10th Aniversary Witching Hour!

[[NPC] Black Naru]

SURPISE!

BLACKER NARU SIGNAL

Black Naru reappears hanging onto the ceiling with a giant spotlight behind her. She immediately activates it, casting a large shadow over the entire warehouse floor. Blacker Naru expands to fill the entire area, and grabs both Naru and Zarath.

NOW KISS.

Mwahahahahahaha! Weren't expecting that, now were you?! Yeah I'm pretty amazing. We should do this more often, me! Maybe if you quit worrying and learn to love fighting you'd be able to wreck those Reapers you hate so much?

What makes you think I hate the Reapers? I barely know any of them besides Grim!

Huh? What about-

Oh, right, that hasn't happened yet. lol oh well.

[[NPC] Naru]

Naru repeats her brilliantly bullshit plan of taking control of Blacker Naru via direct spirit interface with her spear. In a desperate attempt to control Blacker Naru, Naru spawns a dozen copies of her Legendary Spear, all of them violently poking at Blacker Naru, which in hindsight would probably be way more effective if Naru just spawned one and struck Blacker Naru really hard with it like she did a page ago.

Regardless, Naru is successful. Blacker Naru eventually loosens its grip and drops both Naru and Zarath.

Zarath is giving his turn to Naru, allowing her to perform another action.

Naru creates a copy of her spear, and sends it flying at the spotlight above them. Black Naru, who is directly in front of the spotlight, is able to take the full force of the attack and block the spotlight from being damaged.

AH!

AH!

WHAT JUST HAPPENED?!

DID YOU JUST SKEWER YOUR GEMINI SELF?!

I- I DIDN'T MEAN TO! I THOUGHT SHE WOULD DODGE IT!

WHY WOULD YOU THINK THAT?!

WELL THAT'S WHAT I WOULD DO IF SOMEONE CHUCKED SOMETHING SHARP AND POINTY AT ME!

DID YOU JUST... COMPLETELY FORGET HOW PEOPLE FROM THE GEMINI WORLD WORK?! IF YOU WOULD HAVE DODGED THAT THEN OF COURSE SHE'D WANT TO GET HIT BY IT!...

...omfg what is she doing?...

Is she... is she enjoying herself?!

I... think she is...

What the hell is wrong with your Gemini clone?!

What isn't?!

[[NPC] Black Naru]

Oh no, what ever shall I do? What should I do? What should I...

I KNOW!

Black Naru throws her spear at Blacker Naru. The spear lands over Black Naru's shadow, directly interfacing with Blacker Naru. Control over Blacker Naru has been given to the spirit trapped inside the spear, infecting Blacker Naru with the spear's madness.

Blacker Naru rampages through the warehouse, damaging everything it touches.

OMG SHE'S MADE IT CRAZIER!

MWAHAHAHAHA! YESSSS! YESSS! GO MY MINION! YOU'RE FREE NOW!

[[NPC] Zarath]

Zarath, as terrified as he is even getting close to that thing, tries to remove the spear from Blacker Naru.

MMNNFF! MMNF! MNF! MMMMMNF!

YOU'RE... GONNA... TAKE THE... WHOLE... BUILDING WITH YOU!

OH LIKE I GIVE A CRAP!

MMMMMNNNNNNNFFFFF!

GHAAAAAUUUGHHHHHH!!!!

Blacker Naru has been released from the spear's control. The spear lies motionless on the floor. Its face looks to have melted off completely.

......

Did... omg did I kill it?...

Oooh, looks like it.

ACK!

Congratulations, you murderer.

Don't let her get to you, Zarath! It was probably suffering anyway!

NOT HELPING, NARU!

[[NPC] Naru]

Naru punches Black Naru. Black Naru deliberately takes the attack and backs away.

WHAT IS YOUR PROBLEM?!

What's my problem? That's two perfectly good spears you've ruined by now! It's not like I can magically call a weapon to me anytime I want to like you can. I can't defend myself without a weapon of some kind!

That's a lie and you know it!

