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Important Note--I lost my hard drive a couple weeks ago and lost all my
email addresses, I had a good number of them, including people who wanted me
to send them the story directly. If you want to be added to the list, or be
on it again, please send me some comments and a request to do so and I will
send you my new stories when I get them finished and ready to post. Also, I
have combined all 3 parts of the first chapter into this one post.

This story is a bit of a departure from what I usually write and I hope it
is going to be a long one. I have the first 2 chapters planned out and each
chapter should be 3 parts long. Reader feedback will determine if I go
beyond that. This story is based very loosely on the idea created by the
Dragon Ball Z universe, a lot of the fighting and attack sequences relate to
chi power moves and combat.

Contact me at ertle2@msn.com

Power Play 1a
Usable Commodity
By C. Rose(c)2000
(FF)

 Amy Lee paced across the small room. She wore a simple brown dress, her
fire red hair spread out from under a wide brimmed cap. Looking down at the
girl in the bed reminded her that she hadn't had a case like this in years,
and that had been on another colony world. She'd thought the accursed trait
finally bred out of the majority of the human race, but the poor girl
stretched out before her was a testament to a how false that way of thinking
was.  Amy cursed silently, she'd been pretending to be a healer for several
years now, gaining a good reputation and a decent following of patients. She
could cure any kind of cold or sicknesses, set any bone, even the plague
wasn't a major stretch for her. In rare cases she had been forced to use her
powers of magic to save a persons life, but that was rare. She had been
around for a long time now and she knew what she was doing without having to
resort to magic to heal everything she ever came across. She had been living
in this particular village for several years now, gaining trust and making
friends when she could.

 Amy had been able to see as soon as she came in the door that the poor girl
hadn't eaten in several days, she cursed silently to herself. She actually
didn't like this village very much, if it hadn't been for a rare few people
she'd met here she would have left during the first month. To make matters
worse, this town treated its women like furniture, to be used and discarded
like their lives meant nothing. The men wouldn't lift a finger to help one
of thier women unless they profited from doing so, like selling one of the
girls to a local slave trader. Amy tossed her jacket over a nearby chair, a
primitive wool shift that she had been told was all the local fashion, it
itched like crazy.

 The injured girl's name was Utai, a nice young thing that Amy had been
trying to get to know a little better lately. She had been good looking and
had a pretty good body that captured everyone's attention, men and women,
but now she looked like she was dead. As Amy pulled the covers back, she
found the girl was in even worse shape thatn she thought, she was covered in
scars, whip like boils and large round bruises were everywhere on her body.
Her once beautiful face was now swollen up and horrid, her lips cracked
open, she couldn't see out of either eye and her hair was matted with blood.
That little aspect pissed Amy off to know end, her parents hadn't even tried
to clean her up before they called her in. She reached out and pried open
one of Utai's eyes, they were an emerald green, and they had always
fascinated Amy. Now they revealed that the poor girl was beyond the
primitive help of this world, Utai was locked into a coma. Amy was sure that
if she were to use her magic on the girl, they would reveal that her brain
was swelling up and pressing against the crushed portion of her fractured
skull.

 Amy had looked at this one several times over the last year or so, once
every few months if she recalled correctly. Every time she had come to Amy
for healing of something, always before she had come to her. Not this time,
the girls mother had called for her today, someone had used the poor girl as
a punching bag. Amy noticed that some of the wounds looked like some kind of
blunt object had caused most of the damage to her battered body. With that
thought, Amy went from a suppressed state of anger to a full killing
intensity burn in under a half second, she had to use every trick she knew
to physically calm herself as a powerful urge to vaporize the monster that
had done this! The poor girl on the bed still had the bruises and open sores
one received at the hands of a monster.

 They reminded her of the problems she had found when she tried to move into
a house at the edge of town. These wounds and scars were the same kind she
had encountered several years ago when she first arrived in this pathetic
town and let the locals know that she was willing to help them if they need
anything, but It seemed the local ruler, a Duke or something, had rules that
said a woman couldn't own land or be on her own. So within a few days of her
setting up shop he had sent out 12 men to throw her out of her newly
acquired home, by any means necessary. They had come in the middle of the
night expecting to find her asleep in her bed like some week willed woman
who couldn't protect herself. The sound of their horses and thier loud
voices had alerted her to their presence, form there it had been only a
matter of waiting for them.

 The first thing they had done was kick in her front door and rush in like
complete morons. Amy had certain skills beyond her healing abilities that
she used much more easily, like some kind of ghost she struck without
warning, 4 broken arms and 2 legs later, Amy had stood unharmed as the whole
pack of cowards fled from her screaming in terror and leaving behind 3 of
thier comrades. They left their weapons, horses and pride behind. She had
set her attackers broken bones, drugged them with a sleeping potion, and
tied them onto the backs of the forgotten horses. From there she had carted
the back to the Duke and tossed them bodily on his doorstep, stripped naked
and left to the whims of a local brothel. After several such occurrences,
with more broken bones and loss of dignity, Amy sent every group home, alive
and naked. Within a few months she found that her life had quieted down a
little and she started to offer her healing abilities to any woman who
desired her help. She just couldn't let the deplorable state of this poor
village hurt her fellow sisters, even if some of them deserved what was
happening to them.

 The girl's mother, Clara, stood nearby "Mistress Amy." she shivered
visibly. A fat woman, very homely, her plump body wobbled like ancient
Jell-O, Amy shuddered quietly. Over the last several years this town had
made her very cynical and a little mean. She couldn't stand the sight of
certain individuals any more, and Clara was one of them. "What ails my poor
daughter?"

 Amy sighed, and thought about the weather, the very seasons as they shifted
from hot to cold. For some reason, as was basic human nature, everyone in
the village tended to more and more angry as it rolled into winter. It got
worse as the food dwindled to scraps that even dogs wouldn't touch unless
they hadn't had anything in weeks. Soon the beatings began, to vent anger.
Husband hitting wife, mother hitting child, the violence passed on to each
successive generation like some kind of grotesque skill. Amy glanced down at
the Clara's hands as she held them against her over sized breasts, narrowing
her eyes as they blazed in suppressed fury. Her voice was as cold as glacier
ice as she spoke to the fat woman.

 "Mother Clara, your daughter will most likely die soon." she started, not
feeling at all in the mood to be tactful.

 An inhuman screech issued from Clara as she fell to the floor, a pile of
rolling blubber, "Noo.!"

 Those hands revealed why this poor girl, barely 14, lay there in a coma,
her face vacant, drool flowing down her cheek to mix with the blood seeping
out of her head wound. "Mother Clara, I can do nothing, there is too much
damage to her brain now.." Amy sighed; Clara's knuckles were covered in
bloody knarls and scabs. Her body was even more bent and stooped from the
hard life the pile of blubber had experienced. Amy didn't care about the
woman anymore, poor Utai had not even experienced anything yet and now she
was going to die because of this bitch. Amy was just as mad at herself, she
kept her powers a secret for safeties sake, if she could use them openly she
could have probably helped the girl, but she had to keep a low profile at
this time.

 "This girl is nearly dead because some fool used her for a punching bag,
Mother Clara, there is only so much I can do for her. The best thing at this
time would be to ease her out of this life and let her move on, it would be
a mercy to her. Some bastard has beaten your daughter so badly that she will
suffer from severe retardation for the rest of her natural life of she
lives, which I dought. Careless anger and thoughtless actions of those she
trusted brought this on her, I can do nothing to help her at this point.
It's in your hands now." Standing, Amy leaves the room and barely manages to
keep from killing the girl's mother by mere inches.

 Clara's low intelligence finally registered Amy's words. The shrieks of
denial soon filled the air behind Amy, she slams the door shut and walks out
of the house pulling on her wool jacket. Amy ignored it all, she just couldn
't save everyone and Utai had been beyond all but her most powerful magic.
The girl would soon be beyond Clara's reach at least. Beyond everyone's
reach.

Amy went down the block, the sound of Clara's screams of agony filling the
area still, and went to see the carpenter's wife, a woman named Alia. She
and Amy were friends, not close by any measure, but friends non-the less. As
a healer or doctor, Amy had become the areas wet nurse for children's births
and the like, Amy had helped save Alia's life when she had a difficult
delivery a couple of years ago. She had been near death when some one had
finally called her. When she had finally arrived she'd found that she needed
use her powers to save girl's life. She'd been forced to gently shift the
baby around inside her womb and let nature take its course. A breech birth
in this primitive setting was a very bad idea, there would have been no way
to save either of  their lives if that had been necessary.

Like most of the buildings in the village, including hers, Alia's house was
only 3 rooms and a single level. It had primitive glass windows and a
thatched roof that had to be replaced every few months due to the heavy
rains in the area. Alia was sitting on an old chair in the fenced off yard
as Amy approached, she was slowly sanding down some rough-cut wood to be
seasoned over some weeks in her husbands wood shed. "Alia?"

 As Alia turned and grimpsed as she slowly stood up and waved her inside,
Amy stopped and stared, she cursed under her breath as she noticed that the
idiot woman was pregnant again!? "Alia, what's this? You nearly died having
the last one, I barely managed to save you that time."

 "I know, but this one came on me without notice."

 "You should have called me, I could have made it easier on you. I did
deliver the last one after all."

 Alia smiled, "It's all right, I'm much stronger now, and I've been
exercising. Jerrol is in back if you need wood?"

 "I thought I'd stop and tell you that Clara's daughter will soon die. A
coffin will likely be needed."

 "How sad, I'll send Jerrol over to take matters in hand."

 Amy nodded, "Send for me if you have complications. And you know I'm a
grouch, not a monster. You don't have to avoid me."

 Alia laughed, "I'm sorry Amy, you've been so moody lately. I didn't want to
impose on you." She pats her swelled stomach.

 "For what, it's my calling, I do nothing else."

 "Amy, are you still interested in that girl over on the side of the
village?"

 "Viki? Sure, I guess, I haven't heard anything about her lately though. I
had assumed that she left or was fostered off on someone. Why?"

 "Well, her parents sent her to a friend's house on the other side of the
forest for the summer. She returned a few days ago and they have been having
problems with her ever since, she is a completely different girl now. She is
more willful and head strong, she is going to get into trouble if she isn't
careful and I was thinking that it was time that you took on an apprentice."

 "I suppose, but I won't be much longer than a few more years. My time is
running out, I can feel it. But what you are suggesting is intriguing, I'll
look into it."

 "I thought you might feel that way, you have been restless lately and I
know the signs. I talked to the girl's parents a couple of days ago and
suggested that they send her to you, they were hesitant, but saw the wisdom
in what I was suggesting. They want you to make the first move though, if
you want to head over there they should all be at home right now."

 "Okay, I'll do that, see ya Alia."

 Viki was a girl she had been watching for a couple of years now, she was 16
and a little terror to her parents. Amy and her had talked a few times and
the more they were around each other, the more they liked each other. Amy
had certain inclinations that didn't quite fit in with people and this was
one of the reasons she kept to herself, she was a total lesbian. She hadn't
always been like this, at one time she had chased men with equal skill and
achievement. Then her life had been changed completely, she shuddered and
had to stop as tears welled up in her eyes at the horrid thought. Even to
this day that event had profound effects on her decisions and lifestyle. She
wiped the tears out of her eyes and thought about Viki to take away the
pain, or at least dull it.

 She was a woman at the very beginning of her life and had responded to
Amy's veiled hints at relationship. They had talked a few times, confided in
each other, and did all the usual bonding things that could lead to a night
of sex. So far Amy had only been able to get a kiss out of the girl, it had
been great too, but she had wanted more. Then Viki had disappeared and Amy
had missed her, after a while she had given up and figured that she had
found a boyfriend or that her parents had done something with her. Her bit
of investigating hadn't given her anything though and she had decided to
wait it out and see what would happen.

 On the far side of town Amy took a well walked path that led into the
forest, as she did so she seemed to change. Her walk became more confident,
a longer stride, she lifted her head height and straightened her shoulders.
Out here she could be herself without having to worry about making mistakes
and giving herself away. She concentrated and sent her senses out in front
of her, as her awareness spread she could 'see' what was happening all
around her. The rabbits, the insects and everything else as it happened, she
could see the life auras of the plants, the animals, and even the land
itself all working in harmony to survive. Her eyes seemed to glint for a
second as she passed through the shadows created by dusk, as they did her
minds eye spread out over the forest searching for Viki.

 She found her brothers first, two older men in there late twenties, they
were chopping at a downed tree to make firewood. Their cart was just beside
them and they had it about half full of wood and kindling, a tired horse was
tied to it and waiting for the command to go. The beast was a defeated
animal and Amy always had this nagging feeling that she should put it out of
it's misery. She moved on after noting their location, after a couple of
more minutes she found the girl's parents out in the wheat field behind the
house carrying in the last of the days haul.

