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Chapter 10 By: Soulful Gray
"WEASEL! KITTY! HOW THE HELL!" she screamed as her two sisters, Sage, and Kayura suddenly appeared before her.
She wanted to jump up and down, hug Anubis, hug her sisters, hug Anubis again, kick Buffy, wave to Kayura, and hug Anubis all at one time. It made it hard though, that she could only jump up and down and hug Anubis, which she did with a droolish gusto; Lin, Katrin, Sage, and Kayura were outside the tree and up in the sky for that matter. The only way she could have brought them under the tree- like she had with Anubis- was if they entered her Realm at the same moment she did.
"How did you get here! You're zoning! I didn't think you knew how! My gosh! Oiy! How did Buffy and Kay get here?! Did you drug them Lin? Yip! Yip!" She bounced excitedly and Lin and Kat just stood there staring at her.
"Birdie! If you'd just shut the hell up-" Lin started.
"Where the hell are we!" Sage yelled at the redhead next to him. "What's going on!"
"We're in the Blessed Realm!" she snapped back. "Now if you could just-"
"How in the world did you create this place!" Kayura exclaimed excitedly as she stared at the world. Then something- or rather someone- caught her eye.
"Oh my gods," she whispered, her eyes widening. "Anubis!"
"What are you-" Sage must have noticed too, because he caught sight of the redheaded ex-warlord and did a double take.
"Kayura," Anubis said softly. "Sage." He was staring at them and then he smiled. "It has been a while."
"What are you doing here!" Sage yelled out. He still wasn't used to being caught up in the air, but he was slowly forgetting about it under the shock of seeing his one-time ally down on the ground below him, seemingly alive and well.
"How did you get into this world?" Kayura asked. While they spoke to the warlord, Robyn and her sisters were talking quickly.
"I don't know. I was brought back to life by a creature called Lasheen, and then he brought this Robyn girl into his captivity. Somehow she managed to save us by bringing our... I supposed you could call tem our souls into this world."
Kayura glanced over at Robyn. "But I thought this world was a creation of your mind, therefore inside your mind."
Robyn stopped and glanced up. "Nope. The Blessed Realm is a creation farther outside the mind and deeper inside it. It is a combination, so that it can be inside or outside when I choose it. It is not held by any vessel under most circumstances. It exists as a place for souls to enter as I will it." Having said her piece she started talking to her sisters again.
Kayura eyed the girl for a moment and then turned back to Anubis.
"So you are alive," she said softly. She shook her head, laughing softly as she started to cry. "I can't believe you're alive."
"Anubis," Sage asked. "This means you'll be coming to the mortal realm with Robyn." His visible eye was shimmering with a bit of moisture, but he didn't cry like Kayura. "It's going to be great to have you back."
Anubis felt emotion welling up inside him. He would be amongst the Ronins again. Ryo, Mia, Yulie, White Blaze; all of them. He smiled up at them.
"Indeed," he said. "I'll have trouble waiting till I can be with you all again."
Before he could go on with something mushy to say- if he ever says mushy things- in his oh-so-sexy voice, Robyn interrupted.
"Okay! Got a plan!" she said cheerfully and Anubis felt a twinge of annoyance.
"Hopefully this one might actually work."
Robyn's eyes turned stormy gray. "Hey! At least I tried the last time! And this one will be much easier!" she snapped. "Anyway. Katrin is going to conjure our bodies to the spot nearest to the Blessed Realm. That spot will be real. Then, I'll just will us back to our bodies. It means we're going to be open to attack, and you're going to be the most vulnerable."
Insulted that she would consider him vulnerable in any state, he tried to say something but Kayura intervened, asking a question.
"What do you mean, 'the spot nearest to the Blessed Realm?"
"Oh. Like I said, this place isn't contained in any vessel under most circumstances. It just kinda floats around. So we'll go down to our bodies and make the rest of the journey on foot for however long it might take. I'm sure there's some sort of doorway we'll come across if we're still in Lasheen's world."
"And how do you plan to find such a doorway when you don't know how to navigate Lasheen's world?" Anubis asked smoothly.
"I don't. We'll improvise. Who knows, maybe we'll end up in the mortal realm; after all, the Blessed Realm floats in many places. If you don't like it, I'll just leave you up here, let your body rot, and transfer your soul into the body of a dead ass-goblin! And it would be such a waste too!"
