Meanwhile, thirty minutes later with both The Bog King and Marianne, the duo were still trying to figure out the riddle to try and get the natural antidote from The Sugar Plum Fairy.

Chipana, Cassie and Nina were there though with the three chosen bodyguards of Rucks, Tucks, and Lulus guarding where Morgana was per their request, that, and Nina was annoyed to amuse her two friends that her brother decided to not want her help at solving the very easy riddle, much to the hidden amusement of Sugar Plum at that within her cage.

The three girls were sitting in their seats closeby at the far end of the table with Sugar Plum's cage also was for the current part, with intriguing both The Bog King and Marianne of a small and truer story of sorts in which was called The Tortoise and The Hare, as she was there that very day when she was younger of the so-called race in this realm that at some point, was made into kids books and whatnot from what Cassie told her, after, of people indeed leaving their realm for other realms was true.

After a few more minutes, Thang came into the room with Stuff right behind him and got everyone's attention to his post as he shouted at his ruler, "Sire! News from the mushrooms!" Seeing as he got their attention, he resumed to perplex or even confuse them, but made The Bog King irritated at how no sense they were, "An arm skis on roaches."

Seeing he delivered his message while ignoring the wordless stares, began to back up and leave out of nervousness of his king's glare, quickly said something as Stuff asked him curiously, "How did you do?" And Thang only responded back as they left to be in earshot if needed by their highness, "Nailed it." The girls were the only ones to see Griselda do a shushing motion to them as she was hidden behind one of the bush plants she had placed there to eavesdrop on her son, at the least, from sneaking into the room.

Though they all did blink at seeing Cassie actually casting an imaginary cloud bubble to her thoughts in plain sight on Thang's words, of seeing within it of a non-bloody arm similar to the one in the show, Courage the Cowardly Dog, skiing on a cockroach with goggles on its face to where it's eyes were perfectly, and going back and forth with the hand of the arms easily using a single ski pole like you do in rafting, down a snowy mountain… Before it was popped by a smirking Chipana on much to the pouting Cassie, at that, from tossing one of the daggers in the room threw it, from both royal's fun a bit ago.

The two royals began to think for themselves again aloud, which Nina, Chipana, and Cassie saw from their viewpoint that Sugar Plum looked irritated and bored as they did so, "Something more powerful…" "Than the Love Potion…" they both trailed and oddly stated to one another without realizing they were finishing each other's sentences, "Something more power-" The Bog King began to state to himself again before Sugar Plum couldn't take it anymore and interrupted their processing thoughts by telling them both, "I'm bored! I'll just tell you!"

"Great!" Both Marianne and The Bog King stated in utter relief to her as at the same time, to not see the amused glint in Sugar Plum's eyes at that in knowing, but stated to The Bog King as if to state a deal or nothing situation with crossing her arms and her left fingers lightly tapping her right arm, "Only if you set me free."

"No…" The Bog King was about to reject the deal yet he did turn to glimpse Marianne's begging yet desperate face to which, he ignored how his own heart thudded a few times by, and made Nina blink at him in utter shock that both Chipana and Cassie easily noticed, and having a faint smile on Griselda's lips by his change of mood and words of mixed uncertainty and other, "Ok."

Sugar Plum made illusions with her own body of fireworks within her cage in cheering at this, before trying to calm herself slightly down, and told them in words The Bog King stated, no, at, "Yeah! Then I will reveal the antidote with a story."

It was here Nina was paying rapt attention as she knew something went down with her Big Brother back then that even her step-mother refused to reveal to her, especially since she glanced for only a moment to see this also got her two out of three only true friend's attention, as she did befriend the guards but they rarely hang out with her to her hobbies and whatnot.

"One fateful day, when the Bog King was young and impetuous, he fell in love… With a sweet young thing." Sugar Plum began by shifting into The Bog King that both him and Marianne saw, and then shifted into a love-dovey version of a female Goblin to which Marianne was repulsed by only a bit, but gazed at the king of these lands in disbelief, "She was the most beautiful creature I ever saw." Though Marianne grabbed Sugar Plum's spidery-based cage before The Bog King could try and smash it.

"Seriously?" Marianne asked him before seeing Sugar Plum only nodded to her once while in the female Goblin's form and changed back to herself with continuing her tale, which she knew the other girls were listening on alongside to her reluctance, Griselda, "He was so in love. But Bog, he had no patience…" "Enough!" He stated to her yet she only continued with Marianne seeing how desperate he didn't want to hear this tale, "So, he came to me for my Love Potion. I tried to tell him how it worked. But he dusted the sweet, unsuspecting creature, and she gazed at a lovestruck boy." She showed an illusion of her making the past tense Love Potion before making it go away, shifted to where the female form of the Goblin was love dusted before shrieking at him in fear or something worse, with The Bog King making a failed plea to that.

He went away from them and sat down in a depressed state, and stated aloud mainly to himself as The Bog King sighed deeply after, even knowing his sister and mother, despite her failed attempts to try and blend in, was there, "Even with a Love Potion… I'm too hideous to love."

"You're not hideous," Marianne truthfully admitted with a unseen look on her face as yes, he was some type of Goblin race she guessed that was unique to his kind, but he did have some features to distinguish that perfectly to know he wasn't all that bad looking to the eyes, either. Particularly the reason being is being fearful of his wrath and more, by the Fairy Kingdom over the years is to why they avoided him.

Nina saw her Big Brother stilled at this for only a moment to which the trio easily saw Sugar Plum nodded, unseen by both the Ruler of the Dark Forest and the brunette fairy princess themselves at not only the princess' face she has but his, at knowing something was between the two somehow, but told them irritably still, and even admitting things to ignore the single worded, what, from The Bog King, "Hideous, not hideous, whatever! But that's not why the potion didn't work. She was already in love with someone else!" She exaggerated a bit at the end to make it worded to the point, that was it.

"So, the one thing more powerful than the potion is… Real love?" Marianne questioned her with her emotions going downhill from this unexpected outcome, softly at her at this to which Sugar Plum did state to her in earnest, pointing at her too, "Bingo! That took forever!" She did look relieved for only a moment though until her cage was snatched by The Bog King angrily, as he stated to her firmly, "Why didn't you tell me?"

"You shut me away, and you shut me up! And Griselda blames me for the no-love-in-the-Dark-Forest!" She rants back to The Bog King, to which she shifted for only a moment or two into his mother to not only prove a point, but she revealed herself with a sharp look aimed at her by her son, with a finger and hand raised up as if she was proving a point, "Teaching moment. There are no shortcuts to love. Just saying."

"Stuff, take it away." He ordered his lackey as they came into the room from sensing things, to which the Goblin did gently take the cage reluctantly, and only told him, "Okay, B.K. Here." Stuff gave the cage to Thang, which he did let out a small grunt from the force of it as they were about to go back to the dungeons with Sugar Plum realizing things, yet stopped as Nina and the two other girls were in front of them, with firm looks to make them glance at each other, then to them with Nina holding out her clawed hand in expecting.

Marianne hid a small smile like he and his mother did at the rare moments when Nina became serious, and Thang reluctantly handed the cage to his half-sister, and with a nod of approval at her by him, the trio left the room to maybe chit-chat with her or something else with knowing she was still to be placed in the cage until his mood was better, or other, with the two lackeys making sure they at least head to the dungeon with the cage, though.

Once they were out of earshot with Griselda leaving the two to settle themselves, Marianne admitted to him as he leaned-sat on the table's end closer to her to get him to understand things from her perspective only a bit, "This antidote won't help Dawn. She's never been in love with anybody… Actual love."

"I shouldn't have used the potion on that poor, sweet… Nothing would have been…" He stated to her yet mainly to himself at them knowing what the antidote was, with mixed emotions with one being regret as yes, he knew it wasn't his fault on the blonde fairy princess being dusted, but he took full responsibility due to him crashing the festival- "Real," Marianne finished his words to get him to blink yet saw she looked to be understanding about his own past, but then looked to be in debate yet it seems something won her over as she began to admit things of her past, "Well... I know all about getting your heart broken. I almost married someone who didn't love me."

"Why?" He asked her to which Marianne shrugged for a mere second before telling him then, as she leaned-sat next to him with The Bog King scooting a bit to allow her to do this, "He was so good-looking." She admitted to making things awkward between them yet she continued then, standing as she did so, "Maybe I couldn't bear to see that… He really was a shallow, power-hungry, cheating, chattering, pig son of a-" She was about to rant about how bad the memories she suffered by him was in truth, but stopped herself when The Bog King had his hands up and stated, "Whoa! Whoa! Whoa!"

Marianne then sighed with a dejected look The Bog King briefly saw on her face with it seemingly she was recalling things, "Inside, I knew he didn't want me to be…" "You?" he finished for her in order to make her be surprised by this, and nodded only a single time with her searching his face for something to which she didn't see any deceit, "Yeah."

"But you are… Different," He tells her to which she let out a soft chuckle for only a moment and admitted to him from being reminded by her own father at times, "I've been told." And she was rather surprised once again and a bit confused by his words only a bit, to her then, "That's what I like! I mean... Well, you know."

Marianne didn't mind the cover up to his words, but gently clenched a fist to prove a point and a few gentle shakes to get him to understand by the meaning of her words, "So, now I keep my guard up." He did the same and admitted to her to get her to understand him a bit more, "Me too." And Marianne nodded to this with her stating back in a gentle response, "And most important, I never…" "Trust anybody." They both then finished and said, at the same time, and did feel slight thumps from their hearts when their fists connected alongside the weird tingling sensations, but ignored that as they moved back a bit with a hesitant look, but did chuckle to each other with something unseen developing between them right there and then.

Getting an idea though, Marianne suggested to The Bog King with a thumb pointing to the only entrance and exit of the room itself, "Let's go stretch our wings?" She was reluctant though he could tell, but he quickly got up at that idea, and nodded once while trying to not be eager about this, "Good idea. Good idea. Yes!" And he made the brunette fairy princess blink at forgetting she laid her sword out from Nina wanting to see it earlier, and she gently took it back from him, "Here."

"Thank you." She tells him as he grabbed his staff as they then proceeded to head to the main entrance, and after a bit of trekking, came to the exit of the entrance of the castle, and with him doing a wordless gentleman gesture and motioned to the entrance/exit to which she wordlessly nodded with a small smile and astonished him as to when she opened his wings, the moonlight gently reflected off them to make them unknowingly majestic in style and looks.

As Marianne fluttered with the use of her wings out of the entrance, and still a bit creeped by the sockets glowing faintly at her in a somewhat glare of sorts, admitted to him as he eventually came out after she bumped into another cousin of Brutus' kin, Marko, at the thin bridge pathway connecting to the old log and to the actual land itself with the large chasm the kingdom was built around, "Maybe you should rethink this entrance."

"Try thinking of this… As an adventure," The Bog King tells her by stopping his minion snarling at her to only make Marko blink twice at, as he took off and Marianne went after him while telling the Goblin as Marko resumed his patrolling rounds, "Nice Goblin." After some flying and encountering a familiar spiderweb to which thankfully the spider was no longer living there, she began to actually get nervous to make him fly near her for only a moment, "Hey, why don't we go back?"

"Why? The moonlight is perfect right now. Come on… 'Tough girl'." He tells her in amusement with mixed understanding as she wasn't fully used to the Dark Forest and to it's hidden beauty unlike her, and she was soon marveled after he said that from seeing the dew sparkling by the reflection of the light on the leaves to impress her, before being impressed and intrigued further of him using his staff to easily walk on and close the maws of the piranha plants, with his hand out for her as she began to walk over them, and eh caught her after nearly tripping on the last one while doing aerobics slightly.

As he flew off, she began to follow him by singing to herself then, and her very heart fluttering for a brief moment at his face to her as it was something not expected of someone like him.

Marianne: "You're waking meadows, in my mind. Making waves across my time~. Oh, no. Oh, no. I got a strange~ magic. Oh, what a strange~ magic."

The Bog King repeated, strange magic, in song to her as well with going with the mood, and then brushing the one plants as they retracted to full as they flew by, and with them singing to each other gently in not known utter adoration to one another.

Though they also ignored the muttering mushroom guards watching this and even passing it on to the others via a whisper, and then encountered the same centipede Roland made fun of earlier as he sang to her.

The Bog King: "You're sailing softly~ through the sun."

Marianne: "Softly~ threw the sun."

The Bog King: "Of a land I've always~ known. You fly."

Marianne: "You fly."

The Bog King: "So high."

Marianne: "So high."

As they were singing, they came to thorn bushes that Marianne was reluctant to enter, but did so before getting tangled up by the vines, to which he noticed as she backed out and came back to get her, with the brunette fairy princess easily taking his hand as he led her through it, in utter trust.

Then he led her to some leafy vines to which she was astounded by the glowing teardrop or dew on the vines within, as they flew around and between them in a majestic dancing-like flying display with singing still, and with them both in amusement to one another, touching each water droplet on the glowing vines as they went to normal.

After that with them singing in adoration naturally to one another, they flew over some smaller and rare blue roses to which he plucked out one for her, and she easily accepted it with placing it into her hair, as they neared back to the kingdom in a flight that took nearly a few hours of enjoying themselves as if, they have done this their entire lives, with concluding their song, Strange Magic.

It took only a few brief moments though as he did glance to where his castle was, and saw the banners of Marianne's father's army with Roland and the others being there and turned to her in a betrayed look to confuse her over, "You… You played me," he then hastily took off to which she asked in confusion, "'Played you'? What do you…" She then saw the army and understood the mistake at hand, "Oh no. Oh, no, no, no." She takes off after him as Roland declares the word, halt, to the army at the place with Pare and Sunny walking besides him out of reluctance and brandishing his blade right at the Goblin army to meet them in growing conflict.

"Disgusting creatures, I come in peace. I must get this Love Potion to your Bog King by moon down. I will need only three men. My army will wait here." He showed the potion to get the guards to look at each other before moving aside to allow him and his own three lackeys to enter, and he turned to Sunny then, "Sandy."

"It's Sunny," Sunny corrected the blonde soldier fairy wannabe, but blinked by the order he gave him as he got off Chipper beforehand and proceeded with his three triplet lackeys, to enter the castle, "You're in charge."

"Me?" Sunny asked him in surprise to which Roland stopped for only a moment and only responded with a look, "Look fierce." Seeing Sunny's attempts at a fierce face, rolled his eyes and told him firmly then, "Fiercer!"

Back with Marianne and The Bog Kin, she shouted, wait, to him to which she managed to catch up as he appeared angry with her, "I don't want to be a fool again!" He spat out to her with betrayal in his eyes she easily saw, to which she began to deny him then, "I didn't know."

She got up ahead of him for him to only knock her away into the same spiderweb as before, and soon glared at him by his actions as he firmly told her, "I wouldn't follow me if I were you, Princess. You won't want to see what I do to them."

"I won't let you," she firmly told him back to which he only scoffed and flew ahead as she managed to free herself with struggling to get her sword, ignoring the flower falling onto the web and sticking there with telling herself in both frustration and moment of brief sadness, "I am so stupid."


Inside the Dark Castle, Roland was being led by a few Goblin guards to the throne room with the triplets right behind him, and paused before telling the three, which they nodded and took off after, "Execute Plan B on my code word, 'Go'."

As he was lead further with thinking about when 'Plan C' will happen if his plans failed, in the one room she was placed into, Morgana was sleeping and looking to be halfway better from her blood fighting off the invasion of the dust particles, with her body tensing for a moment as the room became chilled as Ape came into the room via of his own vortex and smirked darkly at her condition, "Perfect." He stated to knock out the guards in moments with a sleep spell, grabbed her in a bridal style, and left into the vortex.

Back with Roland though as after a few moments or so he was in the room itself, and complained to only make the Goblins to roll their eyes at him for, "What kind of odious throne is this?" He then sits casually on the throne itself with the two main lackeys, Stuff and Thang, seeing this as an insult, and holding the Love Potion in his grasp.

Stuff told Thang then to which he didn't know what to do except to shrug sheepishly, "Do something!"

It was at that moment The Bog King came through the still not-fixed window with ease and getting ready to attack Roland, to which he dodged and showed the Love Potion in a gesture back, "Hold it, whoa, whoa, hold it, hold it. I'm here to give you this. That is, once you give me…" "Get the princess." He tells the few Goblins in the room besides his lackeys, as they nodded out of reluctance and left in a hurry to which The Bog King rolled his eyes in irritation at the blonde male fairy by correcting him, "Princesses."

Marianne at that time, enters through the window she smashed as well earlier, and states mainly to Roland in utter surprise to which The Bog King noticed, "Roland! What are you-" "Restrain her!" The Bog King tells the other guards to which they did, "No! Hey!" She gazed at him with betrayal and other few emotions he easily saw on her face before holding back a snarl at her, "He brought you the potion!"

Griselda was in the room and shaking her head at this outcome with her own mixed feelings on this as well, not known to them that is.

"Yes. And an army," The Bog King pointed out to her, to which Marianne looked at him sheepishly, "Well…" and he then added to her before she could say anything, "You got me to leave my castle. Clever girl." He was nearby her and holding onto his staff as a support to say that right at her, to which she was confused and asked him, "But wasn't that your idea?"

"It was your idea! And foolishly, I trusted you." He responded back in a way, Roland shuddered to make the two gaze directly at him though as he appeared to look at them sickly, or in disgust, "Wait a minute. Are you... Are you actually having a lovers' tiff right now? That is so disgusting. It's interesting, but disgusting…" Marianne though rolled her eyes in irritation at him and responded in a retort, "Roland, you're such a-" "Hero, to rescue you from... What did you call him? A scaly-backed cockroach." After he reminded her of her previous words at the festival, he imitated the insect to get The Bog King to realize things from her confession earlier, and made Marianne groan to herself with a single head nod, making a thumb-gesture to Roland, "Is that the guy?"

Outside the castle entrance as not known to both sides, the skull's eyes were glowing faintly in expectation, sensing something was going to occur soon after years of waiting, as Sunny was getting impatient the longer Roland was inside the castle. Especially to his friends and Dawn as prisoners, still.

"Hey, Pare, I can't stand it anymore. I have to go find her. You're in charge." Sunny stated as he left to go to the one entrance as a random Goblin asked the bigger Elf, "What's going on?"

After some time, Sunny was back in the dungeons with blinking at not only seeing Chipana and Cassie playing a card game with someone who looked like Morgana only slightly, but of The Sugar Plum Fairy having her-sized playing cards they kept receiving or passing to make them normal to small sized, from not being minded of the enchanted webbed cage as the cage itself was stuck firmly into the ground nearby them, and took notice of his arrival.

