Kirah

Inferno - STRIKE THE MATCH! - Concluded

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Ed Penior

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Location: Limbo
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Ed wanted to ask Max some questions. Wanted the easy friendship that had taken months to form but had lasted. Jokes over Dungeons and Dragons. Chatting about magic. But all he could bring himself to do was nod, not even the smile he wanted to give him. As it felt like a countdown timer that he had known about since the day he met Max was clicking down the last minutes, hours if he was lucky.

He didn't even let Prudence's prickly comments bother him. The shield had been his main weapon for his whole life. His family didn't kill with magic. None of his spells should be able to. But he had had ideas since he had been in an alternate reality and met a broken version of himself. A version that had been willing to break the family laws.

And Ed knew that this place would be where he broke them.

He would ensure the world was safe for his children.

The 5 of them were soon at the base of the mountain. He considered offering to carry Runa, or put her on a shield and let her float up the mountain. He decided he'd wait. If she started to fall behind and stumble he would. He wouldn't leave her behind. He needed at least one person who knew him beside him.

Ω Heroes of Olympus: The Next Age of Heroes Ω

Location: Labyrinth
Skill: Electrokinesis

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Andy's magic had failed. But Mads got them across the bridge. Andy stumbled a bit but got her feet under her. Andy clutched the sword. She looked in the direction they needed to go. It was clear. But monsters were coming up behind them. She threw up one of her hands, the other still holding the sword, and sent lightning at them. It hit but didn't do much. But Andy wasn't going to give up that easily. She pulled. Gathered the static in the air and then with a thought threw it at the monsters again.

Several turned to dust. That had to be good enough. She spun on her foot and ran in the direction the map had indicated. Her lungs ached. Even after doing so much training, it wasn't the same as running for your life. She knew they couldn't kill the giant. They didn't have a god with them. Unless Damon was really a god in disguise. But Andy wasn't going to hold her breath for that. Especially since she needed it to run.

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Location: Taxi
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"I'm good." Niah smiled. She felt a little tired. A little drained after what she had just seen. She wondered if Persephone would be able to answer a question. The ride was passing quickly. That was a relief. Though it meant they were that much closer to Mount Tam.

"Unrelated, and I know it might not be on your radar, so feel free to not answer or whatever. But do you know anything about my sister Dalisy?" She couldn't not ask. This was the first time she had ever doubted that her sister was dead. If one of the underworld knew.

"I sadly don't know her, but I can ask my husband about it for you if you'd like."

"If it isn't too much trouble. It's been a few years." Curses for having a human in the car. But Persephone should understand what she meant. "Anyway, Stella's question is the same as my next one." Niah needed to shift her focus back to the issue at hand. Not her long-dead sister.

Avengers Academy: Junior Year 💥

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Location: The Mall
Skills: N/A

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Andy needed to go to the mall. She didn't know if Build-A-Bear was still a thing, but it would be the perfect place to get some outfits for Selene. The sizes would be perfect. She also was trying to build her friendships up. So far she had started to have a friendship with Mads. Something about draining the life energy from someone and their response was stabbing you made for the start of a good friendship. First, she'd see if Zari wanted to go too, and then go ask Mads.

Andy knocked on Zari's door. "Hey, want to go to the Mall? I'm thinking of asking Mads too." Andy explained once Zari answered.

Zari was basically incredibly bored not doing much when Andy knocked at the door, she had been mainly sitting there arguing with Mr. Eyeball over what to do or if she should go off and find some weird adventure or something. So she was kind of glad when Andy came asking about going somewhere or something. "Ooooooooh sounds like fun! I've never really wandered around one before anyway, so sure lets go! Aaaaaaaand we can bug her along the way and drag her along too," she said gleefully to Andy as she stepped into the hallway with the robot eye following along after her as usual.

