Chapter Two:
The plan!
Very slowly Vidin noticed that his dream was melting away, it wasn't a particularly happy dream. He dreamed that he was chasing faceless people and when he got close they stopped him and ran ahead, preventing him from ever gaining an upper hand on his target. As Vidin lay in bed watching the last of his dream he started to hear a voice... that slowly and gradually got louder, ...vidin... ...Vidin... VIDIN!!!! Vidin bolted upright spraying out a mouthful of jumbled words "who-ish-ill- your-what?" At that moment a shoe connected and bounced off Vidin's head. Vidin rubbed his head blearily and a voice from somewhere in the room spoke. "Wake up jackass the airship wont wait forever, go wash your face and get dressed we have 20 minutes before the ship leaves for castle Andréa." Vidin listened as voice was replaced by footsteps that quickly left his room and headed down the hall. Vidin started to regain his sense and he realized that the voice belonged to Scout, Scout was unlike most humans Vidin met, Scout seemed to judge people purely on there heart and soul. Scout was about 5'11, and he had light brown messy hair, and wore a bandana-strip to keep his hair out of his eyes. He always handles fake I.D's and methods of drop off. He and Korks would also be accompanying Vidin on the mission. One more person was going inside the castle with Scout, Vidin, and Korks. She was a respectable miage, a race said to be responsible for many great wonders of the current society. Her name was Jessie she was shortest of them all at a mere 4'10 she has the appearance an 8-year-old girl. The Miage race was a unique one. They are masters of elemental forces, the elders in some clans are able to control tides, while other elders are able to start or stop volcanic eruption. A nifty fact about the race is that they rarely use their powers against other miages for this reason; the power that the Miage calls upon will change his or her eyes a different color briefly. For instance say a miage calls upon lightning to smote and enemy, the eyes of that miage will change yellow for about 2 seconds, giving any other miage and opportunity to counteract that spell. Water defeats lightning, and lightning (when water is being summoned) will counteract that spell; the same goes for fire and ice. However. Jessie was an oddity in her race. She was one of the few miage's that where unable to cast magic. However she has found a much deadlier art to master, machines. With her knowledge of hi-tech gadgets and her homemade magic producing weapons she is as good as any, if not more efficient then most Miages. However her effects are limited, she has had no difficulty producing lightning grenades and fire grenades however ice and water are a different story, with these elements she uses a special type of sub machinegun she manufactured to launch water and ice attacks. Besides her sub machinegun she carries two silenced SOCOM pistols. Other physical characteristics of the miage race are exactly like humans in everyway except that Miages have Technicolor eyes and usually have extremely short statures. Vidin quickly got out of bed and went to the shower stall to quickly wash up. Quickly drying himself he took a long hard stare at the mirror. Sensing that he was peering into his very own soul, he stared, and neither felt nothing nor saw anything, Vidin lowered his head and continued with his routine. As he stepped out onto the pier he continued to receive controversial stares but the morning sun looked like Glory sent from the heavens, it lifted Vidin but he was quickly brought back down to his reality when a small boy passing with his mother pointed at Vidin and yelled out "QUIB!" (A very rude name for a Shasy or an Archear) Vidin lowered his gaze to the hateful dirt that littered the filthy streets of doru-onia. He gradually climbed stairs slowly deep in thought about life. When he realized that he was already 3 minutes late. Vidin rushed full throttle to the top decks of doru-onia where the airships where kept. After running full speed for another 3 minutes he was slightly winded but not bad. He found Scout arguing with the airship captain, a shrewd looking fellow. He was dirty and he had yellow teeth. As Vidin approached he heard Scout having an argument with the captain, "I aint waitin for no filthy Archear!" He heard Scout yell back "listen he will be here your only a few minutes behind schedule!" the captain spat at Scouts feet, "your lucky I'm letting a Archear on my baby anyway, and no one mentioned a Shasy!" at that point Scout saw Vidin and looked relived but his look of relief was broken quickly by a fathers look of stern disapproval. "Your late, get in and meet up with Jessie and Korks, they're inside." As Vidin was climbing the latter he heard the captain mutter under his breath "damn quib's." The flight however was much more enjoyable, as there where limited people. Jessie was already onboard and smiling at her friends. She usually had a very outgoing jumpy happy attitude; but when she was on a mission she converts herself to a superficial mercenary. Vidin sat across from Jessie and smiled "hi jess." Jessie winked and went into a conversation about her newest invention "its really awesome guys I haven't had an opportunity to test it in the field yet." Korks replied. "Well let's wait till after this mission, I don't want anything to go wrong." Jessie's