"Hey, Sunny!" Sugar Plum began with passing a Ace of Hearts to Cassie to make her win the poker game with the highest card setup there was for poker, for once, before narrowing his eyes at him and stating in a way, he winced by, from her accused words with a pointed finger, "You didn't listen!"

"What?" He asked her in, being plainly confused, and made Sugar Plum roll her eyes as she reminded him then, and the trio of girls starting to take care of the game itself, "I said, 'Stand in front! Be the first she sees when she'…" she was stopped while seeing how bad he had it for the person, easily, like the other three girls when they glanced at him, "Please tell me where Dawn is."

"Okay, okay, I'll show you, if you let us all out." Sugar Plum tells him with him seeing all the dusted animals and other folk to make him wince at her net set of accused words, "Which would be so sweet, since this is all your fault!"

"Okay…" He then turned to the two girls he knew and made them only shrug by his words as he began to easily parkour and climb to the cages with a copper pin in hand for tricky tasks he kept from his last job before the festival, of picking a hope chest due to the customer losing their keys for it, "How come you girls aren't prisoners?"

"Oh, we are, but guest-like," Cassie told the brown-haired Elf with finger quotes to the last two words she spoke, and Chipana did a thumb-like gesture to the opened cage and made his hopes go down only slightly at seeing Dawn once again, from spotting it after, "Not sure why, but Stuff and Thang came by and grabbed the princess, and hoping it's for something to cure her of that potion."

After he unlocked the mouse's cage named Kupo, he leapt and began to work on the mushroom guy's cage named Trent, next, "Well, there's some hope to that at least…" He paused and glanced down to which they sighed and made Sugar Plum blink at the girls in amusement as she gave them spare pins to help, using either wings or flightless magic the two girls were blessed with to do so, "Care to help me out faster?"

Back in the throne room though, twenty or so minutes later, Thang and Stuff led the still love-dusted Dawn into the room, which she was groggy as she was sleeping, before perking up in moments at seeing The Bog King. "Yay!"

Dawn runs to The Bog King and hugs him firmly in a grip he actually winces, and ignores her words to which Roland's got their attention with another look of disgust on his face by seeing this, "I wish I didn't see that." While still restrained, however, Marianne had made The Bog King feel guilty now by the look she had on her face as she tried to tell him, "This isn't... I didn't mean for… None of this to happen at all."

"Of course… I will be taking both princesses." Roland stated before The Bog King could say anything and made both Marianne and him gaze at Roland and with the Ruler of the Dark Forest respond firmly back with narrowed eyes, "That wasn't part of the deal."

Seeing the blonde male fairy's intentions as he quickly and easily uncorked the Love Potion and was going to use it on Marianne, he blocked him with using his wings as a make-shift shield for them both as the dust easily faded away when it fell on the ground, as outside, the armies were nervous at finally noticing the skull's eyes glowing a dark yellow in color, constantly.

"No! Deal's off," The Bog King tells Roland, and in the background, Griselda stated to herself while watching both Roland and her son face each other with their weapons, "I wanted a wedding, now I'm getting a funeral."

Dawn though managed to prevent Roland from attacking from the two males being in the air, as she had her arms splayed outwards with him not seeing the heart sigils in the blue eyes she has within her pupils as she firmly told him in a back-off tone, "You leave my Boggy-Woggy alone!" Though The Bog king's correcting of his name was ignored, as Roland told him with not only disgust still in his tone, but other emotions as well they didn't detect, "What were you thinking? A beast like you falling for a beauty like Marianne."

At that, Marianne herself managed to free herself from the guards' grip as they fled from sensing a battle they didn't want to be part of, and began to attack Roland with The Bog King, and gave him a firm and angered look to which the male blonde fairy returned, "Who's the beast?"

"Stay out of it!" The Bog King tells Marianne to move her gently back in a way she understood, but tells him in return, "I can easily take care of myself."

"Two against one?" Roland told them in realizing he was outnumbered at the moment, but grabbed Dawn who looked like she was slightly sensible to try and get out of their way, but failed, and looked truly scared then while still under the effects of the potion right at The Bog King, mostly, with the blonde fairy's blade to her neck and both The Ruler of the Dark Forest and Marianne narrowed their eyes in growing rage at this tricked move. "Not fair."

"Roland! What are you-" Marianne began to state to the coward who only scoffed at the two, before stilling at the blades of both him and the staff's secret blade to which the brunette princess only got a look for a moment of later by The Bog King for, and he gulped.

Though both The Bog King, and Marianne didn't like the glint Roland now held within his eyes at the duo while trapped by their weapons, and told them to confuse them at the end, "You're forcing me to change my 'Plan A'. So... Sadly, now's the time for me to... GO!" He shouted the last word as it did echo into the castle.

Meanwhile in the dungeons as Sunny and the girls freed everyone, even Sugar Plum, Sunny is leading the love dusted creatures and folk out, while Roland's Guards are destroying the pillars holding the castle up with the use of thicker and empty cages, "Come on! We gotta hurry! Boy, oh boy, oh boy… Keep it moving! Especially you, Turtle!"

Nina, without warning, shoved both her friends away alongside Sugar Plum, to their shock, a jagged stone fell not on top of her from the stairs, but caused bleeding damage to her left wing to which she cried out from, and looked grateful while in pain from both her friends and Sugar Plum, as the duo used their blessed gift to lift her out and quickly join back up with the others.

Back in the throne room, everyone but Roland was perplexed and bewildered as the castle was starting to collapse onto itself, with Dawn seeing this, shouting loudly to snap them all out of their dazes, "What's happening?"

Roland shoved Dawn right at both Marianne and The Bog King, and rushed-snatched Marianne while having the Love Potion in hand to the outskirts of the collapsed ceiling, with The Bog King shouting out a loud, no, with Dawn having some sense come to her out of fear of the situation, called out her elder sister's name in worry. The Bog King quickly grabs Dawn to which she only nodded with saying, okay, after, "I have to find your sister, and my mother."

At another area of the castle, Griselda struggled yet was clearly trapped with at least a sprained ankle from some of the rock formations landed on her right foot and leg, from trying to leave it in haste, and had flashes of her entire life up to this point within moments through her eyes, and even admitted to herself loudly, "My life is flashing before my eyes. Hey, I used to be hot."

She was stunned to see Sugar Plum easily lift the rubble with glowing hands to know she was using strength magic of sorts to do this, and only responded with one word, "You?"

"No time to chit chat," Sugar Plum tells her as she made Griselda scream a bit by easily plucking her up, and leaving the castle in haste, as Sunny was there with telling the others to go, with Chipana and Cassie reluctantly leaving with somehow feeling, that Morgana wasn't here at all with their injured friend, and called out Dawn's name a few times before being hesitant but fled with the others and the current guards and army outside alongside King Dagda's, fled as well from seeing the rapid state of the collapsing castle

With being in a safer area, Marianne was trying to get out of Roland's hold and shake him off, "Let go!" He only shook his head and got ready to use the Love Potion on her, and firmly declared, "You will marry me!"

Realizing his intention with wide eyes, she struggled while telling him, "I'm gonna skewer your-" Without warning though, Roland sent her away from him before she could get dusted, by falling debris as he was soon covered in rubble, and she fled to go find both her sister and The Bog King, as she sensed somehow Morgana wasn't in the castle, especially Heartsbane vanishing once she dropped it as the enchantment on the blade began to take effect.

With both The Bog King and Dawn, he is carrying Dawn while they search through the collapsing castle for Marianne, "Marianne! Marianne!" He called out to her desperately with Dawn hearing this, told him to which he was reluctant but proceeded to do so, "We have to go." It was at that precise time that Marianne found them with them nearing the exit/entrance of the skull, "Dawn! I'm coming!"

The Bog King handed Dawn hastily to Marianne as he managed to grab the skull and thorns it was made to hold it in place, to damage and harm them, and struggled to do so. "Go! Get out of here!" Seeing his desperate look for their safety, Marianne was crossed but gave a firm nod, and ignored her sister's pleas as bridge falls and Bog King is trapped under rubble and falls with it, and the skull's eye sockets fully glowing an amberish-like color as it did so.

"BOG!" Both princesses yelled out in horror and more, as the castle soon became ruins and rubble within moments, and leaving nothing but the crater itself as both of them landed nearby the armies of both Fairy and Goblin, and the others that escaped.

Marianne was on her knees with her wings folded behind her in utter disbelief from the debris of the cloud that covered the former entrance to the Dark Castle, and gazing soberly into the chasm itself with a haunted look to her face and eyes, as she heard her sister collapsed as well and was crying and hitting the rocky path a few times with her fists.

"Dawn! Dawn!" Sunny shouted with in the background, everyone, even both Lizzie, Chipper, Pare, The Imp, Cassie, Nina who was getting her wing treated by a few guards, Chipana who looked emotionless yet was struggling in place, and many others stared at the scene before them of the former castle was previously, and at the two fairy princesses.

Sunny managed to get out through the crowd and right to Dawn as she was still crying deeply to herself, "You're alright!" He tells her in utter relief as he hugged her deeply, "You're really alright. You're alright. Don't worry, About a thing. 'Cause every little thing is gonna be alright. Don't worry about anything…" While he sang, Dawn felt something snapped within her as the potion's effects from feeling, truly feeling by what Sunny had within his hug with her, began to finally fade and the sigils she had within her pupils, faded as well to know one thing: He cured her.

"Sunny?" She softly began as the slight hazed cloud went away to be fully aware of her surroundings, with emotions she never felt coming to surface with hearing him singing softly to her, "I love you." She stated it without realizing it before they pulled back from each other with surprise on both of their faces.

"Me?" He asked her in emotional doubt to which she relieved him by the kind and gentle, yet adoring smile she had on her face back, to make both their hearts flutter for only a moment, "You." She then hugged him caringly to which he returned back, until they saw Marianne's state at the edge of the former entrance.

Dawn went over to her sister to which she blinked a few times, and shook her head softly before gazing, and quickly got up to hug her realizing things but wanted to make sure, "Are you… Back?"

"Yeah." She told her elder sister, but was puzzled and didn't realize she grabbed Sunny's hand while gazing at him lovingly, "But I don't know how."

"I know," Marianne softly responded back to her to which Dawn realized and told her sister as she hugged her and Sunny taking a few steps back to let them bond again, "I'm so sorry." Marianne turned away from the chasm and began to walk in sadness and more to which Sunny only nodded at his soon-to-be girlfriend to which she began leading Marianne to the others before the duo was rather confused by both armies suddenly cheering, and turned to see coming out of the still smoky debris, was The Bog King himself, alive and well.

It was then King Dagda arrived with both Sirius, his wife Saira, and a vortex oddly enough, spat the three still sleeping guards on top of Stuff and Thang, which the duo chastity got up from without seeing the note pinned on Ruck's chest.

Griselda saw this, and began to drag him over to Marianne after hugging him, but they stilled as Roland flew from the chasm out of nowhere, and dusted Marianne as she covered her face and quickly rubbed her eyes, "No!" King Dagda stated at Roland with realizing what he just did, with everyone else hearing her coughing to herself and keeping her eyes shut by seeing this too.

The Bog King moves to attack Roland but Sugar Plum Fairy holds him back, from seeing him angry and more over this cheap tactic, as she told him in a knowing way to perplex him for, "No, no, no. Patience."

Chipana stilled at sensing something powerful was within the area, and glanced but couldn't see who it was, as within the crowd in disguise were both two specific individuals who were waiting patiently to see if 'Plan C' was needed. Though Cassie gave her soul-sister a look at her tensed posture in a wordless question, with feeling that Marianne was struggling but would succeed, maybe, as she knew like the others that knew her, she can outlive or outdo anything.

"Here we go." Roland said with him trying to make sure that the brunette princess herself, was the first person she saw, to which she opened her eyes and did see him, and did something unexpected to confuse or other to everyone around them, sang at him and a gesture.

Marianne: "Sugar-Pie, Honey-Bunch~!"

"What?" The Bog King stated in disbelief yet Sugar Plum kept silent to watch events play themselves, as Roland looked pleased by this outcome, and ignored some sharp gasps or other from everyone else that did so, or faint growls from Chipana who was being held back by Cassie and a few Goblins.

"Marianne?" King Dagda also stated in disbelief as Marianne sang while she stated to Roland who was still pleased, but fake-singing this time, "You know that I love you!" Expecting things, he twirled his hair as she ran to him with thinking things, and kept fake-singing to him, "I can't help myself. I love…" Without warning to make everyone blink, Roland managed to catch the bottle in time before he got splattered in the eyes to prevent dust from escaping, as she punched his face very hard to maybe leave a black eye as he fell into the chasm.

Both the disguised individuals nodded at each other with a look to cause Chipana to stiffen once again, and saw two Fairy Guards leaving in haste to turn into shadowy blobs of darkness and stayed where she was.

"It didn't work, I wonder why?" Sugar Plum states to The Bog King slyly to get him to recall things with a smirk and look pointed at her as if to wordlessly state, I will get you for that, as he headed over to her with in the background, Stuff and Thang were cheering before Thang noticed Stuff's smell. "I like that smell. Aftershave?"

Meanwhile with the king himself, King Dagda was raised back up after tripping over himself and stated to the few guards who escorted him here, "Well, boys, I've learned a valuable lesson. Never judge something or someone by how it or he or she looks." It was then he saw through the crowd at seeing how Sunny and Dawn were, and they kissed once to nearly make King Dagda faint as he composed himself thinking at least it wasn't with untrustworthy males for his youngest.

Back with both Stuff and Thang, Thang kept guessing the scent the entire time, "Wait, body lotion?" "No." "Cold cream?" "No." "Got it! Deodorant!" "No, it's perfume." Stuff finally told him to make Thang be stumped as he asked his comrade curiously, "Are you a girl?" Stuff's only response to that was, "Isn't it obvious?" Marianne grabbed the boutonniere that Thang managed to save from the ruins of the castle, and headed over to The Bog King.

"Are you… Okay?" She asked him to which he motioned to his body to amuse her, "I'm fine. Wings, shoulders, head, all good. You?" She nodded back, "I'm good... Too. I just wanted to say... I'll never see this place the same way ever again."

"Yeah," The Bog King agreed with her before being slightly touched as she gave him back the ruined trinket, "Here. It's hideous but…" "Yeah," he agreed with her nodding reluctantly, before waving awkwardly to make him baffled as she also sounded cute as she did so, "Bye!" She came back from dashing off, sheepishly, to amuse him, "Whoa, I didn't mean to sound so cute."

"Cute actually works for you." He admits to making her have an unseen tint to her cheeks, with her turning around and getting ready to leave before she turned back expectantly by him speaking, "You know…" "Yes?" She asked yet before he could, and without warning, the ground began to shake and tremble as yes, they realized they have feeling for each other, but this unexpected event was, well, unexpected, to make The Bog King catch Marianne as they all, everyone, glanced at the chasm to see a dark and growing in light, glow that felt way, way, off.

"What is it?" Marianne warily asked before they blinked at Heartsbane appearing in her free hand with glowing crystal-blue runes to know something was indeed wrong from recalling the smith's warning to her on danger that was severe, and everyone backed up away from the cliff and former entrance itself before they all looked up into the air, and saw it was Roland who looked smugly at them all while teasing them with the Love Potion in his hands, still, "Well, Plans A and B was a bust, but good thing there is the longly planned, Plan C!"

"How come he isn't falling in love right now?" Dawn asked warily as she and Sunny came over, alongside Chipana and Cassie as the monkey girl narrowed her eyes with sensing something else and noticed the note on the former bodyguards that were too deeply asleep, but her main focus was on Roland as something seemed off about him.

"He has a Plan C?" The Bog King stated plainly to Marianne in a way, he didn't believe that was true to which she felt something fall into the pit of her stomach as they all realized there was one person missing, which everyone noticed too, as Sirius was coming over with his wife and snarled at Roland and shouted before the brunette princess could, "Morgana isn't here with us at all!"

"Quite right you old fool of a hounddog," Roland admitted smugly with burning their bubbles as they all briefly gazed at the chasm with Sugar Plum going wide-eyed at sensing that much darkness and more in use, right now, to know what it was, "But with this Love Potion, I can settle for bigger and more opportunistic things then what I truly wanted as king of this world, and both my allies will make it so."

"The fool is allied with two darker people," Chipana muttered aloud with sensing the emotions by the slightly brief aura she showed from her body to get that whomever it was, had Morgana- "Though, it wouldn't be finished if we don't have all the prizes in stow for Plan C, would we?" Roland bragged with him holding out his right hand and snapped with some darkness easily showing as the mark on his wrist faintly glowed with the eye opening, and appearing from vortexes as both sides began to flee into the Dark Forest with those brave enough, remained, seeing dark-like creatures coming through alongside hound-like beasts of sorts.

To perplex them all, he only kept grinning at them smugly as they all turned tail and jumped to their supposed deaths into the chasm, and with Sugar Plum warning them immediately by knowing what was going on, "We need to get out of here, now!"

"Why do we-" Marianne began to ask Sugar Plum before they all held onto each other or whom they were close to before seeing that a shadowy barrier that was so dense, formed all around the chasm and seemed to be shrinking into itself, and then… Burst with a darkness-like energy wave to knock them all onto their feet, and another barrier forming within moments to trap them all within a dome that was twenty or so miles all around the forest and the clearing itself.

"Not good," Sugar Plum tells them warily as they moved with a few remaining fairy guards grabbing Nina just as a large, draconic yet canine paw with a wooden vibe that sheened like metal, nearly killed them if they didn't move, and retracted back into the chasm itself with revealing to those not in the know with the thing trying to climb up gradually, with words that King Dagda stated aloud in growing horror are witnessing the creature that revealed itself as Roland only grinned wickedly this time, with feeling the foreign power Ape described to him to his liking, "It cannot be! We made sure it was dead!"

Cold and harsh realization filled them all as they gazed at the creature fully with its glowing amberish-yellow yet demonic optical eyes it had at the area for only a moment, before they grew and shrank a few times at gazing right at them all, and roared in an empowered and echoed tone.

It was the Dark One, or in terms, The Forced Dark Augmentation, and brought back by the use of the sacrificed entities, to their harsh realization at that.

