RPG Cross Struck: The Story

[Tetra of sound]

Tetra heard several yells. "Whaddya think that was?" She turned to the other two for a response. "It sounded like Cathrine getting her ass handed to her on a silver platter."

She began to laugh at the thought of the girl getting herself beaten to a pulp. It amused her just a bit. She never was the sadistic type, but she was for a moment.

"Hahahahahaha! Hahahahaaa!!! It's just [I]too[/I] funny! 'OH, somebody, help me, I can't fight worth a shit!"" John burst out laughing as soon as Tetra uttered those words.

[Lunar]

[B][COLOR="Indigo"]OKAY. THIS IS OFFICIALLY A MATURE RPG! (thanks to [I]some [/I]people)[/B]

Victoria looked at John and Tetra and shook her head.
"You guys are like two peas in a pod." she whispered as she walked away. "Ah, well. I gotta go. I'm late."
John wiped a tear from his eye. "Late for what?"
"Nothing you need to know about."
"Whoa. Getting sassy aren't we, V?"
"No. So you[I] really[/I] wanna know?"
John nodded. "Yes, I do."
"I've got a date."
"Date?" John burst out laughing again. "Who the hell would want to go on a date with[I] you[/I]?"
"Obviously, not some dumbass."
Victoria put on her bookbag and started walking home. She was halfway there when no other than Shanice popped out out of nowhere.
"Well, well. Look who it is."
"What the hell do you want." Victoria said, taking off her bookbag.
"Nothing, nothing. I just hope you recollect earlier. Remember when I said that I was going to kick your ass next time I saw you?" Shanice shook her head and pulled out a pair of brass knuckles. "Well, hun, this is that moment."[/COLOR]

[Tetra of sound]

Victoria didn't realize it, but Tetra followed her quietly. Suddenly, she jumped out of the bushes, yelling "Dynamic Entry!" as she kicked. She hit Shanice right in the face.

"Ooops..." She had been watching too much anime recently. "Didn't mean to do [I]that[/I]..."

[Drizzt Do'urden]

As soon as Victoria rounded the corner out of sight Tetra grabbed John's hand, "Common, hurry up I want to cut her off and see what dork she's going out with."

John wouldn't budge, "No thanks Tetra, I think I'm gonna call it an early night. I have some plans myself."

"Plans? Nobody mentioned plans to me, so I think that means you're all mine for the night!" Tetra pleaded. John really didn't have any plans, he was still thinking about the days events.

"Okay, well you got me there. How about we meet up at the arcade in a couple hours?" John always gave in when it came to tetra

"Okay, then how about after that we hunt down Victoria?"

"Sure thing." John smiled and turned away towards home. It was going to be one wild and crazy night.

[I]"hmm that's odd. I didn't realize Tetra lived the same way Victoria did?"[/I] John thought to himself as Tetra skipped off.

~Sorry, didn't realize you were posting Tetra, the edit should cover it.~

[Lunar]

[COLOR="Indigo"]"Dammit, Tetra! I can take care of my own freaking self."
"No you can't. Without me, you would've gotten your ass beat."
"No, I wouldn't. I can fight, you know."
Shanice laughed. "I don't care. I"m gonna take care of both o ya."
Shanice slipped on the brass knuckles and ran at Victoria. Victoria dogged and grabbing Shanice's hair, dragged her to the ground.
"Get her, V!" Tetra screamed as she helped with some kicks.
Shanice was stronger than both and soon moved off of under them. She kicked both of them in the stomach, sending them both crumpling to the ground.
"Ha. Takes care of that." Shanice turned and started walking away.
"Oh, hell no." Victoria yelled as she struggled to stand up and helped Tetra. Tetra looked up and double-taked. Victoria had a chain in her hand.
"What the hell..........?" Tetra whispered as Victoria ran towards Shanice and with expert hand movements, wrapped the chain around her neck. Victoria dragged Shanice to the ground and put her foot on her chest.
"Okay, now what do you wanna say to me?" Victoria said with a smirk.
"F*** you."
Victoria stomped on her chest.
"Excuse me?"
"I said-"
Tetra came up and with strong light in her hands, punched Shanice. Victoria moved her foot and let Shanice stagger away.
"Nice chain." Tetra said as she and Victoria started walking away. However, in front of them, stood John.

~Second fight scene, whoever wants the third go ahead and take it. ~I censored myself purposely.~[/COLOR]

[Drizzt Do'urden]

~Aww mature RPG with censors common now.:animesmil~

John had decided to follow Tetra, even tough they had plans for later on. He knew something had to have been up. He saw the whole fight scene, and he had to admit he was amazed.

