The Mystical Forest

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Suddenly, from another dimension, a portal opened up -- a Dimension Gate -- which harbored a dark looking woman with a black Gothic Lolita dress on and matching gloves and thigh high black boots. Her hair was pitch black, as were her eyes, which were only sockets; they were eyeless holes. However, there were three blue streaks in her hair that went down her bangs. She floated in on wings of tattered dark energy, a smirk on her pale face looking as if she were wanting some mischief.

"Heh, Looks Like It's About Time For Me To Do My Duties Again," the strange dark fairy said raising a hand with pure darkness swirling about it, "This Place Is About To Meet An Unfortunate Fate." Though she was eyeless, she could see through her sockets, and she gazed upon the tree where the man with pointy ears was. She looked at him and the darkness around her hand faded away. "Yo," the dark fairy called out, "Who Are You?"

Following Mark, Black Friday made note of the fact that he swung through the trees and how he made his way through the forest. Naturally, she followed along on her tattered dark energy wings, floating behind him to keep up with him as he swung. When they came to an abrupt stop, she halted before the beautiful white flower that was glowing. "Ohhh," she said with a hint of awe, "Reminds Me Of The 'Reality Flowers' We Have Back In My Dimension." She said. Suddenly, the urge to destroy came over her again, and she had to suppress her desires to obliterate the beautiful glowing plant. She did a good job, but the urge was there all the same...

She gave a nonchalant but blank stare to Mark. "No, I Just..." She didn't want to tell him that she wanted to blow something up, or something. "I... Well..." Black Friday wondered how she could put this without seeming crazy... Which she was, but that didn't matter right now. "... Being The Embodiment Of Bad Luck Itself, I Often Have Tendencies To... Want To Destroy Things," she started off saying. "That Usually Includes Things Like... Well... That Flower." Black Friday sighed heavily, lowering her eyelids a bit. "But You're Cool Peeps And I Don't Want To Do Anything That Might Upset You, Ya Know? Plus, I'm Supposed To Control That Urge Within Me, Even When I'm Away From Home. I..." Suddenly, Friday trailed off. "I... Just Don't Have The Chance To Destroy Things Too Much Anymore, Even When I'm On The Job." Her job was being in control of superstition and misfortune, but she very much liked the destruction part of it.

Black Friday turned away from Mark. "I Guess... You Wouldn't Understand. It's In My Nature To Be Destructive, And..." She paused. "Even My Husband Gave Me The Nickname 'Destructo-Bitch'. If You Can Believe It. Hahaha." One of her many pet names. Black Friday prod her index fingers together cutely, then said, "... Anything Around Here Need Destroying...?"

Black Friday felt Mark's intent, but kept a blank stare of her own. "Well Then..." She saw his eyes begin to glow and felt like he wanted to attack her. But she was in control... She wouldn't let herself give in to the destructive nature of herself. She kept her cool and said, "... That Sucks." Black Friday closed her eyes, but she did not smile. She was actively holding back her own nature. But after a while, she opened her eye sockets again and stared at Mark. "... I Wouldn't Want To Have To Fight You, Anyway. You Or The Other Guardians." Black Friday thought hard -- Mark had a family. Friends. Life to protect. Black Friday being antagonistic here would only ruin what her husband sought to accomplish by merging the Veritas with other worlds as a show of peace. 'Peace...' she thought, letting the love for her husband keep her in check. "... Don't Worry. I Came Here On The Job, But I Don't Think I'll Be Doing What I Came Here To Do." She thought of what it would be like if someone came to the Veritas trying to destroy it, and she calmed herself.

Black Friday became docile again as Mark also seemed to remove the tension from the air. She, too, had a smirk on her face when he insisted that he was able to beat her at tag this time. "Oh Yeah?" Back Friday questioned, "Well, Let's Just See What You've Got, Then!" Black Friday immediately took off toward Mark, extending her arm, which stretched due to darkness, out toward him immediately. If he ran, her arm would snake around the trees and whatever else, tracking him in order to tag him.

It was clear that Black Friday wouldn't be able to catch Mark using speed or the power of darkness right now, so she had to rely on... Malfortuna.

Thinking quickly, Black Friday traced the afterimages and started to catch on to Mark's pattern throughout the forest. With precision like that of a sniper, Black Friday shot some Malfortuna into the general area where Mark was running, a rock suddenly 'entering' his path to trip him up. Black Friday smiled and snapped her fingers, the Malfortuna then spreading through the ground of the forest through that rock. If Mark was not tripped, roots of trees would 'suddenly' uproot themselves from the ground and become stumbling blocks for his feet as he ran.

If Mark did indeed trip, Black Friday would appear before him from the darkness and tag him before he could recover.