"A waste of what?" Katrin asked, wondering about Robyn's thoughts on the redhead.
"An ass-goblin!" she quipped. "So, Kitty, if you'd just skedaddle back to the real world and go about conjuring our bodies, we can be out of here in no time. 'Nubis, you might feel weak, helpless, defenseless and useless once it happens, but don't worry. It happens to the best of us, too, sometimes." She winked at him and then skipped to the roots of the tree.
"Don't worry, Birdie! We'll have you back in no time!" Katrin was sniffling a bit and so was Lin as they said their goodbyes. Sage and Kayura were reluctant to leave Anubis behind, but eventually they allowed Lin and Katrin to tug them along.
"So now we wait. Once we pop out of here, we should be able to find our bodies fairly easily. I don't know where our bodies will be. Kitty's pretty good, so maybe we'll automatically go to the mortal realm, but I don't know if she has enough to do that."
"Do you even think this little plan will work?" Anubis asked coolly.
Robyn turned and glared at him. "Hey, did I ask you for an underlined opinion? No!" She stuck out her tongue and jumped up to sit on one of the roots. "Quite frankly, Anubis, I don't think you have much to comment on, considering that you're not in any position to do anything else but chill out." She wanted to let her legs hang free, but it was hard with the skirt and she cursed. "Stupid dress thingy..." With a snap of her fingers, she changed the look into a pair of green pants and a comfortable black t- shirt. Sometimes, pretty dresses really got on her nerves.
Comfy, she started swinging her legs back and forth and watched him. "Anubis, have I done something to offend you? If I have, I'd really like to know what I've done so I can figure out whether or not I should apologize to you." His gaze cooled further after that comment.
"Don't you think that if you offend someone, you should apologize to them, regardless?"
"Not really. If you think about it, some people are offended over the stupidest stuff." She watched him. "Well, how have I offended you? Is it my personality? The way I act? My voice? The fact that I exist?" She crossed her ankles and stared down at the toes of her slippers. "Sometimes I don't get why people apologize for things like that. I mean, sure, I've apologized for all those things before, but just because I offend someone with those traits doesn't mean I should always have to apologize, common courtesy be damned."
Having said her piece, she looked up at the black sky and bit-by-bit willed every last star back to its home and then did the same for all the little fire-flies. She hadn't even waited for Anubis to answer, and he got the feeling that she was ignoring him.
Truth was, he didn't really have a reason to be offended by her; she just annoyed him. And as he watched her more, he realized he shouldn't be snappish for her failed attempts. At least she was trying.
"I apologize," he said before he could stop himself. "I had no cause to find offense with you, and for that I would ask your forgiveness."
He smile was bright, and it hit him that the Blessed Realm didn't need a sun, or moon, or stars to be bright; she was a light source in herself when she seeemd happy.
"Hey, it's no problem. I'd probably be waspy too if I'd just escaped from an It!" She blinked then. "Well, considering I just did... well... hmm..." She shrugged. "Anyway, it's no biggy." Without another word she lay back on the giant root and stared up into the bare branches of the tree.
"I asked you earlier to tell me of your powers," he started after they'd sat in silence for a few minutes. "Would you please explain them?"
She shrugged. "There's not much to explain. My magic spans pretty wide. I can do lots of stuff and I'm fairly powerful if I will it."
"So you are a sorceress?" He sat on the ground beside her root and pulled himself into a lotus position.
"I dunno. I guess."
"You said something of foresight?"
"Yeah. It's one of my special powers, the ones I didn't have to learn. I was born with them. I have Foresight, the ability to sense a person's thoughts and feelings, and the power to know their past. I don't use those powers that much. Well, the Card of Feeling... yeah, I've used that one a lot."
"Card?" He glanced up at her.
"Oh, I put those three powers into Cards. It helps control them. Otherwise I'd probably be in an institution. Anyway, I've also developed a knack for the elements, and those are fairly high on the magic scale when it comes to their power. Everything else is fairly basic."
"Such as?" He really wanted to know what she meant by "basic".
"Not much. Potions. Conjurring. Illusions. Teleportation. Telepathy. Transformation. Telekenisis." He raised an eyebrow.
"And those are all just simple spells to you?"
