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Starbright was taken aback by the positive reception and taken even further back when the body to the voice came into focus. It is pretty clear that he expected his fans to be on the, well, smaller and less masculine side of things. "I read your file, but I didn't expect you to be such a big fan. Its good to meet you but we have people to save." Starbright could appreciate Bullet's style, it would be easy to sell the heroic look like that. The only thing he needed to work on was that voice quiver and he would be a fitting team mate. "D... Did you come to save the kidnapped heroes with your incredible posing and blasts of light!?" "Well I like to think I do that everyday through song but today I get the priveledge of doing it in person." He turned around and gestured to James, the paparazzi, to take a picture of the two. Tomorrows headline, 'Starbright leads team to save kidnapped heroes' the people would eat it up and could bring more attention to the matter.

And then the others arrived, and it didn't take long for Patricia to start insulting him. Usually Starbright liking toying with her and loved the back and forth, however with all the steps he had taken to save them he did not expect to receive a metaphorical slap in the face. But when she threw the James' camera down the street breaking it he lost his cool. "Optics Patty! Grab a book and learn about it!" He then turned to James, "I'm sorry about this, just know this doesn't represent everyone at HERO. I'll reimburse you for the camera and give you a little bit extra. Now I believe you should probably leave."

Starbright made sure James was out of earshot before continuing as he would bring up matters that should stay out of the papers for now. He realigned himself back to address Aria. "You ever think to yourself 'hey maybe if I spent a little more trying to look good in the public eye. Maybe Wings of Law wouldn't be able to so easily get away with kidnapping us all.' Because news flash thats the reality of it. If it weren't for people like me and Powers this whole thing might have gone completely under the radar. Even then, do you think we are going to be able to just hop over to Club 27 and burn the place down? No, that might work with those gangsters you roughed up. But we are dealing with stars here and they play by different rules. Blowing up Club 27 will dissolve HERO almost instantly. So yeah you could say Wings has basically gotten out of this scot-free. Screw me for trying to stop that." Starbright had to take a deep breath after that, it was clear this had made him quite emotional. But he quickly reverted back to normal Starbright, a skill only years of stardom can teach.

"I'm sorry for all that everyone, I don't know what came over me. Not very leader like hahaha maybe I'm not so cut out to lead this rescue squad huh." While he said that he adjusted his outfit back to normal, gaining back physical composure as well as emotional stability. "Now lets go see the situation at Club 27."

Starbright knew this would be far from the end of all this.




3:05 PM
July 12th
Starbright's Mansion
Kingsdale, Castleburg


Starbright lay on his couch watching TV on one of his few off days. But that wasn't true for this past week, in fact, Starbright had been keeping a close eye on the news. He was scared, it was only a matter of time before Wings came to take their revenge and he had arrived at Club 27 with the rest of the gang on that day. Or could he be wrong, could his knowledge be off and he was just taking a very important week and spending it at home for nothing. A week on low star activity Starbright could handle but if he let this whole thing affect him any further, it would harm his relevancy. Luckily a certain news broadcast ended his current suffering, but brought a whole new one.

Seraph had most certainly made his move, claiming to lead HERO was a natural step. With Powers popularity dropping greatly over this past year, Seraph and the Wings of Law had only grown. It was clearly the most effective action to take and would collect little protest from the public at large. But it was the last part that shocked him. Seraph had accused Patty of mass murder, a feat the teen clearly was not capable of. She may be very mean and prone to abusing her powers, but she was clearly not capable of murder. Starbright almost snapped the remote at the thought that Seraph had killed innocent people just to frame a teenage girl. While the teen pop idol may be eccentric, fame hungry and egotistical, he still had a very strong sense of right and wrong.

The thing that made him turn the remote into little pieces on the ground, was how little he could stop any of this. "Patty, I hope you can make it through this." As it would turn out, the gang's rescue squad would need to be formed again. Starbright began by calling up a few media publications, then back to James the paparazzi. A non-HERO judge of character would be essential in all of this.









3:05 PM
July 12th
South Brookside Boxing Gym
Brookside, Castleburg


Midas had been continuing his march into Watervale territory, the Brookside Bruisers were starting to become a feared name. It was strange because the gang almost had more territory in Watervale than Brookside now, despite the name. From his office, he had the TV on and a peculiar news broadcast was airing. Midas dawned one of the widest grins he has had in a while. Wings of Law was going to lead HERO and that meant good business for him. Midas had been in Wings' pocket in the past and it looked as though he would be getting very little hero resistance for the time being. It was time to expand further.








