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Post by Max on Mar 7, 2013 22:17:51 GMT -5
Edison Radke Vince RadkeThey lived with her for six years. She wasn't entitled to keep them in her care, but it was expected. The twins never said her name after she left them. They roamed the cities of Ireland until they stumbled upon a traveling circus. By joining them, the Radke brothers would start a journey that took them to distant lands and distant places. It wasn't until then that they started living. Vince finished buttoning the last button on his navy shirt. "Ed get up." He said bending down to tie his shoe. Edison laid stretched out on his bed so that his arms and one leg hung off the sides. He lifted his head, let if fall back onto his pillow, and pulled his dark sheets over his bear back and then over his face. "Too early." He mumbled. "Ten minutes till we need to eat," Vince said going to tie his other shoe. "You don't want to miss breakfast again." He added with a friendly chuckle. "I promised Liela we would be up and ready at five. You're going to make me a liar." Vince said straightening his collar. "When are you and Liela going to make it official already?" Edison said sitting up and yawning at his last word. "At the right time." "When is that?" "When it feels right." Edison stood up and stretched. "I went ahead and laid out your clothes for you." Vince said. He had done this every morning since they were found by the circus. "Course you did." Edison smirked and shoved his arms into his red button up. Before leaving Vince instructed Edison to meet him at the eating tent. "Yeah yeah." Edison said buckling his belt. He looked into a mirror Vince had set on their dresser and ruffled his hair with his hand. Ed rolled his eyes at a picture Vince had of Liela tucked into the corner of the mirror. Liela
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Post by Max on Mar 7, 2013 23:23:06 GMT -5
"Liela!" Vince said grinning. Liela's strawberry blonde hair spun as she turned her head around. Her face lit up making Vince go reeling.
"Good morning." She said wrapping her arms around Vince's neck.
Vince put his arms around her and greeted her back just as Edison walked up to them. "Get a room!" He yelled with a smirk.
Vince's face flushed and Liela took his hand to lead him to their table. His heart stopped when her soft hand met his. Did she have to do that? Always seem so perfect?
Edison walked up to the breakfast table and popped an grape into his mouth while grabbing an apple with the other hand. Mr. Tall's shadow hid Ed's face from the sunlight. "Hey Uncle." Ed said after taking a bite of his apple.
"Edison." Mr Tall said nodding. "Because of you behavior at last night's show, it's your job to feed Wolf Man."
A look of distaste came on Edison's face. "No not Wolf Man." He mumbled.
"I know you'll take full responsibility and do as you're told."
"Yeah sure whatever."
"Mr. Radke."
"Yes Uncle I will." Edison said with a heavy breath.
Liela's nose wrinkled as she laughed, making her freckles seem irresistible. If it were up to Vince he would find a way to make her this happy 24/7. If he had the courage to, he'd be her's. Liela loved Vince, but was it the same kind of love he felt for her?
"So I had this dream last night," She said. "That I was drowning."
"Sounds more like a nightmare." Vince said. It would be his worst.
"It has a happy ending." Liela said. "So anyways, I was drowning then there was this guy who saved me." She spaced out and stared at a tree close by. "It was so real. He was real."
Vince felt a pang of hurt in his heart. He was real? Vince was real too. "Who was he?" Vince asked.
"I'm not sure, but I like to know." Liela said with a look a pleasure on her face that made Vince's heart sink.
"Rrrrrr." Wolf Man snarled.
"Oh shut up." Ed said slipping some slimy meat into the cage from a bucket given to him from some of the smalls. Wolf Man ate so fast it was as if he were swallowing it whole.
"You disgust me."
"Rrhhhhrrrr."
Edison dropped the bucket by the kitchen to be cleaned and made his way back to his tent. They wouldn't have to leave for maybe another hour so he had enough time to pack. He turned a corner then was rudely smacked to the ground. He looked up and then at the ground to a pair of foot prints.
"Sorry man." Ed laughed. "I didn't see you there." He continued to laugh at the invincible man.
"Ow hey don't kick a man while he's down." He said hearing the man laugh. Edison held out his hand and felt the man lift him up to his feet.
