Moments ago via Morgana's taking, in the Central Ruins of Lost Babyvolas:
In these formerly sealed away and hidden ruins far older than they appeared within Underland, as mentioned there were hints of feudal era-based buildings but it was also mixed with hints of smaller castles and rural homes that were rarely intact as if a hard battle took place eons ago.
In the current area where Morgana is suspended in the air and splayed out fully with tears of pain flowing down her eyes at getting shocked by Stayne again, was an old large and vine-growing observatory with an open arbortorium to see actual stars, is where we begin. The jar of black-like sand and dirt was in the center of what appeared to be a ground ritual close by.
"Again," Haserin told Stayne as Morgana howled loudly in a way everyone would be surprised by as it wasn't humane before panting only a few more seconds and gazing at them fearfully as Stayne frowned before looking and telling the Red Spectre himself, "It's still not working."
They have been only recently trying to coerce the child's power out to open the jar, as due to his former accomplice's idea of battle, he had to take a different approach as the jar itself was sealed by magic once again, from Stayne dropping it and it getting blasted by Harvigosa's trines' attack.
"Of course, it isn't working as it seems she is used to being shocked… May have to try a different tactic," Haserin told Stayne off before thinking aloud to himself in his Spectre Forme and blinked after sensing the approaching energy of specific people and confused Stayne as Morgana passed out where she was, and with an evil inkling brewing then, "And perhaps think I have the solution."
After several minutes of trying to navigate into the area's center, the small group finally made it to them realizing, after closing the doors from possessed hellhounds they encountered roaming the area, the building itself was massive.
"(Whistles) It seems this building was fancy back in its day if it was still intact as it is," Zone-Tan commented to the other four girls and receiving a look, shrugged wordlessly as Mirage grabbed a glowing stone from her person and soon scowled as the green arrow was swirling all in a 360-degree circle before telling them all then, "Seems that the Entity himself managed to keep Morgana from being found within this location."
Alice ignored the dreadful feeling that briefly overcame her as she shook her head, and told everyone quietly as they wordlessly nodded in muted agreement and split up, "Due to how bloody large this place is, we need to divide and conquer to find Mary."
Alice went with Claudia and Zone-Tan, and the two goddesses went by themselves as there were only two large hallways in both directions of the place.
"Seems that Morgana is a slight trouble magnet as we were repeatedly warned about," Mirage states as she walks with Artemis cautiously down their pathway within the hall they were in, not seeing a hidden multitude of eyes observing them. "Indeed… And I believe that the fathers are to blame, and from viewing their fates thanks to those two twins." Artemis elected to add then as, from an old painting, the figures' eyes glowed red while watching them, and vanished.
Moments later Alice and the two girls, were wary as they realized that the place was booby-trapped and managed to dodge old traps purposely placed alongside new, of both who once dwelled here mixed with Stayne… His traps are obvious by the crimson color mainly with heart imprints.
"Seems… Seems like this place is cursed." Alice pants out with the others wordlessly agreeing as after a few moments, Alice was rather curious and made Zone-Tan look at her while cautiously walking and stepping over an exposed wire trap, "So where did Young Danielle end up?"
"The Girlie she is managed to arrive at least ten minutes later after they left… So most likely it would be longer if Maryland ever gets back, possibly thirty or so minutes later after." Zone-Tan answered back before pausing and ducking without seeing their faces look flabbergasted as she nabbed a pendulum of doom in the shape of a heart very easily within her index and pointer finger of her left hand, before continuing as Alice nodded while wincing (like the others) at her dissolving the dangling weapon, "In fact, she may end up getting a small surprise as it was Yidhian's, and reluctantly, Miss Nothing's idea with the aid of another she had no choice but to accept the offer." Alice was rather confused as to the few the purple-haired woman meant, at the end of her words.
After Zone-Tan's display, they were perplexed when there was a set of sealed doors at the end of the hallway that was labeled, 'Keep Out', Cloud easily tore away the metallic wrappings of the door and discovered why it was labeled as such: It was a mixed lab and archive storage room that was immense.
"This place is a treasure trove…" Kipo told them while randomly picking up a strange-looking scroll, and everyone nodded with Claudia pocketing what she could in her storage with Zone-Tan doing the same, and Alice blinked at some of the strange devices and whatnot before blinking once again at spotting a black star floating within an all too familiar container from Belle's time with the Beast.
Next to that were strange and fully hazed-out orbs around the size of a baseball that was oddly labeled with one stating "Camp Wakanawa", and another even stating "Impact Harmonus", and more with the blonde woman guessing they were labeled locations of some kind… She gave a weird look to Zone-Tan from snatching all of them and placing them into what she saw was a small yet basketball-sized hole of sorts, and soon recalled that it was what she dubbed as her Storage Space.
Seeing Alice's look, the Demoness merely shrugged with mixed understanding as indicated in the blonde woman's orbs as Claudia nearby overheard, understood, and was looking into some folders that caught her interest as they were labeled as 'Sealed Projects'. "When you get a chance to take something that is someone else's from long ago or anything, take it… Sometimes it's worth the risk and others, not."
Claudia made them quickly turn to her as she looked determined without realizing why, and told them in a way they didn't like it then, "Seems the past of this land is more than it seems, as from recalling Morgana's race, they may have summoned something that was soon sealed away, and separated the forced person back then somewhere else… Not sure what though but it was labeled as 'Projected Blacksand'."
Alice paled briefly at instantly remembering the jar with the bizarre black sandy-like dirt before they soon heard roaring from outside the doors they came from, and were perplexed as Artemis soon came into the room and blocked the door with one of her sturdier arrows and constant pounding was soon heard, and she was without Mirage.
Before Alice could say anything, black tentacles and shrill-roaring were soon heard alongside revealed easily from parts of the door as the Goddess told them hastily yet firmly as they prepared themselves for a fight by grabbing their weapons, and seeing the arrow began to crack as she walked backward slowly towards them, "A few monsters I never encountered before has taken Lady Mirage and nearly succeeded at taking me."
Hearing the frantic screeching, the small reunited group braced themselves before blinking, looking down, and held back screams of surprise as a vortex appeared before them that sucked them and some random books and equipment up just as whatever that was following Artemis just barged in and failed to attack them, and they landed on their behinds as the rainbow vortex closed up afterward, in a larger chamber that was set as a ritual chamber of sorts, from being a former large lab with vines and broken pieces of said building refurbished on the ground, and on the wall was a severely wounded Mirage with her looking to have been stabbed, and in the center… Was Morgana still passed out.
Alice and Zone-Tan were about to move, but Artemis stopped the two easily through a hidden part of the wall while hiding within a large foundation of a broken statue of a scientist, as Stayne came into the room with a dagger still covered in Mirage's blood, alongside a red mist that soon formed into Haserin as it seems they were talking.
"Soon, the few Andromo-Land Krakark you summoned will have captured those foolish individuals so we could try and not only rouse the brat, but to see if your plan would be placed into motion, so I can be King of Underland." Stayne tells Haserin who only nodded as they walked over to Mirage Stayne stabbed the ground in front of her as if an utter insult and Haserin nodded only once while eyeing the damage he had done to the goddess of supposed evil with a god-killing made weapon, "Indeed as agreed… But not until my plans are unfolded, Knave of Hearts. The Child herself is the key at this moment to do so, and more within the fields of war."
