Post by galindafiedgirl215 on May 28, 2005 14:40:44 GMT -5
This sudden impact of seeing two that did not belong together kissing madly in front of their shelter, in front of any wandering strangers, in front of nature, in front of the whole world weighed Blaise down. His feet seemed to be made of lead, and he couldn’t do many of the options that flashed through his mind at the speed of light. He could go get Fae and Ali, and show them what a traitor this Amirio was. He had had the inkling that this guy meant bad news for a long time, but this just solidified the feeling. The only reason he didn’t react to him so much was for Ali and Fae’s sake, not Amirio’s. He may not have cared much about Amirio, but he did at least have some measure of respect for Ali, and a deep love for Fae. He couldn’t hurt them, especially not Fae.
The human body has two instincts: fight or flight. Blaise rarely ever chose flight. When adrenaline poured through his body, he responded angrily and roughly. This case was none the exception. Before he realized what he was doing, he walked towards the two with an expression like that of a wild dog in his eyes. Unfortunately for the new 'couple', they didn't hear Blaise's approach.
He picked up a board from the porch and tapped on Amirio's shoulder. The boy spun around in shock and dismay. When he saw Blaise's face he calmed down a bit. "Oh its just you. I was scared it was Al---” Amirio’s sentence was left unfinished, as Blaise whacked him in the stomach with all his might with the board. Amirio fell backwards, struggling for breath. Desmona quickly fell to her knees to help him, and turned her head upwards towards Blaise with a fire burning in her eyes.
This was all the opportunity the stone needed.
"You damned and cursed fool! You have no idea who you are messing with!" She stood up quickly and pointed her hands towards Blaise. A force harder than any Blaise had ever experienced shot him into a tree. He gave a shout of pain, but got back to his feet.
"Now what is going on here?" Fae said groggily as both she and Ali stumbled out of the shack. As she realized what she saw occurring right in front of her, Fae's eyes widened, as did Ali's.
"Why are you two fighting again?" Ali said with an undertone of steel to her voice, her eyes looking like they could kill a person with a quick glance.
"Your darling Amirio isn't so wonderful," Blaise said, giving Amirio a harsh glare and throwing the board to the side with a quick motion.
"What do you mean?" Ali asked, a slight tremble creeping into her voice, unsure of what she was about to hear. She knew that Blaise and Amirio had fought over money before, but not like this. This was something far worse, she could tell by the look in Blaise's eyes.
"Amirio doesn't love you, Shen-Shen, or whatever the heck your name is. He never did," Desmona said with a smirk crawling across her face. The stone had taken away all of her fear, and in its place given her power. This power that she had demonstrated at Blaise surprised her but yet delighted at the same time. There was no stopping her now.
Fae knew in an instant what had transpired, but still she couldn't force herself to believe it. Ali obviously hadn't they slightest idea. Fae had heard her friend tell the sad stories too many times not to know. But yet it was Amirio! "Surely you aren't saying . . . "
"I found Amirio and Desmona out here this morning. Kissing," Blaise said. He walked over to Amirio and shook him back into consciousness. "Go on, you swine. Tell them what you did!"
"I... I... It's true," Amirio said as his head drooped.
Ali refused to believe it. "No! You both must be lying, you have to be lying! You wouldn't do something like this to me, Amirio! Please, tell me you all are lying! This has to be some kind of joke, some evil joke!"
"Look here, he just said he doesn't love you! He loves me now! So why don't you three just pack your things and head off to save your mothers! I mean, if you are in time that is. Who knows though? The stone might have already used them up," she said with an evil smirk.
"You're not lying," Ali said as her voice dropped to almost a whisper. As this revelation smacked her soul into near oblivion, her heart broke into small tiny shards of glass, cutting her inside. The scars that the scrapes would leave would be deep. "How could you, Amirio? How could you?" she asked in the same whisper of a tone.
"Ali, it wasn't... I mean, I never... I couldn't..." Amirio stuttered before he remained silent.
Ali looked at Amirio, hurt and heartbreak filling her eyes. This had all been a cruel trick! All the kisses, all the time spent together, all that just sand blown away in an instant with the hot, unforgiving wind.
