piwakawaka | Freeing the Bird

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vamp and mage plot

Freeing the Bird

The shortcut through the Dreaming leaves them close to many warehouses and the water in Kaiwharawhara but only one has a palpable feel of magic and about ten young men simply hanging about.

As everyone starts to appear, a few of the men pull out various objects to focus as the magic grows in the air as the others who are a bit too pale just grin.

Teams: 1-Alex, Aiden, the Baron, Hamlet
2-Carl, Ben, James, Peron

Starting things off again and I'm just going to do the James' thread later and make it work.

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"Nothing real, nothing that matters, not like us, we shape the world!"

He laughs and finally has his cards sorted again and the flame grows higher.

James scoffs.

"Aguamenti!" he shouts, and a jet of water erupts from the tip of his wand, putting out some of the flames before casting a defensive charm over himself (to protect from the burns).

The water is a surprise and actually dampens the cards so the flames die out and the mage yells and moves to punch James, sadly physical combat isn't something he's been trained in.

Unfortunately, it isn't James' forte either.

O'course, this guy doesn't know what he's doing, so it'll be a little easier for James to claim victory, he thinks.

He shifts his footing so the punch hits the air.

Its hard to stop his momentum too so the mage yells and slips in the water as he tries to not fall over.

James allows himself to grin.

"Look, if you're not going to tell me where Tiwa is, you're really just getting in the way."

A BOOM shakes the ground from the warehouse and the apprentice just tries to hide as everyone starts to run towards the warehouse which has some smoke rising from it.

James is distracted for a moment, blinking to look up.

He notices the smoke and his first thought is a very clear: 'WTF.'

He needs to be there. Something must've happened.

Turning to the cowering mage apprentice, he expertly points his wand towards him and says: "Petrificus Totalus."

Then: "See y'later, mate."

Edited 2009-04-06 08:56 (UTC)

Everyone is moving towards the warehouse where the two doors are being pulled open though its hard to see too much inside with all the dust. There is a bit of strange shine off in a corner that might be Tiwa.

And that is where James follows very quickly after body-binding the poor defenseless bloke.

At the moment, James isn't sure he sees any of the others he'd come to this world with, but the shine does catch his eye.

He moves towards it.

Inside the warehouse its full of confusion but the closer he gets the more the outline of the cage with Tiwa inside of it can be seen.

Its an elegant and cruel thing with no door and just enough space for her to curl within it.

All things considered, he knows for a fact that no one - no thing - should ever be locked inside a cage against their will.

He rushes for the cage, not seeming to notice (or care) whether someone might be in pursuit of him.

"Tiwa?" he calls out.

She looks quite small and blinks in surprise at him, there's a bruise forming on one side of her face and a bandage on her neck,

"James?"

There isn't a lot of space but she tries to uncurl slightly and gives a strange little hurt smile.

"Blimey, Tiwa."

He can feel a tidal wave of relief flood through him as he crouches on his knees towards the cage. He scans it for a doorway or something with which to unlock her.

There's nothing.

"Are you all right?"

The Mage took great pride in creating a cage with no openings but it is a thing of magic. Tiwa tries for another smile though its a bit shaky,

"Still here."

"They haven't hurt you, have they?" he asks. It's difficult to see very much through the cage.

He straightens to inspect it again, hands searching for hinges.

"I haven't any idea how to get this blasted thing open."

Tiwa's not sure how to answer that since she doesn't want him to worry more but she does hurt,

"I'm still in one piece. Not sure, has to be someway since its made by a wizard."

(OOC: For getting it open, simple things will work and let me promise you as the storyteller, try whatever ideas you have.)

Edited 2009-04-07 21:33 (UTC)

"It's made by a wizard? Surely not the same sort in my world," he says, looking thoughtful anyway.

"I wonder ..."

Lifting his wand, he tells her: "Try to crouch down and get as far back as you can."

"Nope, like your sort of wizard better."

She nods and crouches down, there's not a lot of extra space but she finds it.

He offers her a smile. "Yeah. Our wizards don't tend to cage people up like this."

Well, not that he knows of anyway.

Then, focusing once more, he says in a clear voice: "Confringo."

He isn't sure whether this will work, but it's worth a shot anyway.

The cage trembles and starts to vibrate before bending outward like an odd sort of flower. Tiwa looks up at James and gives a much better grin though half her face hurts.

She moves to stand up and wobbles since she's just been sitting too long and as she stands up the stray light shows better how much she is hurting. Her face has a nasty bruise on one side, there's a bandage on her neck and on the inside of her forearm there are some bad cold iron wounds.

With a deep breath, she gets over what's left of the cage and just hugs James, its a good way to hide how she's trembling and feeling unsure if she can stand.

He nearly drops his wand with the suddenness of her around him, but he doesn't hesitate to tightly wrap his arms around her.

He's really glad the spell managed to work so easily; it's the first time he's ever really put spells like that to use.

His free hand reaches up to touch her hair before pressing his cheek to the top of her head.

Tiwa tries to be strong and finally looks up with a kind of smile though the bruise makes smiling hurt,

"Are you okay, how'd you get here?"

Lightly, James touches the bruise with his fingertip.

"Yeah, I'm okay," he says, noting the strange irony of the question. Shouldn't it be him who asks whether she's all right?

Of course, the bruise in question answers that question for him.

"I met Liam," he says then. "And your brother Tane, too. They came looking for help, so me and a bunch of your mates from the bar came to find you."

Its odd to have him touching the bruise and sets her off trembling as she peers around at the fight,

"Didn't want anyone else to get hurt."

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