Magi and Djinn World Tour- Student of the Dark Arts –
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Chapter 25: Don't We Ever Know
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The second part of this I just wrote without thinking about it, with Ignito as Lothos talking to Raku to test him mentally. Djinn are tricksters after all. To this, the rest is pretty goofy.
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Baring his fangs down unto hungry travellers, the caravan rattled. Wheels whistling and horses stomping down before lying on their backs, waiting to become a snack to some unlikely fiend on the night air.
~ Say however thee shall, there is no coming away and the gods may not reach," He tells the peddlers and their hungry stomachs of two and one day, or four more. The one left to bare the two was not but a child herself, as wind went by the passage to the walled caravan, a scream muffled by her taste in flesh. The kind that gods once protected, now, she loathed and buried among the bones in her belly so taut and strong. ~ Such joy would it have been, yet we are needed. Thine one awaits us, upon that hill where your dear count lies in agony over a mistress left to abandon he. Take your good things, call this child payment enough.~ Lips warm of a maiden's blood and gore, she smiled away as the wave was ment for the parents. Not yet sixteen, and they'd be forced to end up with another dozen of others for the marketplace before long.
~ You…are not of the Romani, ways?~ The woman of nightfall batted her eyes with a vain arrogant glance over her shoulder at the trapped animals outside of their village walls. ~ Away, send them with warning only that they shan't return to these mountain trespasses. ~
One daughter less, the couple was led free, shoved off a cliff and down a slope of slush and snow, while awaiting queen and her guards could hear the moans up afar…and bat not a lid while the feet moved onwards towards the summit of the great Count and lord Lothos….~
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A way we determine ourselves is through the mind. A hopeless endeavor awaits us.
IS THOS REAL ANYMORE.
Beauty in all forms is blind, yet perception knows the obvious choice through vision in which we may doubt of our coming and seeing. Therefore, whatever is there to know?
YOU KNOW THE TRUTH. YOU TOOK IT FROM ME! MY LIFE IS NEVER A LIE ANY LONGER ….RELEASE IT –
~ Or what, little prince?~
A growl of ancient magus energies lit up the fire where Ignito might have once stood. The mind was occupied at the moment by another occupant.
" John…I know you hurt him –
~ I only did what was just and I, became the walking, waking conscious you needed.~
"No!!~ Raku bawled out with his hands to his face, he fell into a pile of books. Ignito…where was Ignito??
" What did you do-
~ Arbitrary. You use the words if a god or nothing else….is what he might say.~
"I should become him again." Raku's eyes alit in this space. Until, Lothos snapped his, dimming them to darkness before they'd opened. ~ Ah, so he'does control you. Nifty ability. Controlling a pocket in space time, relics that time itself wants him to use to guide you as a throne – keeper. Can you do it? I mean, you stopped a corrupted alternative of Athena. Silly witch.~ Sniggered the red headed demon.
" Lilith ruined her, like she did us…" Raku said sadly. " I wanted to do this, it's my –
~ Azag would say you tarnish it. Why bother?~
" I –
~ Guardians don't lie, they certainly do!~ Snorted the devil as it levitated a large tome, opened. The table, there it came in a thump. ~ Gods had humans behead, castrate and mark for blood. We just picked up the left overs, and then they thinnned them out. Gods were demon's and gods stayed pure. You? What did that say of you once the rites of the Immortal sect were disowned from a branch of that sacred bush??~
The book slammed shut as Raku just kept his head down. ~ Stay away, now.~
Lothos bore up a tooth smirk as he did no such. Coming close, his tail curled curiously behind him as a lengthy cat's calling card. ~ There it is! You can grow up-
"I never wanted to see you!! The last of you was enough –
~ QUUIET….~ Seethed the demon as it clenched the boy's jaw shut wkth one bare hand, the other pulled his wrists as feet dangled from the floor. ~ The weaker you are…~
Gasping, Raku saw…as Ignito smiled back. ~ The more you run from facing this history, the greater the wound refuses to close. I am, very sorry to test you.~ He moved the room, dropped the child carefully as he let the marks heal with a snap. ~ Time moves and none are allowed here, as you say. I was away, procuring a way to aid your mentor. My mind could not split while you were cursed to dream. He coukd not find us, for it is not written by I. My hand is not by your doing every spell you cast, is here.~
Ignito levitated over as books moved, pages tore and re-shelved until Raku saw all of them on a single binding. The spells in all he had drawn. ~ Transformed, aging. Fire casting , summoning circles, sigil magic, Solomon's own seal!
