Kneel to the Queen (Traci)

[Cyclone]

Players: Cyclone and Traci 13
Location(s):Cambridge
Plot Summary: An evil Queen arrivd to build her kingdom in Cambridge. The only ones that can stop her are Traci 13 and Cyclone.

It was already midnight when Maxine finally entered trough the window of her dorm. She was really exhausted after patrolling the city. She was glad she did all the work before the patrol cause the red haired girl didn't want to do it now. Without bothering in changing of clothes she landed in her bed and soon fell asleep glad that nothing bad happened in Cambrdige.

Meanwhile in the center of Kendall Square a cloacked woman appeared. She looked around the streets and with a wicked smile she removed her cloack. "Tomorrow my Kingdom will rise and nobody wil stop me not even Snow White!"said with a laugh as she grabbed from a sack a few seeds of la dark color she then threw to the ground and the seeds dissapeared.



"Yes!! I can see my happy ending now. All will kneel to me and those who wont will suffer the consequences!!!!"she laughed and dissapeared in a puff of smoke. After this, dark blackberry bushes started to emerge of the ground and expanded through Cambridge.

The Next Morning

Maxine woke up with the noises of the screams and jumped out of the bed scared. "What's going on?"asked the red haired girl as she walked towards the window while rubbing her eyes. She gasped shocked to the sight in front of her: many of the buildings were covered by giant blackberyy bushes, the Charles river was now of a black color and people were running away from monster that lookid like trolls or goblins who were armed with swords axes or maces. The sky was of a dark green color and many clouds were indicating that a storm was coming.

Maxine quickly came back to reality when she saw that a couple was about to be smashed by a troll. The redf haired girl jumped through the window and flew towards the couple. Cyclone summoned a whirlwind that moved them away and safe. The troll looked really big and right now the freckled wasn't sure she could beat him. "Are you alright?"asked Maxine to the couple. "Yes, yes thanks a lot. What the hell is going on?"replied the man totally scared and freaked out.

"Wish that I could know"replied Maxine. "You two better go and take cover. I'll try to handle this while the cavalry arrives. Don't worry everything will be alright"said Maxine to the couple as they ran away. The red haired girl wished she was right cause she diddn't know where to start. "And I believed that everything was fine last nigh"said Cyclone to herself.

[Traci Thirteen]

No actually, it's pretty cool. She let me be her apprentice... like her legitimate magician's apprentice... No she doesn't wear rubber shoes, that's just dumb. Huh... look, babe I'll call you back, just got queue'd into a game. I'll hit you back when I'm done. ...kay. She closed her phone and picked up her controller as she began bounding around a video game world. It was Traci's day off from the world. The city seemed to be relatively safe, she didn't have any impromptu training sessions with Zatanna.. life was good. Save for her inability to get a single kill. Maybe jetsetting around the world was taking a serious toll on her video game situation. She had all the time in the world to work on it though...

When she made that decision, the sun was slowly going down. When she finally turned off her console, the sun had been blazing in the sky for hours. She was drop dead tired... and as she glanced over her shoulder at her bed, she felt an elation just rising in her gullet. She dropped her controller and slinked over towards her bed, falling down onto the sheets and falling asleep as quickly as humanly possible. She was asleep for somewhere around 30 minutes until a bolt of electricity jumped across her spine. She woke with a start and stared over at Leroy, who was looking out the window, his tongue out and his senses definitely on edge. She crawled out of bed and rested a hand on his tail before being ripped out of time and space.

She reappeared in the middle of...somewhere. Twirling around on the spot, she picked up a few context clues. Orcs running around attacking people, the sky was black, brambles and blackberries everywhere.. She clapped her hands together and pointed at the biggest orc. Tíng zhǐ! A bolt of energy escaped her fingers and wrapped around the orc, keeping him completely in place. She darted forward and approached one of her recently saved civilians. What is happening here, like honestly.. Where is this place and what has gone wrong? After a few moments of mumbling, swearing and apologizing. She knew that she was now in Cambridge, Mass, whatever was going on had only just begun and... there was a barrier going up around the town?

She stared up into the sky and watched as a massive dome spread it's way over the entire town, effectively trapping everyone inside. Great... trapped outside the world in my boxers and a bunch of orcs mucking about... another day in the life of Girl 13. She started moving out towards the center of town. These things usually emanated from one point and most villains were conceited enough to be right in the middle of it all.

[Cyclone]

"This will take care of you!"said Maxine as she summoned a tornado to threw a van to the troll head. Once the van impacted it's target, the monster didn't move. "One less"Maxine breathed relieved. But as she started to fly she saw that some kind of energy bubble was trapping everybody in the city. "Oh no! This can't be good!"exclaimed shocked the red haired girl. She was clearly trapped and alone.

