AUTHOR'S NOTE:
OK I had some bad luck. -_- But not to worry, I'm just about where I was when I had to start redoing the WHOLE damndamndamndamndamndamndamn thing! (tries choking a piece of paper.)
Alchemist: Dude, you need help.
Luci: Help me write then! (waves hands behind stacks of paper on a desk.)
Alchemist: Not what I meant. And that's not in my Contract. See? Section 1, sub-section 3, paragraph 5, last sentence. 'Will not help in story development of the person who creates his character.' (points)
Luci: (mumbles) Yup, that's… "…" HOW DO YOU HAVE A CONTRACT!
Teya: (pops out from nowhere) No fair! (pouts) I want one! Gimme, gimme,gimme.
Luci: (Falls backwards on the floor, papers going everywhere) HELL NO! You can't make me!
Teya: You do remember what happened last time right?
Luci: (turns head to the side) I have no idea what your talking about. Hmpf!
Alchemist: She kicked your ass.
Luci; Hey! I let her win! (sits up pointing)
Alchemist: Suuure you did. You doing the intro or what?
Luci: Son of a… (turns around, faces audience.) 0_0 (waves nervously.) Heh, heh, have fun people! (shoots off stage.)
ACT 2
We continued going till we reached a wooded clearing about 75ft. circumference. I stopped and the two girls skidded about ten feet away from me.
("heh, heh. Skipping Hero's. Gotta write that down.") I thought taking six steps back as the two slowly got to their feet; minor cuts and bruises decorating their bodies.
"Ya Know, I'd hate to rearrange your pretty face, 'TROQ'." I said narrowing my eyes at her. She responded by making her eyes and hands glow green.
" Don't you dare call me that horrible name again." said the orange adolescent through clenched teeth getting into an attack stance.
"What?" I said knitting my eye brows then turn my head to the left and brought my hand to my chin in a thinking position.
"Oooooh, you mean troq, troqy?" saying as I turned my head back to face her with an evil smile.
"Gggrrrraaaaaah!" yelling at the top of her lungs as she stomped her foot into the ground then charged me, destroying the ground beneath her.
("Hmm, only 3.1 milliseconds for a synapse cycle.") I thought to myself impressed.
"Wha-Starfire!" said the small framed girl behind her.
("Too late.") I thought putting a frown on my face. I disappeared just before she got to me and she skidded to a halt wide-eyed while I appeared behind her compatriot; our backs to each other.
"Wouldn't it feel so freeing to just head strait for danger without fear?" I asked rhetorically as the hooded figure flinched. The red-head turned around and seeing me, made to start for me until I disappeared again, this time behind her.
"Behind you!" yelled the girl in the cloak.
I put on a smirk before the alien girl turned around and when she did face me, I put my weight into backhanding her into the ground a good foot.
"Don't get up." I said in a pitying tone, looking down at her.
The girl groaned and got on her hands and knees tilting her head to me with a defiant, angry look. She proceeded to try and get up.
"Please stay down?" I asked quite nicely; she ignored me.
I huffed, shook my head, did a flip where I was and brought my heel down on her back. She went another half foot down and cried out in pain, tears threatening to spill from her eyes. I kept the pressure on her back with my foot and began pushing down, making her cry out again.
I looked at the blue clad girl across the way.
"Here I am about to break her back and your just standing there? What are you doing? What are you afraid of? Is she not worth your trouble?" I said bringing my leg up and smashed it into the same spot with more force. She let out an agonizing wail and frantically started trying to get out from under my boot, tears rolling freely down her face, crying for help.
A second later two trees wrapped in black energy hit me into the air and sent me twenty yards away. Landing in a crouch I wiped my mouth of what little it was bleeding. I looked over to see the hooded girl healing her comrade with black energy.
"Unconscious huh? Oh well." I stood up, took five steps and stopped dead. The unconscious form in her hands started to shake and after a moment her eyes snapped open growling. The orange girl got up in a flash and crouched like a feral animal.
She gathered a massive amount of energy in 15 seconds in her upper body, made a green ball around herself and charged at me making the ground behind her position cracked and upturned. I folded my arms, took two steps back, took the lock off my power, and put up a double barrier; my regular fuchsia colored power on the outside and what little hellfire I had left on the inside.
When she got to the first one she pulled back and hit full force. She succeeded in pushing the space I was occupying five feet into the ground and up heaving it 50 yards out; the resulting shock waves from our clashing powers blowing trees back sending a cloud of dust into the air and topsoil everywhere so no one could see.
"Guess this will be a challenge." saying as the dust in front of the orange skinned girl's face cleared so I could look in her eyes. A second later the surrounding dust formed three small tornadoes then collapsed where they were.
"That's never happened before." I said, then I looked past the angry green ball and saw why it happened.
"I see. You just synched your powers to match my output. I'm assuming you both still need to be calm to do it right, I can feel how shaky it is." I said seeing the black power tint the girls green energy an ugly yellowish grey.
"That must have been hell to practice." I said looking the orange female in the eyes. A second later the power coming from them spiked slightly.
"You have no idea." She spit out, a dead pan monotone voice overlapping with her upbeat one. I furrowed my eyebrows then raised one.
"OK. That's not just you." I said matching their output again.
("She attempted calm her down through mind to mind contact. The only problem is, if the point of link is unconscious and Tameranian, there's a slight possibility of making their fighting instincts go haywire. Then survival instincts of both parties link and they push themselves-to death if need be- to eradicate the perceived threat; usually with the Tameranian stealing what energy the other party has to do it.") came Crimson's raspy voice at the back of my mind.
