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Post by Psylocke (Kwannon) on Dec 2, 2022 22:55:41 GMT
The army that Persha was able to control was able to push back a lot of the horde as they
moved forward towards the Shadow King.. All the telepath’s were connected and now able
to act as one..
Psylocke formed a bow and arrow out of her psychic energy..
“Here we go!” Shouted Kwannon as she shot the arrow and it hit Amahl Faroak in the head..
Suddenly all the telepath’s were inside the mind of Amahl Faroak.. All of them were standing
in a crowded street market in the sixteenth century of Cairo Egypt.. For everyone on the island
it just appeared that the telepaths disappeared..
“This is where it all began!”
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Post by CABLE on Dec 2, 2022 22:59:15 GMT
Cable and Karenza stood together behind the rest of the telepaths close
together in the crowded street..
“It looks like we are not standing out among the people in the market..”
Cable said as he was a bit concerned over the situation..
“Now we have to figure this out and separate the Shadow King from Faroak..
Where to begin?” Cable said as he looked all around..
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Post by SABER ( Sinnergy Phoenix) on Dec 2, 2022 23:01:46 GMT
“I have psychically synchronized our energy into Faroak’s subconscious so we can blend
into his mind easier.” Saber said in response to Cable about all of them not standing
out to the people around them..
“This is the time period in Faroak’s mind before the Shadow King had taken control of
the young boy and became the nexus for the demonic parasite to move between worlds..
We need to find the boy..”
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Post by Betsy Braddock on Dec 3, 2022 14:15:19 GMT
“Do we know how old Amahl was when the Shadow King had taken him?” Betsy said as she looked around and saw more than a dozen kids
with their mothers at the market. She also spotted some kids that were living on the streets homeless.
“He could be any one of these kids.” She said feeling sad and a little frustrated.
“We are in his mind and in his memory so he is here in this market right now.” Betsy looked around and saw a black spider crawling on the side
of a wall. She saw the spider following a real sick man with a young boy about six or seven years old helping the man shop. Betsy studied the
spider and was sure it was following them.
“I think that is the body!” Betsy pointed over to them.
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Post by Karenza the External on Dec 5, 2022 0:43:10 GMT
Kari stood near Nathan and kept one eye on Cailleach as they listened to Betsy's theory about the spider following the boy.
"This is all starting to look a little too familiar, and I have no damned idea why," Kari said quietly as she looked at Nathan, and then she heard Cailleach clicking her tongue against her teeth. "And? You do, I supposed?"
"When this bastard had us all in his damned web in Xavier's vault, we probably saw some fleeting bits of his mindscape as much as he saw ours. And I do not believe that bullshit about Stryfe. No one drops prizes like that in your lap without a very high bill coming due. As much as I would like to be done with all of this, I will follow the lead of the X-Men this one time."
"Lovely," Kari huffed as the group started to follow the sick man and the boy. "And I take it after this you plan to pay Tony Stark a visit? For what happened at Camelot?"
"No," Cailleach hissed as she followed behind Betsy and Saber. "Doom is the one who brought about this mess, not that technological fool Stark. And I will deal with Doom in my own time."
Kari looked at Nathan and shook her head as she grabbed his hand for a moment. "As much as I hate to say this, I do not envy Doom if Stryfe gets a hold of him. Now, where is that boy going? And who or what do we pay attention to first? Is the demon inside the man, ready to possess the boy? Or is it the spider that we need to worry about? It could be either..."
"Or it could be both," Cailleach added. "One could be used as the, well, gateway for the other. One could be the herald, preparing the boy, and one the demon proper, ready to strike."
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Post by Kid Omega on Dec 5, 2022 21:31:52 GMT
“You know it is stuff like this that really shows me that I need to know more about my powers.” Quentin said to his wife when they first were
pulled into the mind of Amahl Faroak as a child. They hid in a memory before the Shadow King had taken control of the child. They were in
Cairo sometime in the sixteenth century and everything looked and felt real to a point. There was still this feeling or a haze to everything.
