A Clash of Spirits

A Clash of Spirits
On a cold day of December in Margaret Town, Cleopatra was taking a stroll around town after having dealt with a most dull mission involving some local theives that had been stealing from several of the townsfolk. She was bringing herself quite the attention as usual with her puppets walking closely just behind her, they didn't seem to speak much, infact they didn't seem to speak at all. Next to her was one of her Spirits that had made himself appear of his own accord, thus not using Cleopatra's own magical power to be there, it was Gomorrah, who had seemingly caught an interest in Spirit-Infused Humans, though they appear to be quite rare, Gomorrah wouldn't stop discussing about it. Cleopatra didn't mind however as her spirit did make them sound quite interesting. "If I only were to find a live specimen..." Gomorrah spoke out loud, continuing to ponder where he'd find one.

"Oi Gomorrah you bone head!" A female voice said chuckling as soon as she caught a glimpse of her fellow Cursed Spirit, "Don't act like you don't remember me numb-skull, it's me Lilith!" She said as she started waving on the path to the skull man as they continued on their path towards them. Lilith and her owner Mago had just finished shopping for groceries as they left the building that was right infront of Cleopatra's path, as Mago walked out carrying the whole night's shopping with a single hand, a display of his raw brutish strength. "Can't you be nice to your friend over there?" Mago said sternly as he was sick of Lilith's childish attitude when it came to seeing old friends, "What? I'm just being friendly, if I wasn't I would've already started a fight by now." Lilith said as she turned around to show a cheery smile on her face, something that was very rare to see coming from Lilith. Mago sighed heavily, "You didn't need to come along if you weren't going to hold anything you know..." He said in disappointment as Lilith had showed up without warning before offering to help him with the groceries.

Gomorrah simply looked at the pointy-eared spirit that was calling out to him, blinking his none-existing eyes before waving one of his hands back and fourth infront of his face, "No no, I've no memory of ever encountering such a lowly and primitive being. You must have mistaken me for someone else." An obvious lie as the spirit didn't seem interested at all by this new reuinion. Cleopatra, who simply enjoying their little squabble had her attention set upon the Master of this spirit. "Gomorrah, this might peek your interest, but that master of hers seems to the one you were looking for." Gomorrah's attention for these words could clearly be seen as he started to move closer to Mago, walking passed Lilith without a care in the world, he even went so close infact that he'd almost be touching Magos skin. "Well this is an interesting encounter indeed. I've been meaning to study your species for awhile now... Speaking of which, how did you know this Master?" Cleopatra's gave out a soft sigh as her spirit had seemingly forgotten the most common thing about her magic, "Seith users can see peoples souls, remember? It was quite easy to see that he was different." While this was going on, a couple of citizens could be heard growling as this little encounter seems to be blocking the way into the building.

"Study? Yeah I'm alright, don't really want you to get too close to me yeah?" Mago said as he backed away from the crrepy looking spirit, "Lilith can you tell your friend to back off please?" Mago said as he turned towards Lilith, who was a little grumpy by the fact that Gomorrah had ignored her. "Yeah fine, hey Gom. I don't really like you standing too close to my contracter over here, appreciate it if you like, you know. Backed off?" Lilith said calmly as she walked up to Gomorrah to pull him away by the shoulders. Mago felt threatened by Cleopatra's ability to sense his soul, and so became more weary of what else Cleop can do. "Seith user hey? I'll hand it to you, that's a pretty good magic to know. Though what fun is there when you don't get to do some of the action yourself? I can see that you use puppets alot." Mago asked as he saw the puppets standing next to Cleo, a very disturbing aura surrounded the puppets and Cleo as they stood in the streets. "Hey um, can you move out of the way? We're trying to get in!" The two civillians said as they were impatient with the meeting parties. "We're a little busy roght now, go somewhere else yeah?" Mago said as he sent the two on their way in the opposite direction.

Despite Mago's word, Gomorrah didn't seem to have the slightest interest in backing off, but as he felt the shoulder being pulled, with a stare that clearly showed his dissatisfaction with not being allowed to study a seemingly rare species. "Dear, oh dear Lilith, following another persons orders? This fellow must be quite strong then since you usually don't follow commands. How sad." Cleopatra had in turn paid her attention to the words spoken by Mago. "My, awfully rude don't you think? Sending people away just like that." Something akin to a smirked expression formed across her face and her two lower arms crossed one another as she continued to speak, "But I do find your question interesting, your statemeant suggests that you like to fight head on, but wouldn't you agree that planning and scheming a battle is much more fun? Seeing as you're a Celestial Spirit Magic yourself and all, I believe you can relate."

She was right after all, "Sure, I can agree with that. After all, there are those that do the fighting for us, but I prefer to do some of it myself, gives me something to do instead of watching my Celestial Spirit take all the glory." Mago said as he chuckled for a bit before extending his arm out to Cleopatra with an open hand, "Nice to finally meet a Celestial Spirit mage with a Cursed Spirit, has been a while since I've met one in my travels." Mago said as he introduced himself. Lilith was astounded by Gomorrah's rude behaviour to her, "Oh Gom, you really can be a pain in the ass hey? I'm going to presume that you only follow the Mrs. over there only because she found your key. Mago's already proven his worth to me since he's killed my former owner." Lilith said as a sinister smile was drawn on her face. An strong evil intent could be sensed around her and that was very normal for her, but for some reason it was only now that has activated.

Cleopatra's smirk was still there as she was finding this meeting to be quite intriguing thus far, she extended one of her arms and greeted the man, but as she was about to speak, Lilith's words caught her attention and her experssion turned suprised for a moment before going back to her former smirk. "My, it would seem I'm the pressence of Royalty, I've heard quite the tales about you Mago Hogi." She procceded by lowering her head to make a small bow towards the first born son of Ulo Hogi, a motion that her puppets performed aswell. "As a means to show my interest, I will reveal my name aswell, Cleopatra Atosaki, a pleasure meeting a fellow owner of the Cursed Keys indeed." Gomorrah made no hesitation in responding to Lilith as if correcting her, "As expected from someone like yourself, you'd be careless enough to reveal the name of your Master in the open like this, you're lucky my Master is an understable woman, compared to some around here." Gomorrah was waving his hand once again as if to shoo Lilith away while looking towards another direction, "And to answer your meaningless question, this human is quite well-versed in the wonders of this world, I follow because she delivers."

"Oh please don't bow, I'd much rather just shaking hands. And I have heard of you before Mrs. Atosaki, actually you share the same last name with one of the monks that used to work the magic we did back at Mys, I believe his name was Augustus Atosaki?" Mago said as he was a bit shocked by Cleopatra and her puppets bowing to his royal heritage. Turning his head to Gomorrah, who was attempting to shoo off Lilith, Mago was abit concerned that it may have caused a problem, "Don't mind her it's fine, my name means little in this continent. Though I am surprised you have recognised the Hogi name as royalty." Mago said as he turned back to Cleopatra, not many Ishgardians have acknowledged the House of Hogi's rise to power as well as it's strong dislike to the Magic Council. "I am intrigued though, those puppets of yours are remarkable. We don't have much magic back at Mys so I am not sure if this is just another magic of yours you have acquires" he said noticing the eerie silence and faceless beings that the puppets were as they stood by Cleopatra. "Awww, don't be so mean to me Gomorrah." Lilith laughed jokingly as she patted hard against Gomorrah's back.

"So you've heard of my brother have you? He did leave your country for the sake of the family, always did put the family first like the rest of us. But I didn't learn about you from him, but rather from my daughter, a former citizen of Mys infact." Cleopatra gave their spirits a quick look, knowing her that her spirit has never been one for holding back, before turning her head towards her Mago. "They're creations from my own design, your interest in them is something I'll take as a compliment, but should you wish to know more about them then it would only be fair that you'd share something about yourself, a woman can't spill all her secrets so early in the game." Lilith's pat on the other hand had caught Gomorrah by suprise, making him almost trip forward as she did it, it was clear to see that he was beginning to find her pressence an annoyance. "Lilith... You sure don't restrain yourself from your childish behaviour, I know it must be hard for a low-life such as yourself, but please, do try and act more like your sister." Before she could get the chance to answer though, Gomorrah would once again start to make his way towards his "test subject".

