Wizard has been displaced

[phoenixwiz]

Open/locked?: Open
Who: Harry and You
What: Harry has been displaced across the multiverse AGAIN
Warnings: Tons of disorientation and confusion; Will update if something comes up

So this is it: he is about to return home after helping out in saving Avalon and the world from being frozen in time for nearly two years. And he does miss home so much that once Excalibur has been destroyed and time and the multiverse has been saved, he thought that now is the time to go back and rest up from a long endgame fight with a cursed sword. As much as he wants to stay here, he has a mess of a battle aftermath to clean up, a destroyed school to come to, friends who are missing him badly now, and a community that needs to rebuild itself. The situation his world is in is not that great but he does need to go back and help in the repairs soon.

Or that is what he thought how that day would end because he soon finds himself being transported into a very unfamiliar place. For the second time in his life, Harry has been very much displaced across the multiverse again. He takes a look around to see if he has everything from Avalon with him. Relief settles in when he finds that Hedwig in her cage is there, and much to his own surprise, even Rose too. Wait a minute, he thought that he had tried to say goodbye to her in Avalon so seeing the little pink Pygmy Puff is a big surprise to him. Then he turns to find that his polearm had become very padded and his phone from Avalon didn’t work as at all. So he can’t be able to call King Arthur for help anytime soon.

But the most confusing thing he has stumbled upon to date happens to be the giant and grand scale of the castle before him. He knows that castles can be big in space like with Hogwarts Castle but this one has to take the cake. And it is a lot more beautiful than what Hogwarts is currently at, whoever did the maintance work sure does put a lot of effort to make it super pristine as it can be. But all he can muster to say at this time as he looks more confused by his new situation is “Where in the world I am in now?”

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[phoenixwiz]

Harry barely said anything as he stared at Kyoko for the next several minutes. Hedwig notices that her owner had been unresponsive for a while now that she tries to bring him back to reality by hooting as loudly as she could.

Eventually Harry snaps out of his stunned state, shaking his head multiple times in embarrassment, before he tells her (Kyoko) something very important, “Hey Kyoko. Did you know that there is one girl from my world who went by the name Cho and she is not from Japan? That would have been my first ex.”

[queen_butterfly]

Mallia was quiet, her arms up and not quite folded as she covered part of her face with a hand, still trying to keep her expression neutral. Her friend didn't say anything for a long few seconds, glancing to Harry briefly, and then between him and Mallia. "It's times like this, I'd ordinarily be taking this sort of folly as an invitation to arrange for someone to wear clothing that isn't there and show their arrogance to everyone."

The fairy shook her head, finally laughing a little again. "Oh, mercy...."

He sighed, turning to look once more to Kyoko. He barely gestured, and his outfit changed, from those softer, earthier hues to near gem colors, whites that shimmered as they sparkled over deep greens and blues. His new robes were nothing if not regal, draping down gracefully over his frame. His hair, previously held back in a low little ponytail, chin-length bangs kept at bay by his ears, now trailed down to his waist, fine braids interrupting the silken length here and there. His face hadn't changed, under the circlet he now wore... but it was stunning, the difference a change in dress and a shift in attitude could make.

Quickly, not giving her a chance to protest any of it: "As one of the oldest members of my entire species and king of all fae, I hereby declare that from now on, your name is Pomme, as you've exhibited all the wit, wisdom, and sense of one. I also henceforth officially disown and disinherit this Corn pretender for the crime of not bringing me in on this obvious joke already. I'd swear he was trying to get you eaten by a dragon, honestly... So if you find him, tell him I'll be waiting on her throne, since she's been the queen for roughly thirty centuries now." He gestured at Mallia, and raised his glass to drink more of it again.

She was losing it at that, laughing. "But I-- You can't just--!"

"I just did," he said, peeking over his glass, his smile teasingly smug. Quieter, to Harry. "Didn't I?"

