[IC] 🌠 Once Upon A Time 🌠(Concluded)

[KazAlkemi]

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Cassiopeia Hood

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Location: Outside Warehouse ---> Portal ---> Trails -- Wichita, Kansas
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Cassiopeia laughed a little and smiled when Layla said they might have to teach them. ”If they want it,” she said and closed up the Jeep once they had everything. They headed back into the Warehouse and Cassiopeia set her bags and cat carrier down just as Merlin opened up a portal, speaking about a couple of people who were in trouble. Cassiopeia kept hold of her bow and looked over at her sister and gave her a side hug in return before they walked through.
On the other side they were along some of the trails. Cassiopeia knew the area well. It was a well known hiking spot but sometimes Cassiopeia led her hunts down these trails before they split off into the backcountry, out of the way of civilians. They seemed to come just in time, seeing a couple girls around their age charging their way with another couple of women chasing after them. Cassiopeia looked over at Merlin, wondering exactly what he expected them to do. Cassiopeia hadn’t fired her bow at a person before and even though she had harmed a foster parent before, it had been because she was fed up with the abuse and she had been incredibly angry. And right now, Cassiopeia didn’t think she could fire an arrow.

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Willow Jones

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Location: Warehouse
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The portal opened up and Willow took a moment, stealing some courage for her friends before she stepped through. It was still an unknown world that she was apparently from. Full of magic and wonder but also full of danger. She shut her eyes as she walked into the portal and didn’t open them again until she heard running on dirt. When she opened her eyes, she saw Sierra and Rose running towards them, followed by a couple other people she hadn’t seen before. Near the group there were a few other people. One was the girl Willow had seen in the park when they first met Merlin and the others she didn’t recognize.
Willow looked back towards Rose and Sierra running. ”Sierra! They are right behind you!” Willow stepped forward, not entirely sure what she should do. Willow didn’t have anything to throw, except her daggers which she had never used before and she could quite possibly hit Sierra or Rose. She decided words were her best option at the moment. ”Stay back,” she yelled at the pursuers. ”You’re outnumbered!”

[Kirah]

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Rose Buckner

Location: The trails
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Rose was Sierra had been able to escape, she had felt bad for leaving her behind. In front of her Merlin and a bunch of others coming through a portal were appearing. She had noticed that parking was the Pendragon woman. Rose sighed, at least they had backup. She noticed that Cassiopeia was with the group. That made things interesting. She hung up the phone since Merlin was already there. Rose caught her breath as she joined Merlin and his growing group of fairytale children.

"Hey, thanks for coming. She was trying to get us to join her. She started a fire." Rose didn't want to go over the whole string of bad luck that had led them to this moment. Rose smiled at Willow and then at her long time friend Cass. "Good choice of a ranger. Got an extra bow?" Rose would feel more comfortable with a weapon and bows were her weapon of choice.

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Colby Jackson

Location: Merlin's warehouse -> Trail head
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"Thanks." Colby said to Layla. He held the knife uncertain. He had never fought with one before. He sighed and found a place to store it on his belt. Colby stepped through the portal and joined the others. He noticed that it was Pandora with Maleficient. Part of him was not surprised. Pandora had always given him evil-vibes. They had had their respect for each other and kept out of the hair of the other.

"Hey Pandora, long time no see. You in the woods doing an evil seance or something?" He asked with a grin and walking toward her. He hoped he could chat with her long enough to distract her so someone could shoot her with an arrow or maybe Merlin could magic them to sleep? The lack of planning was not fantastic. "We just heard there was a party going on and wanted to check it out." He grinned at Pandora.

[Trainerblue192]

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Matthew Madigan

Location: Merlins > Trails
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The curly haired girl had seemingly ignored him, which was fine. Matthew was used to being ignored or spoken over, if ever he did speak. She pulled out a frying pan from the chest and he couldnt help but wonder how unconventional of a weapon that was. Sure during a rain storm she could turn that frying pan into a drying pan, but aside from that it seemed...odd. He shrugged at the display as he began to fasten the sword to his belt, feeling the weight of it slowly lowering his pants as he tightend and adjusted the belt. Matthew lightly jogged towards Layla, sword swaying with each step, as he finally caught up to her. "I could certainly use some training if you two don't mind. I...uh...h-haven't wielded a weapon before." Matthew nodded towards Colby as he was handed a knife. He agreed that everyone should have something in the event of capture or incase they were split up. Its why he'd chosen to grab a weapon in the first place.