"Cool." Andy smiles, giving room for Zari. She leads the way to Mads' dorm. Once there she knocks on the door waiting for Mads to or her roommate to answer the door. She realizes she doesn't even know who Mads' roommate is. Thankfully it was Mads who did open the door. "Hey, I wanted to go to the mall. Since we're new to the area I thought you might know where it is, and give us a tour or something." She did have a specific store in mind and just hoped it would be there. She couldn't imagine how weird it would be to ask about a store that had gone out of business years ago.

Madalyne was sitting on her bed quietly reading a book she had borrowed from the library not to long ago, April was out and about probably with Danni and Dorian or something like that. When she heard a knock on the door Madalyne closed the book that she had and set it down on her bedside table. Getting up from her bed and made her way towards the door wondering who it was at her door, and assumed that it might have been April who might have forgotten her dorm keys for a second. When she opened it Madalyne smiled seeing that it was Andy and Zari who were there and waved at them. "Sure I'd be down I wanted to get out anyway." She said as Madalyne reached for her purse and closed the door to her dorm behind her. "Let's get going."

"Let's goooooooooooo already!" Zari said happily sort of hopping around the hallway. The robotic eye next to her just seemingly shook its head or something by her, but she didn't seem to notice. "I've never really been to one anyway so not even sure where the closest one is anyway, but let's go have a mini adventure!"

Eventually, the small group made it to the mall. Andy went to find the directory since she knew what store she needed. Thankfully she was lucky Build-a-bear still existed. Now she had to hope it had the right sort of outfits. "Any particular stores you want to go to?" Her question was primarily directed to Madalyne, but it did include Zari if she had any desires. "I want to swing by the build-a-bear for some doll outfits." If Mads had noticed the doll she'd probably be able to guess why. "Other than that, getting some non-cafeteria food sounds great."

"Build-a-Bear sounds like a great idea, i'm fine with going there first." She said as she looked at the directory and thought for a little bit on where else to go. "I need some new clothes so maybe hit up one of the clothing stores here would be nice if you guys want to go anyway. The food court here is great to you guys will like them."

She wasn't entirely sure where she'd want to go running around the mall too. However the shop that Andy mentioned definitely sounded interesting to her. Not so much the finding doll clothes thing, but the shop as a whole. "Build... A... Bear? Um, what exactly is that? Sounds interesting to say the least. But what exactly is it?" Zari asked, clearly a bit confused to the whole situation.

"Oh new clothes sounds good. I'm gonna stick to my style but I need something that fits in a bit more." She shook her head. Madayln had been there and heard some of the comments. "Uh, it is not what it sounds like." Andy shakes her head. "You make stuffed animals there. They have more than bears though. But they also have a wide selection of doll clothing so that's why I want to go there. You might like it still." Andy mentally marked where the store was from the directory and started heading in that direction.

"Build-A-Bear is really fun, and like what Andy said you pick from any of the stuffed animals there, and fill them up with stuffing yourself and then you can name them to if you wanted." She said as she followed behind Andy and Zari. "And i'm pretty sure one of these stores will have a good selection of clothes to choose from when we are done and you might find something you might like there to."

"That sounds cooooooooooool let's go!" she said happily before she started almost skipping along with the pair not having a care in the world. Making a teddy bear or something sounded like so much fun to her, she was super excited to see what sort of things that they had there now.

Andy loved when Zari did things like that. It was part of why she had fallen for her. She didn't let the weight of everything that had happened bury her spirit. She was just herself. It was something she wished she could do.

Once at the store Andy showed Zari what dolls she could pick from to make her bear. "Bear is a bit of a misnomer since you can make tons of stuff. I remember there were Pokemon ones." There were the classics of course, and dolls that made sense for 2038. Andy wasn't going to pick one, she just wanted the outfits, but she'd love to watch Zari make one.

She smiled as she followed the two of them over towards the store, when they got to the store Madalyne started to look around at the various choices that they had. "What are you guys going to pick out for your stuffed animal?" Madalyne asked the two of them as she found a cat one that she thought was adorable and grabbed it.

