Martin Baum (magic_hands) wrote in marvel_nextgen,
@ 2012-06-14 04:13:00

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Family Demon Hunting Road Trips!
Bumping along a dirt road in what, to any sane person, was probably the most outlandish and least safe car ever, Martin looks out the window at all the wheat fields. Now surely somewhere in there was a demon. There had to be! The detector in the car said so! Granted, at the last stop it had lead them to the ghost of some old lady that was very dull, and her dog which had just been noisy, but still...it should work eventually. He needed to tell Marlow how much he liked this car again. Charmed to the brim meant: bonus! He could touch stuff. And hey, that was a rare thing with him.

Anyway, they were better than the Ghostbusters. You had to call those guys. Nobody had called them!

The Great Demon Hunting Road Trip continues!

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marlow
2012-06-14 05:33 am UTC (link)

Marlow had worked on this car a long time, nearly a month. She'd layered spell over spell over spell to make it able to drive itself, and teach her in the process. It was sea green, her favorite color, and it sparkled in the sun. Right now it was so sparkly that it blinded the birds overhead.

It was meant for family trips, and Martin was always up for an adventure. To make it even more fun, she'd given it DPS, demon positioning system. It was supposed to take them to demons so they could kill them!

It kinda sorta worked. It found supernatural things. That dog was really noisy. She'd tried to step on it.

"Why do you think demons even come out this way? It seems pretty boring."

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	magic_hands 2012-06-14 05:38 am UTC (link)
	"Maybe so they can eat people in peace an-ah!-d quiet?" Those bumps were hard to get used to. But it was still the best road trip ever. The DPS had actually found them demons. Tiny talkative ones that were more like leprechauns, but still...it worked. "Actually, why do people even come this way? There's only wheat..." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	marlow 2012-06-14 05:46 am UTC (link)
	Talkative demons were the worst. "Yeah." The road bumped really hard and she bounced in her seat. "If they wanted bread, they could go to the store and buy some. Maybe it's a wheat eating demon out here. Hopefully there's a town soon." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

magic_hands
2012-06-14 05:56 am UTC (link)

"A wheat eating demon would be boring though...I mean, even non-magic teammates could deal with that. I hope the next one is real big! I was looking up spells to try, and the bigger the better." The next bump has him almost hit his head against the roof.

"So what sound was it again that meant demons?" He taps the DPS with his hat hoping to make it do what he wanted.

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marlow
2012-06-14 06:08 am UTC (link)

"I tried a laugh, but it didn't work to well, so I used a fog horn. It confuses them because there's no ocean around here." At the time she thought it a brilliant idea. /She/ would look for an ocean if she heard one.

"Do you have the map? Is there a town nearby? We'll need to get some gas for the car and wash off the dust." The car was practically alive if Marlow's efforts were anything to go on.

Maybe the Defenders should've found her a pet.

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magic_hands
2012-06-14 06:19 am UTC (link)

"That's a good idea! They'll be looking for boats then instead." Marlow was pretty smart in his opinion, and that the car actually worked was proof of that for him.

"Yep!" He digs into his hat, going past elbow deep, which might look odd to a normal person considering the hat wasn't anywhere near that tall, and fishes out an enchanted map. "Umm...there should be one soon I think?" The map adjusts itself midair as he squints at it. "Has a stupid name though so maybe it's not real and just a joke. I wonder who names these things..."

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marlow
2012-06-14 02:27 pm UTC (link)

Marlow looked up at the map hovering between them and blocking the windshield. She took her hands off the wheel and tugged at the corner to bring it closer so she could get a good look at where he was squinting. The car continued on, driving much better than it did when she was trying to be in control.

"Fearnowville. That's weird. It's like a sign not to go there. I bet they have really good hamburgers. All weird places are supposed to have good food." Because, of course, that's what the TV said.

"Maybe it's a park like Disneyland but for weird stuff."

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magic_hands
2012-06-14 03:54 pm UTC (link)

"Really? Is it only weird places on this plane because all the other ones are weird and have no burgers." At the mention of a theme park Martin peaks around the map to see out the windshield, "That'd be so cool. Maybe a theme park with a bunch of demons. I hear they like that stuff." Sadly he sees no tall rides in the distance, only more wheat.