"Thanks Grimes. But hey man why are you naked?" Edison asked.
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Post by Max on Mar 8, 2013 0:25:09 GMT -5
"Edison my friend. Today is a good day for some hardcore pranking and unknown streaking." Grimes said with a chuckle. "You can't tell but I'm winking right now." He said. "Gotcha." Ed said with a laugh. GrimesVince placed his and Liela's plate into the kitchen sink. He let the water run down the plates as he let his mind wander to the thought of the other guy. What did he have that Vince didn't? Vince silently bet to himself that the guy was taller, muscular, and had blonde hair. Basically he thought of the type of guy girls would fawn over. He thought about it. It's not like Vince wasn't attractive right? Maybe he was over thinking this. Drew, another girl that lived with the brothers in the circus, brought a plate to the kitchen and placed it into the sink. "Hi Vince." She said with a sweet smile. Drew was known to be a friend of everyone, but also to be a bit of a dumb blonde. Vince lifted his head and gave her a weak smile. "Hey." "Do you know where Edison is?" Drew was also known for her crazy attachment to Ed. Of course it wasn't crazy at times, but she had confessed to Vince that she had already planned their future together. "I don't sorry." Vince said with a shrug. "Oh ok thanks anyways." She skipped away. DrewVince rolled his eyes. If only Liela felt that way for him. Well maybe a bit less attached. Then he could tell her how he felt and you know happily ever after. A girl maybe in her late teens peered over a stone balcony of a dark grey castle. She wore a pearl mask on her face, but Vice could see her eyes. Vince watched him tuck her black hair behind her ear. Her eyes were filled with hate. "Don't worry, Rivera." The girl turned and smiled at man in a black mask. Her eyes filled with sorrow.
The Woman
The Castle
"Once we have her, we be together forever." He said embracing the black haired girl.
Vince heard someone scream. Liela? He jolted awake. Vince looked around. Nothing seemed wrong. Liela wasn't screaming. Adrenalin filled his veins and he tried to slow his heart beat. Edison looked up. "Are you okay?" He asked. Vince nodded. "Just a bad dream." He said. Ed laughed. Vince rolled his eyes and threw his pillow at Ed.
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Post by Max on Mar 10, 2013 1:33:54 GMT -5
"No, man tell me all about it." Edison teased. "And maybe you can cry on my shoulder." He chuckled.
"Nevermind just go back to sleep." Vince said grabbing his pillow from the floor. Liela's scream echoed in his mind. That wasn't the only thing that scared him, Vince has the gift of prophecy. This could mean Liela was in serious danger.
Vince had the same dream for the next three nights, as if his mind was stuck on replay or his paranormal senses were yelling at him straight to his face. He couldn't take another night. Vince caught up with Liela again and asked her if she was alright.
"Of course I am." Liela said placing her hand over his. The type of touch that sends an electric shock through your body. Vince went to sleep that night, still worrying for Liela.
Two weeks passed and Liela was totally fine. By now the dreams had stopped. The Radke brothers had a show coming up and Vince was fully focused on he and his brother's preformance. Edison on the other hand, messed around with Grimes all day. Vince would have to catch him up to speed later, then Uncle Tall would probably make him feed Wolf Man again. Liela had promised to watch their performance tonight so Vince was a little more nervous than normally.
The time for the show to begin finally comes and Mr. Tall introduces the Radke brothers. Vince and Edison step out and give the audience dramatic bows. Vince looks up and sees Liela in the back of the room smiling. Edison turns to Vince and cracks some jokes making the audience roar with laughter. Then comes the time for their actual act.
"Ready?" Edison asked. Vince nods and they take a seat in the middle of the stage. The crowd cheers as the brothers sit and have a casual talk. Liela laughed in the back and Vince waved. What the audience didn't know was the boys had special powers. The Radke brothers had the power to manipulate minds and that's just what they were doing. The audience thinks they are watching the boys do crazy acrobatic and magic tricks when in reality they are sitting and having a little chat. Liela, on the other hand, can see the guys talking because she has the ability to cancel out other powers.
