Board Thread:Roleplay/@comment-34100315-20180826180401/@comment-26892768-20180831115922

Skeleton King muses over this new information. ''Continue to observe the situation. Inform me if anything changes. Do not engage.''

And with that said, Skeleton King thinks to himself. Valeena...hmm. So, the Skull Sorceress defied death. In his eyes, Valeena had always been meant to be a failsafe, and nothing more. A rather dangerous failsafe, actually, for the same reasons the Skeletal Circle had been dangerous: the single-minded focus on him specifically, with a lack of a connection to the Dark Ones like he had, meant that, left unchecked, the Skeletal Circle - and Valeena - would make assumptions and act on their own to try to please him, and end up putting the Dark One's carefully laid-out plans in jeopardy.

It's why he killed Valeena once she accomplished her task. Skeleton King had been completely serious when he said that he was bestowing his thanks - he was sure that Valeena would prefer death than risk displeasing him, after all.

And yet...some cosmic force in the universe decided to bring her back.

Perhaps he'd made a rare error in judgement. If so, it's one he could stand to correct...

Valeena quickly dodges to the side.

She grabs her amulet, briefly reaching out with her power, before screeching.

Surprisingly enough, she gets a reply - several screeches follow, and then three wraiths phase through a building to join the fight.

Mack looks at them in shock. "Where did..."

Then he does the math. Valeena had summoned two wraiths. One had stayed. One had followed the fleeing civillians. Considering she hadn't made any more, then the logical perpetrator was...

Don't let the wraiths touch you.

And Mack is pinned to a wall, like a sitting duck.

He immediately starts to struggle against his bonds, trying to break them somehow as the wraiths split up - two head towards Black Knight, screeching like banshees, and one turns towards Mack...

Morphos roars in pain, his tentacle writhing in agony. Oren and Jonouchi struggle to keep it from retracting on their end.

And then Ryugen gets an idea. He charges at Morphos again.

Morphos, naturally, shoots at him - and Ryugen's response is to lean forward and press down on the knife on his belt three times.

"Budou Sparking!"

The armor folds up into it's grape form and spins at high speed, acting as a shield against the projectiles - right up until Ryugen gets close enough to Morphos to put his gun directly into the gap in Morphos' chest. That's when the armor unfolds, and Ryugen presses down on the knife three times once more.

"Budou Sparking!"

This time, it has a different effect. Energy spheres build up in front of the gun - and consequentially, inside Morphos - as a dragon of purple energy starts to coil around the gun. Ryugen pulls back on the hammer of the gun, and then releases it.

There's a massive explosion.

Morphos' smoking legs fall to the ground. His tentacle falls limp. Morphos' entire upper body is nowhere to be seen.

Jonouchi looks over. "Kare wa shindeimasu ka?"

''"Hai." ''Ryugen nods. "Kare ga motsu koto ga dekiru hōhō ga nai..."

And then he trails off as the tentacle disappears, fading into blue nothingness...and at the same time, thousands of blue tendrils erupt from Morphos' legs, twisting and turning, rapidly forming a torso, arms, a head...

"Īe..." Ryugen steps back as the body gets up and roars, before turning to glare at Ryugen with empty pits.

"Kare wa mada shindeinai!?" Jonouchi yells.

Ryugen can only stare at the body before it backhands him into a wall, and, with what sounds like a symphony of shattering glass, reforms into Morphos. He...looks rather pissed, to say the least.

'"You're gonna pay for that!" 'Morphos aims his right arm at Ryugen.

Meanwhile...

Max sighs as he holds up a map of Alola. "Okay, so far, we've learned that..."

"Either everyone's gone crazy, we were out long enough for the name of Hawaii to have changed and for the geography to shift significantly, we somehow ended up on an alien planet where everyone looks and acts human, and also speaks English, we somehow ended up in an alternate reality, or we're the ones who have gone crazy. Which one do you think it is?" Steel asks, his voice resonating in Max's mind.

"Honestly? I have no idea..." Max groans...shortly before bumping into someone. Probably shouldn't have been walking while looking at a map - wasn't looking where he was going. He briefly glances behind him. "Oh! Sorry!"

"Hey, it's fine! I'm sure..." The person Max bumped into trails off, looking at Max as he continues walking - or, more specifically, what he's holding. A moment later, she goes up to Max and taps him on the shoulder. "Heeeeeeeeeey, is that a map, by any chance? And if it is, could I borrow it real quick? My...acquaintance and I would really appreciate it."

"Oh, sure!" Max turns around, holding out the map. "Here you goooooooo..."

Max finally notices what he didn't from a glance - mainly, that the woman he bumped into has cat ears and white hair.

"I'll just take that off your hands!" The woman snags the map, grinning. "Trust me, this will only take a moment, and then I'll be out of your hair! Also, it's a bit hot for a hoodie. Just saying."

And then she walks away. Max glances down, and - yup, she has a cat tail. Looking back up, he sees that the person she's walking towards is a younger woman with teal hair and a hat with giant muscular arms. Max just blinks in shock and surprise.

"...so...point for the alien planet theory?" Steel suggests.