Post #52 [Cecil]

[hai guyz u miss mi? XD]

Posted by Cecil (Member # 47) on :

After pressing a button on the wall, the kitchen shelf in the Polestar Preschool lowered down into the ground, and Sandra now saw back into the kitchern, still noting the frozen door that was open to the kitched from the front room.

[Yeah, cuz time's frozen and no one in the house could move before. :P]

She, James, Terrance, Lance and Johnson walked up and back into the kitchen, and then James gasped at the sight of his frozen wife Penelope, at the stove flipping pancakes when hit by the time field.

[I suppose seeing your wife frozen in time can make a man gasp. >.>]

"Penelope... hey... Sandra, could you... uh... well..."

Sandra was thinking the same thing now that she knew she could reverse the effects with Dispel, and promptly cast Dispel on her frozen mother. The spinning magic coins floated down onto Penelope and melted on her, and the Pink aura of Stop around her vanished. Penelope was suddenly free, but felt a wave of wear and tear, and fell backwards, luckily to be caught by James in time. Sandra noted that like her mother, Johnson had also fallen backwards when unfrozen. Perhaps the time field had some side effects to it she had overlooked.

[Yes, there is a pattern to unfreezing people via Sandra's dispel ability. They tend to get a bit dizzy and fall backwards, like they lost their balance briefly or something.]

"Er.... James... dear... why are you hold me this way?" Penelope asked her husband, who blushed and helped her back to her feet.

["why are you hold me" is supposed to be "why are you holding me". Yay for bad grammar again. :P]

"Dear, you were... frozen into place in time." James explain to her, "Look at your pancakes over the stove." He pointed to her pancakes she had been flipping. Penelope just looked at them with a shocked, yet surprisingly calm look in her eyes....

[Yeah, Penelope, I've always considered her to be the one with the most wits between the twins' parents. James freaks out over things a lot (Paula going missing in EB, her having to leave with Ness to save the world, etc), while Penelope is more understanding and supportive to it.]

"Um... I see." she stammered, "but... why was I?"

Sandra decided to make herself known again. She wondered if her mother would recognize her first sight, "I believe something has trapped the Earth in a time field, which is freezing a majority of the planet in place. Even inanimate objects seem affected." Another question struck Sandra in the head as Penelope looked at Sandra with an even more shocked expression. Penelope actually recognized her as she had been the one who held Sandra first in her life and had given her that name.

[Yeah, there's a minor story I wrote some time ago which gave some small insights of info to the twins' first 5 years in my own story universe. In said minor story, Penelope names Sandra and James names Paula. Paula is the daddy's girl, Sandra is the mommy's girl. >.>]

The purple eyes confirmed her thought. "Your... your okay!!" Penelope, unlike James, didn't hide her happiness, and hugged her 2nd daughter in a bear hug. Sandra didn't mind it much, however Johnson, Terrance and Lance raised their eyebrows and looked at their best friend. "James, you care to explain this to us?"

["Why u cheating on Penelope, James?!" D:]

James gulped, but Sandra defended him to an extent, "Hey, if you saw it from his view, you'd understand why he never mentioned of my existance!" The three friends looked at her with widening eyes, "And just to confirm it, your friend has a second daughter he didn't want to burden your minds about!"

[Looking back, I probably could've typed this out a little better than I did. :P]

"James, you have two daughters?!" Lance asked with a large dose of shock, "I thought only Paula was your only daughter."

"I'll explain it to you myself when this is over and passed!" Sandra replied in her father's place.

Sandra suddenly felt about hard thought whack her mentally.

[Dammit, Sandra's gonna give herself Brainshock at this rate! D:]

"Where is Paula?!" she chirped.

[Well FINALLY you actually ask about your only sister's whereabouts, even though you should've been able to find her near the beginning! >:P]

"Um..." James was about to respond, when Sandra heard a sound from in the sewers.

Who could that be? Nebiroth isn't big enough to walk through the sewers, or is he?

Suddenly, she felt the presense of someone else using magic: searching runes. "Someone using search magic? It must be another unfrozen person!" she ran back into the small hallway behind the shelf, spotting an equally shocked Glenn, who had followed her in regard for her safety by using a magical rune to follow her footsteps. When he saw Sandra he realized, This must be the girl, and that looks like Polestars' kitchen behind her!...

[And AGAIN with me typing "!..." in a post. Lawl aren't I smart? :P]

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[Past me does mention this at the bottom of the post, but Zac is with Bob and Nebiroth because I spoke to DrAndonuts on AIM back when I was going to make this post to see if he wanted one of his characters to accompany us. I think it was that he wasn't quite ready to post his response to Nebiroth's offer for anyone to follow him and I wanted to move forward, so he gave me the permission to take Zac along ahead of time.]

Nebiroth was soon off on his journey to find Sandra, with Bob sitting on one of this shoulders, and Zac floating behind him. The journey Nebiroth was embarking on, he had expected it would be a long way to find his once-nemesis, however, he had little idea he would have a easy time.

