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Thursday, August 05, 2004
"Sixteen," replied Alice while pulling back her hair with her attention still on one of Gabriel's photos.
Premidas caught sight of the photos, bringing one to himself and whispered, "This is Gabriel?"
"Yes, he went house hunting for Alice and himself. Got one on Victoria Str-" Themrus began but the shaking of Alice's hands brought him to a stop. "Well, want any cake?"
"Of course! Those nurses haven't even given me anything sweet," said Premidas while accepting a paper plate from Themrus which he had gotten from the tray behind him. "Has Kanni been around lately?"
"Kanni was here earlier but then she went somewhere after...um, well it doesn't matter," stammered Alice, reaching for the slice of cake from Themrus who was occupied with cutting the cake and still make it look as admirable when he walked in.
"You two kissed, didn't you? You and Kaleb?" said Premidas in almost a sneer. "It's been too obvious for anyone you know and it's about time."
"I didn't even tell you what happened!" whispered Alice, almost in a hiss while licking the icing off of her thumb.
"Didn't need to for I heard some paintings mumbling about it," said Premidas as Themrus then whispered, "Even the portraits at my office heard of it but only a few. And don't worry, they won't be spreading the news around the school over one little kiss. But now I'm curious if that was your first kiss besides those little cheeky kisses with your parents."
"I...why do you want to know?" asked Alice, turning beet red and feeling the blood rush to her head. "That's like me asking if you've made out lately."
"Actually-No, no. I'm only kidding Alice," chuckled Themrus, "but we do need to start making some birthday party plans if you plan to have a party to celebrate your sixteenth birthday. Clarissa would be thrilled, would actually lift off the paper work from her shoulders."
"Yea, so would Brige's. Can you imagine that? Celebrating his rival's birthday," said Premidas, then rubbing his chin and mimicked Brige with a low voice, "Why yes, I plan to give Miss Black a free ticket to swim in a shark tank. Unthinkable you say? That'll be the day!"
"Brige wasn't even happy to see Alice in the hospital wing," said Themrus. "Ranting through the halls and yelling at anyone who spoke of the great legend of how Alice got past the bridge. How did you do it anyways, little Miss Black?"
"You'll need to be an animal for some part, something feline or kanine. There were not as great traps as there thought there would be but the damned panel-("Alice!")-Sorry Themrus, the panel sent me back after I told them that they were all Seers," explained Alice, putting the stiff envelope under her own pillow.
"Like I said, I got chased to my room but a four-headed mut," said Premidas, finishing off his slice of cake. "Kaleb had much better luck but his powers were changed to making flowers that sang somewhere along the last set of traps on the bridge."
"Well, how many students made it past the bridge and the panel?" asked Alice.
"Two. Gabriel and myself," replied Themrus. "Gabriel had gone several times before discovering that the one door wasn't the onl-I'd better keep my mouth shut instead before any of you two get any ideas about trying it again."
"Why not?" hissed both Premidas and Alice.
"Well, Alice nearly was brawled by the panel and then nearly killed by Brige," said Themrus, fingering the pockets of his cloak. "And the panel was extremely angry with Clarissa who only broke out in laughs. The poor dear."
"It's not like Brige will be waiting right there infront of the entrance to the bridge for me," mumbled Alice while finishing off the last of her slice of cake.
"You still don't get the point. Brige and Gabriel were also rivals and hated each other enough to kill each other and anyone between them that might refrain them from killing each other," Themrus brushed back his hair. "Point is that Brige will want to know where you are and will any escuse to give you punishment."
"But she's not Gabriel," interjected Premidas.
"Brige won't even care. He now knows that Gabriel will give up his own life for Alice and will use that. Say if Brige gets Alice expelled or kills. Gabriel would fell pain for not being there or not being able to prevent it, which is Brige's revenge," said the teacher. "But enough of that, shall we go and inform Clarissa of our little Miss Black's birthday? Premidas, you may want to head back to your bed and not scare the nurses."
"Can you still bring me to that house!?" Alice called after Themrus who was waving away at the doors. "I'll sneak out if you don't bring me there yourself!"
But Themrus had vanished behind the closed doors as Premidas asked, "The house that Gabriel bought for you?"
"Yea..." whispered Alice. "And I've been asking Themrus to take me there for a birthday persent but he keeps on giving me excuses."
"Well, maybe he's planning it or something. You never know with teachers what they're planning to do," said Premidas, then standing up with the help of his cane. "And I think Themrus is right. I may want to head back or else I'll only be getting into trouble with the nurses and Madam Lunna."
The shape shifter only nodded gazing at the cake while Premidas left for his own bed. Something about Themrus had been bothering her. Why wouldn't he want to see his best friend's house he had bought for Alice. Maybe Themrus could even live with them for they had a large enough house and it wouldn't even bother Alice. Her birthday kept creeping into her thinking and reminded herself that Gabriel wouldn't be here for it but the warm memory of him bringing the cake and seeing him, whether it was a dream or not, brought the hope to her eyes.
After an hour of watching the local news and some cartoons, Kaleb had visited her dorm with Snoop behind him, eyeing the posts of beds. There was something different in how Kaleb had greeted Alice though; instead of the one armed hug around her shoulders he this time wrapped his arms around her waist and whispered, "Happy birthday Alice."
"So you know too?" asked the shape shifter, feeling much better than her first night here. "It is a Sunday, right?"
"Just turned one several minutes ago," said Kaleb, sitting on a stool next to her bed. "Who got you the cake?"
Alice put her finger against his lips and said, "Let me show you something."
Kaleb only nodded. Several lights flowed through and around Alice, entirely covered and then when the cloak of light vanished from Alice, Kaleb found himself staring back at his own mother. The boy's grin grew wider as he laughed in amazement at Alice's skill while she said, "This is exactly how I've been getting around the dorms so far. I've never tried other things like plants but I've tried a pillow and it's worked so far."
"This is great! Can you imagine Brige in class trying to put things into a cauldron that keeps spitting it all back out at him?" asked Kaleb, then pulling out the stiff envelope that stuck out from under Alice's pillow. "What is this?"
"Pictures," mumbled Alice, watching the excitement in Kaleb's eyes steeply rise as he studied the pictures of a more healthier Gabriel standing infront of the house he had bought for Alice. "I've been asking Themrus to bring me there for a birthday present but he completely refuses."
"You haven't thought of this far long enough, have you?" whispered Kaleb, aware of the filled beds farther down the dorm. "Just shift into your own mother and walk right out. You know her good enough to disguise as her."
"What about you? Why can't you come with?" asked Alice.
"I can't leave here or else my mother will start getting worried. Besides, I've gotta stay here and fake you still being here. Here"-Kaleb took out a small camera from his pocket-"You can take that with you and take pictures of the house for me. Besides, I can only use telekenic or else I'd be going with you if I had a different power."
"When can I leave?" asked Alice, accepted the camera from Kaleb who thought about the answer.
"It would be okay to leave right now when almost everyone is asleep," he whispered. "But those goblins will be running around so you'll need to shift now and walk out, telling anyone that you just visited your daughter in the hospital wing. The goblins that is, you should tell the goblins that."
"Can Brige follow me if he sees me?"
"He can't even leave the school now unless Clarissa tells the panel that Brige can leave," answered Kaleb. "What do you want to do?"
"I want to go now, I can't wait later..."
"Come on," Kaleb helped her out of bed and pulled the curtain around her. "Shift now and come back within two hours cause I can only fake it that much before spectors start roaming through the halls."
"Spectors?" Alice remembered the black cloaks that attacked her and Gabriel several times before, but it had possess her. "Can you see them?"
"No one can, that's what is so dangerous about them."
The shape shifter had shifted rather quickly into her twenty-six year old sister instead, now unsure of whether if her mother had left the school or not. Kaleb still nodded in approval of the change and slid pillows under the covers as if Alice was still sleeping there, handing Alice the envelope. Several noises had been made. The shape shifter hugged Kaleb quickly and made her way out of the hospital wing as Kaleb stayed next to the bed, pretending to be sleeping when he really was keeping an eye on the door.
Yet it hadn't taken long for someone to enter the dorm after fourty five minutes of watiting; but it was Themrus. The old man's frown quickly curled to a smile seeing Kaleb awake near the bed who was really panicking. Themrus stopped, asking, "Where is Alice?"
"She's still here," lied Kaleb, feeling Themrus dig in his mind for a memory.
"Where has she gone Kaleb?"
"She's left to visit that house, but you can't leave and why?"
"I was going to take her myself!"
