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Fayt Ravus https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbfXmLBuZZo
Castle Ravus
Magix

Fayt's home is weird, to put it simply. It's a giant castle set in a massive underground cavern, to be more precise, the castle is hanging upside down from the room of said castle, though fortunatly the interior is rightside up. Or possibly upside down compared ot the rest of the castle?

    It's best not to think about that sort of thing too much.

    Fayt is currently home, he's inside the workshop, a somewhat messy room with a series of tables covered in random junk. Fayt's standing at one of the tables, looking over a notebook. Just a normal day here, nothing special going on.
Shinki     Outside of Castle Ravus, the bridge towards the entrance. A small contingent of devil-winged girls, numbering in the twenties are behind a single girl floating in the air: pink hair, red eyes, wearing a red dress with translucent sleeves and mary janes for shoes. "And welcome to this wonderful place, girls. This was home to a very powerful magician who turned the castle UPSIDE DOWN!"

    Cue the oooh's and aaahs from the Devil Girls, a few scribbling as what could be the tour guide speaks up, "It's a very weird place, but I've been told it's been abandoned so shall we all have a look?" a grin comes to the girl's face, opening up a red circle towards the inside of the castle... in Fayt's living room. "Now, let's go in, single file girls, and stay silent."
Fayt Ravus     The living room looks, normal. Weirdly normal. There's a couch, a TV, electric lights... Either the previous owner was REALLY ahead of the curve or this place isn't abandoned!

    Fayt meanwhile, doesn't seem to take much notice of the gate opening, as he's still pouring over his notes, occasionally taking an odd glance at a tennis ball he's got sitting nearbuy. Must be working on something.
Shinki     As the portal opens, small bits of murmuring from the entering crowd could be heard then, the non-winged girl smiles, "And here we are, at the inside of the abandoned castle, it looks like it may have some things from the outside world. There's power here and it seems fully furnished too, a great vacation spot as it were! Now, if we head down this way..." as Sara and the procession of devil winged girls move behind the couch.

    Meanwhile, one of the devil winged girls leans over the couch, a smile on her face as she reaches over to grab at the tennis ball. "Ooh, I think I want this, would be fun to take at home! I wonder what the humans do with this though!"
Fayt Ravus     "Wait a sec, what the?" As it turns out The workshop is close to the living room, so when the crowd shows up. Fayt readily hears it over the relative silence of the castle, his head bolting up from his notebook. "..."

    Slowly, carefully, he moves over towards the door and leans on it. He's right across the hall from the livingroom now, and carefully holding his staff. "HEY!" He calls out. "Is someone out there?"
Shinki     "Oh hey, where did you get that?" "Oh, it was just lying down over there! There might be more souviners here we can take back!" "Oooh, I wonder what else we can purchase!"

    "Girls, girls, quiet. Let's put that back and we'll continue on. Now, over here is the kitchen..." but when that voice speaks up, "Oh? I was under the assumption this place was unoccupied. But if it's a human here, prey is nice too~. So kind of you to offer yourself to join us, human, now shall we?" as she looks to the girls in procession, a wicked smile upon her face..."
Fayt Ravus     "What are you even doing in here? Didn't you read the sign out front? This place is occupied!" Not that wanyone EVER reads the sign, they're usually too busy looking at the weird upsidown castle hanging from the roof and wondering what's inside. "I don't know how you got in, but could you leave? Should end up at the front door soon enough if you keep moving."

    Saidly, with the door clsoed and the group mostly keeping quiet. Fayt has no idea there's a small horde just a few feet away.
Shinki     Sara blinks a bit, "What sign?" she questions, "I saw no sign. All we saw was an upside down castle and a bridge, so we just gated in." she grins, "Such poor defenses for a large castle, and just a single little human to guard it too?" she slowly approaches Fayt, a smile showing a single fang as the procession of devil-girls comes out of the room. "Hi, I'm Sara... and you're now my prey. I'd run."

    The Devils pipe up behind and grin, "Can we play too?" "Are we playing tag the human?" "When was the last time we played tag the human?! I want to join! Are we going to use bullets?!"
Fayt Ravus     Fayt continues to lean on the door. his responce is weird to say the least. "Hey... can you do me a favor? Run a quick head count and make sure you still have everyone?" Suprisingly that's somewhat important, Fayt's home has an odd misdirection trap running through it, there's a chance one or two memebers of the crowd might have gotten mispaced, shunted off to a different part of the castle while nobody was paying attention.