It was a combination of a prehistoric creature called a Hapalodectes, and a Tasmanian Tiger Wolf, perfectly combined with there being no fur, however, but with a metallic-like wooden sheen to the entire body and skin. It had lime-green markings of the tiger though, with the skull being closer to that of a more demonic fox then what the head of it was truly meant to be. The claws though, were made of smoothed obsidian of sorts with the sides having matching Norse and various other runes from other realms in a silvery-like etched skin-based design, fully in the design as well to an eclipse moon in imagination-like ways, and the front and hind legs having a barber-shop ring that went from right to left, and left to right on the mentioned legs. It did have sharper looking teeth then it did past-tense as a dead skull entrance, however, as some easily showed from the maw it had without puncturing or damaging the skin. When it moved though, black smoke could be easily seen, especially when it stomped a few times and let out an echoing and dark howl and began snarling at them all.

"You faced that!?" Dawn exclaimed to her frightened father to which appearing on the right side of the beast was both Ape and Dala'matar, to which they held matching smirks at them with seeing the later holding the very weapon to make the king feel dread, and cursed at his lack of having more guards watch over that tomb in day and night shifts.

"Indeed he has, fools," Ape exclaimed to make The Bog King narrow his eyes right at the man with Marianne having her weapon pointed right at the cloaked ape-masked male in surprising anger, with them all realizing that she may be right with wondering as to what she meant as well, "You! You took Mary didn't you?! If not dealing damage to our history wing at the castle wasn't enough, you had to do this!?"

"Yet again, it was necessary to do what needs to be done, foolish and naive fairy," Ape tells her firmly this time in a tone, they all shivered by with eyeing warily as well to the Dark One, as it had a dark-purple and slightly scaled-like-lined tongue that licked its maw back and forth a few times with eyeballing mainly Chipana from scenting her, "Morgana's blood we had to take from the opportunity of one of the main things needed, besides this," to which, Ape easily caught from Roland the Love Potion to make Sugar Plum try to hide the urge to hit herself at forgetting this fact, "Was empowered by the foolish child's own powers, without realizing it. Even if the dust itself made it to where we could use a meager needle to extract the blood, due to her skin being defensive and hard to penetrate, unless she is sick or worse."

"When has she been able to do that?!" Cassie randomly blurted out before tinting at being the center of attention for only a moment before they all looked to Dala'matar who only shrugged, and responded to see he was some sort of elf, but with pallish-yellow draconian skin with scales around his cheeks, and pointed ears with three jagged points on the sides, and had lavender with silvery natural highlights on the sides of is short hair that only reached to his neck, and those very eyes of his… Despite having a grateful looking face like his type of Elves are, a Blood Elf to be precise, "Since the bonded aspect of many of the types of Death, herself, bonded to the foolish child and from the side-effect of the spell she used two years ago within this realm."

Chipana and Cassie stilled at this with being both baffled, mystified and shocked by that yet regained their composer, like everyone else with being guarded, as Ape casually tossed the bottle up and down like it was a baseball without any effort to drop and shatter it, and confessed things to the point, Chipana was soon being held down with ease by surprisingly, by Sugar Plum with an understanding look to her, "Of course, I had to heal the child to allow her to soon be tested by a comrade of mine, as our master… My Boss wants to see how much she has grown so far, and into a secluded area far, far from here."

"So why did you bring this Beast back?" The Bog King firmly questioned the duo to see they had matching grins, with tossing Roland the weapon to which he easily caught, and Ape responded as Dala'matar leapt into the air and produced demonic yet draconian wings behind his back with taking off, with summoning a staff-like weapon that represented the moon and sun, combined, yet in a similar scheme and color as Bull's, "While my comrade goes to see on getting the key artifact by the use of blood and dust, I and the returned beastie, will keep you at bay long enough in hope, to succeed where the ritual will take place, and obtain one of few items necessary to return something that will aid my boss' plans for all the realms, mainly Avalon and the world's connected to it."

"Dawn," Marianne began with seeing the creature eyeing them all in hunger of sorts, and Ape getting into a monkey-like fighting stance with swirling his weapon, with the head of it showing a fiery and dark-like mist with the movement, and the others that can fight, getting into a stance with The Bog King nodded and agreed with her wordlessly, "Take those that can't fight, and find at least a safer spot then here."

Dawn was about to object but glanced at Sunny to see his conflicted face, as she sighed but nodded with a gentle squeeze briefly on her elder sister's right shoulder before evacuating with all but Cassie and Chipana staying with her, and The Bog King, and wished her luck.

The four got into a stance with the trio blinking at Cassie with seeing her bringing for a golden yet black aspect of raw fiery magic within her palms with a wordless, what, look, as Ape appeared to know what she was using and made Cassie be both stunned once again by things, but narrowed her eyes as if she doubted him as well, "So, you are their child? That explains things further than intended, as raw magic such as your own, was usable by them both from tutelage from another."

"Despite wanting to get that info out of you, you took Mary and used her… So ya, you're getting your backside handed to ya," Cassie firmly told him with emotion in her tone as Chipana seemed to agree as it seems this male knew more than he let on, and saw him shrug at least once of his shoulders within his stance, and did a 'Come get me' motion before they charged at him.

Though they were soon split with Chipana and Marianne soon facing the beast, and Cassie and The Bog King facing Ape, by a side-split dark barrier made by him, of the vast clearing they were all soon teleported too by the cloaked masked male as well, with seeing in the large clearing of Morgana facing against Bull, with her weapons out, and struggling in place with looking weakened yet still strong to defend herself against him within their own shadowy barrier.


Play: Boss Theme, Unforgettable, from Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep HD or www. Youtube watch?v=YLnwotWiwm4 (type into the site the HTTP Address on YouTube (it's extended, if you read the entire battle beforehand, listen to the music) as one and not separated).


Ape vanished before clashing his staff with a few sparks somehow, against The Bog King's own staff before ducking and making Cassie yelp from tossing a fire-like bolt at the cloaked man, as he then sent black lightning at her to which she dodge-rolled out of the way, and clashed weapons once again with The Bog King.

With Marianne and Chipana, Chipana summoned her weapon with having mixed emotions on using it again, but they both went the opposite ways with being stunned at the purplish fire the beast tried to burn them with before using its tail to side-swipe them in a 360-degree full circle and then roared at them in anger.

The Dark One did screech in slight pain when Marianne used Heartsbane to cut of a finger with ease, but soon maneuvered while nabbing Chipana as it began to rage and was charging, and would have squashed her but with each hit of the shield it rammed into, it appeared to have only taken minimal damage before doing an opposite 360-degree tailspin and claw swiping, and was struck with wariness at seeing the missing finger disintegrate into smoke with a new one regrowing for a new limb as it resumed its attack.

With both Cassie and The Bog King, they kept dodging Ape's strikes with his weapon, and even dodging the moon laser beam and the random spurts of falling fire that tried yet failed to burn them.

"You two are not prepared for the power I have," Ape states with a crazed smirk on his face at facing the two, to which Cassie felt that weird warmth go through her and form once again within her hands to see her power in them, as The Bog King cracked his neck only a little as from the last swing, managed to hit his back in a playful manner to know that this cloaked male, was merely toying with them. "Perhaps, but you are no match against me," The Bog King taunted back to only make Ape laugh at this before they resumed clashing their own staves against each other.

Cassie though winced while unknowingly grabbing her chest on where her heart is, like Chipana was, as she felt some kind of phantom pain to which in the one other shadowy bubble with Morgana and Bull, unexpected things were taking place within the now hard-to-see bubble-based shadowy sphere, and dodged some random spurts of a fiery blast by Ape, and returned her own power back at him.

With Marianne and Chipana, the monkey girl herself shook her head with dodge-rolling away from a tail-like strike that caused the ground to form a decent debris of a dent yet blinked at her blade as she somehow with her power going through, sent a bolt of pure green lightning at it to make the beast snarl at her in rage, as it affected the hide to reveal gem-like spots on it's specific part of the body now, and shaking itself as it if was a dog from being soaked with water, and was grabbed by Marianne.

But it was all for naught as they were soon sent flying with Chipana blinking at somehow flipping to the point she landed on her feet, perfectly, yet the brunette fairy princess wasn't so as she got zapped by the barrier, and held the urge to actually scream from the foreign feeling of unknown electricity coursing for mere seconds within her frame from the barrier itself.

Chipana held back her rage, otherwise, she felt she would lose herself again yet both she and Marianne quickly dodged not only a claw swipe to her, but the brunette fairy princess dodging the now glowing tailed tip it had with them being near some flowers to see it perfectly sliced them like a fine knife chopping meat.

The Bog King saw this yet held back the urge to gasp from getting hit by blunt force from Ape, who had a dark-like aura around his frame for only a moment before stating to him in a glitchy-like way that only Cassie saw to know something was not right, "Don't focus on the ones your not facing… Face me."

Cassie was right, as she saw a shimmer right behind The Bog King, and made her comrade in the battle right now, and friend, swerve once she blasted the shimmer to reveal it was Ape with a deadly-looking dagger, and knocked it out of his hands with seeing the one he was previously facing, fade out of existence.

He leapt a few times and stunned them he could easily stand on the air a few feet up or so with the soles showing a crimson aura and mist below it, and grinned down at them with them being shocked he summoned his staff for it to then shift into two different blades with themes based on the sun, and the moon, but more demonic in nature with the sun sword having a demon's eyeball, while the moon having a cat's, near the hilts of the blades themselves… Though it was the eyes that disturbed the duo as they were fully crimson with sigils slowly going around them.

Ape then stated in a tone Cassie shivered from yet gave a slight and brief grateful look to The Bog King as he gave hr a wordless assured one before they narrowed their eyes at the dark chuckles Ape had with making a light 'Ting' sound when he brought his weapons once together, and his smirk now crazed with showing he indeed had sharp teeth, "Well, it seems I have to up my fun with you two… TO WHICH YOU'RE NOT PREPARED!" He shouted at the end with seeing a black and crimson aura lightly form around the man's frame to reveal some of his armor that looked to be ninja-like, under it, and the two soon dodged a fiery onslaught of randomized fiery blasts that scorched the ground slightly.

Ape though appeared impressed while still looking crazed by Cassie being flabbergasted as when she had her hands up where he was using his attack at them, she made a rune-like barrier without meaning too, and it was more crafty then Dawn's I might add, with it being a shimmering amber and gold color before it faded with The Bog King giving her another brief thankful look before separating as Ape vanished, and tried to slice them in two within seconds to spare.

The Bog King saw he had Ape's full attention though as he had to rapid-spin and maneuver himself to dodge the swift strikes Ape was trying to do to harm him with deadly intent and with Cassie soon yelping and running from what appeared to be a imp in the demonic designs of the sun, as an outfit of sorts, and sending smaller blasts of yellow fire from it's palms in mischievous fun for itself.

With Chipana and Marianne, they managed to at least damage and destroy three out of the six gemstones on the body of the Dark One, to which they stood guard as the beast looked enraged further with a dark aura covering it's frame in a sickly-like yellow and orange color, and were stricken in slight wary fear as it grew three tails to then gain four, and grew another half of its size with the shimmering skin being faintly glowing to the aura it had gained and with the runes themselves now giving off a misty effect alongside its clawed feet of a ethereal-like blue mist that was faintly seen. It also began to breathe faint trails of violet smoke from the sides of its mouth as well.

They stood their ground at least by the echoing-wave-like empowered roar it sent at them with Marianne's wings and Chipana's tail swaying and forced-fluttered bit it only slightly, before dodging in haste of the speedy charge attack as it vanished and tried to randomly swipe or claw them several times before they took off into the air up to the point they were mere few feet from the top of the barrier and gazed down with not liking the devious smirk it showed on his muzzle.

They were right on their equally shared hunch as they were soon dodging left, right, above their heads and below their feet from the Dark One sending rapid blasts of the improved sickly-orange and purple flames that the barrier absorbed to all the missed strikes, as the duo began to charge downwards with both their weapons pointed at it.

Chipana didn't seemed phased, but inwardly was surprised though of what she unknowingly did to cause the beast to howl in actual pain, by swishing her sword back with feeling slightly drained of a small portion of her own power, as the tip rapidly developed a sparking blue, green, and silvery ball of electricity as Marianne moved away from the rapid fire pelts being aimed at them, and sent the mass that was the size of a beach ball, right back at the Dark One.

It was able to move to the sides, but the attack destroyed one of the three remaining gemstones within moments that was in plain sight due to the aura it still had, however, and it snarled mainly at her as a bigger threat, to which Chipana unknowingly smirked in a way that Mrianne shivered from for only a moment before they dodged more blasts to try and get closer to the beast.

Yes, Chipana was fearful of this beast, but oddly felt a thrill of fighting such an opponent that was this powerful and made her get an actual workout for once, she just couldn't help herself at feeling like she was the hunter, and the Dark One was the prey, in a fighting sense.

With Cassie and the Bog King, despite them and Ape pausing their fight to witness Chipana's unique weapon attack, they resumed with The Bog King being struck still by the girl going in front to defend him with a blow struck to her when he sent a moon-like deadly orb of an attack against him from vanishing and sending it into the air with the use of his moon blade, but sent both of them back to hit the barrier to which, they both experienced the static-like pain it gave off to them, and bounced onto the ground by a mere inch.

"Seems all the bragging from you, King of the Dark Wood, was all exaggerated," Ape tells mainly him in a way, he was currently disappointed in him while easily swirling both his weapons and ignored the eyes having cartoonish swirls with a glare at him, after, from that as he approached the two who maneuvered themselves to try and get up, and grinend insanely to them though once again as both blades began to glow in a crimson aura with both orange and silver hues, "But I think it's time to finish you both off to where I don't at least, have to deal with this girl in the future."

Cassie was fearful at that with her fighting spirit lost from being not only in fear, but confused as to what Ape meant by a problem in the future, as The Bog King seeing her state, motioned for her to stay as he struggled, but got into a fighting stance to soon once again impress Ape by how defiant the king was at accepting defeat, "Perhaps my judgment has been wrong about you then? No matter, you will be a fly to a swatter by the time I finish you… You and the two girls."

The Bog King glanced to where he saw Marianne struggled with keeping a single clawed hand from the Dark One with Chipana managing to destroy another gemstone to enrage it and swat his love away, and go after the monkey girl after seemingly taunting it with some words, and back to his opponent with narrowed eyes and gritting his teeth, charged at him with Cassie once again running away when he summoned this time, an imp dressed in relation to the moon with it sending crescent-based energy blasts in randomness and with each one missing.

With Chipana, she was using the power the sword gave her alongside her own with a half-crazed and smirking grin with ease to irritate the Dark One by dodging left, right, and further that Marianne saw as a distraction, and saw the last gemstone was on the center to where all the tails were as one, within the air.

Marianne hid a grin at this slight chance to end things, and yelled as she skydived right to the gem slot with brute force with Heartsbane, and managed to succeed, before seeing the Dark One gave of a very dense and darkened mist all around it's frame, with both Chipana and her caught in the energy's clutches it gave off with the creature seemingly appearing more aware yet enraged at not only them, but by the swift movement of the tail, it broke through the sets of barriers preventing access between them and the other three fighting and got between both Ape and The Bog King before it retracted it's shimmering third tail.

"It seems the gemstones are destroyed and it is now no longer under the effects of the controlling curse I used to further that weapon," Ape states plainly as if he was given something sour, mixed in a way to make them all look at the cloaked male in weird gazes, he was also pouting.

The Dark One was deterred by what he said, and let out an empowered echoing roar before tossing both Chipana and Marianne right at them, which the monkey girl landed right on top of Cassie, and Marianne on top of The Bog King, and with Ape quickly avoiding the two of four tail strikes that he easily sliced to defend himself with his weapon.

As they stood up, they blinked at not believing the Dark One was going after Ape, but knew it wasn't in a way they all thought as it soon howled with destroying all but the barrier holding Morgana to know it released them all, but at the price of summoning strange looking creatures from the shadows to not impress Ape, but perplexed all four of them, and it was an immense numbered of a large group.

All the creatures looked to be a fusion of a dire wolf at most with hints of a liger, and an unknown stag, perfectly combined. They all resemble the face of the large cat and the size, the ears of the wolf alongside feet and tail, along with the lithe structure of a stag, and had random-sized horns protruding from their foreheads with having random stripe-like decals between blue, green, and red with them all having slit yet glowing amberish eyes with on their foreheads, a unknown sigil in plain sight.

"Whelp, this has gotten more troublesome," Chipana decided to state as in another verse, a boy sneezed at something while training with his clan, shrugged, and resumed, as Cassie only nodded as they all gazed at the so-called small army the Dark One summoned they could only guess, with the girl adding in a comment, "Maybe they won't see us?" After Cassie said those words, all of the creatures turned to them as one at that.

"You just had to say something," Marianne told her nonchalantly as they brace themselves for a fight, and indeed, as the creatures began to charge at them in bursts of speed.

They were easily to maneuver, however, to Marianne, The Bog King, and Chipana's judgment on things but were swamped by the creatures, still, and yet Cassie was running from at least a small group with sending her power blasts behind her in random shots, which she managed to hit at least a few.

Both Marianne and The Bog King, were synced in fighting at this moment with eyeing each other as they either whacked or hacked the creatures that ended up 'Poofing' into dense smokes of pure darkness with smaller hearts floating from their bodies and vanishing within moments of being exposed to the air, as Chipana was half-pleased at knowing these things were manifestations of darkness of the Dark One, and not real, before aiding Cassie and slashed easily the ones pursuing her, much to the other blonde's brief pout at that.

They gave each other looks though when the Dark One summoned more of those creatures to attack them, and saw there was ten times as there was before and yet before they could pounce and devour them, with seeing Ape dodging most of the time from the growing assault the Dark One has at him, all four blinked when something very fast went into all of them and all as one, they burst into a massive cloud of darkness and brief floating hearts that was soon reabsorbed into the Dark One within moments to anger it and whacked Ape right into a vortex it created to not deal with the fool, and to the more threatening foe it sensed killed all of its creations.

They all stilled though at hearing an odd and yet, echoing whistle that began to play all around them before holding back being jumped when a cloaked figure appeared to what was a male, and he whistles in a way it is based on the El Silbón Folk Tale, everyone, and not known to them at the time.


Pause music.


It was weird though to see the figure sniff the air before commenting to them in a way, the male was used to it, "Death comes to all, even beings of darkness made only for fighting their enemies without a willed conscious, that, and the fear you four are giving off are delectable to my senses. Especially to the brave niñita behind the other."

Once they got a good look at him as in truth, they saw he had an aura covering his frame to only reveal he was in fact, real, dispersed to fully see who he was as he also removed the hood to know he wasn't even fully humane to begin with.

