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Friday, August 27, 2004
Kanni (ps. if u agree to the e-mail, let me make a second post before you do, pweez!! ^^; so i can get it sorted before we get into the climax...)
(meep...okies, can write now. besides, i have to talk to u about this story and entry. *Before you post check your e-mail for the message, okay? it's important. ^^)
"Rothen!" she gasped, her chest nearly caving in on her lungs. Suddenly a roar erupted from behind her and the snake hissed, curling away and thrashing about, making her gasp with pain. Another roar sounded from next to her as the snake suddenly recoiled, pulling off of Kanni, leaving her coughing and hacking on the floor. Prem roughly nudged her with his snout, trying to bury it under her stomach to slip her onto his back. Kanni pushed off and wrapped her fists in his mane as he swerved to the right, but suddenly stopped.
"Foolish girl! You think I'd let you escape that easily?" Lori's cold voice cackled. Premidas grunted in pain as he was suddenly shifted back into human form and plopped to the ground, Kanni landing atop of his back. She rolled to the side calling, "Rothen? Rothen, where are you?"
"Here, Kanni..." a little hiss answered, seeming strained with guilt and pain.
"What the hell did you do to him?!" Kanni roared in the direction she thought Lori was in. Lori laughed once more, and even harder when Kanni lunged forward and toppled through thin, empty air.
"I did nothing to your pathetic snake. I merely controlled him a while, no harm done. Strange you didn't pick something more deadly, Remus." the girl mused.
"Who the hell is Remus?!" Kanni yelled, getting horrible annoyed with this puzzle game Lori was playing taunting her with.
There was a small silence before Lori replied, "Of course you wouldn't know. I must speak with him now, if you don't mind." An excruciating pain abruptly gripped her mind, seeming to clench around her head and tighten. She crumbled to her knees, ramming her head forward into the ground, as if trying to knock the pain away. Her hands tore at her hair, her nails scraping her temples, frantically trying to remove the antagonizing pain within her.
Then black licked up the sides of her mind, beginning to blott out her own thoughts and feelings. She almost was unaware to the screams that tore through her throat. Then, in what seemed a second, everything swiftly became deathly silent. Kanni found herself in a room she had never seen before. All was hazy and dark, with a blue tint, as if she were looking through navy-blue sun-glasses. The floor was wooden, and very cold. The square room was small and had white windowless walls. No doors were there either, but then Kanni picked up whispering.
Then, in a flash, what seemed to be a couch formed just in front of her. A girl, Lori, materialized before the couch in which a thickly dark cloaked man sat. She couldn't see his face or any skin part of him, but she could tell he was angry...furious, and very sinister. They were talking...At first she couldn't understand their muffled whispers but then, closing her eyes and concentrating on their conversation, the words were suddenly clear.
"...have a way to get you out of this prison, Remus. Will you trust me enough to free you, my Lord?" Lori stopped quickly on one knee in a bow and stared at the cloaked figure in expectation. She seemed strained...tensed, with some fear. Did she even know Kanni was here? Listening to them?
"Why should I, you damned traitor! You deserve to die!" a man's voice roared and Lori cringed. Kanni noticed that she looked taller...older than the Lori she had seen enter the school.
"I know, my Dark Lord. You may kill me later, but now I must re-pay my vow and debt to you and free you. If you kill me now not only will I live in eternal debt but also you will never escape this horrid body they locked you in." Lori replied, sounding a bit quivery. Her hands twitched nervously as the cloaked man considered this a moment.
Finally he rasped, "Fine. I will allow you to redeem yourself...But this isn't the only chance for you, but for me as well. Don't mess up," he threatened. Lori hastily nodded. Then her eyes flickered towards Kanni and widened as she saw the girl's prescence was still there. She bolted forward with a hand glowing of dark red magic and swiped it across Kanni's forehead. Kanni screamed and fell back, seeming to fall into an endless pit before she completely lost herself in the depths of her mind.
Posted at 04:59 pm by Silicon_Scrifice
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Saturday, August 28, 2004
(okies....nother postie!)
When Kanni woke up her head throbbed. She was lying on the floor of her room, the bandage still tightly wrapped around her blind eyes. Someone was patting her head and jolted when she moved. "Kanni?" Premidas's voice asked.
"Are you alright?" she asked him, pulling into an up-right position.
"That's what I was about to ask you. I'm alright. A few bruises and cuts, but I'm fine. You?"
