The Winds of Change Ch5

From: "Fieren Lochan"
Date: Fri Jan 24, 2003 9:09 pm
Subject: Led by the Mysterious Song of the Mist...

It was late... The Master's last attempt to kill the other Millenials had failed. The Master has decided to send someone who is up to the challenge into the fray. We opened our eyes to find the blue mist surrounding us. We heard voices, the other Millenials were close, they were not stupid, they knew something was out to get them from this mist. We saw their silhouette's and decided we didn't want to be discovered yet. We leapt into the air and landed atop the roof of a building. We watched three of them run into the narrow alleyway where we had emerged. The fools were scratching their heads in confusion. We couldn't help it, a cruel smile appeared on our face.

These fools would be easier to kill then we thought. We couldn't believe that my Master was afraid of them. Of course, if 'they' woke up, it could mean trouble. After several minutes, they dispersed, presumably to look for the 'creature'. Then we noticed their attire. Much different than ours(Bakura is currently dressed as fashion dictated back in his time). We needed new clothing. Then we saw a shop, there was a sign that read CLOSED in the doorway. The shop happened to sell clothing. We went around back, even in our time one knew not to go through the front door. We drew our sword and slashed the door clean in half. Entering the shop, we saw various racks of clothing, we started grabbing clothes when a man with a piece of metal with a bar on the end turned some lights on.

It looked dangerous. We threw our sword at this foolish man and his hand fell off. The sword clattered to the ground a fair distance behind him. We walked over, grinning like a madman.

"You are very foolish, what did you think you could possibly do to us?" we asked, still grinning.

"Fuck you!" he spat.

"You, are extremely rude, do you know how rudeness is dealt with where we are from?" we asked.

He didn't answer.

"Death." we answered, as we picked up his metal thing he had pointed at us. "Kindly tell us what this is, and if you're lucky, we won't kill you."

"It's a gun, you crazyass son of a bitch!"

"How does it work?"

"... You pull the fucking trigger and a bullet comes out in the direction it's pointed!"

"Interesting... like this?" we asked as we pointed the gun at him.

"Whoa! You said you wouldn't kill me!"

"We never said that..." We pulled the trigger and the man got a hole in his forehead. Blood splattered all over our face, we licked the blood, then laughed. "We like this weapon, we think we'll keep it."

That night, we had changed clothes and were now wearing tight black pants, some low boots, a white, sleeve-less t-shirt, a black vest and three belts on our upper left arm. We had left our dirty blonde hair as it was and left the gold earrings and neckbands, as well as golden wristlets. We also kept our sidebelt with our sword and mist bottles, we decided to store those elsewhere. We found more guns in the shop as well, we only wanted the handguns, like the one we had killed the shopkeep with. Now we were sitting upstairs flipping through history books and current event flyers, trying to catch up with the times. It was finished within a day and a half. Now we could at least converse with some of these lesser individuals and not sound mentally handicapped.

We gathered our things and left the shop, it was time to find a way to get close to the other Millenials. The Master had graciously provided us with detailed information about them. One influential one known as Marick Waters was currently attending Star Tech University. We would start there, and hopefully Marick would lead us to others. Strange, Marick's name sounded slightly familiar...

We would get close, and see if he would be any threat, then we would move on. Step One, enroll at Star Tech University...

(OOC NOTE: Chys: Sorry, Fieren...had to edit it...tell me if I missed something here!)

From: Delith Nightblade
Date: Fri Jan 24, 2003 11:32 pm
Subject: A free ride...

We didn't find whatever it was that had emerged from the mist. It was either very fast, or had some kind of chameleon ability. We gave up after two hours, and we alerted the police. We then returned to the dorms, and plugged in.

***NETWORK***

I pushed back my trench, and placed one hand on my pistol. Marick was there, and we set out, going different ways, trying to track down the amulet.

It was I who did it.

When I called Marick, and he arrived, we watched the file.

I would wish later I hadn't.

***NETWORK FILE #00415879-66958901-88958587***

***AMULET OF THE ELEMENTS***

*The AMULET OF THE ELEMENTS is a relic well over four thousand years old. It was last seen with the HEROES OF THE APOCALYPSE, after their fight with the Nameless One. [see attached file #4458-9965-8820]. The HEROES OF THE APOCALYPSE apparently used the amulet to bring about astonishing changes about them, and it was said to have glowed whenever it was touched by a HERO. The amulet weighed approximately 1/2lb, and was made of solid gold, inset with a ruby [see attached picture file #55-98-88].*

From there, the true trouble began, for both Marick and myself.

