Return of Jafar

[Jafar]

The wraith stopped mid-stride... watching as the building collapsed before him. Even in this madcap whirlwind of chaos, he stood uneffected. Not even his cape fluttered as Kefka's storm raged and the dust of a poorly constructed desert adobe would overtake his form. The darkness in his form would flare up once more, betraying his obvious anger.

"I warned you, clown..." his voice echoed everywhere, deep and resonating with untapped power harnessed from the stolen powers of a genie, and the soul-bolstering abilities of the river Styx. The wraith turned a full one-hundred-eighty-degrees on his waist and thrust his staff out, producing a massive, crimson-colored beam of darklight, large enough to encompass the clown's entire form and faster than even a magical being's eyes could follow. He held the stream of power in an elongated fifteen-second flow, his cape fluttering behind him, his eyes burning like hellfire, and his voice booming like Hades himself. "THIS IS MY WORLD TO DESTROY! NOT YOURS!!!!"

[terra]

Terra looked out the window and watched as the two villains tussled with each other and a small smirk crossed her lips. She walked away from the window letting the cloth fall to cover it once more, "i hope they destroy each other" she said to herself.

Terra walked up to the pillowed floor bed that Edgar was laying on , looking on as the three belly dancers swooned over him"sigh" she let out, "And how long are you just going to lay there?" she said before she kicked him in the foot. Noticing that he barely stirred, she raised her hand and pointed at him "Awaken" she said as a small light darted from her fingertip and into Edgar. She shook her head, because she new the first words out of Edgar's mouth will be something about heaven or something like that.

[kefka]

[glow=Yellow,2,300]"Hmph!" Encompassed and annoyed, Kefka simply folded his arms and shook his head, his tall feathers bobbing over his face, his six large wings beating heavily behind him. He waved a hand forward, causing several large glowing arrows to stream forward in a twining motion about this strange barrier, exploding on impact at the rounded walls, shattering it to pieces.

"Now look here, you malformed waste of delicious power," he called, a darkly-manicured fingernail stabbing forward towards the wraith. "I seek creatures who have taken refuge here, now if you're not going to help me find them, sit and watch while I tear apart this stage. This is your domain, yes? I'm rather sure you could easily pick them out of this rubble!"[/glow]

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Terra's magical power flowed through the kng of Figaro, tightening around and massaging each muscle in a sleek, calm unison. This roused him from a deep slumber, and when his eyes opened to the beautiful belly-dancers, he shot up, blinking several times and pinching himself in the cheek.

"By Cosmos," he declared, looking them all over as they flocked to greet him. "I guess destruction does beget looseness," he said fondly, winking towards a young pretty lady carrying over a pitcher of water for him.

He stood up and took a valiant, dramatic pose and proclaimed: "I am the king of Figaro, Edgar Roni Figaro, to be exact! Worry not, fair damzels, for I shall protect you, with the aid of..." he turned to stare at the wide-eyed Terra. "my dear friend and Esper, Ter--"

He paused, hearing the commotion outside and inched over, gawking at the sight above before turning back.

"...what's going on out there?"

[Jafar]

The wraith growled... twitching from its half-formed hold on reality before pointing at Kefka. "If I hunt down these bugs of yours... will you leave my world??" he demanded. "Or will you do what you always do, clown... go back on your word?!"

He threw his arm out, firing a crimson light from his staff. This light split into two, and began to search around, drawn through the ethers toward Terra and Edgar. "Let's call them leverage..." he threatened. "...either leave and I'll send them to you... or I'll do them in myself..."

[terra]

Terra laughed a bit at Edgar's reaction to the girls in the room"thought he would" she thought to herself. She walked to the window and looked up at the two villians herself. "Not sure whats going on out there Edgar, but those two don't seam to friendly with each other......." she looked down to Edgar "But even if it was just that damn clown,....... Edgar it took thirteen of us returners last time to take him down, what can just the two of us do?" she stared at him with a bit of worry in her eyes.

[kefka]

[glow=Yellow,2,300]It took Kefka several moments to think over Jafar's offer, and when the decision came he snapped his fingers, let out a chuckle and nodded.

"I will abandon this hellhole to you if you can grab those pests for me. In fact,"

A Corrupt Corridor opened before the clown, and he stepped in slightly, turning back only slightly. "I will leave now, so long as you keep your word, I won't come back. Send them to the castle--you know where."

A lingering cackle, and Kefka disappeared.[/glow]

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Turning back after Jafar cast out red magical lines, he threw the curtain over the window and bolted towards the Esper.

"We have to go! Kefka has just gone, but now the demon's on the loose! We have to get out of here. Ladies!"

Another dramatic pose as he addressed the dancers. "Come with us, and I shall give you a wonderful life in Figaro!"

