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You're lucky Sir Lances-a-lot-of-married-women is a Saber. So have his fangirl. We know this all too well. "I'm SOOOOOOOOOOOORRY!!" Well, she's good at that. And so is this man's spirit!! @Krow

Marie looked onward as the Lucario began to take his stance to attack. The girl didn't quite know what to do to stop him. Every part of her being told her that trying to converse any more with this man was futile. And trying to fight him was nothing short of impossible. Yet still, Marie knew that just letting him kill the legends was wrong. As Randy gave her a look, one that told her to back off as well, for once she had felt inclined to agree. As both the Lucario and Randy began to exchange words with each other, the girl tensed up even more, rooted into place as the man confirmed that he was a godslayer. A man obsessed with fighting. Fighting to prove his strength. Fighting to kill whatever he deemed worthy. Marie knew more and more that this was all just wrong. Yet still, Randy of all people seemed paralyzed in fear of the man. Keanu seemed ready to bolt, relieved they didn't have to fight them. And Nani, echoing that it was none of their business, was also ready to leave. As the girl stood there, she could feel herself start to go with the flow. However, as she thought of leaving, more popped into her head. The bloodied club of Allie, along the bloodied body of Moltress. Blake attacking and terrorizing others. Yveltal bringing him to his ultimate end. Alola, her home island, being besieged and destroyed by unknown monsters. She didn't want to see anymore of it. It was pointless and terrifying and she couldn't bring herself to stand idly by as those were strong just hurt those around her. "Please stop!" As Marie shouted these words, a burst of pink energy fired out from her mouth, striking the Lucario dead on. Marie's hands were fists, knuckles turning white from how tightly they were clenched. Every part of her body seemed to be trembling and the fear was clear in her eyes. Yet still, she stood in place saying, "I-it's never been our business...each and every time...but I still - I don't want you to hurt these people any more." The Lucario seemed to pause for a moment, before lowering his arm. "You have forty-five seconds. Go now." A wave of terror that instinctually made the young Brionne want to flee went through her as he said this. This was followed by an almost sense of relief that, despite her attack, she still had a chance to escape. Yet still, saving Moltres had never been any of their business. Stopping Blake had never been any of their business. And so, whether this was her business or not, Marie simply couldn't stand by and let this happen. Marie began to walk forward, past everyone and past Lucario. Standing in the direction that he was facing, the girl, still shaking and terrified, stood her ground against the impossible foe. "I - I - I won't let you hurt these people. So, please, stop." "Ten." The girl's heart was pounding, her hands were soaked in sweat and her breathing was rapidly increasing. Yet still, she didn't move. Looking at the powerful foe before her though, the girl couldn't help but think something. "Are...are you...lonely?" "No....three." Not paying heed to his warning Marie continued. "I met someone who was strong....But no one ever fought him and so....they never had anyone to..." As Marie was trying to stammer out her thoughts, the Lucario moved forward. While the girl could see his movements, the speed at which he moved was still far greater than anything she had ever seen, by a wide margin at that. As the distance between the two was closed in almost an instant, Marie could see the Lucario lift his leg, and she knew that it had hit her in the side. While she knew these things, though, she didn't feel any pain from the attack. Her breath was knocked out of her almost immediately. Her body felt as though it had gone limp. And there was brief period of weightlessness as her eyes went wide. The next thing Marie knew, she was hurtling through the air, being launched several dozen feet before smashing back into the ground. The girl lied there, motionless for a moment, before she suddenly could feel again. A throbbing unlike any she had ever felt before was now coursing through her gut, then entire rest of her body spasming as she regained her senses. Going into a huge coughing fit, trying to regather her breath, Marie had trouble moving any part of her body as she was trying to recover from the attack. Eventually, she managed to get one hand to hold her bruised gut as the other started to claw against the ground and turn the girl over onto her stomach. Her feet pushing against the ground, attempting to but currently failing to get her back upright, she looked back to the Lucario. Though she had just been able to witness his power first hand, and the difference between them could not be any more obvious, the young Brionne's head was currently in a whirl. She could hardly make sense of anything that she was feeling, other than pain. Yet, there still seemed to be a resolved look in her eyes as she said, "i-it was...sad...So I...-" The girl stopped as she had another coughing fit before saying, "so I told him....I'd get strong...."

