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Post by Taya on Jun 16, 2007 20:36:44 GMT
"Call me Genvieve." The vision in front him said. Her voice was young, sweet and hypnotic. It was like a completely different woman stood in front of him. "For that was my name when this all started." Her soft hands, not ones that had grown rough with age and toil, unwrapped a gold amulet with stone the color of fire in its center.
"This amulet has passed through several hands. And all of those hands have ended their fates tragically. At least those that have been allowed to end. It was originally gifted to a person with whom i was very close. It was a gift that contained the spirit of the phoenix. Three elements were asked to protect the phoenix. I was a foolish jealous girl when i was passed over and committed a horrible sin that no one knew I was responsible for. Except for this." Genvieve pause and looked down at the amulet as the memories came back to her. "the amulet knows and does things in its own best interest. It can be a great ally or your worst foe. Never cross it for its vengeance is cruel.
"Because of me, Because i posed as the water element. the phoenix's mission could not be completed. I know now the reason i had not originally been chosen. The one I was suppose to protect loved me and I felt the same. i did not know at the time that the earth elemental and the air elemental were jealous. earth had fallen for me and air for the phoenix's chosen one. This cause fractions and betrayals. In order to stop the others from seizing power, thusly saving our far city of Atlantis from a fate worse than what it met, and to save my life... the phoenix's chosen one gave the ultimate sacrifice so that the city would be purged."
"the phoenix never forgave me. i have tried for thousands of years to right this wrong. I even at one point approached the queen of the moon for her help. She granted the amulet with a more physical manifestation of its powers. I thought with this help i might be able to find the right set of those spirits that might be able to complete the phoenix's plan and hopes for the world.
"But they have all made mistakes and the phoenix cut them down physically and emotionally and any that were connected with it. this probably not what you came to hear but someone must know the story...."
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Post by Mr Spock on Jun 16, 2007 20:45:48 GMT
James kept his quizzical eyebrow, but his gaze stayed intent on the vision of a woman before him. "I... think I understand. Please go on." He sat on the top step, still watching her, and released the pendant from his hand. It glowed a bright yellow, and was almost entirely yellow. In his memory, James had only ever seen it glowing in a pure golden colour. But currently, although he wasn't looking at it, a white swirl was growing within it.
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Post by Taya on Jun 16, 2007 20:56:49 GMT
Genvieve nodded.
"It may seem selffish that I continue to sarifice so many lives for the sake of my peace. And i supose thats true, maybe i should just suffer my own torment and not use others to end it. but it has never been easy to watch those i love and care for destroyed by the phoenix's wrath. The phoenix wishes for a peaceful world. with the correct person in control of the phoenix's power then it might be possible and that is a future worth fighting for. Before I anwser your questions and before you ask them you have the right to know that you are some how connected to the next phoenix. And now that you have listened to my tale, James Staranise, what is it that you truely wish to know?"
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Post by Mr Spock on Jun 16, 2007 21:13:34 GMT
James tilted his head sidewards slightly, as if he were thinking.
"My sister is very ill. So ill they don't have a word for it. I can't possibly understand what is wrong with her, but I understand I am an anomoly. There hasn't been a male child in my family line for many generations. Not since the condition first began. Not since my family line first began to interact with the Phoenix. One day, the earliest predecessor of my line wandered in and found a Phoenix. No idea how, or why. Coincidence. Yet, the same one found the next in my line. By coincidence. And then, without the help of the next Phoenix, that member of my line wouldn't have lived. And so it went on. As my line grew, so did the line of the Phoenix. And Each time I pour through the records, I notice the families interwine. The bloodlines interwine. By coincidence. My sister and I started in London. We were transferred to a place in New New York, that didn't actually know any more than the place in London did. By sheer coinsidence. And my sister, the one member of the female side of my line that has never interacted with a Phoenix, cannot function as a normal human being. Something runs a lot deeper in the blood than just coincidence. And I need to know what it is. I need to know how to help my sister." James never took his eyes off of Genvieve during his whole speech, eyes hardened and determined. "And I need to know just what the hell it is I'm getting myself into."
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Post by Taya on Jun 16, 2007 22:01:59 GMT
"ahhh your speaking of when Kit first met Jade. and yes the phoenixhas always stayed with in the bloodlines even if not directly. You see Myself and the Phoenix's choosen started that bloodline. I don't think that pleased the phoenix too much but it really didn't have much of a say in the matter. I was already pregant with my dear jackie's anscetor. Now let me remember about what you speak of. I don't know what the curse might have to do with interacting with the phoenix line. but prehaps there's a solution to both of our problems." Genvieve was smiling now. "According to Jade, Kit started to turn and was cursed by her mother when they stole a particular crystal pendant. Or at least that what i think she said. i wasn't there so i couldn't say. I think the phoenix hadn't counted on Ki's presence or the fact that Jade would have the amulet and not Phoebe. Either way the pendant and the amulet must hold the key."
