Memoirs of a RAFian

[Underseen]

Weird, whenever the 13 were mentioned in the past I always saw them as Antiheroes

[Cloak]

Whenever I mentioned thirteen,it was a mistake -- a CFSU, CloakedFigure Screws Up, if you will.

And they probably would have been antiheroes, if Boss wasn't present to twist ther morals and their minds from a young age.

New chapter on monday or tomorrow.  We'll see.


BTW, the next book will probably have the most chapters up per day . . . as many of them, if not all (sans the introduction and outro chapters) will have some of the "RAFize Songs" parodies.

[DinosaurNothlit]

Finally got caught up again!  Heh, whenever I get busy for a couple days or a week, I always have plenty to come back to!

In the last book, I have to admit that I sided with Yarin a tiny bit, in that I too was disappointed that the Biblio-ray was destroyed.  If it had been something that was only a weapon and nothing more, then yes, it should have been destroyed without hesitation.  But it was a device to make fictional things come to life!  There was loads of good potential for a device like that, as well.  Point me at an Animorphs book, please. 

As for the more recent book, I noticed something that I wonder if you noticed.  You started the first couple chapters calling him "Progeny," but at some point the word got changed to "Prodigy."  I wasn't entirely certain at first if that was accidental or not, given that "Prodigy" (meaning a person with unexpected talent at something) seemed to fit remarkably well.  But I guess it was an accident after all, since if it wasn't then you wouldn't have subsequently changed it to "Avatar."  Still, it's an interesting (perhaps even subconsciously-motivated?) slip.

But in any case, it's very interesting to learn more about the Twelve!  Yes, I thought I remembered them from a previous book.  Oh, now I'm curious to go back and re-read that book.  That was one of your earliest ones, wasn't it?  Dang, it's amazing how long this has been going, that book feels like it happened forever ago.  *is jealous of Cloaky's muse all over again*

[Cloak]

Yes, the Progeny and Prodigy was a mistake on my part.

And the Twelve was in the earliest book - Book One, page three on this thread, to be specific - and more chapters on Monday.  If I've the time.

New page (please note that the ones that are underlined are the ones that I have already finished planning out):

• Book XXV: RAF -- The Musical

The RAFians find themselves trapped in a musical where everyone must burst into song occasionally.

• Book XXVI: Outage Outrage

The RAFians find themselves losing their powers.

• Book XXVII: Infinity and Eternity

The Infinity Gems and the Eternity Stones make themselves known.

• Book XXVIII: The Virus Rings

The RAFians are attacked by foes they never thought they'd see again.

• Book XXIX: Soul-Suckers

The RAFians are attacked by Dementors, which have a rather large effect on Cloak.

• Book XXX: Mayhem of the Music Miser

Cloak recalls the RAFians' previous confrontation with the Music Miser three years ago.

• Book XXXI: The Metal-Maker

The RAFians must save their own from a Roboticizer.

• Book XXXII: Richard is Missing

The RAFians must cope without Richard.

• Book XXXIII: Emotional Food

The RAFians must confront a different kind of vampire.

• Book XXXIV: Transformation Confrontation

The RAFians must confront some strange machines.

• Book XXXV: Richard's Horn

The RAFians must get Richard's Horn, a mystical musical instrument, back from Malice, who received it from a RAFian traitor.

• Book XXXVI: Feral Scream

A Wildwethel-centric book, he must deal with his feral side.

• Book XXXVII: Predators and Prey

The RAFians are being preyed upon by some sentient predators.

• Book XXXVIII: A Protean Problem

The RAFians must deal with a powerful snot-nosed kid who, quite literally, can do whatever he wants.

• Book XXXIX: The Horsemen

Four RAFians are captured and converted into four Horsemen of the ancient, rogue Realm Walker Cataclysm.

• Book XL: Sizeable Pain in the Necks

The RAFians must deal with Heinlein aliens.

• Book XLI: RAF's Nightmare

The RAFians must survive their own nightmares.

