Tynx: [Winces and gets thrown. tries to sit up, pulling at the shadow rope] Goodness gracious, Fallen. Did I say something to bother you?

Seymour: He really knows how to push someone's buttons.

Me: Funny thing is, he was never like this in his story.

Me: *chuckles* Trynx is acting like Brian.

Brian: I don't act that way for the fun of it, though...

Me: Maybe you do. Maybe you don't...I need to figure that out.

Brian:

Me: Who wants another dragon to add to this chaos?

Emuna: Oh brother...

Me: *thwacks Emuna* Sound medieval!

Emuna: O-eth dearest brethren. *sticks tongue out at me*

Me: *glares* Aaaaanyhow....good guy dragon! *sprinkles glitter over ground* He is a sandy color with wings as white as clouds. He has sharp claws, that are filed neatly, and kind, bright blue eyes that borrow into one's soul. And his name is-

Gavin: Taranis?! REALLY?!

Me: Don't cut me off like that!

Gavin: What? I'm just saying...I didn't think you'd bring Taranis into CI.

Me: Well, I did and now you know that you thought wrong. So, ha!

Taranis: *sits down on ground with tail wrapped around his legs* What's going on here?

Terminus: *feigning preschoolish joy* Well, the genius villains developed a rebellion, but they were temporarily insane and actually didn't expect the good guys to fight back...so now they are/were loosing.

Taranis: Ah...good.

Terminus: Good for you. Not for us antagonistic characters.

Brian: I wouldn't wanting anything good to happen to you antagonistic characters...

Terminus: *glares daggers at Brian*

Brian: *dodges daggers* Don't do that! It isn't just an expression with you!

Terminus: *grins smugly*

Fallen: Why, no. Not at all. *starts choking Tynx with the shadow rope*

Me: *chuckles at the idea of Terminus literally glaring daggers*

Alexis: *stops looking for Otmuh* *runs over to Zurik and Cassie* (@Zurik) I wouldn't do that if I were you.

Me: Well...not really daggers more like these really shape pieces of metal that he randomly levitated from wherever it was Devon left his switchblade..

Brian: Daggers that he levitates to try and stab me.

Terminus: You make that sound like it's all I do with my free time...

Brian: It isn't.

Terminus: Good.

Brian: It's all you ever do!

Me: *breaks up fight before it escalates*

Me: *begs* "Will anyone remind me where I was, and what happened? Please? Have mercy!"

Shawn: "Drama Queen."

Jay: "Lazy, rather."

Me: *whacks her characters*

Me: Jay was telling Alianna a story...and lazy me is unsure what Shawn was up to...

Me: "Thanks. And thanks for not having the CI explode, by the way."

Jay: "But you're still too lazy to-"

Me: "Just tell your story, and it will be much easier in life for you."

Jay: "Anywho... I asked everyone I saw if they had seen a girl with dark blue eyes and red curly hair. Finally, a man said they had seen someone like her at House of Mirrors. I dashed over there and ran inside without even thinking. Within a few minutes, I was lost and still had no idea where Sara was."

Alianna: You shouldn't have gone in the house of mirrors, Jay...my brother says never to go in them because one could get lost and when one gets lost bad guys might try to kidna-

Me: *thwacks Alianna*

Alianna: Ow! *tears up* Why did you do th-that?

Me: Character development...carry on...

Alianaa: *sniffles* I don't like character development.

Emuna, Gavin, Brian, & Terminus: Neither do we.

Jay: "Your brother is right.

'Oh, fantastic', I said. 'I’m not getting anywhere this way. Slow down, Jay Lewis, and think. You can get out of this. You don’t want to be stuck in here.'

'Too late!' sneered a triumphant voice. 'I’ve caught you again, Agent 4272. You won’t escape from me again!' Then everything went black."

Me: *wonders if this format is confusing*

Alianna: *eyes widened* Did you live?

Me: *palm/face* If he died would he be telling you this story?

Alianna: Terminus died and yet there he stands... *points to Terminus*

Me: Yes, but, well, see....okay, that. Is a spoiler.

Alianna: Which you just gave away.

Me: Whatever.

Alianna: =P

Me - Oooh, Sharai. Love that name, Aris.

Ashrai - (Ducks beneath Mordir's blade, swings down to the underside of the rafter, and moves behind him, digging his claws into the wood against gravity) Nice try. (Comes up and stabs at Mordir's back)

Me - Backstabber.

Niarah - You are the auth--Ow!

Me - Thanks for the dictionaries, Aris.

