Free Change Fault
A/N: Spring Break means updates!
So, I'm updating! I thank you for all the reviews, I was almost certain this fic wouldn't get more than 10. (How wrong was I?)
Now, what you've ALL been waiting for! Chapter 7! (Hehe, 7: Kit, Nita, Ronan, Annie, Dairine, Darryl and Peach! Haha.)
Seven
Kit and Nita immediately went back to her house, and Kit go the exact welcome he was waiting for.
Pure, astonished, silence.
Ronan's mouth was open as he gaped at Kit, though his inner Power was laughing. Annie's eyes were around tennis ball size at the moment, and Dairine dropped Spot onto the floor next to Darryl who was sitting down, who looked like he was about to faint.
Kit's face was plastered with a stupid grin. "Hey guys." He stated, and sat down on the living room chair. Nita was still looking at Kit, her partner, her best friend.
This was too weird.
Soon everyone was talking at once, coming up and giving Kit handshakes (Ronan and Darryl) or hugging him and cutting off circulation (Annie and Dairine) and some jumping onto his lap and barking rather oddly. (Spot. A/N: Not Nita you sickening humans.)
And then the council began. Both Nita and Kit told the rest of the wizards about the Lone One's plans, and the fact that he could turn someone into a dark creature, like he had done to Kit. It was amazing how Nita and Kit finished each others sentences, even though each truly only knew half of the story. Annie, Ronan, Darryl and Dairine listened intently, and when they finished, everyone was completely silent.
"What can we do, knowing that He possesses power like that?" Annie asked, mainly Kit and Peach.
"The Powers are worried, I can tell." This was Ronan speaking, after being told by Peach. It was hard to tell when one or the other was talking, but Ronan had a simple cunning edge to his voice, while Peach's was strong and demanding.
Kit sat uncomfortably in his chair. "It can't be good if even the Powers are worried." Kit's voice cracked by the end of his sentence. Nita gave him a sympathetic look before turning back to the others. But Kit continued nonetheless. "Is there anything we can do? Why is this always laid on us?"
Annie adjusted her position on the couch between Ronan and Dairine and cleaned her throat. "It's different, I suppose. But I don't think we're the only ones who have noticed the change. Johnny called me a day before I came, and Tualha came over with a few other felines. I haven't seen her in ages until now." Nita's eyes widened toward her aunt as Darryl leaned against the couch while sitting on the floor.
"If all this happened a while ago, why is the Lone One bringing it all back now?" Darryl asked, for he knew nothing of Johnny or Tualha, these were mysteries in his mind. "I mean, He has better things to do then pick on a few kids."
"Kid wizards, Darryl." Dairine commented, her brain working on overdrive. Spot was sitting idly on the coffee table, 'shut down' for the moment. (A/N: I like Spot, but if I'm going to keep 'Seven' up then I have to have him 'off' at the moment!) Dairine got up and leaned against the wall, arms across her chest as she looked around the room. "I say we find the Lone One. He has more answers than we do."
Nita jumped up out of the chair she was in and stared wide-eyed at her sister. "You want us to go find big, mean and nasty and ask?" She looked taken aback as she looked at her little sister. What the hell was going on in that large brain of hers?
"Fine, we won't. But the Powers aren't really helping either." Dairine sent Ronan a look and he put his hands up in his own defense.
"Look, He just isn't talking. I bet he knows more, but Powers don't help wizards on normal duties." Ronan gave Dairine a look right back before leaning back on the couch.
Annie spoke up next. "This isn't a normal duty, Ronan. If it was, only one or two of us would be on it. But we all are, so something must be going on."
The talk continued on like that for some time, no one was truly listening to one another, and Kit didn't speak at all. Nita was well aware of her partner's uncomfortableness, but she could do nothing about it at the moment. Everyone had just gotten here and already magic was taking place. Darryl spoke only a little more than Kit did, for he was just as confused, and Dairine and Annie spoke the most. Nita debated with Dairine and Ronan however, and this whole thing seemed to be moderated by the eldest wizard. Annie shook her head often and merely let everyone talk before putting facts together.
By the time they had come to a conclusion Kit and Darryl both said they had to go home, and Darryl zapped off while Kit walked home with Nita at his side. This was their conclusion: Dairine and Darryl would be set up as bait to talk to Him while everyone was out doing normal business. After their encounter (if it worked, and if they survived) the information (no matter how little) would be used for a new plan of action. Nita disagreed with this completely, but majority ruled, she was the only one who didn't agree.
