Attention All Passengers

**Date Started:** Dec 6th 2019
**Date Completed:** Ongoing
**Users Involved:** User:PuddingCups, User:Jmayfie01
* Pink Lotus: Eliza Reagan, Nicole Hollander

## Gearing Up

Eliza was sitting in the lounge with Nicole. It was just one of those days. Kicking her feet on the ground as she sat, "I'm BORED!" Eliza whined. She wanted to do something! Anything besides sitting around and doing nothing, well, not anything! Work was even worse than boredom! Many of the Pink Lotus guild members stared at the girl, throwing one of her signature temper tantrums, this time screaming about how it was all Nicole's fault and she needed to find something for them to do fast.

"What are YOU looking at?" She snapped towards an innocent bystander, causing them to turn away abruptly, leaving their face red and tears streaming down their eyes. Eliza had that effect on people. Luckily, their master, Dorothy Hewett was currently at a business meeting and wasn't there to punish Eliza for her actions as she often did when the little girl got out of hand. She acted as a parental figure to Eliza, as clearly no one else in her life had or would. In fact, she had been sent to this guild as a form of boarding school so they wouldn't have to deal with her. Lucky for the rest of the guild, huh?

Nicole was laying down on the couch, her feet propped up against the armrest along with her head on the opposite one, reading the newest edition of sorcerer Magazine! This edition was on the hot new magic items from make up to pleasurable toys. She put the magazine closer to her face, looking at various tips on how to be more beautiful! Not that she really cared about what people thought but it wouldn’t help to find a few new looks and styles for her lovely hair.

What a peaceful and lovely day for her to relax.. Well, it was, until she heard the loud screams of one of her close Guild Mates. There was only one person who would throw a tantrum this early in the morning and that person was Eliza, the celestial crick in her neck. “Oh look, 100 ways to ignore bratty children.” She put her magazine up, shielding her face from the young girl as to show that this wasn’t going to ruin her morning.

Eliza couldn't believe her friend was ignoring her for that magazine! This wasn't what friendship was supposed to be. Leaping from the comfy couch she stormed towards her friend, ripping the magazine from her hands and tearing it to shreds before throwing the bits and pieces on the floor. "I'm bored! What are you going to do about it!" Eliza threw her hands down, Nicole was supposed to fix this!

Nicole sighed, looking at her magazine and then back at Eliza. It was true that Nicole herself was bored too, though she didn’t really have much to do besides relax for today. “Fine, I’ll perform a little magic trick for you.” She put her feet on the floor, pushing herself up until she was standing in front of eliza. “Memory-Make: Cure of Boredom!” Once she said the spell, light filled the room and then.. Nothing happened because that spell didn’t exist.

“Congrats! You’ve been fooled. If you‘re that bored then go pick a job and I’ll go with you.. As long as the job is appropriate and pays well, I don’t want another job that involves helping male entertainers ‘Find Themselves’ again.” Nicole didn’t mind doing jobs with Eliza, the young girl was basically the only family she had and it could sometimes be fun, so she’d let the young mage choose the job and then she would follow along for the ride.

Throwing her hands in the air Eliza yelled, "You're useless!" As she marched over the the job board. This was a place of bad memories for Eliza, one of these jobs always led to a lot more work than it seemed, no matter what she picked. Once she had signed up to find a flower, which was easy enough, only to find out the flower grew in a cave guarded by golems. NOT SO EASY!!! So, ever since then, Eliza had learned to read the fine print. Her careful eyes gazed every poster, and this time she paid a bit more attention to things aside from the reward. When things got a little to complicated for her she ripped a poster off the wall at random and skipped over to Nicole.

"I found one and itttsss perfect!" She said with glee. In reality she had no idea what it even was, she left it up to lady luck! Shoving it in her friends face so she'd give it a read.

Nicole was simply waiting for the girl to find a poster and probably scream at Nicole to read it for her since Eliza was lazy! Sure enough, that time came after Eliza had spent a few minutes skimming over the board until she ran over and shoved a poster in Nicole’s face. “Lovely.” She grabbed the poster from eliza’s hands, skimming over it and smirking. “Well this is new of you, a job that asks us to help a little old lady run her train station.” Who knew eliza could be this kind!

Doing a civil service wasn’t something nicole always enjoyed but this one might be somewhat fun, she had always enjoyed trains, the tranquility and smoothness of the ride and the lovely seats that she could lay back in with the cocktails and croissants. Hopefully they’d be able to take a little luxury ride to a spa in exchange for their services but if not, a few thousand jewels would work too!

Public service, great. Eliza would rather fight tha- run a train station? Boss people around? Was THIS was public service was? Telling people what to do? Was it her calling, a sign that she had ripped this poster from the board! She thought yes! "Well, you know me. Always looking to humble myself and do charitable acts to help my families name!" Eliza flipped her twin tails back before reading the poser herself, unknowingly to Nicole for the first time. It did seem really easy! Lucky her.

"Well what are you waiting for? Are you going to go get my bags, we need to meet with her TODAY." Eliza snapped, acting as if Nicole was one of her butlers, a common misconception between the two.

“Yeah I’m sure Mother Teresa couldn’t hold a candle to you Eliza..” Nicole looked around before hearing the young girls orders. “Pick up your own bags, I have to work on getting us a ride there.” In times like this, she could just use a simple spell but for some reason her carriage spell was on the fritz! Therefore, Nicole had to have one of the other females in the guild go and get her one of the horse drawn ones from the town. How embarrassing was that?

“Don’t forget, we have to be kind or else we won’t get the money.” This was probably going to be a hard thing for eliza, not being a sassy brat. Though Nicole would guide her with kindness, charity and a whole lot of spells designed specifically to handle Eliza, ranging from silencing her to putting her in a glittery cage.

"Whatever." Eliza scoffed, going to her room and shooting a wicked glare at a group of girls who then followed her, kindly having been voluntold to help her with just a glance. In a few minutes, the girls had come down with around twenty suitcases or so, coming outside and throwing them into the carriage as Eliza watched. "I SAID place them GENTLY. If any of my dresses got creases in this process, I'm sending you all the dry cleaning bill, and good luck paying it, my lady is expensive." Eliza snarled before getting into the carriage, of course there was barely any room thanks to her suitcases but sacrificed had to be made!