"Well, transformation's pretty complex, and so is teleportation if you have a long ways to go or you've more than one person. But everything else is pretty much standard to me. Now telepathy, I guess that couldn't really be considered magical, except in the sense between Kat, Lin and myself, but even then it's more a physical link. However, it's kind of a mix betweeen physical and magical since I couldn't use it in Lasheen's world or this one. Well... since they contacted my Blessed Realm... Hell! I don't even have that one figured out." She gave a disgusted face and rolled over so she was looking down at him. "But, yeah... Those pretty much cover it, and each one has a small sub-category fixed in there."
"You say you're farily powerful, but your powers were suppressed in Lasheen's world?"
"Yeah, well, I can't help that." She shuddered and a look of real fear crossed her eyes. "Compared to that thing, my power barely counts for anything. Worse than that, it's got a twenty deep, thousand foot high brick wall for a lackey. The attacks the guys used on him were worthless! I increased Ryo's sure-kill a hundred-fold and it just barely burned the skin off his back!" Robyn sat up abruptly and pulled her knees to her chin.
"If I could just get ahold of that damn ball again. I can't believe I dropped it in the lake! It would have been useful!" She looked down at him. "But between you and it, I wasn't about to leave you to drown."
"I thank you for that," he said dryly.
"Well, I suppose we'd better prepare for our return to our bodies. You were pretty worn when we escaped, so don't be surprised if you still feel that way when we go back into our bodies. I'm not a healer, so I won't be able to help you much. We'll have to wait for one of Lin's potions or Sage."
Anubis thought of something just then. "You don't know where we'll appear?"
"Only that it will be under the Blessed Realm. For all I know, we're floating above South Africa. Either way, we'll rest once we're back in our bodies and I might be able to teleport us. Going back into our bodies will take a lot out of us, so it's iffy."
He nodded and decided, just maybe, the girl did have more than a vague idea to what she was doing.
Then she started talking to herself and that went to hell.
The Mortal Realm...
Katrin sighed as she concentrated on the power inside her. She was holed up in her room (she didn't like being watched) and focussing on trying to bring Robyn and Anubis's bodies to the Mortal Realm. She'd never done something so large before- well, besides a boulder Robyn had once tested her with, but Robyn was a living, breathing thing!
Coming back from the Blessed Realm had been much better this last time. There had been a distinct difference between being under the Tree and floating outside it as a vision, and she hadn't felt so drained. Lin had felt the same, but Sage and Kayura hadn't faired as well. The shock of returning to their bodies had made them tired and they'd crawled off to bed after a quick explanation to the rest of the guys.
Cye and Kentoe were safe-guarding her room at the moment, and Lin was downstairs making some of her special tea with Mia and Ryo. Katrin sighed. They'd had to dig through Robyn's things till they found just what they needed- her sketchbook. Robyn was a good artist and had several detailed sketches of Anubis, not to mention several pictures printed from the computer. Katrin hardly knew what the redhead looked like- even though she'd sorta met him in the Blessed Realm-, so she had stared at the pictures and sketches for several hours before she was positive she had every bit of him memorized. She'd focussed mainly on his face and his eyes. His eyes were especially unique with their emerald shade of green, so she'd made sure to pay special attention to them. She didn't want to accidentally conjure the wrong redhead.
Taking a deep breath, she closed her eyes and put her hands out in front of her. She hadn't conjurred anything in this manner for a long time. Most of the time she relied on her bag, and she hoped she hadn't forgotten how to conjure without the tote.
She felt the energy spreading from her finger tips and coursing to the space in front of her so it tangled like a webbed. Focussing, she shaped the power into a squared field and let a mental picture of Robyn and Anubis form behind her eyelids.
Carefully, she divided the field into two uneven pieces: the larger piece went to Anubis, and the smaller to Robyn. She started on Robyn's first and began shaping blindly with her hands. Her fingers passed over what would be a head and it rounded and she swayed her fingertips over the rounded part to form eyes, nose, and lips. She coursed downwards and began kneading and shaping things to the mental image of Robyn.
-You'd be a great sculptor, I think, if you took some classes.- Robyn had told her once. -The way you just close your eyes and move your hands to form something... Even though it already exists, you craft it out of thin air so it becomes real in another place. Like a sculptor.-
Well, she was about to sculpt a masterpiece. Her biggest project yet. Two living beings. All her other projects had been inanimate, lifeless. This was a risky situation.
