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Post by Black_Rider on Aug 25, 2008 18:47:26 GMT -6
Shadow kept walking and disssappeared as usual. Though would likely scare the shit out of her friend, he was on his black horse it was dressed for war apparently. A black cloak hid everything(like the pictures). He had not expected her friend to be here. He has been gone for three days. The horses hooves stuck the earth and the rustle of cloth could be heard, amongst the whisper of the leaves. A snort came in the early morning air smoke came from the nostriles of a large black horse. The metal on the riders hand crused together slightly. The shadows played dark images on the world. From a ways off he could see not one person but two at the hidden mansion with in the woods of the black rider. A common saying in some places around here was ' stay off the road '. Hooves thundered and the earth seemed to reverbrate as everything despeartaely tried to get away everything was terriffied. Dust flew into the air at the entrance to the woods, rocks and earth scatered as , the large horse reared up and turned sideways. The Black Rider looked directly at Carrie's friend. With a greath shudderening grunt the black horse came down. Tossing its head up and displaceing the earth with a great large hoof. Snorting it stood still the rider still watching them. Turning the head of the horse giveing it no seen command. It trotted up and stopped a foot from the porch. Nothing could be seen beneath the hood. This may get him off on the wrong foot with her friend. Turning the horse once more the greath beast reared up and rushed for the fence, jumping the seven foot fence, landing with ease on the other side it ran into the barn. There Shadow dismounted the horse takeing off the armor, of the horse first, then the saddle and blanket, afterwards the bridal. Leaving the horse standing he brushed it out with takeing off the metal on his hands. Then walking back out and jumping the fence with no seen movement. Walking back over and looked from one girl to the other.
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Post by deathgal on Aug 26, 2008 6:16:45 GMT -6
Carrie was telling her friend about something. Lara looked upset about it. Coth of them had tear stains on their faces. Carrie had told her about her parents and the friends they used to know.
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Post by Black_Rider on Aug 26, 2008 18:34:38 GMT -6
Decideing it was safe he took off the the concelment charm wich rendered him invisable to them. Walking past them on the steps, possibly startling her friend. After all he did in a since come out of nowwhere. At least for the while he was standing infront of them. Walking inside he took the cloak off and walked back up into the studies. Sitting down on a desk he took a large leather bound book, looking up something. Finding the page " so Bartimaeus " the level six djinni anwsered " that's it thats the bastard Abscol " " i see mocks you alot by your tone " " i could kick his ass with both hands tied behind my back " " perhaps so Bartimaeus how is your strength fairing " " its good don't need rest now " " what is your suggested plan of action " after Shadow said this. Bartimaeus froze then said half mocking " your asking my opinion you right in the head " after saying this " not sure are you " Shadow asked back. " Rekht " he said calmly. Bartimaeus seemed startled and almost fell over " can't be " Bartimaeus said. " Bartimaeus like you i have more than one name " " don't we all " Bartimaeus remembered something. " right action let me see oh how bout are favirote just kick there ass " " no thats to friendly, how many possibly are there i scouted the western camp went ahead killed them " " i destroyed the eastern " then Bartimeaus sat down, he took the form of a human boy close to Shadows age. " i'll take south you take north huh " " as you wish, now come " Shadow said and with that they both started pouring over books. Trying to figure something out.
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Post by deathgal on Aug 26, 2008 21:21:45 GMT -6
Carrie and Lara were now talking about what they've missed. But then Carrie got quiet not wanting to talk anymore. She glanced around and frowned. Lara was worried and concerned. She hoped her friend would be alright.
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Post by Black_Rider on Aug 27, 2008 6:19:48 GMT -6
Mean time Shadow as half listening to Bartimaeus who was ranting on about something. " hey listen to me i'm right here " Bartimaeus had a sharp tounge that often or not led him to trouble. Shadow ignored this " i can see you now listen " Bartimaeus snapped. " you find something? " Shadow asked Bartimaeus looked annoyed " are you even listening to what i was saying " " no Bartimaeus but come here i belevie we found our anwser" " really NO WAY " " would you be silent " Shadow hissed after Bartimaeus pretty much yelled it to the world. " that oh wow i saw that thing die, you don't think damn that could have gone bad if we did not kill that bastard " Bartimaeus said. Shadow did not speak what he was thinking " least we know what we killed " Shadow said standing up Bartmaeus helped him back the books up. It was highly likely Bartimaeus tone carried down stairs, would not be the first time. Shadow walked back down Stairs Bartimaeus at his tail when they walked outside. Bartimaeus looked at the girls and sent them a look that litterally said he dose not like them. " Bartimaeus don't you have something to do " Shadow said in a dangerous tone. " yeah i'm getting to it " Bartimaeus said then added " but on the other hand..." " you will leave them alone " Shadow had cut Bartimaeus off. Bartimaeus seemingly vanished into then air. Shadow looked to Stone Image who stood in the patsure then decided he wanted out to so he helped him self with opening a gate, went around the house and into another pasture. Knowing likely there could be a confrontation.
