Dungeons and Teachers (Which are fiercer than Dragons)
The Many Fallen
***Edward and Natasia***
All was quiet, the students had taken there first good long rest. Though time seemed to stand still in this windowless castle, they decided to sleep for whatever might be night. Several of the girls were propped up against the wall, Mack laid curled up in a corner, Edward sprawled out across the floor, and Natasia sitting rather vigilantly by the entrance way; it was her watch. She was third watch, following Melody's; and she was rather wide awake, yet the silence dulled her senses. The room was very still and quiet, beside the slow breathing of the sleepers. Slowly, Natasia began to nod off being pulled off to a peaceful sleep.
Suddenly there was a twitch, and Edward began to stir; he pulled himself up off the floor carefully and began to recover his senses. Noticing Natasia he made his way over, and resigned himself against the wall beside her. She did her best to seem alert but to no avail, a slight fatigue hit her and she leaned off to lie her head on Edward's shoulder. He began to put his arm on her shoulder when she caught consciousness again and pulled away. A little embarrassed Edward whispered,
"You look tired, perhaps you should rest. I can take your shift if you want," She said nothing but a look of great gratitude crossed her face; she crawled away to the closest other wall, where Melody lay alone near a corner, and collapsed as sleep took her. Edward, though, was now rather awake, and sat with his head in his hands looking rather crestfallen. The shift was not long and Edward sat brooding in his own very unique thoughts, when they suddenly they stopped as a pink light broke out within his eyes and he blanked out. Kara on the other hand had lifted her head, a very wide grin across her face.
***All Introduced Protagonist Cast***
Morning was as indecipherable as night, but slowly everyone began to awake. A rather large yawn from Kaitlyn roused the whole group, and everyone awoke happily.
"Sooooo hungry," Edward moaned.
"Hmm, weird," Jessica thought, "it seems like we've been here for ages, but I'm only as hungry as if we've only been a about day without food,"
"Whatever, all that matters is we're all hungry and we have no food," Melody thought with her stomach grumbling. All the students grumbled aloud there hunger and agreement.
"You'd think there'd be a McDonalds somewhere around here," Liz said laughingly, yet grim. Yet at the word McDonalds the bright glow emanated from the far wall and it melded into a large counter. It wriggled and morphed until the wall became the all to familiar white and red front with a dweeby pimply teen.
"NOOO!!! In N' Out, In N' Out!!!!!" Liz cried.
"Welcome to McDonalds, can a take your order," the pimply teen said aloud.
"Hmm... I have idea," Edward said.
"Why didn't I say In N' Out..." Liz muttered
"I guess the teachers put in secret places for themselves," Natasia said aloud.
"Well lets take advantage of it." Kaitlyn said, "I'll have two weeks worth of hamburgers," aloud.
"Also, don't worry about money cause today is free da . . ."
"Hiya!!" Edward leapt and lopped the teen's head off, "free food! We'll take what we need!" and then he laughed manically
"Works for me" Mack said. The kids leapt the counter and explored the restaurant. Mack scoured the fries while Melody, Liz, and Edward looked for burgers. All in all they ate their fill and found rations for about a week.
"Now that we're altogether there's no stopping us," Mack cried.
"Yes, but where are we going that we cannot be stopped," said Edward his face stuffed with food, rather puzzled by finding himself asleep in an odd corner; he mentioned nothing of it though.
"Well I came in contact with Mrs. Rayne a few times in that one room," Jessica suggested, "she'd know the way out."
"Yeah but there's no way for me to open the Mutra gate from the outside," Mack said
"We haven't found anything down our one passageway," Natasia thought aloud, perhaps if we follow the corridor we escaped down, it'll lead to answers,"
"Makes sense," Kara agreed, and so the rest of them concurred and the made off down the corridor. It seemed that the battle of the previous day had ended bloodily before the bookies realized the illusion. The walls were stained black and an offensive stench was in the air. The corridor had opened up a little and they walked two or three across,
"Our powers are so dissimilar is it even possible for us to work together," Liz, who was standing next to Kara and Edward, asked aloud.