Soon Edison and Vince's act came to a close and Mr. Tall ushered them off. Vince went immediately back to his tent where Liela had promised to meet him. Edison wandered back to Grimes. Once Vince made it to his tent, he took off his black jacket and rolled his sleeves to his elbows. Tonight's performance was the last for this city, then they'd be leaving for the next in the morning.
"Vince?" Liela said before coming into his tent. "Hey you did great tonight." She said smiling sweetly.
Vince immediately smiled back as she gave him a hug. "Thanks it means a lot." He said.
"Well I should go get some sleep to be ready in the morning. See you at breakfast?" She asked.
Vince smiled. "Yeah see you then."
"Goodnight."
"Goodnight."
Liela's screams echoed in his mind again. He wiggled in his bed trying to block it out. "Vince! Did you hear that?" Vince heard Edison ask. Vince sat up and pulled his covers off himself. He ran out, with Edison running behind him, and made his way to Liela's tent. Liela was in her bed paralyzed with fear.
"Liela!?" He tucked her hair behind her ear and took her pulse by placing his fingers on the soft spot between her neck and jaw. Her heart was beating and she was still breathing. Finally Edison shows up with Mr. Tall. He ordered for Liela to stay bed ridden and to be watched at all times.
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Post by Max on Mar 11, 2013 6:08:29 GMT -5
"Is that all you can do Uncle?" Vince asked.
"The person who caused it is the only one who can reverse it." He said shaking his head.
"Do you know who did this?" Vince asked.
"It's too dangerous."
"It's Liela's life."
"If you cross paths with the witch it would be your own."
"So a witch?"
Mr. Tall shook his head again. "No Vince and that's final." Vince let that be the last thing said between them. He couldn't let Liela stay like this until, God forbid, she died. Vince stayed up all night plotting a way to save her.
Drew slipped into the Radkes' tent. She saw Vince look at her. "You can't sleep?" She asked. Vince shook his head. "You're worried about her."
"Drew why are you here?"
She cleared her throat nervously. "I saw them." She finally said.
"The person who attacked Liela?"
She nodded hugging herself.
"Do you know where they're going?"
She nodded once more. "She dropped this." Drew handed him a small folded piece of paper that had coordinates scribbled onto it. Vince thanked her and went right away to packing for a trip. The clothes on his back, some food, and a map.
"Vince?" Drew said. "Can I come?" She asked.
"No Drew its too dangerous."
She frowned and stepped out of the tent. Drew turned and ran into Edison. She apologized over and over until he stopped her.
"No harm no foul." He said.
"You're so considerate... and cute. Ok bye." Drew turned swiftly and left.
Edison's eyes widened as he shook his head. He went into his tent and found Vince packing. "What are you doing?"
"I'm going to save Liela."
"Are you crazy?"
"No I'm in love."
"You're crazy."
Vince shook his head and muttered rude come backs. He took Liela's picture from his mirror and folded it to put into his pocket. Edison started to pack his own bag.
"What? No."
"Yes and don't tell me I can't." Edison said. "Remember that night mom left us?"
"Yes." This wasn't the only time Ed brought up this day.
The Radke brothers stood on the side of the road, holding hands and looking for someone to take care of them. Their cheeks, both streaked with tears, strung from the cold wind. Edison and Vince walked a good distance until the found a market laced with good food and jewelry.
Vince distracted the merchants by asking them if they could spare any food while Edison would grab whatever he could. "Hey!" A merchant yelled.
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Post by Max on Mar 11, 2013 18:03:02 GMT -5
The two boys bolted down the street with the merchants on their heels, till they found a dark alleyway and hid. Edison gave Vince a slice of bread and an apple. "Together forever." They would say every night before they found Cirque du Freak. Vince sighed. "Fine." He said honestly knowing he would not be able to take this trip without him. Edison cracked a smile. "Then we should get going." He advised. Sneaking away was pretty easy for the boys now that Liela, the only known weakness to their powers, was asleep. They walked straight out the camp while creating the illusion that no one was. Finding somewhere to sleep was a different story. They had no sleeping bags or tents so they slept on the forest floor using their bags as pillows. After waking, they ventured to the main city to find a taxi. Edison flagged one down and the boys climbed into it. "Could you take us to these coordinates?" Vince asked. "All the way to Mullingar?" The driver asked. "That's a full day ov driving. You better have some money on yeh." Vince held out a wad of twenties from the tips they had gained from all their performances. Edison looked as though he was hurt, but Vince rolled his eyes and gave the driver the money. Vince stepped into the strangely familiar castle. He somewhat ran up the steps as the feeling that there was someone behind him came to him. The castle seemed to be empty and dead. Vince felt himself float up to the ceiling just barely hitting the crystal chandelier that was draped with cobwebs. Thankfully he landed on his feet. He walked around carefully before the gravity came back on.
