Mist's Jumps Part 4 (Patreon)

Unholy Heights

Location: Watery Graves

Background: Angel

A New Arrival: [100] Swap people’s gender and recon the change.

Ultimate Disguise: [400] Give any creature a human form.

But They’re So Fluffy: [Free] Ability to give pets human intelligence and ability to speak.

Helping Board: [200] Quest Board

Let’s Give it a Boost: [300]

Let’s Make it Bigger: [400] expansion magic 

Item:

Burnin’ Wallpaper: [50] Heats it like a lit fireplace.

Clean Wallpaper: [50] Keeps the whole room clean.

Wood Wallpaper: [50] Can grow fruit that you can eat.

Smutty Wallpaper: [50] 

Sky Wallpaper: [50] Moving images of the sky.

Costume: [100] Succubus.

Walk In Closet: [150] Dresses you then spits you back out looking amazing.

Flaws:

Never On Time: [100] Your monsters don’t like to pay you.

Lazy Snobs: [100] You monsters won’t help against the adventurers.

They Just Don’t Stop: [200] They’ve stepped up the attacks to every other day at the least.

Training Regime: [200] Local Adventuring company actually trains and equips their adventurers.

Demons: [300] Demons offered a deal for the souls of your tenants, they attack when you refuse.

Abby/Selena

Background: Angel

But They’re So Fluffy: [Free] Ability to give pets human intelligence and ability to speak.

Genie snickered as she looked over Mist’s choices and notes. “Walk in closet?”

“I have an army of magic girls, not to mention all of the witches and girlfriends,” Mist replied.

Sin snickered. “Succubi for the win.”

Abby frowned slightly. “I’m a bit sad that you didn’t pick drop in so I could randomly swap people’s gender after this jump.”

Dawn reached out and patted Abby on the head. “I’m fairly sure he considered that.”

Mist kept his expression bland though Dawn was correct about the main reason that he’d avoided taking drop in this time though a decent part had to do with getting an extra form out of the deal.

Buffy grinned. “I’m all for a walk in closet that dresses us in amazing clothes.”

Cordelia glanced over at Willow. “A walk in closet that can fix outfits is a great idea.”

Selena reached up and covered Willow’s mouth before she could snipe at Cordelia. “I’m looking forward to seeing what type of outfits the closet sticks Cordelia in.”

Albus spoke up, “If I’m reading this right, we have to protect the building for a year?”

“Pretty much,” Genie admitted.

Cordelia looked at Mist. “How are you planning to make any money without them paying you?”

Mist shrugged. “Considering I have plenty of money and a faulty philosopher's stone, I’m not really worried about it.”

“Faulty philosopher’s stone?” Albus asked curious as this was the first he’d heard of Mist having a philosopher's stone.

“Yeah, I picked it up in the Sims jump, it occasionally turns the user into gold when you’re trying to turn something into gold which is why I only use it with avatars.”

Albus winced as he thought about the number of wizards that would probably still use the stone even knowing about the side effects. “That seems unsafe to say the least.”

“Pretty much which is why I keep it in my inventory when I’m not using it. Am I missing anything else?” Mist asked.

Fred asked, “What about the rest of us?”

“You can stay in the companion housing and freeze time or watch movies or hang out and work on your magic. Albus is an excellent magic teacher and everyone could stand to work on something.”

Albus said, “I still need to work on perfecting a couple of potions from the Sims.”

Cordelia frowned slightly. “Hopefully the next jump has something for all of us.”

“Sounds like a plan.” Mist figured the Black Dynamite jump at least had an import.

Genie asked, “Are you ready?”

Mist glanced around at his friends. “Ready?”

Abby said, “Ready.”

Willow and Tara nodded along with Xander and Buffy.

Harry spoke up, “I’m sort of looking forward to blasting a bunch of problematic demons.”

“I’m looking forward to checking out the world’s magic shops.” Hermione was hoping they had a couple of spells that they could pick up. 

Ranma said, “I’m just looking forward to a good fight.”

“You should have plenty of fights. I’ll see you on the flip side.” Genie snapped her fingers and sent the group to their new apartment house in the swamp.

0o0o0

Mist looked around the rather mundane apartment building that was sitting on a small hill in the middle of a swamp. A vaguely solid path led away from the apartment and into the creepy dark swamp. “Great…”

Selena snickered. “You’re the one that wanted to play base defense for a year.”

“I didn’t want to, I just wanted the perks. Playing base defense is just the price.”

Abby said, “We’re going to need to enchant some boots with water walking for the minions and look at patrols.”

“You should probably set what type of clients you want,” Selena pointed out.

Mist said, “I was thinking female succubi. If we set up cameras everywhere in the apartment and put it in the lease that we can sell the videos if they don’t pay the rent then we can make money even if the succubi don’t pay rent.”

Abby raised her eyebrows. “That seems a bit skivvy.”

“They’re succubi and I’m planning on being upfront about it. If they don’t want to be on camera they can live somewhere else. The jump doesn’t say I have to have tenants just that any I get will have issues paying rent.”

Selena nodded. “Seems fair to me, if it doesn’t work we can figure out something else.”

“You get to explain it to Willow.” Abby grinned at Selena.

Mist ignored the back and forth as he focused and set the rules for the apartment complex with his new arrival perk. “I’ve set the conditions so we should get tenants before too long.” He shifted to his new succubus form. “How do I look?”

Selena snickered as she looked over Mist’s new alternate form. “That could certainly be fun.”

Abby snickered. “Yep. You should probably summon some magical girls to use as scouts and early warning. I’m going to put up some no trespassing signs around just to make it clear that this is private property. You should probably head to town with Albus so that he can create some portkeys for the girls so they can get to and from work without being harassed.” She turned invisible then headed into the swamp.

He swapped back to normal then focused on creating some magic girls using his doom ability while Abby went to post signs. He knew it wouldn’t keep the adventurers away but he felt better at least warning them that this part of the swamp was private property. He figured he’d give the magical girls some intelligence boosting root beer to help with their scouting so they didn’t just attack anything that moved before sending them out to scout the area.

0o0o0

Samantha or Sam as her friends called her looked between Sin, Buffy and Mist in disbelief. “Let me get this straight, if I don’t pay rent, I get to be on camera?”

Buffy sighed. “Mist is being a pervert.”

Mist shrugged. He knew he wasn’t going to get any actual rent or help defending the apartment so he might as well have fun with it. “Yes.”

“I’ll take it as long as I get a share of the profits,” Sam replied happily.

Buffy blinked, “What?”

“I’m a sex demon, I like sex. If Mr. Shadows can get a bunch of hot demon girls for me to fuck, I’ll make a mint.”

Sin smirked at Buffy. “See.”

Buffy shook her head. “Just as long as you don’t expect the rest of us to put up with cameras in our rooms.”

“I’d never do that without your permission,” Mist replied seriously. He turned to look at Buffy. “I might be slightly twisted but I’m not an ass….” He trailed off as one of his magical girls came running in. “What happened?”

The magical girl said, “The scouts were attacked by adventurers. They drove the bandits away but figured you’d want to know.”