"You are right we should focus on combining our powers, but that's best done in different groups." Edward said aloud. Kaitlyn picked up on that,
"Yea, the corridors about to open up into a chamber so if we get into trouble, we should pick a group and . . ." She trailed off as Mack and Natasia, who were in front entered what seemed like a big room.
"Scatter!" she yelled, for the room was filled with a large mass of the bookies. The bookies harkened up the battle was about to begin. Without thinking Mack, Kaitlyn, and Natasia ran forward to begin. The room was a dank place where it seemed the bookies were kept while not needed, it was rather bare since they needed nothing to live. As they entered they were already encircled at three points, Melody, Jessica, and Edward ran to left; Kara and Liz to the right. Suddenly Kara yelled out in thought
"She's near," the students all knew she was talking about Rayne as Kara broadcasted that she was only yet a few rooms away."
"I'll go up after her then," Mack called, "beat these bookies then follow the rose." With that Mack bristled with energy and split into three bodies, running out in front through the bulk of the bookies. His bodies blurred and melded in and out of the ground and were soon through the doors at the other side of the room, though nobody saw him. Natasia soon followed, her flower plumed wildly giving her bionic legs
"Need a lift?" she called to Kaitlyn, and grabbing her catapulted them over the horde of bookies to protect the door. In the midst of flight Kaitlyn released herself and fell upon the thick of the monsters, Glamdring driving before her. She landed penetrating a bookie all the way to the ground, before the bookie fell she drew it out and fell upon, slicing, the multitude of bookies. Natasia, in the meanwhile, was on her feet again and was landing plant-metal kicks that connected to several bookies at a time.
As Kaitlyn and Natasia fell to fighting a tide of bookies, Kara and Liz were having problems of their own.
"Keep them contained a little longer," Liz cried, Kara had kept the bookies at bay with a psychic force-field, while Liz was gathering some sort of firestorm that began well up in black clouds with red lightning about her hands.
"Let's let 'em have it," as Liz finished Kara felt another consciousness spring into being, the clouds began to form and take shape, a head appeared with red eyes and nostrils that fumed with crimson bolts of lightning, Liz grip a handful of the clouds as a house emerged underneath her and she charged at the bookies. Flames issued forth from her hands and bookies were trampled underneath her, Kara lifted her hand, and the horse began to glide on the winds and the flames glided with unearthly ease and fury. Liz and the horse made a second round and Kara leapt onto it's back beside Liz.
Though the flames sent many bookies up in red flames issued also from the other side of the room. Melody was now wielding a giant ever-changing flaming hammer, and Jessica was using her hands that now had a flame tinged enchantment, both thanks to Edward. They now all three stood back to back, facing a ring of bookies. Jessica glowed with a white light, and all three stood prouder and energized.
"Against our friendship you cannot succeed" Melody cried, and with her fully energized power all three of them doubled in size. For a second the bookies cowered, but then quickly began to pour upon them. Edward made the first slice, no weapon seemed to appear just as his hand moved flame and metal followed as. . . not a blade, not a cudgel, but a blur of weaponry he let fly. All three of them set to turning the bookies to ash. It was a scene of utter chaos, black stained the walls ceiling, and everything, Liz's horse screaming through the mess, Kara spreading its fire in wide arches into the leagues of bookies. Kaitlyn battled to and fro among the bookies till she battled right against Natasia again.
"Launch me," she yelled, and leapt into her, Natasia's huge botanical arm caught her and flung her up towards the ceiling,
"KARA!" she yelled, Kara saw her immediately and suddenly Kaitlyn slowed in her fall, bow taut, Kaitlyn let loose a storm of arrows. Natasia had plunged back into the midst of the bookies, there numbers were now dwindling.
