House Crashing

[Nisorin]

"Ah, yes. As far as we were able to figure out, in order to change the seal, you would have to unseal Koty, then re-seal him. Which, as you can imagine, would be incredibly difficult and would probably require the help of several other Keepers, which I doubt we'd be able to get." She answers, picking the book up and handing it back to Hikaru. "That is one hell of a seal, Hikaru. Even together, it was quite difficult to piece it together. And I almost forgot, Animas wanted to apologize to you for how she acted when you first fell. She only talked to you that way because you were only responding to things like that."

[Queen Bright]

"She doubted my motives, and accused it of just selfish reason." She replied. Taking the book back, Hikaru, opened it and flipped to the page of the seal, scanning the page for the part she did know about. "There is one way to modify it as well, without the need of the other Keepers. The thing left behind from the spell, The Mark of Eternity...." Closing the book, she slightly shook her head. "Only problem is, The Anrufe have it. And with Zharael going up against them, when all that happened..... I can bet, they won't be willing to give it up. And with Kai having the Outerverse, there's nothing to offer up in trade."

[Nisorin]

The two Lertises trade glances, and burst out in laughter. "We together lead an Empire of magic users, Miss Phoenix. We can come up with something."

[Queen Bright]

"Have you met that group?" Hikaru asked, trying to ignore the laughter that was directed at what she had said. "With something that powerful, they'll more than likely demand a soul if anything. And I'm not entirely sure, on which one of them has it."

[Nisorin]

"We'll get the Mark, just leave it to us." They reply simultaneously, their naturally-emanated magic seeming to swirl together and weave around each other as they spoke, testament to the challenges they had gone through together. The house itself seemed to react to this, the 'clouds' in the wall floating quickly away to reveal clear, blue skies.

[Orph]

"Diplomacy is not an option for either party. Nor is the Mark needed, I've lived with this seal for my entire life, or at least this incarnation of me's life. I don't need it changed now." Koty informed as he exited the door, shirtless and stretching.  The mark of Erebus clear as day on his chest, seemingly burnt there with a something akin to a soldering iron.

[Queen Bright]

Glancing up at Koty's entrance, Hikaru placed the Revelations book on the table. "Even if you say that..." She replied. "I can't live with myself, knowing that it was my spell, that's causing you pain." Glancing away, she stared at the wall, avoiding his eyes. "If the other Keepers had cast it, they would have sealed you completely..." She paused, trying to choose her words wisely, so as not to remind him of that day. "But because it was only me, it did this. A different effect than they created it for..."

Hikaru stood up, circling the table, while watching the Revelations book. "So in that sense....an already created spell, was used, and turned into a different spell.... Something not in the book.... If this is true, the answer to changing it, won't lie in the Keepers spell, but in, how the spell was originally changed. Studying that...should give answer as to how to alter the spell." Glancing back to Celestie and Nisorin, she sighed. "But I need the Mark of Eternity, to be able to study it. If it's my father that has it, a deal might be able to be made. If Zere has it...there's no telling where it is, now that Kai's destroyed him. And the rest, I haven't seen a sign of, since the crusades."

[Nisorin]

Celestie glances at the Mark on Koty's skin, recognizing it as having magical origins, but nothing more. "At the same time, Hikaru, from the sound of things you gave him his humanity, his ability to choose and to live a normal life. A spell with that kind of power will not come without a drawback, no matter what we try." She says, standing up and walking right into the phoenix's path. She places a warm hand on Hikaru's shoulder, looking up at the woman as Nisorin comes to stand behind her, slightly taller than Hikaru.

"She's right, Hikaru. If it's not outright pain, it will be some other drawback that will be just as bad." He says, leaning against Celestie.

[Orph]

"Indeed, I do believe the best option now would be our return to Hell, we have to continue with the tournament, or at least you do Hikaru. I'm technically disqualified due to death!" Koty exclaimed, laughter escaping his lips. "Oh will those little demons be surprised. Ol' Lucy wont, but my former henchmen will. I like the word, henchmen." Koty informed, touching the air itself and ripping a swirling vortex to Hell into existence.

"And we're off." He muttered as he walked through, keeping the vortex behind him open for the others.

[Nisorin]

After quickly running upstairs to retrieve their armor and weapons, Nisorin and Celestie 'lock up' and follow Koty through his portal, a second copy of the ring given to Hikaru forming atop the Book of Revelations.

[Queen Bright]

Sighing in defeat, but still intending to find the Mark, at a later time, Hikaru went to the table to retrieve the book of Revelations, noticing the ring as she picked it up. Grinning slightly to herself, she made it disappear with the book. Hell was the last place she wanted to go to, especially after giving her plans, of withdrawing from the tournament. And it seemed, Celestie and Nisorin had provided the way, so she wouldn't have to stay there.

Once the book was gone, she followed Koty, and the other two.