Finally, she reached the toes and swished her hand to the remaining power. It expanded, like thread, and closed around the sculpted energy like a leotard. She didn't know if Robyn's body would come with the clothes, so, it was just in case.
Next came the harder projects. She tried- and succeeded- to not let her fingers stumble over him. For the most part, as long as she had his face almost exact, the rest would be a moot point, but she conquered his shape nonetheless, outlining him with perfection. She finished Anubis in nearly record time and wrapped him in the excess; although, she didn't think he would appreciate a leotard- what guy would?- so she formed a cloak instead.
When she opened her eyes, her hands were still spread outwards, but instead of touching empty space, the touched the feet of two ghost-like figures that hovered parallel to the floor. A mist of power floated around their transparent bodies and she felt triumph well up inside her. If she could see them like this, she knew she had indeed succeeded.
She smiled and closed her eyes again as she willed them to become solid, for their wraith-like figures to have color and flesh beneath skin. Then came the point to will the bodies to appear in their proper destination, beneath the Blessed Realm. All her power went into it and when she was through with the task and she opened her eyes, all that was left behind was empty space.
Katrin keeled forward with a strained cry and felt all her energy drain from her; it had been a harder task than she had thought at first. It had been simple really, but the complexities that lay beneath it were hard to see and huge in number.
She heard the door crash open and the thundering sound of footsteps. Then she could have sworn she heard startled voices call out her name. But she only smiled and fell into welcoming slumber.
Lin sipped at her tea as she stared out into the night from where she sat at the kitchen table. Katrin was sleeping peacefully in their room after having just done what Lin had thought impossible. Her younger sister had just conjurred two humans from thin air.
She savored the flavor of ginger peach and lots of sugar as she let it slide over her tongue. It wasn't a flavor she'd made herself, but the special potion she'd put in it was to promote a restful state of being and she sighed as the feeling crawled over her.
She'd nearly freaked when she'd run upstairs and found Kentoe cradling her unconcious little sister. She'd heard Katrin cry out and immediately feard the worst. The moment Lin stepped inside the door, she had drilled Kentoe until Cye had actually snapped at her to be quiet. Kat was just sleeping. She was exhausted.
Lin wished she could say the same for herself. She felt useless at the moment. She wasn't in any real position to do anything to help anyone since all she could do was make potions and occasionally transform Vaseline bottles into gel bottles. She could now Zone, too, but big deal. That wasn't really helping anything.
-I wonder how Birdie's going to know that her body's been conjurred.- Of course, she figured Robyn would probably know with her uncanny way of knowing things.
She wished she had a special power like that. She was good with potions, sure, but she had to learn that stuff. She wanted something unique!
-Stop repeating your thoughts, Weasel,- she reprimanded silently.
She took another sip and looked over at the window above the kitchen sink and noticed that Mia's plants were looking wilted. A few pots of small flowers and a small Bonsai. Nothing big. Through the excitement of the last couple days, she figured Mia must have forgotten to water them. She might as well do it for her.
The soil of the plants was cracked and dry and she winced as the pretty bud of a flower snapped off and fell. Poor thing. It was a pretty plant too, some sort of blue thing. She grabbed a glass from the cabinet and filled it with water to pour into the flower pots.
The Bonsai didn't really look as bad as the others, but it still needed some water and she smiled as she couldln't help touching the lovely plant. It was an old one by the look of the roots. She moved on and fingered the delicate leaves of some small white flowered plant. It was the worst of them all, and she frowned and gave it a little extra attention with her caresses. Then she moved to the other two pots and have them all similar touches, wishing she could do something more for them.
She dumped her cold tea into the sink and walked out of the kitchen. She was restful now and she wanted to get some sleep.
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Heya! It's been a really long time between this chapter and the last one! But hey! I got it done at least! Yippee for me! It's really short though, compared to the others. I apologize if you see a lot of spelling mistakes. I'm writing this without a word processor. So yeah. Also, I've put a lot of planning into this South Africa idea! Hmm... I wonder what Anubis would look like in a loin cloth.... drooooooooooollllllies.... Yum. Anyway. I have art up on my site! It's my own! Go there! Please! My links on my bio- page! Thank ye for reading. Oh! And please review if you can!