"Kara, you stay back I'm going ahead to help Mack," Liz called and reigned her horse towards the door. Kara slid off the back of the horse and forced several bookie to the floor. Edward, now twice his size came striding up, his red jeans stained with ink, behind him disorder was embodied as Melody and Jessica slowly were slowly surround by walls of carrion dead. Standing mid-room Edward began hewing several bookies with long swipes of whatever weapon he could think of. Kara stood now somewhat to the right side of the room, Kaitlyn and Natasia near the doors, few bookies remained.
***Liz and Mack***
Liz had made her way through the door but now the hallway was too narrow for her horse.
"I'll save you for later," Liz said as she patted the horse on the neck and it combusted, revealing a stone statuette carving. Liz put it in her bag. As Mack had said there was the stem of a long rose and it wove along the passageway. Liz ran as heartily as she could it was a long corridor. It went relatively straight, without any branching corridors.
"Ok, didn't need the stupid rose thing," but as she said that the rose stem seemed to rot and boil. With a new sense of urgency she ran harder and saw a door slightly ajar not but a few yards a way. As she rushed up the sounds of battle from below seemed to die down. As she crept to the door she saw that Mack was standing sword sheathed staring with burning hatred at a Mrs. Rayne. Liz stopped in her tracks, frozen, the two of them were locked in a stare off. Liz couldn't quite understand it, while they began to pace. Suddenly, there was a load boom and sparks of force flew forth from both of them and collided together, blue sparks from Mack and purple from Rayne. The sparks increased and the two raised their hands until it seemed that each were vying for the color of the force between them. The sparks were forced back and forth as each strained themselves harder. Liz watched as the sparks as the swirled and sputtered and slowly began to take shape. Two swords glittering with electricity they formed, they clashed as they came together, the wielders each holding their hilt. There was another loud crash and Mack let out a cry of pain. Sparks skidded across the floor as Mack's sword lost ground. Suddenly Liz harkened up as though awoken from a trance and burst into the room. The duelists both jerked to look at the sound and in a blinding flash the sparks and swords were gone. Liz charged with her mace, fire dripping from her skin and hair. The flash subsided and Liz came to a halt, Mrs. Rayne was gone.
"Shit," Mack cried, drawing his rapier looking about, "no time to block her technique."
"Good bye," came a voice from behind Mack. Before he could do anything she appeared and held her hand over his head.
"Damn," Mack cried trying to block her technique with his hand, but to no avail as a shower of purple sparks rained down on him. Soon he was immersed in the sparks and unseen. A blue ray shot out of the sparks and Rayne, slightly hurt, jerked her hand away, but Mack was no longer there.
"Damn kid," Rayne said examining her hand which now had all sorts of symbols all over it, "well, no matter, he can't bother the plan any more." With a smirk she disappeared.
"Coward!" Liz shouted realizing what had happened,
"Who said I was running?" came a voice from behind her. Mrs. Rayne materialized, "you can thank your friend, thanks to this at least you'll all be sent to the same place," She held her hand over Liz, who stood dumbfounded. Sparks began to fall when suddenly a flaming arrow whizzed across the room, catching Rayne by her other hand and pinning her to the wall.
"Don't touch our friends!!" Edward cried and loaded another flaming arrow into his bow.
"Fools," Mrs. Rayne hissed, and suddenly the whole room began to spin, catching the students off guard. It took a second for the kids to clear there heads of the illusion, but then Mrs. Rayne was gone, again.
"She may be invisible but she's still flammable," Edward cried and let loose several fireballs, Kara who stood next to him guided them across the room. While the buzzing satellites were patrolling the room, Natasia rushed forward to Liz's side.
"Mack is...."
"We know, Kara was following him." Natasia said sadly.
Suddenly there was a scream as one of the flames went wild and a vague outline of a woman became apparent in the dancing flames.