Zari didn't say anything else really as she seemingly glanced around the store to see what all was in the place. It definitely wasn't a store that she had visited before, so now she really wanted to get something. She looked at the different stuffed animals she could make, and decided rather quickly to create a normal teddy bear as opposed to just about everything else, "Ok, so now that I picked one what do we do now?"

Andy hadn't planned on getting a new stuffed animal but she couldn't pass it up if both Mads and Zari were getting one. She grabbed the bat. "Now we can pick a sound for it, or go straight to stuffing. I don't want a sound, but feel free to grab one." Andy led the two of them over to the section where you could get sounds to put in your stuffed 'bear'. She hoped the staff would be extra with them when they got to stuffing. That was always fun and she knew Zari would love it.

She thought for a moment if she wanted some kind of sound effect with her stuffed animal as she looked at the cat that she was holding. "I was gonna go for some cat sounds for mine." She said as she went over and grabbed the one that she needed and started to head over towards the stuffing station. She was actually having some fun, as she turned to look over at Zari. "So how are things going with your team?" Madalyne asked Zari.

"I mean it's going okay? I personally find one person on the team annoying. But also the very first thing that happened was we got thrown into the Framework thing and people discovered that I can cause a lot of issues in a virtual world," she said with a shrug, before she started looking at the different sounds and voice boxes that she could put in her teddy bear. Thinking for a moment and after hearing all of the various sounds, she did eventually pick one out to put into her bear.

Andy snorted. "How was the Framework?" She could perfectly imagine Zari being a god in there...not to forget that technically she was one out of the Framework too. Andy led the little group to the stuffing station. "Hi," she smiled.

The stuffing technician seemed a little distracted but started going through the steps. She had each of them get a little heart and make a wish on it. Then had them do jumping jacks and a little dance, before stuffing their animals.

Madalyne listened to Zari as she talked about the framework training that the team was doing which was cool. Madalyne had been in the framework a few times for some classes that required them to use it. She started imagining Zari in there she was pretty sure Zari was having a lot of fun in there messing with things. "Seems like a cool way to train." She said as her stuffed animal was quickly being filled with stuffing.

"I mean it was cool, kind of. I could have messed with things a lot more if I wanted to, but was concerned I'd destabilize the program, so I only did minor glitches in the code. Like teleporting around. Could have shut down the entire program if I had tried if need be or something," she said with a bit of a shrug. Though now she did find the thing kind of interesting as her teddy bear got stuffed up and all.

"We've been doing a ton of sword work, which don't get me wrong I enjoy. I'm just confused by the archaic study of how to be a knight." Andy shakes her head. She gets her bat stuffed super tight as she prefers the hard stuffed animals. She gave it a hug at the direction of the stuffer, and approved. The stuffer then tightened the stitches. Once the other two had theirs finished the next station was the real reason Andy had wanted to come here - the clothing. There were a ton of options. Thankfully with Halloween approaching too, there were some good 'spooky' things to pick from.

"I don't mind the sword stuff actually my mom did teach me a little bit while growing up as well to." Madalyne said as she went over towards the clothing station and started to look at them all. Since Halloween was coming up pretty soon she decided to go with a witch outfit for her cat, witches and cats always did go together to anyway. "So are you two going to the Halloween dance together thats coming up?" She asked the two of them.

"Nothing wrong with swords. Our teacher pretty sure is psychotic and just wants things to blow up or something. Which you know, if fun, I like chaos, but not exactly all the time," she said as she started looking at all of the outfits and everything for the stuffed animals, she was kind of hugging hers close to her at the moment. Upon hearing Madalyne asking about the dance, she just sort of shrugged, "I mean I dunno? What are dances or whatever like that like anyway? Not to mention I might pay more attention to my birthday that comes first a few days before Halloween. But the dance sounds like it will be fun to go to."