This, was his mind collecting old data. He was not in control of what left, only what entered to an extent. ~ I negotiate what is allowed to coke and go, so if a spell cannot be, it will not. ~
That …
" Then what about the motorbike?? In the metro station??" Raku begged to ask.
~ Manifestation . Summoning. Something of the other –
"Ignito…you …you became…how did John –
Ignito looked at the air, bringing down one more scroll that he allowed Raku to catch with a hand outwards. ~ Take this back to your time. Use it wisely, my lordship.~
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Raku groaned as if light had been cast upon his daylight hour. The groan had altered a shadow, a mortal one as it coaxed back with a tilt of its outlined jaw. "You're awake? Chas?"
Jen the younger was all that was left, as were Jack and Chas. Zee, John and Jenny Sparks the elder were back in a hotel. Mad as hell, yet it would blow over. Soon…
John.
Raku bolted up as Jen grabbed him, her apologetic eyes swapped to darts as shockwaves bit as Raku's wrists.
"Hhaa!" He cried out and fell as she caught him. "Sorry! Jen is better at this than I am right now…I'm so sorry!"
"I'm happy though we could have you stay for a cuppa. Still feel like not talking long, lad?" Chas had a tea mug or two ready fir the three. Jen wanted coffee, though that didn't suit the mood by two and three.
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The cup warmed him as it had those first nights over at the same place. Or was it his second?
"John, is he going…to see me?"
"He, had to off an acquaintance. Business as usual-
"I know the real reason." Raku blew on his cup as a silken light if blue followed. "It's changed. My control, and the person behind these run ins is –
"Mad, completely bleeding insane, we get it. Did you know that John was nearly kissed by a Scottish demon? On the lips? Or that he stopped a Chinese smuggling gang from taking demonic tribes from humongous lands by blowing them up. With acid. Well, stomach…." Chas coughed. ( my laughing magician arc actually is our John's alternative that this john meets in this universe which I will include very soon to the real world arc later.)
"OR, that he helped defeat Trigon - the Terrible, and –
"Trigon." Raku looked into his cup as an image formed in theirs as well. "That was, my fault. Roku-
"Stop feeling sorry for yourself, mate."
"Chas?" Jen gawked from her view of the room.
"He was told over and over to follow, now look! You need YOUR confidence back. I just tag along to stay alive, while you do it to find you…but you don't need that anymore."
"I don't. Not that way, for…protection." The floor froze underfoot as it was shiny as glass, black glass.
"Raku. Calm down."
"I'm no good…"
The glass fractured as Jen yippee, her cup rattling. Eyes big and frightened, making this curse far worse.
"You can see a couple of crusty old spooks, so what?" Jen bit her lip as Raku's cup levitated without being dropped, his hands over his ears to block out their words. "He stole my virginity to steal the very lost, source of ME. A cursed birth of everything, the cosmic order. I'm not just….I can't say –
"TELL US." Chas leaned in, now knowing why John pushed. It had to crack a little. Exactly why claiming up is what Lothos wanted. They needed what crazy was left, to become a weapon.
"Tell us the truth that you've guarded and maybe –
" You'd banish me, you'd hate what I was born to be. I disowned that! No! No!! Ignito!"
