~ Mage Kitty
A/N: Weeeeell... Life is crap... I'm talking to Crimson; she's sick. She was throwing up. What fun. Blah. Damn Science Fair...
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Radioactive Bubblegum: Hello, and I like hurting Lili ^^ You know, I think so too…
lutefa: Nope to pretty much everything ^^ I would say more, but I forgot what I was gonna say. Dontcha hate it when that happens???
The CheezHead: Yup, and I won't answer you question cause I'm mean and I need to hold on to my pitiful plot. So you can't know! HAHA!
Laughing Dragoness: Hello. Again.
Evil Mint: I'm not hyper in the mornings either. Gah, I loathe waking up and mornings.
alex: Okay, I'm updating now…
Kelsey: Have Trubsy to yourself. If I want to borrow it, I'll ask. Just like I borrowed Scarlet's Libimbo ^^ I'm not creative enough to think of my own nicknames… If I hear/see anyone, other than Crimson, using the word 'narg' I shall kill them. Narg is my word. No one else's. Salty pretzels. Then I can eat them and laugh at you ^^
scarletswitchblade: I've e-mailed you… You already know what I've said…
Disclaimer: I don't own Holly, Root, Foaly, Trouble, erm... Lili (if she's in it), Cudgeon (if he's in it), sorta Cedar... I dunno, why am I doing this for the thirteenth time? Read the previous twelve if you are sooo concerned.
*~*~*~*~* Chapter 13: Another Nameless One *~*~*~*~*
"Call up the girls he says. Call up the girls. Do I know their phone numbers? Nooo. I don't even know if I've met Cedar's kid yet, but I'm stuck with phoning them. I don't even know what school they go to! Grrr..." the disgruntled centaur muttered, "Call up the girls. Do I look like a secretary?"
"Yes," Briar Cudgeon said to him, "Get me some coffee."
"Shove it," Foaly muttered.
"Watch your mouth, pony-boy," Cudgeon hissed.
"I'm on direct orders from Commander Julius Root to phone two girls and to tell anyone else to 'shove it' if they talk to me," Foaly said, then added, "Shove it."
"We'll see about that," Cudgeon glared.
"Shove it."
Cudgeon stalked away. Foaly sighed with relief. Like everyone but Root and Cudgeon's henchmen hated the Lieutenant. He was a pain in every fairy's backside. Telling him to shove it was very amusing. Maybe if Foaly was lucky, he could hack into the camera systems and get a copy of him telling Cudgeon to shove it. Edit a bit here and there, and he'll air to all the boys at the LEP. Foaly went back to muttering to himself.
After a few fruitless moments of searching the Spiral, Foaly realised that it gives him too much information. A phone book was necessary then.
"Hmmm... I don't know the school, I don't know Cedar's kid's name. Maybe that Shade girl has a cell phone and it's listed," Foaly muttered. But, as Cedar had previously discovered, there was no trace of any Shade's in the phone book, "Well then, I'll try the e-mail book," the e-mail book was one of Foaly's ideas. He figures that because everyone is using e-mail these days, they should make an e-mail book, like a phone book. Foaly just didn't realise that it would come in handy so soon.
"Shade, Shade, Shade... Ah! Here we are! sorceress_green@faywire.hvn. Wow. She must have had that account for a long time. No numbers and FayWire has been accepting any new applicants for an account there for ten years. She'll definitely still be using it," Foaly muttered than opened up his own account at FayWire, technical_genius_centaur. He quickly typed in a message while muttering that he hoped that Night could access the Spiral from school and checks her mail soon. Fortunately for the centaur, FayWire automatically shows if you've got mail from other FayWire users without having to press Refresh...