Nicole rolled her eyes, of course eliza would be the one to have twenty suitcases that take up half the carriage space. “You know, for a spatial mage I would’ve assumed you had a spirit that could make a pocket dimension for all your luggage. Why isn’t there a silver key like, Casey the Suitcase??” She groaned, trying to squeeze into the small space that she was given inside the carriage.

Once Nicole managed to find any legroom that was possible in this hunk of junk, she shouted for the driver to start the carriage. He nodded, pulling at the reigns to signal the horses that they could start moving forward. “This is going to be a relaxing job to get our mind off everything and finally let loose.”

"Really? With all that reading you do I was sure you'd know that the Celestial Spirits are based on the constellations, not whatever I want them to be based off of." Eliza scoffed as the horses neighed and rode forth, their hooves clickity clickity clicking on the concrete with the sound of a cracking whip to guide their speed.

"I don't know what part of managing a train station sounds relaxing to you but its better than doing NOTHING! Well, I wouldn't go that far, getting money is better than doing nothing, not doing favors for old lady's who can't handle a business they started." Eliza was the daughter of a wealthy business man and she knew something about tycoons.

"She probably has no family to help her, running a business alone can be hard and since it's a magical train station, she probably wants mages to help her.. Though that's weird." Nicole wondered why an old woman would hire mages to help her run a train station for a limited amount of time when she could just hire regular people to continue to do the job. Her thoughts wandered in her mind but then she remembered that it didn't matter because they were getting paid and Nicole would be consuming all the shrimp cocktails she could get as a reward. "Maybe she has a granddaughter you can play with." Nicole teased, laughing a bit to herself as she imagined Eliza doing anything other than showering herself with money and throwing insults around.

"If we do this job right, then the cash flow will be really good and I can finally buy a new outfit!" She had seen the lovely new cardigan that Stella had to offer, a wondrous golden fleece with white silk lining and gemstones of stellanium adorning it's front. How much more lavish and expensive could you get? Nicole had been saving up and soon would be able to get the cute outfit of her dreams.

Eliza thought about it, why did she need mages for such a simple and easy task? Oh well! As long as they were getting paid, what did it matter. "Well, daddy built his business from the ground up alone. Some people just aren't made for the industry." Eliza giggled, partially due to her fathers success and also the elderly woman's failure.

"You know, I could have bought it for you. I'm getting sick of people staring at us in public like you're some... some vagrant!" It was a kind gesture, paired with a rude remark. Eliza wasn't capable of that type of kindness yet! She had never been taught, so this was as good as it got.

“That’s kind of you eliza..I think?” Nicole couldn’t really tell how that sentence was suppose to be targeted as but nonetheless thanked her. “But it’s okay, I’ll just go get it sometime after this job. Christmas is coming up though eliza and we get to buy each other Christmas gifts! I have the perfect idea for a gift.” Nicole was going to get the young girl a light up wand that made cute sounds.

Eliza flipped her hair at the compliment. She was feeling humble today. "Make sure to keep the receipt." Eliza added, she never knew if she was going to like a gift a friend got, and always wanted the 'insurance policy' of returning it later. Suddenly the ride became a bit more bumpy and it seemed they were passing through the rolling hills that appeared right before the town.

"Almost there ladies!" The gentleman driving called out with glee, accidentally interrupting their conversation. "EXCUSE YOU." Eliza screamed, causing the driver to stop the carriage abruptly, which sent both girls flying against a wall. Eliza opened the carriage door, going outside to confront the driver! "Who do you think you are? We're MAGES and you're just some old man with a few horses! Seriously learn some manners!! God." Eliza scoffed, climbing back into the chariot and situating herself once again. The carriage started up, the man going slower, having mumbled something which Eliza chose to ignore out of courtesy. He wasn't getting paid anyway.

Nicole quickly recovered from the bumpy ride, looking out at the window as she noticed the beautiful hills that adorned this city. She thought about what it would be like to live in a small town as a normal person instead of someone who can fire blasts of light from their eyes. Though if she never became a mage then she never would’ve met eliza and that would be.. Hm, maybe she should’ve thought this becoming a mage thing through.

The carriage soon started to move a little slower, indicating that they were only about a mile away from their destined location! Sadly, there wasn’t a train that went from the guild to this place so carriage was the only way and with how mad eliza got at the driver, Nicole thought it was safe to assume the driver wasn’t going to be happy about taking them back. The carriage abruptly stopped, with it jerking them forward a little bit nothing major, a loud voice yelled that they were here and with that, Nicole got out of the carriage and waited for Eliza.

## Choo choo!

They were both back inside and in just a few minutes they had arrived at the city. It's architecture was nothing special, but it wasn't known for this. This was what many referred to as a station town, made more for travelers and tourists than actual citizens. It apparently possessed several train stations due to the cities sheer size, all of which were owned by the same woman who had asked them to help on the job.

Luckily there was a well dressed man where the carriage stopped in order to guide them through the city. "Ah, you must be Lady Hollies guests! Her building is right over here!" The man pointed to the corner of the street, right at the side stood a large mansion with a huge yard. "It reminds me of the dog house my father built!" Eliza cheered, finally someone had some class! This, she would happily talk too.

“Off we go, I guess.” The city was indeed nothin to gawk at but to Nicole, it held a sort of beauty to it with its simplistic design and few residents made her nostalgic for the days she would spend with her mother in the town, not worrying about learning magic or getting revenge and instead simply baking and growing crops with her.

The two mages followed the well dressed man, heading towards the building Eliza so kindly compared to a doghouse.. Nonetheless, the girls went inside the building until they were led to a set of hallways, there were dozens of doors that probably led to nowhere until a specific one led to somewhere! That somewhere was the woman’s office, the one who hired the mages. In they went, now standing in front of the woman. “Hello.” Nicole said, waving.

