Free Change Fault Chapter 3
A/N: OMK! (Oh my kami-sama) Thank you all so much for the wonderful reviews. I love everyone's and I hope they don't stop. At first I thought my fic was too bad to ever get the encouraging reviews! I wanna thank the following:
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Your support means a whole lot, and I'm glad you like my fan fic! Updating is going a little slow, cause I've uploaded more chapters. I know some of my ending duels with Tempis are starting to 'slow' but I'm trying hard to juggle a lot of things at once. Thanks for being patient and here's chapter 3 of Free Change Fault!
Disclaimer: I do not own Young Wizards, the extremely talented Diane Duane does.
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Review of Chapter 2: C'mon Neets, you never did things like that....
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Nita's smile was pure this time, for she finally figured out that being in a little ball and pushing away from people that cared for you was stupid. (A/N: Nice thing to learn.) She sunk into the couch in Tom and Carl's home, glad to be in familiar surroundings, not the same old plain walls of her bedroom where a picture of the moon and a fuzzy posted of Uranus still stuck to her wall.
"Nita, you never told anyone what really happened did you?" Dairine couldn't take it any longer, and Tom, who knew she was there, let her in as she asked her sister the obvious. The eldest wizard in the immediate Callahan family (A/N: Including mom, dad, brothers, sisters) sighed and nodded in agreement. She never liked to tell anyone her secrets. There were enough rumors about what happened to last a lifetime.
So, building up her courage, Nita took a deep breath, and told her story.
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Kit squinted at the detail Nita decided to put in as she told his old friends, and, without knowing it, him as well. Kit's cloak darkened, and soon anyone who looked straight at him would be consumed like Kit was, turned into a Lone Force that was so unlike the Lone Power it was scary. His ears were the only things that worked, all other senses were lost to him as he noted every gesture, and every move his partner made as she stood and told the story.
She always had the power to just entrance people, Kit thought, though he didn't exactly know he was thinking it, I always remember everything she says to me.
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So Nita spoke, and in her mind the whole battle was being told through images and voices that weren't her own, that weren't the real Nita Callahan. In all the rage and fury however, Nita's outlook was wonderful.
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And so it began, it was early as it usually was when Kit and Nita would decide today would be a day to visit S'reee, and everyone else that lived in the waters they kept safe.
Nita spoke now, and she could here her own voice clearly. She gulped and coughed once in a while in the middle of the speech-like story.
"We were sidetracked before we even reached the water, because a white light, kinda like the light we saw pulsing in our Ordeal in the alternate universe. But this wasn't pulsing, it was just there. It turned dark when we reached it, and seemed to flash darkness and then a human stood there, he was wearing a snazzy suit and his hair was slicked back."
"The Lone One..." Carl added, so Nita wouldn't keep the suspense. Tom agreed that that was what the description proclaimed. Dairine merely urged her sister to continue. Nita telepathically gave them all the admittance that it was indeed the creator of entropy who stood before the two wizards that day about a half a year or maybe a full year ago.
"His smirk was the thing we noticed first. It had been a while since we ran into him. I don't think we'd seen him since Darryl joined up with us." Nita took a deep breath, gulping along the way. "He didn't seem to care that we were both shocked he was even there. And S'reee had been waiting the whole time for us, so she could only watch as we fell into more danger.
His voice was like ice, cold and slick and hard. He told us things we'd never want to hear.
'You two have been the most annoying of your kind I've had to deal with, and believe me, I've dealt with a lot of you.' He glared at Kit the most, because he was staring off into space, but mumbling words in the Speech under his breath. All I knew was they were in the Speech, I couldn't hear exact words.
Kit had looked back at him, eyes angry. They were like fire as I recall. 'So what? That's our job just so you know.' Kit answered him in a voice even more cold, at least it was too me. And then I just blacked out, I was thrown I know, into water, and S'reee was who I woke up to when my eyes finally opened, and the Sun was high in the sky. But Kit and the Lone One... they were nowhere.
Nita was breathing fast, and Carl, Tom and Dairine knew her story wasn't over. Nita hadn't given them the most important part of the story, and they would wait until Nita was ready to tell him, to the ends of the Earth and back.
Nita took a deep breath and started in again. "S'reee said that I was thrown right on top of her. She dragged me back to the beach, but stayed in the water herself. She said I slept for only a few hours. But she also told me what she saw when she came back up with me."
'It was cold' she said, 'and it was Summer, so being cold was really weird in the air of midday.' She saw Kit still standing there, his eyes locked to where I was being dragged to the surface. But he didn't see the hand coming high and hitting him across the face either. And the hand was dark, really dark. S'reee was kind of hard to understand for a little, the squeaks and things I didn't get."
"But she kept at it, and finally her Speech was clear and I heard every word. Kit was unfazed by the hit and stared at the Lone One, his eyes glazing over and his stare getting pierced with a magical dagger and Kit fell over. S'reee had called out to him, but the Lone One silenced her, I mean with a spell. I had to take it off when I woke up, because S'reee couldn't say the words of the Speech to reverse it. She said Kit got back up with his arms, and the Lone One let him get up, his smile growing. And she had to listen to all of it."
Carl and Tom were looking at each other then, as Dairine's eyes grew wide. Nita shielded her own bluish gray eyes from them, not wanting to look at them while tears began to stream from her eyes.
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Kit took this all in, remembering every detail. He knew how the hit felt, and his hand razed to his cheek just to make sure that no indent, though he there wasn't one, had been left on his face. Kit merely felt darkness. His senses were lost in the darkness of his cloak, and the words floated into the air above him, his eyesight now being the only sense he could have to here Nita retell the tale.