• Book XLII: Unlucky Charms

The RAFians must contend with a rather bloodthirsty leprechaun.

• Book XLIII: The Piper

The RAFians must contend with a pied piper.

• Book XLIV: Starlight Desire

The RAFians race Malice, Abomination, and the Banned to a wishing star (no, not Estelore).

• Book XLV: A War of Armor

Parker is outraged to see knockoffs of his rather unique armor and what they're being used for.

• Book XLVI: The Worst Plague

The RAFians must weather the worst plague to ever existed -- the Hate Plague.

• Book XLVII: Little Alien Napoleons

The RAFians are caught in the middle of a war between Helmacrons and Fmeks.

• Book XLVIII: Go Away!

The RAFians must deal with the paparazzi who are all of a sudden interested in them.

• Book XLIX: RAFian Tales

RAFians tell various RAFian-themed stories across a lunch table.

• Book L: Maul

The RAFians must deal with the result of one of Demos's experiments.

• Book LI: Erised Orbs

The RAFians must face their greatest desires.

• Book LII: RAFians Alive!

Read the "Mummies Alive" parody in the RAFize songs thread.

• Book LIII: The Pain Reliever

The RAFians must deal with an elderly Vulcan styling himself the "Pain Reliever".

• Book LIV: Beyond the Veils

Aquilai and Aila must confront old foes while the other RAFians must put up with a Czarinian bounty hunter.

• Book LV: Dangerous Deals

Demos meets up with his half-brother, Shenecron, who has a perchant for making deals.

• Book LVI: Of One Mind

Malice seeks out the Unimind.

• Book LVII: The End of Time

The RAFians must contend with two Kryptonians (who think they're Time Lords) and prevent them from ending time altogether.

• Book LVIII: Hematomimic

The RAFians must capture a Plasmavore and put up with it's rather stupid Judoon jailer.

• Book LIX: Sins of Youth

Estelore, Richard, Parker, and Cloak must survive when the entire city and forum have been reduced to two-year-olds.

• Book LX: The Replacements

The RAFians must contend with the fame-feeding Eidolon Consciousness.

• Book LXI: Arachnoids

The RAFians must contend with the Arachnoids and finding a cure for one of their own that was poisoned before it's too late.

• Book LXII: Personal Tissues

The RAFians must contend with some one misusing Bibliophaetos's discarded book shell.

• Book LXIII: Memory Today, Gone Tomorrow

The RAFians lose their memory and must find a way to regain it.

• Book LXIV: Appliance Armageddon

A superintelligent computer controls all electronics, and the RAFians must stop it.

• Book LXV: Prodigy and Composite

Some RAFians are merged into two separate entities.

• Book LXVI: The Merging

The Universes begin colliding and merging.

• Book LXVII: Be A Doll

The RAFians are confronted by a Super Chucky.

• Book LXVIII: They're Such Cards

The RAFians are sealed into cards, which end up trapped in an ancient leather-bound book, and it's up to three kids to free them.  An out-of-continuity book.

• Book LXIX: Dinosaur Island

Everyone, except those that bear a Mark, begin turning saurian.

• Book LXX: Corrupted

The RAFians must deal with the son of Cataclysm, Corruptor.

• Book LXXI: Artificial Skins

The RAFians must deal with symbiotes.

• Book LXXII: Separation Anxiety

The RAFians must contend with an ethereal virus.

• Book LXXIII: A Thing About RAFians

The RAFians must contend with Seekers, which home in onto their Marks.

• Book LXXIV: A Planted Idea

The RAFians must contend with a floramaniac.

• Book LXXV: Vacation Photos

The RAFians are sucked into a Polarisoid camera.

• Book LXXVI: A Personal Gremlin

The RAFians must contend with gremlins.

• Book LXXVII: The Rust is Silence

The Rafians must deal with an oxidation ray wielded by a criminal.

• Book LXXVIII: The Toyman Cometh

The RAFians deal with a Toyman-esque character.

• Book LXXIX: RAFian Idol

Yes, just another excuse to put in more of the (as of writing) nearly 800 parodies.

