Chat room adventures

"Great, My wonderful brother is here to see me." Elisandro scoffed.

"Didn't I just, like Kill you?"

"I'll never die! I am Immortal!"

"Immortal my rear-end, I'll jam my pole where the sun don't shine and see if you live through that."

"Silence!" The voice rang across the gleaming courtroom. "Both of you are in a great deal of trouble. Both of you have broken the highest law of your dimension, and ours now." A great man of sat elegantly atop his podium, looking down menacingly at the two of them.

"Hah! You're in trouble too!"

"Shut your big stupid face Elisandro."

"Enough! Or I will have both of you exiled at once. In case neither of you noticed, Atlantis was destroyed, only to reborn in the plains of Celestial Grace. But now the barriers of broken, meaning the world of Celestus and the mortal plane are in direct contact with each other. And the two of you are responsible for it!"

Adam thought for a moment, unsure of how the two of them could have manages such a feat. The Judge seemed to hear his thoughts and responded, "The two of you used your power of Celestial Might to battle each other, draining power from the realms and breaking the barriers. But I am willing to give you both an option, a second chance.

"The two of you can return to the mortal plane and restore the barrier between the dimensions, or I can have both of you exiled to the Zero. What say you, Elisandro and Adam?"

Nutty peered over Alice's shoulder. "It says that Atlantis was destroyed. Well, that's a bummer."
Bella scoffed. "Of course it was, it was submerged under water. Or that's the theory on earth anyway. But look here." She pointed.
Alice read aloud. "There is evidence showing while the physical city was destroyed, its celestial counterpart survives." She looked up. "Wonder if he went there?"
Nutty mused. "Maybe. But how do we get there? I don't know much about this celestial stuff."

Alice thought for a minute. "There has to be something on his computer, either about annoying them or just finding them." They agreed and Alice began to surf again, finding nothing.

"Find anything yet?" Matt said as he poked around Adam's things.

"Don't touch that!" Nutty said.

"You okay Nut?"

"Captian's room, captian is missing...It feels weird to me."

"It feels weird that he's gone"

"Yeah that too."

Nutty chewed her lip, the uneasy feeling making the hairs prickle on her neck. "This really doesn't feel... right...."
Bella looked around. "It's just a room. I mean, we're probably invading his privacy but that's not a biggie compared to what we've done before."
Nutty shook her head slowly.
"It's more then that...." Nutty glared around the room, suppressing the urge to growl.
Alice looked up. "I don't feel anything. What are you on about?"
Nutty didn't answer, just picked her way over to one of the many shelves around the room. The others shrugged and went back to their various endeavors. Bella and Alice craned over the computer, and Matt poked things. Somewhere in the ship there were various crashes, probably from Moose Head.
Casting her eyes over the shelves, unsure what she was looking for, Nutty finally stopped. "What is this?"
Alice glanced over. "What is what?"
Nutty swallowed and picked up the object, feeling it warm in her hand. "This."

** okay, I have no idea. Someone come up with something. :p***

Scipio picked up another weapon, took a good look at it and then added it to the gathering pile of items he had already inspected. There was a knock at the armoury door. Without waiting for an answer, Heather shouldered it open and entered, her red-brown eyes landing upon her brother.

"Thought I'd come and find out what you're looking for," she said with a thin smile, still feeling very much in the way.

"If you can tell me that, you're a genius," Scipio replied, squinting at the marking on the blade of a small dagger with a garnite encrusted hilt.

"Maybe for something to keep you busy and out of their way?" Heather suggested. It was the very reaon she herself had departed from Alice and Nutty's company. She stepped over a damaged shield to reach her brother and he thrust the dagger at her.

"I can't read what it says," he grumbled.

"So you ask the girl who wears contacts?" Heather smiled a little and then laughed as she looked at the inscrption.

"It's not that funny," Scipio murmured sourly.

"No, not that. This dagger. The inscription isn't english, silly. Those are runes." Heather tilted the dagger back and forth, trying to get a better look at the markings.

"And what do you know about those?" Scipio scoffed.

"I read about them in a book," Heather said.

"You and your books!" Scipio leaned closer, blocking Heather's light. "So what does it say?"

"If I could see I'd tell you." She moved about the room, holding the item up to the light and began to read: "Whoever should read aloud this enscription..." Heather paused, unsure if she wanted to continue but Scipio tsked patiently. "...will be gifted with the power of time."

"And what's that supposed to mean?" Scipio rolled his eyes. "Longevity? Pausing time? Speeding it up?" He took the dagger from her hand and threw it on the pile wth the others.

"Leave them," Heather said with a rueful smile. "Let's go see if the others have found anything."

Alice looked at the orb closely. It was warm, and it was heavy. she leaned in and looked at it. It looked like a snow globe sorta, there was little buildings and stuff, and flying stuff. Moving things. She squealed and nearly dropped the orb as one flew right at her face.

"What's the screaming about?" Scipio asked from the doorway with Heather.

"This is moving!" she said pointing to the orb. Maybe it knows where Adam is! It seems interesting enough! She focused on Adam and the orb shifted showing Adam and Elisandro in front of a large row of white robed people. "Hey its Adam!"

Everybody was suddenly invading her personal space.

"Looks like some sort of trial!" Scipio exclaimed excitedly, leaning over Alice's right shoulder. Heather pushed closer to take a look and gasped.

"Look, Elisandro! I bet it's his trial but how do we-"

"Uh, guys... move it!" Alice interrupted, ducking out of the way and taking the orb with her. She cleared a space on a small table and put it down. "There now look all you like but leave me space to breathe." With smiles, everyone gathered around again and it wasn't long before Bella and the boys were there as well.

