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 Posted: Wed Oct 23, 2013 5:51 pm
Hellene fluttered up and began frantically taking pictures of...nothing in particular.
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Harpies, not being generally inclined, wouldn't be of much use. All she could do was document.
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"Oh what are we going to do there has to be a way to get him out of there Glen don't you know a counterspell you're a witch I know you like mad science better but this really seems like a witchy thing to do..."
click click click click
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Posted: Wed Oct 23, 2013 5:52 pm
"Keep it down, you stupid br-" Bartleby Farnum burst out of his tent, hopping with only one shoe on and struggling to put on his belt. He came to a stop at the sight of the SparkleCar and it's occupants.
"What th...." His archaic, dusty normie mind couldn't comprehend exactly what he was seeing in front of him. Was it an attack? A surrender? A seizure?
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Posted: Wed Oct 23, 2013 6:16 pm
Gryff plucked the ball from Glen's fingers. He scrutinized it for a minute and watched Rory flail his arms and shout soundlessly within the misty depths. The tiny figure breathed heavy against the glass and wrote "S.O.S" out in the steam.
"Definitely."
Glen stood on tip-toe and looked up at the message.
"I don't know the spells to get someone out of another dimension, mom won't teach me those yet, they're really powerful."
Rory jumped up and down again and delicated pounded his fists against Gryff's talons.
"I could try, I've sneaked a few peaks at the books..."
Gryff stared hard at Rory.
"Don't bother," he said, "There's a far more practical solution."
He tossed the ball up, caught in and, holding it tightly, slammed it hard against the pedestal.
CRACK!
A crazed impact star burst against the side of the sphere.
"GRYFF! What are you doing!"
"STOP!" Hellene cried, making a grab for his arm.
Gryff shook her off and threw the ball down on the ground as hard as he could.
KSKKSKSKSSSSHH!
The ball shattered, fog exploded out from it, tiny crystal bits skittered everywhere about the tent. Everyone coughed, Shad flapped the tent opening as subtly as he could to clear the white smoke.
As it disipated caughing could be heard from it's depths. Rory stumbled out, slightly dazed but otherwise none the worse for wear, still as whole...as he'd been before anyway.
"Told you," Gryff smirked.
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Posted: Wed Oct 23, 2013 7:44 pm
"What-what're you-" Rory clawed at the walls as the sphere prison was suddenly plucked up and violently shaken. "No! DON'T-OHMYGOTH-"
KSKKSKSKSSSSHH!
Rory coughed and wheezed as the mists cleared, and he found himself standing in a pile of glass shards.
"I'm free." He looked at Shad, Hellene, Gryff and Glen. "I'm free! Oh, THANK YOU."
Rory grabbed Gryff and gave him a hug. "Thank you, thank you, thank you, you have NO idea how BORING it was in there, thank you."
The tent vibrated with the sounds of the raucus distraction going on outside, and Rory looked at his cousin quizzically.
"Um...what the heck is going on?"
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Posted: Thu Oct 24, 2013 12:12 am
Ronan coughed and sputtered and tried to get up, but he was somewhat pinned under Nero and Kai. "Get.. OFF me." He insisted, spitting dirt and grass.
They all staggered to their feet, brushing dirt, glitter and grass stains from their clothes, Ronan stretched, certain he was going to have a sore back for the next month now.
"You two really have to work on your act."
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Posted: Thu Oct 24, 2013 7:55 am
Glen looked at Gryff and said "Are you insane? You might have broken him just like you broke the crystal ball! Thank you though.
Glen looked anxiously at Rory before giving him a hug.
"Thank Oz you're alright! Your mom is going to be so relieved!"
He let Rory go and only then did he address his question.
"Bartleby Farnum and Hagetha Mistie. We don't know why but they're kidnapping all of our beasties to work in this circus! Drakie, Chase, Kai...er, his gremlin..." He jetted a thumb toward Gryff. "They tried to get Gryff here, too, but he got away! Some of our friends are outside, distracting everyone, while we search!"
"Search for what?" Rory asked.
"How to un-mind noogie our beasties." Glen answered. "How to save our friends!"
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Posted: Thu Oct 24, 2013 9:00 am
Gryff froze as Rory wrapped his arms around his torso. He tried leaning back slowly but the hug was still there! His eyes darted around.
