The Sereni-Tree, the Immortals, the Octagonal Order, and the Harbringer of Darkness, Part 2
POSTED BY: TheRealMe
UPDATED: Thursday, December 21, 2006 13:42
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*JadeHand climbs out of his bed in the Inn on Zanzibar, still in Mel's body, He's gone quiet mad and managed to forget where he is and why he was here. Something about a chicken? One image comes to his mind... a room with a nice view of the black. He gathers his belongings and ponders for a moment. Nothing else comes to mind. He focuses and begins chanting a spell, waving his arms and focusing on the image of the room. He finishes chanting and vanishes.*
On board the Sereni-Tree: JadeHand's Room:
*Mel appears and begins to look around the room. It all looks familiar, but he doesn't remember it. He looks at the bag that he collected, also unfamiliar, but he somehow knew it belonged to him. He opens the bag and finds several odd things. A book draws his attention. He plucks it out and looks at the cover which says: "Read Me."
Opening the book he finds a list of things to do. Secure the door. Get comfortable, this is going to take a while. Turn up the stereo, it'll drown out the screams. Check your torso for a small sticky piece of paper. Remove it. Keep Reading.*
*Mel follows the instructions, even though he doesn't know what a stereo is, he manages to almost instictively press a button. The sounds startle, then somehow soothe him. He's surprised to find a piece of paper with his name on it attached to his shirt under his robes. He plucks it off. Images begin to flood his mind. He starts to cover his ears at the sound of someone screaming. There's an impact across his back. He starts to feel the first hints of embarassment as he realizes the scream was his, and the impact was the bed as he fell, but the feeling is incomplete as he is no longer conscious*
On JadeHand's bed:
*A body begins to morph and return to the recognizable form of JadeHand. Blood still flows in his veins, air still passes his lips. Body still functions....soul trapped elsewhere.*
Somewhere Else:
JadeHand stands and looks around at the familiar surroundings of the Astral Plane....
"awwwww..........F--
"Caress Ophelia's hand with breathstroke ambition
An albatross in the marrytime tradition
Sheathed within the Walkman wear the halo of distortion
Aural contraceptive aborting pregnant conversation
She turned the harpoon and it pierced my heart
She hung herself around my neck."
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"LUC!!!" Wisp Shouts "Calm down!!"
"NO!! My powers scream to be used!! i must fulfill their wishes!!"she replies
"your body is just getting used to the stress, if you throw yourself in at the deepend youll burn out" Wisp says calmly and scienifically with an air of confidence and authority.
Sir Luc's eyes continue to burn for a second before she pushes her hand into Krystas face causing her to fall unconsious. She shifts her gaze to Wisp like a child who'd been forced out of her tantrum. "Happy now?" Her voice was laced with bitterness.
"Much. Now im gonna take a few bloods and i want you to SLOWLY flex your powers. Start small- an exageration of ur previous powers then expand and flow. Imagine your powers are behind a dam, slowly make a crack and watch the water pour but dont make too big one and lose control"
Wisp sat her down on a nearby chair and took her bloods noticing after he'd done how quickly she healed and how mangled the needle was. Under his spectroscope he could see the new protein structure was amazing. There were entirley new aminoacids and ludicrous tertairy shapes, many defining biological law. Metabolism was through the roof but inputs and outputs were negligible.
This was trully a great achievement but he had a nagging fear of ultimate disaster. Making sure Luc's focus was elsewhere bending a girder he exposed the sample to his antimagical radiation. The effect was still fatal, he hoped he wouldnt have to implement it.
As he started running more tests a loud commotion could be heard accompanied by red glowing crystals in the roof. Voices could be heard in the distance:
"Were under attack!! The immortals are coming"
Wisps darted over to his AIE which was standing by but as he climbed inside he saw Luc was nowhere to be seen.
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After wishing Cozen a Happy birthday with the others, Jazaf headed back to his quarters. Something is off. he thought to himself. What did I miss? He checks the THREAD system again, reading the most recent passage carefully.
"Zanzibar!? Dammit, the Knights!" He rushes out of his quarters and down to the hanger bay. He leaps into a vacant ship and heads to the planet below.
"I have to help them out, I hope it's not too late!"
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Mystery Man on the Sereni-Tree 
Navigator on Destiny 
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While in the hanger, just before Jazaf closes the hatch, Deuce jumps into the ship with him.
"Hummph! Did you really think you could sneak off all on your own, Sensei!?"
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Sir Luc stands atop the keeps tower. Though there was no wind, the energy of the world flowed through her causing her hair to move as if blown by a strong breeze.
