Another Planet Demension drabble. This one is from the...7th book? I don't remember. It's not important anyways because this series will never be.
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Tuesday's eyes squinted throught the black and white other world she had found herself in. This was only her second time encountering the strange world and it frightened her none the less. She wanted to be strong, but without her powers, she felt more vulnerable then she ever had before. She wasn't even sure how to get back to her own world. She shivered slightly, despite the dessert temple she and Atta were in, as she saw a figure approach them. It was a knight in black armor that seemed to meld into the shadows around them.
"Atta, who's that?" Tuesday asked, hoping her amnesia-ridden, otherworld-connected friend would know something, which was very unlikely.
"He seems familiar," Atta squinted as the knight drew closer to them. The knight raised his sword and pointed it straight at them, preparing to attack them. "Quick, concentrate!" Atta screamed at Tuesday, who grumbled at being ordered around. Tuesday closed her eyes and held her hands together, focusing on forming a ball of enrgy at the tip of Atta's dark blade. Atta threw the blast at the knight as Tuesday opened her eyes.
He grabbed the blast in one hand and tossed it from hand to hand as if the blast were nothing more than a tennis ball. He stopped his throwing to clutch the energy ball as hard as he could, destroying the attack as if it were nothing more than a balloon. He laughed at the two of them, who huddled closer as they glared at the knight. "You think something that weak can stop me?"
"Who are you?" Atta demanded, anger apparent in her strong accent. Atta tried to lunge forward with her sword, but the knight caught it with his own effortlessly. The two swords sent out sparks as they collided. In the sparks they created, Tuesday saw something glint. She walked to the spot and picked it up to discover that it was a bit of what appeared to be limestone created from the sand that surrounded them.
"You two are in the lowest level of this castle and you gave no thought to how the two of you were going to get back. Such stupidity should be rewarded." The knight's figure become transparent as it become water. The water fell to the ground, creating a dark spot in the sand. "Water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink," his voice echoed after him.
"He's gone," Atta gasped.
"I wouldn't be so sure," Tuesday said seriously as she heard a rumbling coming from somewhere below them. Suddenly a geyser of water formed in the middle of the room, knocking Tuesday over. She quickly got to her feet just in time to realize that the room was quickly filling with water. Their only escape was a hole in the ceiling twelve feet above them. "We have to get out of here!" Tuesday shouted, running over to Atta.
"How?" Atta panicked as the water began to reach her knees.
"Just leave it to me and hang on!" Tuesday shouted to Atta as she used her dragon pendant to give her the ability of temporary flight. "With this we will only have five minutes to get out of here, so let's not waste any time." Atta grabbed onto Tuesday as she flew up out of the room as fast as she could. The water below them came faster as more geysers shot up at them. the water was high enough to graze Atta's feet as they flew. Tuesday was frustrated because she had to back-track through the rooms they had came through on their way down. She mentally kicked herself for entering the castle with no forethought, which was very unlike her.
Finally they reached the entrance they had come out of and Tuesday flew out of the castle and onto the sand, losing her wings and flying abillity for the rest of the day. Atta and Tuesday stared at the castle as water began to trickle out of it. The casdtle began to pulse and then it exploded as the water inside grew too much. The strangly shaped castle that had once stood there was now scattered rubble, but the water continued to push forward, though not as strongly as before. Soon the entire desert was covered in a layer of water that came to Tuesday's ankles.
"Are you two okay?" Tuesday heard a british accent harold her from what seemed to be the sky. Tuesday forgot that Frog, Butter P, and the forest spirit, a giant wood moth named Laura, could see her through the other world detector.
"I'm fine, Frog. I found a bit of limestone down there. Maybe Came can use it like he used that mirror shard on the detector..." Tuesday's voice trailed off as she Seboya fly over head. The great owl was the parralell of Laura and, as such, was the desert spirit.
"Water!" Seboya shouted, landing and beging to gulp greedily at the water. "Water!" Seboya cried again as he drank more and more water.