smile faded. "Well a piece of me still want to try them out today..." Scout moved in closer and said, "What is 'IT' anyway?" Jessie's face lit up and Vidin was sure her head was going to explode from the sudden rush of blood "oh there so cool, there spikes that I can either throw or shoot from my launcher, basically they will fry any electrical equipment they come in contact with" scout butted in. "what's so good about that?" Jessie looked frustrated "well I wasn't done, that's not all they can do. They can also electrify any wall, floor, or door, turning it into an instant trap!" Vidin spoke. "That can actually come in very useful if we get cornered..." Jessie smiled, "thanks Vid." Vidin just raised his hand in an agreeing sort of way. The trip continued in this fashion until Korks called them all to attention. "Now everyone" said Korks. "This is what will happen. When we dock me, Scout, and Jessie will each take out packs," Korks pointed at individual packsacks on the floor. "Each of which contains a costume. No one will believe that I'm a guard so I'm a butler. Scout you're a guard; this will give you a chance to follow Vidin in a very DISCRITE way got it? Now Jessie you're set up as aristocrat girl" "I'm a kid again?" said Jessie. "Hey I didn't make you that short" said Korks. "Anyway, you are to stay in close quarters but find somewhere safe and monitor our vitals, we will use your earphones again, because last mission they where extremely useful." "What do I do?" said Vidin. "Vidin, it will be your job to infiltrate ahead and make the coast clear for me and the others to help pilfer the riches, when the vault is open, I got a surprise waiting" everyone in the room was used to this line, almost every mission Korks had a surprise that makes all of the trio's mouths drop. "Vidin, no distractions all right just go right for the vault and take out all the guards in your way, there will be 6 guards posted as the vault door, and I was actually worrying about that, but I think I have a good idea, if you use one of Jessie's new gadgets I think we can take out all the guards in that area without making a great deal of noise." Jessie looked like she was going to cry, "BUT I WANTED TO TRY OUT THE FIRST ONE!" everyone in the room except Vidin who was staring at the floor, all stared at Jessie, even the captain was staring for a set time. Jessie kind of squeaked "...what?" And then shrank in her seat. Then Korks turned to the transfixed captain and yelled "TURN AROUND AND DRIVE!" Vidin laughed a small laugh, and Korks smiled as the muttering captain went back to watching the skies... By the end of today things where going to be very different for everyone on that airship...
The plan!
Very slowly Vidin noticed that his dream was melting away, it wasn't a particularly happy dream. He dreamed that he was chasing faceless people and when he got close they stopped him and ran ahead, preventing him from ever gaining an upper hand on his target. As Vidin lay in bed watching the last of his dream he started to hear a voice... that slowly and gradually got louder, ...vidin... ...Vidin... VIDIN!!!! Vidin bolted upright spraying out a mouthful of jumbled words "who-ish-ill- your-what?" At that moment a shoe connected and bounced off Vidin's head. Vidin rubbed his head blearily and a voice from somewhere in the room spoke. "Wake up jackass the airship wont wait forever, go wash your face and get dressed we have 20 minutes before the ship leaves for castle Andréa." Vidin listened as voice was replaced by footsteps that quickly left his room and headed down the hall. Vidin started to regain his sense and he realized that the voice belonged to Scout, Scout was unlike most humans Vidin met, Scout seemed to judge people purely on there heart and soul. Scout was about 5'11, and he had light brown messy hair, and wore a bandana-strip to keep his hair out of his eyes. He always handles fake I.D's and methods of drop off. He and Korks would also be accompanying Vidin on the mission. One more person was going inside the castle with Scout, Vidin, and Korks. She was a respectable miage, a race said to be responsible for many great wonders of the current society. Her name was Jessie she was shortest of them all at a mere 4'10 she has the appearance an 8-year-old girl. The Miage race was a unique one. They are masters of elemental forces, the elders in some clans are able to control tides, while other elders are able to start or stop volcanic eruption. A nifty fact about the race is that they rarely use their powers against other miages for this reason; the power that the Miage calls upon will change his or her eyes a different color briefly. For instance say a miage calls upon lightning to smote and enemy, the eyes of that miage will change yellow for about 2 seconds, giving any other miage and opportunity to counteract that spell. Water defeats lightning, and lightning (when water is being summoned) will counteract that spell; the same goes for fire and ice. However. Jessie was an oddity in her race. She was one of the few miage's that where unable to cast magic. However she has found a much deadlier art to master, machines. With her knowledge of hi-tech gadgets and her homemade magic producing weapons she is as good as any, if not more efficient then most Miages. However her effects are limited, she has had no difficulty producing lightning grenades and