"Aw yes, thank you both for coming!" The woman brought her hands together, looking around as if she was searching for something, but it seemed like she forgot, bringing her attention back to the mages. "I'm so glad you're here, I've been needing a couple of girls to watch after my grandchildren!" The woman winked, "Now, come with me!" She cheered, acting as if she hadn't contradicted the entire flyer already! Oh great. Eliza was just about ready to snap. Babysitting wasn't what she signed up for! But that wink, maybe it meant something? Even Eliza, the hot headed heiress, wasn't that stupid as to call the woman out like that.

They were lead to a room, one that appeared to be very plain, as if the woman hadn't even decorated it! As if it wasn't even part of the house. It was small, about the size of a walk in closet. "We're safe here..." She let out a sigh of relief. "I'm sorry for all the confusion, but this is of the utmost secrecy!" She stuck her finger in the air, as if to express that she was very serious. "I'm afraid I didn't put out those fliers for help running the station... there's already a group doing that...." The woman trailed off, becoming lost in thought.

"WHAT, are you crazy lady! You can't just trick us here and expect to do more than a job requires. I signed up for watching a train station, not whatever this therapy session you're trying to pull is." Eliza crossed her arms and turned away from the woman. She should have snapped before! There obviously wasn't any trouble, this woman was just yanking their chain.

Nicole rolled her eyes at eliza before looking over to the woman. “What my friend means to say is, you wouldn’t hire mages to babysit.. So why exactly did you hire mages to ‘Help run your train station’?” She had read enough books about mysteries and detective work to know that this woman wouldn’t hire mages to watch her grandchildren! Especially since one of the mages was so young. Maybe there was something deeper that she just couldn’t say, besides it was even more weird that the woman dragged them to a ‘safe space’ to ask them for help babysitting her grandkids.

“There’s something you’re not telling us.” Nicole knew that there was something lying deeper in this job and the woman either couldn’t or wouldn’t tell them. Nonetheless, she felt bad for the elderly woman as she didn’t know if something bad was happening or if the train owner was trying to get some cheap mages to perform a few magic tricks for her granddaughter.

"Well, a month or so ago a group came to my home. A band looking to preform at one of my stations but they couldn't afford the venue! Of course I had to deny them. However... it turns out the were mages! Dark mages of the Banshee Whisper guild! They threatened my life and... well they took something very dear to me. My station." The woman's eyes began to water, but she fought through the tears, explaining that through one of their magics, they trapped her in the house and are constantly watching her, that they've been waiting for the right time to take over the station publicly and preform their show and that day was today!

"So you lied to us about a major problem and pretended it was minor? I knew the pay was too good to be true." Eliza groaned, it was suspicious to get that much jewel doing such a simple task. Ever since her father had put her on an allowance which would "get her by" she had needed a lot more money to keep up with her luxurious life style than what was given and this was going to help her do that. If she had to fight a few band geeks along the way, then so what!

Nicole sighed, rubbing her temples. “We took the job eliza, so we will help, we have to do our job as light guild mages.” Her eyes searched the room, looking for any kind of surveillance equipment such as communication lacrima. “Let’s be prepared for a fight eliza, don’t get lost and remember to be strategic instead of charging into battle like a brute.” Not that Eliza usually did that, but there would be a lot of enemies they would have to get through.

The old woman thanked them for reluctantly helping them anyway, but it wasn't going to be as easy as the girls thought. They exited the house and almost immediately the train station speakers rang throughout the city. "Alright, we'd like to dedicate this jam to Miss Hollie, for letting us have her station! Stop them wheels..." They roared, the trains which were scheduled to move had only been going for around two seconds came to a screeching halt. "The shows starting." Eliza was confused, did that mean they already had the train? "Ugh! I hate when people cheat it's so unfair! At least give us a CHANCE." She threw her arms down, ready to give up already. "NICOLE, don't you have a spell or something? Make yourself USEFUL." Eliza shouted, but she was interrupted by another broadcast.

"And don't you worry Pink Lotus, the Banshes'll sing you to SLEEP!" How did they know the were there? Was the house not secure? Were they spying? What magic did they have? It didn't matter! They needed to get to that station, but there was a slight hiccup... the band was a lot bigger than they thought! Crowds had been gathering all through town, apparently they had sent flyers to various different places asking for their fans and guild mates to come and help them, and shockingly enough, they had a wide audience.

From one of the crowds, two young girls, appearing to be around fifteen and sixteen split away, their faces painted white with black running down around their eyes, as if they had been wearing mascara and cried. Their clothes were revealing, fishnet leggings, thigh high boots, a mini skirt and a crop top that read 'We Love The Banshees.'

"Their just my favorite band ever! Their musics so amazing! I love them! And they need our help!!!" The girls screeched together, fangirling over their band whose guild they had joined not too long ago in hopes of meeting them, and they did! "Look!" One of them said, pointing towards Eliza and Nicole. "That's who we're after." They said, walking over, slowly but surely, and pointing at the girls in unison. "We're not gonna let you stop this concert! So you might as well give it up." They brought their hands together, a neon green magic circle appearing under them as lightning sparked, flying around the girls and charging up a powerful strike which would then fire at the Pink Lotus Duo!

"NICOLE DO SOMETHING! NOW!" Eliza shrieked, she could have summoned a spirit as a shield, but she needed to save her energy!

Nicole watched the two girls, hideously dressed and screaming like banshee's.. It fit to be honest but Nicole was not in the mood for a group of screaming fangirls telling them how banshee whisper was their favorite band and that Nicole and eliza were just jealous of their talent. That was until, the two girls that seemed like normal teens suddenly grabbed hands and formed a magic circle under them, causing lightning to fly? Why the hell did they learn magic if they were going to use it for stuff like this. This is why Nicole wish she could just take magic from people, it would be a lot easier if idiots didn't have the ability to learn it!