Before Gomorrah could make it to Mago however, Lilith quickly changed into a more darker and serious vibe as she grabbed into Gomorrah's sleeve to stop him, looking down as with a dark aura surrounding here, "Ha, don't think you should mention my darling sister so lightly like that knuckle head. I don't think I would want you mentioning her to me ever in fact." Lilith said ordering Gomorrah. She looked up to Gomorrah as evil was seen plaguing her eyes as a more 'killer' intent was seen though her pupils and into her black soul. Noticing a problem occuring between Lilith and Gomorrah, Mago tried to pay attention Cleopatra as he attempted to carry on their talk, "Well I guess that's true I suppose. Lets see, what is there about me. I guess you already know that I am a Spirit-Infused being correct? One of my abilities with this power is that I have attained a magic that allows me to transform into a dragon I suppose, nothing much to be honest." Mago said as he shrugged. Having caught Lilith's expression in the corner of his eye, Oh boy Lilith, please don't do anything I wouldn't right now....

"I guess that explains why they call you The Purple Dragon then, fitting I must say, but it also sounds like Dragon Slayers wouldn't be a popular opponent for you, nore would I be for that matter." Gomorrah simply starred at his sleeve for a moment before looking back at Lilith, her threats didn't seem to affect him, "What now? You're being annoying, trying to make a fool out of me?" Gomorrah raised his other hand and pointed it towards Lilith, a small red ball started to take shape but was quickly dispelled as he could hear his master interuppting them with a sharp tone, "Gomorrah, restrain yourself from such actions, you know better." Cleopatra had been forced to make a halt of her conversation as she noticed her spirits intentions, Gomorrah seemed to oblige yet with a slight "tchet" noise that showed his annoyance. She turned her head back towards Mago, "I must ask you on behalf of my spirit to forgive him, he has little care for anything other than his interests, which is seemingly you at the time being."

"Don't worry about it, Gomorrah has really been the only thing that has taken the most interest in me ever since I arrived on this continent," Mago said to Cleo as he chuckled, "I'm surprised that you know of such name, though I guess I can see why they may refer to you as The Spider Queen madam." Mago said as he snapped his fingers, signalling for Lilith to behave herself while him and Cleo chatted. Lilith instantly snapped out of that state of mind as she returned to her normal self, noticing Gomorrah as she poked her tongue out at him childishly, noting to how Cleo had scolded Gomorrah. Backing off Lilith continued to stare down Gomorrah as she moved her arm behind her back as she tightly gripped the blade situated on the back of her dress, getting ready to withdraw it must Gomorrah do something he might regret having Lilith here with him. "Oh, you also mentioned that you wouldn't be a popular opponent for me am I correct? Would you care to explain." Mago said with a laid back smile and a playful expression on his face, he knew what Cleopatra wanted and he was just dying for her to ask. "You know, I need someone to remind me that I'm still mortal. Would you kindly do the honours?" Mago said as he bowed graciously infront of Cleo.

Gomorrah knew what he wanted, but he also knew that his lady prefers to do things her way, despite this he couldn't help but give one last punch before submitting to his order, "Your sister was right about you, you're still just a child." Despite his order he keept his position behind both Mago and Lilith. "My, my, to think that you'd even know my title, I must say you've caught my interest. And refusing an invitation from a man such as you would indeed be a pity..." Her smirk still visable as she pulled some of her hair back behind her ear and looked over at Gomorrah for a quick moment before looking back at Mago, "As for your first question, I believe it'd be for the best if I showed it to you." The last few citizens that had been waiting to get inside suddenly froze at the suggestion that this would soon turn into a battleground, as expected they started to evacute the area. "But I must warn you that this town will not be left unharmed if we do this, so I suggest that the one to fall from their throne would have to pay for the damage, deal?"

"Ha, money isn't really an issue with me dear. Hope it isn't for you though..." Mago said as he smirked, pulling a pouch of currency from within his belt and chucked it over to Cleo, "Well then, I suppose I'm paying either way now huh? Would split the cheque but I couldn't do that to fine lady such as yourself." He said as flicked back the hair, which had been dyed red with the roots remaining black. "Oh, and if you try to pull put anything thats ten times our aize I probably won't stop myself from turning into a dragon, so I guess it's up to you if you want this town in ruins I guess. Mago began to warm up as he interlocked his hands with the palms facing out and stretched infront of him, cracking any air gaps in the middle of his knucles before bending his neck side to side to do the same, returning the hands to his side as he watched Cleopatra for her first move. My sister... Lilith thought to herself as she finally withdrew the blade from behind her outfit, "You really are a bone head arn't you Gomorrah, you always know how to make a lady smile." Lilith said as her face was now carrying a sense of madness and anger as you could see that she had finally snapped behind the windows of her eyes, "I'm going to crush you into powder Gorm, I'll kindly ask you to take it back.". "So then, Ladies first?" Mago said as the battle was finally initiated.

The Battle Begins
Her arms that was once crossed quickly seperated as one of them took ahold of Mago's pouch, one that was quite full indeed. "I do find your gesture to be a kind one." She kept weighing it for a few more seconds before throwing the pouch back to him. "But money isn't gonna win you every womans heart, besides, it has never been a problem for me either." She watched with an amused look as Mago was preparing himself already, when he was done she gave him another small bow before taking a few steps back, as she did, her puppets moved aside and was soon formed around her in a circle. It was quiet for a moment, none of them moved, both spirits locked on one another while Mago and Cleopatra was both waiting for their opponents respective moves, but Gomorrah interuppted the silence, "Ten Layered Magic Circle: Skyscraper!" Suddenly a dark Magic Seal manifests itself underneath the location of Lilith and Mago while nine other dark Magic Seals also appears as they float into the air and surrounds the area from all directions, all seals letting off the alluring scent. Wether or not the powerful illusion would work or not, Cleopatra was well synched with her spirit as she let out a command after her spirits own words; "Four: Line Formation!" Which was responded by the four closest puppets reaching out their hands towards the opponent and create a large, horizontal crescent-shaped beam, which is then released within the span of a second towards both Mago and Lilith.

"Well now, this man also knows Skyscraper I see. Sorry lad but Illusion magic isn't going to help you here right now!" Mago said as laughed before swiping his arm infront of him to remove such illusion from his eyes only to see the Line Formation attack coming his way, as well as seeing Lilith still stunned as she was still under the effects of Skyscraper. For the gods sake Lilith, get your act together... Mago thought as he quickly activated Divine Wind, using the strong blades of winds to push Lilith out of the way just in time as he swiped his arm to the sidde, creating a powerful force that immediatly struck Lilith and pushed her put of the way of the blast, as well as making some time for Mago to leap into the air as the horizontal shape of the blast didn't give Mago space to move to the sides but only up. As the beam collided with the ground Mago landed back on the surface as he noticed Lilith on the ground after having Divine Winds thrown at her. Mago could have indeed used his Barrier Magic for such an occasion but he didn't want Lilith to get hit by the enemy on the first move, "Well, I see you arn't going easy on us at all then m'lady. I don't know if I might be able to match such skill and talent." He said as he laughed before grabbing Lilith's key from his belt, "Sorry Lilith but I'll have call upon you again later..." Mago said before gripping the key firmly "Lilith, return!" He said as Lilith began glowing with a shimmering light as she disappeared. Smiling to himself Mago's hands began glowing brightly, showing he had switched from one elemnt to the other, "So then lads, back to where we left off." Mago said as he clapped his hands ludly within the streets only to reveal a large bright sphere made up of light forming between his hands, growing larger and larger before soon reaching Mago's size, smiling devilishly as he proceeded to throw the sphere with such force that it cam espeeding over to Cleopatra and Gomorrah's position.

