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 Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2011 9:55 am
::It would have been surprising to anyone who noticed how quickly Wally made it to the Church of Human Purity's rally. It was an impressive setup...tents raised for the rally members to prepare their protest, eat and reatreat into for meetings about strategy.
All of this was pretty much lost on Wally, who simply wandered around a bit and waited to be noticed.::
"Christopher? Is that you?"
::Grace Powell spotted Wally in the middle of running information from one group of protesters to another. She tucked her fliers under her arm and came up to the boy.::
"I'm glad you could make it. Is your mother here?"
"I think that she went to find the leader of the protest, ma'am. I'm sort of fending for myself here."
"Tsk, I'm sorry about that. We've got a bit of organized chaos going on here. The official protest is going to start soon, and then over the weekend we're going to be available at these tents to give out literature and talk to the press. Let me lead you to the youth group ten-"
::Grace raised her arm and all of her fliers fell to the ground.::
"Oh, damn it. One second-"
"It's all right, ma'am. If you can just point me in the right direction, I can find my own way."
"You're such a brave boy. Your mother must be so proud of you, in the face of all the adversity those monsters have subjected you to."
::A half-smile crept across Wally's face.::
"Everyone will get what's coming to them. Mrs. Powell. Soon."
"Good boy. The tent is in this direction-"
::She pointed Wally Northeast and then crouched down to pick up her papers.::
"And some of your friends are already there! I met Zan and Jayna just a little while ago."
::Wally raised an eyebrow but didn't otherwise respond to that.::
"Thank you, ma'am."
::Tracing around him with his cane, Wally walked out of view of Grace Powell. Instead of heading for the Youth Group tent, though, Wally took a sharp turn, coming up on a looming black tent that was set some distance away from the movement and chaos of the Church protest.::
"Oh. Hello, yes, I think this is exactly what I was looking for."
::Wally put his hands behind his back and simply waited at the entrance of the tent. He did not have to wait long. The door parted, and a tall, glowering man looked down at the boy with his lips pressed into a taut line.::
"Who are you, and why can I sense such power from you?"
::Wally smiled brightly at the disguised God of War.::
"Hello, Ares. I am the Path of Trigon. Shall we go for a walk?"
::Ares did not reply, but he did exit his tent, and the two walked toward a nearby wooded area. Ares' tent was empty now....::
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Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2011 10:51 am
As both Purifiers and Church of Humanity Followers began to converge and form within this camp, preparing for both protest and far more sinister operations, they were quite oblivious to the forest life around them...especially to a slow increase of what appeared to be black birds, either crows or ravens, they were just so hard to pinpoint their species because they looked both there and yet, not. They didn't caw or crow, they just stared down from trees and various perches provided by the camp itself...beady red eyes while being as silent as shadows...
Many seemed to just watch closely if uninterested at various members of the camp...but few seemed to keep close attention to certain figures, as one broke off from the flock and flutter high above, following the likes of Mr.Ease and his new guest, while another seemed to flutter down onto the now emptied tent...and eyed the newly arrived brother and sister team, tilting its head quizzically at them...as if curious what these two were amongst the like of these..."worshipers"....
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Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2011 10:51 am
"What do you mean they're gone?"
Billy sat in the center of the gathered Hero High student magic users, members of the Magic Club which is headed by the senior, and the school's premiere magic user in the student body, Jennifer Kale. Gathered around the classroom is a veritable who's who in student magicians; Topaz, Michael Twoyoungmen, Zatanna, Modred, Nico Minoru, Klarion, John Constantine and others.
"It's what I said." Kale stated to her gathered peers. "Miss Harkness and Mister Hellstorm have vanished. Poof!"
"Sell gone wrong?"
"No Billy, I wasn't being literal." Jennifer said. "I mean they haven't been seen for a day at most. Miss Harkness has been gone for a day actually. Mister Hellstorm a few hours after. The school has Doctor Strange substituting for their classes, but noone on the staff knows where Harkness or Hellstorm are."
"And there are no ideas from the staff?" Michael said gravely. "They have no leads?"
Jennifer held her hands out, "Honestly Michael, I know less than they do. You know how the teachers are around here. They don't tell us anything, so if we want to find anything out..."
"We find out ourselves?" Topaz asked.
"Exactly." Jennifer smiled. "So here's what we do. We go back to our dorms and gather our best spells and material. Then we meet back here tonight and we do what we can to at least find them."
There were gathered shouts of enthusiasm and the student magic users headed out determined to do what they could to help their two favorite teachers.
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Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2011 12:04 pm
::Wally and Ares walked through the woods, as the glittering pairs of eyes of the shadows watched them.::
"The Path of Trigon does not belong in this dimension, child. This world belongs to me and my ilk."
::Wally smild.::
"The Path has wandered through this world as it has countless others before. Your time is at an end, Ares. You had a good run. Take pride in that and move on to the next plane."
::Ares scowled.::
"How DARE you presume to tell me what to do, you whelp! I have plans that will-"
"Your time of planning is over, Ares, it has been for some centuries now. You and your brotherhood of old, tired Gods are barely remembered today, and you draw so much of your power from worship. Really, you should have diversified your power long ago, but you got lazy."