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The exit had seemed to change since it had now been just the same courtyard that Alice first saw when she came to the school. Now the shape shifter who had taken shape of her own sister was in a taxi in the same neighborhood of the house. The houses seemed more relaxed at night then in normal day time, bustling with people trying to keep their lawn flat and green. There had been several cars parked infront of a house which was throwing some college party. The driver had then stopped infront of the same sign post in one of the pictures. Alice quickly paid the man and stepped out to face the same house where Gabriel had stood infront of in the picture Alice had been holding the entire ride.
The lawn had still been groomed since Gabriel must've first seen it. The motorcycle was no longer on the driveway but Alice believed it must've been behind the garage doors. She walked on the cobble stone path to the front door, seeing that the door had been locked. Taking out a pin from her hair Alice took ten minutes to unlock the door and took pictures of the yard before walking into the lit house. Several pictures hung up on the walls of a very young Alice hugging her dog Snuffles. A family portrait with Snuffles hung up in the large, wooden-floored kitchen above the silver sink.
There was even a fire place that had some remains of a log that had once been burned. Alice took several pictures and even of the clean pool outside in the pack with the clean patio. She then ventured upstairs to see her own room along with Gabriel's, seeing that the animagus had done a tremdondous job to make sure that she would feel at home. Alice took more pictures, wanting to stay there but remembered Kaleb's warning of only two hours and exited the house, taking another taxi back to the school.
Posted at 01:45 am by Winged-Horror
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(not too long...next one will be thou! muahahaha!)
Kanni was waiting for her parent's arrival in the lobby, nervously shuffling her shoes. Suddenly the twin doors opened and a butler let in a couple. The woman had short black hair and was fairly tall. She was a bit plump, but not too much. Her skin was very fair and her brown eyes gleamed. Her face was wrinkled with laugh-lines but her lips were pulled into a concerned frown. Next to her stood a tall broad-shouldered man with deep darkly tanned skin. He had light brown to sandy blonde hair and blue eyes. He was wearing a black suit with a tie, and his mother wore a blue dress carrying a white purse. They both smiled when they saw their daughter. "Kanni!"
Kanni bolted forward into their arms and hugged each tightly. "Mommy, Daddy!" Kanni smiled, trying to push away tears.
"Do you have your things packed, honey?" was the first thing her father asked. Kanni frowned in dismay.
"Father, I'm doing well, how about you?"
"Oh, sorry honey. How are you?" her father asked.
"Well...My powers have been wreacking havoc upon this whole place, but slowly I'm learning to control them with special classes from Mr. Ulthra and Mrs. Taint." Kanni said, which wasn't completely a lie.
"Wreacking havoc, now are you? What else it new?" her mother joked smiling. "Come now, bring down your luggage."
"Well, uh, Miss Clarissa wants to talk to you about that..." Kanni began when her parents frowned. She led them into Clarissa's office where they all sat down in front of the principle. Ulthra, who was hovering in the right corner behind the principle shot Kanni a wink. Themrus was in the other corner, his arms folded, with a stern look on her face. Mrs. Taint was seated next to Ulthra, her hands neatly folded, a cold stare in her eyes.
"Mr. and Mrs. Merrane, we have something to talk about. Your daughter, I'm sure Brige has so kindly explained, has an unstable and dangerous source of powers at her unconcious will. I think it is a big mistake that you take her from the school's safety and try to teacher her on your own-" Miss Clarissa was interrupted by Mr. Merrane who grunted.
"'The school's safety'? From what Brige has explained, it is the most dangerous place a girl of her origin can be, Miss Clarissa! Are you sure you're making a wise arguement?" he growled. Miss Clarissa narrowed her eyes when Ulthra spoke.
"Mr. Merrane, this is the safest place she will ever be," the ghost said in a low voice. "Understand that she will never be safe anywhere, but this, this Mr. Merrane, is the best place she could possibly be in right now that exists."
Mrs. Merrane raised an eye brow. "Are you suggesting that we cannot handle our own daughter?"
"No, it is not," the ghost sighed. "I am saying she cannot handle her own power, and she is the only one who can close and open them. I'm saying, Mrs. Merrane," Mr. Ulthra leaned forward with an icy cold glare, "that if she is taken away from here and her training that she could kill all of you."
Mrs. Merrane's eyes widened in a bit of shock, and she pulled back, sinking into her chair.
"Now, shall I go through what will happen what a milthacti's powers can do when a milthacti is unable to control them? One: if she cannot control them, the power while overwhelm her and consume her within itself, giving her a horrible inevitable death. Two:-..." Mr. Ulthra counted off at least thirty of the worst things that could go wrong; horribly wrong. Kanni began to choke on the lump forming in her throat as she suddenly realized that if she left it would be a gruarantee that she would die, and most likely not alone.
It was a life and death matter. Mrs. Taint added a few things to Ulthra's list and began to explain how only true teachers could be allowed to be trusted with Kanni. Especially since she had the dark magician lurking within her. The next few hours toiled along as the Merranes barely said a peep. Finally running out of arguements the teachers fell silent, Themrus intently eyeing the couple.
Mr. Merrane let out a low unsteady sigh and scratched his head. "Well, this is quite a problem, now isn't it."
"I truly think, if I may say so, that this whole thing is entirely Kanni's desicion, not yours," Clarissa said boldly and Mrs. Merrane shot her an annoyed look.
"Miss Clarissa, Kanni is our daughter, not yours. And I don't think she quite understands to be able to decide what is best for her-" Mrs. Merrane said heatedly when Kanni made a sharp snarling sound.
"I am too, mother! I'm fifteen, I'm not a baby anymore! Just let me out of your clutches already and let me live my own life! It's mine to live, not yours!" Kanni roared getting annoyed that they were even discussing this subject. Her anger, she realized, was steeply rising. Soon, as she hoped, her powers would unleash and she could show her parents a little teeny tid-bit of what would happen to them if they took her home against her will.
"Kanni Ray Merrane! Don't you use that tone with me! And what are you talking about? I let you run your own life."
"Then let me run it right now, mother! Let me decide, for once, what is best for me! Please, mother. I know how much of a threat I am, and I know what will happen if I get taken from my training. You cannot beleive what horrible things have happened! Mother, you have to trust me, for once, with my own choices."
"I do trust you! This is absurd! Are you all against me?" she shot a glance at Mr. Merrane. "Well, Carl, beck me up!"
Mr. Merrane sighed and then looked at Kanni's hopefuly face. "Well, Kanni? I'm listening. What is your thought in all this?"
"What?! You're asking her?! Carl! You know very well she's-" Mrs. Merrane shrilled.
"-she's fifteen and can handle her own life." Mr. Merrane finished. "Kanni?"
"I want to stay," Kanni said in a firm tone, locking her eyes on her father's.
He sighed again when Mrs. Merrane yelled, "She will not stay here! She will come away with us where it is safe! Why are we even discussing this? It is what we decided from the start!"
"No!" Kanni yelled, her anger, as she wanted, unleashing. "I'm staying here." A forceful wind picked up within the office as Clarissa covered her head with her amrs. Themrus ducked and suddenly hail started to patter down on them. Mrs. Merrane screamed in fear and leapt under her chair. Suddenly catching herself Kanni calmed down and the winds ebbed away, leaving the office in a mess of papers and little ice balls.
"Kanni, what the hell was that? Some trick?" Mrs. Merrane shrilled as she picked herself up again.
"No," Kanni tried to hide her smirk. "Those were my powers. Too bad I'll never learn how to keep them in check and under control. Well, okay, mother you win. But I just hope that you really like cleaning every time I get into a bad mood."
Mrs. Merrane narrowed her eyes. "I'm not putting up with that!"
"Then let me stay here."
Her mother's eyes filled with light tears and a concerned look. Immeadiately Kanni felt a pang of guilt. "Mother, I'll be fine. Don't worry! You can come visit me here any time you want, and I can give you my room phone number so we can always talk."
"I just don't want to loose you...you're my only baby..." Mrs. Merrane stood up and hugged her daughter tightly.
"Don't worry mom, you won't, I promise." Kanni hugged her back and saw that little tears were sliding down her mother's cheeks. Her mother hugged her tightly again.
"Promise?"
"Yes." Kanni smiled and her mother smiled back.
"Well, alright then. I trust you. Clarissa, will you give me Kanni's phone number?"
"Of course. Kanni, why don't you go un-pack your things?" Clarissa smiled.
"Okay. Bye mother, bye daddy! I love and miss you! I'll call you, okay?" She hugged them both and kissed them on the cheeks before happily running off to re-fill her empty closet. All well, ends well...the phrase rung in her head as the girl smiled. "Fifteen and I can finally be trusted," she chuckled, shaking her head.
