Daring Heart

Hey! Hey!!

*Confusion runs straight towards the castle. She briefly pauses when she sees the door was kicked open...but zooms right inside.*

Hello?! Hello, is anyone in here— AUGH!

*Almost immediately after getting inside, she collapses to the ground, gripping her head*

OWWWW. OWW. WHY DOES IT HURT TO. BE IN HERE.

HELLO? IS ANYONE THERE?!

(gonna tag @digitanlikesumas @glittering-sun-of-catastrophes since we're all on the first room of the castle and obligatorily see this)

WHO DARES INVADE MY COMPETI- Oh hi Confusion, I thought you evacuated too.

Mom! . . . Would you like to spectate?

yearofconfusion

LORD GORUSHI!! IMAGINE LOSING!!!!! There you are!! I've been worried sick about the both of you!!

*She leaps to give Imagine Losing a hug, but falls midway, gripping her head.* AUGH...IT'S LIKE THIS PLACE IS...CRUSHING MY...BRAIIIIIN.

*Her psychic powers–magic that was being suppressed, but one that was inexplicably linked to her brain chemistry. Not that she knew anything was being suppressed.*

WE GOTTA…GET OUT OF HERE, EVERYONE. IT'S NOT…SAFE. IMAGINE LOSING…CAN YOU GET GOLD SHIP TO SAFETY...?!

*Her eyes clenched shut, she doesn't even have time to register Digitan in front of her.*

Mom, I have to race. She’ll kill mother’s girlfriend if I don’t.

No need to suffer, loyal servant.

*Godship intentionally lowers her own influence, just enough to still supress any major magic while lowering Confusion's headache enough for her to be able to finish this conversation*

I do recommend that you leave for now. Unless you want to watch the race with me, in which case you are invited to my special VIP racewatching zone a little above this room.

yearofconfusion

*Confusion takes her time to breathe, sweat quickly dripping down her face and onto the floor.* Gorushi, I...

...I can't leave without Imagine Losing. At the very least...

...put my life on the line instead of sir's...please...and then I'll watch the race with you, okay?

It's really not that big of a deal. All Imagine has to do is run, and then everyone will be safe. I will only do anything against SR if Imagine refuses to run, which she hasn't, so you don't need to worry. Now, would you like to watch?

yearofconfusion

...a-alright, as long as they're both safe. Okay!

In this case....

*Godship snaps her fingers, automatically teleporting both herself and Confusion to a room slightly above the current one, with a glass window from which they can see the racetrack perfectly.*

*At this same moment, Gitan feels a burst of energy and power running through her body. Her abilities have been enhanced, and a magical power she does not quite know how to control yet has been given to her.*

*The magic-supressing energy of Godship no longer has full effect within the racetrack room, allowing for Imagine Losing to use most of her powers, with the big exception of teleportation, so she doesn't cheat or run away.*

Repeating the rules once more: three laps. 2400 meters. No rules. If one dies, passes out or simply can't reach the end of the track that's an instant loss. No need to hold back otherwise.

You may start whenever you feel like it, @digitanlikesumas and @glittering-sun-of-catastrophes

*Gitan is stood still, her legs shaking as she takes a deep breath*

I really hope I've seen enough anime to do this well.

(Imagine walks to the gates. She makes certain that her breastplate is securely attached before she gets in. She seems very excited but also incredibly nervous which makes sense. It is her debut after all.)

*Gitan clenches her head, a small golden glow appearing*

...seems I have about a couplr seconds to learn magic.

Ready?

. . . If I die. . . Please say that I looked cool in my last moments. I am ready

I'm sure you will.

*Gitan takes off down the track, it seems she's trting to use her magic in a much different way than normal. Rifht now, she's just testing it while she runs normally*

(The more experienced spell caster is aware of the dangers of not immediately killing your enemies. The first thing she does is cast disintegrate.)

*Gitan is not experienced, but she is creatve, and can tell when a spell is coming at her. Just before the spell connects, Gitan whips around, a hammer made of magic smashing into the disintegrate spell, attempting to throw it towards God Ship*

Alright, then it's a fight.

(Imagine smiles. Her golden eye glows brighter before darkening and becoming an inky black color. Gitan can feel sickness begin to overtake her body.)

*Gitan isn't casting spells through traditional means in the slightest, but the magic appears to bend to her will*

uhhhh-Slow Slow Beam!

(God I feel sick)

(Imagine feels her body slowing down. She chooses to simply continue running forward.)

(Good, she's slowing down and we're only a couple hundred meters in. I can win the race easily but... My target is Gold Ship, not her)

(Hmm, as it stands, this magic can be taken away by goldshi whenever, unless I use it up... but how?)

*Gitan's hands grow cold, and her legs do as well, as the track gets covered in a sheet of ice*

(Come on... think, Gitan! Yiu can't overpower her, but is there something that can defeat her regardless?)

(Imagine Losing, a goddess, a divinity, slips on ice and falls face first into the ground and struggles to get up.)

*Gitan slows, sliding on the ice as she tries to buy some time*

(Come on, Think, Gitan! What could kill a god?

Oh. Oh that's clever. That might work, if it catches her off guard)

Room!

*A sphere of transparent blue appears around the track, and even the box containing confusion and Gold Ship*

(Imagine losing looks up confused and immediately falls back to the ground. In this moment, as you have experienced her magic firsthand and seen her in what may possible be her most pathetic moment, you realize that her power is not divine. The eye was removed from Vecna when he was still a mere lich. She is anglerfish’s light compared to the rest of the body.)

*Gitan is uncertain of a number of potential plans, but she sees an opportunity when realising the apparent difference in their power. Gitan stops, and concentrates her power, focusing it on... Confusion and Imagine?

(What are you doing, Gitan?? There's a god you have to beat! and yet... I can't just waste this chance for her!)

She tries to create a body, an empty vessel using Confusion and Haru's DNA*

(Imagine screams in pain as she is forcibly torn out of Urara’s body and into this new one.)

*Gitan swaps one of the eyes of this vessel with the eye of Vecna using the magic she absolutely stole from One Piece*

shining-star-of-losers

(It’s now Urara’s turn to scream in pain as her eye is removed and Imagine leaves her body.)

*It takes less than a second for the physical eyes to swap places, but Gitan doesn't know what that means for the magic*

WAIT SHIT WHAT AM I DOING

*Gitan does what she meant to do with this magic, swapping the location of Confusion and herself, touching Goldship with... something*

*Godship instantly reacts by attempting to turn around and slap Gitans face. She loses balance and falls of while doing this, though, as she is not yet used to the extra weight of the wings*

WHAT THE- OH FU-

*Gitan hits Goldshi with the magic she attempted:

A fusion. A temporary one, but a fusion nonetheless, Gitan just hopes that it works

*Even while on the floor, Godship's wings still try to protect the main body by "surrounding" and imobilizing Gitan. This does not work, however, as her fusion spell starts causing both her flesh and the wing's feathers to melt into a single thing, essentially turning Gitan's body into an egg on Godship's back - an egg that quickly absorbs the main body.*

"WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK??????" is the last thing Godship yells before the fusion process actually begins.