Merlin had finished the spell and a portal opened up before them. It was like what Tinker had done but on a massive scale. Maddies mouth formed the word 'Woah' as he silently admired the magic before him. It was as if he was staring at a screen displaying another site, except when Matthew went to touch it his hand went through. He wriggled his fingers and pulled his hand back, staring at it in amazement. Finally he took a deep breathe and stepped through the portal, eyes closed, and opened them when he noticed the air around him had shifted. It was as stagnat or dull as the warehouse. It was as if he was outside, eyes opening to reveal Maleficent and another that Colby seemed to know. Matthew was torn between hiding behind another or standing before Colby to protect him.

As Colby stepped forward, Matthews heart sank and he could scarcely recall what happened next. Before he had any time to think, his feet began to move without his saying and he stood adjacent to Colby, sword drawn sideways so that the back of the blade was before Colby, stopping him from advancing forward, and cutting anyone that dared near him. "S-stay where you are witch! Y-you won't harm a hair on his head!" His eyes darted about watching for any others around them. She seemed to be outnumbered, well that is unless she goes full dragon on them.

[BlueSky44]

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Jack Gold

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Location: Megan's Car -> Trails
Skills: N/A

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"What?" he said with a bit of a laugh before she smacked the top of his head. "Hey, we can look more at how all that weird magic stuff works later, it definitely will be entertaining to try and figure out how that sort of stuff works," he told her, before she asked about whether or not he was crazy for wanting to head towards the danger, but he was glad when she seemed to go with his idea of heading off after Maleficent. "I mean, what's wrong with heading towards the danger to help people? Nothing really, also I'll be honest part of me thought you'd try and talk me out of doing that or something."

He was glad that she started driving in the direction of the trails, since maybe they could help some people out who sounded like they desperately needed it. When they got to the trails, he glanced up to see the smoke from somewhere nearby, and Rose racing towards them. "Yup, she definitely is nearby," he said, getting out of the car and handing the rapier to Meg. "Seems like we might not be the only ones walking straight towards the danger or whatever," he added, walking over and seeing the portal appear, showing the others and Merlin popping up.

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Rosalia Rider

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Location: Merlin's Warehouse -> Trails
Skills: N/A

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"Hey, there is absolutely nothing wrong with there randomly being a frying pan, you do realize how much damage you could do with one of these things right? Like, seriously, you could easily bash in someone's brains if they aren't careful," she commented towards Merlin when he seemed as confused as she was that there was a frying pan among the other weapons. It didn't matter to her, it was almost as if someone had just found a baseball bat or something in her mind. Since she figured it could be useful since she didn't really care much for any other weapon in the chest.

"So... Any sort of plans to go against the evil villain or whatever? Or are we hoping that something actually will work out well in the end for us, since that tends to be how most fairy tales end or some random bit of nonsense like that," she asked, but the words were barely out of her mouth when she saw Merlin opening up the portal for the group, and she couldn't help but roll her eyes at that. "Or charging straight in works too, I'm fine either way." Rosalia stepped through the portal after the others, and had to stop herself from laughing at what everyone else was saying towards Maleficent.

[Morose]

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Megan Pendragon

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Location: Trails
Skills: N/A

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Megan rolled her eyes at her brother again. "Maybe you'll become a wizard, then," she suggested. He didn't carry a gun on him like most cops did, as far as she recalled. He tended to just sort of waltz into situations and hope for the best. It was one of the only comforts she had that he was a detective rather than a beat cop. He usually had an entire crew with him whenever he went to a crime scene. She stepped out of the car and grabbed the rapier from Jack. "What tipped you off? The smoke?" she teased mercilessly. She then looked a bit more closely. "Or maybe the fact that she's right there?"