Even I don't have all the cakes in S. And I probably won't once I've tried (if I do) the last one. That's really how it be. As you've heard (saw), funnel cake. Others are cannoli, chocolate, chocolate ice cream cake (I thought regular chocolate cake, but that's what Google is telling me) and some sort of cookie or other in a mug or something. With how Google was after (see below), I don't know if I'd agree with it for that chocolate cake, but maybe it is. Maybe it isn't. ? Right? That's exactly what I thought. I tried Google for that as well, but the results for one were for cake pops (which it clearly is not, as it looks like a regular piece of cake) and the other had a bunch of different kinds of cakes. I'd say they're the same cake, just like you. I guess it really be like that. *shot*

Morgan vs Ross 2/2 As the girl ran away, Ross kicked her pipe back into the air, catching it as she looked at the headless skeleton making its way towards her. “How many times do I have to teach you this lesson?” As the hand reached out to her, the girl tossed her pipe at its hand yet again, following it up with a lightning blast to destroy the hand. With that out of the way, Ross called her pipe back to her hand before whistling as she walked down the tunnel. --- Morgan kept ahead of the girl, riding along on her broom, keeping an eye on the distance marker. It wasn’t until she ran into a web that she stopped. She was moving fast enough to tear the webbing down but it still surrounded her. And to make matters worse one of the spiders was crawling towards her from the ceiling of the tunnel. With a loud squeak of surprise she fired off a skull at it while she attempted to pull out of the webs. --- Starting to run down the corridor, it didn’t take Ross long to hear the sudden yelp echo throughout the caves. Getting closer, she eventually caught the sight of Morgan. Trapped in webs. With a spider coming towards her. Finding the whole situation to be a bit amusing, Ross couldn’t help but ask, “need a hand Princess?” The spider was almost upon her. However Morgan had calmed down a bit by then and, with some effort, she caused roots to erupt from the ground and tangle in the spider’s legs. As she tried to squirm out, Morgan barked at Ross, “Don’t you make fun of me. I don’t need to move to beat you!” As if to prove her point she launched another flaming skull at the girl. Throwing a bolt at the flaming skull to intercept it, Ross said, “well, I’ll hold you to it then.” With her other hand, Ross merely pointed two fingers at Morgan’s head and with a flat, “bang,” fired a bolt from her mock finger gun. --- As Ross fired her bolt, Morgan made the roots move, slamming the spider between the two of them. “Good! Because I don’t plan on losing!” Morgan summoned another flaming skull but instead of firing it off she brought it near her body, burning away the webbing to get her free. “On that, we can agree.” Throwing yet another bolt at Morgan, this one seemed to be moving slower than the ones she had fired previously, and the bolt itself was going past the side of both Morgan and her new found spider shield. However, as it passed by the spider, the bolt arced to the side of Morgan. --- Morgan freed herself from the web just as the bolt struck her. She got up to her feet shakily and brought the broom back to her side. She smirked and, releasing her root’s grip on the spider, moved towards the top of the tunnel, just above the spider, and shot out three skulls at Ross one after the other with several second gaps in between. The spider, now getting upright, was faced towards Ross. It seemed momentarily stunned as it got to its feet. --- Calling her pipe back to her hand, as the witch fired her first skull at Ross, the girl tossed her pipe to intercept the underside of the flaming skull. As the skull exploded, the pipe then spiked down and crashing into the head of the already dazed spider. Rushing forward, the girl slid under the spider’s legs and to the other side as the second skull came out and used the spider as a shield for the second skull. She couldn’t do much as she got back up on her feet, the third skull impacting into her, but as she was pushed back by the explosion let loose yet another bolt straight up at the flying witch. Morgan fell off her broom as she was hit by the lightning, landing on her back with a loud thud. “Ow, my butt.” She muttered. “You’re so rough!” Morgan declared, raising a hand. As she did roots erupted from the ground under Ross to wrap her arms and legs up. “Sorry Princess, but I’m not very delicate. Hope you understand.” With yet another thunderous boom coming from Ross’s feet, the girl sped forward towards Morgan. However, Ross’s dash was nothing more than just that. And though the speed at which she moved