Working With Phantoms

Ankle-Deep in Gold

June 25th

Madran's group arrived back in the palace via the Velvet Room door. Once they got out and divided into the two groups, Madran looked around.

"Oh, finally, Plague joins. Um, Rumor, have fun!"

"Sure thing. How close are we?"

"Very. All we need is to find a way to the center, and I think we're golden."

"Cool. Well, have fun!"

Philemon's group then ran ahead while Madran corralled her group.

"Ok, so we have me, Plague, Beauty, Clown, and Excite, right?"

The other four members nodded.

"Ok, nice. Well, today, we should go down that stairwell by the fourth section of the vault. It should-"

Madran then looked over to see another layer of the vault aligning itself to allow them through.

"Ok, well, onto the fifth layer!"

Madran then led her group down to the next layer and looked around. After a quick scan, she saw that there were a few shadowy presences around the corner and walked with her group until they ran into two elite shadows.

"Oh, um, oh dear."

"See? I was right, they would come."

"Sure, fine. Now, all that's left is to kill them!"

The two shadows then transformed into two new shadows which were both alike. They both appeared to be tall, muscular men with green skin, ghost-like arms that swirled with odd energy, a white tunic that had ropes laced in a cross pattern across their chests, blue pants with a white sash, no shoes, long horns that came from their head, and lengthy black hair that went to their sashes. Madran then began a scan.

"Ok, these shadows are both Take-Minakata, a deity who is very bad at sumo-wrestling! Take-Minakata is weak to Psi, reflects Eiha and Zio, and resists all gun and physical attacks. Hey, Excite, let's do this!"

Rosana nodded and held her hand to her mask.

"Boudica, el tiempo es ahora!"

She then summoned Boudica, who tried to hit both of the Take-Minakatas with a Mapsiodyne, but missed both.

"Oh, um, crap! Sahasrara, come!"

Madran then brought forth Decarabia and hit one of the Take-Minakatas with a psychokinetic hit, which knocked it over. She then tried to repeat the same with the other shadow, but it evaded and knocked Decarabia back into his chakra with a Vicious Strike.

"Ok, this is getting annoying!"

"I got this! Nefertiti!"

Sheila then summoned Nefertiti, who hit the left Take-Minakata with a Marin Karin. Then, he utilized a Tarukaja on Rosana. After that, the other Take-Minakata hit the group twice with a Maziodyne due to it knocking Suga over.

"Crap, Plague's down! Ajna, go!"

Madran then summoned Attis, who utilized a Mediarama on the party. Then, Suga arose and hit the shadows with a Magarudyne, which one of them avoided.

"Oh, seriously, this is getting obnoxious! Fwoosh, can that mummy man do anything about this?"

"Um, maybe! Attis, attack!"

Attis then zipped behind the Take-Minakata that wasn't under the effects of a Marin Karin and hit him with a rather powerful fire attack. Then, Rosana hit the same shadow with a Shibaboo.