Posted at 03:37 pm by Silicon_Scrifice
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Friday, August 06, 2004
To enter the school hadn't been so hard for Alice was now back in her hospital bed watching the television above her while viewing the pictures herself on the camera. It was now somewhere between lunch time and Madam Lunna had brought her something to eat, stern with the fact that Alice had been eating Gabriel's cake all morning. There was no point arguing so Alice simply gave in, allowing Madam Lunna to place the filled tray on Alice's lap for the shape shifter to eat. Themrus hadn't shown up at all but Kaleb had previously checked in on her every hour or so.
Apparently Clarissa had been planning something for Alice's birthday and appeared every so often asking Alice's opinon on things that had nothing to do with anything in particular. Yet now the shape shifter had been tormented to change herself into several things other than animals. Such as a potted plant or Madam Lunna. It hadn't been hard to keep herself occupied but the excitement of being able to leave the hospital wing brewed in her chest, awaiting for some nurse to recieve her clothes from the maids and allow Alice to leave.
The nurse next to the bed was reading some sort of magazine that kept the nurse content with Alice's argument of being allowed of walking around. Madam Lunna still hadn't found a cure to keep the shape shifter's wounds healed and closed but was somewhere close to finding the right potion to burn the posion away from Alice's wounds. She had been numb every now and then, figuring it was some sort of numbing pain. The doors then swung open with a stern Themrus walking into the dorm, hissing to the nurse, "Ma'am, would you be so kind to leave this dorm so I may have a private word with Miss Black here?"
"Of course Themrus." The nurse left, already seeing the temper rise in Themrus when she first dismayed the request. Yet the teacher kept his steely eyes focoused on Alice who quickly hid the camera under the covers, feeling him dig in her mind for some memory proving that she had indeed snuck out of the school. Nothing was said between them until Alice asked, "Would you stop digging for something in my memory?"
"You did sneak off, exactly what I saw in Kaleb! Do you relize you could've gotten hurt or your wounds could have reopened anytime?" barked Themrus, lifting the tray off of Alice's lap and placing it on the coffee table near Alice's bed. "Or even worse!"
"I'm still alive, aren't I?" asked the shape shifter, throwing aside the glares Themrus gave her. "And besides, you refused to bring me there so I went myself!"
"That absolutely gives you no right to gamble the sacrfice Gabriel has made for you to make you safe and give you a home!" Themrus said, his head buried in his hands. "He's a wanted man for trying to protect from the dangers awaiting you as a Verae and you should know well enough not to gamble that like it was anything!"
"I know well enough myself about the sacrifice he has made and I don't need someone telling me that!" choked Alice, on tears and air. "He is gone now so now it matters more to you? I saw him, okay? He was here last night and then I..."-Her hands grabbed air at where Gabriel stood-"...he's gone. Gabriel wasn't there anymore and I thought he was okay but the scars he had!"
"I care about him as much as a brother would Alice. He is the reason why I even got a job at the school and we cannot just give away the sacrifices that man has made for anyone," the man looked up from his hands, "and perhaps I'll show you something if I can get you out of here."
"What?" The man got up with a groan to find Madam Lunna staring at the two with a cold stare and pursed lips. "She will absolutely not leave here until we can get those wounds completely healed or else she'd die anywhere at anytime. Something I will not happen."
"Dear Lunna..." whispered Themrus, "you're going prevent a girl from seeing her own guardian?"
"I don't care Themrus, she is staying here. That is the end of discussion," Madam Lunna hissed, turning to another bed to treat another student.
"I'll be back." Themrus slid his hat back onto his head, waving to Alice while he left the dorm leaving Madam Lunna with suspsicion. The shape shifter simply pulled out the camera and flipped through the pictures of the house, pleased with the pictures. but one larger part of her screamed to know where Gabriel was and what was taking him so long to show up. It was too much for her and the sudden memory of the dark figure that had once possess Alice and kill Gabriel swung into her mind as her purple, with green flecks, saw the details on her own wounds.
It was then decided by Alice herself. She'd leave the wing herself and search through the mall for the same figure with avoiding to be caught by Merlin, Snoop, a troll or even Brige. The scene of her room had been bloody but Alice couldn't find anything in the room that was strange. If Gabriel was dead though, wouldn't they have known that by now?
Alice, however, reached for her alarm and set it up for nine hours, seeing how Madam Lunna was now pouring brew into a mug on her tray. Drinking the misrable liquid, Alice painfully slipped into sleep, crossing her fingers that she'd be in good enough condition to go sneaking out of the hospital wing...
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Kaleb had been in his mother's office for what seemed like several hours listening to his mother review the map of the castle on her desk while making several important calls. She had been planning to find Gabriel herself, tortured by Alice's mood swings. Themrus had just left several minutes ago telling Clarissa that he needed to plan his lesson for tomorrow with more detail. But Kaleb had the feeling that Themrus was visiting Alice to make sure she didn't sneak off like this morning. Yet the two males had been taken back by surprise that Alice could go through the school easier than last time.
"Dammit!" Clarissa swore once more, slamming the phone on her desk while her moving quill wrote the word on the map. "No, no, no you quill! You write only what sounds like it belongs on a map!"
"Mum, maybe you should write yourself," suggested Kaleb, tapping a metal scale of the solar system next to him. "You've gone through several maps with that moving quill."
"I believe you're right Kaleb but I just don't have the patience to write myself. Perhaps I should though," Clarissa whispered, then screaming at the quill, "You damned thing! I told you to write whatever belonged on a map!"
"I'll buy you a new and better quill, how about that?" said Kaleb. "Before you break that quill in half at least."
"It would be so grand if you could but I'd rather not until I'm sure that Alice isn't sneaking out anymore. Five times they say in the last two days! Imagine that!" said Clarissa with a smirk and then wrapping her hair back into it's bun. "At least Kanni's parents have agreed to let her stay but now we've got to find Gabriel or else Alice may be sent to an orphanage for gifted according to my own superirors."
"What about Themrus?" asked Kaleb.
"I just signed him onto her paper work as a guardian for now. We talked last night about it and he's agreed to it," answered Clarissa, pleased that the quil hadn't written anything of the conversation. "I still think that whatever attack him in that room is lurking in the school but where? Kanni has the dark magician in her and Alice is a Verae. It makes no sense but I've got to also contact Themrus's sister to come here and train Alice to reject invaders of the mind."
"Wasn't she supposed to come yesterday?"
"She says in her letter that she got caught up with something else that needed to be tooken care of first."
"How much of a teacher is she?"
"She has no record but people say she's pretty good for not having a record. Her name is Abigale, and is something of a brawler. Hopefully she can help Alice..."
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Riiinnnnggg! The alarm clock next to the shape shifter's bed woke her up late at night. Her wounds now felt almost healed but there was the buzzing in her head that would've drove her mad if she had forgotten her plan to find Gabriel instead. Alice sat up and slipped into her clothes, setting the bandana around her neck while she pulled out the stiff envelope and camera from under her pillow. There was a nurse at the door of the dorm snoring loudly. Alice still managed to get past the nurse and walk out of the hospital wing, glad that the portraits had all been asleep.
Nothing much had changed in the corridors except for the frequent bats that held lamps flying through only several inches over the floor. Alice quickly recognized the hall that entered the mall quickly, her heart racing when she walked between the stores. She was waiting for the dark figure to show up once more but how?
The shape shifter reviewed through her memories of what had happened last time Gabriel had been here. The cloaked figure had been standing directly infront of another entrance; exactly where it had been standing now watching Alice through the hood of the cloak. For the longest time it had watched Alice stare back at it, it's misty hands twisting around the lamp it held. It suddenly waved Alice over with one finger, as if asking for Alice to follow it.
"Me?" It sounded stupid to the shape shifter for this thing to ask her to follow it but it nodded it's cloaked head for her to follow. Taking several deep breathes, Alice slowly followed the cloaked figure as it hovered into a store, stopping ever few minutes to see if the shape shifter was still following. It brought Alice through several stores, pointing to everything as Alice simply nodded with a weak smile. She had no plan to offend it and be killed.
The cloak then stopped in the dress store that Alice had bought her first dress for school. It's hand reached out behind a pink frilly gown that had been hanging their for ages and knocked against the back of the display case. Suddenly the floor below the two vanished as the two fell through the floor and down what may have been a well once. Nervousness and fear filled the shape shifter until something slowed her down from following along with the cloak which nodded its own head in approval. Below the store had been a small room that had a inch pool of water.
It moved rather quickly now, the cloak that is. It's hands waved Alice through another door that lead to several small stone hallways that were built with several turns at each right or left. Yet the cloak knew the way perfectly, swiftly moving around the corners, then stopping and awaiting Alice. There were small candles that had once been lit and now brightly burst in flame as the cloak passed them, taking Alice by surprise. The halls then ended in a larger room that was brightly lit with a small globe that had light from inside. But what was at the other end of the room made Alice shriek a disgusting swear word. For at the other end of the room was a man very farmillar against the hall, his hands chackled to the wall while he bled severly; it was Gabriel.