Rowan first replied to Kate, "well with stories like that, I'm sad I had to make a forest venture. Either way I still like my horror shows live." She gestured over to the situation with Summer and Dakota, but felt bad as she saw Summer retreating into the woods in tears. Though,Rowan doubted she would be able to comfort the witch. Even if Summer would be willing to listen to her, which was a slim chance, Rowan doubted she would have the right words to say. Ultimately, she decided to just not comment on it. "I'm going to get changed I feel like I'm the odd one out here haha."

Rowan reemerged from her now set up tent in her pjs. "I would love to see those mountains one day." Rowan replied Isolde "I've barely been outside this town let alone the state. Well at least I still have more of these mountains to see, when I've been camping before we've always stayed some distance from the wellspring. I feel like this forest has so much more to offer." Rowan took the kettle off of the fire. "Anyone want tea?"

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Well, well, well HERO was finally putting Starbright in the captains seat. It is just about time, find the rest of the gang and stomp out Wings, after that there is nothing that could stop him from being HERO’s top dog. Thoughts like this ran through Starbright's head as he stood before himself in the mirror, styling his hair for an upcoming stealth mission. As much as he hated the idea of stealth, he had a duty to do and he planned on carrying it out. First thing was first though, he had to round up the other two and, as luck would have it, he had their locations on his phone right now.

"Let see here, Watervale, not the best place to go and the other one is at... ew gross Brookside. Well Watervale it is then, I'll get an Uber or something to pick up the hero in Brookside." Starbright's driver put the pedal to the metal and the bright white limousine speed off toward Watervale and the coordinates on Starbright's phone. Starbright himself was lazily sprawled across the seats and took an occasional sip of a mocktail.

While he was waiting he thought he might as well read up on who these other two are. Apparently they're new to HERO, which was good news, helping a hero in their breakout mission is great for publicity. The three didn’t have the most cohesive look but a wardrobe change to the other two could certainly solve that. He looked further into their profiles. But eventually Starbright just got bored, all this leader stuff was tough and he needed a break. So he tossed the files to the other side of the limo, having only looked at the two’s pictures then promptly returned to his phone scrolling through social media.




The limo pulled up to a movie set? What was everyone trying to find here and… oh it was for Marcus Aurelius. Starbright still couldn’t believe that the movie had outsold his autobiographical film ‘Shine’. What did the life and times of someone who died like a hundred years ago even have to offer? Like hello? He’s clearly long gone and irrelevant. Nevertheless Starbright slammed the door open in usual fashion, bathing the nearby area in light.

Paparazzi were already lined up to get a picture of the star, and Starbright could help but oblige. "Yeah yeah ok remember to get my good angle. Oh wait they’re all good angles ha ha. You guys work fast huh?" “What brings you to the old set of Marcus Aurelius Starbright? Wanting to get revenge for it outselling you in the box office?” "I’ll have you know ‘Shine’ was a dazzling success. If you look at the online sales with it you’ll find it beats this tacky movie by miles." It was a blatant lie but Starbright said it with enough confidence that the press believed him on face value. "Now I’m going to need to ask for some privacy, this is official and confidential HERO business. So you will all need to scram unfortunately but I still love you all.” As the group left he grabbed the sleeve of the nearest one and in a subtle tone invited him to join. "I don’t think HERO would mind a little bit of publicity on this, come along.”

Shortly after this a loud crash could be heard from within the movie set. Starbright and his new camera wielding friend rushed over to see what had happened. "Hello? Can you hear me? Are you from HERO or are you a villain?” Starbright made a motion to the paparazzi with his hand to indicate ‘keep the camera rolling.




@Duoya





There was an alternative reason for Rowan to head into the woods. In fact, it was more like her primary reason to come all the way out here in the dark. She was still insecure about her powers and she hadn't had a chance to try them out after the wellspring. It couldn't wait until morning, Rowan had a sneaking suspicion it would weigh on her mind all night. She doesn't handle lack of sleep well and she knows it. Luckily, she had a perfect participant to help her out. The badger.

It had been following closely through Rowan woodland ventures and knew that it likely did not have a home up here. "Mum doesn't really think these things through a hell of a lot huh." She was kneeling and petting the badger. "I can't have you out in the cold all night can I. You just wait right there." Of course, Rowan didn't expect and answer from the animal but she did know it would at least comply due to her mother's magic.

Rowan proceeded to cut her right palm and place it on a nearby tree. The badger was a few steps behind watching the whole thing. At first it was slow for anything to happen, even for a moment Rowan feared that the wellspring had done very little to help her. But then the roots of the trees shifted and changed at a rate she had never seen before. A sizable hole opened up in the ground near the stump. It was a badger hole fit for a king, a badger king that is. A regular king probably wouldn't care for it. Either way, Rowan was proud of what she could do.