[souls_of_roles]

She had been about to respond to Harry, and then when the male fairy said he was the king she had been about to say something else, bit when he spoke against Corn...

For a moment she was deathly still and pale. And then DARKNESS flared around her, a dozen or more little grudge spirits flying free of her back to swirl around her. Harry would be able to spot her familiar from Avalon as it was the largest of them, but the rest looked like smaller versions as they swirled around her.

She now had the aura that made everyone think she made such a good villain. Right now she oozed darkness, fury, hatred, all things that made good people flee as she moved to close the small distance between her and the one who had said such horrible things.

She didn't float, but she almost seemed to as her eyes locked onto him.

"You will apologize to Corn," she said, her voice ice. "You will no longer joke about Corn or even mention him," she said, fury roiling off her in waves.

Over her head the grudge spirits were breaking into committees, deciding which ones of them were going to hit him and which ones were going to strangle him.

Hard to say if Kyoko even noticed them, or anyone else for that matter, as her own hands came up like she was about to throttle Mallia's friend. "Fairy or no, you will not insult Corn!"

[phoenixwiz]

Uh oh, this is starting to look like things are about to derail faster than he was anticipating to witness. And Harry is literally panicking over the whole thing happening before his very eyes.

Um Kyoko, this is not the time to get into fights with Mallia’s friend right now. He might have a point on fairies vs elves he could only scream inside his mind as he watches in horror as soon as grudge spirits soon appear around her. He turns to Mallia’s friend and he could only muster the courage to nod back and say to him, “Sir, I think that we need to do something before she loses it entirely.”

There is a lot of cultural misunderstandings going on and he has a hard time to keep track of the whole discussion. Fairies, elves, Fae, or whatever you want to call them by: he is literally bracing himself for a possible full blown fight and he doesn’t want to find out how it will end.

Rose squeaks in horror as she witnesses Kyoko’s wrath, wishing that things didn’t have to go downhill this fast. Hedwig feels rather horrified as well, scared hoots aplenty as she watches Kyoko being angry at the elf man over how their world’s views on fairies and insulting Corn in the face.

[queen_butterfly]

"Hmm...." The self-proclaimed king of elves glanced from Harry back to Kyoko. He could clearly see the phantoms around her, his light blue eyes glancing from one to another, though he didn't otherwise react to her display, his amused little smile never leaving. "....On second thought, I see why your friend taught you as he did. By all means, should you meet an elf wearing all leather... please do address them as 'fairy'. Especially one with green in his hair."

That sobered up Mallia fairly quickly. "All right, that's enough. Kyoko, poppet... Corn has never had an inheritance in a world that isn't his. Perhaps he does where you're from, but he's no prince of ours. And nothing he taught you has any basis in relation to us. Please, you need to understand...."

Her friend rolled his eyes, sighing, but didn't protest further. Fine, spoil his fun!

"Where I come from," she continued, stepping around the table to put herself between Kyoko and her friend's image, "There is nowhere called Avalon. There is also no prince among my kind. I certainly have no children! He has no children!" If he was going to position himself as a king, and her as a queen, she might as well make it plain that her Corn friend didn't fit into-- ...wait. It only struck her after the words were out that she probably didn't want to play into that, on account of giving Kyoko more flawed-at-best ideas about her people's social structures to run wild with. The girl already wasn't listening; how wise was it? Oh well, that could be a problem for later.

"No, no, no...." He put a hand on her shoulder, stepping out again from behind her to stand a bit further away from the table. "I'd love a chance to apologize to his face for anything I've said so far that's actually wrong. You want him to be my heir, then show him to me so that I may adopt him! He can be my very first ward!"

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[souls_of_roles]

"YOU'RE CORN'S FATHER?!" she exploded. Her grudge spirts flew out in all directions, shattering the table, taking chunks out of trees, pitting the ground. A tree branch fell right behind Kyoko as her fury built. "YOU'RE THE ONE WHO KEEPS BREAKING HIS WINGS?!"