He is a large gray wolf of sorts. His sclera is fully red like crimson blood and he has black irises. He wears a long black cloak torn at the edges. The male wolf is a large, silvery-white, bipedal wolf as mentioned with an elongated snout, a gray "mask" marking on his face and he possessed sharp teeth. His outfit was mainly the item they saw, but it was a black riding cloak with a built-in hood, and brown trousers under the cloak. He wielded unusual sickles within both of his hands with odd markings on them.

"Thank you for dealing with those creatures though," Marianne decided to tell him in gratefulness to get the wolf to gaze at her for only a moment with her being perplexed by his eyes somehow recognizing her as he only shook his head with a half-chuckle at not at all being thanked before and gave her a nod with admitting things, and with them gazing at the dense shadowy barrier where Morgana was, "No problem, mujer hada. Though it was due to the pequeño diablo who's still fighting against the male in there. That, and a comrade known as Señora Muerte sent me after losing track of a certain male gato for a while, to see if I can assist the Little One at least and out of her own concern, tasked me to protect you four idiotas from facing a foe you never truly can see. That and I rarely show myself as it will need something to truly anger yours truly."

Seeing their perplexed look after he spoke, the wolf chuckled with shaking his shoulders and glanced at the angered Dark One with a grin all but Chipana shivered from to which was rare from The Bog King to be in slight fear, "That Dark Bestia will surely end you as it is, as from sensing the power it wields, can easily do so. Luckily I will help you, but if you impress me enough… We'll see things from there." At the end of his words, the two girls saw that the male wolf was looking right at them when he said that, before the Dark One who had enough, roared at them all.


Resume or start again after hearing the same music.


The wolf began to sprint with a glow to his eyes as he charged at the charging Dark One before easily jumping, and did a couple of slashes with his two sickles, and was rather intrigued as the other four began to defend themselves with seeing the barrier spring up from Cassie, of knowing what that was yet made the Dark One yowl and snarl at him as he easily sliced one of the four tail tips the Dark One has, and it focuses on him with revealing to the four, eight new gemstones were made that were pentagram shaped, around the sides. Four per side.

"Cassie, stay here." Chipana firmly told her, seeing that she was slightly drained, alongside watching both Marianne and The Bog King follow the wolf and worked together, in sync with each other, with being able to distract the Dark One long enough for a gemstone to crack and be destroyed by the wolf.

Cassie was about to object to this with going to tell her she felt fine, with indeed feeling a bit weaker, but sighed by the stare Chipana gave her to which she reluctantly nodded, before gazing at the dense shield they both knew Morgana was in, before gazing back at her soul-sister with seeing Chipana agreed with a smirk, "I'm going to try and see if Nina and the others might help me find that temple, as I have a feeling that thing is going to grow more powerful, and from whatever the other two guys have planned."

"The more the better to challenge myself, but get going and don't look back." Chipana only told her to make the other blonde girl blink when she deflected the new thousand balls of fury, or fire balls, right back at the creature to destroy on the other side of it, another gemstone.

Cassie nodded while trying to not trip over herself as the Dark One howled with Chipana sensing the beast doesn't want her to escape it's sight, let some of her power be shown with a half-crazed grin, and made both the wolf and both Marianne, and The Bog King, blink at her before they all dodged from kicking harshly the beast's face to further anger it's full attention to her, and began sending large fiery blasts to which she dodged, and it missed with thankfully each blast going to the crater.

Speaking as such, Roland was hiding the entire time while holding the broken weapon to which he scoffed and tossed, before smirking at watching Cassie take off, and went after her.

As the four was distracting and trying to get rid of the gemstones on the sides of the beast's body, Cassie did run before she got lost and ended up in a dead end, and turned around to only see Roland smirk at her at finally catching up with her as not known to Cassie, she was using her own magic and power to speed boost herself, to which is why Roland pants out in a weary but still energetic tone of triumph with pointing his sword at her from at least feeling partial relief of his wings feeling relaxed from the forced flying he did, "You nearly gave me quite a hand at nearly losing you, but the two accomplices of mine needs you as well, as the other similar to the one child, is a backup to one of my allies 'Plan D' we decided to make together."

Cassie hid the urge to gulp with eyeing his sword warily, as yes, she acts brave at times but seeing a weapon pointed directly at her, reminds her of her secretive nightmares she has been having without telling Morgana and the others, of a unusual armored man stabbing a more bizarre looking blade into her parents to kill them and extract their life essence, or even the same person using it to kill everyone she loved or cared for with making her as well for another onset of nightmares, as a living doll monster of sorts with being willful yet bodily servitude.

That, and dreaming of hazed people or future friends from laying near Morgana at times, with things occurring to them to which she couldn't explain as to why.

"So, Buttercup. You can come quietly, or I can make it go my way in the harshest thing you can imagine." Roland then tells her to which out front he shadows of the woods, several of those unknown creatures appeared with the girl noticing the mark on Roland's wrist for only a few moments before shaking her head, and retorted to not please the blonde male fairy himself by with holding his servants back, "I will never go with a guy like you, especially from seeing how big of a prick you are to Marianne."

"Oh how your words hurt me so," Roland states to her in fake sorrow before looking at her firmly with his eye color becoming amber for a few moments, "But I wasn't asking, but demanding, Buttercup." And he did a wordless motion to her with his blade, and the creatures rushed to the defending Cassie… Only to have her open her eyes in utter shock and making Roland take a few steps back in wariness of two others, easily destroying the servants into smoke and smaller hearts from protecting her.

It was Kipo and Zone-Tan, to get Cassie relieved by this chanced lucky outcome, with Kipo being mainly human but with her arms as her animal self for a fist fighter, however, and Zone-Tan having her weapon out as well with narrowing her eyes at the blonde prick of a fairy.

"You ok there squirt? We would have been here sooner if it wasn't for the dumb vortex that we went into by the aid of Loki himself." Zone-Tan states to Cassie as she only gave back to them both a wordless nod for 'Yes', and made Roland scoff at them both with the duo looking offended slightly by his words, "So you two girls are even more freaks then that one girl? You being a weird purplish cat-thing, and the other some kind of weird woman with a complex."

"You wouldn't mind me having this guy, Zee?" Kipo asked in a way from seeing the glint in her eyes, she was taking this upcoming fight personally from what Roland spoke about her as Roland whistled with more of his servants appearing from the shadows to which, Zone-Tan only shrugged with ignoring Cassie's slight yelp from being easily picked up in a bridal position, "Knock yourself out as from recalling Mr. V's words before we left a while back, I need to take Miss Chaos here to the others further out."

Cassie hid a gulp by seeing the now feral look Kipo had on her face at Roland to know the outcome wouldn't be pretty, and with knowing Morgana wouldn't want to see that look on her either, from recalling when those two hung out, they were like non-bloodied sisters and friends combined, that, and knowing Zone-Tan and Kipo were slight friends from the start once they were introduced.

Once Zone-Tan took Cassie away from the area, Kipo cracked her neck, and did a minor shoulder shrug a few times before getting into a particular stance that in another realm, the one who has a similar stance sneezed before using her own paws on the wooden dummy in her shared home's training facility to continue practice, by telling him firmly to know he screwed up big time, "Let's dance."

Meanwhile back with Marianne, The Bog King, Chipana, and the wolf man, they managed to destroy at least all but the last remaining two gemstones the Dark One has kept at bay from being destroyed, but they were a bit more larger by a smidge due to most of the gems being destroyed, as well.

The four though dodged all four tails in a ongoing tail-swipe atack to force them onto the ground, with seeing a look in the beast's eyes they didn't like at all, as it let out an echoing howl while glowing a crimson aura with hues of silver mixed with darkness, and charged at them in swift speeded movements.

They were forced to narrowly dodge it's charging attacks with leading them near some flowers and a large tree, to which it did hit the tree for them to only dodge as it began to quickly decay and wither, alongside falling in their direction with thankfully going into the waters nearby it to dissolve itself with leading the Dark One, after dodging a few more trees it purposely hit with the same results, back into the crater itself to indeed see that the former home was the beast, as the ruins of it wasn't at all there.

Seeing there was no plant life tall enough to try and harm them with, the aura ceased before it howled within the center and began to go into rapid circles quick enough to start up a sandstorm from the leftover dirt and loose soil the crater had.

Chipana gritted her teeth to at least not break any while hanging on with the weapon she has, nearly falling out of her hands with Marianne and The Bog King trying to do the same, but were sucked into the ongoing vortex it made with seeing in a cartoonish sense of sorts, the beast was sitting on it's behind within the center of it as the swirling vortex of forced winds changed into the same hue it had on its body before to keep it going, and saw the gemstones moved to the center of it's forehead and right on the symbol that showed of a heart of sorts, and roared loudly before they were forced to separate and dodge the ongoing popping appearance of the four tails it had, and the wolf man being sent far away from them with hearing him curse in Spanish, and passed right into the barrier where Morgana and Bull were still contesting one another.

Though it didn't help that this time, when they did attack a tail instead of dodging it with much flying movement they could while inside the swirling and unnatural vortex, that they realized the fox head was no mere fact as it was an illusion, and they were dodging twice the amount of tails it originally had with each fake, popping into several bat-like darkness made creatures with the same heart-like symbol on their stomachs, and either dealing with them with a single hit destroying them, or maneuvering themselves with the creatures grew too big to handle as a whole.

After Chipana and Marianne used their weapons to attack an actual tail for the fourth time, the fakes and true four tails retracted back into the vortex with them being forced to head to the center with the gemstones glowing and the creature hissing in laughter at them all… Before yowling as one of the gemstones was destroyed by Chipana from tossing her weapon, and blinked as after it struck the gem, it vanished and reappeared back into her main hand with a hue showing that was her aura, and faded as they prepared themselves.

It stopped the vortex and with the final gemstone glowing and glowing eyes the Dark One had as well, they knew that they truly angered it as a dome covered the creature and to make them blink, it shrank to the size of Chipana, and fled from them.


Stop Music


"Why is it running?" Marianne questioned to both Chipana and The Bog King with them stilling, and turned as they landed into the crater itself to see a ghostly apparition to make both girls blink by whom The Bog King stated in surprise as if, he wouldn't see the entity again as the ghostly entity held a forlorn look at them all, "Father!"

"My son… While the one girl will be alright within the dome, the beast on the other hand, will not. It is fleeing due to you nearly destroying it, and will seek out a host to try and destroy the kingdoms, or worse." The Ex-King began to tell The Bog King, and making him blink at that before being stunned by the confession the Ex-King told them to make Chipana be inwardly shocked at too, with seeing Marianne giving The Bog King a searching look for to his reaction, "The Dark One was in fact, a former chimera made of a single person I once knew that hailed from a land that uses unknown energy that I can barely recall. They sacrificed themselves in secret to save us and King Dagda back then, but with the price of her ending up as seen from her remains and more being used. Twice in forms of the possessive spirit of the beast. But since it's new form was nearly destroyed by all of your actions, a new host will be needed and if both of them enters the wrong host, more chaos that I am afraid, will go throughout the lands itself, and the needed aid of the Spirit of the Woods, will be called forth to aid us one last time."

"So how do we stop the beast?" The Bog King questions him to which his father's response was a sigh before responding to his son more then to the other two with him, "It is rather hard but if the Dark One ia distracted long enough, then someone who is pure of heart or to it's own darkness, can separate that corrupt the entity and to my old friend, and purify it for all time…" He paused before making the trio glance at each other and back to him to see if was slowly fading away, "But a host is still needed by willful means from my old friend no longer able to, and in turn, change the new host to suit both of their needs further as they will be symbiotic in nature, and further do whatever it takes to make the host be as one, from the powers being immense to not be out in the open. My former friend was the host before the entity-like beast and the host became one corrupt entity by another that did so. My friend, Rikito Akomi, would soon pass on with her dubbing the next host as the heir or heiress of her clan she kept secretive about, and the skills by the powers may be forced into the new host as well and to those they will be in love with as time goes… Even though my time is short… The girl in the dome is the one that can further aid us… And those who came with her… As one, to one who is of her race." He then vanished to get The Bog King to think.

They heard explosions though to get their minds to think on this later, and go and find the others, as with Roland and Kipo mere moments ago, the two were oddly fighting in an even pace, before something dark looking slammed into Roland.

Kipo leapt back in time to not get possessed, and caused the man to hold the urge to scream as he was soon fully taken over by a dark aura covering his entire frame, and revealed after with glowing amber eyes under the face mask similar to the Dark One's, of gothic armor in relation to the beast itself and his hands holding demonic scimitar-like blades in a reverse situation and having ethereal runes on them, and the handles having the designs of the beast's head as well with ruby gemstones in the eye sockets. His wings were demonic-like as a butterfly as well with darkness emitting from them.

Kipo for once hid the urge to gulp after a long time feeling this feeling of fear, as whatever possessed Roland shrugged his shoulders with a pointed look at her silently, before making her blink as he leapt into the air and flew in unnatural speeds to a random direction.

She then heard explosions to cause her heart to falter for only a brief moment before taking off on footsteps in hastened speed as by scent alone, she smelled Cassie was in trouble.

Speaking of, moments before the Dark One possessed Roland, Cassie was feeling much better after Zone-Tan gave her a potion that made her feeling a bit energetic yet not, at the same time, and her magic fully replenished somehow to which she gave the girl a knowing smirk with everyone around them being slightly anxious of their friends fighting against the Dark Beast itself.

Dawn and Sunny were nearby though with Cassie seeing the worried look the princess had, soothed her somewhat with glad the new couple found themselves at last with easily seeing Sunny had a hand in Dawn's in a gentle squeezing and reassuring hold, "Don't worry. I think Chip, your sister, Bog and Mary will be fine by whatever is going on with them. I'm sure they will come back to us unharmed."

Dawn only nodded before they groaned with Zone-Tan's amusement by King Dagda and Griselda wordlessly agreeing with him out of reluctance, and with everyone preparing to move out, "We are not that far away back to the Fairy Kingdom. Let's push a bit more and then we will be in safe borders for everyone; Goblin and Fairy included."

"I would rather see Roland kicked to where it counts, then continue onward," Cassie groaned out to amuse the trio with her at the moment before they saw Zone-Tan sniffed and stilled with her eyes briefly amber-slits and back to her eyes yet before she could warn anyone, she grabbed a yelping Cassie as they all moved just in time to not get imploded by a dark-like fire ball that caused a small explosion and knocked everyone away and losing their balance on their feet.

The reason with Zone-Tan fully glaring at the person themselves, was Roland to which everyone exclaimed his name, but saw he was entirely different altogether. That, and Cassie and the others didn't like the amber-eyed gaze upon her, of course.

"Mr. King," Zone-Tan began with him warily gazing at her spot with Cassie, and quickly ordered out to everyone after her suggested words, from landing near him by Roland's unexpected attack, "I suggest you guys go as quick as you can to the Kingdom, as things are about to get dicey."

King Dagda accepted her words and hastily called for a retreat in haste with whatever possessing Roland, spoke in a mix of his voice, and two others, as a shared singular entity at Zone-Tan at recognizing her at last, and even making those with her blink by this as she appeared to be thinking quickly as to whom this entity was, "Ah… So you are here then? My old foe of many before I possessed not one, but two others to fully fuse into to which this foolish mortal of fairy folk, is considered?"

"I don't recall whatever you are as an enemy of mine… Have we met before?" Zone-Tan tells the possessed male fairy who shrugged with not at all looking intimidated by the brief power she showed off at it, as he proclaimed to her to make her blink, and both Cassie and Kipo who came to late for the new enemy to stop it's arrival, stood near them by the slight admission he stated from Roland's body, "We did fought before I was killed and extracted in a foul ritual to possess a former maiden's dying corpse and as a mere beast under control over darkness, over your formerly existing kingdom that I can easily sense, was devoured completely by the very same darkness that made myself as to what I am at this point and time… Though, I can sense that I will be myself in due time but with a body, but things will take twists and turns as we soon fight to see our battle once again go into fruition."

"Ok, who is this guy?" Kipo asked both girls as Zone-Tan blinked at finally recalling something, and saw the entity actually smirk right back at her stating the entity's name while recalling the familiar aura it has, and finally recalling who it was, "No way… I thought you did fully perish back then, Galabia."

"As I stated in my brief explanation to you, my true death caused by you was exaggerated. Though…" The entity or Galabia, began, with pacing slightly in a readily stance to engage them if necessary with easily swinging the adjusted blade a few times with a slight aura around it, and making the trio be guarded without seeing someone hidden behind some rocks who stayed behind, "Doesn't mean I cannot fathom some payback from the loss of my previous, artificial living body, to what I can do to ruin your carefree life of those you cherish… Even shared with one who you are with for personal revenge to this opportunity of chances to which I can sense, was reincarnated from my possible leader back then, ending her." Galabia did gesture to the body it was in to add things, "Though this is not my preferred bodily gender I like, or am used to, but it will manage until I defeat you or this body is in ruins."

"Cassie, stay close." Zone-Tan firmly stated for once in being serious to the girl, to which she understood in wariness mixed with bravery, as by whatever this entity was, had something personal against the demoness herself, that, and with using Roland's body, eyed her sinisterly as if, she was something suitable or a piece of meat before stating to itself, "Though this shared Soul-Sister of yours does have hidden power as well, besides the few others I can easily sense is linked to you to one meager girl I can easily detect is the Chosen Child… Might be useful to myself if I can do so."

"That's not gonna happen, as I won't allow it, that, and my own demonic side agrees with me too," Zone-Tan firmly declared to make Galabia scoff at that, shrugged Roland's shoulders once again, and stated with lifting Roland's left hand up into the air to see a purplish-like pink orb of dark energy forming into the size of a basketball within moments before sending it into the air to make the same-like colored barrier that entrap them all inside a makeshift barrier, as not known to them, it was a mile or so wide with several others being within it, "Though I will prevail with sensing that Chosen Child isn't a threat at this moment of logical sense of time and value, I will win this time. I will have my vengeance not only against you, but end those within my dome… Even vengeance as part of that fused construct before possessing this mortal."

It was a standstill at this point with a gentle breeze flowing easily through the barrier to know it didn't shut off the air from the outside, with Kipo nodding as she stood by Cassie before blinking to irk the girl at seeing Galabia whistled as more of those creatures to when it was a beast, appeared right behind it or him at the moment, and smirked with his wings glowing a darkish purple for a few moments, and told mainly Zone-Tan then, "You are not prepared!"


Resume or restart the music.


Galabia charged within moments by an aura covering his frame, right at Zone-Tan with Kipo grabbing Cassie in time to not get crossed into the crossfire from the burning ground that evaporated by mere moments with Zone-Tan herself, blocking the quick strike by the possessed male fairy with her own weapon.