"Good enough...where's Lori?" Kanni growled, remembering faintly of the intrusion. All was blurred....was that room with Lori and Remus a dream she had? Or real? She couldn't remember.
"Lori fled. A teacher was walking down the hall and she fled away. But she seemed done with what ever business she had within your head..."
"And Rothen?"
Premidas was silent a moment. "Well, he's only ten feet long now," he forced a chuckle. But Kanni could tell his heart wasn't in the mood for laughing at all. "Well...he's out cold. He seems to be shrinking back to normal size though..."
"Okay...I think he had enough to eat for now though...Maybe you should pick him up a little later, when he is smaller..." Kanni swallowed, trying to wet her parched throat. She staggered to her knees and felt Prem get up along with her, grabbing her shoulders to help steady her. "Let's go see Alice." Kanni wanted to see the Verae again...she hadn't in a while and wondered what the little mischevious shape-shifter was.
"I'm so glad *Lori isn't in our house...Then again the Salarsh don't really fit to her either*...." Kanni mumbled, thinking of the disaster it would bring to have Lori so close to Kanni and Alice. (Lori Helken was sorted into the Salarsh house) Premidas shut the door behind him and led her back down through the hallway and back into the hospital. Madame Lunna was busy with a patient who had a hex on his tongue to become so big he couldn't swallow and began to choke. Kanni seated herself on her bed and scooted her legs under the warm but light covers.
Her eyes throbbed and she wondered when she'd be able to see. Becoming curious she pulled the bandage up a bit and felt a light breeze on her brow. She frowned. Everything was as black s night, with some gray shades moving back and forth in omnious taunt. Premidas must have seen what she was doing and pulled the bandage back down over her eyes. "Kanni, you're blind for now. You can't see anything, no matter how much you want to, until the blindness wears off. So try not to hurt them anymore by trying, okay?"
"Fine," Kanni was still upset. She yawned and stretched, leaning back on her pillows. Her thoughts were swimming with flash-backs of what just happened. "We have to report Lori. What she did is forbidden!" Kanni hissed.
"No!" Premidas replied instantly. "If we report her she might speed up what ever she wants from you...We have to give her time so we can see her plan."
"Surely you don't beleive we can stop her alone!"
"No...but we have Alice and Kaleb too. I'm sure they'd help us; if they want to or not, I'm sure Lori might be cooking up something..." Premidas's voice trailed off thoughtfully.
Kanni didn't like this at all. The longer they waited, the longer Lori had to plot. But they might cause Lori to do something worse if they pulled authority into this...put the school in bigger danger just for her safety. Kanni groaned. Was it really meant for her to be here? Maybe all these things happening because of her and Alice were signs that the two of them weren't to be here at the same time...Kanni was still fifteen while the others were all already sixteen...she could wait a year and then try coming again...
"Don't even think about it Kanni. You know perfetly well this is the place for you," Premidas growled sternly. She jolted. How did he know what she was thinking? "I can see it on your face," Premidas laughed. "Your expression and frown give it all away." She could almost see him grin. Was she really that obvious? Maybe... She heard him laugh again. "Stop frowning! Smile, little Kan, and enjoy yourself a bit. Just forget what happened for two seconds." he seemed a little worried.
"How can I? After what I just witnessed...or what I thought I did..." once again she frowned. This was really confusing. All her memories were all blurry and broken up like a strange puzzle scattered through her mind.
"I know, I know, but all this stress and worrying isn't healthy. Just enjoy yourself for a while...We'll have enough time to worry when we finally catch Alice and Kaleb and discuss this...and then there is still the problem about Brige...You know, I haven't seen him lately...maybe Themrus and Ulthra have already socked him...or maybe he's hiding-"
"Now look who's worrying."
"Ah! There it is. That smile again." Premidas praised and patted her cheek. "See? Isn't it nice to smile again?"
"I guess."
"Okay then. You rest here a bit. I don't think Lori will go after you here, where Madame Lunna will be around and other sick students. I'll go see if I can spot Alice or Kaleb, okay? I'll see you again soon." Premidas got up from the foot of her bed. He didn't need the cane anymore, but she could still hear a hesitant limp in his stride when he began to stalk away.
"Okay. Hurry though! I'm sure Alice will be happy to see she has bestowed her sneaking out lusts on me," Kanni waved to whom she hoped was the animagus and then fingered her temples again. She tied her lilac locks into a ponytail and groped for the TV remote, switching it on even though she knew she wouldn't be able to see the visions flashing across the screen.