All her defensive anger cam out. She would protect Corn! Corn who did so much for her for so long... Her hands went around his neck with blinding speed. Several of her spirits joined in, a few around his neck, the rest trying to restrain him from pulling away as her hands closed.

Fury filled her, but also... tears. Tears flew from her eyes as her hands closed. "I know that you are cursed... but that is no reason to take it out on your son!" she said, tears falling faster. "I broke his curse and you can find someone to break yours! BUT NOT AT CORN'S EXPENSE! I can't forgive you for how you have treated your son!" Her hands were shaking around his throat.

Kyoko... wasn't fully the one driving anymore. If asked, she would have said the priestess hadn't been around long enough to have rooted. And yet... it was the priestess who lost her powers trying to scream that he could yet be saved, breaking a thin thread through her rage.

The priestess and...

The Angel. She could almost feel the Angel within her. The one that went insane... when she killed the man who was killing her best friend...

[phoenixwiz]

“Kyoko please!” Harry cries out to her, although by then it is nearly too late for him to break it up.

He then turns to Mallia and then the elf man, wondering how they can do to stop Kyoko from unknowingly sinking everything downward, but he didn’t say a single word out of his mouth. The shaky nervousness inside him has frozen him in fear.

He could have shaken the lady by the shoulder to snap her out of this madness but he doesn’t have the courage to do so at this stage. So he is practically helpless and unable to do something urgent fast enough.

[queen_butterfly]

Interestingly enough, this apparent elven king still wasn't reacting much to her fit, even with her having grabbed his neck. He looked decidedly unimpressed, even irritated, but despite the display, not intimidated in the slightest. It could've had something to do with him not actually being there, but he'd been ever so convincing so far... was this actually in line with how Mallia's friend acted in reality? Because the way she was reacting, looking between the two, yes seemed like a likely answer.

"What part," he said, speaking loudly, clearly, his smile having slowly disappeared, "Of WE HAVE NO CHILDREN...." He narrowed his eyes, "Do you not understand?"

He didn't take his eyes off of her, letting her keep trying to intimidate him. She could try squeezing his neck all she wanted; it was oddly solid, though it moved under her fingers as though her touch were feather-light, muscle responding as it ought when he spoke and everything.

Mallia, meanwhile, seemed a little exasperated. She gestured, and the table and the mess that was once their feast disappeared in a puff of darkness that dissipated too fast for it to have been solid matter, or even soot on the air, despite its appearance. "You weren't hurt, were you?" She looked between the owl and pink furball and Harry, seemingly similarly unconcerned with what was now going on directly behind her, looking instead to check on them. Did she even understand the scene? Was she unaware of what could happen? Or did she know something she wasn't making clear?

[souls_of_roles]

Look, Kyoko is more or less a modern girl, and she's furious. So with him not reacting to the strangling but that giving her an anchor... she brought her knee up with all the force she had.

[phoenixwiz]

Right now Harry hasn’t gotten over from the shock of witnessing Kyoko’s wrath in fully display. Even if he has known her for a long while, he does feel like that there might be more things he hasn’t gotten to learn from her and it is very scary for him to see her in a big state of rage. Hedwig hoots in concerns as she and Rose try to find a way to bring Harry out of the terrified state he is in. She picks up Rose on the back with her talons and flies her onto his right shoulder so the Pygmy Puff can snuggle up to him.

The young man isn’t even sure if he is partially at fault for this messy situation but he is still in shock that he couldn’t move a single muscle to save his own life.

[queen_butterfly]

Mallia sighed a little. Once the two smaller creatures had found a new perch, she put a gentle hand behind his shoulder, and tried directing him to a chair that certainly hadn't been sitting over there a few feet away before that moment. "You should probably sit back down...."

