Forest Bay

After Estella and Mathoss finished their statements they received a call from Mathoss's mother Yuki telling them to come quickly to the house.

A short trip later they entered into Mathoss's house.

Mathoss entered "Mom?" He called

"In here sweetie," His mother called from the kitchen "is Estella with you?" She asked

"Yes I'm here Mrs. Silverfur."

"Good maybe you can tell me if this is what I think it is."

"huh?" both echoed

The two entered and Yuki Silverfur, a light brown haired lean woman with green eyes was looking at a potted plant that was on the table. However it looked like it was dying

Estella blinked "is that the plant..."

"Yes..." Yuki muttered "this is the plant your family gave mine and a few hours ago it was perfectly healthy now it's looks like it's withering."

Estella blinked "that means the magic is weakening... and if the magic is weakening."

Darkness seemed to dim the outside light turning a sunny day into a dusky almost foreboding night.

"eh" Mathoss made a noise as he looked out the window "Whoa hello, that's not something you see everyday."

Both Estella and Yuki looked and a solar eclipse was occurring.

"A solar eclipse?" Yuki muttered

A crinkling sound was heard.

"hmm?" Estella hummed as she looked she then gasped "no..." She went over to the plant "oh no please don't tell me this is happening..."

Both Mathoss and Yuki looked and the plant that had been dying was now dead. It had withered up and turned into gray ash.

Mathoss blinked "the plant... it's dead..." His mouth opened "and Mr. H said if it withers up quickly..." He grunted as his hair spiked up. He happened to look back out the window just in time to see something "incoming." He shouted

"Blooming Barrier!" Estella shouted as a magical field of energy surged around the trio

The shockwave of the Speyer mansion explosion hit the Silverfur house with a thunderous boom blowing out the windows and wall causing the house to collapse upon itself

When the explosion settled a creaking sound was heard as a large flower bulb seemed to grow up and out and push away the lighter parts opening a hole in the debris. The flower then 'bloomed' revealing Estella, Mathoss and Yuki in the middle of it. Estella had used plant magic to grow a large flower around the trio and have it grow out of the house

All three were panting coughing and otherwise winded from having the house collapse on them

Estella sighed in exhaustion "I think we need to go to my house..." She moaned "I've never had to use this much magic in one day."

Mathoss hummed "uh yeah... no kidding first you summoned that tree being and now you basically just a grew us a large flower to shield us from a collapsing house"

Yuki hummed "we owe you our lives Estella."

Estella hummed "with everything Mathoss has done for me, don't worry about it." She sighed "let's just get to my house."

A cell phone ringing was heard

Mathoss pulled out his phone "Matt the Cat here."

"Mathoss!" His father Wes called out "oh thank the ancient one where are you and Estella,"

Mathoss hummed "at the den, we had a bit of an incident. Explosion just took our place out and the explosion had done some heavy damage to the other houses as well

"Stay there," Wes stated "I'm borrowing one of the police vehicles and bringing you all to the Halo's Cabin at least there we can fortify defenses until we are able to leave forest bay for good."

Mathoss hummed "what's the hell going on Pop?"

"basically the word I'm getting from Theo is that forest bay is about to be consumed by darkness. Someone used high level cosmic magic via a genie to bring a solar eclipse and the explosion was an overload of dark magic that came from the Speyer's manor. No one is safe with all the magic that's being thrown around and it's best we get to a defendable house and land that just outside of the town. We have people under a vampire's spell, wendigos running wild."

"not to mention a weird woman and her cult of people eaters..." Mathoss muttered

"plus there's monsters underground in the catacombs under the town." Wes stated "anyways Mr. Halos and I are on route. We'll be there if no other trouble comes up."

Mathoss hummed "we'll see if we can get to some stuff that not too damaged. See you in a bit Pop" He hung up "well look like we got Mr. H's nightmare happening. Pop and him are coming to get us and take us to the Halos cabin." He sighed as the looked at the house "to think if we had been outside when the explosion occurred and we didn't see it coming

Yuki sighed as she looked at Estella "and if you hadn't been inside with me."

Estella hummed "we would most likely all be dead..." She finished

"This place is really going to hell, isn't it, mistress?" A listless cultist spoke, glancing at Vendetta. She looked ahead coolly, wafting some black smoke away from her hand.

"I knew I smelled blood and corruption from miles away. The town sits in disarray, a vampiress sits the throne, and those poor children from earlier are its last bastion of protection. This town can be your sport. Ruin it."