Shoot. Thought I'd get ya with that one. Guess I could still use this thing as a regular spear... but that'd be boring.

Is this some kind of game to you?!

Uh, DUH?! What the hell do you think, genius?! Of course, you only have yourself to blame. If you didn't hate fighting so much, I wouldn't love it so much. The only way you're gonna make me stop is if you suddenly have a change of heart... or at the very least equilibrium.

Equilibrium?

Of course! The opposite of gray is still gray. If you hate something I love it, but if you're neutral about anything I'll be the same way. Don't you know anything about Gemini beings?... or am I still thinking of your future self?

So come on! Don't you admit all of this has been just a little fun?

Ugh, fine! If it'll mean you'll stop antagonizing me... I guess it's a little fun sometimes...

......

W-what is it now?!

I can tell when you're lying. Don't bother faking it. It doesn't work that way.

I'm not!

Oh well, I never expected you to change so easily in the first place. We'll just have to handle this the old fashioned way... with gimmicky super powers!

...but if Blacker Naru alone isn't effective against you, I guess I'll have to use the full extent of my powers.

You're about to witness some gross shit go down, both metaphorically and literally.

[[NPC] Ai]

Got room for one more?

Ai!

Hey! Perfect timing!

Sorry for taking so long. I got confused on when I was suppose to show up. But you don't need to worry anymore, because I'm here now! Let's hurry and wrap this up so we can get back to the park! I've got an event to plan for.

Three against one?! How is this fair?! You're a ****ing disgrace, all of you!

And I LOVE IT! Ahahahahahaha!

You're Black Naru, right? And you can manipulate your body on a molecular level or something? Gross! Sounds like it would come in handy.

[[NPC] Black Naru]

Ho HO! Another challenger! And look who it happens to be!
Listen, do yourself a favor and sit this one out. I'm already giving these two suckers a run for their zenny. You think you can do any better?

I'm pretty confident. I play video games sometimes.

Ai Hanasaku, right?

Yeah. You know a lot about me?

Of course! I know everything Naru knows. Well, Future Naru because we're from the same time period. I know you're her living emotional crutch because she's such a pitiful, disappointing mess in my time period. It was torture knowing someone like that had some form of influence on me. But i's all good! I got this younger, pluckier Naru to get all my good vibes from now, and just the way I remember them too!

...remember...?

Wait, I'm remembering something else too... something about... about you... and...

No, wait... it was an event... yeah, and the event went horribly wrong... You... do something or something happened to you...

...Ugh shit... what was it?...

What was it what was it what was it?!?!?

UGH, WHATEVER!

Black Naru detonates a stash of explosives she had hidden along the ceiling. The chain suspending Risky also breaks, causing him to fall.

Ai is dead focused on Black Naru and is going to pursue her.

However, the explosion Black Naru created is going to drop the spotlight she had suspended from the ceiling as well. The spotlight is directly over Ai, and will fall on her if she doesn't move out of the way.

Also, it wasn't a spotlight, but the headlights from a delivery truck, suspended from the ceiling.

[[NPC] Ai]

Ai barely dodges out of the way in time. She fails to counter.

What's wrong, Waybacker? I thought for sure you'd see that coming!

It'd be boring if I knew everything that was about to hit me.

Heh. That's nice. I like you.

JUST KIDDING! I FREAKING HATE YOUR GUTS!

[[NPC] Yellow Spirit]

Luckily for Risky, Zarath saw him falling to certain death, and was able to spirit himself over to Risky and catch him just in time.

You okay?

Uh huh

Black Naru. I can't believe her. Kidnapping and holding a defenseless kid hostage.

Im not defenseless!!!!!!!! Iv got older version of me 2 help!!!!!!!

I... don't think that counts.

YUH HUH WE'RE THE SAME PERSON SO IT COUNTS!!!!!!!!!

Alright, alright, it counts!

Let's... get you out of here, alright? I can take you back to Central Park if you want. Sound good?

..............ok...........

[[NPC] Zarath]

Zarath and Risky vanish as Zarath spirits them both away to the Dining Room in Central Park.