    Fayt leans in close to the door, trying ot peer through the crak at the others. "So, going by how you've been speaking I'm guessing your not human? Are you new to the multiverse?" While he still sounds somewhat unnerved. Fayt suprisingly seems nowhere near as freaked out as he should be. Then again he is a businessman, It is part of his job to make sure he looks and sounds professional, no matter how crazy things get. "What brings you down here anyway?"
Shinki     Sara smiles a bit at this and turns around, looking in the workshop. "Sure, one... two... ten... fifteen... twenty. Yep, all of them are there! Twenty finest girls from home, wonderful devils they are!" she smiled, turning back towards Fayt. "Why do you ask? Did you actually /have/ magical defenses here?" she questions, raising up a finger here.

    "Hey, Mistress Sara, he's stalling, come on! Let's play chase the human!" Sara turns back and peeks in, "You'll have your chance, but first, I want to play with him some." as she turns back to Fayt. "Mmm, I'm Sara, the gatekeeper from hell. And of course I'm not human, humans are my prey, just like you!" she slowly steps forward, smiling, "And what brings me here? Pleasure."
Xiaomu "You must have a REALLY weird idea of pleasure," remarks another voice as Xiaomu strides into the room. "Because where I'm from, invading someone's home without permission or authorization is a pretty hostile act. Plus, if you think of humans as prey ..."

The sage fox thumps her staff on the floor next to her, the rings affixed to its headpiece jingling. "... that makes you my enemy, plus Fayt's a good friend of mine. Soooooooooo you might wanna run along home with your devil girls before we start kicking you out the unpleasant way, hmm?"

She doesn't LOOK particularly armed ... but if Sara is sensitive enough, she can tell Xiaomu isn't nearly as human as she looks. Of course, with the hints of fox ears and tails in her hair, it might not take that much supernatural awareness, either.
Reina Kinney     As Reina Kinney materializes, she appears not too far from where Xiaomu arrived. In fact, Reina hears the last part of Xiaomu's comment as she strides into the room, before she finishes her sentence. "I'm afraid she's got a point, you know," Reina adds, folding her arms. "You are rather brazen, I'll give you that for sure. But the fact you consider our colleague prey?" She tsks and shakes her head. "That's even worse off for you." Reina doesn't appear to be armed just yet, but that could change at the drop of a hat. "We have the authority to take you in... or take you down if need be!"

    A pause, then Reina adds, "Unless, of course, you'd like to make this easier on all of us and just give up now. Although I highly doubt you're that smart enough if you're invading a castle just like this." She narrows an eye at the last part, indicating that she's speaking with authority and sarcasm at the same time.
Fayt Ravus     "You know, I actually do trade in several different versions of hell." Suprisingly, he doesn't sound like he's lying. "Ah, here we go." As he hears the others arrive, Fayt finally opens the door to the workshop, his staff twisting around in an impossilbe manner as he gives Sara an annoied look.

    "so, here's the deal. There's a trap in here to misdirect people, If you keep moving, you're going to get lost. If you're willing to call this off, I'll guide all of you to the front door, no questions asked and I forget this ever happened. If you pick a fight? You've got the three of us and a castle wide misdirection trap to deal with." He points the staff at Sara. "your call."
Shinki     The devil girls move to file out of the workshop and move behind Sara, the demon-girl giving a fanged smile, even more so when Xiaomu and Reina arrives. "You want to play too, huh? The spiritual girl and another human?" a small laugh is given, "Oh, my girls were getting kind of restless visiting boring old places to expand into, but with the prospect of such... willful people."

    The devils behind giggle and speak up but with how many there are, it's kinda a mess. "It's the little prey's fault for not having the right defenses to keep a gate from opening, little morsel deserves this, but with two more, I'm sure that we can get our fill of fun from you three. Shall we dance?" she grins, the girls and her floating upwards as Sara herself takes the advantage and...

    Stage 1 - The Magi's Castle! BGM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhHKoE-5ScQ

    From the girls behind her, each throw small shards of danmaku towards the trio to begin with, "My call is we're going to just take this place then~. I'm no pushover!" and with that, Sara starts her own danmaku spread, simple blue and red ball patterns that fan out, with red balls being shotgunned out in a fan spread three wide!
Xiaomu Xiaomu takes a look at the incoming spray of danmaku, gauging the pattern for gaps and openings, then jumps and twists to slide through a barely-adequate gap in the bullets. It's closer than it should be; a few 'bullets' scrape against her, slicing across her vest and qipao, one lucky bullet jarring her staff hard enough that she almost drops it.

She might be bleeding, depending o whether Sara's playing by conventional Gensokyo dueling rules or whether she's out to actually wound and/or kill Fayt and his allies.