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Post by deathgal on Aug 27, 2008 6:37:00 GMT -6
Lara didn't like seeing her friend all depressed. She put an arm over her shoulders. Carrie just gave a look and looked away. The look she had given was sad and wanted to be alone. But Lara didn't listen and stayed there wanting to help.
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Post by Black_Rider on Aug 27, 2008 6:48:10 GMT -6
Shadow seemed to be spend little time in the company of others. Looking to Carrie he knows he should help, at the same time he is the Black Rider it is very strange for anyone to want to be this close to him. When he had left at fourteen he had spent time alone from them till now. Knowing how to react to the kind of kindness and friendship she offers him, is strange to him now. Somehow it seems very familiar why he can't place it. It seems his eyes are always sad the only clue that gives away how he feels all the time. ' forgive me if i'm not the most comforting company you have had ' he said though the thoughts would only be in her mind.
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Post by deathgal on Aug 27, 2008 7:16:30 GMT -6
Carrie felt tears falling from her eyes now. ' what can I do? nothing seems to work' she thought to herself. She was looking at a letter Lara had given to her before they got to the porch. She was reading it over. She held it up, muttered something and watched it burn. Lara was shocked. She was confused. She knew she couldn't help.
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Post by Black_Rider on Aug 27, 2008 18:19:17 GMT -6
Shadow was watching her out of the corner of his eyes keeping his distantce. ' i can read your thoughts perhaps i can help perhaps i can not ' came the words surprasingly calm. Looking fully at her now suspecting he knew what was wrong. Shifting his gaze away from her he was standing on the other side of the porch. By all means he may not expect what is to come next.
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Post by deathgal on Aug 27, 2008 22:00:34 GMT -6
Carrie stood up and walked to the stairs. She sat down and leaned on the post. ' I just need to think it through about what happened to my little dog, my uncle, my aunt and my pervert of a cousin' she thought. She knew he could read her thoughts. Lara watched her friend. She noticed her drawing book was burnt on the corners.
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Post by Black_Rider on Aug 28, 2008 6:17:56 GMT -6
By accident she would see something he remembered, it looked like the inside of a castle. Then maby he turned around after looking inside and walked, out she would see large open land dotted with houses, then maby he turned around again she would see it was a castle and someone else that resembled him slightly but not entirely..' Nathaniel whered you go to? ' he thought the thought would hardly be there for her but something had distracted him. Either way now she knows whats been on his mind. He walked inside and went past her going back to a door he kept locked. Using magic he unlocked it opening it it made no sound. But this time he did not shut the door it looked like a study room, there was another door that more than likely led to his room. He sat down on a chair but had moved it so it was by the window. He stared out of it for awhile then leaned back in the chair.
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Post by Black_Rider on Aug 28, 2008 6:57:51 GMT -6
Bartmaeus came back " think back remember what happened at the gate? come now i know you do ".
Bartmaeus had asked him to let Lara see " she may have seen him....i mean we....he's lucky we saved his hide! ".. Shadow thought and Lara would get a anwser she may not have thought to ask what causes such pain.
(first person Bartimaeus first keep in mind Bartmaeus is litterally inside of Shadows of body or bartamaeus's essence is)
whats the plan? my thought flitted through Shadow's mind. We need to draw Nouda off, get him away from the commoners before we attack. How can we do that i recommend goading. Goading usually works I'll leave that up to you. The other spirits need to be dealt with too, i thought. before or after? before or they'll kill the commoners you can control the staff. I'll keep us moving. I warn you, we're going to be pretty mobile for this Shadow made a dismissive gesture. I can cope with a few leaps and bounds ready then Sumaru? The o9thers will be in position. Yes lets go I hadn't tried flying up to now, since it took a lot of energy but this was the big one, this where everything counted. And Faquarl had seemed to manage it well enough. So with out further ado, I lifted us off the path, up beside the palms. For a nasty moment i thought Shadow was going to drop the staff. Whats the matter with you? Used to a dragon sorry this is nothing you should try looping the loop on a carpet. That would really be odd. Okay enemy's coming in sight. Staff at the ready...
