Chat room adventures

Nutty's eyes fluttered open. "Ugh, my head."
Heather yelled at her. "Nutty! Don't move!" Her voice changed. "Step away from her!"
"What?" Nutty relised then she was on the floor, and a cold presence on her throat made her eyes widen. "Oh... shit."
Jay nudged her with his foot. "You, magic-caster, shut up. And heather, I wouldn't move or speak either. Unless you want to see lots of red."

Alice wandered into the room where Jay was. When she saw him, she was wide awake, and her magic returned enough to make an attack.

"You!" he shouted, pointing at her with the dagger. Nutty took hold of the advantage and kicked it out of his hand.

It flew across the room and looked like it was going to impale Alice. She calmly stepped out of the way and grabbed it by the hilt. As soon as she grabbed it, not only being surprised by her reflexes she was shocked to see it split in to two different pieces. One floated to her other hand, and turned into an arrow, the other into a bow.

"Holy Isis!"

Nutty stood up, her head pounding. She gingerly felt the back of her head, and found blood. "You bastard!" Nutty growled, and drew her spork and gave herself a minor heal.
Jay swung around to see a arrow pointed straight at his forehead.
Alice gave him a grim smile. "Don't move."
Nutty swung around and saw heather. "Go get the others!"
Swinging back, Nutty dug into her last reserves of power. Incanting quickly, she threw her magic at Jay, causing him to crumple on the floor.
Alice lowered her bow. "Is he dead?"
Nutty put out a hand against the wall to steady herself. "No, it's a sleeping spell. He'll wake up in a couple of hours."
Dizzyness swamped her. The combination of a large healing effort with no real sleep, then being knocked unconscious and using magic again had drained her dangerously.
"I think I'm just going to sit down for a while-" Nutty crumpled on the floor, staring blankly at the opposite wall. "I'm really dizzy..."

Alice was tempted to shoot Jay right then and there, but something held her back. Maybe some old feelings that she hadn't quite delt with yet. Using the last bit of magic she could spare she cast a binding spell on Jay.

His arms and legs were pulled together, as if he was bound with rope. She could sense some magic bouncing around the room and stepped in its path, assuming it was something that nutty had bolted off.

She felt her body become filled with dark magic. Shudders racked her body and she doubled over. She heard Rick call her name before the floor came way too close and everything turned black.

Nutty saw Alice fall with blank eyes. "Oh gods..." Pushing herself up, she fished into her pack. Pulling out a potion, she took a swig and winced. Horrible stuff, but hopefully it would give her the energy to see what the matter with Alice was.
"Alice?" She stepped towards her.
Something put her teeth on edge. Something felt Wrong.
Seeing alice was out cold, Nutty knelt next to her, placing her hand on alice's forehead.
She could sense dark, cold magic within alice. Quickly Nutty pulled her hand back, her hand tingling.
"What's going on?"

Alice didn't stay out for long, soon violent shudders racked her body so bad that she woke up. She looked up and saw Nutty, Scipio and Rick leaning over her.

"Alice," Nutty said calmly, "alice can you hear me?"

Alice tried to nod but she couldn't stop shaking.

"What's wrong with her?" Rick asked.

"Her body's over flowing with dark magic, she can't hold all of it."

Pain shot through Alice's gut, and she managed to croak out a painful groan.

"Somebodies gotta take some from her... and soon." Nutty looked around. Rick stuck his hand up, still inside his bubble. "I'll do it!"
Nutty shook her head. "Rick, you aren't the best with magic, no offense."
Scipio shrugged.
Nutty sighed. "Well, it looks like it's me..."
Nutty placed her hand on alice's head, and started siphoning off some of the excess magic.

Alice's shuddering didn't stop, actually it started to get worse. Nutty's eyes windened and reversed the process.

"I wasn't taking the dark magic, my body's rejecting it."

"What were you taking from her then?" Scipio asks worriedly.

"The good magic inside of her."

The bubble around rick poped, and his feet hit the floor. Alice's seizures doubled, sending her into such spasums that they were afraid that she would hurt herself. Somehow they pinned her down so she couldn't hurt herself.

Tears stung her eyes, whatever was happening to her hurt so bad.

"Damn," Adam looked at the moniter. Alice would die if they didn't get out of here soon.

"Sector 1408 will take another hour to exit," the computer chimed.

"Guys, Try and create a magic bubble around the darkmagic. Contain it within her," Adam said through the intercom.

"I'm so tired though," said Nutty.

