Deadly reunions!

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in Limbo

[Isis was thrown back, and hit the floor by a blast...she placed her hand on her chest, where the pain was the worst...as she finally gained her sense of direction and ability to stand. a soft incantation allowed the wounds to begin to close up as she struggled to her feet, seeing Spellbinder SAVAGELY attack Set.]

[ NO!]

NO!

[ The honor of striking Set was HER'S. Morgan was to complete the removal of the rune on Nicolas!]

[ she reached Spellbinder and placed a hand on her arm]

SPellbinder, STOP! You yourself said we must not get side tracked! Besides, the honor...the RIGHT of repaying Set for the pain he has caused is MINE.

[ and with that, Isis looks at Set with nothing but contempt, takes aim and BLASTS Set with golden hued energy that is the next best thing to PLASMA! she intends to BURN him to his core with this mystic energy.]

[ Spellbinder ceases her assault, but ensures that the vines remain intact, holding Set in place. the only way for him to escape with his l ife from Limbo is to evacuate.]

I will NEVER surrender to you, THING OF EVIL! You may fooled those foolish mortals with your lies, but I know the TRUTH. You TRICKED my sister, you CAUSD Isis the goddess to FORSAKE HER, that is the ONLY reason you gained access to our village. Well this is NOT the village and I am NOT weak. Your terror is only as stong as the person who gives into that fear and I do NOT!
 
in Limbo

<< Spellbinder laughed smugly as she attacked Set.>>

Pathetic piece of TRASH! You're NOTHING. Just like i kicked Zeus' ASS...I will BURN yours to A CRISP!

<< Dominique reaches out...and demands the Sorceress follow through with their plan. She also claims the RIGHT to strike at Set herself, which Morgan can't argue. But DAMN, to be robbed of such a symphonic climax of GLEE as she attacks this creature with a VENGEANCE!>>

<< she looks at Isis.>>

Make it count, Dominique. THe vines will prevent him from doing anything...his only choice is to evacuate otherwise, he can kiss any chance goodbye!

<< she and Isis move quickly...with Spellbinder now looking upon Nicolas, who was on his knee.>>

I dont even know who you are anymore. You HURT me.

<< again, she had no idea that she'd be repeating this AGAIN for a far different reason in the near future.>>

You treated me like i was FAYE RAE in King Kong...and what would you have done if i'd given in? Impregnated ME like your marauding father did Isis' sister? Seen ME dead for the purpose of spreading your own seed?

I dont know what you THINK you were going to do, but that stops NOW.

<< she raises her sword as she removes one of the crystals and deactiveates the crystal cage.>>

You're coming back to your senses now before you do something you will forever regret.

<< not realizing that he may aleady HAVE.>>

<< she swings the sword, bring it down and across his his chest as the blade and its eneragy SHATTERS the rune, and its flickering energy flows off his chest and fades into the air. she quickly REACTIVATES the crystal cage as she pulls back, standing there with her sword poised for striking/defense.>>
 
Set was stunned momentarily as Morgan gave him a quick uppercut. He is held fast by the vines as he roars, straining them, but THEY HOLD!!! The dark sorceress is impeded by Dominique, who blasts him herself. She speaks of how Set had actually fooled Nicolas' mother, screaming it for the young demigod to hear. Set roars as his form becomes amorphous, slipping the vines as he blasts the sorceress back.

Curse your pet realms, w-witch. My sister is the queen of those magics, and they will not be the end of me today!!!I will flay you alive once you return to Earth. You will join your WEAK sister in death!!

And with that Set escaped back to Earth, biding his time until he was ready to make his move.

