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Charms
Players: Ice & TB
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Rhye was leaning back in her seat, reading a magazine. With out customers around, there really wasn't too much to do about the shop while you waited. It was making the teenager think more about getting a gameboy or something.

But then again, she liked her books. She just needed a new series to read. "What are you planning on dressing up for, for Halloween?" she asked her twin, flipping the page in her costume magazine.

"I honestly have no idea," Kash admitted from where she was piecing together a necklace on the counter. She had gotten the sudden urge to make clay flowers the night before and was now making them into jewelry with Bastion watching closely. He didn't usually take notice of her jewelry making, so it kind of weirded her out, but she ignored it.

"Hmm..." Rhye replied, letting her sister work. "Witches, do you think? Sexy witches, of course. Vampires?" she was asking, going throughout a few ideas.

"Witches is more understandable," she said. "If anyone should look like a pansywaist vampire, it should be Antony."

The bell rang over the door and she glanced up, groaning as the man in question walked in. "So it's true, speak of the devil and all that stuff."

"Speak of the devil and who should appear?" Rhye said, setting down her mag to give the youth a small glare. "I hope you find what you're looking for quickly," she said.

"I'm looking at who I'm looking for," Antony said, evilly enjoying the fact that they hated him so blatantly. To be honest, it had bothered him at first, but he was so used to it now that it made him happy. At least two beautiful women forgot about everything other than him whenever he was near.

"But I'm afraid it's not to make you angry this time. I need your help. Actually, a few friends of mine need your help."

"Wait... you've come here to ask for -our- help? And why should we?" Rhye asked him, hands going to her hips. Her tail gave a little flick of annoyance.

"Because, I'm afraid, there's a rift between the natural and the supernatural world. Carmel, you've met her, right? Chris's little sister. She was kidnapped by a teenage ghost. Rayne, Rory's little sister, was kidnapped by a kitsune. There's going to be more spiritual creatures invading as time gets closer to Halloween--"

"Are they--" Kash started out.

"No, they were rescued."

"Oh good," Rhye said, relaxing her shoulders now. "So, why have you come here? So you want charms or something for them?" They probably had something like that some where, actually. They had luck charms, after all, so why not protection charms?

"I actually told them to come here for that," he said. "Yes, I want charms for them. I also want to warn you two about the problem. You're both extremely powerful mages, after all. They might take an interest in you."

Kash looked down at the flowers she had made before, chewing on her bottom lip. "How many kids did you say needed these?"

"I hadn't, actually. Three that I know of, but I might want two more. Touda and his sister could be in danger as well."

Rhye looked over at her twin, who was better at the whole creating thing than she. Then she looked at the little flower things she had been doing. "Right," she said. That probably was the reason she was making them.

"So you've already made them?" Antony asked, eyeing the flowers curiously. "They're glowing well--"

"These aren't--I mean--we need to ask Winstead, he should have something, I'm just--"

"Got up in the middle of the night with the urge to do this," Rhye completed. "Even Bastion's paying attention. You know he doesn't normally do that. So, i believe you're making them for a reason," she said and started to chew on her lip. So, Kash could make things, then what could she do to them?

Atreyu shifted on her arm, going to her wrist. Antony knew, so there was no reason to hide.

"She's right," Bastion said. "These are dangerous little numbers--"

"What??" Kash asked, dropping what she was working on entirely. "How are these dangerous? They're just flowers!"

"They're repellents," he said, looking at her patiently. "Anyone that touches the wearer with bad intentions is going to have quite the shock."

"That's--"

"Perfectly logical to what you are doing," Rhye said. "Especially with what we can do, according to what Winstead said."

Then the little bell above the door rang, signaling more coming in. Rayne's little face peeked in and looking around. Her body followed once she saw Antony and Rory came behind her. "Wow, this is the place? I swear I didn't see anything," Rory was saying.

Carmel and Coba walked in after them, glowering at each other. It seemed that neither of the siblings liked Carmel. But Coba had a personal reason for it. "She's mine," he muttered.

"No she's not, she's mine!" Carmel said, her expression thunderous.

Rayne huffed a sigh, going back and stepped between the arguing ones. She took then hands and held them, not about to say who's pet she was. They were both friends, even if Coba like scaring her. He also tried to save her. So, that was good.

"They've been arguing like that the whole way here," Rory mutter. Then she looked at the girls and the shop. "Wow, so you really do have your own shop? How awesome!"

"Well, actually it's not ours," Kash said. "We're just the lackeys that get stuck doing all the work, and--" She slapped Antony's hand as he reached for the finished necklace. "You can't have that! I told you, we need to talk to Winstead about it!"

"This would work perfectly," Antony said. "Why don't you just trust yourself for once?"

Rhye put her hand on Kash's shoulder. "It'll be fine, don't worry. Want me to blow of them for a bit of luck before we give them away?" she asked with an almost wicked grin.

"Put them on," Kash said, taking her seriously.

"Toys!" Carmel said, dragging both Coba and Rayne to the display.