He wandered around the ceiling to the northern wall. Vince touched the wood. It was weathered and gave his fingers small splinters. He pulled his hand back surprised by the pain. It seemed almost real. Staircase Soon Vince woke up. His fingers started to tingle. He took a look at them. The same splinters from his dream were still lodged in. "You okay back there?" The driver asked. "I'm fantastic." Vince said looking up. He looked back and the splinters were gone.
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Post by Max on Mar 11, 2013 22:40:34 GMT -5
Soon enough they make it to the edge of a wood in Mullingar, Ireland. The driver helps with their bags as they set off on foot again. "We almost there?" Ed asked. "We should be. I mean the coordinates are right here." Vince said pointing to the ground. They look around for anything abnormal. Vince checks around a nearby tree when he hears Ed call for him. He goes back to the point the coordinates instructed. "Ed?" He called out. "Down here!" Vince followed the sound of Ed's voice to a cave. "The coordinates are on top of this cave." He said. They venture inside and Vince pulled out a flash light. The cave was dark and echoed the sound of water droplets. A shadow darkened his light for a split second. "I don't think we're alone." Vince said. "Well what did you expect?" Ed asked. The cave shook with laughter. The flash light gets knocked from Vince's hand and he dropped to the ground to retrieve it. Before he can get his bearings he gets knocked in the head. Edison pulled at the ropes on his hands. "Vince?" Vince woke up. "I'm here." He said. "What is happening?" "I'm not sure." "I culd tell you, but that vud ssspoil the surprissse." "What?" Vince asked. "That wasn't me." Edison said. Candles lit around them. "Yesss it vas me." They looked up and saw a girl maybe their age with dark hair. Another figure stood off to the side. She came closer to Edison. "I vas told you two ver truble but I vasn't told how cute you ver." She said with a thick Russian accent. She stroked Edison's cheek and smirked. "Pleassse sister don't play vith my food." The second figure said. He came a little closer. He had one of those enticing faces that you wouldn't want to mess with. "I'm sorry bruther. Is joost it gets so borrring in zis cave." She said. The boy turned to us and smiled. "I oom Silas an zis is my sister, Semirrra." He said. Vince could see from his fangs he was a vampire. Semira took out a cigarette, stuck it into her mouth, and lit it. "You do know you're killing yourself by smoking that?" Edison asked who had a strict no-smoking policy. "Vats ze point? I oom already dead!" Semira exclaimed. Vince turned his head at Ed. "Vampires." He said. "Oo zis one is smart." Semira said walking up to Vince. She blew smoke into his face and he pulled his head back. "I vant him." Semira Silas
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Post by Max on Mar 12, 2013 6:27:24 GMT -5
They continued to struggle against their bindings. "Zilly little freaksss. You can't break zeez ropesss." Semira hissed.
Silas chuckled. "Zey are, ow you say, enchanted." He said. "Ze vitch gave zem to us."
"What witch?" Vince asked.
"Ze one zey call Madame Rivera." Semira said.
"Sister, be vise. Don't give avay our employer." Silas said.
"Employer? So she hired you to...?" Edison asked.
"To eat you. Zis funny ya? Veing paid to eat!?" She carried on.
"Sister!"
"Vats ze point Silas? Ve are going to eat zem anyvays." Semira yelled with a deranged laugh. She craned her back and leaned closer to Vince. Her fangs extended as she opened her jaw further and further when all of a sudden she fell to the ground in surprise. Semira scrambled to the wall of the cave and used it to get to her feet.