As Set departed, Morgan addressed Nicolas, as he struggled beneath the rune and his father's influence, alternately roaring and sobbing for release as he suffered by dual agonies. Once Morgan struck him with the soul sword, he lurched froward, falling on his face and lying very still as his form changed slowly but surely, back to the man Morgan knew before. After a time, he slowly pushed himself up, staggering, then more steady as he stood before her. His face a mask of pain as he both realized what had been done to him and why Dominique hated him so. he could see her face clearly now, as he had the visions from two sources to enlighten him. He projected her face and reached out to it, tears staining the ground in front of him. Morgan would remember that he had searched for a mother his whole life, only to find that HE had killed her just by being BORN.

OhmamamamaI am so sorry. Iwishthadbeenme...beenmeinstead.
 
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Spellbinder said:
You're pathetic, Haleigh. And to think, I TRUSTED you.
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Haleigh's expression hardened. Morgan's first response seemed to strike the hybrid pretty deeply... but Haleigh was far too invested by now to allow even the most [unintentionally] meaningful words to sway her back.

This isnt the woman that i've heard SO MUCH about, her decorated military career....this is a woman who is desperate to get in where she fits in.
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"No.... you're WRONG. THIS is a woman who has been utterly abandonned by those who CLAIM to have cared about her. THIS is a woman who has ALWAYS been capable of doing what she MUST.... only the STRONG survive, Spellbinder.... and they do it by WHATEVER MEANS NECESSARY..... by doing WHATEVER it takes.... enter THIS woman. I WILL survive, Spellbinder. I ALWAYS do."

She responded, calmly. Despite the verbal guilt trip Morgan tried to lay on her, Haleigh was as resolute as ever.... completely convinced that this was the ONLY way. Morgan tried to dissuade her from aligning with Set, going so far as to insult her decision. With a flick of her gold laden wrist, Haleigh dismissed Morgan's words.

"Don't patronize me, Spellbinder. You don't know what you're talking about.... but then.... you rarely do."

She retorts, as Morgan melts the gun from her hand... Haleigh drops the slag, not harmed by the heat of the metal... she shrugs, pointing at Morgan's soul sword and deadpanning:

"Nice sword. What are you going to do, poke me with it? COME ON, Spellbinder... even after what I've done.... I don't think you have it IN YOU to hurt me.... doing so would require you giving in to your DARKER side... your Inferno side.... you would view that as a loss of control.... and you just don't have what it takes to reconcile with that part of you."

But Spellbinder seemed INTENT to prove Haleigh wrong, appearing in front of her and making to SLICE her in half diagonally! Haleigh tried to LEAP backwards but the tip of the sword caught her, raking its way across her torso..... haleigh's hands instinctively went to the wound, as she fell to her knees, expecting blood to pour out... but she wasn't cut.... but she WAS liberated.... and everything that had happened... everything that she'd DONE and everything done TO HER.... came crashing down upon her like an avanlanche. Morgan and Isis made a formidable team, and they worked together to EXPEL Set and free Nicolas from his rune.... Haleigh just watched, resting back on her haunches.... her mind blazing a million thoughts per second.... what have I done?? This time.... she was allowed to think it THROUGH.... and the implication CRUSHED HER. The dust settled.... and Haleigh looked up at Morgan... her expression poignant.

"Morgan..... I'm so sorry.... I...."

She said softly.... but Morgan would not yet know the entire scope of what Haleigh meant.... that would come later. For now... Morgan and Isis dealt with Nicolas..... and Haleigh retreated into herself, burying her face in her hands. Anger, resentment, disappointment, self-loathing, remorse.... It was too much emotion for one person to experience all at once.
 
in Limbo

<< Spellbinder glared at Set as he disappeared, KNOWING that he realized he was in over his head.>>

You BETTER run!

<< she called out.>>

<< but then, the AFTERMATH of this plan of theirs...as Nicolas and Haleigh BOTH were hit with the REALITY of what they'd done. The TRUTH about Nicolas' birth seem to set into Nicolas as he grieved for his mother.>>

<< Isis and Morgan stood side by side, looking at them both...and the two women's faces...softened, as each seemed to realize that they too had just freed themselves of the burden of having to KILL these two.>>

Nicolas....Haleigh...