She gave the rapier an experimental twirl. She had a brief moment of recollection that her supposed father, King Arthur, had a legendary sword. She would have laughed if the rapier turned out to be Excalibur somehow. It was the sort of thing that would have happened in a Disney movie... but that seemed to be her life now. "Don't run at her, you're unarmed and she has magic, unless you fancy you can hit her with one of the books," she whispered to Jack so the others couldn't hear. She got the feeling that Merlin would frown upon stealing from evil witches.

[Nallore]

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@Morose@BlueSky44@Kirah@Trainerblue192@KazAlkemi

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Sierra Finley

Location: Trails
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Sierra looked over and smiled seeing Willow there, she was really happy to actually see her there again and made her feel relived that she could see a familiar face as well. As she managed to catch up and leaned herself up against Rose taking in a few deep breaths she hadn't ran this hard in a really long time. Sierra noticed all of the people who were there she didn't recognize some of them, like Jack and Megan who seemed to be close to each other. "Good to see you again Willow." Sierra said giving her a friendly smile as she turned her head over her shoulder to see that Pandora and Maleficent were both there. Maleficent still holding that really scary looking knife in her hand and gave the others a little bit of a fearful look.

Merlin quickly erected a shield around the group, blocking off Colby from Pandora, as he looked towards them it looked like Pandora had already made her choice with sticking with her mother Maleficent. "Stay back Colby." Merlin warned him as Pandora crossed her arms over her chest and stared at the guy, before turning her attention over towards Colby and smiled at him. "No, not really just helping my mom with something." Pandora said giving a slight shrug, as Maleficent gave Merlin an evil smirk as she waved her hands and a circle of green fire started to surround the shield that Merlin had made.

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Layla Hood

Location: Trails
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"A sword isn't really my weapon of choice, but I can show you how to use knives and throwing knives though, and wilderness survival as well to, and my sister is good with a bow." Layla offered Mathew giving him a friendly smile and nodded towards Colby. She'd much rather have a weapon in her hand rather than actually fighting them, as Layla watched Merlin creating a shield around them, which was rather cool in her opinion as well. "That's kind of cool." Layla said as she looked over at Megan and Jack, unsure what to think of the two of them really at the moment. Maleficent looked at Mathew and smirked at the boy threatening her as she shook her head a little bit. Her hand running along the magical barrier that Merlin had erected between her and the others.

She didn't really make a move as she eyed the little group that was before her, protected by Merlin waiting to see what the others would do first. "It's good to see you all." Maleficent said as she eyed Megan a little bit more closely as well as Jack and smirked at the two of them as well. Before turning her attention towards Merlin using her own magic to block him from creating another portal for them all to try and escape again. "All that I am offering you is a chance to reunite you all with your family, Merlin here was the one who kidnapped you all and brought you lot here."

[KazAlkemi]

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Cassiopeia Hood

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Location: Trails -- Wichita, Kansas
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Cassiopeia looked over, seeing Rose and smirked. ”I should have known you would have been involved with this somehow,” she teased her, walking over to stand with Rose. ”So magical parents too huh? Unfortunately not on me. We might have brought an extra but it would be back in the warehouse so I guess you’re just going to have to trust me,” Cassiopeia said and notched an arrow into her bow.
She had always had a bit of a crush on Rose. Other than Layla, Rose was the only one who could go toe to toe with Cassiopeia in conversation and with a bow.
Cassiopeia turned her attention to the two chasers and eyed them up. She didn’t look like scary Maleficent but she supposed none of this was going to be like a Disney movie. She saw something shimmer and noticed a shield had been created to protect them. She looked back at Merlin. ”Alright there Harry Potter,” she noted and looked back at Maleficent as she spoke. Cassiopeia frowned. ”And what is your proof of that notion,” Cassiopeia boldly asked.

