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Myra pouted as Meia dodged and turned into a fox. Her eyebrow twitched again. The dumb fox had dodged.

"M-myra….H-how did you…."

Myra blinked and looked toward Cora only to see her companion stumble and then take off full speed toward the front door. "Wait, Cora!" Myra reached out, but Cora had already sped off. This was all Meia's fault!

Well, now. These servants of his certainly couldn't keep their covers today. Will lightly removed himself from the sofa as it was flying in the air toward Meia and landed safely on his feet. Will's eyes narrowed ever so slightly as he spotted Meia shapeshifting back into her fox form to avoid the furious sofa throwing tactic of the blonde female Hercules. The man would have attempted to distract Cora, but it had already been too late. After all, Meia's loud "YAOWLLLLLL!!!!!!!" had already shifted all attention to the two of them.

~Meia, you useless fox, the task was simple. Return at once before I hunt you down.~ Will telepathically scolded Meia as he strode back towards Myra and where Cora had been before she charged off like a girl fleeing from a serial killed. It was no wonder that Will usually assigned her to go with Cerbs or to stay in fox form because the kitsune simply couldn't help but randomly revert to the form of a fox.

"And good job, Myra. You just scared the living daylights out of your friend," he said sarcastically. As for Myra, she was easily aggravated these days. Meia and Myra certainly had interesting roundabouts when it came to Sebastian and Will. "You are going to have to explain much to her....better get her before she gets lost in the middle of nowhere. Cerbs."

The little puppy that Cora had just moment ago gushed over plopped down to the floor and grew in size until it was a bigger sized puppy, big enough to pick Cora up... he probably wouldn't count as a puppy then....

Cerbs scrambled over, chasing after Cora before the girl reached the door. "Mrrrr~" he purred playfully as he grabbed Cora by the collar and then brought her back to the sofa that she had been sitting on before.

"Cora..." Myra sat down by Cora and hugged her. "Sorry... that...Meia is a result of a lab experiment, and Will took her in...and... I might have been experimented on too....but I don't know for sure....."

"Bullshit" Cora muttered at the explanation. "That is complete bullshit and you know it!"

Had Myra really been that terrible at lying? The golden haired woman frowned and hugged Cora as the girl tried to wiggle out and escape. "Cora...just...take a moment to listen... Will has already made preparations for dinner, so calm down."

But alas, it seemed further explanation on the experimental story provided would be useless. Cora didn't buy any of it. At that time, Meia foxy trotted back into the room and settled under Cerbs, who had shrank down in size to a size bigger than Meia but smaller than the overgrown puppy that had dragged Cora back. The dog panted, still with one head.

"Oh just tell her the truth Myra. If your going to give her a story like experimentation, the truth isn't that much of a stretch. And frankly, it would be easier no?", the foxy stated in an annoyed matter of fact eye rolling manner.

"What truth? Myra? What's she talking about?"

Cerbs pawed the fox on the head softly as if approving and as if asking if he could paw at Cora too. Without bothering to wait, he clamored onto the sofa next to Cora and shoved Myra aside so he could put his head on Cora's lap. "Cerbs!" Myra complained. And way to go Meia for talking in fox mode! "We...are not ...completely human." she admitted lamely.

In this time, the owner of the mansion had been rather silent and watching Myra's failure of an explanation. "The truth, hmm?" Before any of the other two could fumble up the explanation, Will answered. "They are demons, and we will not be having blood of virgins or any sort of that nonsense for dinner. "

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"I will double the patrol in the city until he is found."

For some reason, Cyrus had the feeling this jester would simply enjoy it more if there were more guards patrolling. The regent had previously dealt with some madmen before, and they were challenged and even more excited by any increased attention they received. At the same time, were there no attention, some madmen would try to strive for more attention. Cyrus wasn't quite certain what type of madman this jester was. Perhaps, Bastion was correct in that he should not dwell too long on the mind of a madman.

"As for the rebels…Shall I arrange for a raid of their known bases then Sire? All in the interest of catching this Jester of course."

The Regent glanced at Bastion as they ambled down the marble halls. The particular portion they were at for the moment was actually a secret passage where he and Bastion could speak unhindered. "I assume the raid will be done by the patrol members? It would be too much of a sign if the patrol were doubled and the raids done by our other troops.

Those rebels just did not understand the state of the world. Cyrus was trying to unify the land so they could protect against the coming darkness. He had already felt the signs. His body could feel the urgency and the sensitivity of the earth. It was as if the earth was tense and hurt. Such was the burden of a regent connected to the earth and land.

