Dropping off a few packages

Za'cha looked out across the sleeping town before he raised an eyebrow from beneath his armour. "Is that... oh you're kidding me..." he groaned, Pride simply shaking his head at the actions of the robed creature running in circles. "I wonder if we should even help the creature." mused the Spirit, earning him a grunt from Za'cha. "As much as I'd enjoy watching him pretend to be a rat in a maze, I personally want to get this job over and done with..." he grumbled. Pride nodded in agreement. "Very well. How will we proceed?" he asked, Za'cha already in flight towards Kaseki. "Simple. Like this." he said before he found himself flying directly above the robed mage.

"Oi! This way Kaseki." he called down, hoping that the mage would pay attention long enough to recognise that he wasn't one of the enemy. Za'cha would lead the way towards where Kaseki was meant to be going, pausing now and then to ensure that he had the man's full attention. "Sometimes you got to help the rat trapped in the maze if you ever want the job done." he muttered under his breath, wondering partially how Nakiya was doing with her end of the mission.

Given the lack of explosions thus far, it was almost safe to assume that everything was going according to plan. Which made the Ex-Quip mage nervous.

Nakiya held the key proudly before replacing it on her key ring, feeling much happier with Pegasus in it's rightful place. This spirit had never known the light in all of it's existence, being a copy of the original Pegasus... and so she wondered just how corrupting pegasus to the darkness once more would feel for both spirit and summoner... She glanced back tot he Celestial mage on the ground and smirked, leaning in close to him and giving him a quick kiss on the cheek.

"Next time you want a date, just call me kiddo."
She mocked him, winking at him before taking off in the direction she had originally come from, hoping to meet up with Kaseki and Za'cha sooner rather than later, just in case the Celestial Spirit Wizard did in fact have his Celestial Spirit Friend, or a guild member with him.

As she ran, she sent the twin spirits back to the Celestial world in hopes of conserving energy for the trip back home. She did have a new key to corrupt after-all, and this would require all of her attention. As she ran however, she spotted Za'cha flying high above the city, wondering just what the hell he was doing when she suddenly came running into Kaseki, skidding to a stop just barely in time before crashing into him.

"What on earthland in going on?"
She aske the wizard, glancing up once more to Za'cha with a raised eyebrow. Why was he making himself so obvious?

"Grrrrggg grrg grggg!" Kaseki seemed to mumble. What was wrong with him? He seemed to have been choking on some liquid. Was his lungs dying? No, it could not be so. This wasn't Kaseki. This was his clone.

The real Kaseki was far away, running. From what? Even Kaseki didn't know. His life was like that. It made zero sense, he had zero time, even then we could never live the life he wanted. His mind was always broken, tainted. Savage Skull trapped the child inside of him. Savage Skull ate away at his youth. "Grrrrrrgggggggghhhagggg grg rggrgrg." It screamed in explanation. It knew its' time was short, it knew it was going to die. Only it knew where Kaseki was.

The rev of an engine, the whirl and scream of the tires. Sudden sounds, sudden roaring. A sudden light filled the alleyway of the clone. It was a truck, most importantly, an ice cream truck. "Now excuse me, friends, we have a job to do. Please move aside, for your safety and mine. I don't know how to drive." said the PDA of the truck. That was the real Kaseki. That was the psychopath. That was the plant man.

The headlights became the light at the end of the tunnel. Or in this case, it became the headlights at the end of the alley. In any case, Kaseki was coming. What he did, how he did it, why he did it that way, would remain unknown. Kaseki was a man of mystery, and his box was gone.

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Clones duration:
Water : 2

Za'cha blinked at the cloaked mans responses to him. "What the hell?" he asked himself before spotting Nakiya. "Figured the idiot here got himself lost, so I was trying to lead him to where he was meant to go..." he explained before the alley got flooded with lights. The armoured mage blinked at Kaseki's voice coming from the truck before he regarded the being below him. "That was one of the damned clones?!" he muttered angrily to himself before realising what the man had said.

"Well shit!" he said before swooping down to try and grab Nakiya out of the van's path before a better idea came to him. He went down to pick up the Dark Summoner and then tried to deposit her into the van itself, his armour dispersing as he sought refuge inside the vehicle as well. "Very convincing." he said to Kaseki in regards to the clone.

With all the packages delivered, their mystery employer decided now to show off what it was they had been carrying. The inconspicuous boxes placed across the town of Hargeon all began to glow and make beeping noises. After a few seconds of this curious action, they erupted into great pillars of multi-coloured fire that ringed the harbour. Za'cha looked at the colourful display with a raised eyebrow before groaning. "You are kidding me..." he muttered as the pillars of flame began to bend and weave into shapes...

Shapes that spelt out the words, "COME EAT AT 6-ISLAND RESTAURANT!" The three Dark mages of the Savage Skull guild, had just completed a delivery mission... for a magical advertisement campaign, and were now in an ice cream truck to make their escape.