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Post by rachelle on Jul 5, 2004 11:03:38 GMT -5
I quickly stood up and made my way over to Rory, who was gazing at someone else. Maya. Jealousy flared up in me, and i planted myself in between Maya and Rory, blocking the his view.
"Hi Rory, how are ya doing?" I asked, taking his hand, rather forcefully. He looked down at his hand which was entwined with mine, and then looked back up at me, as if in a daze.
"I'm fine." He said, gruffly and yanked his hand out of my hold.
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Post by Jessy Jackson on Jul 5, 2004 11:09:18 GMT -5
That Maya was going down. I transformed and got ready to pounce.
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Post by killian on Jul 5, 2004 11:21:09 GMT -5
Maya still had a hand on my arm, and she her grip was very strong. I suddenly had a worry for my safety. What the hell was goin' on?
Rachelle walked past me just as i wondered that, and I said, "Rachelle, are you alright?"
But she just walked past me. My heart sank, and my eyes followed her as she talked to Rory. I watched as she took his hand. I felt even worse than I had before, added to the pressure Maya was applying to my arm.
And then, I noticed Jessy, glaring daggers at Maya. Seriously, glaring large daggers. If looks could kill, Maya would be six feet under by now. Twice. That look could have killed Maya twice. And then, adding to my confusion, Jessy changed into a black panther and crouched down low on the floor. Her yellow cat eyes were fixed on Maya, and realised with shock what Jessy was about to do.
As Jessy pounced, I pushed Maya from Jessy's path, and Maya stumbled to the side, and Jessy landed on the floor. She turned around and snarled at Maya.
What the heck was going on?
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Post by Jessy Jackson on Jul 5, 2004 11:39:45 GMT -5
"You're going down, Slayer," I snarled. I crouched again and began my leap. Mid-air I was knocked away by Spike. He began to pound me into the floor, hissing insults to me and praise for Mai with every punch. God it hurt, it hurt so much.
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Post by Joshua on Jul 5, 2004 12:01:35 GMT -5
With another flick of energy, Spike was suddenly cast off of Jessy, and Jessy was thrown in the opposite direction. Then I bent down near Mai's ear and urgently whispered to her, knowing that because of our connection she *could* hear me and probably was the only one who could.
"Mai! Snap out of it! Come on girl, you're too smart for this!" I practically screamed right in her ear.
She winced and then looked all around until her eyes landed on my body and a confused look crossed her face. "Joshua?" she asked, sounding as confused as she looked.
"Yes and no," I quickly explained, "I'm in my astral body right now. And if you actually used your mind like I KNOW you can, you'd see that we're all under some kind of cupid love spell. Gods how I wish now that I had missed that episode of Xena."
"What are you talking about, and you don't have to shout you know!" she snapped to thin air, since she could only hear me and not see my astral body.
"Never mind that. Important parts are, we're under some kind of love spell, I'm in my astral body, which goes to say that the spell was cast on our bodies, not our spirits or our souls. And you need to THINK of a way out of this. NOW!!"
Maya winced again, then shook her head, probably to clear the ringing out of her ears.
"All right, all right, just go ahead and wake up so we can figure this out, jerk face," she grumbled.
"I can't, Lady Tramp," I returned with equal venom (not much), "I can't control my astral projection power, remember? Until the reason for me being in astral form is gone, I'm stuck. That means as long as that love potion is affecting everyone... or maybe just my body, I'm stuck looking like a woman, in case you forgot that's what my astral body looks like thanks to you and your enjoining spell."
"I did not do that on purpose and it saved our lives you ungrateful little ass!" she yelled at me, apparently completely forgetting Killian for the moment. Exactly what I wanted.
"Oh really, you pompous, Faith-wannabe two-bit, practitioner witch?" I continued to goad her. "Then why don't you prove what an ungrateful little ass I am by casting another spell on my body while I'm helpless to resist!"
"FINE!" she was so pissed off she couldn't entirely see straight, and given that her last thoughts of spells were the love spell that I had mentioned, she cast such a spell on my prone body.
Funny thing though, a warning that Willow always gave Maya whenever the powerful mage was visiting, never MIX magicks. You never know what you'll get.
There was a sparkle of pink specks from Maya's hands to my body, and then my amulet started to glow brightly from beneath my clothing, followed by a blinding flash.
"Uh oh," I said as my astral body faded, and I woke up in my real one.
When I opened my eyes however... I saw nothing but pure white. I tried moving my eyes, my head, even waved my hands in front of my face several times and made sure my eyelids were open.
I was blind.
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Post by Jessy Jackson on Jul 5, 2004 12:10:14 GMT -5
(((Sorry, but you asked for this!)))
"Hey, Nicks!" I yelled, seeing Nicki doting on Joshua. "I think Joshua has gone blind!"
"Oh no!" cried Nicki, despairingly. "Well, let's see what I can do." She placed her hand over his eyes and purple sparks flowed over them. When she took her hand away, Joshua was gazing up at her. He could see again.
"Nicki, you're wonderful," he said quietly, sincerely.
(((Told you ya wouldn't get out of it!!! Muhahaha)))
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Post by Joshua on Jul 5, 2004 12:33:51 GMT -5
Then I slapped her. Then I slapped myself, mentally, and asked why I had done that.
