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the_overseers) wrote2010-09-06 01:17 pm
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The ritual
Who: Kyon and Clone Kyonko
What: Body transference ritual
Deep within a hidden facility warded from watchful eyes within Confuto Ordinatio, Archibald prepared for his ritual. On a nearby pedestal was a black jewel of pure onyx, specially prepared to receive a detached soul. A magic circle was drawn around Kyon, who was bound in place, his limbs magically paralyzed. All that was left was for the damned clone to show up so he could get this over with.
What: Body transference ritual
Deep within a hidden facility warded from watchful eyes within Confuto Ordinatio, Archibald prepared for his ritual. On a nearby pedestal was a black jewel of pure onyx, specially prepared to receive a detached soul. A magic circle was drawn around Kyon, who was bound in place, his limbs magically paralyzed. All that was left was for the damned clone to show up so he could get this over with.
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["Okay, stay calm, stay focused. We have a good idea what they're going to do. We just have to figure out a way to make sure they can't DO... whatever it is."] Of course, this was easier said than done; Kyon couldn't think of a time when he was more scared than he was right now. ["He wants to get to Haruhi. But I'm pretty sure he doesn't realize she doesn't listen to a word I say about her powers. That's advantage 1. Advantage 2 is that I have the only phrase in the universe that will wake her up, and he doesn't have THAT either. I don't think, anyway."]
He tested his arms and legs again, with approximately the same result as before. ["I can't move. But my mind's still working, and my mouth's still working. It looks like the only way I'm getting out of this is to talk my way out."] He shut his eyes. ["And if that doesn't work... damnit, I hope I can keep enough of myself in here so that I can do whatever it is they do on TV and stuff where they have to fight their way out internally."]
He looked at the man in red. "Kinky setup. So this is what you get into, huh?" he asked, hoping for a reaction.
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"Speak when spoken to, boy," the man growls, tapping his foot impatiently.
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"I wouldn't talk down so much about girls. After all, Haruhi's a girl, and she's the strongest force in our world," Kyon notes. Inwardly, though, he takes note of this. ["Sexist and arrogant. Man, if I wasn't in such a bad position right now, this would be a piece of cake. Now if I know me, his comments aren't going to go down too well. I can use this too."]
A plan is slowly forming. It's a total last ditch effort -- but he's definitely in the last ditch.
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He closes his eyes again. ["Okay, so we have a clone who wants a body. But she's a clone of ME, which probably makes her solidly heterosexual. So I can't imagine she'd want a guy body that bad. Then we have a guy who obviously thinks women need to be barefoot and pregnant trying to foist her into my body so he can control ANOTHER girl."]
He opens his eyes. ["I. Can. Use. This."]
"If you say so," he replies. Mentally, he's calculating.
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Guy-her was pretty cute. It would be such a waste to be in that body.
"So, what do you need me to do to get into his skin?"
Mentally, she's calculating. She's had a lot of time to think about this, after all. Now was the time to make her decision.
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"You will find the diagrams on the table. Carve the top design onto his chest, and the secondary design onto his back. Cut deep enough to mark him properly."
With a gesture, Kyon's shirt falls away. "Be sure not to disrupt the magic circle I am standing in. I am currently holding a great deal of energy, and disturbing it could dismiss the astral form I am using."
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"Gotta say, you've got one heck of a master there," he says, watching Kyonko with his eyes. "Giving you a whole male body all to yourself. He's really treating you, isn't he?" He shrugs -- or would if he could. "Of course, who needs a FEMALE body, really? Clearly the guy's got his priorities. What can I say?"
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"Everyone's got priorities," she says as she picks up the image of the diagrams and walks up to Kyon, glancing between the image and him to figure out the placement of it on him, "Besides, this is a pretty nice body you have there. It's almost a shame I have to mess it up."
The last part was said with an overly flirtatious wink to his face. Really, his ploy was so obvious. Did he think she'd fall for it?
"Hey, Mr. Pedobear. Will it still be on him once this thing's done or will I not have to worry about coming up with another piece of bullshit?"
Yeah, she only had a couple guaranteed months to live. That's her excuse and she's sticking to it.
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"Well, technically, I'm not human. I'm not even a week old," she says as she picks up the knife from where it's stuck in the ground. Ow. Why does her body have to have such strong reactions to the thing? It isn't as painful as the memory, but it is enough to tell her that a knife to the back isn't fun at all.
At least not a literal one.
"Hey," she says, approaching Archibald and holding up the image for him to see, "Last question before I get started: Does this thing have a specific point I need to start from or can I just go wild?"
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["But you're not IN a movie, dumbass. This is real life."]
"But, but, but..." He watches the knife, sweating. And then just blurts out the first thing he can think of.
"But you'd be serving under such a goddamn CLICHE! I mean, evil, arrogant, asshole wizard wanting power? Come ON!"
["...Wow, I'm screwed."]
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"You know what?" she says as her foot reaches out across the magic circle, "He is."
That said she brought her foot over the intricately painted runes, smearing them into nothing but a smudge.
"Oops. My foot slipped."
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"Okay, know that I'm thankful for bailing me out? But you're kinda scary," he says, reaching down for his shirt. "But you know, I wasn't kidding when I said that we might be able to help you live longer."
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And then she pouts at him picking up the shirt.
"Do you have to put that on? I was enjoying the view!"
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"Door's this way. Come on," she says, "I wanna see where all this leads."
Expect a few comments on his behind if he manages to walk in front of her at any point. His overreaction is hilarious.