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Willow Jones

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Location: Trails -- Wichita, Kansas
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Willow hurried over to Sierra’s side. ”You okay? What happened?” She was incredibly aware of how close she was standing to Sierra and took a small step back before looking at Pandora and Maleficent and glared at them. Willow hardly noticed the dome that covered them as she was too focused on the villains standing feet from them. ”Merlin brought us here for our safety. He didn’t kidnap us,” Willow said fiercely. Her mother said to trust Merlin and she knew in her gut to trust her mother and Merlin. Even if she had never met her biological mother.
She gripped the knife tightly in her hand as she watched the two on the other side of the protective shield. In the Disney films, Maleficent was the one who cursed her mother, although in the newer adaptations, she was more of a tough love figure. Willow never liked Maleficent and so wasn’t about to trust her over Merlin. Especially when they were just chasing her friends.

[Kirah]

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Rose Buckner

Location: The trails
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"A tragedy." Rose said when Cass told her she didn't have a spare bow. "And you know I'd trust you behind a bow any day, you're almost as good as I am." She said with a slight wink. Rose actually trusted Cass more than anyone else when it came to using a bow. Their rivalry was just for fun. The flirting while also fun had always been with the hope of reciprocation.

"You know you say that, but he didn't try to light us on fire when we didn't believe him. Or be creepy and try to kidnap us. He's been pretty straight forward and honest with me so far." Rose said. She hadn't talked with Merlin much, but she trusted him way more than she trusted Maleficent. When the flames appeared Rose took an automatic step back. She could feel the fear crawling up her throat again, but she held her chin up not letting it show.

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Colby Jackson

Location: Trailhead
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"Right, helping your mom take over Arcadia? Or I guess to keep her hold on it." Colby said to Pandora as the shield that Merlin created appeared in front of him. Then flames started up around the shield. Colby had some feelings about politics, and for the most part, had avoided it in his life. Now he was finding himself in the middle of a revolution. So much for being impartial. He looked at Merlin. "I think you've got all of us gathered here now. What is the plan now?"

Colby moved so he made sure he was between Maleficent and Matthew, shield or not, he wasn't going to let his only friend get hurt. It did not get past him that he had upgraded Matthew from an acquaintance that he chatted with cats and magic with to friends. He shot Pandora a glare, they had had a long time agreement to not step on each other's toes. It was interesting that it turned out they were from the same world.

[Trainerblue192]

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Matthew Madigan

Location: Trails
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Matthew nodded towards Layla when offering to teach him how to throw knives or some other skill sets that she has. He tried not waver in his resolve before Maleficent of all people, if you could even call her that. Colby was right, any sign of weakness and they could eat him alive. So he had to stand there, in his ground, and be strong. If not for himself then at the very least for Colby. Suddenly a magicked barrier began to shower over them. Erecting in the space between the group and Pandoraand Maleficent. It seemed Merlin could clearly see the lines dividing them and knew she had chosen her side. It was a shame to see her go down that route, he may not of known her but Colby seemed to and if she hurt him down the line... It wasn't the time for thoughts like that though. They were protected by what has always been proclaimed to be the strongest wizard, sorcerer, mage, in existence. That meant they were as safe as one could be going up against her.

Maleficent looked straight at Matthew and his heart froze. It felt like an eternity had passed before it finally began beating again. His breath holding still and muscles tensing at that single glare. When she finally moved on and the green flames encircled them, his breath slowly released in a shaky manner as if he was in extreme cold temperatures. The flames danced in his eyes at they licked the barrier, his attention turning towards Maleficent when she began to speak. He wanted to ask Layla for a knife to throw, he was a good marksman and had quite the eye for targets, but something told him that provoking Maleficent and throwing the first blow would be a bad idea. But he only wished to disarm her from that crazy dagger in her hand. Colby stepped forward between he and the villain, making Matthew want to reach out and touch him. To tell him that he shouldn't and to get back. But the words fell silent in his throat and his hand didn't have the strength to reach forward, having only a single finger twitch.

[BlueSky44]

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Jack Gold and Rosalia Rider

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Location: Trails
Skills: N/A

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"Honestly if magic is real learning it would be kind of cool if you ask me," Jack responded to his sister's comment about it with a bit of a laugh, before rolling his eyes slightly at a few of her other comments. "You definitely are so nice to me Meg, like really..." he added, before her last comment that was more or less whispered to him and he rolled his eyes yet again. "Are you really going to keep teasing me over the fact that I don't carry a gun or something around? Honestly using a gun always struck me as weird, and sometimes a bit excessive," he whispered to her.