Their weapons did give out enchanted sparks that didn't burn the ground when landed. As they actually struggled with one another while the creatures went after both Cassie and Kipo, who shifted her legs and arms to her anthropomorphic beast self to try and outrun and defeat each one that tried to either jump or bite the duo, before both Galabia and Zone-Tan leapt back a few yards before speed-circling one another, and clashed again, and again with untold speeds to make slight ripple effects in forced air waves against one another.

With Kipo and Cassie, who was running on her feet in spelled speeds from a Speed Spell taught to her, which worked this time without her crashing, the duo dodged and weaved against the onslaught of creatures that kept coming from Kipo sending them to the point, into random rocks and whatnot to "Poof" and be destroyed very easily, until they came to the edge of the barrier and stopped, turned, and realized they were surrounded.

The creatures were about to pounce as one before they were blasted to make the duo blink, by a laser-like spell that was crimson, and saw it was after so long, was Morgana riding on Leviathan within the air itself, to which, they were covered by a teal-like aura to get them to guess to give water to the Aeon, which the creatures didn't seem to act like the duo was a threat before being doused and imploded by water-based magic the Aeon spat at them.

Morgana though look battered and bruised slightly, and got down with the Aeon nodding only once as she went back into Morgana and giving her a recharge of gaining some power back to her, as she hugged Cassie, firstly, before checking her over to amuse Kipo at this with her asking in worry, "Are you ok Cass?"

"I'm fine, but not sure on Zee and even Chip," Cassie admits to make Morgana narrow her eyes before startling Cassie with Kipo only giving a wordless nod at the Young Chaosarinian, and nearly upset the blonde girl, "I need you to keep My Chaos safe and sound, Kipo. And before you say anything," Morgana gave her a soft yet pointed look to make Cassie wince, "You feel very weak somehow, and I don't want anything to happen to you as I have to go find Zee and Chip, and see if they need me."

"Alright, but show that fairy a thing or two with whatever is possessing him, to the moon." Cassie told her to make Morgana and Kipo blink once as she stated in a perplexed tone, "Did you just rhymed?"

"You know, I think I might have… Stupid reading lessons with Cheshire," Cassie states to only amuse the Potter Heiress before she made Cassie tint by lightly kissing her cheek and quickly taking off with empowering her wings to then use her new ability given to her by the odd man named Bull she barely won from, to see who needed her the most.

She was still shaken by what she learned from fighting him, but kept it to the back of her mind inside her, placed those for later to bring back up with knowing that Xion and the others might want to come back, for a full meeting with everyone.

She got her answer however from feeling Cassie going away with Kipo, by feeling Zone-Tan being overwhelmed, and feeling Chipana to make her shudder for some reason, having a blast, and was perplexed with the others within agreeing along with Xal'atath appearing in her right hand and within her blade form as well, Chip and I will have to have a talk after we find each other. And she was then perplexed at seeing how Roland looked, and surprised Zone-Tan and the entity from aiding her at blocking a killing blow to the heart, and saw her smirk and stated, "What took you so long?"

Zone-Tan hide the urge to sweat drop with the two jumping to the sides away from each other from Galabia trying to slice them both, of her sarcastic yet cheeky response with a irritated twitch to her left eye only a few times, and inwardly beaming her and several others influences were being shown by her as well, "Doesn't help that I was held up after being kidnapped and my blood forcibly taken to the point I passed out, twice, and fought that armored man named Bull as a mere test by his orders of whatever he served, and finding things out- Hey, watch it!" Galabia got irritated by her talking and tried slicing her with a few energy waves from the sword and missed, but easily sliced two flowers to make them fall onto the ground without effort.

The duo then sprint to each other before darting and tried to strike as one with their weapons, but turned to where Galabia vanished from and saw that the possessed male fairy was in the air with his weapon within mere seconds, produced a deathly-looking ball within sixty feet in the air, and tossed it quickly at them to only play ping-pong and sending it back and forth with it oddly enough, making a ticking sound to know it was a bomb-based spell.

"A friend of yours?" Morgana asked quickly as she sent the orb right back to a frowning Galabia as if whatever entity it was, expected it's attack to go off and end them, as Zone-tan rolled her eyes at her with responding as she sent the energy orb back with struggling to do that, "Not friend, but you get the hint Mary, but at least this thing isn't some old coot who enjoys sour things as treats."

In Morgana's true time, Albus sneezed while with his little sister on one of her outings for some things she wanted, while also drinking a frozen lemonade within America for not only that, but of a double-task of sorts of a meeting later on the same day between two people as scheduled.

Back with the duo of Morgana and Zone-Tan, the demoness sent the orb back just as it was flashing white and red with the dark color it has right at Galabia to see it did explode in a fiery burst, and they both blinked to see whatever entity it was, made it that Roland's body wasn't phased by the attack at all but still frowned at them with anger easily showing from the eyes.

"He looks angry," Morgana states to Zone-Tan who gave her a really look before responding loudly as they dodged a giant-like slicing wave by going opposite sides and saw the entity made a perfect carved cut within the soil and destroyed another flower with ease via disintegration, "Whatever made you have that as a clue, Mary?!"

"Stand still, so I may end this quickly from sensing an opportunity is coming!" Galabia firmly stated aloud to them as he made several of those slices to which they easily dodged, and those aimed at the pathway as wildlife, did so as well with giving the entity a stink eye of sorts before leaving in haste.

"Not in whatever life you have right now, Galabia!" Zone-Tan taunted as she startled Morgana with making the Young Chaosarinian blink at having her free hand out as a glowing ball of what appeared to be a shadow ball move from Pokémon itself, and sent it right at the possessed male fairy, to which he quickly sent it away with them holding back a wince at seeing it explode in a shadowy aura of darkness and flames at where it landed without harming the environment, but did disintegrate a flower into ash.

"Pathetic forms of life, it is not truly worth my time yet vengeance is what I desire before going back to my goals… Once I do find a better host." Galabia firmly stated with both Morgana and Zone-Tan growing wary at seeing he raised Roland's free hand up, and saw he creates a three times of the size orb the entity made earlier, before dodging with Morgana bumping into Nina who was hiding this entire time and watching things, from multitudes of smaller, golf-ball sizes orbs going randomly everywhere from Galabia's eighty feet within the air, and with Zone-Tan managing to come over and deflected most of them with seeing the entity purposely cleared the area.

"Nina?!" Exclaimed Morgana with seeing her injured wing with a wince as she felt her left was broken only slightly from the nearby rock as the obvious thing that broke it from forced impact against it and her friend, and saw Nina was about to say something until she blinked in shock at knowing she could do this, as her broken wing by seeing her power going through it for only a moment, snapped it back into place with little pain and fully fixed.

They ducked with briefly seeing Zone-Tan deflected more of the orbs the entity made with Roland's weapon and it's own power, everywhere again to maybe flush her out to fight her again, as Nina stated with looking wary and other things to get Morgana to understand only slightly, "I didn't want to feel like a burden again, and not try to at least see if I can help."

"But you're injured though," Morgana pointed out with Xal'atath rolling an eye by using her to deflect an incoming ball that sailed, and in odd irony once again, exploded a cart filled with blueberries by a random salesman, and shouted no, to that.

"You were as well, but you still fought? I just want to prove I'm more than brains to my brother, as I just have a bad feeling about that thing, and whatever those guys are up to…" she didn't get a chance to finish her hesitant words as she and Morgana was blasted away from each other with Zone-Tan shouting at least the Potter Heiress' name aloud by Galabia smirking before the entity whistled from swishing his weapon of the fiery smoke it remained on it, to keep the demoness busy by giant brute-like versions of those very creatures Roland summoned earlier, to try and kill her.

Morgana coughed a few times while laying fully on her side with seeing to her shock by her hand in plain sight, there were cracks as if her skin was made of what you would see in marble or stone, before healing itself within moments to know with another wince of pain, her entire body had this new ability, and saw further out to still her, Nina was alive by hearing her heartbeat, but passed out with a bruise on her head- "It seems that you are the Chosen Child I was told to be on the eye for, before my demise to your distracted Mate, Mazina Snowfellis of Reincarnation." Galabia firmly tells her with wicked glee with having her in a choke hold within moments.

That, and stunning her at holding her tail firmly in a tight grip with Roland's other hand to weaken her in knowing somehow, and with Morgana weakly having her eyes open wide at seeing that weapon was floating besides him, saw him chuckle darkly to her in a grin that truly unsettled not only her, but Xal'atath being back inside her alongside the others within her, to then realize that she may have bitten more than she can chew at her instincts actually screaming for her to run away.

"I can sense her, your past self within your very soul as one. That, and knowing how to weaken your type of race very easily to at least get you to cooperate to my desires and needs," Galabia told her nonchalantly in a small monologue while being amused of her weakly and struggling attempts to know the entity was impressed by gazing her up and down within his hold, "And it seems you are trying to tame this weakness of few of your race, similar to one I sense may have potential, but would easily evict me if so. Near us, and fighting with the two other foolish biological beings."

Morgana saw Zone-Tan did a shushing motion to Morgana from seeing she was ok from the corner of her eyes as they were still trained on Galabia to try and make her the bait, with Nina slowly waking up but also failing to stand, "So I would rather try and possess the other to you, as from sensing the particular deities blood within her veins, she would be most suitable to accomplish my previous orders and task after so many, many years of waiting." Zone-Tan did see Morgana's eyes did give out a brief glowing shine of sorts at that to know that Galabia was angering her, as the shine was pure amber in color before going back to normal yet resumed his monologuing, "Even though you seem to have more potential, you have ways to probably block myself but unlike others that have more, higher power to try and do so. Now you must be finished-" Galabia was then sent to a few rocks close to them and leaving indents, blinked, and saw the cheeky look Zone-Tan had as she stated to him, "You talk too much."

Morgana was helped up with the duo knowing that Galabia was getting up without wincing to know that was a cheapshot by her girl, and only nodded by her concerned response with holding back the urge to rub her tail, gently, "You ok?"

Morgana glanced at Nina and back to Zone-Tan, who only nodded back at the Potter Heiress seeing she had a specific vial in hand to know she was going to go all out, "Can you distract that person long enough for me to return with back-up?"

"This guy will be easy once I take down this vial Twilight and a few others made in this situation. Even though I sensed that the wolf was sent somewhere you may have summoned from Death's aid in hand, but not sure how long the effects of the potion will last." Zone-Tan tells her in mixed confidence to only get Morgana to nod before they turn their gazes back to the possessed fairy, from his firm response, "You shall not leave."

Zone-Tan easily uncorked the vial with her teeth and spat the top to the ground, and swirled the contents to make Galabia raise an eyebrow at the item for, and letting Morgana take Nina away from the area as they both knew how rare of the ingredients were to make this unique potion and to use in emergencies only, unless it was destroyed by means of anything, from sensing the battle was going to be more improving to his taste as Zone-Tan gave a wordless 'Cheers' motion to him and downed the sweet yet mixed bitter flavored contents.

She knew the contents were also mixed with the mixture of the one star power-ups from the few friends Morgana has, with knowing their spouses are due at some point, and knew she had at least a full half-hour to try and defeat this entity as that was how long it was going to last.

Within moments, Zone-Tan gained her aura around her frame like a small barrier all around herself, but felt her power was doubled as it was, now, to make her sharply smirk at the entity who became guarded by her confident tone to him, "Let's resume, shall we?"


Pause music.


Meanwhile back with Chipana, Marianne, and The Bog King, they were handling things as they nearly defeated all the creatures with also the duo being wary of Chipana due to her crazed face she had from enjoying the slaughtering of the shadow creatures that kept coming non-stop.

The trio did see Morgana zoomed past them with Nina, however, to get Chipana have some sanity for a few moments before noticing the creatures gaze at them that showed up, and to Morgana, before deciding on a smart play to chase after the Young Chaosarinian, and they decided to chase after them as it seemed Morgana may have lost direction again with randomly zooming away with Nina, and holding back winces as when she hit the barrier, however, each time, it began to break and shatter slowly until her third time after encountering everyone who was near the outer rim where the Fairy Kingdom met with the Dark Forest.

Nina was caught easily by a few guards with Morgana making both Dawn and Sunny 'Oomph' at the same time when she crashed into them, and gave them a sheepish apologetic look after shaking her head and blinking a few times, before they all became guarded as those creatures surrounded them all.

Mostly everyone blinked at seeing most of the creatures get imploded onto each other by Chipana sending a teal-like green energy at most of them, before landing with both The Bog King and Marianne, and with the creatures scattering after sensing from where Zone-Tan was, the entity may have done something unexpected.

The Bog King checked on his little sister while looking weary, Marianne got hugged by her own with also seeing her father approach and told him to get him to understand, "Not sure how long we have as a break for as whatever is occurring is causing them to appear without a master to control them." Before King Dagda could say a word, edgewise, they turned to Morgana as she ignored her bruised arm that was slowly healing due to her feeling slightly better, "With that barrier shattered for a moment, you need to get everyone out of here. It could close back up at any second from how powerful Galabia is."

The king thought that name was familiar, but only nodded as he barked out orders for everyone to quickly go through the large enough gap, to which they began to do in haste yet just when Nina and Cassie was about to go through after Dawn, Pare, Lizzie, The Imp, and Sunny went, the barrier closed up and dodged an unexpected energy-like attack that would have fried them if they didn't move in time.

Marianne narrowed her eyes like everyone else, with Cassie blinking at seeing to their soon shocked faces, Zone-Tan was being held by her neck, and tossed to them by Galabia who had a darker aura around his frame to know that despite the potion she may have took, she was weakened and drained by him, and he was stronger.

Before Morgana could say anything, she stilled in frozen feared shock as he vanished, and appeared with knocking all but her, Cassie, Nina, and Chipana out by a spell with Zone-Tan about to get up like Kipo was, and sweatdropped at their gentle snoring of mixed ire and wariness by the look Galabia had at the four.

"Now with the minor power I used from that demoness that forgot my absorption abilities from foreign solutions and objects, and making things easier for myself, I can now see which one of you would be a better host." Galabia told the four to stiffen them, as Cassie had Nina with her and was helping her stand by seeing Galabia choosing by gazing at her or Nina, and smirked as both Morgana and Chipana charged at him with Morgana summoning her weapon, "Either of you will work."


Resume or Restart Music.


Galabia while empowered, showed a wide smirk at sensing the anger and growing rage within Morgana though, as he easily dodged all their incoming strikes while being impressed the duo also dodged not only his power blasts, but also his weapon, for the next several minutes before they were soon back on the ground, with both Morgana and Chipana panting with narrowed eyes at him, and a yard apart from each other.

Morgana was glad yet also worried by how weak Cassie looked, as it seemed she summoned that barrier once again to protect them from the damage they and the enemy equally caused, from the scorched marks around the outside of the full circular barrier this time.

They soon dodged more sword swipes from Galabia with seeing Roland's eyes glow a dark amber color to know they were soon frustrating the entity possessing the male blonde fairy, before the two girls separated with him charging with a burst of power-based aura and speed to try and ram them, but missed and easily vaporized another flower stalk instead before vanishing and appearing without his sword in front of a stunned Chipana, as while those two then began to fight with either blocked punches or kicks, Morgana was dealing with a now sentient weapon to which was dealing with harsh strikes against her blocked ones.

Once Galabia and Chipana separated with the girl briefly seeing her Mate being struck, she yelled as she was punched in the gut, hard, and with spit flying out of her mouth before being quickly kicked to the head by him, and sent into not only more flower stalks but also rocks with actual indents from her.

Cassie didn't know what to do as she was only able to observe and using whatever her magic was to protect her and Nina, who was aware and also watching with her at this point, and with seeing Morgana was soon on the ground and holding back a wince of pain and shouted Chipana's name to only get side-swiped by the entity possessing Roland, smirking wickedly as he did so, grabbed her by the neck, and made her scream with scrapping her wings and sides by purposely speeding through the rough ground up to a few yards before zooming with her into the sky, tossed her into the air, and making her go wide-eyed like Morgana was at the unexpected massive beam produced by his palms at her that was fully green.

At her spot, Chipana froze solid from hearing Morgana let out an actual scream of fear and pain, from seeing where she was the green energy beam of raw magic and power from their foe, and her eyes actually glowed fully crimson and let out a slight snarl as she grew angry at this with the power from before flowing within her, and vanished.

The difference this time, whatever force gave her this power, she was in control of it.

Galabia didn't have time to respond before being harshly punched directly in the face, and sent zooming with canceling the beam into the ground a few yards away from her, by Chipana, and the girl soon caught Morgana who looked to be slowly recovering from the blunt blast with seeing scorch marks on her body quickly going away in slow amounts.

"You spoiled mortal!" Galabia spoke after appearing behind Chipana to make her glance at the possessed male fairy, who looked enraged and saw she caused a scar to form from his face that was soon healed within moments with Morgana to concern for only a moment by both Chipana and Cassie, of how lower her own power was from what they could somehow sense, from the bond they shared, "I plan on doing as to what my plans are to my creator's return. Nothing will stop my goal!"

Morgana though felt weak to what she guessed from glancing down at the others still passed out and saw they too, were protected by Cassie, was that the entity was doing as he started earlier of absorbing powers from solutions or other, yet before she could say something to Chipana, they were forced to separate when a purplish laser nearly had them and with Morgana wincing back pain of her wings as not only they, but also Galabia gazed upwards to see it was Dala'matar yet he was glowing a dark aura that felt like miasma a bit, and matched the energy he sent at them.


Finish Music


Dala'matar gazed knowingly at the entity who soon smirked at the opportunity with easily snapping his fingers as the barrier around Cassie immediately faded within moments and had the girl in his hands, and tossed her after knocking her out at the possessed fairy, with stating and also erecting a barrier around him and the two other aware girls in the air as Nina, she was sucked into a dark vortex and the others as well with landing in odd coincidence, on top of King Dagda within the center of the throne room. "Take the girl to do as you wish at The Temple I can tell you know where. I will handle these two, my master's few creations."

"We won't let you get away with this," Morgana firmly stated in pain to which Chipana took note of with a hidden frown before growling at Dala'matar who only chuckled with glowing all over with glowing eyes, "True, but the entity did distract everyone long enough for me to regain something I intended to reveal…" The two girls were soon blasted quite a bit of distance away as an immediate and very dense yet powerful dome covered where he was, before revealing to shock the two, he became a very large dragon.