 Amy was about to give up when she recalled that Viki had once mentioned
that she liked to hang out at the area's waterfall when she was in a bad
mood. Usually after a fight with her parents or a hard day, the roar of the
falls calmed her down and helped her to relax. It was a good place to swim
and the falls were a great place to take a shower as well, Amy had taken a
few of her female friends there over the years. Focusing her mind, Amy
located the waterfall and found Viki sunbathing in the nude on a rock by the
pool.

 Looking around the area, with her powers and her eyes, Amy broke to the
left and accelerated into a run. Within seconds she was a blur moving in and
out of the trees like a wraith or a shadow. She could move at speeds that
the people on this planet couldn't even comprehend and within about a minute
Amy came up on the falls and stopped in mid step. The wind that she had been
pulling along behind her caught up and whooshed in from behind, Amy walked
into the clearing and spotted Viki.

 "Viki!"

 She sat up in alarm and looked around, scrambling for her clothing, but she
stopped as she spotted Amy waving at her. She squealed and jumped off the
rock and ran, naked, at Amy. She threw herself into Amy's arms and gave her
a delightful hug. Viki was about 5'5, with long black hair, small breasts,
and deep brown eyes that took in everything. Amy was always reminded about
her tall frame when ever she was around Viki, she was 6' tall and had a
muscular body that she hid with her dresses and robes because the men of the
village would have blown a breaker to know that she was better built than
some of them.

 "Amy! I missed you so much this summer..."

 "How are today?"

 "My stupid parents sent me off to this school to try and break my spirit by
having me learn about religion and history, but the only thing I could think
of was you and your incredible lips. That reminds me..." Viki said, and
locked her lips with Amy's surprised lips. It didn't take long before she
was kissing back and taking control of the situation. Amy's hands wandered
down to grab Viki's ass and lifter her up a little. Viki gave a surprised
moan and pressed herself closer, flattening her small breasts against Amy.
Amy broke the kiss and licked Viki's lips.

 "Hi Viki, I missed you too." Amy said huskily.

 "I've been dreaming about you all summer and you were so far away."

 "From that kiss I would say that you have been practicing a little."

 A blush quickly rose up on Viki and filled her cheeks and she got really
meek. Amy noticed and laughed at her reaction, all thoughts of Utai left her
and she focused on Viki instead. She kissed Viki again and took her time as
they French kissed each other, sucking on each other's tongues and pawing at
each other.

 "How did you know that I had been with others Amy?"

 "The passion, I never had chanced to teach you how to do that. That means
that someone else did the deed, I'm just a little sad that it wasn't me.
Yet, I'm glad too, now I can teach you a whole bunch of tricks that I know
and you can compare them with what you already know."

 "Oooh! That sounds like fun and it has been a long time since we last saw
each other." Viki said quietly, pulling Amy to the ground with her. The soft
grasses of the small glen were a perfect place to make out because they were
so tall that one couldn't see anybody in side them unless it was from above.
Amy shrugged out of her jacket and tossed it to the side as Viki lay back
and beckoned her closer. Her dress, a gray woolen contraption came off like
a t-shirt to reveal Amy's athletic body, she was left wearing her boots and
a pair of silver armbands on her forearms that glittered in the low light of
dusk. Viki had seen them before and noticed that there was a large jewel on
each bracer, blue on the left one and green on the right.

 She snaked forward and ran her hands over Viki's thighs and stomach as she
looked her over with a more appetitive eye. The girl's body was very slim
and soft, she had wider than normal hips and bouncy breasts with large
nipples, there was a small birthmark on the underside of her left breast in
the shape of a large tear running down her skin. Lower down was the junction
between her legs, it was covered with a fine black pubic hair that drew her
eye like a magnet.

 "Your beautiful Viki..." Amy murmured as she leaned forward and kissed her.

 "So are you Amy, such a perfect body." Viki whispered back and ran her
hands down Amy's back to grasp her tight ass, Amy moaned quietly.

 It had been a long time since Amy had taken a lover as beautiful as this
one and she wanted to make it last. She had plans for this day that she
quickly sent into motion a she lightly kissed her way down Viki's neck and
shoulders until she reached the curve of her breasts. Amy swept them up and
together so that she could take both nipples into her mouth at once, they
hardened quickly and she soon had Viki squirming. A moan of pleasure came
from somewhere deep in Viki as Amy sucked. First one nipple, then the other
one with a little more pressure and a scraping of her teeth to pull on them.
Back and forth she went, until Viki was moaning constantly and writhing in
her hands. Amy sucked on a nipple and tried to take in as much of it into
her mouth as she could and gave a mighty suck.

 It was just enough, Viki cried out and came with a whine of ecstasy. Her
hands were interlaced into Amy's fire red hair as they held her in place
above her breasts and trembling body. She gasped a few times and fell back
to the soft grass and looked at Amy in awe, she had never cum from having
her nipples sucked on before. "Amy that was incredible, how did you learn
how to do that?"

 "I had it done to me a number of times in the past, pretty good huh?" Amy
laughed.

 "Gods, don't stop now that you've got me going."

 Licking her way down Viki's breasts, Amy probed her belly button with her
tongue and moved down further. Viki gasped and arched her back off the
ground and fell back with a little squirm. She ran her fingers through
Viki's pubic hair and wondered if the girl would allow her to shave it off,
Amy thought the shaved look was better all around. For now she ignored it
used her fingers to find the girls pussy buried in all the hair, it wasn't
hard to find as it was super enflamed and ready for whatever Amy had in
mind.

 "Are you ready, my lovely?"

 "Yes!"

 Her goal was sticking out of Viki's folds like little penis and Akiko cooed
at the sight of her over sized clitoris as she took it between her lips and
caressed it. Viki gasped and arched again, her clit was supersensitive and
had been the source of all of her pleasure for a long time now. She had
never met another girl with one like it, but knew that she like sex far more
than any of her friends ever had. Amy bobbed her head slightly and ran her
finer down the creased folds of Viki's pussy at the same time. She tasted
her and found her to be a rare treat of pure sugar, the thick syrup was
slowly pooling up inside her and waiting to be released.

 Amy backed off and grinned as Viki's waist crashed back down and she
whimpered at the loss and gasped for air. Licking the large outer folds of
Viki's pussy, Amy got a better taste and nearly swooned in delight. She
lapped her up like a cat would milk, drawing it up one little steamer at a
time and moaning her appretiation to Viki who was now oblivious to
everything but what Amy was doing to her. Suddenly she writhed back and
tensed up, then she cried out and came again, this time more powerful than
the last. It consumed her mind and she screamed in ecstasy as it flared in
every vein in her body.

 Opening her mouth wide, Amy latched it around the entire length of Viki's
pussy and was rewarded with an outpouring of her girl cum that filled her
mouth. Even with her arms wrapped around her waist, Amy had a hard time
holding one as Viki writhed and convulsed through two powerful orgasms that
left her panting for air. Amy continued to lap away as Viki came down a
little, a silly grin covered her face as she gazed at Amy. Then Amy did
something with her tongue, she had no idea what it was, but Viki went from
afterglow and peace right into the most intense orgasm she had ever had in
her life. It ripped her soul out of her and had her flapping in the breeze
like a limp rag. She screamed she was suddenly over whelmed so completely
that she collapsed into a dead faint.

 Slurping up even more of her juices, Amy giggled and let Viki's clitoris
loose from her teeth and kissed it lovingly. She had been with more girls
than she could even remember over the years and had actually lost count of
the number, but in all her time she had never once failed to make a girl
faint from a powerful orgasm if she wanted them to. Amy sat up and licked
her fingers clean, she liked to give pleasure a lot more than to receive it,
so she didn't expect anything in return. Still, she liked it too, and she
was in the mood to receive a little loving herself. She leaned for ward and
kissed Viki's face in several locations to wake her up, this continued for a
couple of minutes as her eyes fluttered open.

 "I love you." Viki whispered.

 "Pretty good, huh?" Amy smiled back.

 "I'm serious Amy, I love you. That was indescribable and it made me love
you more than I ever thought possible..."

 Kissing her nose, Amy leaned back and caressed her stomach and looked her
in the eyes again. "You wouldn't happen to want to return the favor would
you Viki?"

 "Of course I would Amy, I love you more than anything." Viki said dreamily.
She sat up and pushed Amy onto her back and leaned down to kiss her. From
there Viki took charge and lifted one of Amy's small breasts in her hands,
the nipples were rock hard and stood straight out at Viki. She took it in
her mouth sucked softly, but intently enough for Amy to really enjoy it. She
licked her fingers and started to run the wet fingers in small circles
around Amy's nipples. After a couple minutes of this Amy was panting and
moaning to herself. She had really sensitive nipples and liked to brush them
against her lover's skin as they make love to one another. Viki licked her
fingers again and kissed her way down Amy's body, as she neared her pussy
she stopped to marvel at what Amy looked like. She had no pubic hair what so
ever, Viki had just assumed that it was a light blonde that was hard to see
in the low light. Now she found that she was wrong and she loved to sight of
a bald pussy, she kissed the skin just above Amy's pussy and makes her gasp
and moan. Her pussy lips were swollen and ready, drops of girl cum covered
her thighs where they had rolled out of her. Viki licked and kissed Amy's
inner thighs for several minutes, getting every thing she could.

 Over her vacation she had met a girl who was on the school custodial staff
that maintained the manor house that the school used, she had been an open
bisexual who would do it with whoever she found attractive, they had gotten
to know each other intimately over their 2 month affair. She had never make
her feel like she did now, licking up her love's own juices and marveling at
the exquisite taste and texture. The taste was like a fine wine that went
down her throat smoothly and the texture was like fine satin oil that was as
fun to touch as taste. Her head buzzed as if she was drunk and Viki moaned
and dove in, unable to hold back anymore.

 Her hips undulated as Viki licked her crease and Amy gasped and moaned, the
girl had learned her lessons well hadn't she? Amy thought to herself. She
felt it as she moved in, Viki's hair caressing her thighs where her tongue
had been driving her nuts just minutes before. Then she cried out as a
tongue pierced her pussy and spread her enflamed pussy like a flower and
sent a shudder through her quacking. Amy thrust her hips forward and heard
Viki's giggle as her face was pressed into her pussy. Amy backed off and
gasped for air, but Viki didn't let up as she found and kissed her clitoris.

 To Amy it was heaven, she loved to play with her girls like this. The ones
that knew what to do and how to make her cum like there wasn't going to be a
tomorrow. She could feel her orgasm building within her, but Amy knew that
Viki was planning something devious. She was showing a skill that one as
young as her shouldn't possess, and yet she knew just when to touch and
caress every inch of her pussy. Amy moaned and writhed as her body was
brought to the edge and left there as Viki suddenly moved away from her with
a gasp of fear.

 "Amy! My stupid family is coming this way, I can hear them calling my name.
Get up and get dressed, we have to move out now!" Viki said, she scrambled
to her feet and ran for the rock where she had left her clothing. She tossed
on a simple dress and her boots as Amy moaned in frustration and rolled to
her feet like a cat. She got dressed quickly and was just pulling on her
jacket as the two older brothers came into the clearing leading that old
horse. She wanted to punch both of them for interrupting her and Viki, she
wanted to cum so badly that it hurt her to stand up straight. It had been so
close, just a little more and she would have been in seventh heaven right
now. A stupid little grin on her face to match the one on Viki's face, it
had been so damn close she could taste it.

 The larger of the two brothers came forward and glared at Viki, who glared
right back and didn't back down. This was one the reasons Amy liked this
girl so much, she had more back bone than most of the girls in the village.
She wasn't afraid of a challenge and would fight back if it were necessary,
a quality that Amy admired. Amy recognized Viki's brother as Vlick, and he
was a brut of a man. He had muscles as big around as some trees and just as
much intelligence. When angered he had been known to do a lot of damage to
whatever was in his way, he had once ripped the legs off a dog that had
attacked him and tossed the still living carcass in a nearby fire with out
an ounce of compassion.

 "Viki, we have been looking all over for you, it is time to head back in
and have supper. Pa won't let us start without all of us there, you know
that so come on before I hit you."

 "Fuck off you shit head, I was having a little fun swimming and relaxing
when you came stomping in here. Now you have ruined my whole day by
threatening me, go home and tell Pa that I will be a few minutes behind
you."

 "You will come with me right now, I'm hungry and I will not let some
useless girl tell me otherwise, you hear me." Vlick said.

 "No, I will..." Viki began.

 It happened so fast that Amy didn't have time to respond, Vlick backhanded
her and sent his sister flying back. Amy's enhanced senses saw the multiple
drops of blood spray out even as Viki hit the ground. A white wall of anger
came over her, with everything she had seen today this was the final straw.
She is moving before she even think about it, covering the 20 yards between
them in less than 2 seconds. Planting her foot, Amy launches into the air
and does a flying kick right into Vlick's jugular. Amy is a fighter of
amazing ability, because of this Vlick is hit with more force than a normal
girl could usually deliver. Vlick is crumpling even as his brother starts to
run forward to warn him of Amy's attack.

