[Thread] Conjuring up trouble...

[berranyrmizzrym]

Characters: OU!Pharaun Mizzrym, OU!Jesse
Where: Ast-Pente
When: Sometime after Pharaun promised to try and summon Jesse's Pokemon
Summary: Pharaun intends to try his hand at some conjuration to see if he can bring Jesse her Pokemon.
Warnings: Pharaun's pretty much a warning all by himself most days.  Also Jesse's reaction when the spell fails.

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[blastoffagain]

Jesse certainly didn't know anything about magic. All she knew was that she'd found someone who seemed to think that he could get her Pokemon for her. That was all she needed to know as she dashed out of her apartment and up the street.

Wasting no time, Jesse found the Ast-Pente apartment and began pounding on the door with her usual lively impatience.

[berranyrmizzrym]

Pharaun sighed. Honestly, some humans... He strode over to the door at a leisurely pace and pulled it open. "You would be Jesse, then?"

[blastoffagain]

"The one and only!" Jesse told the strange-looking man who would be getting her Pokemon back for her. She took out the two pokeballs and held them out. "Here. Let's do this!"

[berranyrmizzrym]

The drow set the two pokeballs in the middle of the circle. "You may want to make yourself comfortable," he said, gesturing at the couch. "This will take a few minutes."

[blastoffagain]

That wasn't a problem. Jesse dropped onto the couch and stretched out, making herself quite comfortable indeed. "So how does this work?" she asked as she watched her pokeballs be placed in a circle on the floor.

[berranyrmizzrym]

"The details are difficult to understand for anyone not trained for it, but essentially I'm attempting to forge a link to the creatures' home world -" after so long, substituting "world" for "plane" came naturally "- along which they can travel through the Astral Plane." He smirked. "To put it in a nutshell: it's magic."

[blastoffagain]

Jesse thought she understood all of that in a vague sort of "not getting it" way. Saying that it was magic was all she really needed to know. Although, she admitted to herself, she didn't need to know any of it provided that she got her Pokemon back. "Right, right. So make with the hocus pocus! Let's do this!"

[berranyrmizzrym]

Pharaun waved a hand dismissively. "Patience, patience. The spell takes ten minutes to cast. Try not to distract me; I haven't prepared but the one spell for today, so if I lose the spell I won't be able to try again until tomorrow."

Without further ado, he launched into the sequence of mystical words - indecipherable to many in his world, never mind Jesse - and arcane passes necessary to invoke the spell. And if he declaimed just a little more dramatically and gestured a bit more broadly than absolutely necessary, well... the wizard had always been a bit of a showoff.

[blastoffagain]

For once Jesse did just as she was told. She wanted her Pokemon back badly enough that she sat completely still and quiet. If Pharaun had known her better, he would have recognized exactly how rare an occurrence this was.

[berranyrmizzrym]

The air inside the circle seemed to warp in strange directions as the incantation neared its conclusion, as if it was shimmering in a heat haze. As Pharaun spoke the last few words, though, it snapped back into place.

The drow was silent for a few moments, then bowed his head, crimson eyes closed. It seemed the spell hadn't worked.

[blastoffagain]

It had seemed like something was happening. Jesse had watched the haze in the circle eagerly, waiting for her Pokemon. But then the haze was gone and there were no Pokemon. "Well?" she asked, hoping that maybe the spell wasn't over with.

[berranyrmizzrym]

Softly, Pharaun said, "The spell failed."

[blastoffagain]

"...oh." Had it been James or Meowth, Jesse would have snarled and shouted and forced them to try again. But this guy seemed like the sort who knew what he was doing.

Jesse hugged herself silently as she stared at the floor. She took deep breaths and told herself that she wouldn't cry. Crying was for the weak, and she wasn't weak.

[berranyrmizzrym]

"Gentle" wasn't a tone drow were accustomed to using sincerely, but Pharaun did the best he could. "I'm sorry."

[blastoffagain]

Jesse forced on a smile, trying to regain some of her usual confident air. "Not your fault. You tried."

[berranyrmizzrym]

"I suppose there isn't much reason for you to hang about here..." Pharaun wanted some peace and quiet to try and determine why the spell didn't work.