We soared up over the palm trees. Electric lights shone down upon us. All around stretched the greater glass dome; Beyond it was open space. (time skip) It was the moment that Sumaru and I, flying down from on high, with the air buffeting against us and our coat billowing in our wake, shot three spirits with a triple blast. We did it so fast, so precisely, that the humans trembling nearby scarcely noticed they had gone. The other spirits looked up. The ceiling lights dazzeled them: their retorts went wide, arcing out harmlessly beneath the glass. We swooped low. The Staff flared once twice another two hybrids vanished. A turn so sharp that Sumaru was for an instant, horizontal in the air; a sudden gut churning drop as a disembowelment flittered voerhead. Another shut this one missed the target. Gasper the spirit with the uneveiable fate of occupying Rufus Lime, had himself taken to the air. He climbed toward us firing detontions. We banked flew behind a knot of trees; we emerged above them their canopy burst into livied flames. Below us the humans were suddenly posessed by panic. They split in themyriad directions. Out of the corner of our eye we saw Kitty Jones and the magicians breaking from the trees. Up on the roof of the carousel Nouda was swaying from side to side in some annoyance. " what is this intrusion? Who besets up? " We flew past at a cheeky distance. " Bartimaeus Here! " I called " Remember me? " A sudden twist high toward the dome; Rupert Deveraux's body had risen to meet us. Blue fire gusted from his hands. Sumaru's thought protruded. THAT was your goading? " Remember me? " I could do better than that. I can't goad properly when I'm...concentration on something else We had risen almost to the ceiling glass we saw starts glinting peacefully far away. Then i dropped us vertically, like a stone. Devereaux's spasm shattered oh forget it this is what happened. I'd seen the shadow rising sensed the movement in the air. I'd flun us aside. But the detotnation caught us, broke my shield apart. Struck us on the side even as we spun away. We both cried out for the first time i shared his pain. Something in the feeling perhaps it was the dull immobility of the flesh thay it just sat there accepting the wound made pnic ripple through my essence. And i then i thought he was fainting. Our eyes were closing I forced them open and set my essence tingling through his system WAKE UP SUMARU. He stirred. " my side..." Dont look at it. We're all right. and Nouda? After awhile how ever well you would not want to know. Bartimaeus...my side...I can't feel it. its fine. don't worry about it your conceling something...that thought what was it? nothing. i was thinking we have to get up get away " where are you Bartimaeus?" the great voice called. " i shall add you to myself. It is an honor" my side feels Bartimaeus but i can't The wound had reached his vital organs..i knew what would happen. Relax. I'll see if ic an fly us out no wait what about...Nouda he's a big boy, he can fly himself out if he wants now we can't go Bartimaeus not if he's I got him to agree later something would happen. You idiot, Sumaru, let me take over. there is not a point. what do you
and much later. Bartimaeus.. the thought was very faint you have been a good servant well um you've been just dandy to i did not say you were perfect what? far from it lets face it you have generally managed to cock things up what the bloody cheek. Insults at a time like this with death bearing down ect. I ask you. I rolled up my metaphorical sleeves. well since we're doing some straight talking let me tell you buddy which is why i'm dissmissing you right now eh? but i hadn't misheard i knew i had not. I could read his mind. don't take i the wrong way his thought was fragmented fleeting but his mouth was already mumbling the spell. it's just that, we've got to break the staff at the right moment here. You're holding it in check but i h can't reply on you for something as imporatat as this. You are bound to mess it up somehow. Best thin is .. best thin is to dismiss you it will trigger the staff automatically then i will know....it was..done properly He drifted he was having trouble keeping awake now the energy was draining unhindered from his side but with the final effort of will he kept speaking \the necessary words. Sumaru Say hello Kitty and Nathaniel for me if i get out of this i'll meet you back....i'll meet you you die and i'll find you when i die and i'll kill you again Sumaru
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" you see..Nathaniel looks similar to him but....i think we showed her...you were thinking about that. " Bartimaeus said. " yes...i feel we forgot something..i think i forgot to close the gate. "
"...well thats just great is not it...wait the dead go in they come back but if the living go in they die " Bartimaeus said. " i know what your thinking " and then silence.
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Post by deathgal on Aug 28, 2008 15:18:13 GMT -6
Carrie looked to Lara. Lara was shocked and scared out of her mind. Carrie stayed quiet. But watched Lara get to her feet and run off. She sighed. She looked to her owl and told it to follow Lara. She looked at her knees and then looked to the sky.
