Skipping School

The girls ride off during the chaos at the school. Susan seems to create small stone objects of things she thinks of too hard without really trying.

While Zoey finds it hard to control her strength. She is also feeling very thirsty.

Zoey licked her lips and sighed.  "Mind if we stop at a store somewhere?  I could really use a drink or two.  Wow.  I am wicked thirsty today."

Susan chuckled as she drove.
"Really?  You're 'wicked' thirsty?   You're sounding more like a townie every day.  But I'm thirsty as well.  Let's stop at a 7-11 for something."

She sighed.
"I'd like to get somewhere private to cast some spells to find out what's going on.  Especially since every time I think of a ritual, it comes to my mind so strongly that I have trouble not blurting it out.  I'm starting to think ditching school was the best thing for both of us."

Zoey laughed next.  "Ditching school was a good idea?  Now you're starting to sound like me and Allura.  This isn't a normal thirst though for me.  I mean, Im really thirsty Susan."

She looked thoughtful as they drove towards the 7-11, "We could go to my cave for privacy."

Susan looked at her friend and nodded, though was starting to get very worried, knowing that Zoey didn't have normal human physiology.
She pulled into the store parking lot, and got out.
"Would you like something in the soda family, or just water?"

"A couple gallons of water would be great. Thanks."

Susan looked at her friend with a combination of amusement and concern.
"One 55 gallon drum of Evian, coming up."

She walked into the store, and returned a few minutes later with a bag, looking a little flustered.
Getting into her SUV, she hoisted the bag onto her lap with visible effort, and handed the first of three 1 liter bottles of Dasani water to Zoey.
"Here you go, my friend.  Enjoy."
She gave a forced smile.

"Thanks Susan.  You okay?"  Zoey asked after taking the water and drinking half of the first 1 liter.

Susan nodded her head, if without enthusiasm.
"Yes, I'm okay.   There was just some skeevy guy in there who started hitting on me while I waited in line.  I'm just not used to this kind of thing, I guess."

"Oh,"  Zoey chuckled.

"So what do you think is going on with us?  Any ideas?"  She finished off the first liter and opened another one.

Susan shook her head as she eased back into traffic.
"I'm not sure.  This is not some random prankster, and I kind of hope it's not someone who's messing with us personally.  I'm not even sure who could do that, unless this weird space pharoah guy is to blame."
She shook her head, thinking.
"Honestly, it's almost as if we're getting our various abilities for the first time, unable to really control them.  My magic feels as if it's about to burst from me like a child throwing out a new swear word, and I'm not even sure if I felt that way when I WAS learning magic for the first time.
Still, the fact that it's affecting all of us, and we're so different, is troubling."

Drinking the water Zoey nodded, wiping a trickle from her chin.  "Do you think it might have something to do with the guy in the green pajamas again?  What if he found out his mind trick didnt work on us the first time, and he came back to do it right?"

In reply to Zoey Krass (msg # 12):

Susan frowned in thought.
"That's certainly possible, though it would only be viable if he's trying to isolate us, and he probably couldn't guarentee that we'd leave the school.  Though, actually, if I were him I'd just wait to catch us individually anyway, and not tip us off that something's wrong.  We're kind of on 'high alert' at the moment."

"Hm.  Who else would screw with us like this then?  I thought I was the clown."  She shrugged.  "So what do you want to try when we get to the cave?"

Susan gave a small grin.
"You're usually our comedian, but you're also funny.  This is just asinine."

She drove to the cave.
"I'd kind of like to try some scrying magic, and some privacy would be good, in case something weird happens."

Zoey smiled.

"Scrying?  That's like searching for someone or something right? I'll dry us too when we get to the cave.  That'll be easy to do."

Susan nodded.
"Yes, exactly.   it's not my specialty,  but I have to try.   You'll 'dry' us?   What do you mean? "

In reply to Susan Eisenberg (msg # 17):

"The cave entrance is under water, remember?  When we get there I can pull the water from our stuff and dry us."

Susan chuckled wryly.
"Sorry, I forgot.   I guess I'm even more distracted than I thought. "

"Well at least you can relax knowing that nobody should get hurt by us if we're in the cave.  I want to see how messed up my abilities are too."

