Roleplay:Taken

This roleplay is invite only! Sorry!

Overview
The Mythic Knights awake in a strange new land, locked in a room with several of their friends. They are told that they will be returned home, if they take on one task; to infiltrate a government building, and obtain the documents inside. Sounds simple enough, right? But things quickly begin to take a turn, when the people of this country reveal what they have learned in the thousands of years they have been exiled away from the rest of the world.

Participants
NeoExlucky

Timesmashaperil

Zapor888

Saren

MaverickHunterSigma (Sorry.)

Involved Characters
Neo Tranquil

Fey Wayward

Zero Evol

Celia Takashi

Leah Dubio

Trinity Moon

Kala the Genie

Echo Radon

Knave Veron

Delta Radon

Piano the Panda

Rubie Igneele

Clock-Watch

Hikari the Cat

Zapor the Hedgehog

Zak the Kirby

Lexi the Hedgehog

Octavia Shiragate

B.A.I.R.C the Gizoid

Saren Arcturias

Part 1: Awakening
The team awakens in a dimly lit room. Everyone's collective heads hurting as if a brick was just dropped on top of them. The Room had a door and a window, but the door looked to be made out of Steel, and the window had bars all over it, making it nearly impossible to fit your hand through. Then, the last thing of notice, was the fact that everyone's weapons were missing.

"Ow..." Neo moaned as he got up. "Is everyone okay?"

Clock woke up. "Oh man... What happened?" He looked around and saw Neo. "Oh, you're... Uh. That guy from the Station Square incident! I vaguely remember you. Then again, I've been a little fuzzy on memory for the past few weeks. I've been through a lot."

Another person woke up. He was a cat with golden fur, and he wore a suit, now somewhat dirtied. Looking around, he saw... ''him. ''That stupid automaton!

Zapor woke up. "Ungh...Grape Juice, quit tying me up..I'm sorry for calling you a rasin." Zapor moaned, half awake.

Zak groaned. "Nggh...Where are we? More importantly, why does my head hurt?"

"Not again..!" Saren grumbled, noting the lack of his scythe and his hooded trench coat.

"Where...are we?" Fey asked.

Neo looked around. "A prison of some kind?"

Trinity grabbed for her weapons, which were missing and looked to the door. "Hold on," She noted, flames gathered around her fists and she launched a long blast of flame at the metal door, for quite a long time. After a while she stopped, and a rune showed on the door, which seemed to negate all of Trinity's flames.

"That's not gonna do anything." A male voice said from outside. "You're just wasting your energy. Honestly, I don't even know why you all are here, you aren't gonna do anything for this war."

"What..ow..war?" Lexi asked, her head throbbing

"How could you not know about the civil war?" The male voice said again. "You people..."

"Civil war?" Zak asked.

"Yeah, the civil war." The voice told them. "God you people are ignor-"

"Guard, if you please." Another voice said. The sound of the door unlocking echoed throughout the cell as a male panda in large armor entered the room. He looked around at the group before him. "Hello."

"Uh, hi?" Zapor said, seeming confused.

The golden cat was relieved. Finally, he could understand why he was in the middle of nowhere with... ''Him. ''"Alright," he said, "who are you, and why am I here!?"

"My name is Piano the Panda." He said. "You've all been chosen for a very specific reason."

"Which would be?" Fey asked.

"There is a war going on in this country." Piano explained calmly. "The government was recently overthrown by a group of rebels known as the triad. We're aiming to put the royal family back into power, but so far we've been losing the war. There are a set of documents located in an enemy building but our soldiers need help. The people of Otogi do not have the powers that you all do."

"What do you mean?" Neo asked.

"Your...special type of magic that you all have..." Piano tried to explain.

"You mean kinesis?" Neo stated.

"Yes...kinesis. The people in Otogi do not have this ability, instead we have...other talents. Your abilities would help our effort greatly." Piano told them.

"What do we get out of it?" Neo asked.

"If you finish this mission, we will send you all back home, no problem at all. However, if you refuse we will leave you all in here. To die. Your kinsis cannot break the barrier and there is no escape. We will simply wait until you all starve to death." Piano told the group in a very cool manner. "So, will you help us?"

Neo looked over the group. "Seems you haven't given us a choice..."