The figure whose neck Kyoko was gripping simply took it, barely reacting any more than he had to the attempted strangulation. There was the physical motion of being jerked around like that, sure, he wasn't being all that immune to mundane physics... but he didn't cry out in pain, didn't wince... he sighed, seemingly more annoyed and disappointed in her than anything as he rolled his eyes. Loudly, slowly, and with as much condescension and melodramatic patience as he could seemingly muster, "I am NO ONE'S father. Congratulations on discovering part of why."

[souls_of_roles]

Rage unsated, she raged more, not less. Her grudge spirits started wrapping around him - neck, face, limbs.

She leaned in close. "Appologize to CORN!" she snarled in his face.

[phoenixwiz]

Soon enough the seat prompt and his animal friends’ actions bring him back to reality as he decides to get to the seat before Kyoko loses it for the second time, or was it the third? Honestly he has lost count of it by now.

“Kyoko, please. We won’t find Corn in here if you keep harassing the elf gentleman like that, I’m begging you,” Harry meekly begs her as he quietly takes a seat at the chair Mallia is pointing him to.

Hedwig hoots in concern as she follows him and Rose to the seat, hanging onto it for dear life as they all anticipate another emotional outburst from the pink jumpsuit wearing lady.

[queen_butterfly]

He looked... unimpressed, really, his image continuing to refuse to change according to how he was being handled, though every bit of pressure was being noted. He sighed, and raised his voice, leaning forward toward her slightly: "I DON'T KNOW WHO CORN IS."

He barely paused a beat, and then huffed a sigh, rolling his eyes as he changed his mind. "Never mind, I don't care. Go ahead, work it out. Do what you wish." He shrugged, attempting to lift his arms a bit as he did, despite how she was keeping him restrained. "Let me know when you're finished."

And with that, something changed, his image softening slightly in her hands. Perhaps even giving a bit too much...? If she wanted to try hurting him, she'd certainly seemingly be able to, though his bones wouldn't cooperate in being destroyed or damaged. Everything else, however, was suddenly fair game, and he wasn't planning to resist her efforts any, even if it meant even rather great physical harm would come to him.

It was quite a flip, and a sudden one, at that. But it was one that didn't seem to even surprise the fairy as she made something of an exasperated sound and dropped into a chair beside Harry. "We may as well enjoy the show," she told him quietly, though her expression said she wouldn't, so much as that she was already waiting for it to be over and done with, with an apparent utter lack of concern for her friend's wellbeing and safety.

[souls_of_roles]

"I SAID ALREADY! HE'S THE SON OF THE KING OF THE FAIRIES AND HE'S MY FRIEND!" she screamed, still throttling.

[phoenixwiz]

Uh oh another outburst has happened and Harry couldn’t help just staring in fear as he sees Kyoko going absolutely mad that he is left entirely speechless, unable to say a word or make a sound at all. Hedwig hoots as she nuzzles up to his cheek while Rose squeaks in fear, shivering within Harry’s hands.

When Mallia conjures up another seat for her to sit on and tells him something about enjoying this being played out, the only response she gets from him is a shy meekful nod. He just hopes that Kyoko can eventually calm down and let bygones be bygones by the end of this.

[queen_butterfly]

"I'M NOT KING OF THE FAIRIES. AND I'VE NEVER MET HIM," the blond elf's image declared, somehow able to speak up despite her hands around his neck. "NEVER SEEN HIM, NEVER HEARD OF HIM BEFORE TODAY." Still unimpressed, still letting her do whatever she pleased to him without resistance....

Mallia leaned a little toward Harry, quiet. "Does she often become so violent when upset?"

[souls_of_roles]

"THEN WHY WERE YOU INSULTING HIM?!" She let go of him, dark aura still around her.

[phoenixwiz]

“Honestly I don’t remember she losing her temper that often when we were in Avalon, so this is the first time that I actually see this happening in real time,” Harry confesses to Mallia as he shields Rose’s eyes away from what could happen next.