 (Kanni! XD)
Posted at 03:00 pm by Silicon_Scrifice
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Sunday, August 29, 2004
"Fight! Fight! Fight!" Several kids were now circling two boys in the food court. This had all started only when one poured soda on the other as a prank. Now any student could be facing detention seeing how the staff was watching carefully and scribbing something on the palm of their hands. And of course one of them had to be Brad, the one who meant the soda pouring as a prank to one of his pales who had been fumed about a girl who declined him. The shape shifter, Alice, had been leaning over her seat to watch, hearing Kaleb's hissings of how stupid this would be. She didn't pay much attention to that, just to the chanting and the punches the two threw at each other. "Do you honestly think that this is going to end good?" Another student was now trying to get between them, only to be shoved away by Brad. This was getting stupid seeing how all the girls had moved to the front only to make the other boy more angry.
Then something was thrown over at Alice and Kaleb. A table and it had nearly slammed into their heads. The legs were swinging loosely and hanging off of the side of the booth. No one had seemed to notice the table flying at them and just continued with chanting the fight on which soon begun in a brutal beating. Kaleb had tried several times to distract Alice from watching with flying salt shakers or dancing napkins, yet her attention wasn't on the two students fighting. It was Lori, just standing there and watching Alice too with a smirk on her pale lips. There was a connection in the girl's eyes, drawing Alice deeper into what seemed to be darkness. An endless pit that only gave away to Kaleb's voice yelling, "Alice! Get down!"
Too late. Something hard had hit Alice in the head as Kaleb tried to dive for it, catching the small salt shaker that Brad had thrown at his opponet. Her head was now throbbing painfully, making her stomach boil with rage at the two students, hoping to get close enough to tear their eyes out. Yet Kaleb was now pinching her hand under the table with glares and whispered, "Don't dare think of getting involved with this one. You know what Brige is looking for in you."
"A way for trouble. I know, I know already. But you'd at least think I'd get warning from them. And besides, why isn't Brad visiting Kanni?" said the shape shifter, rubbing her head.
"Don't know. Maybe he's too fumed to think about that right now seeing how Alice's habits have bestowed on Kanni." The voice was Premidas who leaned onto the side of the booth, sitting next to Kaleb and already examining the fight. "How long?"
"Few minutes only. Not much to be awed about," answered Alice.
"It's been mostly boring," said Kaleb through a series of yawns. "How's Kanni?"
"Something else happen, maybe we should talk about it with Kanni," whispered Premidas, taking account of a few students staring at them.
"..." Alice was mainly paying attention to the fight still, finding that Lori had moved somewhere else in the crowd where she might now be seen right now. Still, Alice felt watched. Not by other students, but by something hungry for energy and pain. The conversation between the two boys wasn't her interest anymore, neither the way that Kaleb continued to rub her knuckles to get her attention softly. He was perhaps afraid of her going missing one more time. It was a habbit, yet one that sometimes lead her to important information.
"Alice, let's go visit Kanni." All three stood up, avoiding the fight and chanting auidence, leaving the food court unharmed. Students were more talkative these days about anything, even of how Alice or Kanni kept ending up in the Hospital Wing. Brige was now found walking through the corridors more with Merlin with him. Snoop was either found chewing on desks or plants that hung around the school, no harm done there. The shape shifter didn't feel ready to leave the corridor closet to the food court, as if she had forgotten something there. Yet the feeling meant nothing at all to her.
Gabriel was now even found between hours called up to Clarissa's office along with Mrs. Taint or Themrus, whoever was there. Yet Kaleb locked her arm with his and walked her down with Premidas, preparing to explain to Kanni about what had happened and to hear the other story of what had been happening.
[Sorry it's short. Gotta go to doctor's tomorrow so gotta go to bed early.]
Posted at 12:08 pm by Winged-Horror
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okay, i just saw u post. I've got to do something real quick, but I'll post in a few. k? have a good time at the doctor's!! ^.~ hehe
--kelp
Posted at 12:13 pm by Silicon_Scrifice
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(okies. can write now)
"Kan? You awake?" Prem's voice asked as a hand patted her shoulder. "I've actually caught Alice and Kaleb."
"Hm?" Kanni yawned and stretched, pulling from her pillows. Her hands stretched out and whom she thought was Alice chuckled, "It's okay Kanni. We're right here." She could almost see Alice frown. "What happened? Did you poke an eye or something." Kanni bristled. She would have to explain what happened, wouldn't she? But she didn't want to. Not yet, anyways.