fire grenades however ice and water are a different story, with these elements she uses a special type of sub machinegun she manufactured to launch water and ice attacks. Besides her sub machinegun she carries two silenced SOCOM pistols. Other physical characteristics of the miage race are exactly like humans in everyway except that Miages have Technicolor eyes and usually have extremely short statures. Vidin quickly got out of bed and went to the shower stall to quickly wash up. Quickly drying himself he took a long hard stare at the mirror. Sensing that he was peering into his very own soul, he stared, and neither felt nothing nor saw anything, Vidin lowered his head and continued with his routine. As he stepped out onto the pier he continued to receive controversial stares but the morning sun looked like Glory sent from the heavens, it lifted Vidin but he was quickly brought back down to his reality when a small boy passing with his mother pointed at Vidin and yelled out "QUIB!" (A very rude name for a Shasy or an Archear) Vidin lowered his gaze to the hateful dirt that littered the filthy streets of doru-onia. He gradually climbed stairs slowly deep in thought about life. When he realized that he was already 3 minutes late. Vidin rushed full throttle to the top decks of doru-onia where the airships where kept. After running full speed for another 3 minutes he was slightly winded but not bad. He found Scout arguing with the airship captain, a shrewd looking fellow. He was dirty and he had yellow teeth. As Vidin approached he heard Scout having an argument with the captain, "I aint waitin for no filthy Archear!" He heard Scout yell back "listen he will be here your only a few minutes behind schedule!" the captain spat at Scouts feet, "your lucky I'm letting a Archear on my baby anyway, and no one mentioned a Shasy!" at that point Scout saw Vidin and looked relived but his look of relief was broken quickly by a fathers look of stern disapproval. "Your late, get in and meet up with Jessie and Korks, they're inside." As Vidin was climbing the latter he heard the captain mutter under his breath "damn quib's." The flight however was much more enjoyable, as there where limited people. Jessie was already onboard and smiling at her friends. She usually had a very outgoing jumpy happy attitude; but when she was on a mission she converts herself to a superficial mercenary. Vidin sat across from Jessie and smiled "hi jess." Jessie winked and went into a conversation about her newest invention "its really awesome guys I haven't had an opportunity to test it in the field yet." Korks replied. "Well let's wait till after this mission, I don't want anything to go wrong." Jessie's smile faded. "Well a piece of me still want to try them out today..." Scout moved in closer and said, "What is 'IT' anyway?" Jessie's face lit up and Vidin was sure her head was going to explode from the sudden rush of blood "oh there so cool, there spikes that I can either throw or shoot from my launcher, basically they will fry any electrical equipment they come in contact with" scout butted in. "what's so good about that?" Jessie looked frustrated "well I wasn't done, that's not all they can do. They can also electrify any wall, floor, or door, turning it into an instant trap!" Vidin spoke. "That can actually come in very useful if we get cornered..." Jessie smiled, "thanks Vid." Vidin just raised his hand in an agreeing sort of way. The trip continued in this fashion until Korks called them all to attention. "Now everyone" said Korks. "This is what will happen. When we dock me, Scout, and Jessie will each take out packs," Korks pointed at individual packsacks on the floor. "Each of which contains a costume. No one will believe that I'm a guard so I'm a butler. Scout you're a guard; this will give you a chance to follow Vidin in a very DISCRITE way got it? Now Jessie you're set up as aristocrat girl" "I'm a kid again?" said Jessie. "Hey I didn't make you that short" said Korks. "Anyway, you are to stay in close quarters but find somewhere safe and monitor our vitals, we will use your earphones again, because last mission they where extremely useful." "What do I do?" said Vidin. "Vidin, it will be your job to infiltrate ahead and make the coast clear for me and the others to help pilfer the riches, when the vault is open, I got a surprise waiting" everyone in the room was used to this line, almost every mission Korks had a surprise that makes all of the trio's mouths drop. "Vidin, no distractions all right just go right for the vault and take out all the guards in your way, there will be 6 guards posted as the vault door, and I was actually worrying about that, but I think I have a good idea, if you use one of Jessie's new gadgets I think we can take out all the guards in that area without making a great deal of noise." Jessie looked like she was going to cry, "BUT I WANTED TO TRY OUT THE FIRST ONE!" everyone in the room except Vidin who was staring at the floor, all stared at Jessie, even the captain was staring for a set time. Jessie kind of squeaked "...what?" And then shrank in her seat. Then Korks turned to the transfixed captain and yelled "TURN AROUND AND DRIVE!" Vidin laughed a small laugh, and Korks smiled as the muttering captain went back to watching the skies... By the end of today things where going to be very different for everyone on that airship...