“This is so wild that we have the ability to do this. I know all of our abilities are linked so we can pull this off and that is way cool.” Quentin
said just before Betsy began to call attention to a spider.
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Post by Althena on Dec 6, 2022 6:49:36 GMT
"I know, it's cool, right!" Marcela said as she walked next to Quentin. Marcela hadn't noticed, but inside of the memory, her appearance was more like that of the Althena's that the X-Men remembered, and her voice had a weird echo on it as well, as if she and the old Althena were talking at the same time. "It's pretty crazy what we can remember in our subconscious. Or what parts we can get to if we submerge into the Superflow and the Astral Plane."While others were focused on trying to figure out what in this dreamscape would lead them to the Shadow King, Marcela knew she had to be careful. With their power combined and inside of a subconscious mind, even if it's Farouk's, allowed her to get closer to her unconscious Althena thanks to the Astral Plane, so in this way, she was able to access certain aspects of her power than she would've been able to normally. Those extra powers weren't much, but she knew just how dangerous what they were doing could be. Not only could they easily get trapped here or worse, the wrong move had the potential of causing this sort of dream to take root and manifest a reality. So even if they destroyed the Shadow King, they could very easily create something worse. She was much more nervous than she let on because of it and did her best to not let it show.
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Post by D on Dec 6, 2022 7:38:30 GMT
Joining the others like he did was much more than what D did with his telepathy normally. And even inside of the memory, D looked like he was struggling. Saber blending them all into the rest of the memory made it easier for him to work, but D was still dealing with psionic energy he had to absorb and boost with his own powers. He didn't use his telepathy like this and on his own, his telepathy wasn't anything close to being strong enough to join in.
"I don't understand how you all manage." Daiyei said as he followed behind the lead of the others and spotted the spider. "Is this how your minds feel all the time? Feels like Juggernaut's taking Deathstrike's hands right into my brain." He didn't think he would be holding them back, but D knew that he was going to feel this once they finished the job.
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Post by COSMOS (Everly R Quire) on Dec 11, 2022 23:53:52 GMT
"I know, it's cool, right!" Marcela said as she walked next to Quentin. Marcela hadn't noticed, but inside of the memory, her appearance was more like that of the Althena's that the X-Men remembered, and her voice had a weird echo on it as well, as if she and the old Althena were talking at the same time. "It's pretty crazy what we can remember in our subconscious. Or what parts we can get to if we submerge into the Superflow and the Astral Plane."While others were focused on trying to figure out what in this dreamscape would lead them to the Shadow King, Marcela knew she had to be careful. With their power combined and inside of a subconscious mind, even if it's Farouk's, allowed her to get closer to her unconscious Althena thanks to the Astral Plane, so in this way, she was able to access certain aspects of her power than she would've been able to normally. Those extra powers weren't much, but she knew just how dangerous what they were doing could be. Not only could they easily get trapped here or worse, the wrong move had the potential of causing this sort of dream to take root and manifest a reality. So even if they destroyed the Shadow King, they could very easily create something worse. She was much more nervous than she let on because of it and did her best to not let it show.
goodbye before leaving back to the alternate future that they had came from. The other was Marcela’s
energy or the merged Marcela and Athena’s energy to be exact. It was a lot like her own energy which
was very similar to that of the Phoenix Force. What connected all of them was their entanglement to the
cosmos. Quentin who was a Phoenix host for a few years also had changed him and had the same shine.
“I agree, Marcela.” Cosmos said as she reached out and grabbed a piece of some sort of baked spiced bread
from a display. She tossed some money to the vendor from thought and he smiled and nodded to her. It had
a strong cinnamon aroma to it. Everly broke it up into three parts and handed one to Quentin and another to
Marecela. Everly took a bite and it was full of flavor in her mouth. It was a strange sensation though. She was
tasting something from Amahl’s memory and she was very aware of this as she took a second bite.
