Amasagie
By: Phoenix The Rebirth
Authors Note: I've based a lot of the magick and stuff off of my imagination and many different areas. I've used a bit of Final Fantasy stuff in here but for the most part have made it my own. Susan's religeon is really based off real Wicca, I have a pretty good background there. And a lot of the other things are my mind picking stuff up.
Now, I don't own the Enterprise or its cast, that's all im gonna say. Not gonna say more, I feel that I shouldn't even have to say it because its so damn obvious, ya know?! Hope you all enjoy this, its my first fanfic ever on fanfiction.net! I hope you guys like it, and please give me reviews! Not to ego hurting though, okay? :b)
The time mages stood in the circle with the cage in the middle chanting, raising the energies. They were in there standard uniforms, they had the star and moon robes on. They were blue, a silk pretty blue with the silver moons and stars on them. As for the Witches using the spell to hold the Demon, they were in circles everywhere raising energy that was being sent to the magickall cage that the creature slammed into every second. There were many Witches, the whole unity of Witches and Warlocks were not there but there were about 25 of them and around 50 Time Mages. Trying desperately to send the evil spirit away. The Witches were in the green beautiful gowns that were there uniforms, they sat in circles hands held tight as magick and energy flowed through them, they invoked and summed whatever they could and whatever came to mine to use as energy and help. And beside the occasional few that fell down because they couldn't take it, they were doing pretty well.
* * *
" Okay! I'm here! " Jewel said as she stormed into a clearing past a huge Oak tree. The plain red silky gown that she wore fluttered as she skidded to a halt and her eyes spread wide open. " Wow. " Her hair was held up in a bright red pin, in one large bundle. Fighting style for a Bard. She had a pretty face and red hair, flaming red hair. But she wasn't normal for a red head, her skin wasn't pure white like most red headed people. It surely isn't tan, but its not completely pale white. She knew what was in the magickall cage the Witches were powering to keep strong, she knew who and what it was. Amasagie the Demon lord they all united to fight. And the Time Mages were about to send it out somewhere, to some sort of dimension they knew it would not be able to get out of and back to there world, there had been some talk of it. Some rumor, and the air like serpent spirit that was Amasagie was battling against the cave. Smashing its body into it, trying to get free. Jewel stood there, frightened and in awe.
There was a loud crashing sound behind her, and a roar. She turned and looked at a troll, it was huge. Towering about 7 feet in the air, it was hairy and probably smelled. It had a huge club and it had to be about 6 feet wide. Her head snapped back as she looked at the Witches and the Time Mage's. It was going to slaughter them in the middle of chant, toss them aside into the air and help set free Amasagie, unleash him again.
A Time Mage broke his connection, he was old. He had a long beard and silvery gray hair. He was old enough to realized Bard robes when he saw them. He broke the connection and screamed to the girl at the top of his lungs, " Stop that Troll! " He then zapped back into the chain of energy and chanting.
Jewel turned around and fronted her whole body at the running monster, the Troll. She opened her mouth, and let loose. Literally. The scream was loud and ear piercing, it of course would not hurt the Witches or the working Time Mages but it would hit the oncoming Troll. The scream in stories to come was told to be that of a scream that could shatter glass even in the great castle of Thorn.
The troll stopped and dropped its club, it grabbed its head and screamed. Its scream of course was not as loud as Jewels. It slammed into a tree, a small one that broke under its strength and sent splinters popping out in all directions. It lurched and tossed itself onto the ground vomiting as it still slashed out in all directions sending its fluids all around it. Most monsters or Demons would not take this long to kill, but the Troll did have some magick in him which kept him alive. But nor for long.
It gave one final vomit and shot upward as its brain ruptured and exploded inside its skull, blood came out of its ears. And she stopped screaming. She turned back to the Witches and Time Mage's who were still working, they didn't even pay full attention to her. But then she though, why should they. They had better things to pay attention to.
She turned back towards the body of the dead Troll, she knew it was dead. Her eyes slowly moved from there to the rest of the forest and she screamed again. A burst of magick escaped her and she twirled around in a perfect circle and came back to facing the dead Troll, if any other monsters had been in the area they would have jumped or yelped in pain, it was only a low pitch scream attack. But then she heard the chatter, and her mouth dropped a little, there were a lot coming. But there was no way, no way in all of the worlds she would let a bunch of little critter get past her and unleash the hell that had been going on for to long. No, they would have to get past her, there was a cliff behind her and the Time Mages and Witches, the only way to them was past her. And it was not going to happen.
A flying bat like thing came at her, it was about three feet tall. She screamed at it and it went flying backwards into a tree unconscious. Another one flew at her and ripped at her hair, she screamed at it and shattered its insides, she turned to the unconscious one and finished it off before it could regain consciousness.
She turned to the front of her and let our her scream, her shrieking scream.
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The Knights of the order of Byzantium rode in on the Chocobo's, they came at the side and stopped when they saw the Time Mage's and Witches working. They turned as they heard the screams that brought them to the area. They saw the women, in the red gown, a Bard. And that's when they saw the ground and the littered Demon bodies.
" Charge! " The old man screamed on his Red Chocobo, he was the leader of the Order of Byzantium and he and his men charged forward drawing swords and axes, a couple of them stopped and got off and aimed with there bows and arrows.
They rode in on the Chocobos slashing at anything that came to close, or that had more then one hand.. The girl they saw, the Bard, now had cuts on her face and a slight limp on her leg where a large gash had been made. Her held up hair now was partly held up with a good half of it tossed out in direction, there locks of the bright red hair on the ground and she had many scratches on her face, many deep gashes in her side. Her red gown now was tattered and ripped in almost all places, cloth hung at her side and she now leaned on the large Oak tree she had come in by, still screaming at the Demons. She jumped when the Knights past her on the Chocobo's. The old man got off of the Chocobo and stood by her, he drew the sword from the saddle and touched the Chocobo in the stomach, a signal to go out and fight the enemy. The huge yellow bird took off and did as ordered.
The man turned to her and spoke but nearly raised his sword when she screamed at a green creature, it was about two feet high that had four pairs of arms and two inch long sharp teeth. He then turned and looked at the dead bodies of the Demons all around him, and backed to her. This women, this young red haired women had done ALL this. There must have been over fifty bodies laying on the field before them. The girl collapsed, almost. The man caught her in his arms and laid her on the ground, one eye on her and the other on his surroundings and the battle going on. " Here, lay down now. We have it under control. " He said to her reassuringly.
" No. " Jewel replied in a raspy voice.
" No? " He said in a question to her. His armor clinked as he grabbed a water casket at his side and put it to her lips to drink. She was sweating.
It was a no, to everything, not her world. Not her allies. No, no, no, no more letting them kill. No more! She got up slowly and the old man in armor stared at her in confusion, what more could she do.
She took a deep breath, and let out a scream. The loudest one she could have ever done. It shook the trees and made some of the Knights stop and turn to look at her and where it was coming from. The monsters, the Demons grabbed at there heads and sides. Part of them blew up, literally. And there body parts and blood splattered on tree and metal. She was killing them, dozens at once. The flying one hit the ground and burst into flames. It was a wave of Bard Magick, fury and emotions.
Jeffrey, the Knight Jeffrey, the second in command turned forward and ran at the nearest Demon and screamed a loud, " Attack! " That dragged on for one long breath. The Byzantium Knights slaughtered anything that came towards them. Even the Demons half dead on the ground because of Jewels last attack in this battle.
Jewel stopped her scream, her shriek, her attack and took a deep gasping breath, and fell back down. Down into the old Knights arms, into a sleep. Into a deep unconscious sleep.
* * *
Susan rubbed the water cloth over the young girls head, they had gotten her into a new pair of clothes. A red dress that covered her top and down to her ankles, it was bright and very pretty. They had fought off the monsters, the Demons. And Amasagie was off to some new dimension where he would never get out of, hopefully. But that was not the point now, the was that all the Bards, Witches and Warlocks, Knights, Time Mages, Black Mages, White Mages, and Summoners were all coming to this spot. And partying, loudly. Susan was honestly happy that couple thousand and growing numbers of men and women did not have any alcohol.
Susan smiled as she sat in the tent listening to the cheering and laughter. She was fine attending to the girl who'd saved her life and probably everyone else's, she volunteered to tend to her. She could party later.
" Uh. " The girl was waking up.
Susan's eyes widened in delight, " Here! Keep this! " She said putting the wet cloth in her hand and rubbing her cheek. She got up and ran out of the tent as fast as she could and used her powers to send anyone in her way to her side, just lifting them up and putting them out of her path. Which was a lot of people.
* * *
Jackson sat by his Magick Master. The man who taught him all the Time Magick he knew, he of course had really good books but most lessons were done with him. The leader of the Time Mage's. He sat next to him as they talked about the events.
" So your saying he could get back out? " Mrs. Cackle, the Queen of all Wiccans was there as was every other leader of every other group. She did not shout or scream to voice her concern, but it was in her voice. She was an old women in the same green gown that every other Witch wore, the men wore pretty much
The Mage, Magus, the leader of all Time Mages and the Magick Master of the Time Mage Jackson responded, " His struggling in there is expected for a couple hours to come, but his ripping back out and getting to our world I can assure you will not happen! " He said in a serious tone, " But however. His ripping through and grabbing someone is not unexpected. " He said as he sat down next to his Apprentice.
" Then its settled, we move here and now! " Blake, Lord of all Bards said as he stood up.
" Perhaps some White Mages should stay behind to see if they can stop him from breaking out at all? " Laya, leader of the White Mages implied.
" That might be a good idea, but seeing as his power exceeds just one of us you should only put people here over Level 8, or 9 at least. " Vivi, leader of Black Mages chipped in while sitting on his chair with his Oak staff on the ground and his hands covering the top of it.
" That should be considered, I will have my Knights go and round up everyone and get things moving! " Arthur said as he stood up and got a nod from the many men and women in the tent.
