A Carnival in Darkness: Part 54

"A sleeping spell at a concert? I don't think the spell will be heard by the senshis and duelists if the music is loud enough." James still thinks that he might be able to bribe the senshis with enough of his famous burgers because he hasn't met anyone in the world that could resist his cooking. James suggests that That Man could hire another servant in Raven's place. "Or maybe you should consider getting another Raven replacement ?" Hamtaro turns his head from side to side. Was That Man going to get a Raven replacement and if so who becaus James belongs to the hamsters.

Sailor Pluto was afraid that all that was said is true so she decided to add her feedback for That Man. "Yes the senshis and duelists will have Raven either singing and dancing 24/7 or doing a lot of washing and cleaning at the senshi palace. Raven will not get a break and the only way Raven would be left alone is if he dropped dead which is not good for Raven."

Sephiroth suddenly realizes that there was a collar on his neck that was blocking him from using most of his powers and magic. He pulled and pulled at the collar but it just wouldn't come off, attached to the collar there was a small dog tag that says 'Cloud Rules' and he knew that Sailor Pluto must have put the collar on him as some sort of way to support Cloud. Sephiroth tried to ask That Man if he could get the collar off since That Man was an expert in magic. "Excuse me but can you get this collar off of me? I would have a much better chance of rescuing Raven if I am able to use my powers. That crazy Cloud fan put this collar on me to block my powers because she must wants to see me dead."

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Sailor Venus holds up her video recorder to take pictures and also make movies of Raven's concert. Uria, Raviel and Hamon guard all possible entrances to the senshi palace. They wanted to make sure that nothing will interfere or stop this very entertaining never ending concert by Raven.

Sailor Moon watches Raven ballet dance and was quiet. She covers her mouth to try not to laugh but couldn't help it. "Dance again, Vega. But this time be more graceful

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"Please! I...I don't know ballet all that well, seriously, why don't you all find someone better like Axl Low? He'd be much better for all of you, he's also probably a lot...Easier to look at." Saying that made Raven cringe a little to be commenting on his other half's looks.

Looking around now, he was going to just stare at the senshi who were recording and taking pictures of him, he almost wanted to cry. This hurt in a way that no mortal wound could ever make someone hurt. But he was going to live through it, he owed it to That Man to survive and return to his side as a soldier in this war against the Gear Incident.

And as he was told to dance again, he would dance once more at the command of Sailor Moon.

"Oy! Kenny Ken, how you doing...Wait, they've entirely passed their obsessions over to Raven? Damn, I feel a little bad for the poor guy." Axl would say softly as he tried to think this all over decently, not really knowing how he might be able to make this all go away, since in some ways this was all rooted to what he had done a while ago.

And it was then that Axl would turn and look at all those hamsters, wondering why they were all collected in this way...Remembering something in the back of his mind about hamsters but with all that had been going on, things were such a blur in his head.

"Oh, no, no, James. The spell would be quite simple to use and while that is a most easiest of paths to take, I cannot see myself giving up on Raven just like this. He is a special individual, capable of regenerating parts of his body after he is hurt badly." That Man said softly as he looked around.

Coming to look at Grovyle now, "A Grass Pokemon with Sleeping Pollen could work pretty nicely for the plan, but how many would we have access to?" That Man said as he was thinking that maybe some Pokemon could definitely do the job.

And now with what Sailor Pluto had to say, That Man went into deep thought before chuckling. "Raven will not die so easily. A man named Sol Badguy once incinerated half of his entire body, Raven grew back his body parts after that and said it only felt mildly hot."

"But yes, I think I may need to think of a Raven replacement, atleast for the time being, to help with getting Raven himself back." And with that That Man would finally turn to look at Sephiroth who was going through so much. Seeing that the One-Winged Angel had a collar around his neck, That Man would look at it and hold up a blue hand.

Starting to chant an incantation to reverse the effects of the collar, even though it'd only be temporary as senshi magic was not something he was used to at all, since the Sailor Senshi were long gone in the future to a point that he couldn't even find books about their magic to use for himself.

"The collar is still going to affect you...But it should be less effective now, my magic to repel it's effects is only temporary, you will have to find the original user of the spell and try to use his or her's mercy and humanity to your advantage to break the collar off of you, as I am not knowledgable on this kind of exact magic."