at had managed to allow her foot to break through the forming roots, that her foot still hit it was still true. And so, her dash had caused her to stumble and catapult forward, crashing into Morgan at the end of it. --- The two girls tumbled for a bit, ending with Ross on top. Morgan glared up at her but then giggled. “My fans are going to be so mad at you.” She muttered. She gave the girl a big smile. The reason for which would become clear soon as Morgan started creating flaming skulls above the two of them. One, two, five of them, hovering above the two. Morgan leaned up and wrapped her arms around Ross’s neck, pulling her down as she sent the skulls crashing down on them. Ross, for her part, didn’t seem phased at all by the situation. Instead as she was pulled down, she gently placed her hand on Morgan’s cheek, looking at the girl, saying, “then I suppose I should apologize to them for not being gentle.” As the skulls came crashing down, Ross did nothing to dodge them, and instead lightning to charge across her whole body and, likewise onto the Morgan who she was both pressed against and wrapped up by, with a large concentration flowing from her hand to the girl’s cheek. --- Had it not been for the virtual setting Morgan thought that perhaps that would have been a finishing move for both of them. Even with that she still felt some measure of pain from the attack. It was almost impressive if it wasn’t so… “Barbaric.” Morgan said, wincing. And then she used her magic to move the roots again, shooting out to wrap around Ross’s arms and throw her backwards off of Morgan. Who stumbled to her feet once she was freed. --- With the roots grasping at Ross’s arms, the girl didn’t couldn’t do much to avoid them and was simply pushed back away from her. Being momentarily trapped by them, the girl electrocuted her arm yet again, the pipe flying back to Ross’s hand, not reaching and instead smashing against the roots to free one of her hands. With a smirk on her face, Ross simply said, “I don’t know Princess. That last attack seemed to be stooping down to my level.” Morgan brushed hair out of her face with narrowed eyes. “Please, that was clever use of the situation. I had everything under control. Unlike you.” She smiled and threw a flaming skull straight on towards Ross. The witch was confident in part because of what she could see. The spider had crawled to the ceiling of the tunnel and, as the skull went towards Ross, the spider dropped down towards the girl. --- With her pipe being magnetized back to her hand, Ross simply tossed the pipe at the skull yet again, using the explosion of the skull to ricochet the pipe to the second set of roots, freeing her other hand. Before she could do anything else, however, Ross suddenly felt a large weight drop down onto her. While the surprise of it knocked the wind out of her momentarily, Ross couldn’t help but sigh. With the spider gnashing its teeth at her and legs ready to impale her, Ross simply lifted a hand and fired a bolt into the face of the spider, killing it. Morgan grinned as she saw the dead body of the spider atop of Ross. Its body curling up in death. Working her magic Morgan started creating more flaming skulls. Punching at the face of the spider with her lightning charged fist, Ross managed to shove the corpse of the large creature off of her enough to give her wiggle room to free herself from the spider, springing herself back to her feet. Calling the pipe back to her hand, Ross looked in Morgan’s direction raising an eyebrow. Twirling her pipe in her hand she said, “my, it looks like I’m in a real pinch here. You really aren’t unimpressive after all, Princess.” “Hmph, don’t have to tell me that.” Morgan said, though she was smiling proudly while saying it. “But it’s fine. Losing your first match to me should be an honor.” Upon saying that she thrust an arm forward and the four skulls she had created went rushing at Ross. Feeling confident she didn’t even notice the spider behind her until it stabbed into her back. --- Tossing the pipe forward to intercept the first of the skulls, Ross then used her other free hand to fire a bolt to intercept the second skull. Seeing the next two skulls coming at her, Ross knew that in order to win she didn’t have the luxury to focus solely on defense. And so, seeing the spider descend and impale Morgan, Ross charged both of her hands with lightning. Bracing herself, the girl simply took the two skulls dead on before firing a bolt straight at the witch. Morgan moved forward, attempting to get away from the spider, and right into the path of the lightning bolt. The damage was racking up on both ends and Morgan knew she’d have to end it soon. The spider didn’t seem to appreciate her running from it and she her legs got caught in