Nicole was going to teach these airhead fans a lesson, as the lightning flew towards them, Nicole opened her hands in a defense position, taking a deep breath before muttering the words; "Memory-Make: Hexagon Barrier." This was a fairly durable defensive spell she had learned from a job fighting a group of dark mages from the 'Sapphire Shapes' guild, each of them were focused on a specific shape and she went against the Hexagon squad. The lightning hit the barrier straight on but couldn't break it's defense, how lovely! Though Nicole was not happy that she would have to waste some of her magic energy on a bunch of pussy ass fangirls. Once the attack had dispersed, Nicole lowered her barrier and decided to counterattack. "Memory-Make: Fire Fist!" With that, a large fist made of fire was launched towards the two groupies, dealing decent amount of damage but not taking them out.. They seemed stronger than they looked.

Eliza smirked as the barrier blocked the lightning, a flash of energy surrounding them only briefly before vanishing into thin air, the shield had held up and their attack rendered useless, but they were determined. As a fiery fist flew their way, they managed to narrowly escape, with some of their clothes being burnt. "Not our Banshee Merch!" The girls complained, coming together to preform yet another attack. "Thunder clap!" They called out, clapping in unison which sent two strikes of lightning from the sky at the barrier and still it didn't break.

"Hmph. Keep trying, but you're nothing compared to me, well, and Nicole." Eliza flipped her twin tails, taking all the credit for the barrier. "Well, what are you waiting for? We need to hit them back." Eliza said, pointing towards the enemies and nagging at Nicole. The truth was, Eliza had three silver keys, and she needed to save them for a real fight, so for now, it was up to Nicole.

"Wow, you've really done so much work eliza.." Nicole rolled her eyes, looking at the girls in their pathetic state, the fact that they actually bought those outfits willingly was enough to make Nicole nauseous. "Goodbye fan-Garbage." She pondered on which spell to use to finish them, she had been reading up on a few new magics recently and wanted it to be a beautiful show of destroying the two.. Hm, maybe a spell that turned them into pigs? No, that would be too noisy.. Oh! Nicole had just the spell to finish them off.

"Memory-Make: Howling Winds!" Once she announced the spell, the wind around the two fangirls started to pick up until it formed a tornado, casually picking them up and thrashing them around until they were shot out of the top like a funnel, thrown away into the bushes not too far away but defeated. "Now that that's taken care of, let's move on." Nicole lowered the barrier and continued the walk.

The girls began to move, attempting to make it to the station, where the guild had made themselves at home. The only issue was that their fans were excited, blocking the streets and forcing the few people that lived here into their homes for safety. Fan boys and girls just like the ones they had defeated were in every corner! They had to do something about it!

"I hate to say this, considering it goes against everything I stand for but we don't really have the time to fight them all and I think the only option we have is... to go goth." Eliza didn't say this lightly! It was a fashion style she hated, dreaded, and disgusted, but luckily for them the girls they took out had their 'Banshee Merch' which was more than enough to wear and get by unnoticed.

"I guess you're right.." Going goth was not listed on this job! Nicole wasn't really girly but going goth was pushing her patience. There wasn’t exactly many merchandise Kiosks so it looked like they’d have to go grab the clothes from the unconscious girls laying in the bushes over there! Nicole thought it seemed kind of rude to be doing this but then again they had a job to do and the girls did try to kill them so she or over it pretty quickly.

Nicole grabbed the taller girl’s clothes and changed into them, looking pretty cute in goth clothes even if she didn’t prefer this look and gave the smaller ones clothes to Eliza, since Nicole was a kind woman and cared about the unconscious girls well being and dignity, she dressed them both in clothes she had got from her bag earlier. All done! Now they could push through the crowd, pretending to be super fans of this shitty rock band.

Thanks to their disguises, the two were easily able to get through the crowds. the streets were flooded with them! How popular could a band be? "God their so ANNOYING!" Eliza screamed, elbowing someone out of her way. They needed to get to the station NOW. Fighting harder and harder, Eliza became very annoyed and questioned using magic, but then again, these were innocent civilians... well, not that it mattered to her, she just didn't want to fight them all!

Finally they managed to get to the front, where they were met with actual guild members, and not like the fans they met before who had joined out of convenience. "Hold up, do you two hotties have VIP passes?" Eliza looked at Nicole, she was very confused. "I'm twelve." She told the man, apparently her Gothic disguise made her look a lot older! The man was, of course, very flustered. "I-I'm sorry! Is this you're siiiister?" He said, somewhat confused. "You're really trying to offend everyone here aren't you, of course she's not my sister, we're FRIENDS and you're going to let us by, or I'll file a complaint." Eliza crossed her arms, tapping her foot and staring down at the man, sending a shiver down his spine?

"Yes ma'am." He said nervously, opening the velvet rope and allowing them into the station. Finally. As they entered they were handed tickets and once again the intercom came on. "Alllllrightttttt! Are y'all ready to ROCK N ROLL?" The people in the station shouted with excitement, this is what they had been waiting for! The lights on the stage in the situation flashed, smoke entered the room but it wasn't normal.... people began to cough, bodies falling to the floor. "It's to DIEEEE FORR!" The voice screeched. Instantly Eliza knew what was happening, and she could tell from the look on Nicole's face that she did too... she had to have a spell to protect them from this!

Figures Nicole would have to save them yet again! Her eyes darted to the smoke that was making people fall into slumber. “Oh this is bad.” Time for Nicole to rack through her brain, analyzing the spells she’s memorized throughout the years and trying to figure out which would be the best for this station. Maybe one that wouldn’t drain her magical power as much but what if the spell accidentally draws attention to the two?

The smoke was only getting closer and honestly, the two girls didn’t have much time and if they failed this mission then it would be horribly embarrassing! So the Memory Mage quickly called out a random spell. “Memory-Make: Petal Aegis!” With the final word coming out of Nicole’s mouth, the ground below them shook a bit and the two girls were swallowed by a large lotus flower, it’s petals closing in on them and performing a casing to protect them from the smoke, closing tightly and acting as a sealed room, though sort of a tight fit.. It still worked! Nicole gathered this spell not from stealing it but rather from the guild Master, Dorothy. She gave Nicole a book on the importance of flowers in nature and hidden inside one of the pages was this beautiful spell! The guild master saved them today and for that, they owed her.