They both soon glanced at the jar on the ground as it showed an aura made of darkness, briefly, before saying lastly to each other as they left the room to what appeared to be an old storage area filled with many vials, "So, I have to make sure she witnesses things then, or you?" Haserin shrugged and replied, "Both, as the child will be part of what I plan to do as well, as not only one devastation would occur to this land but two."
After they left, they came out of hiding with Zone-Tan, Artemis, and Claudia going over to Mirage to check on her as Kipo and Alice went over to Morgana… Only to get repelled onto their backsides onto the ground at an unexpected, repelling barrier made of light violet energy materialized.
"Seems they don't want Morgana freed, as by her state alone she would be close to being broken," Artemis tells them as she was lightly touching the barrier, and Claudia gives the slowly waking Mirage on the ground something close to a glowing light-green drink from a strange bottle, and Kipo kept watch alongside Zone-Tan feeling dread at points as she aided Kipo as well, and Alice next to the goddess.
Worried about that, Alice tried using her weapon with the intent to maybe see if it could slice the barrier, but held in her mixed emotions of surprise and shock as Artemis easily caught the tip of her blade and told her gently yet with a hint of the stern as she still looked over the way the barrier was made, "Weapons will not penetrate this craftwork…" she blinked and looked at a brief light showing in the far left corner of the room of a crafted statue resembling a draconian gargoyle, and gestured to that, "But perhaps the object over there can."
Alice did as she was told by using the blade to slice the object in half, and Artemis caught Morgana just in time and comforted the child just as Mirage awoke, and was shakily helped up by Claudia and recognized what she was from seeing the Guardian Bond, yet they all moved as Stayne looked angered alongside the Spectre at seeing them.
Haserin raised his stubby arms and a vortex opened up while making them all guarded as they were all sucked back into the checkered battlefield and bewildering everyone who became guarded Haserin laughed as he had a glowing red energy ball merely floating before tossing it in the direction of the automaton… And made everyone scatter as it rose from looking even more corrupt than before, and demonic appearing, and glanced at Stayne as he nodded before taking off at his words alongside picking up the jar, "You go prepare the Plan… I will handle things."
Claudia, Zone-Tan, and a select few others went after Stayne with a barely healed Mirage and Jaguar-Shited Kipo along with a select few others as well soon guarding the civilians and Queens, as Koneko managed to stand by Alice's side and Artemis told them both warily yet softly in a firm tone, and only nodded once back at her as she went to protect Morgana's unconscious form. "I will have the child's power to use by any means… Even if it is to make her suffer for the lives of many before her!"
Alice glanced with her eyes at Artemis' hidden location at the ruins once more before gazing at Koneko, and glared directly at Haserin to only impress him by a minor amount of her words then as they both got into a stance, "I don't bloody think so as I can think of six reasons why you can't do so. So scoot and leave this land to itself."
They didn't like how he simply chuckled and behind him, a vortex showed once more, and out came two Direwolf-like Draconian Kraken in pitch black and dark-blue ebony colors for the fur, and blood-red eyes up to four, and four tentacles on the sides with sharp claws at the tips to puncture, and with the maw being three-way.
"Enjoy your battle with the Demonic Krakark, as I have a bigger game to accomplish." That was what Haserin told the two with a brief chuckle before becoming a red mist and flying off, and the two defended themselves against the beasts and summoned more of those bizarre entities for the others to try and defend from.
With Artemis, she was defending as much as she can from the creatures trying to nab Morgana, as the child was slightly stirring within her firm hold in her left arm while brandishing her bow as a staff in the other, and went further into the ruins while not only hearing the sounds of battle still play, but the sounds of the brought-back-to-life automaton beast, and felt like this would be the most contact she felt she would ever feel with the child for some time, and nearly fell over herself at withholding the urge to clasp at her heart, with seeing Morgana soon had a face of pain, and not known to them, those soulmates to her felt it as well.
If the Huntress herself realized what it was, she would have murdered the culprit.
Artemis froze though as she swerved and blocked a slash by her weapon's sheath to see a person she would have enraged over if it wasn't for her holding her Chosen Mate, as it was the same person that ended her life back within her old realm, and gained a new to this one.
To mention the male, he was around her height and wore armor made for a mailed assassin in gothic-like greek colors with a black falcon-like demon mask covering his face to only reveal his slitted amber eyes, and wielded as he backed away with a sharp-toothed smirk, a jagged short sword in black metal.
"Stay away from us!" She told him with mixed emotions, and he merely shook his head before stating to her in a filtered voice, "I cannot as I was hired to handle you mainly once again by the Dark Knight paying me this time… Unless you can offer something this time as a bargain?"
Artemis hesitated yet tossed him a small bag from her person to soon impress him, and she blinked as just as he vanished into thin air, she was face-to-face with an armored version of what Alice and Koneko were presumably facing, at this point and time.
As Artemis took off, at Xion's location as she was trying to heal Mirage the best she could since the cat goddess herself received a killing blow to her sides from why she believed to be from the automaton attempting to deal with the Ex-Organization 13 member, but secretly, was off and out of sight was a fully cloaked person who vanished, after dismissing the sniper item.
Xion wasn't the best healer and missed her one friend that was, and cursed to herself as sounds of magic and the battle stormed on while Mirage coughed up golden blood from her lips and shoved her away to only startle the ebony-haired girl with recognizing acceptance in Mirage's orbs at her dire situation.
"She… She will be upset, but… I expected this from what (cough)... From what the… Beast is made from," Mirage attempted to speak out with her coughing in-between and Xion went wide-eyed as Mirage struggled but managed to get her ring off that bared her sigil as what she was, and forcibly placed it into Xion's hands as she strived to notify her then with firmness showing in her orbs, and the sound of the battle of soldiers attacking both the automaton and creatures were heard, from both sides, "Take my ring… It will… It will appoint me… Successor. My Mate will be hurt… But she would not want to behold me this way…" Xion was gripped weakly yet firmly by Mirage as Claudia and Zone-Tan just managed to get over to see what was going on, "Protect the Chosen Child… Promise me."
"I… I will." Xion states in a mixed tone to at least glimpse satisfaction within Mirage's eyes that soon dimmed as she let go and slumped onto the hard ground. Xion then gently closed the dead cat goddess' eyes in respect while at the same time, holding the small golden and sapphire Egyptian ring she placed into the ebony-haired girl's hands before pocketing it and engaged with the other two and soon facing more juggernauts.
Within Mirage's Realm though, the servants shivered and soon passed out in deep slumber, and the location froze over in time.
Back with Alice, she yelled as she let the Vorpal Sword slice off the head of a random Krakark before hearing Artemis yell out in unexpected pain from beholding the Goddess herself get scratched by an Armored Version of what she was facing that seemed to resemble the same materials the automaton that was still rampaging, but distracted, was made from.
Koneko almost gave Alice a heart attack as she managed to send a smaller Krakark over her head, and its dead weight managed to evaporate several juggernauts and entities, as Haserin on the sidelines, kept summoning them, and told her firmly that they saw Morgana was taken from Artemis' downed grip, "Go."
With strength, secretly, from the blade itself at sensing Alice's intentions, the blonde woman took off after the beast that held Morgana back once again in unusual irony, within the ruins where she began to fight the Jabberwocky.
Speaking of the Jabberwocky, it was fighting its own battle within the outskirts of the checkered battlefield where it was breathing lightning at the charging yet armored juggernauts, and roaring before side-swiping some Krakark that bit its tail and wings.