("Meaning I have to be careful since both of their powers work on emotions.") I thought deducing what he was getting at.
("Exactly.") said Crimson succinctly.
"Calm down, you little fool! Your body won't survive that link for an extended period of time, not to mention the one who initiated it!" Looking at the grey girl in a lotus position, shaking like she was cold.
"SHUT UP!" The red-haired girl screamed at the top of her lungs, not caring.
Feeling something off when she yelled, I decided to feel out their mind link. ("Now you've pissed me off. You separated your emotions from yourself, you really are still a child.") I thought angrily.
("Relaxss, now iss not the time to be getting worked up.") came Sandy's loving and firm voice.
I sighed. ("I know. Any ideas on how to break the link without permanent damage?") I thought asking my companions as another small shock wave emanated from my shield and her fist, making the partition flex.
("Let the link dissipate.") Crimson said uninterestedly.
"CRAAAAAACK!" The outer barrier spider-veined.
"What the! darn it." I said opening my left hand, condensed and localized the whole outer layer to circle the area where her fist was making contact.
("I really didn't wanna do this if I could've avoided it.") I thought huffing defeatedly.
I released what little power I was holding back to make me look like a human and dropped my disguise. Boy was that a shock to my system, I tell you what. The first thing I was aware of was a shooting pain going down my back, forcing me to take a knee. Now, I'm only 5'8", but when any living being with powers looks in pain and crouches down, you want to be paying attention, regardless of if their winning or losing. Five seconds later dull, white spikes began to sprout just above the skin from each of my vertebrae. My pin strait shoulder length hair turning white from the roots, leaving only an inch at the bottom, which turned green. A third eye came into view on my forehead, opening and wildly looking around before setting it's gaze on the surprised but unrelenting Starfire.
I could feel my bones getting denser, my flesh and muscle growing till I was twice as big and an extra 2 in. taller. The last things to happen was that my right arm turned blood red from the shoulder down and my canines grew a quarter inch longer. Luckily I wore baggy pants because my shirt was destroyed showing my eight ab muscles, I may be a half-demon but I'm not an exhibitionist. I sighed in relief, then stood up feeling much better.
"Decided to get serious DEMON?" said the now murderous voice of the exuberant Starfire.
I narrowed my eyes. "That my dear, was below the belt." saying as I got ready.
("Here goes.") I thought as I made five small holes through my shields then stretched some of the outer layer to get in between the green and black powers. Forming it into a cone with a small opening at the point, so the majority of black energy was directed to the holes fer me to absorb. Not to cut the link abruptly but to gradually disconnect them. I collected the blackness in my left hand, condensing it into a small sphere.
("You know what to do Crimson.") I thought giving him the number crunching job.
("Yeah,yeah, you really are a slave driver ya' know?") Came his sarcastic reply.
A moment later something felt wrong, looking closer at the orb in my hands and saw flecks of something shiny in it. So, I snooped around their connection and sure enough, I guessed correctly.
"Damn it." I scoffed realizing I was my own worst enemy. She wasn't using her natural powers, it was her life force mixed with something else.
"Well, this makes things simpler. Easier... not so much." I said looking side to side.
("Laylines. Where's the closest layline?") I asked hurriedly.
("It runs underneath the e-entire f-forest.") Sarah said finally piping up for the first time since we merged.
("That's perfect. Thank you Sarah.") Saying it as proud and gently as I could.
I reformed the outer barrier, fixing the cracks and stopped siphoning the essence I was pulling from little sis. ("Heh, I'll never get used to saying that. I hope I don't regret this.")
I knelt down on my knee again, closed my eyes and opened my minds eye to ask to borrow it's strength.
[ Layline inner space]
"You know you needn't ask Endling. Your free to use my essence how you see fit." Came the soothing and gentle voice of a mother. I almost relaxed too much it was so comforting.
I looked up from the black surface of the lake we were on to her beautiful face and long tresses decorated with flowers. Her long robe reminding me of tilde red dirt with splashes of green on the sleeves.
"I would never think about taking something from you without asking." I said looking to the side blushing.
"Then I hereby give you permission to use me how you see fit." She said walking to me and holding out her hand to me. I took it and gently kissed it then putting my forehead to it.
"I humbly accept your most gracious decision. I am in your debt… Gaea." saying it with the utmost respect and affection.
"Indeed you are. Though I can't help but wonder, was that your aim all along?" She asked rhetorically.
I got up and looked into her impossibly forest green eyes. "Would it matter if it was?" I asked a smile playing on my lips.
"No. I guess not." She said taking me in her arms in a soft embrace, petting my hair, my head resting on her bosom. I could've gotten lost in the embrace smelling of fresh earth, stone, and forest; But alas I had work to do.
I pulled away from the embrace and started walking towards the black boarder that separated this place from reality. Before exiting I turned back saying "It can't be said that I don't respect my elders." Then bowed and left.
[Gaea- Hands together and looking upward.]
"Pitiable soul lost in the dark
hatred embers brightly burning
fear not loves tender embrace.
Please. Don't tear yourself apart.
Raven, I beg you to help him. "Lowering her head as a lone tear falling on the water, rippling silently.
[Fade to black]
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:
Kay, so, I got a little more than half of what I had. If anyone has questions, I'm going to update my profile with my character profiles in a week or two. Still looking for a job so, can't update the story anytime soon. TTFN!