Tabra dashed through the hallway and down some stairs, running where her instincts told her to go. She was hoping that if she ran to the area where the magical aura was weaker, she would be able to create an exit out of the castle and then think of some plan to save Tammia and the concubines. The corridor tried shifting shape to confuse the fox angel, but she focused her angelic power outwards, forcing the corridor to keep its shape as she ran through it. However, even though T was an angel and had no problems with stamina, Janice was still originally a human. This caused Tabra's body to be far more mortal than she needed it to be, and made her exhausted. "Janice!" T shouted, "Come on, we are not too much farther from the exit!"
"I... I know," Janice shouted back, her tone showing obvious signs of wear, "But these powers of yours are wearing me out you know? Look, just shut up, don't worry about me, and find a way out of here. I'd rather be dead than get captured by Tammia and turned back into one of those vixen sluts." T felt the very soul of Janice shudder at that sentence.
"I understand. I was just..."
A loud moan startled Tabra out of her mental talk. Where could the moan have come from? Another moan was heard, and the fox angel realized it's origin: It wasn't coming from a person, it was coming from the castle itself! "But how?" Janice asked T. "It's Karther's essence!" T said, "In order to control the castle's every movement with just a twitch of his mind, he had to put some of his life essence into it. It's sentient and now that Karther's out of commission and Tammia's unstable, it's gone wild!"
True enough, bizarre events were happening in the area where the Shiva vixens and the ex-concubines were fighting. The fighters could not help but stop and try to figure out what was going on; even the normally robotic Shiva vixens were perplexed. Suddenly, the walls behind the Shiva vixens started to alter. Out of them came what looked like several large wolves made out of the same material as the castles, all with maniacal grins on their faces. Before anyone could react one of them leapt at a Shiva Vixen. As it landed, it melded with the Shiva Vixen's body. The vixen, despite its struggle, was completely covered by the bizarre wolven demon. A few seconds pass by, and the absorption was over; The demon had taken over the vixen's body. It had the vixen's general physique and four tails and arms, but was bigger, had large wolven claws, and had the wolf head with the maniacal grin. It turned towards the other people and started walking, hoping for more victims. The other wolves followed suit.
"We need to get out of here!" Vicki shouted, pushing the others down the unstable hallway. Before she ran herself, she pulled on the arm of the remaining Shiva Vixen (who was standing in place due to confusion from the conflicting emotions she was having; after all, she had been robotic before this calamity), taking the brainwashed soldier with her.
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In another part of the castle, Tammia looked on with interest as the castle changed around her. She easily held the portion of her in place, so she was in no danger of it changing right on her and blocking her passage to her second body. She grinned and swayed down the hall to her target....
A wolf suddenly came out of the wall and leaped at her. Tammia brushed the air gently, obliterating the earthen wolf into dust. However, the wolf succeeded in drawing her attention away from a second wolf who leaped onto her, completely engulfing her. Suddenly, the mass of vixen and castle exploded, revealing Tammia unharmed except with a few new earthen bangles and tiara on her. "Why I thank you for that marvelous gift!" She said sarcastically, "But I'm sorry, I can't play with you now. I need to get my second body back for Master Karther."
However, unknown to her the entity that had engulfed her was still alive in the accessories that Tammia had forged out of it. Even now it was growing at a very slow rate, and had already transformed one of Tammia's ears into its castle-wolven form.
Things just went from bad to worse. What will the castle escapees do now against the castle itself as well as an unstable queen vixen who is slowly becoming even more unstable due to the castle's influence?