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Post by Novella Sandler on Jul 16, 2006 0:15:40 GMT
For an instant Novella is along in her mind, cut off from Loiosh and Darin, but then the void is filled by a spirit more powerful than theirs and he is all around her, in her ears and mouth and throat as much as her brain. Thom's blood tastes like power and her hands curl unwittingly into claws. Yes. She answers. Yes, I want--
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Post by Ethelion Eriksson on Jul 16, 2006 0:18:17 GMT
"We should try to gather all the students. Make a wall, get you back to the school." He looks down at the Hufflepuff, as well as the Gryffindor girl. "Protect yourselves as well you can, kill anything that gets in your way, and get whoever you can out of here. If you can get no one else, get yourselves." He looks out at the seething mass of beasts, face hard. "I will deal with this."
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Post by Prof. Algernon Moncrieff on Jul 16, 2006 0:21:58 GMT
Algernon tried to cry out to Novella to resist him, but it was no use. He could barely move, the friction of it driving him instantly to tears, the guilt and shame an insurpassible weight on his body. He lay still under the blanket, watching Erich smile seductivly down at the Gryffindor.
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Post by Thom Moen on Jul 16, 2006 0:23:01 GMT
Thom gritted his teeth and nodded bravely. "Yes, I understand." he said heavily.
"Keifer!" he called into the distance, his eyes suddenly searching relentlessly for the invisible Ravenclaw. "Come on quick, we've got to find Halo and get out of here!" he bellowed. Running past Novella, he shot her a look that was a concoction of terror and hatred, and once again he felt the tears swell up in his eyes, salty and poisonous. He choked them back and turned away from her.
(( Just so you all know, Keifer asked me to godmod him while he was gone ))
Keifer heard Thom behind him, and abandoning his struggle towards Cashew, turned and started up the shore towards Thom. He looked about, but one invisible could not see another. Halo was surely lost.
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Post by Lisa Lycott on Jul 16, 2006 0:28:59 GMT
Lisa looked at Thom's retreating form and then back to the Professor, "Right." She said in the strongest voice she could muster, and with a quick nod she ran in the other direction from the Hufflepuff, her wand still held out steadily in front of her. Her eyes searched for Boggleworth and Helia, though she wasn't sure how to locate the one who was invisible.
Her Gryffindor bravery, however, stopped her from saving her own skin and she continued the search desperately.
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Post by Cashew Dumbledorable on Jul 16, 2006 0:29:15 GMT
"Darkest evil back! Back I say!" Cashew screams, tossing potion after potion toward Novella and the ghostly figure aiming to drive him back. As result of what could only be Erich's amazing mental powers, her spelled vials seem to only miss. One enlarging a rock to absurd sizes. Another transforming a weakened Lethifold in to a case of rare champagne and finally Darin in to a champion's tennis racket. Cashew approached warily, gaze drawn to Novella's snarling. Her eyes narrowed. Cashew was no fool and knew immediately what Erich was up to and what she must do. Though she was unable to cast the proper banishing to cast Erich out of this world Cashew could more than keep him out of their heads.
There is a loud crack and Novella hits the ground as a small bottle of the world's most beautiful perfume, labeled 'Gregory', and Cashew beside her--- a sleek and long whiskered catfish.
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Post by Novella Sandler on Jul 16, 2006 0:33:20 GMT
Loiosh can feel Novella and Darin again, but they feel far off and he cannot touch their minds. His copper eyes find them among all the other objects, gathering the tennis racket and the perfume bottle under his winds and hissing loudly, poison dripping into his fangs and preparing to bite anyone who dared touch his friends.
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Post by Thom Moen on Jul 16, 2006 0:35:01 GMT
Thom's ankles collided with something, and he was thrown head first onto the ground so that he did a barrell role. "Lisa - I think I found Halo!" he called to her. Crawling on his hands and knees back to the spot, he felt Halo's soft hair. Smiling, he pulled her arm over his head, getting ready to lift her.
Then he saw the catfish. "Accio catfish!" he chanted, and watched the fish zoom through the air, landing in the bowl next to his goldfish.
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Post by Ethelion Eriksson on Jul 16, 2006 0:35:36 GMT
Ethelion wonders where that damned Freundscaft got himself off to, but he supposes it doesn't matter. The students are running and the lady he thought he glimpsed must have been only a figment of his imagination. He is alone in this. He dispatches the closest lethifold with a well-placed explosion charm, and looks around for his next opponant.
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Post by Lisa Lycott on Jul 16, 2006 0:42:33 GMT
Thom's voice reached her ears and Lisa looked around with anxious eyes. Spotting him, she ran to catch up and let out a relieved sigh, before remembering the poor Hufflepuff prefect. "Where's Henry?" She said in an breathless voice. Turning around, she saw the only active professor firing spells at the Lethifolds and looked back ahead of her calmly. "Everything will be alright," she whispered to herself, repeating it over and over in her mind.
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Post by Erich Aubry on Jul 16, 2006 0:45:36 GMT
Erich was puzzled and he had not been so in a very long time. Not only had he been unable to read the mind of his strikingly female assailant or account for her supremely terrible aim. He could not even feel more than the slight impression of a mind inside before she had transformed herself into a catfish and, even more strangely, was whisked away as if on a wind.
Erich bent down to consider the bottle of Gregory, his hand passing easily through Loiosh's snaping jaw and beating wing, and searching for any means to penetrate its conciouness- which it surely possesed- but found he could not. It was purely inatimate.
Then he was solid for a moment, the sun beginning to dip toward the trees, and Erich gave himself a spray of the fine scent after a skeptical whiff of it. Rainer would be here soon, he was sure. Erich dropped the bottle at his feet and began his advance on the castle where the lethifolds had already started to gather.
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Post by Thom Moen on Jul 16, 2006 0:46:07 GMT
Thom dragged Halo up from the ground. "Take her, take her over to Moncrieff." he said to Lisa, nodding towards the sofa, where Moncrieff still lay, apparently snoozing. "Do whatever you can to wake them - especially Moncrieff. Hurt him if you have to!"
Kiefer listened intently and frowned. "Hurt him?" he questioned.
"Theres no time to argue, Keifer!" Thom said impatiently. Taking his wand from his pocket once more, he held it above his head and shouted, "Serpensortia!" a green silvery snake shot from the end. "Engorgio!" he added quickly, and watched as it begun to swell in size...
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Post by Prof. Algernon Moncrieff on Jul 16, 2006 0:50:21 GMT
There are students above him and Algernon finally manages to sit up. His wand is clasped tightly in his hand, and his nuckles are white. "Why... why are you making a snake?" He choaked out disbelievingly.
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Post by Thom Moen on Jul 16, 2006 0:51:38 GMT
"It might be able to hold off the lethifold!" he said optimistically, although Thom had completely failed to realised that he would have to be a parcelmouth to make it do as he wished.
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Post by Novella Sandler on Jul 16, 2006 0:52:42 GMT
Loiosh bites at Erich as he picks up Novella, but is teeth go through and his poison does nothing. He readies himself to fly at the intangible man, but then the perfume is dropped and Loiosh pulls it greedily back ontop of Darin, guarding them fiercly. He wants to call out to Novella and make sure she is alright, but she will not answer and so he concentrates on eying everything around him suuspiously and creating more poison.
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