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Disclaimer: All I own is Wizard-Theif, the plot and I sort of own TornTwistedHeart who does not appear in this episode
Chapter 3
"What kind of game?" Mossnose asked
"I think you know." Wizard-Theif said.
And with that said the game began.
Wizard-Theif turned round and started running down the alley heading right for the busy street where she had ran onto before. The only thing is that this time she saw a maze like the ones in the Egyptian tombs. She starting running for the exit noting that the guards where following and were closing in.
"She is heading for the street!" Mossnose yelled as she and Spidey ran after Wizard-Theif.
"Hang on!" Spidey yelled at Wizard-Theif, "What's the game? What are the rules? How do we know if we have won or lost?"
Wizard-Theif stopped just for a second before running right into the busy street. Spidey and Mossnose stopped at the side of the road and looked into the traffic for a hint Wizard-Theif; they didn't have to wait very long.
"Hey, mortals. You better hurry up or lose." Wizard-Theif's voice sounded.
Spidey and Mossnose looked up to the roof of one of the buildings on the other side of the road and saw Wizard-Theif standing on top of it just beside the edge. Spidey and Mossnose had no idea that Wizard-Theif saw the village from her past with all the villagers being slaughtered. Mossnose was being to think that maybe, just maybe, Wizard-Theif was doing all of this of her own freewill and maybe Wizard-Theif never was their friend.
"Did she just call me a mortal?" Mossnose asked Spidey.
"Uh… yes?" Spidey said.
"Hurry up; man mortals are so slow maybe they need some problems to get them motivated." Wizard-Theif said before chaos broke loose.
"What's happening?!" Spidey yelled as she tried to keep her footing.
"Wizard-Theif is creating an earthquake using her aura." Mossnose said growing bigger, once she was the size of an elephant she ran at the building on which Wizard-Theif was standing on. She hit it and caused the building to shake, not fall but shake just enough to knock Wizard-Theif to the ground. Good news, Wizard-Theif and Mossnose where both unharmed and the earthquake stopped. Bad news, Wizard-Theif was unharmed, and was able to make a run into another back alley. More good news, Mossnose was able to shrink to an easier to manoeuvre size (about the size of a tiger) and chase after Wizard-Theif and Spidey was able to catch up after a little while and she caught a ride on Mossnose. More bad news, Wizard-Theif had a plan and Spidey and Mossnose were falling right into it.
Wizard-Theif saw her chance; a horse drawn carriage was coming right at her. There wasn't enough room in the back alley to go around but she could just jump over it, the two guards on the other hand, would have to stop and may lose track of her and then she would have the element of surprise.
When the moment came, Wizard-Theif jumped right over the horse carriage, frightening the horse.
"Good luck getting out of that mess." Wizard-Theif thought as she made a sharp turn to the right. As she ran she thought she saw a flicker of a shadow on the other side of the street as most as if it was following her from the roofs, "Was that… no… if that what I think it was they will have to deal with their own problems."
"What is she doing!?" Spidey asked as she and Mossnose saw Wizard-Theif jump over the car coming down the back alley. The car's driver became flustered and almost crashed, luckily he managed to stop and Mossnose was able to jump over the car.
"Did you see where she got to?" Mossnose asked Spidey as she stopped to catch her breath.
"Yeah, she ran to the right. What is wrong with her?" Spidey asked, while getting some sutra's ready as Mossnose started running again.
"No idea." Mossnose said.
"Hang on, stop!" Spidey said.
Mossnose stopped almost as soon as Spidey told her to, "What gives?" She asked.
"I can't sense Wizard-Theif's aura anymore." Spidey said.
Mossnose lowered her head to the ground and tried with all her might to find Wizard-Theif's scent.
"I can't find her scent either." Mossnose said, finally giving up.
"How could an aura like that disappear so fast?"
"I don't know Wizard-Theif never cared to hide her aura… Let's keep together, if Wizard-Theif catches one of us alone, we are as good as dead."
"You really believe that she would kill us?"
Mossnose nodded, "As much as it pains me to say it, it looks like it. She is acting so odd; in all the time I've known her she never played games like this. She was more the head on, fight to the death sort."
"But you have only known her for what, 500 years? Give or take."
"Yeah, and she like 5000 something so compared to that, I haven't known her very long."
"Oh man! Where is Yami Bakura when you need him?!"
"Why would Bakura be of any use?! He might just help her!" Mossnose said angrily, again trying to catch a scent.