The last party Andy had gone to had not ended well. She snorted to herself, best to keep Mom in the room for this one. "What do you want to do for your birthday?" Andy didn't think much of birthdays, and her last one she had fully skipped over since she had been frozen at the time. But if Zari wanted to do something special she'd do her best to make it happen. "I'd be alright going to the dance if you want to. If we do though we should get dresses while here." They were going to go clothing shopping anyway. She could get some new make-up at the same time. While chatting Andy picked out an outfit for her bat and a few others that Selene might like. "The next step is paying for everything. We get to name them and get an adoption certificate when we do." She explained pointing to the cashier's area.

"Did you want a party or anything for your birthday?" Madalyne asked Zari, she wasn't sure if Zari liked birthday parties or just wanted something small to. The dance she was actually looking forward to as she looked at Andy mentioning about getting a dress or something like that. "It's more like a costume dance than anything there is a party store we could buy some there if you want. Or we can do it sometime later." Madalyne said as she went over and paid for her new stuffed animal and gently took her adoption certificate from the cashier and gave her new friend a hug.

"I mean I don't know what I want to do for my birthday. I usually spent it most of the time with my parents or something not doing a whole lot. Well, one year for my birthday I wanted my own robot, so my mom helped me to build Mr. Eyeball as a present. That's one of the many reasons why I don't want people messing with him. That and he's also the only real friend I had for a while. Helps when your powers naturally let you repair any piece of tech you want though," she said with a shrug. Currently she was working on coming up with a name for her newfound teddy bear as she paid for it. "Not sure what to do for a costume, I mean also never really celebrated Halloween so not entirely sure what to do or anything for it."

"We'll figure out something fun to do, even if it is just to watch a movie or go out to eat. Maybe both, we could go to the movies as a group and then have dinner. You can invite whoever you want." Andy said. She wanted to make the day special for Zari, but wouldn't want to overwhelm her. "As for costumes I'll be honest I'm not sure either. I haven't done one since I was like five." She frowned. "We can go to the party store and see what options there are and pick from there." Andy named her bat Stellaluna. She remembered the book from when she was little. Friendship despite differences was one of the main themes of the story and she had always loved that but hadn't seen it in the world at the time. She did now. She paid for her doll and the clothing she had gotten.

Madalyne listened to the two of them talk she always did like birthday parties growing up, she loved the cake and presents as well to. "So now where do you guys want to go, did you want to go and do some more shopping or hit the food court?" Madalyne asked, she didn't mind either way she was still having some fun and hanging out with Zari and Andy.

Zari thought about what she wanted to do. She never thought she'd actually enjoy shopping this much, which definitely was a bit odd to say the least for her. Currently she had settled on the very simple name of "Beary" for her new stuffed animal friend, and now was wondering what to do. "I say let's go to the food court I'm hungry!" she said happily, figuring they could then go find other stores that would be fun afterwards.

Ω Heroes of Olympus: The Next Age of Heroes Ω

Location: Labyrinth
Skill: Magic

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Andy nodded following after the others. Of course, they couldn't escape without any issues. Very soon they'd encounter more monsters. She frowned. There had to be a way around them. Or maybe they could sneak past them? Andy got an idea. She pulled at the mist again. Wrapping it around them. The world got a bit darker for them, but the important thing was she was fairly certain they couldn't be seen now.

"We should be invisible now." She smiled. Now they just had to hope it was good enough and would get them past the next group of monsters. Andy refused to look down into the unending chasm. She didn't want to see the depths of it.

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Location: Taxi
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Niah nodded when the Cabbie asked if Persephone was with them. She let her pick where she wanted to sit. Since they would now probably fill out all the seats. Niah was surprised Persephone was here. This was the West Coast. Normally the gods sort of divided the continent. Maybe it was because the Romans had been at Camp Half-blood. That was probably messing them up some.

The vision had unsettled Niah. She would have known her sister's face anywhere. Niah had lost the only photo she had of her family when New Rome fell, but she knew what her dead sister looked liked. And she hadn't changed at all in several years. What did the vision mean? Niah wasn't of any of the prophetic types of blood, so why have the vision in the first place? But its implications were interesting. Was her sister actually alive?

