We open up in District 14, with Iris, Neve, Erhan and Thanna investigating a strange black prism, that blots out seemingly any light that touches it, they are discussing how to handle this situation..
Iris: Prisms often turn straight white light into rainbows, so I really wouldn’t know to do with one that acted like a black hole?
Neve: But aren’t you like, part Rainbow or something?
Iris: Well kinda, my powers are taking over my physical form…
Thanna: It’s kinda like how my powers over green light and green light constructs have been increasing in strength
Erhan: Weirdly enough we don’t know what’s causing both of those things?
Thanna: I think Optica’s defeat had something to do with it, but I’ve got no idea what?
Iris: She claimed she was a god of some sort, perhaps her divine powers were related to our own?
Neve: It could be the case, but I do think this prism has something to do with it?
Thanna: What do you mean?
Neve: It’s weird light blotting power seems like it could have wide reaching effects?
Thanna: So what do you want me to do about it?
Erhan: Yeah, what’s this leading too?
Neve: There’s actually something that I want Iris to do
Iris: Yes?
Neve: It’d be pretty cool if you blasted the prism with your light powers
Iris: Ok
Thanna: Are you sure that’s safe
Neve: I’m not
Ehran: Oh-
Iris blasts the Prism with all 7 of her rainbow beams, the darkness starts to chip
Neve: Alrighty
Erhan: This seems dangerous and unscientific?
Thanna: She’s putting it in tho
Iris’s rainbow beams burn a hole in the darkness…
Iris: Ok…one final push
Thanna: Go girl
Iris’s beams tear down to the glass, the light builds and pushes out a beam of pure light through the other side
Neve: What’s this?
Iris: What do you mean?
Neve points to how the Darkness begins moving off the prism
Thanna: I got it
Thanna blasts it with her powers but they flare and accidentally chip the Prism
Erhan: Uhm…was this part of the plan?
Thanna: No, uhm hopefully this doesn’t cause something to go wrong
The Prism cracks into pieces
Iris: Uh oh?
Neve: That can’t be good?
Erhan: We done goofed up
The Prism’s dark powers burst out, revealing a portal
Neve: A portal?
Iris: We missed out on all the White World stuff so the universe is making us go on a strange adventure
Thanna: Ok I-
Green Light bursts forward and tries to destroy the portal
Thanna: What the hell is this?
Thanna stops her powers and The Portal starts pulsating
Erhan: Did we make it angry?
Iris: How did we make a portal angry?
Thanna shields her friends while preparing for the worst, the portal snaps back and fires out two beings that look like Optica’s monsters
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Erhan: Well this is interesting?
Iris: So her specter sends more monsters our way, what is this madness…
Thanna: I don’t think this is Optica’s doing?
Fight The Corrupted Monsters
When you win, they turn into slimy darkness that is sucked back into the portal
Thanna: So what the heck are these things?
Iris: No clue but-
Her rainbow powers activate and she shoots a red light through the portal, which causes it to convulse violently
Erhan: What the heck is this thing?
Neve: Hold on…I remember hearing about a Pionin mage who could create portals that react to their surroundings
Erhan: So what you’re saying is that you can work with this?
Neve: Yes, I just need one of you to hit the portal again
Thanna hits the portal again, causing two more monsters to appear
Neve: Great, now watch me work
Fight The Monsters while defending Neve
When The Monsters are defeated, the portal snaps and pops, stretching into a portal that looks safe and gives a clear view into a place shrouded by darkness
Neve: Well, I fixed it!
Erhan: How?
Neve: The light beams that hit the portal activated it’s defense mode, I simply figured out how to deactivate it
Thanna: You’re smart, aren’t ya
Neve: Yeah!
Iris looks in through the portal
Iris: So what is that place?
Thanna: Only one way to find out?
Erhan: We’re doing this, aren’t we?
Neve: There’s quite a lot that could go wrong, but this may provide insight into the mysterious fate that befell my people…
Iris: Well if we’re on board
The Four of them step through the portal ending up in a mysterious world similar to The White World
Iris: So what is this place?
Neve: Well before we answer that
Neve presses some buttons that the others can’t see, shutting down the portal and condensing it into a small portable rift
Thanna: Huh, I had no idea you could do that
Neve: Ancient trick
Erhan: So you think that some lost treasure of your people could be here?
Neve: Potentially
Thanna: So, I wonder what caused the corruption of that prism
Erhan: I personally think this place may also hold the key to fixing you and Iris
Neve: Well let’s go into the unknown
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Thanna: Woah…hey guys you should duck
A powerful blast of Green Light suddenly shoots out of Thanna’s hand
Erhan: Hold on, why did that happen
Suddenly, a figure wrapped in a kind of dim light appears but it illuminates the shadowed surroundings
Neve: More of Optica’s Army remains??