it. She’d only have time for one more spell before she fell to the ground. Reinforcements were on the way, though. As she started falling they’d both hear a scratching sound as the skeletal giant’s arm and hand came scurrying across the floor. As it got within a straight shot it flung itself at Ross, hand open in an attempt to grab the girl. Morgan fired off one more skull as she fell and landed on the ground. Rushing, she called for her broom. Instead of making it come to her, though, she sent it towards Ross. Trying to sweep the girl off her feet. --- With the sounds of the skeletal arm leaping at her, Ross simply said, “your persistence is actually admirable. However,” the girl then ducked underneath the arm as it launched past her. The girl then reached up and grabbed the arm, pulling it back before swinging and tossing it towards Morgan. Thankfully for the witch, her skull had managed to intercept the arm, the two colliding with each other. Standing back up, Ross however, was not expecting the broom to launch at her, and fell forward as it struck into her shins. Breaking her fall with her hands, the girl ended up on her hands and knees, looking straight at similarly prone opponent. The spider creeping towards her, Morgan had to act fast. Recalling the broom back to her she grabbed onto it and let it move upwards, her legs dangling beneath. Though she got a sharp claw against her shin in the process. Morgan flew forward, until she was just past Ross, and had to let go of the broom with one hand to direct another skull at the prone girl. --- As Morgan flew past Ross, the girl simply smirked as she started to pick herself back up. Looking to see the girl ready to fire a skull at her, Ross had a pretty good idea at where she was going to fire. And so, rather than standing straight up, Ross began to roll forward. However, at the apex of her roll, the girl charged her arms with lightning. Pushing off the ground, the thunderous noise could be heard yet again as Ross launched herself at high speeds up and forward away from Morgan. As the girl flew forward, her feet smashed into the face of the spider, using the impact to then crouch her legs and twist, before springing back. Now facing Morgan, the girl tossed one more lightning bolt straight at the girl. Morgan let go of the broom as the lightning came for her. She fell on her feet, which were still tangled in web, and pitched to the side. From the ground she attempted to fire off another skull. Hoping to buy herself time as she formed more of her rat skeletons. --- Though Morgan had fired off the skull, Ross had already stopped caring about her defense against the girl. The flames and force of it were certainly painful, but it was nothing the girl couldn’t tough out. And so long as her HP was greater than 0, it had seemed that there was nothing to worry about with her body. As such, as the girl reached the apex of her jump and began to fall, she pulled back one hand and began to charge it. Bringing her arm up to brace herself against the skull, Ross simply let it explode into her taking the damage head on, before launching the straight bolt right at Morgan yet again. Morgan fired as soon as she could, launching another skull right at the bolt. They both exploded nearby her, causing minimal damage. But that was alright. This was her last chance. The rats swarmed Ross as soon as she landed and started to bite at her leg. Meanwhile Morgan tried to form another barricade of roots in front of her. It wasn’t a flashy way to fight but she refused to lose just because of that! --- Ross knew that between the rats and the spider there was no way that she would be able to defeat Morgan were her barrier to rise up. However, with one last flash of insight at the girl started to cast her spell, Ross called her pipe to her hand. As the wall of roots started to rise, Ross, with all of her might tossed the pipe. Just barely getting to the cavern’s roof, the pipe smashed against the rock, just above Morgan’s head, and in unceremonious fashion the pipe fell down at the girl. Morgan never saw it coming. Suddenly the scenery faded away and the two were in the basic virtual battlefield. Morgan sitting on the ground and Ross standing up. The score flashed above them Morgan: 0 Ross: 45 Winner: Ross via HP loss With the fight having ended, Ross stretched her arms out as the world around her turned to normal. Looking at her arms, the girl didn't sense the pain she had been feeling a moment ago, nor did it seem that she had acquired any lasting damage from the fight. Impressed by the whole affair, the girl then looked back over to her opponent. While Ross had felt like making a smart remark towards Morgan, she instead decided to brush off the fight that had just happened. "So, cotton candy?"

