Mist Jumper Part 17 (Patreon)

Kyra smiled as her newly created scrying pool showed a bug like machine with a large barrel for a nose or at least that was what the machine reminded her of. “Found it.”

Mist looked away from Lily and Abby and looked down at the water in the scrying pool. He studied the machine’s surroundings. “It’s in a dark cave rather than an alien creature so it’s probably the original.”

Lily studied the image in the scrying pool. “It’s a little hard to get a sense of scale but it looks massive.”

“If it’s anything like the game, it’s massive.”

Abby said, “The gun should give us a nice blueprint for a magical cannon.”

“Or at least a decent start,” Lily replied as she opened a small door in front of the massive machine.

Abby scanned the massive barrel and frowned slightly as the pattern she received wasn’t all that impressive. “So much for that idea.”

“Advanced magical cannon, it’s not a bad start but it’s going to take some work before it’s worth a damn.” Mist gestured and sent a line of balefire through the door cutting the weapon in half and making sure that it would never be operable again. He smiled slightly as a bangle and a sphere appeared out of thin air then dropped to the ground. He teleported them to his hand. “I’m not sure I’ll ever get used to loot just appearing out of thin air.”

“I’m so glad that you invited me.” Kyra was glad that she’d jumped at the chance to come with Mist and his friends rather than stick around pretending to be human on a world filled with enemy demons she’d pissed off over the years.

“I’m glad that you decided to tag along.”

“Done?” Lily asked.

Mist grinned. “Yeah, that should do it until we’re ready to go after the main boss for the setting.”

Lily closed the door to the cave. “Any other massive threats we need to take care of?”

“Not that I know of, Hermione and Uber are combing through the strategy guides for both games and making a list of stuff to copy. I want to play around with curse and the various other boss level debuffs until our armbands are immune before I try to take out Sin.”

Abby snickered. “Where are you taking her?”

Mist rubbed the bridge of his nose. “You know what I meant, the end boss for the first game. Speaking of Sin, we’re going to need to figure out a way to make sure there aren’t any pyreflies around Yevon when we attack him inside Sin which means I really should play with the spellmaker.”

Lily said, “I wouldn’t mind having a single really nice guard spell that I can just toss up.”

“I’ll see what I can come up with.” He turned and headed back toward where he’d left his portal to his warehouse open. Normally he wouldn’t have left the portal open but the girls were working on various projects and running back and forth. Besides, now that he had the pocket dimension he wasn’t nearly as worried about someone slipping into his warehouse while it was open as they shouldn’t be able to get to his little slice of heaven.

Abby followed Mist. “Cool, I should probably help Pandora, Hermione and Leet sort through all of the extra magitek that you picked up in Final Fantasy Six and scan everything.”

Mist frowned slightly as he thought about all of the ‘junk’ taking up space in his warehouse because he hadn’t actually had all that much of a reason to sort through it yet. “Have Pandora and Hermione scan everything then have Leet take it apart for magical bits with his new ability.”

“What do you want to do with the crap left over?” Abby asked as they walked through the portal and into the warehouse.

“Turn it into bars or blocks or whatever you have to then box it. We don’t need a bunch of junk cluttering things up and it gives me a reason to work on making a decent suit of magitek power armor out of adamantium.”

“That boss fight unnerved you didn’t it?” Abby asked warily.

“I wouldn’t say unnerved but it did remind me that dealing with the last boss isn’t going to be as easy as I’d like.”

“In that case, best of luck spell crafting,” Abby replied as she headed over to where Leet and Hermione were taking inventory of the various magitek devices.

Mist turned and headed for his spellmaker so that he could look at the formula of the judgement day spell he’d copied and ultima to see if he could upgrade ultima or turn the judgement spell into something that he could use to kill Sin.

0o0o0

Buffy laughed as she watched Dennis get dragged off his feet by the chocobo he’d just lassoed despite his valiant and futile attempt to stay on his feet.

“Fuck!” Dennis shouted as he was pulled along behind the large yellow bird through the creepy dark forest they were in.

