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What: Dream to Deal with Maleficent
Who: Margaret/Maleficent, Songbird, Ren, Aya (saving the best for last)
When: evening of March 9
Where: Margaret's house in Mirror Earth and a dream
Margaret watched with more anxiety than pride as her student worked the spell that would bind their dreams into hers. She wondered how this would go. If anyone could do this, surely it would the three of them, but she had doubts. She feared that other part of herself and had trouble dismissing those doubts. Only Sora had ever defeated her other self . . . and that had been in the most physical of ways. But within her own mind, who knew how dangerous Maleficent might be?
She bit her lip, then closed her eyes to lean back. She would have to have faith in the three of them.
All but willing herself to sleep, she finally felt her mind spiraling down into unconsciousness.
Who: Margaret/Maleficent, Songbird, Ren, Aya (saving the best for last)
When: evening of March 9
Where: Margaret's house in Mirror Earth and a dream
Margaret watched with more anxiety than pride as her student worked the spell that would bind their dreams into hers. She wondered how this would go. If anyone could do this, surely it would the three of them, but she had doubts. She feared that other part of herself and had trouble dismissing those doubts. Only Sora had ever defeated her other self . . . and that had been in the most physical of ways. But within her own mind, who knew how dangerous Maleficent might be?
She bit her lip, then closed her eyes to lean back. She would have to have faith in the three of them.
All but willing herself to sleep, she finally felt her mind spiraling down into unconsciousness.
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Date: 2009-03-10 12:40 am (UTC)Getting Aya into the dreamscape, being one who had outright rejected The Dreaming when the opportunity had presented itself. Though since Aya wasn't rejecting this power, Song does find herself successful, as evidenced by a loud splash in the water. Thrashing followed and the sopping wet woman emerged from the sea moments later. "I guess I need to work on my landings."
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Date: 2009-03-10 01:45 am (UTC)"Yeah, so how do we do this, anyway?" she asked. She'd always pictured a dream dive as being an exercise in willpower, but she wasn't sure what the proper... etiquette for this situation was, if that was even the right word for it.
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Date: 2009-03-10 01:50 am (UTC)But distantly, as if on the horizon, a shadow loomed, a hint of darkness deeper than the void, ominous and threatening. This might not be a sign of Margaret, but it might very well point to where Maleficent herself might be found.
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Date: 2009-03-10 02:37 am (UTC)"It's simple enough if you don't bog yourself down with your own imagined limitations. This is a lucid dream. Control it any way you like, just like we did in the Dreaming. Now then..." She moved past the other two, facing the dark variation in the distance. "That looks like something worth investigating."
But she hesitated, glancing back at her companions. "... Why don't we practice, since you two haven't done this before? We can get there much faster than walking, but it's up to you to decide how." To demonstrate, the dreamwalker was surrounded suddenly by a flash of light. When it cleared, her form had changed. She was a horse, but no creature of nature. Lean and long-legged, silver-white, she had dreamed herself into a wind spirit. A gallop would take her to the disturbance in no time, provided its creator didn't interfere with her passage.
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Date: 2009-03-10 03:41 am (UTC)She watched Song curiously then ran a hand through her hair, pulling out the small rubber band that had been holding it together. Relaxing, she lowered her hands, palms facing upwards, and tilted her head to the sky. "May as well start simple, then." For a long moment, nothing happened save for a small scattering of sandgrains around her feet. Moments later, said feet left the ground.
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Date: 2009-03-10 04:05 am (UTC)"You won't mind if I pick a different way of traveling, do you?" she asked as she turned to the motorcycle that was now beside her. "I've always wanted to ride one of these without worrying about killing myself..."
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Date: 2009-03-10 04:19 am (UTC)She didn't say this to them, perhaps because she assumed it would be the natural conclusion they'd come to. For better or worse, she said nothing at all, but only reared and whinnied a battle cry before charging forward. She did hold back at first so that they could catch up. Bolting too far ahead kind of ruined the point of having them with her.
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Date: 2009-03-10 12:39 pm (UTC)There was a forest beneath swirly black mists. The trees partook of the darkness, the normal greens and browns and greys of the woodland, verged on black. No breeze moved the branches. No birds or animals filled the silence. A cool, still mist hung in the air.
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Date: 2009-03-10 09:41 pm (UTC)She made no move to chase after Songhorse as she took off, silently mentally setting a few things in place, carefully redefining her rules and resetting various boundaries.
A ring of blue light shot out from around the girl and in a second, she was gone, a sonic boom sounding a few more seconds later. After a moment of showing off and looping through the air like a fighter jet, Aya settled floating overhead of the mists before dropping down into them without fear.
She alit on a branch far too small to support her weight without it bending the slightest. She didn't arm herself, not visibly at least, but wass very much on guard as she hopped to the ground proper to wait for the others.