"You know, we need pictures of our demon hunting. People always take pictures when they go on road trips."

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marlow
2012-06-15 03:32 pm UTC (link)

"I didn't bring a camera. We'll buy one at the store in town." Martin had some great ideas. She thought he was pretty smart for his age. Families had picture albums to save their memories. They needed one too. She would make copies of it for Clea and Doctor Strange to show them they were putting their magic to good use.

"It's supposed to be small mom and pop places, and holes in the wall." Personally, she would never eat anything that came out of a hole cut in a wall, but Martin might and she would get to see if it was safe. "I'm getting hungry, too. Let's get to Fearnowville as soon as we can."

In response to her words, the car picked up speed.

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magic_hands
2012-06-15 07:17 pm UTC (link)

Martin nodded along. To any passer-by he'd look like a sixteen year old, despite still being thirteen, the result of a magic adventure mishap. This was on top of spending the three years since his powers manifested secluded with Dr. Strange and only dealing with magic...well, that doesn't promote normal social development either.

"I never knew why they called it that. Because the moms and pops have their kids working there too." He's suspended in mid-air for a moment as the speeding car hits another bump and nearly hits his head.

Martin gives up on watching out the window, having determined a while ago there was nothing interesting, and instead focuses on following the moving sea-green dot, he was quite proud of getting the colour right, on his map.

"Do you have any money? I don't carry any." It wasn't practical considering not paying attention while touching any might result in the money turning into something else. He's pretty sure he has some, he vaguely recalls something about the Thunderbolts getting salaries.

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marlow
2012-06-16 05:09 am UTC (link)

Thanks to Sydney, Marlow had money with her all the time. She had been given a leather fold that carried a credit card, her Defenders card, and one hundred dollars in twenties. The wallet fit neatly in her front pocket and was also spelled, one spell to keep it from getting lost and another to keep everyone out unless she wanted it to happen.

"I have money," she assured Martin. Her stomach rumbled. She made the attempt to wrestle control of the car from, well, the car and pushed her foot down on the gas pedal. It resisted her efforts to hit ninety. "We'll get supplies and find a place to spend the night. Maybe they've seen some demons in town."

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magic_hands
2012-06-16 05:22 am UTC (link)

"Okay, you can take some from my account. Someone made one, I don't know how you get money from it though, you'll have to ask Anya or Bea. They know this stuff." He'd let Marlow handle anything that involved actual physical contact with people or objects, including paying.

"I hope they tell us if they have," he says while the engine protests against the attempt speed up. "I don't think this car likes us." At least according to the map it wouldn't be much farther. He was looking forward to these supposedly good burgers.

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marlow
2012-06-16 05:38 am UTC (link)

"Sydney said if I was going to have a car I had to learn how to drive by the rules, so I spelled the rules into it so it would teach me," Marlow said with a hint of grit in her voice. "It doesn't like to break the speed rule, but I'm hungry."

The car relented and let the speedometer creep up a little more.

"The car will take care of us," she told Martin. "And find demons."

	marlow 2012-07-09 02:08 pm UTC (link)
	There's magic all right. She spotted an empty park bench and motioned Martin over to sit and watch the crowd. Flopping down on it, she saw another rune etched in the wooden seat. Look, there's another one. I wonder what would happen if we gave it a little push. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	magic_hands 2012-07-09 07:35 pm UTC (link)
	Only one way to find out... And without further ado he gives the rune a firm tap with his hat. Sense of danger? What was that? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	magic_hands 2012-07-10 06:56 pm UTC (link)
	"I didn't push it that hard!" Because really, he thought, how hard could you push something using a hat? Then he notices the countless staring eyes. Oops. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	marlow 2012-07-12 02:52 pm UTC (link)
	A hat in the hands of crazy strong magic! Marlow blinked back at the crowd. Did they all seem...bigger? "I think we found our demon," she said softly. "I think we found them all." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	marlow 2012-07-14 12:27 am UTC (link)
	One by one, the normal faces began to change, revealing demonic ones. "The DPS worked!" She probably shouldn't be so elated at her success in the face of the downside of DPS. It found a whole town of demons. They might not live through it. The crowd didn't just move toward them. It surged in their direction. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)