We were seated, in the real world, in plain wooden chairs, and when the visions struck, we were overwhelmed, grasping the arms of the chairs in what seemed to be great pain, according to Issean later. However, for now, it was nly the visions...

***VISION 1***

I fell, rose, and fell again. I struggled to rise on a shattered knee, using a dead mages staff for support. Soon my healing would go to work, and I would be good as new...

***VISION 2***

A large black sword swept at me, trailing shadows as far as the eye could see.

A blade of pure white slipped between it and me, and Yami shoved it back, scowling as I rose to confront Deus once more...

***FINAL VISION***

White Lightning shot out of my right hand, slamming Deus into the wall.

Yami threw a bolt of ice blue lightning, and the others joined in, Kai's the faintest of all. Deus screamed as our combined power hit him, and hit us as well, ripping us apart even as it did him, because of his soul bond...

***REAL WORD - CARL POV***

My eyes popped open, and I sat up, ramrod straight. I was gasping for breath, and I saw Marick sitting on a low couch, looking at me.

for a second, I didn't see Marick, only a warrior, and a friend named Yami Eian.

But how could I remember somebody who had lived and died over two thousand years ago?

That was the question.

I needed an answer.

One look from Marick said he believed the same thing. "Hey Marick, your band need another guitar?" I asked.

"Why?"

"I figure with the fog and all, we may want to stick together. I'm not half-bad, so maybe..."

From: "Fieren Lochan"
Date: Sat Jan 25, 2003 10:38 pm
Subject: Who Ever Would Have Thought Infiltratrion Would Be Easy?

ic: It was the third day we were on this plane and things looked much different than we were used to. Crime was everywhere, people with guns, swords even in some cases. The pathetic law enforcement tried their best to stop crime but were horribly undermanned, from what we'd observed thus far. That was just to name a few flaws in this world, currently, we were in an office for Star Tech College. The door was labeled: Admissions. Registering was simple, basic questions and all that. We had deliberatly registered in classes that Marick was registered, he would be the first we would check out. We were making our way across campus and eventually found our way to the auditorium where one of Marick's classes was. The professor was introducing us and one other.

"Hey pricks, listen up!" The teacher called. "Now that I have your attention, we have a couple newbies to the class, welcome Carl Minsa and Bakura Evans."

"Hi!" Carl said, he was another Millenial!

We said nothing.

"Why don't you two take a seat up near the blonde man with the keyboard." the teacher said, pointing right at Marick.

Luck was on our side today, we made our way up the stairs and sat down next to Marick.

"Hi." Marick said, offering his hand.

"Hello." we answered, trying to hide a malevolent grin, we were in disguise and these fools had no clue! We took Marick's hand and shook it.

"Hey, looks like we're in the same area, we got an experienced musician right near us." Carl said.

"..."

"Not very friendly are we?" Carl said.

"No, we're not." we said, cracking my eyes at him.

The class proceeded as it porbably should have, we never even touched an instrument. These fools never suspected a thing, and they had plugs in their heads, of all things. After class, several women who thought we were 'cute' spoke to us, we paid no attention though, our attention was elsewhere. Marick told ud about a club he frequented to play in a band. We would go tonight, to see what was what. Until then, we had several hours to brush up more on our historical information, plus we needed to learn more about guns... we liked those...

From "Chys Lattes"

Musical Expression (Marick)

Ok, so here I was sitting in class across from Ran, who had his drumsticks behind his ears like you see some people do with pens, when these two guys walk in. It's the start of class, so I wonder if the newbies aren't just lost or something, then I notice one is Carl and sigh in relief. I waved to him and the professor took it upon himself to invite them both to sit near me. Well, that was cool. I wouldn't mind talking to Carl, since he's decided to join the band as second chair Guitarist. Ryu will always be first in my book, and in his, since it's kinda 'his' band, he being the band leader and having had the final decision on wether or not to integrate a second guitar into our already written and composed music. He'd agreed, but Yuri and he had been up all night writing out new parts.

Ran took no part in this, as he didn't seem to care. Nothing about his part would be changed, the lucky ass. Oh, and did I mention that the brunette 'I' rescued from the giant monster rat is now HIS girlfriend? Yeah, go figure. She clings to him out of class and is now our first official 'groupie'. Ryu and I said she wouldn't last a week. Yuri and I had a bet going on that...

Ryu, who sat beside me, glanced up from his handheld as Carl and Bakura were seated. He exchanged a glance with Ran then went back to reading whatever it was he'd found on the net. Or professor rambled on about how good it was to have more student interested in his classes, totally ignoring our schedule for the day. We had parted into groups, me and my band, including Carl and Bakura, in our own little group, conversing amongst ourselves, and the rest of the students left us alone, knowing we were the item and had to respect our group privacy. We really were getting to be more popular lately, and the other students either admired or resented us, and either way, it was cool.