''As expected from a man of such caliber. Cleopatra thought to herself as she continued to observe Mago's actions, once in particular that caught her off-guard for a moment; Removing his Spirit already? But her question was soon answered by the light that was taking form inside of his palms, It has to be something that must have made him remove his spirit in order to not hurt it. ''Cleopatra wasn't about to take any risks this early in the battle, Mago's sphere soon began to grow bigger aswell as brigher; "Gomorrah, distance and Scattering! Six: Line Formation, Four, distance, close quarters!" Her orders was met with an immediate reaction from all sides, Gomorrah took a leap backwards as his hands clapsed togheter and several seals quickly formed and started to fire off a ray of dark barrage of beams, but due to the light he couldn't pinpoint Mago's position but instead focused it on breaking the spell. A similar effect was happening on the other side as two more puppets joined the frontal line and responded by firing off another yet more powerful horizontal crescent-shaped beam and Cleoaptra began to create a greater distance between herself and the fight, accomined by four of her puppets closeby. The two spells that came from two sides broke Mago's attack and a few of the remaining beams were now randomly being continuing their journey towards Mago's general direction as the crescent-shaped beam were also coming for "The Purple Dragon".

"Oh boy, what is it with these beams?" Mago thought out loud as he used his Reduced Earth to quickly speed to the side as the beam just missed Mago's body, only giving a small scratch that pierced his back by only a bit, ''Shit, looks like she finally got me I suppose. Well then, let's just hope I can return the favour.'' He thought to himself as some blood flew out and trickled on the floor. "Elder Magic: Esse Violentum" Mago yelled into the air as purple scales that could defend him immensley grew put from his body, his hair fading into a strong white colour and the irises of his eyes slowly turning into a dense red, signifying his transformation into something more than a human. "Well Gomorrah, I believe you wanted to know what us Spirit Infused humans do. Well this is only my ability I suppose, but I got mine from the highest being there is!" Mago said before climbing up the buildings with the claws that had grown out from his hands, scaling the the tall structure as he reached the rooftop. Pointing his hands as guns towards Cleo's puppets, Mago was building up the Sun Ray ability as he aimed right at the puppet figures, 'pulling the trigger' as four shots in total with two shots from both hands fired at two of the puppets who were in the way of Cleo, with each puppet recieving one bullet to the head and another rigth at their chest. Blowing away the smoke from his finger tips that drifted from the pointing fingers.

"Splendid! Indeed, yours is a fascinating ability!" Gomorrah hasn't just been watching idly, he was truly intrigued by the Infused-Spirits abilities, so much that he couldn't keep himself from testing its usage just after Mago had fired off his shots; "'Five Layered Magic Circle: Sacred Song!" At the same time, hearing the sound of her puppets heads and chests being pierced through, Cleopatra stopped her advances and took hold of her current position, which was about 12 meters from the house that Mago was currently standing on. Revealing that the puppets that were shot simply turned around and held their ground. If he was thinking that that would blind them, then it would seem that I forgot to mention that a Seith users puppets "eyes" work differntly than ours. Her voice then turned to new orders; "Front, four, assault, Front, two, secondary support. Star Dress: Gomorrah Form; Five Layered Magic Circle: Sacred Song!" The several Magic Seals that would just have started to manifest above Mago would suddenly double in terms of power and increased the speed of which it would've been formed aswell, all the while four of the puppets that had fired off the previous beam attack now made their way up the buildings towards Mago, using Reduced Earth and their acrobatic skills to pursue him while the two that were left behind took up to the buildings by the sides, ensuring that they could prevent Mago from reaching Cleo through the rooftops without having to deal with them first.

Working with what time he had left, Mago was able to cast his barrier spell Lightning Shell over his position in order to avoid the incoming puppets and the blast from the numbered layer magic attack, using the combined elements to deflect the attacks from Celopatra's side. As the blast came down onto him Mago was able to make the shield dense enough to take the damage as the lightning continued to buzz around the shield rapidly to ensure that beings who tried coming his way would immediately get zapped and electrocuted. As the blast went away Mago was still standing as he could see the puppets climbing onto the buildings from the windows of the other building on the other side, "Sneaky rascals I guess, good thing I chose this barrier instead I suppose..." Mago thought out loud as he was prepared to dismantle the barrier and release the lightning on it's way as it would no doubt electocute the puppets must they finally get onto the rooftop where they would have to meet Mago himself.

The four puppets were jumping and climbing from one window or "claw mark" to the other as they quickly made their way up, they were also fully aware of what was going on ontop of the rooftop, but they weren't expecting the lightning to change course from defense to a more offensive status, thus as the lightning came, it covered the whole side of the roof, causing three of the puppets to loose their hold and fall down to the ground below, each having recieved noticeable burnt marks, yet they got up again and continued their assault as they had been ordered to. The one that was still on the wall had now managed to get up and didn't hesitate to make a horizontal kick, from which a beam was sent off before continuing with an assault of jabs and kicks. "Quite an interesting Barrier Spell there Mago, I think I'll remember it for the future and since you seem to be a fan of lightning..." Cleopatra spoke with amusement, even if Mago wasn't able to hear it, "Gomorrah! Karmic Lightning!" And Gomorrah obeyed as he said the words: "Four Layered Magic Circle: Karmic Lightning Battle Formation!" causing four Magic Seals to appear around Mago, each in one of the main directions, North, South, East, and West. These golden seals had the crest in the middle that resembles a lightning bolt. ''I wonder if he knows about this one aswell, if so, then he knows that running isn't an option. ''Gomorrah thought before also taking the moment to make his way towards his master.

The puppet coming to attack Mago didn't prove to be too much of a problem for him to handle, as he stuck out his palm with the flames of Divine flame having been activated, shooting out several shots of the Rapid Shooting Flame at the puppet as it recieved several burn marks thanks to the wood the puppet was made from. As the numbered layer spell began activating, looking around Mago knew that all he could do as just stand, "Well, I'm not sure if I remember learning this one... Oh wait, yes I do!" Mago said before swiping his hand as a barier of transparent and black splotches surrounded Mago just in time as the blast activated, attempting at destroying Mago's barrier but to no avail. "This is the one that follows you around no matter where you go! I remembered ha!" Mago cheered with relief as the blast faded down revealing no damage to his barrier. "Well that was fun." Mago said to himself before concentrating the Manus energy within his hands to glow again once more, walking over to the side of the building closest to Cleo before pressing down both hands into the surface of the rooftop, casting Deity's Protection on the solid ground, causing light to crack through due to the amount of power that Mago concentrated into the surface. As the light began showing the building began collapsing on it's side and thanks to Mago having moved over near to Cleopatra's side, the building began falling onto the side where Cleo and Gomorrah was as the building came tumbling over due to the weakened surface that now made up the building's materials.

The puppet that had been fighting Mago turned out to be in quite the unfortunate situation as it was burning while being within the radius of the lightning attack, resulting in the puppet's destruction. Cleopatra had been waiting to see what Mago was going to do next, yet she hadn't expected that Mago would try and sqaush her as Mago himself was still "riding" the building. "Well, the man's got guts, that's for certain." She said before reaching for Gomorrah's key and gave out the necessary commands: "Gomorrah, return! Defenders; distant retreat, Rest; scatter!" And with that, a second spirit was sent home in a shimmering light while the four puppets that was closest to Cleopatra, grabbed her and used Reduced Earth to reach a safe distance from the buildings damage, ending up outside something called the Viper Inn. The other puppets had each leaped and made their way from each side of the falling building, their position and number being two puppets on the left, one on the right, but the two others that had safely been some of the other rooftops had begun to fire off barrages of powerful blasts, which possess enough force to generate explosions of various size, towards Mago's current position.

As the building fell, Mago was able to leap off just in time at the last moments of keeping his balance, for as soon as he landed on the ground the building fell just right behind him as he was welcomed to a display of puppets watching over him, "Whoo! Let's get this fight rolling then!" Mago exclaimed as he threw out his right hand out towards the incoming blasts coming his way, using the mirrors of the buildings to to help him with the area around him as he cast an Advanced Magic Shield to take on the incoming shots from both puppets as the shield protected him from the explosion. "Alright lads, lets just get one thing cleared up yeah? I don't feel comfortable with none of you guys talking, and it creeps me out more than it needs to. So for those that don't wish to get hurt please say 'Aye'?" Mago looked around to see if puppets the puppets could speak, "Oh? Well alright then I suppose..." Mago said before clapping his hands to blaze his hands once again as he activated Blazing Coat, which engulfed his whole body in flames and also increased the ability and damage of his Divine Flame attacks greatly. Pointing out his palms to the enemis, Mago began shooting several fire balls with the use of Rapid Shooting Flame as he sent several balls of fire flying towards eachpuppet with just a second between each one. The puppets out on the open were easy to hit as Mago had a clear shot of where they were but the ones on the rooftop seemed to be a problem as the balls of fire barely were able to hit them except one that had just narrowly missed the head of one of the puppets.