Eliza recognized the spell as their guild master, Dorothy's. It was a good thing that she had taken the time to teach Nicole some of her spells, because now, it saved their life. As the flower bloomed Eliza gave a rare smile, it was beautiful! Just like their guild.

Once the flower faded into the ground it's petals opening to reveal the girls, a man stood in their way. "Well well, looks like you two really are enjoying the show. Sad for you the curtains CLOSSSING!" The strange looking man jumped back, sending a purple cloud of gas at the two. "Burning gas! Crawl in you're skin." He laughed, this purple gas would make their skin irritated and itchy!

"Shows over for you two." He said, the train beginning to chug. They had to make this quick. Eliza looked toward her keys... she had to do something, but she couldn't. Not if she was going to fight this band! So she had to do what she usually did, rely on Nicole. Running from the gas, Eliza narrowly escaped it. "Just who do you think you are, getting in our way like this? Well I have NEWS for you, we're going to win. Hmph." Nicole crossed her arms, teasing the man who only laughed. "Show him Nicole!" Eliza snapped, commanding her friend to attack as if she was some type of dog.

“You know, you aren’t the only one who needs to save their magic power, Eliza.” Nicole was getting angry! These idiots shouldn’t even have magic, she didn’t understand how people who could use it for such evil deeds would be able to use it. She walked closer to the man standing in front of them, her anger only rising due to having to constantly fight these metal head idiots! How dare they ruin what was suppose to be a relaxing train mission.

“Enough of your shitty music, my ears are bleeding more than when I got them pierced.” She raised her hand towards the man, her palm glowing a blue color as she casted out the spell she was preparing for. “Memory-Make: Flash freeze.” A wave of freezing ice washed over the area in front of Nicole, quickly turning the rocker into a giant ice cube of bad taste and hideousness.

Eliza watched in anticipation, did that get him? CRACK! CRACK! Apparently not! An orange gas leaked from the ice's weak spots, beginning to turn the cube into water. "Orange gas has some heat." The man said, his long tongue drooping from his mouth like a vicious snake. "Now whose ready to rumble?" He made a rock n roll sign with his hands, a magic circle appearing before him as a black gas flooded the area, blinding everyone!

"Ugh!" Eliza called out, unable to see, but she knew someone who could! "Don't worry Nicole! OPEN, GATE OF THE HUNTING DOGS, CANES VENATICI!" A doorbell could be heard as a golden magic circle illuminated the area, not that it mattered, they were blinded! The dogs barked as Eliza commanded them to get her enemy and thanks to their tracking magic, they didn't have to see at all! They sniffed and sniffed before finally. CHOMP! CHOMP! They bit at the man with their teeth imbued with magical power, he tried to fight them off with gas but they just kept going! "Persistent little pups!" He said trying to fight one off of his hand. "They know if they disappoint they'll be turned into fur coats." Eliza said, her dogs whimpering at the thought but continuing to fight nonetheless.

Nicole watched as her ice spell started to crack, how annoying! This man seemed to be stronger than the grunts they had been facing and honestly, she was surprised to see or rather hear Eliza doing something for once. “I’ll disperse the gas first.” She opened her palms, with both of them glowing a white light. “Memory-Make: Wind Ring!” Once the spell was cast, a large gust of wind went all around Nicole, dispersing the gas in a quick manner by sending it away with wind.

Now it was time for her to go on the offense, working hard on figuring out a spell that would help them in this moment but she didn’t want to use all her magic power on him. Then Nicole remembered the perfect spell for this situation! How lovely. “Memory-Make: Earth Crush.” The ground around them shook, as two large earthen fists rose from the ground and moved straight at the rocker, pounding him when they met fists, resulting in a hard crushing motion.

It really wasn't that easy! The gas man maneuvered in a way that allowed him to escape the rocky fists, making them instead attack Eliza's dogs and send them back to the spirit realm with a painful whimper. Eliza was shocked, the one time she did something it basically failed? Ugh! Throwing her fists down she was ready to give up, and the rocker knew it all. "Well, if I can't get that one..." He mumbled, referring to Nicole who, as far as he could tell, was the only one capable of even denting him in the group.

The man glared at Nicole, his eyes glimmering in the light as their eyes touched from a distance, eye contact. She would feel her magic... stopping? As if the ethernano around her had come to a halt and she was unable to use it! This would only be for a split second, just enough for him to send orange illusionary gas into the battlefield and by the time the girls realized the danger, it was too late.

Once the spell blocking Nicole's magic had stopped, both Nicole and Eliza were detached from reality thanks to the spell. What they saw? An empty, everyday train station. Without any of the bodies or the chaos of the other. "This doesn't really feel right? Were we here just a few seconds ago?" Eliza asked Nicole, who seemed just as confused about the situation.

Nicole’s spell had missed! How annoying this man’s magic was, who even uses this type of creepy magic? Was it a variant of smoke magic? Nicole hadn’t read about it before but she continued to think, that was until her magic had stopped for a split second and then.. They were in an empty train station? How weird. “Illusionary magic, it’s one that affects our senses and works to mess with our sense of reality.” Nicole knew this magic all too well, it was often used to make people who were weak seem stronger and this case was no different.

“What we need to do is break the illusion, illusionary magic has no affect on people who can see through it, so I’m going to need you to remember that we are not in an abandon train station and instead in a shitty concert field, battling some random metal head.” Nicole’s eyes glowed a golden color. “Memory-Make: Heaven’s Eye.” This spell was one she got from a particular mage under the guild ‘Midnight Eye’ He used it to see through her clothes and she memorized it before breaking his legs. This spell allowed her to see through the illusion but she still needed eliza.

Explaining that to Eliza was a lot like trying to teach a blind person how to read. "This is SO confusing, what concert are you even talking about?" Eliza nagged, continuing to walk through the seemingly abandoned ghost station. "I guess the trains aren't even running today? It must be a holiday... did I forget?" Eliza pondered, almost completely forgetting Nicole existed!

