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Tamamo no Mae     Directions were given and the Moon Cell part that Tamamo owns, Mare Luxuria, is in full display. A huge, Japanese styled castle is in the distance and various benches and sakura trees around the area, there's small drones around the area, some are cleaning the ground and keeping things all nice and clean. Tamamo gives a bit of a cruel smile, "Oh, Seifer, you are too good to your wife." she whispers, taking a look at the photo of Sora. "Hmm, this should be good, maybe..."

    There's a sparkle and... "This is weird." a few hops and the Sora look-a-like strolls around, moving to hide in one of the trees, hidden away, waiting and watching the teleport pad that gives people access. "HE should be here soon." she nods, "So should they..."
Riku     Riku knows it's a trap.

    He's coming anyway. There is absolutely no way that the Caster is going to betray Seifer. But for her to make that offer out of nowhere... He needs to find out what's going on. Knowing that there is a trap is the first step in avoiding it.

    And so he follows the directions, arriving in his casual clothing as he appears on the teleport pad and steps off of the platform, looking around. "So. This is their place, huh?" His eyes narrow for a moment, but he doesn't say anything else as he walks on. No weapons. No armor. Just Riku. Should be easy, right?
Tamamo no Mae     So that's Riku, huh?

    'Sora' grins at this and slides down the tree, shaking off some sakura blossoms. "R... riku?! Is that you?!" the voice sound slightly off at least. Tamamo never figured that out. "Huff, I'm glad you're here, say, where are we anyways? It's quite ... unique ... here." she turns towards Riku, approaching him slowly, "Anyways, I'm glad you're here, let's get out of here." 'Sora' smiles this bright smile, this goofy looking, always happy smile. "Maybe we can go find our other friends too."

    Tamamo puts her arms behind her back, twiddling her fingers, something twinges in the air as golems start to change inside the castle to a familiar looking form... "Like Kairi. Where is she? I haven't seen her in a while..."

    There's a pause and they turn around, "Wonder if she's in there..."
Riku     The familiar voice. So close. But not. It causes him to jolt like something drove an icy spike into his spine. There is a moment of surprise. Confusion.

    Rage. It all vanishes behind a brittle mask as he smiles, however. The smile doesn't reach his eyes. Those hard eyes. "Oh. Hi there, Sora. I couldn't imagine you being here. What a surprise." His tone is somewhat deadpan. It doesn't look like he really believes this, but he's playing along anyway. "I guess the fox woman and Seifer found you, huh? That must have been pretty amazing. I didn't think anyone could get someone out of that."

    Staring into that almost-perfect Sora Smile almost makes his expression crack. The stress is visible. But he mentions Kairi might be there too. "No, I guess you wouldn't have. A lot's happened since then, Sora." He gestures. "But why would she be in there?" He shrugs. "All right, let's go." He walks along, letting 'Sora' lead the way into the castle.
Tamamo no Mae     There's a perk, "I don't remember where that was." she states, turning around to look at Riku. Oh how that face made her a bit giddy inside, "Tell me all about it while we go. As for why I think she's in there... it's a feeling!"

    There's a voice, a /very/ familiar voice, 'What do you want?' comes echoing in the castle, 'Stop being a pest.' comes another, it's all Kairi's voice. "See, I knew it!" Tamamo runs a bit awkwardly towards her home, the voices of Kairi getting louder, "Come on, Riku, let's go get her!" that stupid smile is there again, "We'll go get her, bring her back home and we'll all be family again."

    Tamamo's readying something, magic fills the air around the castle. "You coming?"
Riku     Despite him knowing it can't possibly be Sora, Riku finds himself closing his eyes and waving a hand dismissively. "It's always you and your feelings, you blockhead." He replies almost automatically... And then the hand slowly closes into a fist before lowering to his side, relaxing as he tries to get his balance back...

    But then that voice. "Kairi!? What?" The shock on his face is visible. "That can't be..." He clenches his teeth, and shakes his head. It can't be real. This can't possibly be real.

    But if Kairi is there, then... He launches into a sprint, blowing right past 'Sora' as he rushes the gates. "I'm going to get to the bottom of this." It's a bait he can't ignore... All he can do is be ready for the snap.
Tamamo no Mae     Bullseye.

    As soon as she's blown past, she drops the disguise. "Ah, much better." she whispers.

    When Riku gets into the castle, there would be a chained up 'Kairi'... or more to the point, an Attack Program with Kairi's head on it. And another... and /another/. The door slams shut and Tamamo makes her way inside. The walls on the outside get covered in ice and fire beyond that and on the inside, there's pictures... wallpapered with a picture of Sora, Kairi and Riku. ( https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/585574489354665984/666729946600833076/images.png )

    "Mmm, hello, Riku." the fox woman's voice echoes around. "I /was/ honest." she comments, echoing "You must like this Kairi girl, huh?" she grins, the Kairi voice plays again, 'I'm busy', "But I mean... why are you poking around for Kairi... when you left her originally?"

