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There's a lot of things to do after school on most weekdays. Tyler suspected, that usually for most kids, it didn't involve sneaking around to check up on the newest student and get a measure of their abilities. And given what had happened with Alec's drawings at the soccer game last week, it wasn't any surprise to see him at PS238 getting lead around by Mrs. Kent, Alec's mom, Positron and Mr. Wooster.
After all, someone had to keep up the job of keeping an eye on the student body. It was clear that Mr. Clay's gear wasn't cutting it anymore, not after Zodon, Von Fogg and Angie had been stripping it for parts before with no one the wiser. He was even pretty certain that he'd been doing a good job of not being seen without using the medallion Garion had given him.
"Can I look around? This place is cool!" Alec was almost jumping around to look at everything and all the other kids moving about in costume.
"I don't see why not. A potential tour guide has been lurking in the shadows for some time now..."
Well, so much for having gotten better at sneaking around, if the butler had spotted him. Tyler emerged from behind the corner where he'd ducked into earlier.
"Tyler, if you could show Mr. Kent around the school, I'm sure there is a great deal to be learned..."
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"Hey, Dr. Positron said that there was a teacher who could help me with my drawings.. Ms. Imperia?"
"...well, there WAS, I'll show you what I mean." Tyler jogged towards the office and opened up the door to the bricked up wall. "See, she hasn't been around since the attacks by those imps and cherubs started...We can't get through to her if she's there on the other side."
"Oh, so, that's a spell those guys talked about casting?"
"Yeah, anyways, let's keep moving on, I want to show you my room and my brother, who you kind of met..." Tyler was almost to his room before he stopped and turned around to find Alec wasn't there behind him. Backtracking...he found the door to Mr. Imperia's room still open...and one of Alec rune spriographs drawn onto the brick wall.
"Son of a biscuit."
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One quick run to his room to pull on his Moon Shadow armor, cubefall helmet, and gear over his Power Ranger armor, and he was back at the door investigating the runes and markings Alec had left behind. It looked normal enough, and that why it worried him. As he stuck his hand into the portal, he was vaguely aware that he'd been spotted by Marvin, The Sleeper,
"Hey, look! It's Moon Shadow! Hey Moon Shadow, can I get your autograph??"
That was the last thing he heard before the portal yanked him inside and slammed the door behind him.
"Way to go Marvin, he doesn't like noisy fans, you scared him off."
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He landed into a pile of chunks and coins of gold, with various gems, and it was quite possibly one of the weirdest landings yet. His armor didn't feel right, it felt chunky and it clinked and he had trouble seeing out of his helmet, because THAT wasn't a football helmet anymore, it had a thick slotted face guard instead of bars now.
..wait.
He smelled fireworks, sulfur burning.
There was just enough time to see the dragon behind him before it began to flame at him, and he was running away.
"Over here!"
That was Alec, hiding in one of the passages with a girl...come to think of it a fairly familiar looking... Oh he was going to just LOVE writing about today in his journal later.
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From their hiding spot behind one of the suits of armor, Moon Shadow, Alec and a very young Vashti Imperia watched the adventuring party split up, leaving their henchman behind. A far too familiar group for Tyler's tastes, because he knew them. He had BEEN them. Kind of.
Milliways had found a new way to up the levels of weirdness for him and he wasn't even IN there, right now!
"They're gone, you can come out now." Nodwick called to the kids as he turned around, holding onto the chest for loot. "...you must be the little girl we were sent to rescue."
"I'll let you and your friends 'save' me, but not before I get that wicked witch's spellbook." Vashti replied, lifting her head just a tad haughtily.
"We're just kind of along for the ride." Alec shrugged, and Moon shadow approached the henchman.
"Nodwick, have you seen someone kind of like her, but a lot taller? Maybe with a tattoo over one eye?"
"That is a very interesting description." A familiar voice to Tyler spoke above them, before they were wrapped up in shadow and the young Vashti disappeared.
"This always happens when Yeagar has his "let's split up" idea..."
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"...this has GOT to be worth at least one fun trip with Ray.." Moon Shadow thought as they swung out from one portal into another by his grappling line. His shoulders were going to HATE him tomorrow the way everyone was holding onto him before they tumbled out onto the hallway floor.
"See? I toldja they'd come in handy!" Alec crowed, getting up and jogging down the hallway.
"But how can all of this be REAL?!?" Moon Shadow asked Vashti the Elder. Especially Nodwick, of all the people to run into, he'd be the one he hallucinated BEING for the most horrible holidays EVER.
"This is an heroic age: magicians, warriors, mystic shamans are this era's 'superheroes.' Their powers created the world's magical beasts and wonders. When the age ends, their creations will slowly fade, until only stories remain." Vashti replied, with a wry if a little sad smile.
"So that's why there are no dragons in our time?" Alec asked, looking a little disappointed, though Moon Shadow couldn't understand why.
"Yes. But the one in the caverns can still eat us now." Ms. Imperia replied, ushering Alec along.
