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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
2011-07-02 06:25 pm UTC (link)
Fortunately for her, the World's Greatest Magician is on the scene as well. Zachary Zatara had felt a creeping sensation run up the back of his neck just after finishing a show in London, and had followed up.

He arrives in front of the museum and shakes his head. Egypt. He doesn't get on as well with African and Middle Eastern mysticism as he does with some other aspects, but he can't ignore the situation.

"Ytiruces metsys, nepo erofeb em." He strides up the front steps as the door unlocks for him, and the cameras refuse to register him, as he enters.

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[info]seasiren
2011-07-02 07:00 pm UTC (link)
Ash had no idea someone else was here until he just walked right in. Not long after she had done the same. She had nearly called up a spell to peg him with but seeing what looked like a friendly face she stopped.


"J-Just so yo...you know? I didn't do it. Felt it. Teleported here f-f... from New York, sir."

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[info]greatest_zatara
2011-07-02 07:07 pm UTC (link)
Zach conjures some light, smiling as he tips his hat back. "Of course. You're one of the Titans, aren't you? Nice to meet one of the juniors." He takes his hat off with a flourish. "Zachary Zatara - World's Greatest Magician.

Glad to see another mage is on the case. Atlantean, if I'm not mistaken, yes?"

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[info]seasiren
2011-07-02 07:24 pm UTC (link)
"You're correct, I'm Asherah Curry. People call me Ash," she greets after forcing the almost ever present stammer down.

The young Atlantean gives a shy shrug. "I'm not really considered a full mage yet but I couldn't ignore what I felt. It was very.... Dark."

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[info]greatest_zatara
2011-07-02 07:29 pm UTC (link)
"Yes, well, at the risk of not being PC, the Egyptian pantheons were very big on the whole smiting and ritual sacrifice and living entombings. Leaves bad karma laying about." He slips his hat back on and lights the way for them.

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[info]seasiren
2011-07-02 07:40 pm UTC (link)
"It's true though. You don't have to water things down for me." Ash looks around carefully.

"I do .... do know this feels different than the other kinds of darkness I sense here The flavor is different."

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[info]greatest_zatara
2011-07-02 08:03 pm UTC (link)
A blood-curdling shriek from down the hall interrupts them.

"I think it's over there." Zach states with forced casualness, as he runs down the hall.

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[info]seasiren
2011-07-02 08:13 pm UTC (link)
"Oh by Dis," Ash mutters then calls up a spell sh can hold in one hand as they race towards the sound.

Why is it that now it is perfectly acceptable to run into danger? Life is so strange.

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[info]greatest_zatara
2011-07-02 09:28 pm UTC (link)
Zach rounds a corner to spot the final moments of a large mass being coaxed down the gullet of a vaguely reptilian creature, hulking and dripping wet as tentacles extending from behind its head twitched.

"...crap." He readies a spell, looking to Ash. "Not from my books. You know it? Tentacled horrors are usually from the ocean."

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[info]seasiren
2011-07-04 04:07 pm UTC (link)
"No. But then again it looks familiar."

She stares for a second then winces.

"Don't let it cut you. I recognize it. It reproduces by implanting eggs into the wounds of it's prey and well.... We're dinner to it."

She calls more power into her hands to help shape the spell she is casting and readies herself o fight back.

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[info]greatest_zatara
2011-07-05 01:21 am UTC (link)
"You'd think it would at least offer to buy me dinner first..." Zach states grimly as he flips his hat off and aims it like a cannon at the beastie. A good strong blast of soulfire always makes a good ice-breaker. (And occasionally wall-breaker.)

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[info]seasiren
2011-07-05 01:32 am UTC (link)
"What about me? I'd at least like flowers," Ash snarks.

At his first spell she follows up with a ball of lightning. Only to get grabbed from behind and thrown face first into a far wall by a second creature she hadn't seen.

She groaned painfully as she sunk to the floor.

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[info]greatest_zatara
2011-07-05 01:41 am UTC (link)
"Kid!" Zach calls out, even as his blast sandbags the first one.