They had only known each other a few short months, but to her it had been the most blissful yet terrible in her life. With him she had felt like she could do anything. He had been her rock when Fae and she had argued, saved her from death TWICE, and told her he loved her. Now it didn't mean anything, if it ever did. He didn't want her anymore.
Suddenly her hurt turned to anger. She had saved him too! She could have left him to the darkness! But she hadn't. She had taken him with them, fought battles again Blaise and Fae over whether or not he had stolen, and THIS was how she was repaid? Cheated on by Amirio with some girl he'd just met. Her mother had been right. No good deed went unpunished. But this mistake he would pay for.
She ran back into the house with her best friend on her heels. Ali began digging through cabinets and furiously yanking things out of suitcases. Where had Fae put it?
"What are you doing?" the blond girl practically shouted, but Ali paid no heed. "Talk to me! I know this is hard, but I can't help you until you tell me what in Oz's name you are doing!"
“The Grimmerie! Where did you put it? I'll make him pay! I'll make her pay too! I'll-" Her sentence was cut short by Fae slapping her across the face.
"Ali I know you are hurt! But we have to leave! Don't you see? That THING knows why we are here and who we are! So quit your sobbing and come on!" But it was to no avail. The green eyes lit up when it landed upon the one thing she had been searching for: The Grimmerie. She picked up the book, and stalked her way to the porch of this shack. Fae tried to stop her, but it was no use. She was on a mission, and she would not stop until it was completed.
"So, you always wanted to blame me for all your problems, you pig? Well, who has the upper hand now? Hmmm? Can you tell me?" the girls heard a voice far deeper and imbued with something that seemed unnatural say. As they walked outside, Fae's eyes could not believe what they saw. The voice had come from Amirio, who was holding Blaise by the throat up in the air, Blaise squirming and grasping at his throat, obviously having trouble breathing.
"Blaise!" Fae shrieked in horror, too stunned to even move.
"Your precious boyfriend at a loss for words, Fae? He won't admit that I am far superior to him," Amirio said as he cast Blaise down and threw him hard against the ground, skidding a few feet. Fae immediately ran for him, and looked at Amirio with a new contempt in her eyes. However, as Fae looked up, she saw Amirio spinning around in what seemed to be a small version of a tornado, with dust and debris swirling around him, his limbs strewn at all angles around him. Out of the corner of her eye, she saw Ali's lips moving quickly in a chant that was as quiet as a whisper, but had so much more power. Her arms swirled and moved, as she gave every ounce of her amassed anger and energy into this.
"Ali! No! Don't do this!" Fae screamed. But it was far too late. Ali had already started, and now nothing was going to change her mind.
Desmona's eyes blazed with a fire that seemed to come from far within, and she quickly picked up a large stone with sharp edges and ran towards Ali, her inner darkness ignited, the darkness feeding off all this terror and pandemonium, and feeding Desmona in return. As she ran, Fae's mind moved quickly, and before she even realized what she was doing, a chant spewed from her lips and a bolt of lighting came from the sky to block Desmona's path.
This did not stall Desmona for long though. She quickly stood up, and took to running towards Ali again, this time with even more power and anger and hatred spewing out with each step. Fae was at a loss. Her mind was running at a million miles a minute, but she couldn’t think of anything to do. She was frozen. Finally, only a few feet away from Ali, she quickly yelled the only chant that she could remember. “Ah bo lah ti do ra!” she yelled with as much force as she could, hoping to stop this calamity. Desmona was picked up like a rag doll by an invisible force, and was thrown into the corner of the house.
The sound of boards creaking and cracking, breaking and falling, reached the ears of the companions as four pairs of eyes watched the tiny shack fall the ground, until all that remained was rubble, dust, and rotted wood. Amirio was dropped from the air, and while crouching on the ground and regaining his breath, he stared at the rubble with a strange mixture of sadness and amazement. Blaise noticed something more, though. A bubble was surrounding surrounded something. As it glowed blue and had energy crackle all throughout, a figure stood up.
"Do you not ever die?"' he yelled with hatred and venom at the orb that contained Desmona's figure.
A cackle more evil than anything they had ever heard spewed from her lips, and all eyes were drawn to her. "You think you can kill me, bring me to my knees, don't you? Well, for future reference, I'm stronger than you can ever be. Just my pinkie finger's power could break your own in half!" and without warning Desmona screamed as her arms were thrown in front of herself and fire spewed towards Fae and Blaise’s figures.