::Ares turned and grabbed the boy by the throat.::
"You are only the Path of Trigon, an insolent spark that lights the way. To speak to me as you have is reason alone to twist your neck and-"
::Something erupts from deep within Wally....a chuckle that turns into fully, head-tilting laughter. Ares scowls, gritting his teeth, and releases his hold on the boy's neck.::
"You almost forgot yourself there, Ares. I can see in your eyes the realization has hit you, what the Path of Trigon needs to fully open, to allow the full power of Trigon into this realm..."
::Ares sneers.::
"And you chide me for being old-fashioned. An innocent death, really? How unoriginal. How lacking in panache and flair."
::Wally shrugged, and opened his eyes. Though the sun was setting, a red light enveloped the two figures.::
"There are rules for everything, even following the Path. So please, go on. Be the one to spill innocent blood. Open wide the path and greet your new master."
::Ares turned away from the light, his eyes downcast.::
"I will oppose you with all of my power. And I will expose you-"
"To whom? To the school? Do you think that they'll believe you, God of Conflict? Oh, I am amused. I'll tell you what. Why not speak to your sister, to her friends, to her teachers, and let us see how far you get. Go on, Old God. Continue your play with the Church of Idiots and Children of Fools. Amuse the world with your antics before it comes to an end."
::The light intensified, rendering Ares little but a shadow in the brightness of the red glow. It dazzled the trees, destroyed the shadows with the little, glittering eyes, and when it suddenly vanished, the God of War and Conflict found himself alone in the woods. He sneered and began making his way back to his tent.::
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Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2011 12:29 pm
*The camp was abuzz with activity. The buses of people were unloading so they could march down to Midvale square and begin the protest against the school. Anti-muntant and meta signs were handed out by the Youth Group and the Church members started lining up.
The Purifiers were dressed in civilian clothes but they all carried weapons of some kind on their person. Soon, the Reverend stoop before the throng with a bullhorn.*
My friends in PURITY....the time has come to show the demon children and their devil guardians the strength of our convictions. We shall show the whole nation that they CAN and SHOULD stand up to the mutant/meta menace that plague our country. WE SHALL BRING DOWN THE DEVILSPAWN! WE SHALL BRING DOWN THE MUTIE/META LOVERS LIKE BRUCE WAYNE! GOD HAS DEMANDED IT!
*The crowd roared it's approval and the Reverend marched the protesters down to Midvale. The Reverend toyed with evil talisman at his neck. At the height of the protest, he would smash this totem of evil. He would purify the evil child it was taken from and it would be GLORIOUS.*
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Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2011 1:25 pm
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x _______________________________________________ Theodore awoke with a start, noises bubbling up from the hallway and spilling underneath his door, disturbing him from a deep, math-induced slumber. Rubbing his hand across his face, he smeared pencil lead across his cheek and up the side of his nose. His math homework had literally put him to sleep, and the equation imprinted on his cheek from where he had rested his head on it proved the fact.
He had started by drawing a parabola, and that had caused him to go on a mental tangent in which he had thought about how the curve of the parabola looked like the curve of a particular boy's ear. And then he had thought about how he would much rather be nibbling on that ear then drawing this stupid parabola in the first place. It was such a cute little ear. And before he'd known it, he'd rested his head down for just a second- only a little bit to think about a particular so and so, a mental break. For his sanity!
And boom, asleep. Too bad there was such a commotion. He'd just have to go and check on it and see what it was. Sorry math! Teddy grinned as he shut the math textbook, immediately heading to the door of the room, stretching along the way. Itching his chest, he stood in the doorway, his other hand holding it open as he looked at everyone else who seemed so - busy. Crap. He must have missed something. "Uh...what's going on?"
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Teddy Altman....no longer hibernating.
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Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2011 2:09 pm
Meanwhile...in Hero High's med center...
*Reed Richards and Bruce Banner stood over Chris's armor. They had worked all night to stabilize him and stem the loss of the armor's "blood."*
Good job, Reed. I don't think I could have done this by myself.
Thanks, Bruce. I'm not sure I could have done it alone either. The boy's armor is fascinating...it's like nothing I've ever seen. But we're going need his amulet. It doesn't just let switch forms, it also seem to power the armor somewhat.
I'll go see if I can find any of his friends to get an update on the search for the amulet. Maybe they can tell us who ripped it from his chest.
*Banner left Reed behind, who continued to scan Chris's armor.*
It shows signs of self-repair but it isn't able to begin the process in full....
*Chris slowly came to.*
Wha...Dr. Richards? Where am I?
In the med center, Chris. You were badly injured. What happened?
No....I have to go! Cassie is in danger!
*Chris rolled off the bed and started towards the door. Richards wrapped himself around Chris who began to thrash wildly.*
LET ME GO! I have to help Cassie! It's a trap!
Calm down, son! What's a trap? And where is Cassandra?