[Jafar]

Like a dark hunter in the forest, that crimson light would stalk the streets. Both points would travel along the paths created by their prey. Relentless... untiring... and above all else accurate, these radiant tracking orbs would hone in on Edgar and Terra...

Soon, they'd be at the building... circling... marking them. They were already found. The question now was... who would make the move first? Would they take themselves to Kefka, or would Jafar be the one to drag them screaming by their ankles directly to the mad harlequin?

Here's a clue: the dark wraith was already approaching, bits of splintered wood from abandoned marketplace stalls igniting into flame as he stepped. He'd be there in moments. They'd have only moments to make up their mind...

He had said that he wouldn't kill them, but Jafar smirked at a simple fact. You'd be surprised what you could live through.

[terra]

Terra shook her head as she walked up behind Edgar and pulled on his collar, "Come on Lover biy, maybe we should get out of here before you make silly promises" she said as she reached and drew her sword. Terra looked over to the girls "We're going to have to make a run for it, he's going to find us if we stay here" she opened the door slightly "Stay close to us" Terra looked at Edgar then back to the girls "well close to me at least" she said trying to lighten them up a little bit for what might be ahead.

Not five steps out the door Terra looked up and saw the tracking orb over head "Thundara!" she let out as she pointed her sword, with a bit of crackling and a surge of light, lighting shot from the tip of her sword up at the orb. Not waiting to see if it hit or not she ran off in the opposite direction "This way" she called out as she ran "And if you have any ideas on how to get us out of here, now would be a good time Edgar" she panted as she ran.

"Magic.........." Terra thought to herself as she ran, turning one corner, then the next. "It's been awhile since i did any..........and it felt ..........good" she smiled. Terra felt good, like a weight had been lifted , she felt happier then she had been in awhile, and to top it all off , she wasn't feeling nauseous anymore. Terra smiled as she turned another corner, but it was a dead end , and with out missing a beat, she kept running toward it. Holding her hand out, palm side out as she ran, she whispered "holy" thinking of using one of her favorite spells, just slightly less power. That wasn't the case , even tho she whispered it, a large globe of light shot out of her hand, not only blowing a hoel in the wall in front of her, but also the wall after that and the wall after that and the wall after that, (get the point)

[King Edgar]

Edgar's eyes trailed back to Terra as they ran, wide now as he saw that, beyond her the wraith was hot on their trail. He pulled Longinus off his belt and extended it to spear-length, taking it in both hands should the need to battle arise.

"I've got nothing, Terra! I've no idea what to do, unfortunately!" he shouted.

[Jafar]

The glowing red orb, despite being attacked, would not take any damage at all. You see, this wasn't an attack proper but merely a point of light. There was nothing there save for a few light particles to disrupt, and a simple magic spell like the one Terra threw at it was not going to dispurse it. Both of the glowing orbs would follow after their prey when they darted off, tracking their motions.

And what predictable motions they were. Heading in a straight line, while providing the shortest distance between two points, also makes your next destination pretty obvious. So, Jafar walked along his streets with little care to the buildings being damaged by the power-drunk Terra as he went to intercept her.

Wall after wall would fall in Terra's way, the dust clouds from their destruction shrouding her vision from time to time. And just as she blasted down one and the clouds rushed up to obscure her line of sight, she'd feel a hand coming up to clasp around her throat, stopping her cold in her tracks as it slowly lifted her off the ground to meet with the hellish eyes of a man who'd died a thousand deaths and been reborn a thousand times, fortified by the river Styx and forged into a perfect magical juggernaut.

Jafar looked her over, his voice demonic and his twitching body barely tied to reality. "End of the line, my pet...." he whispered, a corridor opening around him, her, and Edgar not far behind. "I believe my associate, Kefka, would like a word..." he hinted...

[terra]

"Ack" was all Terra could let out before she was lifted into the air. She wasn't in pain, for either he wasn't squeezing hard enough or something else was stopping him from chocking her. Terra stared up into the Evil man's eyes, and she could feel the massive amount of twisted energy and magic that he had inside of him, for a moment she became afraid,, afraid for her life and her unborn child's.

A moment, a moment was all she was afraid for. She thought that her stomach was beginning to twist in knots because of the fear she was feeling, but it wasn't twisting, in fact it was almost pulsing. Terra thought that she was going to get nauseous again but instead she felt as tho she was being filled with energy, almost like the first time she changed, but just.........more.

Terra reached up and grabbed Jafar's wrist with her left hand to pull some of the weight of her own body off of her neck. She closed her eyes and took a deep breath "Your wrong" she stated flatly to him, still having eyes closed and head down, Slowly she raised her head and opened her eyes to stare directly into his, as she did her skin turned a pale white, and her hair turning shades of pink and purple. "This Esper is no ones PET!!" she let out as she plunged her right hand into the evil mans shoulder. Terra could do nothing about the dark portal that they were being pulled into, but she would be damned if this man would get off easily.