"Sister?" Silas asked taking a step toward her. He too was shoved, however he only did a small backtrack. His fangs extended and he fought what looked like air.
"Grimes." Edison whispered while cracking a smile.
"Brother! Vat was zat!?" She yelled with terror in her eyes. Semira scuffled to the exit of the cave. Silas was pushed up the wall by his neck.
"Semira." He choked. She took one look at her brother and then ran away out of fear. Silas was released and fell to his feet. He bolted.
"You didn't think I'd let you two party without me?" The familiar voice of Grimes asked.
Edison sighed and leaned his head back. "It's good to hear you man." He said.
Grimes untied the guys and they thanked him. "Were you following us?" Vince asked.
"Yep." He said. They walked out the cave. Grimes' hat and suit laid on the ground folded up. His hat floated up and flipped onto his head.
"So where to now?" Grimes asked. Edison shrugged.
"They said their employer was a witch." Vince said. He then remembered his dreams. "She lives in a dark castle with a balcony and a grand staircase."
Ed gave him a weird look, but he ignored it. "Was it sort of gray?"
"Yeah why?" Vince said.
"I think I may have an idea where it is." Grimes said.
The next thing they knew, Grimes had led the Radke brothers into a highly populated city. Edison looked around at the people shuffling around him. The way these guys were dressed stuck out like a sore thumb. Grimes hid himself with his shirt collar. It was amazing how so many people could pass him by and not even notice his special ability.
"Grimes I don't think this city has a giant gray castle hidden in it." Edison said. He turned to his twin. "Which by the way you still have to tell me how you suddenly think we should be looking for one." Vince looked across the street as if he had not heard Ed.
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Post by Max on Mar 19, 2013 21:36:11 GMT -5
"Trust me I know what I'm doing." Grimes said shielding his face from any seeing eyes. He took them into a quaint art gallery on the corner of the street. All the way past different abstract and impressive works of art to the very back. He stopped them in front of one certain painting. Vince stopped and looked at it. It was an acrylic painting of a dark grey castle with a balcony. "That's it." He said. Grimes stood there in confidence. "What'd I say?" He nodded. "I'm giving you guys the finger just FYI." Grimes added with a snicker. Although after a joke like that, Edison would be laughing, he stood there and glared at his brother. Vince sighed. "What." "You know what." "I can't explain it okay?" Edison stayed quiet as Vince asked a hostess what she knew about the painting. "Well honestly I don't know much, however I know someone who can tell you everything about it. She's actually the person who donated it." The lady said. She gave Vince a slip of paper. Once she left, Ed and Grimes stood around him. "It's an address." Vince said. "Well der." Grimes mumbled. The guys headed on their way in a taxi all the way down a dirt road and through a swamp. A strong stench filled the air, but Grimes didn't seem to be able to smell it. It was like he was immune. The driver stopped and let the guys out. They continued on foot down the mucky pathway until they came to a brass gate covered in moss. Edison pushed what looked like a door bell. It's run sounded like three different piano keys someone would never play together. The guys waited for what seemed like a good five minutes. "Well I don't think anyone's home." Edison finally said. The guys turned around and looked down the dirt path. "Wait..." They turned and saw a girl, about the age of eighteen, with weathered blonde hair and that was pulled away from her face with two cream colored flowers. Her eyes looked like a dark grey color. "Can I help you?" She asked. Vince stepped up. "Yes we were told to come to you about the painting of the castle in the gallery." Vince asked. "I can't help you with that." She said. "Well why did you put it an art gallery?" Grimes asked. She tilted her head at Grimes and smiled weakly. "When something is that beautiful you put it on display." She said. "I'm Kali, it's nice to meet you all. To be honest I was expecting you tomorrow so I'm not very prepared." "What?" Edison asked. "I sensed your arrival." "Right. Of course." Ed said sarcastically. "You say you sensed it?" Vince asked. "I'm a fey." She said. Kali
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Post by Max on Mar 19, 2013 22:00:19 GMT -5
"A fey? As in a fairy-elf thing?" Grimes asked.
She nodded. "Kind of."
"And you sensed us coming?" Ed asked.