"Wow the two of you beat up the one of her you must be proud." John said saracastically. "Though, I am wondering where the hell those moves came from?" Suddenly Shanice was back with two guys, local thugs John recognized at once.

"These are the two big bros. get umm for me." The two started on them.

At once John jumped in "You two shouldn't pick on girls you know" the lead thug stopped in his tracks and started talking to the other. "Hey Bill, that's John Carpenter from the football team. The talk is he's pretty tough, I think we should forget this."

The one John now knew was Bill shot the other a look "Adam, it's two of us against one guy and two girls we'll be okay. Besides, these girls hurt our lil sis." The one called Adam dashed towards John, who of course had been the one to start the rumor and the only one who knew how untrue it was.

Something caught the eye on the ground at John's side, it was a large staff of sorts. He kicked it up with his feet into his hands as though it was natural. He spun the staff over his head and into a spin, slamming the handle into Adam's chest cracking a rib. Hearing his brother's cry of pain Bill rushed John who had already started spinning the other way, he loosed his grip on the staff so his hand slid all the way to the end. He swung it with his spin like a baseball bat and connected with Bill's thigh giving him the dead leg of his life and dropping him to the ground next to Adam.

He looked to make sure Shanice hadn't tried anything, but as he figured she was still hurting from the beating Victoria and Tetra gave her. He looked up at Victoria and Tetra and smiled, "See that was two guys against one guy and the one guy won. So I can feel good about that one."

John's smile faded when he looked at the staff in his hand. Where had it come from? And how in the hell did he know how to use it?

[chibi-master]

Cathrine was dragging her injured self along the sidewalk. "That bitch! How dare she leave me behind back there!" she hissed angrily. She was still woozy from blood loss and stumbled every few steps. Then she heard a loud commotion. Cathrine peeped through the bushes to see what was going on. She saw John, Victoria and Tetra standing in a little cluster. John and Victoria were armed with familiar looking weapons. "Shit! It looks like Ryo and Capia's fighting abilities have awoken!" Cathrine snarled.

"Hey, guys! I think I heard something in the bushes over there!" John said as he made his way toward the greenery.

"D-damn!!!" Cathrine swore under her breath. She fled the bushes and ran down te sidewalk.

"Great, now you're hearing voices! I always knew you were loopy!" Victoria declared sarcastically.

"Oh, shut up! Don't you have a date with a brainless monkey, or something?!" John spat back.

"You two should go on a date and get to know each other better!" teased Tetra.

"SHADDAP!!!" shouted John and Victoria in unison.

[Tetra of sound]

"Well, it's off to the arcade. C'mon, John!" She grabbed John's arm and dragged him off to the arcade.

When they got there, Tetra headed straight for Virtua Fighter II, but it wasn't working.