Mist turned to look at Sin. “Figure out a deal we can both be happy with, I’m going to figure out why we’re already getting bandits.” He turned and headed out.

“I’ll come with you.” Buffy followed Mist out of the apartment then into the swamp. “I love my new shoes.”

“The water walking enchant should come in handy.” Mist walked with Buffy even though flying ahead would have been faster.

Buffy waited half a minute as they walked through the swamp before speaking up, “So, you and Dawn?”

“She’s cute and she jumped in as an adult for Fantastic Beasts.” Mist wasn’t sure why Buffy was bringing things up now as he’d had sex with Dawn and Faith months ago and it wasn’t like it was a secret.

“I know, we went through school together or at least I remember going through school with her and then the academy. I just want you to be careful with both of them.”

“As careful as I can. I could give you details but I have a feeling you’d stab me,” Mist replied.

“My sister and anyone is yuck but I wouldn’t mind hearing details about you and Faith.”

Mist stopped and looked at Buffy. “Seriously?”

“I haven’t had sex in a couple of months since I got really drunk with one of the giant pixies, I’m a bit horny,” Buffy admitted.

“So, Sin doesn’t count?” Mist knew Sin would have said something if Buffy had stopped having sex with her. 

Buffy blushed. “That doesn’t count, she’s a succubus and way too cute. Besides, Faith keeps bragging.”

Mist laughed. “I don’t tell tales, you’ll have to ask Faith if you can watch.”

Buffy shook her head. “Dawn would hex me.”

“Probably but it’s probably worth it,” Mist replied with amusement. He turned and continued walking with Buffy walking next to him. After a couple of minutes of quiet he said, “You could always ask Dennis or Xander for sex.”

“I’m fairly sure Vista and Cordelia would kill me.”

“You could always offer to pay Cordelia.”

“Are you trying to get me killed?” Buffy asked with a touch of amusement.

“Nah, that wouldn’t be nice. We should probably stop talking though considering I can sense someone half a mile ahead of us.” Mist activated his invisibility spell. “Just remember that you make ripples on the water when you walk.”

Buffy whispered, “Got it.” then cast her own invisibility spell and followed him toward the person they could sense.

Eight minutes later they found a shifty looking man looking around the swamp. Mist asked in a stage whisper, “Why are you in the swamp?”

The man jumped and looked around frantically. “Who’s there?”

Mist checked the man’s mind and found that he was a bandit. He’d heard about the apartment at the bar in town and figured that they must have money stashed away somewhere. He shouted, “Darkwing Duck! Run in fear mortal!” He used his ESP and pushed a feeling of dread at the man that had come to steal from him.

Buffy watched the man turn tail and run as fast as the soggy trail would let him. She whispered, “Darkwing Duck?”

“It was a cartoon.”

“I remember, Dawn used to love it,” Buffy complained.

“It wasn’t that bad,” Mist defended himself.

“Yes it was.” Buffy waited a few seconds until the sounds of the man’s frantic passage faded even to her ears. “Is he gone?”

“I have a feeling he’ll keep running until something eats him, he collapses or he gets back to town. I might have overdone it with the fear. Let’s get back.” Mist dropped his invisibility then turned and started walking back.

Buffy dropped her invisibility spell then turned and followed him. “We should probably consider warding the area.”

“I’ll see what Albus, Hermione, Willow, Tara and I can come up with.” He wanted to capture or at least chat with some of the various magic users that should be showing up to cause problems. He was hoping he could talk some of them out of training or at least figure out where they learned their skills.

0o0o0

Buffy looked at the three duplicated wooden magic boosting staffs that were sitting on Mist’s desk. “You realize this is cheating, right?”

Mist snorted. “Like you wouldn’t boost your weapons and items if you could.”

“Of course I would but that doesn’t mean it’s not cheating,” Buffy replied with amusement.

Mist focused his magic and upgraded the spell boosting staff using his new trick. He smiled as the three copies vanished and the original staff improved. “That should boost the staff to 120%.”

Buffy grinned at Mist. “Now you just need to make copies for the rest of us. It’s a pity it only works once.”

Mist shrugged. “Considering I can make copies then move the boost around to various pieces of gear, I’m not really worried about it.”

“How much is it going to cost me to get all of my gear upgraded?” Buffy asked warily.

“Faith has been bugging me to get you on stage for karaoke,” Mist replied with amusement.

Buffy sighed. “Right, anything else?”

“Nothing that won’t get me stabbed,” Mist replied with amusement.

“Yeah no, Sin already asked about helping with her porn films, I’d rather wring the moon from her than trade away my help for something that you’re inclined to do anyways.”

Mist stuck his tongue out at Buffy.

Buffy snickered. “Can you blame me?”

“Not really,” Mist replied as he stuck his upgraded staff in his inventory.

“Would you like help upgrading the staff in the item world?” Buffy asked hopefully.

“I could go for that,” Mist agreed as he glanced down at the stage where Faith was talking to one of the local spellblades. It was a little strange running both the stripclub and the ‘monster’ filled apartment as most of the adventurers were decent people when they came to the stripclub. The amusing part was that they liked gossiping about their upcoming raids which meant that they normally had advanced warning about any ‘raids’.

By the second week they’d refined dealing with the raids down to a science, the wards worked to separate the raiding group then the magic users were teleported to a cell Mist had built under the apartments with build mode while their gear was dropped into the treasury. The same happened to the people without magic only they normally just sent them to the town’s jail where they could bribe their way to freedom. Normally that would be pointless and even counterproductive but thanks to the equipment flaw Mist had taken the adventurers generally came back with more loot.

The exceptions were the pirates and actual murderous troublemakers that Mist or one of his avatars generally just teleported 150 miles up into space so they didn’t have to deal with them again. Amusingly enough, most of the magic users were perfectly willing to trade spells for their freedom or time in one of Sin’s movies with the various succubi they’d recruited. The rest just arranged for the guild to ransom them which no one was all that unhappy with. 

Heck, by the end of the group’s second month the guild was using the swamp and the apartment as training for all of the various adventurers as Leet had sort of turned a decent part of the swamp into a trap filled nightmare with various inventions. Thankfully for most of the adventurers though not the demons hell sent to kill them after they refused to sell out their tenants, the magical traps were designed to only be lethal to evil people or creatures.

The quest board was actually a fairly decent way to acquire minor magical items and spells. It also kept everyone from getting too bored stomping the forces of hell to paste or in Buffy’s case, cutting them into chunky salsa with her new blade. Amusingly enough, it was actually Vista that got the best item from the quest board, underwear that could change into any other type of underwear it had ever touched. They’d quickly copied the underwear a bunch of times and transferred the property to everyone’s main gear. The always clean apron that Sin received for a baking quest was also copied a bunch so that just about every piece of clothing or piece of armor the group had never got dirty.

0o0o0

Dawn snickered slightly as she watched Sin spank Sam with a long wooden paddle for the camera that Faith was holding. She had to admit the naked succubi were extremely hot though she wouldn’t have wanted to take Sam’s place. “That looks fun.”