The puppets on the rooftops looked at one another from across the buildings for a moment, both looking as confused as the other towards Mago's claim about them talking, when looking back, one of them seems to have quite the humour as it put its thumb where its nose is and starts the other fingers in a taunting manner. An action they couldn't tell if it made him mad or not before having fire bolts fired towards them, each puppets putting in an effort to either respond to the attacks using their own energy blasts or to simply dodge them. The end result being that all of the puppets had been destroyed but that last one on the roof. Cleopatra, who was no longer in her Star Dress, clapped the two highest hands togheter as she spoke the word: "Transport: Summon!" and in a shinning bright light that filled the surrounding area, five new puppets had been summoned, each having their own sword on their backs, their lifeless bodies stood their for only a moment before they all started to surge with life as the souls of the previous puppets had entered their shells. "One, continue, Five, Line Formation: Sword Pressure!"  The one puppet on the rooftop kept firing his energy blasts as t he five new puppets all pulled drew their swords and stood in a line, they swung them towards Mago, causing a combination of a Line Formation attack and a Sword Pressure attack.

As more puppets arrived Mago was thrilled to see so much more, as he pulled back another wave of Infernal Obstacle infront and over him as this time thanks to Blazing Coat become way more ferocious and intense than last time as it easily blocked both the sword pressure and the blast from the puppets without effort. Brining the infernal down, Mago gave a feint smile which could be seen even though his body was encased in flames, looking up to the puppet on the roof Mago opened up his palm and shot another round of Rapid Shooting Flame at the puppet, "Don't get too cheeky now lad...". The shot was dead on as the ball of fire head dead onto the puppet's head, that little gesture really did piss Mago off and thanks to his determination to take him down the puppet's head caught fire due to it's response to Mago's talking question. Looking back at Cleopatra and walking closer to her, Mago looked at all the armed puppets wielding swords and was excited to finally get some sword play in this battle, however didn't feel entirely safe with five swordsman coming to him, deciding only to draw swords once hes cut down four, leaving one puppet left. Clenching his mouth as his cheeks puffed, Mago let out a much larger scaled Spitfire at the collection of the puppet swordsman in hopes that all five may get caught up in the blast due to the distance Mago had put between himself and Cleo.

Cleopatra continued to observe the movements and actions of Mago as the battle would proceed, she was quick to see that he was up to something as the man hadn't drawn his blades, which a standard thing against swordsmen, nore did he use something like Reduced Earth to close their distance, he was simply walking towards her. Her reactions did not fail her as she saw his cheeks puff up like a hamster eating its food, she made her way forward and extended her middle arms as she created a Advanced Magic Shield, a barrier that was protecting not only her but also her puppets, except for two of the swordsmen whom the barrier couldn't fully reach. As her barrier was holding up the incoming flames, one of her lower arms reached for her keys grabbed the one she was after and exclaimed the words: "Gate of the Scales, I open thee: Libra!" And with a yet another  shimmering light, Libra appears just behind Cleoaptra, "Libra, make the target's gravity go sideways then force him down." With no words in response, Libra did as she was commanded, she altered the gravity of Mago, seeing as this must come as a suprise to the mage, an alteration like this would take anyone by suprise and Libra forced the target through the local inn and into the water on the other side, from which Libra kept her pressure at forcing him by the bottom of the harbor. ''With all those Fire abilities of yours, I thought you might wanna cool down a little. ''Cleopatra smirked as she removed the barrier and looked through the hole that Mago had gone through.

Being submerged in the water didn't really bother Mago as he freely deactivated his Blazing Coat, though still having activated Esse Violentum, Mago was able to handle the pressure with ease although he was quite annoyed by the fact that Libra was pushing him down in order to drown him. ''Well, this can't be fair I thin? Maybe? I don't know... Mago thought to himself as he noticed losing air, Oh, wow. Guess I'm losing oxygen kinda abit faster than I thought. Wonder how long I can stay under here. One, two, three, four... Five.... Six... Mago continued to think to himself before giving up, Alright, now I'm bored. Time to get this over and done with. Mago thought to himself as he tried pushing himself up but to no avail, Wow, this is strong. Probably should get someone to distract her first, oh wait that's right!'' Mago thought as his face lightened up, pulling out a key from his belt and using the smallest bit of oxygen from his mouth in order to mutter a summon,"Key of the Golem, Rogue!" Mago gurgled as Rogue appeared suddenly appeared right infront of him. Both nodding to eachother, Rogue already knew what Mago wanted her to do, ''Okay, now where was I? Oh yeah. One, two, three...''. As Rogue used her golem like appendages to forcefully swim upward as she leapt up and grabbed the ledge of the boardwalk with her arms, Rpgue was able to see that Libra was on the other side. Moving quietly, Rogue scaled the buklding's side with just her arms as she moved over to the rooftop closest to Libra, proceeding to leap of while aiming her arms towards Libra, Crushing Evil, Spreading the Truth: Empyrean was activated as Rogue immediatly shot down towards Libra at an incredible speed as to take the Gravity controlling spirit by surprise.

Cleopatra was still looking through the hole that was made earlier, seeing a bunch of citizens scared and panic of what was going on outside, she tried a subtle approach to the situation: "Please, citizens of Margaret Town, this will all be over soon, just give it a few more minutes and we all go back-..." A loud slam was heard as the whole building started to shake, it came from behind her, so she turned around and walked back out, only to see that a yet another Celestial Spirit had joined the battle, and taken another one out just as quick, having left a big hole where Libra once stood. "My, talk about making an enterance." She said before closing Libras gate and let the poor spirit heal up before looking directly at Rogue, who at the sound of Cleopatras words, was also looking at her: "Hey there." Her eyes suddenly turns bright green as she activates Figure Eyes, forcefully taking control of the Spirit, having Rogue under her control, the spirit would then proceded climbing back up from where she came and leaped towards Mago once up, her arms extended in the same manner that she previously was when knocking out Libra, Crushing Evil, Spreading the Truth: Empyrean was once again activated.

Noticing that the Gravity effects have worn off and that Libra was taken out of the equation Mago proceeded to swim back up as he moved along onto one lf the boats nearby the ledge of the inn just in time aswell, as he turned back to see a Figure Eye controlled Rogue strike downards with the Empyrean spell, "Ah, attacking me with my own spirits? Nice. That's a shame though, this would have to be the second time experiencing such a liability. Although the first one wasn't my own spirit do keep in mind..." Mago thought out loud before noticing Cleopatra, "And here's the wonderful lady who brought it together! I'm impressed Mrs. Atosaki, you've shown so much more today than most mages could in a week." Mago congratulated Cleopatra as he applauded her loudly. As he clapped his hands in order to make them glow brightly, "You know, this has been the most I've switched between divine Light and Divine Flame in one day. Guess you are pretty difficult to take down after all." Mago said before turning both hands into guns as he aimed right at Cleopatra with both hands, stocking up more power in order to give both hand guns a machine gun effect as they would immediately blast with a barrage of light bullets right at Cleopatra. However, Mago still hasn't forgotten about Rogue yet and was ready to dodge any attack Rogue might be throwing at him since he has turned his back from Rogue after she had fell into the river. In a split second Mago began firing rapidly as Sun Ray bullets continuously shot out from his finger tips and right at Cleopatra. This collection of light bullets gave off an intense bright light that shine right into Cleopatra's line of sight towards Mago as he hid behind the brightness of the bullets that were still coming towards Cleo at an alarming speed.

