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 Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 1:23 pm
Julius laughed. "Ah, I didn't expect you to understand. You like to do things on your own, while we-the Fir Darrigs, the Rat Boys- work as a team. Just because I didn't engage in promiscuity with you doesn't make me a small fry. I work with the research and development end of our orginzatiom."
The youth didn't bat an eye when Morrigan's spells hit him and seemingly were absorbed.
"For instance, that lovely little drug in the air? That was pumped into the air vents by me, as well as the drug itself being of my own creation. I was also the one recording your time with Fir and lovely miss Pixel. You could call me the man behind the curtain, I suppose."
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Fir shook hsi head. "Not yet, we're waiting for the signal..."
In the meantime, the real Julius and the Fangs slipped away, following the signal sent off by Pixel's tracking device.
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Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 1:25 pm
Aled smirked, "And I can call you dead just as easily." he said before his ki exploded and the Ou flew at break neck speeds at Julius.
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'Calm down, Kazu-kun... doko desu ka?' Po-ar asked.
He would come for the boy as soon as he could.
But he had to know his exact location.
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Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 1:28 pm
**Library... Fifth floor.** Kazuhiko replied, sobbing. **Hurry Da, please... Mum's scaring me... she... she doesn't remember me at all! And she likes Grandpapa!**
Morrigan realized immediately it was an illusion, however. With one smooth motion, she thrust her hand out before Aled, stopping him and shaking her head.
She moved to the window, beginning to scout around. Morrigan was the leader of a war-tribe, after all...
War was a game she played fantastically well.
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Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 1:30 pm
'Hai, hai... I expected that if he got his poison into her system. I'll be there as soon as I can, Kazu-kun. Just hang on.'
Po-ar stood, looking to Ainsu and Kaguyo. "I want the two of you to stay here." he said. "Morrigan's working for Aled and Kazuhiko needs rescuing. Just... JUST STAY PUT." he ordered before disappearing.
Ainsu blinked, "Shimatta..."
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And Aled did stop, looking at Morrigan quizzically.
Instead, he fired off a blast of ki in Julius' direction.
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Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 1:34 pm
Morrigan shook her head again. "Illusion." she answered. "No one absorbs magick like that..."
She was watching outside carefully for any sign of movement, before suddenly leaping from the window and rocketing towards Fir, Eara, and the twins.
"I FOUND YOU!"
But Eara's eyes widened. "s**t, s**t, s**t!!!" she backed up. "She's attacking us?!!!"
Kazuhiko continued to sob until Po-ar came, and the boy clung to him like a magnet.
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Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 1:36 pm
Po-ar smiled sadly, "There there, Kazu-kun... Daijobu..." he held the boy, though he did not want to risk another portal so quickly.
Aled would know if he sensed it again.
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Smirking, Aled looked out the window then back to Julius. "Let me guess, Jurius-san... you're actually a rat?"
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Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 1:38 pm
Kazuhiko kept crying. "Mum doesn't remember us!" he bawled, clinging to the man. "I'm her baby! How??? I don't understand!"
His grief was raw and deep. "I want Mum back! I want Mum back, now!!"
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Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 1:41 pm
Julius took a bow, once more turning into the brown rat and scampering off.
"Now," Fir said, leading the remaning group into the room for a full-frontal attack....sort of.
The room itself turned into a large circus ring, with Aled and Morrigan in the center. The stands were filled with multiple copies of every Fir Darrig member, each in a different outfit and chearing. Some had popcorn, some had cotton candy, balloons, etc.
In the center ring, facing Aled and Morrigan was Fir himself, standing onto of a bakc and dressed in full out ringleader garb.
Thom was dressed as a mime, complete with face makeup and Maeve was besides him only much higher up, standing on a trapeeze wire besides Eara, both in some form of carnival girl tutu (again, complete with rat motifs).
Piper was dressed as a stage magician, a top hat lying upside down on a table besides the korred girl that kept producing rat after rat.
Of course, Fir hadn't only done up his own members. Aled and Morrigan were now illusioned as clowns, with crazy wigs, red noses, face paint, bright outfits and large shoes.