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"No mail. Damn," Night muttered to herself and moved the pointer up towards the URL code. She typed in another URL and just before she hit enter, the screen flashed like it was being refreshed, "Mail," she grinned to herself. It was probably just Holly annoying her, but, hey!, mail is mail! No, not Holly... Her e-mail isn't technical_genius_centaur... Must be someone else. Oh wait. The subject line says 'Dagger/Parazonium! Read!' Well... I'm definitely reading this! She clicked to open the message and quickly read the contents:
Night,
Cmdr. Root wants to see you and Cedar's kid at his office ASAP. Didn't say anything about school. My advice, just cut.
Foaly
Ooooh! An excuse to skip! Was Night's first thought. She then realised that cops rarely tell kids to skip. It must be really important. Or Foaly could just be being an ass. Pun not intended. Night forwarded the message to Holly's school account so it would blink up without requiring any effort from Holly, adding the note:
I got it from Foaly. Let's leave during the class change in five minutes.
~ Night
Holly received the message and replied saying that it sounded good. The two girls were ready to go.
Unnoticed by either of them, though, Trouble Kelp had followed the messages. Holly's screen was tilted at an angle that he could just read the e-mails. And Trouble Kelp was not to be left behind.
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"What's up?" Night asked a half-hour later.
"We need you two to do something for us," Commander Root ground on his fungus cigar bitterly. Using two elves that didn't even have their magick yet. What was the world coming to? But that was the point. They need a magickless fairy to do a little reconnaissance for them.
"For what?" Holly asked, confused. It was completely against the regulations to use civilians for police work. And Holly knew that.
"It's completely against the regulations, but we need to use fairies without magick," Cedar said.
"We need one of you to-" Root was cut off by Foaly's shushing movement.
"There's someone outside the door," Foaly said from behind Root's computer.
"What?" Root asked. Foaly ignored him.
"I'd think it was that nosy Cudgeon, but the fairy isn't built the same," Foaly muttered, "He/She/It is old enough to have magick; he/she/it's shielded."
"Then use the filters!" Root snapped at Foaly.
"I would love to, but I have to hack further into the surveillance system," Foaly muttered.
"WHAT?" Root asked, swiftly turning purple.
"The only person who has control over the surveillance system is Marcus Shade," Foaly explained, "And he's the head technician. It's supposed to be only accessed by the Ops Booth, but I could get in on any of the LEP's computers and my personal one."
"Marcus Shade," Holly wondered, "Is he related to you, Night?"
"Unfortunately, yes," Night frowned, "Remember that Uncle whom I cut?"
"I don't think anybody forgot about him."
"That's him. How in the world did that magickless fool become the head technician?" Night wondered.
"Magickless... But that's impossible! I saw him just yesterday staple himself. I saw the blue sparks!" Foaly turned and stared at Night.
"He's magickless. Describe the sparks," Night said flatly.
"I couldn't really see them; it was at a bad angle. But I know that there was sparks," Foaly said firmly.
"I must have a talk with him, then," Night paced across the office, "What about that guy outside?" Root, Cedar and Foaly looked at each other semi guilty, "You forgot about him."
"Er, yes... I think he's leaning on the door. Open it," Foaly whispered. Holly complied. Just like Briar Cudgeon did all that time ago, another vague haze fell to the floor with two guns pointing at it.
"Unshield, fairy!" Root snapped. The fairy flickered into view.
"Trouble?" Holly and Night asked.
"Yeah," he said.
"What are you doing here?" they both asked at the same time.
"Followed you," he said.
"Why?"
"Because I read the message and I want to know what's going on," Trouble muttered.
"Then close the door, moron!" Night rolled her eyes. Trouble did, "Now why did you call us down here?"
"We need a magickless fairy to do a reconnaissance in a high Troll populated area," Root said.
"Why magickless?" Holly asked.
"Because that area takes the magick from a fairy," Cedar said softly.
"And how do you know?" Night asked.
"Cedar?" Root asked.
"I've got nothing sharp on me," he said.
"Will any of these do?" Night asked. She held up her two boot knives.