Nebiroth was now trudging up the road towards the Preschool and it's intersection, thinking The Pink one could be anywhere around here. She could've even found a way around me while I was fighting Smidgen. I have no doubt she knows I'm here. I don't know why I do, but I just do.

[Yes, legitimately, Nebiroth does know a bit about Sandra's inquisitive nature, so he'd come to expect she'd discover he was following her eventually]

By this time, he had reached the preschool, and actually took notice of the broken down door this time. He hadn't even paid it any attention because of him being hungry. That very thought made his stomach growl, literally. The face on his stomach growled in an annoying high pitch. Nebiroth whined silently. Now his other face was going to blab until it was shut up by more food. The face on his stomach had a life of it's own when he was hungry. He didn't know why, but the same thing had applied to Austarouto as well.

[Yeah, one of MY attempts for a little extra humor was making it that the face on Nebi's stomach had a mind of it's own when it was hungry. >_>]

"Hungry! Hungry! Hungry!" the small face on his stomach in fact began to chirp. "Argh! Stupid stomach! Quiet!" Nebiroth growled at his lower face. "Hungry! Want FOOD!!!" the lower face whined in a high pitch, making Bob raise his eyebrows.

Now I've seen everything about him! Bob thought to himself. Zac merely tried to ignore it.

[Meh Bob, you've seen nothing about Nebi yet! XD]

Back in the Polestar house, some of the people had caught sound of Nebiroth's hunger problems, and were curious as to see what was going on outside, leaving Sandra to talk with Glenn in the middle of the sewer's hallway for a moment.

"Hey, are you alright?" Glenn asked her, panting just a little. "I'm fine right now, unless Nebiroth finds me. But yes, I'm okay. Who are you?" Sandra asked him.

[It's probably my fault I made Sandra sound more like she was worried about her own welfare then she really was. >.>]

"My name is Glenn. I followed you because I saw magic foot prints you and him left behind, and trailed you here. I was trying to find out about his wereabouts, but I felt your safety was more important at the moment."

Sandra was a little wide-eyed. "You SAW him?!"

"Yep. He was last helping his fight a creature called Smidgen. I edged out of the battle because Nebiroth had appeared, and I never knew anything about his origin, and I was kinda useless during the battle anyways, so I went off on my own, and then found out about you. I followed you all the way to the cliffs on Onett, the sewers, and to here. I didn't even know the sewers had secrets like this in them!" Glenn answered.

[Yeah, in a sense, I made Glenn follow Sandra around for nothing, a point slightly made on in Losarian's next post from Glenn himself. :\]

"Nebiroth... helped you?"

"SANDRA!!!" she suddenly heard her parents shriek, and then she got that very sick feeling... Nebiroth had found them. "CRAP!! He's found us!" she said, bolting to the source of the sound. "Wait, I think he's still on our..." she was out of Glenn's rage, "...side." He decided to keep watching her for now.

["Glenn's rage" lol. It was supposed to be "Glenn's range". This is yet another example of "Cecil is typing way too freaking fast" :P]

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Outside, Nebiroth held his throbbing ears, half-deafened by the screams of James and Penelope in addition to his stomach's face's cries of hunger.

"Ow! No scream loud! Hurt Nebiroth's ears!" he then suddenly realized exact WHAT they had screamed, "You... know pink-haired brat?"

James, Penelope, Terrance, Lance and Johnson only gaped at him, also taking notice of Zac behind him, and Bob still on his shoulder.

[Yeah, they had no clue what to make of seeing a monster like Nebiroth, yet with two human[or human-enough] friends accompanying him. They probably assumed Bob and Zac were slaves or minions of Nebiroth on first site. XD]

It was then Sandra, closely followed by Glenn stepping out of the door, and both slayer of Sardius, and former head minion of Sardius once again stared at each other face to face. At first it looked like a stare-down contest between them, but they were brought out of it by a shrill sound, "FOOD!!!!"

Nebiroth's high-pitched sounding second face again had cut into their stare-down. "Geeze, Nebi! Turn the volume down on that thing!" she growled at him, still thinking he wanted to rip her limb for limb, not know of his reform. Zac and Bob could only muse at the two accquaintaces and smirk a little...

[Oh the hillarity... :P]

[DrAndonuts gave me permission to bring Zac with him ahead of time. If anyone else wanted to follow Nebiroth, they still can, but I wanted to post at least once on this IF today, so it wouldn't drop down on the list. Sorry to those like GMOE, Speedy, Ffish, etc if I jumped the gun.]

[Oh yeah, and Frozen also had this problem where there were other IFs constantly being posted on and if it fell off the first page of the IF forum it would likely not get posted on for a long time. You'll see examples of this later I believe.]

[ June 14, 2002, 10:38 PM: Message edited by: Cecil ]

[No clue what I edited on this post, either. :P]

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