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"Come come, the day is young and there is much to learn!" The old hag said motioning for the two to follow them.

"Should we?" Ko questioned in whispers.

"I doubt it could hurt." Anastasia replied and began to follow the old woman "Just relax, what will she do, drop a house on us?" She removed the cork from her gin bottle and offered it to him, he nervously took a drink, and the two follow closely behind the fast moving woman "You seem paranoid, explain." She said after about five minutes of following the lady in silence.

"I.. am not fond of... strangers." he said shiftily looking around "Ma'am, where are we going, if I might inquire?" Ko asked, she turned around, but continued floating forward before answering.

"To my home deary."

"And where might it be located?"

"Oh... I'd say right.. there!" She giggled slightly and pointed to a two story house, with massive chicken legs, kept inside an equally large pen. "Do come right on in!" she said, opening the fence leading to her home and quickly managing to climb the staircase which hung from it inside.

"About dropping a house on us..." Ko said with a laugh as he began to follow.

"Well I'll be damned." Ana chuckled.

"On the brightside, it does in fact look like she knows one or two things about magic..." he sighed. Upon entering the house, they instantly noticed tea cups floating midair, she called from upstairs.

"I'll be down in a moment, do help yourself to some tea." the house seemed to bounce around with every step it took, but all the furniture put itself back into place.

"This whole island like a drug induced dream." Ko said with a laugh.

"Yes it is dear, that's why we love it!" Baba cackled in an odd voice from upstairs, the pair looked at one another wide eyed briefly.

"Now honey, let me ask, who was your summoning mentor?" the woman hopped down the ladder leading to the second story of the vaguely decorated 'house' holding a bag, "Pikkup Stix, that crazy old Heldgram... Or was it Gla-"

02-Dec-2009 07:27:38 - Last edited on 03-Dec-2009 07:35:28 by Baron Ogre

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"I was taught formally only for three weeks, by a man who only understood the basics himself."

"And where did your education continue, who was your mentor afterwards?" Ko smirked oddly and replied.

"I am mostly self taught." Baba stomped her foot on the floor, the house instantly froze into place and she sat down at a small table.

"Do have a seat!" she said with a smile, the two joined her. "I have absolutely no idea how you could've accomplished what you did without having been trained by one of the famous mentors."

"Well if you could read minds, you would know I am no lier."

"I did darling." She said flicking hair from her face and opening her bag. "Now what are your names?"

"Ko." he replied hastily.

"Anastasia Fizzard." she smiled and shook hands with the old woman.

"Lovely names... Now do you have any experience with summoning dear?" she seemed sporadic, or as if she had some kind of mental problem judging by how hyper and jumpy she seemed, Anastasia was beginning to like her.

"I worked with man named Pikkup Stix for six months, he no longer requires my assistance and so I have stopped seeing him." she shrugged.

"What did you learn with him?" the woman said, as she shuffled through her things.

"Not much. He brought me in to track down rare, and difficult to obtain animal parts for him, like hides and teeth. I did have to take items downstairs to his basement where he transformed bags, shards of glowing material and animal bits using a large energized stone of sorts, like one at gate, but bigger. He briefly told me how you need the right combination of items, and a sizable obelisk to create 'familiars', which you must keep under your will with some kind of special energy, or something along those lines. I was partly drunk."

02-Dec-2009 07:27:54

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"You remember well for being intoxicated!" She giggled "That special kind of energy hasn't received any formal name, I just call it magic stuff!" she seemed to zone out for a moment, before continuing "It's a special type of magic stuff indeed, it doesn't physically fatigue you, but without you can't have any control over your toys, or monsters.. whatever you want to call them. This can be bad, sometimes they'll try to escape if you can't keep a strong enough grip on them, others will stay with you regardless due to loyalty, or maybe just fear of you! Others are easy to keep in check with your normal mental powers."

"But it is quite fortunate that, whatever that energy is can be found anywhere, we've found rocks that contained traces of the stuff. Whatever brought it here, spread it all over the place. But really dear it's time to get you started! Come come." the old hag left the house floating at about a jogging pace, the two slowly followed behind her, a little confused, though interested. She said some words and a trapdoor flung open, revealing a spiraling staircase leading underground. they followed, the staircase was poorly lit, relying a little on the weak sunlight, and vaguely on the dim glow that emitted further down.


