Ok! A little different format on this one! Harrison kicks it off, then MtRP.
Their segments are separated by "*****". -qos
'Tis a beautiful day on Gourrigan's Island. There is nary a cloud in
the sky, it is just warm enough, and the tide is a good thirty feet lower
than normal, giving our heros much more beach to lounge on.
Michael the Red Priest is on his way down to the beach, momentarily
untroubled by the worries that torment all people. Unfortunately, his
moment
of bliss is shattered by a rock that had chosen to place itself directly in
his path. He stumbles, catching his balance on a tree, and dislodging a
coconut. Said coconut falls towards the back of his head...
From his vantage point near the top of the volcano, Harrison grinned
and petted his laptop.
***
Michael, hearing the sound of a coconut snapping, unsheathes his
Sakaba blade and splits the falling coconut in two, sending the halves
flying in opposite directions. "I'm hungry," moans Gourrigan. His
complaints seemed to be heard as coconut half whizzes toward him.
Gourrigan
opens his mouth and swallows the half in one gulp.
"You're disgusting, did you know that Gourrigan?" says Lina.
Harrison sneers at Michael's dumb luck, and sits down. Hey wait a sec,
Harrison thought, where's the the other half? Harrison begins to hear the
distinct noise of something being deflected off various objects. He looks
down from his perch on the volcano to see the other half ricocheting off
everything it touches. It then hits a rock, and heads on a path straight
for Harrison. Oh great, he thinks. He braces himself for impact, but the
coconut bounces of the potruding face of the perch and shoots straight up
into the air.
"Hah! You missed!" Harrison sticks out his tongue, when he feels
a sudden jolt in the earth around him. He looks down at his feet to see the
ground begin to crack and crumble apart below his feet. He then looks back
at the beach to see Michael smiling at him, flashing a V sign.
***
Glancing around in irritation, Harrison realized that there was really
no way to avoid being caught in an earthquake without betraying the
presense of his immense latent power to his opponent, which he was unwilling to do
until it was more dramatically appropriate.
Seeing no alternative, he stood there and hoped for the best.
Without warning, the earthquake stirred the magma in the dormant volcano, and
Harrison found the piece of rock he was standing on was being lifted high
in the air on a plume of lava.
Harrison laughed, then began to work on the knotty problem of how to
avoid dying horribly when the rock's vector inverted. A solution presented
itself in the form of a helicopter high above the island. As he grabbed on
to one of the... the... you know, the ski things that helicopters use
instead of wheels... I forget what they're called... as he grabbed onto one
of those, it occured to him to wonder why a helicopter was hovering over a
supposedly deserted island in the Pacific Ocean. Oh well, no matter. He
attached the climbing hooks on his belt to the helicopter ski thingy, and
watched as the flaming rock plummeted towards the island. It landed in an
uninhabited sector near the volcano and started a forest fire. Countless
small creatures fled the inferno, including (Thank you, Chris.) a pack of
wombats. Gibbering and screaming, they dashed through the forest, looking
for the cause of the destruction of their habitat. Drawn to the greatest
power on the island, they closed in on Michael the Red Priest.
***
Michael sees the rampaging beasts and starts to laugh. "You've got to
be kidding me. So he wants to play it that way huh? I'm game." Michael
prepares for a fighting stance, when he realizes something: He can't hurt
the little critters. The animal rights activists would have a field day if
he did anything to hurt them. "Great, so now what do I do?" Michael
thinks for a moment and comes up with a plan. He pulls out his Sakaba again and
slams it into the ground, and performs that move from Rurouni Kenshin where
Kenshin makes the ground erupt from stabbing the ground (Featherfall, if ever read
this, what is that move called again?). The ground splits and hurls up
into the air, and lands around the animals, forming a large circle, thus
entraping them. "I'll come back for you guys later."
Michael runs to the village, and informs the castaways of the wave of
destruction engulfing the island.
"Firia! You and Xellos go out into the ocean and get some water,
fast! Zelgadis! You're with me." Firia transforms into her dragon shape and
Xellos hops on her back. With his powers of simple creation, Xel makes a
2,000 gallon tub, which he in turn hands to Firia. The two fly off to the
ocean to get water. Zelgadis picks up Michael with a Raywing, and the two
fly to the point of mass distruction. The two wait until Firia and Xellos
show up with the water.
"So what's the plan Mike?"
"You'll see."
Firia and Xellos fly in and hang above Michael and Zelgadis' head.
"Okay honey," says Mike," Dump the water over some of the flowing lava!"
Firia swoops down and dumps the tank of water over the lava, instantly
hardening it.
"Ready Zel?"
"Ready!"
Zelgadis drops the Raywing and the take a plummet toward the hardened
magma. Zelgadis performs a stone spiker, and Michael does the sword move
again, this time directing the rock over the mouth of the volcano. Firia
flies by again and dumps water over the mouth, and flies by Michael and
Zel.
"Okay, just keep on doing that, and we'll be alright." Zel prepares to
head back to the village, when Michael stops him for a moment.
"Before you go Zel, do you see that helicopter?"
"Yeah."
"Take it down."
"If you say so."
Zelgadis unleashes a fireball that nails the rotor blade of the copter
head on, sending it into downward spiral.
***
The helicopter slams into the side of the volcano and explodes quite
nicely. After a few seconds, Harrison comes over to hover a few dozen feet
above their heads, sitting on a flying carpet that he pulled from his
Backpack of Holding.
"I can't believe you destroyed the helicopter right at the start." he
says. "I was planning to have it be the Queen in there, keeping a discrete
eye on the proceedings, specifically so you WOULDN'T shoot at me while I
was hanging on. But you shot down the helicopter before I could mention that.
So it WAS NOT the Queen in there, okay? Before anyone looks inside the
helicopter, its occupant exists in a Quantum Narrative Limbo, he/she is
everyone, anyone, and no one at the same time. So I decided that the
helicopter pilot was Michell, from the Joe Don Baker movie of the same
name. It WASN'T the Queen." He sighs. "And now I have to do something nasty to
you. Oh well. Er... um..." He sighs again. "I haven't slept in four days
and I've got writer's block. I'll do something easy. See ya." And he flies off
to hide somewhere on the island.
Meanwhile, a very sharp piece of helicopter that was removed from the
rest by the aforementioned explosion finally wings its way across the
island and makes a valient attempt to ventilate Michael. Something more dangerous
will happen when Harrison gets some sleep, which he will now attempt to do.
Good night, everyone.
***
Michael grins at the flying projectile, and activates his protective
barrier. The debris ricochets off and sticks into a tree. He looks up at
Harrison, who flies by on his carpet: The guy looks pretty beat. "Oy!
Where the hell are you going," says Mike, "Do you think you can just wreak
havoc and run away???"
"That's basicly what I do," says Xellos.
"Shut up. Okay fine. You go get your sleep buddy, but things will be
much different from now on!!! Ooooh, the nerve of people these days. Just
wait till I reactivate my CP, then he'll be sorry! Lina!!! Get me my
computer!"
To Be Continued...
Part 2