Vista reached out with her powers and bent space so that the chocobo was turned back toward them rather than heading for the forest. “Stun it!”

Selena zapped the yellow chocobo with a stunner which caused the chocobo to fall over which sent Dennis tumbling into a tree. “That has to hurt.”

Dennis spit out a mouthful of dirt then pushed himself to his feet, rather glad that he was wearing his defensive gear. “Just my pride.”

“Nothing of importance then,” Buffy suggested teasingly.

“It could use some abuse,” Vista replied as she orbed the chocobo to the pen in the group’s monster arena so that Mist could drop it off with his contact at the other monster arena later.

Dennis sighed. “I thought we were going to do this without magic?”

“No, you suggested doing this without magic, Buffy and I just laughed.” Vista smirked at Dennis.

“If it makes you feel better, I’ve been tossed around by demons more than once,” Buffy admitted.

Selena glanced around the forest. “Do you want to head back or keep looking for monsters?”

Dennis coiled his lasso then stuck it in his inventory as he replied, “We might as well keep looking for monsters.”

Buffy smiled as she saw two large mangy looking wolves charged out of the forest at them. She jumped at the one in front and punched it in the head killing it instantly.

Vista gestured and orbed the second wolf to their monster arena. “The idea is to capture them.”

“We only needed one. Besides, if I want a pet, I’d rather start with a more impressive wolf.”

“She has a point, let’s go find more monsters to capture or kill.” Selena grinned as she headed deeper into the woods to find better monsters or at least different.

0o0o0

Dawn looked up from her book as Mist walked into the gaming area. “How did your spell creation go?”

“Better than I was expecting, worse than I’d like,” Mist replied as he walked over and sat down at the table across from Dawn. “Do you have any idea how hard it is using a spell altar while sitting on the back of a red chocobo?”

She tilted her head slightly as she tried to figure out if Mist was joking. “Are you serious?”

“The summoned chocobo is basically a magical effect,” He replied as he absently played with the d20 someone had left on the table.

“Which means that you can create another spell based on it while it’s active which is all sorts of cool.”

“I thought so. I tweaked the mighty guard spell I got off the boss to add regeneration which is awesome.”

“So, what’s the problem?” Dawn asked curious what had gone wrong.

Mist frowned slightly as he thought about all of the gaps in his understanding of the spells he’d copied from the boss. He was looking forward to seeing what he could learn from the boss’s magicite. “I managed to make my ultima spell a little faster using some of the tricks I learned from the other spell which is nice. I ran into some issues with Penance’s judgement day, the spell is ludicrously hard to cast, drains a ton of mana and is nearly impossible to control and aim.”

“Impossible to aim?”

“I sort of blew up the arena while I was practicing with clones.”

“You blew up the monster arena?!” Dawn asked in shock.

“No, the summonable battle arena I got from Doom,” Mist replied with a touch of amusement.

Dawn glared at him. “I’d toss dice at you but I like my dice too much.” 

“On the upside, a couple more rounds of testing and I should be able to figure out something useful though I think I’m going to rename the spell as it’s just a really nasty energy ball of doom, there isn’t really any judging going on.”

“If you can make it work, I’m always interested in learning a new spell.”

“If I can build some safety features into the spell so it doesn’t drain people until they’re dead if they can’t pay the mana cost, sure.”

“That sounds more than a little dangerous,” Dawn admitted.

“That’s why I’m using clones to test it. On the upside, I snagged a magicite from the boss so I’m hoping I can learn the proper version of the spell or what passes for the proper version then compare it to my pieced together spell.”

“That’s useful,” Tara said as she walked into gaming room. 

Mist turned and flashed Tara a smile. “Hey cutie, what’s up?”

“Pandora, Uber, Xander and Faith wanted to hit a dungeon to try to master some of the new dress sphere abilities and find some local magical items, are either of you interested in coming with us?”

“I’m in,” Dawn replied enthusiastically.

“Sounds good, I wouldn’t mind grabbing a copy of the thief outfit and trying to learn how to magically steal people’s equipment,” Mist admitted.

