The Snatch

[dragon writer]

Helen was sleeping when it happened. kevin snuck into her room, and put his hand over her mouth, muffling her when she awoke. he had a knife in hand. she struggled, but in two seconds flat they had disappeared, the only thig left behind, a single word carved into the nightstand...dream world.
(and it wasn't a twin! it was FUTURE kevin!)

((Not yet, going to have a little extra first...))

Max wandered into Helen's room to borrow one of her books, one of the more complex ones, and stared at the light on, illuminating two words carved into the mahogany nightstand, next to the very book he was going to borrow... Dream world. "Oh. That. Knew it was going to happen soon." He muttered, mildly disgruntled, but not particularly surprised, and turned back to go into his own room. When he got there, he collapsed into his bed, to go chase Morgana around and then snog.

Meanwhile...

"What the shit! Get the hell off me, you-" Helen struggled against Kevin's strong hands.

Kevin sighed. "I assume Max and Leo didn't tell you about this..."

"About what, you twat?" Helen wriggled around and bit Kevin's arm.

"about my coming in and taking you to dream world!"
"Why the heck would they know you were going to betray us! or are you a twin?"
"neither, i'm-"
helen didn't bother to listen, simply jabbing out with a kick...which kevin quickly caught.
"STILL using that kick!"
punch catched.
"how many hundreds of thousands of years from now do you think you'll be using that trick? no seriously, i want to know if you can figure it out..."
"Sidestep, matched.
"and what about that battle stragedyY!" kevin quickly grabbed her, and held her arms still. "Now, will you PLESE LISTEN! I"M FUTURE kevin! Not evil twin, not present kevin..."
"what?"
"FUTURE KEVIN! as in kevin from teh future..."
"and you're here...why exactly?"
"because we need to beat up plitora's plans?"
"oh"

Helen paused. "Beat up plans... Don't you mean thwart her plans?"

"Oh, hush. Anyway, Max should be coming with Morgana in about..."

"Two seconds ago, actually. Still need to work on your reflexes, Kevin!" Max laughed, Morgana a second behind him.

"What is this, Grand Central Station?" Helen grumbled. "Besides, what if I don't want to help? What if I want to snuggle with Ethan?"

Max rolled his eyes. "Can't. You know that cheeseburger guy?"

"Yeah, he's a b@$%!^, why?"

"He made us."

Helen swore colorfully, then added something that was definitely very much physically impossible to do. "And I wish he'd die, too!"

Kevin grinned. "I wish that, too. but we can't have everything, I suppose. Anyway, anyone got an idea as to how to annoy Plitora THIS time?"

"could we use itchy powder?" asked max. "i've always wanted to see plitora go crazy over itchy powder...."
"or we could just beat everyone up..." muttered helen.
"eh, good enough for me!"
"that's IT?"
"Have any better ideas? not that it'll work...Plitora's basic plot is deram world style. long story short...she plans on taking it over, and using dreams a s a method of subconsiouncse hypnosis..."

"could we use itchy powder?" asked max. "i've always wanted to see plitora go crazy over itchy powder...."
"or we could just beat everyone up..." muttered helen.
"eh, good enough for me!"
"that's IT?"
"Have any better ideas? not that it'll work...Plitora's basic plot is deram world style. long story short...she plans on taking it over, and using dreams a s a method of subconsiouncse hypnosis... any OTHER plans?"


"I am rather of the opinion that we decide to beat her to taking over Dream World, myself." Caia approached from nowhere, a rosewood staff clutched in her hand. A rather beautiful white raven was perched on her shoulder, only, it wasn't entirely raven-like, in some odd hard-to-put-your-finger on way.

"Then, we make sure we've got such a good hold on it that she can not get any hold of her own over it." She shrugged, grinning.

"At least, it seems like it'd work!"