"That's okay. I'll tell her my veiw, okay?" Premidas hastily offered, sensing the sudden tesion. Suddenly a light bulb in the hallway blew up and popped in a shower of sparks. Kanni groaned. "That's been going on for the past hour...stupid powers. I need to train with Mrs. Taint again..." she mumbled. "Okay then," she gestured to where she thought Prem was. "You can tell what you know, which is probably more than I can recall right now...and then, Alice, I want to know why you haven't visted me earlier!" she cracked a small but forced grin.
"Okay..." Premidas began by clearing his throat. His story was about as much as Kanni could confirm and remember...all except, that is, the part where she was within that room in her mind eaves dropping on Lori and Remus. Alice and Kaleb made the bed slightly bent inward as they took a seat at the foot of her bed and listened. Kanni ripped through her memory...this was all so blurry...she could remember parts and bits, like photo shots, but nothing more...But for now she'd have to beleive Prem's observation to be accurate until she could calm down and pull herself back together. "...and then she just fell as Lori jolted. Lori saw and heard the teacher and bolted the other way. I didn't want any trouble so I quickly dragged myself to the door and slammed it shut. I sat with her the rest of the time. It took her near and hour and a half to wake again...but she seemed well enough after her rest. I'm no mind expert, but I could've sworn something was going on in her mind. Cause both of them got that glassy-eyed look and were completely still and silent. Then Kanni screamed like an animal and fell over. But she doesn't seem to remember anything and I don't think we should try and force her to just yet..." his voice lowered, his words directed at Alice and Kaleb most likely.
Kanni's brow knitted together in confusion. The room in her mind...was that what Prem meant? Could he sense it? Maybe...Her memory was getting foggier and foggier. The longer she waited the less she remembered. No. She had to tell them now. Now before she lost all memory of it. And she'd have to write it down. "Prem, get a piece of paper and pen. Write down exactly what I say..."
"Alright. Got it." Premidas huffed, rubbing his fingers from the scribbled and fast writing. Was this what really happened? How could he have missed so much? Well, it was all in her head. Can't really follow her there, now can you? he growled to himself. He looked up to see Alice's face twisted in deep thought, her hands wringing and balling into fists. Kaleb met Prem's gaze and then lowered his eyes. Premidas sighed. So thats what he missed...a lot...How could he help her if she went somewhere where he couldn't follow? He closed his eyes a second and then blinked them open, finding Alice staring at him expectantly.
"Well? What are you waiting for? An invitation?" Prem growled before he could catch himself. Damn...all this is putting me in a hell of a mood...he closed his eyes again, trying to make himself focuse as Alice began in a soft tone.
Posted at 01:43 pm by Silicon_Scrifice
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Tuesday, August 31, 2004
It had been hard for Alice to tear through the details of meeting Abigalle, the basin, and of her transformation. They all had seemed to be paying attention to her purple eye after telling them of the first shifting that hadn't been decided by her at all. She filled them in of the strange girl trying to break into her mind, strange things happening in her room, and that Gabriel was a Verae himself, only wanting the best teacher for his godchild to learn how to block these possessings. Kaleb had shifted in his seat with his gaze falling to the floor, slightly shocked at what he heard. They were dealing something that didn't fight with sticks or throw things but something that had a greater power than them all. It wanted some memory to feed off of. An painfull one. Yet it had all be theories to deal with this for Gabriel had began to come up with his own. "...and then he left with Mrs. Taint without saying a word about it all. Just like that," ended Alice, taking her seat on the foot of Kanni's bed. "Whatever this thing, perhaps Lori, wants it isn't anything like an artifact but a memory."
"We have many so which one does she want?" Premidas had been in a rather touchy mood, growling comments during the lecture. He wanted to know more, but the shape shifter felt sympothy knowing that Premidas wouldn't be able to follow Kanni and her every where. There was a moment of silence, hearing Kaleb scribble it all down. Alice had directed them so incase whatever it was had completely flushed their minds, that way they had something to trigger these memories to come back to them. She had only read this in books and deeply hoped that these sheet of papers would as a powerfull thing to trigger memories. Kanni was next to speak, "So you kept on switching powers? Just grabbing them and using them until another one took over?"
"Except I couldn't control which ones I wanted or what to do with them. It was something involuntary that I couldn't decide. I shifted into something that doesn't even exist," answered Alice, getting up and walking in paces. She couldn't sit still, not with so many feelings in her gut.