Back to Alice, she saw everyone fighting their way and defending themselves with seeing within the sky, Haserin was a massive mist and glowing eyes within it, looking pleased as she caught up to the hissing Armored Krakark as it kept Morgana tied firmly within its tentacles, on its back.
They were soon having a stare-off as Alice got into her stance and firmly told the beast, with Morgana wincing and slowly waking up, "Release her."
Alice groaned as the only response she got was a hissing and demonic hyena laugh before the beast took off, and not seeing a cloaked person concealed was watching her before following, and ended up chasing the armored beast within an old park.
Panting, Alice got into her stance once again as it taunted her then before she moved in time of avoiding a massive swing of a large bat-like mace with dagger tips around it and saw it was an altered juggernaut that was huge, and oddly enough, resembled the Opposite Guard Armor from Kingdom Hearts except it had matching limbs attached, mainly black and crimson red in armor colors, and the very sigil was on its chest before charging at her once again.
This is, even more, to add to the impossible list, Alice hastily thought while dodging the swings of the weapon this entity had and saw the Armored Krakark was sitting passively and watching her struggles with a few chuckled hisses at her misfortune at eventually getting hand-slapped into a few old trees that easily broke, and got up and dodged another strike that left a large dent within the cracked paved ground.
Morgana opened her bleary eyes and gasped at watching her friend was in combat with what she thought was a bad impression of an ogre/knight hybrid monster and froze as she realized she couldn't get up and out of whatever was holding her, and soon saw a vortex show up to reveal Stayne holding the jar.
"Hold her still." He told the beast as to her horror, and her struggling in place while discovering it, possessed a knife and saw the jar began emitting a dark aura around its frame as she cried out as he cut her arm and her blood was drawn into the weapon, and Stayne smirked at the coated dagger and left back into the vortex as Morgana passed out within moments along with the Armored Krakark dropping her without care, and followed Stayne, and was shaking and trembling.
Just as Alice was about to be pummeled by the weapon the entity she was facing has, it evaporated into a massive black mist to perplex her until her eyes wondered, and soon moved as fast as she could to Morgana's spot at watching the child twitch and tremble as if she was having an allergic reaction and tears falling down her face and the very arm that was slowly healing, showed pitch-black lines gradually spreading to the rest of her body.
"No… No, no, no! Mary- Morgana! Stay awake!" Alice states to the child in failed attempts at not understanding what to do and with the Vorpal Blade on the floor next to them, and clutching the child on the ground and gently shaking her.
Alice then hugged her thinking she died- "It comes across it was wise for me to arrive as predetermined." A male voice notified her as she swerved to see a cloaked man, a familiar man Alice shortly thought back to from the scroll itself as an image. "It appears she was poisoned by Irony Medley."
"By what?" Alice warily asked him as she reluctantly gave him the child by his wordless gesture and he brought out a glowing neon-green vial from his cloak somehow out of thin air, to her eyes, and spoke to her while forcing Morgana to drink from the tip, "It is only for this that have a weakness to Raw Wrought Iron and not basic, as a seizure-based poison and from seeing the way it appears… It would have been for her kind."
Alice didn't like the way he sounded that as she soon looked hopeful at seeing the lines transcending back to the wound she was soon healing from, and was briefly perplexed before going wide at him as the man placed his gloved hand to the wound before extracting in a dark aura a black puddle of sorts, mixed with red and silver, and it soon changed into a priceless crimson and black infused ruby in a shape of a heart that he pocketed, and lastly placed the child on her lap.
"She would most likely and quickly recover by my successful treatment of sorts, but the child herself would be vulnerable to a possible outcome if she was in a directive or emergency that will invoke something uncomfortable unless the one she cherished aids her as her ones." The man explained to Alice to make her half-understand as he got up and made her blink at seeing him looking at the child in an emotion of the personal experience, "She will feel pain due to sensing a soul has gone, and from my sight… More to come to proceed events."
Now she was bewildered at him conjuring a rainbow vortex and paused before entering it, and told her in gentle worded advice as it sealed up behind him, "Fight with her as the true enemy will regain what was lost, and not be scared as to the result of one that sacrificed herself to protect, and someday regain reality… Your necklace, if you return, will forever keep your mind intact, Alice Kingsleigh, as you have forgotten before yet never more again you will."
Alice while easily carrying Morgana within the left side of her arm, shakily grabbed the blade before gazing at the location of easily seeing the display of spellwork shown back within the checkered battlefield, and took one step before falling into a red vortex Haserin made as it spat them both out on top of Koneko herself, in amusing irony, as the others were still fighting their own battles with just the automaton left, and both sides of soldiers and the others were teamed to attack it.
The automaton without warning, let out a burst of dense aura that knocked out the soldiers and at the same time, absorbed the fleeing creatures and remaining juggernauts as a dark mist into itself and only a select few with sharp eyes saw a vortex open up with Stayne himself, holding up the jar of dirt with a red mist floating next to him, and with him hastily chanting something to the jar as it glows a dark-like light and everyone else had no time to dodge the automaton, as Morgana's friends and others, alongside the swiftly awake child, fell into the ground and stared in horrific shock and bafflement as the mechanical monstrosity grew twice as big and roared at them with glowing amber eyes.
Within Stayne's positioned area, he felt off as if something was pulling him to which Haserin darkly let out a brief chuckle before admitting to the frozen-in-place male as the energy the jar gave off, soon covered his frame, "I admit as I had planned this, I presently wanted Iracebeth to be using the jar and yet… Things became complicated, Knave of Hearts."
"You… Tricked me!" The knight gasped out as his life energy was being used to empower the contents even more with Haserin if he could at the moment, shrugged without care and merely told him as the Knave of Hearts yelled and was fully consumed and the jar floating within the air and cracks slowly began to form, and his deceased remains as a skeleton fell onto the ground, "Nothing personal… Just want to succeed where I last left off before The Maiden herself dealt with my body's end."
Further away from the others and the remains of the one dark dragon reborn, he and his trine's corpses began glowing a matching aura to the jar before their entire remains became a black mist and were soon sucked into the mechanical growing nightmare as everyone backed up, and a dense, sided egg-like aura was soon showed.
With Haserin, he laughed insanely as the jar shattered and both him as a mist, and the contents soon flew and went into the mechanical beast, and Artemis realizing what occurred, yelled out to everyone as those that cannot fight did so with an unseen force, sending mainly the unconscious Underlandians to the white palace, "Get back! He lives!"
Morgana was one of the few unfortunate ones that got trapped within the barrier that covered not only the battlefield, but the entirety of the ruins, alongside Koneko, Alice, Artemis, Claudia, Zone-Tan, and Xion, as the aura shattered to reveal the automaton changed for the worse.
It was still as it was, but closer to an unfamiliar dragon with the metal more life-like, and the face resembling that of a particular red dragon Egyptian God Card, eight tails, four demonic draconian wings, no longer had the tentacles and was laughing in an echoed hiss before letting out an immense roar to cause shockwaves at those unfortunate to be trapped with no longer it, but with him.
"AT LAST! I AM RENEWED ONCE AGAIN!" Haserin declared with everyone soon coming together and Morgana was shakily standing and was holding her heart in pain before yelping as she was swiftly picked up without warning, Haserin: The Dark Chimera Beast, breathed particles of green and black flames for several seconds before randomly he began his assault with hidden revenge against them.
Seeing the eyes aimed at Morgana though while dodging his tail slaps that broke parts of the ground, Morgana yelped once again as despite feeling weak and slowly recovering from whatever Stayne did to her, with her twitching a few times, from Artemis taking command and ignored Claudia's and a select few other's briefs look at that, as she was given to the Nekotama herself, "Protect Morgana at all costs! The Beast himself seeks vengeance and destruction of this world!"