"caia!" cried kevin. "How many times do i have to tell you not to mess with the dream world amulets! and anyways...there's a bit more to the story. i just relaized max most liekly didn't tell you ANYTHING, including about ht edream staff..."
"dream staff?" asked helen.
"Its a staff that allows Dreams to become reality...at least to a limited extent." kevin waved his hand, and an image appeared in front of them, of a bauble, swirling with smoke. suddenly, a wooden staff shot out of the bottom, with golden words, twisting around it, stating "reality to dream, dream to reality, nothing is what it seems" THAT"S what plitora is after."
"wow..." came a voice. "cool looking."
"SAPHIRE!"
"uhuh...brought her along with me

"You've told me many times...doesn't mean I'll listen though." She winked, grinning. She watched what Kevin did with his holographic bubble.

"Hm. That looks really cool." She said, nodding in appreciation of the sight.

"thank you...i've had a few hundred centuries to practice..advamtage of being FUTURE kevin. i'm always REALLY far in the future...now, are we going or what?"

Helen groaned. "I don't want to go anywhere. I just want to snuggle with Ethan. This is stupid, anyhow. See you." And before anyone could stop her, she had disappeared, probably to Ethan's dream.

"That's just majorly hampered what we're trying to do... We need her power. Unless..." Max thought. "Yeah. Kevin, could you go get Draco and Lilian? The time frame where they're still teenagers, anyway. Their power is more powerful than my mum's."

Kevin nodded, and immediately disappeared.

((I'll send you the profiles for Draco and Lilian. Meep, this is into... Three generations!))

"I was mainly talking about the thing that Plitora wants." She said shrugging. "But, that thing is nice too..." She stretched out, causing the raven to flutter away, then settle back on her shoulder.

"Lead on, your leader-ness." She gave an eyebrow twitch of amusement.

"um..."said max"...wait...eilonwy's not here...nicole's not here...jennifer's not here...and jean's not here, nor angela...SO WHO THE HECK"S IN CHARGE!"
"that would be me," said kevin, reappearing. "got them...Though i'm warning you guys, this will be tricky without helen...We need a very certain order of things to pick that stupid staff out of its pedistal and give it to jean...and if we DON"T get it and give it to jean, as what is OUR history, and you're present, tells us we're supposed to have done, then jean never gets it in time to take the intervening centuries to LEARN about it, and can't use it in OUR time which she needs to do...aka...DON"T FAIL! or else...very, very, BIG else...possibly not being born else, since youguys are from the future and you never know how these things affect other things..."
"alright, all right, we get it! did you bring the others?"
"of course."

Draco rubbed at his eyes, glaring at the back of Kevin's head and mumbling obscene words at him for ruining his dream. Next to him, Lilian scowled furiously, hissing under her breath. She touched Draco's hand and thought at him, What d'you think is happening now?

I dunno. Draco's mental voice held a shrug. What d'you think?

Plitora, maybe... Little biatch trying to take over the world again, maybe? Lilian grinned at the thought, remembering. That time when she was trying to get Argu to help her... So funny. And Argu whacked her!

Draco smiled. That was amusing. Dream world this time, by the sound of it. And Helen scrammed so we have to fill in for her.

Lilian made a face. Getting us to do her work, is she?

No, Lil, she's just scared.

Scared? Lilian raised an eyebrow. Helen, scared?

Yeah, Helen scared. She's only human.

No way! No freaking way! Lilian broke contact with Draco, glaring at him and hiding her hands in her pockets. "Helen, scared? She wasn't scared, she couldn't have been, she was just being lazy! And you know it, don't deny it! Get away from me, you little-"

And she was gone. Just gone, like she had never been there. Draco put a hand to his cheek, wincing in pain as his scar gave a twinge. Then he gasped, his eyes widening, and he cursed rapidly, shaking his head to dispel the images quickly pouring into his mind. Lilian, stuck in the darkness of a golden cube. Lilian, lying bleeding in a tiny cell. Lilian, being tortured by a clone of him. Lilian, screaming soundlessly as a clone of him was killed slowly. He fell to the ground, whimpering as the images continued to come, never ending, forever tormenting him, as his cousin was shown being hurt in far too many ways...

It was over. Draco lay still in a fetal position, whimpering as the last of the images disappeared from his mind. Then a sinister voice entered his mind If you want Lilian back, you must join us... Join us, and Lilian will be spared, refuse us, and she will die...

