Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 06:22:37 GMT
From: Blake Alexander <writemeastory@juno.com>
Subject: Tales of the New Phoenix: My Immortal chapter 2

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My Immortal
Chapter 2: A New Age

	A nice quiet day at the bank. Riiiight. I blasted another cabinet
with my ring. The walls groaned as another piece of ceiling fell to the
floor.
	"Windgardium Leviosa!" Devin screamed pointing his wand at a
ceiling beam that was hurtling at Jubilee. He stopped it at the last
moment. She sent a blast of plasma sparks at a desk, pushing it away from
Tabitha, who was desperately trying to fend off a group of flying waste
baskets.
	"Falcon, we have to get out of here! We can't fight the whole
damned office!" Alison yelled.
	"Damn it!" I screamed. "Owl, work the fucking spell!" I erected a
force bubble around us as he opened his bag.
	"They're breaking through!" I turned to where Jubilee was pointing
and saw some pens pushing through. Damned Ghosts, we didn't have anything
that could hold them back.
	"Spirit of light, Goddess on High, hear our plea in this moment of
need. We beg your touch, your hand of grace, help us calm this unquiet
place. Give them substance, corporeal form, so we may find our answers, and
stop their masters deeds." Devin had created a ring of light around him, a
circle of power, and cast the spell. My ring cut out as a wave of light
shot outwards from him.
	Everything in the air fell to the ground, and the groaning
ceased. "Did it work?" Tabitha asked.
	"Where are they?" I looked around, a destroyed office, but no
ghosts. "Why can't we see them?"
	"He must have called them back at the last moment." Devin kicked a
telephone that was lying on the floor. "We have nothing."
	"We just spent the last thirty minutes fighting our way through an
office building that was trying to kill us and every other living person in
it, waded through the bodies of those it did kill, to get to the center of
the... what did you call it, "spiritual tempest", so that you could cast a
spell that would invoke the Faery Goddess of spirits and ghosts to make
them real so we could force them to tell us who we're fighting... and we
failed?" Tabitha formed a bomb and through it in a corner. It exploded,
destroying a copy machine that had a chair stuck in it.
	"Come on, we should leave." We started to walk to the stairs when
our comm's went off. I pressed the watch face, "Green Falcon here."
	"There is a disturbance in Cupertino." Oracle said "The Friends of
Humanity have assembled at De Anza College and are attacking the
Preternatural Lessons building. They claim it is trying to turn people into
potential vampires."
	"God Damn it. We have the fucking King of Spirits and Death
attacking San Francisco, and now we have to go stop the fucking FOH from
attacking students." I created a field around all of us and launched us
towards the stairs. I blasted the door and went up the air shaft in the
center of the stairs. We broke through the glass skylight and went flying
towards Cupertino.

	"I'll have a Grande Mocha Coconut Frap, hold the whipped cream." I
said. The sales girl just sort of stared at me, mouth slack. I
laughed. "What, celebrities like Starbucks too." I said with a laugh.
	She hurried to make me my drink and I looked at Chris. "You sure
you don't want one?" I asked.
	"Do you really want me to get high on caffeine?"
	"A very good point." I said with a grin.
	"So, what exactly is it you've been up to out here." I paid and we
walked to a empty table in the corner.
	"Well, I'm slowly putting my album together, I was hoping to have
it done by now but... other things took priority." I said.
	"Blake wouldn't want you to stop your life like this." Chris
said. As he said it I felt a flush of anger. "Hear me out! It's been two
years since Blake died. Serenity is flourishing. It's one of the hottest
spots in the nation. And the team..." He looked around to make sure no one
could hear us. He lowered his voice though, just in case. "You're a singer,
not a crime fighter. They all have powers, you don't. He never wanted you
as involved in this stuff as you are. You made them strong, strong enough
that the fucking mayor has them deputized and on call for any weird shit
that happens in the city."
	"I can't stop now. The king of ghosts is trying to take control in
the city. The soul bearing vampires need protection from the bigots that
think that all vamps are inherently evil. Not to mention that Lycanthropy
has become one of the biggest issues in medicine. The aftermath of the
Vampire War has left the whole nation a mess, and we are trying to hold
this corner of that nation in control." I said. I'd had this fight with all
the guy's, and my family. I didn't want to have it again.
	"We aren't going to end up like Europe." He said.
	"What? You think that it isn't going to eventually spill into the
streets? They made killing Wereanimals legal, they made it ok to kill any
vampires found. They found out about the magic community, and made it
illegal to practice in three countries." I heard my name called for my
drink, stood up and got it, then came back. I took a sip and looked Chris
in the eyes. "I have friends that are Vampires. One of my best friends lost
his sister during the wizard hunt in Germany. The world hated Mutants, but
couldn't do a whole lot because there is genetic proof that they are humans
that just have new genetic structures. Lycanthropy is a disease, Vampirism
has always been feared and hated, and throw in people with magical powers
and you have the new hate in the world."
	"But you don't have to fight this fight..." Chris started. I
wouldn't let him finish.
	"No, I don't have to, I want to. Blake would have, and I would have
been beside him. Mutants are still persecuted, but now they have all the
preternatural beings right there with them." I said.
	Chris let out a sigh. I took another sip of my drink and smiled. "I
still can't believe you did a cartoon." I said with a smile. He gave me a
look that could melt lead, and I started laughing louder.
	"Hey, `The Fairly Odd Parents' rock!"

