Pins & Needles (Pixie/Open?)

(ooc: marie laveau is currently being npc'd in this thread. she is still available for play on the site. if you pick her up before this thread is finished, feel free to jump in since she is already being introduced into it)

L O C A T I O N: New Orleans

Marie Laveau. The Voodoo Queen of New Orleans. Not many knew about her and she liked to keep it that way. Some Avengers knew about her, some X-Men knew about her. But not everyone. She liked it that way and planned for it to stay like that. The room she was in was dark, lit only by the light of a couple candles. Her eyes wandered over to her prisoners, who were binded to the wall by chains she had cast a dark charm on. She held a little pride in herself after capturing those two. After all she was getting older, and they were young. One was even rumored to be the future Sorcerer Supreme. That meant that if she could, she wouldn't mind getting him out of the picture. She couldn't risk him becoming too powerful and stopping any plans of hers in the future.

The woman stood up from her kneeled down position on the floor and walked over to the mage. His head hung and his eyes were closed. She had successfully knocked him out with a powerful blow before he could even see who was attacking him. She grasped his chin, gently lifting it up so she could get a good look at him. She didn't want to wake him, unsure of how powerful he was. He wore no mask, meaning she would recognize him if in fact he did escape and ran into her again. He was young, just a child in her mind. "So the Avengers are now recruiting children? Interesting. I could have sworn that was the X-Men's job." she spoke softly.

She frowned to herself. There was something familiar about the magic he held. It was very similar to that of the Scarlet Witch's. Could he perhaps be related to her? If he was, she'd have to make sure the witch never found his body. After all, her plans didn't end with either of her prisoners living. She released his chin and looked over at her second prisoner. A female mutant. She took a couple steps until she was facing her. She looked no older than to be a student at the Jean Grey School. Perhaps she was. She wasn't surprised. The X-Men taught a school, so naturally they'd have young members.

She briefly wondered if her two prisoners even knew each other. She doubted it. The X-Men and Avengers rarely got along, from what she could tell. Turning around, she walked over to a shelf in the room, grabbing down a book on the dark arts. She opened it up and began flipping through the pages. She didn't necessarily need the book. She had all the spells memorized. Years spent plotting had done her wonders. She was finally ready to make a strike. Her head whipped around when she heard a groan, signaling one of the prisoners was awake. Which one, however, she wasn't sure of.

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(ooc: i can actually see, billy being interested in the books. perhaps, and this is just a thought, he takes one on dark magic and reads a spell about bringing back the dead. with cassie's death having recently happened, he might be tempted to try it ;) and pixie would most likely be the only one who knows he took the book. just something i just thought of xP)

Megan groaned and started to open her eyes. All around her was blurring but she started to see better. Then she started to look around and realized that she didn't know where she was. The only light came from some candles and there were a lot of books, and Megan recognized the titles of a few of them. They were books of black magic, the evil facet of Voodoo. The good thing is that she wasn't in Limbo. Megan started remembering what happened before she woke up. That day she, Surge and Prodigy were in charge of buying supplies for Utopia. The task was a little awkward, not because they had to buy food and tissue paper, but because she was going with David and Nori, who despite they keep saying that they were fine after their break up, they were clearing lying with their very long uncomfortable silences, or looking at each other out of the corner of their eyes. And the pink haired mutant was in the middle of that. Yes very awkward. They had finished buying everything the X-men could need, she felt something weird. But before she could react or tell the others, a flash of light hit her and she lost consciousness.

Megan realized that she was binded in the wall by an advanced chain spell. The good thing is that she could still use her teleportation spell, but first she needed more time to recover and have more strength to cast it. She then looked to her right and saw that she wasn't the only one kidnapped. There was a boy of her age with black and short hair and dressed like an spell caster. She never saw him in her life, but she had to admit that he was lush (cute). David and Nori wasn't there with her, maybe they are in San Francisco looking for her.

Then she saw in front of her a black old woman dressed like a voodoo priestess and holding a book. She never saw that woman in all her life."Please tell me that my mother doesn't have anything to do with this" was the first thing that Megan said to the witch. Ok maybe it was a dumb question but Megan wanted to be sure that the crazy of her mother didn't plan this to organize a family reunion. And maybe she can win time to recover strenghts and run away with the other wizard. "She has pink hair like me, pointy ears, a full blood fairy, you two must be members of the same book club, and very old, like you" said Megan but the last thing, was said in a very low tone, so the witch couldn't hear her. Probably the witch would start to tell her evil plan soon, like the classic supervillain.

So it was the girl who had awakened. Marie stared at the girl before deciding to answer. "My dear, I can assure you that presently, I should be your only concern." She wasn't working with anyone at the moment but herself and of course the dark spirits that powered her dark magic. She certainly hadn't seen anyone else besides the girl who had pink hair. Her eyes turned as she saw the mage's head lift up slightly. The mutant's voice must have awakened him.

"Whaaaat...?" he groggily blinked his eyes open. However they snapped wide awake when he finally noticed what was going on. He looked toward Pixie briefly, noticing she was captured as well, before turning his eyes onto Marie. Who the heck was this lady? What did she want with them? "What's going on?"

"Oh don't be so impatient to know," the woman said as she strode away and picked something up, "When you plan to chant a spell and be out of here soon, no?" The teenager didn't respond. She was right. He was already thinking of the words to chant to try to get himself and the girl out of this situation. However, as soon as the woman returned, he found a piece of duct-tape stuck around his mouth. "Now I certainly can't have that. After all, I need both of you." She looked toward the girl and brushed the tips of her fingers against her cheek.

"The ritual will be starting soon."

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