    Tamamo makes herself visible finally, walking out of one door, "Mm, I don't like the garish look of this wallpaper, what about you?" she smiles, "Or do you not have an opinion?"
Riku Riku charges in, and the trap closes. The castle seals itself up behind him, making it much more difficult to escape by convential means. He might in fact be trapped in the most literal sense.

    Still, it's when he reaches the Kairi-headed... thing... That he pauses. "This..." His eyes widen, and he stares. "You... What the hell..." His gaze grazes over the photographs, and he stops, transfixed. "Gggghhh..." A hand comes up to his head, and he wavers there on his feet, as if he was struck by a spell of dizziness.

    Tamamo's words cause him to straighten, slowly looking up towards her with a frown. "... You. You don't understand anything!" He clenches his teeth, and cuts a hand to the side. "I didn't abandon her! I went searching for her when Sora left to go find other people to make friends with! Do you think you're going to get away with this!?" He grimaces, his teeth clenched as he looks back to the photographs. The echoing laughter of an old man echoes in his head as he does so...
Tamamo no Mae     "I don't?" Tamamo questions, "Oh, but I /do/. I don't think /you/ understand anything, you powerless whelp."

    There's another Kairi-Bot that comes into the room, and another, and another. And she turns around to look at the face. "Hmm, I don't like this face." there's a snap of her fingers and the bot lights on fire. There's some screams there as well from it being on fire, a mix of kairi voice and something mechanical. "You left because you knew you couldn't protect her, now could you." she smirks, "Just foisting your problems on other people, those who have done no wrong, you want to see them fall." she smiles, tails swishing happily behind her.

    "Oh... me? Get away with this? I /revel/ in this." she calmly speaks, "You're no emperor... you're not even a /General/." she scoffs, "Not even fit to be a foot soldier. And you want to be a /hero/. To be someone you are not." She walks up closer and closer to Riku, "I can, however, save you /some/ trouble. Tell me where Sora is. That's all. Tell me and I'll let you free. I may be an evil fox, but I don't go back on things I say."

    There's a pause, "Or do I need to convince you some more."
Riku     The fox-spirit taunts him. Demeans him. That's bad enough to his teenage pride. His teeth clench as his hands squeeze into fists... But it's when Tamamo burns the Kairi-bot that everything Changes.

You opened your heart to them. You exposed your dreams and hopes, and look what it got you.

Riku's brow is shadowed as he stares at the floor, trembling. The scream echoes in his ears, shredded, modulated noise screeching along his nerves like broken glass along a chalkboard.

Misunderstandings. An endless procession of people lecturing you. And now this. Pain. Suffering. Torment. And the worst part?

The man's voice in his head curls into a Cheshire smile. It's not even about /you/. It's about /Sora/.

Riku's voice strangles in his throat, his emotions running wild as he emits a low, hissing noise in response to the approaching fox. He seems stock still. He can't move. He can't do anything.

Show them the power you hold. Show them the Darkness within your Heart.

                  Make them suffer like you have suffered.                  

There is no immediate response to Tamamo's statement... And then that raging scowl twists into a heartless smile.

"I'll do you one better. I'll show you where he is." His movements are blurred, black flames exploding around him as he scythes through Tamamo's position, a line of black ripping through the air. His casual clothing is gone, replaced with the dark armor of his craft. His hand holds the bat-winged blade, Soul Eater. And around him, a wave of burning black and purple dances along his body, an aura of rage, of pain, of all that is dark in one's Heart.
Tamamo no Mae     Tamamo grins at this, watching the teen. "Oh, this is lovely music." she taunts more, "I can make it stop. Just tell me where /he/ is." though Tamamo's ears perk up, hearing the hissing sound. "Come on... you had a voice earlier." she scowls, "Making me wait... how dare you."

    Tamamo's Mirror appears in view and it starts floating around her with talismans slipping into her fingers from her sleeves. "What's the matter? Fox got your tongue?" she smirks before perking up once more, the outfit change, the bat-winged blade, the waves of black and purple. "Well. Finally the boy shows a bit of promise."

    That rush, she stands there to take it, after all, she was there to see what he can do.. that attack lands and she hnngs a bit from the strike... "Oh, so you can fight back. But do you think that's all that's going to help you? Swing a very poor weapon at me with theatrics?" Tamamo shakes her head and drops down slightly, flinging those talismans right straight towards the boy, the freezing energy laced in them turn them into icicle projectiles as she backs up slightly, giving her some room to work.