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Note: -* words* - means shared thoughts between the girls.
Chapter 10 By: Soulful Gray
"WEASEL! KITTY! HOW THE HELL!" she screamed as her two sisters, Sage, and Kayura suddenly appeared before her.
She wanted to jump up and down, hug Anubis, hug her sisters, hug Anubis again, kick Buffy, wave to Kayura, and hug Anubis all at one time. It made it hard though, that she could only jump up and down and hug Anubis, which she did with a droolish gusto; Lin, Katrin, Sage, and Kayura were outside the tree and up in the sky for that matter. The only way she could have brought them under the tree- like she had with Anubis- was if they entered her Realm at the same moment she did.
"How did you get here! You're zoning! I didn't think you knew how! My gosh! Oiy! How did Buffy and Kay get here?! Did you drug them Lin? Yip! Yip!" She bounced excitedly and Lin and Kat just stood there staring at her.
"Birdie! If you'd just shut the hell up-" Lin started.
"Where the hell are we!" Sage yelled at the redhead next to him. "What's going on!"
"We're in the Blessed Realm!" she snapped back. "Now if you could just-"
"How in the world did you create this place!" Kayura exclaimed excitedly as she stared at the world. Then something- or rather someone- caught her eye.
"Oh my gods," she whispered, her eyes widening. "Anubis!"
"What are you-" Sage must have noticed too, because he caught sight of the redheaded ex-warlord and did a double take.
"Kayura," Anubis said softly. "Sage." He was staring at them and then he smiled. "It has been a while."
"What are you doing here!" Sage yelled out. He still wasn't used to being caught up in the air, but he was slowly forgetting about it under the shock of seeing his one-time ally down on the ground below him, seemingly alive and well.
"How did you get into this world?" Kayura asked. While they spoke to the warlord, Robyn and her sisters were talking quickly.
"I don't know. I was brought back to life by a creature called Lasheen, and then he brought this Robyn girl into his captivity. Somehow she managed to save us by bringing our... I supposed you could call tem our souls into this world."
Kayura glanced over at Robyn. "But I thought this world was a creation of your mind, therefore inside your mind."
Robyn stopped and glanced up. "Nope. The Blessed Realm is a creation farther outside the mind and deeper inside it. It is a combination, so that it can be inside or outside when I choose it. It is not held by any vessel under most circumstances. It exists as a place for souls to enter as I will it." Having said her piece she started talking to her sisters again.
Kayura eyed the girl for a moment and then turned back to Anubis.
"So you are alive," she said softly. She shook her head, laughing softly as she started to cry. "I can't believe you're alive."
"Anubis," Sage asked. "This means you'll be coming to the mortal realm with Robyn." His visible eye was shimmering with a bit of moisture, but he didn't cry like Kayura. "It's going to be great to have you back."
Anubis felt emotion welling up inside him. He would be amongst the Ronins again. Ryo, Mia, Yulie, White Blaze; all of them. He smiled up at them.
"Indeed," he said. "I'll have trouble waiting till I can be with you all again."
Before he could go on with something mushy to say- if he ever says mushy things- in his oh-so-sexy voice, Robyn interrupted.
"Okay! Got a plan!" she said cheerfully and Anubis felt a twinge of annoyance.
"Hopefully this one might actually work."
Robyn's eyes turned stormy gray. "Hey! At least I tried the last time! And this one will be much easier!" she snapped. "Anyway. Katrin is going to conjure our bodies to the spot nearest to the Blessed Realm. That spot will be real. Then, I'll just will us back to our bodies. It means we're going to be open to attack, and you're going to be the most vulnerable."
Insulted that she would consider him vulnerable in any state, he tried to say something but Kayura intervened, asking a question.
"What do you mean, 'the spot nearest to the Blessed Realm?"
"Oh. Like I said, this place isn't contained in any vessel under most circumstances. It just kinda floats around. So we'll go down to our bodies and make the rest of the journey on foot for however long it might take. I'm sure there's some sort of doorway we'll come across if we're still in Lasheen's world."
"And how do you plan to find such a doorway when you don't know how to navigate Lasheen's world?" Anubis asked smoothly.
"I don't. We'll improvise. Who knows, maybe we'll end up in the mortal realm; after all, the Blessed Realm floats in many places. If you don't like it, I'll just leave you up here, let your body rot, and transfer your soul into the body of a dead ass-goblin! And it would be such a waste too!"