"Wait, how did you even find us and knock us out?" Zapor asked. "And if this is your way of getting people to do stuff for you.....it's working."

"Don't be a pansy Zapor.." Saren grumbled before looking at Piano. "Y'know, I don't exactly take kindly to being kidnapped, stripped of my gear and coat and being coerced into doing someone's dirty work.. Bottom line, watch your back.."

"Or what? You think your kinesis means anything to me? That your so much more skilled than I am? You're walking among Giants, we could kill you with a single blow. You only killed the demon because you had help, if it wasn't for..." He stopped himself. "Come with me."

He turned around and walked out of the room, leading the group out into a large stone corridor, filled with guards. One guard in particular was quite young looking, only about 16 years old, and carried a giant sword on his back. His armor was sometime of scale mail, a brassy color and his purple wolf ears twitched as he saw the group come around.

"Who are these dudes?" Lexi asked.

"Don't know, don't care." Saren replied.

Piano continued to lead them through the fort until they came to a command room with a map on the table. "You're going here." Piano pointed to a large building on the map. "At the top is a set of documents which will inform us of the plans the government has set up. We need those. Get out with the papers and everyone left after that will be sent home. If you try to fight against us, we will kill you. Do you understand?"

"I'll make sure to hold you to that commander numb nuts." Saren replied, his tone filled with pure contempt for Piano.

(I don't have a clue how to start. -MHS)

(I got you. -Neo)

The knight from before brought in a new group of people, all familiar to the team.

"These were the ones we really had trouble with..." Piano noted under his breath. "But at least the gang is all here now, Knave, are they secure?"

"Yes..." The young knight said. "All of their weapons are gone, and the reaper is under a glyph right now."

"Um, can I ask a few questions?" Clock said. "First off, why am I here? I understand these other guys, they're a team or something, but I've only met them once! Second, can I have my sword back? It has a bit- no, a lot of personal importance to me. And third..." His face darkened. "Can I have some strawberry milk?"

The cat decided to stay silent for now. He absolutely loathed being near this group of people. Then again, this might be a good chance. Just wait for the right moment... and get rid of them all in one fell swoop.

"Both third and second are no." Piano told Clock. "And you're here because we wanted people who are strong and those who have fought against powerful enemies. You fought several times against several people using tact and intellect. We need someone with that talent."

"To steal a paper from the government?" Zapor thought internally.

"It's a bit more complicated then that." Piano muttered.

"And what's to stop us from leaving you're organization and joining the government?" Neo asked.

"Oh that's simple." Piano said. "While you were asleep, we installed chips into all of your brains which will cause painful electric waves that will destroy the brain in a matter of seconds." He looked to Zapor. "Or in the case of immortals, leave them in a coma, permanently."

"A chip can't put a person in a coma forever." Echo told him.

"No, but it can deactivate parts of the brain. Would you like an example?" Piano asked.

"Hey, come on." The young knight said. "You don't have to bully the kid..."

Piano glared at the younger knight. "Knave will also be going with you..."

"Wait!!" A voice called. A human girl most likely 16, ran to where Piano was. She had a large axe on her back, with grip msrks on the handle. A gizoid wearing a red hawaiian shirt followed behind her.

"Octavia, how many times have I told you not to go running off in the middle of your briefing?" The gizoid scolded.

"Yeah...whatever, B.A.I.R.C." Octavia said, trying to catch her breath. "Mr. Piano, may we also go along?"

The cat decided to speak. "Hey. The name's Hikari, and I just have one question. How long is this going to be?"

"For some of you? The rest of your life." Piano told them. "For the rest? Probably the rest of the day." He turned to the Gizoid and human. "Fine, see if I care when the two of you die."

"So, how are we going to get to the building?" Neo asked.

"We'll be taking you along..." Piano nodded.

Part 2 (A): The little building
The town didn't look that much different from Station Square, you stil had the large buildings and citizens all over the place, if you didn't know better, you might even think this town was peaceful and quiet, but of course the war said otherwise. Throughout the buildings, nothing really stuck out, there was no Coffee Break coffee shop, no Tranquil Manor, no food places, there were just buildings. Soon, the group was led to a smaller building, which looked like a simple office building. "There." Knave said. "That's the place."