"He has known Wizard-Theif the longest; he might know what is going on!"
Wizard-Theif laughed inwardly, "The morons, do they seriously think that they can find me if I don't want to be found? Well… it appears so." Wizard-Theif thought as she watched Mossnose try to find her scent for the first time. She couldn't understand anything the guards were saying but she could see the fear and worry in their eyes. Once she heard the name Bakura and she was the one feeling a little worry, she knew that if she allowed that emotion to remain she would fall out of the shadows which were hiding her and her aura so she quickly thought of something else, like how she would get revenge on this two guards.
"I found her scent!" Mossnose said but then fell silent; the scent had disappeared once again.
"You lost the scent?" Spidey asked, gently.
Mossnose nodded, even though Spidey meant it kindly if still stung to hear that and then Spidey said, "I felt her aura for a second but it disappeared before I could center in on it."
"Do you think that this has to do with the costumes?" Mossnose asked.
"Maybe… we have to find her before someone gets hurt."
"Good idea." Mossnose said and they started walking down the back alley, alert for any sign of Wizard-Theif.
Twice Mossnose and Spidey felt that someone was following them. The first time Spidey spun round to see nothing but the back alley and the second time Mossnose spun round and thought she saw a shadow that looked like Wizard-Theif but it disappeared before she could get a better look.
"I think we should split up." Spidey said finally.
"I already told you! That is a move of a fool! You are underestimating Wizard-Theif abilities and overestimating you own, if we split up we are dead!" Mossnose roared at Spidey.
"But what if we only pretend to, you know, to lure her out."
"I don't know… but we don't have much of a choice."
"What are they planning? What manner of language are these guards talking in? This would much easier if I could understand them." Wizard-Theif thought as she continued to watch the guards. Once she had almost been caught as she followed the pair but luckily for her, she was able to regain control of her emotions. She had become curious and was what triggered her shadow to become visible.
"What are they planning?" Wizard-Theif thought as she saw the pair split up, "Oh! I see they hope to trick me into revealing my location by pretending to split up. Clever… but not clever enough, their objectives were clear… why not? I could use the entertainment. I just have to wait."
She waited right till one of the guards (Mossnose) was alone, her logic was this, though she had no idea how she knew that this logic was correct:
-Spidey was a slower runner than Mossnose
-Spidey was a priestess and therefore would be more of a threat if Mossnose was present (Meaning that together Mossnose and Spidey could kill Wizard-Theif but knock off Mossnose and Spidey would be very vulnerable as she would be a little too slow to dodge Wizard-Theif's attacks)
-Mossnose couldn't do anything to change the environment (purify it) therefore giving Wizard-Theif an advantage
-The only thing Mossnose could attack with was claws and teeth, where as Spidey had sutra's, and if Wizard-Theif was touched by a purifying sutra, Wizard-Theif would be purified, not fun
-If she fought Mossnose when Mossnose was off guard and then if she made Mossnose angry, Mossnose wouldn't be able to think clearly and Wizard-Theif would have a greater chance of success.
She made her move once she was sure that Spidey and Mossnose were growing tired and more and more worried.
Mossnose was just walking down the street when she heard a strong wind coming, next thing she knew she was on the floor, feeling a massive pain in her gut. She looked down the back alley to see Wizard-Theif standing there looking smug.
"And here I thought that you would put up a better fight, silly me." Wizard-Theif taunted.
"Wizard-Theif? What are you doing? Why?" Mossnose asked through the pain.
Wizard-Theif just continued on as if she hadn't heard, "I guess I should have known though… a grown cat demon that couldn't defeat a little kitten, you don't deserve to live, you are a disgrace to the cat demon race."
"Why you!" Mossnose yelled jumping to Wizard-Theif's bait; she leaped at Wizard-Theif's throat but instead got a dagger in her gut. Mossnose recoiled in pain and cursed Wizard-Theif under her breath.
"If you are going to curse someone, do it so that they can hear you." Wizard-Theif said, vaulting into another attack.
Mossnose was just barely able to evade Wizard-Theif's attack. She only had a few seconds before Wizard-Theif leaped into a new attack, she chose to transform into a human.
"You would need a weapon to defeat me… but even then you probably still wouldn't win." Wizard-Theif said, springing into a new attack.
Mossnose then realized the stupidity of her decision to transform to a human. The wound to her gut was deeper then she had thought, on top on that, she was slower now and twice as vulnerable.