Ali watched with fear as she saw what was falling towards the two, and Fae let out an ear-piercing scream, partly of fright of what was to hit her and partly of Desmona's power. Ali reacted quickly, and as the fireball drew towards the two, she cast a force field of water around the two to extinguish it.
Fae let anger completely wash over her. This Desmona would regret the day she ever messed with Fae Upland! "Am may tah ki ro, Am may tah ki ro, Am may tah ki ro," Fae's lips moved quicker and quicker, and the sky (which was already black as night from the darkness) began to rumble. Water poured down, and suddenly with a clap, two lighting bolts struck Desmona, holding her in their midst.
Her screams could be heard miles away. The rain continued to pour down with all its might as Desmona dropped to the ground like a dead bird. She laid there, limbs askew, barely breathing so as appearing to be dead.
With the little strength he had left, Amirio approached Ali. "I'm sorry, I really am. But I've realized-" Amirio said before Ali cut him off.
"No, you AREN'T sorry! You don't know how this feels, and you never will. You can never understand me, and for this pain, you will PAY!" she said quietly at first, her volume slowly rising until she was screaming. With another hurried chant, hail the size of golf balls or bigger started cascading down on him, and the tree he had been pushed towards with the sudden barrage.
As the assault kept up, the tree seemed to weaken at its trunk, and before anyone could do anything, the tree fell towards Amirio.
All their eyes widened, including Amirio's, as the tree rushed towards the ground where he was lying. Before anyone could do anything, it completed its fall, and Amirio was crushed beneath it.
The cloud of death quickly loomed over the heads of the group. "No... No... This has to be some horrible mistake, some dream..." Fae whispered in a very hoarse voice, before turning to Blaise's shoulder and quietly sobbing. He ran his hands along her curls and turned his head away from the scene. Even though he had a strong dislike for Amirio, he didn't deserve to die. No one does, not in a cruel, senseless way like he had.
"Amirio... Amirio!" Ali said before she ran quickly over to the tree. "You can't be dead, you can't be dead! I'm... I'm... I'm sorry," she whispered to the lifeless eyes and hand sprawled out in front of the tree with some amount of difficulty before she started sobbing into the tree.
After staring over at Amirio, shocked, Desmona knew this was her opportunity, and she took it. She quickly moved to take the Grimmerie from where it was set, and before anyone noticed, she and the most powerful book in all of Oz was gone.
The human body has two instincts: fight or flight. Blaise rarely ever chose flight. When adrenaline poured through his body, he responded angrily and roughly. This case was none the exception. Before he realized what he was doing, he walked towards the two with an expression like that of a wild dog in his eyes. Unfortunately for the new 'couple', they didn't hear Blaise's approach.
He picked up a board from the porch and tapped on Amirio's shoulder. The boy spun around in shock and dismay. When he saw Blaise's face he calmed down a bit. "Oh its just you. I was scared it was Al---” Amirio’s sentence was left unfinished, as Blaise whacked him in the stomach with all his might with the board. Amirio fell backwards, struggling for breath. Desmona quickly fell to her knees to help him, and turned her head upwards towards Blaise with a fire burning in her eyes.
This was all the opportunity the stone needed.
"You damned and cursed fool! You have no idea who you are messing with!" She stood up quickly and pointed her hands towards Blaise. A force harder than any Blaise had ever experienced shot him into a tree. He gave a shout of pain, but got back to his feet.
"Now what is going on here?" Fae said groggily as both she and Ali stumbled out of the shack. As she realized what she saw occurring right in front of her, Fae's eyes widened, as did Ali's.
"Why are you two fighting again?" Ali said with an undertone of steel to her voice, her eyes looking like they could kill a person with a quick glance.
"Your darling Amirio isn't so wonderful," Blaise said, giving Amirio a harsh glare and throwing the board to the side with a quick motion.
"What do you mean?" Ali asked, a slight tremble creeping into her voice, unsure of what she was about to hear. She knew that Blaise and Amirio had fought over money before, but not like this. This was something far worse, she could tell by the look in Blaise's eyes.
"Amirio doesn't love you, Shen-Shen, or whatever the heck your name is. He never did," Desmona said with a smirk crawling across her face. The stone had taken away all of her fear, and in its place given her power. This power that she had demonstrated at Blaise surprised her but yet delighted at the same time. There was no stopping her now.