As if to prove her point, they dodged with several tails trying to grab mainly Morgana from the speedy Koneko, and Haserin let out echoing beastly roars of frustration before assaulting the others, to which the child herself was crossed over from seeing everyone she cared for or even befriended, defending themselves before she cried out from an unexpected tail-swipe from him at the Nekotama's legs and she flew into the air and was grabbed along with Koneko, and they were both tossed at the same time, out of the shield and far away into the Forbidden Mountains that Underland has.
Alice was worried about this before she was grabbed by Zone-Tan as Claudia was soon casting fire spells from a golf ball-sized red orb that barely did a thing to the sides, Artemis shooting constant arrows, and even Xion managing to get on his back and attacking pressure points to cause small damage to harm him.
After nearly twenty or so minutes, Alice and everyone was panting and holding fast along with Haserin himself letting loose a shockwave-like roar to almost knock them once down again and looked battered and his skin dented by their constant attacks and declared loudly before him and they were sucked into a vortex caused by him, "ENOUGH! IF I CAN'T HAVE THE CHILD, THEN I WILL TAKE THE BEST THING: YOUR ENERGIES!"
Moments ago with Koneko and Morgana, however, the child herself was pounding gently in weak attempts at Koneko's stilled form chest at a large cliff area with a cold wind blowing and howling, as she was the one to awaken first and saw the wound on the Nekotama's forehead.
"Koneko… Please wake up!" Morgana weeps softly in a begging tone and shaking her once again to not get a response, and felt comforting vibes that didn't help her situation from within her as her shadow, Amogaxrn (Ami), eventually came out and gave her a look, and soon hugged her before they stilled and sharply gazed upwards at seeing a large crimson vortex of sorts before Ami with untold strength, turned into a swift intangible mass of darkness and moved the two in time… Otherwise, they would have been stomped on by Haserin's large left foot, and the others landing on top of each other.
"THE CHILD IS HERE! VENGEANCE WILL BE MINE FOR HER KIND!" Haserin roared and swiped the drained fighters away from him and onto the walls of the mountain and began roaming about.
Artemis and the others struggled to get up as traveling into that vortex truly drained most of the energy, and Alice worried even more as to what the monster wanted Artemis gazed sharply at her head in wordless agreement.
Xion understood by their looks and told them as Alice was inwardly surprised for a tiny moment of feeling recharged alongside the Goddess herself from her weapons sending a tiny wave of energy into them before taking off after Haserin, "We'll be fine, go after her."
With Morgana and Ami, they struggled with how heavy Koneko was as they were hiding behind rocky pillars in a very large and open area with some signs of a forgotten village, and froze before slowly turning to see a wickedly grinning Haserin as smoke was coming from his maw, and told them in dark glee to make Morgana still in fear, and ignoring Ami's frantic tugging on her shirt, "At least I get to kill you as you remind me of her… The one who ruined my chances which I will rectify right here… RIGHT NOW!"
He quickly opened his maw to devour the child himself before screeching in unexpected agony and turned sharply to see (to his ire) that two of his eight tails were sliced off as the remains evaporated away from seeing Alice glaring at him and Artemis knocking another modified arrow the weapon bestowed on her person as Ami took this opportunity to use the last bit of her strength to move Morgana and Koneko to a safer spot to observe before going back into her body.
"You Wrenches! My plans are still in effect yet you two ruined part of my machine's design by that move." Haserin accidentally confessed in anger to startle the two females by that slip of information before they were both soon dodging his onslaught of tails that Artemis winced at from the tips scratching her sides or other parts of her body.
Alice, from the Huntress herself, distracting the mechanical nightmare of a beast, hid a startled yelp as her weapon forced her to follow its unexpected pulling and, using her, began attacking or trying to attack the weak points revealed by it on Haserin's legs.
Why does my heart hurt still? Morgana thought in mixed emotions while clutching her chest as to where it was, and tears slowly falling from her orbs as she had no choice but to simply watch from her spot, and with the Nekotama slowly coming around.
The child soon winced in pain still at witnessing the swift side-swipes that both Artemis and Alice received by the Dark Beast himself and forcibly thrown threw a few sets of large revealed stone and her barrier popped up as he then breathed those flames once more around the area in his attempt to roast the two.
Morgana stiffened before relaxing at seeing Koneko was awake while holding her and began to struggle yet walk with her to hide them, and Haserin didn't notice at all as his fury was mainly focused upon Alice as she managed to slice another tail off by an energetic wave of her power, and was shoved to the side in time by the Goddess herself as purple miasma launches from his lower maw and looked to have been acidic from seeing instantly several rock formations wither away in moments.
With his remaining tails, they quickly swirled and combined into one large one, and were powerful looking now and the tips soon turning into a club of daggered tips all around it, like an Ankylosaur, and roared at them with a dark aura covering his frame before declaring loudly and wave upon wave of empowering energy flew off him and knocked them all onto the ground, and a mysterious force sending the others behind, back to the checkered battlefield as otherwise, they would have fallen off a cliff. "I had enough stalling! It's time to kill you four meddlesome mortals once and for all!"
Haserin then began to randomly strike the areas around him with not only his wings to soon realize they were sharp once that aura was around his frame, but his tail easily caused more destruction with killing intent.
Morgana grew warier and warier for her girl and friend as Koneko now and then shook her head while wincing at the pounding headache she had, and realized she was having a concussion if her fingertips with her blood didn't reveal that when she brushed her hands through her hair and used her demonic reflexes despite this to move herself and Morgana out of the line of fire this time as the Dark Beast breathed those flames once more.
After breathing flames for nearly a minute, Haserin roared in another echo before breathing more flames constantly to trap Alice and Artemis on one side and Morgana and Koneko on the other.
Artemis looked determined as she slightly gritted her teeth yet was mixed as she told Alice firmly in a way Alice herself didn't at all like, "I need to gain a perfect shot to perhaps wound him enough to get another to kill the Remade Beast… I need you to distract him."
"Me? Distract the Dragon Beast that's even stronger than the Jabberwocky?" Alice tells her in disbelief yet wilted from the Huntress' firm look of a wordless 'Yes' while showing from her battered quiver, a black-tipped arrow with runes on it followed by two more, as to mention said drake, it was reluctantly protecting everyone from the unexpected assault of shadowy beings at the field, "These I was hoping to use against a more worthy source, but if this Monster wants to end my Soulmate… Then it is going to be his end by my hands."
Alice hid a gulp before they both saw the flames die down and Haserin roared darkly in frustration and soon began to search for them as the blonde-haired young woman herself brought up courage before waving the Vorpal Blade itself to catch the Dark Beast's attention and shouted then to worry Morgana over, "Hey you bloody beast! You are not that powerful and would fall like all evil has before!"
Artemis was getting into position as Haserin in untold speed, was right up front at Alice and snorted fumes to make her hold back coughing by his look at her, and told her off then, "I have more than enough power to end you, Ancestor to the Maiden's Knight… But I have more goals for this world than I was alive once before!"
My Ancestors were in the Underland?! Alice hastily thought to herself before holding her place to half-impress the Dark Beast as he darkly chuckled in small reminiscent moments before gazing at her sharply then as in a perfect spot, Artemis was aiming right at his face's right eye, "The Blade itself has even aided that foolish ancestor of yours to end my first life… Which revenge is mine to end you along with that child! As after all…" Haserin began to breathe into his maw as flames began to develop, and spoke briefly as Alice braced herself, "Mortals such as yourself are predictable."