A girl ran into a tent, in the Witch uniform. She was breathing hard, " She's awake! " She said to them all, they immediately got up and walked quickly out of the tent causing a commotion to all those around them seeing there leaders speeding out towards the tent Susan was previously in. She followed behind by Mrs. Cackle.
The people immediately got out of the way and starred at them, murmurs went down the lines of the people as news that all the leaders were on the move together somewhere. Then they walked into the tent where the knew the Bard girl was being kept. They roared in cheering and applause, they knew she was awake. The women who saved them all.
* * *
" Ow! Someone shut them up that REALLY hurts my head! " Jewel said as she put her hand to her ears, she had a pounding headache and the thousand or so people screaming at the top of there lungs was not helping it. She tried to get up, but found herself to tired and lay down. She looked at the tent, the surroundings then remembered it all. The fighting, the Knights on the Chocobo's and all the fighting. And. Amasagie.
Now she snapped up immediately, just as the crowd of people entered the tent, " Amasagie, is he gone? Did you do it?! " She shouted at the two Time Mages and back to the two Witches.
" Yes, yes! Now lie down! He's gone forever! " An old Witch said, then she recognized her as Mrs. Cackles, the Queen of all Witches and Warlocks, also the Charmed women of this generation. Jewels eyes went wide for a second as she noticed all the people in the room were leaders.
The old Witch pulled a seat next to her and turned to a women dressed in baggy brown clothes and what looked like three skirts but was only one, she had a lot of necklaces on her. " Terra, I believe that the package there has some Tien Root in it, can you make an energy drink for her? And Susan I hope you don't mind us taking some of your things! " She asked the leader of the Chemists and told Susan, the other Witch whom she knew since she was a baby.
" Its alright, I never have any real use for those things anyways! " She said with a smile.
Mrs. Cackle turned to the Bard girl on the floor, " Well from what we heard and from what the Knights saw you did quite a job earlier on those Demons! " She said as she grabbed her hand in a motherly way.
" I am Blake, Lord of all Bards and from what im very sure you can see we are the leaders of our class types. But that is not the issue now. The issue at hand is who are you?! " He said as he beamed with pride.
" My name is Jewel. Jewel Tems. " She said at them as she stared at all the people in the room in disbelief, you might catch a glimpse of a Leader maybe, but seeing them all together talk to you at once was a bit overwhelming.
" Jewel Tems you are a hero! " Terra, the leader of the Chemists said as she handed her the drink she had made. She was white with brown hair, she was also as old as Mrs. Cackles whom they said was about 62, but she had the body of a 50 year old. It seemed the same thing for Terra.
" Jewel! " Jackson got up and ran to his childhood friend. The girl he was with in all his hard times. The one person he thought about frequently, his best friend in the whole world so far! Minus his dog, Rusty.
" Jackson! " She took a quick sip of her drink and put it on the table near her and grabbed him as he grabbed her.
" I thought we would never see each other again! " She said as she ruffled his hair and hugged him tightly.
" I take it you two know each other? " Mrs. Cackles said with a happy smile. She enjoyed seeing there happiness, especially with how much sadness and bloodshed there had been.
" I was afraid you were killed in the onslaught at Zepen! " Jackson has tears in his eyes, happiness and joy. It was good to know his best friend was there for him, again.
" No! I was out singing at a Knight company, the Fox team! I parted with them eventually and came here at the meeting point! Then the fight happened and eventually the Knights came along! " She got up slowly, her back ached from the strain of fighting and standing so much, but she could handle the little pain.
" Im sorry to interrupt this reunion but Jewel, dear. Drink your tonic. " Terra said as she picked up the glass and gave it to her with a smile. The young girl gulped it happily and blushed a small bit.
The party outside was loud, people were dancing with each other. Men were dancing with men and women dancing with women. Men and women were dancing with people they didn't even know, it didn't matter. They were celebrating, everyone was celebrating. It was happy, it was joyful. He was gone, forever. No more fighting walking skeletons and no more zombies, half eaten dead to find. Villages that were slaughtered, crucified people still on crucifixes. No more, no more of him. He was gone from there world forever. That's what everyone thinks, it what anyone would think.
* * *
They were moving. All of them, relocating, getting there things and Black Mages, Time Mages, and White Mages were standing in picked out in designated area. But they were being pushed around by all the moving people, it was hard not to move with crowd of over 3,000 people. And that wasn't all of them, a couple more thousand were on there way. And many more for sure.
Then it happened, the crack and the lightning shot out at a group of people. It sent five different people flying out in the air and turned the ground black, a few embers remained on the ground.
Peoples heads shot in those directions and they drew there weapons, magick flared in the air but as this immediately started to happen the portal cracked open and everyone was flung atop each other and out of the way. The head poked out, the snake like spirit transparent form which was his head, the butterfly like wings poked out now and something seemed to tug him back. He shot back an inch or so but held on, the leg like wisps of air shot out at the ground of people that were trying to get up. Magick was flying and hitting people everywhere for everyone was panicking, but nothing could hurt him. Nothing could kill him, there was no way to kill him to anybody's knowledge.
He knew he couldn't escape, but he could get his revenge. Here and now.
* * * The people in the tent ran out, all except for Jewel who slowly got up onto her feet. She was still very tired.
* * *
Susan looked at the spirit form of Amasagie and raised her hands to hit him with a blast of magick, then he turned to her. And looked at HER. His white eyes had no color, except the color of evil, which was evident. Then a string of white transparent like rope shot out at her. She turned to run, she ran into the tent past a confused Jewel and grabbed her bag of supplies in a desperate attempt to hold onto something as the rope like thing grabbed her around her waist. Jewel screamed as Susan was pulled out of the tent with her bag of supplies and spell books held tight. She was dragged into the portal as he shot out more silvery transparent ropes.
* * *
Jewel ran out into the fray of the group as one of the silvery transparent magickal ropes snatched her and dragged her off. She let out a scream that sent waves of destruction out slamming anyone they hit a couple of feet away from her, then she was pulled in before she could react more accurately.
* * *
Jackson saw his friend caught up in the fury of Amasagie. He ran to her aide with his arms outstretched ready to cast a spell that may help her when he to was snatched by the feet and tossed into the air. He his mouth was wide open and his eyes were wide, he was to shocked to scream as he was pulled in with others.
* * *
Shadow walked through the trees at the ongoing battle, it wasn't a battle really, it was more on the area of mass hysteria. He jumped ten feet in the air and landed on a huge Yew Tree and then from there ran across other trees with his pure black outfit covering his whole body, except for his eyes. He was an Assassin and was taught in these acts of great feats. His blue skinned glistened against the full moon as he jumped ten, fifteen, or 5 feet over trees on his way towards the desperate Amasagie. Then in mid jump as his dark, dark, black hair fluttered he could literally feel the eyes turn to him. The hatred and power all at once made the hair on the back of his neck stand up. He turned and his yellow eyes stared at the beast as the blue skinned Assassin was in mid jump. He turned toward the branch he was about to land on when he felt both of his legs caught by something, like a lasso, except it was to tight. And they yanked him 70 feet over and towards the portal, then he like the others were sucked in.
* * *
The little Black Mage was thrown behind a tree by some scream a women gave while being captured by the beast. He picked himself up off the grown and picked up his sturdy staff, the staff made of a Weeping Willows wood. He picked the smooth weapon up and circled with it in the air as he to tried to prepare an attack against the beast, he worked regular Black Magick, otherwise known as attacking magick into a ball of fury and sent it at the Beast. It hit him square in the side as other magicks did but it did not react to him. It moved backwards, not moved.. It was pulled backwards, yanked back by something. Then the beast turned towards him and the last long silver transparent rope like figure came out of the beast and the little Black Mage Cait turned on his heels and ran as fast as he could in the opposite direction while clenching his staff and holding his regulated hat that all Black Mages wore on there head, the leather like tan hat that he held onto as he ran. Then he to was picked up, snatched into the air by one arm and yanked threw the portal as the beast gave one last cry. One last cry, and he was sucked in with the four other people. Into the portal, to another place no one exactly knew about.
* * *
They flung through a tearing portal, it seemed to want to pull them apart and it felt like they were being pulled apart. But they weren't, the knew they weren't.
Amasagie got an idea, he grabbed around at the magick the Time Mages used and twisted it into his own ways. He swirled it around and sent it off to find something else at the same time wrapping it around and protecting him, but inadvertently protecting the people he immediately forgot he took. The opening was there, to a new place. A new land, and he headed for that opening, before he went through however he remembered the dangling people he had taken with him. He let them go, and while he went through that opening. They fell through the other.
* * * * * * * *
" No idea who they are? " Captain Picard asked his senior staff. They were at the meeting room near the bridge. He was of course talking about the five unknown mystery guests they had after recovering the first part of the renegade Klingon wormhole project. They were about ready to destroy it when it activated and the women came out, the other side on some unknown location had activated also and brought the small mini-wormhole automatically into existent, the machinery worked immediately and brought the one up. Instead of machinery coming through or anything the people came out unconscious and they then took care of the machinery, they destroyed it, as was Starfleet and the Klingon High Councils orders were to do.
" None, there were no reports from the prisoners of any humans working with them, or those blue and black aliens, it was only Klingons sir. " Data informed his Captain.
" What about reviving them Doctor? " Picard turned to Beverly Crusher as he spoke.
Beverly replied with rubbing her eyes and saying, " Nothing I can do will revive them. I've used several different medicines and so forth to try to revive them. But nothing works, they go into there systems and just wither away in seconds of being in there bodies! .You know. " She started in thought. " Maybe it's the effects of traveling through the wormhole while not in a ship? " She asked morely to Data then to anyone else.
" That may be possible Doctor, but no creature can survive going through a wormhole without a ship. It is impossible. " He stated in a matter of fact tone.