[King Edgar]

Terra, intercepted by Jafar at a climactic point in their escape, caused the King of Figaro to halt in place only a yard or two before where he throttled the life out of her; he stood with shock, anger and terror, for both the esper and his future nephew or niece. Enraged, he bolted forward, only to see Terra's fury rising, and he took this as a chance he couldn't pass up.

While the esper-girl was busy breaking free from the wraith's clutches, Edgar was moving in, his spear radiating with heat and crackling bursts of cold electricity danced up and down its length as he side-stepped and readied Longinus, poised to strike deep into the creature's head.

"Terra! Run!" he called, right before launching Longinus, thrusting it forward with all his strength.

[Jafar]

Terra would find this attack of hers to meet a far different kind of texture in Jafar's shoulder than she expected. It was much like plunging one's hand into corn starch mixed with water, neither solid nor liquid. As it sank deeper, she'd find it stuck there, as though the darkness that made Jafar's body itself was holding her in place. His eyes would glow a little brighter, as though he were ENJOYING this sensation. Slowly, she'd begin to feel the energy draining from her body, starting from the furthest point from her hand as the Wraith began to suck her dry.

"Thank you for that..." Jafar whispered, his voice strangely beginning to sound more there than it had previously. Before, it was up in the air whether he existed on this plane or not, but now it seemed he was getting closer to being real. Even his semi-transluscent body was getting more dense. "But we have more important matters to attend to, hm?"

Just as Edgar was about to make his assault, Jafar twisted his body slightly to bring Terra into the line of fire. Yes, he was using the Esper as a human shield. "I wouldn't do that if I were you, boy..." the dark one chuckled, eyes flickering red. Slowly, he began to step backward into the tunnel of darkness. "If you're smart... you'll come along quietly... It's time for a little Reunion."

Silently, he sent a message to Kefka, alerting him that he had the girl, and probably the man as well. He'd meet them at the palace... which is exactly where that corridor he was dragging Terra through would lead them...

[terra]

Terra felt the pull as Jafar used the corridor to transport the three of them to the palace. She was still stuck in his grasp and in his shoulder, she could feel that her energy was slowly being sucked out of her, and had to think quickly to get out of this or she was going to be to drained to do anything else. Taking this man head on was foolish, for some reason Physical force wasn't working on him, and she could tell that magic wouldn't help much either. With a quick realization she knew what to do, she looked over her shoulder toward Edgar and to get her bearings and her surroundings. "Teleport" she let out at the same time using some of her magic to push at Jafar, allowing her to move without him.

It was almost as if she could feel it as she disappeared from Jafar's grasp and reappeared right in front of Edgar with her back to him , facing Jafar. There was a spell of some sort on the palace, something that made her feel like they couldn't just teleport out of here, but that wasn't the big problem, for now they were both standing there facing this menace, who at the present moment had no weak points that she could find. "defense" she thought, they needed to defend for a little bit, long enough to figure out what to do next.

Protect would work, and so would shell, but she didn't think it would be enough. Terra's eyes darted back and forth as she thought quickly, she stopped and looked forward when she finally got it. Terra clasped her hands together in front of her and pushed energy into her hands, before pushing them into the ground in front of her "Barrier!" she let out as she released the magic. A line ripped through the ground around Edgar and Terra as a clear dome rose from the torn ground to encase them both, protecting them both from magic and physical aspects, the down side from this is that Terra had to hold her ground and keep the barrier up her self.

[Jafar]

When suddenly that hand was ripped away, and the teleportation cast, Jafar would take a step back with his eyes rolling back into his skull momentarily like a man who'd just done a hit of ecstasy. His breath was shaky, his body twitching lightly before he'd let out a long sigh of delight. When his eyes opened, they would no longer be that strange, soulless red but a more mundane yellowish tone of white, with black pupils in the centers. His features were almost visible as well, giving him the appearance of somewhere between ghost and man.

With a grin, the reborn Jafar slowly began to circle the dome of shielding. His staff would "click-pang" with every footfall, and his voice would seem almost human as he spoke. "A noble effort... but pointless, I'm afraid..." Jafar mocked, slowly raising the snakestaff to throw another layer of magical protection overtop of himself and the two under their barrier. "Anti-magic..." he explained, watching them as he continued to pace around the barrier like a shark. "No teleporting away from this, little miss..."

The wraith stopped in front of them, smirking slighlty. "But darkness transcends magic, hm? Just a little note to Kefka to change our meeting grounds, and the deal is done. Thank you ever-so-much for trapping yourselves so nicely for me..."

Another whisper was sent through the darkness. Kefka was instead to meet him THERE than the palace. His lips curled into a snakelike grin as he leaned on his staff and watched his prey as they stood helplessly under this spell. "Too bad... but in the end, you were only... second great."