    "After all, are you going to /try/? Someone who is going to draw out what you're losing out on... what you're missing?" she laughs, "Come on, try to kill me. If you think that will bring Sora or Kairi back!"
Riku     Riku spins in place, not even landing on the ground. "If you think that's all I have, you're dead wrong." He retorts in a grim tone. "I guess it makes sense that bully would get married to a psychopath like you though."

    The freezing talismans come, and Riku slashes through the air, spinning and quickly parrying and deflecting them as they come in. Talisman after talisman is sliced in half or sent flying, but he can't stop the bombardment forever. The last few manage to punch through his guard, slashing across his body and opening long, chilled wounds. He drops back for a moment with a hiss as he clutches the frozen slashes.

    "You're have no room for bravado, Caster." He says, his shadow stretching across the floor to pool under Tamamo before it suddenly erupts upwards, a huge, dark, clawed hand striking out towards Tamamo's back. At the same time, Riku launches forward, one hand roaring with black fire. "DARKNESS!" He yells, as he detonates the blast in what should be point-blank range on Tamamo.
Tamamo no Mae     Wait, did he just call her a psychopath?

    And her Husband a bully?!

    Tamamo's hands curl up into fists and you can audibly hear her knuckles and fingers /crack/ in anger. "Psychopath...?" she brings up her mirror to guard against the blast, making her skid back a ways... her tails writhe in anger, "The one who runs from his problems, who thinks they can be a hero and is an ass to everyone he meets, calling /me/ a psychopath?! And my LOVING DEAR HUSBAND a bully?!" Tamamo kisses her ring and one transformation sequence later, is now in her Moon Crux outfit, "Oh, you have made the /wrong/ fox angry. Xiaomu may be able to take that kind of remark but me? Who /wanted/ to help?"

    Her breathing gets heavy and she glares daggers into Riku, "No more Miss Nice Caster." The two tail options beside her whip around and start machine gunning ice shards towards Riku as she starts to try and run circles around him, mixing in small blasts of fire with thrown talismans, "I'm going to make you apologize, I'm going to make you tell me where Sora is, I'm going to make it to where you wish you /never/ set foot off that Island!"
Riku     Riku absolutely did throw out some names. However, the transformation gets a pause from the Heartbrand. "Did you just do a magical girl transformation?" He asks, momentarily interrupted from his DARK AND EDGY groove. However, a moment later there's that absolute BARRAGE of firepower. "GAH!" Riku hisses, launching backwards as he attempts to dive out of the way. Several blasts of flame smash him backwards, but he's already caught in the magical combo. The impacts of ice bash him around as she alternates, forcing him to feel the fox's wrath of flame and cold in waves...

    Until his shadow blooms outwards again, a dark figure surging before him and taking the next strike. A large, deformed entity that looks like a greater Heartless on its own. Black skin, muscled body wrapped in white bandaged, burning yellow eyes... And a gaping, heart-shaped hole in his chest.

    Riku drops out of the line of fire and sags for a moment, hissing as he recovers. "You don't understand me at all. You're just parroting what Seifer told you. Do you yap like a dog when he asks you, too? You're not helping anyone! You're just doing this because he wanted you to!"

    A moment later, he falls backwards into a pool of blackness that swirls into existence behind him, and he falls out of sight. The Eidolon sweeps forward at the same time, laying down massive punches in an attempt to simply guard-crush Tamamo...

    But Riku erupts behind her, the blade flashing backwards as he attempts to run her directly through. "How about you start apologizing to /me/ and we'll see if I feel like letting you live."
Tamamo no Mae     "Magical girl?" beat "Oh, this part isn't just parroting my Husband." she scowls, "Some of this was his idea, the rest... all mine." she laughs out as she keeps up her barrage, though it stops as the teen gets close, trying to use her own agility to guard herself against the punches in her direction, each unsuccessful dodge making her wince in pain, and it's visible that she's hurting. "Hnngh, apologize? To you? There's no reason to, I'm setting out to do what needs to be done, something you're incapable of doing, you powerless boy."

    She wobbles a bit as she gets up, "I'll admit, though, you do have some physical strength. Good enough for a Berserker. All strength, no reason."

    Tamamo's eyes scan the area and an idea comes to mind as the Kairi-Bots start to rush into Riku, trying to give some sort of distance and and control, "Detonate." she smirks... the bots start to glow red and she ducks behind a pillar, the Kairi-Bots heating up... and then /detonating/ around, burning the wallpaper, setting fire to the carpet and hopefully digging some shrapnel into the teen.
Riku     Riku grimaces. "You have no idea what needs to be done. You're lying, just like everyone else." Any further sass from the lad, however, is interrupted as Tamamo gets the clever idea to use the Kairi-bots against him. Even with them being obviously not her, Riku hesitates for a critical moment.

