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Sorce stared at the giant puppet-mech, ignoring Ike's cries. He was about a hundred feet up above the resort and two hundred feet out, after all. Still, Kieran's new body was much larger, and Sorce briefly wondered if he was going to hit the glass the resort was inside of...

Still...

"Kieran," Sorce declared to the world at large, "Was obviously made by a combat mage with Thousand Master delusions..."

There were spells for this sort of situation. Fortunately, he had one of them.

"Saggita Magica!" he cried as he barely dodged an errant grab. While he knew his shield would keep the poison back while it was up, he wasn't sure if it would survive being crushed by a giant hand. It was one of the things he hadn't tested it for... "Obscuri Capturae! 157 Arrows of Darkness, BIND!"

It wouldn't stop him, but it WOULD be enough to slow him down. Sorce didn't waste time watching as black webs began to tangle the giant's limbs. It wouldn't last long... just long enough.

"Electro Arcana..." Sorce began to intone solemnly, readying to move out of the way should Kieran have any surprises. "Το συμβόλαιον διακονητω μοί, εκ τω κενόν ατέρμονον κόρη..."

Heed the pact and serve me, O Daughter of the Infinite Void...

Darkness began to congeal, and Sorce could feel the magic being sucked out of the air in preparation for the spell...

"Επιγενηθήτω, απολύτη ενέργεια, στιγμιαία λήθη!"

Come forth, total entropy, instant oblivion!

Magic began to spark as Darkness began to gather in the air above. Ike felt weak, and began moving sluggishly as magic was subtly leached form him...

"Ίσκιοι και Σκότος κατασπαραγείν το φως και θέρμη, ώσπερ οδηγώς στην αιώνια ανάπαυση!"

Shadows and Darkness consuming heat and light, leading to the last rest!

By now, the darkness was a raging cloud, darker than space, darker than night. It was the darkness that existed beyond the mere absence of light, the darkness from which could only be reached by pure magic. The resort wavered as the power that sustained it was drained, the spell getting steadily stronger...

"Αιώνιο Σκότος!"

Infinite Darkness!

With a silent howl of a billion damned souls, the spell descended...

The only thing you needed to know about this spell, really, is that the more magic there is-- in the environment, in the enemy, whatever-- the stronger it gets. The darkness sucked in everything, feeding the power to itself and it's caster. Even as Sorce shined with power, the spell began to drain Kieran's monstrous new body. Atoms stopped moving as it's protons and electrons stopped spinning, became attracted to each other, and self-destructed. The temperature dropped to absolutely zero was heat was lost along with the absence of energy...

That's not even counting the damage the darkness magic did...

The thing that might be called Kieran's soul barely escaped his penultimately doomed body before his soul itself could have been drawn to power the very spell that would have destroyed it...

The soul floated above the giant body, which fell to the ground and made the entire resort shake (maybe moved the bottle across the table a little). It dashed frantically around the resort looking for something to use as a body. Just then, it remembered where it left another body, nowhere near as good as Kieran's, but it would have to work. That spell took a lot of energy. There was no way Marionne could do it again, but no chances were taken. The soul flew across to the opposite side of the resort straight for Ike. In a confused and frightened panic, the doll tried to get away, but with no luck. The soul colided with Ike's body and knocked him down for a second. When he arose, his empty eye socket was ocupied by one of Kieran's eyes.

"What's the big idea!? Get out of my body!!"

"Relax Ike. I just need to make use of one of your seals. Open up the compartment on the lower portion of your left leg." Ike complied, and as the compartment opened, another tiny sheet of paper shot out. The soul rushed from Ike's body and into the paper. After another few seconds, the paper shot out yet another puppet body, this one appearing to be a last-minute throw together. The new body disappeared and re-appeared behind Sorce. "Let's get one thing straight; as long as there is a body with a weak, or no soul, I can use it as I see fit. And now I think we can pick up where we left off."

Kieran disappeared again and re-apeared on top of the giant puppet body. He opened a hatch and jumped in, the hatch sealing itself and disappearing afterwards. Inside, Kieran's body opened and shot out thousands of wires which attached to every part of the giant body's insides. With no soul inside the giant body, and complete control over it, Marionne was powerless now. The giant stood again and raised its foot above Sorce. It dropped its massive leg and a sound equivilent to that of an atom explosion repsured the resort on impact.

[came from Outside of Mahora]

The man entered the resort hoping to slack off once again and entered the portal which connected the present reality to the advanced time space dimension wherein Eva-san's Resort was located. A small burst of light emanated from the portal as the man stepped out from it. He was expecting warm sunshine and a gentle breeze to welcome him to the resort but instead, he was greeted by darkness, occasional bolts of magical lightning, a giant doll-thingie that looked like the puppet he had helped fix before, and the unearthly shrieking of numerous souls that filled the air.

"I just left for a few minutes and then all hell broke loose...literally." The man said sarcastically as he just ignored the entire thing as he made his way through the darkness, trying to find the entrance to the resort's mansion. Hopefully, it would have some sort of light emanating from it to guide him in the abyssmal darkness.

After a few minutes of searching around, he finally reached the entrance and went inside and luckilly for him, there was light. He breathed a sigh of relief and went inside one of the vacant rooms and jumped right onto bed. He was about to fall asleep when suddenly, a loud explosion peirced the air, loud enough to make him jump out from his bed and fall on the side. The man stood up, massaging his head as he slowly went to the door and opened it.

"Hey, I'm trying to sleep here, damn it! Keep it down!" He shouted loud enough so that whoever was making those noises could hear before slamming the door and getting back into bed, pillows covering his ears as he tried to block out the noises from the outside.

Training Session...whoever the hell knows...

Been in here for a few days now, doing basic training, pushups situps and so on...magic training too, trying to improve aim and range...

Deciding on a summon now...picking between a coconut throwing monkey or a stick figure...

Decisions decisions...

And in the middle of this mess, one could see a crazed Boyd Falconer screaming something about "stick figures with swords" while firing Magic Arrows at pieces of debris.

Moving along...

The man slept soundly, living in a dreamworld full of fond memories and experiences, however, his slumber was interrupted when he heard numerous explosions that came from the outside. Immediately, he jumped out of bed, put on his clothes and headed for the door but as he was about to turn the doorknob, the room he was in collapsed and fell on him.

There was a bit of silence as the man remained buried under the debris. A lone tumble weed rolled across the screen and a caw from a random raven pierced the air. Suddenly, a gigantic crimson energy came from under the rubble and in a flash, destroyed the debris, revealing a rather pissed off man in a long, pointed hat, ranting and shouting angrily in a comedic way like a disgruntled chibi character.

"Damn it all! Didn't I tell 'ya guys to keep it down!? Now look at what you've done, my 'slack spot' is now a war zone!"

The man remained silent as he began to make his way to Mizumaru-san being careful enough as to hide his face with his hat. Without asking, he took the book from the boy's hand and browsed through it, trying to find the spell which he assumed that the boy used to destroy the resort.

"So, you were using forbidden magic, eh? Well, that explains it." The man muttered as he began to recite the spell that he assumed the boy had used.

"Patefacio Signum of Vox..."

"Umi Buzoku no Kakushigoto: Man Mahou Ya no Mizugami, Sora de Haeru, Watashi no Kataki Shouru!"

And with that, 10,000 water arrows rose from the ocean and did exactly what Mizumaru-san had done before, right to the point that the water arrows hit the glass barrier of the resort and headed straight back. It seemed that the resort was in for another "redecoration".