As if to reinforce that notion, a small tremor shook the hallways. Cyrus felt it, but he wasnt sure if Bastion did. That tremor must have originated from far away. He wondered if it had come from one of the areas where they were trying to build the international road. There had been reports of a mysterious darkness.

"Did you feel that tremor? I fear the roadwork must progress more quickly."

((Green, feel free to BS))

Oh, now they had done it. Myra couldn't just let Cora take the car and leave. She smiled sheepishly as Will responded to Cora with a smile and a nod, remarking that wine would be in abundance and that Cora could make a request for a certain type of wine if she wished to do so. The golden haired woman wiped the sheepish smile off his mouth as she tried to figure out how to explain the situation. Not telling her all the details would be a lie, right?

They were ushered into the elaborate dining room, which happened to have very comfy chairs. Myra had almost forgotten how comfortable the chairs were while she was away with Cora, but this was a gentle reminder. Myra hoped Cora would be partially soothed by the comfiness of the chair and decide not to bolt for the door and drive away like a car thief.

Cora, Will, Myra, and Meia were seated, and Cerbs was back to being a smaller puppy size. The puppy was dragged to another room, presumably so he wouldn't wolf down everyone's food as was his habit.

With a small gulp, Myra began, hoping what she said would be reasonable. Maybe the salad being served as appetizer would serve as a distraction. "Yes... Meia and I are demons, and Cerbs is too...although he's really just a dog that changes sizes. Meia is... a little fox, and I'm just the most human looking one with greater strength than usual. I was assigned to protect you from other demons....but we are still friends, right? D:"

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Cyrus nodded as his ever so faithful advisor reassured him that the griffin would pass on the orders to quicken the construction of the roads. Cyrus's hope was that the road would link the entire land, so it would not be possible for an isolated region to be subdued by darkness without anyone noticing and with no way to reach there.

The regent felt a slight breeze as Bastion's wing wrapped around the back of the throne. Even though he didn't realize it, he had to come to depend on Bastion more and more throughout these years and attempting to suppress his emotions on how he and his sister had fatefully parted.

Bastion's hushed voice just had to bring back a reminder of what had happened in the past. It seemed that Bastion was worried about her. "She is my sister. She will honor our agreement. I doubt she would return that easily if she regains her memory ....for her own sake." She couldn't come back now. Cyrus strongly believed it was safer for his sister and their world for his sister to remain on Earth.

As for the guardians, Bastion was right. "Approaching the guardians seems to be a wise choice especially in our current predicament, but... how much training have they had?" Probably not enough if they were on Earth.


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Genya had just been trying to blend in with the crowd and had no idea that his face was beet red. However, his moment of pensive embarrassment ended or perhaps lengthened when someone tapped him on the shoulder. It was that girl! "...you're..welcome," Genya stuttered. "I'm..fine." Yeah, because the whole fire was probably his fault because things went kaboom when he lit the Bunsen burner.

Oh....his nose was itchy from embarrassment now. "I'm g..lad you're fin-----" ACHOO! Genya's eyes closed instinctively as he sneezed because Scythe was being lazy.

The candle lights in the vigil around Genya and Andi suddenly seemed to get brighter and larger until they were engulfed by light and the sensation of them falling. When the light faded away again, they were still falling until....BAM!

"Ow! What kind of manner is th---they just fell on us! This is obstruction of justice!"

Genya and Andi had in fact landed on a bunch of patrol officers in a town in OtherWorld while ethey were pursuing a certain jester.

Myra watched Cora carefully, wondering if Cora was slowly regaining her memory. After all, the princess had been drawing that conceited griffin idiot earlier at the university, and she had just mentioned Loki. Honestly, Myra was just hoping Cora wouldn't completely flip out, but there she was...pensively thinking silently about what she had just heard from Myra. She certainly kept her composure as most of the royals did back in the Other World. Cora was a royal, but Myra couldn't just tell her that right now.

The servants cleared the empty salad plates as everyone finished and brought out the next course. Myra sighed as she answered Cora. "Well....maybe assigned was the wrong word. I'm your best friend and body guard and your only family here. I've been taking care of you." Myra glanced sideways at Will for a moment before continuing. "They don't like you for some reason." She shook her head as Cora downed the wine. "Well, I've been trying to figure out when to tell you, but we were safe, so you could enjoy living a normal life for a while longer...uh...Cora...don't drink too much."