“The conscious mind is remarkable in how it stores information that transcends the physical world.” Everly said
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Post by SABER ( Sinnergy Phoenix) on Dec 11, 2022 23:57:36 GMT
Joining the others like he did was much more than what D did with his telepathy normally. And even inside of the memory, D looked like he was struggling. Saber blending them all into the rest of the memory made it easier for him to work, but D was still dealing with psionic energy he had to absorb and boost with his own powers. He didn't use his telepathy like this and on his own, his telepathy wasn't anything close to being strong enough to join in. "I don't understand how you all manage." Daiyei said as he followed behind the lead of the others and spotted the spider. "Is this how your minds feel all the time? Feels like Juggernaut's taking Deathstrike's hands right into my brain." He didn't think he would be holding them back, but D knew that he was going to feel this once they finished the job.
moved them from side to side.. As he did reality slightly changed in size and brightness
and sounds until Saber could feel that everyone was tuned to the right frequency of reality
they were experiencing.. The sensation that Daiyei was feeling went away as his mind
synchronized to everyone and the mindscape..
“When this is all over and you go back to reality your mental powers will be enhanced because
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Post by CABLE on Dec 12, 2022 0:01:37 GMT
Kari stood near Nathan and kept one eye on Cailleach as they listened to Betsy's theory about the spider following the boy.
"This is all starting to look a little too familiar, and I have no damned idea why," Kari said quietly as she looked at Nathan, and then she heard Cailleach clicking her tongue against her teeth. "And? You do, I supposed?"
"When this bastard had us all in his damned web in Xavier's vault, we probably saw some fleeting bits of his mindscape as much as he saw ours. And I do not believe that bullshit about Stryfe. No one drops prizes like that in your lap without a very high bill coming due. As much as I would like to be done with all of this, I will follow the lead of the X-Men this one time."
"Lovely," Kari huffed as the group started to follow the sick man and the boy. "And I take it after this you plan to pay Tony Stark a visit? For what happened at Camelot?"
"No," Cailleach hissed as she followed behind Betsy and Saber. "Doom is the one who brought about this mess, not that technological fool Stark. And I will deal with Doom in my own time."
Kari looked at Nathan and shook her head as she grabbed his hand for a moment. "As much as I hate to say this, I do not envy Doom if Stryfe gets a hold of him. Now, where is that boy going? And who or what do we pay attention to first? Is the demon inside the man, ready to possess the boy? Or is it the spider that we need to worry about? It could be either..."
"Or it could be both," Cailleach added. "One could be used as the, well, gateway for the other. One could be the herald, preparing the boy, and one the demon proper, ready to strike."
Cable said as he knew that Stryfe was involved in all of this.. He could just feel it in his gut and his gut
feeling was rarely wrong..
“I agree with Cailleach.. I think both are something we need to worry about.. Everything is connected in
this realm.” Cable said as dark clouds began to roll in above them.. A shadow covered over the city.. This
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Post by Psylocke (Kwannon) on Dec 12, 2022 0:06:19 GMT
“Do we know how old Amahl was when the Shadow King had taken him?” Betsy said as she looked around and saw more than a dozen kids
with their mothers at the market. She also spotted some kids that were living on the streets homeless.
“He could be any one of these kids.” She said feeling sad and a little frustrated.
“We are in his mind and in his memory so he is here in this market right now.” Betsy looked around and saw a black spider crawling on the side
of a wall. She saw the spider following a real sick man with a young boy about six or seven years old helping the man shop. Betsy studied the
spider and was sure it was following them.
“I think that is the body!” Betsy pointed over to them.
of age..
“It is him!” Kwannon said as she gently felt his thoughts to get information. Everything she was
getting back the rest of the group was too.. Amahl’s mother died in childbirth and it was his father
that had taken care of him alone.. His father was ill and dying.. This was his last day alive.. Later
tonight he would pass in his sleep and the Shadow King would take the boy in his fear and distraught
state.. The union between the boy and astral demonic parasite gave The Shadow King to be ground in
the physical world.. All of this information flowed into everyone's consciousness all at one.. Something
else began to happen as Psylocke looked back and saw five men all in black robes wearing golden masks
that had the demonic face of the Shadow King entering the market..