Draco whimpered and shook his head, whispering, "No, no, no..." and pushing any hands reaching for him away, shaking. Then he curled into a tighter ball and just hid from the world, shaking in fear.

((BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH! I am an evil little *Bleep*, and any attempt to revert my work will be thwarted with the help for a sledgehammer. THIS MEANS YOU, YR!))

edited to change a word
Don't curse mousey!

edited to poke YR
NIII!

"draco?" said kevin. "are you alright?"
"alright? alright?" draco laughed uncontrollably. the room began to drop, the air to freeze. "alright...he wants to know if i'm ALRIGHT!" the air began to grow dense around him, and the air to freeze. "oh, i'm FINE, kevin! just perfect!"
from the look on kevin's face, he REALLY didn't like the way things were looking.

Draco then scowled. "No, I'm NOT alright. Lilian's gone. She's GONE! GONE! She's GONE!" The moisture in the air around Kevin froze into ice, dropping onto him. "No, I am most definitely not alright. I WANT LILIAN BACK NOW, D**N IT! NOW! NOW!"

The moisture froze quickly, and the air chilled as Draco got more and more worked up. He sent a blood-freezing glare at Kevin, clenching his teeth. "Find. Lilian. NOW. I f***ing mean it."

"one, watch that language or i'll make you wash out your own mouth with soap...two...CALM DOWN! cara! get in here!"
"what?"
"ice control please?"
cara turned a look at draco and the temperature shot back down. "better?"
"much."
"can i PLEASE go back to mu dream now?"
"sure...but i may call on you later!"
"alright!"
"what the-who the-i-huh-"
"cara. great girl...rarely seen. i should probably change that...she's actually BEEN with us quite a while...but i've been keeping her off as sort of a secret weapon kind of thing...until YOU made me ruin that...which means we're going to end up with cara twins! did you see that attitude on that girl! i do NOT want an evil version!"
"WHO CARES! JUST GET LIAN BACK NOW!"
"you know, you have a real temper sometimes...I wonder if i can manage to lower the temperature, like cara can with her masterful control of fire andheat...or will i just make you explode if i try? lets say i DON"T try, and you calm down..."
Draco shot a lightning bolt at kevn, and he made a gesture with his hand, frying the bolt with lightning. "well, i WAS trying for fire but..."
"I WANT LIAN!"

"I WANT LILIAN NOW, D**N IT!"

Morgana took one look at Draco and promptly slapped him, knocking him out quickly. "We don't have long, Kevin. We need to have Lilli by the time Draco's awake again."

"You can guard him-" Kevin started, but Morgana glared.

"NO! Get someone else to guard him. He-llo? I'm the one who practically knows Plitora's dungeons like the palm of my hand! I know where Lilli would be, because I'm the one who has to repeatedly get OUT of the maximum security cells! I'M GOING, whether you like it or not! And don't make me slap you!"

"Oh, alright, but I'm telling you, you'll regret this..."

"Yeah, I will, but that's how it's going to have to go, isn't it? We have to follow along with history." Morgana's voice was smug.

"Much as I despise doing so, we do. Now are we going or not?"

"We're going."

this whole self, future self thing is going to get confusing for everyone, isn't it, kevin?"
"CARA! WHAT THE HECK ARE YOU DOING HERE! HOW THE HECK DID YOU-wHEN DID-i give up!"
"'bout time too...It's GREAT being mysterious..."
"I'm just gonna glare..."
"you go ahead with that. now come on...i've already heard morgana's plan...kinda dumb of you, by the way...but brave. i can respect that."
"thanks...and you are?"
"names cara. which you should know...i plan on being around well into whatever the heck time you come from."
"Still polite to ask, aunt cara."
"AUNT! you mean-"
"no, we're not related...but you mellow down a whole lot....so I call you aunt to tease you sometimes."
"...i think we're gonna get along."
"Never worry. we will. and you should SEE the relationship you and helen have..."
"You know...WE HAVE TO GO!" cried present kevin.