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"Neets, Dairine and Darryl are going to be just fine." Kit put his hand on Nita's shoulder as they neared Rose Avenue. Nita looked at him helplessly, her eyes full of worry and doubt. "You just have to hold on, we're all really good wizards, we can do this if we work together. This is normal, we've done this sort of thing plenty of times." Kit seemed a little too confident for Nita's liking.
"But how are we suppose to trick Him? We aren't going to get anything out of Him at all, I just know it!" Nita put her hands up desperately, wishing that her partner would be on her side for once. She couldn't be angry at him for long, just the fact of him being here was enough to make her head spin.
"Dairine was already thinking about it before we agreed. She knows exactly how, she sent Darryl the plan while you were arguing." Kit stated, and Nita looked at him with wide eyes. "Darryl told me before he left." Kit shrugged as they reached the corner. "Look, if you don't want to be pummeled by Ponch and my parents, I think maybe we should part here. I really missed you Neets, it's good to have a partner again."
Nita looked at him helplessly again, before planting a kiss on his cheek and running back down the road toward her house, leaving Kit standing there, stunned, unaware of the people watching not only from the door of his house, but from the shadows as well.
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(A/N: I'm not going to leave it off there, because I have SO much spare time at the moment.)
Kit couldn't sleep that night, his eyes stared tiredly at the ceiling. First of all, he didn't know why everyone was so accepting to him being there after his manual had left him and after all that they had been through. Without him.
Another puzzler was the fact that the Lone One hadn't come after him when Peach let him come back. Kit held out his wrist and stared at the dark bracelet on his wrist. His darkness wasn't completely gone, but at least it was contained. He thanked the Powers that everyone had missed him, only to be guilty of the fact that he was being so egotistical.
Finally, Kit's hand went up to his cheek where Nita had kissed him. That was probably the most confusing part of it all, at least to him. What was going on in that girl's mind? Didn't she know what that did to a teenage boy? Obviously not. (A/N: *shudders and goes to wash hands* Urm... *pukes* I dislike this, and I'm writing it! YEESH!) Kit returned his hand to his side as he continued to stare at the dark ceiling. No, not dark. This was a bright ceiling compared to the bracelet around his wrist. Compared to the darkness he had been living in.
Compared to the darkness he was in right now inside.
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The end! Just kidding.
Nita stood next to Dairine as their father cooked their dinner. Ronan and Annie were upstairs at the moment, unpacking for the weekend. Dairine was intrigued by the whole thing, only because it seemed like such an ancient way of cooking compared to the things that wizards could do. Nita's mind was elsewhere, part of it upstairs, part of it a few blocks away, (Kit's house... Wherever that is.) and another part felt like it was in another world, not that that seemed very far off anymore.
The sibling wizard next to Nita noticed all of this, but said nothing as Spot sat upright also watching the display of ancient technology known as an oven. The computer continued to babble on about how 'Dairine can argue with alien royalty, move and blow up planets, even preserve Life as we know it, but she can't manage to cook anything decent.' Dairine resisted the urge to throw her computer manual on the ground when she heard this, and her dad seemed so use to it that he merely laughed.
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Kit gave up any type of sleeping he may have been thinking about at the time and went over to his desk, where on a normal day his manual would be laying, but nothing was normal anymore.
Being normal is so over rated.
Kit's head snapped up when he heard that, though it wasn't that he heard it, it was more that his mind felt it.
Who is this? Kit resisted the urge to say 'Moshi Moshi' like his sister always did whenever she'd pick up the phone.
Who do you think El NiƱo?
That isn't funny, Neets.
Yes it is. I was almost certain this wouldn't work either.
I'm not completely powerless. Though I wish I had my manual...
Don't we all? Tom and Carl will want to see you tomorrow.
Ponch will want to see them too. They have more treats than my sister has anime DVDs.
Amazing, ne?
Don't even start.
G'night! Kit felt the blank area in his head where Nita had been, and his head fell onto his arms which lay limp on his desk, but his forehead hit something sharp, like an edge or corner. He looked up, rubbing his head with his eyes closed, and felt around for what wounded his scalp.
Kit's eyes opened wide when he felt it. "...The hell?!"
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Shima: Good morning, good evening and G'night!
Tempis: You're reviewers are going to POUND you after I do.
Shima: *trembling* A-after you do?
Tempis: *drags Shima along with him toward cage*
Shima: Call my lawyer! Wait, I don't even have a lawyer! GAAH!
Review! I want at least 50 reviews for this chapter before I can continue! (C'mon, not that hard people! I already have 41!)