"A waste of what?" Katrin asked, wondering about Robyn's thoughts on the redhead.
"An ass-goblin!" she quipped. "So, Kitty, if you'd just skedaddle back to the real world and go about conjuring our bodies, we can be out of here in no time. 'Nubis, you might feel weak, helpless, defenseless and useless once it happens, but don't worry. It happens to the best of us, too, sometimes." She winked at him and then skipped to the roots of the tree.
"Don't worry, Birdie! We'll have you back in no time!" Katrin was sniffling a bit and so was Lin as they said their goodbyes. Sage and Kayura were reluctant to leave Anubis behind, but eventually they allowed Lin and Katrin to tug them along.
"So now we wait. Once we pop out of here, we should be able to find our bodies fairly easily. I don't know where our bodies will be. Kitty's pretty good, so maybe we'll automatically go to the mortal realm, but I don't know if she has enough to do that."
"Do you even think this little plan will work?" Anubis asked coolly.
Robyn turned and glared at him. "Hey, did I ask you for an underlined opinion? No!" She stuck out her tongue and jumped up to sit on one of the roots. "Quite frankly, Anubis, I don't think you have much to comment on, considering that you're not in any position to do anything else but chill out." She wanted to let her legs hang free, but it was hard with the skirt and she cursed. "Stupid dress thingy..." With a snap of her fingers, she changed the look into a pair of green pants and a comfortable black t- shirt. Sometimes, pretty dresses really got on her nerves.
Comfy, she started swinging her legs back and forth and watched him. "Anubis, have I done something to offend you? If I have, I'd really like to know what I've done so I can figure out whether or not I should apologize to you." His gaze cooled further after that comment.
"Don't you think that if you offend someone, you should apologize to them, regardless?"
"Not really. If you think about it, some people are offended over the stupidest stuff." She watched him. "Well, how have I offended you? Is it my personality? The way I act? My voice? The fact that I exist?" She crossed her ankles and stared down at the toes of her slippers. "Sometimes I don't get why people apologize for things like that. I mean, sure, I've apologized for all those things before, but just because I offend someone with those traits doesn't mean I should always have to apologize, common courtesy be damned."
Having said her piece, she looked up at the black sky and bit-by-bit willed every last star back to its home and then did the same for all the little fire-flies. She hadn't even waited for Anubis to answer, and he got the feeling that she was ignoring him.
Truth was, he didn't really have a reason to be offended by her; she just annoyed him. And as he watched her more, he realized he shouldn't be snappish for her failed attempts. At least she was trying.
"I apologize," he said before he could stop himself. "I had no cause to find offense with you, and for that I would ask your forgiveness."
He smile was bright, and it hit him that the Blessed Realm didn't need a sun, or moon, or stars to be bright; she was a light source in herself when she seeemd happy.
"Hey, it's no problem. I'd probably be waspy too if I'd just escaped from an It!" She blinked then. "Well, considering I just did... well... hmm..." She shrugged. "Anyway, it's no biggy." Without another word she lay back on the giant root and stared up into the bare branches of the tree.
"I asked you earlier to tell me of your powers," he started after they'd sat in silence for a few minutes. "Would you please explain them?"
She shrugged. "There's not much to explain. My magic spans pretty wide. I can do lots of stuff and I'm fairly powerful if I will it."
"So you are a sorceress?" He sat on the ground beside her root and pulled himself into a lotus position.
"I dunno. I guess."
"You said something of foresight?"
"Yeah. It's one of my special powers, the ones I didn't have to learn. I was born with them. I have Foresight, the ability to sense a person's thoughts and feelings, and the power to know their past. I don't use those powers that much. Well, the Card of Feeling... yeah, I've used that one a lot."
"Card?" He glanced up at her.
"Oh, I put those three powers into Cards. It helps control them. Otherwise I'd probably be in an institution. Anyway, I've also developed a knack for the elements, and those are fairly high on the magic scale when it comes to their power. Everything else is fairly basic."
"Such as?" He really wanted to know what she meant by "basic".
"Not much. Potions. Conjurring. Illusions. Teleportation. Telepathy. Transformation. Telekenisis." He raised an eyebrow.
"And those are all just simple spells to you?"