"Fine, fine! But it's not my fault, SOMEONE keeps distracting us on purpose... Don't make me get Omni to tie you up for a while, Writer!" Morgana glared up at the heavens.

"Alright, alright, you're going!" A voice very much like Kevin's called back, and the world started to blur. Then the group reappeared in a strange place, sans Draco, of course. Morgana looked around and rolled her eyes. "They can't just pull her through space, they have make it more diffucult! Twenty years ahead, sheesh, it's like they're amateurs or something!"

"Um, Morgana, they are." Future Kevin said. Morgana rolled her eyes.

"No wonder! Idiots..." Then she fell forward, her eyes widening as she fell. Behind her, one of her clones hefted a bloody sword and said, "Move and she's dead. Don't move...

"And she'll bleed to death."

((DUN DUN DUN! I am an evil little biatch, aren't I? MWAHAHAHAHA!))

"wow..." said present kevin. "that stinks."
"WHAT THE-" the twin spun around, sword in hand, holding a bow and arrow pointed towards the other, using magic to keep all at the ready. Of course, during all this, he completely missed katrina turning to water, sneaking flowing over morgana, and slowing down the bleeding...stopping it woud be suspicious, but slowing would be unnoticed. and it would give them some time...
"you know," said cara, using telepethy to talk to them all, "i really think we're in trouble..."
suddenly future kevin spun around and looked at present kevin, suddenly realizing who he had been talking too the entire time..."HOW THE HECK DID YOU-"
"I'm you. need you ask?"
"guess not....one last thing," said future kevin, then swung around and knocked cara out.
"'bout time future kevin!" said cara, stepping out of the shadows.
"what the-"
"what? you actually thought i'd be THAT mean to you? not since the second time we met!"
"you mean the second time you tried to kill me?"
"now, you wouldn't hold something like that against a girl, would ya? a poor defenseless girl trying to avenge her family.." a single tear rolled down her cheek.
"you're getting better," said kevin. "i remember when you couldn't keep down the flow to one..."
"thanks. after all, i said i wouldn't be mean, not that i wouldn't have a bit of an attitude." she grinned.

((MWAHAHAHAHA! Uber torture! MWAHAHAHAHA! Morgana POV. PLLEEAEAASSEEE can I use first person, just for this bit of Morgana POV? It's just a little extra, a little scene change. YAY!))

My world blurred around me as I felt the pain for the sword thrusting into my back. As it was withdrawn, I fell, already slipping into what i knew would be a permanent sleep. I could see my life, my memories, every single moment from the time I was first able to think enough to make vague memories, to the very millisecond before the sword punctured my skin and drove through my muscles. Memories I had forgotten because they were so early, and then, suddenly, memories I had never even realized i had that I should have remembered. I was five, playing with my mom. I was seven, playing with my newborn sister. I was ten, reading a book out loud to my three year old sister as she tried to paint her blonde hair black like mine. And then...
I was twelve. Reading outside, peacefully, and the scream. My baby brother, lying all too still on the floor. Agatha, my then five year old sister, bleeding in a corner. My mother, already dead. And in the middle of it all, a blonde haired teenager mercilessly murdering my father, her light hair streaked with blood red. She was gone soon after. I had screamed when she was gone, then tried to save my sister. No use. Obviously. It was a Elionwy clone who got my parents, as I found out after a while, but until then I was after REVENGE.
I almost shivered as the worst memory of my life flashed past my eyes, and my only happy thought was that soon I was going to be with them all. Agatha. Xander, my brother who never saw his first birthday. My mother, and my father. All my family was dead, Except Lilian.
Lilian. Lilian. I won't die. I can't die. If I do...
Who knows what will happen to the future, and the past.
I won't die. I won't.
Armed with this determination, I felt a cool presence cover me, and I was comforted slightly, knowing that Katrina was probably trying to do as much as she could without making it look suspisious. I wondered idly what was happening with the rest of the bedlam inmates and the prison inmates, then snickered at my implication that the Protectors are crazy.