She came to realize that the energy flowed in patterns, that there were ‘hotspots’ of magical energy, and that this Keep was built on one of them.
Her gaze focused on one of the other hotspots, from where approached a wave a malevolent magic.
Feeling naked and decidedly un-heroic, Sir Luc sought to rectify that. Closing her eyes and reaching out with her mind, she taps another’s ‘talent’. Holding her arms straight out from her sides, and tilting her head back eyes still closed, she waits.
Down in the Keep, Sir Kei approaches Wisp, a question forming on his lips when his great sword is wrenched from his hands by an invisible force and flys out of the room.
Standing in shock and staring accusingly at his own hand, Sir Kei notices his armour start to disassemble and fly out of the room in pieces as his sword did.
His keen analytical mind... *pause for laughter*... finally puts two and two together with a sound almost audible. “Sir Luc! Stop this instant. Tis unseemly for a knight to be defrocked in public!”
Atop the tower a small smile creeps across Sir Luc’s face as the armour assembles around her, fitting perfectly. She holds one arm above her head and catches Sir Kei’s Broadsword deftly and without strain. Her eyes snap open, red fire leaking from her tear ducts and the blade bursts into flame.
“Come to me little ones. I’m hungry...”
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"Got a headful of lightning
And a heart full of rain
And I know that I said
I'd never do it again
Oh and I love you sweet baby but I always take the long way home."
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Originally posted by safeat2nd:
Sir Luc stands atop the keeps tower. Though there was no wind, the energy of the world flowed through her causing her hair to move as if blown by a strong breeze.
She came to realize that the energy flowed in patterns, that there were ‘hotspots’ of magical energy, and that this Keep was built on one of them.
Her gaze focused on one of the other hotspots, from where approached a wave a malevolent magic.
Feeling naked and decidedly un-heroic, Sir Luc sought to rectify that. Closing her eyes and reaching out with her mind, she taps another’s ‘talent’. Holding her arms straight out from her sides, and tilting her head back eyes still closed, she waits.
Down in the Keep, Sir Kei approaches Wisp, a question forming on his lips when his great sword is wrenched from his hands by an invisible force and flys out of the room.
Standing in shock and staring accusingly at his own hand, Sir Kei notices his armour start to disassemble and fly out of the room in pieces as his sword did.
His keen analytical mind... *pause for laughter*... finally puts two and two together with a sound almost audible. “Sir Luc! Stop this instant. Tis unseemly for a knight to be defrocked in public!”
Atop the tower a small creeps across Sir Luc’s face as the armour assembles around her, fitting perfectly. She holds one arm above her head and catches Sir Kei’s Broadsword deftly and without strain. Her eyes snap open, red fire leaking from her tear ducts and the blade bursts into flame.
“Come to me little ones. I’m hungry...”
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"Got a headful of lightning
And a heart full of rain
And I know that I said
I'd never do it again
Oh and I love you sweet baby but I always take the long way home."
SR observes, from a distance, Sir Luc's potential corruption by absolute power and considers the possibilties that she will not have the patience to deal with one with the reputation of a troublemaker. He turns to Baroness Morgana
"If this is a bad time Snarky and I can come back later." He then notices the gathering hordes outside and realizes he is really stuck. Seryn is in the clear, luckily, but he will not abandon Snarky.
"Perhaps we can make ourselves useful loading the trebuchets and other siege weaponry."
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OOC: quick temporal back pedal.
Quote:
Originally posted by seryn:
???????
Are you guys working on a different calendar? I could have sworn she wasn't born till after D*C...
Nevermind, but it does confirm that we're working to two different time frames - you're going in real time, while i'm working in narrative time.
which helps, because although the story is only a few days old, we really have BEEN HERE FOR MONTHS!!!!!
So if you'll excuse me, i'm going to be terribly ungracious one moment, and extricate myself from the plot by the most ungainly manner possible.
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Seryn turned from the guy greeting them and caught SR by the collar.
"Darling, as much fun as this has been, i'm tired, confused, growing increasingly round, not to mention short tempered. I have no idea what is going on, and can pretty much guarantee that even if I did, I would be of no use whatsoever."
*Snogs SR's socks off*
"So when you've managed to get you're self out of mortal peril, and other such larks, I shall be at home, eating strawberry's and gravy* and crying in a ridiculously hormonal way over rubbish romance novels."
*Walks off to a secluded spot, where no one can see the Nandi landing** and in less than an hour is back on the Tree*
*no kidding, this was actually one friends craving.
**and yes, for the purposes of this bit, the Nandi can be remote controlled.
Isn't sanity really a one trick pony, anyway? I mean all you get is one trick, rational thinking! But when you're good and crazy...ooh hoo hoo hoo... the skys the limit!