"Where's Matt? Get Bella to use the sword." All Adam could do was wait. he had to get them out of the secto. it was the reason for all this. Sector 1408....the Forbidden Zone

Nutty sat back. "Ugh, my head." Massaging her temples, she turned to Rick. "Rick go get anyone with the ability to use any kind of magic whatsoever. Matt, Bella, anyone." Nutty sat back. "And be careful where you roll your bubble."
Scipio looked at Nutty. "Are you alright? Is Alice going to be okay?"
"I'll be fine. She looks in pain..." Nutty pointed to her pack. "Bring that here, would you?"
Scipio passed the pack to Nutty, who fished inside it. "Here. This should help her pain..." Leaning forward, Nutty fought of fatique and carefully measured out the potion into the cap.
Waiting for a slowing of Alice's shuddering, Nutty carefully poured the liquid down Alice's throat. "It won't help her get better, but It'll numb her pain for a while."

Conveniently, Mattster appeared at the doorway.

"... Alice?" Mattster muttered. "What's wrong with her?"
"Jay attacked," Nutty explained. "He's incapacitated for now, but his stray Dark energies chose Alice as a new host. At least that's what it looks like."
"We tried siphoning it out, but that only made it worse," Adam added. Mattster looked down at the still figure.
"I wonder if -"
Ned can fix her? Thanks for asking. Ned this, Ned that, Ned fix all my problems.
"I wasn't asking you!"
"Where's that voice coming from?" asked Nutty.
Calm down, it was a joke. Anyway, Nutty, you were close. Jay's dark energy attack was after a specific target which was apparently Alice. Anyway, the way he's rigged it, there's only one way to remove it. A user of pure magic must siphon all his life essence into the victim to neutralise the dark magic.
"Hmm, doesn't sound too hard. I could do that," Adam remarked.
Hold on, captain. The saviour of the victim will cease to exist in the mortal realm.
"So, like... they would die?" Mattster asked.
Precisely. And all of you are too important to the mission of stopping Jay to be sacrificed. Therefore, there is only one eligible person on the ship who can save Alice.
With that, a bright light emitted from Mattster's forehead, and began to make its way through the air to where Alice was lying.
"Ned!" Mattster shouted.
As the light made contact with Alice, it began to pulse and cover her entirely. Dark energy could be seen sparking in conflict. Alice began writhing and shouting and the light grew brighter...


A moment later, the light died down and Alice sat up.
"Why's everyone crowded around me?"
Rick almost jumped on her to wrap his arms around her, and everybody sighed in relief.
"Good one, Ned," Mattster thought... "Ned?"
"Don't you remember what he said?" Adam said, noticing the odd look on Mattster's face. "He sacrificed his mortal existence to save Alice."
"Ohhh!" Mattster grinned in realisation. "Well... good riddance."
Then, all of a sudden, Ned's voice filled the room...
Save the vampire... Save the world...
... and went silent for the last time.

"Wow, that was some brave spirit guy," Heather murmured as they voice ceased to exist. Matt snorted and shook his head.
"Try having him in your head. He's not so great then."
"Good to have you back Alice, how are you feeling?" Scipio asked.
"Just fine," Alice replied. "What happened to Jay and did I hear Ned say something?"
"Jay!" Adam exclaimed, dashing back to the hall and returning with the sleeping man. The group all gathered round him and Rick began to violently poke Jay.
"Stop that," Bella reprimanded as she wondered into the room and then her eyes widened upon seeing who it was on the floor.

"Soo... that's what Matt was talking to all this time? Matt, I like your imaginary friends."
Nutty leaned back against her wall.
Alice looked down at her. "Whats the matter with you?"
Nutty shrugged. "Um... magical exhaustion?"
Adam's voice came over the intercom. "Guys, come to the bridge. I can't come to you because... well, I'm a bit busy."
The others started to move down the hall, but Nutty stayed exactly where she was. "I'll get there in the minute. I just need to rest..."
Nutty fell asleep against the wall.

Heather turned back to see Nutty leaning against the wall, eyes closed and very clearly asleep. With a small smile, she walked back, gently lifted the limp body and headed for the bridge.
"Couldn't you have left her to sleep?" Scipio asks when she catches up.
"It might be important," Heather whispers back. Scipio smiles fondly at his sister and shakes his head in amusement as they round the corner. A few minutes later, they all arrive at the bridge where Adam is waiting.
"So what's the emergency?" Rick asks.

Oy to the vey, i'm losing my internet soon guys so i won't be able to post a lot, just don't forget about me, and i'll post whenever I can.