The floor felt cold even through their boots, and a huge, throbbing stone protruded from the ground, sparkling fantastically, and though it was very cold, seemed to make you feel warmer just by being near it, like a fire. "You'll be needing these!" the woman eagerly said, handing Ana several magical charms, glowing shards, several empty pouches, and an assortment of random items.

"It's really quite simple dear, simply hold these items close to the altar, and you should feel a jolt of energy leap into your hands, sometimes you might see a transparent figure linger in the air, you should simply open a pouch and scoop it up if that's the case!"

02-Dec-2009 07:28:21 - Last edited on 03-Dec-2009 07:46:11 by Baron Ogre

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"You friend Ko did quite a good job with those wily spirits by the gate!" Anastasia did as the woman said, and felt very odd.

"What now?" she questioned the old lady, as she noticed the pouch suddenly had a vague picture drawn upon it, it was a long pink stretch of flesh, with an eye on either side.

"Open it!", Anastasia cautiously did as she said, a small blue pillar of fire erupted next to her, and cleared quickly, revealing a large frog, with a massive tongue hanging out of it's gaping mouth.

"I noticed how you examined that picture that appeared on the pouch, clever girl! It'll let you know exactly what is inside after a little practice, but the things you offer will also only get the attention of certain creatures most of the time, so the combinations are limitless! But don't you dare try combining your own items without the consent of a Mentor, more than a few have died from the horrible, unworldy things they brought over to this plane."

"Yikes." Anastasia said sarcastically "Now why do I need to continue practice with this skill if it will lead to my downfall?" she asked.

"Since if it doesn't lead to your death, the rewards are great! Order that frog to do anything, and it will to the best of it's capabilites." Rolling her eyes, she threw an empty bottle of booze into the air.

"Catch it!" she screamed, it's long tongue instantly whipped into action, and snatched the bottle out of the air, and held it before her. She carefully grabbed the none-saliva covered part of the bottle, and wiped it off on her hide, before putting it back into her bag. "Well Mrs. Baba Yaga... you do know a few things."

"You know Pikkup Stix well it seems, just ask him to help you once you return to the mainlands, I promise you won't regret it... maybe!"

02-Dec-2009 07:29:05

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"Any tricks for me?" Ko asked with a crooked smile. "Yes yes, come on I'll teach you how to summon a creature out of thin air!" she said excitedly "Ana darling, would you like me to fetch someone to help you continue practice, or would you rather come with us?" Anastasia wasn't really in the mood to watch tricks she could not perform, when she could be learning new tricks herself.

"Yes I vould like to practice more." Baba could instantly tell she had inspired another lover of the ancient art of Summoning! Fantastic! She thought.

"Yes dear of course dear, I'll send someone down now!" She said, hovering up the stairs.

"I'll be up here with her, if you need me." Ko said, before climbing behind the lady, moments later a younger woman floated down, and began to instruct Ana on some of the basics.

Mean while...

As Forrest removed his shirt, it revealed just how perfectly built he was, with his abdomen looking to be capable of sharpening a sword, biceps and triceps both large and impressive, and shaking hands with him normally left you feeling like you had a broken hand for a few moments. "Damn man, I forgot you were built like that." Lowe said removing his shirt, he was far from out of shape, but not nearly as chiseled as his friend, but few were. Forrest laughed lightly as he removed his pants, and shortly afterwards his last bits of clothing, leaving him in only what he was born with. He splashed into the hot spring, and rose out of the water letting out a moan.

"Hot damn, this feels good." he said laying his head back, they were high atop a hill, thick mist prevented anyone from seeing them, the water was hot and bubbling, and they had nothing to do for the rest of the day. Lowe stripped down and put in one foot first to get a feel for the water, before slowly lowering himself in.

02-Dec-2009 07:29:28 - Last edited on 03-Dec-2009 07:48:45 by Baron Ogre

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"Oh my God, you're right." he laughed, he hadn't had a chance to do anything like this in what felt like years, his store was opened seven days a week, even if he did close early on Ivanday. As the two soaked, they both were becoming slightly bored. "So Forrest man, got a thing for that broad we saw back in Rellekka?" Lowe asked slyly, with a smirk.

