Clare's Quest: Season Two is ready!

Note: Clare's Quest is not written in a typical story fashion but as one would read Episode summaries on a TV show or something. I got into writing like this as a experiment in screen play writing that helps me organize the story. Before you just click the back button keep in mind they are ultra short for the first bit then they get longer as they go on. All characters used in them are use with the owner's blessing. Karbo even said "This has some potential." and is partly the reason I'm still writing it. Another thing is since they are episodes in series they are writen in "seasons" like a real TV show. There are twenty episodes a season and most end in a way that tries to wrap up the plot but not leave you in cliff hanger. Okay now that I've said that enjoy and please comment? Even criticism. Oh and all this isn't canon to Felarya yet. It's based on RPs that incorporate some canon Felarya stuff but mostly my own fanon.

Season one:

#1 Portal
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Clare, a young naga living in Valamere, chases after a mysterious purple robed intruder in her world and follows him through a portal to a strange placed known Felarya...

#2 Adventure
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Still pursuing the mysterious man Clare goes into the jungles of Felarya heedlessly and nearly is attacked by Kensha beasts when she's saved by a young bow and arrow wielding male Naga named Anthony.

#3 Stranded
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Anthony after talking to Clare decides she's not mature enough to last in Felarya and tries to take her back to the portal. When they arrive they find the entire area has changed and the portal is gone, likely because it was part of a vanishing land.


#4 Food Chain
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While out hunting animals Anthony tries to explain to Clare about the predator food chain. While he's talking Clare hears a scream and races off to investigate it and finds a company of humans under attack by a giant elf. Clare steps in and decides to help and in doing so makes friends with a human named Tamlin and a human sized naga named Aphra.


#5 Clare's Magic
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Clare realizes that she's injured and panics until Anthony explains to her about Felarya's famous healing effect and helps tend her wound telling her such a small injury will likely take only days to heal at most. Later he and Clare take Tamlin and Aphra to safe harbor to await a recovery team and the elf, Nelda, shows back up and is wanting to take out her frustration on Clare. During the battle Clare creates a mud hole and embarrasses the elf by trapping her till Jade shows up and gives the elf a serious verbal beat down till she agrees to leave peacefully leaving Clare to say goodbye to Tam and Aphra.


6 Separation
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While Anthony is talking to Clare about different giant predator's territories and why it's important to have one when they are attacked by a group of naga hunters. The two try to fight them off but the humans are too well armed and Clare and Anthony are forced to run and they become lost and unable to find one another... leaving Clare to wonder the forest alone.


7 Casa Jazel
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After a long time of wondering through the jungle and some close encouters with the local fauna, Clare gets peckish and starts to look for food, but that isn't easy as she find out and she almost gives up her search. Then she comes across a odd little castle in the middle of a secluded valey. She investigates further and finds a human man. Desperate she decides to try and nom him, but this proves dificult as he moves like the wind and is cunning. After a long fought battle just when she's about to catch him his girlfriend, who just happens to be demoness, shows up and stops Clare. Afterwards Clare collapses right in front of them.

8 Sensei
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When Clare comes to she is surprised to find that the human and the woman with wings and horns are tending to her and are nursing her back to health. After a introduction she finds out the human's name is Jayson and his girlfriend is Jazel and they, and a few others, have been living in Felarya for a while to avoid the detection of certain indivuals who Jazel has former associations with. Clare becomes good friends with Jazel and Jay and eventually is introduced to a beuton who teaches her the ways of combat and a new way to look at her food to help her to better learn to deffend herself and live in Felarya.


9 Search
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After leaving Jay and Jazel's castle, and saying goodbye to her teacher Cydonna, Clare sets off to find Anthony but instead finds Tam and Aphra again. After learning their mission is to find a alternate power source for their base's failing shield she agree's to help them get to Negav. This proves to be alot more difficult than she first thought though with the help of her new weapon she makes short work of anything that tries to cross their path and the gang arrive at Negav and nearly spooks the daylights out of the guards when Clare tries to slither right up to the wall. Fortunately Tam manages to talk to them and tell them Clare is a friendly naga. This diffuses the situation but Clare has to remain outside and wait for Tam and Aphra. This she is unhappy about.


10 Tunnel
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While waiting for Tam Clare gets bored and fed up with having to wait outside so she decides to try going under the city. Somehow while using her magic to create the tunnel she manages to tunnel into another dimension. A private dimension for magician as it turns out. At first he was startled by her sudden appearance, but adjusted to it easily enough when he realized she was friendly. He introduced himself as Mobius Autero of the Magicocrats of Negav. When Clare told him her story Mobius tells Clare she looks like someone he'd heard of before. A naga locked away in tower by a evil wizard. Clare was fascinated by the tale and asked Mobius to tell her more about it. He smiled and obliged and decides to find this "Terra Spire" he had told her of and rescue the naga princess trapped there. Clare leaves to go tell Anthony of her discovery and make plans to set out.


11 Chibi Dridder Ahoy
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Clare informs Anthony of her intentions and asks him to join her in her quest to find the Terra Spire. They set off east across the Ascarlin Moutains and meet a small but fierce Dridder named Nikita. Clare and the 'chibi dridder" quickly become friends...Weather she wants to or not! After Clare had nearly smooshed the dridder girl she explained her quest and Nikita suggested that they should seek out Vivian since she knew allot about magical stuff and agried to guide them there.