"Come on, I was hoping for a more interesting fight." Wizard-Theif said, kicking Mossnose down to the ground, who cried out in pain.
Spidey heard the cries of pain, that were coming from Mossnose but she remained hidden, in hope that Wizard-Theif would stop before she killed Mossnose and that Spidey wouldn't have to use a sutra on Wizard-Theif as she still had to figure out how to only use half her powers and not completely purify the thing with the sutra on it.
Wizard-Theif's laugh cut through the air like a knife. Then she called out to Spidey saying, "Come out, I want to finish in one move."
Spidey came out of hiding to see Mossnose in human form, lying on the back alley's floor in a pool of her own blood.
Spidey's horror that Wizard-Theif could do something like this to her friends must have shown on her face as Wizard-Theif started to laugh again and said, "That's what you get for messing with me. I had thought that you would have learned after what happened before."
"What are you talking about!?! Wizard-Theif, what has happen?! Why did- How could you do this?!" Spidey yelled.
Wizard-Theif's confusion of what Spidey was saying showed on her face for a second but it disappeared in an instant.
"No funny moves or else I'll kill her." Wizard-Theif said, pointing to Mossnose who was just barely conscious.
Spidey walked over to where Mossnose was lying and looked over the damage, Mossnose would live… if Wizard-Theif didn't just finish the job right then and there.
Then Spidey realized something, Wizard-Theif had braced her feet into the ground and her aura was beginning to increase. Wizard-Theif was drawing power from the darkness around her, and there is never a shortage of that.
Wizard-Theif outstretched her arm and felt joy rush through her. She was going to win this game and forget all about the past and just live out her destiny.
"This game goes to me. Hope you enjoy Hell!" She yelled as she readied to open a gateway.
But just before she could open the gate, someonegrabbed her arms from behind her back, and kicked the backs of her knees, causing her to collapse. Wizard-Theif knew that there was only one person who could that to her though she couldn't see who it was, "Traitor!" She yelled her voice full of pain and anger as she struggled to release herself from her capturer's grip.
Spidey saw a chance to stop Wizard-Theif's rampage. She grabbed a sutra from her back pocket and threw it at Wizard-Theif, yelling "I'm sorry Wizard-Theif!" with tears running down her cheek. It hit Wizard-Theif right on the forehead as she struggled against her capturer's grip. When Spidey activated the sutra it sent what seemed to be an electric shock through Wizardtheif. Spidey had to send the charge for a good 2 minutes before Wizard-Theif became limp and unconscious. Unfortunately, Spidey passed out before she could say thank you to the person who helped her and Mossnose.
The figure carried Wizard-Theif over to the other two girls and looked into Spidey's purse and saw the girls' hotel key. He smiled and that was all Mossnose saw before she too lost consciousness.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Wizard-Theif screamed as she bolted into a sitting position in her bed, she was hyperventilating and felt terror in every fibre of her being. Then she caught sight of a figure at the foot of her bed, Wizard-Theif screamed a second time and fell off her bed.
"Don't do that!" She yelled at the figure.
"Do what?" Spidey asked.
"Sneak up on me like that; you nearly gave me a heart attack! And to top it all off, I just had a horrible nightmare!" Wizard-Theif said noticing that her hair was bloody red and black, "Why is my hair back to its original colour?"
"Did your dream have to do with you trying to kill me and Mossnose, or maybe being back in Ancient Egypt or almost opening a gate to Hell and having someone stop you and then yelling traitor at that someone?"
"… Yeah…" Wizard-Theif said, reluctantly.
"That wasn't a dream."
"You mean that… Oh damn, damn, damn, damn!" Wizard-Theif said, with her head in her hands, "Are Mossnose and you ok?!"
"Yeah we are just fine, we were worried about you."
"Damn! Damn! Damn! I have no idea what happened, one minute I was running out of the café and the next I see myself back home in Ancient Egypt with the guards of the pharaoh trying to corner me… Hang on… If that did happen… who stopped me from opening the gate?"
"I was hoping you could tell me, you were moving too much for me to get a good look and Mossnose couldn't remember any details but you called the person a traitor so you must have known them."
Wizard-Theif shook her head, "All I remember was that it was a guy, that's all, and I didn't even see him, all I had was a feeling that I knew this guy, end of story."
"Too bad."
"Did the ladies at the front desk notice him?"
"No he must have used my key to get in here."
And then it dawned on Wizard-Theif that she was in her jammies, "Please tell me that I just walked into my jammies."