why is there 2 of the same cake on this

pumpkin pie tastes bad

: )

Morgan vs Ross Part 1/2 With the arrow showing up every few minutes, Ross figured that she might as well follow it. And so, she continued to make her way down the dark cavern, seeming to get closer and closer to what she presumed was going to be Morgan as she did. Though she had no concept of time within the virtual world, she presumed she hadn’t actually been walking without incident until something stopped her dead in her tracks. Or more accurately, something was now blocking her path. A large something. Humorlessly, Ross simply muttered, “are you serious?” Letting out a sigh, the girl pulled the demonic metal pipe she had on her back, giving it a twirl as she looked at the large, familiar looking, hunched over skeleton in her path. “Oh no. Whatever shall I do now that I can’t go forward?” Ross exclaimed with little to no emotion as she merely tossed her metal pipe at the head of the skeleton. --- When Morgan first found herself in a dirty cave she was upset. “This is no place for someone like me.” She muttered as she slowly made her way around the tunnels. She noticed the arrow indicating where her opponent was and realized that Ross must be seeing the same. A small smile appeared on her face as an idea came to mind. She followed the arrow and found that, while she got closer, so did her opponent. The witch moved slower, looking for a decently sized cavern, until finding one that would suit her needs. She moved away from it, deeper into one of the branching tunnels, and prepared. When she noticed the indicator saying that Ross had entered the cave she began her spell. Forming her skeleton giant inside of the cavern. It wasn’t quite large enough for the giant to stand fully but it would do. She giggled and took another route, looking for one of the other entrances of the cavern, as she let the skeleton do its thing. --- Ross’s pipe came sailing towards the skeleton. Who gripped its bone club and swung it at the pipe. The club itself shattered as it hit the pipe but the pipe was knocked into the wall. Clanging off of the stony surface. The giant then moved forward at a crouch, reaching for Ross with a sweeping arm motion. With a small amount of electricity charging on her hand, the pipe electrifying as well, the metal boomeranged back to Ross’s hand as the giant started swinging its arm at her. Twirling the pipe yet again, Ross’s expression didn’t seem to change as she stepped back and tossed the pipe yet again at the skeleton’s hand. The skeleton’s hand cracked as the pipe hit it. Though the skeletal fiend didn’t seem to care much about its damaged hand as it brought the other hand down on the girl. --- Meanwhile Morgan had located a tunnel that would bring her roughly behind her opponent, though it was that moment that the indicator flashed once more. --- Calling her pipe back again, as the skeleton began to swing at her with its hand yet again, Ross could only sigh as she noticed the arrow appear. Figuring it was better to just get this over with quickly, rather than safely, the girl charged her pipe with lightning as twirled it between her fingers. As the hand reached towards her, Ross simply flung her pipe as hard as she could at the skeleton’s skull once more. The skeleton’s hand struck Ross as the pipe shattered its skull. The walking bone behemoth crumbled as it did. --- Morgan, cursing the timing, rushed out of the tunnel and into the cavern. “Let’s give her a warm welcome shall we?” She called out dramatically. Her flaming skulls formed above her head, three of them, as she tossed them at her opponent’s back. --- Skidding across the ground as she was hit by the hand, Ross winced though didn’t seem to be all that bothered by the giant bone slap. Instead, calling her pipe back to her hand, as she heard the familiar voice of the witch call out through the cavern, Ross couldn’t help but sarcastically reply, “what a surprise.” Looking behind her, she wasn’t sure what kind of magic it was that Morgan had as a witch outside of skeletons. As such, flaming skeleton heads, not entirely what she was expecting but not much of a stretch. Still, curious about something and without much time to react either, the girl simply tossed her pipe at one of the heads, seeming content to stand still and take the two attacks head on. --- The pipe hit the skull and triggered it to explode upon contact. The other two skulls came in from both sides and crashed into Ross, exploding as well. “Gonna make it easy on me then? Guess that’s fine, I’ll take the win.” Morgan taunted. She produced another trio of skulls and launched them at Ross. Behind the girl the skeleton giant slowly began to reform again. --- Ross braced herself as the skulls exploded on her, wincing in pain yet again as it happened. However, as her opponent taunted her, Ross didn’t really seem to mind. Looking at her arms, seeing that despite the heat and force she just took were still completely fine Ross simply said, “interesting.” Calling her pipe back, the girl said, “well, I would hope it’d be easy on you. You’re an all powerful super witch and I’m just a girl with the magic of pipe.” Hearing the sounds of shifting behind her, and the skulls in front of her, Ross