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[h3][color=aba000]Alexander Shields[/color][/h3]
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Finally, after a long time of speeding through highways and paved roads, Lily finally saw it: Penrose. The young-looking girl laughed in delight at seeing the city in the horizon, and turned the throttle on her vehicle: it looked like a futuristic motorcycle, but it had a unique design to it; it was horse-shaped, with gray patches of fur growing out at parts, and the front was a stylized head of a horse, adorned with a thunderbolt-shaped hood ornament.

"[color=fff200]Yeah, we made it, X! I can't believe we got here so fast![/color]" The girl screamed to try and overcome the howling wind. "[color=fff79a]You underestimated me, Lily. My swiftness knows no bounds,[/color]" she heard a voice speak; it sounded like a rumbling storm mixed with a horse's neighs, yet the voice carried to her ears crystal clear. "[color=fff200]Ixion, you're the best friend I could have,[/color]" she then spoke, with a smile at her lips. "[color=fff200]The first thing I'll do is-Oh, wait. Is that what I think it is?[/color]" She made a sharp turn, and headed towards the unique sight, smiling even wider. [i]This is definitely my kind of town[/i]
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Being a magical boy, Alexander thought, wasn't all bad.

Oh sure, he was now supposed to fight the endless armies of darkness in defense of the innocent, and he had to put up with his annoying patron, the god Sol Invictus.

[sub]But he actually cared about him. No one ever cared about him before[/sub]

In return for this, he no longer had to work a dead end job just to make ends meet, nor did he have to worry about going hungry ever again, since his body only needed half as much food. On top of all this; he was functionally immortal with endless youth.

Then again his magic wasn't perfect; not only was he stuck with spells that couldn't bash monster heads in, the clones he could make were troublesome. Oh, they worked perfectly; soulless shells with no sense of self that were otherwise perfect copies of him...but that was the problem, they were perfect copies of [b]him[/b]. Alexander was used to authority figures being unreliable, so he took a passive aggressive stance with them. The same was true of his clones; they were passive aggressive to him. Now that's not to say they would betray him, but they weren't above messing with him. Like that time one of them started flirting with a girl. He would have slugged that unruly clone if she hadn't beaten him to the punch ([color=f7941d]wordplay![/color])...that was how he met his partner; Lily

[sub]She also cared, but why?[/sub]

She had a power-set that he would have loved to have; move fast and unleash lighting on your foes. All he had were shields, buffs, heals, and a stick. How are you supposed to bash monster heads in with a stick!? 

"[color=aba000]It's not even a heavy stick[/color]" Alexander mumbled from the bush he was hiding in. His clone was fighting some sort of lizard monster, while keeping it strengthened and shielded. "[color=aba000]And my clones get to have more fun then me.[/color]" Suddenly, he heard a familiar sound "[color=aba000]Huh, must be Lily. That's convenient.[/color]"
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[color=fff200]"Yaaaah![/color]" Lily drew her bow, and unleashed another volley of dazzling projectiles, the arrows loudly cracking as they pierced the beast's hide. She changed her weapon to the rod, and charged up a thunderbolt, before unleashing it, ending the fight. "[color=fff200]Whew, that was quite a dinosaur, huh?[/color]" She joked, and turned towards the masked boy. "[color=fff200]You always seem to get in trouble, hehe~[/color]" She jumped into the air, and Ixion materialized under her, catching her in the driver's seat. "[color=fff200]Come on Alex, It's gonna start at midnight, so we gotta hurry![/color]" The two rode off on the metal horse, with Alexander awkwardly holding Lily's shoulders. The magical girl didn't seem to mind that at all, and simply giggled.

When Lily first met the mysterious lad, he was fighting a monster, and didn't seem to do a good of it; sure he managed to resist blows well, but he seemed to only have a staff as his weapon. As a magical girl she didn't mind helping him out at all. To her surprise, the boy actually began flirting with her! Lily was reminded of her old life, and when she was hit on in high school. It was such an embarrassing moment for her that she punched the boy, and caused him to poof. It was later that she learned that Alexander could use cloning magic, but back then she was really surprised. "[color=fff200]I can't believe you would say something like that though, geez,[/color]" Lily suddenly said while they were on their journey. "[color=fff200]And just after I saved you![/color]"

Were he not holding on for dear life, Alexander would have face palmed. "[color=aba000]I'm never going to live that down, am I? Even though you know full well that my clones love to mess with me.[/color]" To his surprise, he found that Lily was heading for the meeting in the park. He hadn't planned on going, but if Lily wanted him there, he wasn't going to fight it. For some reason, he had a hard time telling her no. And before he could even voice an objection, they skid a sharp turn around a block, and jumped right into the center of it, with Ixion disappearing just before it hit the fountain at the center.

Lily landed at the back with Alexander next to her, and she had a hand to her hip as she took in the sights. "[color=fff200]So many magical girls...A lot of folks picked up on this. Some look real strong too.[/color]" She nodded her head when she listened to the speech-holding girl, and then grinned when she heard her request for help. "[color=fff200]What do you think Alex? Should we help her out?[/color]"

Alexander sighed "[color=aba000]we really should[/color]" he sounded more reluctant  then he actually was. "[color=aba000]And have I mentioned recently that you're a crazy driver? Because it bears repeating. I'm just glad I can put a force field on myself.[/color]" he added. "[color=fff200]Heheh! Well, better get used to it.[/color]" She raised a fist before her, smiling smugly. "[color=fff200]Cause Lily's wild ride never ends![/color]"