Meia was probably finding this funny because Myra had to explain all this stuff now. The blonde heaved a sigh of relief when Cora stated they could still be friends. Brownies she could handle! Meia better not crack a joke now. "I'll make the bestest brownies when we get back :3"

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Untrained Guardians. Wonderful. They would to train them to make them useless. "Right... the books say that even their presence is a sort of balancing factor. They shouldn't been on Earth." The Regent sighed. But they had been as detected by the spies. The Guardians had mysteriously disappeared years ago as well. "Let's bring the guardians home."

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Genya was still recovering from his sneeze when they landed on people and then fell hard on the ground. "Ow!" And then he was kneed and hit more. It hurt so much. "Wahhhh" Hurt Genya so much he started crying.

"What sorcery is this?" demanded a certain white haired caped knight as random gibberish spewed out from the strangely dressed male. There were two strange males. A crying blonde one and this one spewing gibberish. "War reenactment? Heavens no! What witchery is this? Has that evil jester summoned you as creatures of destruction? They look human! We shall not be distracted by crying demons!" The other guards had encircled Andi and Genya by now.

Genya continued to sob in pain, looking up around him and Andi to see a bunch of unfamiliar people and surroundings. Andi, in the meantime, was explaining about the fire and asking about a university. Basically, Genya was being useless.

Andi was met with piercing blue eyes and a bespectacled face. "What university? What sort of demonspeak is this? Arrest them for obstructing and aiding in the escape of that demon jester!"

Myra hadn't meant to purposely say "only family here", but it had slipped out unintentionally. She really meant that she was the only one in the group of weirdos at Will's, who was family to Cora. Alas, she didn't predict Cora interpreting it otherwise.

Myra glanced sideways at Cora when the girl muttered "Yes mom". Sure, she was like a babysitter to Cora, but Cora never called her mom unless it was a joke or if the princess was annoyed. She sighed. Myra just didn't want Cora to get a terrible hangover after experiencing the events at the mansion. The rest of dinner concluded eventlessly with Cora thanking Will and them leaving, but not without a box of cheesecake since they did not stay for dessert.

Will had left Myra with a parting "gift", a small travel size make up kit, to which Myra made cutesy faces at, before hugging Will so hard he had fallen over and made faces at Cora. How he knew of her wanting another one to replace the one she had lost from a certain fire earlier was a mystery. Anyhow, the gift had put Myra in a happier mood after the somber day, where she and Meia had majorly fubared in front of Cora and revealed the existence of demons.

And then, Myra and Cora had left with Myra driving. They were rather silent for part of the ride, and as they reached near midpoint of the trip, Myra decided to break the silence. "Hey, pumpkin... you could always have some cheesecake on the ride to sweeten up your mood," Myra offered with a smile as she drove.

Little did Myra know that something low in the air close to the ground was rocketing toward the car and would impact them shortly, sending the car flying.

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Genya was really trying to suppress his sobs, and while he was succeeding partially, it still wasn't working very well. The sobbing increased again when he was bound and tied up. "Wah... why..what's going on?"

Meanwhile, the dashing white haired caped man heard Andi out, but of course, he didn't appear to believe Andi. Neither did the others since they tied Andi and Genya up. Le Kraz Carlton glanced at the sobbing Genya and then turned back to Andi. "Hmph. Lost, hmm? Waterloo ? Now, that is just popcockery! There is no university of Waterloo around here. Our culprits are rather smart, making up names. Now, next they will say their clothes are from Waterloo." He edged his head closer to Andi as if to inspect her further. Nope, the Otherworld had no knowledge of the language named Italian. It was not a language spoken in the OtherWorld. "A spell? No spell will save you."

And then Genya noticed the spears. His eyes seemed to brighten a little, tears stopping for a moment. "Are those.." he tried to touch one with his roped hands, but was met with a poke from a spear! "They're real!...like in the museum!"

Upon hearing Genya, Kraz blinked. "Real?"

And then Genya was off, cutting off everyone else and getting lost in his own world. "Oh, my! Were the factors for those quantum mechanics and time dilation present? But how? Everyone was still at the candlelight vigil! Perhaps, there was an invisible coagulation of forces, which created a rupture in the space time continuum and brought is here! But why just us? Perhaps, it was the fire! No, that doesn't seem to make sense. More experimentation and data... however, time travel? These clothes are medieval and -----" Genya's sobbing had stopped as he continued gushing about the science of spears and how wormholes sometimes existed int he universe and that maybe they were in another universe. Of course, all this talk was way over Kraz and the soldiers' heads. Perhaps, Andi was going to have to translate.

