Alice POV

"Baby, come on baby stay with me!" I said as I held Sasha's hand while the open bottle of drain cleaner poured out onto the hardwood, "You can't do this honey!" I cried as my daughter's hand fell from mine. "GOD DAMN IT!" I screamed.

I woke up in a cold sweat, "Master." Caster said, "I'm fine, just a nightmare." I said as I curled up into a ball, "Your arm. You're cursed." she said, "Yeah, my entire family is. Back in the seventies, my great-great-grandfather killed a bunch of people for some ritual that didn't work. He killed himself, but that wasn't enough for the grieving families so one of them cursed my family so that we all end up committing suicide, but the fun bit of Shakespeare is each suicide is more gruesome than the last." I said with a pained chuckle, "My daughter, drank damn near three bottles of drain cleaner. Liquified herself from the inside right in my arms. Her mother, my wife, drank gasoline and then doused herself in it all before setting herself on fire. And by my best estimate, I've got maybe two weeks before the curse reaches my heart and I kill myself." I said, "Master I could attempt to...", "Don't, please just don't go there, I've made my peace with this." I said. "Um, you said you felt an insane amount of mana, uh we should find it and use it to make a mana pool." I said. 

We tracked down the source of the immense mana to an abandoned park and found a little boy. "Caster." I said gripping my arm, "Very well." Caster said as she fired a low-power blast of toxic mana at the boy knocking him out, "YOU IMPUTENT, VOLITILE GOBLINS! HOW DARE YOU LAY A HAND ON MY DARLING BABY!" A woman snapped, "Are you okay my darling?" she asked scooping up the boy who shrugged off the blast like it was nothing, "Yes Mama.", "They didn't break any of your delicate human bones, did they?", "No Mama." the boy said, "Good. I know it's you, Caster. I made a mistake ignoring you yesterday." the woman said as she got up and turned to face Caster fixing her hair.

"Alright, I'm coming out." Caster said as she walked out to face her, "Well well, this is a surprise, you came out all on your own, completely defenseless. Oh, and don't think I don't sense your master over there." she said, "Damn it!" I said, "I wanna talk to you mage." I said walking out, "I've had a lot of confusing feelings in the past few hours, most of which were within the past five minutes." I said, "You wouldn't be the first." The woman said, "Would you be willing to join me?" I  asked, "Come again?" she said, "You're clearly competent, and I could use that to win this war and break my curse forever!" I said, "What are we doing now? Did you mistake me for someone else?" she asked, "Master you're embarrassing us right now." Caster said, "See I'm asking you, 'cause you're the problem I've got. A mage so powerful I can't come close to matching. You're my angry Mathew. This inevitable thing I never considered I'd have to confront!" I said, "Hey lady can we do a do-over? To like back to five minutes ago and I promise this won't happen again!" Caster said, "I'm not your therapist. I could care less about your silly dream." the woman said, "I had to try." I sighed, "Mama." the boy said, "No kill." he said going back to his toys, "Oh my sweet baby, it's so adorable you want to help these children, these DEAD children." the woman said, "Thank you, Mama." the boy said, "Isn't he just the best-est boy you've ever met? Now stand back baby, while I render these children's flesh from their bones." she said, "Thank you, Mama, yes Mama." the boy said as his mother flew toward us she caressed my cheek before blasting me into a tree, Caster tried to make golems from dragon bones, but she turned the spell on her and took control of the golems. I drew my tube and ignited the blade, but the boy grabbed it, "Lightsaber?" he said as the blade vanished, but I still felt the heat, "What are you?" I asked, "Don't know. Might be the antichrist." he said as he stabbed at me, "YOU'RE THREE HOW DO YOU KNOW WHAT THAT IS?!" I snapped, "ACTUALLY SATAN!" he said as he lunged at me swinging wildly, "That explains nothing!" I said, "Bored now." he said as he shattered my tube with his mana, "Try not to die." he said as he snapped and pulled the four of us into a reality marble, "Satan." he said as a man strolled toward us.

"Huh, he might just be the devil." I said.

??? POV

"Archer, are you alright? You shivered." I said, "I'm fine, just something feels familiar." Archer said as he looked at his twin swords.

Alice POV

The boy walked toward me creating servants as he walked, 'This kid is...' I thought in fear, "He's Death." I said in terror, "That's right." he said before his reality marble collapsed, "Let's go." he said as his mother appeared beside him, "Are you sure? She could be a threat." his mother said, the boy glanced back at me, "Not anymore." he said calmly as he left. "We're alive!" I laughed, "Hey." the kid said stopping, "You're not weak." he said finally leaving. "We're not going after that again." I said, "Agreed." Caster said.