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Ginhi the magic knight toyed lazily with her Universal Orb in her spot of the Netherworld under the rule of the Demon Dragon Lord, DeathWyrm, her master and mentor. He was resting, which meant she got to rest and so she was having the luxury of doing nothing for a change. Luckily, he had a nice and lush garden to sit in and she had a nice and lush Sundae to enjoy it with.

She felt the presence before she could even pretend to hear anything and she knew who it was. Shadowed, that new kunoichi her lord had created, was up to something. Another bite was taken from her meal before she spoke in her somber way.

"I have served our lord long enough to know when I am being watched. What do you want?" Ginhi wasn't in the mood to play ninja games today but knew better than to be discourteous to fellow vassals.

"Hmph... With that greeting, I might not bother. I was going to ask if you wanted to help get our master something special this holiday. It isn't every day that we get to celebrate Excessive Materialism Day." True to her name, Shadowed had coalesced from the shadow of a nearby tree. The lithe shadow warrior stretched and Ginhi could feel the grin behind the mask.

Ginhi sighed even as her pointed ears perked with curiosity. She somehow knew that she wouldn't get to rest today. "Alright, let's hear it."

"Well, our master is asleep, probably all day. Remember that Legendary Satan's Motor we nabbed from the Demon Lord Martang the Fenrir?"

A nod from the magic knight showed that she did indeed. That blasted Mystic Beast had been nigh impossible to hit, even with her helping her lord.

Shadowed continued, "Well, he hasn't had the time to finish it out and it only has ten levels left. I think we can beat the Item God and steal the last item for him."

Ginhi set her jaw and narrowed her eyes. It was brilliant and she was furious that she hadn't thought of it. She sat silently as she continued to finish her sundae keeping that narrowed gaze focused on the kunoichi.

"Well????" Shadowed was actually starting to fidget. Ginhi had sat silently with that creepily annoyed stare for five minutes, just eating her sundae.

The magic knight held up a hand to silence her co-vassal. She daintily finished the last bite of her sundae with a sigh and stood. "Fine, we will need to grab a few of the others. To travel fast, we will want a small party. Go fetch Cuddles and Jona the Thief while I fetch Magello. Then we will fetch supplies."

"Good, every time I try to talk to Magello, he stares at my chest. You go right ahead"

"Perhaps he is simply staring off into space. You know, the whole wisdom thing." Ginhi grinned sardonically.

"I somehow doubt the wisdom of staring at my chest." The kunoichi retorted, getting a tad annoyed.

"Perhaps if you wore something more covering in that area?"

"Like your mighty Boob armor?"

"It's tactical dammit." Ginhi snapped as her fashion sense was being called into question. "And it fully covers," she added with a tad of spite.

"I suppose the sexy thigh high leggings are tactical too." Shadowed mused at her friend. Ginhi had a point about her outfit but that didn't mean that the kunoichi couldn't razz her a bit first.

"Ugh, shut up and go get Cuddles and Jona." Ginhi stormed off to fetch the crazy old man they would need. Shadowed simply smiled and melted back into the shadows to fetch the others.

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Ginhi led Magello to the Item World gate of her master's castle lair where Shadow was waiting in meditation wearing her God's Hand while Jona checked her Megiddo Cannon. Cuddles, the enormous twit of a dragon that he was, sat about lazily.

Cuddles was a super high level dragon with awesome power but little brains. DeathWyrm had found it lurking in item world when he caught it and decided to keep it afterward.

Shadowed rose from her meditation and spoke, interrupting Ginhi's musing over the past. "So, I know that Magello can heal us but what about ailements?"

Magello piped in, "Hey, I have Espoir so I resent that comment. My wisdom is VAST I tell you!"

Shadowed grinned. "You didn't actually have some poor Healer student did you?"

"Nothing of the sort, I reincarnated, learned what I needed and reincarnated back." Magello nodded, matter of factly.

With an eyebrow quirked, Shadowed chuckled. "So you spent time as a Healer girl?"

"I was still manly. I was a fully functional Lesbian. A Lesbian!" Magello narrowed his gaze in defense of his epic manhood.

Ginhi finally interjected. "Shadowed, stop harassing our medic and alterer of Item reality, will ya. We have to get some mushroom soups, soma, short cakes, a couple sundaes in case we need to heal Cuddles, a Mr. Gency Exit, a leveled up Awesome hand with some leveled up Bandit hands in case we get some opportunities, and finally a couple cellphones in case we feel like harassing the Prism Rangers."