She was thrown off by the afterimages moving in different directions and couldn't direct her Malfortuna in the proper ways to cause some type of random unlucky event to happen to Mark. "Dammit..." Black Friday muttered, trying to figure out what to do about this. "I May Have To Bring Out The Big Guns..." Black Friday said to herself, closing her eyes and concentrating deeply.

Black Friday: "Black Opal."

Suddenly, all around Black Friday, black numerous black spheres appeared in the sky -- one for each afterimage of Mark and Mark, himself. They had the ability to lock on to energy signatures of what had already touched Black Friday and basically trail them indefinitely. No matter what afterimage Mark used, he would find that there was a Black Opal waiting for it. What these Black Opals did was consume energy they locked on to just by being near to it. This would likely absorb the energy that Mark used to create the afterimages in the first place as well as drain Mark himself of his own energy until he slowed down and Black Friday could catch him. She would chase only the Black Opal that locked on to the real Mark, and after the afterimages were absorbed, the others would find ways to block off Mark's movements and force him in directions that Black Friday wished so she could corner and catch him, or else he'd run the risk of running out of energy from the constant drain of the Black Opals.

Black Friday: "I'm Gonna Getcha, Mark! Hahahaha!"

Black Friday reached out to tag him if he slowed down.

"He's Slowing Down..." Black Friday noticed, her Black Opals still doing their jobs, "... But It's Not Enough..." She had to think of a way to stop him completely. She knew exactly how, however.

Black Friday: "Ace Of Clubs!"

With all of the energy from each of the Black Opals, they would change into enormous cards of Malfortuna energy that would serve as barriers to block off Mark and stop him from advancing completely. They surrounded him quickly and would try to trap him in place so that Black Friday could catch him that way. If he had a way to pass through the Malfortuna barriers, he would suffer the effects of Malfortuna and be subject to Black Friday's power directly. "I Bet I Got Him This Time!" she said triumphantly, hovering above the closed off area and sealing the top with a hand of darkness, which would soon press downward, ready to tag Mark and everywhere else he was in the vicinity of.

"Always Going Underground..." Black Friday uttered under her breath, furrowing her brow. "Damn Woodland Critters..." They all had earthly attributes that gave them abilities over the earth, which Black Friday had to deal with on Mark's home field. The barriers fell and returned to being the manna of Malfortuna, coursing through the ground, just like last time. "Misfortune Wave..." The Malfortuna manna that surged through the ground would shoot through it like seismic waves and traverse the underground field swiftly, charging it with Malfortuna. Black Friday would have the power to cause unfortunate events such as earthquakes to occur because of the Malfortuna, which should have forced Mark out of the ground and also charged him with Malfortuna, which also drained his energy.

Because the 'Misfortune Wave' surged through the underground of the entire forest, the trees would all be afflicted with Malfortuna from Black Friday. This would cause the forest itself some misfortune just from the manna alone being so multitudinous in an enclosed environment. Bad things would start happening, such as withering, general madness, and spontaneously falling or being struck.

"He's Around Here Somewhere..." Black Friday presumed, using her powers on the entire forest at the exact same time, "But If He Isn't, The Darkness Of Unknown Will Grant Me Sight Into His Whereabouts." Black Friday controlled metaphysical darkness as well as actual darkness, wherein which she was able to manipulate conceptual darkness as opposed to present darkness. That done, her pitch black eyes glowed with a dark purple light and the proverbial darkness that Mark left behind by disappearing suddenly and becoming unknown would come up as a vision within the sockets of Black Friday. Something like a 'Third Eye' sight. "I'll Find You..."

Black Friday eventually found Mark floating through the sky leisurely, which sort of pissed her off. Lowering her eyebrows, Black Friday then squinted as she looked up, saying, "Found You..." By this time, the Malfortuna had engulfed the forest entirely underground, and Friday was able to manipulate that monstrous amount of energy. Using the very trees of the forest, Black Friday had the Malfortuna surge through them and release another 'Misfortune Wave' up into the sky above. The ripples of the wave were violet and visible due to their strength, but still had the same effect of making things fall into misfortune. Mark's pleasant trip down would become a turbulent terror as the winds picked up and the sky became dark.

Whilst all of that was going on, Black Friday took the opportunity to get the jump on Mark... Darkness pooled up behind him as clouds drew together around his body, making visibility quite difficult, and the casting of a shadow or darkness much more easy...

"And I've Got You!" Black Friday shouted as the darkness folded all around him from everywhere in the clouds. The darkness that they brought enveloped him completely, which left Black Friday to appear from it with the binding darkness attached to her arm like a hand. "I Can't Believe You Were Playing Cards With A Bird," Black Friday said casually, untwining Mark after effectively catching him. "You're Good At This, But My Special Abilities Make This Easier For Me, You Know." Black Friday snickered.

