Asleif Thorsdottir (godlierthanthou) wrote in marvel_nextgen,
@ 2010-03-19 19:17:00

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inactive - dawn roberts, inactive - ohu amane, sydney ashcroft, team - defenders

Dawn of a New Defender
Dawn Roberts, librarian, had not been having a good week. There had been the abduction, and then there had been the nightmares and freakout at work, along with a very perplexing change in her eye color. And now, after a night of even stranger dreams, she'd discovered she'd sleep-walked all night and found herself in front of the Defenders' Compound, just as the sun was coming up.

She looked around nervously, feeling pain in her feet and calves from having walked so much without even knowing it.

Should she? Something had brought her here. But what on Earth would involve a nobody like her with a team of super-heroes and gods? She was probably well beneath their notice.

She hesitated, then reached out and touched the buzzer on the gate.

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	sydney_ashcroft 2010-03-20 02:12 am UTC (link)
	"You didn't do what?" Syd asked only hearing Ohu's last statement. She didn't want to know. She really didn't want to know, but she had to ask. Whatever it was, it couldn't be good. Syd approached the door and saw the blond. She was not going to go with the usual thought about women showing up at the door. "Can we help you?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

godlierthanthou
2010-03-20 02:15 am UTC (link)

Oh, thank God. Someone normal. The other guy, Ohu, was obviously nuts, if he'd been the voice on the other end of the speaker-box.

"Um, maybe," Dawn said. "I kinda... sleep-walked all the way here from waaaay across town and I think I'm going crazy because I'm having all these Norse-related dreams and my eyes have changed color and I was kidnapped by a cult and there might be a witch in my dreams and..."

She took a deep breath. "Sorry. ...I've been having a bad week."

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	ohu_amane 2010-03-20 02:17 am UTC (link)
	"Dreams are important," Ohu declares, suddenly serious. "What are these dreams like?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	sydney_ashcroft 2010-03-20 02:19 am UTC (link)
	Not your average run of the mill Defenders related weirdness, but even they had to be surprised once and awhile. "Come in and let's get you some tea. Then you can tell us everything that has happened in detail including the dreams you've had." Okay, so she couldn't help going into Mom Mode in a split second. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

godlierthanthou
2010-03-20 02:37 am UTC (link)

"Thank-you," Dawn told Syd.

Shortly, she sipped her tea and began to talk about her dreams. "There's this woman, in all of them. Dark haired, tall, Nordic looking. And she seems mad at something, keeps begging to be let out."

She went on. "And then... there was this dream, where I was burning to death, only this voice asked me if I wanted to live, and I said yes and that's when I woke up here."

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	ohu_amane 2010-03-20 02:39 am UTC (link)
	Ohu looks to Syd, seriously. "Do you have a picture of Aslief?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	sydney_ashcroft 2010-03-20 02:41 am UTC (link)
	"I do. From Christmas," Syd said. "Let me go get it." She disappeared out of the kitchen. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	godlierthanthou 2010-03-20 02:47 am UTC (link)
	Dawn gave him a curious look. "And Asleif is...?" Meanwhile, upstairs in Asleif's room, her staff was starting to shift slightly from its place of storage, as though it sensed something. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	ohu_amane 2010-03-20 02:50 am UTC (link)
	"When you said the dark Nordic-looking woman was angry, I immediately thought of her. She is a member of the Defenders." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	sydney_ashcroft 2010-03-20 10:56 pm UTC (link)
	"Does she look like this?" Syd asked as she returned with a photograph of Zoey and Asleif that had been taken at Christmas. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	godlierthanthou 2010-03-20 11:20 pm UTC (link)
	"That's... that's her!" Dawn said. "That's the woman I've been seeing!" Upstairs, the wand had managed to get itself mobile and was working its way toward the door. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	ohu_amane 2010-03-21 03:23 am UTC (link)
	"Dreams have power, too," Ohu nods quietly. "Can you tell us the story of your dream?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	sydney_ashcroft 2010-03-21 03:45 am UTC (link)
	Now that Syd thought about it, she hadn't seen Asleif around in the past few days. Asleif was one to keep to herself, but even then Syd saw her around mealtimes. "Yes, please do tell us. Now that you mention Asleif, I haven't seen her in a few days." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

godlierthanthou
2010-03-21 04:00 am UTC (link)

Dawn nodded. "Okay, here's what I remember..."