" But. " The engineer Geordie Leforge added in, " They do have an unidentified energy around them, it can't hurt humans but who's to say it can't manipulated to protect them. " He said with a couple of hand motions, he folded his hands back as he wondered what technology could do such a thing. " Im thinking right now of what technology could do such a manipulation that would last for the hour and a half that we've had them, Borg perhaps? " He questioned to Picard.
" Perhaps, but I don't see the Borg playing any part in this. " Picard answered as he put his hand to his chin in thought.
That's when they heard the first in command Riker laugh, he was looking threw the bag on the table happily. Even Deanna could sense the humor bursting from him at the books he was reading, the only things that had been taken with them. Picard refused to read them, he thought it rubbish. " Maybe its not Borg technology or energy, maybe its Magick! " He said after his loud giggle. He was reading through a couple of books in front of him. There was also many supplies in the bag but a jar of herbs was on the table.
" Riker, I don't know anything about these materials but there is no such thing as Magick. " Picard said with a smile as he took the jaw of cut up herb leafs and looked at them. He smiled as he opened it and sniffed it, it was a strong smell. It was nice though, it was a scent of lavender and roses mixed together. He put the jar pack on it and placed it back in the bag.
Riker was about to say something but Data started his sentence before he could open his mouth fully. " Captain, I've had an intriguing thought. " He said as he seemed to be processing his ideas.
Picard raised his eyebrows in question but Deanna was the one to answer, " And what is that Data? " She was as eager as anyone else for answers or ideas as to what was going on.
" Deep Space 9 has had many instances with there wormhole where they have gone to parallel or alternate universes. Perhaps this is magickal energy of some sort around and protecting them and they were accidentally dragged into our world when the wormholes open. " He said knowledgably.
" That is one theory we will keep in mind till they wake up, then we will run the idea by them. " Picard said to him. He doubted the idea as most other people in the room probably did. But who's to say they couldn't see if it was true in anyway?
" I suggest we get back to our duties. Dr. Crusher, when they have waken up please contact me immediately. " He said with a smile to her as they all got up.
" Of course, Captain. " She said as she left the room.
They all went back to the bridge and took there appropriate seats. Now it was just time to wait, wait for them to regain consciousness.
* * *
Shadow stirred on the little bed in the sickbay. The security guard raised weapons as his eyes fluttered open. He had a huge headache. One of them already went to go get Dr. Crusher. And she was there quickly. He felt her hands on his chest pushing him back down. " Lie down, you should be pretty tired after what you experienced and quite frankly you seem to have a killer headache. I will get something for the pain. " She said as she turned around. A strong hand grabbed her arm and spun her back.
Shadow bolted upright ignoring her words about the headache he might have, he did have a small one though but his yellow eyes were content with one thought, Amasagie. " Where is the Beast? " He demanded of her in a deep tone.
" What? What are you talking about? Let go of my arm your hurting me! " She said back to him as she tired to pry his fingers off of her arm.
" Where is Amasagie, did he come through? And where are WE? " He practically shouted at her.
He felt something prod near him. Close to him, but not on him. He turned to see a security guard with his Phaser rifle pointed at him, on stun of course. " Let her go now. " He demanded shrilly. He had hair as dark as Shadows, and his hair was very black. He let go of her arm, slowly of course.
In all the commotion they never noticed Jewel waking up on the opposite side of the room. In one close second as she held her head she gave the ear splitting scream, it was a Bard scream. They all turned to her immediately and Dr. Crusher put her hands to her ears as the Security guards aimed at her with there weapons. That's when they saw what looked like smoke coming of the tip of there weapons, where the hole was to fire at. The tip of the Phaser rifles had melted down in a black blob like ending. Closing the hole for the trigger to fire. Jewel could recognize a weapon when she saw one.
Beverly hit her com badge, " Dr. Crusher to Captain, there awake and were going to need more security! " She said as she turned and grabbed a vial of liquid she was ready to inject into them, it was a deep sedative. " Understood! " She heard her captain say back, she then hit the badge again to turn the communication off. Then she turned back around to see the beautiful long black haired women in front of her. She had a determined, superior look on her face.
" Whatever you have in your hand, put it down. " She said in a voice full of seriousness, and above all. Magick. Beverly put the vial down quickly and stared at the women in surprise and then back at her hand. She had made her do it. Somehow her voice command made her do it. She backed up slowly.
" Were NOT your enemies. " She said slowly as she backed up towards the guards. She then backed behind them when they took the front of her with there weapons out, they were prepared to use them as clubs. Beverly then packed up into the black human looking thing with a pointy hat. She turned around to look at its dark yellow eyes and jumped back and screamed.
" Excuse me, but where am I? " The 16 year old Black Mage said as he looked around. He bent down to pick up his Oak staff and held it firmly as he stared at the much taller humans. He was only four feet or so tall, he was quite short. She jumped into the middle of the security personal as Commander Riker and 3 other security guards came into the infirmary with phasers on stun.
" Where is Amasagie? Is he near? And where is this place we are at? " Susan demanded of all the other people in the room. She had taken on the command of being a leader.
Jackson stirred, he started rubbing his head. He had a slight head ache to, but his head wasn't the only thing that ached. He was very tired, but he got energized quickly at the surroundings and sudden memories of there current events. " Jackson! " Jewel walked towards her child hood friend and helped him up. He stood on the ground firm by her and looked at the surroundings. The Black Mage was in the middle of a group of people looking quite bewildered, then they could see his beady eyes widen when he remembered exactly what was going on. As for Shadow, the Assassin, he was still on the medical bed accessing his surroundings. All his knives, daggers, darts, and so forth had been taken away from him.
" Oh dear! " He said as he waved his hands, he lost balance and fell flat on his little Black Mage bottom. " Oh! " He said as he rubbed his body.
" You are on the U.S.S. Enterprise-E, I am Commander William Riker. Please calm down now and lets just take care of this peacefully and figure out how you ended up here. I don't want to hurt you people. " He said as he looked at the tips of the melted weapons. He turned back towards the people, still holding his Phaser up.
Susan cocked her left eyebrow. " .. Alright. " Susan said reluctantly and took a step back, but she was still ready to let out at any moment.
" Good, put down your weapons. " Riker said as he sheathed his Phaser. The other security guards did the same.
" Explain. " Susan demanded of them again, she stared straight at Riker but the question was to every other person in the room.
Riker moved his hands with his speech, he wanted to seem as peaceful as he could to them. " Lets take this somewhere else where we can be more comfortable. But only one of you can go. " He said as his eyes darted to all of them and then down on the black alien on the floor staring wide eyed at everyone in the room.
Jewel made the decision. " Susan, you go. " She said as she stood by her friend
Riker looked to the tall dark haired, beautiful women. " You it is then, please follow me. The Captain of our ship wanted us to meet in a meeting area. These men will have to accompany you for security reasons of course. " The women simply nodded. She passed by the bearded man and stopped in front of the doors. They opened automatically and she stared at them for a second or two, then waited for Riker to lead the way. Which he was all to willing to do.
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Riker looked at the new women. Each new corridor seemed to surprise her. And the turbo lift seemed to scare the shit out of her, well at least for a split second. This was obviously something she was not used to, unless she was playing a game. But Deanna would figure that all out, she was half Baetazoid and could sense her lies and so forth. They were going straight to the briefing room.
They got off the turbo lift and walked past the people on the bridge. The women stopped and stared at the screen. The stars, her mouth fell open for a second and Riker slowly cleared his voice. She gave him a stern look then followed past the opening doors she had now become partially used to and into the room that had the ships counselor, Deanna Troy, Captain Picard, along with the android Data. They stared at her as she came in and Riker put a firm hand on her shoulders and guided her as she sat down at the end of the long table. William took a seat next to the captain by the top of the table, Deanna was on his right. Data was alone on his left next to Picard.
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" I am Captain Jean Luc Picard of the U.S.S. Enterprise E. This is my first in command William Riker, and the ships counselor Deanna Troy. Now im going to be blunt about this, whom are you and how is it you were able to go through a wormhole without a ship or anything protecting you? " Picards eyes were fixed straight onto hers. Data turned to pick up the bag of her supplies and opened one of the biggest books reading it as he turned the pages.
" Wormhole? " She tilted her head and asked him with a confused look. She of course had no idea what he was talking about.
Data turned to her, " A rift in space that connects one point to another over great distances taking you to there in seconds, when in reality you would have to travel days, or months perhaps. "
Her face tilted forward and only said one word, the only word that kept coming to her mind. " What? " Then she noticed what he was reading, her books. " Those are my supplies! " She said with an alarmed look. She got up to reach over to them and take them back.
" That! Can wait. " Picard shot at her, she stopped reaching for them and snapped her head to look at him. He seemed to be the authority figure here.
" Were here to talk about you. " Picard began again as Susan sat back down in the chair, her back straight and eyes locked with his.
" How is it you were able to go through a wormhole and land at our feet without being hurt at all, the only thing around your group was an unidentified energy source. What was it and are you in league with the Klingons whom built the artificial wormholes? " Picard demanded of her. William Riker eagerly awaited her answer.
Susan just stared blankly at him. She cocked an eyebrow then she looked back at the stars and back at him. And said one word. " What? "
Riker turned to Deanna and Picard listened in on the answer she was about to give to him in response. " What do you sense? " He asked her.
" She is confused and curious. I think she knows as little of the situation as we d- " Deanna began but stopped when Susan's head snapped in her direction. She stopped and tried to read her again. But she couldn't. She couldn't read her and Susan turned and looked at everyone in the room, then stopped at Data. " Riker. She just closed herself to me. " Deanna said as she turned her head and looked at her commanding officer.
" What are you? " Susan asked the white being across from her.
" I am an Android. " He said to her. She continued to stare at him, so he replied back to her in a more in depth manner. " I am a robot. "
" Oh. Those are new. " She said as she nodded her head in understanding. Now it was there turn to stare at her. " What? " She asked, yet again.