"Yes, that will do," Cedar nodded. A knife came flying towards him. Cedar deftly snatched it out of the air. Calmly, he pressed the tip of his index finger against the razor sharp blade. He held up the bleeding finger for Night, Holly and Trouble to see. Night nodded and Root reached and touched Cedar's wrist muttering 'heal.'
"So you are our living example. Tried the Ritual yet?" Night asked.
"There hasn't been a Full Moon since I lost my magick," Cedar said.
"Give me a set of wings," Holly smirked.
"Holly, I'm going," Night turned and looked at her friend.
"I'm the most reasonable choice. This is what I want to spend my life doing and I already know how to use the wings," Holly stared back at Night.
"I'm a quick study," Night countered.
"I'm going Night," Holly said, completely sure of herself.
"Holly, Parazonium could take over and hell could happen. You're too much of a wild card," Night said reasonably.
"Night. I'm going," Holly repeated.
"Holly, no. You've got a life to live; I've just got some crazy dream. If something happens to me, it won't affect very many people. I'm going," Night said.
"We both have crazy dreams, Night. But I have to do this. If not for just proving that I can," Holly tilted her head and glared at the taller elf.
"It's unreasonable, Holly. You have very little reasons to actually back up you going on this. I have a lot. And they are valid. No one will care if I'm killed."
"I would."
"And if you were killed? You have parents, you've got relatives. You've got friends like Ivy Vinyáya," Night said.
"You've got relatives too, Night," Holly glared. Night just looked coolly back.
"You've met the nicest one."
"I'm going Night."
"I am."
"Me."
"Me."
"Me."
"Me."
"That's it! Shut up! You are just behaving childishly now!" Root glared at both of them.
"Who's going to go?"
"I am," Trouble said softly. Everyone turned and stared at him.
"No way! You've got magick, man!" Night glared at him.
"That may be true, but no one would care if I disappeared and I can fly. Plus, I want to be a LEP officer myself. All your excuses can work for me too," Trouble looked at him.
"Trouble, no one may care if you die, but you have parents. Your father is a Council member and your mother's pregnant. And you have magick. I'm going," Night said firmly.
"Whoa. How did you know all of that?" Trouble stared at Night.
"I watch the news and the election speeches. My birthday is before the elections. I can vote. And I'm going to," Night said.
"Hmm. Mine too. Maybe I should start watching the speeches," Holly pondered. Night's eyes light up and she smirked for a brief moment.
"How about the oldest gets to go," Night offered. All the other fairies stared at her. Fairies below the age of thirty rarely ever tell anyone their birth date. Fairies are too vulnerable for attack during the First Ritual. So very few fairies tell other's their birthdays.
"Alright," Holly said, "You first. Dad can vouch for me, and you have no one."
"Sounds fair. December 25th, 1930," Night proclaimed.
"Oh my lord Frond. I was born on the same date," Holly stared at Night in wonder. Fairies were rarely born on the same date. When two fairies do, it is said that their destinies are intertwined. But it was extra good for Night. She needs a second for her Ritual. And the second had to be born on the same date. Which was nearly impossible. So Night had found her second, if Holly agrees. And her second was there for all of her life.
"Yes! WHOOO! I AM SAVED! WHEEE!" Night jumped up and down excitedly.
"What? You are saved because we were born on the same date?" Holly asked.
"Has to do with the Sorcerers Ritual. I'll explain later," Night said cheerfully, "And you are sooo not going on that reconnaissance thing. I need you alive, preferably."
"Well, if you are dead, you can't do that Ritual thing anyway," Holly complained.
"Then I didn't miss anything."
"I'm going."
"Me."
"Me."
"Me."
"SHUT UP!" Root roared, "I'm going to choose! And I choose..."
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A/N: Tune in next week, folks for the winner of the reconnaissance trip! And if there is weird stuff under my name, I have no idea why it's there. And I just wanna upload this and get off my comp, because it is beginning to do weird things. Like programs get errors and I have to reinstall them. But I don't know how… So I'm just gonna get off now…
~ Mage Kitty =^.^=
oHoly knew that.