shrugged as twirled the metal with her fingers. Briskly walking forward, nonchalantly, Ross simply tossed her pipe at the side of one of the side skulls, causing the first to explode and make the pipe ricochet into the other. With the two threats to her side gone, Ross simply started to jog forward and duck under the last one as she started to close the distance between her and Morgan. --- “Make up your mind make it easy or struggle, sheesh.” Morgan said, blowing hair away from her eyes. She created yet another skull and launched it forward. As it traveled towards Ross the witch began another spell. Roots erupted from the ground under Ross and went to wrap around her. --- As the pipe returned to the girl the girl looked at skull coming at her and the roots beneath her. “I could say the same to you. Do you use bones or plants?” Not wanting to be trapped in place, the girl jumped over the roots. Tossing the pipe at Morgan, ignoring the skull altogether, the airborne Ross simply braced herself as the skull exploded on her person. --- Morgan recoiled as the pipe her her across the head. “So barbaric.” She said. Then with a smile she added “Gotcha.” Then the roots shot up near Morgan herself, wrapping around the pipe and dragging it down to the ground. As Morgan launched another skull at Ross the latter would see something large moving from the tunnel behind Morgan. --- Hanging her head down, Ross sighed again saying, “fine, fine. I was planning on taking it easy a bit but, well.” While before Ross’s hand had only been electrified, this time her whole arms started to charge up. With the lightning crackling at her fingertips the girl smiled and said, “shocked?” With one hand the girl tossed a slow moving bolt to intercept the skull, while with the second she tossed a faster, linear blast of lightning at Morgan’s torso. --- Morgan, as Ross put it, was shocked. The bolt hit her and she flew backwards and landed on the ground. “Ow ow ow ow.” Morgan muttered. “The only thing shocking is your terrible sense of humor!” Morgan called back. That’s when she noticed it. Coming from the tunnel, a massive spider, racing along its eight legs towards her. Its abdomen was bulbous and covered in fine, brown, hair. Each of its eight legs seemed to end in somewhat of a point and the two in front were somewhat thicker than the others. Its eight, black, eyes shone with whatever light these tunnels had and it had a pair of fang-like protrusions at the front of its head. Morgan fired off another skull towards Ross as she outstretched her other hand. A broom materialized on it and, as Morgan gripped it, the item floated into the air and dragged her up to her feet. Morgan hopped on it and zoomed to the side as the spider launched sticky webbing where she had been standing. --- At that moment Ross heard noise behind her as the Skeleton giant, missing an arm, swung its hand down towards her. “Oh. Huh.” That was about the extent of Ross’s outward reaction as the giant spider raced towards her and Morgan. Though her expression didn’t change, that it was here at all was certainly an unsettling feeling and the girl wasn’t exactly eager to get into a combat with it. Of course, she had other problems as a giant skeletal hand swung at her, Ross simply stuck her hand up and fired another blast of lightning to destroy the hand before it hit her. She didn’t do much about the flaming skull, though the instant it exploded on her, Ross simply fired yet another bolt of lightning from the smoke straight at Morgan. Despite missing a hand, and most of an arm, the skeleton giant continued to come down on Ross. Trying to crush her with its weight alone. --- Morgan sent out a skull to try and block the lightning. However the lightning was too fast and her skull, while it did block, exploded right in front of her. She struggled to keep the broom flying and in fact bounced off the ground once. However she continued on, firing another skull haphazardly towards Ross’s legs, and flew into one of the tunnels. Leaving Ross with the spider and skeleton. Once she moved a couple dozen feet into the tunnel she hopped off the broom and formed a weak barricade of roots. Taking a breath Morgan leaned up against the wall, looking through small holes in the barricade at what Ross does next. --- “Your persistence isn’t charming.” Charging her lightning again, Ross simply punched forward, lightning firing into the torso of the giant skeleton to blow a hole through it. As the skull was sent toward Ross as well brought her other hand to block the flames of the skull. As such, the skull still exploded close to her and she was still caught in part of the blast. Waving her hand to waft the heat away, and seeing Morgan run away and leaving her to fend for herself against the spider. “Also, not very charming.” Cracking her knuckles, Ross simply let loose another blast of lightning into the spider. The lightning hit the spider and there was a crackling noise as the creature’s exoskeleton cracked slightly. It turned towards Ross and started scurrying in her direction. Launching out webbing from their abdomen. --- Morgan laughed and called out through the barricade. “All fair in love and war! We gotta put on a show don’t we?” --- Charging both of her hands with