"Wow, average building." Zapor said.

"So, you guys and Piano. How'd you ever meet with him?" Lexi asked Knave.

Saren listened in, getting the succint feeling that this'll be an interesting tale.

"Piano was the general of the army before the coup happened." Knave said. "He is one of the greatest knights in Otogi, and after the coup was one of the many which started the rebellion against them. I was a brand new knight who joined him."

"So you're a knight?" Leah asked.

"Well, sort of. I was accepted into knighthood and trained, but I never got too far into the training. I am a Floran." Knave explained.

"What is that?" Neo asked.

"A Floran is someone deemed evil." Knave said sadly. "They have something called 'Nature's Wrath' in their heart."

"Isn't that just Kinesis?" Leah asked.

"Yes, but in a more...raw form. Because we do not accept it in our culture it cannot be trained or diluted through blood. Generally they are killed when they are born, but I was spared by the king." Knave nodded. "That's also why I am in this rebellion."

"What can you tell us about this building?" Neo asked.

"It's runed." Knave said. "They are hiding something, but I cannot tell what. There is bound to be high dust energy in the vacinity. They could have a whole different world in there for us."

"Why does every villain have that?" Trinity asked. "Dreamscape, Nightmare Station Square, Delta's goddammn dice world..."

"Hey..." Delta said.

"This may be the last we see it." Knave told the group. "Once we go in there, there is no turning back. We will basically be giving up the peace of this town in return for war all over."

"Not exactly our problem..." Celia noted. "We just want to get home."

"Precisely." Knave agreed.

"When you are ready, we can break in." Knave took the large sword off his back.

Octavia took the large axe off her back and B.A.I.R.C changed his arms into drills.

"Ok, lets hurry up, get that paper,then go home." Zak stated, taking his sword out.

"For once, I'll agree with these people. I want to get this over with." Hikari said.

"It goes against my entire career to break into somewhere, but I really don't have a choice." Clock sighed. "And I was hoping I'd have a break after that whole GR-D fiasco. At least like, two weeks."

"Breaking and entering, my favorite."

Knave pulled the sword back, black runes covered his blade as he rushed through the door and destroyed it in a single blow. The runes slowly wore off and Knave sheathed the blade. "Alright." He noted. "Now we only need to-" He was interrupted though, by the explosion which happened nearby and caused a panic around the town that the group would not be able to see.

Part 2 (B): Trial of Loyalty
Saren, Lexi, Celia, and Hikari all appeared in a wasteland of sorts.The dry and cracked ground felt rough to the touch, and the dusty clouds above made everything smell like the stratosphere. There was litterally nothing in this area that was signifigant. No plants, towns, people, items, or anything else.

"Is this...a desert?" Lexi asked.

"You've got to be kidding me!" Hikari groaned. "Hydros was bad, with all that water everywhere, but this is even worse. What kind of office building is this!?"

"Knave told you, it wasn't just a building, it was bound to take us somewhere." Celia noted. "And no, this isn't a desert, it's a wasteland. We're standing on dried dirt. From what I can gather it's about four thousand years dry."

"Welcome to the trials of Otogi." A voice called in the distance. "You and your team will take on the five trials of this place, to see if you are capable of continuting..."

"Ok, so what's this trial supposed to be?" Lexi asked.

A figure appeared in front of Lexi, a familiar one, in regal clothing, like an actual princess. It was herself. "Alexis Evol," The voice said, calling out her name. "Do you know of what could of been, had you stayed with your family, whom you betrayed? Do you know what you could have been?"

"Evol?" Celia said under her breath.

Lexi said nothing. Her facial expression changed to one that showed slight regret, and nervousness.

"Am I missing something? Who are you?" Hikari asked. "Just give us the stupid trial already. Enough about the past and what could have been. I've had to deal with that talk from my boss for the past week; I don't need anything else telling me what I could've done with my life."

"Well now, this has got to be the most boring trial I've been in.." Saren snarked.

"Is that really true?" The voice asked. "I want you to notice who is missing out of the group, who is missing who should be here?" Silence was in the wasteland. "Do you hear him Saren? Your friend from the scythe? Where is he? Shouldn't he be giving you advice right now? Telling you not to trust me, or to think before you act, no. He's gone, just like everyone soon will be...but perhaps you are smart enough to know what to do. What if we gave you power? With this civil war going on you could easily destroy both sides, and rule the land as your own. Do you want the gift I offer?"