((Okay, back to third person! Morgana is insane, even when she is in paaaaiiinnn! You do the arguing with the nasty and really %$#&ing stubborn Morgana clone. DON'T LET HER GIVE IN, GOT THAT?))

"you hate everything, morgana, don't you?" asked morgana's twin. "...that's good."
"no it isn't," muttered morgana
"yes it is."
morgana could feel the steal of her twins sword, twisting in her belly
"you hate...and thus you survive. it's fun hating...we twins learn to do it from creation."
"what if i don't wanna hate?"
"Then you will not survive. hate is survival. to care is to die....at least for those like us."
"no it isn't. and who is those like us anyways?"
"yes it is."
"you didn't answer the question..."
morgana's twin grinned. "I know i didn't."
"You're insane."
"my mind is yours. therefore, i am as sane as you are."
"that's what i just said, isn't it?"
"I just wanted to hear you say it."
"I could kill you, you know...if i wanted too. even if you are my evil twin. "
"and never know the whole truth? i think not."
the steel ripped up through morgana's body. "maybe next time we'll move the sword down...i wonder what happens to a woman if the sword were to move to far down?...i should try it before our next session."
"I won't be here for a next session, twin..."
"well then...i have plenty of time to try it out, now don't i?"

(less confusion?)

Morgana fought the blackness with all her might, which was lessening rapidly. Soon she would be dead, and then...

NO! A voice screamed, and she felt, dimly, the thud of someone hitting the floor, then someone kneeling next to her. Someone else's tears fell onto her chest. "No... You can't... Please, Morgana, hold on..."

It was Max. Morgana looked at him from dim eyes, and whispered, "Sorry..."

"You can't! I need you, Lilian needs you, Draco needs you... Please, please, PLEASE!" The tears were falling faster.

Morgana's vision was fading. "I-I can't..." She went limp.

"NO! MORGANA!" Max screamed, mentally and verbally, collapsing on Morgana's lifeless body, and they both began to glow a pure white.

Kevin gasped. "The power, the power he has..." He turned to the rest of the group. "If you do anything to that, I will kill you. And I mean it. Protect them if you can, but do NOT touch it!"

The power in his voice as he said this told everyone that he meant all of what he said, and most of them immediately surrounded the two motionless forms on the ground, their weapons out as they watched for any twins attempting to finish Morgana off.

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Morgana appeared in a dark room, a door in front of her, the door slightly ajar. She was about to open it when a small figure peeked around it, a silvery figure she recognized. "Agatha?" She gasped.

"'Gana! You shouldn't be here yet!" Her little sister seemed frightened of something. "Go, go now, you don't belong here, sis, go!"

"But... But you're here! I want to be with you." Morgana knelt down to look Agatha in the eye. "I want to be with my family."

"Be with them, then. Be with Max. Sis, I've seen you with him, I've seen him. He needs you. Please, stay alive a while longer. Don't worry about me. We're happy here. We're watching over you, 'Gana. Now go! Go!" Agatha slipped behind the door again.

"Argent-" The door closed, and she was engulfed in darkness, which was rapidly gaining a pale glow. Somewhere she heard a beat start, a steady thump thump, thump thump, thump thump that was familiar. Now the world had a orange-red tone to it, and she gasped as her eyes opened to see a white aura slowly fade away. She could barely move, and something was on her chest. Looking down, she realized it was a quite familiar head. "Um..." She tried to wriggle away. "Max, get off so I can get up."

Max started, staring at her as she blinked in surprise at him, wondering slightly why he was so surprised taht she was talking. "Morgana! You're okay!"

"Of course I am, why wouldn't I be?" Morgana grinned.

"You don't remember?"

Pieces came together, and Morgana growled slightly. "I remember now, alright. Did you get her?"

Max grinned wolfishly, standing up and offering Morgana his hand. "She's gone. I made sure of it."

Morgana stood up, kissing Max's cheek in gratitude. "Normally I'd be annoyed, but since I was a little out of it at the time, thanks for saving me."

"It's time to save Lilian, now." They joined the rest of the group, quite ready to face any challenge.