"Uh, you're welcome, there there," he said, patting Rory's shoulder and picking a piece of crystal out of his hair.
Just as Gryff was a about to disentangle himself, Glen hugged Rory from behind, pushing the three of them closer.
"Ok stop now."
As soon as Glen let go, Gryff took a wide step back before anyone else could decide to get in on this.
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Posted: Thu Oct 24, 2013 9:47 am
"The counter-spell!" Rory exclaimed as Gryff retreated to the furthest corner of the tiny tent. "I can help you with that!"
He started fishing around in his pockets while he explained, excited at being useful. "Hagetha and Farnum have a book in the office tent, but you can't go in there. It's too dangerous! That's where they caught me. The book is the auto-dieography of Mezmer the Magician."
Rory looked at Glen, who instantly understood, and then at the other kids, who were confused. Rory turned to them and explained.
"Mezmer was a wizard who specialized in mind powers. He was the THE master of controlling aspects of the mind, so much so that they named the whole field after him. Mezmer-ize, get it?"
The other kids caught on and Rory pulled a torn scrap of paper out of his pocket.
"Mezmer may be gone now, but I think some of his spirit was still in the book, because it showed me THIS. I think it's the counter-spell! Glen, if you can cast this..."
Glen's eyes lit up as he understood. This was the key to their victory! He took the scrap of paper from Rory. "I wish I had your spell-casting talent, Glen. My magic is so lame."
Rory bent down and touched the shards of the shattered crystal ball. All of the shards glowed a brilliant red, and started moving towards each other. Soon, Rory was holding a reconstructed crystal ball in his hands. As the color faded, all of the individual cracks remained in the now-reconstructed globe.
"See? The cracks won't go away."
Suddenly, there was the sound of heavy footfalls outside of the tent. The kids froze. A creaky voice rang out from outside.
"WHAT IN HAG'S NAME IS GOING ON OUT HERE?!!!"
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Posted: Thu Oct 24, 2013 4:02 pm
The flaps to the fortune teller's tent are thrown wide open and Hagetha steps halfway jnside, looking around to every corner, but sees nothing. She steps back and the flaps fall back in place.
The silly villains never look 'up' and its a good thing, too, because Glen, Gryff, Hellene, Rory and Shad were all pressed up against the 'roof' of the tent. Glen had his iCoffin/wand out, using his magic to levitate all of the kids up and out of sight just a split second before Hagetha had stepped inside.
Glen was about to lower them down but Gryff held out a claw, giving him pause. Good thing too because the sneaky swamp witch swiftly stuck her head in through the tent flaps, looking around a second time -- just in case! She finally ducked out and they heard her lumbering foot steps as she went to investigate the disturbance that Team Distraction was enacting.
Glen finally, slowly and gently, lowered everyone down to the ground and tucked his iCoffin back into his pocket.
"Whew! That was close!" Rory whispered with a sigh of relief.
"You think she'll come back?" Shad asked with a quiver in his voice.
"Not a chance." Gryff shook his head. "The others are doing exactly what they were assigned to do. Now its our turn."
"Whaddya mean?" Glen asked, holding up the piece of paper Rory had given him. "We got the counter sp... Rory?"
"Huh? What?"
"I can't read this." Glen said, holding the paper up for him to see. "You wrote this in mirror script. I can't read it. It's all... backwards."
Glen leaned in and blinked. The reflection of the spell on Rory's skin reflected the spell back at him, and he could read it now!
"Cool! I'm going to have to take you with me to cast this." Glen said. "We don't have time to cast it on each be-spelled kid individually, so we need to be able to broadcast it some way so everyone can hear it at once."
"Say, Gryff?" Shad spoke up and everyone turned to spot the Sack boo with his head emerged in a shadow. He drw out and looked at Gryff.
"That gremlin bluddy of yours... he about so high and dressed like a clown?"
"Yeah. Why?"
Shad stuck his head back into the shadow and hurriedly pulled it back out again. he shuddered and whispered.
"Think I found him."
Gryff frowned (gee what a surprise) and he walked over to where Shad was standing halfway through the shadow. The other kids, curious, walked over and they too leaned into the shadow..