"Looks like you've been spared from another ass-kicking by Kage. "
"Oh, shut up."
"I win every time! Let's just go play Rampage."
"Alright..." He knew he couldn't argue with her when it came to what game. Once she set her mind, you couldn't change it.

~~~ Note that the games are real arcade games. They do exist.~~~

[GothikMoon]

Eon came to a screeching hault when she saw Catherine limping around like a wounded dog. An annoyed sigh escaped her lips and she hopped off the bike. She walked over to Catherine and strectched out her hand.

"Come young one. You are no use to me injured." She smiled and waited.

Catherine hesitated but took her hand. *That's odd. One minute she kicks my ass, then the next she's helping me?* " Of course...master."

Eon laughed and lifted her off the ground with ease, carrying her to the bike and sitting down carefully. She sat in front of her and started the engine. "Hold on child, it's going to be bumpy ride. You are going home with me tonight. I'll heal you." A grin crept across her face, and she slammed the gas, making the tires squeel and launch forward.

Quickly dodging vehicles and running many lights, they arrived at an old abandoned looking mansion, on the outskirts of the city. Eon parked the bike in back off the house and carried Catherine inside.

"Holy..." Catherine's eyes widened as she gazed upon the fully refernished mansion. It was beautiful, yet she felt very uneasy here.

Eon rounded up the stairs and entered a large room at the end of the large hallway. She sat Catherine on the bed and looked at her wounds.

"Not too bad, it should be quick." She quickly ripped open Catherine's shirt and placed her hands over her heart. Her eyes closed, and a red light surrounded her body and passed into Catherine's heart. Pumping the light through her veins and healing her wounds and bruises.

Releasing her hands and opening her eyes, Eon grinned and walked over to a cabinet, thowing a long black night gown at Catherine. "Here, put this on. You can order food if you wish. I have some business to take care of elsewhere." She started to walk out the door, and stopped. "Oh, and stay out of the basement. You have not earned the right yet. You still have alot to learn."

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Eon smiled and knocked on the door. A teenage girl opened the door and rolled her eyes. "What the hell do you want?"

"Well, I was looking for your sister."

The girl snarled and slammed the door. " We don't want nothin'."

Eon glared at the door and kicked it open. The girl screamed and started to run, but was caught by a strong hand around her throat. She was easilly lifted off the ground and thrown into the back wall. Eon smirked and walked over to the unconscience girl. She placed her hand on the girl's head and searcheed her memories, finding the information that she wanted. Standing up, she slowly walked out of the house and got on her bike once more.

Driving downtown, she finally arrived at a local club. (She had changed into her usual biker elfit and didn't look so...professional.) She made her way through the crowd of young adults and found her target. Walking up to the girl, she grinned and yanked the girl outside.

The girl swore and tried to loosen Eon's grip. "Get the fuck off me! What the hell!"

"Calm down!" Eon quickly slapped her, and let her go. "I have a proposition for you."

The girl crossed her arms. " I'm not interested."

"I can help you get Victoria."

The girl smiled." Continue."

"I can make you powerful, beyond your wildest dreams. All you need to do is give yourself to me, and you will defeat Victoria and her friends with ease."

"Powerful huh? Yeah right!"

Eon smirked and cut her hand. She waved her hand and splattered a nearby wall with blood. She snapped her fingers and the wall exploded.

The girl threw herself to the ground and screamed. "Holy shit!" She quickly got to her feet, and smiled. "That was amazing! I'll deffinately give myself to you or whatever. Now show me how to do that!"

"Patience child. This kind of power comes with time. Now give me your hand." She grabbed the girls hand and she yelped.

"Ow!" The girl looked at the burnt symbol on her hand. "What is this?"

"Just proof that your mine. I'll come to you again when your needed...Shanice." She ran to her bike and drove away.

Shanice looked at her hand and smiled. "Now your dead Victoria. Haha!"

[Lunar]

[COLOR="Indigo"]Victoria sat at the bar of the club next to her boyfriend.
"Did you hear that?" he said.
"Hear what?" Victoria said.
"That 'boom'."
"No, what are you talking about?"
"Nothing. I'm just going to go and check it, out, 'kay?"
"Sure." Victoria shrugged as she watched Tyler(her boyfriend) walk away, his red hair looking jet black under the disco ball. Victoria looked at her Pepsi and stirred around the straw.
"Well, well. Look who it is."
Victoria turned around. Shanice.
"Oh, hi Shanice!" she said with a smirk. "I didn't know you were here. Ready for another ass whoopin'?"
"Hehehe. No. You see, your death will end all the crap I've had to deal with ever since you came to the school."
Victoria stood up and looked in Shanice's eyes. They no longer the deep green they always had. They were now a sickly orange. Victoria laughed. "Heh. Seems like you [I]are[/I] here for another one. Victoria cracked her knuckles as Shanice once again pulled out her brass knuckles.
