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A/N: ok the whole "you don't review I wont update" thing is nonsense.. I didn't mean it… but I was seriously thinking of taking the story down and quitting fanfic. However I'm not now. Sorry for not updating for ages… I have been so busy with mock exams… coursework and just school in general that I haven't had time to even think of me story. I'm on Easter half term at the moment and when I go back to school I have three weeks till I go on study leave for my exams. I bet your all thinking yeah so she can update… sorry guys my parents wont even be letting me near the pc… ill be busy revising till the exams have passed. Which I guess is ok considering that they're gcse's and are going to affect my whole life. Nehoo I thought I better explain why its taken so long for me to update and why its gong to take me ages to update again.
Ok I can't remember who I've thanked before for reviewing so here goes (and sorry if I forget anyone)
My thanks to:
Lady Arwen Evenstar: thank you for updating!!!
Chibi Chingo: erm I explained about king Jon and Thayet didn't I?? Sorry I forgot to add it in, and I would edit it but I cant figure out how… My sentences sometime are actually meant to be long, other times I just forget about punctuation and sentence length.. Thanks for reminding me!!
Googlepuss: yay!! Thank you for coming back, yes I did put it up before but I took it down, slightly altered it but stll forgot some things, no I've forgotten how to edit it so never mind. Your story rocks although I haven't read it for ages since ive not been allowed on the pc. Ill go back to it soon and review. You'll find about Ozorne later.. I don't want to say anything that spoils what I have planned so my lips are sealed…
flare: wow.. thank you!!! Its always nice when you know someone likes your work!! ^_^
Bobo: You haven't updated!!! You said if I updated then you would.. I did so where's yours??? Please update please!!!!
In fact come to think of it I cant find your fic anywhere… Where is it?? Oh damn you!! Did you take it down.. if so why??? *sobs* I was getting really interested…
Lilith Ha: As I said before my lips are sealed…
TPfreak: Thankx. I needed a little reassurance that my story was actually ok and you gave it to me. Did you add me on msn?? Because I now have a girl called Tpfreak on my list who added me… just wondring…
punkpixie87: Thank you!! Im glad you like Anissa. Shes… oh cant say that.. might say too much, lol neway thank you for cheering me up. I was really considering taking it down but thanks to your support I won't.
hope you all like the next chappie!!! R/r and I'll update ASAP!!!
Goddess Bless
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Chapter Six: duh duh duh (again cant think a title so if anyone can think of any for this one OR chappie 5 or even both, just let me know k??
Numair grabbed onto the thin, near transparent limb that was half out of the column. The column appeared to be magic. 'Amazing' he thought 'I've never seen anyone with so many different magic's, if that's what it is'. "Anissa?" He called, "I'm going to pull on your arm I want you to try to push yourself through". "Do you think it will work?" was the reply. The voice sounded scared and unsure. "Hopefully, how did you get like this?" "I don't know, I was erm just looking, at my uh erm magic and um I got stuck". This time when she answered she sounded panicky and unsure. "Anything else you wanted to tell me? Like did your uncle do this?" "How did you know about him? Why mention him? I don't know, maybe, probably I just don't know". Her voice was quick paced and laced with anxiety. 'What if this doesn't work?' Numair asked himself. He thought of his own magic, could he use it? 'But if I do, Anissa might get hurt…there might be rose vine but Alanna would have to… his thoughts trailed off. 'Try this first then we'll come to what if's and maybes…'
"OK one the count of three, One…. Two… Three…" Numair pulled at the arm. When she heard Numair begin the count she braced herself to barge against the column. "Three…" the voice floated through, she felt her arm being pulled, a pain shot through her body as she hit the side of the column. "I can't" she cried, as she collapsed onto the floor. Her arm began to hurt with the added weight being pulled upon it. "Anissa…." The voice echoed off of the walls of her confinement. It sounded like it was coming from behind her, "Anissa… Anissa…Anissa…" the voice was echoing all around her, it sounded like her fathers.
"Daddy? Are you here?" Anissa's voice was hopeful. "Daddy?" the voice bounced off of the walls, echoing, and twisting the meaning so that it seemed slightly amusing and patronising. The space that Anissa was in went black. She jumped; she felt her head and face being touched by unseen fingers. They crept over her face, and down to her neck. Anissa whimpered. Slowly they travelled the short distance of her body, she struggled to get her hand free. It was stuck. The touches became harder until they became blows. They lashed out, at her body, her head, her face. She screamed before she remembered no more.
"Anissa? Anissa what's wrong, Anissa… answer me? Look I'm going for help, I'll be right back". Numair frantically hit out at the column, desperate to break through and help. Over and over he hit out. It did nothing. He could see her hand struggling, trying to get free. "AAAAAAAAAggghh" the scream was high pitched and short. "Anissa?" His voice rose to a shout, anxious and questioning. He lashed out once more, the column stayed firm. He had no choice but to leave her, to go and find some way of letting her escape. 'Alanna might know' he thought, and with that returned to his own body to summon Alanna.