• Book LXXX: Savage Heart

Cloak battles an ancient being called Garrotik.

• Book LXXXI: Slave Islands and Juggernauts

Three RAFians are taken prisoners by the Knights and sold into the slavery of New Genoshia, while the others deal with a juggernaut.

• Book LXXXII: Shredding a King

The RAFians deal with a demonic Shredder-like ghost called Regiphaetos.

• Book LXXXIII: RAF -- The TV Show

The RAFians are forcibly recruited to Mojo's programs.

• Book LXXXIV: The Drinker

The RAFians must contend with a Spirit-Drinker.

• Book LXXXV: The Last Laugh

The RAFians must face Joker Gas.

• Book LXXXVI: It's A Mad, Mad, Mad Villain

The RAFians must contend with mind control cards which are ineffective on them.

• Book LXXXVII: Sight Unseen

Six RAFians are rendered functionally blind, optically-speaking.

• Book LXXXVIII: Don't Let It Snow

The RAFians must face a second Ice Age caused by a Diznee Ice Ifrit.

• Book LXXXIX: The Rachel Toxin

The RAFians must find a cure to a toxin that increases the fearlessness, hostility and aggressiveness induced in people which the Mark cannot protect the RAFians from.

• Book XC: Virus Alert!

The RAFians face a dangerous virus seeking a host.

• Book XCI: A Youthful Thief

The RAFians face a creature that siphons off the youth in its victims, provided they're younger than him.

• Book XCII: Calendar Creep

The RAFians face the Calendar Creep, a criminal whose crimes are holiday themed.

• Book XCIII: The Branding

Faerie fights a witch-boy named Salem (and his magical black cat, Saberhagen) for a magical branding iron in Faerie's possession.

• Book XCIV: The Void Zone

Nothing like a "Subspace Emissary" parody.  Sorry.

• Book XCV: An Epic Yarn

The RAFians' world is turned into yarn and fabric.

• Book XCVI: RAFian Gladiators

RAFians are kidnapped by Gamesmaster, another rogue Realm Walker, and force to participate in gladiatorial games.

• Book XCVII: The Box

The RAFians must cage thirteen Revenants released from Pandora's Box -- each representing and amplifying a particular feeling (i.e. hatred), while looking for the perfect host.

• Book XCVIII: From the Shadows

The RAFians must save their shadows and the shadows of everyone else from being absorbed (eaten) by the Umbraraptors, but not everything is what it seems.

• Book XCIX: Grimm Prospects

The RAFians discover Malice controlling several "wesen" with control collars akin to April's in "Catwoman from Channel Six" and get stuck in one-on-one battles to the death with them.  One will die.

• Book C: Loop-De-Loop

Everyone's trapped in a temporal loop, but the only ones that realize it are Cloak, Aila, and Aquilai.

• Book CI: Get 'Em, Shaw

The RAFians face a creature native to the planet Gossamer, who's under the control of Malice.

• Book CII: Threadfall

The RAFians must exterminate an epidemic of Thread.

• Book CIII: Siren's Song

The RAFians must deal with a siren and her alluring song.

• Book CIV: Resistance is Futile

The RAFians must deal with a hybridization of the Borg and the Hive chips (Ben 10: Alien Swarm) -- which the Mark cannot protect them from, nor the Unity energy can destroy.

• Book CV: The Titan

The RAFians must contend with the Titan serum and its effects.

• Book CVI: A Stony Glare

The RAFians must deal with a hungry Stone-Biter and a petrifying venom of a Diznee Stone Ifrit.

• Book CVII: Spritely Pests

The RAFians must deal with irritating sprites, which Faerie has had some rather tenuous experiences with.

• Book CVIII: Destroy All . . . What?

The RAFians must contend with a Furon incursion, and it turns out the Nyacs have knowledge of Furons. . . .

• Book CIX: Going Backwards

A grievious malfunction in Aquilai's TARDIS causes time to reverse its flow and flow backwards.