Nicki held her cheek, tears in her eyes and she whimpered, "Why did you do that?"
"I . . . I-I-I don't know, honest!" I stuttered, starting to panic. "But I . . ." then I vanished with hardly a poof.
"Joshua? JOSH!!" Nicki really began to panic. Fortunately she wasn't left distraut for very long as half a moment later, I fell out of the ceiling right on top of her. Unfortunately for me, she had werewolf reflexes and quickly rolled out of the way, leaving only the floor to cushion my fall.
"Ow."
"Oh, Josh-y I'm so sorry!" Nicki croned and began to dote all over me.
"Oh, what the freak just happened?" I asked as I peeled myself off the floor. Then I noticed my amulet glowing, so I pulled it out and instantly understood. "Oh, a reset."
"Reset?" Nicki echoed, unsure.
"Oh, something I set up about a week after Mai and I started dating. If ever I'm under the effects of a spell, I'm pulled into the present from a point in time before I was under the spells effects. Last thing I remember is drinking at the bar and cuddling with Mai when this sleep gas started to fill the room. I tried to errect a time bubble, but I was pulled to here before I could. Guess I didn't exactly succeed."
"Wait, all I did was cure your blindness," Nicki explained.
I shook my head, "No, the blindness is another side effect, one I have absolutely no control of whenever multiple, conflicting spells are laid down on me. Removing the blindness just eradicates one of the spells, which then allowed the automatic reset to occur. Especially if it was Mai's spell that was left over."
"Oh, so . . . that means that there was another spell on you . . . right?" she asked, again unsure of herself.
I smiled and kissed the girl on her forehead, like friends do when extremely pleased. "You probably saved my life Nicki. Thank you. Now . . ."
I stopped when I saw Mai all but throwing herself at the Irish bastard (not an insult, he *is* an Irish bastard), and the only thing that convinced me not to have him killed or making sure he never existed in the first place was the panicked look in his eyes and the fact that kept her from doing anything more was the fact that she was still dressed. Mai did NOT act like that, EVER.
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Post by Jessy Jackson on Jul 5, 2004 12:40:52 GMT -5
"Damn he has a lot of scape goats," muttered a demon outside the Spot.
"Don't worry, I gave him a sachet on his forehead. It should break just about...now!" The liquid poured into his eyes and he blinked. He opened his eyes and loked straight ahead at...
(((Joshua, I will not let you escape this time. Be fair. It's time you weren't immortal)))
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Post by Joshua on Jul 5, 2004 12:49:40 GMT -5
The burning lasted for a breath of time, but wouldn't you know it, that breath of time was when I was rolling my eyes up in thought, and the moment the love potion liquid, or whatever the hell it is, hit, I was looking up at the mirror over the bar... and was staring right at myself when the effects hit.
And Mai thought I was self-centered and conceted BEFORE! was my last un-spell-effected thought.
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Post by Jessy Jackson on Jul 5, 2004 14:19:32 GMT -5
(((I hate you!)))
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Post by rachelle on Jul 5, 2004 14:39:38 GMT -5
(((This is incredibly funny watching (reading) Joshua trying to get out of it, but please Joshua...can't you just get into it and find someone to love? Don't be such a spoilsport.)))
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Post by Maya on Jul 5, 2004 17:03:41 GMT -5
((dont you guys get it? Hes fallen in love with HIMSELF! its brilliant!!))
So Joshua was awake then... and gaping at himself in the mirror. Huh. whatever. Hang on... hadn't he said something about a spell...? I shook my head, nevermind. Now where did Killian go?
"Killian?" Oh there he was, following... Rachelle? Why!? "Killian!" I cried, rushing after him.
"Maya!" He said, "Snap out of it! This isn't you, you're with joshua!"
"Joshua? Pfft. People move on, honey, to much better things." I fluttered my eyelids.
"No no no!"
"Yes." I replied.
"Oh bugger." He said.
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Post by Azoth (Kyler) on Jul 5, 2004 20:48:14 GMT -5
(((Even though I don't breathe, therefore, I wouldn't have breathed in any sleeping gas... I'll go along with it anyway...)))
I woke up and saw Aredhel looking towards me in a strange way, a way that I haven't seen in over 1000 years!
Something spurred in my head, Aredhel started looking more appealing to me, more than just an ally, or how the humans reffer to it as a 'friend'... I seemed to have... fallen in love again... (strangely without a heart)
I sat up and turned to her, grabbing her hand...
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Post by Jessy Jackson on Jul 6, 2004 0:25:40 GMT -5
So, here I was, being pounded into the floor of the Spot by the man well technically vampire that I loved and I could do nothing about it. I shifted back to my human form but that just made the pain worse as Spike didn't notice he was beating up a girl instead of a panther.
Eventually he stopped and walked over to Mai again, who ignored him. Right then, I still had a trick up my sleeve.
I shifted in to the form of Maya.
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Post by rory on Jul 6, 2004 0:29:42 GMT -5
I tried to get closer to Maya, but that idiot Rachelle kept blocking me d*mn her. I shoved her away and she fell on the floor. Immediatly, Killian ran over to her and I took the oppertunity to get closer to Mai. I gripped her arm, rather forcefully and tried to pull her towards the bar.
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