12 Frosty Sorceress
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The gang take a rest at the Lake of Illusions where Clare see's a vision of what she wants most in life to know who her mother was. She started to swim out to the island in the middle, likely to meet certain doom, but a blue skinned naga who doesn't smile much and talks in dull way pulled her out of her revere and told her of the dangers of this place. Nikita and Anthony show up in time to see this and it turns out Nikita is good friends with this naga. After Nikita explains the situation Aniya agrees to show them the way to Vivian's place.

13 Kate
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Along the way to the Chidorni Waterfalls, Clare becomes hungry and decides to go look for a snack, Aniya joins her and the two manage to catch a party of humans from a world called Delura bent on trying to attack Felarya in force, which Aniya explains isn't possible (while eating some of the attack force herself). Later on the way back Aniya complains about being hungry again and unfilling those Delura people were and Clare says she sympathizes with her "but humans don't just fall from the sky when your hungry." After this statement Kate Lowe, a young shop clerk from a earth type 42, falls out of the skies and into Aniya's hand. After a bit of clarification Aniya decides she won't eat this human. She likes her spunk and self confidence. Clare also likes Kate and decides to keep her (though not as a pet! <.<...What? It's true! Just ask Kate).


14 Vivian's Plight
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When the gang arrives they find Vivian running around and panicky talking very fast and with some slur to her speech. Nikita realizing this is not the way Vivian normally acts so she asks what's wrong and Vivian, after a little calming down, starts to explain how her staff is missing.

15 Bad Kitty
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After finding and solving a series of clues, traps and disarming a magical defensive system designed to protect Vivian's staff they come back to Chidorni Falls and are about to hand it to Vivian when suddenly another Vivian shows up and tells them she is the real Vivian and the other is a fake. Eventually after much talking the fake slips up and reveals she is a giant neko with some skill at illusions. Though, she adds, with Vivian ,the most powerful sorceress ever and she will be the queen of nekos and every other race in the world! Clare however has other plans. Such as stopping her for one!


16 Cat-ataclysmic Fight
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Clare tries to use Vivian's staff and the neko makes a dive for it trying to wrest it from her hands. Aniya shoots a blast of ice at her, but she manages to use the staff and conjure a blast of flame. Vivian tries to step in but gets trapped in a prison of energy, however it turns out she was just an illusion copy which frustrates the neko. Nikita tries to distract the neko with some acrobatics while Aniya charges up a final freeze and Vivian activates a special spell that makes her staff go haywire and shoot out out all kinds of crazy spells, one of which is a breasts inflation spell that causes the neko to suddenly become "off balance" in that moment Aniya freezes her and the battle is over.

17 Respite
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Clare and the gang decide to stay at Vivian's for a while as Vivian has extended her courtesy and invited them to spend the rest of the month working on their magics...As well as few other things of theirs too. Vivian takes Clare and Aniya off to show them her garden bragging about a certian bush they just have to see leaving Kate alone with Nikita, whom receives urgent word from a runner of the Spetz that the base is under attack and they need her help. So Kate is left alone at Vivian's when a visitor comes slithering up. She thinks it's just another friendly naga. When in fact it's Crisis scourge of the jungle.


18 Beneficial Curse
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Clare gets bored of watching Vivian and Aniya hug and wrestle with one another and decides to go back and chat with Nikita. She gets back just in time to see Crisis slurp Kate for dinner. Naturally she draws her axe and gets ready to pummel this intruder when suddenly Crisis looks like she's gone green and spits Kate out. Clare abandons her favored weapon and makes a dive to grab Kate. She manages to catch and is about to give the other larger naga a serious chewing out when Vivian appears to diffuse the situation. After hearing of the encounter and Kate's survivial she does a scan with her staff for anything unusual and is surprised to find Kate is radiating curse energies and after a taste Vivian determines they are curiously making Kate's flavor taste…off. Kate confesses she might have had a minor accident while exploring a shop back in the city when she fell on a display case and had to get out of there quickly.

20 Vivian's answer
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After a few more days Clare suddenly remembers why they came in the first place and asks Vivian about the legend of the naga princess and the Terra Spire. Vivian says she remembers a fable about the Terra Spire, an old fairy tale, and gets Clare the book, which Kate comments looks more like a large soccer field, and shows Clare the entry. Much to her surprise there is a map showing a older out of date "Victorian" Felarya. On it she saw what she was looking for and better yet how to get there. After saying their goodbyes the Clare, Anthony, Kate and Aniya set off towards the Mist Ocean. [left]

XD I like this. XD I really like this a lot so far. :3

Darth_Nergal wrote:

XD I like this. XD I really like this a lot so far. :3

Thank you very much! Could you tell mewhat you liked best? I hope to improve in season 2-3

Okay, I ran into this:

jedi-explorer wrote:

so he obliged and decides to find this "Terra Spire" and rescue the naga princess. He confesses he does not.^^

Whaaaaaaat? I don't get what this is supposed to be saying!

jedi-explorer wrote:

Weather she wants to or not!

Whether.

jedi-explorer wrote:

16 Cata-clysmic Fight

An attempt at a cat pun? Did you mean "Cat-aclysmic"? O.o


Besides these and the myraid of other grammatical errors I don't have the energy or black-enough heart to point out to you, I like the story. I got exscarecited when Kate was almost eaten, even. It's an interesting and fun story, and easy to read for impatient-types like me, to boot!