"It sounds like dark magic. But to grab powers without choices is something like an adept," whispered Kaleb, his eyes locked on the pencil in his hands. "Adepts are people like us, except the nature scenes around support their magic. Such as if an adept was located near an ocean he or she would be able to shift into a sea creature of make it rain. But if the adept was near a volcano they'd have the elemental power of flame. Except Alice fed off other people's powers..."
"...which brings up nowhere at all. If I don't find out what I was feeding off exactly and can't control who knows what kind of power I might pick up. What makes me wonder if any students noticed that their powers were gone for that split minute," said Alice.
"There's a chance Madam Lunna or Themrus know that. Or maybe there are some lsit of complaints about that," said Kanni, sitting up and facing Alice. "Maybe Clarissa knows something of students' powers gone missing."
"We don't need to ask anyone. There is a room where it always records what goes on with students' powers for security reasons. Not many know of it so it'll be a sinch to get through the guards and into it," said Premidas, looking over to Kaleb. "Kaleb and I have even run into it a few times when we were bored."
"Perfect, we'll go there and see which students lost their powers." Finally. A plan to start looking for answers. Even though it might have some flaws it was the only thing that they might think of before it was too late. "What about Kanni?"
"I'll stay here and see if any students come in complaining of something wierd. Besides, if Madam Lunna catches me away I'll be in trouble," answered Kanni, waving them away. "Go now before Lori catches on to us."
"Come on Prem, you know where the room is better than I do." The three had left Kanni, waving their good-byes and walking into the corridors. They had seen Themrus walking with Ulthar with parchments under his arms. This room that the two boys had been talking about hadn't been very far away from the hospital wing, just a few minutes of walking away. What the two boys had found strange that there were no guards located near the room. Inside was something that Alice would have never forgotten so easily as Kaleb whispered, "Say hi to Quincy."
There was a man, almost spider like, seated in a seat in the middle of room that seemed to bow down to the tall shelves covered in parchement. The man had four arms, two writing quickly on two parchements while the other two sorted the parchments around him onto the shelves. Shelves had been dated under the parchements since 1989 to the current date. Alice had walked closer to Quincy, examining what the man was writing while whispering it out loud, "Maiya complains about stomach and goes to hospital wing. Brad uses his power to disarm another student. Kyle puts his lunch on fire-"
"CONSTANCE SILENCE!!" The small man roared the two words like a lion while Alice behind him stumbled to the ground, feeling one of his arms pull her up and brush her off. Kaleb had walked out from an aile, whispering to Alice, "He doesn't like talking so keep quiet."
"Of course." This was mad. To look through a few parchments was okay, but to have to look through the pile of parchments Premidas had found was outragous. The shape shifter had felt her hopes slightly drop, imagining what she would have to do now. They might be here forever, which didn't matter to Alice as long as they found out how to stop this.
Posted at 10:20 am by Winged-Horror
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Kindda like my powers....aren't they? Kanni thought to herself as she recalled how Alice described the power exchange. "Dark". That's how Prem and Kaleb had referred to the powers. Were hers also then labeled "dark" powers? Did they look upon her abilitied with disdain as well? Why shouldn't they? You do. Kanni bit her lip. "Hey Kanni." Kanni's gaze snapped up as she recognized the voice.
"Brad?" she asked, surprised.
"Yup." he grumbled.
"What brings you here?"
"Got into a fight with Marcos. I got a bloody nose and split lip, but he has some nice burns to remember me of all his life!" the boy gloated triumphantly. Yes...that was right. He had laser eye-shot. "Can you control them? Your powers, I mean." she inquired, now curious.
"Of course!" he answered with an offended tone. "Can't everyone?" Kanni bristled.
"No," she hissed lowly. He was silent a moment.
"Oh...sorry. I forgot..."
"Forgot what?" she snapped.
"That you're a milthacti."
"Where'd you hear that?"
"C'mon Kanni! Everyone knows! It's all around school and has been for almost a month now."
Kanni was about to shot a sharp come-back but then felt her stomach turn. If everyone knew, then surely Lori would as well...wouldn't she? "Oh God...she knows!" Kanni breathed, wringing her fists into her blanket.
"Huh?" Brad grunted.
"Nothing. Nothing at all. Well, I hope you soon feel better, okay?" she hastily muttered, her thoughts still on all the problems and questions swimming in within her again. So much for relaxing a bit... "Hey, your crazy friend, Prem, isn't around, right?" Brad cautioned. Kanni's lips thinned in a frown.