"I know my mom has brought you up here to look after me or something. But can you please keep that to a minimum. I don't want to be the only one here with an overprotective mom, you know? Its embarrassing..." Knowing that the badger couldn't reply she ended it at that. "Now you just stay snug in there." Now all that was left to do was find those herbs.

Sometime later, Rowan had finished her search and had made her way back toward camp. But entrances were critical when it came to scary stories around the fire. She started rustling the bushes, quiet at first and then growing in intensity before jumping out. But then quickly realized that very few were even taking part in the camping tradition. "Oh, uh, guess I'm a bit late for the scary stories then huh. I got the stuff for the tea but didn't find much firewood, which is strange being a forest and all." It was clear she wasn't telling the truth and she hadn't really been looking for firewood at all. Either way she knelt by the kettle preparing the tea. "Thanks for keeping the kettle going, shouldn't be too long before its ready. So..." she clapped her hands together once. "Whos spook-tacular stories did I miss anyway?"




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Rowan stayed around the wellspring for a while sharing her concoction around and helping people out of the wellspring. But ultimately she had to go back to the party, and she alone back through the trail. Well not alone alone she was with the group, just not really talking to anyone. After going through something like that, she much preferred to be left to her own thoughts for a while. Rowan was now in the big bad world of witches and in her mind she couldn't decide what to worry about first. Being able to live up to what her grandmother has done or the fact that even now as a fully fledged witch she still didn't have any self defense magic. Guess time would tell how she will shape up especially when she will be in close proximity to her peers. She tried to get all this out of her head but it would resurface again and again.

Coming back to the party was enough for her to forget about her worries for a bit. Then her dad picking her up in a bear hug was enough to clear her mind of it completely. "I'm very proud of you Rowan" her mom said to her. Rowan's mom wasn't one to waffle on with words, but the small amount she gave meant the world to Rowan. "Thanks mom, I uh guess I'm a witch now." Rowan couldn't help the smile spreading across her face, there was little she could do at all to hide the excitement she felt. "Also, sorry, but could you get my box garden from back home. I... didn't know if I would make it into coven so I didn't pack it for the trip here." Her mom then had her go at hugging her daughter "well luckily for you, someone believes in you a lot more than you do at the moment. The garden is already packed into the house." "Thanks mom, you're the best."

Sister Lark's proposal for a night of camping couldn't be any better. Rowan had already spent sometime camping in these woods. Of course, not anywhere so close to the wellspring though. It was still a tad to early for her to put on pajamas or anything, there was still a lot that could be done. "I think I'm going to go see if I can get us some more firewood. Also I know theres some herbs on these mountains that can make a nice tea, so I'll keep an eye out for that. I hope the ghoul that haunts these woods doesn't get me. OOOOooooOOOO." Rowan had her hands raised as if imitating a ghost before walking off with a chuckle. I mean sure ghosts really did exist, but its not like any were going to get us here.

Rowan started making her way toward the woods, she noticed a badger at the treeline looking at her. No doubt a spy of her moms trying to keep an eye on Rowan, it was comforting to know it was there and she returned a smile toward it.

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Starbright spun around on his chair at home. Sure, the multi million dollar mansion was great but his day had been consumed by a feeling he hadn't felt in a while, boredom. The problem was that he felt he should put all of his effort into making sure the others were safe, but there just wasn't much he could do right now. Making a move against Wings would be career suicide and complete very little, he had already exhausted all avenues of news coverage about the missing heroes and doing much else would bring suspicion onto him from Wings. I mean sure he could go do rich and attractive people things, but he has already done that every day of his life plus even just spinning around on the chair he was still doing that. But then he had a great idea.

Wing of Law didn't know that Starbright knew about the kidnapping. So if Starbright were to join the search party they would be none the wiser. Plus it would bring more attention to the disappearances. It all was only a call away, "yeah hi Francine. Could you patch me through to Powers. Yeah, let him know I am will be leading the search party for the missing heroes." He said this fully well knowing there had been no discussion of this previously and completely ignorant to his true (lower) level of importance within HERO.




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"Scars? Oh no no no, scars just won't do. We're witches now, and witches don't look good with scars. I'll make us something to fix them up." Rowan said in a jokingly snobbish tone before returning to normal. "Level with me a sec, that mix made you want to, ..., well you know." Rowan pointed in the direction of Calypso, or rather Calypso's dinner. "I've got some stuff to help with it, I'll start mixing that up before I head back. You just focus on getting people's wrists patched up."

Concluding with the conversation, Rowan went to shore from the wellspring. She took the ceremonial robe off, laying it neatly over a rock to make a nice seat. By all means Rowan was proud of herself, she handled the initiation rather nicely. The bonus of course is nothing in her coat got too wet either. Taking out the small pestle and mortar Rowan begun mixing a variety of different plants from her coat. Then just a bit of water from her water bottle (she wouldn't dare use the water of the wellspring for something this trivial) and ta da! A vial of ginger and peppermint mix, and Rowan spent no time before taking a sip. Overall, she felt much better and tasted good too.

