Kirah

🌠 Once Upon A Time 🌠(Concluded)

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Rose Buckner

Location: Camelot: The pub
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It was a relief to be back in the pub. Rose didn't blame her mom for going straight for the drinks. She had seen that look on plenty of people in her time as a bartender. She hoped her boss wasn't too mad at her for dipping on her shift. Especially after she had sent him the text about potentially being in danger. Were there flyers at the bar for her? Had her friends in Kansas started looking for her? She had at least called her parents to tell them she'd be out of contact for a bit because of a lead she had on her bio-mom. Something they had wanted for her for years, and here she was now standing next to her. Red hadn't abandoned her in the woods. However, Rose had ended up there it had been an accident. And now she felt like a kid not wanting to part ways with her mom, being so afraid that if she lost sight of her she'd never see her again.

"I'll go with you." She told Red. She felt her mouth almost say mom but caught herself. She wasn't totally ready for that. Mom was Mrs. Buckner and had been since she was eight. Rose didn't ask for a drink. She wanted her mind to be as sharp as possible. "Before we go anywhere though we all need showers and a change of clothing." She grinned. The whole group had been traipsing through the muck. Her clothes were drying stiff and gross. There was no way she was going to stay in what she was wearing any longer than necessary.

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Colby Jackson

Location: Camelot
Skills: pure awkward

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Matthew Madigan

Location: Camelot Pub
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"Oh there is plenty to smile about. Such as how are we gonna get back at her for being so annoying. He didn't get why Rosalia wouldn't just drop it. It had been done and there was no undoing it. So why couldn't she just move on. Colby could have let the push into the lake yesterday slide if she had stopped being so rude. But today had sealed her in his mind as the worst. Which made sense because she had a dog and dogs were the worst. Proven by the dog bite he had on his leg. "Oh shoot I should check out my leg make sure that dog didn't do any damage."

Maddie hummed in agreement as Colby proposed that they get back at Rosalia. He didn't know how they would, but he was sure that Colby could find a way to do so. When he heard about the leg however he instantly opened his eyes and decided it was priority number one. The alcohol didn't allow for him to think too hard on the situation, having had Maddie slip his thumb under the waistband of Colbys pants in an attempt to remove them.

"Oh right, well let's see it"

"Ack!" Colby said. He was still on the bed and Maddie was trying to pull his pants off. "I was just going to pull the pant leg up. He didn't bite that high." It was a bit of a relief actually that the dog had missed sensitive bits. He wiggled trying to get out of Maddie's attempt to strip him.

Maddie looked at Colby inquisitively as if he spoke a foreign concept to him. His eyes widened as he removed his hand away from Colbys pants. "Oh… right. I guess you could just roll up the pants leg to look." Embarrassment was faintly creeping its way in him, overshadowed by a new feeling and a racing heart.

Colby laughed. Not at Maddie. He smiled his half smile. "Drunk you is silly." Now that he was free he sat up and pulled his pant leg up. There were four little puncture wounds were the dog had bit him and it was red on the site. "Dang that dog. But it doesn't look like it'll bleed or anything. I clean it before we leave just in case."

Maddie sat up on the bed looking at the dog bite from there. Well, looking at those calfs and getting distracted before finally focusing on the issue at hand. It didn't look too bad, though definitely wasn't looking good. He got up from the bed, a small wave of wooziness hitting him as he tried to stabilize himself. He walked up behind Colby as he wrapped his arms around his waist and nestles his chin between Colbys shoulder and neck giving him a light kiss. "You should wrap that up too. Don't need to catch an infection while out here."

Colby found himself leaning into the touch. If he could purr he might at that moment. "Yeah. Later." He didn't kiss back. But he was leaning backward into the hug.

Maddie smiled as he kept him in his arms. Swaying a pit side to side. "If that's for later, then what do you want to do right now." As he asked he pulled Colby even closer, pressing his chest against his back and securing himself around his best friend.

Colby suddenly became very aware of the body pressed against him. He shifted a little bit. "I uh...I don't know." He said a little flustered. Color rising in his cheeks.

Maddie loosened his grip slightly as he swung around to face Colby now. Having kept his arms still wrapped around him before finally pulling him back in, looking at Colbys eyes as he was inches away from his face almost daring him to kiss him. "I'm sure we can figure something out."

