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seasiren ([info]seasiren) wrote in [info]dc_nextgen,
@ 2011-07-01 15:37:00


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Entry tags:ash curry, zachary zatara

Under the moon and over the sand (Zach and Ash)
It is late at night. Like any modern day city time does not stop in Cairo just because the sun has gone down. The moon is out and the streets are still busy. But as it is quickly approaching two in the morning things die down.

A spell is cast by an unknown person and across the world it wakes two others up. Somehow across an ocean they feel it. One of them feels an urgency in her blood to go to where the magic is. She dresses quickly in the dark and starts to cast a spell.

She doesn't think to bring back up. The magic tells her she has to act quickly. And so she goes and finds herself an ocean away from her friends in front of the Egyptian Antiquities museum. She can feel the pulse of dark magic and shivers in the warm night air.

This is dangerous. But she casts another spell to fool the security system and goes inside. Magic is buzzing in her mind and she continues to search for where this dark tainted pulse is coming from.

She is going to stop it.



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[info]greatest_zatara
2011-07-11 12:55 am UTC (link)
"Yes. It's a focal point, as an object I've had for years, and it has a psychological association with cleanliness. A good suit, namely." Zach smiles. Nobody ever asks him enough about his original spells.

"And for my next trick." He taps his foot three times, making a triangle, and opening a portal to Tokyo. Always go to the source for specialty cuisine, if it's available.

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[info]seasiren
2011-07-11 08:58 pm UTC (link)
"Ah. I don't really have anything l=-like that. I'm still bonding to things here," Ash muttered.

She normally did a teleportation spell that felt like one was sinking into a whirlpool. His was more showy looking than hers. "--I've never actually been here."

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[info]greatest_zatara
2011-07-11 09:03 pm UTC (link)
"It doesn't always have to be a possession." Zach escorts her through the portal like a gentleman.

"I met this one guy, real pulp adventure hero formerly spoiled rich kid type guy, who used his own fist as a spell focus. Fell in with some mystic stuff in the far east; because as we all know, white people make the superior ninjas." He rolls his eyes and chuckles as they emerge on the streets of Tokyo.

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[info]seasiren
2011-07-11 09:12 pm UTC (link)
"I use my hands for some of the things I need to do. Carrying something around unless it's a spear just doesn't make sense for me," Ash admitted.

"Plus I try to follow the Atlantean traditions for magic as much as I an."

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[info]greatest_zatara
2011-07-12 12:46 am UTC (link)
Zach leads her down the street to a nice little storefront eatery.

"I haven't done as much study of Atlantean magic as I'd like to say. Although, as one of the homo magi, my casting ability has it's deep deep roots in Atlantis."

He's surprisingly relaxed for just having helped battle eldritch horrors.

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[info]seasiren
2011-07-12 12:51 am UTC (link)
"Have you ever considered asking to speak with our mages? We'r...we're not exactly s-s-scary, you know."

The stutter was back but it didn't sound so terrible. Ash sniffed at the air and a few things really had her attention. "Th-This looks good."

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[info]greatest_zatara
2011-07-12 12:55 am UTC (link)
"It's not that I'm intimidated." Zach laughs at that, ordering himself a sampler and a kappa roll to start Ash off with, in fluent Japanese.

"I'm a career man. I'm just busy."

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[info]seasiren
2011-07-14 07:33 pm UTC (link)
She rolled her eyes. "And th-th-the life of a Princess i-isn't?"

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[info]greatest_zatara
2011-07-14 07:36 pm UTC (link)
Zach laughs. "Touche." He takes his time chewing a piece of high grade tuna, seeming blissful.

"You in school?"

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[info]seasiren
2011-07-14 07:42 pm UTC (link)
"Not surface world school. I do stuff the 'traditional' way," she said making air quotes.

"We do apprenticeships or sign up for the military. L-Lots of stuff is done because it's what our parents did. Of-Of course if you have the mage gift.... then that's different. Y-you.... You get more options. Like if you want it or not. I've been asked t-time and t-t-time again i-if it's what I really want."

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[info]greatest_zatara
2011-07-14 07:44 pm UTC (link)
"And?" Zach tilts his head.