" Never mind. Its not important. What is important however is whom you are?! " He demanded of her yet again.
It was funny though. They had looked at her books and they hadn't even identified her as a Witch, nor did they ask her her level. And on the other more important note that hadn't even asked her about Amasagie. Nor did they mention the Demon.
" My name is Susan Westten.. " She began. That's when she decided she would be as formal as you were suppose to be if you were caught by an enemy in battle. List your name, class type, level, and hope they keep records of it for your family. " Im a level 13 Wiccan Witch. "
Yet again, the bridge crew stared at her. " Excuse me? " Riker asked her with an almost wide eyed expression.
" Im a Witch, and there is a Bard down in that room we woke up in, along with an Assassin, Time Mage, and a Black Mage. " She said with her back straight, she stared at them. They stared back, again. Blankly.
" What now?! " She said annoyed.
Picard took it from here, " I suggest you skip the fairy tales and tell us the truth of the matter! " He was annoyed now, very annoyed. And also tired of the constant staring that they were giving one another.
" I. Am telling the truth. " She stated in a deep tone. She was not liking this stuff, first she could see stars and now these people didn't believe she was a Witch. In fact they called it a fairy tale, when in reality everyone had to at least have seen a Witch once in there life. Picard gave a deep sigh and rubbed his brow. Then realized it, Amasagie took them into a time portal. If he could have used the magick.. If he found a window to another place..
Susan's head had lowered in thought and it now shot up. Her hand shot towards her book that the robot was reading. This made everyone in the room snap there heads as they turned and looked at her, but less than a second in her putting her arm up the book shot across the table, it slid fast along the smooth surface and she slammed her hand down on it to stop it from flying off the table.
Susan ignored the two security guard's that turned towards her with there weapons. As for everyone else in the room, they all jumped in there chairs almost, except for Data of course.
" How the hell did you do that?! " Picard shouted at her as he slammed his fist on the table, he had gotten up then to stare at her from his full height.
Susan looked up at him as her hand laid on the book, " Captain im sorry to frighten you but I will explain later. " She said as he lifted her hand and turned back down to the book. She put her fingers on the cover, it said Magick in beautifully huge written letters. It had pictures on it, a faerie in a forest on a mushroom, she sat there with her finger pressed against. Everyone at the table watched slowly, Commander William Riker opened his mouth to say something, then he stopped. His and everyone's eyes went wide, except Data who cocked his head in curiosity. The faerie on the cover started moving, and fluttering around, she then stopped, and stared at Susan on the cover. " Hey Susan! What's up now? " She said with a little smile, she lifted her left leg up and rubbed her right leg with it. She had what looked like a beautiful white sparkling dress on that was cut short at her knees, and her slippers were white to, completely. And everything on her sparkled. Even her hair.
Susan replied with a serious look that made the faerie think something important was up, " I need everything on Time Magick gone bad, portals and stuff... " She slowed down and contemplated on whether to say this next part or not. The faerie waited for the Witch she worked for to finish. " And something on. Alternate reality's.. " She said softly, in a low tone.
Captain Picard heard it, the whole table heard it. And he had had enough, but he and everyone else didn't notice the guard's. They were frozen, not literally, but they weren't moving or taking action. " Guards, ta- " He stopped his sentence. That's when he noticed. Riker looked at his Captain to see what was wrong, then turned to where his gaze stared. The men, weren't moving. He shot up out of his chair. " Security! "
Susan looked up, then five officers bounded through the doors with weapons ready to fire. What they were going to fire she didn't know. But they looked an awful lot like the guns that had been just made in her time, the ones that shot metal ball that could pierce the body. She put her hands up and let go of the two guard's who looked around daze. Time passed them, minutes, and they didn't notice.
It was Picards turn to shout out orders. However he did not. The book, she had been talking to with the moving image was now moving. The book slammed open on the table and the pages were flipping through the book. On there own, they all stared as it passed immense paragraphs filled with the knowledge of magick and Wicca, it passed diagrams of beasts, monsters, Demons, and magickall rituals. " What is it doing? " Picard said to himself, but also to everyone in the room, especially the young girl named Susan.
Susan opened her mouth a bit, slowly. The leader in charge, the captain looked to her as she got ready to spoke. " Its reading the information, then it shall give it to me. " Was her response, her eyes stared at his. And his at her. That's when he saw the gentleness in her eyes. She didn't want to hurt anyone, she was peaceful. And he knew it.
The book stopped before they could speak again, before the orders could be given to the security guards. The book slammed shut leaving the fluttering Faerie on the cover. " Okay Susan, Time Magick usually does not go wrong, well it does if your young and stupid but as for portals, there has never been an occurrence of something going wrong. And Wiccan portal magick always leads to a specific place. There for its chance of cracking into another dimension by mistake with all the added power that would have been made to create it and navigate it are small, but it had happened before. From what we know you usually end up in a Demon Dimension. And this... " She said with a motion of her hand to the surroundings she could see through her book. " Are not by any means Demon related, even though they seem somewhat distasteful in several aspects... " She eyed the peoples clothing, definitely not fashionable. To a Faery that is. " As for Alternate realitys, the rune master Hellion once traveled to a world by accident after acquiring a powerful Rune. The Rune was destroyed that she had discovered, however the extremely powerful Mother Earth rune she still had she then decided to use to defend herself. And here is the best part! " The Faery was getting giddy now and fluttering all over the cover. There was a war in this world, two to be precise and each one was lead by a young man with a castle as the headquarters of the army. They also had a stone tablet that listed the one-hundred and eight Stars Of Destiny, these people were all destined to fight this war, in THAT castle, with that young man! There names were etched in stone once they joined the fight! They were destined Susan! Hear me, DESTINED! Meaning she was meant to go there! Fate made it happen so she would end there. Which means, those coincidences. Are meant to happen.. " She stared at Susan who let the words work there way into her. Everyone else in the meeting room seemed amazed, and wide opened. Except for Data who tilted his head while listening to what the book had to say. " Im going to hide behind my mushroom now! " The Faery said and ran behind the mushroom on the book cover. Then the images stopped moving, with her of course out of sight.
The captain turned his face towards the guards. " Wait a moment. " He told them as he looked at the girl and asked the question on everyone's mind. " What was that? " He said plainly to her, the seriousness in his voice was hard, cold, and most importantly noticeable.
Susan didn't know how to reply. The fact that the books themselves handed out to Witches were alive had known and been around for centuries, this she thought to herself, was a mess. A big one. " The books itself is alive, complete and utterly. It can find the knowledge within itself and relay it to me or I could look through manually. I prefer to let it do it work though. "
Data took his turn with the questioning. " How is it you can achieve such tasks with objects? What technology is it you use? "
Susan looked at the men around here with the rifles. She slowly laid her hands down on the table, no one objected to it. She didn't feel like risking it by trying to use her book again and she did not want to show her true power by subduing all five of the guards at once, she made the promise to Mrs. Cackles that she wouldn't let anyone know about her being Charmed and she intended to keep it that way, there was only suppose to be one of them at a time after all, and as the old women said the world sure as hell was not ready for Susan! " Its Magick.. " She said blankly to him. Were these people dumb or was she really in an alternate reality.
" What about the wormhole? Was that Magick to? " Riker spat at her in annoyance. Deanna turned to him with a face that said to calm down.
" Well its not like we WANTED to come here, Amasagie dragged us in, literally!! " She said as she looked around the room and put out her hands to show the whole ship or. thing that they were on. " But if I did know I certainly would fix it so I could get back. But now im going to address a bigger problem then the one you think have. What about the Demon, did he come out of this "wormhole" with us? " She demanded of them, she was very serious now and the tone she carried matched that of the captain.
Deanna took I her turn now to speak, " Excuse me but what do you mean by Demon? And who is this Amasagie? Another one of you? " She said as she turned to Picard who light up at the thought of another person coming with them that they missed, but that itself seemed impossible. She continued talking, " The only things that came in through that artificial wormhole were you five people. " She said to her in a much more gentler manner than that which everyone else was talking to her in.
Then it hit her, it hit Susan. The idea, the realization of it. " Wait a second. " She said as she put her index finger up to pause anymore talking. " If one portal, or wormhole opens up, there has to be another end, right?! " She said with obvious eagerness. Susan asked the question towards Deanna and the half Betazoid nodded in answer. " Then he came out the other side.. " She said as her face grew white, and terror dawned over her features. Her heart was beating, fast. That was when she let her guard down, Deanna sensed it. The fear, the terror, complete and utter, no other emotions. Just fear.
The counselor took a deep breath and turned toward Riker and the Captain. " Fear, lots of it. " She said with an almost wide eyed expression, her tone was low, but Susan heard her. But that didn't matter, she didn't respond to it.
Then it dawned on her. She put her head down in thought and turned it up slowly with her eyes open. " Magick doesn't exist here, does it? " She asked them slowly. Now, she was completely terrified.
Deanna was very worried, this women was scared. She was scared more than anything she had ever seen before, more scared then she and her whole crew was during every encounter with the Borg. More terrified then any of them had ever been. Deanna shook her head, this women was sincere, she could sense that. " No. " She said as she shook her head, she had the concerned look on her face. The one of a Counsellor.
Picard decided not to interrupt and put his hand on Rikers shoulder before he could say anything to the security guards or to her.
Susan was almost speechless, mortified. " You have no Wiccans? " She started aasking her straing of questions as Deanna started to shake her head with each one. " Druids, Bards, Black Mages, Time Mages, Assasins, nothing! You have nothing! " She almost shouted at her.
Deanna replied, " No, nothing you've mentioned makes any sense to me, except for Druids from stories, legends to say the least! " She told her, now she was concerned. Susan looked like she might freak out any moment. Forget that last thought, she was freaking out.