"Was there something specific you had in mind. I didn't. I just needed to get away." Colby didn't pull away. Instead he leaned ever so slightly closer. Their lips not yet touching. It would be so easy for that to happen. "You're drunk. We can lay down till you're sober. Just rest." Colby wanted to do more than rest, but he didn't want to cross any boundaries.

Everything was firing off inside of him as Colby moved in closer. Was he teasing him? Did he actually want to kiss? Did he realize what it was that was happening? Maddie had so many unanswered questions, and all he wanted to do was kiss Colby. But he was too afraid to cross that line, too afraid to ruin a good thing. So he moved in even closer, lips still not touching, but being one breeze away from having them meet. His eyes moved downwards as he looked towards his pants.

"Well...I have something we can play with in my pants." There was a pause as he thought of what to do. "You wanna play Go Fish or War? I'm up for either."

Colby raised an eyebrow surprised at first at where Maddie was saying. It was weirdly forward for him. "Oh I love Go Fish." He said grinning. He loved most card games honestly.

X-Men: Cosmic Crusades 👽

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Ed Penior

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Location: Space
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Ed's fingers twitched instinctively toward his tiny shield in his pocket, ready to cast a shield if necessary. He didn't want to be sucked into the vacuum of space. He had been playing around a bit with ideas on how he could twist the shield spell since the fight with Loki. He was certain he could make it non-permeable and it could theoretically protect people from space, at least for a little bit. With the power back on he felt a little better. But the alarms were...unsettling.

Runa had cast her own protection spell, which reassured him. He kept his hand near the shield though. Ready to cast if something happened to the hull of the ship. He couldn't help figure out the tech side of things. He wasn't computer illiterate...just woefully inept compared to Guin or most of the others. Computers just hadn't been his focus. He could use a laptop or a PC no problem, but once it got into the higher technical aspects he was useless.

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If it seems like the hull of the ship is compromised he is going to create a shield bubble around the whole ship. The shield will be designed to not allow the transfer of particles.

The Gifted - Concluded

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Location: Veil’s Group: Sewers
Skills: Enhanced Reflexes (passive)

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Andy didn't know what to think of Glimpse leaving. She understood why. But she barely knew her and didn't have much feeling on the situation. What she did know was the group had suffered some losses recently and losing someone else, even though it wasn't to death, had to be a hard blow. She also hadn't decided if she would stay with the group. Andy wasn't the type to stay in one place too long. She didn't want to overstay her welcome, or more importantly become attached to someone and watch them get burned to death. She had had enough of that.

She stayed quiet in Veil's invisibility bubble. The SHIELD agents were coming and the group was in a tight bind. They had to get out of the sewers fast. She looked up at Veil waiting for directions. Nervousness tingling her limbs as she felt the fight or flight reflex struggle to decide. Only prey froze for too long. She thought of a deer caught in the headlights of a vehicle and knew their group was in much the same predicament.

Ω Heroes of Olympus: The Next Age of Heroes Ω Officially Done

Location: Senate house -> The air on Gryf's back
Skill:

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He had caught what she had almost said. She felt bad. But it was more that she thought he wanted to be in a safe place rather than any doubt of his fighting skill. It was clear he didn't enjoy fighting so why would he want to join it if it could be avoided?

Andy took the book. "Thank you." She didn't have a backpack or anywhere to stash the book. It was a good thing most of her fighting was summoning lighting and hitting enemies with it. She wanted to get into battle though and didn't want to have to put the book away. She'd just have to be super careful with it.

She and Arthur started to walk outside toward the ship, but there was no need. Gryf had come to her. She grinned. Excellent. "Hey Gryf, you ready to ride into battle with me? We've got people to protect." She climbed onto the Gryphon's back. "Come on Arthur. Let's show these monsters they picked the wrong fight." Her grin was huge. Howerver, Gryf was not excited about Arthur joining her. He started hissing at Arthur when he tried to get on his back.

"Gryf, he is my friend. Please be nice to him." She said gently. Not demanding. She didn't want to force the Gryphon to take Arthur on his back if he didn't want to, but she wished that both of them could ride him.