Alice broke into a run ignoring the cloak's waving hand. The shape shifter placed her hands on the chains that held Gabriel but the metal burned Alice's hands severly, causing her to let out another shriek of pain. Now the cloak sat next to Gabriel opposite of Alice, waving it's hands in different positions and then a blue light hit the chains. Gabriel's hands had broken free while his limp frame fell being caught by Alice who had slowly broke into tears, placing her ear on his chest to still hear a heart beat.
"What happened!?" yelled Alice at the cloak while leaning Gabriel against the wall, cutting his shirt apart and started to clean the wounds. "What did you do to him!?"
The cloak then pointed to itself, shaking its head. It's hand then formed into what looked like a name but Alice couldn't read it.
"Can't you talk!?" yelled Alice, her voice getting hoarse. "He can bleed to death if we don't get him anywhere!"
It then placed it's hands that slipped through the wounds as Gabriel let out several screams of pain while Alice was pushed away. Gabriel then grew silent while the hand of the cloak retreated from the wound that began to heal, leaving only the dry blood and scar. For once Alice felt some kindess to the cloak then most of the time yet. The shape shifter then leaned against Gabriel, whispering to the cloak that sat on an old chair, "I guess I'll have to go missing in the school for a little bit, right?"
Posted at 12:57 am by Winged-Horror
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Saturday, August 07, 2004
(ok, finally writing on this thing again! *been so busy* =/ a nice long and juicy one for ya to make up for not writing!! sry!!)
It was late at night when Kaleb heard little noises in the corridor. They sounded like a shrill whispering. He sat up in his bed and listened, holding in his breath with anitcipation. He was sure of it now. Someone was out there. Suddenly he heard what sounded like nails lightly scraping against his wooden door. "Come out, come out, where ever you are Verae...Come out, come out," the voice hissed like a snake, trailing its nails against the door as if trying to claw its way in. Kaleb's heart stopped. It sounded like Kanni! The dark magician was taking hold of her again!
He dared not move and listened as Kanni's whispers and foot steps headed towards the elevator. Is she going to the nursurey where Alice is? he thought wildly. He leapt up and threw some clothes on, bursting through his door and ran up the stairwell, panting heavily. He had to get Alice outta there. He pushed through the door but quickly withdrew when he saw Kanni, in her black pajama, lightly walking down the corridor letting her nails trail against the walls and doors in clawing sounds.
"Come out, come out, Verae..." she hissed, repeating the phrase every few minutes. Kaleb then saw her take a turn into the large white doors of the hospital.
"No! Alice!" he yelled and ran after her. Kanni spun around to him, her eyes completely black, and Kaleb could have sworn he saw another person behind them...a man... He shook his gaze from hers and charged, ramming her shoulder into her stomach. But he fell through her as she turned a silvery white color and he fell to the floor. Kanni cackled, her voice crackly and cold; very unlike her own.
"Foolish boy..." was all she said befor slipping into the doors still in Mari's stolen ghost form.
"No! Alice!" he wailed and rammed into the doors, forcing them open. He ran as fast as he could, feeling a cold shiver as he passed through Kanni's body. She snarled and siddenly her arms extended like two long spears and began to grab at him. One hand enlargened wide enough to fit around his whole body and grabbed his waist, lifting him above the floor and ramming him into the ceiling. He grunted with the pain and called up his telekenisis, making a bed fly against the solidifying Kanni. She shrieked and fell to the side, dropping him back to the floor where he felt pain sear up his spine.
He hesitated a moment seeing Kanni struggle to gain control of her body again, but the dark magician forced her eyes to well with a black cloud again and her spirit arms she stole from Penny shot out at him again. He couldn't let her get to Alice, he just couldn't. He sent another bed rattling towards her. Kanni, with a swift change, became clear and the bed passed right through her before solidifying again.
Her glossy clear hands wrapped around Kaleb's neck, trying to choke the air from him. He gasped as she lifted him off the floor, watching him twist and turn, trying to yell. "Kanni! It's me! Me, Kaleb! Your friend-"
"Foolish child! Kanni no longer controls this body...it's mine...all mine!" Kanni snarled and began to laugh.
"It's not yours!" a little girl, illuminated in a white holy glow, stood behind Kaleb. He gasped when he saw her. It was Kanni! Only, younger...The little girl thrust out her hands and shot a blinding white light at the milthacti who shrieked and the glossy white arms disappeared. The older Kanni fell back into the wall and then burst forward.
"Get out damn girl! You have lost, give up already!" Kanni leapt onto the little girl, ripping at her lilac hair and engulfing her in a black cloud. Kaleb fell to the floor and rubbed his neck, catching his breath. "Kanni!" he cried seeing that the little child was slowly being consumed by the black mist she was trying to fight off.
"Go to Alice!" the little girl screamed and Kaleb obeyed, running off with all his strength. He ripped back the curtains around the Verae's bed but gaped to find it empty. "A-Alice?!" She was gone. He sank to his knees with releif but also worry of where she could be, but then remembered Kanni. He turned but the wooden doors burst from their hinges. Kanni slowly walked through, a malicious look in her eyes, licking some blood from her lips.
She approached Kaleb and then looked at the empty bed. "Where are you...come out, come out where ever you are Verae..." she hissed and then shot her eyes toward Kaleb. Raising a hand Kaleb squealed as he was lifted kicking into the air, feeling an invisible force crushing against his body. In a desperate attempt he sent three more beds colliding with Kanni, making her skid down the tiled hall and dropped him. Kaleb got to his feet and charged forward, pushing her back as he tried to get out and contact Clarissa, Ulthra, Themrus, or anyone who could help him.
Suddenly a pot filled with red plants turned into a black panther that hissed and snarled at him, baring its long fangs, and circled around him with hunger. "My pet...welcome back..." Kanni hissed. "Hungry? Good...help yourself." With that the panther leapt forward at Kaleb who ducked, bracing himself for the pain. But it never came. Suddenly he heard a yelp and a loud craching sound. Looking up he saw Premidas, in his white lion form, ripping at the black panther who retreated and ran off, making a leap into the air and abruptly crumbled into black ash that scattered across the floor.
Kanni looked dismayed and then angry. She shot black discs of power towards the lion who skidded behind a bed and evaded them. Premidas then leapt out and Kaleb swung himself onto the lion's back as Prem took off through the broken door and down the hall, slightly limping and slow, still weak and hurt from his wounds. "Kanni! Kanni, don't give up! Fight him off!" Kaleb tried to get through to his friend but it only made the magician controling her angrier.
Another clear hand swept out and grabbed the lion and Kaleb, white mist forming as Premidas changed back into human form, cringing with pain and unable to sustain the concentration keeping him a lion. He coughed as the air was forced from his lungs, the force against his chest tightening. "Kanni!" he choked.
Kanni's eye softened and the pinched shut in agony. She let the boys fall and clenched two hands around her temples, lurching forward as if fighting against the controlling. A sudden light filled her eyes and she opened her mouth, a white light sweeping from her lips and took form as the little girl that resembled Kanni exactly. She looked up gleefully. "I'm alive! I'm here! See, I am still here!"
The girl leapt forward and wrestled Kanni to the floor, taking out a dagger shining with light. Kanni threw the girl from her and turned her attention back to Premidas and Kaleb. Once again the boys were lifted into the air, being rammed into the walls and ceiling mercilessly. The little girl once again attempted attack but was flicked aside like a fly. Premidas felt his body going cold and his vision started to haze.
"Kanni!" he finally yelled, and to his surprise he fell back to the floor. Looking up he saw the white glowing girl was staring at him, and so was Kanni. Her eyes were fixed on his bloody face and form, her lips in an agahst expression.
"P-Prem-Premidas?" she stammered and her eyes widened. "No!" she suddenly hissed. "No, come off it! You're mine!"
"Well, that's my cue," the little girl said to Premidas and the little girl in form of a five-year-old Kanni stooped down and kissed Premidas's cheek, sending a tendril of warmth swarming through his cold body. Then the little Kanni brushed away a lilac lock and leapt at Kanni, turning into a flash of light and sinking into Kanni. Kanni fell back and screamed horribly, then falling silent and lay motionless. It was over. Kanni was okay...for now. Premidas slowly picked himself up with the help of Kaleb who was just as shocked by the performance.
"A-Alice?" Premidas asked.
"Gone. She wasn't in her bed...God am I glad for once about her always sneaking off," Kaleb sighed with a small smile.