Willow glanced over at Dawn and Mist who were sitting in a lazyboy chair watching the show. Dawn looked rather cute sitting between Mist’s legs with his arms wrapped around her. She smiled as she reached up and ran her fingers over Tara’s breasts. “Which part?”

Dawn leaned back against Mist as he ran his fingers over her breasts. “Sin’s part.”

Sam giggled as she looked at Dawn. “It’s a succubus thing, pain and pleasure.”

“You should see her with a cat of nine, she goes crazy,” Sin replied as she brought the paddle down.

Tara spoke up, “Be nice.”

Sam giggled. “Don’t worry, I’m having fun.”

Sin set the paddle down then leaned down and kissed Sam’s behind. “Now that we’ve had our fun, who wants to fuck us silly?”

“Does anyone want to hold the camera?” Faith asked.

Dawn glanced over at Willow and Tara, they looked like they were enjoying themselves too much to keep the camera steady, “Sure.”

Faith grinned as she sauntered over and handed the camera to Dawn then stalked over to the table where Sin had a small sample of her sex toys. “Some of these look as wide as my fist.”

Sin snickered as she ran her fingers over Sam’s behind while Faith took her time going over the merits of each of her toys. She winked at Mist who was amusing himself by running his fingers over Dawn’s silky smooth flesh. ‘Best master ever.’ 

0o0o0

The days turned to weeks as Mist worked on combining various magic systems together while the rest of the group worked on boosting gear in item worlds, fishing up treasure in the swamp and generally having fun playing base defense against a small army of adventurers when they weren’t killing a flood of demons or having fun with the various succubi. Thankfully they had enough people to rotate people in and out of guard duty so no one got too burned out. Still, most of the group was rather happy to be done by the end, if for no other reason than it had gotten a bit repetitive.

0o0o0

Genie grinned at the group as they reappeared. “I think you might have set a record for the most porn recorded in a year Sin.”

Sin smiled widely at Genie. “I certainly tried.”

Buffy muttered, “And I thought Corruption of Champions was bad.”

“Oh please, unlike Corruption of Champions or Leet’s videos everyone in my videos was perfectly willing,” Sin defended herself. 

Leet shrugged. “They shouldn’t have trespassed if they didn’t want to be on my show.”

Albus spoke up, “I’m fairly sure scattering bear traps around the swamp was excessive.”

“I’ll have you know, those were enchanted so they couldn’t actually hurt bears or any other innocent wildlife. They were also well past the line of no trespassing signs.”

“He has a point,” Xander agreed. 

Albus asked, “Could you enchant the traps to only damage people with dark marks?”

Leet grinned. “I don’t see why not, what are you thinking?”

“I was thinking something non lethal that would harass the criminals, I mean upstanding citizens that were branded against their will.”

Dennis glanced at Sin. “Great, I think you corrupted the wizard.”

Albus smiled. “Not really, it’s just that I finally have time to work on various other projects and I’m tired of them being able to hide.”

“See, not my fault,” Sin defended herself.

“It’s certainly something to work on,” Leet agreed.

Genie snickered. “Okay, you have 3500 points from the Fantastic Beasts jump and 2400 for unholy heights, do you want to spend them yet?”

Mist grinned. “I wouldn’t mind taking the baking perk and the hex indicator map now that I’m thinking about it.”

Albus spoke up, “I wouldn’t mind looking at the map, considering we didn’t have anything that nice in my world.”

“I’ll make you a copy.” Mist figured they could make several copies to help with their world building. He wasn’t above using the map to try to recruit sane muggleborn once they got back to the Fantastic Beasts.

Leet asked, “Where are we going next?”

“I want to grab Black Dynamite before we head back to the Fantastic Beasts jump but that doesn’t have to be next,” Mist pointed out.

Dennis said, “As much as going to a screwed up version of the 70’s sounds amusing, we’re sort of out of things to practice and work on.”

Willow asked, “What about Vampire Diaries? The witches have some decent ritual magic.”

“I wouldn’t mind hitting that jump as it gives us a way to increase out magic pools.” Mist turned to look at Genie. “If you don’t mind pulling up the Vampire Diaries jump?”

Genie gestured and pulled up the Vampire Diaries jump. “Best of luck.”

“I have a question about the ascendant flaw, does anything stop Lily or Ranma from just grabbing the witch and ascendant we need early?”

Genie pouted. “Technically no but that sure as hell breaks the spirit of the flaw.”

“Yeah, I really don’t care about the spirit of flaws, just the letter,” Mist replied with amusement.

“In that case, technically speaking it works. Just remember that you have to import everyone at the start if you want them to be able to take flaws.”

“Great, there goes a hell of a lot of my points,” Mist muttered.

Genie shrugged. “You’ll get points when you leave and there are lots of flaws that you can take.”

“Point.” Mist looked down at the companion section. “Okay, 32 companions and Abby and Selena… that would be a thousand points right there if I bring them in as witches. That’s certainly workable if painful.”

Ranma asked, “Who would I have to track down for the ascendant flaw?”

“You’d have to track down the ascendant the gemini coven used to send me there then bring it to me so that we can do a ritual to leave.”

Genie shrugged. “That about sums it up, it’s not terribly hard to get out of if you have friends that can jump dimensions.”

Ranma nodded. “Good.”

Dawn asked, “You said we could take flaws, any suggestions?”

Mist said, “Considering you can only take two flaws for points, I suggest Hunted by Mikael​ and an Enemy Coven of Witches, there are a couple of evil groups that should be dealt with regardless. That’s a thousand points which is the most I’m comfortable with everyone grabbing because the cursed flaw isn’t worth it as we’d be wandering every day unless we wanted horrible things to happen.”

Leet snorted. “To hell with that.”

Noelle nodded. “Agreed.”

“How dangerous are the enemy witches?” Albus asked curious how much trouble the flaw would cause them.

Mist glanced at Genie. “We’re walking in there with 33 witches that are equal or better than the best of the best that world has ever seen as well as Abby and Selena who come in as decent witches, I think we’ll be fine.”

“Depending on how you do things, you should be fine,” Genie admitted.

Victoria spoke up, “Besides, if they’re evil, we should be dealing with them anyways. As long as we take the same group of witches, it shouldn’t be a problem.”

Mist nodded. “And hunted by Mikael shouldn’t be a problem because I’m planning on killing the murderer anyways.”

Amelia asked, “How much of the plot are we going to derail?”

“Considering I’m planning on ripping the curses apart on the various Originals then curing them of their affliction, a decent amount of the plot is going to vanish considering there won’t be any vampires left by the time we leave.”

Albus frowned slightly as he thought about the vampires on his world. “How many vampires are innocent?”

Mist sighed. “Considering most vampires kill people the first time they feed there aren’t that many truly innocent vampires. The spell that created the vampires here is rather flawed, they have a mental switch they can use that turns off their humanity which is problematic as far as I’m concerned. It flips back if they experience enough emotion which causes soul wrenching issues but considering they flipped it in the first place… yeah the world would be better off without the local version of vampires. Besides, we should be able to open a door to the local afterlife and sort through the vampires for any that are innocent then bring them back to life as humans or near enough.”