Nyaha wrote:

Okay, I ran into this:

jedi-explorer wrote:

so he obliged and decides to find this "Terra Spire" and rescue the naga princess. He confesses he does not.^^

Whaaaaaaat? I don't get what this is supposed to be saying!

jedi-explorer wrote:

Weather she wants to or not!

Whether.

jedi-explorer wrote:

16 Cata-clysmic Fight

An attempt at a cat pun? Did you mean "Cat-aclysmic"? O.o


Besides these and the myraid of other grammatical errors I don't have the energy or black-enough heart to point out to you, I like the story. I got exscarecited when Kate was almost eaten, even. It's an interesting and fun story, and easy to read for impatient-types like me, to boot!

He?! XD No no no! It's supposed to say "she" thank you Nyaha. As for what it's saying is Clare listened to Mobius' story and decided to find the Terra Spire it talked about.

Ah thank you for that. I get those two confused. ^^;

Aww thanks, Nyaha. I appreciate it. And yeah that's supposed to be a pun XD I love puns.

This is a pretty interesting style. It's like a cliffnotes version yet it leaves most of the actions and dialogue up to the imagination of the reader. It certainly kept my attention.

Awesome job, Jedi =)

Valerian wrote:

This is a pretty interesting style. It's like a cliffnotes version yet it leaves most of the actions and dialogue up to the imagination of the reader. It certainly kept my attention.

Awesome job, Jedi =)

Thank you, V! I'm glad you enjoyed. ^_^ I wanted to leave a little to the mind of the reader as I've seen some good work outside of Felarya that does that and it preserved the idea I was pitching them like episodes in TV series, because that's what I'd like to do someday. Write for some big name sci-fi or fantasy show that goes on to like ten seasons. X3

Here is Season 2! A note. Just because it says Clare's Quest doesn't always means she has to be present for something to happen. In this season Nikita shows that off by being in scene by herself for a moment and Kate does it too. It's something I intend to keep doing. I have credited the authors who's characters I used and please keep this in mind as you read. I work really, really hard on these so please if you even glance at it, leave a comment? Even a small one would be nice and keep in mind most of these are based on RPs so they are a little action oriented. Also terms and locations that appear in this are mostly fanon. Don't go looking for them on the main map and expect to find them. ^_^;

21 The Quest Goes On

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On their way to their goal Clare and the others are greeted by a caravan nekos in a wagon. After talking she finds out they are a mobile tribe of nekos who have banded together to form a new nation always on the move. A nation of wagons. Intrigued by this Clare and Aniya offer to help escort them where they need to go. They except and the troupe proceeds to the Lake of Illusions where the nekos prepare vats of chocolate and seranade their heroes, But Kate feels uneasy and decides to snoop around the wagons while everyone is celebrating and finds the wagons are loaded with chains, magic shackles and Storms Pikes. Before she can draw a conclusion she gets knocked out. Meanwhile Clare and the other predators start to feel sleepy after all the music and chocolate and doze off. Little do they know the nekos have dosed them with sleeping toxin! They soon leave with Kate and some of the more valuable artifacts they had collected had collected on their journey. In the morning Clare discovers this and weeps in anger vowing to find and punish those evil nekos. Aniya says there's no time for that and they must make haste.


22 Kate the Captive

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Kate awakes to find herself bound and gagged. Though that doesn't last long as she finds out from her captors they are slavers and have a potential buyer in the form of a giant naga who likes to keep pretty girls around. Kate dreads this but finds the manacles on her wirsts won't allow her to preform spells successfully and dissipate any magic she uses to try and break them. She's brought to a castle near the Lake of illusions. From there she meets her new mistress Evelyn a River naga who's ruthless and domineering. She forces Kate to wear a maid's outfit and not only sexily pose, but actually do work! Though while she was trying figure out how to dust a giant vase she noticed a girl about to drop a tray of sushi and helped her. The girl was grateful and told Kate her name was Rene'. She was almost disciplined for slacking off though a magical manacle like Kates, but Kate agreed to take her punishment instead. Later Rene tells her that she has aplan to escape and wants Kate to come with her when her friends come for her. Kate says that Clare will come for her she doesn't need any assistance. Though she begins to wonder...

23 Sweet Hitchhiker

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While looking for Kate Clare encounters Tamlin Landcaster and Aphra Aurerlian as well as a small escort force running from a flock of Glouteux!! Clare and Aniya make short work of the birds and have a light meal while Tam explains that there's a dark shadowy new group of adventurers attacking other groups and claiming their territories in a attempt to become number one. Aphra says that their Commander Laurence Wallace has ordered them to talk to other groups and form a temporary alliance against this new threat. Clare tells Tam why they're there annd when Tam hears that Clare's human freind Kate has been kidnapped by nekos she agrees and volunteers the Seeker's unit and Aphra to help. Aphra is upset at this asumption but agrees and, after ordering her unit to go to the Spetz, to help and so off they go with new purpose.

