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Ven? This place is...

[...definitely not Master Yen Sid's tower. This wasn't anywhere she had seen before at all, in fact. It was closest to Destiny Islands, but the similarities there ended with the beach. How had this happened?

And, more importantly, where was Ven? A quick look around didn't turn up any sign of him, but that didn't mean he wasn't here. Aqua would make sure to check everywhere she could, first. After finally finding him again before ending up here, she certainly wasn't going to write him off as gone so easily.]

...I'll just have to find him. At least there's no sign of Unversed yet.

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Hm.. [Maybe didn't hurt trying to explain some of it]

The mermaids found a way to corrupt flames.

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Flames... [I doubt you mean normal ones, so.] Something magic-related, huh?

[onyxblade.livejournal.com]

.. For the most part. [Here, have a sickly dark Sky type to look at]

It's a technique used by most of the other people here from a different world. But it's controlled by life force.

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[Yeeah, there's decently powerful darkness coming off of that. Sort of recoiling back from it a little bit--how had this not been noticed sooner?]

I've...seen something similar happen before, actually.

[onyxblade.livejournal.com]

[Well, it's not staying out for long at least].. You have?

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[Pondering this for a moment.]

I guess you could say that was an infection too, in a way. But it wasn't based on anything like those flames.

[onyxblade.livejournal.com]

[.. Was that so] Do you know how to get rid of it?

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[Well...]

It's not so simple. I wouldn't say there's a 'cure' for darkness.

[onyxblade.livejournal.com]

[Damn :|]... Probably wouldn't work for this kind in particular anyway.

The only easiest solution I can think of is getting to the mermaids myself. [Which isn't that easy, as this last attempt has proven :|]

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[Okay, you lost me.]

Mermaids?

[onyxblade.livejournal.com]

They have control on everything here.

.... While the queen in charge is generally supposed to be nice, she has a sister that cause most of the destruction that happens.

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[...are evil queens in this year or something?]

And because of her power, no one really can do anything, right? But there has to be some way...

[onyxblade.livejournal.com]

[... Apparently]

There's nothing that really can be done but try something.

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[My life.]

Well, anything is better than nothing.

[onyxblade.livejournal.com]

[... fuuu] Maybe it is completely useless though.

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You might be surprised.

[onyxblade.livejournal.com]

No one has been able to do anything to stop Thalassa before. And fighting back in the past only just makes her more angry. [And worsens the conditions :|]

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['Hopeless' isn't exactly in my dictionary. There must be a loophole somewhere.]

Hm...

[onyxblade.livejournal.com]

.... She's also the reason why he was.. [Fuuu, DP might be getting out of hand a bit thar D|]

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[So long as you don't eat me? I can't decide if it would be a good idea to press or not. Leaning towards no.]

[onyxblade.livejournal.com]

[... I wouldn't be too worried about that, though now he seemed more irritated by something else] Erg-!

[Slammed a fist to the ground] I need to get rid of this! [And now trying to take a moment to calm down a little before he lost control again completely]

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[You know what, I'm just going to try to get you to turn that frustration into stronger motivation to break this on your own and hope it doesn't backfire somehow.]

...Why is it so important to you?

[onyxblade.livejournal.com]

[Even though the anger was really DP's fault and not mine, but..] ...?

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[You must be tired of it still too, though.]

You have your reasons to fight it, don't you?

[onyxblade.livejournal.com]

[Yeswell >:] ... Of course.