"That's Alice for ya," Premidas chuckled half-heartedly. He then approached Kanni and looked down at her face darkened with ash and soot. Her face was in what looked like a peaceful slumber, but he knew that only battle raged beneath those eyelids. She was fighting the darkness away. She was always fighting. He smiled in admiration. She was much stronger than her kind fragile soul let on. Then he let his fingers trail to his cheek where her younger form, representing her soul, had kissed him.
He stooped down and, with Kaleb's help, lifted the girl into the nearest bed that wasn't destroyed. He wondered where all the nurses had gone off to, but he was sure that they all would come angrily storming in soon to demand what occured. "Better head off before Madame Lunna-"
"Yea. Let's put her in Alice's bed until the little sneaker comes back. That way it doesn't look so obvious," Kaleb suggested and they hauled the girl to Alice's bed and covered her with the sheets. Kaleb gave Premidas a hug and headed off before Brige came. Premidas stared down at the girl and brushed a strand of purple from her scratched face. He wiped some of the blood from a cut away and thought of the pain she would feel when she came to from all the beds Kaleb had rammed into her.
Before he knew it he was leaning down and brushed a light kiss against her cheek, like Kanni's soul in the form of the little white-glowing girl had done. He blushed and grinned stupidly a little, then taking a cane and shuffled back to his bed before his re-opened wounds got any worse.
Posted at 03:34 pm by Silicon_Scrifice
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The shape shifter had awoken the faint whispering in the room that was lit with a dimly light which had came from a small candle on the stone floor. She had felt several cloaks under her head that buzzed with some kind of pain, recieving dreams of something trying to enter the wall that had protected Alice as a Verae for the longest time. To open her eyes had been a hard enough ordeal to allow the light to shine through her eyes but a strong heat jabbed through her chest wounds while a voice coaxed, "Just stay still Alice, that's a good girl now." It had been Gabriel who now tried to keep Alice from panic that the animagus had resulted to sealing her posioned wounds with a heated blade while the black cloak stood over his shoulder, nodding in approval while going through a line of hand gestures that seemed to be sign language rather then just waving its hands.
And before the heated knife met with the skin of her wounds, Alice felt Gabriel's hand by her head while his thumb rubbed her cheek with patience, trying to coax the girl to sleep while he burned the posions away from her wounds. Alice had still been amazed that Gabriel had recovered so quickly from the chains burning his wrists when trying to escape, but the girl had been confused if the cloak had put Gabriel's wrists in the chains or someone else had, someone else that wasn't supposed to have known about Gabriel or this room for several vents above had been sealed tightly with larger pieces of thick wood and many towels or blankets. "Very good Alice. You did a better job than I would've done in years to come," whispered Gabriel, throwing the knife away at another wall of the room as the cloak went to fetch it and let it fall into a hole in the floor filled with water. "Now you better get some sleep or else we'll have to go through that again, something I intend not to do."
"I want to know where you've been and who did this all to you..." rejected Alice, slidding up against the wall, her hand on the wounds with a towel while it slowly bled through. Her red hair even matched the new color of the towel. "We aren't doing anything until I found out, even if I have to try and understand him over there. He brought me here and you were passed out Gabriel! Passed out and bleeding strongly! You could have died so why didn't you escape!?"
"How can I with that man after some reason to harm you and already brawling me like some normal folk do in a bar!" snarled the animagus, rubbing his cheek with his hand. "Brige has been more happier than ever to see us in pain along with the others. Something came into that room and began to attack like something I can't even imagine. It...it nearly killed me so I fled almost being caught by Merlin and then being caught by Brige who managed to disarm me. It's why you shouldn't have even come down here!
"Brige knows of the room and has been performing the unspeakable curses here Alice! And if he finds you it'll be like christmas came several months early for him! He even told me the date and that's where I snuck out to see you one last time before I thought Brige would finally kill me after several curses. The man has been trying to get things out of my that I've sworn to protect and now that damn fool is trying to have Kanni's ass expelled along with you!"
It was alot of information for Alice to take in through her ears in less than four minutes from the man who had vanished two or three days ago for Alice was sure anymore if she had slept through a night or just several hours. Her head was buried in her hands, trying to bare through the burning sensation of her wounds and then the possible threat of Brige walking into the dark room and bring the two Veraes to their death. Gabriel's face had never seen more worried and concerned as he looked at Alice, his thoughts deeply involved with trying to protect them all if Brige truly walked in through the door that Gabriel had been watching so much.
"What can we do then? Is there some way where we can get back up to the school knowing that Brige is somewhere else and not walking down here right now as we speak?" asked Alice, her fears being confirmed as Gabriel's faded smile evolved into a frown while he spoke, "That's what I've been worried about and recently found out about. Brige is no ordinary man, we all understand that but he can make copies of himself. That's how he's been watching you and your friends Alice. Being at a certain place while his class is being taught by only a copy of Brige."
"Does Clarissa know?" asked the shape shifter, her fingers feeling the bleeding of her wounds grow weaker and the towel hadn't bled so much as before. Alice gave out several gasps while Gabriel brushed aside the question to remove her hands from the wound and examine it himself, whispering to her, "Clarissa has no idea and that surprises me greatly."
"Ah!" Alice bit her lip just once to try and avoid yelling in Gabriel's ear about the pain while he began to bandage the wound tightly, hoping that she would soon be well once more without the posion in her body. Yet the cloak seemed to watch the two with most enjoyment, applauding Gabriel whenever he swore some joke to himself of a past experiance similar to Alice's wounds. The fear of Brige soon evaporated while the shape shifter tried to slip into sleep but was much too excited to ask Gabriel of the house she had recently visited that he wanted her to live in and finally said, "I saw the house that Themrus told me of."
"Fancy that, did he show you those pictures?" asked Gabriel, sitting next to the cloak who seemed to ask more translations in sign language to understand it, apparently it was also depth. "Or did you sneak out of the school again? Brige has been cursing around this room lately of you making it to the panel, arguing with himself that he could make it past the panel anytime."
"I even visited it Gabriel and I want to live with you for the holidays once you can get your name cleared and things like that. Themrus could even live with us if you wanted since you two are best friends, I wouldn't mind at all since it is a big house."
"Is it too big for you? We can always sell it and get a smaller house if you'd like that better."
"It's perfect Gabriel, absolutely perfect. Besides, I perfer the houses with more spaces and rooms and much bigger hallways. But don't you think that you're wearing yourself out trying to earn this money for the house and things? I could go and work somewhere to pay rent!"
"Alice, Alice, Alice. When I offered to take you in I didn't want money but just to know that you're nurished, happy and have a perfect house to live in. I've seen you grow up for three years now and I saw your pain. I don't that pain to ever revisit you again, alright?-Brige!"
Even the cloak flinched at the translation given to him by Gabriel by the sudden utter of the name Alice didn't want to hear while finally being with Gabriel to talk about something else. For Brige had indeed stood there at the door, a evil grin upon his face while he turned a wand in his hand, his eyes fixed on Gabriel who suddenly moved to stand infront of Alice, his arms stretched out while he snarled, almost in a hiss, "If you want to ever harm Alice you'll need to kill me first!"
"Me? Attacking Miss Black? It was, at first, a thought but why do that when I condemn that girl to more pain, such as reported her illegal activity with a murderor, forcing her to be expelled and flown over to a criminal correctional institute. Would you fancy that for your birthday Miss Black!?" yelled Brige, his face turning pink as his eyes snapped back to Gabriel, holding up her wand. "Say hello to however I may have met in hell!"
The same red blinding light met with Gabriel that had once been used on Alice. But the shape shifter had been too numb in the chest to feel anything but Gabriel leaning against the wall next to her, leaning his head against her chest while the same chackles as before materialized around his wrists. Now the cloak had simply vanished from sight and then Brige took several more steps closer to Alice, saying in a growl, "Now then, shall we go upstairs to explain to Clarissa and the authorities of how you've been helping a criminal Miss Black?"
"Shut up already!" The shape shifter had quickly produced a stun charm of her own, sending Brige flying into the rock wall behind him, some loose pebbles had the fallen from the cieling. It had then taking several moments for Alice to sit next to Gabriel with her painfull chest heaving for the air that she had longed for. The animagus was still alive, yet barely. Suddenly a quick movement of Alice being lifted in the air by Brige who was supposed to be stuned broke her thinking. The shape shifter had screamed for help, trying to produce several curses to only wake up Gabriel, pulling on the chackles to let him free while his wrists began to cut and bleed.