 The sound of 300 pounds of limp muscle collapsing fills the silence, Amy
lands on her back and easily rolls to her feet. A blade of red energy spins
to life in her hands and goes into combat crouch. The blade is 3 foot long
and is glowing as bright as any fire, it is humming as energy courses
through it. Vlick gurgles and grabs his throat, trying to gasp for air, Amy
can see that she has crushed his adams apple and it is restricting the flow
of air. Viki's brother, Vanion gasps in shock as Amy circles to the side,
her blade buzzing softly.

 "No bitch can do that to a man like Vlick, you're a witch and I will kill
you for hurting him."

 "Just can't seen to grasp that he hurt your sister can you bastard, I will
give you one chance to back off and go away. After that all bets are off, do
you understand me?" Amy said, barely managing to control her rising anger.
She needed to check on Viki and this pathetic scum was in her way, he would
pay dearly for delaying her.

 Reaching across his shoulder, Vanion pulls free this giant axe that she had
missed in her rage. Amy recognizes it as the one she had seen him using
earlier when she saw him cutting up that dead tree for wood. Her enhanced
senses also let her see the blood stains on it from some recent battle, the
entire blade was streaked with blood and half-dried gore. Vanion roared and
brought the axe up to attack her, it flared green in the moonlight.

 Gasping in shock, Amy dove to the left and watched as the axe blade slammed
down into the ground. There is a spark and the earth erupts outward in a
small explosion, Amy rolls to her feet and takes a closer look at the axe.
As far as she could recall, high tech gadgets were not allowed on this
planet, there were forbidden in fact. Magic was another matter, but how
could a peon like this get his hands on a Magic axe? Vanion spun on the heel
of his foot and tried to cut her again, the blade buzzed to life again as it
descended toward her.

 She didn't want to kill either one of these bastards, but if this moron
kept this up she was going to have to. Eyes squinting, red energy flares out
of them for a second, then Amy brings her blade up and blocks the axe. An
explosion of energy and fire engulfs both of them even as Amy steps forward
and attacks. A dust cloud blocks the next few seconds, but it is broken by
Vanion screaming in agony and staggering out of the cloud. He makes it a few
feet before he drops the axe and falls to his knees, out cold beside his
brother. Amy walks out, looking as normal as usual, she runs over to Viki
and examines her quickly. It is only a broken nose, she quickly resets it
and holds up her left hand.

 Blue energy pulses to life around her fingertips, after a few seconds she
touches Viki's nose and the energy flares out around her body. Viki
convulses and gasps as Amy watches the broken nose heal completely, the
blood flow stops. Using her jacket as a pillow, Amy rips a chunk off and
runs over to the pool to wet it down. She returns and cleans up the blood
off Viki's face with a compassion that would have surprised the murderous
Vanion and Vlick if they had been awake. The cold water brings Viki awake
and she opens her eyes to see Amy, she smiles.

 "What happened?"

 "Your brother hit you." Amy said flatly, her anger flashing in her eyes.
She motions with her head and Viki looks over at her two brothers and gasps
in shock.

 "Did you do that?"

 "He hit you, then the other one attacked me, I fought back."

 "No one had ever knocked my brothers out, they are too big and stupid to
lose."

 "It wasn't that hard, though Vanion had a magical axe, I was wondering
where it came from?"

 "It's a family heirloom I think, a long time ago we were a family to be
reckoned with, at least according to our Pa. Now we are nothing but peasants
and beggars and bullies stuck in this hellhole. How did you beat Vlick, he
once killed a horse by punching it between the eyes, killed the rider too."

 "A long time ago I was a warrior, in a lot of ways I still am. I don't mind
the fighting so much, but I got tired of all the grudge matches and
infighting within the unit I worked for. So I retired, sort of anyway. How
are you feeling?"

 "Incredible actually, for having been hit by Vlick, he usually breaks bones
and takes out teeth. I don't even feel any pain or bruising anywhere, that's
strange..."

 "Maybe he didn't hit you as hard as you thought?"

 Looking over at her brothers, Viki frowns and turns back, "I don't think
so, I'm not dumb, you wouldn't have did that if they hadn't deserved it.
They are still out cold and it has to have been at lest 5 minutes since I
woke up, feeling as healthy as could be. Like I had just woken up from a
nap...What did you do to me."

 "And to think I figured you wouldn't notice, I'm actually a little
embarrassed for doing what I did. You mean a lot to me and couldn't let you
suffer in pain, so I healed you with...Magic."

 "Magic? But Magic doesn't work like that, sure for violence, but healing
and stuff like that? I've never heard of anything like that."

 "I can't explain any better than that without breaking certain promises,
I'm sorry." Amy said sadly.

 "This healing, was it just to fix what Vlick did? Or did it include
anything that might have been wrong?"

 "Anything really, why?"

 "For the last few weeks I have had this pain in my chest and stomach,
nothing major, but had been getting steadily worse as the days went by. Do
have any way of know what it could have been?"

 Standing up, Amy pulled up the sleeve on her left arm to reveal her bracer
again. Viki noticed that there was large blue jewel near Amy's elbow, it was
glowing slightly. Amy came over and held her left hand over Viki's heart and
told her to hold still. The jewel flared for a second and a blue aura
surrounded both of them for a few seconds, Viki could feel the energy
caressing her skin lovingly. Amy stood back and the aura vanished, she
frowned and shrugged.

 "I just did a scan of your body and processed the information through mine.
You had a couple of cracked ribs poking into your lungs at a dangerous
angle, my healing Magic reset them and closed the holes. There is something
else too and I can't fix this, um...did you have sex with a man anytime in
the last month?"

 "A man? Once, just before I came home, I was curious to find out if a man
was better than a woman was. He wasn't very good and left me wanting, Why?"

 "You're pregnant Viki..."

 The voice faded out as Viki fainted completely, crumpling at Amy's feet.
Amy shook her head and bent down to shack Viki awake, it took a little
doing, but after a couple of minutes she came around.

 "Are you sure?"

 "Yes, you're about 2 weeks along."

 "I'm to young for a child Amy! This is horrible, what am I going to do?"

 "I have no idea Viki, you went to bed with a man and this is the expected
out come of that act, isn't it?"

 "I never even thought about it..."

 "Well you have a little time to make a decision then, there are way to stop
the pregnancy if you want to. Especially if we manage to catch it within the
first month."

 "I can't be pregnant right now, I just can't..."

 "Then we'll make up a drink for you that will flush the baby out of you,
come to me tomorrow and we'll take care of it."

 Viki started to cry and Amy held her in her arms until she cried herself
out. She watched out of the corner of her eye as the two brothers started to
come around finally. One had probably lost the use of his voice permanently
and the other should be all right, she had shocked him into unconsciousness
by altering her energy blade into a type of taser. The moron hadn't even
known what hit him and had screamed in terror even as he was falling. Amy
helped Viki to her feet and led out of the area, if those two bruisers got
up and wanted to fight again Amy wanted to have a little distance between
them so that she could take more drastic measures if necessary.

 The walk back to Viki's house took about 30 minutes and they spotted her
parents out on the porch as they approached. The waited for them to get
within the yard before moving off and heading for them. Viki's father had
been known as Pa for so long that no one could even remember his original
name. Pa came up to them and took his daughter in his arms, Amy stood back
and watched passively. She didn't trust this family one bit, she had been in
this area for to long.
 "What happened?" Asked Pa.

 "Her brothers tried to use her as a punching bag."

 "She looks fine to me, healer."

 "I stopped them from harming her, they are laid out in the clearing near
the waterfall. Your horse and cart are there so when they wake up they
should be home, they didn't take well to me beating them or protecting your
daughter."

 "My boys would never do that and I don't believe you, you're a girl and
wouldn't be able to hurt my boys."

 Amy shrugged, "Believe what you will, they did hurt Viki and I need a
little time to mix her up healing drink, she needs to be at my place
tomorrow or there will be serous repercussions in the future. Viki, I will
see you tomorrow, now be careful and stay away from your brothers until
then. They may decide to take their anger out on you."

 "Healer, I will send her to you in the morning, will you be teaching her
how to be a healer like you as well?"

 "If she passes my tests and makes the right decisions, yes, I will teacher
her." Amy said and walked off into the darkness, as she entered the trees
she heard the angry mutters of the brothers as they rode the cart back to
the house. She was in mid step when she blurred out of sight and vanished
into thin air.


To Be Continued...

Power Play 1b
Useable Commodity
By C. Rose(c)2001
(FF)


 Stepping from the trees on the outskirts of the village, Amy was thinking
about Viki. She hadn't wanted to leave the girl with her family like that,
but it would have been an even worse idea to pull the girl out of her home
and force her to come with her into the village. Viki, like every other girl
in the area was considered a second class being and as such couldn't make
decisions for herself. Amy figured that she would have been in the same boat
if she hadn't beat up every man in the area that though they could force her
to do what they wanted. That same thinking was what had resulted in the
attacks she had suffered when she first came to this village all those years
ago. Amy had always been a wild card wherever she was and always make her
presence known in one way or the other, trouble seemed to follow her around
like a rabid dog, eventually it caught up with her. It was like a curse that
she couldn't get rid of, this was also one of the reasons that she was
hesitant about taking the girl on as a student.

 If she went down that path again, she would have to teach the girl how to
be free, how to fight for it and love her freedom. How this idea would be
interpreted on this world was a complete mystery that she was unsure how to
handle. This was because of something that had been happening very slowly,
ever since she had arrived here. For the last several years she had been
feeling things that didn't make sense to her, things that were very
frightening. Whole portions of the surrounding forest had began to die,
withering away a little at a time. Giant redwoods that have stood for longer
than people have been on this world were now dead, withered into giant
towers of falling death. One always had to watch the area and make sure that
a tree didn't fall on them as it collapsed, a sound that was all to common
now a days.

 If she trained Viki, she would have to tell her certain secrets about
herself too. The girl would have to know exactly what she was so that she
would be able to help her investigate the strange goings on around the area.
Amy sighed, she liked her privacy and held to it almost religiously. She had
been around far to long a time to be able to change her ways now. A long
time ago she had been more innocent and more daring, even friendly, but she
had changed over the years into a kind of recluse. Outwardly she was just as
girl with special skills, but inwardly she was as locked up as tight as a
vault. It took special kinds of talents for someone to get inside her
innermost feelings and mind. Viki was one such person with the right kind of
talent, a caring and loving heart tempered by her harsh life.

 Amy started to walk slowly, not really observing her surroundings and
taking the quickest path into the village. Her house was on the other side
of the village and she didn't want to go around the outside of the village
to get there. She continued to think as she walked, and completely missed
something that she would have normally seen. Off in the distance, just
coming over a hill was a number of men on horse back. Their armor glinted in
the moon light and told all who saw them that they were soldiers of some
kind. Amy missed them completely. Too much soft living, to much on her mind,
she would later think.

 Her house was dark as always, one of the things she missed about some of
the other places she had visited was the lack of electrical power. There
were only two cities on the entire planet that had electrical power and they
guarded the secret like rabid animals fighting over the last bite of meat on
a bone. Still, that didn't stop her from cheating a little, she had set up a
number of oil lamps around the house with specially prepared oil. These
lamps were very bright and filled an entire room with light, her neighbors
had commented on them more than once and Amy had been good natured enough to
show them how to make them as well. Neighbors also said that the lamps made
her house look strange whenever they had a reason to be outside after dark.
Amy didn't know what to say to that so she kept quiet and chalked it up to
thier nervousness of new types of technology, even though this particular
was almost stone aged to her.

 The inside of her house was as it had always been, kind of sterile and
lifeless. Amy was a fighter, as such she spent most of her time training and
moving around the area. She had a few pieces of furniture, kind of plain and
unnoticeable, a couple of rugs, the bare minimum of dishes and utensils, and
a bed. The only thing that stood out in the whole place was the chest at the
end of the bed. The chest was made out of steel and was painted a bright red
color, no one in the village had ever seen it and she took precautions to
make sure that they never would. Amy had draped an illusion over it so that
it looked like a normal wooden chest.

 She had learned a lot of tricks over the years and magic was one of them.
It had a lot of uses for her, healing, illusions, and even combat. Though
she depended on her hand to hand skills and inner fire for fighting
normally. That was what she had used to create her energy blade against
Varion. Her time on those planets that were geared towards high tech gadgets
had given her some of the most inventive combat attacks. Reading certain
books had allowed her to formulate the idea on how to alter the energy
frequency of her blade to turn it into a taser blade and knock her opponents
out instead of killing them.

 Those that had trained her in fighting with her inner fire had been
astounded when she used that attack the first time, they considered
themselves above normal humans and had been defeated because of it in one of
the trials that took place every few years. The blade was now a standard
practice for every one she ever fought, but Amy didn't mind because most of
the fighters she still encountered were of the unintelligent class. To this
day she was astounded by how unwilling most fighters were to study a
situation or go that extra mile to design a new attack. Hell, when ever Amy
had the time she went looking for skilled fighters to observe thier attacks
and possibly add it to her own impressive list of attacks.

