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Sunday, May 20, 2007


Tabula Rasa



Chapter 12

“Someone’s going for something big.”

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English class.

We met up with Tarina at the bus station. The last 4 classes went smoothly, or as Malice would put it, it’s been boring as Hell.

So at the moment we’re attending the class and listening the boys in this class. They’re basically destroying every bit of belief about them having brains. Oh well.

Suddenly Tarina pokes me.

“Salla, can I ask you something?”

“Yeah?”

“What do the nasty stuff look like?”

“Why are you asking?”

“Because I just saw a huge blue spider with four yellow legs and one red eye jumping around the yard.”

-Did you hear that Malice?-

-Hey I’m not deaf.-

-So what do we do?-

-We go to the bathroom.-

-What?!-

-You heard me. I go now, you follow me after five minutes have passed.-

-Oh, okay…-

-Great.- “Hei, voinks mä käydä vessassa?” (Hey, can I go to the bathroom?)

“Joo. Käy nopeesti.” (Yeah. Go quickly.)

”Kiitti.” (Thanks.) Malice leaves the classroom.

“You guys have a plan?”

“Malice has a plan to be exact, but that doesn’t comfort me.”

“Huh?”

“Forget it.”

After five minutes I go to the bathroom too. Not.

“Rookie, over here!”

“Where are we going?”

“To the nest.”

“Nest?”

“Please tell me you know what a nest is?”

“Yeah, yeah so what do we do there?”

“Hack’n’slash of course.”

“Oh yeah. And after that?”

“Get back to class and see if the big evil guy notices his missing minions.”

“Thank you, that really made me feel better!”

“Drop the sarcasm rookie. It doesn’t suit you.”

“Gee, thanks.”

“Pas de probléme.” (No problem.)

She’s obsessed about showing-off her language skills.

“Okay, move out!”

~*~*~*~*~

“And the nest is HERE?”

“Where did you think it would be?”

“I don’t know, but not-“

“Shh. Quiet.”

After the millions of spruces and pine trees (and the tens of millions of pine and spruce needles in my hair) we reach the nest. Or so Malice says, I don’t see anything.

“Where are all the-”

“Good question.”

Thump.

Rustling.

Thump thump.

“Malice?”

“Yeah?”

Thump thump thump. More rustling and thumps.

“I think we found them.”

“You don’t say?” Her cross glows, the rapier appears and that’s about all I see before she’s back to her mad killer-dance and the spiders go down one by one.

“Rookie! A little help here!”

Oh. Right.

A spider appears behind my back. Perfect.

I form a ball of water in my hand (I’ve been practicing my magic for a while and I can do only a few things for now) and aim for the blue jumper. The pressure releases right at the spider which gets a few gallons of water against it. It hits a near tree before burning away in green flames.

“Rookie!”

I’m already forming the next attack. A big swan made of water moves around a little before attacking a small group of spiders. Unfortunately Malice is right in the middle of the spiders and gets her share of the water too. I look around. No spiders in sight.

Malice on the other hand is getting up from the wet ground, pulling the drenched strands of hair off her face and giving me death-glares.

“You are SO going to train that aim of your once we get back to the Other Side.”

“I swear it was an accident!”

“Aim-practice, and no buts!”

She looks around too and I notice the necklace back around her throat.

“Well that was quick. I thought that there would be more of those bugs.”

“We gotta get back to class.”

“If you wanna explain why I’m drenched! We were supposed to be in the bathroom!”

“Pff. Okay that’d be tricky.”

“So I say we ditch the rest of the day, I try to dry myself and we wait for Tarina.”

“Sounds like a plan.”

“Naturally. Now let’s get back to school and find something I can use as a towel.”

~*~*~*~*~

After the end of the last lesson.

Tarina gives us a look and asks what happened to Malice. She seems amused.

“Do not ask if you wanna keep your pretty head on your shoulders.”

“Fine, fine. I assume you found the spider?”

“A nest of them actually.”

“A NEST?!

“Keep it down moron.”

“Sorry.”

“A suspiciously small nest really.”

“Huh?”

“Oh c’mon, any idiot would know that it was way too small to have been there for more than a week.”

“Which means?”

“…”

“Malice?”

“…I gotta ask Kyoto once we get to the local force’s base.”

“Who’s Kyoto?”

“A smartass who’s probably playing solitaire even now.”

“If he plays solitaire all day long why is he so strong?”

“He trains his skills, something you apparently have never done!”

“I told you it was an accident!”

“And I told you to practice your aim! Think about what might have happened if there would’ve been more spiders and you would’ve accidentally knocked me out!”

“Alright! I get it!”

“Why did you two become a pair?”

“’Cause the people upstairs HATE me.”

“What?”

“Forget it. It’s nothing you should worry about.”

“Okay…”

~*~*~*~*~

At the local force’s base (LFB for short).

Malice’s been talking on her cell for about half an hour.

I’ve been chatting with Katja. Now that’s an energetic girl. She won’t take those cat ears off.

“Okay, so what do we do?” A pause. “Alright. You really sure about it? The local force hasn’t mentioned anything.” A pause. “Yeah. Right. Well gotta go now, bye.” She shuts her cell.

“This is weird. There’ve been reports about small spider nests and all that all over the world. They’ve been taken care of, but it’s still weird. And they just pop out of nowhere with no explanation. It was suggested that someone’s trying to cause a smaller demons’ revolution over humans.”

“So what do we do?”

“We take care of this case and get back as soon as possible.”

“And how do we do that?”

“If there are smaller minions, there’s gotta be a big minion that rules over the small ones. It’s simple, really.”

“So we kill the big minion and we’re done?”

”Probably.”

“Alright. So how do we find the big guy?”

Malice pulls out a map. It’s just the map of Elimäki (one that includes Koria).

“The nest we got rid of” she says while picking up a red pencil “was about here” she circles the area behind the school building with her pencil “and some other nests have been found here, here, here and here” she circles four other areas.

“Now what does this look like?”

“It’s a formation.”

“Right. And when we draw lines from are to area” she does so “it looks like…?”

I look at the map for a while.

“…it’s star.”

“A pentagram to be exact.”

“What does that mean?”

“Someone’s going for something big.”

“And we should do something about it?”

“Right. But first we gotta look after Tarina and slain the bad boy.”

“Right.”

We’re both quiet for a minute.

“Why does this all seems like X/1999?”

“Can anyone spell coincidence?”

Katja pops up. “C-O-I-N-C-I-D-E-N-C-E!”

Malice stares at her for a minute. “…right.”

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A/N: Another chapter. Well what can I say...

Listening to Minutes To Midnight really speeds up the writing process. Yeah my dad downloaded the mp3-version, but I'm still going to buy the album! I LOVE IT! ^^

So a warning beforehand: the next chapter will be all short clips of what's happening everywhere else (a.k.a. how the other characters are doing). Then we get back to M&A. Okay?

And if you don't know what the reference to X/1999 was about: in that anime there's a pentagram in Tokyo, which forms when you draw lines from one point to another. In the middle of the pentagram was the Tokyo Tower where the last big fight occured.

Well I got to go study some Swedish (evil exam) and French (evil word test) and biology (another evil exam) and listen to some MTM. *waves* Bye for now!


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