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Post by Mr Spock on Jun 16, 2007 22:09:18 GMT
"The-" James cut himself off as the pendants caught his eye. "What the..." He lifted the previously yellow pendant up in his hand and brought it closer to his eyeline, watching the colours swirl frantically.
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Kira's sharp hearing had caught every word. But she understood none of it. She WASN'T sick. She was special. It was entirely different. And not even James knew it. She frowned.
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The swirls in the yellow turned a dark grey, before fluctuating back to the white they were before.
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Kira looked over at Jackie with the quizzical eye that she shared with her brother.
"What's your name? And why are you here? Listening? Like me?"
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Post by Taya on Jun 16, 2007 22:20:41 GMT
Jackie was pale, she had heard only bits and pieces but enough to understand some of it. and the fact that her Aunt Genny was her great great great and then some grandmother had her floored. But the cat/girl's question brought her back to focus on what was going on.
"Jackie and thats my ....my well i don't know what she is but I didn't trust some strange guy talking to her like that guy was. So yes I was listening in like you. Now he mentioned a sister is that you?"
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Genvieve looked at the pendant and nodded.
"I don't know the history of that crystal. but i know there hasn't been woman in your line with out it. But maybe this is fate. Maybe the phoenix can be stopped whether it is destroyed or completed and perhaps we can break the curse on the women of your line. Especially since you don't seem to be affected but are connected. James you must be the key" Genvieve said excitedly.
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Post by Mr Spock on Jun 16, 2007 22:23:09 GMT
"Yes. But I'm not sick," she said, affirming her point with a pout. "I'm not sick."
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James looked up, almost shocked. "What? Me? What do you mean? How can I be?"
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Post by Taya on Jun 16, 2007 22:30:19 GMT
"I don't know." Genvieve admitted sadly. "but you must be the key. you are in a position where you are not hurt by the curses of either line and are connected to both whether directly or by assosiation."
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"i didn't say you were" Jackie said understanding that the subject was a rather delicate one.
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"Prehaps we should invite the other two key players inside so that they don't freeze on my roof." Genvieve suggested throwing a glance at the window.
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Post by Mr Spock on Jun 16, 2007 22:33:33 GMT
Kira raised her eyebrows. "Uh ohh... We're in trouble," she said in a low voice, gesturing to the window and edging away from it on all fours.
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James knitted his eyebrows together in confusion. "They're on the..? Wait, how...?" He shook his head in disbelief. "Is that what the scream was?"
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Post by Taya on Jun 16, 2007 22:59:16 GMT
Jackie also started to sneak away from the window but neither was fast enough because the window flew open with a wave of Genvieve's hand. Except that Aunt Genny now stood there and Genvieve was buried back in the depths of her soul.
"In here you two. Now." Genny said. Jackie winced at the tone in Genny's voice. But she complied and climbed in through the window staring at the floor refusing to meet Genny's eyes.
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Post by Mr Spock on Jun 16, 2007 23:02:23 GMT
Kira kept to the back of the roof, gazing warily at the open window. She remembered the last time she'd escaped and how badly she'd been punished for it. If she'd've had much fur, it would've bristled at the thought. Yet she was curious. And she knew James was on her side. But it wasn't James she could hear anymore.
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Post by Taya on Jun 16, 2007 23:07:37 GMT
"I will not hurt you" Genny said simply. Jackie breathed a sigh of relief and looked up but the sharp look she recieved from her "aunt" made her relieze that that same curtosy did not apply to her.
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Post by Mr Spock on Jun 16, 2007 23:10:17 GMT
"Come on Kir. Or you'll freeze to death," added James, gazing at the window intently. Kira resigned herself to it, and clamboured through the window with surprising ease, before curling up on the floor underneath said window, across the room from James, glaring at him.
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Post by Taya on Dec 29, 2007 16:34:02 GMT
Genny smiled at Kira and approached her slowly. Jackie shifted uncomfortably as Genny reached out and gently petted Kira's hair.
"There's nothing to worry about. You heard everything, didn't you?" Genny asked in a kind tone, judging by the way Kira was glaring at James. Jackie grew annoyed. Why was Aunt Genny comforting the cat/girl and scolding her? They had both been eavesdropping. It wasn't fair.
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