Setting: Main Room of Chaos Castle: Conference Room, Time: ???
"Alright. I guess it is time I tell my top agents my plan. After all, I will need you to know so that you may use your power to its full extent." Lord Chaos then smiled.
"Okay, tell us, my lord," Tech answered in a respectful tone that made Skystice want to throw up.
"As you know, I'd like to have Plit all to myself." Lord Chaos then sat down, letting them take a moment to understand what they just heard.
"What do you mean?" Skystice asked as Lord Chaos let out a small chuckle.
"I can't tell you much. I, too, have a leader of my own. If you didn't know that, of course. It is his orders, and I follow them!"
"Who is he?" Tech asked, wondering why would Lord Chaos say that.
"I will not tell the name to one of my lower forms, for you do not need to know. But all you do need to know is that we're the Seraphin Seven. Anyway, I basically want to kill everyone in the world!!!" Lord Chaos grew excited as he watched Tech and Skystice just look at each other.
"Why?"
"I told you. It was an order! There are several reasons; I’m not to tell you. I'm also in a race against someone to see who can get Plit first. But you don't need to know any more; all you need to know is that I'm the leader. Got it? I could kill you."
"N-No sir. We understand," Tech replied as Skystice nodded. Skystice was boiling with anger from the way that Lord Chaos was talking to them. He treated them like... trash.
"Can we go now?" Skystice asked as Lord Chaos nodded a yes.
"Go ahead. I've got other matters to attend to."
"Alright then," Tech replied softly as he and Skystice then began to walk away. "Call for us when you're ready for us to go."
Tech and Skystice shut the door behind them as Lord Chaos then began to laugh maniacally.
"Yes, and when I get my hands back on this ridiculous planet, I will use it to destroy them all. Especially him..." He then heard a ringing as a screen behind him started to flicker to life.
"Ah, Lord Chaos." The figure was a male, and his voice sounded somewhat pleased.
"Hm, hello Zyle. What is the meaning for calling me? Finally given up?"
"Hehe, you amuse me, Chaos. You amuse me greatly..."
"Whatever. Get on with it. What is your reason for calling?"
"Well, I just wanted to let you know that I know you're betraying us. I will tell him, and you'll end up dead!" Lord Zyle paused as Chaos's smiled a pleasing smile.
"Hehe, whatever makes you think this?"
"I know you're going to use our plan to destroy him, and take over the demon world. I know of all your plans!"
"You assume the worst of me, Zyle. That's what I like about you..."
"Shut up, you fool. I know what you're planning!"
"Do you have proof?"
"Well, no. I will find some though, and when I do, you're going down."
"Haha! Zyle, you are finally trying to eliminate me from our little contest? Haha, you are ruthless. You'll do anything to get what you want! Hahah..." Lord Chaos laughed as the man on the screen had an angered look on his face.
"Shut up. You don't stand a chance... If I were allowed to, I'd kill you."
"Again, I laugh at you. It is funny the way you speak." Lord Chaos spoke in an extremely annoying voice as Zyle grew very angry.
"Ah... Well, that's all I had to say. Goodbye for now. Just remember, I will find a way."
"You really amuse me at times. Is that why you called? Just to make me laugh? Perhaps I should hire you as my personal clown... Hahah!" Lord Chaos watched Zyle flick a button as the screen went blank. "He is weak compared to me..."
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Time: 3:53 PM
Venoma stood up away from the wall, and held his arms up. He put his hands together, and closed his eyes.
"She shouldn't be that hard! For Plit's sake, please let me be able to do this." He then put his hands together as he prayed.
Venoma's eyes started to glow a light blue, the same color as Teela's fur. He then concentrated only on her, something he could easily do. He visualized her as he then felt as if he were being split into two people.
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Time: ???
Teela's eyes were glowing a navy blue color, her head pounding horribly, but the pain meant nothing to her. She couldn't feel it anymore, and her mind was practically asleep then. It was like the only functions of her brain were her heartbeat, and automatic parts that it controlled. She couldn't have been out completely. She dropped the two small, golden dice from her hands as they hit the ground with a small 'tick' noise.
"Ah, Venoma... A f-friend..." Teela whispered weakly as she just gave in to the pain that was in her head. She didn't fight it, because she could tell it was Venoma. He wouldn't do anything to harm her...
He was trying to give her strength by coming to her, himself.
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Time: 3: 54 PM
"AH!!!" Venoma screamed as his entire body started to shake and glow. He was literally feeling as if he was being ripped apart. He felt his mind being twisted as he saw visions inside his head that were not his own. Venoma then felt the pain that was not of his own a few seconds before. He felt the something clasping on...