"They'll be fine, even if I don't. I just want to feel like I'm doing something in this whole thing," she told her twin, winking at her as she took the charms off.

Rayne skipped a little to get her balance. Then she saw the toys and her face brightened. "Toys!" she echoed, also dragging Coba along.

Coba pouted, not really into toys that much, then stared at a plush gargoyle sitting on the ground next to the others. He crouched down in front of it, mimicking its pose and flicking his tail back and forth.

Carmel glanced over and started to laugh, unable to help herself.

"Okay, now Antony, you touch her while she's wearing them," Kash instructed.

"You want to curse me?" Antony asked.

"I wish," Rhye muttered under her breath, having them on now and making sure that was all of them. "More than likely it's to 'program' them for spiritual energies, or something like that," she shrugged. "Just don't touch to long, or you'll get bit."

Rayne giggled at Coba, seeing his pose. There was little fox plushy that she had spotted and was cuddling. It had tails like she did.

Carmel, on the other hand, didn't see anything that really struck her fancy. She pouted for a moment before she started to dig through the display.

"No, I want to see how sensitive it is," Kash said honestly. "If Bastion's right, then if he has any ill intentions towards you he'll get hit hard--" She stopped, a bit shocked as Antony dropped a hand on Rhye's shoulder.

Nothing happened.

Rhye rolled her eyes. She sucked at this, apparently. Well, just leave her to the books and she'd be happy. "Okay, that's enough touching," she told Antony, giving him a little glare.

Rayne started to help Carmel look for something that might interest her. Maybe there was a chocolate kiss like one in here, or something chocolaty.

"Actually," Bastion said, "that might give the kids a bit of good luck for wearing it. Who knows." Which was more of a "who cares" in his opinion.

"Hey, kids, why don't you come over here for a moment?" Antony called to the three pilfering through the toys. "We have presents for you."

"Present?" Carmel asked. "I want a present!"

"Present?" Rayne asked, looking up at the others. She was setting down the little fox toy, as well and reached down for Coba's hand again.

Coba went willingly this time, hoping it was a book of some sort. He had the nerve to look disappointed when Antony handed him the necklace.

"These are very important necklaces," he told them as he handed each of the girls one as well. "You need to wear them all the time, okay?"

"Mine's pink!" Carmel bragged happily as she slipped it over her head.

"Mine's blue," Rayne informed her. She liked blue, after all. Then she looked up at Antony and the girls. "This will protect us from the bad ones, right?"

"That's right," Rhye told her, then bragged: "My sister made them. She's good at that sort of thing."

"Is black," Coba said.

"It's dark purple," Kash said, peeking over the counter. Then she stopped. "Rhye! Rhye! It's a gargoyle!!" She hopped over the counter, pulling poor Coba into her arms. "So cute!!"

"You didn't notice?" Rhye asked, grinning at her. Then again, Kash was busy with the necklaces.

Rayne giggled again at the treatment Coba was suffering.

Coba suffered through it, his necklace in his hand over her shoulder as she cuddled him shamelessly. "You are a million times cuter than that jerk of a gargoyle we grew up with," she told him, although it was actually a toss up. She just didn't like Casca at the moment.

"Yours is almost as pretty as mine," Carmel complimented Rayne.

"How much do I owe you?" Antony asked Rhye, since her sister was busy.

Rhye chewed on her lip. "Well, they're to protect our friend's little sister, plus one cute little gargoyle boy, so, I would say.. Free? Unless Kash has another idea for it," she said, feeling genurous at the moment. "If it was just you, however, then that's a different matter."

Rory tried not to laugh at that. "Antony, you're just making friends all over, aren't you?"

"Thank you," Rayne said, taking the compliment where she could.

"I, of course, cannot afford the price she would probably make me pay for one myself," Antony said dryly. "But that doesn't change the fact that I need more than just these three. I can think of two others off the top of my head, and there just happens to be two more--"

"Take them," Kash said, letting Coba down and putting his necklace on for him. "But you'd better only give them to people that will really need them, understand?"

"Yes, I understand. I was planning on it."

"Good, because if we found you did give them to someone who doesn't need them, we will charge you," Rhye warned him.

"Thank you, too," Rayne said too Kash, giving her a little smile.

He pocketed the spare necklaces, then glanced over at the stuffed toys the kids had been playing with. "Sorry about the mess," he said evilly, since they constantly made messes for him to clean up when he worked, then said his farewells and left.

"I still really don't like that guy," Kashmira muttered.

"Same," Rhye muttered, glaring at him as he left.

Rory shook her head. "He's not all that bad. But anyway, who here wants some hot doughnuts? There's a shop around here--"

"Yeah!" everyone cheered, including Kashmira.

"Break time!" Kash said. "Let's get donuts!"

"Same!" Rhye replied.

"You girls are paying for your own," Rory told them with a smirk.

So no more arguments broke out, Rayne took both Carmel and Coba by the hands again to walk with them. It was a good thing Jordan wasn't with them.

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