“Same,” Dawn agreed as she slipped out of her chair and stretched.

“Which dungeon are you planning on hitting?” Mist asked curious where the group was planning on going.

“The Omega dungeon.” Tara smiled at Mist’s raised eyebrow. “I had concerns about the place as well but Xander had a couple of good points. We have immunities or absorption to all of the elemental attacks we’re going to face and our ribbons and armbands should cover every status effect they can throw at us.”

Dawn snickered. “Not to mention we get to use Mist as a tank if he comes.”

“The thought had crossed my mind.” Tara smiled innocently.

Mist mock pouted. “I see how it is.”

“If I thought for half a second that they could actually hurt you, you might have a leg to stand on for your protesting.”

Mist laughed as they headed to find Xander and Faith. . 

0o0o0

Mist smiled slightly as he sliced another wraith in half and felt the creature’s magic soak into him increasing some random aspect of his magic based on the creature’s magical talents. Sure, adding a mere 10% of the monster’s magical ability in a particular field didn’t sound all that impressive to start with but it certainly added up once you slaughtered your way through an entire world of monsters especially since every enemy he killed dropped a sphere he could use to get stronger which meant that he could kill stronger monsters and so on. He blurred toward the demon like monster approaching the party, slipped past it then hacked its head off with his blade.

Dawn blinked as the the three monsters that had been about to attack the party fell over dead. “You do realize that we might have to actually attack them to get experience, right?”

Mist turned and looked at Dawn. “Ah, right, sorry.”

Faith laughed as she glanced back down the cave tunnel to make sure nothing was sneaking up on them from behind. “No you’re not. New plan, we see a monster, we blast it with spells until it dies and Mist can kill anything that gets within ten feet or so.”

“That’s fair.” Mist stuck his tongue out at Faith as he collected the spheres that had dropped off the three monsters he’d killed.

Faith smirked as the group continued walking through the cave looking for treasure and monsters to blast or capture. Even spending a year hanging around and occasionally raiding the underworld in Charmed hadn’t really prepared her for how tightly packed and powerful the monsters were in a proper dungeon. She brought her hands up and cast blizzard at the next group of monsters to charge around the corner at the group. She smiled as the monsters dissolved thanks to the group’s barrage of spells and left piles of gold coins. “It’s nice to get paid for doing stuff you love.”

Xander said, “It certainly helps. We should probably hit the shops after we kill all the monsters here and see what we can find to boost our combat ability.”

Tara spoke up, “I sort of want to explore the various cities when we get a chance.”

“Same.” Mist was looking forward to doing a lot of exploring once Yu Yevon was dead and gone, both for scans of strange buildings and just because there was interesting stuff to see. He frowned slightly as they walked into a room with four treasure chests. “That makes this easier.”

“What?” Dawn asked.

“The mimics show up as mimics when I look at them with my identification power.”

Xander focused and flipped his mental switch so he could do the same thing. “That makes this insanely easy.”

“Charmed’s power mimic for the win.” Dawn was just happy that she hadn’t had to have her eyes ripped out to get a copy of Mist’s various eye powers. 

Faith smirked. “Now that we know we can cheat to avoid the mimics do you want to farm some alternate realities?”

Mist considered the idea for a couple of seconds. “Let’s finish exploring and looting everything here then we can look at looting the rest of the local multiverse.”

Faith smirked as another group of monsters came down the hallway toward them. She tossed a large ball of fire at the monsters as she shouted, “Fire in the hole!”

Mist raised his hands and tossed a small fireball at the monsters just in case attacking monsters actually mattered for learning the dress sphere skills. 

0o0o0

Aisha frowned slightly as she looked through Maester Seymour’s mind with telepathy looking for anything interesting. ‘Yeah, Leet was right, he’s a nihilistic bastard that killed his father because he had a lonely childhood, boo hoo. Saving everyone by killing them, yeah, he has a couple of screws loose.’  She gestured at the blue haired half guardo/half human summoner and cast silence on him.