"No."
"WHAT!?"
"Don't worry; the guy didn't change your clothing."
"He better have not."
"Who better have not what?" Mossnose asked walking into the room carrying a tray with tea on it.
"Nothing Mossnose." Wizard-Theif said.
"So, sleep well?" Mossnose asked Wizard-Theif.
"You ok?" Wizard-Theif asked.
"You bet." Mossnose said, proudly, "It was merely a cut."
"You sound just like InuYasha."
"Well… it's true."
The three sat in silence for awhile, each sat sipping their tea and thinking but Wizard-Theif's were the most troubled.
Finally Mossnose broke the silence, "Look, Wizard-Theif, you know that the attacking wasn't your fault, right? You were being possessed."
"That's the problem, if the Shadows or whatever it was can possess me; it means that it's are really strong and even more dangerous then before… What time is it?" Wizard-Theif asked, once again desperate for a new subject as she was feeling guilt for the third time in her life.
"It's 5:00 pm. You were out for about…" Mossnose said, doing the math, "1:45 we were at the café causing chaos, by 2:23 we are all out cold. So you were out for about 2 hours and 37minutes."
"Nerd."
"A smart nerd!"
"A smart, crazy, weird nerd who is a Cat demon." Spidey joined in.
"Wow, Mossnose, you redefine the meaning of 'Nerd'." Wizard-Theif said trying to lighten the mood.
Spidey and Mossnose both laughed and Wizard-Theif fell silent, looking into her cup with a look of confusion, silent suffering and worry.
Mossnose and Spidey stopped laughing and looked at Wizard-Theif; Spidey put her hand on Wizard-Theif's shoulder and said, "There is nothing that can be done."
"I have to find out what happened." Wizard-Theif muttered to herself before standing up and walking to the door with her clothes in hand, "I'm going out."
"NO YOU AREN'T!!" Spidey and Mossnose said as they dragged Wizard-Theif back to her bed.
"LET ME GO! I'M GOING OUT AND THAT'S THAT!"
"You almost got killed by a sutra, used up almost all your power trying to open a gateway to Hell and now you want to go out?!" Spidey yelled as she forced Wizard-Theif onto the bed, which wasn't all that hard as Wizard-Theif was very weak and could just barely stand.
"Yes, I want to go out! I have to find out what happened and why…" Wizard-Theif said trailing off as she remembered something.
"Look at yourself; you can only just barely stand!" Mossnose added, closing the window and locking it.
"Spidey…?" Wizard-Theif's head was bowed and her voice was just barely above a whisper, "How did you know what I was seeing?"
Spidey looked at her friend, "A note was in my hand when I awoke and it said what you were seeing when you were fighting Mossnose and me. Here." Spidey said as she handed Wizard-Theif the note.
The note was obviously written in a hurry, Wizard-Theif had a hard time trying to read it.
Your friend was not accountable for her actions; she was possessed and couldn't understand you. She saw what was not there; she didn't see the back alley of Tokyo butmaze from a tomb she had once been in and small village where she once lived as a child with all the villagers being slaughteredShe felt cornered, she believed that you, her friends, were guards of the pharaoh from her past and were helping in the killing of the villagers. Before you jump to conclusions that the pharaoh's guards were the bad guys, know that the villagers weren't exactly saints either and it was in order to save Egypt. Don't hold it against her, her actions were understandable, she was just protecting herselfWizard-Theif will most likely want to read this for herself so hold on to it.
"My actions were understandable?" Wizard-Theif whispered.
"They were", Mossnose said, "you felt angry that people you had known were being killed and if I was cornered I would attack with everything I had."
"Not accountable for my actions?" Wizard-Theif muttered.
"Wizard-Theif, you ok?" Spidey asked looking worried; Wizard-Theif's aura was increasing once again and she held onto the note with clenched fists.
"How could this person say all this about me? It's almost like they know me." Wizard-Theif said her voice growing louder.
"Maybe they do." Spidey said.
"How, how could they?!" Wizard-Theif voice was almost a shout now, "How could they know me! No one I know writes like this! The only person who writes in this way is the pharaoh but he doesn't know anything about me! The only way to know about what I saw would have to be to read my mind and even then they would have to know something about me to know about my past!" Before Spidey could point out that by reading her mind the person would know everything about her Wizard-Theif's voice had reached a scream, "I suppressed those memories! I forgot them and locked them away! I didn't even know how to remember them! No one could know about my past except for one person and he isn't even in this country, he is in Britain!"