Jona, the little lovable thief that she was, simply filled up the bag with the assigned goodies and gave Cuddles a pat on the head. Let the three main characters of this plot do all the arguing. She had to limber up for all the stealing she would be doing.

The banter died down as they got ready for the jump and the gate opened...

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Satan's Motor lvl 91
Geo Effects:
Red: Enemy Boost x9
Green: Ally damage 40%, Encroach.

Ginhi looked onto the horizon towards the exit gate and saw a larg, purple rifle demon playing gate keeper. Then she noticed the Geo Effects. Her eyes widened with a bit of horror. "Oh my..."

"Dark Demon Dragon God..." Shadowed finished her cohort's sentence with a gasp. This was a completely unworkable level as the geo symbols were Way out of reach for their small party. "Magello, I suggest you getting up here. NOW!!!"

"What are you whining about already? Oh that?" Magello looked at the panels with a bit of disgust. "I've seen worse. Once had Ally Damage 100% covering the Entire floor once and the symbols were up on giant pillars. Anywho... Reality Explode-y......!"

He raised his Universal staff and the panels all evaporated along with their symbols. "Well, it isn't quite Invincibility but you girls should be up for the challenge, now GUARD ME!!! There are Zombies out there!" Magello quickly moved to stand by the base panel.

"At least our lord already cleared out the specialists here, so we just have to make for the exits. Tera Star!!!" Ginhi moved forward a few steps to take a stance to snipe a couple of zombies and an enemy samurai. "Cuddles, cover my flank."

The large dragon moved forward in its lumbering way and issued a Dragon Nova, burning down a couple of male ninja and injuring the wood golem. Shadow was quick to move forward and give it a punch. It soaked up the damage and gave back a counter slam only to be broken when Shadowed countered back.

Luckily, there hadn't been many monsters so that left gate keeper who was rather big. Ginhi didn't want to waste too much more effort on this place. They had been lucky with critical hits on the others and the fact that Cuddles did tons of damage to that golem.

"Shadowed, knock that purple lump off that gate and I will throw Jona so we can make a run for it." Shadow gave a simple nod and a Tiger Charge, knocking the beast from its perch as Ginhi hefted Jona over her head and threw her.

Jona, being the impish dear she is, always enjoyed a good flinging. She tumbled as she landed and dashed for the exit...

Satan's Motor lvl 92
No Geo Effects

This level found Ginhi providing sniping support from afar as Shadowed quickly navigated the treacherous peaks that none of the others could climb. Cuddles helped by blocking up the ground entrance to their base panel as a number of the enemies couldn't climb the peaks either.

Soon, Ginhi had to divert her attention to helping Cuddles as these monsters and humanoids weren't the usual rabble and thus could injure Cuddles. Luckily, Cuddles had a couple strong Dragon Lover specialists in his gear so fire healed him. The magic knight was all too happy to set the dumb leviathan on fire along with the enemies.

While Shadowed battled Moths and Ninjas on the peaks toward the exit and Ginhi set things on fire, Magello and Jona played cards. "Alright Mr. Old man, pay up. Full house!" Jona chimed merrily, despite the epic battling being held a few squares away.

"Egads!!! You are worse than a bad Geo Shift... Take your hell, vile devil cherub." Magello fumed as Shadowed finally made it to the exit...

Satan's Motor lvl 93
Geo Effects:
Blue: Fusion, Clone... Lots of it.

Shadowed sighed as she traversed around the fleshy mountains while enemies were being cloned and fused. The exit was within her reach, so no need to have Magello gamble with reality. As the ever growing and fusing mass of enemies started to close in on her, she reached the exit and cut this level short.

Satan's Motor lvl 94
Geo Effects:
Yellow: Invincibility
Blue: Silence, Wind -50%
Aqua: Warp, Clone

It wasn't a crappy level but that clone would get annoying fast. However, they didn't want Magello possibly making the level worse or at the very least, get rid of the invincibility.

Ginhi spoke up after thinking for a moment. "Well, our master didn't teach us to snub opportunity. Magello find a panel and rotate the bonus gauge til we get some shiny prizes. Shadowed and Jona, you know what to do. Cuddles, feel free to relax with me in the base panel."

Shadowed narrowed her eyes as Jona and her were stuck with the grunt work on the invincibility panels. It made sense though. There was no need for Ginhi to waste her SP when Punches and shots from Jona's gun were unlimited. So they quickly found the panels and got to work annoying monsters for the bonus gauge.

