Memoirs of a RAFian

[Underseen]

I wasn't talking about dying soon.

[Cloak]

Okay.

New page.

• 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]

Don't know how many chapters I'll get up today.  But I'll give it a good try to finish off this book today.
 
Okay, I just proved (via hyperlink) that Gmail's spell check is complete crap -- "cancrine" is a word according to Wiktionary, but not Gmail . . .

CHAPTER SIXTEEN:
Thresholds

The eleven dashed to the threshold of the city, when they heard a throaty voice roar, "Not so fast!", after they felt the slipstream of a large object flying by them.  Wargon.  Aries glared at him.
 
"Fast?" cried a cheeky female voice and Speedy popped up out of nowhere.  "Hardly.  I could go faster than that when I drag my feet!!"
 
Pisces glowered at that.
 
"Oh, stop it, Ghost!  You know we can see you!" Cancer snapped at the ram Realm Walker.
 
"Oh, Cancer," Ghost said coyly, "you were never much fun you crotchety, cancerous cancrine
 
Wargon landed and Aries clenched and unclenched his fist in almost greedy anticipation.  Then, without even looking back at them, he said.  "You guys go on.  Cancer, Pisces and I have it handled here."

"Handled?  I'm more than the three of you can handle!" Wargon protested angrily.

"Oh, your ego's fighting too?" Aries said.

Wargon blasted a blast of fire at Aries which he dispelled with ruthless ease.  Then the battle between the two heated up, but their powers were equally matched -- as fire could destroy neither.  It would come down to strategy and brute strength in the end.

"And what is the little fishy gonna do?" Speedy said, tauntingly.

Pisces decided not to mince words, and rather hurriedly encapsulated Speedy in a bubble of water.  She squirmed and wiggled and writhed, but Speedy could not shake the bubble from her neck down.  Then Pisces upturned the bubble and began to slam the bubble upon the ground.

"Ol' Crabby," Ghost teased maliciously, "what will you do to me now?"

Suddenly, Ghost was caught in Cancer's cancrine claws.  He was forced into his substantial form.

"H-how did you do that?!" he demanded.

"Dunno." Cancer said, putting on the squeeze.  "Don't care."

"AVATAR!" Leo roared.  "We need to get a move on!"

"But --"

"They'll do fine!!" Leo said.  "Let's go!!  We're the only ones that can take the citadel!!"

[Underseen]

I like how enthusiastic you are about writing. Lots of stuff aren't words with Gmail... Like pescatarian.

[Cloak]

'Bout four more chapters (including this one) until the end of this book.  Shortish chapter.

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN:
The Atrium

BOOM!!
 
The eight busted into the atrium of the citadel.  Prepared for an oncoming attack.  Drones perhaps, even though robotics would eventually become a Dweller-only science as Realm Walkers really didn't have any need for robotics, any more than Anodites do. What they didn't expect was what there was.
 
Nothing.
 
There were no guards, no drones, no security cameras or anything.  It was just a large, round, featureless room with a spiral staircase to their left.
 
"Well . . ." said Scorpio said, claws clicking absently, "that's anticlimatic."
 
"I should have known those idiots could not hold it off." came a low, deep voice.
 
Aquarius recognized it immediately, and he declared with a rather accusatory tone, "Karma!  You used to have some good in you!  But you let it bleed and bleached out of you!"
 
"And who are we, chopped wood?" Ageless said, braying rather irritatingly.  He seemed to be oblivious how annoying it was.  Eventually, Libra got so peeved by it, he moved to smack the bloodhound, and that led into an all out brawl between the two.

Karma took this as it was okay to attack and that the banter had ended.  Then Gazer came firing his optic blasts rather indiscriminately, unaware that he could cause the entire citadel to topple.

"Hey, Porky," Scorpio snarled, "if you're not careful, you'll bring down this citadel FOR us!!"

Realizing this, he was exceedingly more cautious with his optic blasts.  Scorpio cried, "BANZAI!" as he flew into the melee.  This time, Avatar didn't have to have Leo prompt him, and he proceeded with only a momentary glance backward, worried about his friends, his family.

