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Shaydas stood silent, holding the light over Ginji's spellbook so he could actually read it.

"Ding Ding" The computer said as the door swung open, a drop down menu appeared in front of Ginji so he could enter a new password. As he typed the new password out he muttered "Sableye is a ghost type you stupid moronic computer. I'm rewriting the stupid protocol for password recovery tomorrow." he grumbled as the computer accepted the new password and he headed into the next room.

As he entered the room, the floor opened up and from beneath, a glowing tree with beautiful leaves rose from the floor, taking up most of the great oaken hall. Sunlight streamed in the surface, even though only the moon was out. "And this, is the Aquos Tree." Ginji introduced, the leaves shaking as if they were being recognized.

"Huh," Shaydas muttered. "So that's what it looks like. Looks like that guy owes me a nice bit of change now." He stepped into the room, admiring the tree for some reason.

"The only reason I can find that its magic is failing is because of all the turmoil that's been going on recently. The balance of nature is being affected, and its being thrown into the blender. For this isn't just any tree, if the Lore is correct, this tree was born of a seed of the Yggdrasil." Ginji tried explaining. "I don't know how the Aquos Team came to posses such a tree, but it's here now, and it's in trouble just like the rest of us."

"Porygon, you almost ready to get this show on the road?" he asked, behind everyone Porygon was using LEDs and other components to chart out a Magician's Circle.

As Porygon finished, the floor lit up and started glowing profusely. "Alright, Thard, you take the circle to the top left, Shaydas the bottom right, Rex the top right and I'll go to the bottom left." Ginji ordered calmly as he double checked the element placing and made sure everyone's name was in the correct place.

"This shouldn't use a ton of power, but if anyone feels the need to sit down, please do so during the reading, just make sure you stay within the circle." he smiled as everyone got into place. "It's not a huge spell, just redefining local space-time and the object within it. It'll buy us a month at best." he sighed deeply as he reached for the words of the spell.

"In other words, we're casting Slowga on this tree?"

Hoping the door we just came through represents the "bottom" of the circle, I walk around the left side of the tree to a point at the back of the room. "Here, Ginji?" I call out.

"It's more of a double helix counter rotation on the balance between matter and energy. As time progresses linearly from cause to effect, matter behaves normally. But if you look at time from a non-subjective viewpoint, it's more of a wibbly wobbly ball of... stuff. And that causes matter to transcend to be more energy than matter. So, this spell basically rewrites that and locks matter back to being matter and restores balance to the universe. At least temporarily." Ginji tried to explain as everyone found their spot.

As he started reading, the entire room seemed to fold in and listen to the words, Porygon looked outside the circle and saw the steady glow of energy emit from the circle. The leaves on the tree glowed a bright hot white before shaking and having all the leaves fall onto the floor. As they fell, new leaves started to grow from the glowing stubs from which the old ones fell. As the spell finished, the tree's leaves returned to the most brilliant green color before the circle disappeared into the floorboards.

"See, painless." Ginji smiled as he looked up in awe at the tree, he could feel the barrier protecting Aquos Island all around him getting stronger as the spell took effect. "It'll take a good 12 hours for the magic to run its course, but we're safe to move back upstairs now." he continued smlimg, as if his skin was glowing.