Either way, a now distinctly annoyed-looking sage fox lands from her evasive leap, plants her staff, and draws a pair of handguns from inside her vest, starting to unload bullets (enchanted anti-spirit rounds, specifically) at Sara and her supporting devils ... mostly at the pink-haired leader, though.
Reina Kinney     Unfortunately, Reina isn't as nimble as Xiaomu. Her shield does protect her, but it's not going to last too long. She drops to the ground and does a quick roll, trying to get as close to the ground as possible while getting as far away from the attacker as possible. The shield is strong, yes, but it doesn't last forever. She rolls a few times before turning to face Sara from afar. She pauses for a moment, trying to survey the situation, before snapping her fingers, and a pair of handguns appear, one in each hand.

    "So, you wanna play like that, huh? Well, we'll play!" Reina fires off a pair of shots from her pistols, aiming to show Sara that she means business. And that she's really peeved now.
Fayt Ravus     Fayt unfortunatly, is not the msot athletic of people. There's a pained yelp as the little guy is pelted with bullets. Ducking... or perhaps more like falling back into the workshop for cover, Fayt pops out again moments later, holdingo ut his staff. "Force bolt. Split."

    A single bolt of glowing energy fies form Fayt's staff, that quickly splits inot several, flying towards Sara and hte other demons. At the same time, there's a weird buzzing sound as strange, multi colored electricty starts to dance around his head. Weird.
Shinki     Sara smiles, watching the danmaku hit. It doesn't feel like 'normal' danmaku as when it does hit, it actually hurts. But with the three going on the counter offensive, Sara finally giggles, "Finally, some real action." she comments, as the Devil Girls move in front of Sara to take the anti-spirit bullets in the chest, knocking them back against the wall with a loud thump. The devil girls getting hit go down pretty easily, as the others step in to replace the fallen.

     More girls, however, come into place to take the other magic bolts and the actual pistol shots, not going down as easy as the anti-spirit bullets but they get knocked back away and counter with small danmaku spreads of their own, Sara keeping up her spread until she's hit with one of the anti-spirit bullets and magic bolt, the spray of danmaku going to super small laser shards. "Nngh, you hit me! I said I wasn't going to be a pushover but you're going to force me!"
Xiaomu "Lasers, huh?" Xiaomu snarks as Sara switches up her tactics -

Right as Xiaomu's handguns BOTH click on empty chambers, and her without time to reload unless she wants to get hit. Which she obviously DOESN'T; the sage fox dodges and rolls, actually doing a cartwheel between a couple of beams.

"I guess live ammo was a little rude of me," Xiaomu admits, "but we're STILL not letting you have your way with Fayt! I have preorders in with him and it'd be a real pain to get them in with another company this close to release!!"

Whatever she's talking about, she replies with lasers of her own, firing beams of shadow magic out of her fingertips and trying to rake them over Sara ... and any other demon girls who happen to be too close for their own comfort.
Reina Kinney     Lasers? OK, Reina can live with that... hopefully. That is, when she's not being seared by them.

    Unfortunately, there's a shield malfunction, and one of the lasers skims her arm, burning off part of her shirt sleeve and causing a first degree burn. Minor maybe but definitely painful.

    "Owww..." Reina yells as she shakes her arm, unable to put a hand over it. "Son of a De Rol Le..." She curses, before looking at Sara and her cohorts. "That was pretty good, but I've barely even gotten started yet!" She attempts to strafe to the side, attempting to distract Sara and her cohorts by firing numerous shots this time. "Let's see how you like a strafing run!"
Fayt Ravus     Fayt quickly ducks back into the workshop as a laser barely misses him. "GAH! Hey, knock it off already!" Carefully he leans out of his hiding spot, aiming his staff down the hall. "Shock bolt. Split." This time, several small bolts of electricty fly out towards the devils, along with another buzzing sound as more of that multi-colored electricy builds up around Fayt's head. "Just leave would you?"
Shinki     "Nngh!" she groans out, Sara moving to try and doge the shadow lasers and more shots from the gunner, this is not the field trip or tourist attraction she was told about! Though, Fayt's shock bolt manages to hit home on some of the devils as they retreat through a newly made red portal to who knows where. "We'll be back, Sara!" one of the girls shouts as the rest start fleeing behind and running into the portal.. "Worst... trip... ever!"

    Sara's only got four or five devils left behind her, as the girl floats around, firing errtaic shots as a distinctive *tish* sound is heard after some of the attacks land upon her, causing her to get pushed up against the wall. She groans a bit and shakes her head, holding up two of her hands as large, thick lasers spread out from them and slowly converge in a funnel like with the large, open end towards the three, the few devils left, firing large white balls of danmaku towards them. "I'm not leaving just yet!"
Reina Kinney     This time, Reina's only option is to lie flat on her stomach and roll like a log in hopes of avoiding that danmaku. She doesn't know entirely what it is, but she knows she doesn't want to get near it for any reason. "Unnngh... what the Falz have I gotten myself into THIS time?" Reina thinks to herself as she continues to roll, only to stop and look up once she thinks she's in the clear. Only to mistime it and get hit a few times, knocking her away. She grumbles and drops to one knee. "Ugh..."