He saw one of Gazer's beams lance through one of Scorpio's claws, but was fortunate enough not to be a fatal shot.  Libra suffered a bite from Ageless and Karma seemed to be holding back, which Aquarius seemed to take for Karma not taking him seriously.

It was hard to look away and proceed onward.

[Underseen]

This is a really interesting book. I like books like these and the out of continuity books.

[Cloak]

Right.  And the next one is gonna be one of two musical books -- well, you can just look at the list.  I am still currently planning the chapters of "It's Tough to Be A Mod", but I generally do change things when it comes to actually writing out the chapters.

I will write more . . . if I can get a computer after class.

EDIT:  Well, I did.  Now, wrapping this thing up.  Three more chapters or so to go.

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN:
Final Guards

And up they went.  Up, up and up.
 
"Hasn't this guy ever heard of elevators?" Gemini said.
 
"Quit your grousing," Sagittarius said, "we're nearly there."

"I'll quite my grousing when the Veil I want to stop my grousing!" Gemini snarled.

The Oblivion Veil still existed at this time, but the Oblivion Gate -- a barrier and a prison all in one -- was not as of yet in being.

"Look, you two," Leo said, "we're there."

"You know, I think that we're missing three --" Avatar said.

"No, we aren't," Sagitarius said, pointing an arrow of fire and energy ahead of the group.

"What's this?" Immortal asked, looking geniuinely surprised.

"Oh, come off it, Immortal," Gemini said, "you should have know that your idiotic comrades wouldn't have stopped us!!"

Meanwhile, Imitator reluctantly slipped Reanimator some sort of monetary denomination, while the latter looked very smug about it.  Immortal was unaware of this, it would seem.

"Reanimator!  Imitator!  We must protect Boss!" she whinnied.

"Sorry, pal, but that ain't happenin'," Gemini growled.

"Ah, monkey-boy, we're facin' off again, aren't we?" Leo said, rather coyly.

"Vermin, prepare yourself!" Sagitarrius declared.

"Avatar, you and Benign need to face this 'Boss' fellow," Leo said.  "We'll be along shortly."

"We aren't the pushovers you think us to be, Leo," Imitator said, huffily.

"Sure, you are!" Leo said, with a gregarius smile.  Then he turned to the younger two, "Hurry, now.  Don't keep the tyrant waiting."

This time Benign was the one who hesitated.

"No, Benign, we are needed elsewhere right now," Avatar said, realizing he may never see Leo or Scorpio or Virgo or anyone again.  "We must meet our potentially final destiny now. . . ."

Upon later reflection, Avatar would facepalm whenever he thought of that line.

[Underseen]

If boss uses the stone won't he basically be the same way Abomination was? I noticed earlier in the chapter how you said Cancer said something crabbily and Scropio said something piercingly, but I forgot to comment on it.

[Cloak]

Yes, Underseen.  He would.  If he ever got to it.
 
Two more to go . . .

CHAPTER NINTEEN:
The Tyrant and Avatar

The two burst into Boss's throne world.  He looked at them without really any interest, as if they were mere flies that had come in to irk him.  His conquering of the city had left him complacent.
 
"You?" Avatar said with disbelief.  "You are the tyrant?"
 
"'Tyrant'?" Boss said, clearly not caring for Avatar's choice of words.  "Boy, I am not a tyrant.  I am the Boss.  The one and the only Boss."
 
"And I thought Wargon had a big ego," Benign commented benignly.
 
"Impudent prude!" he said, a fired an blast of concussive energy at Benign, which she, not missing a beat, calmly batted away.  Boss looked shocked at this outright defiance of his authority, of his control.  These two would not be easily intimidated or scared away.
 
"Yes, Tyrant," Avatar said, giving him a new epithet.  "We will NOT bow to you.  We will NOT cowtow to you."
 
He watched as the tyrant processed this, clearly not liking it at all.
 