 Taking her woolen coat off, Amy tossed it on top of the chest and quickly
removed her dress. She sat down on the bed and pulled her boots off and
stood up, it was time to do the one thing liked to do on this planet. Take a
bath. Since a water heater were forbidden by the planetary government, it
always had to be a cold bath unless one spent a couple of hours heating the
water over the fire. After 6 months of doing it the way the natives did it,
she had thrown her hands up in pity and used her powers to make an addition
to her house. She had to conceal it under the house, but it had been worth
it and the amount of magic it had taken to build it.

 Amy headed over to the back of her bedroom and reached under a rug, she
grabbed something and pulled upward. It was a trap door, Amy pulled this
open and reveled a set of stone steps leading downward. An eerie light could
be seen coming from below, it was greenish white. Stepping down, Amy closed
the trap door as she went down, the rug was attached to the door in such a
way that it looked normal as soon as the trap shut. Every now and then
people would barge into her house without knocking and begin to search for
her, they usually had a good reason, but she had almost gotten caught once
and she had make sure that it wouldn't happen again.

 Magic could  come in handy for so many things and as Amy stepped off the
final stair she looked around and smiled. She was 20 feet below the
foundation of her house and was standing in a room about half the size of
her house. She had tapped into an under ground steam and rerouted it for her
own uses to create a modern bath house. Using the most simple ways that she
could, Amy had constructed herself a magical series of crystals that were
able to heat water instantly. The bathhouse was about 15ft by 15ft by 10ft,
she had made a small stone hot tub that she used for a bath. The hot tub was
fed on a direct cycle from the diverted stream so that there was always
clean water cycling through the tub.

 Her magic had altered the stone in such a way as to make it look like
marble and she had etched cute designs into the walls for the fun of it. Of
course it looked like a preteen artist had hit the place with a chisel, but
she didn't mind because she had never had any talent in the arts. It gave
the place a homey kind of feel that she missed from some of her other
missions when she could have decorators make up a place to fit her
perfectly. Around the tub were a number of small crystals, Amy tapped one
with her toe and they all lit up with an eerie red glow. This was how she
kept the water hot as the bathed, the crystals super heated to the water
every few seconds to just the right temp and the constant flow of the water
kept it bubbling. Going over to a wall cupboard by the stairs, Amy pulled
out a large towel and tossed it by the tub. Dipping her toe into the water
confirmed that her magic crystals were working properly. This set up had
been a complete pain because of the flowing water, but she had found that by
placing crystals along the walls in the tubes that brought the water in the
first place it could be warmed easily.

 She stepped into the tub and sat down to relaxed a little, grabbing some
soap she began to wash the days trials out. Washing the dust off her skin
from her battle with those two brutes, her lovely, if frustrating time with
Viki, and her bloody reminders of Mother Clara and her daughter. If it
hadn't have been for Viki she would have considered this to be a very bad
day, one of the worst since she had arrived. Dealing with the villages
mentality towards women was always a trial and usually ended up with her on
the losing side.

  This had also had the side effect of making her adjust to things a little
bit, she kept her activities a little more secretive and had to plan things
out in advance a little more than usual. There again there was Viki, she
would have to know everything, half truths wouldn't work because the girl
was too smart for this planet. She figured things out with an amazing
intuitive insight, already she had make several connections about isolated
events that all connected to her.

 Sighing, Amy laid back and dunked her head to get her bright red hair wet.
She kept it in a normal hairstyle for the area, which was basically long and
useless, but if she ever got off this rock or even out of the village she
was going to go back to her old style. Currently she had mid back length red
hair and she liked it a lot, but it was a pain to fight with. If it had been
longer she could have hidden weapons in it or used it as a surprise weapon,
but at it's current length it wasn't very effective yet because it didn't
have much reach yet. She shampooed and washed this for several minutes, this
got her to thinking about someone else she had met a while back.


 She had been walking through the forest, almost 20 miles from the village,
using her super speed to get that far in just under 15 minutes earlier that
morning. There had been a story floating around the area that people in a
nearby village had been falling sick for no particular reason, no one had
died yet so the term plague hadn't been used very often. Amy had decided to
go and look into it since at the time there had been a number of pregnancies
in her own village and she didn't want it to spread, a noble reason really,
she had also been bored and wanted to find something. She had ran the whole
way there, weaving in and out of the trees in a blur or brown and red,
scaring animals and provoking the hunters as she moved. She had cruised to a
stop still within the forest outside of the village, it was called Billib.

 Amy saw something as she passed a stream and came to a stop, it wasn't a
very pretty sight either.  She walked over to get a better look and noticed
that it was a man laid out on the ground, there were scorched marks and
massifs third degree burns coupled with arrows sticking out of him to more
than prove that he was dead.   The arrows Amy could understand, but it was
the scorch marks and third degree burns on a man's body that made her blood
run cold.  These marks or the unmistakable signs of a fighter like herself
who could channel the internal energies of her body to create Massey the
energy explosions.  On pretty much any other planet she'd ever visited this
would not have meant as much to her as it did on this one.  As far is she
knew there are were not any fighters on this planet who could channel there
are internal energies for combat.

 She didn't know what to make of it, to have been able to do this much
damage to one human being would take a good deal of energy.  Energy attacks
gave off certain signals and energy frequencies that she was trained to
notice, somehow this man had been attacked and killed without her or even
being aware of it and that scared her. Amy knelt down by the body and placed
her left-hand on his bloody chest, the blue crystal in her left-hand bracer
pulsed with light and surrounded the dead man's body.  After several seconds
to glow disappeared and Amy told her hand back with a look of confusion on
her face.

 The man's injuries had obviously been created by energy attacks and yet her
scan had just revealed absolutely no sign of the energy residue that would
have been left over after such an attack.  Amy knew of absolutely no natural
way for a man to be killed can't believe these kinds of injuries and yet she
was unable to prove that he had actually died from an energy attack because
of the lack of proof.  Amy looked around the area, her mind deep in thought,
and noticed that there were yet more of the unmistakable signs that some
kind of energy battle had taken place in this small glen beside the stream.
there were areas of burned a grass and a couple of small crater's they could
only have been created by an explosion of some kind. a quick scan of these
revealed nothing as well, Amy shook her head in shocked awe.

 She just didn't know what to make of it, it made no sense, and this
situation was getting more and more frightening by the minute.  Standing up,
Amy walked several steps away, turned, and pointed the palm of her right
hand at the dead man's body. A soft red glow surrounded Amy as she
concentrated, her aura buzzed softly as it made her her clothing shift and
her hair flutter as if in a light breeze.  Her eyes glowed read as an
intense beam of red energy launches out of her hand and struck the dead
man's body vaporizing its instantly.

 Walking into the village had been an experience in itself, it had been like
a ghost town, the silence eerie and disquieting, even for her. She had gone
to the local authority and found that the small detachment of men, that the
Duke placed in every village, were all in bed sick and dieing. The man who
had been on duty was just as bad, but his duty had overridden his sense. He
had been dressed in his armor and leaning against a chair when she came in.
He was just under 6ft, had no hair on his head, and nearly collapsed when he
saw her.

 "W-what do you want, girl." He had grunted, his face pale and his eyes
filled with pain.

 "I'm a healer, and I was wondering if you might need some help." Amy had
volunteered, forgetting momentarily that men didn't like women to do thier
jobs.

 "A healer? Ba..." That was as far as he got, he collapsed to the floor at
her feet, the last of his strength gone. Amy moved over to him, looked
around before placing her left hand on his forehead. Blue light started to
emanate from her hand and surrounded the man. This went on for several
seconds, finally Amy pulled her hand away and the glow vanished. She frowned
in puzzlement over what she had found, the man wasn't weak from sickness,
but from lack of life force. Some how his, and presumably everyone else in
town, was losing thier life force, the very substance that powered her magic
and fighting attacks. A quick check of her own life force showed that a
little was gone, but nothing significant, she concentrated and stopped the
drain in it's tracks. She did this by creating a force field around her,
they were draining but well worth the time if the situation demanded it.
This was some kind of attack, she just wasn't sure what it was directed at
or for what purpose. If this had been a high tech world she would have had
her suspicions, but high tech equipment was forbidden and stamped out
quickly whenever it reared it's head. Draining life force was a crime
punishable by instant death according to the rules that she had to follow.
The only time it was ever permitted was in the defeat of an enemy and even
then it was considered to be a last form of attack because it would
instantly kill whoever it was used against.

 Holding her left hand out again, the blue crystal on her forearm bracer
pulses once and a wave of energy flows from her, through the walls and
across the small village. At about a mile out it rebounds and flows back to
her. This was a special form of her power that allowed her to 'read'
everything within the range of her scan. Information cycled through her
brain, letting her know that everyone within range was dieing, and also the
effect seemed to be random, as if this was a natural thing. Yet it also
seemed to be an attack of some kind because it seemed to stop right at the
borders of the village, she didn't know what to make of it. Her scan also
picked up something else, someone who wasn't affected by it. A girl, several
streets away in a house that held several people that had been hit by the
strange effect. The girl seemed to be perfectly healthy and moving around
normally, Amy decided to go and look into this at once.

 Standing up, Amy moved away from the unconscious soldier and went outside,
her scan had given her map of the area and she moved forward with
confidence. Her inner guide told her the exact house to go to and she
knocked on the door politely, if no one answered she would be more forceful.
That plan wasn't necessary though as a young woman, maybe 22, opened the
door. She was short, maybe 5'4, a little fat, she had long brown hair and a
sad face.

 "Yes? Who are you?"

 "My Name is Amy Lee, I'm a healer and I have been sent to investigate this
strange situation." Amy lied.

 "Oh thank god, my name is Bet and I was wondering if our call for help to
the Duke had been sent astray. The town held a meeting a few days ago and
sent out a man on horse back, we haven't heard anything since."

 "How are you feeling Bet? You seem to be the only one that I have found
that isn't near death..."

 "I know a little magic, my family have been witches for several generations
now and we are immune to attacks like this. I was affected at first, but I
pushed my way passed it, I don't have the strength to do the same for the
others. If there is any way that my magic can help, let me know and I will
do it, I don't want all of my friends to die."

 "Neither do I, especially if this spreads. I'm also sorry that they sent
me, most places would have preferred a man to do this, but I was closest to
your village when I was contacted..."

 "I don't care if your female, I actually prefer it really, a man would just
make matters worse. Now that I think about it though, I have never met a
female healer either. How did you get to be one?"

 "I forced the issue really, can I see the people inside?" Amy asked
quietly.

 "Oh, I'm sorry, I was just amazed that you were here. Our village healer
was one of the first ones affected and he has been asleep for several days
now." Bet moved out of the way and Amy came inside, this house was a little
smaller than most and every available space had someone laid out and covered
in blankets. Bet led her over to a couple of men that at one time had been
quite handsome, but now they were at deaths door. "These two men are the
leaders of the village, they worked as long as they could, but finally they
too gave out. That was a few days ago and I have been very hard on every
body and I just don't know what to do anymore."

 "There may not be anything that I can do, but let me look them. I just came
from the Duke's detachment and all of them were just like this..." Her
examination was quick and revealed nothing new, she had no idea what to do
either. She had never encountered anything like this and the normal
prescribed treatments were totally useless against something like this. A
covert scan of the Bet proved that she had some kind of shield around her, a
kind of magic barrier. Now Amy was more than a little stumped, the shield
only stopped those things that were magic. Natural effects would have no
problem getting through, even lightning would hurt her. Magic on the other
hand would take a while to break through the shield, that meant that this
was some kind of magical attack?

 "Bet, tell me about your protection, it may be a clue to how we can help
these people." Amy asked.

 "It's just a special charm attuned to me and my family, I tried to place it
on one of those guys over there, but it didn't work. I tried to re-attune
it, but that didn't work either..."

 "Let me see the charm please, maybe I can do something with it." Amy said,
holding out her hand.

 Bet hesitated for a second, shrugged and took off a necklace. It was a
simple piece of jewelry that Amy had never encountered before and she had
handled literally hundreds of amulets and items. The charm was a piece of
gray colored glass with a few symbols etched or carved into it. Amy could
feel a surge of power as she took it and realized that it had just place a
shield around her, it was also non threatening so her own magic didn't
activate to protect her from it.

 "Gasp! You didn't tell me you knew magic too?! No wonder I've been feeling
so strange around you all this time."

 "Sorry, I didn't even think about it, why, is it important?"

 "Yes, if there are two of us we can use my charm as a focus use our
combined power to protect the entire village!"

 "But you just said that it wouldn't work for anyone else."

 "True, by myself I could only put a barrier strong enough to protect this
house, but with the two of us we can protect the entire village. You are a
magic user, you should know this stuff and how when we combine our power it
will be 100 times more powerful than if we went at this alone."