Seymour looked around as he felt the strange magic wash over him, then opened his mouth and tried to say something as he looked around for whatever was in the room with him.

Aisha cast soul trap on the summoner then reached out and punched her hand through his chest and ripped his heart out much to the man’s fleeting shock. She really liked having super strength at times like this. She reached down and placed the bloody heart in Seymour’s hand then cast a cantrip to clean the blood off her hand and shirt. “Rest in pieces.” She teleported to her next target’s office using her dark whispering ability.

Yo Mika spun around sensing something wrong but not being able to place what had disturbed him.

Aisha studied the rather solid ghost/unsent that was the leader of the religion that hated technology for no other reason than fear of someone else having power. By their own laws the man should have been sent to the afterlife but as with many religions, it was one of those do as we say not as we do things. She pulled her soul trap enchanted blade out of her inventory then walked behind the ‘aged’ old man, grabbed his head and cut his head off. She was a little annoyed when he disintegrated rather than leaving a body as she’d been looking forward to sticking his head on his desk.

She teleported to her next target. She smiled slightly as she noticed that the fat priest hadn’t reacted to her entrance at all as he was still staring out the window. She transferred her dagger to her left hand then pulled an ebony mace out of her inventory. She cast silence on the man then swung her mace at his lower spine crippling him and sending him through the window. “Oops.” She jumped after him and stabbed him with her soul trap blade then used her flight ability to floated gently down toward the ground as she watched the fat screaming priest slam into the ground. She briefly considered conjuring a kick me sign to kick on his back but decided that no one would get the joke. Besides, she wanted at least a little plausible deniability when it came to the sisters. The leaders of a religion dying mysteriously was one thing, them dying with a kick me sign on their back would raise uncomfortable questions with the Charmed sisters and she was trying to avoid that. She teleported back to the base.

Hermione looked up from her book as she asked, “How did your search for magical items go?”

Aisha turned to look at Hermione as she dropped her stranger power. Her gaze jumped to the bookworm’s rather cute naked bottom then up her friend’s back and finally to her face and the grimoire she was reading. “I picked up a couple of magic items and ran some errands, you?”

“I’m just doing some basic research into this world’s magic.”

Aisha shivered slightly as she stared at the three inch thick book her friend was reading. Even though her ADHD was technically cured and had been for years, the idea of sitting and reading large ancient tomes for fun made her a little uneasy especially when they had a magical power that let them skip the boring parts. “You realize that you could just absorb the contents, right?”

“It’s relaxing,” Hermione replied as she sat up.

“Any idea when Mist is going after the last boss?”

Hermione put her bookmark in her book then closed it. “No, they’re still raiding the Omega Ruins, the place is larger than we were expecting. After that, he’ll probably work on capturing monsters for a while to collect a stockpile then hit Sin so that he can create an Aeon without worrying about Yu Yevon taking it over.”

“I’m looking forward to seeing how much we can boost a summon. Is anyone working on copying status immunities from monsters yet?” Aisha didn’t mind wearing her armband but being naturally immune to everything wouldn’t be a bad thing either in case something happened to her armband.

“Chris mentioned that he was going hunting for an immunity to berserk status which should take care of most of the status effects, at least in this world.”

“In that case, I think I’m going to go capture and drain some monsters to work on my mana reserves.”

Hermione stood up. “That’s something everyone should work on.”

“How are you going to pitch draining magic to Leo?” Aisha asked curious how Hermione was going to spin that particular ability.

“I’m going to use a lot of diagrams to explain that the power we’re stealing from monsters is neutral and that the more powerful we are, the longer we’ll live and thus the more good we can do. If that doesn’t work, I’ll have Harry or Mist try to talk some sense into him.”

“Better them than me.” Aisha smirked as she headed off to find someone that wanted to help her capture some magical creatures so she could drain them.

0o0o0

Daenerys walked up to look at what Mist was working on at the spell altar. While she’d had some training on using the spell altar, Mist had a talent for creating efficient spells so they normally left most of the spell creation to him.

“Something up?” Mist asked absently as he looked over the notes for his latest spell.