You fool! Strike without hesitation or mercy!

    The point is made a moment later as the bots detonate, Riku's scream echoing over the sound of the blasts, As the fire dies, Riku is left amdist the burning remnants, bleeding heavily. He didn't strike, and now he is paying for it. He staggers, pain and fatigue beginning to set into his vision as it swims. He grasps his head, shaking it. "Ghh... Not right now, old man!"

    He shakes his head and looks back up at Tamamo, stepping forward through the flame, the burning photographs flicking into ash around him as his past is crushed and used against him like a weapon. "You... You keep calling me powerless, but it looks like I have more than enough to beat /you/. So what does that make you, Caster?" He leaps forward, stabbing and slashing rapidly as he presses Tamamo through the pain, attempting to cut his way past that floating mirror and strike the Servant down.
Tamamo no Mae     "Old man?" she muters, panting hard as the mirror convinently moves out of the way to cut into her. She cries out in pain and drops to her knees as the Moon Crux transformation drops. "The queen of the Moon... and your Master." she replies to the question, blood dripping from the slashes and stabs given by that bat-winged blade. She backs up slightly, pulling up a small wall of fire as magic just /soaks/ the area.

    Tamamo floats up, the room getting bigger and bigger. Torii gates popping up as she seperates Riku and her from the rest of the world. The Mirror slowly floats into her center as eight talismans surround her vertically.

    "God who resides in Izumo.
    Aesthetically certain,
    Breath of the Soul.

    Residing in the mountains and watery heavens, Amaterasu.
    Thy name is Weighted Stone of Tamamo.
    Become the sacred treasure, Mirror of Uka!"

    The talismans explode into huge balls of ice and fire and with a simple throw of her mirror into the direction (which returns right back to her), the balls of energy fly towards Riku, exploding around and hopefully /on/ him with the fury of a Caster and Wife scorned!
Riku     Riku scowls back at Tamamo as she drops back to her normal form. "Consider this a change of government then." Riku spits back. He is forced to back off for a moment, however, as the firewall rises, and that gives Tamamo the ability to deploy her powers. The rotating ice and fire, augmented by her divine will, blast outwards as the energy balls crash into him. "GGaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!" He yells, a wave of shadow rushing upwards through the overhwhelming attack...

    And as he lands, half frozen, half seared, he lies there for several seconds. Could be he defeated?

    "N... No.... Not like... this...!" He hisses, forcing himself through the pain, forcing himself to his feet. "Not even... the power of a god can defeat the Darkness!" He yells. "Let me show you!" There is a slash, and Riku leaps through the Corridor that forms, vanishing... And then portals open all around Tamamo, baleful anti-light rolling out of them to surround her. Riku launches out, slashing past Tamamo and falling into another portal.

    Then he emerges, slashing again, repeating the action.

    And again. Faster.
    And again. Faster.
    And again. Faster.

    Over and over again, it begins to build up as Riku unleashes more and more speed, a withering wave of cutting blows that attempt to simply shred Tamamo apart. "DROWN IN THE DARKNESS!" He yells, as he descends from above, cleaving down wards in an overwhelming finishing blow.
Tamamo no Mae     Tamamo's spent. Unleashing her Noble PHantasm always takes it out of her, and more so when her Husband isn't around. The Moon Cell can only supply so /much/. She moves to stand up slowly, looking over the fallen teen, "I'm sorry, you've been..." and he gets up. "Well..."

    She brings her arms up, bracing herself, trying to guard the attacks, grunting through the slicing and the teleporting, the unpredictable nature reminds her of her own Extella Maneuvers... but this, this is different, shrouded in dark energy. That last, downward slice connects and knocks her straight into the wall and through it. "STAREN!" she shouts, with the catboy hoisting the fox to drag her off. Majima's peeking out from the hole with a grin upon his face... Tamamo grumbles then sighs, slumping in Staren's grip. "I'm going... to be hunting for you again, Riku." she shouts before fainting down on to Staren.
Riku Riku pushes himself to the absolute limit to take Tamamo down...

    And she falls. Barely. Riku gasps, at the limit of his endurance as she is blasted through the wall. "You!" He hisses, trying to follow her through the false wall but Majima is right there, interposing himself. "GET OUT OF THE WAY!" He yells, moments before he sees the fox caster being hauled off by Staren. "You... YOU AGAIN!?" He yells in Staren's direction. "You're going to regret this...."

    But he has no energy to chase. Not with Majima and Staren involved. He turns, and vanishes into a Corridor of Darkness, making his escape.