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Location: New Rome (sewers)
Skills: Madness; Chloroikinsis

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Shit. That was all Em could think as she was almost pushed into the Labyrinth. She was already regretting her decision to stay. That was quick. Instead of her one of the others of the Fifth was knocked in. She sighed frustrated. But hey Marco was super hot riding a dragon and singing...Backstreet Boys. She shook her head to focus and turned around seeing a beautiful woman who had definitely not been in the Labrinth a moment ago speaking with Waverly.

It didn't take much for Emily to realize who the woman was. She was a goddess. And one of her Father's (in his Greek form) ...consorts. She shifted. Hoping that Ariadne wouldn't take offense to what Waverly had just said. It was sort of reasonable since Waverly had so far met a Sphinx and had been warned multiple times to not wander off. "Ariadne." She started giving a head nod and what might be considered a curtsey. "We found this section of the Labrynth by accident while reinforcing the sewers here." She explained.

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Location: Argo III
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Niah nodded. At least that made sense. They were kids, they should have gotten a proper childhood. Not that any demi-god really got proper childhoods. She watched as an actual Gryffin flew over to them and the girl climbed onto its back without any issue. "Well skill aside she has a friend in that Gryffin." Saw something new every day she supposed. The other thing that Alannah said made sense. You could see it in the kid's eyes.

"Alright, show me the ropes." She said to Alannah. The battle had begun and she didn't like sitting on the sidelines during wartime. That wasn't her speed. She had literally flown into a dragon's lair before and here she was waiting. It was part of the reason she didn't consider herself a leader. The misconception that leaders told others what to do from the sidelines. To her Nancy and Mads were exceptions to what leaders were like. And she preferred their style. Getting involved and fighting. Proving they were just as willing to die for their people as the people they were asking to die.

She looked up as a dragon took to the skies. It was carrying Marco...who was singing. Niah could hear that Nancy's voice joined the song and heads started exploding. She smiled. Remembering the first time Nancy ever did that with the werewolves. But that caused her to frown again. Mads. Worry crossed her heart and mind. Something would have to be done before the next full moon. She didn't want to lose one of her best friends like that. Her fingers brushed her bracelet.

Agents of SHIELD - Concluded

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Location: Boardwalk
Skills: Psychometry

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"Sparky let me touch something of yours." She asked reaching out. Sparky let her touch a bit of her clothing and she got a few flashes, nothing that showed her Sparky being kidnapped or anything like that, and certainly nothing that made it seem like the clothing had been created. "My friend you are not a Skrull, which is probably more sci-fi than any book we've ever read." She missed their book chats. It had been so long. Since before Phase Three had happened.

When she finished she turned to Kwassi, "Wait did you say the President?" For a brief flash it seemed like Niah might be awestruck, and then her face contorted into something resembling a person struggling to take a poop. "Is his wife here?" She looked even more irritated. "I do not like that woman." She shook her head. Niah had met both in House of M and had not gotten along with them, especially the first lady. She had been such a show-off and know it all. Sure she had fought the Devil and won, but that didn't mean she had to brag about it.

"Hand something over." She said a bit more grumpy than she had been before Kwassi had arrived. It could easily be misconstrued as annoyance at him, but she was annoyed about the President and the First Lady. A part of her was thankful that in this reality she wasn't Americanized. She still had Philipino citizenship. Kwassi handed her some sort of mask. She frowned a bit touching it but she didn't get enough from it to be certain. "I won't say one way or the other." She said handing the mask back. Raynor would have to clear Kwassi.

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Location: Boardwalk -> Quinjet
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Matt was confused but followed Cass back onto the Quinjet. He tried to remember the last time he had seen Goose and couldn't figure it out. It had been ages. At least since Christmas eve. He knew Goose had been there because he remembered that Niah got Goose some treats. He wondered what the cat had been up to during that time. Had Goose been at the fight to get the fake Thane?

"Bonnie, you might want to check Niah out. She's really out of it. I think she should have stayed at the hospital. They amputated her leg and she just left still on the general anesthetics." A part of him knew Bonnie was gonna be mad at Niah for leaving the hospital like that but he also knew Niah needed the lecture that Bonnie might give her.