“No, you’ve just been down here a while, I thought I’d check on you.”

Mist smiled as he turned and looked at Daenerys. She was stunning in a way that the actress that played her couldn’t quite pull off. “I’m trying to design a version of fiendfyre that will only damage fiends by mixing fiendfyre and the holy fire spell I picked up in Diablo.”

“Any luck?”

Mist sighed. “Not as much as I’d like. I have the basics worked out but I’m having trouble keeping the fires it starts from being straight fiendfyre.”

“Is there a reason that you can’t use fiendfyre inside Sin?”

“I’d rather not feed fiendfyre such a massive amount of magic…” Mist trailed off as he realized he had a better idea than trying to kill Sin fairly. “I might have another way to deal with Sin.”

“Oh?”

“You reminded me of my siphoning gloves.”

She raised her eyebrows. “You mean the gloves that have been boosted so much the item world monsters are almost impossible to damage and can rip through shields with disturbing ease?”

Mist shifted uncomfortably. “I can toss down geo panels for invincibility and we have more options than the last time. If we can upgrade it, we can jump out before the item god and make copies so we can grab a better version of the gloves which we can boost.”

“And so on, right?” Daenerys asked with a hint of amusement. 

“The gloves boost siphoning and the amount we can safely handle. If we can boost the gloves high enough then opening a door inside Sin and draining him until he falls apart should be a viable tactic or at least a viable method for increasing everyone’s mana pool.”

“Who are you planning on taking with you?” Daenerys asked.

“Anyone that wants to work on their spellwork or ranged attacks. I’m planning on working on my ability to create geo panels so it should be decently safe as long as everyone can follow directions.”

“In that case, you should probably grab the sisters and Paiges so they can get practice tossing around actual combat spells.”

Mist shrugged. “I went to Charmed for the utility spells and power stealing, not the fireballs.”

Daenerys smiled at Mist. “I’m just happy that we can copy your minion’s enhanced learning ability.”

“It certainly helped everyone from Charmed.” He was just glad that he didn’t have to juggle jumps anymore to try to get everyone enhanced mastery and that Lily and James could start catching up without jumping through too many hoops.

“We should probably round up some people and get started before Sin decides to attack again.”

“Sounds good.” He turned and headed toward the door to the little slice of heaven to talk to the girls and see if anyone wanted to help out.”

0o0o0 

Xander stepped forward and slashed at the giant crab like creature being very careful not to step outside of the glowing blue square on the ground that gave anyone standing on it conceptual invulnerability. Even with all of their various protections, the monsters in the current item world were brutal enough that one glancing blow had reduced Mist’s mana pool by more than half when his mana shield had been struck. He scowled as his attack bounced off the creature doing minimal damage despite the fact that he’d hit it between the armor plates of its shell. “Shit.”

“Don’t move!” Dawn snickered as she dropped an ultima spell between Xander and the creature.

Xander twitched as everything exploded in black and blue magical energy. He blinked a couple of times to clear his vision. “It’s down!”

Phoebe smirked as she used her power ring to create six massive yellow shackles to try to hold the crab in place so they could continue killing it. “Light it up.”

Prue raised her hands and cast ultima on the crab then frowned when it failed to do all that much damage to the crab. “This sucks.”

“Hey, watch the chains,” Phoebe called out in annoyance.

Poppy smiled as she blasted the crab with thundara. “Keep working on it.”

Mist frowned slightly as he spotted a crab moving their way through the forest. He raised his hands and created a tennis ball sized ball of energy then started charging it with additional mana. “Charging!”

Dawn glanced down to make sure she was standing on a blue square then back at the growing ball of swirling energy. “You’re crazy.”

Mist shot the energy ball at the second crab as it charged out of the forest. “Fire in the hole!”

Xander twitched as the energy ball obliterated half of the floating island they were standing on sending rocks and bits of trees flying. He stared at the large hole into a black void where the second crab used to be. “How in the hell?”

“It’s my version of Penance's judgement day attack.”