Cleopatra listened intently to Mago's words, his praise was not something to take lightly, He does have a way with words, she thought to herself but she didn't give him a respones but instead a simple bow once again, but her calm stature and facial expression soon turned into a more desperate one as Mago hands began too shine; This is bad, he's gonna do something and my puppets won't make it in time, how could I've been so careless..! She raised her hand, wanting to create a barrier, but she wouldn't make it, and the light was blinding her eyes from using her figure eyes. ''I'm gonna get hit! ''But as soon as the first bullets fired off, so did another light, one that had immediatly grabbed ahold of Cleopatra before they both seemingly vanished. But Mago could soon feel that Cleopatra had simply been moved from her position to the other side of the harbor behind him. Cleopatra herself had lost her balance for the moment but was supported by her saviour, which was ofcourse Malphas, The Battle Maiden. "Malphas.." Her spirit's usual stern facial expression said more than enough, she should've summoned her sooner, lucky for Cleopatra that her spirit was keeping an eye on her. Malphas turned around and was now facing down towards Mago, her golden eyes signified her strict and intense persona. "I suppose it's high time we went on the offensive.." Cleopatra thought out loud before her usual smirk returned: "'''Star Dress: Malphas Form!" '''Her dress turned into dark armor with an old styled dress, made from old-fashioned black clothing, two of her arms now had similar swords as of Malphas, but slighlty smaller. "Puppets, scatter, Spirit, to me!" And with that command, each puppets started to move and circle the harbor through the rooftops while Rogue, whom had already reached the surface, started to make its way up to Cleopatra and Malphas, both whom were preparing for what's to come. "Your move, Mago Hogi."

"Why thank you, though might I ask. What are you planning ladies?" Mago questioned Cleopatra and Malphas with a tone of interest, as he knelt down and continued to imbue energy in the ground as he had placed both palms on the surface, watching closely for any movement coming from Cleo and her spirit. Getting back up Mago dusted off his clothes as he proceeded to walk outside onto the street away from Cleopatra and Malphas, having one hand ready to click while the other hand was pointed as a gun. ''That Malphas girl looks eerily similair to Lilith. Maybe it's time I finally get to know who this sister is.'' Mago thought as he reached into his belt once again and brought out a key, "Key of the Cursed Nymph, Lilith!" Mago exclaimed as he swiped down, summoning Lilith in a shimmer of light by his side, who has shown to have recovered after Mago's push, placing the key back in it's belt as he shapped it back into a gun. Using the windows as a way to formulate a plan and theory, Mago pointed to his eyes as he looked at Lilith, who immediately nodded as she too looked at the windows of the town, only to se that puppets have circled the harbour. With both nodding in agreement, Mago proceeded to teleport Lilith away from his position as they both appeared on the rooftops, "Get this over and done with." Mago instructed before teleporting to his original position on the other side of the destroyed inn. With Lilith now on the highground she continued to make her way to the puppets as she had finally made her way to the first one, drawing her blade as she quietly and stealthily, pounced and hacked at the puppet's head with her blade before leaping back to put distance between herself and the puppet, swining her blade diagonally right at the puppet man sending a burst of Sword Pressure at the puppet man. Pushing the puppet off from the roof with great force Lilith was able to secure one rooftop before turning her view to Cleopatra and her spirit, clenching her teeth as her anger blazed in her eyes, Malphas...

Rogue had quickly made its way up and now stood beside both Malphas and Cleopatra. Malphas had simply observed as her sister was summoned, attacked a puppet and finally met her angry eyes with her own intense gaze; ''Fool. ''was the only thought that came to her mind. Cleopatra took a quick moment to think before turning her attention to Rogue; "State your Magic." from which the spirit revealed its four types of magic, Crash, Elemental Armour, Disassembly Magic and Earth Magic. Cleopatra nodded before whispering something for both Malphas and Rogue, from which they too nodded in response before Cleopatra raised her voice "Swordsmen, Nr 2, continued assault and Five, standby." Her commands as usual had its immediate effect as the five puppets with their swords drawn started to make their way for Lilith, also visable among the five that were on standby for future orders, was the puppet that Lilith had sliced in half, revealing that it had re-attached its body. Malphas then procceded by putting her hand onto Rogue's shoulder and saying at the same time as Cleopatra: "Direct Line!". Causing Malphas and Rogue to appear just infront of Mago with Rogue  immediatly slamming her fists into the ground, causing a Rock Wall to appear behind Mago and Malphas striking her sword in a vertical pattern, a  Heaven-Shaking Slash. Cleopatra on the other hand would've teleported to Lilith and activated Double Accel and Figure Eyes as she began swinging her two blades towards her, the puppets still on their way.

As the sword was coming down on Mago, he saw that Clepoatra had teleported from her original position, Oh boy... Mago thought as he definetly knew where this was going. "Lilith! Close your eyes!" Mago said just before cataching the blade that was about to fall upong him, slamming both palms onto the flat sides of the blade in a clap. The waves of force that were exerted from such a powerful collision caused the town to tremor as the rock wall behind Mago shook, "My, my... Never knew my own strength." Mago said as he felt the ground shake underneath him. Returning one hand to his side Mago proceeded to push the blade to the left of Mago as he continued to use his claws to scale the rock wall behind him, reaching the top only to see Rogue on the other side. "Ah! There you are, I missed you." Mago said with a smug smile before using the wall to leap over to the destroyed inn that they he was thrown through with such force. Now standing on the rooftop Mago cracked his fingers as he awaited the spirits to follow him. Back on Lilith's side, Lilith heard Mago's cry to shut her eyes, which she did before getting struck by the Double Accel move coming her way. Falling to the ground in pain, Lilith had to make sure that she could get out of here as quickly as she could, but she couldn't look or else she would have to fight Mago under the control of Cleopatra.

With the spirit having her eyes closed, Cleopatra saw several openings that could severly weaken it or even send it back to the Celestial Plane, but instead she stopped her attacks after Lilith had fallen to the ground. "You know Lilith, this may be a battle, from one I still intend to win, but that doesn't mean that I'll strike you down in cold blood.. even if your reputation suggests that you'd do it for me." The puppets had finally arrived and they all stood in circle togheter with their Master around Lilith, all swords pointing towards her. "One false move and I will have to strike you down, as I know of your magic and I have no intentions of letting you use it." Rogue's eyes met Mago as his words reached her, she was his Spirit after all and to fight their own Master can often be considered cruel enough, especially in the case of a Celestial Spirit. Rogue herself had begun to increase her resistance to Cleopatras Eye Magic and had now managed to stop her own movements in order to protect Mago. Malphas had yet to utter a word, she was suprised of Mago's strength but she didn't show any hints of such thoughts but instead continued her pursuit for him by jumping up the wall, giving Rogue a quick look before continuing onto the roof where she first placed a hand beneath herself and created a small, almost vaccant seal before she begun to charge at and relentlessly swing at Mago, her eyes switching between his eyes and hand movements.

"Tut tut Malphas, is this how you want your first impression to be when meeting your sister's boss for the first time?" Mago said as he reach for both blades attached to his belt and drew them out both in a second, "I think it was pretty easy to tell that you were sisters, I can maybe see the similiarities between you two you know?". Mago proceeded to also charge at Malphas before with a swift motion of the blades, Mago was able to halt Malphas blade with one of his swords as he proceeded to thrust the other one right at Malphas' head, "You intrigue me Malphas, don't know why but you do.". Now getting herself under control, Rogue looked up to the rooftop that Mago and Malphas were battling before looking down in regret and guilt, disappointed in herself that she helped in causing harm to her key owner, "I'm sorry big brother..." Rogue said as somehow a single, small tear rolled down from her eye, across her cheek and splashed onto the ground beneath her. For a cursed spirit it was unheard of for aone to even cry or even process the ability to do so, but somehow Rogue was able to shed one single tear for Mago as she heard a clash of blades from the rooftops that Malphas and Mago battled it out. Still shutting her eyes, Lilith could feel the presence of sharp blades pointed at her, hearing the voice of Cleopatra's feminine voice in the shadows of her closed eyes, "Tell me, those clashing of swords... Is that Malphas?" Lilith asked in a soft voice as politely as she could, referencing the loud collision of metal swords in the background not too far from Lilith's current position.