"Well, transformation's pretty complex, and so is teleportation if you have a long ways to go or you've more than one person. But everything else is pretty much standard to me. Now telepathy, I guess that couldn't really be considered magical, except in the sense between Kat, Lin and myself, but even then it's more a physical link. However, it's kind of a mix betweeen physical and magical since I couldn't use it in Lasheen's world or this one. Well... since they contacted my Blessed Realm... Hell! I don't even have that one figured out." She gave a disgusted face and rolled over so she was looking down at him. "But, yeah... Those pretty much cover it, and each one has a small sub-category fixed in there."
"You say you're farily powerful, but your powers were suppressed in Lasheen's world?"
"Yeah, well, I can't help that." She shuddered and a look of real fear crossed her eyes. "Compared to that thing, my power barely counts for anything. Worse than that, it's got a twenty deep, thousand foot high brick wall for a lackey. The attacks the guys used on him were worthless! I increased Ryo's sure-kill a hundred-fold and it just barely burned the skin off his back!" Robyn sat up abruptly and pulled her knees to her chin.
"If I could just get ahold of that damn ball again. I can't believe I dropped it in the lake! It would have been useful!" She looked down at him. "But between you and it, I wasn't about to leave you to drown."
"I thank you for that," he said dryly.
"Well, I suppose we'd better prepare for our return to our bodies. You were pretty worn when we escaped, so don't be surprised if you still feel that way when we go back into our bodies. I'm not a healer, so I won't be able to help you much. We'll have to wait for one of Lin's potions or Sage."
Anubis thought of something just then. "You don't know where we'll appear?"
"Only that it will be under the Blessed Realm. For all I know, we're floating above South Africa. Either way, we'll rest once we're back in our bodies and I might be able to teleport us. Going back into our bodies will take a lot out of us, so it's iffy."
He nodded and decided, just maybe, the girl did have more than a vague idea to what she was doing.
Then she started talking to herself and that went to hell.
The Mortal Realm...
Katrin sighed as she concentrated on the power inside her. She was holed up in her room (she didn't like being watched) and focussing on trying to bring Robyn and Anubis's bodies to the Mortal Realm. She'd never done something so large before- well, besides a boulder Robyn had once tested her with, but Robyn was a living, breathing thing!
Coming back from the Blessed Realm had been much better this last time. There had been a distinct difference between being under the Tree and floating outside it as a vision, and she hadn't felt so drained. Lin had felt the same, but Sage and Kayura hadn't faired as well. The shock of returning to their bodies had made them tired and they'd crawled off to bed after a quick explanation to the rest of the guys.
Cye and Kentoe were safe-guarding her room at the moment, and Lin was downstairs making some of her special tea with Mia and Ryo. Katrin sighed. They'd had to dig through Robyn's things till they found just what they needed- her sketchbook. Robyn was a good artist and had several detailed sketches of Anubis, not to mention several pictures printed from the computer. Katrin hardly knew what the redhead looked like- even though she'd sorta met him in the Blessed Realm-, so she had stared at the pictures and sketches for several hours before she was positive she had every bit of him memorized. She'd focussed mainly on his face and his eyes. His eyes were especially unique with their emerald shade of green, so she'd made sure to pay special attention to them. She didn't want to accidentally conjure the wrong redhead.
Taking a deep breath, she closed her eyes and put her hands out in front of her. She hadn't conjurred anything in this manner for a long time. Most of the time she relied on her bag, and she hoped she hadn't forgotten how to conjure without the tote.
She felt the energy spreading from her finger tips and coursing to the space in front of her so it tangled like a webbed. Focussing, she shaped the power into a squared field and let a mental picture of Robyn and Anubis form behind her eyelids.
Carefully, she divided the field into two uneven pieces: the larger piece went to Anubis, and the smaller to Robyn. She started on Robyn's first and began shaping blindly with her hands. Her fingers passed over what would be a head and it rounded and she swayed her fingertips over the rounded part to form eyes, nose, and lips. She coursed downwards and began kneading and shaping things to the mental image of Robyn.
-You'd be a great sculptor, I think, if you took some classes.- Robyn had told her once. -The way you just close your eyes and move your hands to form something... Even though it already exists, you craft it out of thin air so it becomes real in another place. Like a sculptor.-
Well, she was about to sculpt a masterpiece. Her biggest project yet. Two living beings. All her other projects had been inanimate, lifeless. This was a risky situation.