"There!" Jessica cried and they all rushed in the direction. Kaitlyn, though, stood back, "Something's not right" she thought. Natasia was the first to the outline, and she leapt at it with a bio-mechanical sword. It clanged to the ground and the flaming outline and screams ceased. Quickly, they were replaced by maniacal laughter. Laughter filled the room, laughing laughing . . . yeah Rayne really did overkill with the laughter. Nothing happened for a few seconds while the laughter subsided. "Damn comic relief" Edward thought to himself. The laughter continued when suddenly Mrs. Rayne appeared over Kaitlyn with her hand above her head. Fearful Kaitlyn thought through Lord of the Rings and suddenly a deep gleam came into her eye, and she seemed much older and grimmer. With the hilt of Glamdring she rammed Mrs. Rayne hand. Despite the impact a purple shimmer covered Kaitlyn and abruptly she disappeared.
"Guuuaa!" Mrs. Rayne cried as she looked at the second mark now engraved on her hand, which grew till it formed a large black spot in the center of her arm. Slowly sparks began issuing forth from the spot. Now though, the came out like liquid and it seemed like life were bleeding out through her hand. The other students were too far away to do anything but watch,
"GWWAAAA!" Melody now cried figuring out that now both Mack and Kaitlyn were gone, "She's weakened!" Melody ran forth her hammer still in hand, her entire body pulsing and morphing with blinded rage. Yet Mrs. Rayne was not out yet, she jerked her body forward catching Melody off guard with her palm now spewing with sparks and force. Melody was gone in a flash. As the pyrotechnics subsided the remaining five people stood there death gazing at Mrs. Rayne. Kara ran at her first, force echoed through the halls as Mrs. Rayne was lifted up and thrown to the wall. She coughed up blood as she hit, and was being crushed into the wall. Edward stepped forward Jessica grasped his hand and they glowed brightly as a huge ethereal sword was drawn up from the stone floor. Natasia grasped it in a huge bio-mech arm and held it steady, its point near Mrs. Rayne who was across the length of the room, Liz too grasped the sword and it became a huge flame. Lifting the sword Natasia cried,
"This is for our friends!!!" She brought the sword from ceiling to floor creating a huge gash, and in the dust Mrs. Rayne fell.
***Afterword***
Ok I had to get this chapter out quick, the next one will introduce some new characters, but I'm very sorry for them because the next one will be the last one I write for a while. Hope that you guys enjoy the next one, cause pretty much it going to introduce a whole new depth of the story and setting. But I am not stopping writing, so keep checking this authors stuff cause I'm gonna start another ff. Sorry to anyone that reads this story but tune in later and it'll be really good, just need to take a break from this fic for a while.
***LETTERS TO THE ED-ITOR***
Heres My chance to goof off and force my will upon this story, other than having to correct the stupid grammatical (AND SPELLING) mistakes that Mack makes.. --;
By the way, I had no control over the way that Mack wrote the first section of the story, just to make sure that no one is let to believe any more than the good natured person that I am that I volunteer to take Natasia's shift ^_^
Mack sez that Kara's weird controlly thing has a reason in the story's future but the fact that I'm the only guy in the current split of the team (Kaitlyn Melody and Mack---Liz, Kara, Natasia, Jessica, and I)
only makes it worse in the fact that Kara's power is her will over men --;
Oh horrid horrid fate.
Anyway, lets get the ball rolling with my fabricated letters i mean... ... ... ... ... not... fabricated...
yes...
Dear Mack,
How come you're writing the story with so many exclamation points now. I mean seriously, during the first 5-ish chapters your character's reactions were never that emotional... well.. besides that stupid Edward's.
~ Anonymous reader
YEAH WELL MACK CAN'T BE HERE TO LISTEN TO YOU BALK ABOUT HOW ITS SOO MUCH MORE DRAMATIC NOW!!! I MEAN SERIOUSLY, I JUST HELP A TEENSY BIT THE THE ACTION AND YOU JUMP ALL OVER IT!!!! OH MY GOSH!! :p
lol but really seriously, it's proly cause mack, the silly guy he is, never really put in things other than periods before yours truly started editting for him *nods emphatically* and besides, its alway nice to have some tension and emotion in the fanfic.
by the way... you'd better stay anonymous if you don't want to be retributed for your words... foolish mortal...