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Post by PERSHA on Dec 14, 2022 6:08:04 GMT
“Do we know how old Amahl was when the Shadow King had taken him?” Betsy said as she looked around and saw more than a dozen kids
with their mothers at the market. She also spotted some kids that were living on the streets homeless.
“He could be any one of these kids.” She said feeling sad and a little frustrated.
“We are in his mind and in his memory so he is here in this market right now.” Betsy looked around and saw a black spider crawling on the side
of a wall. She saw the spider following a real sick man with a young boy about six or seven years old helping the man shop. Betsy studied the
spider and was sure it was following them.
“I think that is the body!” Betsy pointed over to them.
of age..
“It is him!” Kwannon said as she gently felt his thoughts to get information. Everything she was
getting back the rest of the group was too.. Amahl’s mother died in childbirth and it was his father
that had taken care of him alone.. His father was ill and dying.. This was his last day alive.. Later
tonight he would pass in his sleep and the Shadow King would take the boy in his fear and distraught
state.. The union between the boy and astral demonic parasite gave The Shadow King to be ground in
the physical world.. All of this information flowed into everyone's consciousness all at one.. Something
else began to happen as Psylocke looked back and saw five men all in black robes wearing golden masks
that had the demonic face of the Shadow King entering the market..
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Post by Kid Omega on Dec 16, 2022 2:23:03 GMT
"I know, it's cool, right!" Marcela said as she walked next to Quentin. Marcela hadn't noticed, but inside of the memory, her appearance was more like that of the Althena's that the X-Men remembered, and her voice had a weird echo on it as well, as if she and the old Althena were talking at the same time. "It's pretty crazy what we can remember in our subconscious. Or what parts we can get to if we submerge into the Superflow and the Astral Plane."While others were focused on trying to figure out what in this dreamscape would lead them to the Shadow King, Marcela knew she had to be careful. With their power combined and inside of a subconscious mind, even if it's Farouk's, allowed her to get closer to her unconscious Althena thanks to the Astral Plane, so in this way, she was able to access certain aspects of her power than she would've been able to normally. Those extra powers weren't much, but she knew just how dangerous what they were doing could be. Not only could they easily get trapped here or worse, the wrong move had the potential of causing this sort of dream to take root and manifest a reality. So even if they destroyed the Shadow King, they could very easily create something worse. She was much more nervous than she let on because of it and did her best to not let it show.
goodbye before leaving back to the alternate future that they had came from. The other was Marcela’s
energy or the merged Marcela and Athena’s energy to be exact. It was a lot like her own energy which
was very similar to that of the Phoenix Force. What connected all of them was their entanglement to the
cosmos. Quentin who was a Phoenix host for a few years also had changed him and had the same shine.
“I agree, Marcela.” Cosmos said as she reached out and grabbed a piece of some sort of baked spiced bread
from a display. She tossed some money to the vendor from thought and he smiled and nodded to her. It had
a strong cinnamon aroma to it. Everly broke it up into three parts and handed one to Quentin and another to
Marecela. Everly took a bite and it was full of flavor in her mouth. It was a strange sensation though. She was
tasting something from Amahl’s memory and she was very aware of this as she took a second bite.
“The conscious mind is remarkable in how it stores information that transcends the physical world.” Everly said
as she knew that Marcela/Athena would understand the much higher meaning to her words.
memory of Amahl? That is so cool in so many ways.”
Quentin then looked back and saw the figures with the golden masks just as Psylocke pointed them out.
“That’s not good.” He said as he took another bite of the spiced bread just as Persha created the cloaks around them. Quentin slid the hood over
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Post by The Narrator on Dec 18, 2022 1:40:02 GMT
The Shadow King felt a little panic as found himself inside of himself when the psionic mutants
had disappeared before his eyes.. He was in a strange state of being.. It took him a few minutes
to discover the astral plane part of his shadow dimension was no longer in his control.. This is what
worried him and that he could not find the X-Men that were now inside of him.. He then created
himself into an army of shadow beings with golden masks with the task to search his inner self for
the X-Men and destroy them before it was too late..
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