24 Raid on the Spetz

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Nikita, on the way back to her the Spetz encounters an old friend, Axel Kindle, in trouble and decides to help him. After a breif meal of the creature that was after him she tells him to hop aboard and tell her how he's been. Axel is more than happy to exchange information with Nikita and says he thinks she's grown since he last met her promoting a blush. After a while of talking about his adventures he had after he left the Spetz and finally managed to get to Academy of Magic to hone his Psionic skills. She tells him of what she's been up to and he is amazed saying he'd love to meet Clare sometime and finds it hard to believe that a human would want to live with Naga even if Negav is expensive. He remarks he'd like to meet Kate as well Nikita tells him that can be arranged after they deal with the threat to the Spetz. When they arrive they find the base is under siege by a small group of Raiders with heavy artiliery. Niki tries to set Axel down saying she'll deal with this but before she can he winks and says "Let me show you how Psionics handle raiders." He then puts his hands up to his temples and sends out a wave of confused thoughts that cause the simple minded Raiders to turn on one another till their numbers rapidly fall to a more even line. Nikita charges the remaining Raider leader,Yuri, along with Axel just as the Spetz soldiers rally to them. Afterwards Yuri tells Nikita and Axel to come in but Nikita says she needs to get back to Clare now that threats over with and Axel asks if he could come along. Before she can say anything he reminds her she did says she could arrange a meeting. Nikita, flustered but knowing she can't get out of it takes him along.

25 Kate's Power Awakens

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While trying to figure out how to clean a thirty foot tall vase with a feather duster barely large enough to clean a human sized one Rene' acidently tips the vase and it shaters. Evelyn has had enough of them both and decides she's going to just eat them, though Kate won't be eaten without a fight and ends up getting punished by her mancle to the point that she passes out and while she's out a mytserious woman enters her dreams telling her: "You have a power inside you. Use it now Daughter of Inogen or you will be destroyed and Clare will fail!" Kat"e doesn't need any more motivation than that and releases a power sleeping inside and that alows her to shoot red lightning from her fingers and cause pain to Evelyn and break her spells. She manages to distract Evelyn long enough for herself and Rene' to get away though they find themselves traped between the water and Evelyn. Kate fends off by making a amtuerish barrier but ultimately it breaks and she nearly dies when Evelyn unleashes a blast of ice that skewers it and puts a ice shard in her shoulder that's slowy freezing her to death. Suddenly there's a shreik from the air and Evelyn is stunned. Kate looks up having a serious headache and see's a Banshee hovering over them. Great as if they didn't have enough to worry about she mutters then Rene tells her it's her friend Heather who's come to save them. Kate shrugs and passes out having stayed awake as long as she can with her mana drained and her body slowly freezing. Heather air lifts them out and carries them south.

26 Toroni-Terror Part one
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On the way past the Forest of Whispers the party meets up with Nikita again who's looking a little too pleased and has friend on her head. It turns out the dangerous raiders who were attacking the Spetz were not the Hand of Antares but just a bunch of wild people who ran away after she and Axel took out their strongest warriors. Clare tells Nikita of how she got Kate kidnapped by traveling nekos and Nikita thinks it's a joke till she sees Clare crying. She agrees to add her tracking skills to the mix and off they go following the trail to a old Tornoniton Hive where they find the wagons abandoned with no signs of Kate. Beffore they can investigate Toronitons emerge from the ground. Nikita jumps to higher ground while Clare tries to throw Earth Shaking bolts atthem but her magic seems to less effective against them. Aniya tries and finds similar result. with the enemies piling up Clare's axe, Tamlin's Rocket Launcher, Aphra's sword, Axel's Piosnics add their weight to the battle which seems to be working out well till suddenly the ground collapses and they fall in deeper into the hive!


27 Toroni-Terror Part Two
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Clare and Aniya fall heavily leaving Tam, Aphra and Axel to find off the Toronitons single handedly till Nikita over comes her fears and lends her knife and silk webbing to the battle. Clare and Aniya get up and give it their all bolstered by the remaining flash bangs from Tam's bag as well as Aprha's Torin Swordsmanship and seem to have won but then ground shakes and they know it's not over. A giant pair of pincers shoots out of the ground. It's an Abysmal Toroniton! With one swing it breaks Clare's heartily created Earthen wall and injures her giving her arm a nasty cut. Aniya's ice armor protects her and Tam is out of rockets. Nikita is about to attack it head on when suddenly male naga in armor comes flying out of nowhere and bashes the giant bug real good. He stops to ask Clare if she's alright before turning to the Toroniton and letting it make a swipe at him which he catches on his hammer, but Nikita see's it's not ordinary hammer. It's a Tardek Steel Hammer and has absorbed the energy from those blows and then releases it in concentrated form of pure psyical force pushing the Abysmal Toroniton over the the edge of the pit and into the darkness. Though before the party can ask him who he is he uses Terrestial magic to hollow out a tunnel by spinning his hammer around and around as he does so a new sound is heard. Thousands of Tornorians coming to finish them off!! He tells them the tunnel will take them back to the surface and to hurry. Clare turns back just as the tunnel seals to see him surounded by Tornonitons and then to look back and catch her eye. Somehow she thinks she knows him from somewhere, but can't figure out where. She and her friends make it back to the surface and get the heck out of there. There's a whump and the ground collapse into a even bigger hole than the fell through but they escape in time fortunately. They wait for a while but see no signs of the armored naga man.