He opened eyes that were not his own, and to his shock, he had actually done it. He had managed to mind control Teela...
"Wow..." He, erm, Teela... then tried to move. "This is weird. Well, I've been here... mentally, so, I should be able to come here physically. How do I get back in my own body? She must be in a lot of pain. I wonder what caused this..." Venoma/Teela muttered through Teela's mouth, the pain not really interesting Venoma's mind. He had managed to get Teela's body to move, and even that was a complex thing to do. For some reason the pain hurt him, but he wasn't feeling it like Teela was. The pain then hit him as he felt Teela's body tremble. It hurt as he tried to overcome it. He managed to subdue the pain by trying to ignore it, but it wouldn't be long before it engulfed him as it had Teela.
"I am weak..." Venoma muttered through Teela's moth, still feeling weird with not being in his own body. Venoma closed Teela's eyes as he searched for Teela's mind, and for some sort of connection or something.
I wonder what happened to Teela's brain... Venoma thought as he had a great idea. Hey Teela? Where are you, and what are you doing?
Hehe, I'm alright. Your body is weird... How can you live with such a huge tail and claws?
AH!!! YOU'RE ME?! Well, that would make sense. I guess since my mind is here, yours went there. The pain you're feeling takes awhile to affect me when it didn't hit my mind directly. What is it? What happened?
I'll be right there.
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Time: 3:53 PM
Karma had been running through the forest, followed by Reema and Ludwig.
"I hope she's alright!" Karma had a worried tone in her voice and a scared expression on her face as Ludwig looked a little confused.
"How come you're this way around her, and you treat me like trash?!" Ludwig asked, running slower as his breathing was starting to blur his sentences. He then stopped completely, his wound below his lung stinging horribly while it throbbed. He put his hands over it gently as if it would secure it. The wound was a hole right below his lung, and it wasn't that big. It had bled tons earlier, and it could have cost him his life if it had not been tended to.
"Because it's not her fault I'm trapped in one place!" Karma shouted as she stopped as well.
"Stop it, you two," Reema demanded as she kept looking from Karma to Ludwig to in front of her. "Lets go! We have to rescue Teela!"
"AS IF YOU ACTUALLY CARE!" Karma shouted as she turned towards Ludwig. They then began bickering at each other. Reema sighed as she just looked at them, and started to run. She was going with or without them...
"WAIT UP!" Ludwig shouted as he ran past Karma.
"WHERE ARE YOU GOING?" Karma yelled through clenched teeth and a growl. She had her fists clenched as well as she tore after Ludwig.
"AHH!" He yelled as Karma ran faster. Karma caught up to the two of them, and ran right past them. They then continued running until they ended up running right through the bushes and to the spot where Teela had been fighting.
"Oh no..." Karma whispered as she looked around.
"Where is she?" Reema then looked around as well, realizing no one was here. Ludwig then looked on the ground, and found there were no footprints or drag marks.
"What about Venoma?" Ludwig asked, knowing that the two could talk to themselves inside their heads.
"Yes, but what if he already tried?" Reema asked, a great amount of uncertainty in her voice.
"I don't know..." Karma whispered as she then looked up to the sky. "Teela had said that if you're not sure about anything, don't do it. But I'm not going to sit around and wait for her to come to me!" Karma then had an angered look in her eyes.
"Well, if she was fighting, and she lost, they probably took her to the castle," Reema replied simply, her voice sounding as if she knew the answer for sure.
"Well, I feel certain about that," Ludwig replied squeakily as Karma nodded.
"I guess it's our best bet..." Karma then smiled. "Don't worry, Teela. You risked your life for mine, I'll risk mine for yours. Equal balance..."
"Let's go." Reema then started to run towards the castle as Ludwig rolled his eyes.
"AND WHAT IF WE GET CAUGHT?" He then sighed as no one listened to him. "Oh great, more running!!!"
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Time: 4:01 PM
"I guess he would like to come back to his own body. I can think clearly, see clearly! Wow, I never knew living could be so wonderful..." Teela, in Venoma's body of course, said as her mind felt so free. "Alright, I guess I'm overdoing it."
Teela then closed Venoma's eyes as Venoma's body flickered with light and disappeared.
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Time: ???
"Uh, Teela! Where are you?" Venoma struggled, trying to break through Teela's chains that bound her body to the wall. Venoma then stopped jerking as Venoma saw himself, his body, materialize out of the air.