	We got there to find a campus in turmoil. The police were caught in
a crossfire from the FOH that had brought weapons and the mutant
students. I also saw a wereleopard that was snapping at a FOH that was
going after a couple young girls that were cuddled against a wall.
	"I'll take the building, press the FOH back." I lowered us to a
patch of grass just away from all the fighting. "Dazzler, you take the
north. Owl, you have the south. Jubilee, east. Boomer, can you guess where
you get to go?"
	"West?" She asked with a smirk.
	"Let's go guys." They started running to their sections as I flew
up and over the building I landed us behind. I descended onto the roof of
the newest building on campus, the Preternatural Studies Center that was
headed by representative of the White Council, the council of Wizards and
Witches in the US. It had been overseeing the magic community in much the
same way the Ministry of Magic worked in the UK. There were bodies lying on
the ground at the main entrance. I saw a man in a FOH shirt rush the door,
to be met by a blast of yellow magic.
	I lifted my ring to my mouth and spoke at it. A large green image
of me appeared above me, speaking over the roar of the crowd. "Can I get
quiet please?" I said over the din of voices. They slowly subsided. "Now
this can end one of two ways. One, I knock out anyone that approaches this
building or two, you all go home peacefully."
	I man stepped forward with a blow horn in his hands. "Green Falcon,
you can't stop us all. This building is an affront to all that is good in
our country. They did the right thing in Europe. And the President will see
that soon enough. Until then it is up to us to put an end to this." He
motioned to someone near him who spoke into a radio.
	Trucks came squealing from the distance, pickups with large
machines on the back. I recognized them, plasma cannons. There were at
least ten of them. They circled the building. Guess where they were
pointed. "Crap." I whispered.
	I heard the door to the roof open and spun to see who was
coming. An old man wearing a green robe strode towards me with a
cane. "Hello madam." He said with a smile.
	"Sir, we need to evacuate the building. How many people are left?"
I asked.
	"None. I had a tunnel carved out bellow this building during
construction. It empties out in the campus center. I knew this sort of
thing would happen, and planned accordingly." He stepped towards the edge
of the building. "But that doesn't mean I'm going to allow my building to
fall to these mad men. I still have students around the base of the
building. Ones that didn't get inside in time to escape, or who chose to
defend it."
	The first cannon fired and I raised my ring to it. I couldn't blow
the machine, it would take out half the court yard and most of the
students. I simply blocked the blast. It ricocheted into the sky with a
scream. "Those things will keep firing, and I don't have the strength to
defend this place all day."
	"No, but the fey can stop them now." He pulled a pouch from his
robes and opened it. He sprinkled it out and whispered, "Come to my aid,
wind riders and flower jumpers. Come to me and aid me as I aided you so
many years ago." The golden dust lifted high into the air with the sound of
bells, then faded from sight.
	"Green Falcon, that was a warning. Get off the building or I will
destroy you."
	In the distance I saw Devin fighting his way towards a pickup, but
he wouldn't make it in time. I had a feeling that the girls wouldn't
either.
	I pointed my ring straight into the air and formed a green shield
over the entire building. "I can keep this up for about 15 minutes under
the fire of those plasma cannons. Will your friends be here by then?"
	"They are here now." I looked around and saw things dancing in the
corner of my eye, but not when I would look at them. "They use glamour to
hide."
	"But not when we see friends." A musical voice said. A small girl
shimmered into sight in front of the wizard. When I say small, I don't mean
young, I mean she had the body of a Barbie Doll with large butterfly wings
of green and gold. She wore a skirt that matched the colors, and a piece of
cloth that tied just bellow where her wings met her back with a bow to
cover her breasts. She looked 17 or 18, just very tiny.
	"It is good to see you Lahoora of the Green Leafs." The wizard
said.
	"As it is good to see you Green Wizard of the White Council. You
have called us to your side, what do you need of the Green Leaf Court?" She
asked. Royalty I realized, I was looking at a Fairy Queen.
	"My school is under attack by humans. They fear us all, and wish us
harm. I need all bellow that smell of hate to be asleep. You will know them
at an instant for they have a hate built on fear."
	The fairy nodded and put her delicate hand to her chin. She started
pacing in the air, wings beating harder and faster then any butterfly I had
ever seen. "This will clear the debt owed you by my court." She said.
	"I saved your entire court from the Shadows a hundred years ago, I
feel you owe me a bit yet." He said with a twinkle in his eye. "I merely
need you to sprinkle the people asleep."
	"You have all the courts in your dept, but owe us nothing. Your
maneuvering and conniving is worthy of the Queen of Air and Darkness
herself." She said.
	"The Queen of Air And Darkness is a force unto herself. As is the
King of Light and Illusion. I wish never to cross either court of
Sidhe. But the lesser fey have always been kind to me. Even before the
Shadow Battles of old."
	"Not of old, they were all too recent." She said with a smirk.
	"You remind me that I am only mortal Lahoora. Now, will you grant
me this Aid? This Green Warrior can not stand for long." Both of them
turned to me. The FOH had started firing moments after I erected the
shield, and I had sweat on my brow.
	"This woman, she defends you and is human. Not humans of touch, but
mortal human. And she has a weapon of star mortal magic." Lahoora fluttered
to me, and stared into my eyes.
	"She is a fine being. Pure of soul. Please ease her burden this
day, hers, the Wizard's, and the three women of touch, not to mention my
students. They all fight to defend this building." He said.
	"Very well. We remain in your debt, and shall do as you wish Green
Wizard." She fluttered to the edge of the shield. "I feel we shall meet
again Green Warrior."
	"It will be my honor." I said. It was the first thing I had
said. She faded from view. "What are they going to do? I saw more movement
in the corner of my eye."
	"They are even now doing what I asked of them." He said. I looked
out amongst the crowd. The members of the FOH were falling to the ground
all over. Within minutes there were all asleep on the ground, weapons at
their sides. Devin and the girls ran to the cannons and powered them down
as the police swarmed the area.
	"Well, we should go explain ourselves to the police." I said. He
nodded. We went.