• Book CX: Death Takes A Holiday

The RAFians must convince Death to take up his role again.  A RAFian will die in this book, and it is within the continuity.

• Book CXI: High Price Stakes

Shanker and Gaz must flee and elude Daphne, the vampire hunter.

• Book CXII: A Killer Housing Market

The RAFians must survive and either destroy or escape a killer house.

• Book CXIII: A Silenced World

The RAFians must cope with a world that has become muted and a young sorceress, Melissa Spellman.

• Book CXIV: The Bureau

The RAFians must save their own from the insideous Bureau of Lost.

• Book CXV: To Tell the Truth

Broken's apprentice, Melissa, accidentally casts a spell forcing everyone to tell the truth.

• Book CXVI: Skin Crawlers

The RAFians, repulsed and revolted, must contend with Hundred (who eventually becomes Thousand, then becomes Million, then Billion, and then, finally, Trillion).

• Book CXVII: School of Stepford Lies

The RAFians must save the children from a school that turns them into Stepford students at Terenia's school.

• Book CXVIII: Ol' Salty

The RAFians must deal with the Salt Man.

• Book CXIX: The Great Race

The RAFians hold a race that Aloth cons himself into.  Who will win?

• Book CXX: Ape Escape

The RAFians must help super intelligent apes -- Caesar the chimp, Brutus the gorilla, and Maestro the orangutan -- reconcil their misanthropy.

• Book CXXI: A Different Kind of Unity

The RAFians must contend with a parasitic "unity".

• Book CXXII: The Great Brain Robery

Someone is stealing brains for an unknown purpose.

• Book CXXIII: The Bounty Hunter

The Knights, in their hypocricy, hire a Tsul'Kalu bounty hunter to collect select RAFians (to taxidermy).

• Book CXXIV: New Controllers

The RAFians confront Zirconians.

• Book CXXV: Creeping Crystal

A wave of crystallizing energy is sweeping the land. . . .

• Book CXXVI: The Element Feeder

The RAFians deal with a creature who feeds on a specific element and matures to a different element each time as it matures. . . .

• Book CXXVII: The Rider and the Walker

The RAFians come up against the Ghost Rider.

• Book CXXVIII: Headhunters

What will happen when RAFians lose their heads?  Seriously.

• Book CXXIX: The Color Purple, Man!

The RAFians confront the Purple Man, who manages to turn the entire government against them . . .

• Book CXXX: The Nemetrix Beetle

The RAFians confront the Black Beetle with Nemetrix properties.

• Book CXXXI: It's Tought to Be A Mod

The members of a primitive forum declare Demos and Blue to be mods. . . .

• Book CXXXII:Who-Zilla?

An energy reaction begins turning RAFians into monstrous creatures in 3013.  Out-of-continuity book.

• Book CXXXIII:Well, Techadon-ally . . .

The RAFians confront Techadons who assign them qualitive quatilities, and refuse to acknowledge any defeats.

• Book CXXXIV:The Mind's Eye

The RAFians face Spellbinder and his realistic illusions.

• Book CXXXV:Bas-ic Instincts

Bas awakens and attempts to take control of Cloak and other felines.

• Book CXXXVI:Midas Duck

The RAFians must contend with a very strange golden idol and a greedy sneak-thief.

• Book CXXXVII:War with the Warworlds

The RAFians must defeat two heavily-armed Warworlds.

• Book CXXXVIII:Solar Sucks

The RAFians must save Estelore from a device able to suck out her stellar substance and lifeforce.

• Book CXXXIX:Hounded

The RAFians are attacked by hellhounds that only Demos can see, although Cloak can "see" them via Earthsight.

• Book CXL:Politics

The RAFians, much to Cloak's chagrin and irritation, get caught up in the middle of Realm Walker politics.

• *Book CXLI:Buggy Afternoon

A Bug is after Parker's blood, to "avenge" their brother slain by the SPARTAN.

• *Book CXLII:Cloak's Nightmare

Cloak has an exceedingly vivid nightmare of the Great RAFian Purge. . . .