"Woah, I don't have my own powers! I feel this odd energy going through me, like I can make things move! And hovering, and, oh wait, that's it..." Teela said with Venoma's voice, Venoma feeling freaked.
"Is that what I sound like?"
"Yeah. I sound cool! I guess you want your own body back?"
"Yeah, but these things attached to your ankles are stopping the pain that was going through you."
"Why are you not feeling the pain I was feeling?"
"My mind has been through training to stop pain like this. I know that staying completely still and breathing as little as possible will lower the pain level. You should try it sometime."
"Yeah, so is that why you're struggling so much?" Teela said through Venoma's body, she really thinking this was weird.
"Yeah, the only bad part is, you can't use any magic or energy when these things are attached to you," Venoma stated as Teela moved Venoma's claws through the air.
"Did you know that your own body, by itself, is using some sort of energy other than normal energy?"
"No, that's just you. You must be continuing my sort of hold on these two guys we captured." Venoma smiled, Teela thinking she had an awesome, cheerful, go lucky smile.
"Really? That's cool. You look like you're in pain..."
Teela then walked over to her own body, and hugged her body. The two then began to glow, eyes closed. Teela was returned to her own body, her eyes were fully open now. She wasn't in pain anymore.
"Are you sure we're back to normal?" Teela asked through her own body as Venoma was still hugging her. "Um, hello? We're back to normal! I think..." Venoma then stepped away, his entire face red.
"Um, yeah. I'm all me, and you seem like all you. Did you... ah, never mind." Venoma then stepped back another step as he sat down on the cold bench.
"What?" Teela asked smiling as she then tried to pull her hands away from the chains. "Ah, these things are irritating."
"Here." Venoma then drew back a claw
as he swiped it past the chains and the two metal bands. There was a loud
clank as Venoma held his claws up in pain. "Ah... That was a stupid move."
"What were you going to say?" Teela
insisted as Venoma sighed.
"Did you see any of, I don't know, my past or something? When we switched, I saw some of your past. You had a nice life, at least from what I saw." Venoma then paused as Teela looked at him as if he were somehow not himself.
"No, I didn't see anything. Why, is there some terrible secret you're hiding?" Teela then realized the red energy glowing around her. It was pulsing, like a heartbeat, still...
"Why are you glowing that unusual red color?" Venoma finally noticed as Teela shrugged the best she could.
"I don't know. It doesn't matter though. What did you want to say?"
"Ah, nothing."
"Fine then." Teela then paused as she smiled. " Momentine..."
"You actually remembered that?"
"Yes, I remember. If it weren't for you, I'd probably still be in a mind sleep or whatever I was in."
"What were you thinking when you were in that sleep, or what you'd like to call it?"
"I don't know. It was practically nothing! Complete silence... until your voice echoed through my head. It sort of awakened me, and saved me from myself."
"Oh, alright then. You're-"
"AHHH!!!" Teela then began to feel the plasma pains she was feeling earlier. "IT'S GOT ME!!! THE PLASMA PAIN! IT'S FROM THE BATTLE I FOUGHT EARLIER!!!"
"I don't think what is wrong with you earlier had to do with any battle... It would have died down, and I don't think anything physical, without severe pain or enough blood loss, could have practically put you in some sort of coma-like thing!"
" AHHH!!! THIS HURTS!!!!" Teela screamed as Venoma didn't know what to do...
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Time: 3:58 PM
Karma, Ludwig, and Reema were running towards the castle, a little clumsily too.
There were no bushes or anything around the castle, it was just a huge clearing with the castle built right in the center. The castle was towering, and looked as though it guarded something in particular. Perhaps Lord Chaos just had a fancy for huge buildings, or he really had a lot of stuff to put in the castle...
"Do we just run in and attack, then?" Ludwig asked Reema as Reema turned to look at him.
"What? Why do you look to me for the answer? Why am I suddenly the leader?" Reema barked as Ludwig shrugged. "I can't do this!"
"Reema, don't freak. We'll do something!" Karma cheered Reema on as Reema looked at her as if she were stupid.
"I'm tired..." Reema complained as she then looked around. They were behind one of the castle walls that seemed to purposefully tower above them.
"Well, I wonder where the dungeon would be..." Karma asked as Ludwig looked around.
"Judging by the structure, I would say that it's on the ground level, here," Ludwig mentioned as Karma nodded.
"But what if he's wrong?" Reema asked as Karma rolled her eyes.
"Do you just like to be negative?"
"No, I just have a life worth living."