"So now we know where he is but not where that is or how to get there," Heather mused. She picked the orb up and shook it a little, disfiguring the picture for a moment, still wondering how they could get there.

"Heather..." Alice said hesitantly.

"Hmmm?"

"What are you thinking right now?" Alice was staring at the orb and Heather dropped her gaze to it and gasped before breaking into a smile.

"I was thinking 'how could we find Adam' and I'm guessing the orb is trying to show us?" Heather said. Indeed, the orb seemed to be reacting to her thoughts and was showing a strange sort of map.

Alice passed Heather a peice of paper and a pencil, "draw the map," she urged.

She looked at her a bit reluctantly but sighed and started to draw. After a minute or two she had drawn it out, a map of the stars. She circled the place that we were supposed to go and passed the paper back to Alice who looked it over with Nutty.

Alice didn't reconize the star she circled. "That shouldn't be there," she said to Heather, "everything else is where it's supposed to be, but not that."

"That's what it said in the orb."

Alice picked up the map and the orb and skipped out of the room with the four of them on her heels. "Where are you going Alice?" Scipio asked.

"I'm going to the map room," she said brightly, "I want to know what that is."

Nutty shrugged, then glared at the orb. Picking it up, she glared into its depths. It flared a bright white, and with a shout, Nutty dropped it. It hit the floor with a dull clunk and rolled into the corner of the room.
"What the..." Matt blinked, trying to clear his eyes. Nutty clutched her hand, swearing. "It burnt me."
Heather frowned. "It didn't burn me."
Nutty frowned and looked around the room. "Adam's stuff doesn't like me. I wonder why..."

Alice shrugged, "Atlantian magic and technology plus your magic doesn't seeem like it would quite fit right."

Nutty concidered that for a moment. "Maybe..."

"It would make sense," Scipio, "there's too much technology in Atlantis magic for you."

Nutty frowned. "It seemed okay when Adam decided to boost my own magic, out in space. Mind you, it made me very tired, much more tired then my own."
Nutty shook her head. "Never mind. I will research later, we must find Adam."

Heather walked to where the orb had landed and hesitated before she picked it up but there was no reaction as her fingers touched the glassy surface. She carried it back towards the others, holding it close enough for Nutty to peer at the object.

"Look it likes you," Scipio joked as Alice spread a map across the table.

"Here, this is the one we need," she said, tracing an imaginary path with her finger. The others moved closer and Nutty exclaimed:

"But that's so close!"

"Yes," Alice agreed happily.

"So let's go already!" Matt decided as he entered the room carrying a great deal of weaponry. Rick nodded enthusiastically and everyone hurried to take their seats or to grab controls while Heather still stood holding the orb.

"I wonder what else this knows," she pondered. And carefully she opened her rucksack and slipped it in.

"Sooooooooooooooo..." Matt interjected as he climbed onto Moose Head's... erm, head, "are we going to get going? We've been standing here for a while. I mean it feels like nearly two weeks since we decided to go find Adam."

"Keep your pants on," Nutty said.
"I'm not flipping out or anything, for once," Matt replied indignantly. "I just want to know when we plan on going."
"That's not what I meant," Nutty muttered as she handed Matt his shorts. "Anyway, the Highwind is still on its way to that new planet, or whatever it is. The one that was in the orb."

"Oh, you mean the one Moose Head didn't eat?"
"Um, yeah, I guess? I think Heather had it last. Why, what has Moose been eating?"
Matt glanced at the beast. "Just a shiny thing. I found it in Adam's room, it looked like food, and Moose Head was hungry."
"But everything looks like food to you."
"What's your point?"

Nutty paused. "Ok... you fed something of Adam's to your giant demonic pet monster. Is that right?"
"Uh-huh."
Another pause. "Well, who knows what effect it'll have, but let's not tell the others for now," Nutty decided.
"Ok," Matt exhaled, clearly relieved he was off the hook without so much as a sporking.

Nutty shook her head slightly, rolling her eyes. "Next time, tell me. I have lots of food. Ravara used to get hungry."
Matt wrinkled his nose. "Eww. Dog food."
"Wolf, actually."
"What's the difference?"
"About ten kilos."
"Ah... okay." Mattster patted Moose-head's...head absently. "I think he likes shiny things better."
"Suit yourself. I'm going to go get my stuff. We should be there soon."
Nutty turned and returned to her room, nudging stuff aside to expose more stuff. Grabbing a pack she shoved her medical supplies, extra herbs, the book she was reading, her spork polishing kit, some extra clothes, and Ravara's squeaky toy. "I think we may need his help, afterall." She muttered under her breath, before setting out towards the bridge.

The planet approached in the viewer and the group stared in wonder at its beauty. Tall, elegant towers scraped the sky, made of some unfamiliar, almost glassy material and the sun cast a rainbow aurora around the entire planet.

"You know... I bet Adam is having a real nice time in a swell place like this," Scipio murmured.

"Don't be stupid," Nutty objected. "Let's go save Adam!" A chorus of cheers followed this notion and Alice brought the ship down to a near by hanging bay where they were able to part it. A space attendant approached them swiftly.

"You'll be wanting to ask the orb which building he's in," Bella said as they all headed to the weapons room to grab a few last things. Scipio placed his usual weapon of choice carefully to one side and picked up the new one that had been specially prepared by Nutty.

"What's that?" Matt asked jealously.

"It's a magic whisk!" Scipio said enthusiastically.

"Uh... right," Alice mumbled with a sideways glance at Nutty. "I think you'd better take your mace as well." Scipio shrugged and picked it back up and Heather, after a moment's thought, grabbed a dagger, the one she's read the inscription from earlier, and added it to her belt. [i]I always wanted the power over time,[i] she thought wistfully.

Heather took the orb from her bag.

"Where's Adam?" she asked.