Genie nodded. “Dealing with the vampires would certainly help.”

Buffy asked, “Do they have souls?”

Mist turned to look at Buffy. “Technically but they have a switch which basically makes them sociopathic monsters if they flip it and even the ‘best’ of them think little of erasing memories to cover up for the rest of the idiots. Either way, we should grab perks and such things.”

Fred asked, “Why witches?”

“Because the vampire path requires that you be a vampire, the werewolf path requires work to change it into something workable and the drop in path basically sucks considering it basically gives me nothing I want and everyone else already comes back from the dead which means the capstone sucks for the rest of you. Some of the werewolf stuff might be worth it depending but there are probably better ways to get the ability to shift into a large wolf than buying it here.”

“That makes sense,” Fred admitted.

Leet grinned. “At least we’ll have a lot of stuff to learn.”

“Not to mention loot. I’ll be starting in an empty pocket dimension that we can loot free and clear.”

“Wait, we have an entire world filled with magic books that we can loot?” Laura asked with excitement.

“That’s the idea,” Mist replied with amusement as he started picking abilities.

0o0o0

Vampire Diaries:

Background: Witch [300]

Witchcraft: [Free]

Witchy Talents: [Free]

Ad-hoc Magic [Free]

Do you believe?: [100]

Gut Feeling: [150]

Power of the Firstborn: [300]

Greatest Witch Ever: [600]

Companions:

The Coven: [4 x 250 =1,000] 32 witches

Items:

Magic Materials: [Free] A medium sized container, that contains whatever you need it to contain for your latest spell/ritual/potion, as long as the ingredients are not particularly rare or valuable. Cannot yield more than seven kilos in a day, and commercial value of items drawn cannot be over 10,000$ per day.

Magic Receptacle​: [50]

Choose any item you want. A stone, a knife, anything you want. That thing is now an excellent receptacle of magic. You may channel your magic into it freely, and it will hold practically infinite amounts of it without suffering in any way whatsoever. And best of all, you can change its shape any time you want without losing any of the magic.

Drawbacks: (Capped at 1500)

Vervain Everywhere: [200] Can't use mind control

Finn Wants to Kill You: [300] 

The Brotherhood’s Prey: [300] Five magical hunters are after you.

Hunted by Mikael​: [400]

Gemini Coven Prison: [400]

Abby/Selena:

Witch: [Free]

Witchcraft: [Free]

Witchy Talents: [Free]

Ad-hoc Magic [Free]

Magic Materials. [Free]

Other companions:

Background: Witch [Free]

Witchcraft: [Free]

Witchy Talents: [Free]

Ad-hoc Magic [Free]

Do You Believe: [100]

Vampire Stats: [100]

Gut Feeling: [150]

Siphoning: [300]

Power of the Firstborn: [300]

Greatest Witch Ever: [600]

Magic Materials: [Free] A medium sized container, that contains whatever you need it to contain for your latest spell/ritual/potion, as long as the ingredients are not particularly rare or valuable. Cannot yield more than seven kilos in a day, and commercial value of items drawn cannot be over 10,000$ per day.

Magic Receptacle​: [50]

Drawbacks: 

Hunted Mikael: [400]

Enemy Coven: [600]

Genie shook her head. “You’re taking a bunch of people in with best witch ever and vampire stats… yeah because that’s not going to screw things up.” 

Mist grinned. “Of course it is and you love it.”

“No comment. Okay, Mist will start in the pocket world’s version of Mystic Falls while the rest of you start in the normal version of Mystic Falls.”

Ranma said, “Don’t worry, we’ll grab the ascendant and come rescue you.”

“That would be appreciated,” Mist admitted.

Dawn asked, “How old are we starting at?”

Genie said, “21, old enough to be out of high school and legally able to run your club, I’ll toss in two years of college and one of the buildings Mist’s owns is a bed and breakfast on the edge of town where you’ve been living.”

Tara looked at Genie. “Please tell me that the building has a threshold.”

“Considering Mist owns the building and the rooms are ‘leased’ to the group, they have a threshold.”

“One more thing, will the pocket world stick around after I escape?” Mist asked hoping that the pocket world would still be around.

“As long as the ascendant doesn’t get completely destroyed it will stick around though you can’t take the world with you when you jump.”

“Cool, thanks.”

“Best of luck.” Genie snapped her fingers and sent everyone to their version of Mystic Falls.

0o0o0

The first thing that Mist did once he found himself in an eerily quiet version of Mystic falls in front of the welcome to Mystic Falls sign on the edge of town was fly to the cemetery and start looking for the various Salvatore graves of which there were a number of them. He smiled as he found  Giuseppe Salvatore’s grave. He gestured at the ground and used his magic to rip the earth away from the man’s grave. He opened the coffin with telekinesis and smiled when he saw the rather old looking cloth wrapped book that was Emily’s spell book or at least a copy of it. He pulled his magical grimoire out of his inventory then carefully floated down and touched it so that his book could make a copy of the ancient book before he risked moving it. 

He checked his book to make sure it had copied Emily’s grimoire then put both books in his inventory being careful not to damage Emily’s Grimoire. He turned and flew to the first house he came to. He felt a little weird opening the door and walking in but he knew it was just a recreation and that no one actually lived there. He smiled as he saw the phonebook sitting on the counter by the phone. He walked over and looked through the whitepages until he found the address for Sheila Bennett. He tore out the page, it wasn’t like anyone was going to need it. He flipped through the book until he found Elena’s address and did the same.

He stuck the pages in his inventory then turned and walked out of the house then flew toward Sheila’s house to see what grimoire’s she had.

0o0o0

Willow blinked as she ‘remembered’ who she was. “I really hate that part.”

Dawn looked away from the game her other self had been playing on the playstation 2. “Yeah, I can’t say I’m a fan. At least we know some of the people in town.”

“Which will probably only make it worse once they start dropping like flies,” Tara pointed out as she walked in from the bathroom. 

Willow turned and smiled at Tara. “How are you doing?”

“Trying to sort through the extra memories,” Tara admitted. It was strange going from a girl that grew up on the west coast only to move across the country with her coven when her friend inherited a stribclub to a girl with memories of various worlds and magic systems. 

“Yeah, we should probably grab Ranma and see if we can rescue Mist.” Dawn was hoping they didn’t run into too many problems freeing Mist.

0o0o0

Ranma focused on exactly where he wanted his door to open, a foot above the ascendant that could spring his friend. He opened the door then reached through and stole the ascendant. Sure, it wasn’t nice but honestly he didn’t care. He wasn’t going to risk the chain breaking because they missed a witch that would pop in for one day every six months. He closed the door as Fred walked out of the bedroom. “I have the ascendant, now I just have to hope we can use it to spring Mist.”

Fred smiled at Ranma. ”We should be able to.”

“We should probably open a door in the basement to the pocket world so that we can just walk back and forth once we spring Mist. I’m looking forward to looting various banks, you?” Ranma asked.

“Museums and spellbooks,” Fred admitted.

