When The Lights Go Out (Private, Idoc and me. Ask for permission.)

Mara made her usual stroll down the city streets. She had already made her daily harvest of nightmares, so she was particularly full at the moment. It was really late at the time though, around 3:32 AM. Mara was never capable of sleep however so she always had to wait the night away before she could actually talk to anyone. In Death City, that was an entirely different matter.

Strange, unique, and often interesting people usually stayed up around this time and Mara would easily have conversations with them. Of course, they would sometimes be Kishin eggs, self-proclaimed demons, and other bizarre folk of the sorts. This would often lead Mara into life threatening situations... But at least she wasn't bored.

While walking down a Alleyway Mara remembered a night a few days back when a witch had swapped her body with a weapon. Unluckily for her, she felt absolutely powerless, not being able to use her monster powers or even the weapon's transformation powers. Mara then quickly dismissed the idea of anything like this happening to her again and kept on merry way through the city.

Mara scanned the two, quickly taking note that the creature made of black blood was named Allister and he seemed to do most of the talking for Misery. Mara examined the girl thoroughly, understanding that she seemed to be the very shy and terrified type. "It's nice to meet you Allister and Misery. Yes, Mares are quite rare now but there are still a few floating about here and there.", she explained to him before she noticed him speaking to his mistress once again.

Mara then watched as an entirely different and more extreme expression of fear washed over her face. Then she saw the thorns stab through her own flesh only to retract and shoot out of other parts of her body. This caused Mara to turn her face away from her, unable to watch what was happening to this poor little girl.

Mara only returned her attention back to her when she heard Allister comforting her. The sight she was taking in was definitely strange but it seemed quite heartwarming how Allister cared for the girl like some sort of protector or guardian. When Allister turned back to Mara and explained Misery's suffering, she replied with, "It's perfectly fine, I'm just sorry about how she currently is. It's hard to believe that anyone would actually do something to traumatize a girl like this."

While the group remained in the alleyway below a witch stood at the top of a city rooftop, watching them all from her perch. This Witch was named Hannah and she recently swapped her body with her new weapon partner Jenn. The swap left Hannah much taller than other people, with longer red hair. This hair was originally curly but she straightened it since then.

Hannah snuck out late tonight, deciding that she'll leave her weapon partner alone for the night. The student she brought home was more than capable of keeping her warm for the night. Hannah was on a swapping spree and she was glad to find her next victims. She peered from her perch, finding that the two targets possessed irregular souls.

This would be a perfect prank for the Switch Witch to perform. In an instance, Hannah shaped her hand into a gun gesture and aimed her pointing finger at Mara like a sniper skilled in the art of Marksmanship. She kept her aim on her and waited for a count of three seconds before whispering her Mantra, HeHe Haha He, Got you..."

After whispering these words, a purple beam fired out of the tip of Hannah's finger and hit Mara directly on her shoulder. This caused Mara to gasp, knowing exactly what was going on. She had swapped with Jenn a few nights ago and she didn't want the same thing to happen again. "Run away!", she shouted at Misery as her body was engulfed in a bright purple light.

It was too late though and a second beam was fired right at Misery after Hannah whispered the words, "And You." After the beam hit Misery, her body began to glow a bright orange. Now with her victims caught in the trap, Hannah began the switch, "Hehe Haha He, Switch for a week." After these words came from Hannah's mouth, the targets' souls would be regurgitated out of their bodies and fly into the other's mouth.