"He might be. I don't know. I can't see." her voice lowered in suspicion.
"Okay...cause if he caught me here with you he'd bite my head off." Her bed dented inward as Brad took a seat at its end. "You two are only friends...right?"
"Yes." Kanni didn't even hesitate even though she knew the strange feelings began to surface every now and then.
"And you're not with Kaleb either...right?"
"Of course not!" Kanni didn't even try to hide the incredulousness in her voice. "He's fully Alice's," she chuckled.
"Ah. Thought so. You know, those two would make a nice pair," Brad muffled a cough. "And you know we would too." Kanni froze. Her blood turned ice cold and her heart thudded. She couldn't see...was this some sick joke? Was he trying to pull something? Suddenly she wished her over-protective friend was here. (Premidas. ^^;) Then something brushed her lips. Instantly she yanked back and scrambled to the edge of her bed, steadying her feet on the floor, wiping her lips with the back of her hand.
"Kanni?" Brad's voice was guarded, not allowing her to portray whether he was hurt or smug. "What's wrong?"
"You!" she accused. "What did you just do?!"
"Oh. I did this," his lips brushed hers again. She wrenched from his hands and tumbled to the floor, ripping down some contents on her night desk as she tried to catch herself. This was sick! She was blind and couldn't even see him! Twon hands clamped on her arms and started to raise her up. "Brad! Stop!" she ordered, trying to keep her voice firm and calm.
"I'm only helping you up," the boy gruffly replied, sounding annoyed.
"I don't want your help! Don't you ever do that again, especially when I can't even see you!" she nearly bellowed, pulling away from him as soon as she was steady again.
"Well, sorry," he grumbled. "I'll be going then."
Great...now look what you have done! He confesses his fondness for you and you make it seem as if it were the most horrible thing ever! she scolded herself. No! He kissed me! And I never knew what was coming...
So?
So?! What if Prem saw me...or found out?
So what if he did? It's not like you care for him either. The voices argued back and forth through her head, the second voice suddenly sounding much like Lori's heartless cackle. Lori! "Brad, wait," the words forced from her mouth. What?! She had never said them.
--Well, not willingly anyways, Lori's voice chuckled within her head.
Lori! She's here! In my mind! Kanni began to get frantic as her arm reached out and grabbed Brad's sweater clad arm. No! Stop! Give me back control! she screamed at the intruder. "Brad, I'm sorry...I didn't mean it. I was...shocked." the words were maliciously honeyed and Kanni could feel her lips form into a grin without her will. Stop! Lori was controlling her...what would she make her do? Her thoughts were frantic as she felt her hand touch Brad's cheek.
Then she leaned forward. NO! she screamed with all her might, her head whirling with rebellion but her body continuing and staying firm in Lori's hold. Their lips pressed together. No, no, no, no, no! she cried over and over again, wrenching herself away but her body would not follow. Brad's arms wrapped around her back. No! Get off me! Prem, where are you?! Kanni felt herself go crazy.
--Lori, get your damn self outta me! she shrieked into the darkness of her mind where she helplessly stood.
--Oh, I will...as soon as the deed is done.
--Deed? What deed?! Kanni's eyes widened with horror as she felt a familiar sensation begin to coil through her veins and a horrible pain reached her head. NO! Finally her body wrenched from Brad's grasp but it was too late. A red flash encased her and sank into her flesh, making her blood churn and seem to boil with heat and unfamiliar energy. "No..." she whimpered as she cringed to the floor and awaited the ordeal to end. God...I'm so sorry Prem...
(*she just stole his power, in case u didn't understand. ^^;)
Posted at 03:10 pm by Silicon_Scrifice
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thanx 4 helping out rach!! ^^ preciate it! (on runescape)
-kelp
Posted at 03:50 pm by Silicon_Scrifice
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Wednesday, September 01, 2004
[Welcome!]
We are going to be here all night...The three students were still in the same room as Quincy who continued to write in a new furious speed, mumbling to himself. Parchments and books were laid across their laps, trying to decide of which one to read next to add to the count Premidas had began. There were over twenty students who felt their power vanish and return in the next minute. Worse thing was that it was all random, there was no pattern in the powers taken. Even the locations were random. First the Hospital Wing, then the Library, a class room, and then scattering to several other parts of the school within seconds. Premidas had seemed a bit twitchy whenever Alice had brought something up about Kanni, yet the shape shifter didn't feel offended. It was amusing to her of how Premidas wanted to help Kanni and how he growled when they mentioned Brad.