A small pool of liqiud oozed out of the ground. It was black, and warm. It bubbled and it had a familiar scent to it. It was Black Blood.

The breath of someone whispering to Saren, played with his ear. "Murder Celia, and become a god."

"Become a god by killing Celia eh..?" Saren muttered. "What's to stop you from screwing me over should I do the deed..?"

"Would a taste of the power suffice?" The voice asked simply.

"... I guess so.." Saren muttered. 'It's not like this is real..'

Power began to swell throughout Saren's body. It was almost as if someone had broken a Chaos Emerald and started putting the energy from it into Saren's body. Two thoughts came to everyone's mind. The first being that this place was indeed very real, and the second being that at this moment, Saren had the power to destroy anyone.

"Why couldn't it have been me..." Hikari muttered to himself, soft enough that nobody would hear.

"Well now.. I have all of this power.. Feels good, and I get even more if I kill Celia eh..?"

"Saren, whatever your thinking of doing, don't do it." Lexi muttered under her breath.

"Yes." Whispered the voice. "Kill the girl, and become a god."

Celia immediately drew her bow. "Saren it's not worth it."

"Godhood is worth it all right.." Saren muttered as he drew his scythe. "It's a shame really."

The whispers from Dark Intent came again, muffled, but heard to Saren. "Don't you get it? This is the trial of loyalty, none of this is real, it's trying to mess with your head! Your scythe is real, your shadows are real, but do you honestly think that you can obtain godhood from an office building?"

"I see your little rat of a voice is speaking to you." The trial voice whispered. "Do not let him deceive you, he is only trying to keep you from being more powerful than he."

Celia immediately had an arrow notched at Saren. "You know if you do this you won't win. i still have the contingency plans from the Leo Tournament. I know how to kill you."

Saren stopped. "... You know how to kill me eh..? Then lets see you do it!!" He shouted, trying to manipulate the shadows to hopefully distract Celia. "Now you made it personal.."

"If one person dies, eh..." Hikari muttered. "No skin off my back. If he comes for me, though, I guess I'll have to use my powers over light. But I'd hate to reveal my strength to the team."

Celia dropped what looked to be a flare, but what it did was something completely different. It stunned everyone in the area, and did something to the mind, making it slower, and preventing any kinesis from being used, particularly the shadow variety.

"Guess who doesn't use kinesis?" Celia asked, liffting her bow up to aim at Saren's head.

"If this is what you mean by a contingency plan than you really need to work on it.." Saren muttered angrily, he probably couldn't move and he was having a hard time keeping his mind focused on the task at hand. "So, put the arrow through my skull then... Shoot me, but take care not to miss because if you do... Ohhh I will make sure you live long enough to regret ever meeting me."

"Saren Arcturias, Celia Takashi, you have both failed the trial." The trial voice said once more, as power began to leave Saren's body.

"We were being manipualted..." Celia spat, putting her bow down.

"...... When I find the one who made this trial there will be a reckoning.." Saren muttered. "I will acquire the power I need, one way or another.."

So, what happens now that we "failed"?" Lexi asked.

"My guess is that we'll have to go through another stupid trial." Hikari groaned.

"No...you two have not failed yet." The voice said. "Lexi, let us talk about your family." Another familiar figure, Treasure now appeared in front of her. "A large choice is going to face you soon, young one. Will you side with your big sister, or will you side with your friends?"

"Tori? Is that you?" Lexi asked.

"Lexi?" Treasure asked. "Oh Lexi, it's so good to see you! What are you doing with these...people."

"Excuse me?" Celia asked.

"Come on Lexi, let's find the way out of here, you and me." Treasure told her.

Lexi started to inch toward Tori. "S-sis, I..."

(Come look at this: http://sonicfanon.wikia.com/wiki/User_blog:Neoexlucky/Tales_of_the_Echo_RPG_proof_of_concept )

"What's wrong?" Treasure asked. "Come on, ditch those losers, and lets go home to Station Square!" The girl smiled. "I have a boyfriend there, you know."

"What? Who is he? And apart from that, where've you been? You were gone for ages!" Lexi said, moving closer.