She nodded again. "Oh where are my manners! Come in." Kali said opening the gate wide. "Oh and you should know, you're being followed."
"What? By who?" Vince asked.
"That blonde girl who can shrink and grow..." Kali said. "Drew is it?"
"Drew?" Grimes called out. And just as Kali had sensed, there was Drew peering out from behind a cyprus tree.
"Hi." She said stepping closer. The guys shrug it off except for Ed. Kali led them into her home and welcomes them with tea and biscuits.
"Drew you shouldn't have come." Edison said pulling her aside.
"I had to come help." She said quickly.
"You shouldn't have. It was safer with the circus. You're just going to be a burden. Just go back." Edison snapped.
Before he could go on she slapped him in the face. It didn't hurt him necessarily, it just shocked him. "No. I'm not going back. I did not come all this way to be turned away. You may not feel the same way about me, but I've liked you since I set my eyes on you and I'm not going to let you die just to save some other girl." Drew finished and backed away.
Edison looked at her in shock and a little awe. She took another step back and walked back into the other's conversation. "Wait-" Edison started to say but she was away from earshot. That was the most Drew had ever talked to him. He had a irresistible feeling he wanted to hear more.
Vince, Kali, and Grimes sat at the table together and discussed the house. Kali explained the dangers of the castle and warned us not to venture to it. Vince headed her words but couldn't help but imagine Liela laying in her bed paralyzed with fear. "It isn't safe, mind you." Kali said her voice going in one of Vince's ears and out the other. He nodded along to make her think he was listening. "Vince, your love will be your death." She said again.
"It doesn't matter." Vince said standing from his chair. "I have to help her."
After hours of arguing, Kali asked the group to stay for the night. They looked to Vince and he agreed to stay. "Just one night." He said taking a seat on Kali's small green couch.
In the morning, the group was up on their feet and ready to go. Grimes, Ed, and Vince stood outside and waited for Drew. Grimes threw a rock into the swamp nearby in hopes of watching it skip across. Vince leaned against the side of a tree which was a bit of a distance from the house. He stared into the water and sighed obviously thinking about Liela.
Finally Drew skipped out of the house. "Took you long enough." Edison said. "I told you you would just hold us back."
"It was two minutes. Two minutes!" She balled her fists. Drew straightened her posture a narrowed her eyes determined to win this.
"Two minutes? That was five!"
"Get over yourself."
"Guys..." Grimes said.
"This isn't some vacation Drew."
"You don't think I know that?"
"Guys!" Grimes yelled louder.
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Post by Max on Apr 3, 2013 8:56:14 GMT -5
"WHAT!?" Drew and Ed yelled in unison. "We've got company..." Grimes said dropping a stone he was going to skip. Edison walked closer to Grimes and squinted to see what he saw. It was a log slender lizard looking thing with the body of a malnourished human. It bared its teeth as if he was smiling. The spikes on his back moved as he roared and he shook his head throwing his tongue and slobber around. Kali rushed out of her house. More came from the swamp and surrounded the people. "What are they?" Vince asked. "Swamp people. Don't worry they're perfectly harmless." Kali said. Grimes stepped closer to one. It snapped its jaws at him and tried to grab him. Grimes jumped back and straightened his suit. "Yeah harmless." He said frantically. "They aren't usually like this." Kali said. "What's wrong...?" She whispered to one. It roared and somewhat laughed. Kali shook her head. "No they are good people." The swamp person threw its head back and roared commanding the other swamp people to gather them closer together. "What are they doing?" Vince asked Kali while backing away from one. "They intend to kill you." Kali said. A swamp monster in front of Edison roared in his face making his hair blow backward. The leader turned to Vince to claw him across the face. Kali reacted before he did and blocked the swamp monster's blow with a staff she had been hiding in the skirt of her dress. The creatures around them growled in frustration and attacked.
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Post by Max on Jun 12, 2013 8:14:10 GMT -5
Edison and Vince stood back to back and fought off the monsters, confusing them with their mind tricks. By this time Grimes had removed all his clothing and was moving around in secret occasionally giving away his location to aim a stick at a swamp creature. Drew had doubled her size, this being the reason she was considered a freak, and began to knock the monsters down by frequent kicks and slaps. Kali held off some monsters, still confused as to why they were attacking these people. She did her best to understand.