Guincy had even thrown the new parchments to them after writing near three feet on them, even as he drank from his Coke can and continued to write. It was a grand wonder that Premidas and Kaleb had ran into this place or they would've all been clueless of where to look for this information. After looking through several more parchments that Kaleb had brought to them, Alice leaned against his shoulder feeling slightly exhausted. The parchments never ended and none said anything about Lori. Theories had just been made by Alice who began to think what if Lori wasn't this attacker, what if she was just a decoy of some sort. No. There were no parchments that assured that. And then Kaleb threw away another parchment, saying through a series of yawns, "The count is now fifty-four students who claimed to have felt their powers vanish and come back. All are random and even the locations so right now we only have numbers."
"You think we should've left Kanni alone?" Premidas had entered the conversation after his own silence, leaning over parchments and rubbing his eyes. He was concerned about Kanni. Who wouldn't when she was blind currently and Lori had full acess to the Hospital Wing.
"Kanni? Kanni Merrane...ah, yes..." Quincy had spoken for the first time, cracking his two sets of knuckles while the quil floated back into the ink bottle. The man had just thrown a parchment to Premidas, closing his left eye to what may have been winking and turning back to the parchment and quill on the desk. "She's in kahoots with that boy...Ah yes, Brad I think it was who was just sent to the Hospital Wing."
The animagus's face constricted with rage, standing up abrutly and walked over the parchments while Kaleb yelled after him, "We're coming with Prem or else you might kill Brad!"
"There better had be a explanation." The shape shifter followed the two boys who continued to yell at each other in the corridors. Her attention was attracted to two blue eyes that stared back out from a door that stood ajar, watching her with interest. Alice had felt slightly uncomfortable, yet continued to walk to the door almost placing her hand on the door knob until a voice broke the tension yelling, "Alice! What are you doing?"
Gabriel. Thank god it was only Gabriel and not Brige. The godfather stood infront of her with a worried gleam in his eyes which soon turned into a steely gaze at the door. He moved forward to shut it furthor and looked down at Alice, "What did you think you were doing?"
"Just interested," she said, trying to force a smile to Gabriel when she continued to watch the door knob that tried to twist under Gabriel's hand.
"Quincy just told me you were with him in his office and I will not allow you to go around and looking for more trouble! Clarissa found something though that was interesting about our little meeting with Abigalle," said Gabriel, bringing Alice away from the door.
"Why wouldn't she-?" The door had just blown off from it's hinges and propelled forward into the back of Gabriel who held Alice with him. The force had brought the two against a wall hard without warning. Darkness had just then filled the mind of Alice who found herself staring at the wall that protected her mind.
--What the hell? There was someone moving to the wall. Get away from there!
--Foolishness, pure foolishness that is always expected from you.
--Who the hell are you already before I kill myself!
--What good is that going to do you?
--It'll kill the memory or whatever you want!
There was a long silence, and then the blue eyes of Lori.
--Remus will be very displeased then. Yes, very much he will.
--Get out now! And who the hell is Remus now?
--Only the greatest wizard of all ages and your little friend has him and I want him. I must bring Remus back, I must. Yet your friend is finding herself in trouble herself.
--What did you do to her?
--Only controlled her yet she doesn't seek what I want. I seek a memory of you Verae, a memory that shows perhaps the greatest happiness and a great tragedy at once. It'll be your weakest point Verae for Remus needs a body of a Verae to complete the deed. It will happen Verae and you won't be seeing your friends anymore.
--Out of my head now!! It's mine, do you hear? Mine! All mine!!
--Childish. You think a tanturm will help you?
--This will help me for sure. The shape shifter had just slammed herself into what felt like a wall and then felt shards of glass bite at her skin. She had just then felt to have hit something hard, like pavement. Lori's eyes had shrank back in pain with a loud screech followed by a hollow laughter that rang through Alice's head.
--So that was the great plan of Alice Black? Falling out of a window and nearly bleeding to death? How childish, really.
--I will kill myself and then so much for your memory search.
--So? I'll just continue on with Kaleb or Premidas.
--But your Remus needs the body of a Verae right? How many of those are you going to find normally?
Silence. There was the same cold silence that kept Alice scared and frightened. Had she fallen out of a window? It felt like it but did it hurt Lori as well or just in the mind? The blue eyes closed and opened thoughtfully and then darted for the wall that protected Alice.