"I know, I've been gone for a really long time, but we can finally go, together!" Treasure called out.

"You either take her hand or don't." The voice told Lexi. "Make your decision now."

"Sis...I missed you!!" Lexi ran to Tori, running to a hug.

The figure disappeared right before Lexi could make any contact with it. "Lexi Evol, you have failed this trial."

Lexi face planted right on the ground, and saw the illusion Tori disappear right in front of her. "S-sis? No..nonononono! Tori!" Lexi said, tears coming to her eyes.

Hikari scoffed, but not loud enough for anyone else to hear. "What a bunch of pathetic heroes. This is textbook trial stuff right here, you just have to be loyal to the team." He muttered to himself.

"This is a test of loyalty that you have also failed Hikari." The voice said. "When your team mates failed, you did nothing but chastise them or stand by anyone when they were threatened with death."

Part 2 (C): Trial of Forgiveness
Echo, Zapor, Leah, and Zero all appeared in a pure white castle. There was a long hall which led to a small platform with a door on it. Behind them, stood a great wooden door with black hinges. The area was blindingly white and felt uneasy to walk through.

"Ow...uh, guys, where are we?" Zapor asked.

Echo looked around, grabbing her chaos emerald and holding it tightly. "I really don't like this place."

Leah seemed to have some understanding of where they were. "This place..." She started. "This place is amazing."

"I don't think so." Zero noted. "There isn't a hint of shadow here. My Umbrakinesis isn't working."

"This place...it feels like the building itself is made out of mana, like everything within the next five miles is just mana. I can feel it all." Leah laughed. "This isn't a magic world, no those feel different. This is a teleporter!"

"What do you mean?" Echo asked.

"In magic theory we call this place the Void." Leah noted. "At least a part of the void. Everything here is pure, raw, arcane energy. It gives me goosebumps to be here."

"The Void?" Zero asked. "That's where ancient mages used to draw their magic power from, before it was closed by the spirits of the void. Why is it open again?"

"And why are we here? I can understand that Leah knows magic stuff, but why the rest of us?" Zapor questioned.

Zero looked around. "Seems strange to me. Maybe we'll learn more in the next room?"

Zapor walked to the door and proceeded to open it.

On the other side of the door stood a very familiar figure. Dr. Radon, in all of his infamy, stood in another pure white room, with a door at the end.

"Radon, and a door is in this room...is this an illusion?" Zapor questioned.

"Not an illusion." Radon told Zapor. "More of a haunting."

"What are you talking about?" Echo asked.

"They cannot see me, son-in-law, only you can." Radon continuted. "So tell me something Son-in-law, is your peace all that you hoped for? Are you happy with what my death brought?"

"What do mean with what your death brought?" Zapor asked.

"This peace!" Radon told him. "How everything is just so perfect in Station Square right now that you had to be taken to a different country to deal with the problems there." He gave a sigh. "You know this isn't going to bring any good out of it. You're all going to get hurt. Your little shining knight is going to die."

"Shining knight...? Look dude, I get the whole, you can have good without bad gist, but if some villian's plan get destroyed, then I'm pretty sure some good came out of that." Zapor told him.

"Have you ever wondered why we were doing what we were doing? Why we made all of those war machines? Do you think we went through all this trouble for nothing?" Radon asked. "Listen, we may be evil, but there is something far worse out there than a guy with a gun or a mad scientist experimenting, something that could tear us limb from limb, but you went and destroyed the only thing protecting us, Foxtrot. There is a prophecy that you do not know of yet."

"There's a prophecy? And a dude that's worse than a scientist experimenting on children?" Zapor asked.

"Experimenting on children? No, I simply created them." Radon told him. "And yes, a prophecy that there is something more evil coming, something called the shadows. It is said that it will swallow all of life in mobius, and it will take the seven shards of light to destroy it and return the world to normal.

"So basically we need the seven shards of whatever to kill it. So, where do find em?" Zapor asked.

"You already have two of them, Neo and Trinity." Radon told him. "But the others are not going to be so simple. Your other shard is Neo's long lost girlfriend, and Lexi's sister, Treasure."

"Wait, you mean Lexi's sister and Neo..?..Ppfft. Zapor started, then started chuckling. "Oh man, that is some good blackmailing. Anyway, where is she?"