Fae knew in an instant what had transpired, but still she couldn't force herself to believe it. Ali obviously hadn't they slightest idea. Fae had heard her friend tell the sad stories too many times not to know. But yet it was Amirio! "Surely you aren't saying . . . "
"I found Amirio and Desmona out here this morning. Kissing," Blaise said. He walked over to Amirio and shook him back into consciousness. "Go on, you swine. Tell them what you did!"
"I... I... It's true," Amirio said as his head drooped.
Ali refused to believe it. "No! You both must be lying, you have to be lying! You wouldn't do something like this to me, Amirio! Please, tell me you all are lying! This has to be some kind of joke, some evil joke!"
"Look here, he just said he doesn't love you! He loves me now! So why don't you three just pack your things and head off to save your mothers! I mean, if you are in time that is. Who knows though? The stone might have already used them up," she said with an evil smirk.
"You're not lying," Ali said as her voice dropped to almost a whisper. As this revelation smacked her soul into near oblivion, her heart broke into small tiny shards of glass, cutting her inside. The scars that the scrapes would leave would be deep. "How could you, Amirio? How could you?" she asked in the same whisper of a tone.
"Ali, it wasn't... I mean, I never... I couldn't..." Amirio stuttered before he remained silent.
Ali looked at Amirio, hurt and heartbreak filling her eyes. This had all been a cruel trick! All the kisses, all the time spent together, all that just sand blown away in an instant with the hot, unforgiving wind.
They had only known each other a few short months, but to her it had been the most blissful yet terrible in her life. With him she had felt like she could do anything. He had been her rock when Fae and she had argued, saved her from death TWICE, and told her he loved her. Now it didn't mean anything, if it ever did. He didn't want her anymore.
Suddenly her hurt turned to anger. She had saved him too! She could have left him to the darkness! But she hadn't. She had taken him with them, fought battles again Blaise and Fae over whether or not he had stolen, and THIS was how she was repaid? Cheated on by Amirio with some girl he'd just met. Her mother had been right. No good deed went unpunished. But this mistake he would pay for.
She ran back into the house with her best friend on her heels. Ali began digging through cabinets and furiously yanking things out of suitcases. Where had Fae put it?
"What are you doing?" the blond girl practically shouted, but Ali paid no heed. "Talk to me! I know this is hard, but I can't help you until you tell me what in Oz's name you are doing!"
“The Grimmerie! Where did you put it? I'll make him pay! I'll make her pay too! I'll-" Her sentence was cut short by Fae slapping her across the face.
"Ali I know you are hurt! But we have to leave! Don't you see? That THING knows why we are here and who we are! So quit your sobbing and come on!" But it was to no avail. The green eyes lit up when it landed upon the one thing she had been searching for: The Grimmerie. She picked up the book, and stalked her way to the porch of this shack. Fae tried to stop her, but it was no use. She was on a mission, and she would not stop until it was completed.
"So, you always wanted to blame me for all your problems, you pig? Well, who has the upper hand now? Hmmm? Can you tell me?" the girls heard a voice far deeper and imbued with something that seemed unnatural say. As they walked outside, Fae's eyes could not believe what they saw. The voice had come from Amirio, who was holding Blaise by the throat up in the air, Blaise squirming and grasping at his throat, obviously having trouble breathing.
"Blaise!" Fae shrieked in horror, too stunned to even move.
"Your precious boyfriend at a loss for words, Fae? He won't admit that I am far superior to him," Amirio said as he cast Blaise down and threw him hard against the ground, skidding a few feet. Fae immediately ran for him, and looked at Amirio with a new contempt in her eyes. However, as Fae looked up, she saw Amirio spinning around in what seemed to be a small version of a tornado, with dust and debris swirling around him, his limbs strewn at all angles around him. Out of the corner of her eye, she saw Ali's lips moving quickly in a chant that was as quiet as a whisper, but had so much more power. Her arms swirled and moved, as she gave every ounce of her amassed anger and energy into this.
"Ali! No! Don't do this!" Fae screamed. But it was far too late. Ali had already started, and now nothing was going to change her mind.