Before he could breathe his flames, he choked before letting out an agonizing roar that was also heard on the battlefield as the first arrow struck truly into the pupil of his eye, and Haserin randomly knocked Alice over and whacked her away in moments to where Morgana and her Nekotama Mate was, and hatefulness showed clearly on the Dark Beast's face at the Godly Huntress as she had another arrow nocked and ready to fire.
"Artie, run!" Morgana screamed out with Koneko struggling to hold her Mate from their location as Artemis indeed heard her yet nicked and shot an arrow to only miss and got ready to shoot another before soon yelling out in agony at Haserin wrapping her up in one of his tails, as he separated them during his chase.
Artemis grew wary with a gut-like feeling as he broke the last arrow alongside her quiver from him stepping on it, and tossed her right up into the air and opened his maw… For only to sharply shut it as she sent a light-based dagger she kept on her onto his face after she landed on him, and began running downwards before getting caught by another tail and was soon face-to-face with him.
"I have had it, Goddess of the Hunt," Haserin began as he began squeezing her to make the Huntress herself cry out unexpectedly to stiffen Morgana before taking off and ignoring Koneko's words of 'Come back', as The Dark Mechanical Chimera opened his lower maw with particles of miasma forming, "It is time to end your renewed, second life."
Before he could breathe his acidic plasma, he roared before sharply glaring at Morgana as she used Xal'atath to cut by accidental purpose, more of his tails to make him have only two left as everyone saw the energy wave that evaporated several yards out.
The three females screamed out Morgana's name and with Haserin ignoring the Goddess of Hunt's attempts to get his attention to her, he saw the hidden developing aura that was forming around Morgana to intrigue him as the Dark Beast grinned sharply before squeezing the child in his swift tail hold to instantly make her scream in utter agony.
"Stop it! She's just a child!" Alice shouted in moments to get Morgana to breathe shakily with her weapon vanishing as he simply glanced at her and the other two with his remaining eyes before getting an intrigued idea by seeing the aura spike slightly, and to Morgana, she didn't like the look his eyes had, "Regardless… She is a threat as you all are!"
Without warning, he grabbed Artemis and produced from the tail, those daggers to instantly pierce into the Goddess, and retracted them before tossing them both away, and lastly told them then and taking off, "I will settle the destruction of Underland firstly before I make you observe in misery, to which I hunger from!"
"Artie!" Morgana shouted in utter fear as despite trying to breathe still, she shakily ran as fast as she could to the bleeding form of seeing the severe wounds on Artemis, and Alice alongside Koneko was in utter horror as the child then attempted to try and heal her from a spell she heard Xion used... But it was no use, due to how deep the wounds were around her sides as the Goddess bled golden blood with her outfit stained, and how inexperienced she was to cast it.
Morgana was crying in unexpected pain once again as she held the Goddess that, to make her look quickly in utter shock, held the child's face with dazed yet aware eyes to make Morgana realize that she was dying. "Don't fret… Little one," Artemis softly said with blood also gently flowing from her mouth on the sides, "I… I don't regret anything, or even… Meeting you. I will… I will wait for you, always."
Morgana rapidly shook her head 'No', and told her to sadly amuse the dying Goddess of the Hunt as in a few realms, Kalcea froze over before touching her face in perplexed wonder as to why she began to cry with her generals nearby her to witness this, and Lady Death observing things in her recently established domain, sighed before an idea came to her and took off into a glowing green vortex she almost vomited that smelled of wildflowers and closed, instantly, behind her. "I… I can't lose you! Please stay with me!" Morgana pleads to no avail.
Artemis soon coughed harshly and wordlessly still held and also caressed weakly Morgana's left cheek as her vision was slowly fading and froze Morgana up as at that moment, Xion appeared in a vortex after feeling major stress from her little sister, and froze with shocked dread at the sight as Artemis breathing out her last few words to the child then, "Please don't go through sadness… Over me. I embrace… Death fully… And I love you… Mary. Please don't let… My death keeps you down… And keep moving forward."
Morgana froze as Artemis' caressing hand and arm soon fell onto the ground while watching the light dim from her eyes, as the child tightly hugged the dead goddess' chest and ignored the golden blood seeping into her clothing as well as she bawled her eyes out, and Alice, Koneko who began to say a prayer quietly in Japanese to herself over the goddess.
Xion soon clenched a fist and was gazing in the direction that was long away from the checkered battlefield from their spot before admitting to the two females in honesty, as this froze Morgana from overhearing this and the pain in her heart came back without even seeing an aura develop over her frame, and her belongings on her outfit were soon, by her growing power, zapped into her storage for safety, "It seems that Beast killed two gods today as… Mirage also perished by the very metal that entity has, as part of its body."
Morgana was stilled in place within moments of having constant flashbacks between both Goddesses of their precious moments with each other and her, for at least two minutes as Xion told them the situation, and then without warning, once Alice touched her shoulder to try and get her to move, she finally snapped.
All the pain, agony, and everything else of her past, alongside the pain that flowed from her heart to her entire body, and the death of her two Soulmates brought forth something that will not only change her fate but everyone else's.
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The aura that Haserin saw when he held her was now dense enough for mortal eyes to see and was jaded in color, even flame-like with hints of silver and gold as she, without forewarning, yelled with fully white eyes that glowed and at the same time, shoving Alice, Artemis' stilled body, Koneko, and even Xion by her power right onto a close mountain wall as the child herself was blinded by untold anger and power flowing throughout her body.
They couldn't move yet watched on in startled, slightly amazed, and horrific fascination as Morgana was transforming right before their very eyes to worry not only Koneko as she, and those that were connected to her that felt it and was worried as well about her, the many emotions going right through them by her, and for Xion, something Ophis in private conversation, cautioned her about.
Morgana's body trembled and spasmed as she shakily stood up and clutched her head, and growling sounds proceeded to come from her mouth with each twitch she had, and they could see her skin begin rippling erratically similar to those that drink from the Polyjuice Potion and her claws were growing sharper than usual to not thankfully puncture her skin that was slowly shimmery as if it was scaled.
Her horn soon cracked and fell off before eventually evaporating into particles of dust that suddenly went right into her mouth, as illegal yet purposed seals that were kept at bay to prevent this transformation when she was just a babe and magically hidden, uncovered themselves in the air around her by coming out of her quivering and trembling body… And they were shortly obliterated as well, and her screams, in moments, veered around into hellish roars to immediately bring shivers down the three's spines.
The aura rose denser and denser as it was soon consuming her and Morgana tripped over herself discovering her face was slowly elongating and her clothes disappearing into a gemstone around her forehead as they shortly saw Koneko zoomed as fast as she could to try and catch her over the cliffside… But she was too late.
The Nekotama was then bewildering the other two females why she hurriedly got up from being wide-eyed from her observation and hurried over to them as an immense and immediate flash of light and silvery-golden flames displayed for at least several yards below with more roaring being heard as when Morgana fell, she transformed.
They found out firsthand as to what she turned into as she landed with large thuds and with her eyes blank, and in moments, roared into the heavens as they regained her eye color.
It was something startling she turned into: A Dragon of sorts.