Her dream had been like this: It was hot. Hotter than she had ever felt in her entire life. She was burning, burning up! She was on fire! She had to move, had to get away, but she couldn’t! Why couldn’t she?! It was hot, so hot! It felt like it was burning her down to her soul!

Her eyes were open now, she could feel they were open, but she couldn’t see anything. Everything hurt. Everything hurt so much. She was certain she was dying. What did she do to deserve this? She didn’t want to die! She’d never been in love, never seen Paris, never wrote the great American novel…

She couldn’t see, but she could just barely make out light and darkness. There was a dark patch near her, and her ears, equally burned and stripped away, could not hear a thing at all. But somehow, she could tell the dark patch was speaking. Oh God, why did it hurt?

A life hath been wrongly taken, by pride and arrogance. There must be amends! Doth thou wish to live?

What?

Doth thou wish to live? Answer!Then fight for thine life! Take it back! Live!

Something, somehow, gave her the strength to move. She felt her ruined, burned arm reach out and grab something and not let it go…

~Let me go!~

And then she'd been awakened by the paramedic, with dead cultists all about her. Which is when the whole insanity thing had started...

"And that's it," she finished. "I feel like I'm losing my mind here."

Upstairs, a banging sound could be heard, as the staff banged on the door, trying to force its way out.

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	ohu_amane 2010-03-21 04:56 am UTC (link)
	Ohu closes his eyes. "...Syd? Why is Aslief's staff knocking on her door?" He opens his eyes again. "Did someone make her staff sentient and mobile and not tell me?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	sydney_ashcroft 2010-03-21 05:03 am UTC (link)
	"You're asking me about magic stuff? I have no idea." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	ohu_amane 2010-03-21 05:05 am UTC (link)
	Ohu considers for a long moment. Then, abruptly, having considered the options in his mind and making a decision, he gets to his feet and walks briskly upstairs to open the door of Aslief's room. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

godlierthanthou
2010-03-21 03:12 pm UTC (link)

The staff flew by Ohu, very narrowly missing his head, navigated its way down the stairs, and into the living room where Syd and Dawn were still sitting.

It hovered for a moment, as though navigating, and then made a bee-line toward Dawn at full speed.

She threw her hands up to protect herself and in doing so, grasped on to the staff.

BOOM!

There was a flash of light and for those mystically inclined, a sense of a rush of power. Where Dawn had once stood, there now appeared to be Asleif, looking extremely confused.

"What... What the hell just happened?!"

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	sydney_ashcroft 2010-03-21 05:26 pm UTC (link)
	"What the hell was that?" Syd asked with her mouth hanging open. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	ohu_amane 2010-03-21 05:48 pm UTC (link)
	Ohu comes down the stairs and looks at Aslief. Yet he knows from her expression that this is not Aslief... it is still Dawn. "You see? Dreams do have power." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	godlierthanthou 2010-03-21 06:07 pm UTC (link)
	She was taller, she could tell that much. Heavier too, it felt like. Clothes were definitely different. She would never wear an outfit with this much cleavage. ...She never had this much cleavage. "Oh God, oh God, oh God...." The staff slipped from her fingers, landing with a clatter on the floor. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	sydney_ashcroft 2010-03-21 06:24 pm UTC (link)
	"Asleif? What happened?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	ohu_amane 2010-03-21 06:32 pm UTC (link)
	Ohu considers. "Perhaps someone should speak with Thor." He has heard the stories of Thor and his mortal frame. This is sounding familiar to him. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	godlierthanthou 2010-03-21 06:36 pm UTC (link)
	And sixty seconds had now passed. There was another flash and another boom, and Dawn was physically back once more. If anyone bothered to look, they would find the staff had changed into a collapsible umbrella. "I...I'm back to normal," Dawn breathed. "But that was her! I turned into her!" She breathed heavily, close to hyperventilation. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	ohu_amane 2010-03-21 06:38 pm UTC (link)
	Ohu nods. "Yes, I think Thor should be contacted." He looks at them. "Do either of you wish to come along?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)