"Welcome to the Fir Darrig Festival!" Fir announced. "Oh and wasn't that LOVELY alliteration? Anyway, today, ladies in gents, we have a special treat for you. In one corner we have the fearsome evil--sonnofa, well you get the idea in the Universe and his new toy, Morrigan!
"In this corner, we have the lovely Pied Piper, the Wonder Twins Reid, Little Rose bard and of course, the one and only me, Fir Darrig himself. Ladies in gents, this is going to be one fantastic show!"
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Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 1:44 pm
"Show my a**..." Aled replied, "Stop playing with your illusions, Fir-kun, and fight me like a man... or perhaps you're too scared. You aren't the greatest warrior now, are you?" the Tarnb-jin Ou mocked. "Having to resort to such underhanded tricks to win your battles... for shame."
His ki was beginning to build, rapidly and far stronger than before.
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Po-ar nodded, "Wakaru, Kazu-kun... demo... the poison Aled gave her is making her forget. We have to save her... but not now."
He could sense Aled's ki building and knew, without a doubt, that a fight was brewing.
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Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 1:48 pm
"Neat costumes," Maeve said happily. Thom, however, was looking slightly annoyed.
The boy just shook his head and started to play a song.
Fir smiled. "Ah! Looks like Happy Cown Aled isn't so happy! Maybe some laughing gas will cheer him right up."
As if on cue, gas filled the room, the ki-dampening smoke bombs Fir had mentioned. Actually, the had been dropped the second Fir had entered the room, but he had illiusioned the area so it couldn't be seen. As such, Aled had probably taken several deep breaths of it by now."
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Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 1:49 pm
Enraged, Aled let a ki blast fly at Fir...
A ki blast that literally evaporated into nothing before it got halfway there.
"Kisama..." the Ou whispered.
He couldn't fly, couldn't rush...
Would his punches even have an effect without the ki behind them?
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Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 1:57 pm
Fir laughed and took another bow. "Oh, poor Happy Clown Aled. I think he needs a name change!"
The audiance laughed and cheered.
Fir smirked. "Hey, folks! I have a GREAT idea! Let's see a magicain and clown to battle!"
Piper, complete in magican's garb (minus the goggles over her eyes) stepped forward and began to play on her flute. Rats swarmed out of the hat and came at Aled, biting and scrathing and clawing.
The trouble with illusions sometimes were that they could still hurt you if they were realistic enough. They could still make the vicitim feel pain, or leave physical wounds.
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Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 1:59 pm
Aled shook his head, "Your illusions are not real, Fir-kun." he replied with a laugh. "How cam something that does not exist harm me? You shouldn't have made it so blatantly obvious."
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Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 2:05 pm
Fir just contiued to smile. Some of the rats in the swarm were real. Piper's bike was fully equipped with two transport cages on either side for her specially-bred fighter rats.
Maeve and Thom glanced at eahc other, the girl leaping down from the trapeeze wire. Her eyes rolled back in her head and she stumbled backwards, as she girl began to channel Artemis.
A bow appeared in hands and she nocked an arrow, aiming it straight at Aled's heart and letting it fly.
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Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 6:41 pm
However, there was one problem....
Morrigan.
Aled had done wisely to drug the priestess; even now, the clown appearance was beginning to melt off of her like wax. The bright makeup and attire was replaced with creeping blue tattoos...
"s**t...!" Eara shouted, "Fir, she's channeling the Goddess!"
Morrigan began to smile, morbid and dark. While Aled didn't have his ki for destruction, Mor had more than her fair share of magick.
It was evident who she was when she reached out and caught the arrow millimeters from hitting Aled, and with a slight exertion of will, began to destroy the entire room.
The winds were horrendous---in fact, Eara was flung out the window like a ragdoll, and plenty of the rats became bloody pulps against the walls.
Likewise, the cheering crowd began to distort.
Morrigan was the matron of magick, after all---all magicks, in fact.
With a loud scream, the winds only increased, the floor trembling beneath their feet as she rose above Aled.
She'd protect him. She wasn't sure why, but the need to protect him was overwhelming right now.
"BEGONE!" she cried, the room trembling violently as if hit by a tsunami or earthquake.
But as this destruction was being wrought around her, Morrigan began to sing.
Kazuhiko frowned, noticing this also. "We should help them." he whispered. "We need to save Mum now or she'll never come back..!"
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