WarningTo Nissa's right, the wall lit up in a display of yet another side of Nerissa's triple personality standing in front of green streaming data poring over a black background. "Quite jumpy for an AI."
"Talkative too," the hologram Nerissa said.
"Indeed," Nissa agreed. To Lisa, she said, "It makes you unique--though you may want to go PDA here in the next few seconds. The last one you want to meet with your building is coming up from her lab. Ikkit's not a fan of anything haphazardly thrown together."
"Dragon doesn't know this," the hologram Nerissa said, "but the last time Ikkit came across an AI that was jumbled together like you--it resulted in the annihilation of a planet about twice the size of Jupiter."
"Ikkit has a tendency to go overboard when trying to dismantle something she doesn't like," the Nerissa on the display screen said.
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Entering Wynn, 1Watching with indifference the exchanges between Chazu, Nogard, and Larkin; Xangord made a mental note to request an audience with the Dragon Gods. Noting that Rose was not reacting in the slightest to the fact that Larkin was missing her lower jaw, Xangord arched an eyebrow.
Grabbing Nogard by the back of her shirt, Xangord said, "Before these three can provoke each other any more and do something quite regrettable, Nogard and I will be entering Wynn's head."
Lord Avondale nodded. "Very well. Will you need help--?"
"No," Xangord said. "
Meimei [1] and I can do it."
"Very well," Lord Avondale said. "I will mask your mana as you enter."
Xangord nodded.
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Turn AroundTo Chazu, Larkin seethed, "She killed everyone in the timeline she and I share! I fully intend to kill her before she has a chance to try and do so here!"
From the corner of her eye, Larkin saw Xangord and Nogard dissolve into quarter-inch balls of light--purple and red--and then fly into Wynn's ear.
With Nogard out of sight, Larkin was immediately calmer. As Xangord's smoke chains disappeared, Larkin replaced the scarf hiding the lower half of her face. "Sai Chazu, you mentioned that Nogard was good now?"
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Wolf UnleashedHeading towards the pillar of smoke, Wolf was surprised to see random bones
[2] lining a path of destruction. "White Fang's teeth! What caused this?!"
Whimpering, Wynn pointed at something ahead.
Just ahead, Wolf saw Shalimar fighting some
shadow creature. "Wynn...has that thing always been here?"
"It's new...," Wynn said.
Myuu's pet most likely, Wolf thought.
"Look out!" Wynn screamed.
Diving to the right, Wolf pulled Wynn off his back to protectively curl his body around her as they hit the ground. Rolling to his feet, Wolf saw Shalimar tumbling limply across the ground where he had been standing moments before. Setting Wynn down behind a rock, Wolf ripped off his shirt and vest as he began to transform into his
werewolf form. Dropping to all fours and releasing a bone chilling howl, Wolf rushed the shadow creature.
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Entering Wynn, 2Still in the glowing balls of light, Xangord led Nogard through the cavern that Myuu had escaped from, into the darker cavern that Shalimar had killed one of Myuu's pet creatures, and into the field of cherry trees where Wynn was held captive. Indicating to Nogard that they were going to need their dragon forms
[3]. Launching into the air, Xangord quickly spotted where Wolf and Wynn were--but no Shalimar. From her vantage point, she saw that Wolf was fighting a loosing battle against a creature that obviously was not a part of Wynn's mind.
"What the hell is he fighting?" Nogard asked having seeing the same.
"A Ruatuga," Xangord replied calmly.
"He's fighting a
vegetable?" Nogard asked. "What, did the root get mutated or something?"
"
Ruatuga," Xangord replied, "not rutabaga."
"Yes, that explains EVERYTHING," Nogard said. "So how do we fight it?"
"We don't," Xangord replied. Seeing that Wolf was loosing ground between the Ruatuga and Wynn, she added, "We let it kill Wolf and Wynn."
"...I'm cool with that," Nogard said.
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Trust"Well either I'm going crazy," Creighton said, "or there's a telepath around here."
"Has to be a telepath as I heard it too," Lizbeth replied. To Creighton, Lizbeth said, "I think we should do as the young dragon asks and follow him onto the ship."
"He travels with telepaths and...that," Creighton said, pointing at n**. "Can he truly be trusted?"
"He is providing a better alternative at the moment," Lizbeth said, shoving her fist through a newbie that had drawn too close.
"If you trust him, then so shall I," Creighton said, grabbing Lizbeth's hand and pulling her towards the ship.
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Coming out of Bloodlust<n**! > someone called in her head.
<n**, get a hold of yourself! >As she was ripping the head off of one of her attackers and burying her face in the victim's gushing neck, n**'s mind slowly swam back to her.
Merlin's beard! n** thought, pulling back. Wincing at all the spears in her, n** reached for her wand. Pointing it at newbie after newbie, n** yelled repeatedly
"Obliviate!" to clear a path back to the ship.
Taking point with fading vision, n** saw three blurs approaching--though they were too brightly dressed to be newbies. "Lady. Sir. Sai."
[4]As she began to collapse from exhaustion, n** faintly heard Flan call out,
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Face to Face, 1Leaping out of a puddle of water in her
Inheritance form, Dragon looked up at the
castle with barely contained fury.
She knew from past experience that the owner of the castle already knew she had arrived. As she walked to the gates, Dragon thought,
Except this time I won't be leaving her alive.
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[2] That would be Garnet. Like Skully is, the easy way to defeat him is to dismember the bones from one another.
[3] Xangord Dragon, Nogard Dragon
[4] Lizbeth, Creighton, Taran. n** doesn't know that Lizbeth and Creighton are also dragons--otherwise she would've said "Sais."