Cleopatra kept her focus on Lilith, to be frank, she didn't know what to answer at first. She didn't know that much abot her except for her magic since that was the only part that Malphas was willing to share about the other Cursed Keys, and judging from Lilith's earlier look when she noticed her sister, Cleopatra expected that telling her the truth was going to make things worse; "It is." But Cleopatra prefered to stay truthful and her puppets all took a step closer, bringing their swords even closer. Malphas on other hand was seemingly going through some issues of her own, ''He's strong... ''she thought as Mago was able to stand against someone like her. She choose to keep her focus on the battle instead of her opponents words, but she could help but reply back; "Maybe is the closest thing you're getting between me and that child." ''He's fast... She thought as she barely dodged sword that came for her head, resulting in her closing the gap between them, causing Mago's arm to be interlocked inbetween as the other was still colliding with her sword, both of them eye to eye, Malphas thoughts reached a conclusion; He's so cool...! ''One could guess that she was either getting flustered or maybe angry as both expression have been known to share similar features.

Oh boy, I am way too close to the enemy... Mago thought as he and Malphas looked right into the eyes of eachother, noticing the unrecognisable expression on her face, before unlocking and separating the two fighters apart from eachother as they now stood on opposite sides of the rooftop. "You know, for a swordswoman you're pretty good. Maybe you can teach me a few moves after we're done with this fight. That is if the owner of your key doesn't mind." Mago said with a cheery smile as he swung his blades with skill as he sheathed them back into their scabbards on both sides of his belt, locking them into place as he took off both sheathed blades from his belt and held them together, a light shimmered as it consumed both swords before replacing it with a much longer one, however when the light faded away the sword and scabbard were much more different. In Mago's hand was a long scabbard holding a sword with a small dragon head locking the sword into place before opening its jaws to allow the blade to slide out. Withdrawing the blade from it's container, Mago attached the scabbard to his belt to ensure that he wouldn't lose it before pointing his blade right at Malphas, "This is Dragontooth, my strongest and sharpest blade in my whole arsenal" he said as he welcomed Malphas to attack again. Lilith heard the puppets step and could feel the sharp blades pointing right at her, she wanted to scream to Mago for help but she knew that the puppets would make sure that it wouldn't happen, giving a feint smile as she continued to shut her eyes tightly curling up on the ground. Rogue on the other hand got up from her spot and continued to climb up the destroyed inn to find her master and Malphas, using her golem arms to scale the walls just intime to see Mago retrieve Dragontooth, Oh no... was all that Rogue could think as she saw Dragontooth unsheathed from it's scabbard.

Malphas quickly gained a solid footing as she was seperated from Mago, she listened intently to his words, words that from the outside didn't seem to affect her at all, but on the inside, she was going through quite the phase, ''Did he really just ask that? He did! Is he asking me on a date? I don't know what to say to that, ohh, why must this one be the enemy! ''Her thoughts would've continued if it weren't for Mago's flashing performance and revelation of his sword's true form. ''Its so cool! But her eyes and ears caught other details aswell, first being that Rogue was closing in behind her and the other seeing that Lilith had been captured, No, I've to focus on the battle... As Malphas wondered what to do next, Cleo had turned her attention towards their battle aswell, seeing both Rogue and Mago quite clearly from where she's standing, He's letting her make the next move? And with Rogue getting close we can't be too careful... ''She looked once more towards Lilith before speaking; "Restrain." and her puppets obeyed as they all gather close enough so that their blades were to touch Lilith's skin around her neck, moving to much could result in them piercing her, wether they wanted it or not. Cleopatra proceeded by continuing to play her pieces of the chessboard; "Four on Three, rapid assault. Malphas! Sword Birth!" And with that, Cleopatra raised one of her hands and creates a magic circle behind her from which fifteen copies of her sword is created and then fired off towards Mago, this move was also made Malphas but due to the distance, the blades coming from Malphas would obviously reach Mago first before those from Cleopatra would arrive merely a second later.

Weilding Dragontooth in one hand, Mago quickly threw out his other hand in an attempt to create a barrier between him and the incoming blades in the time he had left, having resorted to speeding up a Master Magic Shield that was able to cover majority of his body. However, one of Malphas' blades was able to make it past the barrier before Mago could complete the shield, piercing his side as it continued to fly off into the other direction. Grunting in pain, Mago was a little surprised that it had been able to pierce his scales as he was still in Esse Violentum, though was able to complete the barrrier as a shell of a transparent with black details surrounded him as he knelt onto the ground, still holding up his hand. "Ouch... Ok, you got me there." Mago laughed faintly before gripping his sword tightly, watching the blades from Cleopatra hit his shield as each sword dropped onto the ground after hitting it. Taking the opportunity of being behind Malphas as she watched Mago being the target of Malphas' Sword Birth attack, Rogue raced over to Malphas holding out her fist, activating her Crushing Evil, Spreading the Truth: Empyrean as she blasted right into Malphas' direction and narrowly missing the energy attack from the puppets on the other rooftop. Lilith finally felt the piercing touch of the blades on her skin, smiling as she attempted to cover her face with her palms, burying it away from the sight of Cleopatra and her puppets. "Good luck..." Lilith's muffled voice said as she was silent once again.

There she is. Malphas thought as Rogue finally made a move on her, wasting no time activating her Rift Action from which she had earlier marked just before striking at Mago, now she was positioned just behind the spirit, whom was currently full of openings. Despite her earlier thoughts and ideas against Mago, she was still known as a warrior at heart, a warrior that believes that victory is worth any price and is ready to pave her own way in order to acheive it, this was no exception. As she followed through by activating Triple Accel and performing a Heaven-Shaking Slash, she was aiming to take Rogue out of the battle for good as she had become naught but a stepping-stone for Malphas. Cleopatra on the other hand prepared another strike of Sword Birth, she awaited for Mago to drop the shield and without a moments notice send off her next attack, but performing this ability once again forces her to de-activate her eye magic as having it turned out while using her Star Dress does require quite some focus to maintain. But as Lilith was still restraint, her pressence didn't bother Cleopatra as much as it earlier did but her words did for a moment, ''Telling me that while smiling? She must be very confident in her Master.'' Her gaze was still on Mago as she spoke: "Oh really? Well, perhaps I'm lucky in a sense, I mean, I'm not the one who was struck by your spirits own sister just now."

Though Rogue was fast, she just wasn't quick enough to dodge the incoming blade from Malphas, as the sword struck Rogue from the back and caused rock to gasp in shock as gold blood flicked off from the blade, opening Mago's eyes as he watched Malphas brutally cut down his spirit. Slamming both her golem fists into the ground to catch herself from the fall, Rogue was able to stand up for a bit only to look back at Malphas with a pissed off expression, "Don't... Hurt..." Rogue said panting before Mago quickly disabled his Master Magic Shield in order to oull out Rogue's Cursed Key, "Rogue, come back." Mago said as the injured Rogue was sent back to the Celestial Spirit World in one piece. "I can't allow her to get hurt more than she already needs to be. This fight should just be me and you I suppose." Mago said whilst still gripping his Dragontooth tighlty and keeping the other hand at the ready to ensure that he can activate another Magic Shield in time. Lilith was struck by knowing that Malphas had hurt Mago, clenching her jaw tightly to stop any cry for help or anger escape her mouth, though she was able to stay in control after a brief moment of time, "I don't think you know do you?" Lilith said as he chuckled under her breath, "You should probably take a step back if I was you.".

Just as Lilith's words finished, Cleopatra's blades immediately changed its course for Lilith and struck out to finish her off. Cleopatra knew full-well of Lilith's abilities, but she hadn't wished to strike her down and instead for Lilith to submite and maybe even return to the Spirit World, but as she was wasn't given much choice in the matter, she had decided that taking her out would be the best course of action. ''Even should she succeed in removing me and Malphas for just a moment, we'll be right back when she's gone. ''When Malphas had struck the blow and then seen the spirit return to the Celestial Spirit World, she performed a small bow, a gesture she would never had performed before being in the hands of Cleopatra. Even though she prefered to fight her opponents up close and personal, the blade from Mago wielded was undoubtly bad news and she didn't want to try her luck with it unless if she had to, thus she lowered her sword down, just next to her right leg before a surge of magical power formed inside it, followed by a diagonal strike upwards from the right to the left which sent forth a Sword Beam towards Mago.