 "If this is so, why didn't you have your family help you out?"

 "One witch per village, it's a kind of unwritten law among most magic
users, it cuts down on magical battles and such...You don't know what I'm
talking about do you?"

 "No, I taught myself how to use magic..."

 "Your a wild talent? Well no wonder, I took me several years of practice
and careful study before I could even cast my first spell. I'll bet you
picked it in an instant of heavy stress didn't you?"

 "Combat situation actually, I would have died otherwise, but I do seem to
have a talent for it."

 "Well, I don't know about working with a wild talent, but I think we don't
have a choice in this matter. I'll teach you how to mix our power so that we
can save these people, that should take about an hour or so, I think." Bet
said.

  The problem with working as she did, being two people at once, was that
she was forced to act in a certain way. Bet thought she was a wild talent,
and in a way she was, but not in the way that she thought. Amy had always
had a talent for magic, mainly because she could already channel her life
force energies the way she did. So magic wasn't so far off, it was just
learning to use a different set of rules to use the same kind of energy
except that this one came from an outside source. To Amy it was no big deal,
she had found that once one could channel thier own energies learning a new
kind was very easy, it was no big problem.

 Her teachers had always praised her inventive attacks and told her that she
was a natural at this, but Amy didn't think so. The only thing that held her
fellows fighters back was themselves, so Bet's offer to teach her was
something that she already knew was laughable. And yet she was offering
something else as well, even if she didn't know it. When they merged it
would make their minds open to each other, they would know everything about
each other. This was why merging wasn't done very often, it let others know
just how pathetic they were. Amy just didn't care, keeping a secret identity
meant nothing to her and Bet was proving to be quite resilient. She would be
the first person on this planet to know that she was here, but Amy felt that
she would keep the secret.

 Bet explained a procedure that Amy hadn't encountered before, and this
excited her a little. She was always up to leaning something new, so she
followed instructions exactly and they were soon ready. They cleared a
section of floor in the main building and sat on the floor facing each
other, as with any merging they had to hold hands and focus on each other.
Since Bet was the one casting the spell she would be the one to lead them
thought the spell.

 "Are you ready, I would prefer to not do this, but we have know choice."
Bet said.

 "I don't mind, just remember that I have my secrets and I want them kept. I
will do the same for you, okay?" Amy countered.

 "No problem, we have learned to only brush each others minds while doing
this, so I will only learn of the last few years of your life. Is that okay
with you?"

 "Yes, lets get this over with." Amy said quietly, a little impatient to get
on with this.

 Still holding hands, Amy felt Bet tap her power and begin. Amy took a deep
breath and concentrated on how to focus a different kind of energy and soon
created the link between them. Amy felt her mind and aura flow into bet and
vise versa, Bet nearly lost the concentration as she experience what Amy was
and her face showed absolute shock and more than a little fear. Amy smiled
prettily and used her body to amp Bet's power, her eyes went even wider as
the energies skyrocketed. Bet's face slowly changed and she began to cast
her spell through her charm and instructed Amy to build the shield. Amy used
her inner sight to imagine a bubble of energy around the village and gave it
a little push with her mind.

 Energy, on a level she rarely encountered flowed from them in waves, it
went through the walls and continued until it had reached the outer limits
of the village. There it stopped and flared for a few brief seconds, Amy
nodded when it was done and Bet cast the rest of the spell. Speaking in a
language that she hadn't encountered before, Amy listened for a few seconds
and grinned as the works began to make sense. Bet had learned of her, now
Amy was learning of Bet and she smiled as she realized that they were
kindred spirits in a way. It held a lot of promise for them at the end of
the day and Amy could tell that she was looking forward to it too.

 The charm burst into a white glow and pulsed as the spell took effect, Amy
watched as the energies balanced and took shape until finally everything
went back to normal. Amy watched as Bet came down form the intense ecstasy
caused by having the energies caress all of ones most intimate nerves. Bet
dropped her hands and gasped for air, her half open eyes on Amy, filled with
an unreadable glare. It took several minutes for her to recover and Amy
waited patiently, never once taking her eyes off Bet.

 "What are you?"

 "A Guardian."

 "What in this planet needs guarding? We have nothing to do with the other
worlds that I saw in your mint."

 "I don't know why I am here, I was sent here to do something or prevent
something. I haven't been told which one it is yet, but I think this energy
drain thing is part of why I was sent here."

 "I can not believe how strong you are, I watched as you vaporize the body
of that poor man we had sent to ask for help and if what I saw in your mind
was true, you barely even touched your true power. I'm afraid of you."

 "You don't need to be, not unless you are my enemy anyway. I am true to my
friends, I don't make them very often and when I do I make sure that they
stay my friend. I would like you to be my friend as well, that is if you'd
like to be?"

 "I don't know, I should tell the Duke about you, and yet if what I saw in
you mind was true, then the Duke could possible be part what caused this
village to be targeted. By reading your mind I was able to see thing as you
did, the strange occurrences, the falling trees, even suspicions. I don't
want to be your enemy, you have a strong heart and a caring way that few
women on this planet know about. You know what it means to have your own way
and the power to make sure that it stays that way." Bet offered shyly.

 "Bet, I sensed that we are alike in a lot of ways and I would like to
explore that if we could. It would help our friendship and make it easier
for you to accept me."

 "True, but you scare me to my bones, I have been taught all of my life that
beings from other worlds are an impossibility. Now I have you sitting in
front of my and it is all proven to be a lie..."

 "You were taught what your elders have been taught for generations, the
lies didn't start with you. They started long ago, you read my mind, did you
see very many monsters in there. Sure I fight them, but during the more
peaceful times there were normal people just like you on the other worlds.
Don't be mad, it's not your fault that this planet is isolated, it was
chosen for that very reason."

 Bet was quiet, she knew that Amy was right in what she said, but she had
also seen a side of Amy that she didn't like. The girl had a temper unlike
anything she had ever seen, it could mean the destruction of entire towns if
she ever lost control. Buried deep in Amy's memory was a something she had
just gotten a glimpse of, the destruction of an entire world. She didn't
know all of the details so she kept quiet, all she knew was that Amy's
temper had been a cause of that destruction.

 Then there was the other aspect, she knew it the instant they had touched
each others minds. There was gentleness in Amy that offset her anger, it was
just as powerful and loving. It drew her to Amy like a moth to flame, it
wrenched her heart and made her want to hold Amy like a lover. Bet looked
her over carefully, she knew that Amy was far older than she looked, that
was an understatement. Amy looked, maybe 20, if that and that make her look
even more innocent and beautiful. Her hair was pure red and hung down her
back in waves, her eyes were reddish brown and were filled with a deep
passion. She had a light frame, small breasts and an athletic body that
stood almost 6ft high. It was the body of a warrior and woman who knew what
life was like and how to go after it, that was something Bet had never done.
She wasn't free like Amy, she was as bound as any other woman in the area
and had never even thought about it until now. Sure she had it a little
easier than others, but that was because her family had to maintain a
certain distance from each other. She realized that she couldn't pass this
up, Amy would make a good start in helping her to be more like her.

 "I would like to be your friend."

 Amy grinned and hugged Bet, "I'm glad, I was beginning to think I had
offended you by being so direct."

 "No, I'm not offended, it is just taking me a while to adjust to what you
are and what you represent." Bet said, she looked a little shell shocked.

 Taking matters into her own hands, Amy leaned forward to take a closer look
at Bet. She was lovely in her fear and confusion and Amy decided to push
things, she just hoped Bet responded as much as Amy wanted her to. Bet
didn't notice as Amy moved, she was lost in thought and Amy wanted to
surprise her. She leaned in and kissed her, thier lips were the only thing
that touched and Bet gave a start of surprise and fell back with a giggle.

 "See, I'm not a monster or whatever your thinking, like you I am a woman
and as soft as can be. Lets play and have a little fun before we part,
okay?" Amy said, her gaze intense.

 "I see that were thinking along the same lines..."

 Amy grinned, she needed this, it had been a long time since she had bedded
another girl. She reached out slowly and wrapped Bet into a hug and looked
into her eyes. Ever so slowly she lowered her head and kissed her again, but
this time she put more passion into it and let her lips tell of he
intentions. A wave of pleasure went through her as Bet responded by melting
into her and alowed her to increase the passion even more. Amy broke the
kiss and started to make her way down Bet's neck, planting little kisses
every few inches until she reached the nape of her neck and make Bet moan.

 From her vantage point Amy could see Bet's nipples hardening as she moved
closer. She pushed Bet back as her hands undid the back of her dress and
pulled it off of her. Amy grinned and bent forward to kiss her again,
tasting the salt on her skin as her blood began to boil. Sweat formed and
Amy licked it up and found a nipple ready for her taking. She drew this in
and soon had Bet arching her naked body off the floor as a long moan escaped
her throat. The soft flesh had always fasinated Amy and she could spend
hours worshiping a woman's breasts, memorizing every detail, but today she
was growing despreate. She hadn't been with anyone since before she came to
this planet and she wasn't going to stall now.

 She moved over to Bet's other nipple and repeated her little tease, her
fingers pinching the other nipple she had just released. From there she
licked down the valley between both of those lovely mounds and across Bet's
stomach. Bet had a thick bush of pubic hair, something that had always put
her off, but not enough to stop what she was doing. Amy almost giggled when
she thought of what Bet's reaction was going to be when she found that she
didn't have any pubic hair. The thick mass was a dark brown and was calling
to Amy like a long lost friend. She kissed her way down and licked Bet's
inner thighs as she studdied her target. Even with all that hair the lips of
Bet's pussy were clearly visible and more than ready.

 As she moved forward, Amy listened to Bet as she breathing became ragged
gasps. She grinned and blew a little hot air on her pussy, Bet gasped and
arched back again. Amy could see the little droplets of cream forming even
as she moved closer and closer. Bet was begging her to not make her wait and
Amy agreed, she couldn't wait either. She moved in and instantly penitrated
Bet with her tongue and went to work. Bet cried out and cluched Amy's head
in her hands, pressing her boiling pussy into Amy's mouth. Amy glanced up to
see her eyes roll back and emit a sexy moan. The taste was as intoxicating
as ever and Amy licked it up like a fine wine, moaning as her pussy began to
respond. She could feel herself dripping into her panties and wondered if
she should get undressed before she ruined her dress.

 She didn't want to stop, so she ignored her thought and focused on Bet's
pleasure. Bet screamed and started to writhe as Amy located her clitoris and
drew it between her lips in a loving kiss. It sent Bet over the edge and she
screamed even louder and came, hard. Her body convulsed and her cream gushed
into Amy's waiting mouth as she sucktioned the entire thing and swallowing
as fast as she could. Quake after quake rocked through Bet, she cried out as
everyone hit her, until finally she fell back gasping for air. The last of
her orgasms finally quieting down, Amy continued to lick until Bet asked her
to stop. As Amy pulled away, streamers of cream still sticking to her lips
and chin, she grinned at Bet and licked her lips.

 Amy snapped out of her thoughts as her orgasm rushed through her and left
her panting in bliss. Her surpressed frustrations trickled out of her and
left only the smile of afterglow. She had needed that for a good while now,
laying back in her strange hot tub Amy closed her eyes and relaxed.
Somewhere along the way she had decided that this wouldn't be the best time
for her to train a new student. Viki was a lovely girl, but Amy could feel
that her time on this planet was coming to an end. There was something in
the air that was quite unsettling, she couldn't put her finger on what it
was though.

 Standing, Amy used the towel to pat her body dry and felt a cold wind cross
over her mind. Events were coming to a head, what they symbolized she wasn't
sure, but it didn't look good. That little village had been the only one in
the area to be hit and even though Bet and her had managed to save a good
number of the people, they had not been able to save to area itself. Within
a month the entire town had been evacuated, the fields were dead, and the
building were collapsing in upon themselves. What ever the attack had been,
it had drained the land as well as the people and wiped the town from the
face of the planet within a matter of a few weeks. The houses had rotted to
nothing right before everyones eyes and there had been nothing they could do
about it.

 Stray strands of Amy's red hair were sticking to her face and she flipped
them out of the way with an anoyed gesture, she cursed for the millionth
time and wondered how anyone could toerate this stupid stuff. She had worn
her hair short for as long as she could remember and had yet to see one girl
on this planet with hair shorter than mid back length. Soon she would cut it
all off and be free of it's cursed pressence forever. Amy sighed and tapped
the little crystal with her toe again and watched as it powered down and the
bubbles stopped. Drying that annoying mass of red hair, Amy trudged up the
stairs and opened the trap door to her bedroom.

 She looked around as she wrapped the towel around her and headed for the
closet. Inside she pulled a night dress out of the closet and pulled it on,
it was white and frilly. To say she hated the garment was an understatment,
but she figured that it had saved her from several embarrasing moment over
the years so she put up with it. When people walked into her house in the
middle of the night, it helped to not appear infront of people nude. It gave
them strange ideas about her.

