.
Note
to Xelfan12: It doesn't matter what any of the other co-authors
plan
unless they tell you. Just write whatever! But I did want to
do with
plans, yes.
Note to Mike: HUGGLES!
Another
Note to Mike: If you were wondering, that was just so I could write
a
note to you so you wouldn't feel left out and have a Note to Gerby
next
time you write. .
"Okay, what are they?"
asked Xelkitti, a pen already poised over a clean
sheet of
paper.
"Xelkitti, they're called lost for a reason, you
know," said Verath, "I need
to go FIND them from
Dynast's tinder-filled ice-incased hunk of metal he
calls a file
cabinet, then I need to READ them to see if they are at all
useful,
and what little spells survive that screening have to be
STOLEN."
"Oh," said Xelkitti, looking slightly put
out.
"Saej will go do that while we're planning," he
added.
"I will?" asked Saej.
"Yep, no ifs ands
or buts. Shoo," ordered Verath.
"Why can't HE go?"
Saej pointed at Gaaz, who was acting out a play using
pieces of
licorice. It was a very violent play.
"Because he's a
Ryuuzoku, now scoot."
"But-"
"MUSH!"
Xelkitti yelled at him, quite keen to get the forgotten spells.
Saej
started to argue with her, took one glance, and decided against it.
He
left in a rush of cold air.
"Anyways," said
Xelfan12, going on as if nothing unusual had happened (which
hadn't,
in his point of view anyway). "I think we should get a move on
the
plans, then?" Seeing no objections he continued. "Well,
I was thinking we
should keep some of our old techniques, such as
my quite useful Dark Mist
trick which I so kindly demonstrated on
Verath a few chapters back. We just
need to alter some of them a
bit, like our Barrage of 'Bits would need to be
changed to Blast
Bombs instead of Flare and Ice Bits. Xelkitti, are you
writing
this down?"
"Hai!" Xelkitti was busy scribbling the
alterations over their old plans.
"Yes, I quite agree with
that, and I have a good plan to use the Scircco
ball," Verath
said, "Dynast already knows you two are fire elemental but
he
doesn't know about the Scircco, you two could cast it and it
would just seem
as if you were using fire. But of course, the
damage dealt would be much
much more considerable, you might call
it a surprise attack."
More scribbling.
"We have
advantage in numbers too, don't forget to put that down," said
Xelfan12.
"We all know chaos spells, or at least shamanism spells are the most effective," Verath said, "If the worst comes to the worst I can split and have us three use chaos spells while Saej and Gaaz combine black and white magic spells. And remember not to panic if one of us falls."
"Bu-" Xelkitti started.
"Xelkitti can use her illusion magic to confuse Dynast when we need time," Xelfan12 went on, much too enthusiastic to pay attention to her. "or just use it to confuse him all the time. It's much better to have him waste energy blasting away fake enemies while we prepare. Wearing him out would be good"
"Hey-" Xelkitti tried again.
"Yeah," agreed Verath, "Dynast's not good against fire spells either, strong enough ones that is. We'll have to use plenty of blast bombs. He doesn't know Dolphin's against him; he'll probably bring her along so she doesn't destroy his house. We can have her fight him too. I think I can manage to talk her into it. But I'll have to convince her not to use water magic, she'd just freeze herself."
"Ver-"
"I think a semi-defensive strategy would work best," Xelfan12 cut off Xelkitti again. "We'll try to inhibit Dynast's ability to fight as much as possible and attack when his defenses are down. Xelkitti could do most of the inhibiting, as I mentioned before, while the rest of us attack. What do you think?"
"I-"
"Wonderful!" Verath interrupted, "And I might add I think the scircco trick should be reserved for Xelkitti, in case Dynast figures out a way to become uninhibited. When that happens we might have to resort to using landscape for defense. I've discovered that using durable pieces of landscape can be quite useful for blocking attacks and momentary distractions when one needs to get away. Boulders are my favorite and Wolfpup has an abundance of those along the shores. But in case we can't get him here we can at least lure him into some type of quarry or something."
"Verath" Xelkitti started again, only to be cut off, AGAIN.
"Yeah, that would also help our offensive in a sense that-"
"WILL YOU BOTH JUST SHUT UP!" Xelkitti finally burst out.