Inferno - STRIKE THE MATCH! - Concluded

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Ed Penior

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Location: Limbo
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"Well, I don't know how many of those may be in this place. But we can see one in the distance now." He gave a brief description for Runa. He then held out his arm again, gently brushing hers so she would know he was there for her again. Assuming the Indigenous woman had not been with Max, that put the number of Sorcerer Supremes currently running around at a minimum of seven. What had Strange done? And to have pulled three of them from the same group but at vastly different times was...odd. Max was from the earliest time of their group, Runa easily from the farthest into the future. Why? Had Strange messed up? Or was it on purpose?

"Those fiends, when they attacked, said death to the Sorcerer Supreme and long live witchfire. That is why we believe they have something to do with all of this." Ed quickly explained to Max. They had known each other for three years. Had worked on the same team. Ed had almost forgotten the way they had met...or at least met on his end of things. His ease of interacting with Max was almost second nature to him, all that time...but to Max it hadn't happened yet.

He glanced at the woman, who was currently a werewolf, could she change back on her own? Was this normal? He hadn't focused on it during the fight, but now that all the other fiends were gone he wondered why she hadn't gone back to her human form. Also, he should properly introduce himself to her once she had.

🌠 Once Upon A Time 🌠(Concluded)

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Rose Buckner

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Location: Rapunzel's Tower
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Rose rolled her eyes a bit. She didn't like either Rosalia or Colby. They both seemed to think they were in the right all the time. But this place was different than back home. There were some things you couldn't avoid. But she remembered the fight the two of them had had, and at the time she had sided with Rosalia. Colby was an idiot.

Rose still hadn't determined which team she wanted to go with. She could do either. She wouldn't consider herself 'stealthy' but she was a hunter. She was better at it than most, but specifically in the wilderness. Traipsing around a castle was not what she considered an environment that she'd be skilled at. She was leaning more toward the assault group.

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Colby Jackson

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Location: Rapunzel's Tower
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Colby was about to snap, but Willow stood up for him. He gave her a small smile. "I actually don't care which team I go with. I've got something up my sleeve for either. Sowing some chaos for distraction, or getting in somewhere I'm not supposed to be. I'm good at both." Colby didn't even think he was bragging there. He had done plenty of petty sneaking about, and yeah, he could cause a good distraction if called for.

He looked at Merlin. "I can go with team distraction." He felt he was being unjustly blamed for the skeleton thing. That was ages ago (like two days), and no one had gotten seriously hurt in the long run. He also just didn't care what Rosalia thought. He could forget her as soon as she was out of sight and be a happier person for it.

X-Men: Cosmic Crusades 👽

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Ed Penior

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Location: Asteroid (Group: Mary, Flynn, and Perry)
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The group was able to move on. They got into the room Mary said they were supposed to meet the others. They weren't there. With the explosion that had happened, he was concerned that maybe they had lost some of their group. That was concerning. Who knew how many might have been lost and they wouldn't know for a while.

Ed looked around the room they were in. Perry had hacked...socially engineered her way into the main computer. Was this the room Guin had said to meet them in? "Can you get the cameras pulled up? If there are any. And find the others? And a map of the place. That would be useful." Ed was tired of wandering around uncertain of what hallway would lead to what. Splitting up might have been a bad idea. Mostly because finding each other was so difficult.

Inferno - STRIKE THE MATCH! - Concluded

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Ed Penior

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Location: Limbo
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Max had arrived and he hadn't caused total chaos. He had been helpful. The fight was over, for now. He frowned, Max knew Runa, but not him? When had he met Runa? The memory of the first time he had met Max in the kitchen at the mansion filled his mind, along with the tombstone Max had summoned in the fight. His name had been on that tombstone.