Desmona's eyes blazed with a fire that seemed to come from far within, and she quickly picked up a large stone with sharp edges and ran towards Ali, her inner darkness ignited, the darkness feeding off all this terror and pandemonium, and feeding Desmona in return. As she ran, Fae's mind moved quickly, and before she even realized what she was doing, a chant spewed from her lips and a bolt of lighting came from the sky to block Desmona's path.
This did not stall Desmona for long though. She quickly stood up, and took to running towards Ali again, this time with even more power and anger and hatred spewing out with each step. Fae was at a loss. Her mind was running at a million miles a minute, but she couldn’t think of anything to do. She was frozen. Finally, only a few feet away from Ali, she quickly yelled the only chant that she could remember. “Ah bo lah ti do ra!” she yelled with as much force as she could, hoping to stop this calamity. Desmona was picked up like a rag doll by an invisible force, and was thrown into the corner of the house.
The sound of boards creaking and cracking, breaking and falling, reached the ears of the companions as four pairs of eyes watched the tiny shack fall the ground, until all that remained was rubble, dust, and rotted wood. Amirio was dropped from the air, and while crouching on the ground and regaining his breath, he stared at the rubble with a strange mixture of sadness and amazement. Blaise noticed something more, though. A bubble was surrounding surrounded something. As it glowed blue and had energy crackle all throughout, a figure stood up.
"Do you not ever die?"' he yelled with hatred and venom at the orb that contained Desmona's figure.
A cackle more evil than anything they had ever heard spewed from her lips, and all eyes were drawn to her. "You think you can kill me, bring me to my knees, don't you? Well, for future reference, I'm stronger than you can ever be. Just my pinkie finger's power could break your own in half!" and without warning Desmona screamed as her arms were thrown in front of herself and fire spewed towards Fae and Blaise’s figures.
Ali watched with fear as she saw what was falling towards the two, and Fae let out an ear-piercing scream, partly of fright of what was to hit her and partly of Desmona's power. Ali reacted quickly, and as the fireball drew towards the two, she cast a force field of water around the two to extinguish it.
Fae let anger completely wash over her. This Desmona would regret the day she ever messed with Fae Upland! "Am may tah ki ro, Am may tah ki ro, Am may tah ki ro," Fae's lips moved quicker and quicker, and the sky (which was already black as night from the darkness) began to rumble. Water poured down, and suddenly with a clap, two lighting bolts struck Desmona, holding her in their midst.
Her screams could be heard miles away. The rain continued to pour down with all its might as Desmona dropped to the ground like a dead bird. She laid there, limbs askew, barely breathing so as appearing to be dead.
With the little strength he had left, Amirio approached Ali. "I'm sorry, I really am. But I've realized-" Amirio said before Ali cut him off.
"No, you AREN'T sorry! You don't know how this feels, and you never will. You can never understand me, and for this pain, you will PAY!" she said quietly at first, her volume slowly rising until she was screaming. With another hurried chant, hail the size of golf balls or bigger started cascading down on him, and the tree he had been pushed towards with the sudden barrage.
As the assault kept up, the tree seemed to weaken at its trunk, and before anyone could do anything, the tree fell towards Amirio.
All their eyes widened, including Amirio's, as the tree rushed towards the ground where he was lying. Before anyone could do anything, it completed its fall, and Amirio was crushed beneath it.
The cloud of death quickly loomed over the heads of the group. "No... No... This has to be some horrible mistake, some dream..." Fae whispered in a very hoarse voice, before turning to Blaise's shoulder and quietly sobbing. He ran his hands along her curls and turned his head away from the scene. Even though he had a strong dislike for Amirio, he didn't deserve to die. No one does, not in a cruel, senseless way like he had.
"Amirio... Amirio!" Ali said before she ran quickly over to the tree. "You can't be dead, you can't be dead! I'm... I'm... I'm sorry," she whispered to the lifeless eyes and hand sprawled out in front of the tree with some amount of difficulty before she started sobbing into the tree.
After staring over at Amirio, shocked, Desmona knew this was her opportunity, and she took it. She quickly moved to take the Grimmerie from where it was set, and before anyone noticed, she and the most powerful book in all of Oz was gone.
I am shocked. I am more than shocked. That doesn't mean I didn't like it, I'm just really, really suprised. I-er-um-agh-did not see that coming. No one did.