"So, We Gonna Keep Playing Now That I've Got You, Or...?" Black Friday didn't know how Mark felt... Nor if the forest would be up to some of their games anymore. The usage of the Malfortuna made it so that the forest was having its effects slightly because of all of the contamination of the manna.

As a guardian of the forest, Black Friday wasn't at all surprised that Mark could return it to normal if he so chose. She didn't use too much of her energy to make it difficult for him, either. In fact, most of the energy was up in the air, as it had been removed from the forest previously in order to trap Mark. Whatever of the Malfortuna was left, Black Friday would absorb back into herself and hover before Mark with a dead look on her face. "Yeahp, That'll Happen When You Mess Around With Me..." she uttered somewhat emotionless.

"Why Don't We Just Talk, Then?" Black Friday asked. "Sure, It's Not Really My Thing To Be So Chatty, But... You Seem Cool." She crossed her arms and shrugged a little bit. "I'll Spill A Little Bit About Some Things."

Black Friday's eyeless sockets sunk as Mark's eyes glimmered. "Black," she'd say blandly, raising up her arm with the black fingerless glove and using the other to spread out her gothic lolita dress, "If You Couldn't Tell." Her rather monotonous appearance of black-and-white made her almost like a character from an old cartoon before color. "I Guess I Can Ask You The Same Thing..." Black Friday said as she started floating toward the ground, "But I Also Have Questions About This Forest And About The Beings That Live Here." Normally, she didn't take much of an interest, but since she wasn't destroying anything this time around... She figured she'd get to know what this place was all about. "What Are The Other Guardians? And Where's Your Family? Can I Meet These People?"

"Huh..." Black Friday said, stroking her chin, "Interesting..." She noticed when Mark became silent and understood what pain he was going through... Even though she was the type to inflict such pains upon others all of the time just by doing what she was created to do. "Sorry About Your Family." She wondered how Mark could maintain his happiness after going through so much. "How Do You Keep A Chipper Personality?" she asked him. "It Seems Like You've Experienced Your Own Type Of Pain. What Keeps You Going?" Friday was genuinely curious as to why Mark was so happy.

By this time, they were already on their way to go see his brother, and he was ahead of her, leading the way. Black Friday simply awaited an answer to her question. Maybe she'd see the rest of his family, too.

Black Friday twirled and curtsied at Mark's brother Veral as he appeared, saying, "Nice Ta Meetcha!" The explanation Mark gave about him being strong for his brother made Black Friday wonder what this forest would be like without Mark. Probably condemned to a terrible fate, as it almost was to Black Friday's appearance and duties.

She looked at the two elves and smirked, placing her hands on her hips. "You Two Are Just Like Kids," she said, shaking her head a bit. "But It's Cool. I've Got A Bit Of A Childish Side, Myself." Though her form of play was a bit... Rougher than what they'd probably consider playful. It was actually quite destructive. "I Guess It's A Good Thing You're Not Alone Then, Huh?" Black Friday said to Mark.

Black Friday quirked a brow at this Veral person and begrudgingly raised her hand for a shake. "Pleasure's Mine," she said in a sarcastic, yet meaningful tone. It was hard to tell if she was being serious when she said that, but she always talked like that, so it could be inferred that she was indeed genuine in her greeting. At the notion of food being unsafe around Veral, Black Friday kept a mental note of it and let Mark and Veral squabble like brothers did. Black Friday just sat back and relaxed until they were done, waiting to see if they would notice. If they didn't she'd snap her fingers a few times and say, "Yo, Let's Not Get Sidetracked. I Wanna Know More About You Guys And This Forest."

Black Friday smirked. "You Said So Already." She was pretty surprised to hear that Mark, of all people, was the one who scared humans out of the forest. "I Suppose Humans Get Lost In Here A Lot? You Don't Seem All That Intimidating." Then again, Black Friday was the epitome of bad luck, so the comparison was slightly different.

To Veral, she asked with curiosity, "What Sort Of Creatures Walk Around Outside Of The Forest? And Can YOU Leave The Forest?"

Back to Mark, she asked, "Where Is Your Partner At? Somewhere In The Forest?"

Black Friday was interested in Mark's speaking of his 'scary face'. "Oh, I Definitely Gotta See That," she said, being a fan of all things horrific. "I've Got A Form That's A Gigantic Alien Parasite Queen, But I Won't Get Into That," she chuckled.

"Anyway, Yeah, You Said Something Curious: Your Family Can Leave The Forest, But You Can't?" Black Friday found that to be interesting. "Is It Because You Are A Guardian And They Are Not?" Black Friday wanted to meet the other guardians, though. Part of her wanted to test their power, but she knew if that happened, she'd end up destroying the forest with Malfortuna. As much as she liked destroying things, being a changed being, she didn't want to do that so recklessly anymore. She crossed her legs and floated as if she was sitting.