His jaw tightened. Max didn't know who he was. He glanced at Runa. She'd know. He could ask and would know. But did he want to really know?

His daughter...his daughters would grow up without him if it was true. Ed had always figured he'd be young when this happened since Max had known him instantly. Hell, this sucked.

He would do his best to protect the world. That's what mattered now. He'd go down to his very last breath to keep the world safe. That was the world with his daughters. He didn't care that Madalyne wasn't biologically his. He loved her as if she was. That was enough for him. The second worst part was his stupid cousin would become the family patriarch. The family would fall apart under his command. He couldn't dwell on that.

"Sorry. I guess we haven't met yet." He says the words carefully. "Or rather you haven't met me. I'm Ed." And you are a portent of my death. He carefully didn't add. The clock to his death had started ticking. So much for Max not causing chaos.

Ed cleared his throat. "Anyone want any healing?" He changed the subject.

Avengers Academy: Junior Year 💥

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Location: Dorm Room
Skills: Enhanced Reflexes (Passive)

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Andy was tired. She wanted coffee. The school coffee was okay. But she wanted a good cup. Something hot that warmed her bones and reminded her of early mornings at the Drummonds. The problem was school rules when it came to having things in the dorm. She might have gotten away with it, especially since she didn't have a roommate right now. But she didn't want to push her luck. She also wanted to just have the coffee ready whenever she wanted it. She looked up from her notes and stared for a moment into space. Finally, she sighs and looks at the doll containing her mother.

"Weird question but would you know how to make an ever-fill mug? Follow-up question, could you make one that was full of coffee?" Selene would sometimes be willing to treat Andy. She wasn't sure what combination of personality bits of Selene made that happen. She also was never sure if she could trust it. After having your mom almost destroy the world it was hard to trust her.

The doll that housed the spirit of the immortal sorceress SELENE! remained silent. Eerily still too. Had it not been a doll, someone might have been forgiven for assuming that the creature was playing dead - or pointedly ignoring her daughter's questions. This still could be the case. SELENE! was very petty. And not above making her daughter grovel to get an answer out of her.

Andy let the silence hang for a while. She knew sometimes her mother would do this. If Andy wasn't prepared to ask she wouldn't have started to ask in the first place. Finally, as if a rubber band snapped she sighed and said. "Please? This is something I could really use and I need your help." She relented and tried to keep her voice light. Andy didn't want her mom to hear the defeat or annoyance in her tone.

SELENE! smiled sweetly, the lids of her doll eyes blinking. "I know how to do many things, my child," SELENE! said. "I have walked this land since time immemorial. And I will continue to do so when you are long forgotten. I can teach you to enchant your flask, but you'll need to do something for ME. I want a virgin. A juicy one, please. I'm sooo hungry..."

Andy was hopeful for a moment. That had been shattered as soon as Selene asked for a virgin. "I am not getting you a virgin." The school was full of them but that didn't mean Andy was going to grab a freshman or something at random and feed them to her mother. That was just...evil.

The doll shut her eyes. "Then I suppose I can't help you, poppet," SELENE! lamented. "I'm too dreadfully hungry to begin to even think about your silly little coffee problem. It's such a tragedy. Just one little human soul and I could help you..."

"You ate like three months ago. You ate a whole lot then too." Andy said crossing her arms and staring down the doll. A thought crossed her mind and a popular T.V. show character followed behind that thought. She smiled. That was not something she'd follow through any time soon. Also, that'd take a lot of prep work.

SELENE! gasped. "Are you shaming me?!" she shrieked. "How about this then - I need a new outfit. This one is dreadfully outdated. Do we have a deal? New clothing for a spell?"

"Outfit we can do." Andy nodded. "I'm sure there are some good ones we can find online." Andy smiled. Maybe she could learn to sew and make doll clothing for Selene too. She chose to ignore the shaming comment. If Build-a-bear was still around that might be a good place to look. Maybe she could ask Mads to go to the mall with her and Zari. That could be fun.