"So did you kidnap yourself?" Moon Shadow had to ask...chances were he'd come to this sort of issue in his own time. Heck, his life was so weird, the chances of it NOT happening were slim.
"I had to. When I was exiled here, I soon discovered where and when I was. I realized I was in the witch's castle I remembered from my youth, yet no one lived here but the dragon. I would have to take up the witch's role if my past self was to eventually become... well, me." She shrugged, walking onwards. "So I found the small farm I lived on as a child, did a very convincing act of cackling and scaring the livestock, and brought my younger self to the castle. I taught myself to control my budding magical talents. I also made a copy of my spell book for her to steal, which she should have done by now."
"So if you were born here, how did you get to our time?"
"Some of us knew this age of magic would end, and we wanted to see what came next. We used powerful spells to preserve us. A few left as new heroic times arose, but I waited for the final age, when humans would hold onto their strange powers for all time."
"Oh." He drew in a little bit at that, thinking. "Sorry to make you wait so long."
"I beg your pardon?"
"The treasure chamber is right over-uh oh."
There was just a glimpse of a scaly red mouth and the smell of sulfur before the dragon's jaws closed over all three of them at once. Or it tried to, Moon Shadow's boots weren't giving it the space needed to close it's jaws by it's molars, and he was pretty sure he felt that dangly thing in the back of the dragon's throat knocking on the back of his helmet lightly.
"Get clear before it breathes fire!" Ms. Imperia shouted, trying to climb out.
"I can't, I'm stuck!" Alec yelled, hanging onto Moon Shadow's boot. "Can't you like, magic it away?!"
"Any magic strong enough to help would detonate your gate-drawings!" Vashti answered back, now looking properly frightened for everyone's sakes.
Moon Shadow, meanwhile saw something outside the dragon's jaws. The familiar rippling of one of Alec's magic portals on the wall there.
There. They could get out THERE.
He yanked off his grappler gauntlet and fired it at the spot in the wall. When he was sure it'd gone through and hit the wall, the jaws of the dragon opening wider and beginning to smell horribly of sulfur, he jammed the gauntlet onto one of the other teeth in the dragon's mouth.
"EVERYBODY HANG ON!"
The line went taut and everything was yanked forward into the portal, the dragon choking on it's own flammable gas for a moment in surprise. Everyone inside of the mouth were spat out against the other wall of the familiar hallway in PS238. He was vaguely aware of Vashti and Alec being alright to one side of him, but more aware of a sharply cheerful American Eagle asking permission to blow up the dragon from Cranston. What followed was a cheer going around the students as she began hammering the dragon with telekinetic claw-blasts.
Everyone was too busy blasting the dragon to bits to notice him yanking his grappling claw out of the wall and making off towards his own room and a very familiar portal that in the bathroom.
After all, someone had to keep up the job of keeping an eye on the student body. It was clear that Mr. Clay's gear wasn't cutting it anymore, not after Zodon, Von Fogg and Angie had been stripping it for parts before with no one the wiser. He was even pretty certain that he'd been doing a good job of not being seen without using the medallion Garion had given him.
"Can I look around? This place is cool!" Alec was almost jumping around to look at everything and all the other kids moving about in costume.
"I don't see why not. A potential tour guide has been lurking in the shadows for some time now..."
Well, so much for having gotten better at sneaking around, if the butler had spotted him. Tyler emerged from behind the corner where he'd ducked into earlier.
"Tyler, if you could show Mr. Kent around the school, I'm sure there is a great deal to be learned..."
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"Hey, Dr. Positron said that there was a teacher who could help me with my drawings.. Ms. Imperia?"
"...well, there WAS, I'll show you what I mean." Tyler jogged towards the office and opened up the door to the bricked up wall. "See, she hasn't been around since the attacks by those imps and cherubs started...We can't get through to her if she's there on the other side."
"Oh, so, that's a spell those guys talked about casting?"
"Yeah, anyways, let's keep moving on, I want to show you my room and my brother, who you kind of met..." Tyler was almost to his room before he stopped and turned around to find Alec wasn't there behind him. Backtracking...he found the door to Mr. Imperia's room still open...and one of Alec rune spriographs drawn onto the brick wall.
"Son of a biscuit."
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One quick run to his room to pull on his Moon Shadow armor, cubefall helmet, and gear over his Power Ranger armor, and he was back at the door investigating the runes and markings Alec had left behind. It looked normal enough, and that why it worried him. As he stuck his hand into the portal, he was vaguely aware that he'd been spotted by Marvin, The Sleeper,
"Hey, look! It's Moon Shadow! Hey Moon Shadow, can I get your autograph??"
That was the last thing he heard before the portal yanked him inside and slammed the door behind him.
"Way to go Marvin, he doesn't like noisy fans, you scared him off."
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He landed into a pile of chunks and coins of gold, with various gems, and it was quite possibly one of the weirdest landings yet. His armor didn't feel right, it felt chunky and it clinked and he had trouble seeing out of his helmet, because THAT wasn't a football helmet anymore, it had a thick slotted face guard instead of bars now.
..wait.