~The Ed-Itor
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Thanks for the fan service Mack, hehe, I proly have to put more effort into my Editting now ;_; oh well
~Edward Chau, The Ed-itor
The Many Fallen
***Edward and Natasia***
All was quiet, the students had taken there first good long rest. Though time seemed to stand still in this windowless castle, they decided to sleep for whatever might be night. Several of the girls were propped up against the wall, Mack laid curled up in a corner, Edward sprawled out across the floor, and Natasia sitting rather vigilantly by the entrance way; it was her watch. She was third watch, following Melody's; and she was rather wide awake, yet the silence dulled her senses. The room was very still and quiet, beside the slow breathing of the sleepers. Slowly, Natasia began to nod off being pulled off to a peaceful sleep.
Suddenly there was a twitch, and Edward began to stir; he pulled himself up off the floor carefully and began to recover his senses. Noticing Natasia he made his way over, and resigned himself against the wall beside her. She did her best to seem alert but to no avail, a slight fatigue hit her and she leaned off to lie her head on Edward's shoulder. He began to put his arm on her shoulder when she caught consciousness again and pulled away. A little embarrassed Edward whispered,
"You look tired, perhaps you should rest. I can take your shift if you want," She said nothing but a look of great gratitude crossed her face; she crawled away to the closest other wall, where Melody lay alone near a corner, and collapsed as sleep took her. Edward, though, was now rather awake, and sat with his head in his hands looking rather crestfallen. The shift was not long and Edward sat brooding in his own very unique thoughts, when they suddenly they stopped as a pink light broke out within his eyes and he blanked out. Kara on the other hand had lifted her head, a very wide grin across her face.
***All Introduced Protagonist Cast***
Morning was as indecipherable as night, but slowly everyone began to awake. A rather large yawn from Kaitlyn roused the whole group, and everyone awoke happily.
"Sooooo hungry," Edward moaned.
"Hmm, weird," Jessica thought, "it seems like we've been here for ages, but I'm only as hungry as if we've only been a about day without food,"
"Whatever, all that matters is we're all hungry and we have no food," Melody thought with her stomach grumbling. All the students grumbled aloud there hunger and agreement.
"You'd think there'd be a McDonalds somewhere around here," Liz said laughingly, yet grim. Yet at the word McDonalds the bright glow emanated from the far wall and it melded into a large counter. It wriggled and morphed until the wall became the all to familiar white and red front with a dweeby pimply teen.
"NOOO!!! In N' Out, In N' Out!!!!!" Liz cried.
"Welcome to McDonalds, can a take your order," the pimply teen said aloud.
"Hmm... I have idea," Edward said.
"Why didn't I say In N' Out..." Liz muttered
"I guess the teachers put in secret places for themselves," Natasia said aloud.
"Well lets take advantage of it." Kaitlyn said, "I'll have two weeks worth of hamburgers," aloud.
"Also, don't worry about money cause today is free da . . ."
"Hiya!!" Edward leapt and lopped the teen's head off, "free food! We'll take what we need!" and then he laughed manically
"Works for me" Mack said. The kids leapt the counter and explored the restaurant. Mack scoured the fries while Melody, Liz, and Edward looked for burgers. All in all they ate their fill and found rations for about a week.
"Now that we're altogether there's no stopping us," Mack cried.
"Yes, but where are we going that we cannot be stopped," said Edward his face stuffed with food, rather puzzled by finding himself asleep in an odd corner; he mentioned nothing of it though.
"Well I came in contact with Mrs. Rayne a few times in that one room," Jessica suggested, "she'd know the way out."
"Yeah but there's no way for me to open the Mutra gate from the outside," Mack said
"We haven't found anything down our one passageway," Natasia thought aloud, perhaps if we follow the corridor we escaped down, it'll lead to answers,"
"Makes sense," Kara agreed, and so the rest of them concurred and the made off down the corridor. It seemed that the battle of the previous day had ended bloodily before the bookies realized the illusion. The walls were stained black and an offensive stench was in the air. The corridor had opened up a little and they walked two or three across,
"Our powers are so dissimilar is it even possible for us to work together," Liz, who was standing next to Kara and Edward, asked aloud.