Victoria was about to throw the first punch when Tyler suddenly appeared out of no where.
"Hey- oh, isn't that Shanice?"
"Yeah." Victoria said, you could hear the anger in her voice.
"I was looking for you." Tyler looked up at Shanice. "I'm gonna need those back." He gestured to the brass knuckles.
"Oh, sorry." Shanice said as he handed them back to him. "You got lucky this time, Vicky." Shanice turned on her heel and walked away a evil grin appearing on her face. She chuckled darkly. "Oh, you're lucky this time. You don't know who I got on my side." she said as she dissappeared into the mass of young people.
"You hate her, don't you?" Tyler said.
"Yeah. Why do you need brass knuckles? I thought they were illeagle."
Tyler looked down. "These?" he laughed. "They are. You know that."
"Yeah. Why do you need 'em?"
Tyler laughed again. "I'm a gang leader."
Victoria's mouth dropped. "Really?! That's so cool."
Tyler just nodded.

[B]~Gangs [I]are[/I] bad. right[/B][B]?~[/B][/COLOR]

[Drizzt Do'urden]

After their second game, and the second time tetra beat him at the game they were playing, John had enough.

"Haha, that's game again John. Boy you sure suck at these tonight, usually you give me some sort've run for my money." Tetra mocked him.

He put his hands in his pockets and looked at her. He was trying to hide the fear and confusion from his face. He'd never had anything "shake" up his life before, he wasn't honestly sure how to handle it. "I think i'm gonna call it a night Tetra, I'm feeling kind've upset. Here, I know you don't have any quarters left." John handed her a couple dollars worth of change he had gotten when they arrived.

As John was walking home, a nice car slowly pulled up beside him, as the drier's side window slowly went down, it revealed Eon sitting in the driver's seat staring at John.

"John, what are you doing out so late?" Her voice sounding generally caring, but John was still on guard.

"Oh nothing, I was just on my way home." He came to a stop, though he was ready to run.

"What is that you're carrying with you?" She motioned towards the staff, in reality he wasn't sure why he was still carrying it, "you know John, I have a class on gang related incidents on your age students. Why don't you hop in and I'll give you a one on one lesson while I take you home?" John could have sworn he saw her eyes litteraly light up with a sickening red glow

"No thanks, I'm not in a gang. I just need a walking stick, it's not a weapon or anything. Well it's getting late, I better go." John turned and started walking, he could hear her vehicle start moving forward.

"Well, I don't know about that. After the incident with Shanice and those two boys. Now your friend Victoria is out on a date with that Tyler thug, who is in fact in a gang. It seems you and your friends are heading down a slippery slope, I think instead of going to the museum with the rest of the students. You three amigos will sit in on the class I'm already teaching. What do you say about that?" Her voice had an air about it, and John had finally had all he could take.

He turned from her and bolted through the brush into the nearby woods, he'd played "warrior hero" when he was younger and knew the area like the back of his hand. He could take this shortcut and be home in just a couple minutes. He actually smiled, he felt like Eon was out to get him, and escaping her felt great, that is until he heard her whistle. "Go get him guys, I want him and those other brats brought to me at one."

John could hear what sounded like 4 or 5 sets of feet pounding the pavement. What could he do now? She [I]was[/I] after him, and it seemed like she was after the girls too. But why?

John had to decide whether or not to go home and reach the safety of his parents, or turn himself and hope he could find his way out and around the thugs without getting lost in order to get to the girls. It was his time to get a little adventure and be a "hero", so he turned in the direction he thought was the arcade and made his way back to Tetra. Victoria could wait, he thought it'd be funny when she found out who Tyler was. He'd bail her out, only after she suffered a bit though.

[chibi-master]

Cathrine was running through the woods where John had disappeared into. "That stupid little nut! How dare he go scrambling into the woods like that!" she hissed. Tree limbs were whipping her and tall grass was scratching at her legs. "Forget this!" she shouted. Cathrine's electricity thundered through the woods, clearing a nice chunk for her to run through. She soon caught sight of John. "Gotcha', Ryo!" she muttered. But John was heading in an odd direction all of the sudden. He was going back to wherever it was that he had just walked from. "Is he going in the direction of...the arcade?! You're kidding me! He wants to rot his brains out with GAMES while I'm working my ass off to catch 'im! Oh, hell no!" Cathrine shouted and picked up the pace.

[Tetra of sound]

After John left, Tetra decided that she would head to the weird old man on the other side of the arcade.

"Hey, Old Man! What news do you have for me?"
"The dark one... the one that uses lightnimg..."
"Reflect it with rubber, right. The thing is, where do I get rubber vests and helmets, as well as rubber gloves and boots at this hour? And I only have a couple of bucks."