"Everyone deserves to live..." Ludwig muttered to himself as he then shook his head in disagreement to what he had just said. "No, scratch that. Most people deserve to live. I guess."
"Should we climb in through a window?" Karma asked as Reema rolled her eyes.
"No! We should go through the door!" Reema hissed as Karma and Ludwig started to laugh.
"Well, I guess the window it is," Karma noted as she then looked around. On the wall away from them, there was a glass window that was completely black. It was odd, the way it didn't shimmer and gleam when the sun beat down on it. The window just seemed to eat away the sunlight because it acted as if there were no sunlight at all...
"Let me handle this!" Reema then walked over to the window, drew back her fist, and punched the window. Amazingly, her fist went right through it. "AHH! I CAN'T PULL IT OUT!" Reema yelled as Karma and Ludwig rushed over to her. Karma grabbed Reema by the tail and began to pull.
"Well? Are you going to help?" Karma asked Ludwig as Ludwig then grabbed Karma by the tail. "Never mind..."
Karma then started to pull harder as Ludwig went over to Reema's arm and started to yank. Reema struggled as the window seemed to be eating her arm.
"On the count of-"
"THREE!!!" Reema yelled as they all pulled. Reema's arm was pulled from the window as it shook and trembled. Small ripples sped down it as if it were a liquid of some sort.
"What is that?!" Karma questioned as Ludwig picked up a single blade of grass. He threw it onto the black, oozy liquid as it was absorbed without a trace.
"I think it just absorbs things. That would save time from cleaning..." Ludwig muttered the last part as Karma let out a small trifle of a giggle.
"Yeah, so it would seem," Reema answered as she backed up two long, gliding footsteps away from the window. She then ran towards the window and disappeared behind it, her axe the last thing seen...
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Time: ???
"WHERE DOES IT HURT?" Venoma asked as he panicked, adrenaline racing through him as he shook with excitement and fear.
"EVERYWHERE!!!" Teela replied as the glowing color grew more and more visible. Teela was practically turning red as the energy engulfed her.
"WHY ARE YOU GLOWING? WHAT DO I DO?!" Venoma started to run around as Teela started to shake violently. She shrugged, not having any clue as to what was happening. Teela then started to radiate silvery color as Venoma just stood there, unable to do anything except watch her suffer. Teela's silver color then faded down to her ankles and stayed at her wrists. Her entire arm flashed as her hands then started to liquidate into a silver substance. Her ankles started to dissolve into a silver substance as well. It was almost like... water, although it did seem like pure energy.
Teela's wrists and ankles were the only things that melted as she slid right through the chains and silver bands. Her hands then reformed as Teela sank to her knees. She was breathing heavily, her heart pounding against her heart.
"What's happening?" Teela questioned as she looked to the floor, her entire body in some sort of pain. It stung, and in some places it seemed as if she had landed in fire or even molten lava. But no matter what, she only wanted to stay still, to hope it would subdue the pain.
"I don't know what to do..." Venoma stated as he knelt down beside her. "Just don't die... Please. You promised me...." Teela looked around as her head felt like it was slowly being melted away. Her vision became a mere light as everything around her seemed black. "Where does it hurt? Are you all right?" Venoma asked as Teela shook her head; even that sent a jar to her brain.
"I-I don't feel so well... I think I'm gonna hurl..." Teela then put her hands over her stomach, the pain still rushing through her head. She felt it coming up her throat, the feeling of dread you would receive if you were going to throw up. She could feel it creeping up her esophagus, that strange feeling you get like something is crawling up your throat.
"Maybe we should leave..."
"No, I want you to go..."
"But I can't just leave you!"
"You must... Go rescue Vara." Teela then looked at her own two hands. They were her light blue, four-fingered hands. There was no silver on them, and it seemed as if nothing had ever happened. But Teela knew something had happened, because she had practically melted and turned into a silver liquid of some sort.
Venoma stood up and looked down at her, still not understanding anything going on. "What about-"
"GO!"
"Ah, this is way too fast for my pace... Alright then. But you'd better remember your promise!"
Teela then nodded as Venoma ran around the corner to the huge metal door. When he walked away, Teela did throw up, but it wasn't food. She threw up a pile of green, liquidy blood, her body turning transparent and some of it completely vanishing from sight.
"Ah, what's happening to me?! Thi-" Teela then fell facefirst, her cheek landing in the sticky green substance. Her body turned completely transparent, and it flickered until she became completely invisible. She didn't move, her head pounding. She then lost consciousness. Everything disappeared into complete blackness. The only possible strand of hope was if Teela remembered anything at all.