28 Mobius Sends Help
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Kate awakens to find that she's in makeshift camp and her wound is being tended to by some weird elf in blue jeans with red hair named Erinel Adenel one of Rene's freinds and that they are being watched over by another giant named Cameron. A male giant warrior who guards their village on his days off from exploring. Kate is kinda pleased to see that there are male human giants who aren't afraid to show their muscles and be admired but is worried when she sees her hand is turning to ice still. Erinel says it's a Frost Curse that will slolwy entomb her in ice untill she can't move. This doesn't do anything for Kate's spirits but soon a new group of travelers show up. Two mages and whole troop of heavily armored men and women. The leader of the Squad seems to reconize Kate from a picture she has and uses her advanced magics to easily remove Kate's curse. Kate being suspicious by nature asks them who they are and how do they know her? The comander says her name is Janelle Autero and that she and her forces are to help escort Clare to the Terra Spire with haste. Kate asks how they know about the spire and the other mage, Maxa Horn ,tells her that the door Clare must enter will close in a few days and shows her a eleborate clock that's function and design seems to confuse her at first glance till she realizes it's meant to run backwards in a cirle slowly turning from silver to red as it does. Janelle says that when the circle is complete Clare will never be able to enter the Spire again. Kate see's the need to hurry and excepts their explanation and off of escort saying goodbye to Rene', Erinel and the two giants who know better than to offer to escort the predator hating Negavian Isolon Fist soldiers and so off Kate hops on their transport and travels south towards the Mist Ocean.

29 Illusions by the Lake
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As Clare and the others pass the Lake of Illusions Aniya is pulled under the surface by the Thanithan spooking her freinds till she comes back up playing with him. Seeing that this could go on a while Aphra suggests they stop for the day and let everyone recover. Clare reluctantly agrees and tends to her injured arm while Tam and Aphra clean their weapons of Tornoniton blood. While tending her wound Clare notices something moving on one of the far islands in the lake and asks the others about it. At first they don't see anything but then Tam, Aphra and even Nikita all see various figures on the island they think they recognize. As a group they decide to investigate. They leave Aniya to play with Thani and soon arive at the island. Clare see's the family she never had. A younger sister, mother and father. Tam see's a boy she knows from Negav and has secretly been thinking of asking out, Aphra see's her old war buddies including a harpy surrounded in pink fire and Nikita sees Yuri and herself, only she's huge! Bigger than her freinds and somehow so is Yuri and they're together- At that moment she realizes something is wrong and finds the others surounded by misty forms slowly consuming them. She reacts and tries to bat them away but her own illusion turns solid and tries to attack her. Before it can however it's frozen solid by Aniya who along with Thani manage to scare away the weird creatures. The gang is noticeable shaken and doesn't make camp again till they reach the other side of the Lake and are near Aniya's tree, where she insists Tam and Aphra sleep and surprisingly the human sized naga amazon seem to be quite happy to accept the offer. They each talk about their experiences and wonder what almost got them not sleeping much.

30 Tam and Tarynn
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During the next day as the gang finaly can see the Misty Glade in front of them they are attacked by Predhunters and Organized group too! During the battle Tam and Aphra get seperated and as Tam wonders she encounters a giant elf with bad hair and who looks liek she's starving, which she has to be because she imdeitly tries to grab her. Tam runs for all she's worth occasionally checking back to see the elf girl stubbing her toes, getting tangled up in thorns and even once slipping in the mud so bad Tam had to laugh but still hot on her heels. Ahead Tam sees a temple and makes a dive for it just as the elf tries to open her mouth and lock her lips around Tam but only gets one of her boots. She spits it out and curse alot having wedged her head in the too small temple entrance. Tam is about to celebrate a victory when she realizes something is off about this temple but can't figure out quite what it is till she really look around and sees her reflection everywhere. This is Milkaldis Temple and she's just trapped herself inside it with no way out. Panic begins to set in and as she turns around to try to negotiate with elf she falls through wall and into pocket dimension. Tarynn eventually gets her head free cursing her luck and shuffling off. Meanwhile Tam finds herself in strange world of mirrors where she can see out but can't get out and what's worse is when she turns around sahe sees a silver succubus who introduces herself as Chanel who is polite and friendly sounding but she knows it's an act and will soon be devoured if she can't find a way to distract her till her friends show up so she sugests playing a game. Chanel agrees and says they'll play hell chess and Tam agrees to this seeing as she has no choice.

31 High Stakes
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Tamlin watches as Chanel sets up a chess board with miniaturized people on it. After asking about this she is sickened to find out the "peices" that are captured are eaten! Tam argues with Chanel that she won't do that to the point she finally gets Chanel to agree that if Tam can capture a peice she'll free it. Tam agrees and the game is on. Meanwhile Clare and the others are nearly trapped and killed by the Predhunters when a group of Isolon Fist soldiers and Kate come to their rescue. Janelle Autero then addresses Clare and tells her that her Uncle Mobius sends his regards. Aniya notices that Tam is missing and asks if anyone has seen here. Much to her surprise Jenelle's partner mage Choni detects her not too far away. When asked about this he explains his speciality is locking onto a person's life source given a description of them, it's a spell his family is famous for. The other follow him with the Isolon Fist taking point. Meanwhile Tam continues to play Chanel in chess and is managing to hold her own till she unleashes the queen, who is a ruthless older woman that actually attacks the other pieces! Tam loses two pawns just trying to save her king, a middle aged fellow who is next in line on his world to be king and orders Tam around like she's a servant. Chanel laughs at this and explains to Tam the point of chess is to teach some things have more value than others and she needs to choice the lowest of value to win. Tam is upset at this but forms a clever plan that uses the king to bait Chanel's pieces and ultimately looses her a pawn, then a causes her queen to have to take out one of her knights, a young woman whom volunteered to allow herself to be sacrificed in order to trick the queen into a corner, not so Tam could destroy her but so Chanel wouldn't notice Tam's neko pawn, a dull looking fellow, take out Chanel's King's defense. This makes the demoness more than steamed and she takes it out on Tam's rook then works to defend her king but it's too late. The second knight prevents her from moving her king and Tam tells Chanel she never cared about destroying Chanel's pieces only about getting her pawn to the other side, where Aphra told her, a pawn could become a Queen itself! The dull looking fellow isn't to pleased when this turns out to be literal and he finds himself with a new rack and booty but he gets to take his revenge with his awesome new giant sword pointed at the king's neck. The game is over but Tam wonders if Chanel will let her go.