She wandered away into smoke, and the remaining cultists began to riot in the streets.

= = = = =

Alana frowned as the vampire spoke. "You live thousands of years, and vampires never get any less arrogant..." She muttered to herself. Maria seemed dangerous.

"So what do you want, bloodsucker? The town is falling apart, being attacked by Wendigos and Cultists. You're soon to be mayor of a literal garbage fire of a town. Vampire glamours can't last forever, either, and you've got a cap to how many you can entrance without it being a real effort on your....leadership qualities."

Alana looked around the office haughtily.

"Clearly you wanted us "skanks" here for a reason, and it wasn't just to brag about your cushy new job. So what's the deal, skank?"

When the group finally made their way into the office Maria was spinning in the mayors chair smirking. “Sup Skanks” She muttered smirking in the groups’ direction. “In a single week I brought down the council, brought the Speyer clan to its knees and took over office” Maria explained though it was clearly more like bragging.


‘I wonder how long you’d be able to stay alive without my assistance,” Ozuhus quipped. He mulled over the question before answering for the human, ‘You’ve done alright so far… but so far you haven’t encountered Vampires, Wendigos and mo- well, you get the point.’ He chuckled lowly in the recesses of Bazyl’s psyche, slowly phasing out of mind.



When you have a roommate in your head, it’s hard to always be present. Bazyl looked up at Maria, who smugly spun in the Mayor’s chair. The look on his face didn’t match the growing rage within him. The Mayor was a good friend of his. One that gave his life to protect both he and the bartender. Ozuhus preyed on that inner rage, but he wouldn’t dare say something and quell Bazyl’s anger.

Raija kept silent, looking the apparent vampire up and down as she spoke. She initially asked for help, but starting to gloat about her weekly accolades. Tilting her head to one side, then the other, Raija groaned in irritation. "So much taaaalking..."

“Now I’m the current acting mayor and seeing that I got the entire mortal police force under my control also most of them make good snacks I just want to make things clear. I’m in charge now got that or do you skanks need a lesson from an immortal vampire” She taunted knowing she couldn’t be killed by this group.



“Immortal? Even if I were to behead you, stake your heart and burn the remains?” Bazyl asked, half under his breath. He was sure Maria would be able to hear him regardless due to her vampiric abilities. He balled his fist then released his grasp, repeated the process a few times to calm himself. He glanced at Alana as she began to speak,

Rai rolled her eyes at the pseudo-threat and pointed to Bazyl with her thumb. "I've never met anything that cannot die. But your plan isn't to fight, or you would have never led us here..." 

"So what do you want, bloodsucker? The town is falling apart, being attacked by Wendigos and Cultists. You're soon to be mayor of a literal garbage fire of a town. Vampire glamour can't last forever, either, and you've got a cap to how many you can entrance without it being a real effort on your....leadership qualities."



Alana looked around the office haughtily.



"Clearly you wanted us "skanks" here for a reason, and it wasn't just to brag about your cushy new job. So what's the deal, skank?”



Bazyl would nod in agreement. “Do hurry. Time is of the essence. My city is burning down and we’ve just undergone a hostile takeover. I’d rather help somebody than listen to an undead hag name-call.”

Raija pointed to Bazyl and Alana with each thumb. "What they said. We just got done fighting a basilisk, last thing we want is to deal with another snake." She said side-eyeing Maria.

Maria would glare at the group before simple grabbing her left hand with her right several bones were heard snapping as she seemed to breaking her own fingers.
“You would not be the first to try and I do so enjoy pain sweetie but never the less. You cannot kill me I’m one of the five specifically number four of the original first vampires” Maria snapped.
“Anyway like I said I used my bite on enough officials to make sure they won’t ask questions mortals are so easy to manipulate. Anyway you should be calling me this towns savior see Saleme killed the alpha wendigo he just needed the right shock to his system...I had that provided” Maria smiled.
“Granted he did go full dark flame or hellfire mode so some burn victims may occure in the next few weeks” She smirked before looking at Bazyle.

“The backup he requested from Crimson Grove isn’t coming back to Forest Bay either so it is my town now and don’t worry I feed on mortals I will have most the issues dealt with by tomorrow and then we can finish the beacon ritual alright gang now your all dismissed may want to go help those hippies who love plants” Maria mocked going back to spinning in her chair.

Alana watched with mild disinterest as Maria snapped her own fingers. She'd seen this kind of display from an ancient vampire before. It seemed the longer a vampire had been around, the bigger the ego.