Dala'matar became something similar to what everyone may look into, to a Onyx Netherwing Drake, but with another half-sized smaller set of wings behind the original and barebacked and easily three or four times the size of one, has four eyes that went upwards that were all glowing amber, and with etched Latin chaotic runes on each scale of his underhide. His teeth were sharper and his horns and claws were dull-metallic in design to be mistaken for dulled silver or iron, and he had not one but two tails to where were not fins, but rather daggered multi-sided tips with easily seeing finned-like spikes going from his neck to them, and the one aura he has was still around him yet lessened to know he was still powerful, more close to a thin yet empowered barrier only slightly with seeing on his forehead near his horn, was an unusual gemstone of sorts that felt dark and chaotic by where they were.

"I have regained my draconic appearance after many, many years of waiting for the perfect time to do so. I do not care what the specimen labeled as Experiment-0313 does to the one child, but I cannot allow you to get to them both, as my other allies sent me here to do that as well." Dala'matar confessed to the two to which both Chipana and Morgana became guarded with growing angry, with the shifter seeing how powerful Chipana was while untrained, and how Morgana's burst of power soon fully healed her, but made her have half as a price, temporarily, "The rebels to the Infinite Dragonflight and others and some minions to other beings are part of my own master's part of the cycle to soon rule all the worlds and realms, and even revenge against some of his enemies. Avalon, Azeroth, even many others are part of a plan to a bigger, more deadlier game to my master's eyes as I: Shadow General Dala'matar and Co-Leader to the Rogue Flights, will see how far you can survive."

Dala'matar wasted no time with breathing quickly and soon causing the two girls to do aerial maneuvers to avoid the fel-like purplish flames that burst after zooming past them a few yards or so.

He kept at it with them trying to get closer to at least either cast a spell or strike him, but he made the duo blink as he teleported right behind them and side-swiped both girls together by his tails, and they managed to stop themselves from being forced into the ground and zoomed away as he maneuvered himself to prevent hat happening to him too.

They were soon dodging within the air from him coming upwards of many quick-blasted bolts of green lightning he tried to zap them with, to which zoomed past them and even through the barrier he produced, and to be easily seen at the Fairy Kingdom.

Chipana managed to move away in time when he soon sent a truly unexpected lightning-like crescent attack from air-swiping his hands in a large x-like formation, and Morgana narrowly dodged as well before they had to dodge once again from him charging past them with a thunder-like and fiery aura attack that was fel-colored in making Morgana shaking her head at the green color, several times before gazing at Chipana in utter surprise like she did to her hand at causing Dala'matar to roar in utter shock and slight pain from being blasted by greenish-teal energy from her open hand at him in utter defensive instinct. While he appeared dazed, Morgana quickly said before the two charged at him a bit loudly enough to hear her, "Did you mean to do that?"

"You know, I think I did?" Chipana states before they both stopped and hid a yelp while diving away from an enraged Dala'matar who soon was breathing an ongoing set of flames mixed with fel-based and shadow energy at them, and Chipana was soon tinting as the dragon roared while Morgana saw her trying to put out the fire on her tail, which she succeeded from the unexpected ice ball Morgana sent right at Dala'matar's head.

The dragon got pelted by the unexpected attack that soon burst into shards that did little damage but did cause Dala'matar to become temporarily blinded to which he was soon roaring in pain from Morgana as a quick-shifted idea, sending her weapon right at him with Xal'atath having a crying tear streak upon how fast she zoomed, and went right through one of his wings instead of the intended chest area that was exposed, but blinked as the open hole within moments, began to heal over in a matter of seconds without any scars or damaged tissues.

"Oh man, that's not good." Morgana tells herself with Chipana hearing that, wordlessly agreed as the dagger-changed blade reappeared back into Morgana's hands and both went away from each other from two quick succession blasts of fiery balls that did land on more stalks to instantly catch on fire, and wither away.

"Feel the power of THE STORM!" Dala'matar yelled out within a roar, with him soon summoning a dark and sinister vast storm cloud all above them to which the two girls were comically dodging left, right, and even ducking by controlled bolts of green lightning that left evaporating strikes on the ground to know that the foe they faces, was in control of electricity- "Mary, look out!" Chipana cried as she was shoved to the side upon seeing the blonde getting zapped harshly by a stray bolt that fully consumed her and forced her within moments onto the ground.

"Chip!" Morgana shouted before she, too, yelled in unexpected shocked pain of another random bolt or two coursing through her frame, and being also forced onto the ground just as Dala'matar stopped with a wicked smoke somehow appearing on his maw and landed before shifting back to his mortal self, but his eyes glowing a fel-like mist and soon, producing shadowy-like flames filled with static as well, combined, in both hands and spoke normally to them as they struggled to get up, "It seems you cannot fathom my being as to what upgraded and powerful dragon as such as I? Perhaps it is best to end your suffering as quickly as possible, then prolong the inevitable."

Morgana and Chipana shared a look with them feeling fully paralyzed on the ground as he casually approached the two, with his eyes glinting in victory with admitting things to them with not seeing Morgana's eyes glowing in anger from this, "Though, it would be truly unfortunate that Experiment-0313 will possibly succeed in a new and more efficient host for itself, that you two will not live to see the day to see how I will be promoted to Lord General by ending you both, and to have no one stop us from doing with our plans."

Chipana soon struggled with feeling her energy she had, about seventy percent of it got transferred right into the male who chuckled as if, he knew from seeing his eyes let out a burst of flames for a moment to relish in the fact, and a foot on her back to make Morgana even angrier from watching, yet also stunning a moment or two as to what race he dubbed Chipana as, "Though it would be best to start killing this worthless Saiyan Hybrid, firstly, as even though her power I absorbed was delicious to one of many gifts the master gave myself long ago, but would love to see how your angered power, Chosen One, will compare when I absorb that too as after all, Experiment-0313 was based on my gift and few others."

Can't… Let him… Harm her… Morgana struggled to think as whatever was going on made her mind half-hazed from how much anger she was feeling with feeling helpless as to how she was from watching, with a slight anger spike further, of him purposely stomping on her back to make Chipana let out a pained scream, and with feeling like before of summoning that wolfy man from before.

Dala'matar, however, ignored her for favor on her girl, and Morgana soon snapped from seeing how rare it is, Chipana letting out tears she tried to keep back from the immense pain she was feeling, and from the Potter Heiress' desire to save her girl, felt fully drained while passing out with summoning something unexpected at this point and time.

Something that she will learn, would further increase her reserves only slightly by using nearly all of it to summon someone who was on near-death, and fully healed as a result, at the same time, from their altered reality of their own worldly realm and alternate dimension.

"Your screams, Halfling, are music to these draconian ears," Dala'matar admits as he stomped on the girl again to make Chipana cry out in more pain, but noticed Morgana passed out with a smirk and moved while he forced the monkey girl to soon look at her Mate with shocked eyes, "Seems she couldn't handle the electrical powers of the fel-infused storm flowing through her that her heart may have gave out, or passed out from them with knowing how dangerous her race can be at hardly dying, or close to it, by very extreme conditions. I still plan to absorb and maybe take all of her power and her soul for my- What?" Dala'matar glanced and dodged from an icy-like breath filled with raw magic combined with taking the monkey girl with him, and quickly separated as she landed onto her behind against a nearby flower stalk, and to lastly make them both go wide-eyed at seeing the creature before them.

In terms, it was a dragon that was at least twice in size of Dala'matar's own draconian form with being labeled as a frost wyrm in context, of what the girls will learn at some point to another, in a later period after the trio's adventure. But to the readers of this wonderful story, it is a female dragon who was nearly slain to the brink of her ending servitude to a powerful humane man that controlled the undead from a AU Timeline to where she would have been spared if things didn't take a dark turn of her realm with others surviving from different outcomes, from the same world that Bwonsamdi hails from yet differently of the theory, the multiverse of her world, and the time period as well for her and also in a secretive sense, several others that will be revealed in a later period of time.

This was a former wife to a powerful dragon, and with various titles and positions as well within a secretive sense, was de-aged while as she is to her early twenties: Sindragosa.

Sindragosa, as mentioned, was rather surprised to feel like she was alive despite being as she was, and realized a few things with handling the current situation with a guarded pose:

The first is that she felt fully free of the control of the Lich King.

Second, she knew within moments she was summoned with somehow the effects made her feel alive while undead, in an unusual mixed sense to her un-brainwashed mind.

The third fact was that she easily saw the connection between her and the passed-out child to know she was under, rather odd outcomes, as a shocking twist as a sister-like servant bond, but saw her bond with her former husband was fully shattered yet replaced to a fainter line to know she will have a new mate in the future, somewhere, and to know in moments the child or youngling may have summoned her by feeling her magic was severely drained from raw emotions.

The final while she shifted to her mortal form from seeing that too, was unblocked from her, the situation of a battle between both girls, and the corrupt dragon she easily sensed. When she changed, however, she blinked with only admiring herself for a moment or two, before getting back into a stance with her raw magic easily being shown glowing within her hands, without realizing things to know, she could never return to her draconic appearance ever again, to which she learns from a certain someone.

She had light-gray skin like her skeletal form as a dragon had as well as mid-back length long hair that was pure-white as ice, compared to what she used to have as a natural bronze. She also has a decent face as she appeared to be at least eighteen to twenty years of age in appearance as mentioned before, despite her chest being around large H-Cups, and also gained a more curve-like lightly toned and slender yet fitted-sleek hourglass figure. She also had a delicate nose and mouth as her eyes were normal instead of being fully blue and glowing a misty effect, and yet they were little large-sized in a rounded-almond shape with her sclera being fully black and her irises were lightly glowing ice-blue in color along with her eyes having cross-shaped pupils. The same could be said of the pendant around her neck that was also attached to a choker made of steel-like bones in design as well by her outfit; though the pendant was attached to what was an image of her skull as a dragon, but just smaller.

Her skin as to mention, showed on most parts of her body as by her looks was very distracting as such since the gear she wore decently covered her assets with ease but also allowed a lot of it to be shown with hints of the terms, underboob, as well as her upper torso. But her lower part was plated-like leather armor of some kind that still showed her long, slender yet lightly toned legs up to her mid-thigh which matched her upper gear in color and terms, but there were runes on the sides of the legs no one would be familiar with, as her body also had silvery-like soft mesh seeable top and bottom undergarments underneath. Her wings to lastly mention, were still slightly skeletal but were now more webbed and more alive like she was, as well as her tail she kept out of her dragon form.

"I may not know how much energy this youngling has used to bring me forth to possibly stop you, but I will find things out." Sindragosa firmly tells Dala'matar from instantly figuring things out as they began to slowly circle one another to which she held back an irritated growl as he chuckled humorlessly back, and responded with his own energy within his hands to know that this was no ordinary dragon before her, "I had a feeling at some point you will be brought back, My Lady, but as you are against myself? I think you are in for a fight that's unexpected. Especially since I can sense the Golden Child is further drained by this, as she summoned another with the aid of her Deathly Mate, an ally of hers."

Sindragosa only stiffened for a second at glancing right where Morgana was, and easily saw for a few seconds The Lines she has connected to, before gazing fully at his glowing eyes that shifted from blue, amber, fel-green and back to understand this was a former Bronze and Blue Dragon Hybrid that was turned, and amused him as she firmly asked as they still circled each other in guarded positions, "Who are you really?"

"As I stated, I am Dala'matar. But once, I was known by another name from my destroyed reality of Azeroth herself before turning to darkness and fel-energy mixed with void for my and others survival… Which most left to gain second chances in other realities offered to them despite what they became to survive. But that is in the past, as even you may recognize me at some point, but I rather not spoil my true identity to the likes of a former underling to death as such as you." Dala'matar spoke back in a mixed answer to make her have mixed feelings on this, but they stopped as the wind gently blew past the duo.

They held a standoff with Chipana unable to move, could only watch this with her gazing at Morgana now and then, as the two soon charged at one another with them both clasping their hands in a claw-like fashion to try and dislodge and knock the other person over. Of course as they kept their grips, magic and raw power combined did show easily with bursts of raw energy spurting the longer they were in each other's forced grips.

The two quickly separated before in speeded movements of their own power, blocked hit after hit with it making a small echoed sound. Fist against fist, kick against kick, and even causing mini-like explosions from sending their own spells and blasts at each other, and even Dala'matar was thinking the same as Sindragosa of them somehow, being evenly matched before realization kicked in for the corrupt shifter, of the former undead drake being in equal due to the child.

Dala'matar was quickly stunned by Sindragosa actually punching him square in the face to send him flying in a spiral way past Morgana's still prone form, before the female drake herself was able to grab his left leg, swirl him in a Mario way with Bowser's tail, and send him into a few nearby large rocks with actual dents in it… Of course after a few or so into them, he boosted himself and slammed right into her to sail through several stalks of flowers close by then curving and into the ground and out and up into the air, and then trading blows that they blocked against each other.

As the two drakes fought for control over one other at this point, Chipana grunted with wincing and even ignoring her bodily pain as she would have impressed the others and even both Cassie and Morgana, of struggling yet able to stand on her feet with holding her right arm, and was able to avoid getting hit as she went over onto her knees at the end, where Morgana was.

The blonde monkey girl was relieved though that she was not actually dead to what her mind and whatever that power was, whispered into her ears to which she would only hear. Chipana did fall on top of Morgana from the two drakes forcing her to by zooming past her and then were sending blasts of raw power at each other, and destroying some rocks with the chaos of it, made runes on the easily hand-picked random rocks it made.

It was a slight struggle this time to get up to make the girl realize she was a bit stronger than before, with flexing her hands and saw her energy for a brief moment before turning to see the two were once again staring at each other in another showdown before seeing the female appeared wary by easily noticing Dala'matar had a odd looking pitch-black orb of sorts with showing it to her.

At the twos' spot, Dala'matar was sharply grinning with not having much choice but to use the item in question against his equally-powered opponent, made Sindragosa nervous for once at her easily sensing the corrupt darkness the edible sphere has, and knew the other child was watching so he added her too, to his explained in brief words, "It seems that I have to take rarely drastic measures for empowering my own with the aid of this Dark Sphere. Let's see how you both would handle the powers of darkness!" He then swallowed it without chewing, and once consumed, things occurred.

He was soon filled with enough energy by what he stated by the dense aura around his frame, to darkness, and yelled with a dark-like light as in his place when the light faded away, was a fusion of his dragon and mortal self, with his aura barely being able to be seen unless by those that can, as it faded with him clenching his clawed-like fists with a crazed grin on his features, to which he looked similar to Naraku from Inuyasha except with his current eyes, and three dark-like jagged fel-green stripes on his cheeks, for his head, but also with draconian armor that was easily moveable by the looks to his dragon form he has, in a demonic yet gothic-like way, and his tails and wings as well.

He flexed while gazing at his clawed hands for a few moments as if testing waters, before looking at her mainly with briefly eyeing Chipana for a few seconds before stating to Sindragosa, "Last time I used this was on a world that refused to join my master's cause, and nearly wiped out their population to smaller numbers of their race and life. Though, that was a higher dosage than what I brought with me, it will be enough to deal with you at least, former undead drake."

Dala'matar vanished within a blink of the eye and harshly punched Sindragosa in the face and sent her flying in rapid circles right into a few nearby rocks and destroying more flower stalks in the path, and vanished before appearing again this time in front of Chipana to her stunned place with kicking her in the same direction the female drake was sent and right into her as she got up as well, sending them both further and away from Morgana's still knocked out form.

Sindragosa was able to catch the girl, however, and took much of the further impact before she shoved Chipana out of the way of the incoming and empowered magical punch that she was able to dodge, to only slightly surprise him for yet was soon double teamed by the rage Chipana held once again as both the blonde and female drake, worked together with managing to strike him a few times with little results as they vanished and appeared everywhere in the area before they were a yard or two apart from one another in another stalemate.

"Seems you are recovering more than I can taste to something bittersweet," Dala'matar told Chipana to which he ignored her low growl that Sindragosa heard at least to what he mentioned next, "But perhaps should I take care of the one child now, and deal with you two after?" He quickly made a shadowy sphere from his right hand and sent it at Morgana, to which made him and the female drake blink as she was gone one moment and appeared right at the attack and easily sent it away with holding back a wince which, unseen by them or her, her partially burnt skin was healing within moments as the dense sphere exploded tremendously to where it was seen at the Fairy Kingdom.

"Seems I have managed to find your weakness," Dala'matar stated more to himself with powering up further to make the female drake who overheard, gazed warily at him and caught Chipana's attention, "But I may have to rectify this further if you fools have a chance to even face me as I am."

Chipana stood in a protective stance to block anything by him at her Mate with her soon blinking, much to both his shock as he was side-kicked by a speedy blur, and to the female drake's impressed but still shocked guarded stance, of witnessing who it was that did so.

It was Cassie, but something seemed off about her as well, but she was fully cloaked too with not noticing how smoother or slightly shiny her hand was as if it was polished, and with hinted claws at the fingertips when she stood her ground and gazed where Dala'matar was sent and with her improved senses, saw he was getting up with a feral growl aimed at her for.

She turned her head to Chipana when she called out her name in shock, which she wordlessly shrugged with her soul-sister easily seeing her glowing eyes under the hood to know something definitely occurred and wondered where she got the similar cloak that Morgana at times, mentioned to her and the others that Xion wore, and gestured with a thumb at the thud-walking Dala'matar who was enraged by the comment, "Seems Mr. Fussypants is rather angry about being sent by true harm away from you guys. Not sure what he is though."

"You foolish girl! You actually harmed me at my partial peak of power!" Dala'matar roared out to her with him sending the same attack right at her, to stun him in place and the other two, with Morgana stirring yet failing to wake up, at Cassie easily catching it without even looking without effort, and by her gaze at him, wasn't impressed, and easily crushed it and to their shock, saw the energy go into a smoky effect and right into her mouth.

"Thanks for the power boost though, I didn't expect it to be this spicy yet sweet in flavor." Cassie tells him to make Dala'matar shake his head and Sindragosa to back up a few steps to realize what Cassie did and saw that the girl didn't see her as a threat, but mainly him by seeing something Chipana didn't.

Dala'matar soon vanished yet was stunned once again at the girl easily catching his fatal blow to her face with her left hand as she easily smirked under the hood over her head still, and even a energy-like ripple effect when it happened to stir Morgana once again, before the two began to fight it out.

"It seems my timing to things was correct," a male voice stated to Chipana to startle her growing rage to go away in moments, at seeing it was Aeroza who held Morgana and was channeling to what she can guess as Sindragosa warily came over at sensing his level of power, screamed for her to run from him yet stayed put by a knowing glanced for a moment at her, as he focuses on healing Morgana to which, she looked to be peacefully sleeping as he did so.