To Be Continued...

Notes: This is the final part to Power Play Chapter 1, I hoped everyone
liked it. I'm  not sure when I will be getting the second chapter out. This
series is mostly about fighting instead of sex and I am unsure if adding in
sex scenes to the story are good or bad for it. Right now I have no idea
either way and will probably add them, but since I haven't gotten much
comment from people on this story I am unsure if I will be posting it very
soon.

Power Play 1c
Usable Commodity
By C. Rose(c)2001
(MF, FF)

 As always the forest was quiet as Amy moved through it, there were no
birds, no animals, not even bugs. Her presence was easily detectable by
those creatures and they gave her a wide birth if they could help it. She
had been feeling something strange for several days now, in fact, ever since
her encounter with Viki's brothers. She had come out here to go for a walk
because she needed to do something to get her mind off her problems. People
had been watching her, strangers eyes that bored into the back of her head
like nails, but when she looked for whoever it was, she was left wanting. It
had been going on for several days now and she was having to watch what she
was doing just to make sure she didn't accidentally make a mistake and give
herself away.

 Whoever it was seemed to hate her and seemed to be quite good at tracking
her too, she didn't know how they were doing it either. Under normal
circumstances it would have been nearly impossible to catch her with her
guard down, but she was under orders to use her main powers under only the
most dire of situations. Amy had been her for several years now and she just
wanted to get this mission over with.

 She decided to push them a little and see what they would do, maybe even
see what they were capable of in a fight if she got lucky. Looking around
the area, she headed off in the direction of a near by open field, as she
moved she thought about what she was going to do. Making a snap decision,
something she did a lot, and had gotten her into more than a little danger
over the years, she blurred from sight and vanished in a red flare of
energy. Amy headed deeper into the forest, using her super speed to cover a
and launched herself high into a tree near the open field, it was time to
wait and see what would happen. From there she crouched down between the
branches of the old tree to wait, watching the leaf covered ground below
her. She let her mind expand out and quickly located the presence of 2
beings running after her. They were moving almost as fast as she had been
and they were heading right for her current location. It wasn't much of a
surprise, this kind of thing was something she would expect of anyone that
could follow her as well as these two could. What she didn't get was that
she was barely picking them up with her scan, something that had never
failed her before. That was a skill that she had rarely encountered, they
were masking themselves from her senses. How, she wasn't sure, but there
were a number of ways to do it and she had ended up on the receiving end of
a number of devilish attack because of it.

 This wasn't good, if she had to power up enough to fight opponents that
could use their life energy like she did, the destruction would be horrible.
She had figured it to be a couple of excellent trackers or aliens from
another world, not a couple of Power casters like her. Amy sighed, she could
do little things with her powers while she was here, so long as she kept her
power level low enough not to be noticed. A fight with a couple of powerful
Power Casters would be a very noticeable power jump to anyone paying
attention. Amy briefly wondered how they had tracked her down in the first
place, but shrugged and figured that she had just grown careless. It took
only a few seconds for someone to notice a power jump, and in that fight
with Varion...she had used an energy blade! She gasped and moaned at the
same time, to make a mistake like that was very foolish. The consequences
would be very bad if she wasn't careful, and she was the one that had set
this mess in motion.

 The ruling council of this planet had chosen this planet for it's total
isolation, they had banned certain forms of government and exercised a
ruthless demand for perfection. One of those areas that they stressed a lot
of the time was the purity to the race, and that meant that they had to keep
outside cultures out of their hair, they killed most ambassadors and refused
to acknowledge anyone that wanted to use the planet for their own uses, the
colony's especially. This was the main reason why she had been sent here, to
learn about their culture and to find out why they refused to let outsiders
onto the planet.  So far she had found that they just wanted to be left
alone without disruptions so that they could get on with whatever they were
doing without interference from the outside. That would have been it if she
hadn't stumbled across several things that didn't make sense to her. The
biggest one was the use of Life Energy Power, what she used to power her own
destructive attacks, or the large number of Power Casters she had
encountered on this planet.

 She had heard of several men that had displayed this ability on this planet
over the last few years. They had surfaced into the public eye and then had
just vanished within a few weeks, if that wasn't odd behavior for people,
Amy didn't know what else could do it. Normally this would have meant a
great honor on any other world because of the rarity of Power Casters like
herself, but on this one they had had just vanished and were never heard
from again. This had made no sense to Amy's higher ups, so they had told her
to find out why this odd behavior was going on. She hadn't had any luck so
far, everything pointed to an unknown element that she just couldn't figure
out.

 Then again, maybe being found out like this was a good thing, Amy
reconsidered, reflecting on the bad luck she had been having lately trying
to track down clues quietly. She looked up as two large men in fancy black
armor walked by her tree, they looked strange to Amy, but she couldn't put
her finger on why, but she shrugged it off for now since she had more
important things to worry about now. As she watched, their faces turned in
unison look right at where she was croutched, she nearly fell out of the
tree in shock, how did they know?

 "Come on down girl, we know your there so you might as well give up." Said
one.

 "Don't make us come up there, you won't stand a chance against us if you
force a fight with us. You may have discovered enough skill with the Power
to put up a decent fight, but in the end you are out gunned and out matched.
Now get down here." Said the other one, his tone evil.

 Amy was confused, they seemed to know what she could do, and yet they were
threatening her. She almost laughed as she realized that they were going on
the evidence of what she had done a few days ago against that moron Varion.
She had barely tapped her full power, Varion had been a normal human with a
magical item and had caused her a small problem because she couldn't go all
out and reveal herself. This seemed to have been a moot point now, maybe she
should have gone all out and scared the little peon into his next life.

 "Alright, I'm coming down." Amy called.

 She dropped to the 30ft to the ground and landed easily as she stood before
the two men. They had that look in their eyes that all men got when
presented with a good-looking girl, lust and potential prey. Amy stepped
forward and looked them over just as they were doing to her, except in her
case she was reading their auras and power potential. She nearly gasped,
they had no power reading what so ever, not even what a normal human would
have, she could find nothing emanating from them to even indicate what kind
of threat they were going to be. Never in her entire life had she taken on a
fight without knowing if she had a chance or not. She decided to play it
cool and see if they were as confident as they said or just there to look
tough, it also meant that she would have to fight them after all.

 "What's up with you guys, leave me alone and let me get back to my job at
the village. You can't just detain me like this you know..."

 "Shut up, we have orders to bring you in and that is what we will do, so
don't resist." Said the first.

 "And what if I do, are you going to pinch me?" Amy smirked, these guys were
lunchmeat, she was a pro at this and she could tell when she was in the
presence of some when who could be a threat to her. She may not have been
able to read them, but they were reacting wrong. They were not acting like
powerful fighters do, she would have to test them and see what they were
capable of before she finished them off.

 "Listen up bitch, you come along easily, or we will take you down and drag
you back by your ugly red hair, you got that?" Said the second.

 Amy growled, they both looked to be in their early 20s, had dark hair, and
the confidence of trained fighters. She shrugged and figured it was a moot
point, they didn't stand a chance against her, she had already noticed that
they kept being distracted by her being female. That gave her an idea and
she concentrated for a few seconds to use her powers of magic to form a
quick set of clothes beneath her brown dress. She stepped back several paces
and turned to face them, she reached down and pulled the dress off and
tosses it to the side, much to the surprise of the two men, they gasped.

 Underneath the ground length dress, which was very hard to run in, she was
wearing a pair of pants, boots, and a bra. Crouching down she began to glow
as her red aura formed around her body. She didn't even wait for the usual
BS to go on, the posturing and name calling, she just attacked them while
they were caught off guard by her showing off that much skin. The girls on
this planet were all into keeping their bodies hidden under several layers
of clothing. Amy leaned forward and launched forward in a blur of movement,
and she stiff-armed the first guy to send him flying back into the trees, he
screamed in surprise and shock. He crashed through a couple of trees before
he slammed into the ground and dredged up a pile of dirt.

 The second guy reacted quicker and jumped up as Amy spun and tried to sweep
his legs out. They spared back and forth for several seconds, blocking
punches and kicks moving at break neck speeds, to Amy she was testing the
guy's reactions and speed and so far they were not worth worrying over. She
did notice though that they had auras when they attacked though, whenever
they connected sparks of colored energy would be thrown off as their auras
absorbed the hits and damage the would normally have shredded their bodies.
This guy was a decent fighter, Amy had to admit, it was time to see how he
dealt with special energy attacks.

 Grinning evilly, Amy started to attack him from all sides, connecting here
and feinting here. She moved in a circle and soon had him almost spinning as
he reacted to her attack. She was a bit impressed when he was able to
actually block most of what she sent at her, if she had been using this as a
normal attack she might have failed to actually hurt him, but this was a
test and that meant that the wasn't aware of the attack this distraction
represented. Amy moved in suddenly and went to sweep his feet and as
expected he simply jumped over her leg, a sneer on his face. Amy suddenly
released the energy she had been collecting and stood up, throwing her arm
into the air. A red spinning vortex of energy spiraled into the air and
launched her opponent high into the air. Since she didn't want to kill him,
Amy concentrated to keep the vortex from becoming a pillar of fire.

 The guy comes down with a heavy thud several yards away and groans in pain
before standing up and gaping at her in fear. They jump away from each other
and glared at each other, Amy smirked, her aura started to build up again,
humming with energy and burned the grass and leaves at her feet. He gaped as
he realized that he was out matched, he glanced around and noticed that his
partner was finally getting up, clutching his chest where Amy had stiff
armed him and looking mad as hell.

 Amy laughed, an evil laugh, and launched forward moving incredibly fast,
faster than she ever had in this fight. It was a frontal attack and the
second guy reacted enough to launched several quick punches at her as soon
as she was within range, but she was moving so fast that she vanished before
his very eyes and left only an after image for him to punch at. He stopped
dead as his fist passed through her after image and gasped in fear as he
heard the hum of her aura behind him, he tried to turn and react, but a
solid punch to his kidneys took him out before he could move more than a
couple of inches, he collapsed in pain. His vision began to fade, but as he
fell he saw his partner get hit a millisecond later and fly back into a
large tree with a defining crack and slide to the ground like a limp rag.

 Amy felt like gloating, if this was the best they could do then she had
nothing to worry about, they were strong, but they were stupid. They failed
to recognized obvious signs of a special attack. Amy wondered a how they
could have gotten this strong without having gone through the training hell
she had endured to reach where she was today, it was as if they were
untrained fighters who had learned a few tricks.

 They had failed to capture the girl and now had to pay the price for their
failure, a tear went down one's cheek...beep...beep...beep...

 The explosion caught Amy off guard and she launched into the sky on pure
instinct, nearly 300 feet above tree level, as guys exploded in a giant ball
of fire and leveled several hundred yards of forest in all directions. Using
her aura she hovered there and gaped at the senseless deaths of the two men,
wondering why they would kill themselves like that, she hadn't planned to
kill either of them. They had no reason to even believe so, that should have
been obvious from them not receiving any death blows, what was going on? She
sent her senses out in curiosity and looked over the forest to see she was
missing something, and noticed that there was a giant blank spot in her
senses off in the direction of the village. She was up high enough to see it
and could see that there was a large force of men surrounding the village,
now why was that there? Amy frowned as she realized that her red aura was
bright enough to let them see her hovering there and quickly landed. Was
that army what had been sent to make sure she and everyone she knew just
disappeared off the planet?

 As she landed she decided to put out the fire created by the two
explosions. She thrust her hand out and an wave of unfocused energy erupted
from her and snuffed out a bit of the fire, just like blowing out candles on
a cake. It took several attempts to get the fire under control and finally
out. This also got rid of the smoke and let her see the craters left by the
suicide blasts, there was nothing left of the two men, not even bones or the
metal of their armor. She does find the tattered remains of her dress
hanging from a tree branch, it hadn't survived. Now she would have to go
back to the village like this, she shrugged and figured that it was better
than going naked.

 She didn't want to go, not at all and briefly wondered if she should just
abandon her things at the house. No, she needed to at least get her chest
back, it contained her uniform and several other things that she couldn't do
with out. This wasn't a total failure yet, so she didn't need to self
destruct the chest and destroy years of memories and treasures. That was a
last resort and since she was the only one that could get into the chest,
she knew that she had a little time.

 Moving slowly, Amy pondered what she was going to do. Her first goal was
going to be shelter for the night, she had already decided to head home in
the early morning hours and that meant that she had to kill about 12 hours.
It wasn't long before she found the small cave used by campers around the
area, it was fully stocked with provisions and a couple of cots for
emergencies in the winter months when the snow piled up to 3 and 4 foot
levels overnight. Luckily it was early spring now, it meant that she
wouldn't have any unwanted guests.

 "Amy!"