🌠 Once Upon A Time 🌠(Concluded)

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Rose Buckner

Location: Camelot: Sewers (again) -> The pub
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"I look forward to it." Rose said to Cass with a wink. She was thankful they were back inside the pub. She needed a shower badly, but she'd let Cass go first. She looked around. The two guys (other than Jack who could apparently summon fire) weren't in the room, which was a little reliving since she didn't like Colby. The kid was a danger to others.

"Well mom, this is... uh everyone, or nearly everyone." There were enough in their group she didn't feel like introducing them all. "How did team distraction go?" She asked. Sort of hoping that Colby had gotten killed or something. The group did seem upset about something and Roselia had blood, though no wound, on herself. It was a lot to take in and she didn't know what she missed, but what mattered was her mom was here and they could figure out their next step now. "What's the plan now Merlin?" She figured Megan would have to fight for her rightful place on the throne or something.

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Colby Jackson

Location: Camelot
Skills: pure awkward

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Colby went from confused to flustered real quick. He had just wanted to get away from the others. He didn't want to be in the same room as them anymore. Heck, he'd appreciate it if he could be on a different continent. Who did they all think they were? But here was Maddie being cute. And very drunk.

Colby wasn't a sleaze though. He wouldn't take advantage of Maddie. "I really did want to come up here to check on the cats, and get away from that girl." He said. Missing the flirt entirely. He wanted to kiss Maddie, but he wouldn't do that right now, that was a conversation for later.

He stepped into the room, feeling like he was half carrying Maddie. And helped him onto his bed. Before checking on the cats. Both were curled up and his black kitty Jack only yawned at him. Apparently annoyed at being bothered. He was going to have to call his cat something else if they stayed with the main group since there was a Jack among them and he didn't want to cause confusion.

The Gifted - Concluded

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Location: Veil’s Group: Eisenhower Building -> Sewers
Skills: Enhanced Reflexes (passive)

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Andy didn't know what a Morlock was. It just made her think of WoW, but those were Murlocs. Did Veil mean the creatures from 'The Time Machine'? Andy shivered a bit, sliding off of Stareyes. "Thanks anyway I guess." She shrugged. Now all she could imagine as she climbed down into the sewer was the gaunt faces of the Morlocks from the 2002 version of the movie. Those were way scarier than the 1960 version. She remembered the pit of water full of bones and was relieved that it was rats they had to contend with instead of cannibals. She had never read the book so she didn't know how different the creatures were from the book, but as a B movie aficionado, she loved the movie (especially the 1960 version which was significantly less scary). That movie had the classic problem a lot of movies from that time did and there was just so much talking, but the special effects were so bad it was hilarious.

At least they had something resembling light powers with whatever it was that Havoc did. And Stareyes had her laser eyes. They probably would do okay against Morlocks in that case. She crinkled her nose. It smelled gross and she was surrounded by rats. Andy was tempted to let a bit of electricity go off. It would kill some of the rats and probably piss off the rest, oh and of course water was conductive. So with the others getting into the sewer, she might hurt them so she didn't want to do that.

X-Men: Cosmic Crusades 👽

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Ed Penior

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Location: Space
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Ed was using the time in space where he had no serious obligations reading. He had brought along a small stack of books. He didn't like that they had to be physical books but it was really hard to find magical texts on kindle. Ed did have an anatomy book on a kindle though and was using that to work on learning how the human body worked. He had some idea mostly from his sister's learning of it when she was training, but he hadn't bothered to learn it that much. He wasn't the greatest healer in ten generations.

It was a little hard to read with Pietro running around like a child. Ed was surprised he hadn't been asking 'are we there yet?' with how impatient he was being. Ed did his best to not be annoyed, but it wasn't easy. Thankfully, Guin seemed to have distracted him. He obviously didn't know what they were saying to each other since they were talking telepathically, but at least she had him stop running around. Ed went back to his reading.

Ω Heroes of Olympus: The Next Age of Heroes Ω Officially Done

Location: Senate house
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Andy smiled at Arthur. Her heart seemed to hurt, her whole chest felt compressed for a moment. She took a deep breath. Andy knew she would always make decisions around Arthur. How best she could protect him, how best to take care of him and keep him safe and happy. Andy didn't know the words or how to express them, but she would tear apart the universe to protect Arthur.