"Well yeah, had a thing for her past few years really." Forrest replied, he seemed upset slightly.

"I didn't mean to, offend or anything..." Lowe said, he suddenly felt guilty.

"Nah, just some mistakes I made, not yer fault." he replied. "See, you might not know it, but go back a few years, and I was mean as any old demon, and I knew it. When I wasn't workin', I was drinkin', when I wasn't drinkin', good chance I was walking away from a battered unconscious fella at a pub. Was down near Rellekka, heard they had some exotic timber to be felled, made myself a killing on the profit, and met the love of my life."

"We hit if off, like a spark to dry straw. She mellowed me out over the years we were together, I found myself fighting less and less, and I was happier without realizing it. Then she started talking about kids, buying a house together, weddings..." Lowe listened quietly, even though he knew where things were going. "I told her some stuff, excuses to delay everything, but friction was gettin' rough between us, arguments were starting to happen daily... I eventually told her truthfully I was too young to start a family and settle down, I was only twenty five at the time..."

"Only twenty five?" Lowe thought to himself, but men so physically fit as Forrest would probably live to be one hundred and fifty, anyway. "That's pretty bad, you work things out back there?" he asked, genuinely hoping he had somehow magically smoothed things over.

02-Dec-2009 07:29:44

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"She was as sweet and forgiving as always, I once gave her a black eye by accident, she shrugged that off, but I doubted she'd shrug of me running off shortly after she mentioned a long term commitment, she did though, said things could pick up right where we left off... and I think I might take her up on that." he said with a smile "Bunch of little me's running around, won't that be fun?" he said with a laugh. "Hell, while we're on this topic, when you gonna make a move with Fizzard?" Lowe blushed slightly, his heart raced momentarily.

"Is it that, painfully obvious?"

"You best believe it, son, how you kind of stare at her unblinkingly, like some kind of stalker, and sigh after a few moments. It's painful to watch, brother." he laughed again, and reached into his bag to remove a flask filled with soup, it wasn't lunch time, but he didn't really care.

"Well damn, does she know?" he asked as a shiver raced down his spine.

"I can't tell if she shrugs it off, is too drunk to notice, or is just oblivious." he said with a shrug. Lowe slumped back into the water and went into deep thought for a few minutes "She ain't never said nothin' to me about it, I ain't never heard Azura gossiping about anything she's said, and I don't even know if she'd mention something like that to Aiden and Caden."

"Well that's a plus. I don't know, she's easy to be around and talk to, but she seems completely uninterested in any sort of relationship. I've never seen her talk about any handsome men she'd seen that day, or seen her out on a date, or heard about it from anyone... Maybe she's good about keeping her private life separate from us? But then I look at her house, she can afford to make it look nice, but she obviously doesn't give a damn." He rubbed his hands through his hair. "I don't get it." Forrest shrugged.

02-Dec-2009 07:35:52

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"Come to think of it, I've never seen those two apart, not once." Forrest scratched his head.

"I used to scrap with my brother constantly, we'd bicker and fight, stay mad at each other for a day or two at a time, I ain't never seen them mad at one another for longer than a few minutes." Lowe nodded.

"Even then, they begrudingly stay close together, maybe they went through something during their childhoods... I've heard of brothers and sisters with bad parents forming an unbreakable bond.."

"That possible I guess, but they ain't never seemed like tha type to have been abused as kids, and besides, look at their stomachs, their mama clearly kept food on the table."

"I wonder what those two are doing right now, and do you have any idea where Azura might have gone?"

"She likes those two, mighta tagged along with them, but I got no clue."

"I can't tell with Azura, does she like them because their jokes, or because she has a thing for big men who like to eat food and break spines?" Forrest reluctantly began to speak.

"I hate to say it, but them two know how to have an exciting time, they make their living killing the biggest and most terrifying things they can find, and Azura lived the first eight teen years of her life with overly protective parents, and in a town that had guards every where, I don't imagine anything interesting happened most of the time. I know she used to read a lot, and practiced magic to keep herself busy, I imagine she likes to put that information and skill to use with those two, since god knows they practically throw themselves into the line of danger."

Forrest snickered "If I know those two at all, they're probably crushing somethings skull right about now, and chances are she's right behind them.

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