As the Sword Beam neared Mago, he once again threw the readied hand at the incoming shot, activating an Advanced Magic Shield as the purple shield was able to soak up the damage dealt by Malphas' Sword Beam, before drawing back his hand to conserve power. Still having retained a bland expression, Mago's thought of mind was interrupted as Lilith's cry for help was heard from the other rooftop, looking at that direction as he saw Cleopatra order her puppets to strike Lilith down, even though Lilith was already on the ground. Shocked, Mago's face turned from a blank face to a sinister yet charming smile as he looked back at Malphas, "So this is how you operate when working with Cleo huh? That's a shame..." Mago said before noticing on the other rooftop a group of puppets, as he teleported directly towards them in order to take them out before they can do anything, appearing right beside them as he pointed Dragontooth to the ground and activated Hellfire's Blaze, causing flames to whirl around his position and burning the puppets into ash due to the extreme heat of the attack. "I'll be honest with you Cleo, I didn't really expect you to do such a thing. To strike down a spirit like that." Mago delcared as he swept up the flames to reveal nothing but ash and metal where the puppets once stood. As his hands glowed brightly he knew that the price to pay was an eye for an eye, holding up one of his hands as he snapped his fingers. The ground of the inn started rumbling as cracks of light began shining upwards before exploding violently, causing the inn to collapse in on itself as everything and anything would be caught up in the exploding light, Mago had just activated the final phase for his Deity's Protection.

Malphas was quick to follow Mago's movement and would've been even faster with following him if it weren't for the Triple Accel that she made earlier, its abilities is extremly useful but the side-effects can sometimes lead to heart failure or sudden lose of stamina, as of this case, her energy had already reached a critical level, resulting in her falling to one her knees as she tried to follow Mago. Not long after, the inn itself began to glow, her eyes turned wide and she tried to make a run for it, but instead she fell onto the ground and the explosion would've engulfed her if it wasn't for her Master: "Malphas, return!" It was just in time before the explosion took her, but she would nevertheless be unable to fight further in her current condition, the inn however was now utterly destroyed, luckily the civilians had left shortly after the had moved the fight to the rooftops. And with her spirits return, her Star Dress diminished aswell, returning to her ceremonial clothing; "In most cases you shouldn't have expected that, but you know aswell as I what harm that Spirit could've done for an opponent like me. I'd like for our spirits to meet after the battle if you wouldn't mind, gives us a chance to apologize but also reconcile with eachother, Lilith and Malphas both seems to have problems in their relationship." It was almost to be expected that Cleopatra could perform a conversation like this, even after seeing her own spirit almost get torn apart and her puppets turned to ash.

"I agree, I think it will do them two good if they were to reconcile. Maybe a few drinks after this should do the trick." Mago said in agreement to Cleopatra's suggestion as he grinned, before sheathing Dragontooth back into it's scabbard as he proceeded to loudly clap his hands together. His hands glowed brightly as his cheeky smile shone up, before opening his hands slowly apart to create yet another large sphere of light forming within Mago's hands, "Those puppets still freak me out. How bout I get rid of them?" Mago said as the sphere had reach about his height, forcefully throwing the giant sphere directly at Cleopatra's rooftop where she and her puppets currently stood, it was obvious Mago didn't forget about what had just happened to Lilith but understood what kind of threat she was to Cleo. As the sphere flew from one side to the other, Mago used this time in order to prepare his Sun Ray whilst the Star Ball was flying over to Cleopatra, pointing both his hands like guns towards Cleo's position, Mago fired a barrage of bright bullets right at Cleopatra in order to hit more incase they had been able to somehow dodge the incoming Star Ball the same height as Mago.

Cleopatra had learned quite well by now that when Mago starts clapping his hands or if any type of light starts to shine from him, then it means that something is about to happen, which meant that immediate counter measurements was needed. To which Cleopatra only had to lift her hand and the surrounding puppets formed around her as they awaited the incoming attack. The sphere had been formed and sent off to her direction; "Puppets, protect, Middle, forward." And the puppet that stood infront of her obeyed as he dropped his weapon and reach out his arms to each side, trying to become as big of a target as possible before the sphere hit and started to burn its body, to which Cleopatra clapped two of her hands and exclaimed: "Transport!" causing the puppet to disappear without a trace, taking the sphere that was connected to him with him. The other puppets had also followed Cleopatra's order, which they responded to the incoming Sun Rays, acting as Cleopatra's shield as they were one by one shot down until none of them were left standing. Now with only Cleopatra left standing, she clapped her middle hands a few times; "I must say that I'm impressed with you Mago Hogi, I haven't been in this position for quite some time now... I expect you to know that the souls of my puppets still walks among us? They can simply take another object and start fighting again, but why haven't I? Now that you've destroyed their bodies, I could summon a Soldat, but I think both of us would prefer that the town remained somewhat intact." Her smirk remained as her last clap stayed put as she once again cast Transport, summoning forth five new puppets, no swords this time though. "You've explored this world and seen many things, but have you ever witnessed two souls fused into one body?" Revealing that each of the new puppets actually has two souls residing within them, making them double their, strength, speed, defense and overall capabilities.

"Well now, not going to lie, that's something I haven't seen. Double the capabilities does sound interesting, but let me see what this is all about..." Mago said with a chuckle as he stomped his foot onto the ground, causing the building and ground to shake as he planted his foot onto the building's rooftop, exemplifying what kind of strength Mago has within his Esse Violentum form. Retaining eye contact with Cleopatra, Mago opened his palm to face the sky, before beckoning with his fingers to welcome the puppet's their first move, smiling a little bit as he looked towards Cleopatra. ''She's good, one of the first I've met with so much skill to battle me. These puppets however are becoming a large problem, maybe they're her main choice of attack, or is there something else? This Soldat fellow seems interesting, and the fact that she had brought up the wellbeing of the town hints that this Soldat is capable of extreme power...'' Mago thought to himself as he was beggining to devise a plan, though nothing has happened just yet for him to execute a plan at all, as both Mago and the puppets stared eachother down a fair period of silence, "Oi, hasn't anyone told you it's rude to stare?" Mago exclaimed from the other rooftop.

Mago's show of strength did seem to make her waver, if anything, she appeared as she had for the most of the battle, a confident yet playful smirk across her face. The puppets all stood infront their Lady in a line as they awaited their orders, they didn't make a move until Mago complained about them starring, causing them to take ahold of a fighting stance, one foot infront of the other, both hands reached forward with one being further ahead than the other, but this stance only revealed their simple playful nature from time to time as they all flipped their middle fingers up in unionen towards Mago, causing Cleopatra to actually giggle alittle before returning to her normal self. "They're quite a rowdy bunch when they can actually, anyhow, let us continue." Cleopatra reached her right, middle arm forward as she spoke: "Three, attack with continues support." Causing three of them to immediately use Reduced Earth to reach Mago within a moments notice and start to battle with him, each coming at him with one or two before backing out and another taking its place,  each  blow would be ignited with their energy magic, causing their attack to be amplified even further,  this would continue in a  random order. While the puppets charged in, Cleopatra on the other hand had begun to build up two Magic Rays from her top arms, ready to attack at any moment.

"Cheeky buggers..." Mago smirked as he saw their response, using his purple scaled arms to block the incoming hits from the puppets that were prdered to strike Mago down, keeping up with the puppets as they used their Reduced Earth to reach him and hit him, using the air to detect where these puppets were around him. Grabbing onto one of the puppets by the arm as he swung the puppet with great force over at Cleopatra's location, using his immence strength to fire the pupet as if it was a cannonball shot from a cannon. Still deflecting the puppets as they continued to attack, Mago was still weary about Cleopatra as he knew that she was up to something incase the puppets were taken out, It always seems to be the puppets huh, I wish there was some way to stop these pests from coming in... Maybe I should ask Cleopatra to stop nicely? Mago thought to himself whilst also simultaneously blocking the puppets attacks left from right. "You know what? That Soldat guy doesn't sound too bad..." He thought out loud, implying that he would like to see Cleopatra's extreme weapon of somewhat destruction.