 She gasped and spun around in a combat crouch and swiftly spotted a girl
running towards her, Amy relaxed and stood up. It was Viki, she looked
worried and scared. She came up and flung herself into Amy's arms and burst
into tears. Amy held her gently and let her cry herself out, it would be
better than having to translate whatever she had to tell her. They made
their way to the cave. The cave was a man made space and had been designed
well, there was a small fire pit in the floor, room for at least 5 people, a
couple of benches, and even spot to tie up horses out side.

 Leading Viki over to a bench they sat and Amy waited for the girl to
finish, she stroked her hair and smiled down at the girl. She usually had
more control than this and wondered what could have upset her so much. Viki
finally drown down to sniffles and Amy quietly asked her what was wrong and
why she had tracked her down.

 "The kings army has come to the village, my father called them because what
you did to my brothers. My brothers called the Duke and explained what you
had done, it was w-weird, they listened to what you did and how, demanding
detailed descriptions of your abilities. At the end the Duke called in the
army and they have been given orders to bring you in as soon as possible."

 "How is it you are here girl, it sounds like they were keeping you with
them if you know all of this."

 "I snuck out of the house last night and vanished into the forest as soon
as I could. My family is skilled in hunting and tracking and I have been
taught everything they have so it wasn't difficult."

 "Hmmm..."

 Viki shifted and sat up, looking Amy over with a weird look in her eyes.
Amy didn't notice the stunned look on her face as she noticed what she was
wearing, or lack off. For as long as Viki could remember, she had worn
dresses and gloried in them, she had never seen a girl wear men's clothing
before and just couldn't get past what Amy looked like.

 "Why are you wearing that?"

 "What?"

 "That strange outfit."

 "I usually wear this when I am out in the forest doing dangerous things,
you know, picking flowers and climbing trees." Amy grinned.

 "Hey!"

 "I usually wear something like this under my cloths, I don't care for
dresses all that much."

 "But, I have seen you with your dress off before."

 "I wasn't wearing it then." Amy shrugged and went back to her thoughts.

 "I know you do magic, I'll bet you just made them appear after you lost
your dress."

 "Okay." Blasted girl is quick, Amy thought.

------------
 He stood over six feet high and had the look of a seasoned warrior to him.
He had the body of a god and a number of scars on his arms and face that
told all that he was strong fighter. Amy would say that it showed he was a
clumsy fighter, but she wasn't there. He was wearing black armor like all of
his men and issuing orders his men to bring in the girl. It had been several
hours since they lost track of the two men sent out to track her down and he
was more than a little irritated by their loss.

 The king had told him to be careful of this one, but he had shrugged it off
as just another natural talent and went with what he usually did to bring
them in. Now he was down two men, the first he had ever lost in fact, it
hadn't settled in his stomach very well. He adjusted himself in the useless
chair the mayor of this village had provided him and leaned against the
wooden table he had taken from the tavern. The fact that they were sitting
in the street in front of the girls house hadn't been his idea, but for some
reason they couldn't get inside.

 They had tried to break the door down, but after bruising several shoulders
and a lot of cursing they had given up. This was the work of magic and they
didn't have any magic users on the planet now a days, they had all been
killed years ago. He picked up his glass of beer and took a drink as yet
another of his useless soldiers came up to report to him, he waved off the
usual speeches that they always wanted to do.

 "Captain Loval, it is a...

 "Get on with it!"

 "Yes Sir, Del and Ped's remains have been discovered. Their armor self
destructed and took out a large portion of the forest. Someone came by later
and put the fire out, the Power readings in the area were enormous and
higher than anything I have ever seen. This girl seems to be a talent of
unrivaled ability and would make an excellent addition to the project..."

 "I don't want your opinions Commander Heikaro, just find her and bring her
to me, NOW!"

 "Yes Sir!" Com. Heikaro yelled and strode off.

 Loval was beginning to have his suspensions about who they were up against,
and if it was true, there was going to be hell to pay. Loval scratched his
face and drank some more beer, he looked around again and wondered why this
village was still here and if he could get away with leveling it before he
left. The King usually had him eradicated all knowledge of a natural talent
by getting rid of everyone that they knew. That option hadn't really been
available in this situation, the Duke was a cousin of the King and well
liked for his ways of dealing with most situations. Though, now that he had
taken the time to think about it, the Duke had fialed to take care of this
particular girl several years ago and hadn't reported his failure to the
King either, maybe it was time to correct that little mistake...

--------------

 Lifting the girls head up, Amy brought her lips to hers and they kissed for
the first time in several weeks. It was like drinking the most precious
wine, Amy couldn't get enough, neither could Viki as she watched Amy's
nipples harden in her bra. Of course hers did to, but he was wearing a dress
and it wasn't as noticeable, she moaned instead as the passion built up
inside of her. Amy had introduced her to this side of life and she loved
every minute of it and knew that she could never give it up, that was why
she had continued to look for girls while she was away. Of the few men she
had the pleasure of going to bed with, not one had taken her feeling into
consideration, only theirs. They got off and left her wanting, girls on the
other hand took time to help bring each other to the ultimate goal and the
build up was more fun than the climax sometimes. Now if she could find a man
who was as good at this as Amy, her world would be perfect.

 Amy picked Viki up and looked outside, she grinned and had a wicked idea as
she noticed that it was raining. She hadn't even noticed, but sex in the
rain was a thrill she rarely encountered. "Were going to have a little fun
Viki..."

 "Aren't we already doing that?" Giggle.

 "This is even better..." They went outside and Viki gasped and clutched at
Amy.

 "W-what are you doing?!"

 "I love making love in the rain, you should try it, it will blow your
mind." Amy grinned again, this time like a predator going for its prey. Amy
took them a few hundred feet into the forest and found a quiet glen and a
grassy spot that looked perfect. She laid Viki down and quickly removed her
clothing so that she was standing there naked, gazing into Viki's eyes. They
were filled with lust as she quickly took her things off as well. Amy got
down and pushed her back into the rain slicked grass and kissed her
passionately. Rain slicked bodies pressed together, becoming slippery and
super sensitive. Amy kissed her way along Viki's jaw and down her neck, her
hands wandered down and kneaded Viki's breasts, she moaned.

 The sheer erotic tension of the moment nearly had Amy coming, she had to
hold herself back as she made her way down Viki's body. The girl's breasts
were heaving as she swept them up and took both sets of nipples into her
mouth. At the same time she straddled Viki's legs and rubbed her pussy along
the girl's leg. Viki liked what Amy was doing and pressed her pussy into
Amy's leg and copied the move, she arched back at the amount of ecstasy that
surged through her as soon as she touched skin.

 They kept this up for several minutes, swooning at the amount of pleasure
they were taking from each others bodies. The rain started to come down
harder and they were soon in a down pour, drenched to the bone. The thunder
that rolled over the area drowned out the sound of both girls crying out in
orgasm. Amy gasped and relaxed as her orgasm receded a little and kissed
Viki as she shuddered through her own orgasm, neither of them were even
paying attention to the storm anymore.

 Amy kissed and licked her way down Viki's stomach, slowly backing her way
down until she was kissing her inner thighs. Viki moaned and gasped, Amy
just smiled and licked her ass hole making the girl jump in shock. Amy
giggled, slightly high from her orgasm, and licked the entire length of
Viki's pussy. She screamed and came again as the rain mixed in with Amy's
talented tongue, her eyes rolled back even as she had an idea.

 "A-Amy, swing around here and let me do you too..." Viki gasped.

 Liking the idea, Amy did just that and had to gasp as Viki went into her
with a gusto. She went back down as well and soon found the proper technique
to keep up with Viki. It didn't take long for the fire works to build up and
go off again and again as they made love to each other. Their cream covering
each other's faces as they played in the rain, but it ended as it always
does. In an orgasm that rocked them to their souls, they screamed in unison
and nearly passed out as they collapsed, totally spent and satisfied.

 It was all Amy could do to stand several minutes later, her knees were weak
and she felt like a million bucks. Her skin was still tingling from where
Viki had touched her and her cream was running down her legs, being washed
away with the rain. Viki was still gasping for air and had this grin on her
face that made Amy giggle as she helped her friend to her feet. They had to
support each other as they made their way back to the cave, they grabbed
their clothing and bundled it up to dry overnight.

 "I could do that forever." Viki said.

 "It was fun wasn't it?" Amy giggled again.

 "Where did you learn all this stuff about sex between girls?"

 "I have been around for awhile now, I learned it through experience and
lots of friends."

 "Just how many girls have you gone to bed with?"

 Amy looked at Viki and considered lying to the girl, she didn't need to
know the truth. Wrong, she deserved to know what she was dealing with.
"Well, more than I can remember really. I have had thousands of girls in my
long life time, I don't want to lie to you Viki, if that is a problem we can
stop if you want..."

 "Tell me about your self Amy, why do you keep all these secrets? What are
you? Are you and me even possible?"

 "Viki, are you sure you want answers to those questions. You may not like
them and I don't want to hurt you if you can't handle the truth."

 "Yes, I do."

 "Alright, do you know what Power Casting is?"

 "Sort of, it is the ability to generate energy using ones own body and
using it for various purposes. It all depends on how strong willed and
imaginative one is, I think."

 "That is pretty close actually, except for one part, the energy. It is true
that one uses the energy one one's body, but only a very small amount of it
for any one technique. The rest is drawn form outside sources, usually life
energy or other forms of energy." Amy holds up her hand and a tiny point of
light is floating in her hand, about the size of a marble. Whenever the rain
hits it, it evaporates instantly in a puff of smoke. "This is pure energy
from my own body, there is enough here to do almost anything I want. Now
watch my hand as I focus it into what I need."

 The tiny ball of light begins to pulse with life and Viki can see tiny
points of light forming around Amy's hand going to the ball of light, making
it bigger and bigger. This continues until the ball of light surges outward
and surrounds both of them, the rain stops hitting them as the ball of
energy forms into a shield of some kind. Viki gapes at Amy and looks around
her in awe, she has heard of things like this, but never expected to see it
in action. She can feel the power emanating from the shield as it moves
along with them.

 "T-that's incredible..."

 "I am a master of this stuff Viki, a master fighter, and a I am currently
on a mission. You see I am from a different planet, Earth to be precise, and
I was asked to come to this planet to find out why your leaders are so
distrusting of the life that exists on the other colonized worlds. If it was
just distrust and fear, I wouldn't have been sent, but you see there are a
number of odd occurrences going on and I have to find out what is going on.
Live could be at risk and that danger must be dealt with."

 "Your an alien?"

 Amy giggled, "No Viki, I am as human as you are, I am just from another
planet. I am what is called a Planetary Guardian, I protect planets from
disaster on a world wide level and must do everything in my power to prevent
anything from happening, even at the cost of my own life."

 "What about us..."

 "What do you mean?"

 "Are we going to still be friends and lovers after this?"

 "I don't see why not..."

 Viki squealed and glommped onto Amy and kissed her in her happiness, still
naked, it quickly reminded them of what they had been doing in the storm.
Amy blushed and led Viki back to the cave, once inside Amy terminated the
shield and tossed some wood into the pit and built a small fire. Amy piled
up the larger logs and used her power beam to light it quickly, she just
pointed her finger at it and fired a super heated beam into it until it
burst into flame. It only took several seconds, after that they laid their
clothing out to dry.

 It didn't take long before Viki glommped onto Amy again and soon had them
going at it again. From the outside the loud sounds of lesbian love could be
heard easily, but there was no one around to hear it anyway. After that they
fell asleep curled around each other, smiling like a pair of school girls.
Amy sighed and wondered if she should tell Viki that there was very good
chance that they would never see each other again. She had a plan and was
going to put into motion tomorrow.

 Amy's mental wake up call roused her at around 4am, she looked at Viki and
touched her fore head, there is a spark of light that seems to pass through
the girls body. She falls deeper into sleep, this time magically induced,
and Amy looks a little sad, she had just cast a simple sleep spell on the
girl. She would probably sleep for the rest of the day at least, Amy needed
to make sure Viki was safe. That army around the village wasn't there to see
the sights and anything that required that many men would be far too
dangerous for a girl like Viki to get near.

 On the other hand, Amy planned to just that, they were obviously after her
and she was going to go into the trap they were setting up for her. She
needed to find out what they were up to, she had a mission to complete and a
friend to keep safe. Amy stood up and flicked her wrist and she was attired
in her clothing again, how she wanted to get into her uniform again, she
sighed. No, it wasn't time yet, but soon it would be and she could throw off
this useless identity and be her true self, right now she just needed a way
for them to track her. The clothing she had been wearing yesterday simply
vanished into a swirl of air, Amy used this to quickly cloth Viki in a pair
of pants and a shirt. There was note in the pocket for Viki if she ever
found it, explaining what she was going to do and to forgive her if she
didn't make it back.

 Amy moved out, running toward town in a blur of speed that was kicking up
dust and leaves behind her. She didn't bother to suppress her power level
like she usually did, she wanted them to find her, it would be the easies
way to get to the bottom of things. She came to a sudden halt about 100
yards from the blockade the army had set up around the village and continued
walking toward it at a slow pace. The soldiers were all dressed in armor
similar to those two she had taken on yesterday, except these looked to be
meaner than them. They wore high tech weapons and low tech, guns and swords.
They were calm and confident, but looked as if they had better things to do.
They didn't want to be here she decided, lets see what they want.