“That could be fun,” Ranma agreed as he headed for the door. “Let’s find a place to stick the portal that won’t be noticed or in the way.

“Sounds good,” Fred replied as she followed Ranma out of the room.

0o0o0

Mist smiled as he managed to find both the bit that turned the Gilbert family watch he’d found in Jeremy's room into a vampire compass and the moonstone that locked Klaus’s curse in the Lockwood mansion. He’d also managed to grab the Gilbert device that caused vampires and werewolves pain because it might be useful at some point. He was more interested in getting the original but he’d take an extra backup. ‘Okay, I looted the Gilbert house, the Lockwoods and the Bennetts, that should do it for Mystic Falls.’

He was rather relieved when he saw Ranma jogging up with the strange metal device that was supposed to be his ticket back to the real world. “Any trouble?”

Ranma smiled as he came to a stop. “No, I opened a door and grabbed the ascendant then I opened a portal in the basement of the bed and breakfast to the basement in the bed and breakfast here.”

“In other words, we should be able to use the ascendant to jump ship then come back via the permanent door. Let’s go set everything up.”

Ranma grinned as he turned and headed back toward the bed and breakfast. “Sure, we might as well do things away from prying eyes.”

“Yeah, I’d rather not give the idiots an excuse to try to kill us.” Mist followed Ranma.

0o0o0

Mist was extremely relieved when their tossed together ritual actually managed to spring him. He wasn’t sure if it was really that simple or if his ad-hoc magic perk had saved the day but either way he was extremely happy that he hadn’t shot himself in the foot taking the ascendant flaw. He was even more relieved that Ranma’s door between the two worlds worked perfectly now that he’d managed to escape once. He stepped back out of the door into the real world and smiled at Abby, Selena and Laura as they rushed him. He grinned as he hugged Laura, Abby and Selena. “See, that wasn’t so bad.”

Laura squeezed Mist then let him go. “You could have been completely screwed by that flaw.”

“You’re right, I could have but I wasn’t. On the upside, I have copies of the Gilbert compass and Emily Bennett’s spellbook. With any luck we should be able to get copies of Dahlia’s and Esther's grimoires, various books in New Orleans and a bunch of dark artifacts.”

Abby let go reluctantly. “How are we going to find everything when the show didn’t always show addresses?”

Mist smirked. “I should be able to sense the dark artifacts once we get closer. If that doesn’t work, I know who to talk to in the real New Orleans in order to lift the location so that we can pick up the cursed objects in the pocket world.” 

Selena grinned as she continued hugging him with one arm. “Now what?”

“I want to steal the moonstone to see if we can break the spell on Klaus without any of the crap and I want to kill Mikael before someone wakes him up.”

Ranma spoke up, “We should probably check to make sure Tara and Willow were able to ward the bed and breakfast so that the witches can’t find us.”

“Point, the moonstone should keep a couple more hours, let’s make sure no one can scry on us.” Mist had a feeling the witches would find his group one way or another but didn’t want to make it easy for them.

0o0o0

Mist smiled as Stephen opened the door of the Salvatore boarding house. “Hello, vampire.”

Stephan blinked. “What?”

Mist held up his hand and conjured a small ball of fire over it. “I said hello vampire, I’d like to make you an offer that might just save your life.”

He raised his eyebrows. “I’m listening.”

“I have a set of magical gloves that can transfer magical powers, the vampire curse is magical. I’m hoping that you’ll assist me in testing a theory.”

“You want to steal my abilities?” Stephen asked warily.

“Not at all, I want to see if I can turn you into a human plus.”

“Human plus?” Stephen asked warily.

“Sure, long life, enhanced strength and speed without the craving of blood or the switch that lets you turn off your humanity.”

“And if I say no?” Stephen asked.

“I’ll turn around and walk away, you’ll probably die in a couple of weeks when the town council pulls out some of their hidden vampire hunting tricks. I’m not-” Mist reached out and grabbed Stephen’s neck as the vampire blurred forward. “Yeah, that’s not going to help you.”

Stephen tried to cough as the man or whatever the hell he was held him off the ground in an iron like grip. 

Mist waited a couple of seconds then dropped Stephen. He stepped forward into the house to prove that he didn’t need an invite. “I’m making a friendly offer, I don’t need your powers. You’re a ripper that is currently trying to live on animal blood, you’ll fail eventually and then you’ll go on a bender and people will die. I can probably restore you to something approaching human. No more blood, no more heightened emotions. I can also help you out with your brother.”

“What about him?”

“Katherine isn’t in the tomb with the rest of the vampires, she’s been running around for all these years and hasn’t said hello. I can you prove it to Damon, he should become a lot less screwed up in the head after that.”

“How do you know she isn’t in the tomb?” Stephan demanded.

“I saw her elsewhere a couple of years ago,” Mist lied.

“How do I know you won’t screw me over?” Stephen asked warily.

“You don’t but if I wanted you dead, I would have killed you already. I need a test subject for my project and you need to not be a vampire. But seriously, take the deal.”

Stephen asked, “Assuming I take your deal, how does it work?”

“You use my gloves to give one of my minions your powers, then she gives them back after I cure you.”

“There is no cure,” Stephen replied.

“No spell is perfect.” Mist pulled his generous donation gloves out of his inventory and tossed them to Stephen. “Seriously, if I wanted you dead, I’d have killed you.”

Stephen scowled then pulled the gloves on. “Now what?”

Mist created an avatar with a tiny fraction of his powers and no FISS. “Focus on giving up your powers one by one, then I’ll cure you and give you your boosts back. The other option is you remain a vampire.”

“If I give up my immortality, I’ll be dead.”

“Not quickly enough to matter.” Mist was a little surprised when Stephen actually put the gloves on then stepped forward and started transferring his powers to the avatar though maybe he shouldn’t have been as Stephen had always hated being a vampire.

Stephen staggered as a bullet wound appeared in his chest and he fell down backwards.

“Oops, forgot about that part.” Mist pointed at Stephen and unleashed a stream of life to heal the damage caused from the gunshots that had killed him originally.

Stephen twitched and then patted at his chest. “What the hell?”

“Apparently you gave away everything that made you a vampire, no cure needed,” Mist admitted.

“Now what?” Stephen asked as he stood up.

“Now I figure out what I can return and what I can’t. You’ll have to hand him the gloves if you want your powers back.”

Stephen took the gloves off and tossed them to the copy of the strange man.  

Mist focused on his avatar’s new powers as he had the avatar put the gloves on. It felt more than a bit strange being a vampire and not at all pleasant. He pulled an 18cm mushroom out of his inventory and handed it to Stephen, you should probably eat this unless you want to die.”

Stephen asked, “What does it do?”

“It reduces your age to 18 which should keep you from rapidly aging and dying in less than a day.”

Stephen glared at Mist then took the mushroom and worked on eating it, after all it wasn’t like he’d had much of a shot at killing him even when he’d been at full strength.

The avatar said, “Let’s see, the trick is putting the abilities back without the negatives. Finish eating then we can get started.”

