[hr][hr][center][img]https://i.postimg.cc/FKJKRczH/the-gifted-591b350cc9ba7.png[/img][/center][hr][center][@Nallore][@BlueSky44][@Achronum][@Trainerblue192][@Kirah][/center][hr][hr][center][color=f7941d][b]Genosha: August 3rd, 2021 - 1:20 PM [/b][/color][/center][hr][hr][center][h3][b][color=935DB8]Veil[/color] & [color=DBA1DE]Casper[/color] & [color=#DAF7A6]Sunshine[/color][/b][/h3][hr][hr][b]Location:[/b] Various
[b]Skills:[/b] [color=DBA1DE]Mediumship[/color][/center][hr][b]Outside the Hospital...[/b]

	Casper had no idea that James was partially lying to him, as he trusted James implicitly. [color=DBA1DE]"Okay, of course! Danny, I'm giving you to Pop-Pop now, you need to be good and not make any stinkies, promise?"[/color] Casper said seriously, as if baby Daniel could actually understand him. [color=DBA1DE]"And no turning yourself into a ball of fire, we aren't immortal - and I actually really vibe with our fits today, so I don't want them ruined,"[/color] Casper then added, before handing the baby on over to James. 

	[i]"Well... Shit. You were telling the truth, then,"[/i] Ben said, gobsmacked. 

	[color=DBA1DE]"Duh! I wouldn't lie about kidnapping a baby, that's Jackie's thing!"[/color] 

	[i]"Okay, but can you really blame me for wondering?"[/i] Ben asked, rolling his eyes. [i]"I was with Max today actually. We got my body. He's going to bring me back to life, but he needs you two to help."[/i]

	[color=DBA1DE]"....Okay, now you're the one that has to be joking,"[/color] Casper said, his eyes wide. He turned to James. [color=DBA1DE]"Ben says that he was with Max, and Max is resurrecting him - and he needs [i]us[/i] to do it?!?!"[/color]

	And then suddenly, James and Casper would hear Veil's voice in their mind:

	[i][color=935DB8]"James? Casper? We need to meet up with you both, Max needs you for a ritual... He's going to try to bring Ben back to life, and he needs you both for it to work... If it does, we could bring back anyone we had lost - no one would ever be taken away from us again"[/color][/i] Veil pleaded. 

[b]Outside the House of M...[/b] 

	Zari was far nicer about Andy's confusion and hesitation than the crows were. Selene must've given the crows instructions on what to do should Andy reject her heritage. And of course, Selene wasn't the most subtle or patient of people. No, no, she didn't instruct the crows to do anything reasonable. Instead, the crows flew back up into the air, circling Andy for a moment, before suddenly diving at her... and stabbing their beaks into her heart. The crows' beaks penetrated, and any ordinary individual would have died. 

	But Andy's body reacted otherwise, filling her with an intense feeling of craving and need as her vitals depleted - a need for [i]life force[/i]. To prove that she was the offspring of Selene, the crows had been instructed to fatally wound Andy, forcing her emergence as an [i]energy vampire[/i] in her mother's own image.*

	And what other living soul was there to feed on but Andy's new girlfriend, Zari?


[i]*Yes, this is actually part of Selene's established power-set - she can turn other people into energy vampires [/i]

[b]Bar Sinister...[/b]

	The Sinisters clearly didn't want to answer Jack's question as to what was precisely wrong with Renegade - and some of them were better at hiding it than others. One of them looked obviously guilty, the others seeming relatively innocent - or at least, not responsible. [color=8E6BB3]"Oh, I'm sure she'll be fine with it - think of it as just a new spa treatment, replacing all the bad cells with clean, fresh new ones. New year, new you and all. And let's face it, Jackie, your mother hasn't [i]exactly[/i] been taking the best care of her body anyways - I'm sure she'd appreciate a refresh."[/color]