Sylvia - Yep, Ember's my dragon. And speaking of which, are you going to find a swimming racer? (Points at Malcolm, Thysal, Taranis, and Suragore) Grab some form of reptile and lets go!

Sylvia - Thanks for the invite, Erronys! (swings up on his back)

Ryan - Heheh. Tanner, Tesmir, and Tounon, ever heard of waterskiing? Silver can fly in the water.

Niarah - (Decides to be the starter) Alright, is everyone lined up? The finishline is all the way down . . . (Points to a oak overhanging the river on the opposite end of the CI room) . . . there. Ready?

Alaric: *eyes the dragons* Are they all racing? What if none of them want to take me?

Tanner: Yeah, death is great for air time!

Malcolm: *walks up to a large rock and begins pushing and twisting his Suragore-bedecked nose into it* I would rather you not speak at all and kindly remove yourself from my face.

Erronys: *turns a worried eye toward Cassie, looks behind her, smiles and dives into the river*

Amos: *watches the dragons in the river*

Kaida: *steps quietly out of the shadows right behind Cassie with her blade drawn and a look that could easily be turned into murder in her eyes as she stares down Zurik*

Jay: "Maybe, maybe not. I woke up with a sore head in a dark, wet room."

Pirzak: "Sore head, as in metaphorically and literally."

Jay:

Me: *is still being lazy* "Is Chayn racing?"

Shawn: "And she feels guilt-"

Alianna: Somebody hit you on the head?

Me: No! He fell down a cliff, miraculously managed to avoid hitting his head then tripped and accidentally hit his head on a nearby pole as he fell to the ground! Are you going to keep asking these obvious questions?

Alianna: *frowns* I was just asking...

Me:

Jay: "Um... yes."

Me: *needs to get on the other computer so that she can remember who said what next*

Pirzak: *doesn't like this story*

Me: "Well, of course you wouldn't!"

Alianna: *is in suspense*

Emuna: What happens when she's in suspense? She doesn't blow up or something, right?

Me: No, Emuna... *sighs* she's from Earth....can you comprehend the term "normal"?

Emuna: Yes.

Rowen: Awesome, another dragon!

Chayn: [Looks over her shoulder at the river] I would race, but I'm currently... ah, battling three villains. Or at least, I thought I was.

Me: Don't know what happened there.

Tesmir:Well, I'm hangin' on to a dragon's tail! That sound way more fun than letting the dragon be the only one getting wet.

Tounon: You're crazy.

Tesmir: If you hadn't noticed. I kind of live on crazy.

Rune: [Laughs]

Tynx: [Coughs, struggling to breathe. Fires a light ball in Fallen's direction] Can't.... take me down... that easily.

Zurik: [Looks at Alexis, then at Kaida] Must you interrupt every battle? You two are as bad as this girl's brother. Worse, even, you two have guts. Nevertheless, you two will be easy to dispose of. [Stabs sword into the ground, then lifts both arms up in the swing motion. The ground beneath Kaida and Alexis shudders and explodes.]

Cassie: [Squeals and ducks]

Mordir: [Drops on one knee and flips his sword, so the blade is pointed backward, and thrusts in that direction] I will kill you, and then everyone else. I won't be mocked and criticized again!

Seymour: Aris-

Me: I know, he's a bit out of control. Ashrai, feel free to do what you like.

Seymour: That's.... not what I had in mind.

Me: Oh well. Can't hurt him, can it?

Tounon: Oh, no. His pride will shatter and he'll become a raging mad monster of a villain. Nothing bad at all. [Gets thwacked with a dictionary]

Tesmir: You were asking for that one. [Clambers down the rafters] Who's willing to let me hold on to a tail? You odn't need to fly, I'll just drag along in the water.

Me: He's so weird.

Aelynn: Seymour, you should race!

Seymour: Haha, no thank you. I'll let the younger ones do the racing. I probably wouldn't be much good.

Aelynn: Amos, do you want to race?

Suragore: [Whacks Malcolm in the side of the face and lets go, none too gently] I expected a better fight form you. But no matter, this race seems interesting

Me: Good luck finding the rider.

Suragore: [Hisses at me, then slithers over to Alaric] I will put aside my villainous position for now. Climb up.

Tounon: Oh, this own't end well. I'll regret doing this. [Follows Tesmir off the rafters] The things I do with him are just crazy...

Seymour: Tounon, you don't have to.

Tounon: It's fine. Not like I'll drown.

Me: Haha, I forgot Tou isn't a great swimmer.