Mist created two more low powered avatars then got to work shifting the vampire powers around as he tried to separate the negatives from the positives. He had a feeling he was going to have to kill the avatars but that was fine, they were tiny fragments and the damage would heal almost before he noticed. It was better than getting infected by the vampire curse.

0o0o0

Mist was a bit surprised that he’d managed to save most of Stephen’s enhancements other than compulsion which he hadn’t wanted to save and the ability to heal people with his blood. Of course Stephens blood wouldn’t turn people into vampires anymore either but that was perfectly fine as they’d eliminated the switch, bloodlust and issues with bursting into flame in sunlight. “I’d call this an improvement.”

Stephen sighed. “Other than my ability to compel people.”

“It was tied up with the mental sociopathic switch which meant it had to go.” Amusingly enough it wasn’t even a lie, it really was tied up with the humanity switch. Tell your brother when he shows up in town that I can get him into the tomb to save Katherine.”

“You said that she’s not in there.”

“She’s not but he doesn’t know that and I’d rather turn him into something other than a vampire if given the chance.”

“Why?”

“Because I need another test subject and because I need someone to rescue a vampire from the vampire tomb.”

“Who?”

“Pearl, the rest would want revenge on the town not really understanding or caring that it has been over a hundred years and that everyone involved with trapping them there was dead.” Mist pulled a card out of his inventory then handed it to Stephen. “Have him call me when he gets to town.” He smiled then teleported back to his room at the bed and breakfast. 

Selena stuck her open book into her inventory as she smiled at Mist. “Any luck?”

Mist turned and smiled at Selena and Abby who were both sitting on the couch. “I managed to transfer most of his powers then turn him human and put everything back, more or less at least.”

Abby asked, “More or less?”

“He can’t heal people or turn people with his blood and he lost compulsion but he’s human so that’s something.”

“Does that mean you can do the same to an Original?” Selena asked curiously.

“That’s the idea.” He was hoping to be able to talk Kol and Rebekah into giving up their compulsion and bloodlust so that they could get their lives and magic back.

“What’s next?” Abby asked.

“I want to steal the compass bit so that the Lockwoods don’t try for Jeremy’s watch and I want the moonstone so that we can break Klaus’s curse. I want Pearl out of the tomb so that Anna can move on with her life though I’d like to change both of them to human plus. After that I want to send Demon into the tomb to check for Katherine. Once he realizes that she isn’t there we can have him kill all of the vampires in the tomb then we restore his humanity one way or another.”

Selena nodded. “Good, the vampires here are crazy.”

“After that, we should be able to use a locator spell to find Rebekah and Kol’s coffins. If we wake them up in the tomb, they shouldn’t be able to get out unless we help them which should cut down on the amount of collateral damage they can do until we can get them to take the deal.”

Abby shook her head. “That’s assuming you can get them to take the deal.”

“I have a couple of ideas.”

“Are you going to go after Silas?” Selena asked curious what he was planning.

“Eventually I want to slip a dark ring to a normal person then have someone try to compel them and see if it works. If it doesn’t work then I’ll probably test it against an original’s compulsion, if it stands up to that, we’ll probably be safe enough as we’re witches and using protective items. I want Silas drained, dead and preferably soul trapped but that can probably wait until we’ve wrapped up a couple of other loose ends.”

“Probably. I think we took too many flaws this time around,” Abby admitted.

Mist sighed. “I’m more worried about the witch flaw everyone grabbed than I am the hunted by Mikael flaw. Hopefully the situation with the witches will hold for a couple of weeks until we can straighten everything out.”

“We can hope.” Selena looked up at the door as it opened revealing Willow. “Hey.”

Willow smiled at the group. “Hey, we ordered some pizza, do you want some?”

Abby nodded. “Sure.”

“I might as well. I can always grab the Moonstone tonight.” Mist figured that gave him a chance to explore while everyone was sleeping.

0o0o0

Mist was rather amused at how easy it was sneak in and steal the compass bit and the moonstone that he needed to decurse Klaus. It was only slightly harder to talk Pearl and Anna into giving up some of their vampire powers in exchange for freeing Pearl from the tomb with teleportation. Sadly or not the rest of the vampires weren’t interested in giving up anything which meant that they could stay in the tomb and starve for all he cared. Damon wasn’t that difficult to convince that Katherine had abandoned him and Stephen with Pearl’s help which meant that Damon went on a bender which meant that tricking him into giving up all of his powers with the enchanted gloves wasn’t nearly as hard as it should be. 

After that, things had calmed down slightly for the next several days as they waited for the vampires in the tomb to starve and desicate. Mostly so that they could talk the starving vampires into giving up their powers. Considering what the crazy vampires had done in the show, he wasn’t all that concerned about letting them drain themselves to death. Especially considering it gave his minions various vampire abilities they could hand out to the locals once they did some more testing. He wanted to boost Elena, Caroline and Bonnie though he was going to test what the enhancements did to various other witches first. 

Luckily by the time Mikael showed up at the end of the week they’d already taken care of the vampires in the tomb so it was easy to teleport him into the tomb with his mutant ability. Mist smiled at Mikael from just outside the barrier. “Welcome to your new home.”

Mikael snorted. “This won’t hold me forever!”

“You’re right but it doesn’t have to. I’m going to kill your family and rid the world of vampires starting with you.”

“How are you going to kill them?” Mikael asked curious how the witch was planning on killing them considering their immortality.

“I’m going to stab them with a white oak stake if they don’t take my deal to restore their humanity.”

“You’re going to turn them back into humans?” Mikael asked with disbelief.

“If they take the deal, if not then I’m planning on killing them.”

“In that case, give me your enchanted stake and I’ll do it.” Mikael pushed his hand against the barrier that kept him in the tomb.

Mist frowned slightly as he listened to the vampire’s thoughts about betraying the deal as soon as possible. He pulled a piece of white oak that he’d taken off the bridge in the other world out of his inventory along with a copy of his upgraded Azura’s star. “Sadly for your continued existence I don’t believe you. You were a monster in life and a monster in death.”

Mikael pressed both hands against the magical barrier and pushed as he shouted, “When I get out of here, I’ll kill you!”

“You’re not getting out of here.” Mist cast soul trap on the vampire then teleported the piece of white oak into the vampire’s heart. “Rot in hell bastard.”

Mikael’s eyes went wide as he felt himself die. “No!”

Mist smiled as Mikael desiccated before his eyes. “One flaw dealt with, a couple more to go.” He was a little disappointed that he hadn’t managed to talk the ancient vampire out of his powers but he hadn’t really expected to be able to. He looked down at the filled soul gem then stuck it back in his inventory. He gestured at the body and worked on dismembering it with his teleportation ability just in case though he wasn’t expecting any problems as the soul trap had collected the vampire’s soul. He teleported the vampire’s head to him then stuffed it in his inventory to give to Klaus.

0o0o0

The vampire glared at Mist as he said, “When we kill you, our entire bloodline will have Finn’s power.”

Mist glared at the vampire that had accosted him at his club and tried to compel one of his dancers to bring him to his office. “Do you have a cell phone? Do you have Elijah’s number? I’d very much like to meet him and Finn.” He lifted a contact number from the vampire’s mind then teleported the vampire’s phone to his hand. “Anything else I should know?”