lightning Ross merely grumbled to herself as she tossed one bolt of lightning at the web, side stepping into the direction she had thrown it in, while throwing yet another bolt at the spider yet again. The spider paused for a moment before coming at Ross again. One of its front legs raised so that, when it reached her in a few more moments, it would bring it down in a sharp stab. --- Morgan, crouching down now, smiled to herself as she started forming another skeleton. Though this one, instead of a giant, resembled more of a rat. She created three of these creatures before sending them through the holes in the barrier and towards Ross. Where they would crawl up her leg and bite her. --- Without any real fear in her stance as the spider made its way to her, Ross simply brought up her hand as she charged it with lightning. Meeting the leg halfway, the demon hunter struck the leg with her palm and used her fingers to grab onto the leg as it stabbed through her hand. With a spider leg stabbing into her hand, Ross merely used her lightning charged hand to electrocute the leg while using her other hand to fire a blast of her lightning directly into the spider’s face. Though her hand was in great pain, Ross didn’t seem to mind much, but suddenly looked down as she felt a sharp pain going into her leg. “Rats? Really?!” --- Morgan giggled as she saw the rats do their job. But the spider’s actions left a lot to be desired. The electrocution seemed to just about fell the giant beast. It crumpled down onto the ground and twitched. The rats continued to bite at Ross’s leg. Standing behind the barricade Morgan concentrated on trying to re-raise her skeletal giant. --- With her now aware of them, Ross didn’t seem to care about the rats any longer. In fact, the rats would be met with a sudden great deal of pain themselves, as they went to bite Ross’s legs. Letting the lightning flow across her whole body, when their teeth sank into her, they would suddenly be shocked as electricity would flow through them. Now beginning to run towards the witch, Ross let loose two bolts of lightning. One was directed towards the barrier that Morgan had erected, while the other was aimed at her pipe, stuck beneath another set of roots. --- Morgan mounted her broom again as she saw the girl coming towards her. The barrier, though not damaged usually by electricity, had a hole blown out of it by the impact. “You could at least tell me how impressed you are, sheesh, it’s like fighting a mannequin.” Reaching forward she spread the hole in the roots a bit more and sent a skull flying towards Ross. --- In a flat, deadpan tone Ross just shouted back to Morgan, “I’m very impressed.” Continuing forward, the girl called her now freed pipe back to her hand. Shooting the flaming skull with lightning, the two attacks exploding on impact with each other, Ross then tossed her pipe with great force through the hole and towards Morgan. --- “Hey, you don’t mean that do you!” Morgan complained. She dove off of her broom to avoid the pipe, hitting her head against the wall in the process. Grumbling as she got back up about how lame that was she waved a hand and the barricade of roots unraveled and shot at Ross in a trio of spear-like objects. --- “Well, you’re not unimpressive.” With both of Ross’s hand charging with lightning, the girl fired the bolt towards one of the spikes, destroying it in the process. Twisting her body as they came towards her, the girl took one spike directly with other grazing her. Wincing in pain, Ross stumbled a bit as the spike hit her, but as she knew that the injury within her was merely temporary, she hardly seemed to care. Furthermore, though both of Ross’s hands were electrified, she had only shot one bolt. The reason for this soon became obvious as the pipe that the girl had just flung was now coming straight back to Ross, and aiming to slam into the back of Morgan. --- “Wish I could say the same about you, but so far-oof!” Morgan stumbled forward as the pipe made contact with the small of her back. “Ow! Rude!” Morgan said, launching a couple more skulls at Ross as she mounted her broom again. --- As Ross heard the skeleton hand come from behind her, the girl merely had a small smirk on her face as lightning began to crackle more intensely around her whole body. Throwing one bolt to intercept the first skull, the girl simply braced herself against the second as she said, “well, all’s fair.” Before the smoke of the explosion could clear, and the hand of the skeleton could reach her, a sound akin to thunder could be heard. In an instant, Ross had closed the distance between her and Morgan, body still electrified. “Isn’t that right?” With a lightning charged fist, Ross then punched at Morgan’s gut. --- Morgan doubled over as she was thrown backwards by the punch. She winced and reached out for her broom, which zoomed its way to her. Climbing on board she waited until the giant skeleton crouched down and reached for Ross again before she started taking off down the tunnel. As the two fought the giant skeleton, now mostly formed again, reached out to grab Ross.

Couldn't you get around its restrictions by sending Trap Trick? It technically only has the one effect based on the Japanese numbered text, I believe.