"Take these... Three sets, there are..."
"Thanks, Man. Ever since I met you, I knew you'd be a help... and you're not crazy like the others say, either!"

Tetra took the rubber "armor" and ran to the woods. She knew John would end up there somehow.

Then she found John.

"John! You got your ass into trouble again, didn't you?! OH, well... just slip these on, I already put mime on. It's made of rubber, which will help against lightning and other forms of electricity."

She handed the rubber hat, gloves, and vest to him. "By the way... I think
the recent events have something to do with Victoria's report...or at least, it's topic."

[Lunar]

[COLOR="Indigo"]Victoria got out of Tyler's car.
"See ya tommorow." she said and waved goodbye as the window rolled up. She turned to face her house when she noticed that the front door was locked with both the top and the bottom locks locked.
"Hm, that's weird. Well, I can't open both locks." she said and went around the house to the back. Just as she was about to turn the corner, a shiny black car came and stopped in front of her house.
"What the...........?" she said and trailed off as someone she knew all too well came out and walked towards the front door.
"I know that's not who I think it is." But indeed she was right. The car's headlights revealed the tall, slender figure. Eon.
Victoria was shocked. Why was Eon looking for [I]her[/I]? She stood as close as she could to the wall and stared at her. She felt something brush against her leg and looked down. It was her cat, Max.
"Meow." he said.
"Shut up!" she whispered, but it was too late. Eon looked in her direction and her red eyes glowed as she grinned devlishly.
"There you are, child." Eon said as she waltzed over to Victoria. Victoria leaned down and picked up her cat.
"What do you want?" she said with a slight quiver in her voice.
"Oh, nothing really. I just wanted to tell you something." she paused as she looked down at the orange tabby. Max hissed. "Did you know that your boyfriend's a gang leader?"
*How'd she know that?* Victoria thought as she just shook her head.
"No? Well, I spoke to your friend John-"
"He's not my friend."
"He's not? Well, anyway, I would like for you to attend this meeting about the consequences of being in a gang."
"I already told you, I'm not in a gang!"
Max hissed again.
Eon chuckled darkly. "Well, then. I'm guess I'm just going to have to make you."
Max hissed and lept at Eon's face.
"AGH! YOU STUPID CHILD!"
Eon tore the cat from her face, and surprisingly, there were no scars. Eon reached for Victoria's neck.
"Eon!"
Eon turned around and saw John and Tetra standing there, armed and ready.
[B]~I figured that cheese master could post again and someone else can post the fight scene.~ Kudos to everyone!~[/COLOR][/B]

[GothikMoon]

Eon slowly reached behind her back. "Well...well...well, come now children. Lets not fight. You aren't nearly ready to beat me! Hehe.." She chuckled under her breath and quickly threw three shuriken, each smoothered in blood from her newly sliced palm. Each of the shuriken landed at the feet of the young warriors and exploded, making them fly back into the opposite house behind them.

She appeared behind Victoria and wrapped her arms around her throat and waist. "I'm not through with you yet darling... Catherine prove your use to me and finish them!" She laughed sadisticly and vanished into a black portal behind them, Victoria in hand.

Eon landed on the rocky ground, roughly throwing Victoria into an ancient statue before them. She laughed and lifted her of the ground by her hair and dragged her into the openig of the ancient ruins. Victoria gasped for air and fell to the floor, when Eon released her.

"Don't worry. You'll get used to the air here...eventually." She reached into her pocket and pulled out a lighter. Quickly lighting it, she blew into the flame which spread throught the room, lighting the webbed torches looming on the walls.

"That's better. Welcome to my temple." She smiled and walked up to the large statue of a blue scaled dragon. "Beautiful craftsmanship. These were created by most reveared priests and lords. I used to get sacrifices daily, and now, my followers are so few. There is no faith anymore..." Her eyes closed, and she seemed to be somewhere else. " You will be the key to my awakening. My people have cried out for too long. It's time...I will rise again!"

Victoria groaned. "Wha...what are you talking about?"

Eon smiled and knelt down in front of her, grabbing her chin. "You see, when Ryo and Capia died, they took my power with them. They did not die in vain. Though, I did not appeciate that very much. Now I can finally get the power back! Once you and John die, Capia and Ryo's souls will be mine! Then the world will once again learn the meaning of pain..." She kissed Vctoria on the cheek and laughed greedily, her eyes bleeding crimson.

[chibi-master]

It was getting to be a bit light out. The teens had been out far past their curfews. Cathrine chuckled darkly. "Finally! I have a chance to redeem myself! Then the boss won't treat me like crap anymore!"

"Where'd Victoria go?!" John demanded.

"Eon has her. But you should worry more about yourself, moron." Cathrine crooned.