Strange Figure: Hello Guild Members!! My name is Phote, it’s a name you best remember well
Phote attacks the party but Iris sends her careening into a nearby rock with a light beam
Iris: Ok Phote, what’s your deal here?
Phote: I was commander of Optica’s Nightlands operations, but then your stupid guild defeated her by sending her to the barren future
Thanna: So you had a separate army in here and didn’t rush to her aid at any point?
Phote: Yes, but now I was stuck here due to SOMEONE here
Another figure appears, slinging a ringed hand at Phote
Phote: You!
Thanna: Huh looks like we interrupted the beef
???: Sorry to get in your way Phote, but I’d like to talk to The Century Corps in person
Erhan: So just who are you?
Kutakahra: My name is Kutakahra, the ringed sorcerer and new master of The Nightlands leading a fearsome
Phote: It’s technically MY army!
Kutakahra: Tomato, Potato. I’m gonna use this army to take control of The Nightlands, then conqueror The Human World
Thanna: I don’t think s-
A Blast of Green Light suddenly fires off and hits Kutakahra in the face, leaving a burn
Kutakahra: Rude, at least I’ll get to kill you easily
Suddenly, a dark circle of energy hits Kutakahra in the back of the head
Thanna: Who did that?
Kutakahra: VANIEL!
A group of Three Fighters emerges
Phote: Aww you got your own problems
Phote’s leg is suddenly interrupted by a powerful blast from Iris
Vaniel: Hello Kutakahra, don’t think you can go conquering The Nightlands without me having to say something about it
Kutakahra: You and your incescent friends have gotten in the way of my plans long enough
Vaniel: Well Zenial didn’t have a son who was a slouch!
Thanna: Huh?
Erhan: Oh wait, this place is where The Nightmages came from, their attack led to Acantha setting the Centennials free
Iris: That Zenial guy was old enough to have a kid?
Vaniel: Uhm “Night Mages” is a derogatory term, we like to be called Nightlanders and Nightlanders reproduce asexually and can technically do so at young ages, but most people wait and wait I got distract-
Phote: UGH WHO CARES, I was ordered to burn this place to the ground
Cynthus #1: Well if I have something to say about it, then you will not have your way evildoer
Cynthus #2: That’s right DEATH DEATH DEATH
Neve: Each Head has its own brain?
Armei: Yup
Cynthus #3: Yummy yummy shadow snacks
Kutakahra: I think Head #3 is broken
Phote: Graah I don’t care you’re all gonna die
Thanna: Hey Vaniel!
Vaniel: What is it Guild Member?
Thanna: Interested in joining forces?
Vaniel: Sure
Armei: Oh we’re going
Erhan: Hey I don’t mind!
Armei, Vaniel and Cynthus join the party
Phote: Oh darn it!!
Kutakahra: Well I’m not teaming up with you
Kutakahra leaves
Phote: I’m not scared of your intrepid alliance
Fight against Phote
When she has 75% of her health left
Phote: I know when to fold my hand
Erhan: So you’re a coward like the original Optica?
Phote: On the contrary
Phote manifests a massive spear
Cynthus #2: What’s this got to do with anything?
Phote: This is how I fold
Phote throws the spear, creating a flash of strong blinding light
Thanna: Oh no
A powerful beam from Thanna rings out to Phote who absorbs the light and disappears
Armei: Darn it, that infernal witch is gonna cause problems for us
Thanna: I got to-
Thanna tries using her light powers but they do not work
Iris: What the heck is this?
Thanna: You can’t use your abilities either?
Vaniel: So it looks like you two need fixing?
Armei: Do we have to go to Akhine Temple?
Neve: Akhine? That’s the name of an ancient Pionin God?
Cynthus #3: Pionin Pie!!
Cynthus #2: You’re such an idiot
Cynthus #1: Yeah, Akhine Temple has Pionins living there, what’s the big deal?
Neve: I thought I was the only one?
Armei: Huh?
Neve: I was told that there weren’t any Pionins left on Earth and that I was the last one?
Armei: Oh, yeah that made sense, but yeah you WERE the only Pionin left on Earth?
Neve: Huh?
Erhan: So two of us no longer have powers and Neve is no longer the last of her kind?
Vaniel: A lot to take in huh
Erhan: I’ll say
Vaniel: Ah, well let’s go over the plan
Iris: Go to the temple, restore our powers, fight Kutakahra and Phote, go back home
Vaniel: Sounds like a plan
The Seven of them take off, ready to head towards Akhine Temple…