CRASH! BOOM! And then all went spiral-y.

....really? Maybe we should have made faster time. Damn Will for living so far int he middle of nowhere! The fact that the car flipped over meant it was no ordinary situation, and they couldn't just find a random car to borrow in the middle of nowhere.

Myra hadn't flown as far as Cora mainly because she was more snuggly stuck under the car steering wheel than Cora had been. In fact, she had been stuck with the car the whole time. She had raised the hood but not fast enough to stop Cora from flying out. The partially raised hood had helped her from not being immediately crushed though.

And then there were the howls and whoops. Myra groaned as she began to crawl out slowly from the car, trying not to resist launching the car into the air out of annoyance. Where was Cora? She wasn't in the car...what were those other voices?

"Myra! Myra!"

She was close! But before Myra could reply, the others had arrived. Myra heard the mention of "Princess" as well as the regards from Cora's brother. ........ really? Why now?!!! The Other World had decided to meddle in peaceful life. Was it because she and Meia had revealed the existence of demons? No way. Will's place was safe, and he wouldn't...right?

Myra fumed. Cora was on the other side of the car, and she was now finally out of the car. She peeked under the car, through where she had just crawled, trying to get a view of who was there. She saw....six pairs of feet. Luckily, Myra had better vision than usual folk in the dark. And so, Myra fumed more. Five people other than Myra. They made themselves blatantly obvious and weren't even hiding their employer information. She could already tell from their auras and scents that they weren't quite human. Perhaps, even a demon was mixed in there.

The golden haired demon sighed and then smirked. Well...might as well. Her clothes were already dirtied from the explosion and the flipping car. She quickly removed her jacket. Underneath was a sleeveless and rather revealing blouse. Around her neck was a slightly singed scarf. Standing up, the succubus strutted out from behind the car into full view of the assassins and Cora. "Did you forget about me?" she asked, batting her eyelashes as she flipped one end of her scarf behind her, took it off and twirled it, revealing much more than Scyther and Greenie really want to see. Myra Bagarth may have been in a car accident, but she still looked darn hot and could stop others in their tracks.

Myra's display worked, as usual; Cora was free. The men were usually got off guard more than the women, but the women were sometimes flabbergasted by the sheer random posing so much so that they would just be caught off guard because they were laughing.

Cora took the time to get the trunk open and retrieve their swords while Myra continued to mesmerize their attackers. The effect was starting to fade, and Myra wasn't about to just strip down and be naked because Greenie, Cora, and Scyther would complain. The blonde succubus simply smiled sweetly as she lifted her foot slightly and backwards in preparation to kick a mass of earth at their attackers, which would likely just scatter and obscure everyone's view. Cora was taking her sweet time...but the girl was doing the best she could. The sound of Myra's claymore grinding against the dirt as it was being dragged out certainly brought everyone's attention back to reality.

"Got it!"

"About time~" Myra hummed as their assailants charged again. Her foot dug into the ground and sent up a torrent of dirt into the air as she quickly used grabbed the heavy claymore behind her. Before she could answer Cora's second question or any question at all, the princess charged to attack one of the assassins. The succubus launched herself at the closest assassin ...or rather just swung her sword through the flying dirt, using it to hopefully connect with one of the assassins. Luck was with her. One dumb inattentive assassin down in one fell swoop.

And so there were four. Cora was holding her own against one of them, and so Myra would try to deal with the others.

Unfortunately, it seemed that two assassins went toward her, and the third headed toward Cora and the fourth assassin. Great. If they caught Cora again, Myra was going to throw an even bigger fit. "You ruined my car..... and my new make up!?" Myra growled.

Apparently, the assassins hadn't really done their research. None of the assassins were physically stronger than Myra, or whoever sent them hat just been an idiot. Yet, they were able to "shock" Myra and get her to drop her claymore and cut her although not well enough to incapacitate her. "Hey!" Unfortunately for the first assassin, Myra's reflexive action was to kick and send the first assassin flying into the air like Team Rocket blasting off again.

And so there were three.

"Soo.....are you going to get me new make up?" Myra asked the second assassin with a tone so sickly sweet like pure honey that it could only be foreboding. Angry Myras were bad news even to houses. "No?" ....and so Myra and the second assassin skirmished as she tried to edge closer to Cora. That skirmish lasted as long as the second assassin dodged Myra because the moment the succubus landed a hit, the assassin made a nice deep hole in the ground.