"HA! We're prepared! The nutty old dude at the arcade gave us rubber armor." Tetra shouted.

"YEAH! We can kick your ass!" John agreed. But the next moment he fell over in spasms.

"Fool. All armor has weak spots." Cathrine growled. Suddenly, a bright light shot out like a whip toward Cathrine. But she was fast and dodged the attack.

"Huh?! Wha?!" Tetra cried as she took notice of the fact that she was the one who generated the attack.

"Whoa!" John shouted, apparently healed. "What the hell was that?!"

"A very weak attack..." Cathrine muttered. She tossed her electricity infused needles with skill toward Tetra.

"AUGH!" Tetra called out. But the needles hit the tree directly behing her. Well, where she used to be.

"AH! She's hiding in the shadows! Coward!" Cathrine snarled. Then, a strong pain shot through her body as she flew to the side. "ACK!!!"

"What'd you call her?!" John shouted, staff in hand. Then, Tetra appeared next to him out of the shadows.

"Damn! I don't have time for this crap-fest!" shrieked Cathrine. She shot electricity at a tall, thick oak tree. The tree came down ontop of John and Tetra. Cathrine quickly fled to tell Eon. But what she didn't see was John on the other side of the tree, covered in leaves, but not very injured. Tetra's left leg was under the enormous tree. She had shoved John out of the way and failed to get completely out of the way herself.

[Drizzt Do'urden]

John took a second to check himself out, at the last moment Tetra had shoved him, keeping him out of harms way. She however took the full force of the falling tree.

John could hear her let out a cry of pain, he couldn't help her though. Catherine ran through the black portal Eon had used just a second before. John looked at Tetra who was pinned underneath the tree, and then towards the portal.

John stripped off his rubber armor and ran to Tetra. He wedged his staff into the ground and began prying at the tree. "No John, you'll break your staff. You'll need that to help Victoria." John had a feeling that wouldn't happen, for some reason this staff had come to him though he wasn't sure why yet. The tree slowly raised off the ground giving Tetra the room she needed to pull free.

Her leg was obviously broken, but she was free. "Tetra, make your way to that house and get some help. I'm gonna go teach that old hag a lesson." John sprinted towards the portal which began to grow smaller.

He dove through just as the portal shut. The feeling of being "teleported" was sickening. It felt as though his body was being turned inside out, a cold wind passed through his very soul as he was deposited in a large, ornately designed room. Catherine was bragging to Eon about how she beat the two with no trouble, and Eon was still holding Victoria.

"You should've seen it boss, it was awesome." Catherine bragged

They hadn't noticed John yet, he crept behind a statue where something caught his eye. On an alter like thing sat a strange metal object, like he'd known the use John grabbed it. It was a piece for his staff, it was something he felt he'd used before. he attached it to the end, giving it an axe/spear look. "A halbred...." John whispered allowed. He'd never heard that word, but it seemed right.

He crept up the stairs slowly, making no noise whatsoever listening to Eon rant.

"You were supposed to make sure Ryo came to you nit wit, why do I even bother with..." She didn't get a chance to finish her sentence. John sprang on her, connecting with a foot in her back sending her sprawling out. He finished the manuever with a backflip landing expertly on his feet, freeing Victoria.

John grabbed her hand and headed down the stairs, catherine in hot pursuit. "Common, we've got to get out of her V."

Huffing and puffing Victoria yelled at him, "You still have time to insult me, even after all that just happened."

As they reached the bottom of the stairs, a huge blast of lighting rocked the temple. And standing at the bottom was Eon. "Stop!" The two obliged her by cutting to the right and out a side passage.

"John where are we going?" Victoria ripped her hand away, John hadn't realized he still had it.

"Well, I thought maybe....you might know" John said embarassed his plan didn't have anything better. As the two rounded a corner John stopped in his tracks.

"John, hurry we have to find a way out of here." John didn't answer her, he just pointed ahead. On the wall there was a beautifuly painting. Right in the center John and Victoria...It was a picture of John's dream....

Victoria approached it slowly, brushing the dust away from the plaque underneath.

"Ryo and Capia: Sacrifice. John it's, us. Well they look an awful lot like us."

"Have you figured the reason for that yet? Because I'm sick of throwing hints around" The voice was Eon's she appeared behind John. Catherine on the otherside behind Victoria "They aren't very smart are they boss?"

John felt something well up inside of him. At once he thrusted his hands out, a wave of blue energy blasted forth. A wall of ice formed in front of Catherine, and another in front of Eon sealing them off from them. "John, if we can get back to where Eon's portal was. I think I can use Capia's powers to give it more power and open it back up."

John didn't waste anytime waiting, he grabbed her hand and ran towards the only other passage out of that chamber, he hope'd it would lead them back to that main room.