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Authors Note: Whats gonna happen now? Will our heroes go home! Or will they stay.Well seeing as how Im going to have a hell of a lot more chapters I think we should go with the stay option now. :b)
Authors Note: I've based a lot of the magick and stuff off of my imagination and many different areas. I've used a bit of Final Fantasy stuff in here but for the most part have made it my own. Susan's religeon is really based off real Wicca, I have a pretty good background there. And a lot of the other things are my mind picking stuff up.
Now, I don't own the Enterprise or its cast, that's all im gonna say. Not gonna say more, I feel that I shouldn't even have to say it because its so damn obvious, ya know?! Hope you all enjoy this, its my first fanfic ever on fanfiction.net! I hope you guys like it, and please give me reviews! Not to ego hurting though, okay? :b)
The time mages stood in the circle with the cage in the middle chanting, raising the energies. They were in there standard uniforms, they had the star and moon robes on. They were blue, a silk pretty blue with the silver moons and stars on them. As for the Witches using the spell to hold the Demon, they were in circles everywhere raising energy that was being sent to the magickall cage that the creature slammed into every second. There were many Witches, the whole unity of Witches and Warlocks were not there but there were about 25 of them and around 50 Time Mages. Trying desperately to send the evil spirit away. The Witches were in the green beautiful gowns that were there uniforms, they sat in circles hands held tight as magick and energy flowed through them, they invoked and summed whatever they could and whatever came to mine to use as energy and help. And beside the occasional few that fell down because they couldn't take it, they were doing pretty well.
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" Okay! I'm here! " Jewel said as she stormed into a clearing past a huge Oak tree. The plain red silky gown that she wore fluttered as she skidded to a halt and her eyes spread wide open. " Wow. " Her hair was held up in a bright red pin, in one large bundle. Fighting style for a Bard. She had a pretty face and red hair, flaming red hair. But she wasn't normal for a red head, her skin wasn't pure white like most red headed people. It surely isn't tan, but its not completely pale white. She knew what was in the magickall cage the Witches were powering to keep strong, she knew who and what it was. Amasagie the Demon lord they all united to fight. And the Time Mages were about to send it out somewhere, to some sort of dimension they knew it would not be able to get out of and back to there world, there had been some talk of it. Some rumor, and the air like serpent spirit that was Amasagie was battling against the cave. Smashing its body into it, trying to get free. Jewel stood there, frightened and in awe.
There was a loud crashing sound behind her, and a roar. She turned and looked at a troll, it was huge. Towering about 7 feet in the air, it was hairy and probably smelled. It had a huge club and it had to be about 6 feet wide. Her head snapped back as she looked at the Witches and the Time Mage's. It was going to slaughter them in the middle of chant, toss them aside into the air and help set free Amasagie, unleash him again.
A Time Mage broke his connection, he was old. He had a long beard and silvery gray hair. He was old enough to realized Bard robes when he saw them. He broke the connection and screamed to the girl at the top of his lungs, " Stop that Troll! " He then zapped back into the chain of energy and chanting.
Jewel turned around and fronted her whole body at the running monster, the Troll. She opened her mouth, and let loose. Literally. The scream was loud and ear piercing, it of course would not hurt the Witches or the working Time Mages but it would hit the oncoming Troll. The scream in stories to come was told to be that of a scream that could shatter glass even in the great castle of Thorn.
The troll stopped and dropped its club, it grabbed its head and screamed. Its scream of course was not as loud as Jewels. It slammed into a tree, a small one that broke under its strength and sent splinters popping out in all directions. It lurched and tossed itself onto the ground vomiting as it still slashed out in all directions sending its fluids all around it. Most monsters or Demons would not take this long to kill, but the Troll did have some magick in him which kept him alive. But nor for long.
It gave one final vomit and shot upward as its brain ruptured and exploded inside its skull, blood came out of its ears. And she stopped screaming. She turned back to the Witches and Time Mage's who were still working, they didn't even pay full attention to her. But then she though, why should they. They had better things to pay attention to.
She turned back towards the body of the dead Troll, she knew it was dead. Her eyes slowly moved from there to the rest of the forest and she screamed again. A burst of magick escaped her and she twirled around in a perfect circle and came back to facing the dead Troll, if any other monsters had been in the area they would have jumped or yelped in pain, it was only a low pitch scream attack. But then she heard the chatter, and her mouth dropped a little, there were a lot coming. But there was no way, no way in all of the worlds she would let a bunch of little critter get past her and unleash the hell that had been going on for to long. No, they would have to get past her, there was a cliff behind her and the Time Mages and Witches, the only way to them was past her. And it was not going to happen.
A flying bat like thing came at her, it was about three feet tall. She screamed at it and it went flying backwards into a tree unconscious. Another one flew at her and ripped at her hair, she screamed at it and shattered its insides, she turned to the unconscious one and finished it off before it could regain consciousness.
She turned to the front of her and let our her scream, her shrieking scream.
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The Knights of the order of Byzantium rode in on the Chocobo's, they came at the side and stopped when they saw the Time Mage's and Witches working. They turned as they heard the screams that brought them to the area. They saw the women, in the red gown, a Bard. And that's when they saw the ground and the littered Demon bodies.
" Charge! " The old man screamed on his Red Chocobo, he was the leader of the Order of Byzantium and he and his men charged forward drawing swords and axes, a couple of them stopped and got off and aimed with there bows and arrows.
They rode in on the Chocobos slashing at anything that came to close, or that had more then one hand.. The girl they saw, the Bard, now had cuts on her face and a slight limp on her leg where a large gash had been made. Her held up hair now was partly held up with a good half of it tossed out in direction, there locks of the bright red hair on the ground and she had many scratches on her face, many deep gashes in her side. Her red gown now was tattered and ripped in almost all places, cloth hung at her side and she now leaned on the large Oak tree she had come in by, still screaming at the Demons. She jumped when the Knights past her on the Chocobo's. The old man got off of the Chocobo and stood by her, he drew the sword from the saddle and touched the Chocobo in the stomach, a signal to go out and fight the enemy. The huge yellow bird took off and did as ordered.
The man turned to her and spoke but nearly raised his sword when she screamed at a green creature, it was about two feet high that had four pairs of arms and two inch long sharp teeth. He then turned and looked at the dead bodies of the Demons all around him, and backed to her. This women, this young red haired women had done ALL this. There must have been over fifty bodies laying on the field before them. The girl collapsed, almost. The man caught her in his arms and laid her on the ground, one eye on her and the other on his surroundings and the battle going on. " Here, lay down now. We have it under control. " He said to her reassuringly.
" No. " Jewel replied in a raspy voice.
" No? " He said in a question to her. His armor clinked as he grabbed a water casket at his side and put it to her lips to drink. She was sweating.
It was a no, to everything, not her world. Not her allies. No, no, no, no more letting them kill. No more! She got up slowly and the old man in armor stared at her in confusion, what more could she do.
She took a deep breath, and let out a scream. The loudest one she could have ever done. It shook the trees and made some of the Knights stop and turn to look at her and where it was coming from. The monsters, the Demons grabbed at there heads and sides. Part of them blew up, literally. And there body parts and blood splattered on tree and metal. She was killing them, dozens at once. The flying one hit the ground and burst into flames. It was a wave of Bard Magick, fury and emotions.
Jeffrey, the Knight Jeffrey, the second in command turned forward and ran at the nearest Demon and screamed a loud, " Attack! " That dragged on for one long breath. The Byzantium Knights slaughtered anything that came towards them. Even the Demons half dead on the ground because of Jewels last attack in this battle.
Jewel stopped her scream, her shriek, her attack and took a deep gasping breath, and fell back down. Down into the old Knights arms, into a sleep. Into a deep unconscious sleep.
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Susan rubbed the water cloth over the young girls head, they had gotten her into a new pair of clothes. A red dress that covered her top and down to her ankles, it was bright and very pretty. They had fought off the monsters, the Demons. And Amasagie was off to some new dimension where he would never get out of, hopefully. But that was not the point now, the was that all the Bards, Witches and Warlocks, Knights, Time Mages, Black Mages, White Mages, and Summoners were all coming to this spot. And partying, loudly. Susan was honestly happy that couple thousand and growing numbers of men and women did not have any alcohol.
Susan smiled as she sat in the tent listening to the cheering and laughter. She was fine attending to the girl who'd saved her life and probably everyone else's, she volunteered to tend to her. She could party later.
" Uh. " The girl was waking up.
Susan's eyes widened in delight, " Here! Keep this! " She said putting the wet cloth in her hand and rubbing her cheek. She got up and ran out of the tent as fast as she could and used her powers to send anyone in her way to her side, just lifting them up and putting them out of her path. Which was a lot of people.
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Jackson sat by his Magick Master. The man who taught him all the Time Magick he knew, he of course had really good books but most lessons were done with him. The leader of the Time Mage's. He sat next to him as they talked about the events.
" So your saying he could get back out? " Mrs. Cackle, the Queen of all Wiccans was there as was every other leader of every other group. She did not shout or scream to voice her concern, but it was in her voice. She was an old women in the same green gown that every other Witch wore, the men wore pretty much
The Mage, Magus, the leader of all Time Mages and the Magick Master of the Time Mage Jackson responded, " His struggling in there is expected for a couple hours to come, but his ripping back out and getting to our world I can assure you will not happen! " He said in a serious tone, " But however. His ripping through and grabbing someone is not unexpected. " He said as he sat down next to his Apprentice.
" Then its settled, we move here and now! " Blake, Lord of all Bards said as he stood up.
" Perhaps some White Mages should stay behind to see if they can stop him from breaking out at all? " Laya, leader of the White Mages implied.
" That might be a good idea, but seeing as his power exceeds just one of us you should only put people here over Level 8, or 9 at least. " Vivi, leader of Black Mages chipped in while sitting on his chair with his Oak staff on the ground and his hands covering the top of it.
" That should be considered, I will have my Knights go and round up everyone and get things moving! " Arthur said as he stood up and got a nod from the many men and women in the tent.