((I FINALLY finish this! *bite me*))

(not finished yet. did you forget what started it?)
Guys...hate to breka this up, but we STILL have to get the dream staff away from plitora and too jean...whole universe gonna be taken over by plitora thing? remember that?"

((I meant That I FINALLY post the stupid thing. Muuussssshhhh..... XD))

(ah. *Nods*)

"Yeah, yeah, whatever..." Morgana grinned. "I remember. Being near dead ain't gonna wreck my memory, silly. It'll take more than that."

"Morg, you were actually dead." Max muttered.

"Shush, I don't care." Morgana then looked forward again. "Ah, dang. GIT! GITGITGIT!" She stepped forward, and this time there was someone behind her. "Take THAT!"

Clang clang clang- Everyone was fighting now, swords out, and then Morgana heard Max gasp, then groan, and she felt him fall.

She spun, her sword flashing - a twin's head fell - Morgana fell to her knees, next to Max - the others were protecting her back - Max's side was bloody - he gasped for breath - she shook her head, mouthing 'no' - he smiled - she closed her eyes - he took another ragged breath - her eyes shot open - her hands glowed red - she raised them - a blast of magic -

And a small redhead appeared, looking around blearily, rubbing sleep from her eyes, then focusing on Max and padding over to him, kneeling down and pressing one hand to his forehead. Morgana noticed her pyjamas had little kittens all over them, and smiled slightly. "Hey, Morg..." The girl whispered.

"Yes?" Morgana asked.

"I'm sorry about this, but I have to, okay?" The girl smiled, then slugged Morgana and stood up.

"Kevin!" She called.

"Rowan!" He gasped, then looked down. "Um, please tell me Max's not dead."

"He's not. This-" Rowan tapped Max, "Was actually a very rapid switch. Max is probably where Richie's girlfriend is. Now, where's Drake?"

"Twenty years ago." Omni replied promptly, having appeared just then. "You want him?"

"Yeah. Need him, actually. And Rich."

"'K then." Omni disappeared.

(NOT clone. Tere ARE no clones of omni unless she wants them to exist. Now go get me Richard and Drakey. I think this is after Body switching... Yah. SO he's got FIRE, not ICE. )

Richard andDSraky stumbled through portals, not quite certain what they had found themselves in. Not that they were going to have much of a chance to find out, mind you. They were on the wrong side of the battle, and those that were seeing them didn't seem all that happy about it.
Let's just say swords were involved. Lot's of them.

"Oh, JEEZ! Do I have to do everything around here?" Rowena muttered when she noticed the ruckus on the other side. "DRAKEY-POO!!! HEEELP!"

"ROWEN!" Draco tore through the evil twins, then glared at Rowen when he saw she was safe. "Stop DOING that, jeez!"

"So-rry, but could you hold this?" Rowen threw a small crystal to Draco, who looked at it and gasped.

"I- know that place..."

"Well, you SHOULD, considering how many times I've bloody well RESCUED you from it! Know how ot get there from here?"

"Yeps."

Richard got over there at that moment and snickered. "That place is only about two minutes walk from here."

"Yeah, by cheetah-pace..."

"Shut-up."

[dragon writer]

"I don't see why i should."
"Cause we're the only ones smart enough to bring a way to contact our familiars along, and you don't wanna be left behind?"
"Who says i don't."
"Experiance."
"Experiance is an idiot."
"I'll tell him you said that...."
"YOu wouldn't."
"remember what happened that one time Kevin cursed gravity? I wonder if EXPERIANCE happens to have a living personality..."

"Meep. Shutting up now..."

"Good boy." Rowena gave Draco a peck on the cheek. "Anyway, who wants to go save Lilian and whoever else got stuck with her?"

"Uh... Actually, I think you've been talking too long."

"Try again, clonsie. I don't think I'm quite convinced. Would you like some cold, hard steel in your gut?" Rowena turned around, her emotions changing in the blink of an eye from cheerful to vicious. "Your kind almost lost me my boyfriend, #@$%@!%. Come here and get my appreciation."

Draco grinned. "I knew I had a good reason for dating her... She is sexy when she's mad."