After trying to hold a decent converasion with mister multiple personality. (What was up with the 'we' thing??) I turned to Carl and informed him that the first practice would be at Ryu's place (I handed him a chip with the map and address on it) and that we'd gotten another gig at the 'Panther's Tail' and that if all went well in practice, he'd be with us when we performed that night... One good thing about it, Yuri had added, we'd be paid for our time, and each member would get a certain share. Since our band was a little larger now, our pay would increase at some of the lives and clubs we'd play at. We may get a few hundred a night, it all depened on the outcome and what the manager had to say. Carl seemed cool with it, so I invited Bakura to come to the gig. He nodded and got an absent look in his eyes...

From: "shiningsun_820"
Date: Tue Jan 28, 2003 9:21 am
Subject: On the mend

I had just been released from the hospital after recovering from my arm wound.

"What was that damn thing"

That was the only thing going through my mind at that moment. As i passed by a Radio shack i noticed the news on the television.

"A strange fog was seen earlier at tech star university, there have also been reports that strange creatures had been appearing from the fog".

Tech star University? Wasn't that the place Marick went to school?

"Im gonna go see what he knows"

::::::::LATER::::::::::::

I had just arrived at tech star university, the quarantine squad was still there asking questions and looking for something. Probably remains of the creatures.

I walked to the front office and asked for Marick's room. The women there punched it up and Marick's Voice came through.

"Who is it" Asked Marick

"It's me Domoen Kashu, from the other night"

"......sorry ...i don't recall"

"Damnit, i have to talk to you"

"About what?"

"The fog"

And without a word i was buzzed in through to the elevator.

I found Marick's room and he invited me in, there was also the guy who bumped into him the other night.

"Hi again"

"So what did you have to say about the fog?" he asked.

"Actually i need to ask you what happend here, cause i was attacked by a wierd cat thing...."

"With spines?". piped up the other guy.

"Yes actually, you saw one?".

"I killed like 4 of them when the fog was here". "So can you help me out?". I asked.

The other guy pulled out something from his pocket, it was an amulet with what looked like a perfect gem in it.

"Touch it". he said.

So hesetating a bit i took it from his hand.

"What do you see?". he asked.

"A hunk of old gold". I said.

Than a strange and puzzled look came over his face as if to say, Why didn't it happen. Marick than explained to me that when the both of them touched it it had glowed. Marick then noticed the bandage on my arm.

"What happened?".

"The cat caught my arm when i fought it".

"That was you?". asked the other guy.

"Huh" i asked him looking puzzled. He told me he had seen it on the news, that a man killed a catlike creature. I was astonished it had made the news seeing as no one was there to witness it happen.

Just then a loud "SHRIEK" came from down the hall, we all ran to see what the problem was. A young lady screaming at the top of her lungs "Ran,Ran save me"

"Not again lisa, what is it now?". Marick asked.

"Theres a big metal thing in Ran's room"

"A big metal thing?" i asked "Are you shure it's not a Quarantine officer in a suit?"

"How many Quarantine officers are 9 feet tall and made of metal?" she snidely remarked.

All three of us looked at each other and ran off towards Ran's room.

As we arived in ran's room we couldn't help but notice the huge iron golem smashing things.

"Anybody got some shelac?". i asked.

"No, why". replied Marick.

"Cause after i beat the living shit out of this thing im gonna shine him up and mount him in my house". i laughed charging at it.

I ran at the golem but it didn't seem to care, it seemed more interested in Marick and the other guy.

I slammed my feet into it's chest and it stumbled back a little.

"Damn this things hard"

Marick pulled out his Techno-blade and slashed at it's chest leaving a scratch where it had hit.

The other guy looking as if he had tranced out began a flurry of attacks on the golem. It hardly fazed it.

The golem clumsily slammed it's arms around, missing us horridly.

In unison we all struck it hard sending it through the wall in the back of the room.A large "Smash" sounded as it slammed into the ground.

The quarantine officers turned and shot that thing with a plasma weapon incinerating it.

"Where did that come from" i asked.

"Look" said Marick as he pointed to the New Fog covering half the city.

"Awwwwwww now it's gonne be a bitch to get back home". i moaned

"Don't go home" Marick said

"Stay with me tonight"

"All right then" I said

"If your gonna stay with Marick". the other guy said " We should introduce ourselves, I'm Carl Minsa"

"Domoen Kashu". I said shaking his hand.

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