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"This place is haunted! Get up, get up, get up!" Shannon barely managed to mumble as the frantic cries woke her up. She rubbed her eyes and yawned, seemingly unbothered, as Octavia continued. "I-I saw this weird pale girl walk through a wall, she just poofed on through it! She was wearing a weird dress, it definitely didn't fit in here! This sorta thing isn't supposed to happen. How can this place be haunted but Hearthome be totally-not-haunted with everything that happened there?" "Hey, I thou-" Shannon tried to cut in as she sat up, only for the other girl to continue rambling. "Oh god. I heard some of the others I think, they were in the direction of the kitchen. Are they okay? Do you think they might be in trouble?" "I doubt it, just breathe," Shannon got her word in edgewise, nodding to herself as she took the reins of the conversation, "First, do you see anything out of the ordinary at this time?" Octavia frowned for a moment, her hands fidgeting with each other as she shook her head, "Not right now, but there was definitely a strange girl. She just poofed her way through a wall! Like there was nothing there!" Shannon looked at the dragon standing over her shoulder, silently watching. Strange. If she couldn't see Luster, then she couldn't see spirits. Right? "Would you believe me if I told you it was likely a card?" She just took a deep breath as she shrugged her shoulders lightly, "Maybe it was, but I think I would've noticed if there was someone there playing cards to just... Mess with people. There was no one else around... "Understandable... But is it not more plausible to believe an object that people place their hopes in would have a spirit than a ghost appearing?" Octavia shook her head quickly, "Nope, this is totally a ghost." She crossed her arms, a little huff escaping her as she did, "If it is a spirit, then... What's the difference? They're functionally the same right now, we should still be worried about the others!" "Why, the spirits of cards can't hurt anyone, silly." Shannon giggled softly, "Even if you can see them, they can't touch anything... So why would anyone be in danger?" She frowned for a moment, her hand reaching up to her cheek as she mumbled, "Are you sure about that? If you're wrong..." She glanced back at the door, a little sigh escaping her, "...I hope you aren't wrong, it really did sound like someone had left their room..." "I suppose you wouldn't believe me, but I have a spirit that follows me around," Shannon added, motioning to the air beside her, "Of course, you're welcome to believe I am simply insane... But I'll tell you that Hotaru has a giant zombie dragon following her, too. Maybe she's the source of the spirit?" She let out a little sigh as she rubbed at her head, "...I can't tell if that's honesty or bull, but that's basically the story of the entire day. Nothing makes sense here, but that doesn't really..." She leaned against the door, slowly slumping down some as she did, "If she's the source, will they be okay? Or will those things try to attack and hurt people?" "I can confirm that neither Luster nor that other dragon can interact with anyone... After all, they are spirits. Unless we have a psychic who can also see and call spirits, then there should be no harm posed." Shannon smiled, patting her bed, "Now, as you said, it has been a day for sure. You should get some rest, too. I'm sure no one will be hurt, come morning... And we can try to find more about it then. Does that sound alright?" Octavia took a deep breath as she pushed herself up to her feet, her legs trembling for a moment as she did. She started to drag herself back to her bed, plopping down onto it facedown as she sighed out, "...Fine, we can wait for tomorrow. If they're dead, I'm running off. I don't wanna live in a place that'll kill me overnight." "Don't worry. I am absolutely certain we'll be fine," Shannon shot a sharp glance to Luster as Octavia laid down, shortly following suit, "Absolutely certain."

Octavia»»————-　♡　————-«« It didn't seem like anyone was there at first, aside from some vague noises coming from the direction of the kitchen. Thanks to her earlier trip for snacks, she felt fairly confident that was where those noises were coming from, at least, that general direction. It wasn't too much to assume someone wanted a snack, right? She let out a little sigh of relief as she was about to shut the door behind her, but... There was someone outside of their door. Octavia couldn't really place who that was near the end of the hallway, only the general size of it and... That it wasn't really paying any attention to her. She slipped out of the room just a bit to get a closer look at the figure, only to notice how absolutely pale it was... And that it looked like a young girl. It definitely wasn't one of the others, she didn't look a thing like anyone else here. She was almost comically out of place. It was only when Octavia got close enough to notice that she could see through the girl that she started to back away a bit, her legs shaking a little bit. And then the girl walked through a wall, leaving Octavia alone... Though not for long as she let out a loud gasp and quickly ran back towards the door to the room she was staying in. She quickly slammed the door behind her, possibly waking up Shannon as she let out a loud squeak, "This place is haunted! Get up, get up, get up!" She leaned against the door as she took a deep breath, her eyes closing for a moment as she grumbled, "I-I saw this weird pale girl walk through a wall, she just poofed on through it! She was wearing a weird dress, it definitely didn't fit in here! This sorta thing isn't supposed to happen. How can this place be haunted but Hearthome be totally-not-haunted with everything that happened there?" Her voice was going a mile a minute as she rambled, her arms crossed with her hands rubbing at her upper arms slowly, "Oh god. I heard some of the others I think, they were in the direction of the kitchen. Are they okay? Do you think they might be in trouble?"