"Unless I'm mad at you, nutter." Rowena said as she advanced on the Lilian-twin.

"Why are we still standing around!" cried Rowana.
"Because you **&** morons couldn't wait for me to *&*(&& catch up with you, so i had Omni pause you. I've been stuck in my *&^*&& room way to long, and i am getting oute&^*^& out of THere! Well, wha ar eyou *^*&^ staring at! are we going, or we just gonna *&*^^ stand around until the end of time?

((.... UH... Who's cheesed?))

(SHe's the girl i messaged you about. Ms curse a lot?)

Helen laughed. "I think you and I will get along."

"Shaddup and start fighting, god ****it!"

"All right!"

"OMNI! WHERE ARE YOU!"
"Here, your witchiness."
"Shut the *** up and start your ears. I want quick transport, i **** want it NOW, you hear me? Keep the ****** vilains stationary while you're at it."
"Writer!"
"yeah?"
"Why DID YOU CREATE THIS MONSTER!"
"I needed SOMEONE to get Kevin to the throne."
"Well delete.'
"Oh no, you **** well don't." A bolt of lighting hit omni's finger, sending it flying back to heal. "NO one's touching a single key while i'm around, ya here?"
Writer tipped a calming potion.
"Well, what are waiting for? Sorry, but i have a bit of a temper when ******ing incompetents like writer and Omni are on the case. You can't even come up with a good calming potion? I don't see why you didn't bring me in sooner. ANd i'll calm down when i'm **** well ready, you hear me? I'll stop cursing then, too...somewhat."

NIRA, SHUT UP! NOW! BEFORE I SLAP YOU INTO THE NEXT UNIVERSE!"

Nira shut up.

"THANK YOU. Look, I am NOT your servant. I am your BOSS."

"Oh really?"

"Really." And Nira was suddenly inside a block of gold, with only a small hole to peek through. "Stew."

((meep, being dragged away, sorry))

Nira was out in three seconds flat, and stabbing Omni with bolts of lighting. "DON"T MESS WITH THE LIGHTNING GIRL! IT"S A **** BAD IDEA! I WILL **** CALM DOWN WHEN I'M READY TOO. UNTIL THEN, LEAVE ME ALONE."

"Is someone poking me with lightning or something? 'Cause I think I feel like I'm being tickled."

Nira growled and began stabbing more ferociously. Omni just stood there and laughed.

Until she was burned to a crisp. "SOrry, writer made a point of making sure i couldn't be controlled. ANd then promptly forgot. I'm here to tell people th eturht, whether they want it or not."

"Wriiiiter... That wasn't me on her, that was a fricking shield! She's just an annoying pest who's really easy to drive bonkers.." Omni grumbled, reforming.

"You want to punt her through a wallllllll...." A voice said in an annoying sing-song.

"Shut-up."

"But you're so easy to annoy! And besides, I can't really ever cut this connection." The voice snickered as Omni scowled up at the sky.

"You are going to PAY for that little bit of fun with your powers..."

"I think no-ot... I AM higher Up, after all."

"I haaaaate you...."

"Go punt her through a wall already."

"MAYBE I WILL!"
"You will not! I was given all teh powers ineed, and i ewill keep on using them to make your life hell. Becaues i can."

"Does that include a talent for cursing people?"

"maybe. Never tried."

"Writer, you think?"

"It would explain some things..."

Nira glared.

"Let's see if it works. I curse you to have a rock fall on your head!" one did. "Now i curse you to feel that rock!" she did.
"WRITER!"
"I'm not doing anything!"
"NOw i curse you do whatever the hell i want, and then get the **** out of here!"
"That's not flying! I stop your curse powers!"
"Hey!" cried a spiriit. "NO one stops our curser! She's only one of you idiots who we can count on not to back down!"
"Get out of here, you stupid things!" cried Phantasma. "We don't need any spirits telling us what to do!"
"Shut up ghost"
"Shut yourself up, you bag of exoplasma!"

"As much as I find this argument stimulating, I think we should probably stop arguing, since there are oh, maybe a couple hundred Twins ready to gut us all?" Omni gestured around. Sure enough, they were surrounded.