MEANWHILE

IN the center of the town a small castle with a large tower appeared minutes before the attack. Inside the tower, the Queen of Fables walked to a mirror. "Mirror Mirror... how is my conquest going?"asked the Queen to the mirror. In the mirror appeared a thin mouth and small eyes. "The barrier has been set and your minions have been able to subdue all the habitants of this people. But...there are two individuals that are resisting and are coming here to your castle"replied the mirror.

"What!!?? Who dare to rebel against me? Show me those fools!!!!"ordered the Queen angrily. In the mirror appeared the images of a red haired girl dressed in green witch dress, and a black haired girl with a shirt and boxers. "Dorothy Gale"said with hate as she looked to the red haired girl flying in a tornado. "And Red Riding Hood"said looking at the dark haired girl. "How dare those stupid girls to defy me? I'll make sure that they'll wish to stay in their homes. Maybe their old devils will be a able to finish them this time!"said the witch as from her hands she sent two dark spheres and one of the spheres howled like a wolf.

BACK WITH MAXINE

"Maybe this is magic and an evil wizard summon them. Or maybe a mad scientist had secret lab here an unleashed an army of monsters. Or this could be an invasion of a parallel dimension. Or a rift in time and space that is causing a time paradox. Or maybe I'm still dreaming and this is a proof that I shouldn't ate ice cream before sleeping.Maxine was talking with herself about the probably cause of all this chaos as she flew towards a strange castle that appeared in the center of Cambridge.

Suddenly Maxine started to feel dizzy and landed near a park. She gasped shocked when she saw her own reflection in the river. She was dressed like Judy Garland in the wizard of Oz!!!



"Alright...this is magic..."said to herself. Although she liked to dress like her favorite characters of musicals and movies this wasn't the right moment. "And braids...seriously? I totally hate braids. I always end with some awful knots in the hair when I got braids and...Ufff!!! Before she could something, something hit her hard in the back sending her towards some bushes. "Ow!Ow! Ow! and...Ow!"shouted Cyclone when she looked what attacked her, the freckled girl saw three dark skinned flying monkeys that were nearly of her size. And they didn't look friendly.

[Traci Thirteen]

Despite her earlier discomfort with running around half naked, casting spells and saving the day.. she felt like your average superhero chick in the 70s and 80s. Though if she was going to be honest, being oogled by people who were supposed to be frightened for their lives was just making her want to leave them behind. She was about to chew someone out before a battle axe almost took off her head. She did lose a few dozen strands of hair, and maybe a bit of scalp. Dabbing her hand at the bloodied wound, she grimaced up at the big creature. This was going to suck...

Ducking under another axe attack, she slid away from her attacker and drew a long symbol on her arms with the blood from her head. Blood Magic was some of the most dangerous magic an inexperienced mage could ever think to use. It drained from the users life force, it had unwieldy range and it brought the young mage ever closer to the dark side of the force. Yet as the blood on her arms began glowing bright silver and the orc was raised in a ball of slowly constricting energy, she knew being bad looked so much cooler. Yet.. she didn't know if the orc ever did meet it's end.

She was caught in a swirl of powerful magic and the next thing she knew, she was on the edge of some.. forest. The dome of magic ended right behind her.. and the only way to proceed was to go through the woods. Wasn't that just fancy. She took a step forward and instantly she felt wrong. Conjuring a mirror out of one of the trees, she admired her reflection. Oh nice.. I'm like.. a gothic red riding hood. I bet Jaime would love this one on Halloween.



She wrapped her hands around the red robe and twirled it from side to side before she heard a dark howling from out in the trees. If she was Red Riding Hood.. then her Big Bad Wolf had to be waiting for her out by grandma's house. She could still feel the blood seals on her arms so she knew she was protected.. if only a little. Clutching her picnic basket, she stepped slowly through the woods towards where she could feel the magic coming from. It was a quiet walk.. until of course she heard a heavy breathing and snarling from behind her.

Oh my, Grandma.. what large stench you carry... She raised her hands and felt the power charge running along her arms once more. All the better to frighten you with, my dear.. Traci spun around on the spot and threw a bolt of force at the beast, sending it careening into the sky. She waved her hands around, chanting under her breath to summon an item of grave importance. As the wolf came falling down towards her, foaming at the mouth and howling to it's creator, she summoned a large axe reminiscent of the one she had been attacked with. Why, Grandma.. what lovely LOVELY... FUR you have! With a wide arc, the blade struck clean through the wolf's neck, decapitating it and freeing her from her 'nightmare'.