Oh, ESPECIALLY after the hospital fiasco, you did not just hurt a youngster in front of Zachary Zatara. It. Is. On.

"Pord eht elibomsdlO!" A car appears from nowhere, and falls upon the second creature.

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[info]seasiren
2011-07-05 01:52 am UTC (link)
"i'm okay," she calls as she whirls onto her feet. There is blood running from her nose but she seems fine.

Seeing the first getting ready to attack Zach she calls up another lighting ball throwing it sharply.

"Bad monster! Sit!"

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[info]greatest_zatara
2011-07-05 02:12 am UTC (link)
Zach shifts to the side sharply, not watching where the attack is going besides getting out of its way. The kid seems like she's in control, now that she's in danger. Amazing what a little life-or-death tension does for a speech impediment.

"LEMMUP!" The car lifts up, then slams back down on the creature again, keeping it mostly occupied, but it's not taking as much injury as he'd like.

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[info]seasiren
2011-07-05 02:27 am UTC (link)
"....I think you need to use electricity. They don't like it," Ash calls before ducking as one creature throws itself at it.

Then spinning she calls up the same spell again slamming it into her attacker.

The one Zach is pummeling manages to grab and toss the car aside with a roar.

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[info]greatest_zatara
2011-07-05 02:38 am UTC (link)
Zach tries to put some distance between him and the creatures, moving into tandem with Ash. "Got it!

Niahc gninthgil!" He swings his wand forward, and an arc of electricity follows it, going after one creature like a gigantic whip, before bouncing to the other.

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[info]seasiren
2011-07-05 04:12 am UTC (link)
"I didn't think of doing a spell like that," Ash muttered mostly to herself. And did a quick leap into the air to avoid a smoking body. Then landed and threw out to orbs of lighting to strike the creatures.

Hopefully that will give them time to finish the monsters off.

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[info]greatest_zatara
2011-07-05 11:46 am UTC (link)
"Magic is about imagination and belief, kiddo. The more you believe something you imagine not only can, but should happen, the stronger your magic will be." Casual danger dialogue came easier to Zach from his years as a Titan. He put his back to hers to make sure the creatures couldn't catch either of them by surprise.

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[info]seasiren
2011-07-07 10:22 pm UTC (link)
"I thought it also came from knowledge," Ash said as she sucked in a breath of air and moved. They may be back to back but she still had to move her hands to call the right spell up. Ice like daggers form and she flings them sending them into the creature then sends out a jolt to shock the creature again.

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[info]greatest_zatara
2011-07-08 12:47 am UTC (link)
"Good point. Studying's important, yes." Zach looks at the mangled car. "Keep them occupied while I try to pin them long enough for us to kill, bind, or banish."

He points both hands at the car. Shaping matter, just like doing it without magic, is more productive the more physical effort you applied.

"Leets tsiwt dna ecnad! Dnib eseht sretsnom taht kees ot ruoved dna yortsed!" The chassis of the car rips apart, reforming into steel chains that fly over to wrap around the creatures.

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[info]seasiren
2011-07-09 07:29 pm UTC (link)
"Keep them bound. I'll try a banishing spell," Ash tells him when it works.

Then she begins it as she stares at the beasts. The old Atlantean magic courses through her and the air as a mist begins to settle over the room they are in.

She is certain that the spell will work. It is the belief that it will work that helps fuel it.

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[info]greatest_zatara
2011-07-09 10:34 pm UTC (link)
The creatures snarled and thrashed, but Zach kept the chains secure.

"Don't know about you kid, but I certainly feel like that should work..." He manages a smirk, even as he strains to hold back the monsters.

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[info]seasiren
2011-07-10 09:06 pm UTC (link)
She doesn't respond. She just keeps focusing on the spell. Each word is precise and there is not a hint of nerves from her at all.

So very different from when she's talking to people. But then again magic has always been her safe spot.

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2011-07-19 10:05 pm UTC (link)
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