--Oh no you don't!
Her lungs constricted in more pain, sending Alice back while the eyes of Lori vanished. She could feel Lori clawing inside her head, looking for something. If this was what death felt like Alice would've rather never had been born.
"Alice! Oh dear god! Get someone quick!"
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"Kan? Kanni?" Brad's voice asked from above, over and over again, like a broken record. This wasn't happening...no, it was all a dream....all a dream. She blinked open an eye and felt her stomach turn. No...this was real. She groaned as she raised herself onto two propped elbows. "Kanni...you alright there?"
She gave the brown-haired boy a glare. She remembered what she had just done, and wouldn't forget so easily...Lori would pay. Would pay! No one can take my body and do that! she growled to herself, cursing Lori quite colorfully under her breath as she allowed Brad to pull her into standing. Her eyes throbbed. Shit. She was still blind too. When would the damn stuff wear off? And it almost made her knees buckle at the thought of having to go through the extraction process again.
She shoved away Brad's arms and he seemed quite taken aback. "Every thing alright?"
"No, it's not." she snapped. Oh, how was she going to explain this? "Look, what just happened-"
"Kanni?"
Kanni nearly toppled back. It was Prem's voice. Oh God...not now! Then anger took her once more as Premidas snarled, "What is he doing here? What did he do?"
"Nothing! I think I'm old enough to take care of myself, Mr. Anthen. Now back off, I need a word with him." Kanni's voice was stricken and harrassed sounding. This was all getting out of hand, and she was damn sick of always playing the damsel in distress while Prem tried to be the prince to rescue her. It was time she rescued herself and took things into her own hands--where they belonged.
"But-" the albino animagus protested with some surprise but Kanni put up a hand.
"Get lost!" A shuffle of feet signaled Premidas turning on his heel and stomping away. She could almost see Brad's appraising look.
"So, you're finally breaking free from his hold over you. Good, good." he praised.
"Listen to me, you damned fool! I belong to no one, and am under no one's hold! And what we just did--never speak of it again or ever do it again!" she turned on him, fury written clearly across her face even when her eyes weren't visible.
"But you were the one who kissed me!" Brad accused.
"Okay, look, I'm sorry! I wasn't myself..." Kanni sighed and rubbed her temples. "Brad, I have your powers now."
"What?"
"Try them, you'll see. When we kissed I'm afraid I stole them. I'm sorry..." There was a momentary silence.
"Y-you're right..." Brad sounded bewildered. "But it's okay...I understand. You can't control it."
Kanni felt a pang of releif. "Thanks...you seem to be the only one." she mumbled and groped for her bed, sliding back into it when she felt her sheets. "Look, if you don't mind I'd like some time to rest."
"Oh! Of course. I'll stop by again later, okay? And...um...sorry about before. I should have asked first. Bye!" she heard his feet dart off and she allowed herself to fall against her pillows. "You alright, Miss Merrane?" It was Ulthra's voice.
"Yes. I am now. I stole another power."
"I know."
"You do?"
"I saw it. It was quite a painful looking sight, I must say." the ghost's deep voice rumbled.
"Wish you didn't," Kanni hissed. So she saw her kiss Brad...would he tell Prem and the others? No. He wasn't the type to butt into her business. "So, how is Brige?"
"He's knows we're onto him. He's been avoiding us. But beleive me, we'll have him soon..." the ghost. "Ah, hello Mr. Anthen." Kanni flinched. She knew she'd have to face him now.
"Hello. May I have a private word with Kanni, please?" Premidas sounded stern and angered, but Kanni felt just as tempered as he. It would be a miracle if this ended without one of them bleeding from a blow.
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The ghost nodded and trailed away, sinking into the floor below. Prem eyes the spot suspiciously and then regarded Kanni, the white cloth still wrapped around her eyes. He felt his heart twist painfully as he took a seat. What was he thinking? What would he in the hell say? "What were you and Brad up to?" he finally managed. Bad move. Too bad he realized it far too late.
"What the hell is the matter with you?! You just can't stand that I have my own life, can you?!" she roared, her fists clenched.
"That's not it at all!" he retorted. He really didn't want to fight with her...or make her upset. He was worried. Was that such a crime?
"Well, what is it then?!" she demanded, crossing both arms, her brows knitting together and he could almost invision the anger in her blind eyes. He swallowed the lump forming in his throat and wrung both hands. Great. Now she has you, you bastard. Now what will you say? Now what lie will you spin, dumb ass?!
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