"You are right we should focus on combining our powers, but that's best done in different groups." Edward said aloud. Kaitlyn picked up on that,
"Yea, the corridors about to open up into a chamber so if we get into trouble, we should pick a group and . . ." She trailed off as Mack and Natasia, who were in front entered what seemed like a big room.
"Scatter!" she yelled, for the room was filled with a large mass of the bookies. The bookies harkened up the battle was about to begin. Without thinking Mack, Kaitlyn, and Natasia ran forward to begin. The room was a dank place where it seemed the bookies were kept while not needed, it was rather bare since they needed nothing to live. As they entered they were already encircled at three points, Melody, Jessica, and Edward ran to left; Kara and Liz to the right. Suddenly Kara yelled out in thought
"She's near," the students all knew she was talking about Rayne as Kara broadcasted that she was only yet a few rooms away."
"I'll go up after her then," Mack called, "beat these bookies then follow the rose." With that Mack bristled with energy and split into three bodies, running out in front through the bulk of the bookies. His bodies blurred and melded in and out of the ground and were soon through the doors at the other side of the room, though nobody saw him. Natasia soon followed, her flower plumed wildly giving her bionic legs
"Need a lift?" she called to Kaitlyn, and grabbing her catapulted them over the horde of bookies to protect the door. In the midst of flight Kaitlyn released herself and fell upon the thick of the monsters, Glamdring driving before her. She landed penetrating a bookie all the way to the ground, before the bookie fell she drew it out and fell upon, slicing, the multitude of bookies. Natasia, in the meanwhile, was on her feet again and was landing plant-metal kicks that connected to several bookies at a time.
As Kaitlyn and Natasia fell to fighting a tide of bookies, Kara and Liz were having problems of their own.
"Keep them contained a little longer," Liz cried, Kara had kept the bookies at bay with a psychic force-field, while Liz was gathering some sort of firestorm that began well up in black clouds with red lightning about her hands.
"Let's let 'em have it," as Liz finished Kara felt another consciousness spring into being, the clouds began to form and take shape, a head appeared with red eyes and nostrils that fumed with crimson bolts of lightning, Liz grip a handful of the clouds as a house emerged underneath her and she charged at the bookies. Flames issued forth from her hands and bookies were trampled underneath her, Kara lifted her hand, and the horse began to glide on the winds and the flames glided with unearthly ease and fury. Liz and the horse made a second round and Kara leapt onto it's back beside Liz.
Though the flames sent many bookies up in red flames issued also from the other side of the room. Melody was now wielding a giant ever-changing flaming hammer, and Jessica was using her hands that now had a flame tinged enchantment, both thanks to Edward. They now all three stood back to back, facing a ring of bookies. Jessica glowed with a white light, and all three stood prouder and energized.
"Against our friendship you cannot succeed" Melody cried, and with her fully energized power all three of them doubled in size. For a second the bookies cowered, but then quickly began to pour upon them. Edward made the first slice, no weapon seemed to appear just as his hand moved flame and metal followed as. . . not a blade, not a cudgel, but a blur of weaponry he let fly. All three of them set to turning the bookies to ash. It was a scene of utter chaos, black stained the walls ceiling, and everything, Liz's horse screaming through the mess, Kara spreading its fire in wide arches into the leagues of bookies. Kaitlyn battled to and fro among the bookies till she battled right against Natasia again.
"Launch me," she yelled, and leapt into her, Natasia's huge botanical arm caught her and flung her up towards the ceiling,
"KARA!" she yelled, Kara saw her immediately and suddenly Kaitlyn slowed in her fall, bow taut, Kaitlyn let loose a storm of arrows. Natasia had plunged back into the midst of the bookies, there numbers were now dwindling.
"Kara, you stay back I'm going ahead to help Mack," Liz called and reigned her horse towards the door. Kara slid off the back of the horse and forced several bookie to the floor. Edward, now twice his size came striding up, his red jeans stained with ink, behind him disorder was embodied as Melody and Jessica slowly were slowly surround by walls of carrion dead. Standing mid-room Edward began hewing several bookies with long swipes of whatever weapon he could think of. Kara stood now somewhat to the right side of the room, Kaitlyn and Natasia near the doors, few bookies remained.