"What is wrong with Cassie," Chipana coldly demanded to him to which he sighed out as they were forced to ignore the two easily being equal at fighting each other from fist or kick-based combat mostly, as he began to explain to them with him also erecting a barrier to protect them as he did so.


Thirty or so minutes before Morgana and Chipana fought Dala'matar, at The Temple:

Galabia smirked as he decided to choose Cassie within the temple with making Nina watch in chains made of the entities own power and hanging on a wall, and with both girls struggling in their places as Cassie was on a stone slab with it being a setup ritual setup, as the entity within Roland, told her with that smirk on his face still, "You feel like a more suitable host to which I must alter to extend my stay in as this body will soon expire from stealing most of his life force."

Cassie struggled in place as she saw Roland's palm of his hand forcibly shift into a orb of sorts and touched it onto her forehead as she soon began to scream with Nina saying her friend's name as both her and the entity within Roland's body began to glow in mixed energies within moments of each other to which the girl once again passed out from in utter agony as her body was being altered, and Nina could only watch in horror as to what was happening to her friend.

Once the changes were completed on Cassie, closer to twenty-three minutes later, Galabia was about to soon proceed with step two until he stilled, and sharply glanced at seeing a person he never thought he would see again, be there.

It was Aeroza with his weapon in hand, and only shook his head with a solemn look aimed at Galabia to which he only stared coldly at the cursed-immortal male for, "I know I couldn't save you and a few others back then, but do you need to alter a life to resume it once again by forceful means?"

"You know nothing of the calculations or torture I and few others endured up to this point, and the lives that was taken to do so," Galabia tells him firmly without emotion to make Nina shiver in her spot as she lost feeling n her arms and legs for sometime, and noticed the glance to her and back by Aeroza to the entity, "I know as to what you endured, but there was nothing I could have fixed or accomplished back then to cure you and the others of your experimented bodies and souls. The facility was destroyed by my hands though and only a few received non-harmful mercy by my power. Now I do not know what vengeance you crave to use a soulmate to the Chosen Child as a vassal, but you know as well as to the wrongness of what you plan to accomplish by this as well. Release your guilt and sorrows, and perhaps I can give you another chance of happiness once again."

"You know as well as I do, there is no going back," Galabia stated with him starting to proceed with the second step but to only falter away from Cassie when gazing down to the large and perfectly cut hole through the center to where his heart was by not Aeroza, but of another person that was a dark-like mist and shakily stared at the entity who had glowing amberish-crimson eyes back with watching the body fall and collecting the dark essence of Galabia with sending the other two back at Aeroza in forced means, and making Cassie shiver by the old yet hard-to-detect language the entity stated to the man.

"I know as to what you have become, but only wanting to observe things from your standpoint. But do not harm that experienced and tortured soul further than intended, as they can be a good general to your cause… In a better way of what I told you to aid, not conquer the world from forces further than you can handle in later years." Aeroza told the entity who only gave a wordless misty-like nod with revealing it had six, not two, eyes while gazing at Nina and back to him and stated more in that tongue, "The Chosen Child and others will eventually visit that cousin-based world in due time, but not in her current age range, but in her early or late teens to which I foreseen in mixtures. They will have roles to play in that world as well, and even saving lives and more as time goes on for them. Try and fix that soul the best you can… Old God K'Tanth, as that world only destroyed the flesh-based created vessels of your siblings, not their entirety themselves. Though I highly suggest you make a Envoy Vessel at some point to get to know the child and her friends, as after all, you are related by ancestral descent from one of the daughters of The Three Brothers, from yourself entering their world during the time of Merlin and Morgana Le Fey. For when you wanted to experience life as a mere mortal a few times."

Nina was perplexed yet still fearful as Aeroza dismissed his weapon and approached her as the misty-like six-eyed entity appeared to be thinking about his words before it vanished out of the temple in a mass of dark-like smoke.

Once Nina was freed with him giving her a small green bean that boosted her energy to have feeling back in her limbs, he went over to Cassie and saw how much she was changed, like Nina was, before seeing him holding the two orbs in his hands that was sent at him.

"These souls were meant to be sent into the afterlife, but for now, they will be a guiding sense of clarity to the child here, and to further aid in her own and their powers combined." Aeroza told Nina without looking at her as he forced Cassie to swallow both soul orbs, and within moments saw the explicit change that seemed to have shifted to something unexpected as she opened her eyes.


Present Time:

While Cassie was fighting Dala'matar, with Aeroza explaining things, the corrupt drake himself managed to blow off her cloak he provided for Cassie into a bracelet trinket on her right hand's wrist with a blue cat's eye as a gemstone, and saw, like they all did, of her new appearance.

Cassie was mostly the same except she had cute slightly longer elf ears on the sides of her head easily seen from within the hair and her hair reached up to her neck, and with her left ear having a small silvery clasp given to her by Aeroza that looks enchanted or more similar to a specific God of Destruction's own clasp. Her face has markings around her cheeks in a foxlike lined etching or marks, and her pupils were cross-shaped with her sclera being light-gray in color. Her face though appeared to be perfect as it was delicate yet decent looking or her face closer now to Megumin from Konosuba, and with her having emerald-amberish blended irises in eyes. Her limbs and segmented joints of her body, however, were showing to have been fashioned like a living doll to go well with her skin becoming a lighter-fair in color; which the segments were part of her body without any gaps, and a slight increase in figure to actually no longer complain about her chest size as they were a decent C-Cup with obvious hinted curves to her entire body to know despite what transpired, she would be a natural knock-out when she's older from easily showing signs of ongoing puberty, and three or so more inches to her original height. Her hands and feet, however, were clawed like a cat or fox combined as one, but they were dainty and cute looking too, despite looking sharp as well, and she had sharp teeth too, from seeing her grin largely. Her outfit was the same though, but adjusted to her improved and forced body.

Cassie kept her grin on her face as she did crack her neck at her spot within a stance that Dala'matar soon recognized as he got back into his, and told him cheekily with hiding her disdain at it, "I kinda liked that cloak, but I want to pay you back as to what I can see you did to Mary and Chipana, despite myself now the Clan Heiress of Tenshikage (Angel Shadow)." As she said this, shadowy-like misty wings appeared behind her back to make the corrupt drake to take a few wary steps back as if he knew that clan, to make Cassie smirk wider, as the wings settled in a way, a specific male with a single wing similar to hers, sneezed at his location while practicing with his long blade that was twice his length in body, shrugged, and resumed his training.

Her navy-blue wings that she can summon and dismiss as of now, to mention, became about half the size of her body and looked similar to a angelic-like raven yet around the bend of the wing itself or to where gargoyles have, was a crescent-like curved sickle claw in ivory colors.

"So you are that male's offspring, mixed with the female? This will have to make me go full out if it is true." Dala'matar firmly told her to make Cassie glance at her wings and firmly back to him at least once to know Aeroza may have hinted to whom her father was based on her wings, alongside her mother to search from being a Demi-God Child, but stated with those further away, overhearing and only could watch, "So you know him?"

"Know the fool? Despite him being an Anti-Hero, he was the one who stopped on some of my missions to my master at times, and even fought with managing to escape, twice… Killing you would bring, sweet, sweet revenge to the wounds he inflicted to me years ago, child!" Dala'matar responded back yet shouted at the end with startling Cassie by the unexpected boost of rage-induced energy flowing from the corrupt drake, as he vanished and nearly knocked her over if she didn't instinctively move out of the way with a few large flaps of her wings with her leading him into the skies and the male dismissing his barrier spell as she led him further ahead and out of sight of the others on the ground.

Chipana was relieved though as he gently gave to an awkward positioned Sindragosa, the sleeping Morgana, and told them both with an assured tone, "I managed to restore her somewhat yet she has to recharge," he did gaze where Cassie and Dala'matar went and spoke, however, to get Chipana to gaze with determination after, "Though I gave her a boost to aid her, it is limited and she would be vulnerable the longer she uses up the extra energy against that drake."

Sindragosa could only nod once by glancing at the girl in her arms as Chipana decided with an order to her, "Look after her, please?" And before anything could be said, she flew and took off without realizing the man also gave her a secretive boost beforehand.

"Such impatience at times, but alas, they both have a grudge against the male dragon after all, but to you," Aeroza began before looking right at Sindragosa who gazed at him in return in shock, "I am rather surprised the child you're holding managed to save you before you can meet me in the afterlife, fully whole as well, as I was assigned as your reaper by personal request against the other reapers of the Soul Association I made… Which is all by its own and not with the Soul Society or others in relation, even the Shadowlands."

"Indeed… But most welcomed in truth," Sindragosa warily agreed with her mind slightly blown for once at learning to what Aeroza said, to which he only chuckled and patted her back with knowing who he fully was from forgotten memories surfacing back to her childhood as a hatchling long ago, of a familiar vortex being formed by him and gestured to it, "Shall we, old friend?"

Back with Chipana, she was still trying to catch up to both Cassie and Dala'matar as they went past beyond the forests and into actual plains and decided to get the corrupt drake's attention, managed to actually form an energy ball from her main hand and sent it in haste at his back, which he did falter for a moment and stopped alongside Cassie did in mid-air to allow her to catch up, and he narrowed his eyes with utter ire and hate at them both.

"I was hoping to end either of you as you two will cause problems in the future, but alas, it seems I will have to try and make sure you are crippled or near death instead." Dala'matar stated with loathing at them both to get the two to keep their guard up, but wondered as to what the male drake meant to which he added further, and a few silent wing flaps, "But it would seem faster methods to that must be done then trying to see if you can best me in combat, so I will have something else fight in my stead."

Wary by that, they saw him channel all the extra energy he has into his right palm and crushed it as it quickly disperse into a massive mass of darkness that soon went behind him, and reformed into a more tainted looking appearance of his dragon form, but with amberish eyes up to four, three times as big, and as mentioned, more demonic looking.

"Ado to you both and if you live, may impress me to actually face you both in combat by what you might bring in the future," Dala'matar tells them as once he vanished, the creature he made roared and soon charged at them in a parting mist of darkness and corruption as they began to maneuver, dodge, and weave against their created enemy.

The two were thankful of the blessing of the Air Aeon that Morgana gave them a while back as it aided in their current flight and power to easily dodge the swift charging attacks the creature tried to ram into them with seeing some of the tree leaves easily corrode into ash from the energy it let out in a decaying fashion, with realizing they were still in the swampy area of the Dark Forest.

It then stopped it's pursuit of them with appearing frustrated and began glowing a dark miasma-like energy they didn't like with Cassie stating to Chipana, knowing by now if there was a fight, she wanted to test her limits, stated more than asked, "I think it's planning something as somehow, I think this is a part of that dragon's essence given life, from Loki's teachings on how rare that can happen."

With the creature still glowing that dense aura as it was starting to get brighter by each second to know it was about to do something devastating to them, Chipana hastily nodded before shoving the yelping Cassie away in time as it sent an ongoing purplish beam where they were before sending short spurts of a laser-like beam in random directions to try and hit them… Which the creature failed to do and with the two girls easily noticed the obvious clean-like circular cuts it left from some of the trees themselves and even making odd swirls in the water without it going into the holes it made.

Figuring things that the creature can cause quick destruction by few means, the two gazed at each other for a moment before they confused the creature as they went at opposite sides and Chipana used black lightning with a green edge to the sides at it while Cassie used ice shards from a spell they were taught by Loki, secretly, to make the beast let out loud warbles of pain as once the two girls stood next to each other in the air, they were sent back by a few feet or so from the creature as it let out a dark burst of wind, and confused them at seeing it open it's maw very wide with nothing being blasted at them.

Though the two realized why as what appeared to be many upon many of whitish and blackish orbs were going right into the enchanted maw of the creature and with them floating away as it grew three times bigger, from the land itself, and roared deeply at them in more echoing waves of power to realize one thing: It absorbed something to gain more power.

Not known to them, it was not the land itself but what remained of past wars: Souls of the Damned of both good and evil sides.

The dragon-like creature soon had a mixture of pure white and dark hues with fully glowing eyes aimed at them both and roared in a way, they could actually feel the energy it had.

Without warning, the energies merged into one gray aura and they covered their eyes with being blinded for a moment, and soon saw they were above some old ruins than the swamp, and saw below them were Aeroza, Sindragosa, and Morgana herself with Nina to stun them all, in the creature's large claws and struggling to get out with wondering as to what happened. Though it seems the creature did by the cruel smirk it easily showed from the maw it has.

Without warning, it let out an echoing roar that sent the duo onto the ground harshly yet Cassie's unknown barrier went to them both to half that, yet they winced as they got up with to their shock and horror, but with Aeroza in knowing at seeing Morgana's soul was exposed and saw she was watching things with wide eyes, as the beast devoured Nina to soon became engulfed in a huge egg made of darkness.

Once it hatched with the dark energy being absorbed for shaping, it was to their shock Nina herself, but in gothic-looking armor similar to the creature, and glowing eyes that matched it as well with pale-white skin and hair.

Nina or the manifestation creature that possessed her, wordlessly had her hand out and within moments in hasted energy, formed a massive and deadly crimson energy-like sphere from the palm of her right hand, which she raised into the air before tossing it at them.

They all saw this with further wide eyes yet saw the creature possessing Nina, slowly blink as if it expected it as Aeroza gave Morgana's body to Sindragosa, and used his weapon to absorb the attack once it touched his unusual weapon's tip, and dismissed it back into himself.

He gave the two a look for with Morgana as a spirit, gazed to her point at seeing the runs have the illusion or phantom-like sense of a temple on top, yet saw the main floor-doors were still there and ran to them as Possessed-Nina soon summoned two powerful creatures from the darkness itself with a emotionless face, but with tears falling down from her eyes to know whatever this thing was, it was fully making her also watch whatever it uses her body for.

They were both insect-like dragons in design of a Hungarian Horntail, which were that size as well, yet were also demonic with dark-as-night scales, and glowing four sets of crimson eyes with an unusual symbol on the hide of the center exposed chest. They both had four dragonfly wings that were crooked, and the face but the maw was split three-ways with two rows of sharp teeth. They also had two tails that were barbed in sharp-like daggers, and faint trails of gray smoke emitted from their nostrils.

The two let out warble-like hisses closer to chittering from their maws as Possessed-Nina raised her main hand up before sharply directing it to the two girls for per summoned monster, and the two beasts soon took off in haste after the two, with seeing from Aeroza's face as both Chipana and Cassie flew separately away with lesser power than before, stated to Sindragosa who could only nod at him as he summoned his weapon again, "I will bide the twos time as they face their test by what this creature has sent. I will not harm the girl but make sure she has her focus on me."

Not knowing that they were being tested, with Chipana firstly, she was instinctively sending her energy right at the creature to which to her dismay, was outmaneuvering her with ease with soon zooming to what she didn't realize, was close to the borders of the Siren Elves and Fairies, which she zoomed past some civilians and others that pointed at her in being marveled before running away from seeing the large beast chasing after her.

Likewise with Cassie with using her wings as a boost to her flight, she was over the unknown borders of the Drow Elves and Earth Fairies that did the same thing before alerting their guard of seeing the beast, with it sending purplish fireballs randomly and causing huts and few other buildings to be inflamed.

Back with Chipana, she did hasty apologies with not having a chance to see the folk and their structures alongside whatever wares she brushed past with the beast going through most of the stock to try and chomp her legs or tail off when it came close, before zooming into the sky with being startled by the random tridents and trident-like arrows being sent randomly at the maneuvering beast, before narrowing her eyes with partially gritted teeth from witnessing the creature sharply turned around after one trident struck it, and quickly sent a blast of a miasma-like purplish fireball at the main markets of innocent civilians.

Out of sheer instinct with blinking after, she vanished before appearing before a young family and a two year old child as she managed to deflect it back by going a full circle with her tail as leverage, and made the creature yowl in anger as it got soot and fading fire away from the face.

Chipana gazed at the creature for a few moments in a glare before glancing to see that the family took their child away, and saw the creature zoomed and purposely landed on a cart of cabbages to crush them all, and roared at her from it's spot as she summoned her weapon.

The same situation occurred for Cassie, but she had to hand over a baby to the now fleeing young mother with sweat dropped at the salesman running away of his wears of moss being ruined, before being flicked casually by the beast's tail she was soon facing at it roared at her as well.

If everyone could imagine this folks, both girls and the two beasts having staring contests before the beasts charged at them both in their areas, with Cassie making that barrier once again for herself while Chipana ducked and barely dodged at being eaten in half with both beasts either crashing and falling onto themselves, after.

Chipana toss her weapon up into the air as her creature she was fighting, was forcing her to dodge and weave before she caught her weapon, her instincts guiding her alongside the power, and managed to jab one of its eyes before leaping back as it nearly struck her down before looking like it was getting ready to barf, but began to spew molten purple-like goo that she saw, melted some stands and wares with ease.

While Chipana was soon dodging the short bursts of melting goo from her creature, Cassie was dodging plasma from the other as when it hit, she saw it froze that salesman who was going to complain to her about his wares, in ice.

Cassie soon struggled to her surprise, as the creature did devour the wares in a Kirby-like sucking motion before appearing empowered and charged right at her without hesitation, and saw it run thankfully into a old complex that easily fell inwards onto the creature, before she dodged again at how fast it was from moving out of the debris and rubble.

Cassie blinked with seeing she caused a unknown yellowish blast of pure energy-based light to be produced from her main hand with holding back a wince of seeing she sent the creature into several buildings within succession and speed, from trying to defend herself before running on foot at seeing her wings were not working after that, and avoiding the fleeing crowd as her creature chased her.

With Chipana, she was doing the same thing, but she was using her weapon to send smaller bursts of energy right at the creature, to which she balked before running some more at seeing it easily gobbled each blast like to a hawk who has keen sight by watching each blast, before it zoomed right at her, which she smirked and using a spare torn cloth, from reading some books based on it via Loki, began to taunt the creature in a way a bullfighter does as the creature crashed into an empty building.

The creature, however, growled in irritation before shaking the rubble off its hide and roared as it charged with digging its claws and even using the wings as faster leverage to charge right at the girl… Only to have Chipana to dodge, and saw the beast manage to stop itself with crushing some fresh fruit and other foods from the stall it knocked over before charging her again, and again.

In both locations though, and without warning, both of the beasts stopped in their places and let out a harmonized yet echoing howl as a vortex appeared behind the girls when they stopped to gaze at their respective creature in utter confusion before letting out 'Oomph' sounds, and soon collided with each other into a unknown and very dark and cold area with seeing they were on an isle of sorts or a beach setting with some constructed areas here and there, and unusual trees to boot with star-based fruit.

