Disclaimer: A hostage is brought in, their arms and legs bound with their mouth gagged. The rest of their face is covered by a balaclava. Once the guards have shackled him to a chair. He is positioned carelessly above a tank of piranhas, The Magic Bringer walks over and uses a long pole to rip the gag off their mouth and the balaclava from their face. Ronan is revealed, sorting a black eye from when the pole missed. There are gasps from the crowd. Rotten fruit flies at him. "Say it," The Magic Bringer says in a low voice, pokes him with a stick while giving him the evil eye.
Ronan gasps. "The Magic Bringer owns nothing! Diane Duane owns anything you recognise," The Magic Bringer pokes him again. "The Magic Bringer kidnapped us all! She made us do stuff we didn't want to! I swear! Just don't hurt me!"
The Magic Bringer nods sweetly. "Of course we won't…" The crowd cheers as his chair falls into the tank of piranhas. "Ooops! What a pity…"
Brightening the Sun
When it is learnt that a new power is on the loose, what will the young wizards say? Even more interesting, what will they say when they learn just who it is. Revised.
Prologue: New Saviour
Immortal Realms:
Kronos glared down at the assembly of powers, and said in a booming voice that echoed through the chambers. "She is the Final One! The last of the Lone One's creations! It is our duty to see that our sister is not taken!"
"Aye!" came the call of agreement from the crowd.
Kronos smiled, spreading his warmth to the other powers. "Warn the Advisories. Warn the Seniors. Warn everyone to be on the lookout. Send word of her existence. If we have sufficient power over her life to make sure that she does not turn upon us, if she learns that entropy is horrid, she will be the curse breaker!" he boomed.
Not moments old, the girl child entered the room in the human realm, crying. They could feel her wizardry reaching out to them already, curling in tendrils of warmth, soothing people all around the world for an inexplicable reason. One of the more commonly ignored powers, Dehmit spoke quickly. "She is, of course, strong beyond the Lone Power. It would be easy for her to overcome him, to fight against his forces time and time again. But she would be feared if they knew of her power. It would not be fair on the poor child,"
Kronos nodded, turning to one of the other powers, who scribbled something in an ancient tome. Peering over his glasses, he addressed the congregation. "Allow her powers to seem just above average. It should do the trick easily enough. It should keep her in check, at any rate. Power is a temptation…" drifting off, he allowed the other powers to continue speaking among themselves.
"She must have a partner," one stated loudly. The other made murmurs of agreement, but were noncommittal. Dehmit sighed loudly, then stood up, silencing them. "I'll do it," he groaned. "I shall see to it that she shall have the best partner that she can. And to do it, I have the perfect idea. Who better to be her partner than myself? I shall become one of her kind. I shall have all my memories erased – I wish to never regain them."
There were several gasps at this revelation. "But Dehmit, are you sure?"
Dehmit spat in disgust. "I have never been more sure. This place is boresville. At least as a human, I can do something," he vanished, pushing his way into the womb of a woman.
A Hospital, Earth:
The girl child's human parents cooed at their new daughter. They trilled soothing songs and rocked her gently, in hope to make her cease her crying. But she wouldn't. As first time parents, they were despairing over what they must be doing wrong.
It was, however, nothing that they were doing. In truth, she was quite pleased with her human parents, but she felt a longing. A longing that her body was not equip for. She wanted UP. She wanted to be with her brothers and sisters. But most of all she wanted to be with her partner, who as not yet born.
Her parents eventually calmed her, and she forgot. She forgot her longings and succumbed to her needs as a human child. Now unrecognizable, she would live a normal – or at least, bearing a resemblance of normal – life for a human girl.
Close by, Earth:
Tom let out a yelp as though he had been shocked. "Carl, notice in the manual!" Both men crowded around and began to read.
Ten verses later Tom and Carl were thoroughly bewildered.
"What by the powers can it mean?"
Carl shrugged. "To look out for a power that will look like any other normal wizard."
"Fan-bloody-tastic!" Tom cursed. "I don't even understand some of this! I mean, what does 'the conception of her power in the scorpions reign', mean?"
Carl shrugged. "Possibly that she became a wizard in the scorpions reign, or was conceived, or born, or any number of things,"
"What about that bit about the New Year dawning on her?"
Carl just shook his head. "I have no idea. Truly no idea." He picked up a can of coke, drank from it, then settled down to try to decipher its meaning.
Revised: January 2006