"So she's an original...attitude checks out." Alana wondered aloud, loud enough for Bazyl and Raija to hear her, and possibly also Maria with her hearing.

Alana scoffed at Maria's speech, and walked out of the office after she was done. She waited for the others to join.

"What do you think she's done with Saleme? 'Full Dark Flame' and 'hellfire' don't sound like him at ALL. The plant people...probably young Mathoss and his friend, her name escapes me..backup wouldn't hurt actually."

She spoke all this aloud, her thoughts bubbling to the surface as she tried to figure out plans to save the town as it corroded from within. The other two would hear her as they left, provided they weren't still talking to Maria.

“So you guys are the ones messing up the second best bar in town” A voice echoed from the darkness as an explosion of black flames erupted in the air and Saleme dropping from it and landing in front of what seemed to be two cultists.

“See now we have problem because my dad just died and well I’m not bothered by that it just well how do, I put it. I had to walk all the way here and I wanted triple Vodka see my feet are killing me so I am a little irritated so I guess someone going to have to die” Saleme explained gracefully twirling around and creating two black flames in his hand before he could throw fireballs one though the cultist had made their move forcing Saleme to jam his flaming hands into his face.

“Ugh you got blood on my shirt do you know how hard this is to wash out” he grumbled before tossing the first one towards the second cultist.

"Shame about the t shirt. Really brings out the colour in your eyes." A low voice rang out across the square, now silent as all the cultists stopped moving.

V wandered towards Saleme, smiling softly.

"If you like, kill him. He's completely disposable."

The cultist in Salemes grasp widened his eyes in shock, and began to stammer. "P-please, ma'am, I..."

"Silence. I did not address you." V spoke softly, her eyes not leaving Salemes. "I was speaking to the man with the.... Extraordinary magical prowess. I mean, I've not seen that spell for....A long, long time."

She cocked her head thoughtfully.

"You're wasted here. A drink in a little meaningless bar? Alone? Your powers....They're a gift. You could change lives, change the course of history...."

Her smile widened.

"Or at least have fun." Saleme would look rather disinterested in most of the whole ‘gift’ talk until she mentioned the word fun.

“Listen honey, I already know who you are and frankly I don’t really care for this whole cult losers following about they just exist for this” Saleme muttered before turning the follower to ash.

“So listen sweetie if you want to hang with me lose the losers and I’ll show you how to have a good time in a meaningless bar” Saleme smirked before stroking his index finger across his arm writing a message.
“So you fancy learning a lesson about setting the rules of a game sweetie” Saleme smirked knowing that every magical being he had interacted with today would get his message about meeting at a bar.

Vs smile widened as Saleme spoke. "No, i wont lose the cultists. Fanatic staff that dont ask for a wage are hard to find, sweetie. But i will come to your little gathering. I'd like to see the magicals who live here. Until i saw you, all I've met are normals and tree huggers."

She lifted her arms and her cultists fled, ready to appear when she next needed them.
"Lead the way, honey. I'm new in town."

// yoyoyo hope it's not too late

Name: Effie Oladele.
Age: 20.
Race: Witch.
Appearance:
Bio: As a young child, Effie was always an energetic, happy go lucky individual. No one hardly took the female seriously due to her playful manor. However, as she grew older and her skills began to be put on showcase, it terrified those in her clan. She's extremely powerful, and is even next to become supreme in her clan. Although, she does not see the reason or grasps the motivation to do so. She isn't just a cute face, as proven, not only is her magic ability incredible; the female is also incredibly intelligent. She alone provides electricity for the city. Recently, she overcame her fear of lightning after years of controlling it. Effie is also madly in love with Eren, as it is made oblivious whenever the two are together.
Powers: Basic magic spells. Can control lightning.
Weapons:
Role In Town: The towns "electrician."

Name: Eren Oladele.
Age: 22.
Race: Djinn.
Appearance:
Bio: Eren is an unpredictable man who finds the joy in life at every corner. He appears to be calm and collected, but holds his power in a very high regard, very brash and, overall, quite carefree. However, he shows great anger and annoyance when someone ruins his fun. He is very playful and doesn't take his opponents seriously in battle, which suggests that Eren is either highly arrogant, or hideously skilled in combat. He does not tolerate being laughed at and does not like to be ignored. Many do not know the tale on how he and Effie met, let alone wed. However, with the two's obsurd personalities - they're a perfect match. Eren is extremely private when it comes to their back story.
Powers: Teleportation and carries the ability to form clones of himself.
Weapons:
Role In Town: Debt collector.