“Great, I’m not affected because of my knowledge but that’s eliza’s weakness.. Learning.” Nicole thought of ways to regain the young mages normal memories but she didn’t have a spell for that so her next best option was to slap the shit out of Eliza. And that’s what she did, Nicole backhanded Eliza across the face. “Wake UP! We’re fighting a man who basically is trying to kill us and look at
Our outfits, we’re wearing GOTH! Not even the cute kind that you can find in the hipster magic stores.”

It was only when Eliza had ran into something that she began to hear it, Nicole's voice! Making fun of her outfit? Eliza looked down to see a frilly black dress that made her look like some dead grandmother favorite doll! YUCK! Shaking her head she realized the truth... the UGLY truth! She was in goth? For a REASON!

The gas around her faded, revealing the real surroundings and a laughing man who had yet to realize that they snapped out of it, and with one of Nicole's spells he was done for. Eliza knew exactly what to do next. They had to board the train.

Nicole was ready to take this man out and with a simple spell, she would be able to finish him off. “Memory-Make: Sinkhole.” A simple but effective spell, with the words leaving Nicole’s mouth, the ground under the man soon opened up and swallowed him, which in the result ended up in the man plummeting to his defeat and possible death but Nicole pretended that he probably wasn’t dead. Once this was done, the young girls quickly boarded the train.

## The Revenge Express

Joan flicked her cigarette behind her as she boarded the train, scorching a hole in the shirt of an innocent fan whom had been knocked out by their allies Gas Magic. "Make sure to clean this all up, and make quick work of them. We're leaving soon, with or without you." The woman said with a smile, helped aboard by a man with long hair who had extended his guitar as if it were an olive branch that she gladly accepted. The door shut and the two headed towards different ends of the train, using their communication lacrimas.

"We ready to rock, Joan?" The man called out, the woman licked the dark cherry lipstick from her lips as she finished placing the magically made bomb. "Only one way to find out, set the course Ozzie." The woman commanded and he obeyed. "Ah ah, not so fast princess. Zepp's still doing the dirty work!" He laughed but Joan wasn't amused and as she peered out of the window, she could see gas fading... and two girls... COMING ON? "Ozzie, START THE TRAIN." She screamed, but it was too late... their mission was about to get a lot harder.

“Okay, now that we’re on the train we need to find the ones leading this whole operation and defeat them together. Once one of us finds a person, simply use the communication lacrima in your bag to call the other. That way, we can find each other and work as a team to defeat each person. I’ll go right and you go left then we can meet back once one of us finds a person but remember not to fight them alone.”

### Bad Reputation

Nicole headed off on her path, looking around for the person that would be the two girls target, or so she thought.. Her eyes narrowed to the area going on a long way. How large was this Damn train? Was she going to be able to even find the person or would she have to get off the train. Nicole did not feel like walking too much as she had already used so much energy and needed a rest.

Eliza had to agree, though she hated splitting up, as they worked better as a team, they didn't really have a choice. Heading the opposite way of Nicole, Eliza roamed through the empty train holding onto the guard rail due to it's fast speed. Normally she wouldn't be caught dead touching something hundreds of others already have, but thankfully she was wearing gloves. Now all she had to do was find this Rock N Roll creepy and get out of here?

Instantly the trains microphone came on, releasing a loud cracking sound, testing the mic. "Aw come on girls, splitting ups no fun!" Eliza froze in the aisle... how did they know? Looking behind her she could see a tall woman dressed in flashy clothing, with lion-like gloves for hands and short blonde hair, who was she? Not one of those rockers! "Now Lia." A woman's voice commanded, the mighty tigress used her speed and strength, running at the connecting kart and opening the door before BAM! "Good little kitty." The woman said, causing Lia to charge back and stand beside her with a purr.

"We've already moved the bomb, it's up to your friend now... but I doubt she'll beat Ozzie and you sure as hell won't beat me!" The woman called out with a laugh. That's when Eliza saw them... keys! One silver and... one gold? "YOU'RE A CELESTIAL SPIRIT WIZARD?" Eliza shrieked, she had never met one aside from herself.

The woman gave a smirk, Eliza recognized her from the various posters that had been scattered around, her short black hair, glossy crimson red lips, pale skin, gothic style. Well, she definitely fit the bands theme. "You know it." The woman winked, taking her black key chain and whirling it around in her fingers. "Don't you have any other questions? What are we doing here? Whats our plan?" The woman questioned, clearly looking to give some long drawn out speech.

"No." Nicole crossed her arms. "But I feel like you're going to tell me anyway." The little girl rolled her eyes as Joan opened her mouth, the woman began to speak about how they were going to blow up a section of the town as revenge for them not allowing them to preform, finishing the speech off with, "So we're gonna give them a concert they won't forget by going out with a bang!" That was when Eliza finally put it all together, were they trying to blow up the town?

"Be quiet lady. Haven't you talked enough? Nicole is going to beat your little boyfriend and then your going to be in BIG trouble. Hmph." Eliza turned her head to the side as if she was disgusted to look at the woman! "Big talk for a small girl..." The woman reached for her keys, gritting her teeth, annoyed at the little twerp standing before her!

"Letting me, a little girl control you like that? This is DEPRESSING and SAD. If I can drive you to anger so quickly, no wonder your band of frea-" Eliza was interrupted. "DON'T CALL US THAT YOU LITTTLLLEEEEE- LIA NOW!" The lion woman which has been patiently waiting for her masters orders punched her fists together before charging at Eliza who had already summoned Vulpecula.

Immediately Lia froze in her tracks? Her heart pounded out of her chest, what was it? Love. Vulpecula's charm magic had struck, and thanks to Lia being homosexual, it worked like, well, a charm! "I'm getting second hand embarrassment, do you know anything about spirits at all? Well, if you DID, you'd know that the Lesser Lion likes to play with the Fox. The grown up way." Air came from Eliza's nose as she took the high ground in the battle.

The woman was forced to close Lia's gate thanks to charm magic rendering her useless but she had another trick up her sleeve. "Don't get so cocky, not yet. I don't see a gold key on that chain of yours and even I know that puts me.. above you!" The woman grabbed the gold key "Open, Gate of The Ram, Aries!" A golden circle appeared before her, and from it stepped a shy girl, with pink fluffy hair and a cottony wool dress.