She became an emerald four-eyed feminine dragon with a squarish snout, matching skinned color close to the snow, for her scales, and with large goldish-brown horns curved across her forehead like a crown. The wings she attained were a pair of immense hair-colored bat-like draconian wings and were half or nearly almost twice her new size and mainly designed similar or close to Smaug that, by a mere glance, and seemingly appeared they could deploy and retract into her back for more speed. Her membrane for the wings is a dulled color of her scaled skin. Her draconian body, although, resembled a mixture of Smaug mostly as a female, and both Red and Blue-Eyes Dragon's as a fusion, combined perfectly.
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Morgana stomped on the ground as the strange aura rapidly went into her, and let out another roar once again before she was sharply glaring right at the direction of her nostrils scenting and informing her where her vengeance was located and dismissing the loud shout of Xion as she flew off after Haserin.
Xion then swore to herself before sprinting to where she recognized the destination Morgana was going by the use of a Haste Spell, and Alice turned to Koneko shakily at noticing the Nekotama herself was mixed in emotions before the blonde's orbs hardened in coalition mixed with both determination and wariness, as she made a seal of sorts materialize below them, "We need to get to her before it's too late… Draconian Rage is something that can harm her." They were then gone.
Meanwhile back at the checkered battlefield, everyone hid from Haserin or fled as he was fussing with the Jabberwocky at this point and time, as the two clawed, missed their blasts, and tried to kill each other for dominance as The Dark Beast for killing, and The Jabberwocky for defending.
"Just die already so I can wipe out these morons!" Haserin roared out to the Jabberwocky and side-swiped hard to make the dragon exhale out a wheeze before being forcibly sent into the ground and causing slabs of dirt and stone to fly where it landed.
The Jabberwocky shakily stood up before roaring in agony from Haserin in impressive speed, chomped on its left-wing and began to swirl in circles, and tossed the drake right at the fleeting crowd that remained behind and struggled to get up this time… Formally to be forcibly taken down and it's neck firmly grasped by the talons Haserin has in a 'Stay down' hold.
"Citizens and Rulers of this pathetic world… I plan to remake it into my way for those I serve to rule over with an iron fist!" Haserin began to boast in proclaiming victory and didn't see in the sky itself, something that was charging up an attack, and Mirana and a select few did, "Do so forgive me of burning you all alive-" Mirana surprised her sister and everyone as she produced a barrier of white to protect them from the neon green-like electrical yet fiery plasma on Haserin's entire back, and he moved hastily away before swiping his tail and soon, thousands of metallic daggers from his tail was sent to wherever blasted him, in the sky.
To his dismay at seeing it was an unknown dragon of sorts, and whatever gender it was, managed to let out an echoing roar that sent them all back to the ground, and with the magical barrier that Mirana thankfully still had up, prevented any of them hurting everyone and the daggers jabbed randomly on the pathed ground.
Just as the dragon, or otherwise Morgana, were on the ground and roaring at each other, and soon even mauling and clawing, the sigil showed up to reveal both Koneko and Alice next to the others.
"I feel her anger and resentment, and pain," Koneko admitted to them after watching the two large dragons fight and with everyone glancing at each other wordlessly before wincing at watching Morgana get tail-swiped in the face before she retaliated by her fangs elongating and chomped hard on Haserin's one of two remaining tails and ignoring his clawing attacks against her hardened hide.
"From the deaths of two, bound by soul… Anger will rarely overcloud a Chaosarinian, even the royalty of the race." Mirana confessed from her childhood reading reminding of this moment, and they all blinked and ignored the March Hare tossing a spoon at a surviving soldier about a rude comment over the situation, and not seeing the Nekotama and a select few others narrow their orbs when they witnessed Morgana breathe those flames that were fireballs of electricity mixed with plasma, and made small explosions in the broken and dead woods.
Mirana secretly glanced at her eldest to see her wince in instant understanding as her actions caused all this, and turned to Alice as she asked her mainly but to the others as well, as she didn't want the child herself, despite her being a Dragon at this point and time, to be harmed or worse, "Is there anything we can do?"
Seeing Mirana struggle with the barrier as it flickered from some of the two feuding dragon's attack, and the state of the Jabberwocky, Mirana or even The Hatter was going to reply to the blonde woman before they were defensive as Haserin roared and from a reddish vortex came out what Alice faced earlier, to her ire at this, by Claudia brandishing her blade and firmly told them, "After we face this new foe."
The armored creature soon swung its weapon in a 360-degree circle within the air before dropping it, and to irk them again, it summoned more of those bizarre soldiers for them all to face.
While still a dragon, Morgana sensed somehow within her enraged form, the weariness everyone felt from even seeing this part when she was forcibly swiped away from Haserin, shook off his hit she was gradually healing from her side, and let out an echoed roar to impress those that was sharply eyed when a vortex opened up… And summoned Bwonsamdi instead of the intended, and close by the others to instantly make the Loa of Death realize what was going on.
"Well now… Zeems dat dings are goin' ta be interestin' if dis has occurred." Bwonsamdi noted while hovering causally to make a preferred few to sweatdrop at him for, and Xion just appearing in time to thwart an energy attack aimed for Alice and Zone-Tan, and solely raising an eyebrow when he saw Morgana with instantaneous interest, alongside her adversary, "Yes… Interestin' indeed."
Discerning why he was summoned, he sensed the wayward souls of wars past still buried or even perhaps wandering around the area and channeled some of his power and it quickly spread to the land to catch everyone's attention and even some being wary about what he was doing, "Dis be a fight to return ta, Mon! Come! Aid da weak at dare time of need!"
Despite Mirana being wary at realizing who Bwonsamdi was via folktales when she was growing up, everyone held fast as the energy the Loa of Death produced in moments flew up into the air and swirled before falling vastly into the ground itself, and in moments, the battlefield shook as skeletons began rising in armor styled to the old kingdom of Underland, and were somewhat relieved as the old deceased knights were fighting their foes for them (2).
"Whatcha be waitin' for Mon?" Bwonsamdi startled them all with soon seeing Morgana roar out in pain from being pinned down by Haserin, and they were determined then, "Fetch ya wee selves over and face da foe dat causes all dis trouble in da first place."
As those that could fight ran to where Haserin was keeping Morgana at bay, Bwonsamdi sensed the souls of the two deceased belonging to two certain individuals, and discretely used his soul collecting device hidden on his person and instantly nabbed the two, before commanding the fallen soldiers to fight off the tainted entities.
With Alice and those that can fight, Kuroka was gazing secretly at her little sister in concern as she saw conflict in Koneko's eyes as they gathered discreetly to a spot seeing Morgana managed to startle the group by seeing her right-wing in seconds quickly fold and began trying to impale or even slash Haserin and succeeded with damaging his lower-left eye, and shoved the male Dark Beast away before they resumed fighting with each other.
"We need to come up with a plan, and quickly," Yidhian told them by mere glance as she was the one to protect the two Queens from draconian-looking juggernauts that wanted them dead earlier, and forced at the location after her lead fled and sent her there, as the others nodded before moving to another spot from dodging flames from the Dark Beast that left scorch marks behind them.
Alice blinked at her thinking that she saw something shimmering in the background further ahead before shaking her head, and telling them to which at this point, didn't argue with her words as she took charge, especially seeing a vortex open up to reveal a more sinister version of what she faced, came forth, and eyes Morgana with killing intent, "Half of us will go fight the new foes while the other, aid Young Morgana against the Dark Beast himself, and average those that have fallen to this very day."