Now she just had to start sharing it around.




Speaks with : Kate@sassy1085


Midas sat back on his newly fashioned throne of crates, overlooking the Turnpike operation. He was happy to see how efficiently it all ran, unlike his fighting rings. It was refreshing he had to admit, chaotic environments where anything could happen were good for making fighters but something like this? Well it gave himself some sense of legitimacy in this world. But his daze of smug contemplation were screeched to a grinding halt as he saw the news broadcast on the TV hung in the corner.

So it wasn't some staged event. This Caustic guy really did that to a HERO and didn't get caught, a Wings member to top it off. Of course it wasn't unheard of, Midas had done that plenty of times. But the level of humiliation he brought to that hero made even Midas feel like vomiting. At least when Midas puts someone out of commission they still get to keep their image as a hero. This meant very bad things were coming, first the Gugliano's 'ally' and now this. Any more going down and HERO, or even worse ICOSA, will crack down on everyone. The heroes were nice and lazy earlier especially Wings, but with one of their own dead they will be out for blood. It was time to lay low and listen. To see what HERO will do because of this and to get any information on this Caustic guy.






Rowan didn't have a good feeling about it. A witchling from another wellspring coming in, she could have negative intentions and she was welcomed with open arms. Instead of saying hello, Rowan couldn't help but just stare. This wasn't a Kate situation, Kate's family didn't possess a wellspring of their own. The only thing Rowan could think about is what is Isolde planning. Though, of course, she tried to not show the suspicion on her face.

Rowan was far from Isolde when the line went to single file. Because of this it got her mind off of it a bit, and she let her hand brush against the trees. Rowan felt her grandmothers presence grow stronger as they continued down the trail. What she needed was faith, faith that her grandmother, even in death, is capable of defending the wellspring from those that wish it harm. And as the trail continued with nothing of note happening, she realized that Isolde was probably no threat. Coming to that suspicious train of thought made Rowan feel bad. Even after being taught the same type of lesson with Kate, she still reverted to the same mistakes.

Throughout the journey, Rowan's expression expression was a very stern one. She was determined to bond with the wellspring. Wading through the water of the wellspring, Rowan found the nearest cup and knife. At the sound of "please feel free to get started now" she spent no time before proceeding with the ritual. Sure, the pain was harsh and the mixture was far from tasty. But it was the ritual of bonding, the same one her grandmother did. Nothing was going to stop Rowan.

The surge of power from the wellspring was immediate, it felt fantastic. But Rowan would wait before testing her new found strength out. Hand pressed against her wrist to stop blood loss, she looked around to the witchlings around her. Or should she call them witches now, wait... she is called a witch now. Rowan couldn't help but smile.

Rowan turned to Kate, who was near her. "She? Uh... Nothing to fear. Right?" Hoping she was handling the ritual alright. "Would you.. uh.. be able to patch this up after? If you aren't too busy." Rowan raised her wrist up a bit and back down to gesture toward it. Her other hand still held firmly on it. While she didn't like needing to grab help from Kate, her wrist started to hurt like hell. Plus, Rowan couldn't easily reach into her coat to do it herself. The rivalry could be put aside for now. They were at the wellspring after all. She gave a comforting smile to Kate, Rowan knew this ritual was far from pleasant so hopefully it would help encourage them.

Rowan shot looks to Rebecca as well as Hana and Iris who were also close. Watching to see her fellow witchlings become witches, more out of excitement than anything.




Speaks with : Kate@sassy1085
Mentions: Iris @Blizz, Rebecca @blackdragon, Hana @Akayaofthemoon





Rowan stood a bit more upright with the two others' encouragement. She then brought her attention to what Kate was saying, clearly teasing Rowan a bit."Oh ha ha very funny, you know a guy just moved in down the road who swears aliens are real." She looked around presenting her surroundings. "No joke. If he saw any of this he would lose his mind."

Her jokey demeanor turned to somewhat more serious now. "I guess I'm beating around the bush a bit here. Yeah I have some clue about what happens at the wellspring. I mean my grandmother was one of the most important witches in protecting it, how could I not right?" Rowan were addressing both of them equally. "All you really need to know is that if you have made your mind up about joining the coven. You shouldn't have anything to worry about." Back to a more chipper mood now, "I think the main thing you need to worry about is how all 20 of us are going get along in one house. Now thats worrying." Rowan was clearly trying to bring the mood up and keep the twos' minds off of the initiation.




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