"There's nothing you can do to scare us away.  There's nothing you can do to deter us from freeing these people from you." Avatar said.  "It's over."
 
"IT IS NOT OVER!!" he roared.  "IT IS NOT OVER UNTIL I SAY IT'S OVER!!"
 
"Control issues much?" Benign asked.
 
"Don't do this, Tyrant." Avatar said, crossing his arms, and showing the full display of his antlers.  "Don't challenge us."
 
He lunged forward, Avatar simply spun on his right hoof and slammed his fist down on the bloated fish Walker.  Only to realize the rough skin that Tyrant possessed.  It scaped his arm enough to start a little trickle of golden ichor to flow.
 
"Not one of your better ideas," Benign said.
 
"Tell me about it," Avatar agreed.
 
Tyrant lashed out at both of them and they easily evaded or attacked him.  But it still seemed to be a stalemate.  Avatar had such a strigent control over his elemental abilities he kept pulling his attacks, deeply afraid of losing control.  Of becoming the monster he so feared.
 
But then . . . then it happened.
 
A gem on a spindly looking table beside his throne glowed to life when twelve blackened orbs within it appeared, swirling in a perpetual motion.  Simply, inexplicably appeared.  The battle stopped momentarily as all three combatants looked at the klepto stone.  Tyrant was grinning greedily.
 
"No!" Benign shouted as Tyrant made his way to the table, but suddenly a bunch of white rings appeared and revolved around the gem, preventing Tyrant from touching it, from accessing it.
 
"NO!!" Tyrant roared.  He wasn't accustomed to being denied, so he acted rather childishly.  "You can't stop me!  That stone is mine!!"

Benign's face took on a deathly palor, and Avatar was perplexed.  Benign met his eyes and he suddenly knew why.  He knew what must had happened.  Their friends . . . they made the ultimate sacrifice, not to just save them, but everyone.  They were truly selfish.  Now their rings, the ones that they wore, the ones that would eventually expand into hula-hoop-sized rings to leech the Twelves power from one who managed to successfully steal the stone . . . the rings were imbibed with some hint of the character and strength from their wearers.  They essentially lived again through their rings. . . .

That was the final straw.

Avatars eyes glowed like silvery-white suns, and a sphere of wind encircled him. . . . And he did what Cloak could never quite seem to get himself to do. . . .

[Underseen]

They stopped the tyrant from using the stone... Like a boss (sorry I had too)

The finale is going to be great.

[Cloak]

Now, the last chapter of Book 24.  Gonna be a bit on the short side.

CHAPTER TWENTY:
Actions and Lineages

After the death of Tyrant, the city slowly, but assuredly, returned to its former glory.  As for the klepto stone, Benign and Avatar walked toward the Oblivion Veil which most other Realm Walkers gave a very wide birth, except for the brash young boys who wished to prove their bravery by taking rather stupid risks.  But no such boys were there at the moment, as the two picked their timing very carefully.
 
Avatar and Benign buried the gem -- neither touched it, feeling as if it was dirty and vile.  Which it was, in a way.  Then, accessing his full terrakinetic might, to form the Oblivian Gate, which, he spun it to the Council, could be used as a prison, keeping it's true function from public knowledge.  The less known about the stone, the better.  But one would eventually discover it, and only Benign and Avatar's descendant would be able to finally destroy the stone, which Avatar assumed he wouldn't be able to.

The two went on to have two daughters and two sons.  Only the youngest daughter would prove to be able to master all the elements.  This daughter took the name of Progeny, being proud of her father and how she relates to him.

Progeny would, in turn, have two daughters and a son.  The youngest daughter would prove to inherit Progeny and Avatar's gifts.  It is through this daughter that Cloak was related to Avatar and Benign, through his mother, and her father.

"So, do you understand now?" Avatar asked.

"Understand what?" Cloak inquired.

"That the life of any Elements Master is never easy," Avatar said, "but you mustn't allow those mistakes or hardships in your past define you.  It is always difficult, with our gifts."