***Liz and Mack***
Liz had made her way through the door but now the hallway was too narrow for her horse.
"I'll save you for later," Liz said as she patted the horse on the neck and it combusted, revealing a stone statuette carving. Liz put it in her bag. As Mack had said there was the stem of a long rose and it wove along the passageway. Liz ran as heartily as she could it was a long corridor. It went relatively straight, without any branching corridors.
"Ok, didn't need the stupid rose thing," but as she said that the rose stem seemed to rot and boil. With a new sense of urgency she ran harder and saw a door slightly ajar not but a few yards a way. As she rushed up the sounds of battle from below seemed to die down. As she crept to the door she saw that Mack was standing sword sheathed staring with burning hatred at a Mrs. Rayne. Liz stopped in her tracks, frozen, the two of them were locked in a stare off. Liz couldn't quite understand it, while they began to pace. Suddenly, there was a load boom and sparks of force flew forth from both of them and collided together, blue sparks from Mack and purple from Rayne. The sparks increased and the two raised their hands until it seemed that each were vying for the color of the force between them. The sparks were forced back and forth as each strained themselves harder. Liz watched as the sparks as the swirled and sputtered and slowly began to take shape. Two swords glittering with electricity they formed, they clashed as they came together, the wielders each holding their hilt. There was another loud crash and Mack let out a cry of pain. Sparks skidded across the floor as Mack's sword lost ground. Suddenly Liz harkened up as though awoken from a trance and burst into the room. The duelists both jerked to look at the sound and in a blinding flash the sparks and swords were gone. Liz charged with her mace, fire dripping from her skin and hair. The flash subsided and Liz came to a halt, Mrs. Rayne was gone.
"Shit," Mack cried, drawing his rapier looking about, "no time to block her technique."
"Good bye," came a voice from behind Mack. Before he could do anything she appeared and held her hand over his head.
"Damn," Mack cried trying to block her technique with his hand, but to no avail as a shower of purple sparks rained down on him. Soon he was immersed in the sparks and unseen. A blue ray shot out of the sparks and Rayne, slightly hurt, jerked her hand away, but Mack was no longer there.
"Damn kid," Rayne said examining her hand which now had all sorts of symbols all over it, "well, no matter, he can't bother the plan any more." With a smirk she disappeared.
"Coward!" Liz shouted realizing what had happened,
"Who said I was running?" came a voice from behind her. Mrs. Rayne materialized, "you can thank your friend, thanks to this at least you'll all be sent to the same place," She held her hand over Liz, who stood dumbfounded. Sparks began to fall when suddenly a flaming arrow whizzed across the room, catching Rayne by her other hand and pinning her to the wall.
"Don't touch our friends!!" Edward cried and loaded another flaming arrow into his bow.
"Fools," Mrs. Rayne hissed, and suddenly the whole room began to spin, catching the students off guard. It took a second for the kids to clear there heads of the illusion, but then Mrs. Rayne was gone, again.
"She may be invisible but she's still flammable," Edward cried and let loose several fireballs, Kara who stood next to him guided them across the room. While the buzzing satellites were patrolling the room, Natasia rushed forward to Liz's side.
"Mack is...."
"We know, Kara was following him." Natasia said sadly.
Suddenly there was a scream as one of the flames went wild and a vague outline of a woman became apparent in the dancing flames.
"There!" Jessica cried and they all rushed in the direction. Kaitlyn, though, stood back, "Something's not right" she thought. Natasia was the first to the outline, and she leapt at it with a bio-mechanical sword. It clanged to the ground and the flaming outline and screams ceased. Quickly, they were replaced by maniacal laughter. Laughter filled the room, laughing laughing . . . yeah Rayne really did overkill with the laughter. Nothing happened for a few seconds while the laughter subsided. "Damn comic relief" Edward thought to himself. The laughter continued when suddenly Mrs. Rayne appeared over Kaitlyn with her hand above her head. Fearful Kaitlyn thought through Lord of the Rings and suddenly a deep gleam came into her eye, and she seemed much older and grimmer. With the hilt of Glamdring she rammed Mrs. Rayne hand. Despite the impact a purple shimmer covered Kaitlyn and abruptly she disappeared.