Rosalia looked over and saw the detective guy who had more or less been trying to keep her out of trouble for a while now. It felt weird, and also as if the entire town might as well be some fairy tale characters kids daycare or something. Since there were a lot of people in the area right now, who all seemed to be related to some fairy tale characters or whatever. Not to mention right now they were actually facing off against Maleficent, but it seemed like Merlin was wanting to protect them or something with the fancy shield he had made using his magic.

Jack was somewhat glad that Merlin and others were there, since he hated to admit it, but Meg did have a point. He wasn't too much of an actual fighter, preferring to more or less talk his way into, and out of, most situations. Isabella of the two of them was more of the one who carried the weaponry, and he knew he probably should learn how to use a gun at some point. Something bugged him slightly, and it was surrounding Maleficent and the way she seemed to look at everyone. Yup, this is definitely how he expected everything to go today, find out that parents were fairy tale characters, murder investigation into the death of one of the 7 dwarfs apparently, meet a wizard and face a Disney villain. Yup, just a typical day clearly.

She wasn't all too sure what to think about the whole situation and the fire that was now surrounding the shield. Maleficent's words annoyed her a bit and she made a bit of a face towards the evil villain, not even really caring too much that odds were that Maleficent probably could just kill them all in one hit, she didn't really care. Rosalia rolled her eyes as Maleficent started going on about wanting to "reunite" them with their parents, and that Merlin was the bad guy. "So you want us to drink the kool-aid so to speak and essentially join you? Sorry but I think I like the magic wizard over here a lot better then a villain reject or whatever the hell you are."

[Morose]

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Megan Pendragon

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Location: Trails
Skills: N/A

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Megan couldn't help but be in awe of Maleficent's powers. Green fire had surrounded them, an act that looked as natural as breathing to the villain. She wasn't tempted to take Maleficent's hand - she was beyond curious as to her birth parents. If anything, Megan looked at Maleficent with pity. It was fine to walk in the darkness, as long as it did not consume your soul. Maleficent didn't seem to have a soul left. "I already have my family, but thanks for the offer - I'd be more interested in black magic lessons, particularly necromancy. So many murders could be solved..." she trailed off, though it was clear when she said she already had her family that she meant her adoptive brother.

She reached into her pocket and handed something to Jack. "You point and spray. It isn't hard," she instructed him, having given him her pepper spray. She carried it since she was a young, tiny female working in a morgue. She walked alone at night often and she didn't trust other people. She also usually didn't have access to a rapier, but she did today, so her brother could use the pepper spray if Maleficent came too close.

[Nallore]

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@Morose@BlueSky44@Kirah@Trainerblue192@KazAlkemi

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Sierra Finley & Layla Hood

Location: Trails
Skills: Throwing Knives

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"She tried to kill me, while the other held me down." Sierra said looking over at Willow and gave her a slight smile as she stood next to her, and then looked at the others again who were there. "Yeah after you tried to kill me i'm not joining you at all." Sierra told Maleficent and Pandora as she crossed her arms over her chest, seeing Rose starting to panic from the green fire that the woman had made set her on edge as well. Merlin then created a fireball of his own and threw it and it was sent flying, through the shield and hitting both Maleficent and Pandora. Maleficent shielded herself with her own magic, however Pandora was sent flying hitting a nearby tree Sierra winced slightly seeing the girl getting hit rather hard and her body flopping onto the ground.

"If none of you wont join me then so be it." Maleficent said as she used the fire surrounding the barrier to become much larger now and starting to slowly get closer to the shield that Merlin had made. Layla wasn't to phased with the fire as she looked between her sister and Rose rolling her eyes slightly seeing the two of them flirting by the looks of it. "You two need a room together or something." Layla said seeing that Merlin was looking a bit strained now with the fire and noticed the shield looking like it was starting to crack as well which wasn't a good thing. "I cant hold the shield for to long." Merlin said.