32: Rescue or is it?
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Tam finds out she will, but as Tam turns to leave Chanel grips her and merges with her body! Tam is horrified but finds she can't remember why. The exit to the room apears and she shrugs and uses it finding Clare talking to Tarynn who seems more greasy somehow. Turns out Aniya and Nikita found some greasy fruit and managed to pry Tarynn loose and in exchange she agreed not to eat any of the party... for today. Tam tries to speak to Tarynn but she looks really mad so she re-frames from it and instead thanks her rescuers and finally gets to meet Kate! Clare is more than happy to see everyone in such a good mood, barring Tarynn who storms off complaining about her luck to to run into a whole battalion of the Isolon Fist and not get to eat even one, but the others have a mild celebration with Citroise Fruit, Roasted Azure Frog, which Aniya taught Clare how to catch, and ice balls for everyone provided by the "naga slushie machine" as Kate nick names Aniya. Janelle brings the group back on topic and up to speed on the urgency of the mater. Clare is upset to be tricked by Mobius but is understanding of the need for secrecy and the group sets off to brave the Misty Glade. To their surprise they don't meet any encounters and thank their lucky stars as they finally arrive at the Mist Ocean.

33: Clare Learns a new Skill
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The first day into the journey the group nearly gets lost and nearly run into a pack of storm sprites if not for Kate reviving a text that told her to stop just as they got to them. After waiting a moment they watch the threat move off and breathe a sigh of relief. As she puzzles on this a map suddenly appears on her phone showing icons in miniature representing her friends, herself, and the Isolon Fist soldiers. She shows the others and shows them this. After a bit of debate as to how a Earth cellphone could work that way they decide to trust it and soon find a portal surrounded by statues of naga-like sentinels. When Clare tries to enter the portal a huge one suddenly comes to life and attacks her! The others try to help but are prevented by the outer most ring of the giant statues but Maxa, Janelle's battle mage partner, says not to interfere that this is part of a test Clare must pass in order to reach the Terra Spire. The battle goes badly with Clare's powerful axe not being as strong against the hardened stone body of this warrior and it's spear easily keeping her from getting in close. Terrestrial Magic doesn't seme to effect it either! Then suddenly Clare gets odd idea and instead of attacking dodges the spear grabs the sentinel and begins to move her hands around, and as she does, the statue becomes malleable like clay. She shapes him into something pleasant and oddly the other statues seem to go back to being inanimate. Clare finds this puzzlifying but at least they won and thus enter the portal and find themselves in Orelosk Plateau. Clare turns to ask Nikita, whom she for soem reason thinks would know, why this is when she see's Mobius step out of a portal.

34 Con-Spiring Plots
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Clare asks why Mobius is here and he simply smiles and gestures to Aniya, Nikita then too Janelle. Clare is puzzled why he does this until Janelle throws a stasis spell on Ani and Niki and then has the Isolon troops to hold Kate, Tam and Axel at gun point. Shocked at this Clare stares in confusion while Mobius laughs and tells her this was always his plan and that there is no naga Princess and only she would believe such a folly. He also tells her that stasis spell can't be broken by anyone with less strength in magic than the wielder and that if Clare doesn't cooperate he'll instruct the Isolon to kill Nikita and Aniya. Clare is angry and wants looks ready to strike Mobius with her axe but she gives in and aks him what he wants. He tells her to open the Spire's gate and to lead them inside using her new power. She makes a door and they disappear inside. Meanwhile Kate berates Janelle and Maxa for working with such a low life and they tell her that this world is governed by Magiocrats and Mobius is one of them just trying to make Negav beter. Kate says that's no excuse and offers them a chance to stop this madness. Maxa just tells her to be quiet so Kate hits her in the face with a blast of her "Red Lightning" With Maxa stunned the Isolon Fist troops move in on Kate but Axel puts a barrier between her and them so their attacks bounce off. When she looks stunned and says "Jedi" he corrects her and says he's a "Psion" and can use his mind to move objects using Telekinesis the two glance at Tam who already has her captor subdued saying that Aphra taught her to do that. The three turn to Janelle who smiles and tells them that they are pretty good...For normal people. Ask Kate ponders what she means Maxa gets up and holding a small red jewel in each hand and proceeds to nearly incinerate them on the spot and the fight is far from over.