[queen_butterfly]

"I SAID I AGREED WITH HIM ABOUT YOU, WHOEVER HE IS," he said, keeping his volume up to say so, meeting her rage with a probably roughly equivalent force of combination exasperation and eyeroll. "But I'm not surprised! I expect you not to listen, since you haven't heard a thing I've said this entire time!"

"Mmm... remind me never to summon a particular dragon with green hair around her," she said softly, and really, all too calmly, leaning a little closer to him so he could hear her. Kyoko was having her own conversation over there; that suited her just fine, at the moment. "I do think that that comment about them was likely rather... relevant."

[souls_of_roles]

There was the faintest glimpse of something that Malia might see that seemed to enter Kyoko through the miasma of her spirits.

Then something twitched in Kyoko's eyes. And for a moment it was like someone else was looking through them. Her wild rage shifted as her dark spirits melded into an ice cold aura around her. The look in her eyes was ice and irritation rather then defensive rage.

Her hands let go as she gave an expression that implied sneer without descending to it. She looked cold and regal and disdainful.

Whoever that was behind Kyoko's eyes wasn't Kyoko as she turned on one heel. Her posture was Kyoko's usual perfect posture, but there was an almost arrogance to it, a hatred in how she moved that roiled off of her without a word being spoken. She looked calm, she felt like death walking as she walked off, away from all of them, hands folded demurely before her.

The change to her hair had been slow and subtle but by the time she passed Harry and Mallia, her hair was jet black.

If they hadn't seen the change, they could have easily mistaken this for someone else, and not seen Kyoko in this cold stranger at all.

[phoenixwiz]

Uh oh, has Kyoko gone un-Kyoko right now? Harry cringes in horror as he notices the changes, especially the hair color, unable to hide that look on his face, Rose squeaking in concern while unable to see what is happening thanks to Harry’s hands covering her eyes. Hedwig looks horrified as she too witnesses the changes.

While he has never seen this lady persoanlly before, he does recall the icy tone of her voice from a network post he stumbled upon in Avalon. And ho boy he is not looking forward to see what this stranger would do onto Mallia’s elf friend.

“Oh no, it’s you!” Harry speaks to the dark haired stranger before he turns to Mallia, “I think we just lost Kyoko right now. It is like someone or something has taken a hold of her while she is still in anger.”

[queen_butterfly]

Mallia watched Kyoko, not commenting; her friend's image narrowed his eyes right back at the apparent human, raising an eyebrow as her appearance shifted. His eyes didn't leave her as she walked off, even as he raised a hand to brush the fabric of his robes back into place. And he let her leave, too, not attempting to address her again, not trying to question her. Mallia looked like maybe she'd say something back to Harry, but wasn't certain what for a good moment's pause.

When she finally did, she was quieter. "You know what's going on, then...?"

Her friend's image stepped back to where they were, eyes still not leaving Kyoko -- or who had been Kyoko -- even as he raised his staff an inch and dropped it back down to the garden's little clearing. A chair sprang into being as he did, and without so much as acknowledging it directly, he lowered himself into it, eyes narrowing further as he thought. He was keeping up the apparently royal façade he'd donned just before the argument broke out, all the while, not even slouching as he leaned sideways onto his elbow, leaning his staff against his shoulder seemingly without even noticing. He didn't speak up himself yet, though, just watched her head off.

Have fun, guys!

[souls_of_roles]

Since no one tried to stop her, she turned a corner and left, never once looking back.

[phoenixwiz]

Too scared to say anything or do anything for that matter, Harry still remained seated, unsure of what to do next and still terrified of the stranger who may or may not be an upset Kyoko. Rose, being in the dark of all this with her eyes remained shut for her safety, continues to let out concerned squeaks while Hedwig remains more puzzled than she wants to be.

In fact only Pygmy Puff squeaks and owl hoots are being made here since Harry hasn’t gotten over the changes in his friend just yet.