"Alright lets do something here and now then, and not joining you either you weird crazy lady." Layla said as she pulled out one of her throwing knives and threw it, seeing that Merlin's fireball had gone through his shield she figured that she could throw something through it as well. She threw three of her throwing knives, letting out a groan as she saw them all miss and embedding themselves into the tree behind the two of them. Sierra quickly reached over finding a nearby heavy looking stick to use as a weapon and stood next to Willow.

[KazAlkemi]

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Cassiopeia Hood

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Location: Trails -- Wichita, Kansas
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Cassiopeia smiled at Rose and then shot a glare at her sister. ”Do you see any rooms around here,” she countered. Her sister was really killing the mood. Of course there was a Disney villain trying to kill them as well. Cassiopeia watched her sister throw three knives and miss every shot. Cassiopeia smirked. ”You better believe I’m never going to let you forget this moment,” she informed her sister.
Cassiopeia watched Rose shift away from the fire that was creeping closer and she focused back on Maleficent. She let loose an arrow quickly, annoyed that this person was trying to hurt her friends and was scaring the woman she had a crush on. It missed, landing near a slumped Pandora which made Cassiopeia more mad. This crazy fairy didn’t even care about her own daughter being hurt. Cassiopeia took a step forward, firing off another arrow which missed again.
Merlin expressed that he couldn’t hold their shield much longer and by the looks of it, it was starting to break. They couldn’t afford any more mistakes. Cassiopeia drew another arrow and took a deep breath as she aimed and let loose the arrow as she breathed out. She managed to hit Maleficent in the shoulder where she wanted. ”Back off and save it for another day or we’ll keep at it. We have just as much fight as you,” she stated.

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Willow Jones

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Location: Warehouse
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Hearing that Maleficent tried to kill Sierra, infuriated Willow. She glared at the woman who was surrounding them in fire. She looked around nervously, despite her anger as the shield started to crack and Merlin said he wouldn’t be able to hold it for long. She looked over at Merlin. ”Can you create another portal before the shield completely breaks?” She wasn’t sure it would work but Willow was more of an ideas person. She would act if she needed to but she had never harmed someone before.
Sierra managed to find a blunt object in the shape of a stick and came to stand next to Willow again. Willow was more consumed with waiting for Merlin’s answer and the continued weakening of the shield. They didn’t have much time.

[Kirah]

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Rose Buckner

Location: The trails
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Rose rolled her eyes at Layla. "I can flirt with you too if that makes you feel less left out. I'm an equal opportunity flirt. However, I thought you were better at knife throwing than that?." She smiled, but it was a weak smile. Rose was too freaked out by the fire.

Rose was able to keep her composure even as the fire grew and pressed against the shield. "Can you open a portal home?" She asked Merlin. It felt so right saying home and talking about the other world. It called to her. She didn't have a weapon and that was frustrating as hell. "Or I don't know conjure me a bow and some arrows." She shrugged.

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Colby Jackson

Location: Trailhead
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Colby winced as Pandora hit the tree. He had liked her well enough. If she was dead he'd feel a bit bad. Even if she was working for Malelificant. "Wow, didn't even protect your own daughter. What in the world makes you think we'd join you after watching that?"

Colby didn't want to throw the dagger he had been handed. If he was going to use it he would wait till he knew he could get it back. "Better open it to the warehouse. That's where my cat is. I'm not leaving without him." Colby said, looking at the girls asking Merlin to open a portal.

Colby looked around and it took him a second but he noticed a rock. It looked like a good thing to throw. So he did and hit Maleficent in the shoulder.

[Trainerblue192]

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Matthew Madigan

Location: Trails
Skills: Sleight of Hand, Marksmanship

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As the green flames grew larger, they reflected back in his eyes. Encompassing his vision as all he could see for a moment was fields of green fire. Panic ran rampart through his heart and mind as he became more and more unsure of what to do. Merlin began to cast a fireball and the bright red flames flew passed Matthews head and through the sheild, hitting its target as Pandora was flown across the field and Maleficent protected herself. His eyes grew wide as he watched the scene unfold, seeing magic cast around him but even more surprisingly seeing a mother unwilling to protect her child. He hoped for Pandoras sake that she was ok, that she lived on to fight another day and see how her mothers side isn't the one to be on. Matthew clenched his fists in anger, his nails practically piercing skin as he looked at the limp body before him.

