's a good thing your magic can do all this," Skaj said, "Otherwise, we'd never be able to pull it off!"

"Leave it to me!" Shadow Doremi said, "My light half is having steak tonight. So…" Shadow Doremi froze time just after Doremi's parents and Pop had taken their steaks, went into Doremi's house, and stole one of the steaks. She made it outside without anyone noticing. "Piece of cake!"

"You stole Doremi's steak?" Skaj asked incredulously, "Just what-?"

"Wait for it!"

Inside, everyone had placed their steaks on the table…except for Doremi since she was late again and therefore missed out on her steak.

"Usou!" Doremi cried, "Why?"

"Demo ne, there were four steaks here!" Doremi's mother said in surprise, "It couldn't have gotten up and walked off!"

Unfortunately for Doremi, everyone had already bitten into their steaks and therefore couldn't share them.

"Wait for it," Shadow Doremi chuckled.

"I'm the unluckiest pretty girl in the whole world!" Doremi lamented.

Shadow Doremi stifled a laugh. "That never gets old!"

Skaj smiled. "We'll have to do this more often, don't ya think?"

Shadow Doremi stopped snickering. "I don't know. Black Queen-sama still hasn't forgiven you for what happened."

"Half the Castle reduced to rubble," Skaj sighed, "Good times."

Shadow Doremi sighed. "There anything else we can do?"

"I'm all pranked out for now. But there is still one more thing we can do."


It didn't take long, but Skaj and Shadow Doremi had made it to a large tree overlooking the town. It was in a clearing and had been the same tree that Doremi and Aiko chased the Papaya Brothers to in order to save Hazuki.

"So we're just gonna kick back and relax?" Shadow Doremi asked tiredly.

"May as well," replied Skaj, "You sound tired after all."

"What's it to you?" Shadow Doremi let out a yawn. "Ok, never mind."

Both stared at the sunset for a few minutes.

"Sometimes, I wish this day could last forever," Shadow Doremi said.

"Good choice of words," Skaj commended, "If only Black Queen would let her subjects have this kind of fun more often."

"Yeah. Come to think of it, I'm probably up to my neck in trouble now."

"…"

"But it's worth it!"

"Depends on what kind of punishment Black Queen throws your way."

"…I envy you, Skaj," Shadow Doremi said.

"Why's that?" Skaj replied.

"You consistently mock Black Queen and do whatever you want without showing even the slightest hint of fear," Shadow Doremi continued, "Where do you get that from?"

Skaj gave a long silence. "I'm not sure I know how to tell you that, Shadow Doremi." Skaj got up. "I guess you could say that I'm elusive and skilled."

Shadow Dormei closed her eyes.

"Well, you don't want to get Black Queen angry at you anymore than she probably has." Skaj warned.

"Ok. I'll head back." Shadow Doremi was about to vanish back into Kage Kai when Skaj gestured for her to stop. "Huh?"

"I've got one final thing to do. You up for it?" Skaj said.

Shadow Doremi gave it some thought. "Sure!"

"Meet me where we crashed the Harukaze's car." Skaj teleported off.

Shadow Doremi was shocked. She didn't remember where he crashed it at. But then she remembered she had magic and decided to use it. It took a lot, but she managed to guide herself to the wreck. Skaj wasn't there.

"Where is-" Shadow Doremi was interrupted by Skaj appearing behind her. "Eh!"

"Sorry I'm late. Took a while to swipe." Skaj held a camera in his hands. "Had to shoplift for it, but it'll be worth it in the end."

The two Shadows stood in front of the wrecked car's trunk. Shadow Doremi used her magic to levitate the camera in front of them.

"Let's treasure this moment from this day forth!" Skaj exclaimed. Both Shadows smiled as the camera took their picture. One photo came out; Skaj got it, but handed it to Shadow Doremi. "I fear it'll get destroyed with me."

"So this is goodbye?" Shadow Doremi asked with a few tears.

"More like farewell and see you again," Skaj replied, "It's been nice hanging with you, Shadow Doremi-chan."

Skaj teleported, leaving Shadow Doremi alone. She looked at the picture and saw herself and Skaj smiling at the camera. She used her magic to frame it and then returned to Kage Kai.

By the time Skaj and Shadow Doremi were done, they had caused several hundred-million yen in damage, put a few hundred people in the hospital, and likely killed a few. And Shadow Doremi was going to treasure this moment for a very long time.


A/N: This fic's point in time can be discerned when you read a particular scene in Chapter 9 of Ojamajo: Corruption.

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