	[color=8E6BB3]"We can either make a complete copy of her psyche now, or you can wait till closer to when it happens. It doesn't really matter what happens once we've uploaded a copy into our databanks, though the closer to death of the original we are, the less of a gap there is,"[/color] another Sinister said. [color=8E6BB3]"It's kinda like the save file of a game that way, if you think of it."[/color]

[b]Hellfire Bay...[/b]

	Renegade nodded. It was a decent walk from Hellfire Bay all the way back to her living quarters, as they were basically on other ends of the island. The island wasn't so incredibly large as to make it impossible to do or incredibly annoying - it really only took about 10 minutes when going at a brisk queer pace, longer if one wasn't. Fortunately, Renegade had a secret in order to speed up time. "Alright you two, I'm too lazy to do this at normal speed, so..." 

	Renegade focused, her eyes turning a vibrant shade of pink. A soft pink aura surrounded Miranda and Mongoose, as Renegade increased all of their kinetic energy. A walk that would've taken the group about 20 minutes or so was shortened down to only two. They would all feel the wind rushing in their hair and things would seem to almost blur around them, as they got a small taste of what life would be like at a speedster. 

	When they made it to the housing complex, Ellie returned their speeds to normal. 

	"Woah!!! Again, again, again!!!!" Mongoose cheered. "That was AWESOME!!!!" 

[b]Magda Eisenhard Memorial Housing Complex - Max's Room...[/b]

	Pixie rolled her eyes slightly at Max dubbing the place she described Pixie Hollow. In her mind, she had been calling to Arbor Magna - she didn't really know why, it had just felt right to her. But she didn't share that name now with Max. She wasn't going to tell him what would or would not feel right to him. Plus, she figured it didn't really matter - a name was just a name sometimes. "If you want to go to a real Pixie Hollow, you should check out Otherworld - Roma Regina's kingdom is to die for," Pixie commented. 

	Marrow looked a bit unconvinced at Max's explanation - she hadn't known him very long, but everything her wife had told her about Max led her to believe that he was a walking gay disaster. She didn't know if he had the magic in him to pull off something this big, if his current skills seemed to max out at perfect soup. "Riiiight...." Marrow commented, a bit bitchy by nature. "Hopefully raising the dead is on the soup level, then."

	[color=#DAF7A6]"Alright, I trust you,"[/color] Sunshine told Max with a noncommittal shrug. She was telling the truth though - she really did trust him. She hadn't always, but they had enough history together now that she couldn't help it. She would never admit it, but she liked his company and thought his antics were funny, and enjoyed being around him. She considered him to be her friend. [color=#DAF7A6]"Boy Dazzler has a good point though - do you need anything? Maybe paper to draw more symbols on?"[/color] Sunshine asked Max. 

	"The tree isn't actually too far from here - it's almost in the dead center of the island," Pixie chimed in. "And don't worry, you can't offend me. And if you did, I'd hit you with my pixie dust~!"

[b]Outside the Green Lagoon...[/b]

	Most people on the island could be found at the Green Lagoon at any given moment, and it was near the Green Lagoon that Veil and Spark Plug ran into [url=https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/415345821098311681/1005702503440068648/unknown.png]No-Girl[/url] aka Martha Johansson. The young telepath was a floating brain in a jar, a victim of a horrific crime perpetrated by humans a few years ago that cost her everything but her brain. She could communicate with others only telepathically. 

	[i]"Sure, it's not like I'm doing anything..."[/i] Martha said with a bit of a sigh, her voice sounding in the minds of Veil and Spark Plug. Both girls would feel a slight pressure in their mind and then suddenly, they could feel themselves connected to James and Casper - like a conference call of sorts. 

	[i][color=935DB8]"James? Casper? We need to meet up with you both, Max needs you for a ritual... He's going to try to bring Ben back to life, and he needs you both for it to work... If it does, we could bring back anyone we had lost - no one would ever be taken away from us again"[/color][/i] Veil pleaded.