The Hatter was with them with a blade bestowed by the Death Loa himself as a free favor, for some bizarre reason that resembled a majestic looking, flat reverse blades, fencer's sword in black metal and emerald jewels on the metal itself, winced along with a select few at Morgana hitting Haserin by her tail at his place as a dragon, before they were rolling around the area with an eased shattering of the paved ground with each thud the two did. "Alice is right… Many have fallen to this unneeded war. The Red Queen will have justice done, but this beast before us must end."
"We best do this quickly," Xion said with them seeing she was wary about something until Koneko, Claudia and Zone-Tan saw what got her worried as a very large, armored, and sinister-looking Krakark came from a fel-colored vortex and wrapped its four tentacles at Morgana's draconian limbs, and soon split up to fight two battles: The Hatter, and a select few at the entity getting ready to clobber Morgana, and Alice, Xion, Koneko and Yidhian after the other entity and Haserin.
Morgana while not aware of her current actions, began to try and bite Haserin yet failed as the Dark Beast chuckled before admitting to her furious state, and was for once wary about her form she became as the last few punctures she did to his hide, almost succeed to penetrate, and ignored her roar of pain by him tearing some parts of her wings, "For a raging fellow beast… You were a worthy adversary to convince me that Underland is indeed true to its calling of randomness and discord of sanity. Pity that you, Youngling, will not live to see my wraith to this land."
Before he could use his sharpened claws to stab her heart, he yelled in unexpected pain as once again, Alice sliced a tail to make him have only one left, and irked at seeing his summoned Beast was now distracted by the other three girls distracting it and with a small yet large barrier separating both of his creatures from his aid.
"You again! I should have burned you and the others when I had the chance at that mountain!" Haserin roared out in a dark complaining to Alice, as the blonde herself got into a stance he growled at it despite being clouded with anger, Morgana recognized Alice's scent to know she wasn't a major threat… For now, and roared next to her in a challenge at Haserin who, in return, darkly chuckled at them as he told them both with a glint in his remaining orbs that Alice didn't like as he began glowing, "Perhaps it is time to reveal why I was feared as the Dark Storm Warrior, and reveal my true self, thanks to this Beast and Souls!"
A dark light once flashed everyone except the one within the barriers, and Alice was horrified at seeing he shifted to a half-humanized sized and version of Harvigosa while wielding a smoking yet whole, electrically charged version of the former drake's wicked blade, swung it a few times, and pointed at both Dragon Morgana and the blonde by speaking in an echoing yet normal voice, "You are not prepared!"
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Alice moved hastily away from Haserin as he began producing flames from his left fist right at her only to get pummeled right into his side by Morgana and she began clawing and soon began fighting her instead and exposing some glowing wounds to perplex the blonde woman by yet she held aloft her weapon and allowed her focus to be on that, and with each strike caused him to roar and try and fight her.
However, Morgana's Wings aided her in distracting him and managed to puncture his left side, and he, in turn, soon grabbed her tail and began to swirl her around in a way, Mario would have done to Bowser, before tossing her right against a barrier and roared and went after Alice, as she managed to dig deep in a cut on his left leg, and even though his blade was cutting Morgana, her body began to restore it within moments.
Morgana while following her dragon instincts, saw her Vengeance chasing Alice as the blonde woman dodged left and right purplish flames and miniature daggers of sorts in a dark aura to either burn or slice her as he had a barrier around his frame and growled before charging once again and ramming into him after the third wave of daggers struck and evaporated on top of the ground.
Alice soon held the Vorpal Blade once again and was soon attacking his sides whenever she managed to when they were exposed via Morgana's attempts to chomp and claw at him, even jab him, and the cycle repeats for what seemed like four rounds of the same tactics before he sent both of them away in a reddish-purplish mixed wave of energy and harshly onto the barrier produced.
"ENOUGH! It seems like I have to step up and go further into my true powers to take you down!" He exclaimed in angered fury at them as he jabbed his weapon into the ground and a dark barrier covered him and soon made them both dodge and weave the waves of energy made from his weapons, and good thing as well, as the energy easily sliced a few stray rocks the area had in clear cuts.
After three large waves of energy, he grabbed and yanked his weapon out of the ground, and Alice didn't like the smirk he had on his face before staring at him in horror as he quickly produced an immense energy orb from the top of his blade, from him holding the weapon up, and wordlessly sent it at them.
To startle Alice and realize Morgana was still within whatever she turned into, go in front of her and once she opened her maw, she was breathing a mix of her flames and lightning breathes she has been doing whenever she sneezed but kept at it while grounding herself.
Alice was soon trying to hold onto the weapon in her hands and was once again dragged to where she blinked at seeing exposed areas on where Morgana originally jabbed Haserin's body, and began channeling, by sheer instinct, her energy into the blade itself and at the tip of it was a baseball-sized pure white energy orb that hastily went into the wound… And made her run back several steps as he roared and got his attack deflected back at him, shook his head with a glare, and began to repeat the previous action except for one thing: The blob-like monsters began to spawn and head for the blonde woman.
Morgana without noticing or caring except for the fury in her orbs, once again began to fight Haserin as Alice began to hack and slash the ongoing blob monsters with glowing amber eyes for a few moments before dodging Morgana as Haserin once again tossed her easily onto the barrier and making the draconian girl roar in pain while trying to get up, quickly, and moved in time from the weapon that nearly sliced her in half and made him angry as her maw hardened up and chomped firmly on it.
Alice hacked the last blob and seeing Haserin struggling to get the weapon he owns out of Morgana's jaws, tried hitting her yet failed with flaming balls of flames as she was once again hacking and slashing, mixed with her power to deal major damage to the exposed areas of his body.
Haserin, after at least a few minutes, managed to get his blade before scowling and kicking Morgana back in the face as she chewed off part of his blade, and the weapon itself sparked and let out a dense black mist, and his remaining tail whacking Alice once again at the barrier and with her glimpsing the others fighting an endless army before dodging more balls of flame.
He then proceeded to do this same tactic two more times before roaring at them once again, they were sent back as they were startled by his brash actions next: He jabbed the remains of his weapon into his chest cavity and glowed a darkly red and black aura as he then changed back into his beast mode and roared at them in fury, and saw by how much damage they done combined, he was not that great in shape.
His body was giving off random spurts of black misty smoke and sparking randomly as well, and he was bleeding from his maw black blood.
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"You pitiful fools can never defeat me! I am invincible and more powerful than you can imagine!" Haserin roared out with the barrier dropping, and the armies he was secretly summoning constantly were gone, and this only made Morgana roar at him with Alice and the others glaring right at the Dark Beast.
"You can never be invincible and powerful!" Alice shouted at him to sharply glare at the female and they all didn't notice him smirking secretly at glimpsing in the sky that something was glittering, "Individuals like you are always doomed to fail!"
Yidhian was the only one besides Bwonsamdi to catch the glint within the Dark Beast's eyes and glanced behind her and did a double-take and soon began to cast a long-worded yet massive shield spell that was enhanced by the Death Loa himself as to confuse everyone with Morgana passing out like a dragon, from exhaustion, heard him state to them in a way they didn't like, "Then those that are before me shall fall as well."
A tainted beam almost wiped them out with seeing Haserin conjured a vortex and fled as Zone-Tan sent an unexpected energy blast at the spot he was firmly in, and cursed as once the beam faded, Yidhian lowered and dismissed the shield.