"Wizard-Theif calm down." Mossnose said, gently, "Are you sure that you don't recognise the writing or the writing style?"
Wizard-Theif was panting now, "No, they did it in a hurry so it would be hard for me to recognise it."
"Maybe they did that for a reason… Think about it, if the guy wanted you to know who he was he would have left a name or shown up at the front desk." Spidey said.
Wizard-Theif's fists unclenched and she set the note on her bed, then she closed her eyes and concentrated. Almost at once the note began to glow purple as if it was under a black light. The other two girls briefly saw Spidey's fingerprints on the paper before the note stopped glowing and Wizard-Theif fell back onto her pillow.
"Wizard-Theif, are you alright?!" Mossnose and Spidey asked as Wizard-Theif tried to clear the fog from her head.
"I'm fine." She growled but thought, "Ow, my head. I must have lost more power than I thought. My life force must be weakening as well… Wait! That isn't possible! My life is tied right into the Shadow Realm and the Earth, I should be at full power right now… what is going on? I feel sick to my stomach, this isn't right!"
"Wizard-Theif you look green." Mossnose said.
"I feel green but I have to… wait did anyone come to the door in the last few minutes?"
At that moment there was a knock on the main door.
Wizard-Theif perked up right away, "I'll get it!" She ran right to the door, opened it, got a package, closed the door, managed to run back to her room and sit down on a chair within 3 minutes.
"What is that?" Spidey asked, eyeing the package which was long and wide.
"My new laptop that I bought online." Wizard-Theif said proudly.
"That's nice, now bed!" Mossnose said, pointing to Wizard-Theif's bed.
"What, you have got to be kidding!?!"
"Wizard-Theif, it's for your own good you almost used what little power you had to look for fingerprints… How come mine were the only prints on the paper?" Spidey asked.
"The person who wrote the note must have worn gloves and one of my powers, can't leave evidence on a crime scene, now can you?"
"Ok…? Anyway… bed now." Spidey said pointing at the bed.
"That goes double for you as well." Mossnose said, pointing at the door.
"What!" Spidey yelled while Wizard-Theif chuckled as she sat her new laptop on the desk and said:
"You heard the lady."
"I don't need a nap! I'm perfectly fine!" Spidey said.
"You couldn't purify an electron at this moment." Mossnose said, leading Spidey out of the room.
"You just got burned, Mossnose." Wizard-Theif whispered and then called out; "See ya!" as the two other girls left the room. She waited till she was sure that Mossnose and Spidey couldn't hear her, slipped out of bed, grabbed her computer and starting trying to connect to the Internet. After 5 minutes and a bit of cursing in Ancient Egyptian she was online, she just hoped that no one had heard her but once she thought that she saw something out her window but when she got to her window to look out nothing was there.
Spidey, unlike Wizard-Theif was being a good girl and was catching some more Z's, giving Mossnose sometime to use the phone. Unluckily for her, that meant that Wizard-Theif could hear everything that was happening as whenever she swore she checked to see if Mossnose had heard her.
Mossnose dialled information and asked for the number of the person she was trying to contact. Once she had the number she thanked the person to whom she was talking to and hanged up, then she dialled the new number.
"…Hello, I would like to talk to your boss?" Mossnose said, and she waited for the person on the other side to reply, "No, I couldn't get him on his cell, the line was busy… He is in a meeting?.. No, don't bother; I'll just call back later… No really, I wouldn't want to… It's not important. I'll just call him back later… Oh, he's here?.. Of course I still would like to talk to him… Hello… Nothing, I'm just in town for a bit and wanted to know if you wanted to get together… Yeah… great, by the way, what was meeting about? I'm just kidding… Really?.. That's great!.. Really!? What?.. Oh come on, that's not fair… I know, I know but come on, please?.. You're going to make me cry… Ok, I've given up… Please?.. I lied… I know… But come on, this is torture!.. Alright… I'll see you later… Bye." Mossnose hang up and Wizard-Theif had to run for her bed and pretended to be asleep.
A/N: Another chapter done, and another sort of cliff-hanger… Hope you enjoyed it, I probably won't be able to update for a little while. So that means that you have plenty of time to guess who Mossnose was talking to on the phone and who saved Spidey, Mossnose and possible the world. And in regards to this, "Wizard-Theif was drawing power from the darkness around her, and there is never a shortage of that." I say no offence to anyone who is offended. That said and done, please review and good-day/night.
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