He paused as his stroked his chin.

"I too, at one time, believed these powers to be a curse," he said, "afraid to feel.  Afraid to simply be.  But my destiny was to stop Tyrant and his Thirteen.  And your fate is to help these Dweller friends of yours, these RAFians."

"You don't look down on me for that?  You didn't have any Dweller friends."

"You forget," Avatar said, "at my time, Dwellers didn't exist.  The realms in which they reside didn't exist." Avatar clarified.  "But if they had . . . no, I would not look down at you.  In many ways, you've impressed me with being able to relate to species so different, and in many ways, very like our own."

Then he smiled and said, "Our time is at a close, but should you have need of me again . . ."

Then he was gone, and Cloak opened his eyes.

[Underseen]

I hope the next book would have a decent amount of action.

[Cloak]

Well, it's gonna be a musical, Underseen.
 
New book.  Maybe a bit short.

BOOK XXV:
RAF -- THE MUSICAL
CHAPTER ONE:
The Evillaser's Victim

Cloak found his body feeling a bit sore.  He stood and golden-scarlet energy pooled around his feet into a thin disk.  Then it lifted him above the tree line.  He looked around a bit, then sped off to the left.   Then, with a rather needless flourish, he jumped off it when his reached his destination, rolled and jumped up.
 
"Show-off," Parker muttered, ruffling his morning paper, his helmet on a nearby table, with his feet on the table.
 
"I hate it when you put your feet on the table," Helen chided him good-naturedly.
 
"Tough noogies." Parker said, with a lull to his head to show that he was joking.  Helen smirked.
 
Meanwhile, elsewhere on the grounds, a few RAFians (all either whooping or catcalling) were chasing the Pootang, who was chasing Horse, who was screaming, "HE'S GONNA EAT ME!!!  AGAIN!!!  THIS ISN'T FUNNY!!!!!"
 
"Somethings never change," Cloak sighed, smiling.
 

***

"Hurry, my boy, hurry!" Malice was chiding Abomination.
 
"Right away, my flower!" he said, rather mushily.
 
Lightning and brilliant glows appeared from a pistol-like device that Malice was leaning over.  She was constructing this with all the love that Yarin usually shows his creations.  With more love and care then she ever showed Abomination, although he remained willingly ignorant of this, refusing to acknowledge it.
 
After a few more hours, Malice had finished her device.
 
"A-ha!  The Evillaser is done!  And best of all . . . I didn't have to free Corruptor." Malice said, surpressing a shiver at the thought of Corruptor -- an old boyfriend.  Although, she never told Abomination this little fact as he's been so wonderful in his servility.
 

***

"Has anyone see the new power -- oh, hi, Cloaky -- that experimental power cell I've been developing?" Yarin asked the trio, as the Pootang was hauled back into its cage and Horse was calming down . . . and washing off.
 
"I think Shorty had it," Parker said, with a sip of coffee.  "He needed a new battery for that MP3 player of his."
 
"WHAT?!"
 

***

Shorty had fitted the power cell into the player, even though it wasn't a really good fit.  But it still worked, and that's all that he cared about.  Then Malice rolled the Evillaser up to him, and he screamed when he saw it.  It looked like a weapon of mass destruction.
 
"A-ha!  One of Sage's brat's brat's Dweller pals!" Malice crowed as she aimed the laser at him.  She fired, but Shorty move ever so slightly that he was out of the path of the ray.  It didn't even wing him.  The Evillaser's blast caused it to become a pile of rubble to which Malice mourned over it as if it was a lost loved one.
 
Shorty's MP3 Player, however, was a different story.  It grew to the size of an aircraft carrier -- hovering in the air by no really visable means.  It's colors changed to green and black.  It's ear buds turned into electronic eyes.  And, suddenly, a green energy dome formed over RAF . . .

[Underseen]

I like musicals and your parodies... this will definitely by cool.

[Gaz]

Musicals are fun! Got myself all caught up.