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The Lone Power explained fiercely to Kit that he was not going to tolerate child wizards to get in his way, and to get rid of us was something he needed to do. So Kit was taken by the throat, and they both were gone, and S'reee was so taken aback that she didn't follow. And then the darkness came...
Carl and Tom both put their hands up in unison, as if to say 'we know' without interrupting. Dairine knew too, and decided not to say anymore than was needed.
Kit's mom and dad didn't file a missing persons report because they knew what happened, at least as much as S'reee and I knew. But there were reports everywhere because Kit didn't come to school, and people saying how sorry they were because my boyfriend was dead swarmed me. I ignored them mostly.
But then the rumors about the darkness, saying that it was a guy who was creating all of it, who took kids hostage and had an insane ransom, and other stupid stuff like that started. I ignored most, but sometimes they said that Kit was the one who did it, and I got quite a few out of school suspension slips because of them. But it was hard, to know what happened when you couldn't tell anyone. Even Aunt Annie and Picchu... Ronan visited us.
I didn't want comfort though, so it didn't help. And soon it was Summer all over again and I locked myself in my room, I didn't want to come out. But today, I just was tired of it and got up. And now I'm here, talking to you all.
Nita sighed and sat back onto the couch that Dairine was now on, and both sisters exchanged silent glances. Carl and Tom were up and about soon enough, getting out large manuals that only Senior Wizards and higher could edit. Their pens scribbled furiously, as if this was some new ad improved detail that couldn't be ignored. Nita stared at them, then got up, gesturing for Dairine to come along with her. The young wizard obliged and followed out into Tom and Carl's huge backyard.
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Kit's eyes widened, and soon a blast of air-like water hit him and the bubble was gone. Kit wanted to cry out, he wanted to say something to prove that he still existed in this hellhole of a universe. He wanted to give himself a point.
Kit uttered things in his Spanish accented voice, all the words flowing out like a chain in the wizardry Speech. But the words were odd now, they sounded like they when they were matched with Nita. Clear and perfect. He felt awful though, because he had shoved so much pain into Nita, had made the Lone One angry enough to take the one thing Nita had to make her life worth living. To make Life itself worth fighting for and extending.
Then his head rose. Nita and the others didn't know the rest of the story. They didn't know what that bastard had done to him. What the Lone One, Lone Power, the virus of every universe, had done. So Kit's eyes blazed, those dark eyes that usually only blazed when magic was being used, were blazing because magic wouldn't help the only person who thought that he wasn't crazy. Even his parents still had been a little undecided by the idea. And Dairine always thought Kit was nuts to be friends with her sister. So Nita was the only one he could talk to.
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Nita and Dairine sat on some fold up chairs, staring at the sky that was now growing brighter as the sun shown through the few clouds that surrounded it. Tom had redid their backyard a little, and even Nita's father had helped out, because after the two wizards' mother's death, he had to get back to work. He got his shop back to running well, and Dairine had been doing some deliveries, along with Darryl, who needed money now that he wasn't autistic. (which is something that still amazed his parents) Dairine and Darryl were now on the verge of becoming even more legendary partners that Kit or Nita, which is funny seeing as Dairine didn't meet Darryl until after his Ordeal.
Nita breathed in deeply. "Dair, you think anything will change?" Dairine stared at her older sister in amazement.
"Anything as in Life? Life won't change Neets, everything dies eventually. But if you're talking about Kit, I have no idea." Dairine stated simply, sinking farther into the fold up chair and her eyes mixed with the sky. So many ideas ran through the young wizard's head, for she had just heard this tale, and as she related it to all the legends and myths that people talked about...
"Nita's boyfriend was killed in an attempt to kill her! He defended her, isn't that romantic?" A girl at Dairine's school flipped her long blonde hair, chatting with her followers, her posse.
"Kit is the one who has been murdering every child who has disappeared. And finally, he disappeared himself!" Nita had angrily punched this girl, giving her a black eye and getting suspended, again, from school. Nita had gotten considerably stronger over the time since she had gotten her wizard's manual.
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Kit growled, getting up from his knees and then growled again, like a caged animal. The always-dewy ground of this universe moistened his cloak. Yes, this was one of those tiny universes, where it was just the same thing everywhere. Walk a few miles, and you would see that exact same tree. Burn it, and all the rest would be burned. It was a world for criminals, and Kit had suddenly become too hostile to be contained.
The wizard, the boy, the person who was Kit Rodriguez was suddenly just an image. Kit's anger was too strong, and suddenly a power surge alerted the people he had wanted to yell at the most. The Powers That Be were awakened by the hostility of the one they had banished from one universe, only to have him destroy another in sheer anger.
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Something is happening... The words whispered and echoed throughout. Everything that wasn't living, or that was, could feel it, but in different ways. We must stop the happening... was something the Silence was saying, to the wizards with no books. Keep happening, and keep dying. Only only the Powers heard this thought, for they knew that their attempts were futile in this place. The Powers The Be however, made a slight error in concealing this thought to just Themselves. For Themselves included the one who had created the monster, and It was now informed that what his plan had started was being finished by the one who had the only power to defy him, for his other half was gone... or so It thought.
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He is trying harder..... We will be terminated.... Every universe..... help...............
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Shima: Woohoo! Uh oh, what is Kit doing?! How could he destroy his confinement? Is that even possible for a wizard who was exiled?
Tempis: Only you can know, if you await the next chapter of Free Change Fault.
Shima: Nita is out of her cell, and Dairine, Tom and Carl know the truth!
Tempis: The Powers That Be as well as beings everywhere have been told that something is coming...
Shima AND Tempis: BUT WHAT COULD IT BE?!
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