[Cloak]

Now, a couple of chapters.  I hope.  Probably a bit of a short one.

CHAPTER ELEVEN:
He's Wed

Whilst Boss was ruling in an abject tyranny, Avatar was embracing his love as his friends, the Titanic Twelve as he affectionately began to think of them, looked on.  They were being wed, in a private ceremony.
 
Avatar was wearing robes of royal blues, crimson reds, verdant greens, crisp golds, shiny silvers, and brillant whites while Benign wore a dress of simple silvers and greens.  The wardrobe wasn't Avatar's idea, but of his fiancee.  They walked up to an archway in which all six elements were represented in a most glorious way.
 
Virgo was marrying the two together.
 
"My friends," she began with ringing tones such that it was rather surprising that Boss and his grunts did not hear from their citadel -- although the fourteen assembled had no knowledge of those happenings.  "I welcome you here to this glorious occasion, as we bind, unite, and wed these two young Walkers."
 
The two smiled broadly, both filled with nervous excitement.  Even the eleven in the crowd tittered a little.  Virgo went on her spiel, as the couple awaited to say their vows with much restrained eagerness.  Benign gave hers and then Avatar gave his.  Now, unlike humans, Realm Walkers do not exchange rings.  But their natural bioluminescence changes, so subtly that only the most observant Realm Dwellers would be able to distinguish it.  It is, however, easy for Realm Walkers to percieve the difference.  Everyone in the Nexus is able to distinguish a married man and woman from a single one.  Divorce, which is uncommon but not unheard of, or even widowing does not return the bioluminescence to it's former state until the Walker is ready to date again.  (Although some Realm Walkers can lie to themselves about it just as humans can.)
 
"Avatar," Virgo said, at last, "do you take this Walker to be your wife?"
 
"I do."
 
"Benign," Virgo said, turning to her, "do you take this Walker to be your husband?"
 
"I do."
 
"Then, by the power vested in me, I declare you man and wife." Virgo said with a smile.
 
There was no kiss -- kissing is a foreign concept to Realm Walkers.  Instead fireworks of silvers, greens, and whites fired fast and furious around the two.  It was their own energy, demonstrating and representing their sheer, unadulterated happiness and joy.  After a minute or two, the other eleven stood up and the reception began. . . .

[Cloak]

Another chapter, I think.  Might be a bit on the short side.

CHAPTER TWELVE:
Old Wounds

It was about three months later, after the wedding.  Avatar had never known that such happiness could have existed.  Benign had even talked to him about having children.  Children!  Avatar had always wanted to be a father.
 
Then Leo, Taurus, and Scorpio came to the married couple with some very bad, very unpleasant news.
 
"The city has been turned into a nightmare," Scorpio said, his tail twitching ever so slightly.
 
"The streets are barren and trashed." Taurus said, voice unusually thick.  "People huddle inside their housed, afraid -- no, terrified -- to go outside."
 
"And they are so skinny that they're flesh and bones." Leo said.  "Those that have flesh and bones, anyway."
 
"That's horrible," Benign said, aghast, while Avatar was stone-faced and said nothing.

"We have to stop this," Leo said.  "All fourteen of us."

"No." Avatar said.  His voice was cold and had a snap to it.

"'No'?  What do you mean, 'no'?" Taurus said, flummoxed.

"I meant, no." he said, a little emotion leaking through.  "I am not going to sacrifice my happiness, my life, for people who saw me as a freak.  Who blamed me for my parents death."

"Avatar," Benign said, "you can't mean --"

"What can't I mean?!" Avatar erupted suddenly, unable to stem his feelings.  But still, he had more control over his abilities when emotional than his descendant would.  "You weren't there, Benign!  You don't even know what I went through!"

"Then tell me, my husband --"

"Don't!  Just . . . just don't!!" Avatar said, sputtering, shrugging away her compassion, the warm blanket of her love and understanding.  Unable to stand it, he left their humble little house, and stalked away, without thinking of his destination.