Eliza wasn't impressed, but more envious. "How did you even get that! Ugh! This is so unfair! VULPECULA DO SOMETHING!" Eliza screamed, tugging on one of the Fox Woman's tails causing her to yelp. "M-m-master please..." She begged, forcing herself to blow a kiss which sent nine fiery blue orbs at the helpless lamb for slaughter.

"Wool wall!" The pink haired maiden called out, a pink cloud of fluff resembling cotton candy springing to life and forming a shield which swallowed the flames with comfort. "There's no way a silver key can beat a gold one. It's simple math." The woman laughed from behind the woolen safety. Eliza honestly didn't believe that was true, it was obvious that gold keys were stronger, but she didn't believe it was impossible.

"It's a good thing I DIDN'T ask you." Eliza spat back in retaliation, causing the woman to step in front of the wall carefully placed by the shy and bashful spirit. "Watch your mouth kid, or you're going to eat those words..." Joan's hands formed fists out of anger, it was clear she was a hot-headed star and Eliza was going to use it against her.

"You heard me, your music sucks and honestly so does your fighting! I'm TWELVE and I've already showed you up. Imagine if I had that gold key instead of you. Huh, Vulpecla?" Eliza said, her eyes narrowing as she yanked the fox's tail again. "Y-yes master. That key would look much better in your hands." Vulpecula said, licking her lips and staring into Aries eyes as if she was a T-Bone steak, the stuttering only due to the fact that her tail was a soft spot, much like Achilles heel.

Aries quivered at the dominant personality of both of her enemies, she was a shy girl and that meant she was unable to speak up in situations such as this, even when her master gave her the look of disappointment that she hated so much. As she saw Vulpecula blow a kiss and send nine more fiery flames at her master, Aries sent a blob of pink wool at the fox, but she was too late. The flames had hit, causing the singer to enter a state of rage! However, Vulpecula was.. asleep? "WHAT!? WAKE UP!" Eliza kicked the fox who was seeing stars on the ground and dreaming of going back to the celestial world. "UGH! You're CHEATING!" Eliza screamed at the woman, who had taken considerable damage from that one attack alone.

"Don't you know you're supposed to attack the spirit, not the master?" Joan instructed in anger. "Well, it's a good thing I don't play by the rules." Eliza giggled, closing her spirits gate and opening the Giraffe's. He was a tall man with a muscular body and a long neck, so long that he barely fit inside the train and had to bend his neck! It was befitting of his title. "Camelopardus, take care of her!" Eliza commanded, causing the tall giraffe to look down upon the woman, stretching his neck as if it was elastic before his head enlarged, whacking the woman into the side of the train as if he was a hammer and she was the nail. Aries ran over to try and help, but she was hit too! Knocked onto the other side!

"Keep it up, OR ELSE!" Eliza said with a laugh as her enemy struggled, by now the giraffe had wrapped it's neck around her, binding the movements of the woman before sending a massive hoof crashing down upon her and Aries! Continuing to do this action rapidly, "STAMPEEEDDEEE!" He shouted, it was as if hundreds of animals had ran over the two, a celestial light filled the train cabin and Aries was gone... Joan had been defeated.

Closing the giraffe's gate Eliza giggled. Honestly it was really embarrassed how pathetic the women was! If only she had some knowledge of spirits, she could have done something. Hovering over the knocked out body like a vulter would a corpse, she grabbed the key ring, taking said keys and butting them on her own. "When you're arrested, you'll be in a breach of contract, and these will actually be mine." Eliza said before taking a seat and looking at her shiny new toys.

"Nicole better win." Eliza said, kicking her feet and playing with her newfound treasures.

### Crazy Train

Great! Nicole wandered around on this seemingly endless train wreck. On top of that, she had no idea who or what she was looking for and if she could even fight the person. What if he killed her? who would be there to make fun of eliza! Nicole shook her head, knowing she shouldn't think of that right now and simply focus on getting her head in the game. After all, she was going to be fighting some random guy soon and if she wasn't prepared then her spells would be literal shit.

Nicole was about to just take a seat and let the enemy come to her but a loud noise quickly sharpened her senses, the train started moving and it seemed that the hinge connecting the carts had been snapped! Which meant.. Eliza was on her own and so was Nicole, This was going to be a long and boring battle without having someone to help her. "Are you ready to ROCK!" Came a voice from the booth a few feet ahead of her. She was in a rather large dining cart and when she looked over, Nicole saw a shirtless man with a black and white painted face, shaggy dark hair, rocker punk clothing and black lipstick. She was absolutely... Disgusted. "Who're you? The Ghost of Rockers Past or something?" She asked, confused.

The man growled like some ugly dog which didn't surprise her yet he replied. "I'm Ozzie of Banshee Whisper!" The man stuck out his rather long tongue and rubbed it against his guitar strings like a sicko. Nicole almost barfed, how gross could one man be? She bet he doesn't even wash the guitar.. Ozzie quickly smiled, his eyes filled with lust for battle and confidence. "Like I said, Are you ready to ROCK?" He yelled out, his voice sending a shockwave that knocked Nicole into a wall. She grunted, her back hitting the wall with some force but nothing compared to all her years in the guild with eliza. "I'm ready to rock." Was her reply.

Nicole decided to throw the first punch, or rather magic attack. Her hands outstretched, palm raised as she shouted out the incantation. "Memory-Make: Light Razor!" With this, a sharp blade of light was sent out towards the man, though as the attack got closer to Ozzie, the shirtless man simply jumped over it with incredibly agility and sent a counterattack! "Sound Magic: Harsh Harmony!" His guitar glowed a red color as he started to play, with a barrage of sharp musical notes being sent out at Nicole. How was his magic so fast?

She tried to perform a spell that would reflect it but to no avail, one of the notes struck her in the arm and pierced her skin. Her screams of pain were music to Ozzie's ear, with him laughing about it nonchalantly. Nicole wasn't out of the game yet though, her next spell would be one that wasn't so easy to dodge. "Memory-Make: Candle Cutter." A magic circle with the symbol of a candle appeared on her hand, shooting out a large blast of incredibly hot fire at the opponent. Ozzie wasn't prepared for a fire attack! Didn't this girl just use a light magic spell? He tried to jump away but the fire spread, burning him as he groaned in agony.