Alice had then been brought back to the dress store by Brige who carried her through the series of tunnels, a wicked smile on his face that the girl had wanted to rip off so much. Then he had put her down only to scorn at her with commands, something that Alice didn't pay attention to while her thoughts drifted off to Gabriel being kept in the tunnels while she was to be expelled from the place she had loved so much from the beginning. Brige had then tore Alice from her thoughts, his hand leaving a mark against her cheek.This had been to much for Gabriel had then appeared out of nowhere, wrestling Brige to the ground with curses and charms flying around the room. The shape shifter had only caught pieces of the argument between the men, grabbing a glass ornament and throwing it directly at Brige while been congragulated by Gabriel who said, "Good aim, Alice."
Gabriel's face then constricted with pain while hurling what looked like blood on the floor, his handing waving Alice away who had instead moved next to Gabriel, pulling his long hair back to avoid any messes to add to the current problems they had faced. But the animagus brushed the concern of the girl aside, allowing her to bring his arm around her shoulder, helping him walking from the store while both Verae's pains had steeply rose, even causing Gabriel to be severly close to fainting before they reached the hospital wing to only find Clarissa and Madam Lunna staring at the two, yelling, "Get a bed free now and some healers! RIGHT NOW!"
"What happened! Where did you find him?" the principle had been the first of the woman to embrace both Gabriel and Alice at once, her eyes filled with tears while she had tried to be stern just like Lunna had been, yelling at the way Gabriel looked like a mess and how Alice wasn't supposed to be out of her bed. But being a mother had brought the tears. "You could've have died and look at you two now! We need to inform Themrus right away!"
"Alice? Oh dear god, Gabriel!" There had been no need for Themrus had just came out of another dorm, books in his arms which soon dropped to the floor. "What the bloody hell happened to you now and where did you find him!?"
"Long story short but I've got to-" Alice had been brushed aside into Themrus while Madam Lunna had taken Gabriel quickly into a private dorm, tuttering of the wounds. Clarissa had gone with them, hissing about the paperwork she was soon to face. Now the shape shifter mutter with a misrable trait to Themrus, "Brige knows now and he'll do anything to find Gabriel somewhere. He kept Gabriel in that room!"
Posted at 05:10 pm by Winged-Horror
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Tuesday, August 10, 2004
oh god oh god!!! so much to write, too much to write!!! ahh! going into a melt down!!! i'll write, i totally promise, just not right now! mebbe later! I'll try, i'll try, i'll try! whew...kelp, clam down....deep blue ocean deep blue ocean.....
Posted at 11:44 am by Silicon_Scrifice
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(so sry everything took so long!!! all is hectic chaos over here! Seriously!)
Kanni slowly opened her eyes, her head throbbing with pain and faint images of what happened before she blacked out passing before her eyes. After going to the food court for dinner she couldn't remember anything, and now here she lay in a bed in the hospital welling with pain and exhaustion. She felt as if she could go to sleep any minute and never wake, but the hushed voices and hurried foot steps behind her pale curtain told her something was up. She heard Alice's panicked voice and Themrus's trying to calm her.
"Don't worry Alice, he's safe in here. Madame Lunna will hide and care for him. How about you get a bed and sleep a bit now, huh? I'm afraid Miss Merrane has taken your bed but the one next to that is free. Really-Alice, there's nothing you can do anymore. You wanna help then move your behind into those sheets and stay there until you're better. Look at you! Your wounds have all opened again! Go!" Mr. Themrus's voice bellowed and she could feel faint vibrations as Alice's feet quickly trudged to the bed next to hers, pulled open the rack, and plopped in with a sigh of releif.
"Why is Kanni here?" she asked and Kaleb, whom Kanni was surprised to find present, asnwered, "She had another attack, Alice. Almost got to you. But you weren't there." Kaleb sounded angry at first, but Kanni could almost see the smirk on his face. There was a silence and then Alice said, "For once I did a good thing then, huh?"
"You do many good things Alice," Kaleb almost whispered. Clarissa was talking about Gabriel and Kanni almost shot from her bed. "Gabriel!?" she cried and the curtain was brushed aside allowing Alice and Kaleb to peer in. Kanni squinted from the light and put up a hand to help shield them. "Gabriel! He's here?!" she managed to exclaim with a weak hoarse voice. "Kaleb, what happened to you?" she asked, seeing the boy bruises and soiled with blood and cuts.
"Yea, Alice found Gabriel. Brige was hiding him in an underground passage...about how I look-..." Kaleb breifly described what happened and how he and Premidas were both now more injured. Kanni lowered her eyes in guilt, her hands coiling into fists. That would explain why she was here, and why she was in this state.
"What about Premidas? I didn't hurt him too bad, did I?"
"No...Madame Lunna already tended to us after she came storming in and then had me and mom help her clean while she tended to you. Premidas is pretty okay now, he's in his bed though."
Kanni sighed through her nose. That would also explain the memories she couldn't recall flashing through her throbbing mind. She rubbed her temples and Kaleb turned to Alice and then back to her. "I think you should both go to sleep and get some rest after the ordeals you've been through. Tomorrow I'll come again and we can talk in more detail about what happened so you both don't miss anything, okay?"
"But I need to tell Clarissa about Gabriel!" Alice protested, her eyes wide and weary.
Kaleb held up a hand and pushed her back into the bed. "Themrus, she, and Ulthra are talking about it right now, Gabriel has told them a little and Themrus pretty much got the point across. Don't worry; they'll figure something out. But for now he's safe right here. Madame Lunna has a secret room in the back for very bad patients that Gabriel is being treated in right now. No one but Madame Lunna can access it, much less find it, so don't worry. He's safe...for now."
Alice reluctantly lowered back into her bed and kicked off her shoes, feeling very tired after what she had been through. Kanni felt her own eye lids become strangely heavy and hard to keep open. Outside it had quietened and all settled down after Gabriel was safely hidded. Now they disscussed what to do with Brige and the matter at hand. Either way, it would not be an easy one. For any one.
Posted at 03:54 pm by Silicon_Scrifice
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"Oh dear, that man was right to burn her wounds but he could have done it with not such a sharp tip and point!" The voice of Madam Lunna crept it's way into the shape shifter's strange dreams that kept repeating themselves through the painfull night of not knowing of where Gabriel was. Her wounds had even slightly reopened and they were no longer being posioned by whatever substance was in the wounds when Alice was in the hospital wing before. Several needles had been slid into Alice's skin, making her jump slightly in her sleep. To many things were bothering her in her dreams about what had happened to Gabriel and all of the opprotunities she had to prevent all this. Brige had gone too far and yet, who was to stop him really? The man might know more charms and curses then anyone in the school seeing how paranoid the man was along with Merlin. And before Alice could slip back easily to her dream, a pain stabbed her in the chest were a ruin had yet to be closed apparently, still only bleeding a very small amount which Madam Lunna had been very proud of healing until Themrus had let out a bark of Gabriel and Alice being brought into danger by Brige. Clarissa could be heard hissing back at Themrus of how to even disarm or fight Brige back. There was nothing they could do and meanwhile the shape shifter wondered why Kanni was in the hospital wing or why Kaleb had been so bruised.
But to wake up and find Kaleb sitting by her bed was perhaps the most comforting thing Alice had yet experienced since being ordered to her bed by Themrus and hafly by Madam Lunna. He had been leaning against the wall, his eyes slightly closing and then opening once more only to watch Alice open her eyes to examine the blood spotted sheets coiled at the foot of the bed while clean white sheets covered her body which shook an extreme amount for now she heard the planning of Clarissa, Ulthar, and Themrus carefully herself. The warm memory of Alice living with Gabriel had been thrown into a corner of Alice's mind along with the loving gestures the man had given her before Brige had found out the secert. She had mentally kicked herself, sure that she was at fault somehow of the man knowing what people had tried to keep away from him, but then again Brige was the one who showed Gabriel in that globe so why did he show so much hatred to a man who had been protecting Alice and quickly was accepted by her and her friends?
"Alice." She turned her head to find Themrus standing next to her bed, covering Kaleb with a spare clean sheet. Darkly rings had faded under his eyes while he smoothed out his hair, his voice trembling as he then spoke, "Come on. Don't look at me like that and come along. Clarissa thinks it is best for you to see Gabriel before Madam Lunna retrieves more serious healers than at this school."