Meanwhile, back the house, Benign looked striken.

"Don't . . . don't take it personally, Benign," Scorpio said, soothingly -- quite uncharacteristic for a scorpion, "some wounds run too deep to be healed so easily."

"Be that as it may," Leo said, "we must do something.  Avatar will get his head on straight soon enough . . . I hope."

[Cloak]

A bit of a Lion King influence in this part of the narrative, I know.

CHAPTER THIRTEEN:
The Clouds

Avatar ran and ran and ran some more, until he collapsed at the water's edge of a large lake.  Unbeknowst to him, Pisces was residing in the lake at the present moment, but Pisces had enough sense to not disturb Avatar, as he could feel his emotional state.
 
"What would it even matter?" Avatar was breathing heavily and raggedly.  "They didn't want me in there city.  They reviled me as a monster.  Why should I even bother saving them?  They wouldn't even be grateful for it, the fickle" -- no translation available -- " and why should I risk everything for them."
 
Then he looked angrily at the sky.
 
"What do you want from me?!  Do you hear me?!?!  WHAT DO YOU WANT FROM ME?!?!?!?" he screamed.  Silvery-white energy leaked from his eyes in lieu of tears.  He shut his eyes, and the energy flares subsided immediately.  Then he collapsed to his knees, head bowed, and real tears flowing.

"I . . . I don't . . ." he sputtered, then sighed a shuttering sigh.

"Avatar . . ."

The voices came as softly as the slightest wind, a small breathy whisper.  The thing that most jarred Avatar was that the voices sounded familiar.

"Avatar . . ."

He stood up, wiped away the tears, and looked at the sky.  Dark clouds were swirling . . . they were convalescencing into familiar forms, and begining to glow with a white light.

"Avatar . . ."

"M-mother?  Father?" he asked, voice very small.

"Avatar," said the cloud-form of his mother, "you have forgotten us."

"No!" he protested.  "How could I have done such a thing?"

"You've forgotten your heart," his cloud-father said.

"And, in so, forgotten us." his cloud-mother added.

"Look inside yourself, son," his cloud-father continued, "can you really turn your back on those that have need of you?"

"Can you abandon the innocents, the children, who have suffered because you turned you back to them?" his cloud-mother asked, sincerely.

"But . . ."

"You know the answer," his cloud-father said.  "You must do what is right."

"How can I go back?"

"You will do what is right, my son," his cloud-mother said.  Avatar then realized that they were fading away back into the clouds whence they came.

"No!" he cried, as if he was a boy again, "no!  Don't leave me!"

But his pleas were unanswered.  He looked at the clouds for what seemed an eternity, then he turned and headed toward the city.  Seeing this, Pisces headed back to the others.

[DinosaurNothlit]

You know, influenced by the Lion King or not, that was a nice touch.  It fit in wonderfully with the story, and, it seems, it was just what Avatar needed.

[Cloak]

I thought so, too.

Hopefully, I will get an additional two chapters up today.

[Underseen]

I would be online all day today to read it too.

[Cloak]

Here's one of them . . . may be a short book.  Hopefully not.  Short chapter.

CHAPTER FOURTEEN:
Barren and Boredom

Boss sat in his throne room, lounging on a throne of green velvet and gold which tended to look like a mouth vomiting up a great white shark who happened to have mutated some legs.  All in all, a rather unappealing sight.  Boss himself looked rather bored, and he was uncaring about the fact that the Nexus had become barren and lifeless.  He got what he wanted -- power -- and that's what mattered.
 
But he was so incredibly bored.  Instilling fear and terror into the populace had lost its appeal a long time ago.  He was unaware of anything else to conquer, and Boss lived for the conquest.  He wasn't smart enough to know he could manipulate and brainwash the children into believing whatever he wished, given enough time -- as he seemed to bore of that after the Terrible Twelve.  He was a brute, a savage.
 