"I've gotta give it to you darling, you're ROCKIN!" Ozzie grinned, giving the girl a sexual wink which sent chills down Nicole's spine because honestly.. Ew. Her eyes narrowed to his guitar, Was it his magic centered around that? It seemed a little cliché but nonetheless looked decent, Maybe she'd copy a few of his spells to use at a later date if any of them stood out to her.

"Burn in hell." Was Nicole's reply, she would not be objectified by some creepy rock pervert and prepared another attack but it was hard to focus with all this sound playing.. Wait, sound? Nicole hadn't noticed before but the man had started playing his guitar again and a magic circle appeared under her. "Sound Magic: Howling Notes." Nicole screamed out, the affect was similar to hundreds of screaming fans blasting their voices in her ear and she was not enjoying it! When it was finally over, she collapsed to the ground, her left ear bleeding quite a bit from the sheer trauma of the attack.

"Funny, you made a spell since you're real fans will never cheer for you." Nicole laughed a bit, though laughing still seemed to hurt due to the sound. "I'm not finished you shirtless perv." Nicole prepared a more powerful spell, standing up and locking eyes with the hideous man dressed in rocker clothing. "Memory-Make: Thor's Revenge." A large hammer made of pure lightning appeared above the rocker, slamming down on him with blunt force and shocking electricity. Ozzie screamed as his skin started being burnt from the heat of the lightning but it seemed it would take a little more to finish him.

Both mages were in bad shape, with Ozzie smelling of burnt flesh and losing his balance and Nicole's ear bleeding along with her vision going blurry. "Sound magic: Cursed Song." Ozzie's mouth was bloody as he formed a toothy grin and stared at her with bloodshot eyes. "Have a taste of a cursed magic! This song will drag your soul down to hell." He started playing the song on his guitar, with various energy flying from the strings until they reached Nicole, lifting her into the air as if it were some sort of gravity magic. Ozzie was pulling her towards him and she couldn't break free.

Nicole didn't see how this spell was so dangerous, until the energy on his guitar took the form of a sharp red music note, the ends were as sharp as daggers and ozzie's plan was to impale the girl with these notes by dragging her towards them. Nicole's eyes widened as she struggled harder to break free from the spell. "How dare you use music as a way to kill people." Her voice was broken though, worn from fighting and screaming in pain. Did she even have a spell that could counteract this sort of weird magic? Maybe.. Nicole racked her brain until she thought of something.

"I got it." She whispered to herself. Nicole had a spell that might be able to finish this battle once and for all but it would drain her quite a bit, hopefully she wouldn't ya know.. Die but there was no telling due to her not using the spell this often nor this much magic. "Memory-Make: Withered Lotus." One of her strongest spells, Dorothy hewett, the guildmaster of pink lotus gave her this spell when she first learned of Nicole's magic and told her it would be able to save her if she ever needed it. No idea what Dorothy meant but it was time to try it. With Nicole's spell cast, her eyes started glowing a beautiful pink color along with vines going down her legs and petals on her arms. Her magic energy spiked for a split second, allowing her to cast this, an amazing pink energy took the form of a lotus as it fired off towards the man, seemingly going towards his chest and guitar. Once it made contact with his guitar, the energy expanded until *BOOM*.

Everything went black after she cast that spell, with her only waking up after around thirty minutes later.. "W-What happened?" She put her hand to her head, feeling the dried blood from her ear and looking down to see her ruined clothing! How rude of that man to do this to her. The man! Did she defeat him? Nicole looked around and wondered where exactly the man was and then noticed an unconscious body with the symbol of a lotus engraved into his skin.. Lovely! It looks like Nicole won but she still felt like shit. Her head was pounding, ears bleeding and she would need some medical help once she finally got back to the guild hall.

With what little magic power she had left, Nicole cast a spell to start pulling the cart's back to the station. "Memory-Make: Santa's Sleigh." Weird spell name but it summoned a few reindeer to start pulling the cart back to the station, Nicole laying in a booth and resting while trying not to go unconscious again for she might not wake up if she does.

## The Little Engine That Could

As Eliza heard a loud sound which oddly resembled sleigh bells ringing and hooves frolicking on sheet metal, she could feel her portion of the train moving again. Had Nicole won? There was only one way to check. As the young girl approached the head of the train, where the conductor would be, she saw a wildly dressed man with rapunzel-length hair knocked clean out, clenching onto a guitar for dear life! And of course, her close friend, Nicole, barely managing standing.

"You look like crap." Eliza said, how hard was it to maintain prim and proper in the face of battle! She had managed to do it, why couldn't Nicole. As her judgmental gaze scanned the rest of the battlefield, she could see a magical bomb in the room ahead. "EEEK" The girl shrieked. "WHY DIDN'T YOU DEFUSE THAT NICOLE! GET UP!" She yelled at the top of her lungs as if Nicole was an elderly women with hearing problems, or a deaf girl Eliza had mistaken to be a little slow.

"Huh? Oh right.. The bomb." Honestly, Nicole hadn't read any books about defusing magical bombs but she did know a spell that would be able to contain the blast if she could even use it. It wasn't going to be easy with all the magic power she'd been using but might as well give it a try! Nicole picked up the bomb, bubbling it in a magical barrier. "Memory-Make: Bubble Barrier." A cute but strong defensive spell she learned in her fight against the Dirty Bubble dark guild! It would be useful for what she was about to do. "Hope this works." Nicole yelled at the reindeer to pick up the pace, as she threw the bomb as far as she could into the air, luckily the bubble started floating so it wasn't that hard. After a few minutes, the bomb was high in the air, far enough to not do any damage but then it exploded! Wow that would've been really bad. "There."

"How anticlimatic, I almost feel sorry for them?" After a long pause, Eliza added, "Almost." Before a short a giggle. It was a job well done and now... now they could go home with jewel in their pocket and keys on her ring!