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Date: 2009-03-10 10:10 pm (UTC)"All that's missing is a kicking soundtrack," Ren said to the others as she pulled up near the mist's borders. Part of it was trying to keep herself psyched up and not out, but hey, mood music rarely hurt, right?
Like Aya, she wasn't carrying any immediately visible weapons, but her pockets were loaded down with Potions and other curatives, just in case.
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Date: 2009-03-10 10:33 pm (UTC)The mist swirled around Song's legs and seemed to intertwine with her mane and tail as she moved through it, walking forward slowly now with all senses alert for a sign of their quarry. She didn't bother resuming her original form or a more combat-oriented one just yet. For one thing, when it was needed, she was practiced enough to do so quite swiftly. For another, she didn't expect an all-out attack from Maleficent. At least, not immediately.
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Date: 2009-03-10 10:43 pm (UTC)Just barely within sight, a path leading deeper into the woods could be seen.
There was still no sound, not of wind or anything that lived, and the mist seemed to absorb something of every sound that the travelers made, leaving them with an odd empty tone.
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Date: 2009-03-10 10:52 pm (UTC)With a jerk of the head, she signaled to the path and took to taking point. She was struck with just the tiniest urge to hop on Song and ride her back, but she fought it off, realizing how awkward that would be to bring up later.
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Date: 2009-03-11 02:07 am (UTC)"Well, that's nice and inviting," she said dryly as she looked down the path. "You don't suppose we could turn this into something out of Andalasia, just to screw with Maleficent's head?"
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Date: 2009-03-11 05:05 am (UTC)"On the other hand... or hoof... she might not feel like bothering with us if we're just gonna mess up her little dream forest. She might make it harder for us to track her down. 'Course, there's no telling, really."
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Date: 2009-03-11 12:31 pm (UTC)Time for a facepalm moment!
Date: 2009-03-11 08:35 pm (UTC)"..hey, hey. Do that again. You know, maybe if we make enough noise, she'll come to us. ...or..." A sly smile slid across her face. "I could use my Maleficent call."
Before anyone could ask the obvious question, Aya cupped her hands around her mouth and began to shout at the gloomy forest ahead. "I'M CONSIDERING SELLING MY SOUL IN EXCHANGE FOR UNTOLD POWER AND MASTERY OVER THE DARKNESS! IS THERE ANYONE OUT THERE THAT CAN HELP ME WITH THIS?!"
Previous real-life experience has taught Aya that this was clearly an extremely effective way to get Maleficent's attention.
*FACEPALM* XD
Date: 2009-03-11 09:18 pm (UTC)Well, at least it was a more direct approach than just singing "It's a Small World" over and over to annoy Maleficent out of hiding, and they now knew what was coming... right?
Re: *FACEPALM* XD
Date: 2009-03-11 09:56 pm (UTC)That was an offer she would never take up. For one thing, she was not incapable of detecting an obvious lie tinged with sarcasm. For another, Aya would make a poor student. Too stubborn, too tied to her own notions of right and wrong and how the world worked. Too strong in herself to be easily manipulated. Similarly Ren was just a little too . . . pure.
Such an offer, genuinely spoken from Songbird . . . now that might be tempting. The girl had already shown herself to be flexible in her notions of good and evil.
But that was not her plan for these three. Not on this night. They could be so mch more useful in other ways, if only she could bring them to do what she wished.
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Date: 2009-03-12 05:43 am (UTC)Of course, she would never make such an offer. Only once had she ever turned to Darkness, and that was out of fear. She knew better now, and nothing would drive her to make that choice.
Well, almost nothing, but any loved one whose life she might try to save using Darkness would surely have mixed feelings on the matter.
No, she was quite through with that, thank you very much.
With a toss of her head - for she really couldn't get enough of being in an equine form - she trotted on ahead, letting her mind wonder over the various scenarios that might lie ahead and what to do about them.
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Date: 2009-03-12 09:51 pm (UTC)"Got her attention well enough." Aya grinned like a lunatic and walked after Song. "HEY YOU GONNA COME OUT AND SAY HI OR WHAT?"
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Date: 2009-03-12 10:30 pm (UTC)Instead, Ren stayed close to the others--the last thing they needed was to get separated somehow. "So, if Maleficent decides to start using psychological warfare on us, I vote we fight back by singing the most obnoxious songs we can back at her to drown her out," Ren suggested. "My favorites are 'I'm Henry the Eighth I Am' and 'It's a Small World.' What do you guys think?"
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Date: 2009-03-12 10:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-03-12 11:10 pm (UTC)"But really, this dark forest act is a little overdone. I wonder how she'd respond if we started trying to overwrite it with our own dreams?"
Experimentally, she focused on the path ahead and tried to will it even wider, mentally pushing at the trees to see if she could make them move back.
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Date: 2009-03-13 12:36 am (UTC)(no subject)
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