"I might know, if I were alive, that is..." Radon answered. "My guess, think about why you are here, and maybe you'll figure it out. You're not going to show up at some trial, without the place being important. Maybe you'll find her here, in Castle Absolution. Of course, that would mean that she would have to find some way here too. In any case, that is only three and you still do not even know the traits of the shards. You'll need to know each shard before you can awaken it in a person."

"....Ok, and what are the shards?! You know I'm terrible at riddles." Zapor moaned.

"Bravery," Radon said. "Justice, Perserverence, Patience, Integrity, Kindness, and Honesty. You'll have to do the connecting, but you have the names, and you already have two of the shards."

"Well that simplifies things....Speaking of, why are we here?" Zapor asked.

"I...care for this world..." Radon noted. "I care for it more than most people know. My wife, she...loved the people on this world. Now that I am dead, I can see clearly now that I should not have done what I did. It's not a lot, but I wish to offer you insight to the future. It is my belief that you and your friends can change the course of history and make this world a better place. Do you trust me?"

"One: Took you long enough to feel bad. Two:..You had a wife?! Three: I don't see any reason not to trust you. You're dead, and most of what you said was true. So yeah, I trust you." Zapor told him.

"I have always felt bad." Radon noted. "The day my wife was killed by the shadows, I might as well have died with it. They...did something to me."

Radon turned away from Zapor and touched the floor of the room. A vision came for him to see. It was of Neo and Fey, cornered by an army in a castle like building. "You weren't supposed to be here." Neo told her.

Fey grabbed him by the hem of his coat and kissed him. "I will not leave your side." It was obvious to tell that though, that no matter how skilled they were, they could not win that battle.

The next image was of a familiar looking castle courtyard with Saren, Himself, Lexi, Clock-Watch, and a figure all standing in shock of a knight in black armor standing before them.

Although Zapor could not hear the figure, for some reason he was able to tell what they were saying. "You don't have to do this, please come back to us."

Another image showed of a large tower being destroyed and several well known places being destoryed by the elements. Buildings burning, tornados destroying towns, people drowning. The image of Hart, the coffee shop owner fighting several floating earth statues came into view, as a woman dropped from the top of a nearby building to help him, wielding a staff and wearing white armor.

Then came the vision of another figure, holding the chaos emeralds, against the knights, alongside Time Spinner and his team. They all looked defeated, but the figure, began to glow yellow and caused a large explosion. The image of Trinity being covered in black fire, and Leah holding her staff, and summoning a strange white spirit came into view before it changed to one more image.

It was Zero, who had been impaled by a scythe, he was bleeding out onto a stone floor. The look of horror on his face as his blood pooled into a puddle large enough to drown someone in, was very clear despite the dark lighting in the area.

And then everything went back to normal.

Zapor gasped. "..What. The heck. Was that?"

"The future as it is now." Radon told Zapor. "You are one of few people who may be able to change the course of history, but the way you change it is what many people are worried about. You can make this world better or worse, and unfortunatly not everything is as black and white as that. Sometimes making mean or seemingly evil decisions can make the world better, and sometimes it is the other way around." He paused for a moment. "But the thing is, right now you are not the one who will be making these decisions, your friend, Alexis, is the one who we are most concerned with right now. Similar to how there is the Hero of Light, she is the Hero of Darkness." Another pause. "And that is not a bad thing, Darkness and evil do not go hand in hand, she is simply shrouded by it, and whether she chooses to embrace the dark, or merely follow it, is the pinnicle of her decision."

"Are you sure he's okay?" Zero asked Leah.

"Yes." The mage said. "He is alright, he is simply...communicating with something here. I don't know what it is, but my theory is that it is important to him."

"Zapor," Radon started. "There is not much time left before you and your friends will be sent back to safety. Before you go, there is one last thing I would ask of you, I would like for you to deliver something to Alexis." The ghost pulled a sword out of the ground of the building and revealed it to the hedgehog. "This is the Devil Blade, the blade of the Hero of Darkness. It currently lies dormant in this weak state, but I believe that your friend is the only one who can awaken it to it's full potential and cut the shadows down."

(Devil Blade )

"Woah. Lex is gonna love this. Especially when she uses it." Zapor said, holding it.