Once more unto the breach... and this time, there had better not be any fairy tales looking to stop her from her goal.

[Cyclone]

"Okay, this is getting more weird"said maxine a little shocked by the sight of the three black haired flying monkeys. The legion of trolls, the energy dome, the change of clothes and now the flying monkeys...yup, this was magic. But now the red haired girl had to worry about the three apes who looked very hostile. "The Queen had ordered your death, and we'll bring her your head!"shouted one of the monekys. "Wait a minute. Who is the "Queen"? What did I do to upset her? And can you really talk?"asked Maxine to the monkeys. Of course they could talk, they are magic monkeys after all.

Instead of giving answers to her questions, the monkey that talked first, charged towards the red haired girl. Maxine was barely able to dodge it, as she screamed of pian when the monkey scratched her leg. Maxine flew faster towards the forest, there she could mislead her enemies. As she arrived to the forest one of the monkeys grabbed one of her braids and pulled it with strenght. "Owww! Owww! Hair pulling? Seriously?Get of me!!"shouted Maxine as she used a wind current to send the monkey towards a tree. When the monkey impacted in the tree, he exploded like a balloon. BOOOOOMMMMM!!!!! The good thing is that it seemed that they were only filled with air.

The red haired girl looked to the remaining apes with her eyes open wide by the surprise. "Ummm...I...I didn't know that would happen..."started to say the freckled girl to the monkeys. The apes simply squealed and charged towards the red haired girl. Maxine started to fly again the faster she could but the monkeys were catching up with her. "Alright change of tactic!"said as she used a tornado to hurl a rock towards her adversaries. The rock impacted one of the monkeys. BOOOOOMMMMMM!!!!!. These creatures were like balloons and that gave Maxine a wicked idea. She concentrated and use her wind powers to inflate the monkey. The remaining ape started to get fattier and fattier. "This is for the Scarecrow!"replied Maxine befroe the monkey exploded. BOOOOOOMMMM!!!!.

Before she could relax after her victory, Maxine heard a wolf's howl. "I didn't like how that howl sounded"said to herself panicked. The howl was near she was. She flew towards the origin of that horrible sound, and gasped shocked by the scene in front of her: A gothic girl dressed as Red Riding Hood with a crimsom sword and the decapitated body of a big wolf. Maxine landed to the ground and in a combat position. "First of all...put down the sword to the ground please...and secondly are you one of the good guys? Or are you the famous "Queen"?asked the red haired girl towards the strange girl.

[Traci Thirteen]

As she went blow for blow with the big bad, she heard faint sounds of explosions dancing through the air. It seemed that hers wasn't the only fight in town. Good to know that there were some folk around here looking to stand up for themselves. She grabbed her picnic basket off of the ground and pulled an apple from it's insides. Slaying magical creatures was hard work.. she needed a nice snack for her efforts. She rubbed the apple on her dress and bit into it. Damn it felt good to be a wizard. As soon as she was done, she dropped the core by the apple and turned to stalk off.

She swung the blade around so that it rested flat against her shoulder. She was going to keep this bad boy near her for the rest of this insane excursion... Or she would have if she hadn't been stopped by Dorothy Gale. This day was just going to keep getting crazier and crazier until she went insane and got her head chopped off by a playing card. She dropped the axe, letting the blade rest in the dirt as she raised her hands in compliance. Easy, Kansas. I'm not the bad guy here, hell, I don't even live around here and I'm definitely not a queen. A duchess, possibly, but she could never claim to be a queen, evil or otherwise. She pulled her red hood down and crossed her arms, looking at Dorothy intently.

Can you tell me what's going on around here? Either a costume party went frightening wrong or you lot take your fairy tales very seriously. A better question would have been 'Just what the hell is going on in the center of town.' There was some serious magic brewing down there... Fairy Tale magic, like the wickedest form of magic she had ever seen and Traci was going to find it, crush it and if her flying friend here was any help, drown it in water and hope it melts. She wiped her bloodied hand on the hem of her dress and extended it for a handshake. I'm Little Red Riding Hood. It's nice to meet you, Dorothy. She smiled, trying to add a little levity to their no doubt, crazy situation.

This was like a bad fan fic gone wrong and if this queen woman had the ability to breach through Traci's ward magic then taking her out would be a much more difficult task to accomplish. It seemed almost likely that Traci wouldn't be able to do it alone. I know you might be busy.. but would you mind teaming up for this one? I can't fly and uh.. well I have no idea what you can't do, but I'm assuming you'd need my help for something eventually.