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Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2011 3:21 pm
Cassie and d**k woke up in their tent and saw weapons left for them. Each of them grabbed some and went out to the protest. As the group marched though midvale they attacked by the Hero High cheerleading squad. Chaos insued. In the chaos Cassie came up behind the Reverend and grabbed the talisman.
"What?!"
The Reverend didn't see who grabbed the talisman just blonde hair. He took out a gun an tried to shoot the individual who stole it from him but d**k grabbed Cassie and pulled her behind a car.
" Now what.."
"We gotta get outta here."
Gun shots were going off but the cheerleader squad didn't injure the protestors as much as they merely disarmed them. d**k and Cassie ran down a few alleys.. till they reached d**k's car and got in. As soon as it seemed like Cassie and d**k were safe the cheerleaders left the protestors alone.. but unarmed. The Reverend was cursing at them.
"DAMN METAS! UNHOLY BEASTS! YOUR DEMONIC KIND SHALL BE PUT TO AN END!"
Cassie and d**k drove around for while to make sure that they weren't followed. The entire time Cassie was quite. After they got to Hero High the car stopped and d**k looked at Cassie.
"Cassie... are you all right?"
" To make sure that Ares wouldn't find me.. I had to give up my powers. If I hadn't he would've detected Zeus's power all over me."
"But... it's only temporary right."
" I don't know... with all that's been going on upon Olympus Zeus is withdrawing his power from this world. My powers aren't genetic but merely granted though him. The embrace my mother and I shared wasn't a normal hug. But an agreement betiween my father and mother should there ever come a time when I shouldn't use my powers then she can take them away from me. But... she's never done it before. It's like I lost all my ties to my father.."
Cassie frowned and handed the amulet to d**k.
" Make sure Chris get's this.."
" Aren't you coming?"
"I don't want to see him right now.."
With that Cassie walked away and d**k walked off to find Chris.
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Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2011 4:00 pm
*Reed had managed to lash Chris to the bed with his body.*
Chris! Calm down! I'm sure Cassie is fine. You have to take care of yourself.
No! Let me go!
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Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2011 4:06 pm
d**k walked into the room where Chris was and he looked at Dr. Richards and nodded.
" I don't know what if anything will come after all that's happened. But I do know that we managed to get this."
d**k handed the amulet back to Chris.
Meanwhile... Cassie was in the room she shared with Dani. The lights were out and it was pitch black. The girl was curled up into a ball and crying.
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Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2011 4:14 pm
There was a knock on Cassandra's door.
"Sister? Are you...how do they say...decent?"
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Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2011 4:15 pm
I don't care about that! Is Cassie okay? Where is she? Did Ares hurt her?
*Screw the amulet. All that mattered was that Cassie was okay. He had screwed up so badly and he didn't want her to pay for his stupidity.*
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Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2011 4:19 pm
d**k spoke slowly..
" She's unharmed... but.... she lost all her powers trying to help you. Now please get out of that armor."
Cassie heard Achilles at the door but she didn't want to talk to anyone right now. She threw her pillow at the door.
" Go away!"
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Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2011 4:25 pm
Achilles:From outside the door, Achilles tried the knob but found it locked, and rather than do the obvious thing, which for him would be simply to push the door open until it broke off of the frame, he tried a different tactic. "Sister I know what has happened! Mother just spoke to me. Now please, you should be with family." ************** Wiccan:Theo Altman Theodore awoke with a start, noises bubbling up from the hallway and spilling underneath his door, disturbing him from a deep, math-induced slumber. Rubbing his hand across his face, he smeared pencil lead across his cheek and up the side of his nose. His math homework had literally put him to sleep, and the equation imprinted on his cheek from where he had rested his head on it proved the fact.
He had started by drawing a parabola, and that had caused him to go on a mental tangent in which he had thought about how the curve of the parabola looked like the curve of a particular boy's ear. And then he had thought about how he would much rather be nibbling on that ear then drawing this stupid parabola in the first place. It was such a cute little ear. And before he'd known it, he'd rested his head down for just a second- only a little bit to think about a particular so and so, a mental break. For his sanity!
And boom, asleep. Too bad there was such a commotion. He'd just have to go and check on it and see what it was. Sorry math! Teddy grinned as he shut the math textbook, immediately heading to the door of the room, stretching along the way. Itching his chest, he stood in the doorway, his other hand holding it open as he looked at everyone else who seemed so - busy. Crap. He must have missed something. "Uh...what's going on?" Bily kaplan was hurrying past the open dorm room, carrying a large stack of his personal magical "how to" books, towering over his head and got one look at the cute blonde in the doorway. "Huh?" Such scintilating wit the boy has, especially walking into the open door while not looking... *WHOMP!* And proceeding to crash back to the floo, scattering his books! "Well fu-fudge!" He rubs his forehead where he met door.
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Posted: Sat Feb 05, 2011 4:25 pm
Lost her...nononononono...
*Chris concentrated on the amulet. There was a huge burst of pain in his chest, as if someone sat an elephant on it. There was a flash of light and he was a human again but he looked a mess. His hair was every which way and there dark bags under his eyes. He looked as if he hadn't slept in a week and he felt as if he hadn't slept in two.*
I have to go find her.
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