And found themselves peeking through and inside of another tent. Slightly larger than the fortune teller's tent. Dusty boxes, old food in crates... it had to be the storage tent.
And right there in the center, hanging from the rafter, was a small cage, and Lin trapped inside of it. The poor gremlin was trembling with fear and had tears running down his cheeks -- and little wonder as to why.
He was dangling over three Dire Wolves that were chained to the center tent pole. The wolves were snarling and barking up at the cage, and jumping up and snapping at the cage's bottom, eliciting cries from the gremlin inside.
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Posted: Fri Oct 25, 2013 8:20 am
Meanwhile, outside at the front of Cirque Sinistaire....
"CONGA LINE!!!!" Atomica Servo had hopped off of JD Leeds' car, grabbed him around the waist and forced him into the forefront of the world's sparkliest conga line. Draconia found herself swept in, somewhere in between Bartleby Farnum and Ascreama Poweurgh.
"Oh! Oh dear!" Draconia shivered as slimey hands grabbed her around the waist and led her in the conga dance. "Is this...is this part of the grand opening ceremony?"
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Posted: Fri Oct 25, 2013 9:39 am
"Bartleby, you fool!" Hagetha screeched as she lumbered onto the chaotic scene! "What are you just standing around for, gawking like a blasted were-owl!?"
Hagetha whipped her arm around in a wide circle and enveloped a dead tree with her arcane magic! The tree came 'alive' and reached out with its dead branches toward the kids in Team Distraction!
"Stop them you miserable brats!" Hagetha screamed. "They're going to ruin everything!"
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Posted: Fri Oct 25, 2013 9:58 am
"BOGUS!" Atomica yelled as giant dead tree branches smacked the ground in front of her, breaking up the conga line and sending kids scattering everywhere. "Every ghoul for herself!"
Atomica jumped over another lunching branch and dodged a third, but one of the roots of the tree jutted up and wrapped around her ankle. She tripped and smashed into the ground. A branch grabbed her and wrapped her from ankle to chin, waving her upside down in mid-air.
"P-p-p-ut me d-d-d-down!" She demanded as the branch squeezed her vocal synthesizer.
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Posted: Fri Oct 25, 2013 10:04 am
"Gah!" Farnum wrenched himself free from the monsterous conga line just as the now-animated dead tree began picking off students. It was chaos....sparkly chaos. It was difficult to tell which monster kids were ensorcled and which ones were just annoying nuisances.
"There's one easy solution to this..." Farnum pulled a cloth off of a large, elaborate-looking cage. "We'll toss ALL of the brats in here, and then mass hex them!"
Farnum glared at the students who were fast becoming entangled in ancient, rotting bark.
"Your little gremlin friend made this cage the very last, and I dare say it's his greatest accomplishment yet! It's completely escape-proof!" Farnum's beady eyes darted from one monster to the next, one eyebrow raised as he began to realize...
"Hagetha! The robot girl is here...but the hippogryff boy isn't."
"We'll see about that!" The old, fat witch cackled as she held out a hand and her broomstick shot into it! Mounting the broom, it strugglingly raised Hagetha into the air, and she began to scope out every inch of Cirque Sinistaire. "You command the tree to dump those brats into the cage once it's caught them all! I'll tend to any stragglers!"
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Posted: Fri Oct 25, 2013 11:53 am
Suddenly trees were attacking everyone, without drawing distinction. The dancers scattered, and he himself backed away.
"Mr Farnum sir.. " He tried, but a branch caught him in one shoulder, sending him once again to the dusty ground. He barely had time to register what had happened when another branch wound around his waist and yanked him unceremoniously upright. "Sir.. Miss Mistie.. " he called as branches wound around him. How could you expect a tree to figure out who was a sparkly distraction and who was a sparkly circus performer? He struggled in vain against his restraints, his mind reeling with confusion.
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Posted: Fri Oct 25, 2013 12:24 pm
"Gnarly, limbo party!" Kai gave the 'hang ten' sign as he leaned back and avoided the swipes of angry tree branches. This was the coolest Grand Opening ever!
A tree tedril grabbed him by the tail and whipped him up into the air.
"Ow! Hey, no fair! Nero, can you help a bro out? These trees don't seem to quite get the concept of limbo, you know, how it requires you to keep your feet on the ground."
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