The shape shifter had glanced back at Kanni and then got out of bed for Themrus to place a hand on her shoulder while walking her out of a dorm and into the main room where Clarissa slept on a couch, her head resting on a folded cloak of Themrus. The man didn't turn to any of the dorms' entrances and instead to a statue of a Dragon coiled around what looked similar to a castle or perhaps the school itself, yet it was the fact the Themrus spoke to it in a language unknown to Alice was what she paid attention to the most. As if the dragon understood Themrus, the statue slid aside to reveal a door. It had brought them to another dorm with several other beds and at the very end laid Gabriel, still asleep. Only butterflies and screams filled Alice's gut when padding over to her guardian, unsure if Madam Lunna had been the woman leaning against the glass of the tall windows, mumuring to another woman who was dressed in a similar uniform as all the other nurses. Themrus continued to walk after Alice, watching the concern that planted itself in her eyes while she stood next to Gabriel and then sunk into a chair, feeling the stream of tears roll down her cheeks. There had been a way to prevent all this and she had failed to protect the right of herself to know the truth within the school and her own family.
Gabriel had even looked to bear great pain in his sleep, his face growing tense every few minutes while his hand moved to his chest where Brige had stunned him. The shape shifter simply sat there watching the man, unsure of what to do now with what might happen. If Themrus had brought her here did it mean that Gabriel had a slim chance of healing or was it just so Alice could convince herself that she had really seen the animagus and brought him away from harm? Now Themrus softly tapped Alice on the shoulder to nod his head in the direction of the nurses who were now bringing in their own supplies, wanting the room empty except for them and the patient. For Alice didn't want to leave but was brushed away by Themrus, brought back into the main room where he allowed her to stay instead of a dark dorm with nothing to do but stare up at the white cieling.
"Alice?!" Kaleb had then bursted through the doors, a grin on his face once finding Alice waving to him from the red armchair she settled on. "I thought you snuck off again..."
"How can I?" It wasn't like Alice to snap back at anyone, expecially Kaleb. Yet he understood Alice's fustration of what she went through and sat on the arm of the couch where he mother slept on, her face peacefull and concerned at once. Themrus had handed Alice a mug of hot chocolate which she excepted without thinking, her thoughts brewing on how anyone would plan their revenge on Brige when he knew so many diverse curses that Madam Lunna had trouble healing. Even now it seemed like an hour passed to Alice when only fifteen minutes had past, unnoticed by Themrus and Kaleb who had been whispering, even chuckled, about something that Alice couldn't hear past the buzzing of a lamp on the cieling whose light was about to die.
The students took turns sleeping on the arm chair, either one of them walking around the room and talking with Themrus who had stayed up the entire time. They all could feel the healing from the secret and hidden dorm behind the statue of the dragon, making Alice wonder who had known of it and whether Brige might be able to find Gabriel now. Soon enough she thought about the house and how life would have been different if her mother had just let Alice live with the animagus and if his name was cleared. Clarissa soon began to murmur about how she was signing papers, as if Gabriel was sitting infront of her discussing something. Clarissa even woke up after almost two hours of waiting for the healing to end. She immidently understood what had happened and gave Alice a meaningful hug along with Kaleb.
Now Alice slowly warmed up to the other student unlike the start of the healing. Both were now leaning against eachother on the couch which Clarissa had removed herself to convince Themrus to go to sleep and stop drinking coffee. But now Madam Lunna stepped out from behind the stone dragon and the castle saying, "The healing is over but we need several more hours to see if it really has worked. There is a very good chance that Gabriel will heal quickly, but you all need to get some rest for he'll be fine."
Clarissa couldn't even stop herself. "Brige won't be."
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"Alice, please wake up." Someone had been almost pleading the shape shifter to wake up with a hand resting on her forehead, brushing back her red hair from her face. Alice didn't want to wake up, wanting to only to convince herself that all was a dream. And then her eyes flickered only, only to find Gabriel looking over his shoulder not expecting Alice to suddenly through her arms around him neck, sitting up on the bed to see that Kaleb had just walked out, not knowing that the shape shifter was awake, patting the chest of Gabriel softly to make sure that it wasn't just some dream that she had been thinking up during her sleep. Even he had chuckled of how childish she looked doing so, finally convinced and then throwing her arms around his neck once more, feeling herself shake with excitement for Gabriel was now healthy and cured, something that was most amazing for he looked like he had never been in the room under the dress store or that he had been stunned in the chest with a curse conjured by Brige. "Alright now, I'm alive Alice. I'm perfectly sitting infront of you so there is no need to panic but you don't look so bad yourself," he chuckled, softly pinching Alice's cheek and then brushing back his own black hair from his face.
Posted at 10:03 pm by Winged-Horror
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Wednesday, August 11, 2004
( another attack, eh? I'll give you an ambush! lol)
"Ugh..." Kanni moaned restlessly in her sleep, her head tossing and turning back and forth. Her fists tenses into fists and then relaxed only to curl up again, her knees buckled and her face scowled in pain. Her forehead beaded in sweat and and her muscles screamed as they began to spasm. She began gasping in breath, her chest heaving unsteadily up and down. "Kanni? Kanni!" a voice cried as she heard the drapes rip across the rack. Cold air came from the hall but she still felt like she was burning up inside. She whimpered as her arm muscles tightened and cramped painfully.
"Madame Lunna!" the voice called and she suddenly felt a hand fly to her forhead only to quickly withdraw. "She's burning up!" Then Kanni heard Madame Lunna's voice begin to speak very fastly around her but her head was already drumming with pain deafening everything into an inaudiable murmur. Her dreams were black, and a high pitched cackle rung within her ears. Her nightmares were attacking again. Lately they have been more frequently.
Suddenly someone pulled her into an upright position and smacked her cheeks lightly. Her body fell limp into the arms. Even though she tried, she couldn't make her limbs move. She felt like helpless jello. She was faintly aware of what was going on around her, but nothing more. Her head felt like it was about to explode and she felt her bed jerk into movement as it was rolled quickly down the hallway. A sudden green light pierced through her eyelids and she felt her body's spasing slowly ease into rest again. But she was still burning and her head was still thudding loudly within her skull. Her eyes flickered open and shut like she couldn't control them.
Another blast of green sank painfully into her body but then she felt her head-ache slowly ebb away into a dull migrane. Now she was only still burning, and her body was completely limp. The last blast of green was the largest, wrapping around her several times and stabbing at her skin like a bed of needles as it sank into her skin and sought out the pain, dulling it away.
Then a rush of blue icy light swept over her like a gust of wind, cooling down her flaming organs. Kanni's breathing was still tortured, but no long half as painful as it had been before. She let out deep breath of releif as her body numbly fell back to the sheets. She heard Madame Lunna let out the breath of anticipation she had been holding and said wearily, "There...that should hold her for now."
"What happened?" Kanni recognized the voice as Premidas's now.
"Is she okay?" Themrus's voice asked overhead.
"For now. We mustn't wake her. Let her sleep the healing off, then she should be fine if the healing had any effect at all, that is." Madame Lunna said lightly and her bed jerked as it rolled back behind the curtains. They were closed and Kanni slipped into a black sleep. Someone then put a cold hand on her forehead, but pulled away too soon. Kanni's hand, almost unconciously, shot out to grasp the person's wrist but she only felt air between her fingers. The rack made a metallic noise as the person pushed through the curtains and left.
Her hand fell limply back onto the sheets next to her, and she drew her knees up, balling up for a hopefully deep sleep.
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Premidas, clad in some baggy jeans and a black short-sleeved shirt braced both hands on his cane as he shuffled over to Themrus. "Kanni's forhead is still really warm," he said.
"Yes...I know. She has a little bit of a fever now, but that should clear up by late tonight." Madame Lunna informed, panting from the large amount of magic and energy it took to calm Kanni's jerking body.
"What happened to her?" Premidas asked, combing through his slightly matted white hair, his red eyes looking up at the healer expectantly.
"I-I honestly don't quite know. Some form of spasm, I suppose. That's what it looked like. But what caused it is what I'd like to find out." the healer replied and then strode off to go check on her other patients. "And you, Mister? How are your wounds coming along?" Mr. Ulthra swept down in front of him on his was out.
"After Kanni's attack last night a little worse off than they should be, but I'm fine...really."
"'Kanni's attack'?"
Premidas took a deep breath and described what Kanni had done to him, Kaleb, and the nursery when the black magician took hold of her again. Mr. Ulthra silently listened, seeming very interested. Finally he said, "Yet again, eh? And still she didn't acquire a third power...this is not good...not good at all..." the ghost muttered as he abruptly left Premidas without so much as a "good bye". The boy shrugged and wondered how Alice was doing.
He had heard Gabriel was back and was excited to see the man again. He came to Alice's bed and pulled away the rack to see Gabriel sitting on her bed, looking as good as new. "Gabriel!" he breathed, not beleiving it himself for a moment.
"Ah, Mr. Anthen! Nice to see you're recovering quickly," Gabriel looked up and cracked a broad smile. "How are you? Does Madame Lunna know you're our of your bed?"
"Yes," Premidas grinned. "I'm fine. Getting better. You?"