And so there were two.

The third assassin who had reached Cora had decided to attack from the air. This one seemed more versed in magic and was staying in the air so he was safe from Cora's slashes. This assassin seemed to be casting shield buffs on the fourth assassin who Cora was fighting. The fourth assassin was stronger than Cora, but Cora seemed more nimble. He was pushing her back and trying to corner her against ....the flipped car?

Myra, in an attempt to distract this third assassin, retrieved her claymore and let out a most random battle cry and charged. "You knoooow I CAN FLY TOO! CORA, KICK EM WHERE THE SUN DUN SHINE!"

((Myra and Cora related stuffs))

The shield buffing assassin that Myra was currently in combat with was annoying her because it almost seemed as if he was justing for her to wear herself out. It was a battle of physical strength versus mental magical strength. Too bad the assassin would never find out who would be bested.

"MYRA DUCK!"

And bam. There went the magically inclined assassin, who dropped like a bomb to the earth. Good Cora! Myra landed, ignoring the writhing assassin. The succubus didn't really care if the man lived or died. Cora was alive, and that was all that mattered.

"Come on Myra! You need to flip the car over. We need to get out of here." Before Myra could compliment Cora on ...erm.. surviving, her younger charge had already grabbed her and dragged her to their overturned car, requesting her to flip the car.

And so, Myra flipped the car over again, but she was highly doubtful that it would work. It seemed a bit burnt, although thankfully the car hadn't exploded for some reason. "....I'm not sure if this is going to run." The urgency was evident in Cora's voice. The blonde looked toward the assassins that were still in the vicinity. The one that she had slammed into the ground was crawling out. Then, there was the other one that Cora had been fighting. The magically inclined one was still twitching.

The key to the car was still in the ignition, and Myra turned it in hopes of it working. Unfortunately, the car wouldn't start. They were in the middle of nowhere. She looked at Cora. Could she fly them both out of there fast enough? They were probably about in between "home" and Will's place. But. "Cora, grab what you can from the trunk. Quickly!" Seriously, it was sheer luck that most of their stuff was intact. Unfortunately, it wasn't as if there was much stuff there because they had simply traveled to Will's for a visit.

Flying in the dark was going to have to be it, and they'd have to be quick. Myra was sure she could take down the two assassins, but she frowned when she saw the assassin she had launched into the air like a rocket with her foot. How was he back so quickly?

The succubus grabbed Cora. "Don't be scared. We're going to fly!" Fly to where? No idea. Home was not really an option, and they couldn't just head toward that mansion again, right? Her wings spread, but as Myra's toes began to lift from the ground, a magical circle appeared underneath her and Cora. Dark green bindings roped around Myra's legs and snaked up to grab her wings. "As if..." The princess's guardian tried to use her usual brute strength to tear away, but it seemed that there were some extra magical qualities that prevented that from happening. Myra's face held a determined look, but Cora was probably going to realize that they weren't escaping. ...that stupid mage is still alive...... should have killed him

That left only one option...unless someone came to help them. The last resort charm on Myra's necklace. The charm would disappear if used, but it would take them to the Otherworld...with no prediction of where they would end up.


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Meanwhile, back in the mansion that Cora and Myra had only left not that long ago...

"Hmm.... our succubus friend seems to be in a bind. Foxy, go burn some of those vines before she starts launching bodies through the roof. " There had been been enough damage to the mansion lately, and Will wasn't going to have any more of that for the day. He knew how far Myra could throw/kick. The blonde gestured toward the mirror, which showed the scene of Myra and Cora's situation. "Go. Into the mirror. Be discrete and return immediately." He failed to mention anything on how the fox was to get back to the mansion.



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((Otherworld - Alphie's place - hey, you picked where they going to land. ))

Next to a small lush forest, there was a small quaint village with several wooden buildings. In one of these buildings resided a man by the name of Alphonso. The inside of this dwelling was particularly simply and plain with minimal decorations. The man lived simple and was in the middle of sharpening a knife...

This quaint village, however, was not yet linked to the grand interlinking road that Cyrus desired built to connect everyone in the world. But in between where the current closet connection to that road and the village was a small well dark space. The road would have to go around that, if it were built, unless the dark space could be removed. But..the dark space had slowly, but surely been inching wider...

((Greenie, you can trigger the teleports or Meia it or both. Either way, they prob be porting! Leaving ya options! smile Feel free to make up details about the village and Alphie's place. All I know is that his place is simple. I will do Genya in some other post.))