"I'll stop arguing when i want to stoip arguing, and you won't stop until i say so!" demanded the spirit. "That means ALL OF YOU!"the twins froze in midair, as ghosts appeared everywhere.
well, spirits.
and they didn' look hapy. "YOU PEOPLE ARE GOING TO LISTEN TO US FOR ONCE!"

"Try a no for an answer, because I need to mess with people's heads, and YOU are distracting me."

One of the twins possess Omni, another Writer. "Yes," they said, "is the correct answer."

"HEY! No possessing my Head-Messer! Honestly, I don't see what use Dragon has for you twits..."

A girl appeared, holding a staff with a wooden ladybug on it and looking very put out. "You're forgetting what your original goal is; GET THAT STAFF. Now go do it, before I thwack you with this one! Motherf***ing spirits... Yes, yes, you HAVE been wasting space. By GAWD, over a page of nothing..." She muttered a bit more, then grinned.

"Drakey-poo, have fun!"

"Wha--"

He disappeared.

"Don't worry... Just go find him. And the other people who disappeared.

"Making me do this... Twits." And she, too, vanished, but in a sparkle of ebilness.

Omni rubbed her forehead, wincing. "Being possessed gives me a really, really bad headache. I think I need to kill someone." She looked around and fixed on a twin. "Aha. There you are. C'mere..."

Writer groaned and got out of the way.

A few minutes (and screams) later, Omni was in a MUCH happier mood.
The spirits, however, had come back and weren't.
Still, they didn't say much...Just gave kevin glares, and prophecies involving his daughters death if he didn't do things JUuuuust right.
Of course, since most of them involved kicking Omni in the rear, he mostly ignored it.

[Mousey]

"If--"

"Alright, boys, you're OUT of here. Stop bothering people here; go be annoying somewhen ELSE."

"But Mouseeeeeyyyy...!"

"You sound like a bunch of five-year-olds. SCAT."

[dragon writer]

They gathered together.
"NO."
"WHAT?"
"You can't boss us around. We're dead!"
Mousey stared at them for a moment, than grinned, as a bored Bridget looked through her grandfathers book collection miles away, an ancient tomb catching her eye. She remembered seeing Kevin studying it in the future, trying to translate it. Only, there was a spell there now that she hasn't seen before.
Knowing it was stupid, but unable to resist, she muttered to the words to the spell. An instant later, it disappeared.
So did the spirits, freed at last from their connection to this world and sent to the spirit world where they belonged.

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[Mousey]

-- THANK YOU! -- Mousey's voice said in her mind. -- You just freed the spirits! THANK YOU SO MUCH! I was trying to make them stop bothering us... You just saved me the trouble of finding a way to strangle them. --
Bridget snickered. No problem... I'll go set up the party.
-- We'll be there in, oh, a while. You'd be more help if you went to sleep. --
M'kay. We're still gonna have a party for the end of the annoyance that was the spirits...
-- OH yes. --

[dragon writer]

'Sides, she muttered sleepily, grandpa gets grumpy if he doesn't have his traditional "we beat up the bad guys and therefore rule" party.

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[Mousey]

-- A- -- "Yep."

"Hi Mousey!"

[dragon writer]

"ACK! Don't startle me like that!"
"WHat?" grinned Writer. "Don't like being dragged down to story time?"
"Not really, no. It annoys me."

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[Mousey]

"I, quite frankly, ENJOY it when you blither on for long periods of time. Gives me time to forget what we were supposed to be doing."

[dragon writer]

"WHat was that by the wya""
"How should i know! ask dragon."

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[Mousey]

"We're SUPPOSED to be looking for the dream staff and getting it before Plitora does."

"Can i hit her with it when we find it?" Mousey asked.

[dragon writer]

"Yes. Mpw cpe on, we've got some searching to do!"

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[Mousey]

"Blehk. Searching. Why can't we cheat?"

"'Cause that's no fun?"

[dragon writer]

"...No, really, why can't we cheat?"
"It's over there, and Plitora is three minutes away."
"Thank you!"


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