"Are you happy? Any passions in your life that you're pursuing? Pop culture loves those mages driven by a tortured past and empowered by rage, but I find that magic is most productive when the caster is genuinely happy about their life."

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[info]seasiren
2011-07-14 07:49 pm UTC (link)
She shrugged lightly.

"W-Well I'm no-not unhappy. I -m-m-miss my h-home di-dimension. I k-know I'... I'll never g-get t--to s-see it again." She takes a breath and sips at some tea she found pushed her way by the chef as he was busily working. "B-But? I ... wasn't really happy there. I didn't h-h-have f-friends because I was a Princess. I-I had t-to keep the world at arm-arms length. And I-I'm learn-learning to b-be happy. That life isn't j-just ab-about duty."

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[info]greatest_zatara
2011-07-16 12:47 am UTC (link)
"What makes you so sure you'll never see it? Does it still exist?"

Damn Crises.

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[info]seasiren
2011-07-16 12:57 am UTC (link)
"I had the Mages of Atlantis look into it." She shook her head. "It's not gone but... It's sealed in a way that can't be found. They tried everything they could. Nothing worked."

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[info]greatest_zatara
2011-07-16 01:16 am UTC (link)
More sushi is placed in front of each of them.

"I see.... well, maybe I could help you work on that at some point. I have access to resources that Atlantis doesn't."

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[info]seasiren
2011-07-16 03:47 am UTC (link)
"Perhaps," she agreed. "We could look into it. It would be nice to know if I truly had the option to return."

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[info]greatest_zatara
2011-07-17 01:01 pm UTC (link)
"Sure thing." He passes her a business card. "This is my magic number, it should put you straight to me no matter what. If I don't answer, it most likely means I'm in mortal peril and could use assistance."

He munches away at some edamame the chef had given them on the house. "I think I remember something like your banishing spell in an old treatise on Atlantean dimensional principles... might be able to help you cut down the invoking time. Nice work, by the way."

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[info]seasiren
2011-07-19 08:39 pm UTC (link)
"Mmm. T-Thanks. Took m-me a lot to get that just right," she said with a slight smile.

"It took me a great deal of time to.... well. I have a lot of spells that I know. And I... I'm very careful to not stray too far into what's considered dark by my people. We know well the price of foolishness after all." And because of her hair being blond she had been reminded of that more often that most.

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[info]greatest_zatara
2011-07-19 08:46 pm UTC (link)
"It was very impressive. Your own design?" Zach inquires about the spell.

He props his head up on a hand as he gestures with the other one. "Don't get me wrong, I know there's lines not to cross, but I think the whole 'black magic' and 'white magic' business is a lot of hooey. You can use healing spells to make someone's heart work itself to death, or necromancy to keep death at bay while you close an artery.

Magic is a glorious and wonderful thing, but it's a tool or a weapon like any other. Who uses it, and how they use it, are what defines it as good or bad." He tucks in on some eel.

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[info]seasiren
2011-07-19 08:59 pm UTC (link)
"Not exactly. It was a combination of several well known Atlantean banishing spells. They are millenia old and so they're... rather strong. Because of the power they evoke and the strong subconscious ties they have to the Old Ways," Ash said in a soft tone while poking at her food.

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[info]greatest_zatara
2011-07-19 09:04 pm UTC (link)
"Hm. Where does the banishing output to?"

He grimaced as he remembered the fallout with that demi-urge whose domain he'd been dumping things into with his room-cleaning spell when he was younger. That had taken some sweet-talk by Zee and Uncle John to clear up.

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[info]seasiren
2011-07-19 09:12 pm UTC (link)
"This one sent them back to where they belong. Truly. Th-There's no need to kill something just because it's different. Also much less messier than killing them." Ash informed with with a nervous smile.

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[info]greatest_zatara
2011-07-19 09:16 pm UTC (link)
Zach nods. "Nice work, kid." He pats her on the back, then smiles to himself, as if he knows something.

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[info]seasiren
2011-07-19 09:21 pm UTC (link)
She blinked at him curiously. "Th-thank you? M-M-most might wonder why I had pi-pity for something th-that ate a sentient lifeform."

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[info]greatest_zatara
2011-07-19 09:46 pm UTC (link)
He winks. "Check your pockets."

She'll eventually find a pair of front row any-event passes for Zach's performances.

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