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Men of L33t, Part XV - The Time that was Not
Time Froze.
Piro stared in awed wonder as everything around him ceased to move. It was as if he were surrounded by wax figures realler than real and more vibrant than any color ever deserved to be! He turned his head in awe, forgetting about his bonds and only thinking of the scene before him. The brilliant colors of the world about him seemed to flicker and bleed, like a badly painted animation, unable to stay quite in the same place. He heard a meep behind him, and nearly snapped his neck turning around. Stifling a curse, he strained against his bonds to see Kit-chan. She lay where a guard had thrown her, looking up at him with fearful eyes.
"How- how did you do that?!" she burst out, scared of the reality she could not touch.
"I don't know!" cried Piro, hurt by her fear. "I didn't do anything! I just said to stop!"
"But- but- time is stopped and we are not but they are stopped and time is not and-"
"-they move not, but I am stuck!" said Piro aggravatedly. Kit blinked.
"But I can't touch their magic!"
"If you could give me the illusion of movement..." Piro said, wriggling in his bonds. Understanding dawned on the kitsune's face and she immediately released Piro in illusion. He hit the ground lightly, rubbing his wrists. With a flare of his hands, he shattered the Church spells and Kit let go of her illusion. He turned. "Thanks-"
"See what happens when you try and rescue me?" She said, attempting a smile. Piro gave a small laugh.
"Not all the time..." he protested. "There was that once in Anstrailia-"
"You almost got yourself speared!"
"But we saved you..."
"Unlike today. What were you thinking?!" Kit cried severely.
"They were forcing you to make illusions for them-"
Kit smacked her forehead "You idiot, I'm the seducer! I'm the one who makes people do what I want! I walked scot free out of a prison complex sealed 14 different ways with 6 different types of magic dug two and a half miles underground! Now don't you think I might be just a LITTLE capable of leaving if I wanted to?!" She yelled, her face mere fractions away from his. Piro cringed.
"I was only trying to help..."
"By getting yourself caught?! For your information, the competition was my idea, and I had to work hard to persuade them to let me do it! Damned stubborn Anglish..." Kit muttered
Piro blinked, confused. What could she possibly want here? It was the Church, for God's sake! They were the ones who lead the prosecution... Kit read the look on his face.
"I have a debt." She said shortly. "Of honor. To the man who did save me while you were busy fighting over dinner."
"Kit, I-"
"Just... go. Save your friends, get out of here. I'll rejoin you when I'm done here. But a moment before."
Piro looked at her for a moment, and then nodded. They understood each other, a rarity Kit treasured. There was too often too much flippancy between them. Piro turned, and began running. A figure in the stands smiled.
"WAIT! How are you going to restore time?!" Kit yelled after him.
"The same way I stopped it, I guess!" Piro yelled back. "START IT!"
Kitsune giggled. Piro turned red, still running. Neither of them heard the one in the stands chuckle or saw a finger twitch ever so softly.
"Dammit all, I said START!" Piro cried, just as reality came speeding back to normal, and he found himself speeding over the field with a thousand people roaring in the stands and the wind whipping in his face. Kit gasped at the sudden life around her and let go of all illusion, just as Shadow's eye caught that speeding figure across the plain and cut around in midair.
