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Lucca nods, her swords appearing. "Yea, I noticed that a moment ago. I thought he was missing something, sort of like an illusion or projection of self." the other forms of herself disappear. "Either way, I believe he's still just as dangerous...and just as much a coward."

Rai stands up and looks around. "Where is Barok?" He mutters as he walks towards the door and through it.

Asizue blinked and then checked herself. "Yeah he did..." She checked again. "There isn't anything though." Asizue sighed. "This is just a game to him I bet... Though I doubt everything we see will be Illusions, once we go through that door I bet we will be in his area... He'll feel at home and won't be too worried about attacking us directly or just playing with us..." Asizue walked to Lucca then stood next to the door. "I'm ready as I'll ever be, but I'll just slow you down... That stupid blood sword he took still has a hold on me."

The door dissapeared behind Rai and he found himself walking into the study where Verlorenes waited. "You're friend will need to hurry if he wishes to enter, the doors only last until the sun completely sets, and there is no telling where they will show up or leave. I can only control some of their locations." Verlorenes said standing up from the chair. "They are the only way in and out of this castle unless you have some 'part' of yourself outside of it's boundaries and even then you cannot completely come and go until twilight." A black door appeared in the center of the village the bar was in, itself seemed to be a sentry, another blue door appeared just outside the village, and yet another white one appeared farther out.

Sizarin and Zytøs found themselves walking in the grounds just outside the castle. "Here again, it has been quite a while..." Zytøs murmered reverently. "Let us not enter the castle quite yet..."
Sizarin groaned. "It is my time to be impatient, how long shall we wait?"
Zytøs smiled widely. "Until there is no escape from this castle for another twenty-four hours. It won't take very long, perhaps only a few moments..."

How the study looks: Mahogony bookcases up to the ceiling on all the walls but the east and west, a grand fireplace on the east wall with a picture of a man hanging over it and stained glass windows on either side, on the west wall is the grey door in which Rai had entered from, a giant antique chandalier hangs from the ceiling, with a chess table in the center of the room, and six highbacked winged chairs seated around it. Cobwebs and dust cover about every surface.
The Grounds: Picture a gothic 'Alice in Wonderland' the queens guarden. Blood red roses and deadly black ones litter almost every inch of it, the grass is just about monsterous, ivory benches scattered here and there some broken to bit others quite nicely in tact, some sculptures of dragons are around in the center of maze like areas where the hedges grow over seven foot, ivey was climbing it's way up the castle's outer walls as if threatening to choke what little life it had left in it out, and a fountain of what now appeared to be blood rests in front of double doors high enough for a giant to walk through with no need to bend down or smash it's way in. The green door that Sizarin and Zytøs entered from stood beside the fountain facing the entrance door.
After thought: In the midst of the dissaray and deathly still silence it is obvious that this was once a grand and happy castle a long time ago, and it has currently gone into the same cold state of it's current owner, perhaps though, this can be changed.

Instead of a simple walk-through door Lucca and Asizue found themselves spiraling downwards, then falling from the red door in the ceiling of a hallway. Asizue barely had time to get her balance enough to land on her feet. Two Satires awaited them laughing. "Amusing creatures you are... I half expected you to not follow, ah, but she is still it now I suppose you both are. Now here's an interesting game which of us is real?" The Satires said at the same time and looked to eachother still in good humor, they both held up an identical crystal figurine of a feather. They spoke again. "No doubt you remember this Asizue?" They each held their's up to their faces watching it glitter in the candel light around the hall. "Without this your wings are useless and so is most of your power, isn't this correct?"
Asizue gasped and looked to a hidden pocket of her pants. "How did --"
"Tut tut, we will have time for a question and answer later... For now, you're still tagged." Both of the Satires took off in opposite directions down the hallway, one running right past Lucca and Asizue.
Asizue looked to Lucca imploringly. "I didn't think he knew of that, not many do..."

Hallway: Like Sizarin's mind, but not an endless abyss of doors. This hallway has silver candle lights fixed to the walls, along with different colour doors on either wall in between them. The walls were painted in an array of colours making it look like someone on an Acid trip had painted it, there was no set theme tothe hallway. On either end of it was a curve in opposite directions, and large windows that reached up to the ceiling adorned the ends. This isn't a simple hallway it stretches the length of the middle of the castle.
[Side thought, I'll try to get a picture of what the castle somewhat looks like up -.- once I get off my lazy a** and finish packing that is...]

Barok and the shadow creature return, right infront of Rai. Evan quickly draws his sword and cuts off the shadow creature's head, just as he returned back to human form. "The bloody hell is going on?" Barok then looks at Rai and sighs. "What'd you want?"

Verlorenes walked to one of the windows, the sun had set and the doors that would have been in the village slowly vanished. "There is a number of things you could do, but only one will suffice for now. That 'toy' is stronger than you would think you are to bring both Sizarin and Zytøs into separate rooms, alive and able to speak." Verlorenes looked down at the courtyard through the stained glass. "It appears they are getting ready to enter the castle actually. You should split them up, I'm certain you have your ways to do that Rai." Verlorenes stepped back from the window to face Rai and Barok, and she smiled her chilling smile at them. "This castle is quite interesting, millions of dead ends and rooms that go on forever or to no where at all, the archetects that built it didn't skip on anything... I am also certain that Zytøs does not have that gem anymore, which despite his own safety precautoins makes it easier for me to get." Verlorenes lifted her hands to the black gem around her neck and what appeared to be black lightning shot from her palms, the gem apperaed to split in two smaller halves, one fell into her palm which she then held out to Rai. "This should do two things, one make your control over shadows stronger perhaps a bit stronger than your brothers, two it will make sure you do not get lost in the castle."

Asizue smiled. "I doubt his illusions want to harm us." She said but took the pendant anyway. "I would more or less think this is a way to split us up as you think aswell." She looked from on end of the hallway to the other. "Though both of those were the same exactly, they had the same movements the same sense of hate in them... Perhaps he decided to up this game of his when he noticed we saw through that illusion before?" Asizue held the pendant a little then put it in her pocket. "He'll come to us sooner or later after getting bored, we shouldn't split up."

Sizarin had a shadow demon on either side of him, his eyes were glowing black. "This castle is confusing, even for me." He finally sighed.
Zytøs on the other hand was already at the entrance doors. "Don't bother, this place isn't as difficult to understand as you would think..." Zytøs pulled open a smaller entrance door that appeared to be for servants.
Sizarin sighed and walked up to him, the two demons following him obediantly. "Wouldn't it be wise to have a course of action for this place?"
Zytøs shook his head and entered the door Sizarin groaned and followed. "Yes, the course of action is simple really. Don't get lost and stick together." They were both in an entrance hall.

Entrance hall: Think Hogwarts, sorries my creativity went poof.

Lucca nods. "Wise a choice as any." she pushes her hands into her pockets. "We should look around. Its not as safe as standing still but its more interesting." she smiles staring down the hall. "This place is very big, spacious since no one really lives in it...or I assume no one other then Satire and his sister." She starts to walk a little and then look at Asizue. "So tell me, as far as you know, what is this gem thing Rai was talking about with Zytøs?"

Barok just raises an eyebrow as the two talk. "Okay...and why am I needed again?"