Magello on the other hand, began wasting SP on rotating the bonus gauge. "Aha, no... Um... No... Hmmmm... No... GAH!!! no.... Sonofa... no... WHY!!! no... Agony and Taxes!!! Yay!!! K, boss lady with the uncomfortably large chest size, my task is complete... Might I add that we are almost covered in Clones...!!"

Ginhi looked up, having considered whether or not to nibble on a short cake, and sighed, rubbing her temples. "Sonofa... I knew I forgot something. Giga Ice!!!" The Geo symbol shook from the blast and was busted, sending a ripple of energy that started a Geo Chain. Luckily, the symbol had been a null stone so it simply wiped out that color.

Shadowed and Jona grumbled as they were panting from fighting ALL the monsters but least they had gotten some decent levels from it all. "Try to pay attention next time, fearless leader..." Shadowed hissed as Magello fled to the base panel.

"Oh don't whine, Jona needed some more levels for the theft anyway and I will send Cuddles to help finish off the rest." Ginhi sighed and took to an invincibility panel herself to issue a Tera Ice on a large group of vulnerable clones.

It took another thirty minutes but they cleared out the clones and received their bounty. Jona tossed Magello an Infernal staff to match the one that Ginhi was using. He also picked up an Infernal armor to go with his Chaos orb.

"Ooooo, Shiny. Finally, my justly due rewards. And the next level seems to have our doom... ZOMBIES!!!" Magello's eyes widened as they approached the next level.

Satan's Motor lvl 95
Geo Effects:
Purple: Exp +100%
Yellow: Damage 60%
And lots of zombies... Even a few Dragon Zombies.

"Crap, crap, crap, crap... Omega Star!!!" Magello cackled as he flung another spell at the advancing horde.

Shadowed sighed. "Give him a powerful staff and he thinks he can conquer the Netherworld. Cuddles, clear me a path, will ya?"

"Mmmmhmm..." The great beast lumbered forth and issued a simple Fire breath, smashing down five of the undead critters.

"Alright Shadowed, make the run for it. We will keep them busy..." Ginhi set her jaw and started blasting at the creatures as well, using mostly star and fire spells. Jona fired her Meggido Cannon while Cuddles fired off a couple of Dragon Novas.

The kunoichi simply nodded and dashed over and through the mass of enemies, nearly to the exit when a spear wielding beastmaster stepped from behind a rock, trying to impale Shadowed with her Holy Longinus weapon.

Shadowed sidestepped and backhanded her enemy as the beastmaster jabbed a couple times and vaulted over her, only to try and stab her from behind. The kunoichi ducked and rolled away as the beast master continued after her. Shadowed growled and sidestepped again, this time catching the spear under her arm then breaking it with the other. Her enemy was stunned to say the least and even more when Shadowed stabbed with the head of spear she broke and jumped over her, leaving her to the mercy of her undead cohorts who now smelled fresh blood.

Thus Shadowed made the exit.

Satan's Motor lvl 96
Geo Effects
Red: Disperse Damage

Ginhi chuckled at the ease of this set up. There was a high level Wood golem wandering about who had low fire resistance and was near the base panel. Cuddles took a non colored panel and Ginhi stood on the base panel as they issued a Tera Fire and a Dragon Nova upon him, effectively wiping out all the enemies as they took his damage too.

Satan's Motor lvl 97
Geo Effects
Blue: HL +50%
Green: None

This level seemed to be Planet of the Irritable Plant Babes. There were Flora Beasts everywhere. Vines were attacking from practically everywhere. Shadowed was doing her best to dodge them all and counter back but the flora beasts were also healing each other. The group was having to concentrate their attacks to actually make any headway. A Fire Breath there, followed by an Omega Star, followed by a Tera Fire and finally they could see the exit.

Then they were hit with it. The Gatekeeper was another magic knight like Ginhi and cast Giga Wind on them, dealing some respectable damage.

"You dare attack my garden and expect to Leave?!" The gatekeeper screamed as she readied another spell. As Magello cast Omega heal on the group to restore their strength, Ginhi realized that Giga was the best this gardening gatekeeper could do...

"Well, it needed some pruning... Tera Star!!!" Ginhi shouted back with some satisfaction as Jona finished her off with a shot before using the exit for them.