A girl ran into a tent, in the Witch uniform. She was breathing hard, " She's awake! " She said to them all, they immediately got up and walked quickly out of the tent causing a commotion to all those around them seeing there leaders speeding out towards the tent Susan was previously in. She followed behind by Mrs. Cackle.
The people immediately got out of the way and starred at them, murmurs went down the lines of the people as news that all the leaders were on the move together somewhere. Then they walked into the tent where the knew the Bard girl was being kept. They roared in cheering and applause, they knew she was awake. The women who saved them all.
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" Ow! Someone shut them up that REALLY hurts my head! " Jewel said as she put her hand to her ears, she had a pounding headache and the thousand or so people screaming at the top of there lungs was not helping it. She tried to get up, but found herself to tired and lay down. She looked at the tent, the surroundings then remembered it all. The fighting, the Knights on the Chocobo's and all the fighting. And. Amasagie.
Now she snapped up immediately, just as the crowd of people entered the tent, " Amasagie, is he gone? Did you do it?! " She shouted at the two Time Mages and back to the two Witches.
" Yes, yes! Now lie down! He's gone forever! " An old Witch said, then she recognized her as Mrs. Cackles, the Queen of all Witches and Warlocks, also the Charmed women of this generation. Jewels eyes went wide for a second as she noticed all the people in the room were leaders.
The old Witch pulled a seat next to her and turned to a women dressed in baggy brown clothes and what looked like three skirts but was only one, she had a lot of necklaces on her. " Terra, I believe that the package there has some Tien Root in it, can you make an energy drink for her? And Susan I hope you don't mind us taking some of your things! " She asked the leader of the Chemists and told Susan, the other Witch whom she knew since she was a baby.
" Its alright, I never have any real use for those things anyways! " She said with a smile.
Mrs. Cackle turned to the Bard girl on the floor, " Well from what we heard and from what the Knights saw you did quite a job earlier on those Demons! " She said as she grabbed her hand in a motherly way.
" I am Blake, Lord of all Bards and from what im very sure you can see we are the leaders of our class types. But that is not the issue now. The issue at hand is who are you?! " He said as he beamed with pride.
" My name is Jewel. Jewel Tems. " She said at them as she stared at all the people in the room in disbelief, you might catch a glimpse of a Leader maybe, but seeing them all together talk to you at once was a bit overwhelming.
" Jewel Tems you are a hero! " Terra, the leader of the Chemists said as she handed her the drink she had made. She was white with brown hair, she was also as old as Mrs. Cackles whom they said was about 62, but she had the body of a 50 year old. It seemed the same thing for Terra.
" Jewel! " Jackson got up and ran to his childhood friend. The girl he was with in all his hard times. The one person he thought about frequently, his best friend in the whole world so far! Minus his dog, Rusty.
" Jackson! " She took a quick sip of her drink and put it on the table near her and grabbed him as he grabbed her.
" I thought we would never see each other again! " She said as she ruffled his hair and hugged him tightly.
" I take it you two know each other? " Mrs. Cackles said with a happy smile. She enjoyed seeing there happiness, especially with how much sadness and bloodshed there had been.
" I was afraid you were killed in the onslaught at Zepen! " Jackson has tears in his eyes, happiness and joy. It was good to know his best friend was there for him, again.
" No! I was out singing at a Knight company, the Fox team! I parted with them eventually and came here at the meeting point! Then the fight happened and eventually the Knights came along! " She got up slowly, her back ached from the strain of fighting and standing so much, but she could handle the little pain.
" Im sorry to interrupt this reunion but Jewel, dear. Drink your tonic. " Terra said as she picked up the glass and gave it to her with a smile. The young girl gulped it happily and blushed a small bit.
The party outside was loud, people were dancing with each other. Men were dancing with men and women dancing with women. Men and women were dancing with people they didn't even know, it didn't matter. They were celebrating, everyone was celebrating. It was happy, it was joyful. He was gone, forever. No more fighting walking skeletons and no more zombies, half eaten dead to find. Villages that were slaughtered, crucified people still on crucifixes. No more, no more of him. He was gone from there world forever. That's what everyone thinks, it what anyone would think.
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They were moving. All of them, relocating, getting there things and Black Mages, Time Mages, and White Mages were standing in picked out in designated area. But they were being pushed around by all the moving people, it was hard not to move with crowd of over 3,000 people. And that wasn't all of them, a couple more thousand were on there way. And many more for sure.
Then it happened, the crack and the lightning shot out at a group of people. It sent five different people flying out in the air and turned the ground black, a few embers remained on the ground.
Peoples heads shot in those directions and they drew there weapons, magick flared in the air but as this immediately started to happen the portal cracked open and everyone was flung atop each other and out of the way. The head poked out, the snake like spirit transparent form which was his head, the butterfly like wings poked out now and something seemed to tug him back. He shot back an inch or so but held on, the leg like wisps of air shot out at the ground of people that were trying to get up. Magick was flying and hitting people everywhere for everyone was panicking, but nothing could hurt him. Nothing could kill him, there was no way to kill him to anybody's knowledge.
He knew he couldn't escape, but he could get his revenge. Here and now.
* * * The people in the tent ran out, all except for Jewel who slowly got up onto her feet. She was still very tired.
* * *
Susan looked at the spirit form of Amasagie and raised her hands to hit him with a blast of magick, then he turned to her. And looked at HER. His white eyes had no color, except the color of evil, which was evident. Then a string of white transparent like rope shot out at her. She turned to run, she ran into the tent past a confused Jewel and grabbed her bag of supplies in a desperate attempt to hold onto something as the rope like thing grabbed her around her waist. Jewel screamed as Susan was pulled out of the tent with her bag of supplies and spell books held tight. She was dragged into the portal as he shot out more silvery transparent ropes.
* * *
Jewel ran out into the fray of the group as one of the silvery transparent magickal ropes snatched her and dragged her off. She let out a scream that sent waves of destruction out slamming anyone they hit a couple of feet away from her, then she was pulled in before she could react more accurately.
* * *
Jackson saw his friend caught up in the fury of Amasagie. He ran to her aide with his arms outstretched ready to cast a spell that may help her when he to was snatched by the feet and tossed into the air. He his mouth was wide open and his eyes were wide, he was to shocked to scream as he was pulled in with others.
* * *
Shadow walked through the trees at the ongoing battle, it wasn't a battle really, it was more on the area of mass hysteria. He jumped ten feet in the air and landed on a huge Yew Tree and then from there ran across other trees with his pure black outfit covering his whole body, except for his eyes. He was an Assassin and was taught in these acts of great feats. His blue skinned glistened against the full moon as he jumped ten, fifteen, or 5 feet over trees on his way towards the desperate Amasagie. Then in mid jump as his dark, dark, black hair fluttered he could literally feel the eyes turn to him. The hatred and power all at once made the hair on the back of his neck stand up. He turned and his yellow eyes stared at the beast as the blue skinned Assassin was in mid jump. He turned toward the branch he was about to land on when he felt both of his legs caught by something, like a lasso, except it was to tight. And they yanked him 70 feet over and towards the portal, then he like the others were sucked in.
* * *
The little Black Mage was thrown behind a tree by some scream a women gave while being captured by the beast. He picked himself up off the grown and picked up his sturdy staff, the staff made of a Weeping Willows wood. He picked the smooth weapon up and circled with it in the air as he to tried to prepare an attack against the beast, he worked regular Black Magick, otherwise known as attacking magick into a ball of fury and sent it at the Beast. It hit him square in the side as other magicks did but it did not react to him. It moved backwards, not moved.. It was pulled backwards, yanked back by something. Then the beast turned towards him and the last long silver transparent rope like figure came out of the beast and the little Black Mage Cait turned on his heels and ran as fast as he could in the opposite direction while clenching his staff and holding his regulated hat that all Black Mages wore on there head, the leather like tan hat that he held onto as he ran. Then he to was picked up, snatched into the air by one arm and yanked threw the portal as the beast gave one last cry. One last cry, and he was sucked in with the four other people. Into the portal, to another place no one exactly knew about.
* * *
They flung through a tearing portal, it seemed to want to pull them apart and it felt like they were being pulled apart. But they weren't, the knew they weren't.
Amasagie got an idea, he grabbed around at the magick the Time Mages used and twisted it into his own ways. He swirled it around and sent it off to find something else at the same time wrapping it around and protecting him, but inadvertently protecting the people he immediately forgot he took. The opening was there, to a new place. A new land, and he headed for that opening, before he went through however he remembered the dangling people he had taken with him. He let them go, and while he went through that opening. They fell through the other.
* * * * * * * *
" No idea who they are? " Captain Picard asked his senior staff. They were at the meeting room near the bridge. He was of course talking about the five unknown mystery guests they had after recovering the first part of the renegade Klingon wormhole project. They were about ready to destroy it when it activated and the women came out, the other side on some unknown location had activated also and brought the small mini-wormhole automatically into existent, the machinery worked immediately and brought the one up. Instead of machinery coming through or anything the people came out unconscious and they then took care of the machinery, they destroyed it, as was Starfleet and the Klingon High Councils orders were to do.
" None, there were no reports from the prisoners of any humans working with them, or those blue and black aliens, it was only Klingons sir. " Data informed his Captain.
" What about reviving them Doctor? " Picard turned to Beverly Crusher as he spoke.
Beverly replied with rubbing her eyes and saying, " Nothing I can do will revive them. I've used several different medicines and so forth to try to revive them. But nothing works, they go into there systems and just wither away in seconds of being in there bodies! .You know. " She started in thought. " Maybe it's the effects of traveling through the wormhole while not in a ship? " She asked morely to Data then to anyone else.
" That may be possible Doctor, but no creature can survive going through a wormhole without a ship. It is impossible. " He stated in a matter of fact tone.