Somehow, a smile plastered itself on the porcelain doll's frozen face. "Excellent!" SELENE! cheered. "Now, listen closely, my child..." And she began to teach. It was a fairly straightforward series of incantations, all done in SELENE!'s native Greek. Of course, the pronunciation was probably something that Andy might find difficult, having not learned ancient Greek. "Got it? Good. Now do it," SELENE! ordered.

Andy listened closely to her mother, trying the words carefully mentally. Then she tried them out loud, watching the doll to see if she approved of the pronunciation. She didn't put any power into it yet.

The doll cackled. "Oh my, that's going to need a bit of tidying up!" SELENE! teased. "Unless, you wanted to make a never ending goblet of donkey shit, then you're doing it perfectly." She repeated the incantation again, a bit faster this time, as if that would be at all helpful for Andy to follow.

Andy resisted a heavy sigh and tired again. She did not want a never-ending goblet of donkey shit. She wasn't sure what the difference of what she said and what Selene had said was, but she wanted to make sure it was right.

"Yeesh, you're making my ears bleed," SELENE! complained. "Do they not teach you ancient Greek at this silly school? Maybe I need to go have a chat with your teachers. When do the parents get to come and yell at them for being cunt fuckers?" SELENE! asked. She then hemmed and hawed for a moment, before offering Andy some concrete advice on the part of the incantation she was messing up. "Try it again - this time, don't do it piss poorly," she then added.

Andy bore the scolding. Andy wasn't certain if Selene meant that she had called her a cunt. Andy was honestly surprised there was a word for cunt if that was so. She was thankful that Selene gave her more advice on how to produce the phrase properly. She tried again. Learning from her mom would be stressful if it was ever for something she didn't care about.

"Finally! Now do it like that, but with some real POWER behind it!" SELENE! praised.

Andy picked up the to-go reusable mug that she had at hand. It would work perfectly for this. She held it tightly in her hands as she repeated the words she had practiced. She pushed with her awareness of the spirit energy she contained. Pushing that into the mug with her words.

SELENE! watched with hungry eyes, watching the power flow out of her daughter and into the mug. She was excited, thrilled beyond belief. She had insisted that Andy sign up for magic courses at this academy, but truthfully, Andy had always seemed to have the magical potential of a slug. "Aww, my little one, that was so good!!" SELENE! praised. "Now taste it - does it taste like the blood of virgins? Err, so sorry, coffee?"

Andy drinks from the mug a little nervously. The coffee is hot, but not scalding. The flavor was a wonderful blend. It was a little nutty with a light citrus flavor dancing in the background. It was rich and perfectly sweet with just the right amount of coffee. It was literally the best cup of coffee Andy had ever had. She sighed deeply soaking in the flavors. "It's perfect." She replies. "Can't say it tastes like virgins. But I like it." She did consider that if Mads was a virgin she'd know what they tasted like..._{and they were delicious}.

The doll tilted her head to the side, looking at her daughter with some affection. One day, she was certain, her child would be drinking blood instead of coffee. But if she had to lead her slowly down the road to damnation, then so be it. SELENE! could guide her to destruction. One enchanted cup of coffee at a time. "Good, mummy knows best," SELENE! said.

Andy didn't see the look. Her eyes were closed. "Thank you for your help. I'll make sure to find you something extra goth." Andy says smiling and opening her eyes. She really hoped Build-A-Bear or some other doll outfitter was an option.

X-Men: Cosmic Crusades 👽

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Ed Penior

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Location: Asteroid (Group: Mary, Flynn, and Perry)
Skills: Healing

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Ed held his hands up to his face and covered his nose. He snapped it back into place and orange light emanated from his hands healing him. He grunted then nodded. "I'm good, thank you, Mary." He stood up.

It was as good idea as any to just walk away from this. Hopefully, by getting Perry away from the ghost aliens they'd disappear. This whole thing was frustrating and annoying. He was ready to go as soon as the group moved.