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SR finds himself so breathless from the powerful, niegh mercilessy, snogging he finds himself unable to form the words, "I love. I'll be be there soon." and then she's gone.
Scorpion Regent
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Originally posted by Bride2:
While in the hanger, just before Jazaf closes the hatch, Deuce jumps into the ship with him.
"Hummph! Did you really think you could sneak off all on your own, Sensei!?"
Bride2
"Sorry, My mind was on other things." Jazaf said, his voice sounding distant.
"Like what?"
"Facing a past I was hoping to avoid..."
The ship lands not far from a Fortress. Jazaf and Deuce climb out and look at the Fortress.
"Is....someone floating above the castle?" Deuce wonders out loud.
"Looks like it. No doubt something's about to go down. C'mon, we have to hurry inside. I need to be brought up to speed by the other knights." Jazaf starts off for the Fortress.
"Other knights?"
"Welcome to my Home Planet."
**edited Nov. 22
As the duo head to the fortress with the newly empowered Knight preparing for a test of her skills a silver eye winks into existence. After a moment it fades, already having gathered any information needed.
In the Castle of the Immortals Arinda sends a message to her fellow Immortals: The Traitor has returned...
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Mystery Man on the Sereni-Tree
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On the Sereni-Tree:
As he wanders around on the Sereni-Tree, McQ the cyborg runs into someone that he has never met before. She is a tall, attractive woman of perhaps 30 years, with long straight blonde hair. She is standing alone in the mess hall, with a sheathed katana held comfortably in her left hand. She is wearing simple yellow cover-alls. She looks up as he enters, startled out of her meditation. Her right hand flinches, but she does not draw her blade.
“What are you? Another damn robot like Sparky?” She looks more closely. “No, you were alive once, weren’t you? Just like me. You were hurt and changed and tinkered with, and put to someone else’s use. Just like me.”
She sighs as she looks at him. “Have a seat if you like, tin man. I am Ace.”
She turns away and chuckles grimly. “No, actually, I’m not. The one who died was called Ace, and that wasn’t even her real name because they took that away from her, too. I’m not sure who I am or what I am. I guess I’m a copy of the one called Ace. A replacement. But I remember BEING Ace, so I guess ‘Ace’ will do for now, until I find something better.”
She turns back toward him. “So, how about you?”
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Quote:
Originally posted by TheRealMe:
On the Sereni-Tree:
As he wanders around on the Sereni-Tree, McQ the cyborg runs into someone that he has never met before. She is a tall, attractive woman of perhaps 30 years, with long straight blonde hair. She is standing alone in the mess hall, with a sheathed katana held comfortably in her left hand. She is wearing simple yellow cover-alls. She looks up as he enters, startled out of her meditation. Her right hand flinches, but she does not draw her blade.
“What are you? Another damn robot like Sparky?” She looks more closely. “No, you were alive once, weren’t you? Just like me. You were hurt and changed and tinkered with, and put to someone else’s use. Just like me.”
She sighs as she looks at him. “Have a seat if you like, tin man. I am Ace.”
She turns away and chuckles grimly. “No, actually, I’m not. The one who died was called Ace, and that wasn’t even her real name because they took that away from her, too. I’m not sure who I am or what I am. I guess I’m a copy of the one called Ace. A replacement. But I remember BEING Ace, so I guess ‘Ace’ will do for now, until I find something better.”
She turns back toward him. “So, how about you?”
McQ takes a seat near Ace and examines her for a moment. Once he decides that she is no immediate threat to him, he decides to proceed with the conversation.
"They call me McQ," he starts in a calm, low and slightly computerized voice. "I don't remember much about who I was - or am. Whomever it was who turned me into this...machine tried to erase my memory yet I still have random flashes...images...from my past. Some I don't even remember."
He pauses for a moment and looks around the mess hall, realizing it's only him and Ace in the room. "I remember that I was a soldier once. I was foolish and fought for the wrong side...I died in battle but don't remember where or when...the next thing I knew I woke up and had this robotic body, extreme strength and some fierce firepower. I remember those who created me smiling down on me in pride of the 'weapon' they created. When I came aboard this ship I decided it was my moment to turn against them and seek vengeance to those who made me like this. However, since then I've become used to this new body and the advantages of having it, yet I won't use it for the purposes it was originally intended."
McQ stopped again and realized he may be telling more than Ace asked or cared to hear.
"Forgive my rambling. I've been in hybernation regenerating my circuits. I don't know how long I've been out but it seems most have fled the ship. I don't even know where we are at this moment. Perhaps you could bring me up to date."
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