CHARMING MAGICIAN

I floated up calmly after L. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw a glowing golden aura, and three similar shapes took off from the ground. Once I had gotten on to the roof, I saw Mr. L hovering on top of a window, his eyes narrowed as he tried fruitlessly to peer through the glass.

I gave one of my charming musical laughs. "Allow me, dear friend."

"I'm not your friend," snarled the Green Thunder. His face was now contorted with anger. I didn't see what was so aggravating, but deduced it was I who was doing said aggravation.

I decided to keep it up.

"Oh, on the contrary, friend," I said lightly, shimmering into invisibility before floating right in front of the window. "It's just too bad that some of my friends are not blessed with the power of magic."

I looked up in time to see Mr. L lunge at me. I easily dodged the assault, and Mr. L quickly zipped to the side of the window once he had regained his balance.

"Asshole," he spat at me. I stuck my tongue out at him. Childish, I know, but oh dear Grambi it was fun. He flushed red with anger and charged up a thunderbolt in his fist, right before Raven, Xena and X landed with a clatter on the tiles of the roof.

Mr. L's lightning died down and his face returned to its original colour. He stared at me pointedly.

"What?" I asked.

"What's goin' on, Sherlock?" roared L.

"No need to get your wings in a fix," drawled Xena.

"Shut the freaking shit up," snapped Mr. L angrily.

"Calm dow, dude!" exclaimed Raven and X.

I smirked and peered through the window.

I nearly fell out of the damn sky.

The Count, the Lady, all our minion friends, were in a cage straight across from the window. A bit to my right I could see what looked like a steel chair with metal restraining bands, and a red lever next to it. Our friends looked quite depressed, slumped against walls, bars or each other. A Direel was...

I nearly let loose an extremely rude four-letter word beginning with 'F' out of my mouth, but I stopped it just in time. The others looked towards me.

"What's up?" they all chorused.

"Th-there's a Direel!" I stammered. "At the window!"

Of course he couldn't see me invisible, but dear merciful Grambi he looked mad.

"I'm goin' in!"

I heard the words but barely had time to get out of the way as our foolhardy engineer Mr. L burst into the room. Glass shattered and flew everywhere. The Direel was knocked down, shocked, and the ones in the cage perked their heads up.

"FLY!" screamed Raven, and she, X, Xena and I dived into the window.