The world had gone black for LeAnn for a moment, and now that she was no longer blind, she suddenly felt as if she were being smothered. It was as if a wet blanket had been wrapped around her. For a moment, she couldn't hear, breath, or feel. The back part of her mind, where she sensed everything, was fuzzy. Even her danger sense was gone, and she realized she'd been completely cut off from the Force. Glancing around the small room she was in, she noticed two things. One, she was in a dungeon cell. Two, the reason she couldn't feel anything through the Force was staring her blatently in the face. She was stuck in this small cramped space with a Ysalimari. And damn it all to hell, she didn't have her lightsaber.
It didn't help that her right arm hurt like hell. Rolling up her sleeve, she saw the reason why. The armband that marked her as the Lady Chaos, which had been fused with her skin just below her right elbow for as long as she could remember, had been ripped away. She was, effectively, mortal. Looking across from her, she saw Emmy and Koni in their own cells. "Did they take your marks, too?" she asked her sisters. In response, they both rolled up their right sleeves. There, just below their right elbows, were scars like the one LeAnn now sported.
"Somewhere out there, destinies and fates are going haywire," Emmy said. "It begs the question as to who could subdue three members of the All without alerting another member of the All, a Fae, and a Jedi in the next room?" Koni asked. "They must be one of the Elders. Or they had help from one of the Elders," LeAnn answered, shaking her head. "So do we try and figure out which one of the Elders could have had a hand in this?" Koni asked." Emmy nodded. "It seems logical enough."
"Let's start with our parents. Dad is a definate possibility," LeAnn said, refering to Darkness, the father the three of them shared. "My mother, too. Your mother, though," she said, shaking her head. "Not even possible," Emmy confirmed. "Ade and Rills parents wouldn do this, either," Koni said. No, of course Life and Creation wouldn't be involved. Just as Light wouldn't be involved. Darkness and Anarchy, however, were two very likely candidates. "It doesn't really make that much sense, though. Mom, Dad, and I haven't really gotten along, but I doubt they'd do something like this," LeAnn said. "What about the other Old Ones?" Koni asked. "Well, we can rule out Aion, Ade, and Rill easily," Emmy said. "Although, Khyren might do this," LeAnn added. The split up earlier in the year between LeAnn and Khyren, Lord Randomness, had been ugly. Khyren had never been so vile and evil, and LeAnn had never been so heart-broken.
"What about the Young Ones?" Koni asked. "I mean, I know we can rule out Dameon, Arista, and Leo." "Courage is too old, about to die and be reborn into a new incarnation. Dischord and Mayhem's armbands are tied to mine...," LeAnn said, not happy about the fact that someone else could currently be controling her twins, less than a year old. "Faith is, too," Emmy said. "Hope is barely a year, also too young, and Harmony wouldn't do it..."Koni said, shaking her head. "Vanity wouldn't, either. She's not that malicous," Emmy added. With that, the girls fell silent for a moment. "Ciaran definately wouldn't," LeAnn said, refering to the Lord Violence, the mate she'd found for herself when realizing he fit her description of the perfect man. "The Furies and the Fates are rather mad at me, but not at you two, so that doesn't make sense. Besides, they're...more subtle." "Except at the Villian's Ball,too years ago," Emmy muttered. LeAnn and Emmy both shuddered. "What? What happened at the Villian's Ball?" Koni asked, having not been able to attend.
"Dammit. Who has a major grudge against all three of us, knows how to remove our powers so we can't escape, AND knows how to block me from communicating through the Force?" LeAnn asked, frustrated. "Jareth," all three of them said at the same time. But one question weighed heavily on all their minds. How had Jareth managed this?
"Um, guys? You still haven't told me what happened at the Villian's Ball," Koni said. "Er, well, it was kind of boring at first," Emmy said. "But then Rebecca decided that Aion was a villian, since she'd had no time for anything," LeAnn added. "And then some fairy got hold of Aion's Warp," Emmy continued. "And we all got switched to different ages. I myself got switched to a four-year-old. Imagine me as a four-year old!! I had a damn lisp back then, and Rebecca called it cute!! And then His Royal Hairness told her to put me down for a nap!! By the Powers, I'd never been insulted in all my life!!!" Emmy and Koni both laughed at LeAnn's rant. "Get on with the story, sister, dear," Emmy said, finally. LeAnn just sighed.
"ANYWAY," she said, "I demanded that Rebecca take me to see Aion. So she did, though I just KNOW she was thinking that staying a four-year-old would be an apt punishment for that dungbomb disguised as a peach I threw at her. But that's another story. Anyway, she took me to see him and he changed me back. And then the bastard kissed me, so I slapped him. Then we found out what had happened, and that was when my dear granddaughters arrived. They caused a scene. Jack the Ripper kidnapped Rebecca. The Furies basically ripped into Jack, turned him inside out, ate some of his vital parth, like the heart, and thaved the betht for later."
By now, Emmy and Koni were both staring at her. "What? Whatth wrong?" she asked, then she heard herthelf...er...herself...speak. She looked down. "JARETH!! AION!! I KNOW IT WATH YOU!! PUT ME RIGHT, RIGHT NOW!! THE LADY CHAOTH DEMANDTH IT!!"
Jareth appeared, finally, laughing. "You're in no position to make demands, LITTLE Chaos," he said, mockingly. "And Aion wasn't involved. He has no clue. Have you so easily forgotten that I can rearrange time? I slowed it down for me, and noone else. That, and a few chloroform filled crystals, and you three were easily taken. Not to worry. Emmy, your husband and his poker buddies are on their way to rescue you three right now. It's cute, they're calling themselves the Terrorsome Triad." "My hero," Emmy said, sarcastically.
"You're gonna be in big trouble, Jareth." Koni said. "Yeah, when my granddaughterth find out what you did, they're gonna be real mad, and you know what the Furieth are like mad," LeAnn said, her little arms crossed. She hated being in four-year-old form. "I am tho talkin' to Aion about your time powerth," she said, sulking. Jareth just chuckled before disappearing to watch the Triad through one of his crystals.
