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longestnight_old2015-07-24 09:04 pm
pyromannered) wrote in longestnight_old2015-07-24 09:04 pm
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All Crash, No Burn [Intro]
Chandra landed hard and staggered into a tree in the dark. She caught herself on it, slumped against the wonderful stability of something solid and real, and panted. Everything, especially her head, hurt. It hadn’t been the worst planeswalk of her career, but not by much and she shuddered with delayed terror. How did she get here? She couldn’t remember entering this plane, couldn’t remember what felt like several hours back at all.
It didn't matter. Chandra closed her eyes for a moment, leaned her head against the bark, and gave a choking laugh because she was still alive. Still battered and exhausted and not a little pissed off, but alive. No mysteries could ruin that important detail.
The disorientation was fading, at least, and Chandra straightened to better assess where she’d landed. She was on a mountain, more of a large hill but close enough. The faint but familiar pulse of red mana resonated under her feet. Good. Chandra wasn’t strong enough to return to Regatha and definitely wasn’t strong enough for another running battle for her life, but if something attacked her she’d at least have fuel for her fire.
A high place like this would be good to get the lay of whatever plane she’d stumbled into, all the better to plan her next move. She climbed to the crest of the hill and stopped cold.
Below the hills stretched a vast, glimmering city. Chandra could not see the end of it. Thousands of points of light traced the hard edges of impossibly tall buildings and broad, winding streets, all together casting a bright haze that drove the stars from the night sky. Nothing, not a single one of the strange worlds Chandra had seen, had ever been like this.
The planeswalker looked out from the Hollywood Hills over Los Angeles and could only stare.
It didn't matter. Chandra closed her eyes for a moment, leaned her head against the bark, and gave a choking laugh because she was still alive. Still battered and exhausted and not a little pissed off, but alive. No mysteries could ruin that important detail.
The disorientation was fading, at least, and Chandra straightened to better assess where she’d landed. She was on a mountain, more of a large hill but close enough. The faint but familiar pulse of red mana resonated under her feet. Good. Chandra wasn’t strong enough to return to Regatha and definitely wasn’t strong enough for another running battle for her life, but if something attacked her she’d at least have fuel for her fire.
A high place like this would be good to get the lay of whatever plane she’d stumbled into, all the better to plan her next move. She climbed to the crest of the hill and stopped cold.
Below the hills stretched a vast, glimmering city. Chandra could not see the end of it. Thousands of points of light traced the hard edges of impossibly tall buildings and broad, winding streets, all together casting a bright haze that drove the stars from the night sky. Nothing, not a single one of the strange worlds Chandra had seen, had ever been like this.
The planeswalker looked out from the Hollywood Hills over Los Angeles and could only stare.
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"Oh hey! You can see me! That means I found the right person!" She punched a fist in the air "YEAH! Ruffnut One! Shadow Monsters Zero!"
In the flickering firelight she appeared to be a girl, a teenager with lanky spidery limbs that hadn't quite grown to match her body yet. A wild mane of blond hair was barely held together in braids with a sort of oily sheen to it. She smelled of fish and peppermint which was a strange combination to say the least and her clothes were a mix of modern fabrics like the long sleeved shirt she wore and more traditional things like the leather vest or her thick hide boots.
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...Or at least as close to polite as Chandra got, given that line she'd opened with.
She was lucky she'd gotten off Kephalai with her armor, small plates and light mail, while her legs were mostly free with the long boots and fire monk's sash. The most important items, the round red goggles on her forehead and the gauntlet that helped her focus mana into flame, were also thankfully intact.
Chandra hoped she didn't look as worn as she felt, but doubted that luck could hold out in the firelight.
"You were looking for me?"
Uhoh. There had been too many people looking for Chandra lately, and none of those occasions had ended in her favor.
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"See, normal people can't see us now. Which means you're not normal." As if that was a satisfactory explanation.
"Let's get you back to the North Pole and Hiccup can explain it better I..." She was digging around in a leather pouch on her hip and her face fell. Seizing the pouch she unhooked it from her belt and turned it upside down shaking it. Nothing fell out.
"Aw man! I lost it!" She groaned twisting around and scanning the area. "It musta fallen out when I was flying...crashing...whatever."
Whatever she had lost she was now shuffling around the bushes looking for, almost like she'd forgotten Chandra was right there. Then she addressed her again. "Help me find it! We gotta get out of here before the monsters show up."
Unfortunately she had not fully explained what it was...or anything really.
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Someone could explain? Good. Chandra felt like a juggler catching too many objects at once. She wasn't especially enthusiastic about following strangers that crashed in out of nowhere, but an offer of information was the best news she'd had in days. She'd take it. Even if it went badly, it would still beat being totally lost.
"What's missing? And what monsters?"
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"It's like a glass ball right? But if you throw it and say where you wanna go it'll open a portal and take you there. It looks like it has snow inside it and-"
A cracking of branches from the nearby trees and she fell silent, waiting, listening for any further indications there were in trouble.
"And the monsters are these shadowy things that want to hurt you, me and anyone they can."she finished. "Except sometimes they look like people I guess? And those are even stronger then the shadowy things."
Ruffnut was ever so helpful.
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...There were trees everywhere. This situation was getting a tiny bit too familiar, and she was already remembering the incident that sent her off Regatha to begin with.
Consequences sucked.
"Fair warning," Chandra said, "if one of these monsters shows up? The only answer I've got right now is fire. Let's find this thing before I have to use it."
She began to follow her best guess at Ruffnut's trajectory from that spectacular landing, trying not to jump too much at small sounds.
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"How do you do that?! Is it magic?"
The lanky viking girl was wandering along still looking for the orb but every now and then her eyes would shoot glances at the fire like she was drawn to it. From the grin on her face she really wouldn't be bothered if she had to watch Chandra use her powers in combat.
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"I can show you more of it when we get out of here," she offered.
The guttering firelight glinted off something in the brush to Ruffnut's left.
Something a lot worse snapped to Chandra's right and kept going, rushing toward them. Chandra twisted in time to face the black shape loping out of the dark and swear as it collided with her.
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But then a beast crashed into Chandra blazing right past Ruffnut so close she felt the breeze.
"-what the hell!?" She spun to chase after her ward and the one who had attacked them only to feel a weight crash into her as well pinning her to the ground.
Unfortunately for the beast, squashing Ruffnut only activated one of her powers and a torrent of water came blasting out of her mouth at the beast that had attacked Chandra. Hope she wouldn't get hurt from a little spray back.