Taranis: Can I swim?

Me: No.

Taranis: *thinks* I thought you were making a water dra-

Me: No.

Taranis: What are you making?

Me: Uhh...

Gavin: *laughs* She doesn't even have a name for it yet.

Me: Well, it's a kind of dragon! And...whatever. I don't need her for another...three chapters....

Emuna: Late development there...

Me: Not as late as Taranis'.

Tanner: Dude, you're getting wet no matter how you go in. Being fully submerged is faster.

Kaida: *uses the explosion of the ground the propel her forward and stab Zurik near his hip*

Malcolm: *snorts again and dives into the river* @Tanner/Tesmir/Tounon Grab on boys.

Tanner: *climbs right behind Malcolm's head spines* Cause, this is where the action is!

Fallen: Oh? *creates a shield of light around herself and keeps choking Tynx*


Alaric: *grins and carefully climbs on Suragore* This should be fun.

Brian: *looks between Fallen and Trynx* Is NOBODY going to do anything?

Emuna: He sort of egged her on...

Brian: So? The poor guy is choking!

Emuna: True...but Fallen is also unbeatable or something...

Brian: Hey! Gavin!

Gavin: What?

Brian: Want to be a distraction?

Gavin: No...because distractions normally end up dead...

Brian: *mumbles* Lazy. *looks at Taranis* But...we do have a dragon now.

Taranis: *sighs* Can't you make Gavin do it?

Brian: I can't seem to make Gavin do anything.

Taranis: I can. *pushes Gavin with his paw causing Gavin to bump into Fallen*

Gavin: *bumps into Fallen* Ow! . . . Umm...

Fallen: *shoves Gavin away* Stay out of this!

Gavin: Gladly. *begins to back away*

Taranis: *pushes Gavin forward again* What if he doesn't want to? He commands you to release Trynx.

Gavin: Taranis! Are you insa-*gets hit by dictionary* Ow!

Me: *rummaging through a box* I found this entire box full of dictionaries! *mindlessly throwing dictionaries out of box*

Emuna: *gets hit by dictionary* Ow! Be careful!

Brian: *narrowly dodges dictionary* Bethany!

Me: *looks up from box* What?

Fallen: *smirks at Taranis* He commands? Why don't you just leave him alone? Or are heroes bigger bullies than I realized?

Taranis: *smiles* You sure do like to push buttons, Miss. No, you see, there are bullies, like you, and there are people trying to force ignorant, selfish, boys to grow a backbone.

Gavin: Umm...Taranis, I'd prefer you not to insult Fallen when I'm in-between you tw-*is hit by dictionary* Hey!

Me: *grins* That one wasn't an accident.

Fallen: Strange. All I see is you abusing him. You're more likely to make him hate you than to "grow a backbone."

Taranis: Very well, you can carry on with your teaching methods *motions to Trynx* and I will carry on with mine. *looks at terrified Gavin* Then...we can compare notes.

Gavin: I don't like this teaching method.

Me: *makes Terminus disappear* He wasn't doing anything...and I'm probably going to end up bringing a new character in here in a few days, anyways.

Emuna: You're growing quite the stash of CI characters...

Me: I know! Isn't it awesome?

*has little time and had to skip some pages*

Rodash: *eyes widen as the blade cuts along him. When Zurik turns he staggers to his feet, and looks at me* Help?

Me: Nuh-uh.

Me: (if I missed anything else please alert me)

Tesmir: This is awesome! C'mon Tou! [Jumps into the water and grabs on to Malcolm's tail]

Tounon: [Hesitates, then slides into the water and clambers up onto Malcolm's back] I'm up.

Tynx: [Gags and coughs. He yanks hard at the shadow] What is this stuff *Cough* made of?

Me: Hmm....

Rune: She's stuck.

Me: I can figure it out.

Rune: I'm sure you can.

Seymour: [Springs toward Fallen and Tynx]

Tynx: [Fires a light ball at Seymour's feet to make him stop] No way. SHe nearly killed Jay when the otehrs tried to help me. I'm not going to risk anyone else getting hurt.

Seymour: Tynx, are you insane? She's killing you!

Tynx: [Flashes a smile] I'm not out of cards yet. [Shifts into a small garden snake and hurries to wriggle out]

Me: If that won't work, let me know.

Suragore: [Slides into the water and joins the other reptiles] Make sure you hang on tight.

Zurik: [Sneers and sweeps his head away form him, sending a blast of wind at Kaida] I admire your bravery, but swordcraft will get you no where with me.