35 Maters of the Heart:
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Clare asks Mobius why he trickicated her and he tells her for power ofcourse. She is confused to his explanation and it's a long hallway so he decides to tell her the legend of the Five Spires and the power they can grant. He Ur Sagolians were rumored to have made a machine, a magical machine that could alter the surface of Felarya and were planning to use it to wipe out all predators and those who stood in their way by using Felarya's Ley Lines as a energy source. Clare asks what a Ley Line is and Mobius explains it's a source of Primordial Magic, the most powerful magic a mortal can weild. Clare thinks it's all to complex and Mobius laughs at her explaining it's ironic since Clare's second Magic is Primordial magic. She's shocked at this but says she insists she has no invincible power and Mobius says that with time she could learn to control it but first he needs her help and if she cooperates he'll not only spare her friends but let them live in the lap of luxury when he's ruler of all of Felarya. Clare says nobody is meant to rule that much space. As she speaks they come to another door and Mobius tells Clare to open it. She thinks about refusing but she doesn't want anything to happen to Kate or the others so she does and finally she and Mobius behold the Heart of the device a complex chamber with a central control panel and many od shaped crystals. As he's about to touch it Clare hears a message from Axel in her mind: "Clare, Kate's okay and we'll have Nikita and Aniya free in moment. Clobber Mobius." Clare decides she can't waste time talking anymore and It's time for action. So she raises her axe and hesitantly tries to cleave Mobius with it, but he puts up a shield that stops it and smiles. "I knew there was rage in you, young naga. Well you're purpose is served so I suppose I should destroy you now before you ruin my plans like your father did once before." Seeing she shocked look on Clare's face Mobius unleashes a torrent of blue fire and shoves her with great force through a wall, though she makes it turn into a door way as she gets to it and as Mobius comes at her she earth shapes it closed again. He looks most displeased and smiles grimy. "I suppose I'll have to show you why they call me Mobius the Giant's Bane."


36 Maxa the Beserker
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Maxa camly alows each Kate, Axel and even Tam to attack her and then, using a basic magical sheild charm, repels all of their attacks and proceeds to try and gattling them to death with her staff by blasting ultra hot bursts of energy at them. Kate remarks that she wishes she could do more than just zap people with colored electricty. As she says this Maxa lands in front of her about to disintegrate her and Kate thinks it's all over...Then she remembers. She has to live. She has to help Clare and live long enough to go home and see her brother. Her magic seems to feed of this determination and becomes a shield that not only stops the attack by throwing up a barrier of static energy but causes the spell to shater and Maxa can't seem to recall how to call it back. Taking advantage of this Tam and Axel press Janelle who is forced to let go of the spell that holds the two giants and free's Aniya and Nikita! Though she looks less than worried even as Aniya blasts her with a frosty beam...Which seems to bend around Janelle. Nikita remarks she must be wearing armor enchanted against ice. Janelle confirms this then takes two staves from her back and turns to face the predators and the two humans sending out a shock wave which Axel blocks but oddly is seems to leach heat from him turning him to ice! Kate says she's seen that before and Maxa asks Kate how did she think Janelle could cure her of the Frost Curse without knowing it as well? The fire user then smiles and uses a less powerful fireball spell which Kate fails to block and gets singed by on the shoulder. Nikita snags a discarded Dueling Staff staves and tosses it to Kate telling her she'll take on the frost user and Aniya can take Maxa. The two mages act as if this is a duel and each take their positions,but Axel tells Tam she needs to get inside and despite slowly being turned to ice he vows to help her even if it's his last act. She agrees and starts running towards them as fast as she can while firing a barrage of smoke bomb-like rockets and manages to slide past Janelle and Maxa and dashes down the hall way to find Clare.

37: He's not a Magiocrat for Nothing
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Clare tries agian to use her brute strength to over power Mobius and he decides to make her look bad and telaports away thinking she'll ge ther axe stuck and is rewarded by seeing just that. Then she picks up part of the floor and, waiting for him to re-appear, throws it at him! He is shocked and dispears breifly from sight as it crashes to the ground with a a thunderous sound though he reappears a little ways away clapping telling her she is more clever than he thought intialy but like all her kind ,especially her father, she is en-eloquent by nature and before she can ask what he knows of her father he brings dark blue streaks of fire down at her then launching a separate attack telaporting and firing spell bolts of tremendous power at her hitting her tail in very vulnerable spots and causing her to go down gasping in pain. He closes in for the kill just as Tam arrives and fires a barrage of rockets at him he has to telaport out of the way and is most displeased but has no time to recover as Clare sends shockwaves to knock him off balance when she seems him begin to materialize and soon Mobius is back on the defensive till his shield is broken by their combined attacks. As Tam and Clare close in he tells her she'll never learn the fate of her father if she kills him now! Tam warns Clare that he's likely stalling but Mobius keeps speaking telling Clare of her father and how and they met in the years before the Negav Civil War and how he, his brother Audius and a neko named Moria Doza would go on adventures in Felarya's mysterious jungles,defy curfews and have endless amounts of fun as young people. Clare asks what her father's name is and Mobius states simply Clarance of the Broken Spires and even Tam lossens her guard. That's when Mobius sends a blast of magical energy at Tam and Clare is forced to fall in the way of the blast that sends her through the wall opening the way for Mobius again and before Tam can react he runs through the hole and leaves her to look between Clare and the way Mobius left in indecision.