"Guuuaa!" Mrs. Rayne cried as she looked at the second mark now engraved on her hand, which grew till it formed a large black spot in the center of her arm. Slowly sparks began issuing forth from the spot. Now though, the came out like liquid and it seemed like life were bleeding out through her hand. The other students were too far away to do anything but watch,
"GWWAAAA!" Melody now cried figuring out that now both Mack and Kaitlyn were gone, "She's weakened!" Melody ran forth her hammer still in hand, her entire body pulsing and morphing with blinded rage. Yet Mrs. Rayne was not out yet, she jerked her body forward catching Melody off guard with her palm now spewing with sparks and force. Melody was gone in a flash. As the pyrotechnics subsided the remaining five people stood there death gazing at Mrs. Rayne. Kara ran at her first, force echoed through the halls as Mrs. Rayne was lifted up and thrown to the wall. She coughed up blood as she hit, and was being crushed into the wall. Edward stepped forward Jessica grasped his hand and they glowed brightly as a huge ethereal sword was drawn up from the stone floor. Natasia grasped it in a huge bio-mech arm and held it steady, its point near Mrs. Rayne who was across the length of the room, Liz too grasped the sword and it became a huge flame. Lifting the sword Natasia cried,
"This is for our friends!!!" She brought the sword from ceiling to floor creating a huge gash, and in the dust Mrs. Rayne fell.
***Afterword***
Ok I had to get this chapter out quick, the next one will introduce some new characters, but I'm very sorry for them because the next one will be the last one I write for a while. Hope that you guys enjoy the next one, cause pretty much it going to introduce a whole new depth of the story and setting. But I am not stopping writing, so keep checking this authors stuff cause I'm gonna start another ff. Sorry to anyone that reads this story but tune in later and it'll be really good, just need to take a break from this fic for a while.
***LETTERS TO THE ED-ITOR***
Heres My chance to goof off and force my will upon this story, other than having to correct the stupid grammatical (AND SPELLING) mistakes that Mack makes.. --;
By the way, I had no control over the way that Mack wrote the first section of the story, just to make sure that no one is let to believe any more than the good natured person that I am that I volunteer to take Natasia's shift ^_^
Mack sez that Kara's weird controlly thing has a reason in the story's future but the fact that I'm the only guy in the current split of the team (Kaitlyn Melody and Mack---Liz, Kara, Natasia, Jessica, and I)
only makes it worse in the fact that Kara's power is her will over men --;
Oh horrid horrid fate.
Anyway, lets get the ball rolling with my fabricated letters i mean... ... ... ... ... not... fabricated...
yes...
Dear Mack,
How come you're writing the story with so many exclamation points now. I mean seriously, during the first 5-ish chapters your character's reactions were never that emotional... well.. besides that stupid Edward's.
~ Anonymous reader
YEAH WELL MACK CAN'T BE HERE TO LISTEN TO YOU BALK ABOUT HOW ITS SOO MUCH MORE DRAMATIC NOW!!! I MEAN SERIOUSLY, I JUST HELP A TEENSY BIT THE THE ACTION AND YOU JUMP ALL OVER IT!!!! OH MY GOSH!! :p
lol but really seriously, it's proly cause mack, the silly guy he is, never really put in things other than periods before yours truly started editting for him *nods emphatically* and besides, its alway nice to have some tension and emotion in the fanfic.
by the way... you'd better stay anonymous if you don't want to be retributed for your words... foolish mortal...
~The Ed-Itor
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Thanks for the fan service Mack, hehe, I proly have to put more effort into my Editting now ;_; oh well
~Edward Chau, The Ed-itor