"I want to go back to the ship and see if Gryf will let me ride him into battle." She smiled. "Maybe he'll take both of us. If not you sh-..can stay on the ship."

When Madalyne returned Andy nodded. "Well she wanted me to look into your family tree. I have a theory, but I don't know if I can prove it unless your records are magically updated or something. I don't know my parent's names. I was abandoned at two." She confessed. Her birth name was even unknown to her. But there was a reason Hecate had told her to look at the Crane family records. And knowing that Madalyne was a child of her...well that made Andy a little uncomfortable. Would Arthur still like her if she was somehow related to the goddess that had taken away one of his oldest friends?

"We should get going though to join the battle. I don't want them waiting for us for too long." Andy said. She was glad Madylne had already said they'd look at the records after the fight.

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Location: New Rome (sewers)
Skills: Madness; Chloroikinsis

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The voices rode in on a wave of madness. Em leaned into Marco's touch. It grounded her. Reassured her. But the sirens were going off. The battle had found the Romans. What the fifth had done to the sewers would help. However, this hole wouldn't. There was too much of a risk with it. She had to make a choice. Stay with Waverly and Demi or join the battle. Demi left too. Turning into a dragon and joining the battle above. Now she had to stay. Someone had to be there in case monsters tried to come up through the Labyrinth. And she couldn't leave Waverly unprotected.

Em turned and grabbed Marco's hand real quick and kissed him. "Go battle my love. I will stay here and hold the madness at bay."

With that taken care of Emily did the only thing she could do. She pushed back at the madness. She felt it recede away from her. The madness no longer clawed at her. She then threw a seed through the hole in the wall and eased it into the growing. Smiling, happy that it would work through the magic of the Labyrinth. "I'm here for you Waves." Now if anything else came at Waverly she could help fight it with the plant, and she'd made herself sane again.

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Location: Argo III
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Only Alannah and Lauryn joined Niah on the ship. All the other Greeks went to the Field of Mars. That seemed very Greek. There was a plan to have at least some of them fight from the air, but here they were running off. She sighed but listened closely to Alannah as she explained the layout of the ship.

"Certainly. I'd love to learn how to fly her." All ships were female, even flying ones. A thought crossed her mind, her mother was a river of course she hated being in the air. It suddenly explained her issues. Yeah, she wasn't afraid she just didn't like it and now she knew why. She felt a little dumb for not realizing it sooner.

"How good are the little ones at fighting? They are so young." She asked, trying to be conversational, but also her ever practical self.

🌠 Once Upon A Time 🌠(Concluded)

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Rose Buckner

Location: Camelot: Sewers (again)
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The fight devolved into chaos. Cass was bleeding from her face. In a sewer...that had to be unhygienic. They'd have to get that cleaned and taken care of right away to keep it from going septic. "I like it, but we got to make sure it doesn't get infected."

She was about to go back to trying to punch guards, having given up on her bow in such tight quarters. Thanking her lucky stars she had some skill in melee and distance. Before she could though Jack summoned fire and lobbed it at a guard killing them.

Rose covered her face when Hansel warned them. She felt her mother grab her hand and let herself get pulled through the sewers. She was still a little stunned that Jack had made a fireball. Who was his parent? She tried to remember if he had said. She should have written it down. Maybe they could have figured out what to expect from each person if they knew. Merlin would. They could ask him again. He had dodged the question before. Rose considered what she knew about her mother and figured she'd was normal, well as normal as one could get when they were a fairytale.

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Colby Jackson

Location: Camelot
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Colby was done. He just wanted to leave and have nothing to do with any of them ever again. Except for Maddie. Who was touching him. A month ago he would have been annoyed at the touch. Heck up till forty-eight hours ago he would have been annoyed. It was weird how the day had started so normally. Everything had gone sideways.

He wanted to grumble and make a face and tell Maddie to stop. But the warmth of his hand on his arm was nice so he didn't pull away. It was like a cat who decided that since it was being touched anyway they might as well allow it. "Uh, I had a weight lifting class at school." He admitted, a small blush warming his cheeks, which he covered up by getting a drink as well.

He decided that unless he had to he wasn't going to interact with Rosalia. There was no reason to at the moment so he ignored her. "Let's get the cats." He told Maddie and started to make his way back to their room where Jack and Carroll were.