The vampire blinked. “How?”

“Magic.” Mist gestured and teleported the vampire to the magically sealed tomb under the church. He smiled as he pulled Mikael’s head out of his inventory and set it on his desk and snapped a picture of it using the vampire’s cell phone. He sent the picture to Elijah’s number. He wasn’t terribly surprised when the phone rang twenty seconds later. He checked the number then pushed the button to take the call. “Before you ask, it’s not a joke.”

Elijah asked, “Who are you and how did you kill him?”

“A specially enchanted stake as for who I am, you can call me Mist.”

“What do you want?” Elijah wasn’t sure if the head was a fake but it certainly looked like his father’s head which shouldn’t have been possible.

“I want to make a trade. I have the moonstone you’ve been looking for so that you can break the curse on Klaus, I want a copy of your mother’s spellbooks and a face to face with Klaus.”

“Planning on killing him?” Elijah asked warily.

“Not particularly. I don’t wish you, Klaus or Rebekah any harm.”

“Kol and Finn?”

“Kol is annoying and a bit unhinged but I can offer him something he has been searching for for nearly a 1,000 years so I don’t think he’ll be a problem though if you want to kick him in the nuts a couple of times for being annoying, I wouldn’t object. As long as Finn stays daggered, I don’t much care if he lives another thousand years or dies tomorrow. He has a rather powerful reason to want me dead and I’d rather avoid the hassle if I can.”

“If this is a trick of some kind, I’ll kill you.” 

“I’d expect nothing less,” Mist admitted.

“Assuming that what you’ve said is true, how are you planning on breaking the curse?”

“I know where one of the doppelgangers is which means that I can break the curse.”

“Why are you interested in my mother’s spell book?” Elijah asked warily.

“It has the original spell that turned your family into vampires along with a number of other interesting and useful spells that I’d like access to. I’d like to study it and see if I can fix some of the rather glaring flaws.”

“In other words you want immortality?”

“I already have an ageless quality that I’m quite happy with but I’ll admit that I wouldn’t mind being able to tweak the spell so I can tie someone’s life to a tree to prevent them aging as long as the tree survives.”

“They’d be vulnerable if the tree was damaged.”

“Sure but I’m not interested in making vampires, I’m just looking for a way to extend the lives of some friends. Either way, there is always a chance that I won’t be able to make heads or tails of the books.”

“I’ll discuss it with Klaus and call you back.” Elijah ended the call.

Mist had a feeling Elijah at least was going to be on his way to Mystic falls shortly if for no other reason than a desire to see his father’s corpse with his own eyes. He set the phone on his desk then teleported outside of the tomb to have a chat with the vampire and see what else he could figure out about him.

0o0o0 

Mist spent the next couple days dealing with an increasing number of vampires showing up to the town which was more than a bit annoying. Still, that wasn’t quite as nerve wrecking as having Klaus show up in town with Elijah. It wasn’t that he was worried for his own health, it was that he’d rather not have the two originals destroy the town or do anything else drastic. He smiled as Sin let Klaus and Elijah into his office. “Welcome to Mystic Falls or should I say back to Mystic Falls?”

Klaus stared at the desiccated head sitting on the man’s desk, it certainly looked like his father’s head. “How?”

“I teleported a piece of white oak into his heart then teleported his head off his body. Either way, I suspect that you want the moonstone.”

“Yes,” Klaus agreed.

Mist pulled the moonstone out of his pocket and held it out toward Elijah. “Here, if you need a witch, I’d be happy to help you out so that you don’t kill Elena and ruin your chances to create hybrids.”

Elijah asked, “Why help?” as he took the moonstone.

“Because if I don’t help, you’ll probably cause death and destruction trying to break the curse and I’d rather avoid that.”

Klaus spoke up, “Do you care if I take a look at the head you claim is Mikael’s?”

“Suit yourself, consider it a gift and an apology for not letting you kill him, he was trying to kill me at the time,” Mist replied as he stepped further to the side to allow Klaus to examine the head. “Either way, I’d like to look at and copy your mother’s books which is why I’m willing to help.” He reached out with telepathy and carefully lifted the location of Finn’s coffin as well as the location of Ester’s books on the day the pocket world was stuck while Klaus was distracted looking at Mikael’s head.

Elijah asked, “How long would breaking the curse take?” 

“It shouldn’t take more than an hour or two to set up, I’ve been putting everything together for a couple of days now.”

“You’re not worried about us are you?” Elijah asked.

Klaus said, “It looks real enough which means he could kill us.”

“I have no reason to kill you Klaus. Your father is dead, you really don’t need to run anymore which means that you can wander off and enjoy your life. You have something I want, I can help you get something you want. I have no problems trading, do you?”

“You want our family’s spell books. A lot of people have tried to get those books over the years.”

Mist shrugged. “I just want a copy, not exactly an unreasonable request.”

“What’s in there that you want?”

“A moonlight ring enchant as well as the vampire curse that started this mess.”

“You know some werewolves?” Elijah asked.

“I know a couple, yeah,” Mist admitted. He wasn’t going to mention that both of them were from different worlds and weren’t here.

Elijah said, “I’ll let you copy three books, one at a time if you can break Klaus’s curse.”

“In that case, I’ll grab the doppelganger. Try not to kill her, we need her alive.” Mist used his avatar to teleport a sleeping Elena to his arms. He caught the girl his avatar had used a sleeping spell on. “With any luck we can do the ritual and she’ll be none the wiser.”

Klaus glared at the girl’s face. “Katherine.”

“Nah, she just looks like her or rather Katherine looked like Amara.” 

Elijah asked, “A glammer?” 

“No, a friend teleported her. Let’s get the ritual done before she walks up or someone notices that she’s missing.” 

Elijah asked, “What do you need?”

“To draw some symbols on the floor then a bit of her blood and Klaus to stand in the circle.” Mist pulled his ritual gear out of his inventory then started drawing on the floor with chalk. He used one of his avatars to tell Harry where to go to pick up Esther’s books in the pocket world and Ranma where to go to pick up Rebekah, Kol and Finn. He wanted Finn dealt with before they concentrated on going after the witches that wanted them dead.

Klaus still wasn’t sure about Mist but if he really had killed Mikael, pissing him off wasn’t a good idea at least until he broke his curse.

0o0o0

Rebekah wasn’t in the best of moods when she woke up and found herself in her coffin in a crypt with several blood bags on her and strange lights surrounding her coffin. She quickly devoured the blood bags then sat up and looked around. She noticed two more coffins and Kol devouring his blood bags. She frowned slightly as she noticed a man in pants and a shirt. “How did we get here?”

Mist’s avatar said, “I had a friend of mine drop you off and pull Klaus’s daggers out of your chests.”

Kol raised an eyebrow suspiciously. “Why?”

“Because I’d like to offer you a deal, you give up compulsion and in return I’ll give you back your magic.”