Cassie: Meanie! Stop it!

Zurik: You are in no position to speak, little girl. Terminus, are you available to help me dispose of these two?

Me: You do realize that once Hetsila gets back, you're going to be ten times more trouble than you were with Beduuin?

Zurik: I'll take my chances. [Turns briefly and fires a blast of wind at Roadash] If you value your life, boy, I suggest you remain on the ground.

Me: He's getting scary.

Cassie: And you're having Chase face him>!

Me: Hey, Chase gets braver.

Cassie: You should bring him back.

Me: Not now. I still need to locate Mark.

Aris: Or remember him. Goodness knows where the poor boy is.

Me: Ah, I'm sure he's fine.

Terminus: *reappears* What two?

Me: Umm...I think Cassie and Alexis...

Terminus: Oh. *strolls up behind Cassie* Ello! Mind if I break your arm?

Me: *head/desk*

Me - (is laughing at Terminus's last sentence)

Niarah - I'm not seeing the amusement here.

Me - (Ignores character)

Niarah - Great. (Springs at Zurik, swinging her staff at his head) C'mon Kaida, let's get 'im!

Thysal - (Watching) Oh snowflakes . . .

Silver - Ok, we all ready? (Tenses)

Ember - C'mon, bring it!

Sylvia - (Huddles down on Erronys) Ready?

Ryan - On your mark, get set . . .

Ashrai - (sways to the side, wrapping his tail about Mordir's leg and jerking him back, stabbing forward with his knife) I'm glad you aren't the surrendering type . . .

Me - Likewise, if he gets too annoying let me know.

Niarah - He has pride issues . . .

Me - Focus!

Niarah - Oh, right!

Levi: *lowers his head into the water*

Victor: *squirms for a moment but settles himself*

Lyna: *leans under the water and lowers a pair of second eyelids for aquatic use*

Erronys: *folds his wings and prepares for a jolt*

Malcolm: *stretches himself as straight as he can*

Brand: *sits on a small rock and tries not to get swept away before the race starts*

Trevelian: *stands on the opposite river bank with his hands behind his back, a look of amusement on his face*

Skootter: *climbs onto Trevelian's shoulder*

Guilo: *folds his wings and runs his hand through his hair*

Amos: @Aelynna Wanna watch?

Kaida: *hits the ground just inches from Zurik, stands and blows the hair from her eyes* Were this a mere sword, and I a mere swordsman I may agree but let it be said that I do nothing mere. *uppercuts to Zurik's solar plexus*

Fallen: ...I don't actually know what it's made of... *grimaces as Tynx slips free*


Alaric: *holds on tightly* Good idea...

Ah against the ground. Either way, same result. He hooked his arms, taking Griffin's support out from under him.

Rodash: *stumbles backwards, and looks at Cassie, then pulls a dagger from his belt and throws it at Terminus with startling accuracy*

Cuoash: *looks warily at Fallen*

Rinifer: I apologize, but my author has lost his head again. Who is waiting for who?

Me: *laughs at Rinifer's comment* Poor Caleb. We must help him find his head.

Terminus: *catch dagger in his hand* Really? A dagger? Swords and arrows do nothing...or didn't you tell them that, Emuna?

Brian: *cough* No.

Terminus: Did I ask you?

Brian: Nope! How am I doing on this test?

Terminus:

Me: (@Elanhil) Devon just tried to sweep Rinifer

Alexis: *jumps clear of the explosion* *whirls around to face Terminus, sword pointed at his heart* Oh no, you don't. *lunges*

Skylar: *finds rope* (@Pirzak and Raczr) Keep distracting her, guys!

Terminus: *grabs Alexis' sword's blade with his hand (which is now covered in navy blue light...or rather, darkness)* *turns those sword in his hand* Hey, this is a nice sword. Really durable. Would be terrible if I just snapped the blade in two... *light grows from Terminus' hand to the blade of the sword*

Griffin: (pushes out head-first using his feet)

Griffin: (uses both their weights to throw both of them sideways and rolls so he is on top and springs off of Beduun)

Alexis: (@Terminus) It is nice, isn't it? It was my ancestor's. *kicks Terminus's wrist to get him to release the sword*

Griffin: (twists Beduun's arm, causing great pain, slipping out his legs as he does, kneeing Beduun in the chest and pushing free)

How does he twist his arm? There are lots of different defenses to those... unless you just want me to say:

Beduuin neutralizes the twist and maintains the mount.

No, he kinda grabs the Beduun's arm as he hooks Griffin's and twists it back.