Both Chipana didn't have time to question what this area was as they were soon back-to-back with both creatures surrounding them and going slowly in a stalking-like circle with them both hissing at each other.

The two girls didn't know what to do, but felt like whatever this place was, felt very off for them while at the same time, not liking the equal glints in the two creatures' eyes from secretly absorbing the darkness in this unknown realm they were sent to.

As the two prepared for their outcomes in whatever realm they knew, was not normal, Morgana was currently lost within the phantom-like temple as once she entered, it became realistic alongside her, and did wince now and then as her real body, twitched from feeling pains of her two girls and hoped they were alright.

She blinked at stopping herself from running, before looking downwards and yelled with falling into a hole she didn't see, and was sliding left, right, loop-de-loop, and even upside down and back within three or so more minutes before landing on her behind, and stood up with rubbing her tail gently at seeing she was lead into a more underground area that was vast and was fully lit up like the outside during night enough to see the vast area as well.

As she slid down the slide beforehand, she saw Chipana and Cassie facing weird dragon-like insect creatures made from darkness, and Nina being possessed still by that beast, but seemed Mr. V was maintaining things with ease while also protecting her body, and also the dragon lady.

"It seems you are lost, Chika." A voice stated to make Morgana turn to see is the Lupin Reaper she summoned not too long ago as he casually leaned against a wall while looking directly at her in a smirk that wasn't cruel, but of amusement.

Despite knowing she was, in fact that is to everyone, lost, she stated only on making the reaper to shake his head gently in amusement, still, "How did you get back here without me summoning you?"

"I can easily come and go as I please, Little Continuar (Dragon). Khalidia did mention on her rare visits to you, Little Continuar of my various kinds aiding the matter of the deceased with better care and comfort before letting them join into the afterlives they deserve, or in outcomes, rare chances of a second or third life? Crossing the spirit realm and other boundaries are nothing compared to what I can aid you with right now." The wolf tells her then to make Morgana raise an eyebrow at him as he headed over and perplexed her at gently touching her right shoulder and had no malice in his eyes as like only a few selected reapers, he knew the child's future title she will gain in a secretive sense, "The Aeon of Nature's temple is a tricky and hard-to-travel maze in truth, Little Continuar. Only those associated with nature or even as reapers, like yours truly," here he lightly tapped his chest to prove a gestured point before easily leading her away from the area and into a hallway, "Can navigate the enchanted paths this place has."

Morgana did understand and wondered why her deathly girl didn't tell her name to her, but her friend did, as before she left for this adventure and within her dreamscape she makes within her mind, it looked like she was going to reveal her true name to her until she was woken up by Cassie that early morning.

"If you could? I need to seek her help as whatever that weird male dragon was, I can feel that whatever entity is possessing my friend is something more than it seems." Morgana told him that she wanted his help, and he agreed before keeping her back and made the girl blink twice at seeing they avoided a trap he purposely set off that was spectral-like arrows with an unusual poison at the tips.

"That's due to the corrupt drake himself, able to have some powers to which, Little Continuar, one he can make creations from his very darkness to when he has enough energy to do so, and with purpose, like a few others by the former realm he hailed from before locating to ours." The wolf told her as Morgana hastily caught up to him with hiding the urge to gulp by seeing how deadly the trap was, and her tail snapping some arrows in the process, "So will Nina be alright?" The wolf reaper glanced as they walked to see Morgana was indeed worried for her new friend.

"In honesty? She will have nightmares if she is freed for sometime to which, kin or even some of her Familia (Family) might handle it, or even you and your girls if she ever hangs out past curfew," The reaper told her to only make Morgana sigh to that and nod, and ducked with him easily chopping with his two weapons a flamethrower statue that spewed dark-blue flames in half, and continued onward, "Though the creation itself might take upon her appearance, Little Continuar, it can easily be beaten with knowing how many souls it devoured that a reaper who was slain for this world, was suppose to bring back to be judged and into the afterlife."

"So what Khalidia stated was true?" Morgana stopped for a moment before catching up with his strides as he nodded to her once more, with liking how the true name of her one girl sounded on her tongue as they turned left and right a few times to avoid more traps, "Si (Yes). There are various reapers like yours truly, that exist and can be killed by specific means or weapons that are truly hard to come by. Even us reapers, while being immortal at times, can still die and possibly be given another chance of life, much as I hate it for Gatos or Gatas (Male/Female Cats) as they truly have nine… Even Nekos or various races related to that term." He let out a chuckle by Morgana asking out of sheer curiosity and innocence to him then, "From bad experience?"

"You could say that, Little Continuar." The wolf told her before they appeared at a set of two double doors with him looking relieved at last, "It seems we are here, Little Continuar, and to that, I must abide by my goodbyes for now."

Morgana sharply turned to him as she saw him let out a soft smirk on his muzzle, and perplexed her as she was given a unusual gemstone that after touching the sigils it had with seeing his weapons in etching within, was absorbed into her and blinked a few times at seeing in her vision, the words, New Non-Aeon Summon, appeared, "I like your spark, Little Continuar as with you may be a summoner of the elements, doesn't mean you are not a summoner to also others as well. Stitch is proof of that while the other two hembras (females) were saved from being erased, and so am I to your service… Though, I would rather be out for talks or even perhaps at times, more useful things than lower powered Enemigos or Enemigas (Male/Female Enemies), but I can aid you in your weapon's choice of Forma (Form) and power, like my comrade Bwomsamdi out of his old heart instead."

As he was about to leave, he paused and glanced at the girl as he was amused if the glint in his eyes didn't have anything to say at all, by her question, "What's your name?" The wolf reaper seemed he made the right choice and decided to respond then, "I have had many títulos (titles), but you may call me Azrail. But until we meet again, Chicka, adios!" He then left in a fading smoke cloud with him whistling as he did so from walking.

Morgana sighed to herself with at least inwardly thanking him at leading her to this point, and turned and struggled but did open the two doors yet was sucked inside.

Meanwhile with both Cassie and Chipana, they were running from the now fused dragons that transformed into a bigger demonic chimera-based drake with an unusual symbol on its chest, and breathing mixed fire and ice in a plasma blast, randomly, as they ran into different areas of this realm until they finally came to a beach setting.

Despite the area looking decently peaceful it held an unknown vibe all to itself, with them stopping as the creature leapt, and landed right in front of them before they ducked as it breathed plasma past their heads.

"I don't suppose you got a plan for this beastie?" Cassie shouted to Chipana before they collided with each other as her soul-sister stopped and before she could make a comment, stilled at what she was seeing as the fused beast whimpered before fleeing the beach area at a cloaked figure to which, chilled them in their spots with backing up a few times, and saw it was a male at least… And he summoned from his hands reddish-like ethereal blades.

"What about your plan for this guy?" Chipana remarked in wariness back to Cassie, which the girl gulped and wordlessly shook her head before they quickly got up and ran from him, as he was trying to slice them into pieces and with seeing a stray rock, perfectly sliced into two with faint dark energy showing before that faded.

"Maybe you can convince this guy to see what we did to him, Cass!" Chipana shouted yet they both yelped with separating from each other with the man going after Chipana, and startling him and making her leap back a few feet or so on the beach and Cassie's jaw dropping only slightly, of being able to handle the ethereal bladed attacks he was trying to deal to her with her skin letting out faint dark misty smoke with quickly healing the supposed cuts, from her exposed forearms of her outfit being ruined by him.

He leapt back with the two girls managing to scramble and dodge one he sent several volleys of falling blades that faded once they hit the sand and water, before vanishing and appearing as Chipana shouts Cassie's name before being blindsided by the man, and sent into the water with him walking over to her friend and soul-sister.

The man paused before turning and easily dodged an enraged Chipana though as Cassie moved away quickly as it was Chipana's turn to fully attack him, and with the unknown man easily moving away from her volley of punches and rapid kicks to try and harm him, especially seeing the teal-green energy she admits after.

To startle the man rarely, he was sent by a equally startled Cassie and jaw dropping Chipana as her foe and herself stared at her soul-sister from seeing her moving her hands quickly to get rid of the faint smoke left, of sending a blob of blue lightning right at the cloaked and unknown man.

She wanted to protect her fellow soul-sister and friend against him as it looked like he was merely tiring Chipana out, but didn't expect to feel her arms going numb and sending that blob at him that was rather speedy, like thousands of birds in a single motioned flight, at his back with sounding oddly to thousands of chirping crickets.

Of course, Cassie was now running and the man avoiding the magical raw energy blasts Chipana was sending him to try and make it he went after her instead, and was somewhat glad yet mixed of her altered body by easily being able to move from the dangerous slices and without him noticing he sliced a gemstone that was hidden within the sandy beach itself, and it began to slowly glow in time.

Cassie was soon cornered at finding he was able to somehow use the land itself and the darker aspect of it, to try and block her path to flee, and appeared to know what they were during the fight, especially Cassie when her barrier automatically popped up when he was going to directly slice her head off, and repelled him.

Dense sand monuments kept popping everywhere that Cassie was barely dodging alongside Chipana until two last columns managed to snag them, extend out, and held the two girls hostage with feeling their energy was instantly zapped from them to make them weak within moments, as not known to them, that very energy was being used to be sent as a conductor, back to the gemstone that was now glowing faintly but more brighter as seconds past.

Cassie and Chipana had they're lives flashed before their eyes within seconds as he approached the duo with both of his blades out, with his posture showing no mercy at all and as the two quickly closed their eyes and acted their age… Something unexpected happened to make them peak, by an amount of flashing light that would have glared at them all if the cloaked man wasn't behind it, or the girls having their eyes shut until then.

Where the gemstone was, a shaded person was there, but it was hard to make out due to the area dimming the girl's vision for a brief moment until the cloaked man swerved with managing to block the blade the individual wielded, with the person having their unusual eyes narrowed firmly at the man, with him leaping up and a few yards behind the new person in a calmed yet guarded stance.

She is a cyborg by obvious appearance in a red cyberpunk bodysuit with black and mint green armor, black gloves with teal nails. She has a black cropped and collared jacket and helmet, to which she revealed her face. Underneath the helmet is her normal face to which she had dull-yellow thin yet wide-squared eyes with them having power symbol-shaped pupils that tend to slit when annoyed or in a mood, and short neck-length gray hair to her delicate yet sharp looking face along with trimmed v-shaped eyebrows. She also wears horns, and her legs mainly end in metal spikes instead of feet, to explain how fast she was. She also had perfectly rounded large breasts that did jiggle slightly upon any movement, and a heart-shaped behind to go with her curvy but decently muscled yet perfectly aligned hourglass frame of a body, despite being around 5'10 feet tall. The unknown woman also had and was also wielding a horizon type AF-1308 laser katana that matched her armor in color and cybernetic designs.

The woman was in a pose, as was the man with his weapon flashing, and her sword giving out slight sparks before they charged at each other in a one-on-one situation against a single katana, and two phantasmal-made weapons from the man's own power.

The two girls could only watch in awe, despite their helpless state, as the woman easily blocked all the strikes the man was trying to slice hr with by his two blades, but managed to slice part of his coat to make him pause for only a moment, and she managed to curve backwards and easily avoided a double-slice of his weapons, and retaliated with a sharp kick to make her blink in utter shock it easily went through him before he kicked her harshly, and sent her away from him before they began to block with their weapons once again, but with magical and metallic sparks.

Cassie saw that Chipana was struggling still like she was, but knew that at this point, something or someone would have to break them out- "Why lookie at to whom I see? Lil Ol' me has perfected timin'."

It was Bwomsamdi, which settled the girls yet saw he tossed a apple core into the water, and saw the water oddly enough, spat it back to him with a half-amused glare to it before he snapped his fingers, and feed the girls with stomping the sand a few times to oddly feel it vibrate under them in a sort of submissive-like way.

"I reckon you tows girlies will rather be inta savin' ya strength den fight that wee man over dere to that Cyborg Drake is facin'." He told the two with appearing to get ready for a fight, but blinked at the Loa God of Death himself before he facepalmed and the girls swerved to see that beast was back, and blinked as with a simple snap of his fingers, it was instantly shrunk into the size of a kitten, which it was also changed to in purplish colors and dimly glowing eyes with black tiger stripes, and dull-white tufts of hair in the ears.

"Awe… It's rather cute if you think on it," Cassie cooed at her soul-sister as the former beast let out a low yet cute growls back at Chipana's on low growl at it, before holding her nose with ignoring the woman and the man still fighting around them in rapid speed now, by Bwomsamdi states to her in a tsking tone, "Now dat be da way to handle a gift ta yas truly? Ya power is rather untrained and needs a fixin' here and dere. You Apes tend to fight firstly, den think with an open mind."

"You know what I was the entire time?!" Chipana stated as her only response to make Cassie stop petting her new pet, she claimed the kitten as such, and gazed at both the Loa of Death and her soul-sister as they had a momentary stare down before he chuckled with a shrug before telling her, and making Chipana nearly face falting yet dodged with ease by his help, the two ongoing fighters speeding sprint, "I made a wee deal to one of ya kind once, but day did what was needed and endin' in my realm with their lover after their true time be up. Best two loyals that I made into wee generals of fetchin' lost souls and more at da times, dat, and into the kami they hails from also makin' the two as guardian's of preventin' wee souls of escapin' the true hell. One of da many dat is."

They ducked with the Death Loa chuckling as he purposely tripped the women and the man as they zoomed past them once again, and saw the man being calm but inwardly wary, like she was, as he revealed as to who they were while telling them both off, "Now dat be enough of da fightin' in the Realm of Da Dark, Zentreya and Xemnas. You, boy, have no reasons ta fight these wee kiddoes in this place as dey were tricked into comin' here," Bwonsamdi told the man as he sharply turned to the woman, "And you need ta be thinkin' clearly about da way ya be brought back aftah you and your group of allies and friend's own realm be taken long ago. Be thankin' dese twos girls I imagine." He gestured to both Chipana and Cassie as they were the center of attention now.

Chipana held the urge to face palm to amuse the woman, Zentreya, and the man inwardly with a raised eyebrow under his hood, as Cassie repositioned her new pet with shyly waving to only get the Death Loa to shake his head, and turned to Xemnas who reluctantly nodded and did as was told, "Now Khalidia requested out of wee concern ta return da two girls back in time to prevent da escaped darkness of the Dark One's own power bein' mutated and freed upon this wee one's enterin' to dis place.'' Here he gently rubbed Cassie's head to make her go wide-eyed like Chipana at that, as the girl did feel something was wrong once she went through that vortex to escape her pet's former self. "So best be packin' and heading back to your little troop of wee souls who has yet to regain dere hearts. From ta time period ya from, Mon."

Once he was gone, he chuckled to see several unknown creatures came out of the shadows before they were vaporized by his own power to make Zentreya wary and the girls at how easily he handled that, with answering why those creatures showed up, "Dis be the Realm of Da Dark, as tis dere home in terms of wee lost worlds and realms ending up here as fragments of former selves. Some of da worlds be restored, while ta others, be a different wee story together. Dey sensed the lights in your wee hearts, and are addicted ta dat. Rae wee folk can survive dis place, but will end up mixd or ta da dark of dere former selves. Dey can be freed wholly, or be gaining new powah and more if so."

Bwomsamdi tilted his head of is he heard something, and gazed at an area before making Zentreya blink at the two vortexes he summoned for the trio, and telling them with ease, "You two girlies are to enter the first wee portal by yours truly, while you, Cyborg, enter the other to greet someone who survived and has yet to meet the wee one's girlie here. Two faces of ya past in dat portal, and don' worryin' about not seein' these wee ones again, as you will, by ya friend's encounter with dere soulmate's own madduh with offers between ya and ya friends."

Zentreya was reluctant, but firmly nodded as she went into hers, and Bwomsamdi told both Chipana and Cassie, as they rushed into theirs after, "Wat ya be waitin' for, Mon? Lady Morgana is struggling with da aid of the Nature Spirit against da wee creature itself."

Once they were gone, Bwonsamdi held a hand to his chin before stating to the observer that was truly complexed and called them out, "Now why be botherin' on hidin', when you can make a deal with wee Ol' Bwonsamdi without havin' to take back da mojo dis time ta da likes of ya, Light Warrior?"


A lot of crazy things going down in this chapter, but the conclusion of the arc itself will be released in the next chapter to this story, and hopefully, you all get hints of future chapter events and more by the near-end aspects, so to that, I purposely cut this off up to what I have up to this point until I release the last part of this arc set of chapters.

I added Sindragosa based on my one formerly up "Jade Chan" Story if you all failed to notice, and for a specific reason as well as I already have a pairing in mind for her as such, which is why I introduced some parts of herself by what I thoughtfully wrote down. But don't worry, you all will get to "See" who the Aeon of Nature; my version, is, as it is an OC-Designed Version as yes, I could have used the "Three Bug Sisters" from FFX/FFX-2, but they seemed not good with my Main OC you all know and love about.

I also gave hints of what is to come in later chapters as well, as Zentreya is one of many in terms, VTubers, that are truly yet rarely added into actual stories, so in terms, do expect me to add the VSHOJO or particular HOLOLIVE Characters into them at purposely placed points in any given story, as such. And by guessing where the two girls were previously, you all can easily guess who this "Light Warrior" will be as I had that oddly dreamt when I was sick as well, from several naps that is. One of which, I wonder if you guessed as she was mentioned to be the Daughter of Hades and Lily, but the elder sister due to time and space as well for Lily's soul, after Hades frees himself from his Soul Pool.

But if you are wondering when or if when Morgana and the others will enter AZEROTH, that won't be until the summer after the Triwizard Cup, with twists, as this tory is considered Crossovers for a reason, and which to mention, that was past Xemnas with only having lesser members closer to five, than thirteen, as you will eventually see another but same past Xemnas in the future yet have his current team (besides Roxas and Xion), in another plot point with in terms, keeping tabs on Morgana and the others, as in, the other groups after learning about them, in a forced adventure with having his powers being half-taken to not return until the enemy that took it, is defeated, in a non-Disney movie... Which I may have a few in mind, but haven't fully decided to when.

I also have been sick for the past two weeks of a mixed Cold, Flu, and Sinus Infection and finally getting better... Let's say that was all HELL, and leave it at that, from the mentioned paragraph above to answer why another post all of a sudden.

So I hope this chapter will tide everyone over as I don't mind either good or bad reviews in the COMMENTS, just that to be at least nicer about it to get me to understand as a small and constant reminder, it is "ME, MYSELF, AND I" working on this and a few stories.

So with that out of the way, I hope everyone is looking forward to the next chapter and conclusion of the Strange Magic Arc itself.