"Good as new," Gabriel held out his arms for proof. Then Premidas settled down on a wooden stool placed by Alice's bed and became serious.
"What happened to you down there? What did Brige do?" he asked, eyeing the man intently who dropped his smile into a frown.
"Enough to make we want to kill him," the man growled. "Listen, I really don't want to talk about this now, okay?"
"That's fine," Premidas pulled back and yawned heavily. "Man, I need to get some peaceful sleep!"
"What happened to Kanni, Prem?" Alice asked. "Why is she in my old bed?"
"She had another attack...I was only there for the second part of it, you should ask Kaleb for the whole story later."
"Is that why he's so bruised? And is that why you're still bleeding?" Alice asked even though she knew the answer. The animagus nodded and pushed a white strand from his face when Alice discovered the scar on the right top side of his forehead. "Oh...where'd you get that from?" she asked, poiting to it.
"Oh...that? From that night...the night Gabriel disappeared." he answered gravely and moved a few strands down over it to cover it up better.
"That night..." Alice said with a hint of anger. "Brige will pay for all this! He won't get away with it!"
"No he won't. Ulthra and Themrus are already planning what to do with him. Too bad Ulthra is in this too; otherwise Themrus would gladly allow Gabriel to kill Brige right then and there!" Premidas growled, not meaning any offense towards his ghost teacher. Gabriel chuckled at this and said, "Okay kiddies! How about we forget that for just one second and talk about something else?"
"Like how I'm gonna live with you?" Alice asked hopefully and Gabriel grinned.
"I hope so, kiddo, I really hope so."
"I'll come visit!" Premidas offered and then said, "As long as you keep that pool!"
Posted at 03:11 pm by Silicon_Scrifice
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(Attack!!1 lol. XD)
In the school's arcade students recollected themselves into their groups, unaware of the events that took place the previous days. No one had seemed to be bothered by Kanni's or Alice's absence at all, yet most seemed to take awareness that Kaleb was sitting only in a booth, seperating the bottle green strands from his natural dark brown hair. He had been wearing a pair of dark jeans and a loose black sweater with a hood. Both feet were kicked up onto the long seat of the booth, taking up more space than usual to prevent from being drawn into some boring conversation with the giggling girls in the booth several paces away from Kaleb. Everyone was normal, as if nothing had ever happened and yet Kaleb sat there on the booth, his mind wandering to Alice, Premidas, Kanni and Gabriel. So much had changed than anything else this year all because of two students.
A woman now stood infront of the booth's table, placing bags of food with a wink before walking off to the kitchens. Kaleb had decided to bring food to the others, knowing that they weren't getting much food at the hospital wing. He quickly looked into the bags, finding that the woman had given him soup to bring back as well as some tea bags. The boy stood up while fingering the bag to his hand while walking through the crowd which had gathered over some new game some kid had bought. Kaleb had completely managed to get away from the crowd and out into the corridors, fixing portraits without having to go up to them as he walked. Several bells now chimed for the special classes to end which were in the left side of the school, exactly opposite of where Kaleb was heading too.
Merlin had been walking through the corridor infront of Clarissa's office, startled when Kaleb made the light bulb switch off into darkness and then back off. The boy enjoyed giving the old man a startle every once and a while, already imagining his mother's disapproving look. But around the corner had been what Kaleb was startled most about for his mother was greeting someone into her office. It had been a man and what could have been his daughter, her dark hair and deep blue eyes staring at Kaleb from over her petite shoulder. Suddenly something seemed to have stabbed him in the pain, only finding himself watching someone try and get past the wall that guarded his mind, trying to pry for some memory. The boy staggered to the ground holding his head, the pain stopping once Clarissa's door closed. He had now been sure that the girl had pryed into his mind just now.
It infact seemed to be a topic that concerned Kaleb to the rest of the way, his head aching with pain while the portrait of the girl standing next to her father and his mother, staring into him and prying for something specific. No one had mention to anyone of the new student yet, not even Themrus seemed to know about it and some surprised expression had played upon Clarissa's face when Kaleb saw her in the corridor. Now he entered through the large wooden doors into the lobby of the hospital to only find Themrus leaning over the desk, murmuring something to Madam Lunna as Kaleb crept around them and into the dorm where Alice and Kanni were located.
"Ah! And here is Mr. Agretto!" Gabriel's voice had cheerfully called through the dorm, calling Kaleb's eyes to catch the vision of Alice sitting up on her next while Premidas sat on a stool next to the bed and the man sat on Alice's bed, spreading his arms out and asking, "What do you think? Alive or just damn lucky."
"Both really. Anyways, I got you all some food." Kaleb had handed out the food one by one, watching Gabriel eye his own food carefully, not wanting to waste anything for the man hadn't eaten healthy for what seemed like several days. "The lady there gave me soup to bring back to you. Is Kanni still asleep?"
"Sleeping like a baby," chuckled Gabriel, handing Alice her own soup from Kaleb. "Did you see your mother somewhere in the corridors at anytime while walking over here? There is something we need to discuss..."
"Yea, but it looks like there is a new students here. She was bringing them into her office," answered Kaleb, deciding to keep the rest out. He could break the gleeful mood that taken over the room. "Has Miss Black snuck out at all today so far?"
"Was about to," growled Alice, drinking her coke from the can. "Until Themrus caught me half way to the fridge in the teacher's room in this wing. I was so close too!"
"You can never get past that room. Tried it once, remember that Kaleb?" said Premidas.
"Too well almost, we both turned to ferrets once we got into it," said Kaleb.
"I heard from Clarissa herself that you two made good ferrets," sneered Gabriel. "Alice, you took these?" The animagus was looking down at the camera of the pictures of the house he bought, then handing it to Premidas and Kaleb whose eyes grew hungry at the picture of the pool and the size of the house. "I'm surprised the neighboors still do the lawns and flowers on that house."
"Let me tell you that it wasn't easy getting there. I had no clue where to find a taxi first of all in the city," hissed Alice. "And does the pool freeze over in the winter?"
"Funny story about that actually," chuckled Gabriel. "Themrus and I were visiting the house, we were renting it then, for the winter and we forgot that the house didn't drain the water itself so the whole pool froze over with the hardest and smoothest ice you'll ever see. So, we had our own skating ring in the back yard for winter! And when I get back with Clarissa I'm going to have to get you some new clothes seeing how you bled through most of them, kiddo."
"I've got to come over one time," whispered Kaleb, flipping through the pictures.
"Gabriel!" The door had stood agar slightly with Clarissa sticking her head out of it, waving Gabriel to her. The man stood up, kissing Alice briefly on the forehead and give the two boys and friendly pat on the head before walking over to the principle, hissing about how impatient she was. Yet now the three looked at eachother, hearing Kaleb's story of the new girl and began to talk in deep conversation.
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"Court?! You've got to be joking about this Clarissa! Themrus, help me out here!" The animagus was now leaning back on the red couch in Clarissa's office, exmaining a sheet of papers he held up in the air. "I've got to go to court just so I can get my money back and be allowd to have Alice live with me? This is a load of crap, Clarissa."
"It's the law and we gifted folk must follow those laws as well. Even though we clear you, the people out there who don't know about us won't think the same way. Ulthar has put up an excellant defense force us that can't even lose. You can get a job here Gabriel! Even stay here with Alice freely!" bribed Clarissa, looking at Gabriel to except.
Instead the ma tore the papers in half. "I will absolutly not step foot into that court room. I trust Ulthar but he hasn't left this building for ages. For all I know Brige could be the only going against me and he'll be spitting out curses while he's at it."
"Gabriel, think about Alice and her friends for once!" hissed Themrus. "Alice has risked her life to find you and she has, now you're going to throw it all away because you're afraid to step into a court room. I know you're braver than this Gabriel."
"Can I at least think about this?" questioned the man, looking up at Clarissa who had been fixing ornaments on the tables.
"As long as you want before tonight for then I've got to make phone calls to get you in. Imagine this Gabriel, you can get a job here and live with Alice freely, earning money like you always did before all of this!" said Clarissa.
"And what about Brige?" asked Gabriel.
"Ulthar and I have a plan about that," said Themrus with a smirk.
"Clarissa, you're a parent but will this really help Alice in the future?" asked Gabriel, sitting up with his face in his hands.
"Unless you want your god-child to be hidden away from the world when being with you as a family, then I think you should do this. Alice can feel more safe knowing that most people won't be after you anymore and people will accept you to work for them for the money you'll need to support each other. Trust me Gabriel, you can finally bring her home to the house you spent so much time thinking about and worrying if she'd feel right at home. And I guarente you that she will feel more than at home with you freed and in your home."
Posted at 04:11 pm by Winged-Horror
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