Phoebe stared in shock as part of the surviving area fell into the darkness taking another crab with it. “You weren’t joking about us needing to step up our game were you?”

Xander snorted as the level faded out and they found themselves on the next level. “Just so you know, he cheats.”

Mist turned and looked at Xander as he recreated his invulnerability zone, this time in red. “If you’re not cheating, you’re not trying hard enough.”

Prue looked at the desert landscape. “Any ideas?”

“Kill all of the monsters,” Buffy replied with amusement as she scanned their surroundings. She was fairly sure she’d have gone crazy in some of the boring jumps if they hadn’t picked up the item world ability. 

Dawn was just glad that everyone was keeping their spirits up as she really wanted to see the next higher ranked siphoning glove so they could upgrade their mana pools quicker.

0o0o0.

Jecht stared at the man that had just ripped through every fiend and terror inside of Sin with a casual brutality and ease that was terrifying. The most disturbing thing about the man was that he’d taken out the copy of the huge gun that Yu Yevon had conjured with a single beam of blindingly white light. “You’re the traveler from another land aren’t you?”

Mist looked at the humanoid aeon standing in the chamber. He gestured and cast banishment on Jecht which forced Yu Yevon’s bug like form to separate from Jecht. He teleported across the room, cast soul trap then punched the bug like creature before it could move an inch. He relaxed slightly as he felt Yu Yevon’s soul get sucked into one of his soul gems. He turned to look at Jecht, “Best of luck getting out of your armor.”

“He’s dead… how?”

“Magic. Now if you’ll excuse me, I really should be going.” Mist teleported back to his little slice of heaven now that Yu Yevon was destroyed. He smiled at the girls that were hanging out waiting for news of the attack. “Mission accomplished, Yu Yevon is dead and trapped in a soul gem. Without Yu Yevon controlling things, Jecht should be able to disassemble or unsummon Sin as needed.”

“That means we can kick back and have some fun, right?” Leet asked hopefully.

“No reason not to, the last boss is dead, the heroes should be able to mop everything up so we’re in the clear as long as I don’t die.”

Paige asked, “Shouldn’t we help everyone recover?”

Willow spoke up, “We could drop off some endless rations.”

“Considering people have been dealing with the endbringer like monster for a 1,000 years, they’re pretty good about making sure everyone has food,” Fred pointed out.

Mist spoke up, “Considering they seem to be doing reasonably well without help, I’m not too worried about it. I’m planning on activating my celestial mirror ability so my weapon can improve by killing monsters then hunting a bunch of fiends for practice and profit.” He also wanted to kill a lot of magic using monsters so he could increase his skill and ability with various types of Final Fantasy magic.

Sin asked, “When are you going to make some Aeons?”

“I’ve been thinking about it, are you volunteering?”

“Of course,” she replied enthusiastically.

Mist glanced around the open air room at his friends, “Anyone else want to volunteer?”

Xander spoke up, “I’ll volunteer if no one else does.”

“I’ll help.” Hermione was curious what influence everyone would have on their Aeons.

Wyatt spoke up, “I’ll help.”

Chris shook his head. “I think I’ll wait to see what happens with the rest of the aeons.”

Pandora snickered. “I’m with Chris on this one.”

Paige nodded. “Same.”

Mist stuck his tongue out at Pandora.

Hermione smirked slightly at Mist. “How do you want to do this?”

Mist glanced between Sin and Hermione. “We should probably start by meditating on the fox statue to get rid of any lingering corruption then meditate together in a triangle while I create the aeon. I’m not sure what they’ll be like so we’ll just have to play it by ear.”

0o0o0

Mist wasn’t quite sure what to make of the hot as hell naked six and a half foot tall purple skinned female aeon that appeared out of thin air as he completed the ritual to create an aeon. Judging by her cute appearance and lack of weapons she was either going to be hilariously weak or overwhelmingly deadly, he wasn’t quite sure yet. “Hello?”

The girl smiled down at Mist. “Hello.”

Hermione pulled her gaze off the aeon’s rather cute behind. “At least your ability worked.”