"Zapor...It is time to move on." Radon told the hedgehog. "I can only ask one thing. I need you to forgive me for my actions. Forgive me for killing all those people, for tormenting Echo, and for tormenting your team."

(Tales decision for Zapor only, Forgive Radon or Curse Radon.)

"Eh, you're a scientist. And if movies taught me anything, its that scientists' make smart stuff, then go insane a couple minutes later, then only see that what they did was wrong after someone knocks sense into them. All in all, they have good intentions, just really dumb outcomes. So, I guess you only did it for research and never really wanted to hurt anyone, so I forgive you." Zapor said.

Part 2 (D): Trial of Temperence
Delta, Zak, Trinity, and Octavia all appeared in the mansion of Dr. Radon. To some it was a familiar place to be, though what made it so different was the fact that it was bright. It looked like a normal house for once. There were several different areas to explore but it was generally the same house as it was before.

"Radon's mansion? Why does it look so...not evil?" Zak asked.

"I don't like being here..." Delta muttered. "

"Who's Radon? And what are doing in this mansion?" Octavia asked. "It's so....nice!!"

Delta shook her head. "We...should look around maybe?"

Zak walked down the hall to see any doors that weren't here before. Octavia did the same, walking with an oblivious face.

There wasn't much to see throughout the mansion that caught any interest, but there was the familiar door to the lab, and the stairs up to the second floor.

"So this is what it looked like..." Trinity said. "Neo tried to explain it to me, but it just really wasn't working."

Zak walked into the lab, seeing if there was anything that was important. He came back out. "Nothing in the lab."

"Upstairs, maybe?" Trinity asked. "Delta, what's upstairs?"

"I don't know." Delta said. "I've never been up there before."

Octavia picked up Zak and went upstairs. "Octavia, put me down." Zak mumbled as he checked up stairs with her.

The stairs opened into a large room which appeared to be a family room, it was rather nice with a large couch, blue carpet, a large TV, it was really good looking. However it was between the TV and the Couch that there was somthing very wrong. In that small area was a very familiar dead body. Echo's.

"What the-..Guys, get up here!" Zak said, jumping from Octavia's hold and running to the body.

Octavia ran and saw the body. "Bunny Hat, who is that?" She asked.

"Echo?" Delta knelt down and shook her sister.

Behind her was a dark figure, completely black except a silver knife with blood dripping down it and a large cheshire grin on her face.

"Who's that?!" Octavia shouted, pointing to the dark figure.

"Hello." The voice said very eeriely. "Do you like what I've done? I made her into an angel!"

"What do you mean angel? You made her into those cats who ran out of lives!" Octavia said.

"She's with the angels now." The figure told the group. "Do you want to be with the angels too? I could make you beautiful like her!"

"Um, no? But you can tell us why you did this." Octavia said, not really knowing who these people are so she would be clueless in this situation.

"Because she looked so hideous before I made her an angel." The figure said to them. "I can make you all look beautiful too!" She took a step forward, towards the team.

Delta immediately unsheated her blade from it's cane. "Don't come near us!" She said.

Zak held his sword, ready to strike if needed, but keeping his composure.

"Don't you want to be friends?" She asked. "Your all being really mean."

"Kinda hard to be friends when you killed one of them." Zak said.

"But now you want to kill me for it?" The figure asked.

"No..." Delta said. "Not if you stay there..."

Part 2 (E): Trial of Chance
Kala, Knave,  Clockwatch, and B.A.I.R.C all appeared in a bright casino. The place didn't look familiar to anyone. It had several slot machines and tables all around. There were people all over playing games, eating food, having drinks, and all around just having a very good time here. What exactly was this place?

B.A.I.R.C seemed to be temporarily shut down. When his eyes flashed green, he got up and turned his head. "This is highly illogical."

"Great. Another reminder about how annoying being an automaton is." Clock muttered. "Um, I might as well ask this before something unpredictably predictable happens. What is this 'kinesis' stuff you've been talking about? I don't think I know what that means."

Kala shrugged. "Not really sure to be honest. I don't have any Kinesis powers."