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Post by Black_Rider on Aug 28, 2008 18:51:17 GMT -6
" you said what? " Shadow said looking slightly interested. " yeah here i'll give you a full account i like you i hate YOUR BROTHER!..more or less " Bartimaeus may have just told Carrie something interesting. " mean time " Shadow said. With out looking to Carrie he said " sit down you may enjoy this " he had motioned to a chair using magic without looking, it was right beside him. Bartimaeus said " can i have a chair? " shadow sighed useing magic again to get Bartimaeus a chair who happily sat down. " please Bartimaeus contiune " Shadow said. Apparently he did talk to someone..
" i shall tell as if it i was just saying it all to him. " Bartimaeus gave a cough and so it began ....
(the story) "i'm afraid the minister is currently indisposed. " " Indisposed? Baloney! I can see him right there!" " He is busy working on today's news pamphlet. A deadling approaches." " Well, he can leave off inventing his lies for a few minutes I want a word." Ms. Piper wrinkled her nose. " you can have nothing worthwhile to say to him. Now please attend to your mission." I turned away from her; addressed the figure at the desk. " Hoi, Mandrake! " No anwser. Perhaps i should have said Nathaniel it is his birthname after all. Why i bother to keep it a secert i don't know. It's messed up back here in ol london it is. Magician's have there birthname than the name they choose. Sumaru never gave a damn about it he earned his names for a good reason i might add. So anyways i repeated myself, only louder. The papers flapped and fluttered on his desk. The magician ran his hand through his short hair. Man i hope it grows back out. He looked up with a vauely pained expression. It was as though he were being called upon to remember an old injury in a senstive spot. He turned to his assisant. " Ms. Piper, please Bartimaeus that I'm not remotely interested in his complaints. Remind him that most masters would have punished him severly for his incompetence in battle and that he is lucky to be alive. That's all. " He picked up his pen once more. Ms. Piper opened her mouth to speak but I was faster. " Please inform that stubble-headed pipsqueak," I snapped, " that it is imperative he dismiss me on the instant. My powers, while still awsome, are somewhat reduced and need reviving. If he does not agree to this reasonable and just demand. I shall be forced to act in desperation, against my interests and his own. " Shad frowned. " what's this last bit mean? " I raised an eyebrow. " He knows." I turned to Mandrake. " you do know don't you?" He glanced at me. " Yes, obvisouly" With a portentous diliberation he set down his pen once more. " Ms. Piper," he said " please point out to that pernicioius demon that should a certain thought of betrayal even flicker across his mind, I will relocate him to the Boston Marshes, where every a day a dozen djinn are seen to persish." " Tell him that this breaks no ice now, buddy. My defenses are so low that I'm lieble to perish doing his shopping. What do I lose where it happens? " " Tell him that he surely exaggerates his weakness. This dosen't sound like the Bartimaeus who rubbed shoulders with Solomon." " And Faustus and Zarbustibal." " Faustus Zarbustibal whoever. I'm not giving a full list. However tell him Ms. Piper that if successfully completes the following mission i shall agree to his temporary dismisall for puproses of recuperation and let him be satsifed with that. I sniffed disparaginly. " Tell him that this offer will only be acceptable if the mission is simple, swift, and utterly without danger." " Tell him--of for heaven's sake just tell him wh at the mission is and have done!" Wtih a flurry of papers and a squeaking of his leather chair the magician returned to his work.
(end of story)
" interesting sounds like him and your sharp tonuge has not changed " Shadow said understanding. " you did not tell him where i'm at i take it " Shadow said. " why should i besides you did not ask me to and you would have gone and.." Bartimaeus smirked. " I'm not going to have a talk with him about treating you better it would make no difference. " Shadow said. " he's working in the ministry Internal affairs and Information Minister. " Bartimaeus said. Shadow had a dark look on his face. When he spoke it was like being cut like a knife " Bartimaeus i'd ask you to knock his head off but he would suspect something ". Shadow calmed his attidue down. " did you need to tell me something Carrie " Shadow asked Bartimaeus looked to her as well.
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Post by deathgal on Aug 28, 2008 18:59:21 GMT -6
Carrie stayed quiet. " Not really" she said. She looked to him and then looked to the sky again. She was just not in the mood to talk.
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Post by Black_Rider on Sept 9, 2008 6:28:18 GMT -6
For a second the coldness and something dangerous was in his tone. Once it was gone and back in check. Batimaeus said after Shadow left " why won't he admit he loves you! " and with that he vanished he had been dismissed.
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