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The man had gotten a kick out of the finale to the statues, but was suddenly quite bored. His next large project was still far from finished, although all of his smaller curses were still waiting to be triggered.

Then there was the problem of Sonic and Rose. If they left and analysed the false shard in the dragon dimension then they could ruin his surprise. Luckily, the tear in the world had sealed itself with aid from the real shard he still kept hold of. It didn't take long to rig a small surprise for Sonic, Rose, and possibly DS if they tried to leave the dimension of their own will, instead they would get a nasty shock and end up blown back to their current places of residence.

Of course, that alone didn't satisfy the man. He still had quite a bit of time before he could see Happosai's reaction to Emeral's show, so he went into town again. He made himself appear to be mortal in all respects, but currently with an evil heart. He figured that he might get more action that way, but didn't expect much.

DS, on the other hand, was looking to speed up the finding of the shards, and some foolish mortal that had started putting off a lot of evil energy was just the mortal to arrange for a shard to be given to. Since DS currently knew the location of an untainted shard it didn't take long for a pen with a shard in it to hit the man on the head, with DS watching. DS practically kicked himself when said man vanished into a portal, with the pen and enclosed shard.

The man had sensed DS coming a mile off, 3 miles off if you want to be technical. When the pen hit him he felt the faint presence of the Dark Cloak, and knew that a shard was in the pen. He also wanted to drive DS nuts, so he vanished right there in front of DS. Soon he had extracted the shard and loaded it into his slingshot, waiting for a good time to shoot it at someone or something.

It was then that the man spotted Mousse, still a duck, looking for hot water. The man decided that the shard wasn't strong enough on its own, so he added a film of cursed plastic that would dissolve when the shard was removed from Mousse, but until that point would give Mousse perfect eyesight. What powers the shard would give Mousse the man wasn't sure of, but he didn't care much either.

Seconds later the duck felt a sharp pain in its back, which quickly subsided. Within seconds of that the duck could see perfectly, much to its surprise, and made a beeline for hot water. Wouldn't Ranma be surprised when Mousse accurately attacked him with the power of the shard now embedded in his spinal cord.

The sun was just setting when the man turned back to a very large area containing his next surprise. This project wasn't the easiest, but it WOULD be worth it in the end, and he had a couple of hours to work on it before Happosai got his reward.