His Enforcers fanatically believed in Boss's superiority, which bloated his already ample ego.  Boss genuinely believed this himself, but secretly hoped for a foe to fight him so to get rid of this irritating monotony.  But none in the city were brave enough to defy or deny Boss, or otherwise unwilling to put their families at risk.
 
Boss was led to believe that Avatar, then known as Progeny, was dead.  The Thirteen had led him to believe that -- one reason for their fanatical service of Boss.  They, themselves, were terrified that he would find out, not even bothering to entertaining the fact that if all twelve ganged up on Boss, they could easily overpower him.  Had Boss not suspected this himself, and he had gone so far to procure the klepto stone -- a gem very much like a Chaos Emerald in appearance, only being completely translucent.  If they turned on him, he'd just steal those abilities of theirs.

Little did he know, he actually tied their powers to the stone.  If, at any point, any of the Twelve were to meet their end -- their abilities would be safely secured within the gem.  This is another reason for the sudden, illogical attachment to Boss, who remained ignorant of this fact.

[Underseen]

Short and Simple... I like it.

[Cloak]

Right, and this is the last one today.  Maybe.  And Gmail's spell checker is a piece of crap -- the "fif" in "fifteen" it declares as mispelled, and ONLY that!

Anyway, probably gonna be a bit short.

CHAPTER FIFTEEN:
Return to the Ruined City

Avatar stepped up on a hill overlooking the city.  Buildings moldering and many in rubble.  Smoke pouring out from various points and spots.  And in the middle of all this havoc -- a strange building, very much like the Space Needle, only on a more massive scale.  Clearly whoever was behind this was overcompensating for something.
 
He felt a pang of guilt.  He had let this happen.  Had he been more aware, had he been less prone to let his wounds take priority over his sense of duty . . .
 
"Avatar, wait up!" cried a voice.  He recognized that voice.  His wife.
 
She caught up, and the two embraced briefly.
 
"I didn't want to believe it," Avatar confessed.  "I'm sorry for my reaction."
 
"Even the best of us cannot lose control over our emotions," she said.
 
"Can we can the lovey-dovey stuff and get down to work?" Cancer said, grumpily.
 
"Huh?"
 
"You didn't actually think we'd let you have all the fun, did you?" Sagittarius said with a smirk.
 
"But --"
 
"Uh-huh.  Save all your 'buts'." Aries said.  "We're doing this with you.  We ain't abandonin' you."
 
". . . Oh, okay."
 
"Oh, how lovely," said a cold, snarky voice.  "All of you want to die together.  It'ssss sssso ssssweet."
 
Galloflight, Oxhorn, and Silentslither were standing roughly two o'clock to the group.
 
"Hardly," Capricorn said, charging the Oxhorn, locking horns.  Battling fiercely, proving himself to be equal to the ox, despite being smaller, often muttering, "Dumb ox." which just infuriated Oxhorn.
 
"You won't find me so eassssy to disssspatch!" Silentslither hissed, tongue flailing out of his mouth with each "s" sound.
 
"I beg to differ." Taurus said, entombing him within a dome of earth.  Then he charged forward, rather bullheadedly.  "Your invisibility won't help you in there!"

"Galloflight takes flight!" Galloflight narrated.

"No, he doesn't!" Virgo announced, grounding him by entombing both his feet into earth.  Then, over her shoulder, she said, "Go!  We can hold these three.  They won't kill us."

That last sentence reverberated in such a way that sent chills down Avatar's spine, but he hesitated.  He only continued at Benign and Leo's insistance.

He did give in to glance over his shoulder to discover that Galloflight had freed himself, though his feet were still encased in earth, and he was diving at Virgo.  Silentslither turned the dome into an igloo and was attempting to bite Taurus.  Oxhorn had thrown Capricorn across the field into the hill.

"Avatar, now's not the time!" Leo shouted.

[Underseen]

This fight reminds me of the last Harry Potter book. I know that they can't all make it out alive and noble legends like Avatar die in battle.

[Cloak]

Avatar can't die, Underseen -- his my direct ancestor and, at this point in the narrative, he's childless.  But you're right on other counts . . .