	After explaining for the tenth time to Lieutenant Phelps what had
happened, how the Fey had been called in to put the bad guy's to sleep, we
gave up and said it was a spell. I lost my cool at about explanation 6, the
wizard, who I had learned is named Sir Brian Logan, was the one who finally
broke and named it the spell.
	We left the good officer... after another hour of
questioning... and went back to Sir Logan's office with Devin and the girls
in tow. We sat in an office that looked far older than the building. It had
a freaking fireplace. Of granite. That had a fire in it.
	"Nice office." Jubilee said, spinning a globe.
	"Thank you. I loved it so much at my homestead I simply had to
bring it with me." He said with a smile.
	"Wait, are we actually in your home?" Devin asked looking to the
window. It looked like the campus.
	"Good gracious no. That is far too showy a spell." He said taking a
seat behind a desk that was covered in papers. "I simply cast a spell to
move my office from my homestead here."
	"Oh..." Devin said taking a seat at one of the chairs opposite Sir
Logan.
	"Listen, since we are here we thought we would ask your advice on a
certain situation." I said taking a seat in the chair beside Devin's. The
girls sat down at the small couch.
	"I am in your debt for today. I will answer any questions you
have." He said.
	"We have been battling a very powerful creature," Devin leaned
forward a bit. "The King of Spirits and Death."
	Sir Logan leaned back into his chair, his face unmoving. "The White
Council has come up against him before, and lost. He is a creature of
nature itself. Quite like the fey." He looked at a plant on his desk. "The
reason I am known as the Green Wizard is that I studied within the Seelie
Court. This is before their exodus to the States, when they were still in
Europe. The Sidhe were once worshiped as Gods. The King of Ghosts and Death
is one of the Gods that they replaced."
	"How do we stop him." I asked.
	"You don't understand Green Falcon," He said, a slight look of fear
on his face, "you don't."