His attention was quickly snatched as knives began to fly and arrows were let loose. Even Colby joined the fray with rocks. The sheild protecting them began to crack and it was only a matter of time before they'd be left without a defense. He wanted to ask for some knives but now wasnt the time for being polite, not the the lump in his throat would move away. He quickly reached passed Layla, having noticed where her knives were, and grabbed two of them. "Wow, you could of asked man. So rude for stealing my knives." He didn't reply or retort, focused on what he was about to do. Matthew quickly spun in place, eyes closed until the last second when he opened them and his hand landed where his gaze was. The knife went flying out of his hand and straight into Maleficents leg. He held the second knife and quickly flicked his wrist landing the shot in the same leg. "I told you witch. You. Wont. Harm. A. Hair. On. His. Head!" He glared over towards Merlin, anger in his eyes "Get us out of here."

[BlueSky44]

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Jack Gold and Rosalia Rider

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Location: Trails
Skills: N/A

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"I know how to use pepper spray Meg, and do you really think pepper spray would be helpful against someone who is clearly throwing fire around without any trouble? If she got that close I'd be better off just punching her in the face," Jack said towards Megan, but he kept the pepper spray. Figuring that it was better then having absolutely nothing which is what he typically had with him in a fight. Typically he didn't fight or whatever, choosing to avoid it and go a completely different route and talk his way out of it if possible.

"Wow so nice regarding everything, but you have given no actual reason for why we should go off with you to some fantasy world or whatever," Rosalia commented with a bit of an eye roll towards the Disney villain. This whole situation still seemed a bit weird, and currently she mainly had a frying pan for a weapon. That wasn't going to do all too well for this sort of thing, they really needed to deal with this whole situation, or get the hell out of there and run far far away.

He glanced over to see everyone else starting to throw weapons or whatever they had towards Maleficent, and he totally understood the idea of trying to defend themselves from the witch, but well. It was hard to fight back against someone as strong as that when Merlin (their certified wizard) was clearly having problems holding back her attacks with his shield. "I'm all for the let's get the hell out of here idea, since you know, pretty sure we'd lose in a fight against her, but that's just my opinion regarding the whole thing."

"I'm all for the whole let's get the hell out of here," she responded, looking over at Merlin who had said that he couldn't keep the shield up much longer. "If you can get a portal open the shield doesn't have to hold, just long enough for us to get out of here and hopefully not die in the process." Rosalia really was with the whole idea of not dying, it was kind of important to stay alive as long as possible. She hadn't been surviving that long on the streets to just die from some Disney creep.

"...Wait a minute are you carrying a freaking frying pan?" Jack couldn't help but ask Rosalia.

"Yeah? So what? Better then nothing and I hate swords and stuff like that."

[Morose]

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Megan Pendragon

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Location: Trails
Skills: Fencing and Self Defense

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There was one issue with a rapier - it was a close range weapon. Attacking Maleficent would mean leaving the protective area that Merlin had set up. Her brother had argued some about the pepper spray, but clearly he was alright with it since he kept it. Merlin didn't look like he was in any shape to open up a portal, his magic must have been draining him. They needed to buy him some time and Megan quickly looked around, spotting an area towards the back that was untouched by the flames. "I'll create a diversion - and a corpse if I'm lucky," she told her brother and the others.

Megan rushed out the back and went around, careful not to be kissed by the flames. She liked having vampire pale skin. It unnerved normal people. She came face to face with Maleficent and Megan swiped at her with her rapier, connecting with the witch and breaking her concentration, as the flames died down slightly. She thought on her feet as Megan then kicked dirt up into Maleficent's face, intending to blind her and keep her from being able to cast magic against Merlin and the others.

[Nallore]

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@Morose@BlueSky44@Kirah@Trainerblue192@KazAlkemi

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Sierra Finley & Layla Hood

Location: Trails
Skills:

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"Oh fuck off." Layla said looking over at her sister and rolled her eyes slightly, still completely annoyed with the fact that Mathew stole one of her knives without even asking which was really rude! Layla stared at Rose for a moment, sure she thought Rose was kind of cute, but she didn't really have a crush on her or anything like that. And sharing someone else with her sister was just waaaay to weird as well. "Yeah, not into sharing anyone with my sister i'll pass on that, and that's just really weird to." She said with a slight laugh, as she watched the girl Megan going over to attack and managing to blind and distract Maleficent as the flames immediately died down. Maleficent was growling in annoyance and pain as well to, Pandora was still out cold.