"Morgana's out." Yidhian confirmed to them all with everyone resting or healing thanks to Xion passing out strange bottles that made them recover faster, from the female genie opening her Mistress' one of four eyes as Morgana breathed deeply to make the most turn to the Jabberwocky as it snorted before replied in a way it was a mix of being impressed and annoyed, "The Youngling did well as a Drake, but was still untrained by Draconian Fighting. I expected as much of her kind, but rather intrigued by her being a rare dragon as the Youngling's True Form than a Phoenix or Other."
Wary of the dragon before her, alongside a select few as out of earshot, they heard Iracebeth was banished from Underland and was to be sent to the outskirts with her remaining loyalists to her cause, in a major fit, as she made the beast turn to her then, "Her Race has other forms?"
They soon turned to the Death Loa as he was inspecting Morgana's sleeping and prone form and winced at feeling the immense rage still within her entirety, and told them that with being intrigued by the Elemental she unlocked by passing the Test of Protection, "Aye, Little Lady of Wonder. Da Wee One though be ragin' hard after da loss of her two Mated Souls… Though dey is not amongst us, dey be brought back in due time, in another life. Here he paused with him briefly glancing at the Soul Jar he collected from the Checkered Battlefield of the Old Warriors, and added onto his words along with gently patted Morgana's draconian head, a few times, "She may be untrained in dey ways of Drakes, but she may be tough and fightin' her wayward wars within her, an nothin' can change the Wee One's own Heart to dat, and more." He looked at the Jabberwocky to make the dragon hide a wince at the personal jab at that.
"Does that explain why she is still like this?" Yidhian asked before Zone-Tan or even the others could, and with Bwonsamdi raising an eyebrow at the female genie but shrugged wordlessly and answered them all the best he could, "Ta be an honest Loa, not true in dat way to fully know dat. She may be changed, ya, but she be dis way all her wee own. Feelin' of the pain of Da Strain cause da Wee One ta snap and be dis way, mostly, from what Ol' Bwonsamdi can see."
Alice nodded reluctantly at this with her turning to the others before looking back at the Jabberwocky as a few hours later, the Loa of Death left with Zone-Tan as she told them an opportunity came up by his offer he made her within his realm, and both stated that they would eventually return (with the Loa being sooner), as they were all back at the White Castle and Iracebeth and her loyalists, were no longer within Underland itself.
They were still trying to figure out how to get Morgana back to her actual Humane Self, with little luck on that by the strangest means Mirana and a select few, had done and remained asleep.
Koneko and her elder sister, alongside Claudia and those that knew Morgana the best, to mention them, we're told to wait within the castle's lounge area and with them also chat with The Hatter and the other Underlandians.
Despite Morgana being out, The Hatter despite his agreement, refused to dance until everyone was present and accounted for, aka, wanting Morgana awake to also see.
At the moment, however, Alice was reluctant with the very Jabberwocky within the courtyard and it was a mere awkward silence until the dragon spoke firstly as they gazed at the setting sky, "For the one wielding my Foe, you are not at all what I scented you to be the Vorpal Wielder."
Alice blinked at that before turning to the dragon at this with asking the dragon then, to earn a snort, and a glance by those very eyes it has, "What's that supposed to mean?"
"Nothing of the sorts, but I recommend that you keep to yourself as a wielder to my foe, tends to have things occur as time passes." The Jabberwocky told her without even stating why about her scent and ignored her look to it at that before they glanced to the left at Cheshire who materialized right next to Alice with a grin on his features, but his eyes said otherwise to something she instantly knew, was personally hidden away as a personal secret, somehow, and told the two then, "The Queen wishes to speak to you both, as there is one last remedy the Child herself can undertake… But rather risky, all the same."
The two gave each other looks before they were not being led to the castle, but to the White Garden of Eve that Mirana personally made years ago, as it was filled with everything plant-based in white or related colored design, including a few Elder Trees as well.
She was waiting for them by giving the dragon wary secretive stares, and with Tarrant, Yidhian, and Bwonsamdi as behind them from a recently made large clearing (thanks to the latter of the four), was still a dozed Morgana in her dragon form.
"Fair Alice, seems Chesire was able to find you and the Jabberwocky," Mirana gently told the blonde woman as she came over to the White Queen and they held back amused retorts when they saw the Jabberwocky sat like a dog with inpatients on its face.
"So what is it that I have to do?" Alice asked her in a way to amuse Tarrant at her guessing she was already used to things and blinked as the Dragon did by the White Queen's words to her then, "As stated, we have tried everything except for one dire method: Dreamwalking. We usually only resort to that as a last resort, but it would require one to enter, and one to maintain energy to the person as they are."
The two forced volunteers briefly glanced at each other before turning to both Yidhian and Bwonsamdi as they reluctantly agreed with Mirana, "Yes… Dere be several versions of da ways ta Dreams, and most be part of da Emerald Dragons' Ways, and some ta most dangerous part of da ways of brews." "And it is that method that we must use to awaken my Mistress from her slumber, as from what I gathered and we figured as a small group," Yidhian began to finish in explaining as she motioned to Morgana briefly, "She has more Soulmates, yes… But losing two within a single day at her young age, it's dangerous and possibly her magic placed her into this state and like a dragon, would cause her to regenerate more slowly than she is used to as her Humanized Self."
The Jabberwocky snorted in disagreement as they all turned to it as it responded to them in a way, it wasn't pleased by some of their knowledge, "Untrue… Most dragons such as I and possibly whatever the Youngling is as a Draconian Forme, tend to regain what was lost very hastily, even in combat by your eyes witnessing earlier against the Dark Beast. I, however, will reluctantly agree that Bonds of that very calling, may delay that and more, as the soul will be strained and would require comfort and others to regain its strength once again by those the Youngling may know."
That settled in their minds for a few moments before Mirana decided to explain the situation to the two: Alice and The Hatter (due to him doing this once before) are to enter Morgana's Mind, while the Jabberwocky itself would maintain a connection since Morgana, as is, is a Drake just like itself, and with the aid of both Yidhian and Bwonsandi to even further channel things.
The vial they had to drink would cause a rippled vortex that only they would be able to enter by their entire being, into Morgana's Dreams or more, and aid her in eventually waking up as by what the brew does, would automatically eject the two out of it without harm… Despite it smelling like rotten eggs mixed with gym socks.
The way to do so, Yidhian was at the back near the tail, for Morgana, Mirana, and Bwonsamdi at the sides, and the Jabberwocky at the head and easily seeing chalked runes already placed down for this to work, and both Alice and Tarrant holding the stinky vials with Cheshire nearby them.
The ritual, while complex, was simple as it was aided by design by both Yidhian and Bwonsamdi.
"Once active," Mirana began as both the female genie and the Death Loa began to start things, "We cannot stop at all as it would take most of our concentration to allow things to progress. Cheshire is merely here to make sure that nothing goes wrong or outside interference would disrupt the Dreamwalking Ritual. If something happens, he is to fetch those that can still defend us and do whatever it takes to prevent Morgana's life to be in jeopardy besides your own."
Alice was about to say something before noticing Morgana begin to grunt and twitch in place a few times in pain and sighed before wordlessly nodding as she gave Tarrant a look at her disgust at smelling the vial again, to his amusement, and downed the brew that was made via the Loa of Death with the female genie being the one to make said glass vials.
Alice felt tingly all over in moments and was perplexed by the aura dimly showing off her and Tarrant as hers was dull-white, and his a festive green before peering at a rippled stargate-like vortex appearing before them in the large circle connected to the glowing runes around Morgana, in neon rainbow colors, from her left side, and reluctantly jumped in with Tarrant holding her hand, at the same time.
