"Are you going to let me out of here anytime soon?" the demoness
asked them, looking out from the enchanted circle irritably. Her long
blue hair flowed down her back, the red and black garb she wore hugging
her generously proportioned body.
"Myah," the little brown furred creature sitting at her feet
looked around curiously, also contained by the circle.
"We'll think about it," Kitty said dryly, her brown haired tied
back to keep it out of her eyes. She looked over at Rachel and Illyanna,
"She sure doesn't look like a demon."
"Sorry," Rachel said sheepishly, the redhead looking mildly
embarrassed, "I think I may have mis-pronounced part of the summoning
spell."
"Well, let me try something," Illyanna said. She chanted softly,
light shining around her and their captive, then she said, "She may be
extradimensional, but I don't think she's demonic."
"All right," Kitty nodded, "we'd better let her go."
"I'll do it," Rachel nodded. She girl in jeans and T-shirt
raised her hands in occult gestures, concentrating, then spoke the words
to break the sealing circle.
"Thanks," the woman stretched out with a smile. She looked at
the three ladies thoughtfully and said, "Name's Ryouko."
"Myah," the little creature bounced forward, it's rabbit hind
legs letting it move easily, the catlike face sniffing around.
Lockheed dropped down to the ground by it, the gray little
dragon looking over at it thoughtfully before asking, "Coo?"
The cabbit tilted it's head to the side, "Myah!"
"I'm really sorry about this," Rachel said.
"It's all right," Ryouko looked around, a slight smile on her
face, "at least it'll make a good story for Tenchi and the others."
"Let me know when you want to leave," Illyanna said, studying
Ryouko thoughtfully as she continued, "we can either try reversing the
original enchantment or I can just transport you back using my stepping
disks."
'Well,' Kitty thought, 'I'm glad our guest is taking this well.'
After their visit to Xavier's the three had returned to the
Sanctum, where she and Illyanna had taken up the training of Rachel. It
was a bit odd, especially with their new apprentice's previous
experience with them, but it was going pretty well.
'Which reminds me,' Kitty thought as she moved over to Rachel's
side and softly said, "Don't worry, it's an understandable mistake."
"I doubt you two would have done something like this," Rachel
sighed.
Kitty surprised her with a soft chuckle, "Remind me to tell you
the story of the multiple Deaths sometime."
Ryouko looked at Illyanna thoughtfully, studying the slim blonde
in her skin-tight jeans and clinging shirt, and Illyanna raised an
eyebrow, "What?"
"You people use real magic," Ryouko noted, "weird. The closest
thing we have is my... mom Washu's crazy inventions."
Illyanna smiled back with a shrug, "It's something you get used
to, eventually."
"Myah," the fur ball looked up at Illyanna, then rubbed against
her leg.
Ryouko bent down and picked it up, "Come here, Ryo-Ohki." She
scratched it behind the ears as she said, "I think she's getting to like
it here a bit too much. You mind sending us back?"
"Ray," Illyanna turned to the apprentice, "you want to take a
shot at it?"
Rachel gulped nervously then nodded, "I'll try." She took her
position on a chalk drawn sigil, her voice rising and falling as she
carefully reversed the original enchantment. There was a 'bamf' of
displaced air and their guests suddenly disappeared.
Kitty did a quick scan of the room with the amulet she wore at
the base of her throat and smiled, "You did it."
"Not bad at all," Illyanna agreed.
Kitty jotted down something in a notebook, her finger tracing
the words in silver on the sheet. "What are you doing?" Rachel blinked.
"Writing down the variation you made in the spell," Kitty said
as she finished, "we might want to try summoning something from that
dimension intentionally."
"You worry me sometimes, love," Illyanna said, stepping up to
her girlfriend's side, "we have no idea the kind of trouble we could
call up."
Kitty shrugged eloquently, "Pushing back the unknown in magic
has it's risks." She beamed, "Or we could always go there!"
Rachel sighed softly at that, then her stomach growled into the
silence. "Sorry," she said, looking mildly embarrassed.
Illyanna smiled, "Let's go get some lunch."
A quick snack in the kitchen and Rachel was looking at them
curiously, "So how many of the mystical heavyweights have shown up yet?"
"Not too many," Kitty munched her sandwich happily, "there was
Nightmare, of course."
"He tried to capture us in a dreamscape of Xavier's school,"
Illyanna remembered, "but our psychic link let us join forces against
him."
"You mentioned the Deaths," Rachel noted.
"A few goddesses stopped in one from Japan," Illyanna frowned
slightly, "I didn't like Urd hitting on Kitty, though."
"Considering she hit on you right after," Kitty said, "I wasn't
too worried about it."
"The vision of Eternity was creepy," Illyanna sighed.
"Eternity?" Rachel squeaked.
"The personification of the universe," Kitty agreed. She sighed,
"He manifested shortly after Dr. Strange left, I assume to see if we
could do the job."
"And then there's all the magic posers we've had stopping by,"
Illyanna made a face. "There are so many goofs I'm not even going to
start," she finished.
"I remember you two mentioning Spellvis," Rachel smirked.
"God he was lame," Kitty groaned.
Illyanna changed the subject, "I wish we knew what to do about
the Phoenix's enemy."
There was a sudden disturbance in the Sanctum shields, both
Kitty and Illyanna leaping to their feet. A figure wreathed in fire
materialized there and both girls puffed out a sigh of relief. "Sorry,"
Phoenix said, the double of Jean Gray smiling.
"You mind giving us some warning next time?" Illyanna snarled.
"I thought I did," Jean said mildly.
Quickly putting a calming hand on her lover's arm Kitty said to
Phoenix, "So what do we owe the pleasure of this visit?"
"There's something... wrong, in England," Jean said, sounding
mildly confused. "Something hides it from my vision, but there is a
darkness there."
Both Kitty and Illyanna instantly became serious, rising to
their feet. "Let's check out the orbs," Illyanna offered grimly.
The group walked to the orb room, Kitty passing the great Orb
and picking up a lesser crystal ball. She held it in her hands, closing
her eyes as she concentrated, feeling for what the Phoenix had sensed.
Suddenly the orb flared, there was a scent of ozone then suddenly it
simply exploded!
"Kitty!" Illyanna ran to her side as the smoke cleared.
Kitty smiled, smoke curling off her clothes as she said, "I
phased, avoided the most of it."
"Yes, I think there's something wrong in England," Rachel
concluded softly.
To be continued....
Author's Notes: Yes, that's Ryouko and Ryo-Ohki from Tenchi Muyo. As
Ryouko has often been mistaken for a demon it seemed oddly fitting she'd
get called up by accident. Urd is the big sister of Skuld who showed up
in an earlier chapter.
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