Kol snorted. “That’s not possible, I should know, I’ve tried to find a way get my powers back for almost a thousand years.” He blurred toward Mist.

The avatar raised his hand and lifted Kol off the ground with telekinesis. “I’m a witch, you’re trapped in a barrier spell. Even if you managed to kill me, no one knows where you are, which means that you’d spend years or even centuries down here.”

Rebekah asked, “What do you get out of it?”

“When an original dies, every vampire descended from them dies. I’m planning on ending your line one way or another.”

Kol snorted. “You’ve read too many stories, it doesn’t work like that.”

He let Kol down then gestured toward the third coffin. “It actually does. Finn’s entire line will be dead within hours.”

Kol’s blurred over to check on Finn and stared at his dead brother in shock, “He’s dead, how?”

“A piece of white oak in his heart. He wanted to die, I just helped him out.

Rebekah glared at Mist. “Why?”

“Because he wouldn’t have agreed to give up his powers and embrace his humanity. You could have a family.” He looked at Kol. “You could have your magic back.”

Kol snorted. “Let me guess, you want our immortality?”

“No, I’m already immortal. I’m faster and stronger…” he smiled as Kol ran forward and hit him. He grinned at the look of disbelief on his face. “I’m also a hell of a lot tougher than you. In short, you have nothing I want Kol. You’d lose your compulsion, your bloodlust, your ability to heal people and turn people with your blood and your heightened emotions. You should keep everything else.”

Rebekah asked, “We’d keep our strength?”

“Everything other than compulsion and the ability to create more vampires,” Mist’s avatar agreed.

Kol asked, “And we’d get our magic back?”

“That and more.”

“What’s the catch?” Kol asked suspiciously.

“The catch is there is a rather cute witch girl in New Orleans that could use your help.”

“What about Finn?” Rebekah asked.

“If you want him back in a year, I’ll bring him back from the dead. Until then, he can stay dead.”

Kol stared at Mist in surprise. “Just how powerful are you?”

Mist shrugged. “One of the most powerful witches, ever.”

Rebekah asked hopefully, “You can let me have children?”

“As well as your magic.”

“I have magic?” She asked in disbelief.

“You are your mother’s daughter.”

Kol considered what the witch was saying, if he’d really killed Finn and this wasn’t some sort of trick, he might as well hear him out. “Walk us through your plan to transfer our powers.”

Mist’s avatar walked them through the process he was going to use to change them back into humans then upgrade them. 

0o0o0 

After the ritual Mist teleported Rebekah and Kol to town to get something to eat and show off their new powers to Elijah and Klaus. Thankfully Kol was a hell of a lot nicer and more manageable as a human than he was a vampire. Rebekah was in seventh heaven at the idea of starting a family and Klaus was only mildly annoyed at the idea of Finn staying dead for a year which wasn’t terribly surprising as Finn had been his least favorite sibling. 

The best part of the next couple of weeks was that Rebekah managed to talk Elijah into making the swap to human plus after some testing showed that they were still immortal and didn’t lose much of importance compared to what they gained. A blood transfer from Ranma helped increase their healing to back up to ‘acceptable’ levels. 

It took over a week, a hell of a lot of tests, a lot of whining on Rebekah’s part and a couple of lies for them to convince Klaus to do the same, that and Mist had agreed to toss in some enchanted bracelets that would push Klaus’s strength and durability even higher than he already had and protect him from magic if he agreed to get give up his vampiric powers.

0o0o0

Buffy mock glared at Mist who was sitting on his desk with an amused expression on his face. “I can’t believe that you wiped out every vampire on Earth in a couple of weeks.”

Mist smirked at Buffy. “It wasn’t that hard, I just had to convince a handful of ancient vampires that being human plus was better than being vampires and their entire lines died when their humanity was restored.”

“I’m still surprised that you actually saved Stephen’s friend.”

“Lexi was a rather down to Earth vampire and tried not to hurt people, I don’t have a problem with her sticking around as long as she can’t spread the curse.”

Buffy asked, “Is there anything else we have to take care of other than the coven of witches?” 

“I need to track down Selias so everyone can drain him dry to increase their mana reserves and make sure he never escapes. As long as we’re careful, we should be able to use him as a power source for months.” Mostly he just wanted to collect the two immortality cures he could easily grab and stick them in his inventory so they couldn’t be used on him. He wasn’t sure if they’d work against his immortality from Creepypasta but he wasn’t willing to leave them lying around just in case they did.

Buffy nodded. “Hopefully once things settle down we’ll have a chance to loot the pocket world before we leave.”

“I doubt it will take us all that long to deal with the witches and Harry should be up for using his snow globe power, I want to steal a couple of castles and museums just for the hell of it.”

Buffy laughed. “At least you’re limiting your stealing to the empty world.”

“Pretty much, yeah,” Mist admitted. He was hoping that dealing with Selias dealt with the brotherhood but if not, he’d imprison then in the pocket world on Australia or something worse if they kept trying to kill him after he dealt with Selias. “Either way, we should probably talk to the others and work on a plan for dealing with the witches.”

0o0o0

The next couple of weeks were filled with accidents that weren’t accidents and various other means of harassment by New York witches until Hermione had finally caught one of the witches snooping around and ripped information about his coven out of his head. After that, it was just a matter of stacking a couple of cloaking spells then sneaking into New York, tracking the witches down and kidnapping them from range with teleportation and x-ray vision. After figuring out that they liked sacrificing other witches for power, the group drained them dry, soul trapped the lot of them and looted their arcane libraries. 

They’d spent the next couple of weeks hanging out, relaxing and looting museums and various mansions in Hollywood for fun and profit. 

Mist waited until after Christmas to track down Professor Shane and lift the location of Selias’ tomb from his mind. Once he had the location he’d jumped to the island with Ranma and they’d teleported Selias’ body and the cure out of his tomb. He’d put the cure in his inventory then chained the immortal up with adamantium chains to make sure the immortal wasn’t able to escape. Once they had him secured the group, other than Mist, Selena and Abby had drained him dry with siphoning until he’d been mortal enough to die. Even Albus had helped drain him after he explained the mind games the twisted immortal had been playing.

The best part of having doormaker was the ability to jump to an alternate dimension every couple of days and do the same thing to a different version of Selias in order to permanently increase everyone’s mana pool and make the various worlds a better place.

Mist was a little sad that he didn’t have the ability to siphon things considering the gains everyone else was making wiping out every Selias they could find but he used his time studying the books they were collecting from various covens around the world as well as mixing and matching the magic systems he had access to in order to remove some of the various drawbacks.

A few weeks after that Kol and Davina stopped by the club looking for a place to lay low, apparently without Marcel and the rest of the vampires, Kol had decided that New Orleans was just too dangerous for the moment. Mist wasn’t all that bothered about the two house guests as Davina was a decent influence on Kol and he knew more about magic than most witches from centuries of study. Besides, bouncing around the world copying grimoires without anyone knowing was actually pretty fun and certainly helped fill the library in the companion housing with magical books.

Sneaking Freya’s coffin out of the madhouse was the last time most of the group set foot in the real world’s New Orleans before the end of the jump.