"Neither do I really." Knave said. "But it is basically the power to control the elements. Like Shadows or Water or air. Scientifically all forms of this ability have the term 'kinesis' in it. Like Umbrakinesis for shadows or Hyrdrokinesis for water."

"Yeah!" Kala said. "Not every has kinesis though. Robots don't really have it, and Genies don't have it either."

"Neither does anyone in Otogi." Knave explained. "Now, better question, where are we?"

"Well, it looks like some sort of casino." Clock noted, looking around. "I'm not quite sure why someone would put this inside of an inconspicuous office building, but oh well. There's probably some sort of test involved, that's my guess."

"We aren't in a casino right now." Knave noted. "This place is fake. I can feel the magic in the air."

"So what do we do?" Kala asked.

"Look around I suppose." Knave told them.

B.A.I.R.C turned his head to look around. The magic around him was messing with his with his vision sensors.

"There's probably some test somewhere here. I guess we just have to find it." Clock said, looking around the area. B.A.I.R.C went to one of the slot machines and examined it. Nothing about it seemed out of the ordinary.

Knave looked around the area. "This is stupid, why are we here?"

"Do you want to play a game?" One of the dealers came up to the group.

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"You mean the games where winning is possible or the games that have winning chances of 0.00025%?" B.A.I.R.C asked.

"Of course winning is possible, I would not lead you to believing something that itsn't true." The man said.

"Oh yes, because nobody would ever lie..." Clock groaned. "It's not like dealing with liars is my job or anything. Oh wait! It is!" His face got a bit more serious. "Just give us the stupid game so we can get this over with."

"Well, I suppose this might the test." B.A.I.R.C stated.

"But you can tell if I am lying, can you not?" The man asked. "That is a power at your disposal."

"Heh. Maybe I don't have my magatama right now, but I'm pretty sure what it would say." Clock replied. "Just give me your stupid test already. If I hurry here, I might be able to get back home before my strawberry milk expires!"

"I know what it would say too." The man told Clock. "Would you like to take your chances? This is a casino, after all. Of course, I understand if you think you'll lose."

"What are you doing?" Knave asked the man.

"Trying to give a test." The man said. "A test of chance."

"A test of chance, eh?" Clock asked, his eyebrows raised. "Lay it on me." Internally, however, his thoughts were: '' 'What am I thinking!? The only experience I've had with games of chance are those stupid casinos in Pokemon games!'''

"Alright." The man started. "Clock Watch, if I can call you that, I want you to pick a card." He laid three playing cards down on a table that everyone was sure was not there a second ago. "It doesn't matter which card, I simply want you to pick one."

"Welp, here goes!" Clock said, just randomly picking a card.

The man picked the card up and flipped it over. "The 2 of diamonds." He said. "Now, here's where the chance part comes in. These other two cards are also both 2 of diamons. Am I lying?"

 'Of all the times for me to not have my sword... They just HAD to take it, didn't they!?' Clock thought to himself.  'I'm gonna need to think to solve this one.'

'"Psst." Kala whispered. "Here." The genie handed Clockwatch his sword. "I got it back on our way out."

Part 2 (F): Trial of Love
Neo awoke in a trial all of his own, in a very calm forest. "Anyone around?" Neo called out as he got to his feet. He was in a clearing, a line of trees circling the vacinity, of about 30 feet. "Great, now where am I..."

"Welcome to your trial, Neo." The voice rang in the air.

"If your trying to scare me, it isn't going to work." Neo told the voice, unfazed by what was going on. "Who are you?"

"Who I am doesn't matter." The voice quipped. "What does matter is your answer to the trial."

"What do you mean?" Neo asked.

"You're interesting Neo Tranquil. At first when I looked at you, I didn't know of any trial you couldn't pass. You forgave your sister, you were loyal to your team, you won the odds of living Radon's rule, and you tempered your wrath against Foxtrot. for as long as I looked, you could complete any trial, but then it hit me. There is one trial you may not be able to complete."

"What do you mean?" Neo asked.

Trinity very quickly walked out of the forest in a long, white, wedding gown. Fey did the same thing from the left, and Treasure mirrored the two, from the right.

"You are so quick to love that you forget those you loved before, well no more Neo Tranquil." The voice said calmly. "All you have to do to pass this trial, is pick the woman you truly love. Your childhood betrothed, your secret love or your royal crush?"