Kali threw a creature down on its back doing her best not to hurt it. She swallowed hard and rested her arms for a moment. "It's got to be some sort of mind control." Kali said as another monster came after her.
"Is there a way to stop it?" Vince asked. Edison hit down a creature before it got to his brother. Vince gave him a quick thanks.
"There has to be!" Drew commented. She then knocked a swamp thing into another.
Kali thought for a moment but then got caught up in fighting. She hesitated as she threw another creature back.
"Well come on then!" Ed called out while more monsters gathered from the swamp.
"I... I don't know!" Kali cried.
The more they fought the more swamp monsters would gather. The group was starting to get weary and sloppy with their fighting. They were surrounded.
Vince held out for as long as he could, but then eventually found himself being knocked down to the ground. Before he blacked out he heard the faint sounds of a pack of wolves howling.
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Post by Max on Jun 12, 2013 8:25:46 GMT -5
When Edison woke he found himself on the ground. The last thing he knew he was fighting monsters and now he was laying in the dirt with Drew next to him. He sat up and tried to wake her up.
"Drew?" He asked. She didn't respond. He took her pulse. At least she was alive. Ed looked over to Vince who slowly sat himself up.
"What-?" He asked looking at his twin. Ed gave his brother an understanding look filled with confusion and weariness.
Kali walked up to them with a tray of tea in her hands. She carefully handed them each a warm tea cup. Both had chips in the rims.
"Kali, what was that?" Edison asked.
"You mean what happened? I'm not certain." She said.
Vince looked off into the swamp. "That sound." He mumbled.
"Come again?" Kali asked.
"Nothing. I think I hit my head too hard." Vince concluded.
"How are we alive?" Edison finally asked.
Kali shrugged. "Do you believe in guardian angels?" She asked with a slight giggle.
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Post by Max on Jun 12, 2013 9:15:28 GMT -5
Vince looked around. Drew was starting to wake, Ed was sipping some tea, and Kali was trying to make sense of this. But where was...
"Grimes?" Vince called. He heard moans follow from the ground beside him.
"Grimes!" Vince raised his voice.
Grimes moaned again. "I'm right here! Calm down!" He paused. "Although I do believe I'm bleeding."
The twins carefully carried Grimes into Kali's house and placed him onto the table. Kali stared at through Grimes. "I can't help him if I can't see the wound." She finally said. "It's virtually impossible."
"Could he just direct you to it?" Drew asked chewing on her nails. Ed shook his head.
"He's probably too weak to." Edison said. "Plus that seems a bit too complicated."
"Why doesn't he just show himself?" Kali asked. "Turn off his powers or what not?"
Edison and Vince thought about it. Both of them had never actually seen Grimes. They just figured he couldn't simply turn his powers off. Although the thought had been spoken, Grimes didn't support or deny it.
"Well?" Vince asked Grimes.
"What are you insecure?" Ed asked with a smirk.
Drew elbowed him. "Careful, he might be." She whispered.
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Post by Max on Jun 12, 2013 11:45:06 GMT -5
"No, he's hiding from someone or something." Kali said. "He's disguised everything about himself."
Drew stopped biting her nails. "What do you mean everything?" She asked.
"His name, his voice, his image." Kali rambled. She circled around the table tracing her fingers on the wood.
"What on earth do you mean?" Vince asked. "Who is he?"
Kali laughed. "How am I supposed to know? I can't see his face either."
"Well then what?" Edison asked. He had been quiet for awhile now, afraid that he had lost his closest friend apart from his brother.
"Surely we can do something?" Vince asked with a shake of his head.
"I may be able to." Kali said softly.
"How?" Drew asked with her eyes slowly narrowing.
"With a charm." She said.
Vince gave her a look.
"Relax, I'm not tricking you." Kali said. There was a long pause. "If I was, I wouldn't have given you tea." She added with a giggle.
"Alright on with it then." Edison said. Vince gave it a second thought then agreed.
"I'm going to need you to leave the room." She said walking to one of her wooden cupboards that hung above a rusted sink.
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