Susan creates a stone chibi of herself along with the many stone figures she has been creating with surprisingly little fatigue.

In reply to Watchtower (msg # 21):

Susan looked at her impromptu army, and smiled wryly.
"I should be pleased that my magic is coming so easily,  but as the saying goes : 'there's no such thing as a free lunch'.  There's got to be a cost for this, we just don't know it yet."

Zoey blinked. "I didnt think of that.  Oh, hey.  Maybe your grandmother has some input on what is going on?  Think you could ask her?"

Once the pair of girls got to the river and parked the car, Zoey got out leaving her things locked up in the back seat.

Susan made sure to lock up the SUV securely, and followed Zoey towards the shore.
"I'd rather see what I could come up with on my own first.  Bubbee Kappy tends to get all snippy with me if I call on her as a first resort."
She rolled her eyes.
"I mean, it's not like she has anything else going on, what with being dead and all, right?"

The water is incredibly choppy like a storm whipped up though it isn't particularly windy out.

Susan looks around, slipping on a down jacket.
Then she paused, looking around
"Wait....I thought it would be windy out.....what's going on?"
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"I'll try to see if I can find out. Hold on."

Zoey reached out with her mind to speak with a fish or other water creature near by.  "What is going on?"

A large fish pops up and looks at Zoey.

~Fishmen, Fishmen are doing something.~

Zoey looked surprised and concerned at the same time. "Fishmen?  Deep Ones.  What are they doing?"

She looked to Susan, "There may be a problem bigger than we thought."  She waited for the fish to respond.

The fish just swam there looking at Zoey.

Turning to Susan, "Once we are under the water, you may want to create yourself a weapon.  Anything involving the Deep Ones isn't going to be good.  Or you can stay here where it'll be safer for you.  Your choice but I have to go, its my duty."

Zoey took a few steps into the river and waited for Susan to make up her mind, and created an air bubble for her friend if she followed into the water.

Zoey's cellphone rings.

It's the ring she set up for Sam.

A smile appeared as she looked at the phone and answered it.  "Hello handsome.  What's up?"
She wiggled her toes in the water.

It seemed to be just a text.

Help Zoey ! Zombies here !

"Oh my god!"

Zoey turned and started back for the car, dialing Sam's number.

Susan was trying to decide if she wanted to go into the water or not, and was just screwing up her courage when Zoey started running towards the SUV after getting a text.
She started running after her.
"Hey!  What's going on??"

"I swear this day can't get any weirder. Sam texted and said there are zombies. Zombies!  What next?"

Susan, not believing in coincidences, started the car and drove to where Zoey directed her.   She also tried to think of any good spells against zombies, if she knew any.

Zoey got in and waited impatiently for Sam to answer his phone, even though it had only rang twice since she dialed it.  "You ever think about leaving Arkham?  I mean all this crazy weird stuff that keeps happening, its a bit straining on the nerves.  Mummies, ghosts, monsters and now zombies. This better not be him joking around."

Susan drove, and chuckled wryly.
"Yes, I'll admit that part of me is seriously looking forward to leaving town for college.  I wonder if Boston gets this weird?"
Then she looked at Zoey, looking a little sheepish.
"Though, to be honest, another part of me doesn't want to leave all of you.  I can't imagine being in a new town where no one knows my weird little secrets......Well, most of them, any way."

Zoey nodded, "It's a tough decision for sure.  But well, I've been thinking about taking off for a while and trying to get touch with my heritage.  Maybe go to Greece."

Susan stopped at a red light as they drove, sighing heavily.
"It's weird.  I think about going away to college.  Certainly getting away from my parents.  But the thought of all of you heading off to all corners of the world is....well, kind of depressing.
I know it sounds selfish, but I'll admit that part of my wants all of you to be here in town when I come back for holidays.   Almost like I need you all to be here to make sure I have an anchor in the world.
Weird, right?"

Shaking her head, Zoey smiled lightly "I dont think that's selfish at all Susan.  We're all one another's anchors."

The phone kept ringing with no response.

"Damn, he's not answering.  Um, go to the school, we'll start there."

Zoey and Susan show up at the school and sees it ablaze.

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