38 Battle Mages
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Aniya decides to make an ice hammer trying to play "whack a mole" with Maxa. Oddly Maxa seems less eager to play and cartwheels to the side long enough to blast huge column of flame at her which she guards easily but is pushed back into the tower.She's far from fazed and easily counters with a heavy uppercut from her hammer's blunt end sending Maxa back her shield sparking and sputtering from the power of it but she lands and faces down Aniya not looking uppset but determined. The Naga must go down. Meanwhile Janelle charges Nikita and tries to freeze her and sends a couple of homing shoots at Axel which Kate has a to Spell Break, as she's decided to name it for now, but Axel is still being killed in inches turing into ice slowly. Even though he's in pain he uses his mental powers to wrap her in a sheild so she can go toe to toe with Janelle and last long enough for Nikita to try snatchting away that staff of hers. She is successful but she unleashes a giant ice shard at Kate and makes it detonate just as Kate raises her shield charm and causes her to be blown off her feet and fly into the air forcing Nikita to make a safety net for her to land in. Janelle then attempts to conjure a whirl whind of ice shards at Nikita and Kate but Aniya blows a frozen kiss at Maxa that duplicates the effect of Janelle's spell. Janelle is shocked that it and watches it as it begins to freeze her friend rapidly but before she can retaliate Aniya tells her she doesn't want to fight and wants to call a cease fire and if Janelle doesn't agree she'll slowly freeze her partner. Janelle debates continuing the fight but instead drops her staff on the ground signalling surrender and removes the curse from Axel and he returns to flesh and blood then Aniya does the same for Maxa. As they stand there awkwardly suddenly the tower begins to vibrate and emit magical pulses. The Isolon Fist and the preds have to take cover as it reverberates through the ground. The party and their enemies temporarily have a truce and take cover inside as the shaking gets worse.

39: The Fall of the Terra Spire
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Clare and Tam look for Mobius but while they search they notice the entire tower begins to reverberate and seems to be electrificated, or so Clare describes, with Terrestial energy. Tam asks Clare to follow that "electrifacated" feeling to the source and soon they find Mobius at a stone keyboard again and working a number of crystals as they approached he told them they were too late. He had adjusted the Patern and now it was just a matter of time. Clare doesn't understand what's going on so she does what any hero would in her situation, smashes the thing to bits and Tam helps out but Mobius tries to sheild the device and the others arrive to see his sheild repell Clare's mighty attacks as the shaking gets worse and the crystal begin to pulsate emitting energy pusles down through the floor and the ground. Kate gets an idea and "Spellbreaks" Mobius' sheild and he has to dodge one of Tam's missiles as it impacts with the console then Clare slithers over and with one final axe blow finishes it, unleashing a wave of energy through the tower causing many cracks to appear and the shaking to get even worse and then the structure begins to crumble on top of their heads! Mobius tells his neice and Maxa to come him and opens portal back to Negav. They along with the remaining Isolon Fist members go through but Mobius tells Clare's allies they will suffer for their heroic meddling and to mark his words! Then he disapears in the hole beffore Clare can grab him and force him to tell her more about her father. Kate is a little more concerned about being burried alive and has to remind Clare that they are all still in danger. Once she gets over gritting her teeth and glaring where the portal was she picks them up, along with Nikita and rushes out just in time to watch the tower fall be smashed on the plateu's hard rocky floor.


40: Victory or Delay?
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As the heroes take a rest from their adventures miles away in Negav Janelle and Maxa talk to Mobius in Negav's Third Teir in his luxurious mini-demension. He tells them they both did good, but due to the secret nature of this mission they will not be promoted nor will they recive any payment. Janelle takes this well but Maxa and the fist Captain are less than happy about it. Mobius explains that they will be well rewarded when the plan is inplace. Maxa asks what exactly did all that do? Mobius tells her it did nothing she could understand or see, but furthered the goals of the Ascarlin Circle. Maxa is about to ask what that is and all Mobius says the time is not yet, though with Clare's assistance and the artifacts recovered at the Tower, it won't be long. Maxa is confussed but understands it's a mater of the higher mages and salutes disappearing with Janelle and the Captain. Long after they have left Mobius says to the air. "So was it sucessful?" And magically a vistor appears. An woman decked out explorers outfit with fairy wings and blood red hair that's shade darker than her dark skin skin. She replies she has and holds a hand up to her head. Mobius laughs bemusedly at the fairy's migrane saying it's a pity she's only half Shadow Nymph otherwise she would be able to tolerate the Eye's power more like her cousins. She simply smiles and says that it is more unfortunate that she has to rely on people like him and the Circle for her payments. Tired of this banter he hands her a large pouch of Skevols and she hands him a smooth peice of metal which he inserts into his artifact and the clock like device resets and begins to slowly count down. Mobius smiles and laughs telling her the fall of Negav and the rise of the Ascarlin Dynasty is comming into place, and people like Rozanna Clentock Shadow Nymph Mercenary may have a place in his new vison of Negav. As he looks into the face of his clock/compass-like artifact and watches the silver line turn red slowly but surely. "Two years till we next meet, young naga." He smiles to himself. "Perhaps we can even finish that chat about your father. Ha ha ha ha!" He laughed
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Credits:
Aniya, Nikita, the Spetz belong to my freind Tora044
Vivian and Crisis belong to Karbo
Tarynn belongs to Simon Lorimer

Thanks for reading!

~Jedi