He didn't come, so the child inside reacted a bit…overdramatically to put it plain. "Tea…hot…ah …" He reached for the cup as a whole world blossomed in red. The dunes.
Azag.
~ No…no…they can't see this! Please!"
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The slap was a loving pat on his cheek as the spilled tea was to the floor, no shattered parts. He was on his back and it looked to have hit the sofa he was on…before….when…when…
"I…I almost…"
"You fainted. That's all."
Raku looked down at his hands. No marks? What…was going on? He saw it, clearly. His past was being shown to them.
"Liar…something …some…"
"You were terrorized by a demon."
Chas's words had Raku snap up his throat. He begged at the adult with a shake of his head, no. Not his name.
"PLEASE. DON'T. DON'T SAY –
"John is hurt, not badly. Relax a bit, mate. You're still fine enough to face whatever woke you up, right? As are Jen and I. Can you stand up?"
Raku's lip trembled as his snotty nose nodded a "yes."
"UP, we can clear up this in a while. You, are needed in the washroom."
He meant his face as Raku didn't wipe away the nervous frown as he was corraled away from his little hiding place.
Wait…
"Stop."
Jen shocked Chas, her eyes on Raku as she searched them. Then, her own body went limp while Chas's was freed by whatever had pushed it to forget what John had said.
They had to stay. It wasn't safe. Lothos was somewhere close.
Chas looked over as he saw Jen, made eye contact and the transfer happened again.
Fucking demon cronies.
Jen growled and zapped as the thing was caught in a bubble of lightening. "Stop playing musical bodies and fucking slap a target on your arse!"
"Chas shook his head clear as he went to help Raku. "A…imp?"
"Sprite!!" Jen gasped as it screeched noisily. "Pixie!! Corwall….oh!"
They didn' have to worry as their eyes remained shut. The bubble walled creature pecked with little working order. Chas got a tool to seal it as the cage worked wonders of steel and one enchanted lock. "John keeps his stores alphabetical like a told him…" Even Chas was amazing, until Raku ended up putting up a hand. "Actually, that was my doing…it was important to find what we needed, so I labeled. And…went a bit too far before he was supposed to be back."
Jen giggled and went over to prod the pixie. Until John stopped her, pulling away the bit if string she was hoping to have reeled back. "That's a magical creature for Christ's sake!" Chas tutted. "Raku? There is no way –
"Ignito did that, left a door…I…"
"He must have simply infected it into you. Pixies are…a mess of wonderful things, lad. Ignore it."
"Imps are simpler."
~ THOSE UDDER - LICKING TITAN SEEKERS?? RIGHT, AND I HAVE THE CRIPPLING ENTHUSIASM OF AN –
"Can you shut it up??" Jen put her fingers in her ears and shouted over the screaming daemon. Raku bowed down before Chas pulled him from hovering as well over the cage. "Jen knows how to put it in the cage. You just, sip with me. I'll find the sink."
Raku waited until his cup was ready again Chas, was astounded to see that Raku was on the floor in crossed legged meditation. Jen was using a shock or two with tongue twisters to piss off the beast. Chas snapped his fingers as Raku never once twitched. He was, very good at leaving his mind behind.
"Jen, call him back. Will ye?"
~ LEAVE THE TIME – LING ALONE. THE MASTER WANTS HIM FRESH AS –
"Fresh as my fist up you-
"JENN….?" Chas growled, her huff very fit for the teen's age as she left the fight behind.
"He can come up a bit, so… should I?? I could leave him in limbo or something!"
( Avatar the Last Airbender.)
" He just won't have that nirvana, he can always try again. Maybe." Chas nudged her to hurry as she moved her fingers to his skull where all of the hair wear was. The brain, the nerves and the focused clarity. What she saw…
Was no paradise.
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What did Jen see? Is it the same as what Aiden saw when Kuro took him away? Find out! Is Ignito on their side? What is going to happen if Lothos gets his way?
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