Satan's Motor lvl 98
Geo Effects:
Red: HL +50, EXP +50%
Green: Warp
Blue: No Tower Attack

"We don't even really use Tower Attack... Do we?" Jona asked as Shadowed made her run for the exit again. "Pshaw... We're too hardcore for that." Ginhi answered, matter of factly as she whipped out an Omega Wind to help clear Shadowed's path.

"Sweet Dandelions. Free exp!" Magello gleefully declared as he fried a high level Geo Symbol with Geo Blast to pad his exp bar just as Shadowed hit the exit.

Satan's Motor lvl 99
Geo Effects:
Purple: None
Green: None
Blue: None

The proverbial calm before the storm. Magello looked around and saw a green portal. "Ooooooh, anybody else have the irrepressible urge to gamble???"

"NO!!!" was the resounding answer...

"Too late!!!" Magello said as he stepped into the Green Portal.

They ended up in a room with a single green Flora Beast. Ginhi's eyes narrowed. "You are So lucky we needed a full heal." With that, they talked to the Item World Hospital flower chic.

Satan's Motor lvl 99, Take 2
Geo Effects:
Too damn many to list...

"You are sooo lucky that the exit is Right over there." Shadowed hissed as she wandered the few steps to take them to the final goal.

Satan's Motor lvl 100
Geo Effects:
Red: Reverse Damage
Green: ATK +100%
Blue: Heal 20%

The dark and cathedral-esque terrain was a bit disquieting as was the practically pulsating with power Majin who would be Item God 2. A holy dragon, rifle demon, dragon, and another majin made up his band of miscreants.

Ginhi looked around, trying to find the best advantage to start this on. Her orders were sharply spoken as she moved to the Green panel. "Magello, go grab that Reverse Damage Symbol and put it onto Green. Shadowed, clear him a path and Jona, kill that Heal Symbol. Cuddles... You're with me."

Shadowed managed to find a green panel to base a Lion's Roar to nuke the dragon minion before having to hold back the maijin who apparently was holding an Infernal Axe. Meanwhile, Jona sniped the Heal Symbol before jumping to a green panel herself.

Magello managed to dive in and grab the symbol before being blasted by an oversized rifle demon. "There, I got it. Keep them away from me, I am tender!!!"

The Item God2 narrowed his eyes beneath their sought after prize, The Babylon Crown. He ran forward to punch at Shadowed as Ginhi decided to prepare by casting Fire Charge on her and Cuddles. Cuddles took this as a cue to use his newly amped firepower to use a Fire Breath attack to make the holy dragon and rifle demon crispy.

Shadowed winced as the axe bit into her side and Item God2's fist smashed into her face. However, because of Magello's quick footwork, she better instead of worse. Still, she had dignity to uphold. What would her master think if she stood here like a street ruffian when she was supposed to be a kunoichi.

Jona saw her chance as Shadowed battled it out with the two majins. She readied the special Awesome Hand as Shadowed introduced the lesser Majin to the blade of his own axe. She aimed her strike as Magello and Ginhi fired more spells to hasten the lesser majin's demise and she smiled as she snagged the Babylon's Crown as Shadowed and Cuddles brought down the Item God2.

"I's got it, can we go now?" She asked sweetly.

A fist struck the Item's God2's beaten face as Shadowed replied. "Just a minute. Finishing up if you don't mind. Ginhi nuke him..." With that she used Triple Strike to knock him back, as Ginhi blasted with a Tera Star and Magello even followed up with an Omega Star, which killed him.

"Woot, I nabbed all the Exp..." He Gleefully cheered as he bolted, knowing that the other two would be more than annoyed.
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DeathWyrm rose from his bed of treasures taken from his conquests and yawned a lordly yawn. To greet him was an interesting sight, his kunoichi and magic knight holding a Babylon's Crown. He smiled as they spoke in unison.

"Happy Excessive Materialism Day, My Lord!!!"

(Thus ends my Christmas Present to the guild.)

Heh, just being silly either way. If you had seen the Kunoichi class, you would see my point.

I am so freakin' manly in your story. MANTACULAR.

Hmmm lets see here... You are an online friend...

I am the mother of his child (soon to be children) and the only person he's had sex with in... Oh the last 8 years. Yet I was not mentioned in it and Yet I do not feel unloved and understand that there was limited space for characters... So he chose the ones he speaks with the most, and are pretty damned active in both guilds...

So yea... I hope that you were kidding.

That was awesometastical on so many levels. <3

I wuffle it, and would have babies with it if Jeffie wouldn't kill himself. ^_^

I really need to use that word on somone at work... It would be spiffy >.>