<< Nicolas staggered toward both of them and Isis took a defensive stance.>>

It's allright, Isis...he won't hurt you.

<< she could TELL that Nicolas was himself again, at least for now.

<< Morgan wanted to reach out but she stopped herself. Haleigh seemed VERY guilt ridden and apologetic, like there was something else...something MORE she'd done but WHAT? Now was not the time. they had to get to the others.>>

Listen...I know that you're both hurting. But we have to rejoin the others. The Six and the Sisterhood. They've formed a truce, working together to prepare to rescue US. We have to get to them now , and only then can we ALL deal with Set.

It's not over yet!

<< Morgan helped Haleigh to stand, but Isis wouldnt go anywhere NEAR Nicolas. She may not have looked AS hatefull, but her eyes said it all>>
 
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[ Isis' eyes fixed on Set's eyes. she would not back down in her unwavering stare.]

I AM Isis' living avatar. All that she knows...all that she experienced...I KNOW...and SHE hates you as much as I do. She was laying plans for your destruction once before. You only DELAYED the inevitable!

[ Set disappeared, Dominique's hair blows back from the feedback of his furied escape...and as Morgan shouts out after him, the two women looked at each other. They had SUCCEEDED in freeing Haleigh and destroying the Rune on Nicolas. That, SEVERED his unwitting connection, being the "living gateway" for the TRUTH about himself...his TRUE father.]

[ as the two mutants struggled and reeled from the pain and grief over what they'd learned/done...Dominique stood with Morgan. She looked upon Nicolas with contempt, but his cried out for his mama, her own facial expression began to soften..just a little. He came near her and she prepared to attack but Morgan kept her from doing so. It was REFLEX more than anything.]

[ this young man...he seemed genuinely grief stricken over the loss of his mother, but how could she reach out to him, how could she comfort him KNOWING what he was, KNOWING that he was about to GIVE IN to his father! It may have been a combination of the rune and Set's own manipulation, but Dominique was about as unforgiving as HECATE in this instance. But just as much b lood had been spilled and tragedy had rained down because of the rift between Persephone and Demeter, all of THIS was the result of a bitter "Family" dysfuction that ONLY Isis could now fix. It was just as Morgan had said, the goddess intended for Dominique to not only reach out to N icolas as his only surviving blood relative, but as the woman Isis granted the power to keep Set from ever reaching Nicolas again.]

[ could she REALLY let go of her hatred, her anger...and embrace her TRUE destiny? she didnt know if she had the strength...the COURAGE to see Nicolas as anything MORE than a demon seed.]

[ as Spellbinder admonished them to prepare to keep moving toward the final conflict. Isis would not move to help Nicolas. she kept her distance and instead silently processed the new information that Malice and Enchantra had been working with the Six to help get HER back as wel!]

they stood by me , even as my own nightmare became a reality!

[ she quietly waited for Morgan to take them back to the others. her eyes shifting to keep tabs on Nicolas every few moments.]
 
and so

<< and so, from two opposite directions, over half of the Six and one third of the Sisterhood prepare to meet up with the other half. Each side having made important, critical strides toward the common goal of VICTORY and without the needless loss of Nicolas or anyone else!>>

<< still it was a bittersweet moment in Limbo, for even as the pair of sorceresses managed to free Nicolas and Haleigh, Dominique would still NOT even attempt to reach out to the young mutant, as he struggled to face the reality of his origin. She was his last living relative. Would that count for something or would there be a wide rift between them in the same tradition as Persephone and Demeter?>>

<< there was no time to address that now, as Spellbinder , herself unaware of the ultimate betrayal that had been commited against HER by Haleigh and Nicolas, marshalled them and teleported them from Limbo to Aerie!>>


<< the final act of this nightmare was coming up, but the aftershocks of this experience were far from being finished.>>

<< and so we watch.>>
 
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