" But. " The engineer Geordie Leforge added in, " They do have an unidentified energy around them, it can't hurt humans but who's to say it can't manipulated to protect them. " He said with a couple of hand motions, he folded his hands back as he wondered what technology could do such a thing. " Im thinking right now of what technology could do such a manipulation that would last for the hour and a half that we've had them, Borg perhaps? " He questioned to Picard.
" Perhaps, but I don't see the Borg playing any part in this. " Picard answered as he put his hand to his chin in thought.
That's when they heard the first in command Riker laugh, he was looking threw the bag on the table happily. Even Deanna could sense the humor bursting from him at the books he was reading, the only things that had been taken with them. Picard refused to read them, he thought it rubbish. " Maybe its not Borg technology or energy, maybe its Magick! " He said after his loud giggle. He was reading through a couple of books in front of him. There was also many supplies in the bag but a jar of herbs was on the table.
" Riker, I don't know anything about these materials but there is no such thing as Magick. " Picard said with a smile as he took the jaw of cut up herb leafs and looked at them. He smiled as he opened it and sniffed it, it was a strong smell. It was nice though, it was a scent of lavender and roses mixed together. He put the jar pack on it and placed it back in the bag.
Riker was about to say something but Data started his sentence before he could open his mouth fully. " Captain, I've had an intriguing thought. " He said as he seemed to be processing his ideas.
Picard raised his eyebrows in question but Deanna was the one to answer, " And what is that Data? " She was as eager as anyone else for answers or ideas as to what was going on.
" Deep Space 9 has had many instances with there wormhole where they have gone to parallel or alternate universes. Perhaps this is magickal energy of some sort around and protecting them and they were accidentally dragged into our world when the wormholes open. " He said knowledgably.
" That is one theory we will keep in mind till they wake up, then we will run the idea by them. " Picard said to him. He doubted the idea as most other people in the room probably did. But who's to say they couldn't see if it was true in anyway?
" I suggest we get back to our duties. Dr. Crusher, when they have waken up please contact me immediately. " He said with a smile to her as they all got up.
" Of course, Captain. " She said as she left the room.
They all went back to the bridge and took there appropriate seats. Now it was just time to wait, wait for them to regain consciousness.
* * *
Shadow stirred on the little bed in the sickbay. The security guard raised weapons as his eyes fluttered open. He had a huge headache. One of them already went to go get Dr. Crusher. And she was there quickly. He felt her hands on his chest pushing him back down. " Lie down, you should be pretty tired after what you experienced and quite frankly you seem to have a killer headache. I will get something for the pain. " She said as she turned around. A strong hand grabbed her arm and spun her back.
Shadow bolted upright ignoring her words about the headache he might have, he did have a small one though but his yellow eyes were content with one thought, Amasagie. " Where is the Beast? " He demanded of her in a deep tone.
" What? What are you talking about? Let go of my arm your hurting me! " She said back to him as she tired to pry his fingers off of her arm.
" Where is Amasagie, did he come through? And where are WE? " He practically shouted at her.
He felt something prod near him. Close to him, but not on him. He turned to see a security guard with his Phaser rifle pointed at him, on stun of course. " Let her go now. " He demanded shrilly. He had hair as dark as Shadows, and his hair was very black. He let go of her arm, slowly of course.
In all the commotion they never noticed Jewel waking up on the opposite side of the room. In one close second as she held her head she gave the ear splitting scream, it was a Bard scream. They all turned to her immediately and Dr. Crusher put her hands to her ears as the Security guards aimed at her with there weapons. That's when they saw what looked like smoke coming of the tip of there weapons, where the hole was to fire at. The tip of the Phaser rifles had melted down in a black blob like ending. Closing the hole for the trigger to fire. Jewel could recognize a weapon when she saw one.
Beverly hit her com badge, " Dr. Crusher to Captain, there awake and were going to need more security! " She said as she turned and grabbed a vial of liquid she was ready to inject into them, it was a deep sedative. " Understood! " She heard her captain say back, she then hit the badge again to turn the communication off. Then she turned back around to see the beautiful long black haired women in front of her. She had a determined, superior look on her face.
" Whatever you have in your hand, put it down. " She said in a voice full of seriousness, and above all. Magick. Beverly put the vial down quickly and stared at the women in surprise and then back at her hand. She had made her do it. Somehow her voice command made her do it. She backed up slowly.
" Were NOT your enemies. " She said slowly as she backed up towards the guards. She then backed behind them when they took the front of her with there weapons out, they were prepared to use them as clubs. Beverly then packed up into the black human looking thing with a pointy hat. She turned around to look at its dark yellow eyes and jumped back and screamed.
" Excuse me, but where am I? " The 16 year old Black Mage said as he looked around. He bent down to pick up his Oak staff and held it firmly as he stared at the much taller humans. He was only four feet or so tall, he was quite short. She jumped into the middle of the security personal as Commander Riker and 3 other security guards came into the infirmary with phasers on stun.
" Where is Amasagie? Is he near? And where is this place we are at? " Susan demanded of all the other people in the room. She had taken on the command of being a leader.
Jackson stirred, he started rubbing his head. He had a slight head ache to, but his head wasn't the only thing that ached. He was very tired, but he got energized quickly at the surroundings and sudden memories of there current events. " Jackson! " Jewel walked towards her child hood friend and helped him up. He stood on the ground firm by her and looked at the surroundings. The Black Mage was in the middle of a group of people looking quite bewildered, then they could see his beady eyes widen when he remembered exactly what was going on. As for Shadow, the Assassin, he was still on the medical bed accessing his surroundings. All his knives, daggers, darts, and so forth had been taken away from him.
" Oh dear! " He said as he waved his hands, he lost balance and fell flat on his little Black Mage bottom. " Oh! " He said as he rubbed his body.
" You are on the U.S.S. Enterprise-E, I am Commander William Riker. Please calm down now and lets just take care of this peacefully and figure out how you ended up here. I don't want to hurt you people. " He said as he looked at the tips of the melted weapons. He turned back towards the people, still holding his Phaser up.
Susan cocked her left eyebrow. " .. Alright. " Susan said reluctantly and took a step back, but she was still ready to let out at any moment.
" Good, put down your weapons. " Riker said as he sheathed his Phaser. The other security guards did the same.
" Explain. " Susan demanded of them again, she stared straight at Riker but the question was to every other person in the room.
Riker moved his hands with his speech, he wanted to seem as peaceful as he could to them. " Lets take this somewhere else where we can be more comfortable. But only one of you can go. " He said as his eyes darted to all of them and then down on the black alien on the floor staring wide eyed at everyone in the room.
Jewel made the decision. " Susan, you go. " She said as she stood by her friend
Riker looked to the tall dark haired, beautiful women. " You it is then, please follow me. The Captain of our ship wanted us to meet in a meeting area. These men will have to accompany you for security reasons of course. " The women simply nodded. She passed by the bearded man and stopped in front of the doors. They opened automatically and she stared at them for a second or two, then waited for Riker to lead the way. Which he was all to willing to do.
* * *
Riker looked at the new women. Each new corridor seemed to surprise her. And the turbo lift seemed to scare the shit out of her, well at least for a split second. This was obviously something she was not used to, unless she was playing a game. But Deanna would figure that all out, she was half Baetazoid and could sense her lies and so forth. They were going straight to the briefing room.
They got off the turbo lift and walked past the people on the bridge. The women stopped and stared at the screen. The stars, her mouth fell open for a second and Riker slowly cleared his voice. She gave him a stern look then followed past the opening doors she had now become partially used to and into the room that had the ships counselor, Deanna Troy, Captain Picard, along with the android Data. They stared at her as she came in and Riker put a firm hand on her shoulders and guided her as she sat down at the end of the long table. William took a seat next to the captain by the top of the table, Deanna was on his right. Data was alone on his left next to Picard.
* * *
" I am Captain Jean Luc Picard of the U.S.S. Enterprise E. This is my first in command William Riker, and the ships counselor Deanna Troy. Now im going to be blunt about this, whom are you and how is it you were able to go through a wormhole without a ship or anything protecting you? " Picards eyes were fixed straight onto hers. Data turned to pick up the bag of her supplies and opened one of the biggest books reading it as he turned the pages.
" Wormhole? " She tilted her head and asked him with a confused look. She of course had no idea what he was talking about.
Data turned to her, " A rift in space that connects one point to another over great distances taking you to there in seconds, when in reality you would have to travel days, or months perhaps. "
Her face tilted forward and only said one word, the only word that kept coming to her mind. " What? " Then she noticed what he was reading, her books. " Those are my supplies! " She said with an alarmed look. She got up to reach over to them and take them back.
" That! Can wait. " Picard shot at her, she stopped reaching for them and snapped her head to look at him. He seemed to be the authority figure here.
" Were here to talk about you. " Picard began again as Susan sat back down in the chair, her back straight and eyes locked with his.
" How is it you were able to go through a wormhole and land at our feet without being hurt at all, the only thing around your group was an unidentified energy source. What was it and are you in league with the Klingons whom built the artificial wormholes? " Picard demanded of her. William Riker eagerly awaited her answer.
Susan just stared blankly at him. She cocked an eyebrow then she looked back at the stars and back at him. And said one word. " What? "
Riker turned to Deanna and Picard listened in on the answer she was about to give to him in response. " What do you sense? " He asked her.
" She is confused and curious. I think she knows as little of the situation as we d- " Deanna began but stopped when Susan's head snapped in her direction. She stopped and tried to read her again. But she couldn't. She couldn't read her and Susan turned and looked at everyone in the room, then stopped at Data. " Riker. She just closed herself to me. " Deanna said as she turned her head and looked at her commanding officer.
" What are you? " Susan asked the white being across from her.
" I am an Android. " He said to her. She continued to stare at him, so he replied back to her in a more in depth manner. " I am a robot. "
" Oh. Those are new. " She said as she nodded her head in understanding. Now it was there turn to stare at her. " What? " She asked, yet again.