“She’s awesome,” Sin pointed out as she stared at the girl’s rather bouncy breasts.

The aeon turned to look at Sin. “Thank you.”

Hermione asked, “Do you have a name?”

The aeon shook her head. “I don’t have a name.”

Sin spoke up, “Lore.“

Lore turned to look at Sin. “I like it.”

Hermione asked, “Do you have any combat skills?”

“Maybe?” Lore asked hopefully.

Mist stood up. “In that case, we should probably work on some training.”

Lore shouted enthusiastically, “Training!” 

Hermione glanced over at Sin then back at Mist as she tried to figure out where all of their summon’s personality quirks came from. ‘Hopefully her overdrive is useful.’ She stood up as she asked, “Where do we want to start?”

Sin floated up then stood up. “We captured some basic monsters for Mist’s arena, it should be safe enough.”

Lore giggled. “I’ll knock them flat.”

“That’s the spirit.” Sin had a feeling it was going to take a while to get Lore combat worthy but they should be able to use spirit stones on her so it shouldn’t be too horrible.

0o0o0

Sin laughed as she watched Lore finally use her overdrive, dozens of tomes fell from the heavens hitting the three fiends that had been beating her up.  

Hermione stared in horror as the various books exploded into dozens of ultimas obliterating the fiends she was fighting. “That’s…”

“So cool!” Pandora exclaimed as she leaned against the railing of the arena for a better look.

“But…” Hermione tried and failed to form a coherent statement after witnessing her summon destroying dozens of books.

Sin snickered as she hugged Hermione from behind. “That’s our baby girl, isn’t she awesome?”

“She… she better not have summoned those from the library,” Hermione complained.

Pandora smiled as Lore blew them a kiss then started walking back toward the entrance. “I didn’t recognize any of the books so you’re probably safe.”

Sin moved her hands up to cup Hermione’s breasts. “Relax, we’ll look through the library later, it’s probably just a neat visual.”

Hermione leaned back into Sin. “If it’s not, I’m blaming you.”

“How is it my fault?” Sin asked curious why she was getting blamed for a book ability.

“You’re a naughty demon, you twist things by your very nature.”

Sin smirked. “So you’re saying that my influence corrupted a perfectly harmless book conjuring ability into the most overpowered spell we’ve seen from this world?”

“Yes…” Hermione sighed as she realized what she’d just admitted. “Fine, when you put it like that, maybe I’m giving you too much credit.”

Sin pouted. “Hey, I’m an awesome demon, I seduced everyone in the party other than Leo which I totally could have if I’d wanted to.” She hadn’t bothered because Piper would have taken it badly and it was more fun to have fun with Piper and give Leo a show now and then.  

Pandora snickered as she watched Sin lick Hermione’s ear. “So, now that we’ve seen her in combat and know she has a crazy overdrive, what’s the plan for training her?”

Mist pulled his attention away from Sin’s hands and Hermione’s silk covered breasts and looked over at Pandora. “Leet has a list of things we’re supposed to be able to teach aeons by sacrificing various local items. Once that’s done, I’d like to hand Lore a copy of the minions’ learning ability and the magicka book for turning spells into magical books.”

“Now you’re just being lazy.”

“I’m not copying hundreds of strange magical items for each aeon if I can avoid it, once is more than enough.”

“I guess you have a point.” Pandora smiled at Lore as she walked up the stairs. “That was awesome.”

Lore smiled at Pandora as she walked over to where the group was standing. “Thank you but I got my ass handed to me by a bunch of low level monsters.”

“Until you blasted them with your overdrive.”

Mist smiled at Lore. “That just means that we’re going to have to help you improve.”

“Where do the books come from?” Hermione asked warily.

“I’m pretty sure they’re just copies of your library,” Lore admitted.

“Hopefully.” Hermione really didn’t want to ban Lore from using her overdrive but she also didn’t want someone destroying her collection of books either.

Mist said, “On that note, let’s go see how many spells we can teach her.”

Sin let go of Hermione then took a step back. “Sounds like a plan.” 