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A/N: Should I be mean and leave it here? No it wouldn't be fair. So on with the show…
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He opened his eyes. He could see Alanna and Daine crouching over Anissa's body. "Alanna" he croaked, his throat was dry, "What's going on?" He could see that the women in front of him were trying to withstrain Anissa's body from moving. They were struggling to hold her down. "We don't know, she's been like this for a few minutes now. What happened, why didn't she come out of meditation?" Alanna's voice was full of concern. " She's trapped within her own magic, I don't know how and I don't know why. I thought about using my own magic but I think it's too risky, that leaves us only one other option…" his voice died away.
Daine looked up at Numair from between stands of curly hair. "Numair, what is it?" It pained her to see him looking the way he was. He looked tense, as if he was about to snap at any minute. "You mean rose vine?" Alanna's voice shook. "What does it do?" asked Daine. "You need two people to carry this out. One person to go into the person's head, the other to scatter crushed rose vine around and in a fire that surrounds the body. It is something that me and Numair have been working on, the spell is so delicate that if anyone interrupts, even so much as a whisper then we can have dire consequences". Alanna looked towards Numair. "Do you want to try?" She asked. "I don't know what else to do… I'm one of the greatest mages in current existence and I can't even save a little girl. How do we know this is going to work? I mean we haven't tried it out on anyone, so how do we know?"
"Trust yourself Numair. You taught me that you must trust yourself, so take your advice. What does this spell do? What does it involve?" Daine's voice was quiet. She was white and biting her lip hard, almost as if to refrain herself from something.
"I…" Numairs voice failed him. He tried again. "It involves two people as Alanna said. The spell itself can open a gap in confined spaces to allow things to pass through. We know that it works on material things like spells, cells, that sort of thing, what we don't know is how it would work if used within a person".
"Do you think that it will work?" "Maybe, I don't know for sure. There's a chance that she'll be left with brain damage, her mind might not allow her to go into herself again… there's even a risk of death". "That death risk is just as much for the people conducting the spell as those its being performed on". Alanna's voice was calm, and collected. "Are you willing to take those chances?" she asked. " Yes, I don't know what else to do". "Are you sure?" asked Daine, "We would understand if you didn't". "I'm sure, I'll go get the ingredients from my lab". Numair shakily got to his feet and left the room.
There was a silence between the two women. "It looks like these shakes of hers are getting worse" said Alanna. "Can you go to Dike Baird and ask him for a wooden board and some holding down straps, tell him its urgent…please?" Daine ran to carry out Alanna's instructions. Alanna struggled to control Anissa. She looked down on the girls face. It looked troubled and sweat lay on her brow. "Poor girl…" she muttered. "I wonder what's happened to her in order for her to get what three magical attacks in two days? Someone must really be trying to make sure she doesn't tell us something…But what?" Alanna stopped her thinking as Daine returned with Duke Baird and the items she had requested.
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She opened her eyes. She couldn't see anything. Blackness surrounded her. 'How did I get here' she thought? She could sense that someone was watching her. She sat up. A pain in her arm reminded her that her arm was still trapped. She looked around. The hairs on the back of her neck tingled… She felt eyes boring into her, eating away her flesh, stripping her of her emotions, and devouring what they could. "Who's there?" She asked, "What do you want from me?"
"I think you know who I am Anissa, or don't you recognise my voice. You surprise me, after all, we did speak only hours ago…"
"You, so why did you do this then… because I won't give you more of MY magic? Pray tell dear uncle I'm ever so curious to know?
"You dear child are getting to big for your boots. I want you to play a little trip down memory lane, remember why you gave me your magic in the first place. I bet you haven't told your little friends that. Well that's if you can call them friends. They've deserted you, you get in trouble and oh dear they've run away. Whatever will you do? Scream? Oh you've tried that already… didn't get you far did it? Your all alone, no one can help you… not a single soul". The sound of her uncle's voice reminded Anissa of troubled pasts. She didn't want to believe him… but if they were her friends where were they?
"Oh poor little Anissa, troubled brat, I bet they thought that they could pull the wool over your eyes, and they did didn't they? Poor, naïve Anissa, Gullible as ever". "I hardly think gullible describes me seeing as though I find it hard to trust people". Her voice was sarcastic, trying to break her uncles deeply slimy voice, trying to break the spell or self-doubt he was weaving around her.
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A/N: Sorry I got a bit carried away!! Well to say the least. My little brother was determined to get me off the pc as I was typing this so I just kept on typing. Makes me sound mean. But he is always on the pc and I hardly ever come on so I think the selfishness was balanced for once. Neway I'm off to post this. I hope its ok. There's probably spelling mistakes- ignore them… you're all intelligent enough to understand what I was typing. If anything else confuses you however, tell me and I'll put it straight… sorry it's a bit long winded… I was attempting to put more detail in… I think I didn't quite succeed since I seemed to have mentioned voice tones a lot.