Finally, she reached the toes and swished her hand to the remaining power. It expanded, like thread, and closed around the sculpted energy like a leotard. She didn't know if Robyn's body would come with the clothes, so, it was just in case.
Next came the harder projects. She tried- and succeeded- to not let her fingers stumble over him. For the most part, as long as she had his face almost exact, the rest would be a moot point, but she conquered his shape nonetheless, outlining him with perfection. She finished Anubis in nearly record time and wrapped him in the excess; although, she didn't think he would appreciate a leotard- what guy would?- so she formed a cloak instead.
When she opened her eyes, her hands were still spread outwards, but instead of touching empty space, the touched the feet of two ghost-like figures that hovered parallel to the floor. A mist of power floated around their transparent bodies and she felt triumph well up inside her. If she could see them like this, she knew she had indeed succeeded.
She smiled and closed her eyes again as she willed them to become solid, for their wraith-like figures to have color and flesh beneath skin. Then came the point to will the bodies to appear in their proper destination, beneath the Blessed Realm. All her power went into it and when she was through with the task and she opened her eyes, all that was left behind was empty space.
Katrin keeled forward with a strained cry and felt all her energy drain from her; it had been a harder task than she had thought at first. It had been simple really, but the complexities that lay beneath it were hard to see and huge in number.
She heard the door crash open and the thundering sound of footsteps. Then she could have sworn she heard startled voices call out her name. But she only smiled and fell into welcoming slumber.
Lin sipped at her tea as she stared out into the night from where she sat at the kitchen table. Katrin was sleeping peacefully in their room after having just done what Lin had thought impossible. Her younger sister had just conjurred two humans from thin air.
She savored the flavor of ginger peach and lots of sugar as she let it slide over her tongue. It wasn't a flavor she'd made herself, but the special potion she'd put in it was to promote a restful state of being and she sighed as the feeling crawled over her.
She'd nearly freaked when she'd run upstairs and found Kentoe cradling her unconcious little sister. She'd heard Katrin cry out and immediately feard the worst. The moment Lin stepped inside the door, she had drilled Kentoe until Cye had actually snapped at her to be quiet. Kat was just sleeping. She was exhausted.
Lin wished she could say the same for herself. She felt useless at the moment. She wasn't in any real position to do anything to help anyone since all she could do was make potions and occasionally transform Vaseline bottles into gel bottles. She could now Zone, too, but big deal. That wasn't really helping anything.
-I wonder how Birdie's going to know that her body's been conjurred.- Of course, she figured Robyn would probably know with her uncanny way of knowing things.
She wished she had a special power like that. She was good with potions, sure, but she had to learn that stuff. She wanted something unique!
-Stop repeating your thoughts, Weasel,- she reprimanded silently.
She took another sip and looked over at the window above the kitchen sink and noticed that Mia's plants were looking wilted. A few pots of small flowers and a small Bonsai. Nothing big. Through the excitement of the last couple days, she figured Mia must have forgotten to water them. She might as well do it for her.
The soil of the plants was cracked and dry and she winced as the pretty bud of a flower snapped off and fell. Poor thing. It was a pretty plant too, some sort of blue thing. She grabbed a glass from the cabinet and filled it with water to pour into the flower pots.
The Bonsai didn't really look as bad as the others, but it still needed some water and she smiled as she couldln't help touching the lovely plant. It was an old one by the look of the roots. She moved on and fingered the delicate leaves of some small white flowered plant. It was the worst of them all, and she frowned and gave it a little extra attention with her caresses. Then she moved to the other two pots and have them all similar touches, wishing she could do something more for them.
She dumped her cold tea into the sink and walked out of the kitchen. She was restful now and she wanted to get some sleep.
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Heya! It's been a really long time between this chapter and the last one! But hey! I got it done at least! Yippee for me! It's really short though, compared to the others. I apologize if you see a lot of spelling mistakes. I'm writing this without a word processor. So yeah. Also, I've put a lot of planning into this South Africa idea! Hmm... I wonder what Anubis would look like in a loin cloth.... drooooooooooollllllies.... Yum. Anyway. I have art up on my site! It's my own! Go there! Please! My links on my bio- page! Thank ye for reading. Oh! And please review if you can!
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