[Lunar]

[COLOR="Indigo"]"Crap! It's blocked! What are we gonna do now, genius?" Victoria yelled as they stopped at the end of the passage way.
John shook his head. "Shut up! You see these little weird things here?" He pointed to the black stars on the wall. "I think they say something."
Victoria slowly walked up to it and ran her fingers over the symbols.
"Azu, pheno, linin, strato." she read.
"How do you know what they say?" John said, looking at her in amazement.
"I............don't know." Victoria whispered.
She touched the wall again and a dark blue orb began to appear on it. She said the words again; louder and with more confidence. "Azu, pheno, linin, strato!" The center of the wall was now covered with a dark blue orb.
"Whoa." John said. "I think we should jump in."
Victoria stuck her hand in and nodded.
"Yup. Who's gonna go first?"
"Well, I hated it. And you've been through and didn't realize it, so you should go first."
"Scared, huh?" Victoria said with a smirk. She suddenly turned around and jumped in. John followed. They both arrived at the front of the house. The sun was just rising.
"What time is it?" John said as he looked at his watch. "Hm. That's strange. Seems as if we were never gone."
"Whatever, where's Tetra?"
"I told her to go to that house-" he pointed at Victoria's house.
Victoria frowned."That's my house!" Victoria stood up and started pacing. "I'm so dead."
"V?" a small voice said from behind her. Victoria turned. It was Tetra.
"Tetra? I thought you were at the hospital or something!"
Tetra looked confused. "Um, no. I'm making my way to the house now to tell someone."
"Don't you have your phone with you?"
Tetra pointed to the tree. "Not anymore. It's broken."
"Oh." Victoria said with a frown. "Well I think I have mine with me." She took it out of her back pocket. "I'll call the ambulance, okay?"
Tetra nodded. Soon the ambulance was there and then Tetra's leg was all bound up. The next day was Sunday. Tetra had the cast off already and she just broke her leg the day before. "That's so cool!" John said as they sat on the bench outside the pizzeria. John stuffed a piece of cheese into his mouth and said "I always knew you were a fast healer."
"Chew with your mouth closed, John. That's so gross." Victoria said, sipping on her Sprite. "Anyway, you guys ready for tommorow?"
"What's tommorow?" Tetra asked.
"The day of the field trip." Victoria said and suddenly felt like something big was going to happen the next day.[/COLOR]

[GothikMoon]

Eon screamed and kicked the sheet of ice, making it crumble to the floor. She ran to the orb and jumped through, appearing in Catherine's bedroom. She turned to Catherine, who was following close behind her.
" You did..." She was immediatley interupted.

"Oh please master! I thought they were dead. I'll never make that mistake again I sware. Don't kill me..." She slowly backed up to the wall.

Eon smiled and touched Catherines cheek. Catherine flinched, expecting great pain, but felt nothing. She opened her eyes to see Eon smiling sweetly at her.

" There is no need to fear child. You've done well." She started to walk away, and turned around slyly. "Get some sleep tonight. You'll need it tomarrow. Oh, this is for you." She opened her palm and a glowing blue butterfly flew out. It landed on Catherine's shoulder and melted into her skin appearing as a a regular tattoo.

"What is this?" She looked at her shoulder and poked it. The butterfly immediatly came to life and flew around her, healing her wounds from John, then appearing on her shoulder again. "Wow."

" It's a healer. I created him last night, I thought you might need it. Any time you need healing, just pet it. Though, it only works once a day, if you over use him, he will die. Trust me, you don't want him to die. When he does, all the wounds will come back. So, be careful. Hopefully you won't need him very much."

Eon looked out the window into the rising sun and disappeared.

[Lunar]

[SIZE="4"][U][CENTER]Chapter 3[/CENTER][/U][/SIZE]
[CENTER][SIZE="3"][COLOR="Indigo"][B]Identities Revealed[/B][/COLOR][/SIZE][/CENTER]

[Tetra of sound]

The day of the field trip had finally arrived.

"Now, so we don't get lost, we'll be in groups of three." Mr. Tatashiki looked at Tetra and John. The last time they went on a trip like this, they ran off and were supposedly "lost", due to the fact they had said they had gotten lost so as not to get in trouble.

"I'm in a good enough mood today to let you choose your group. You have three minutes."

"Hey John. Do you want to come along with me? It'll be just like old times!"

"sure."

Then Tetra asked Victoria to be the third. "Victoria, want to get in our group?" Victoria was about to say no, but she realized Tetra and John were the only two left without a third person.

"I guess so."

"All right!" Tetra shouted.

"Attention, everyone. It's time to leave. When we get there, obey the museum rules. And John, Tetra - Don't get the police involved this time, alright?"

"But teach, I told you, I didn't touch it! It was-"

"Just don't do it again." said Mr. Tatashiki in an annoyed voice.

What had happened was Tetra and John went into an area that was employees only and "accidentally" flipped the alarm switch, which automatically sends an alert to the police.