Pandora was looking forward to seeing how much damage Lore could do once she was fully trained. 

0o0o0 

Egwene looked up from working on the city ship’s weapon system as Mist walked up. “Any luck with Lore?”

Mist smiled slightly as he glanced at the collection of tools ‘scattered’ around the area Egwene was working in. “It took us a while to mug some fiends for everything we needed but yeah, we taught her everything on Leet’s list which is a decent start. Any luck upgrading the weapons?”

“I’m still trying to figure out how everything works so I can figure out how to include the magical cannons with the rest of the ship’s weapons.”

“Do you need any help?”

“That depends, do you want to walk around with a ship scale weapon as a personal firearm?”

Mist raised his eyebrows. “Why?”

“Because you have the ability to upgrade weapons with your celestial mirror ability.”

Mist stared at Egwene for a couple of seconds then started laughing at the idea of walking around with a huge gun on his shoulder. “I wouldn’t mind putting a shoulder harness on it and blowing up monsters, I need to learn the various magical gunner tricks anyways.”

“That reminds me, you’re going to need to create a magical shield unit at some point so the ship can benefit from your magic must defeat magic perk.”

Mist smirked as he pictured various alien races shooting his ship’s shields and having them stay at 100% without losing any energy. “Sounds good, write something up for what you need and I’ll see what I can do. Eventually, I wouldn’t mind using Let’s Give it a Boost on all of the city’s critical systems.”

“If we get everything upgraded and repaired, can we take a trip to a space jump at some point?”

“I’m sure I can find something with spaceships that we can put up with for a couple of years.” If he couldn’t find anything else, hitting Star Wars to spike Palpatine’s plans, defuck the Jedi Order and pick up some ships sounded useful. 

“Sounds good.”

“On that note, I’ll be in the workshop, call if you need help with something.”

“I should be fine, the city is cloaked and in the middle of the ocean.”

“Don’t forget to have fun.” Mist orbed back to his little slice of heaven then headed into his warehouse and over to his workshop. He smiled at Riley. “Did I walk into the wrong lab?”

Riley finished making the mold for the plastic case she needed for her medical scanner. “Nope, I’m just working on some tools. Why are you here?”

“I wanted to pick Leet’s brain for my magitek suit of battle armor and it’s easier to share information when I don’t have to keep printing out blueprints.”

“Any particular reason you’re looking at power armor?”

“I was sort of considering hitting D.C. Occult and if I run into Batman and Robin or Nightwing, I wouldn’t mind giving Nightwing power armor if only to annoy Batman.”

“You should see a therapist about that.” Riley stuck her tongue out at Mist.

“We could always pick up Harley.” Mist grinned as he walked over to the design table and started sketching out what he wanted his armor to look like.

“She’s not that bad depending on the continuity,” she replied with amusement as she thought about the crazy jester.

“You’d trust her as your shrink?”

“If the Joker is already dead and we can’t be tied to it, yeah. It’s not like any of us are all that sane.”

“Prue, Piper, Paige and Poppy are sane.”

Riley shrugged. “Ish. Give them a couple more jumps and they’ll be as crazy as the rest of us.”

Poppy snickered as she walked into the workroom carrying her daughter. “I noticed you didn’t include either Phoebe in that list.”

Mist turned to look at Poppy and his daughter. “She’s a bit neurotic.”

“She means well. Speaking of meaning well, can I borrow an avatar to watch Sarah for a couple of hours so I can get some rest?”

Riley made smiley faces at the baby. 

“Sure.” Mist smiled then created two avatars. “One to take care of Sarah and one to massage your feet.”

Poppy laughed as she handed the baby to one of Mist’s avatars. “You might not be the perfect father but you’re damned close.” 

Mist said, “I aim to please.”

“On that note, I’m going to go test my new toy.” Riley turned and headed for the door.

“Have fun Riley, if you see Leet, tell him I’m working on the combat armor.”

“No problem,” Riley replied as she left.

Mist turned his attention back to his sketches as his avatars left with Poppy. He wanted to complete his armor before his next jump.