Sierra smiled looking at Willow as she managed to grab herself something to use, though it was a stick maybe it would be able to help, as the flames immediately died down thanks to Megan's distraction Merlin kept the shield up however, but managed to open up the portal again back to the warehouse. "The portal is open now, hurry up and get through." Merlin said, Sierra didn't even hesitate at all and quickly went through the portal and looked around. There wasn't much other then what looked like a chest full of weapons, just as the door opened Sierra watched as two people entered the room.

Layla didn't hesitate either and quickly went through the portal that Merlin had made again as she looked over she noticed Tinker and some other girl just coming into the warehouse itself as well. The portal remained open as Merlin stepped through as well shortly after and held it open for everyone else to get through.

[Kirah]

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Rose Buckner

Location: The trails -> The warehouse
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Rose grinned at Layla. She didn't say anything else to Layla. Rose was fine with poly relationships, but she wouldn't want to make anyone uncomfortable. And it seemed they actually were siblings in Arcadia too so that was understandable to want to avoid. Rose had liked Cassie much longer than she had known Lyla. She wondered briefly if she had been drawn to her friends Sierra and Cassie because they had been from the same world as her even though she didn't know that.

As soon as the portal was opened Rose went through it right behind Layla. She had no desire to be stuck on the side with Maleficent. Rose was quite done with Maleficent. What she needed was a weapon of some sort. Rose looked around. She saw a bow and a few arrows. That was good enough for her. She grabbed them and notched an arrow. She didn't draw it or even lift it so it was pointing at people coming through the total, but she stood at the ready in case Maleficent somehow got through or her daughter.

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Colby Jackson

Location: Trailhead -> The warehouse
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He did raise his eyebrow when Matthew was caught stealing knives from Layla. But thankfully Layla didn't seem to actually mind, and Matthew hit Maleficent. Colby was proud that he had hit Maleficent and he was impressed with the one woman on their side who went out and distracted Maleficent. They weren't doing much damage, but at least Maleficent was overwhelmed.

Colby grabbed Matthew's hand and dragged him through the portal. He glanced at the new girl who had been running from Maleficent, she was armed now and looked ready to shoot anyone who displeased her. Colby made sure to give her a wide berth and found a spot away from the portal. He picked up a sword on his way past the box. Colby didn't care he didn't have any skill in it, he was going to protect Matthew.

[KazAlkemi]

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Cassiopeia Hood

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Location: Trails ---> Warehouse -- Wichita, Kansas
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Cassiopeia smirked as her sister and Rose went back and forth for a moment. She was a little defensive when Rose said she could flirt with Layla but Cassiopeia knew who Rose was and was okay with it. Her cheeks pinked a bit at the realization. Thankfully, Merlin opened a portal after a few of the other kids made their mark on Maleficent. She dropped her bow and looked at Layla. ”Well at least he could hit her,” she teased further.
Cassiopeia gave one last glare at Maleficent and jumped through the portal behind Rose. She watched Rose find her own bow before going over to their cats and gave them a much needed scratch through the bars. Cassiopeia looked back at the portal and hoped the others hurried up and all got through.

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Willow Jones

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Location: Trails ---> Warehouse
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Willow’s eyes were still on Merlin when he made the portal and she breathed a sigh of relief. She gave one last look at Maleficent, albeit a triumphant one before she jumped through the portal. She turned and gave Sierra a hug before giving one to Rose once she came through as well. ”I am so glad you both are alright,” she noted. ”It would have been hard going to Acadia without you two or knowing you picked a different side.”
Willow relaxed a bit, even though they weren’t completely safe yet with the portal still opened. She looked over at the two people who were in the warehouse already. One she recognized as one of the people who had left when she first got to the warehouse and the other she didn’t have a clue who it was.