    This time, Reina doesn't bother firing her guns. Instead, she points at Sara and says, "Prepare for a shocking surprise!" A crackle of lightning is seen, and then it goes flying at Sara. "ZONDE!"
Xiaomu "Really?" Xiaomu calls out, glancing over the funnel of lasers and the incoming balls of magical firepower. Those look like they're going to hurt a lot more. "'Cause I think your parking meter's gonna run out if you stay any longer, and around here, they tow parked cars to a volcano and melt them down for giant robot swords!"

And the funny part? Given the Multiverse, it's not inconceivable that she's RIGHT about that ... but then, Sara probably didn't drive anywhere to get here, especially if she's from Gensokyo.

The accuracy of her mock warning notwithstanding, Xiaomu skips back a few steps, stopping just short of the laser, and ... stops, glancing across the room at Fayt. Then she smirks.

Xiaomu actually pulls out her cell phone and tries to snap a photo or two of Sara while the sage fox is scurrying across the room, weaving between balls of danmaku. "Fayt, I need your head for a second!" She tucks her phone away and tries to tap the ringed head of her staff against Fayt's noggin - or more accurately, the 'cloud' of chaotic magic that's been building up around his head. What she has in mind is going to be extremely ticklish to execute, and is probably going to require a miracle to actually *work*. But if it DOES work? Sara's hopefully going to feel the effects for a week.

The hardest part for Xiaomu is going to be drawing the chaos magic into her staff without letting it zap straight through her, but she's got considerable experience - literally centuries - juggling magical forces, and she HAS tapped Fayt's chaos before. The ice magic that Suiren is already imbued with is going to make things a little more tricky, but she's hoping to take advantage of her cane-sword's magic anyway; once the 'chaos charge' has been largely drained from Fayt, Xiaomu leaps back out into the middle of Sara's bullet hell, whips her sword out of its staff-scabbard, and pioints it straight up at Sara with a shout of just one word ...

"SEIBAI!!"

And a beam of sorcerous power lances out from Xiaomu's sword, aimed at the devil girl.
Fayt Ravus     There's a small yelp from Fayt as Xiaomu bops his head. "HEY! What the?" What happens next is... odd. There's a LOUD buzz as all that build up is finally let lose by Xiaomu's attack. If it works, Xiaomu would find that Sara and the remaining devils have disappeared! Well... untill one looks a bit closer and notes that no, they're not gone, just about 6 inches tall, tiny! Still, they likely wouldn't be much threat at this size.

    Sadly, In all this madness Fayt actually dived out of the workshop behind Xiaomu to doge more incoming fire that followed her in. She she looked to tell him the good news? She'd find a rather stunned looking 6 inch tall Fayt sprawled out on the floor. "Guhh..."

    Stupid Chaos.
Shinki     Sara and the rest of the Devils who stayed behind continue up their wide spread danmaku attack, those that hit could be felt, probably leaving nasty welts after the end of this. "Parking meter? What are you talking about spirit girl? Go back to the spirit realm where you came from!" and with this, she launches a directed orb of danmaku straight towards Xiaomu!

    Reina's not spared anything as the lightning technic slams home, interrupting her danmaku spread only to fire another singular ball of danmaku at Reina, "Who gave you the ability to do that! That's not fair!" she shouts towards the downed girl as Sara twitches from the shock. But the true 'horror' of this all is the magic blast from Xiaomu that's being borrowed from Fayt! Three of the remaning devils converge in on Sara, the blast nailing them dead on and sending the pack back to the wall once more with a heavy thud... but when the smoke and such clears... where did they go?

    There's some tiny yelling going on as a red portal opens up once more, a few inches in diameter. "Ho... how did you do that... I.. Hope I'm not stuck like this forever! She'll be mad! We'll come back for you later then!"
Reina Kinney     After all is said and done, Reina simply breathes a sigh of relief... then looks at what was once Sara and only shakes her head in disbelief. "What the hell?" She says, not smiling in the least bit. "This is getting too unreal for me..." She sighs and runs a hand through her hair. "I need a drink after this!"
Xiaomu On the other hand, it's not like Xiaomu is going to be able to pick Fayt up and put him in her pocket or anything, because pockets and all, she's the same size as Fayt is right now, and looks woozy and wobbly, possibly mordered on drunk.

At least her smartphone/radio still works. She's going to need a ride home at this stage.