He smelled fireworks, sulfur burning.
There was just enough time to see the dragon behind him before it began to flame at him, and he was running away.
"Over here!"
That was Alec, hiding in one of the passages with a girl...come to think of it a fairly familiar looking... Oh he was going to just LOVE writing about today in his journal later.
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From their hiding spot behind one of the suits of armor, Moon Shadow, Alec and a very young Vashti Imperia watched the adventuring party split up, leaving their henchman behind. A far too familiar group for Tyler's tastes, because he knew them. He had BEEN them. Kind of.
Milliways had found a new way to up the levels of weirdness for him and he wasn't even IN there, right now!
"They're gone, you can come out now." Nodwick called to the kids as he turned around, holding onto the chest for loot. "...you must be the little girl we were sent to rescue."
"I'll let you and your friends 'save' me, but not before I get that wicked witch's spellbook." Vashti replied, lifting her head just a tad haughtily.
"We're just kind of along for the ride." Alec shrugged, and Moon shadow approached the henchman.
"Nodwick, have you seen someone kind of like her, but a lot taller? Maybe with a tattoo over one eye?"
"That is a very interesting description." A familiar voice to Tyler spoke above them, before they were wrapped up in shadow and the young Vashti disappeared.
"This always happens when Yeagar has his "let's split up" idea..."
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"...this has GOT to be worth at least one fun trip with Ray.." Moon Shadow thought as they swung out from one portal into another by his grappling line. His shoulders were going to HATE him tomorrow the way everyone was holding onto him before they tumbled out onto the hallway floor.
"See? I toldja they'd come in handy!" Alec crowed, getting up and jogging down the hallway.
"But how can all of this be REAL?!?" Moon Shadow asked Vashti the Elder. Especially Nodwick, of all the people to run into, he'd be the one he hallucinated BEING for the most horrible holidays EVER.
"This is an heroic age: magicians, warriors, mystic shamans are this era's 'superheroes.' Their powers created the world's magical beasts and wonders. When the age ends, their creations will slowly fade, until only stories remain." Vashti replied, with a wry if a little sad smile.
"So that's why there are no dragons in our time?" Alec asked, looking a little disappointed, though Moon Shadow couldn't understand why.
"Yes. But the one in the caverns can still eat us now." Ms. Imperia replied, ushering Alec along.
"So did you kidnap yourself?" Moon Shadow had to ask...chances were he'd come to this sort of issue in his own time. Heck, his life was so weird, the chances of it NOT happening were slim.
"I had to. When I was exiled here, I soon discovered where and when I was. I realized I was in the witch's castle I remembered from my youth, yet no one lived here but the dragon. I would have to take up the witch's role if my past self was to eventually become... well, me." She shrugged, walking onwards. "So I found the small farm I lived on as a child, did a very convincing act of cackling and scaring the livestock, and brought my younger self to the castle. I taught myself to control my budding magical talents. I also made a copy of my spell book for her to steal, which she should have done by now."
"So if you were born here, how did you get to our time?"
"Some of us knew this age of magic would end, and we wanted to see what came next. We used powerful spells to preserve us. A few left as new heroic times arose, but I waited for the final age, when humans would hold onto their strange powers for all time."
"Oh." He drew in a little bit at that, thinking. "Sorry to make you wait so long."
"I beg your pardon?"
"The treasure chamber is right over-uh oh."
There was just a glimpse of a scaly red mouth and the smell of sulfur before the dragon's jaws closed over all three of them at once. Or it tried to, Moon Shadow's boots weren't giving it the space needed to close it's jaws by it's molars, and he was pretty sure he felt that dangly thing in the back of the dragon's throat knocking on the back of his helmet lightly.
"Get clear before it breathes fire!" Ms. Imperia shouted, trying to climb out.
"I can't, I'm stuck!" Alec yelled, hanging onto Moon Shadow's boot. "Can't you like, magic it away?!"
"Any magic strong enough to help would detonate your gate-drawings!" Vashti answered back, now looking properly frightened for everyone's sakes.
Moon Shadow, meanwhile saw something outside the dragon's jaws. The familiar rippling of one of Alec's magic portals on the wall there.
There. They could get out THERE.
He yanked off his grappler gauntlet and fired it at the spot in the wall. When he was sure it'd gone through and hit the wall, the jaws of the dragon opening wider and beginning to smell horribly of sulfur, he jammed the gauntlet onto one of the other teeth in the dragon's mouth.
"EVERYBODY HANG ON!"
The line went taut and everything was yanked forward into the portal, the dragon choking on it's own flammable gas for a moment in surprise. Everyone inside of the mouth were spat out against the other wall of the familiar hallway in PS238. He was vaguely aware of Vashti and Alec being alright to one side of him, but more aware of a sharply cheerful American Eagle asking permission to blow up the dragon from Cranston. What followed was a cheer going around the students as she began hammering the dragon with telekinetic claw-blasts.
Everyone was too busy blasting the dragon to bits to notice him yanking his grappling claw out of the wall and making off towards his own room and a very familiar portal that in the bathroom.