~~~ [B]Hope you don't mind the "side story". It makes things a little more interesting to me.[/B] ~~~

[Lunar]

When the[COLOR="Indigo"]y arrived, the group followed the rest of the class into the lobby. Victoria marveled at the ancient clothing as John and Tetra admired the axes and swords on the wall.
"Whoa, hey guys, come check this out."
"What?" John said as he and Tetra looked in the direction of what Victoria was pointing at.
"It's an ancient Egyptian necklace. It's so pretty.........." Victoria trailed off as she looked in John's and Tetra's direction. They were looking at her weird.
"What?" she said, her smile suddenly fading.
"That little thing?" Tetra asked. She pointed to a battle axe used by the Greeks. "Now this.........[I]this[/I] is aweseome."
Victoria shrugged. "It's okay."
"No, that axe is nothing. And that dumb necklace is even stupider." John said. He pointed to a bow and arrow. "This was used by the Europeans. This is just a work of art."
Victoria and Tetra shook their heads. "No, mine is better." both said in unsion.
Mr. Takashi turned around. "Quiet."[/COLOR]

[chibi-master]

Cathrine glared across at Tetra, John and Victoria. [I]Those fools. Just look at them! Being all happy and peppy while I work hard for Master Eon trying to kill them! I know! I'll get rid of their happy-go-lucky attitude real quick![/I] she thought deviously. The three unawakened heroes were too busy fighting over what weapon was best to notice that Cathrine was charging up. She waited until the three got close enough to the glass case. [I]THERE![/I]

Cathrine shot a small bolt of electricity at the alarms of the cases. Red lights started flashing and a siren was going off. "YOU THREE!!!" screamed the teacher.

"RUN!" shouted Tetra as she grabbed John and Victoria's wrists. The three bolted out of the weapons hall. Cathrine grabbed Shanice's wrist and sped after John, Tetra and Victoria. Eon (she was one of the supervisor's of the trip) quickly slipped after them.

[GothikMoon]

Eon frowned and bolted after the teens. "I got this Mr. Tatashiki. Don't worry." After rounding the corner she saw the teens running down the stairs. *Damn! I hate running in heals!* She grunted and mumbled under her breath. A black circle appeared beneath her feet and she fell through the floor, gently landing on her feet. She started to run out of the room when she noticed where she was.

The room was large and dark. Only a few candles scattered the walls, dimly lighting the shimmering room. Statues of blue dragons and many golden trinkets filled the room. Her eyes widened as she saw several sarcophigi lining the walls. In the middle was a portrait of a beautiful woman drapped in blood holding a hooded man with ruby eyes.

Eon slowly touched the painted man's cheek and lightly kissed him. A tear rolled down her cheek and anger filled her eyes. She quickly ripped open the sarcophigi and gazed upon the wrapped corpses of her ancient followers. " Meock do reem. Shacra roe daringen mi tiak!" Her eyes glew gold and the corpses slowly twitched. Their stiff bones cracked and rebelliously started to move forward, quickly gaining flexibility and strength with each step. Soon all of them were standing in front of her waiting for a command. She grinned and gave them their orders, then sent them away. They moaned and ran out of the room searching for the teens.

She watched the mummies leave the room, and looked at the portrait again. "Don't worry Luthian. Once I get my power back, we'll be together again...my love."

[Drizzt Do'urden]

~sorry about the abscence, I had drill this weekend and couldn't make it to a comp~

John and Tetra rounded a corner and entered the dino room. John had always been fascinated with history, mostly european, but history in general. He'd just always been fond of tales of heroism. Tetra jumped into one of the specimen areas and signaled the other two. "hey guys, let's hide here. It's the perfect place, you can see out but not in."

John and Victoria looked at each other as if to say, [I]"Oh dear god, are we actually still following her"[/I] they reluctantly joined her.

As the three crouched behind a stack of dino bones, John started to hear a funny sound.

"You guys here that? It sounds like somebody moaning." He looked around as much as his view could.

Tetra poked him, when he looked she had a look of terror on her face. "Did...Did you really here someone moan?"

Victoria snapped at Tetra, "Don't listen to him Tetra, he's just being a jerk" She stuck her tongue out at him and stood up. "See there, nothing...he...g..guys" you could here the fear in her voice.

John and Tetra stood up at once, standing at the entrance to the room were 3 nasty looking mummies. They made their way toward the group with sickening, slow walks. Looking at how slow they were John grew cocky and rose up. "Look at them, they couldn't catch a cold."

His smile quickly faded as the three mummies stopped and looked at each other. With sicking cracks, bones mutated, twisted, snapped, and all at once stopped. The legs that were barley usable one second, now looked like normal legs wrapped in bandages. John gulped and turned to the others. "Guys...I think it's best we run." John took the lead and started to sprint out of the room, the girls in tow.