"Water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink," Atta mused, repeating the line the knight had said.
"Not a drop to drink? This water must be tainted somehow. Seboya, stop!" Tuesday cried frantically, but Seboya would not listen. "Atta, use that sword blast of yours," Tuesday called as she began to concentrate. Atta obeyed, shooting a beam at seboya, who stopped drinking to glare at them.
Seboya was panting heavily and it began to caw unintelligibly. The great desert spirit then began to change appearances, become more vulture like. Seboya glared at them, then rushed forward to attack. Tuesday suddenly felt lightheaded and closed her eyes. When she opened them again, she noticed that she was in her rightful world. "Tuesday!" Frog cried out triumphantly, but she ignored him.
"Atta's in trouble. The spirit attacked her and now I'm here." Tuesday looked frantically at her friends. Laura simply began to float carefree over head them. Tuesday still had trouble fighting the irresistable urge to exterminate the overly large wood moth.
Came's voice came from the device that they were watching Atta dodge attacks on. "Out the lime stone in the slot on the side of the device. I think we can use it for something." Tuesday put the stone in the slot and commanded them to hurry as she did. Came seemed annoyed at her tone, but didn't say anything.
Atta was dodging attacks fruitlessly. "Tuesday, can you help me?"
"Yeah, Came is analyzing the limestone we found. I'll concentrate for you." Tuesday resumed her concentrating position, ignoring Laura's airheaded comments that rained down from above them. Atta shot the blasts at Seboya, but it didn't seem to do any good. She also was reluctant to possibly anger another spirit. The Artic pelt bird that protected the snow covered mountains already had such dislike for her.
"Okay, analization is complete. The limestone is a type of filter that can filter impurities out of something. If you can get Atta to keep that thing she's fighting still, we can filter out the impurities it consumed while drinking that water." Came explained, then grumbled, "No, I do not want tea! Argh, this creator guy has started a herb garden and it's driving me bonkers!"
"Why doesn't that surprise me?" Tuesday mumbled. "Atta, do you think you can get Seboya to stay still? I think we can filter out the impurities he drank if I can use this filter on him, but you have to get him to stay in one spot."
"I'll try!" Atta shouted up to the sky, though Tuesday could hear her perfectly fine through the gadget if she hadn't screamed. Atta grabbed Seboya's feet and stuck the sword in one of his talons. Seboya screamed as he tried to get away, but Atta was stronger than she looked.
"Okay, we have him locked!" Came called from through the gadget. "Now filtering!" There was a humming sound and on the screen, Tuesday saw a light surround Seboya. Atta let go of Seboya, grabbing her sword out of his talon before landing. She stepped away from the spirit as he glowed brighter. He stopped glowing and had the appearance of the owl that he had been when Atta had first met him.
"Thank you," he muttered, breathing heavily, "Attaleene, you may have done unspeakable things, but you know right from wrong."
"Unspeakable things? Like what?" Atta asked, but Seboya faded and as he faded away, so did the desert around Atta. It resembled the Laura Woods that Tuesday was in on her own world. On her shoulder, Atta's magpie Adriel squawked happily at the sight of such a lush forest. "He's dead," she whimpered.
"Not dead," Laura landed beside Tuesday, "because he's already dead as everything is in the other world. He just finally accomplished his purpose so he can rest in the spirit world now," he explained. "That's also why the landscape now matches this one."
"What was his purpose?" Tuesday asked.
"He gave Atta her full name; Attaleene." Laura responded as he drifted overhead.
"Attaleene," Atta tried the name on for herself.
"Meh, I like Atta better." Tuesday stuck out a toungue at her dislike. Sudden;y the gadget she was holding began to vibrate. "I think I've got mail." She pressed a button and a message from Thatch appeared on screen. "It seems he wants us to meet him in Laura City. Any ideas where that is?" Tuesday asked.
"I can take you there if you follow me." Laura began to drift away as the group followed her from the ruins.
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