" Never mind. Its not important. What is important however is whom you are?! " He demanded of her yet again.
It was funny though. They had looked at her books and they hadn't even identified her as a Witch, nor did they ask her her level. And on the other more important note that hadn't even asked her about Amasagie. Nor did they mention the Demon.
" My name is Susan Westten.. " She began. That's when she decided she would be as formal as you were suppose to be if you were caught by an enemy in battle. List your name, class type, level, and hope they keep records of it for your family. " Im a level 13 Wiccan Witch. "
Yet again, the bridge crew stared at her. " Excuse me? " Riker asked her with an almost wide eyed expression.
" Im a Witch, and there is a Bard down in that room we woke up in, along with an Assassin, Time Mage, and a Black Mage. " She said with her back straight, she stared at them. They stared back, again. Blankly.
" What now?! " She said annoyed.
Picard took it from here, " I suggest you skip the fairy tales and tell us the truth of the matter! " He was annoyed now, very annoyed. And also tired of the constant staring that they were giving one another.
" I. Am telling the truth. " She stated in a deep tone. She was not liking this stuff, first she could see stars and now these people didn't believe she was a Witch. In fact they called it a fairy tale, when in reality everyone had to at least have seen a Witch once in there life. Picard gave a deep sigh and rubbed his brow. Then realized it, Amasagie took them into a time portal. If he could have used the magick.. If he found a window to another place..
Susan's head had lowered in thought and it now shot up. Her hand shot towards her book that the robot was reading. This made everyone in the room snap there heads as they turned and looked at her, but less than a second in her putting her arm up the book shot across the table, it slid fast along the smooth surface and she slammed her hand down on it to stop it from flying off the table.
Susan ignored the two security guard's that turned towards her with there weapons. As for everyone else in the room, they all jumped in there chairs almost, except for Data of course.
" How the hell did you do that?! " Picard shouted at her as he slammed his fist on the table, he had gotten up then to stare at her from his full height.
Susan looked up at him as her hand laid on the book, " Captain im sorry to frighten you but I will explain later. " She said as he lifted her hand and turned back down to the book. She put her fingers on the cover, it said Magick in beautifully huge written letters. It had pictures on it, a faerie in a forest on a mushroom, she sat there with her finger pressed against. Everyone at the table watched slowly, Commander William Riker opened his mouth to say something, then he stopped. His and everyone's eyes went wide, except Data who cocked his head in curiosity. The faerie on the cover started moving, and fluttering around, she then stopped, and stared at Susan on the cover. " Hey Susan! What's up now? " She said with a little smile, she lifted her left leg up and rubbed her right leg with it. She had what looked like a beautiful white sparkling dress on that was cut short at her knees, and her slippers were white to, completely. And everything on her sparkled. Even her hair.
Susan replied with a serious look that made the faerie think something important was up, " I need everything on Time Magick gone bad, portals and stuff... " She slowed down and contemplated on whether to say this next part or not. The faerie waited for the Witch she worked for to finish. " And something on. Alternate reality's.. " She said softly, in a low tone.
Captain Picard heard it, the whole table heard it. And he had had enough, but he and everyone else didn't notice the guard's. They were frozen, not literally, but they weren't moving or taking action. " Guards, ta- " He stopped his sentence. That's when he noticed. Riker looked at his Captain to see what was wrong, then turned to where his gaze stared. The men, weren't moving. He shot up out of his chair. " Security! "
Susan looked up, then five officers bounded through the doors with weapons ready to fire. What they were going to fire she didn't know. But they looked an awful lot like the guns that had been just made in her time, the ones that shot metal ball that could pierce the body. She put her hands up and let go of the two guard's who looked around daze. Time passed them, minutes, and they didn't notice.
It was Picards turn to shout out orders. However he did not. The book, she had been talking to with the moving image was now moving. The book slammed open on the table and the pages were flipping through the book. On there own, they all stared as it passed immense paragraphs filled with the knowledge of magick and Wicca, it passed diagrams of beasts, monsters, Demons, and magickall rituals. " What is it doing? " Picard said to himself, but also to everyone in the room, especially the young girl named Susan.
Susan opened her mouth a bit, slowly. The leader in charge, the captain looked to her as she got ready to spoke. " Its reading the information, then it shall give it to me. " Was her response, her eyes stared at his. And his at her. That's when he saw the gentleness in her eyes. She didn't want to hurt anyone, she was peaceful. And he knew it.
The book stopped before they could speak again, before the orders could be given to the security guards. The book slammed shut leaving the fluttering Faerie on the cover. " Okay Susan, Time Magick usually does not go wrong, well it does if your young and stupid but as for portals, there has never been an occurrence of something going wrong. And Wiccan portal magick always leads to a specific place. There for its chance of cracking into another dimension by mistake with all the added power that would have been made to create it and navigate it are small, but it had happened before. From what we know you usually end up in a Demon Dimension. And this... " She said with a motion of her hand to the surroundings she could see through her book. " Are not by any means Demon related, even though they seem somewhat distasteful in several aspects... " She eyed the peoples clothing, definitely not fashionable. To a Faery that is. " As for Alternate realitys, the rune master Hellion once traveled to a world by accident after acquiring a powerful Rune. The Rune was destroyed that she had discovered, however the extremely powerful Mother Earth rune she still had she then decided to use to defend herself. And here is the best part! " The Faery was getting giddy now and fluttering all over the cover. There was a war in this world, two to be precise and each one was lead by a young man with a castle as the headquarters of the army. They also had a stone tablet that listed the one-hundred and eight Stars Of Destiny, these people were all destined to fight this war, in THAT castle, with that young man! There names were etched in stone once they joined the fight! They were destined Susan! Hear me, DESTINED! Meaning she was meant to go there! Fate made it happen so she would end there. Which means, those coincidences. Are meant to happen.. " She stared at Susan who let the words work there way into her. Everyone else in the meeting room seemed amazed, and wide opened. Except for Data who tilted his head while listening to what the book had to say. " Im going to hide behind my mushroom now! " The Faery said and ran behind the mushroom on the book cover. Then the images stopped moving, with her of course out of sight.
The captain turned his face towards the guards. " Wait a moment. " He told them as he looked at the girl and asked the question on everyone's mind. " What was that? " He said plainly to her, the seriousness in his voice was hard, cold, and most importantly noticeable.
Susan didn't know how to reply. The fact that the books themselves handed out to Witches were alive had known and been around for centuries, this she thought to herself, was a mess. A big one. " The books itself is alive, complete and utterly. It can find the knowledge within itself and relay it to me or I could look through manually. I prefer to let it do it work though. "
Data took his turn with the questioning. " How is it you can achieve such tasks with objects? What technology is it you use? "
Susan looked at the men around here with the rifles. She slowly laid her hands down on the table, no one objected to it. She didn't feel like risking it by trying to use her book again and she did not want to show her true power by subduing all five of the guards at once, she made the promise to Mrs. Cackles that she wouldn't let anyone know about her being Charmed and she intended to keep it that way, there was only suppose to be one of them at a time after all, and as the old women said the world sure as hell was not ready for Susan! " Its Magick.. " She said blankly to him. Were these people dumb or was she really in an alternate reality.
" What about the wormhole? Was that Magick to? " Riker spat at her in annoyance. Deanna turned to him with a face that said to calm down.
" Well its not like we WANTED to come here, Amasagie dragged us in, literally!! " She said as she looked around the room and put out her hands to show the whole ship or. thing that they were on. " But if I did know I certainly would fix it so I could get back. But now im going to address a bigger problem then the one you think have. What about the Demon, did he come out of this "wormhole" with us? " She demanded of them, she was very serious now and the tone she carried matched that of the captain.
Deanna took I her turn now to speak, " Excuse me but what do you mean by Demon? And who is this Amasagie? Another one of you? " She said as she turned to Picard who light up at the thought of another person coming with them that they missed, but that itself seemed impossible. She continued talking, " The only things that came in through that artificial wormhole were you five people. " She said to her in a much more gentler manner than that which everyone else was talking to her in.
Then it hit her, it hit Susan. The idea, the realization of it. " Wait a second. " She said as she put her index finger up to pause anymore talking. " If one portal, or wormhole opens up, there has to be another end, right?! " She said with obvious eagerness. Susan asked the question towards Deanna and the half Betazoid nodded in answer. " Then he came out the other side.. " She said as her face grew white, and terror dawned over her features. Her heart was beating, fast. That was when she let her guard down, Deanna sensed it. The fear, the terror, complete and utter, no other emotions. Just fear.
The counselor took a deep breath and turned toward Riker and the Captain. " Fear, lots of it. " She said with an almost wide eyed expression, her tone was low, but Susan heard her. But that didn't matter, she didn't respond to it.
Then it dawned on her. She put her head down in thought and turned it up slowly with her eyes open. " Magick doesn't exist here, does it? " She asked them slowly. Now, she was completely terrified.
Deanna was very worried, this women was scared. She was scared more than anything she had ever seen before, more scared then she and her whole crew was during every encounter with the Borg. More terrified then any of them had ever been. Deanna shook her head, this women was sincere, she could sense that. " No. " She said as she shook her head, she had the concerned look on her face. The one of a Counsellor.
Picard decided not to interrupt and put his hand on Rikers shoulder before he could say anything to the security guards or to her.
Susan was almost speechless, mortified. " You have no Wiccans? " She started aasking her straing of questions as Deanna started to shake her head with each one. " Druids, Bards, Black Mages, Time Mages, Assasins, nothing! You have nothing! " She almost shouted at her.
Deanna replied, " No, nothing you've mentioned makes any sense to me, except for Druids from stories, legends to say the least! " She told her, now she was concerned. Susan looked like she might freak out any moment. Forget that last thought, she was freaking out.
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Authors Note: Whats gonna happen now? Will our heroes go home! Or will they stay.Well seeing as how Im going to have a hell of a lot more chapters I think we should go with the stay option now. :b)