"Block." was the only order needed before one of the remaining puppets stood in the way of the incoming "projectile"; "Halt!" Cleopatra announches has a faint shimmering light seemingly covers the puppets body before vanishing just as quickly, causing the puppet to stand completely still as the  "projectile" hits him: The impact doesn't move the defender one bit, but due to the strength of the throw, it causes several of the joints from the  "projectile" to be torn apart. Cleopatra, whose top hands were above the puppet infront of her and aimed towards Mago as she finally unleashed her two Magic Rays, causing the two puppet that was currently fighting Mago make some distance between them and Mago before the Ray could reach them. Cleopatra also took the chance to look over at the now torn apart puppet for a moment before it reconstructs itself, looking as good as new except for a notiable buckle in his chest. "Return." The puppet nods and makes its way back towards Mago once again.

"Aw, you two scared of a bit of magic?" Mago said noticing the puppets back away as he summond an Advanced Magic Shield to take in the damage from both the blasts of the Magic Rays, "Oh please, make your move lads. I won't mind cutting you both up into firewood..." Mago joked as he unclipped Dragontooth from it's scabbard and held it to his side, ready to counter any physical strike that the puppets might do as he fends off the attacks from the Magic Rays. "Don't get any ideas lads..." He said with a bit of worry in his voice, "I've got enough power in this blasted sword to take you both down." He exclaimed. Seeing the other puppet from before coming back again and following the order to return, Mago proceeded to exemplify as he quickly released swiped in the direction of the backed up puppets in order to release a burst of Sword Pressure, forcing back the puppets as they even were cut in half due to the extreme pressure that Dragontooth gave off, steadying his blade whilst keeping the Advanced Magic Shield up at the same time as he was about to be confronted by the incoming puppet.

Once the puppet had reached the top of the roof, he first noticed the other puppets who lay behind Mago, one at each side of him. The puppet took a stance, similar to the one that it used earlier to give Mago the finger, but this time it started to strike from its position, making various moves such as horizontal kicks, straight forward fist strikes or diagonal palm strikes, each of them sending off energy blasts that formed a similar pathway to that of the strike. While this had begun to take place, the recently cut down puppets struck out, just as they did before as too had been able to re-construct themselves. Cleopatra continued to observe for just a moment before reaching out for one of her keys and procced to summon: "Gate of the Wicked Spirit, I open thee; Gomorrah!" Thus the skeletal spirit returns to battlefield just next to Cleopatra, "This is truly an intriguing specimen indeed, to have observed it all through the celestial spirit world was simply remarkable... I wish to continue my research my Lady." To which she replied; "That's why I've summoned you here Gomorrah, perform as you see fit." And without exchanging anything further, Gomorrah took his chance as Mago was busy with the puppets to perform: "Six Layered Magic Circle: Eternal Illusions of Nothingness!" Mago noticing the area has taken a change thanks to the sudden appearance of the pupet, Mago immedialty summoned a Simple Magic Shield in order to swiftly break the attack, only having enough time to deflect the attacks with enough power to create a Simple Magic Shield, Mago was taking a chance as he realised his time for only being able to cast the weakest of his magic shields. It was only then that Mago finally saw the return of the bone man Gomorrah that he grinned, eager to see what else that this spirit had in store for him. "So then numbskull, miss me?" Mago exclaimed jokingly before being suddenly transported to a hellish landscape, filled with the screams of people as the blackened fires of hell blazed around him, ''Ah, the Realm of Hell. Soon my dear, you won't be getting me this early. The only way I'll have ended up here is... Eternal Illusions of Nothingness. Oh boy Gomorrah, can you stop teasing me. At least do something new for me.'' Mago thought as he closed his eyes and struck his hand forward, vanishing the start of the illusion as he Dispelled the magic surrounding him, finally opening his eyes to the true world as he looked toward Gomorrah and Cleopatra. Giving a simple smile, Mago's hands were once again engulfed in flames, activating his Divine Flame art. "You know, if you wanted to study me you could've maybe asked nicely..." He said sarcastically before gripping his hands tightly causing his whole body to erupt in flames, Blazing Coat. Using his physical capabilities and Blazing Coat to take care of the puppets around him, Mago proceeded to leap towards the puppet that had been busy striking at him first, using his flames in order to turn the puppet into firewood as he watched it panic, continuing to pick it up as he forcefully threw it with much force towards the other puppets, knocking them down as they too erupted in flames, slowly turning into small pieces of ash with Mago not breaking a sweat, which is surprising since he's covered in flames.

"We can keep this going for hours without end." Cleopatra gave out a soft sigh as she observed her puppets being turned into nothing but ash yet again, her creations does take awhile for her to construct. Each and every part of a puppet needs to be delicately handled, from the internal strings that's to be developed into an artifical copy of the nervous system aswell as to construct each and every joint to make them capable of performing smooth actions of both speed and strength. The amount of puppets stored for Cleopatra would allow her to keep summoning them and keep the fight going for quite awhile, but as she was fighting an opponent such as Mago, then the results would inevitable be in a lose of both valuable time and resources. Gomorrah did not turn his gaze from Mago as started to question his master, he was indeed interested in his subject, but he couldn't help question Cleo's actions as she wasn't playing with every piece on the chess board; "Why not summon one the Soldats milady... Surely you must see that their strength would aid you far better than that of these Legionnaires, I'd even go so far as to consider summoning the planetary key." His suggestion was meet with an ill response as Cleo's smirk turned stern and she looked over at Gomorrah, a gaze that even he couldn't ignore; "I will not risk the lives of innocent civilians, nore do I consider my life to be in any type of danger, you're well to remember your priorities." Gomorrah fell silent as he nodded as he brought his attention back to Mago. As Cleo herself turned towards Mago once more, her expression had not changed and with it she uttered a new command: "Strike." But neither her puppets or Gomorrah made a move, which meant this command wasn't for them, but for Mago.

"My pleasure!" Mago exclaimed with excitement as he proceeded to leap down from the rooftop of his building and land with such force that the ground bellow him trembled, carrying on to run up to the base of the building that Cleopatra and Gomorrah were standing on as he punched a man sized hole into the side of the building facing Mago's building. Climbing in, Mago was now on the ground level of the building right underneath Cleopatra and Gomorrah, still in his Blazing Coat. With a simple smile, Mago looked down on the wooden floor of the building as he saw that his footsteps burnt the floor as small tiny flames scattered around the black marks, looking upward to see a wooden ceiling, Mago reached put his hands infront of him as he pulled back quickly with force, activating the enhanced version of Infernal Obstacle as the flames produced were much more intense and blazing than the normal ones, as the room was now a large fire pit for the ceiling and floor have given way for the fire to burn. As the room proceeded to catach on fire, Mago noticed that the supports of the building were getting weak, as could be told by the heavy creaking sound coming from the four corners of the room, signalling Mago to run. The room continued to burn and as Mago rushed out in just seconds, the supports gave in as the building started to fall in on itself with both Cleopatra and Gomorrah still on the rooftop, as the fire ate up the room with such a pace.

Just by having Mago entering the buidling meant bad news, as he's most certainly capable of reaching Cleopatra without having to break though the building, thus meaning that collateral damage had to be the answer, but in which form, Cleo didn't know until the building started responding to Mago's actions, sparks and smoke quickly made its way through the house and soon after Mago himself. The fire was obvious at this point and Cleopatra had begun to evacuate from the rooftop, using one of her puppets to quickly carry her as both they, the other puppet and Gomorrah managed to get down to the harbor below. Now standing just outside the remains of the middle building proceeding to evacuate to a safer area, they were still aware of Mago however, who would at this point be just outside of the building that was set aflame, and in order to secure their retreat, he had to be delayed. Gomorrah took the first action as he too was still retreating, casting Four Layered Magic Circle: Karmic Lightning Battle Formation around Mago in hopes to stop him, the second action was made by one of the two remaining puppets, whom stayed behind as they ran, Cleopatra making sure to grant him Panzer before leaving him.