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Old 03-31-2008, 02:38 AM   #5
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Yeah. I've never completed that scene on camera but the basic events were revealed in Chapter 153 of Anja's story:


"We all felt it," Sheba said. "This was more than just a normal contact. You weren't just sending the way Codi Jo did; it felt like you were soaking up things right from My mind and I couldn't stop you!"

"Oh! I'm sorry! I didn't mean--"

"No need to apologize, dear. Not your fault, and we knew the job was dangerous when we took it."



"I felt like I was fighting for my soul!"


"Right, it's not your fault, Anja," Dallas said, "but it was scary! You were all over my head, forcing me to relive all the events of my life! I felt like I was fighting for my soul!"

"Yes, that's what it was like!" Sheba said. "Normally I take care of a new awakening because most of the time it's My children, but I was helpless this time! I had to call on Greg to shield you from the source!"

"And that wasn't easy," Greg said. "There was a massive time distortion. The only way I could get through was to completely surround you."

"Oh! That's what it was!" Anja said. "It felt like a really nice hug."

"That just what I envisioned, an all-encompassing embrace. The affection is genuine, dear one, but the embrace was desparation. I was fighting for my life. I haven't had to draw on so much power since the time I got killed at Boveena Bridge."



"I haven't had to draw on so much power since the time I got killed at Boveena Bridge."


Anja gasped. "You got killed?"

"Yes, but obviously I have no talent for staying dead," Greg said. "Narcissa got in a really good blast that we still don't understand and I was six ways dead, but with some help from Dallas as an anchor in this universe, my self in Baumdoubt re-created me here."

"Oh my! I had no idea--"

"Until then, neither did I!" Greg said. "The Gift is a mental power, and we still don't have a clue about where it comes from or the extent of what we can do with it."

Anja was surprised to see Sheba misting up. "Honey, please don't ever do that again!" She said. "It was terrifying!"

"Yeah, what Sheba said," Dallas said. "Don't die! If you do that again, I'll kill you!"

Greg chuckled. "I'll do my best! There's nothing like getting killed to hone your survival instincts!"


And then in chapter 160 there was quite a bit of elaboration while the characters were puzzling over Barry's elemental magic theory:



"If Barry's diagram is correct, Narcissa must be Fire."

"I don't think so," Greg said. "Remember what happened at Boveena Bridge? She drained me good and then while I was falling she hit me with that blast. If Barry's diagram is correct, then Narcissa must be Fire."

Barry nodded. "That would explain why the rest of us were able to draw enough power out of her that she had to run away."

"Yeah, she run away and came close to killing all of us while she was doing it!" Dallas added.

"Except Mom."

"He's right," Sheba said. "I could still steal back the power from her, and she couldn't do the same counter-strike against me."



"Maybe you could have gone after her if you hadn't flown after that package."

"Hey," Dallas said, "maybe you could have gone after her if you hadn't flown after that package instead!"

"My new shoes were in that package!"

Sheila gasped. "What? You let an evil supervillain get away just so you could rescue a pair of shoes? Hey, I'm blonde, too, but--"

Sheba laughed. "No, honey, even I would be willing to sacrifice a pair of shoes to capture Narcissa. All I knew at the time was that Lucy was screaming for someone to rescue the package. Greg was down. Barry was carrying Lucy. And Dallas--"

"Dallas flew straight into the bridge!" Dallas said.

"Yes, that."

"Hey, it was the first time I ever tried to fly at all! At least nowadays they don't have issue NOTAM's about me being a hazard to aviation!"



"I was the only one who could go after the package, so I did."

"Well..."

"They don't, do they?"

"Not formally, but Giles does redirect approach traffic to the air base. But really, the point is that at the time, all I knew was that the package was important to Lucy and it was headed toward the gorge. What's important to Lucy is important to Me and I was the only one who could go after it, so I did."

"So there was no one left to challenge Narcissa, and she escaped," Sheila said.

Sheba seemed petulant, but She agreed. "Yes, Narcissa got away."



"Narcissa must be fire."

"But we've learned something here!" Greg said. Even though the subject involved dark happenings, his characeristic enthusiasm was coming through. "Narcissa must be fire! It's the only thing that fits."

Anja had remained a silent observer all this time out of deference to the legendary superheroes, but suddenly it all came to her. She decided it was time to speak up.

"Yes, Narcissa is fire."

"Huh? Anja?"

"I remember! I was there! Or at least she was! She tried to draw power from the earth. She could feel it there, especially whatever you and Barry did that that bridge--"



"We fused the bridge into a single metal crystal."

"Dad's idea," Barry said. "We fused it into a single metal crystal from one end to the other." His pride was almost palpable.

Anja rewarded him by being amazed. "Making it the strongest structure on Earth."

"Yup!"

"Very lucrative contract," Greg added.

Anja laughed. "I imagine so! And because of that, Narcissa couldn't budge it even when she tried to draw energy directly from the sun. She's powerful, but not that powerful!"

She looked at Greg. "She found that she couldn't draw power from the structure," Anja continued, "but when you arrived, she could draw power through you! And from Barry! But when she tried to draw power from Mama Sheba--"

"I reversed the flow," Sheba said. "Forced her to break the contact."

"Then she took down Greg, but something hit her--"



"You tackled Narcissa?"

"I blind-sided her," Dallas said. "I had no idea what I was doing but at least I knew how to run into things!"

Sheila gasped. "What? You tackled Narcissa?"

"Nothing that elegant, really," Dallas said. "I think I smacked my shoulder right into her back."

"But... her power! I'm feeling what Anja is feeling, and Narcissa is scary!"

"I s'pose so, but I didn't know that at the time! Besides, she was attacking my husband! I don't care how powerful she is! I'd do it again!"

"She was hurt," Anja said. "Bad. She couldn't feel anything from the waist down. So she decided to run."



"You mean I got her?"

"You mean I got her?" Dallas asked. "She's crippled?"

"Um... was," Anja confirmed. "She's healed herself now. Well, almost."

And that is how Narcissa Sapphos came to be alone in her hideout deep in the mountains.


Oh, what has become of Naomi Sephrini?
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