 She he continued forward until they noticed her and called for her to come
forward and present herself. Amy shrugged and continued to walk until they
had surrounded her and forced her to stop. A young  man in a black armor
stepped up to her and looked her over carefully. "Magus Lee?"

 "Amy Lee will do."

 "I could sense you coming to us as you ran, the Captain would like to talk
to you Magus."

 "Can you tell me why?"

 "No Magus."

 "All right, then let's go." Amy said and strolled ahead at a faster pace
and hoped they wouldn't cause her any problems until she was ready. She had
been in predicaments like this and knew that she would have to be careful if
she wanted to make it out alive. She could feel the fear and hatred
emanating from the men around her as she confirmed her identity, they knew
who she was, but it was an ancient title that she hadn't used for years.
Magus had been a title she had been known by during the years that she was
in her mean phase, when human life meant nothing to her and the only thing
she cared about was power and a good fight. She had changed over the years,
but she still preferred a good fight, and she had found her heart again and
learned to care.

 As they moved, 5 other black uniformed soldiers came out of the shadows
around nearby buildings. Like the men guarding the front gate, these were
wearing a  mixture of old and new weapons. Putting on a contemptuous glare,
Amy looked them over and found them wanting. They could tell, but held their
anger in check when the young guard escorting her gave then a little shake
of his head.

 "Miss. Lee, this is our escort, the town elders seem to think where here to
arrest you. They don't like you very much."

 "Are you here to take me?" Amy reached out with her senses and found that
she could sense these men and that they could use the same Power she used.

 "I've no idea, the Captain only said to bring you to him."

   For a brief instant, Amy's senses told her the man was nervous and
scared. The Power, its use by anyone was very rare. Maybe 1 in 10,000 souls
could tap into it. Untrained or weak individuals tended to have PSI or ESP
type powers. She'd never encountered more than 50 on any one planet. Then
only 5 to 10 of those could generate a Power Aura or Energy Signature.

 Every soldier here had a power signature, how very curious. Artificial? As
they approached her house Amy was distracted from her thoughts a man stood
up from a chair he had been sitting in. It was placed right in front of her
house and Amy  wondered what was going on. This wasn't going as she had
expected, she had figured that she would be fighting for her life by now.
Instead she is escorted to her own house, and made to feel as if she isn't
in any danger, now she was really nervous.

 "Magus Lee, I am Captain Loval. The King has requested your presence."

 "Oh?"

 "Yes, he said to find you so that you could use your Power to help us with
a problem."

 Now Amy could sense the soldiers around her building up their energy,
trying to be quiet about it. As if they thought she wouldn't notice. Captain
Loval was a famous man on this planet, he had sad eyes, but a reputation for
extreme acts of violence. "All right Captain Loval let me get a few things
from my house." Amy said.

 "Of course." Captain Loval responded, he smiled but it didn't reach his
eyes.

 As Amy made her way to her house, she sent out the mental command to allow
her entry into her house. She had decided to install a magical warning
system one day when she had come home to find her house filled with people
demanding she leave town before anything bad happened to her. The fact that
they were all men hired by the Duke. It had been one of her most recent
additions, less than six months before. It had brought to an end all those
times of being rudely awakened in the middle of the night by a panicked
woman or a assassin trying to get her. Amy realized that was why Loval had
been sitting outside her house instead of inside of it.

 Inside Amy took rushed for her hidden chest at the end of her bed and
pulled out her fighting uniform, the one that proclaimed her as being a
World Guardian. She pulled out a large box wrapped in red silk, she pulled
this off carefully and revealed a wooden box. Placing this on the bed, Amy
opened it carefully and disarmed the hidden trap before pulling out a pair
of black silk pants, a black sleeveless shirt, black leather boots, and a
blood red wrap waistcoat with the arms stopping just past her elbow, and a
wide gloss black belt with a pure silver buckle. As she pulled out each part
of her uniform she donned it and ran a bit of power through it so that the
clothing's armor like properties were activated, she tucked the sleeves into
her Bracers and began to Power up. The jewels on her arms began to pulsate
with sheer power.

 "Christ! You feel that?! A wave of power just flooded out of that house,
almost 20 times our level, it's getting stronger too." One soldier said as
he tried to control his horse, it was snorting and trying to bolt in fear.

 Back in the house Amy adjusted her coat, it had been 7 years since she last
put her uniform on, it felt good too. The soldier's fear was now very
apparent to her, though she was used to the reaction, she didn't like it
very much anymore. During her dark years she had craved this reaction, but
she had changed too much to not be affected by it anymore. Men seemed to
only understand force, the Power was a means to that end, that was why Amy
had learned how to tap into different forms of magic and power over the
years. Amy made sure she looked good and headed down stairs and out onto the
porch. Powered up like she was, her senses were at their peak and she could
feel the fear running rampant in those men closest to her. She forced a
smile and addressed the Captain.

 "Captain, are we to ride to Capital?"

 "No Magus, 10 miles from here we have 2 air cars waiting. They should get
us to Capital in 4 hours."

 "I was under the impression that high tech devices were not allowed on this
planet Captain. Is the King now breaking his own laws?"

 "This is an emergency Magus, speed is top priority."

 To Amy the Captain now looked a little nervous and pale, he was beginning
sweat. This was getting very interesting after all, it seems they may have a
problem these remarkable soldiers couldn't handle? This army had enough
Power to level a good-sized city and they needed her? "I'll need a horse to
get to the cars."

 "You don't have one?" The Captain started, then shrugged. "Davis, dismount
and get on with Carter. Magus, get on Davis' mount."

 Amy slowly mounted, "I say Captain, I hate horses so lets get going."

 "Form up!" Captain Loval barked and had his army preparing to leave in a
mater of minutes. Amy looked the horse over and wondered what she had done
to deserve this punishment, she hated horses. She could run faster and
farther than any horse on the planet, that was why she usually ran every
where. The people of the village watched from their windows as the army
prepared to leave. Amy waved goodbye to some of her friends as she waited,
they waved back, some actually looked a little relieved to see her go. Amy
didn't even worry about it very much, she  had very few friends anyway.
"Move out!" The rest of the troops gathered behind them as they left and
soon almost 100 soldiers rode in 4 columns. As they rode Amy let her mind
wander around the area and listened to some of the soldiers as they talked.
She didn't know if she should be offend or start laughing, even on this
planet some people knew of her reputation as a deadly fighter and a killer.

 ".That's her?"

 ".How can that child be the Magus?"

 ".Shit she's over 6ft high."

 ".Were doomed."

 "...What kind of threat is that girl going to be..."

 Why did soldiers always seem to think girls couldn't be or do anything?
They would always underestimated her, only to gape in shock when she
defeated them within seconds. She kept her thoughts to herself as they
exited the town. 3 hrs later, covered in dust and in a bad mood, they
finally reached the special cars. Amy practically dived off the horse and
ran to the cars, she had to refrain from rubbing her ass hurt so much.

 The air cars were an old version, maybe 100 years old, but in good
condition. Open air convertibles with fans instead of wheels. Amy, the
Captain, and 3 others climbed into the first one and 5 guards into the
other. The rest of the troops would make their way back to Castle town on
their own, it would take them a few weeks. Captain Loval left Davis in
command, with orders to take care of any situation they may encounter as
they made their way back. "Car, take us to the Kings palace.

 The fans began to spin as the computer came on line. Gently the vehicles
lifted off and shot forward and into the sky moving in a steep arc. Within
seconds the outside world was a blur, Amy's hair blew everywhere as the cars
picked up speed. "Why the open air cabs?" Amy yelled into the wind.

 "They were the only cars available at the time, there are only 12 such cars
on the entire planet."

 Amy nodded. The only thing that would require the King to break his own
laws and send for her would be a threat on of world level proportions or a
strange kind of Human Anomaly. This was a poor soul who had a very high
ability to access the Power, but had pushed beyond their ability and started
a core burn. A very nasty situation to get caught up in. Amy frowned, why
had she not sensed a strong power buildup, if that was indeed the case? Was
it an anomaly? "Captain is this a case of an Anomaly?"

 "No! It's worse than that, or I could have taken care of it myself."

 Some time later, in the distance, Amy was finally able to spot the great
city. Castle town, it housed nearly 200,000 people, slaves, hookers,
politicians, royalty, everything.  The King controlled the continent like
any tyrant, but his subjects respected him for some odd reason. At least he
kept them healthy and free, unlike some of those kingdoms across the ocean.

 In its center stood a tall silver pole rising above the city. If Amy
remembered right, the thing was a piece of the space ship that'd brought the
colonists to this world. A super support strut or something. The inhabitants
nearly worshiped the thing. In all the years it had been there, it had not
rusted or broken. They used it as a giant lightning rod to protect the city
from the areas savage lightning storms. They flew over the city and Amy was
able to take in the amazing site of a city designed to be a giant fortress.

 They flashed by the pole, a car to each side, the thing was nearly 20ft
wide and capped with a large platinum ball joint. "Cool!" Amy breathed out
even as the cars were slowing to begin their decent. The Captain looked down
on her as they descended.

 "Magus Lee, may I ask you something?"

 "Go ahead."

 "Um.I'm finding it a little hard to believe you're who you say you are.."

 "Why is that?" She always seemed to have to prove herself.

 "Well, I know that using the Power will keep one young and healthy, but
that effect is only temporary at best. You are said to be nearly 2000 years
old. I've never heard of anyone living more than 300 years, so how can you
still look like your in your teens if your over 2000?"

 "I've been around for a long time Captain Loval, a very long time. I first
began my training at 14, while I was still on Earth itself."

 The Captain gaped, "B-but Earth has been missing for generations, that's
impossible."

 "On this planet only Captain, there are colonies out there that still have
contact with Earth. The Galactic wars caused the creation of millions of
people who wanted to forget Earth ever existed. Many of those went out to
colonize other worlds. Even this world I would assume. Your ancestors forgot
Earth's location deliberately."

 "That's ridicules! They wouldn't do that." The Captain started to sputter.

 "Then believe what you will." Amy shrugged.

 A few minutes later the landing thrusters fired, the car decelerated and
swung around in an arc to land with a light thump on the grass outside the
main Castle walls. The Castle stood on the top a large hill overlooking over
the city, it had 5 large defensive walls spaced up the hill to protect the
Castle. They had landed at the base of the first one. Two, black uniformed
guards, stood at attention to each side of an archway cut through the 40ft
thick wall, the largest of the 5 walls. More guards could be seen walking
along the top of the wall with this set up repeated at each of the other
walls. They exited the air cars and made their way over to the archway, Amy
was surprised to find yet another sign that high tech wasn't as outlawed as
she had thought.

 "You may have outlawed high tech but these walls are obviously cut with
high intensity lasers, like a hot knife though butter." Amy grinned as the
Captain grunted in agreement.

 The guards formed up around them as they went into the tunnel. The tunnel
opened up to reveal more of the hill and a stair case cut into the stone
that led up the next wall and tunnel. It took about 10 minutes to climb up
the next entrance. "This will take all day Captain, couldn't we have flown
right into the castle itself?" Amy complained.

 "No, were not allowed to, but were taking the quick way up to the top. We
have an elevator just behind the 3rd tunnel that can get to the top in just
a few minutes."

 The second tunnel was nearly as thick as the first, but the spacing between
this wall and the 3rd was nearly 200 ft, on an incline, and covered in
thousands of spikes pushing up out of the ground. Here the stairs led up to
a large metal door, the left of this was as smaller door that the guards
opened as they approached, revealing a small tunnel that led deep into the
center of the hill. It was a half mile long and made out of normal bricks
and mortar. Every 10 ft there was a small lit torch to light the way, every
30 ft there is a metal gate set to close at a moments notice, they led to a
small room at the end with a large stone door. The room is circular, 10 ft
wide, with a wooden floor made of polished ironwood. Their footsteps echo up
the walls of the open shaft above them.

 The Captain pulls a rope just inside the room, there is a groaning from
behind the walls and the floor shudders as it begins to lift. "Amazing, how
do you work this thing? Horses? Pulleys?"

 "I'm not allowed to say Magus."

 "Must be gears and manpower, unless the King has decided to break his own
rules again. So How long exactly?"

 "About 15 minutes, it's a half-mile lift from the center."

 Suddenly their came a loud vibration through the stone, the floor began to
bounce and vibrate and slow to a stop. The guards started to mutter among
themselves, saying that they didn't want to end up like the others.

 Amy just frowned and sent her senses out through the walls. The stone walls
were only a foot thick, cut with lasers. Metal cables hung outside the main
shaft, one hung limp and hanging free. Several other cords were trying to
compensate for the extra weight.

 Primitive but effective, yet another use of parts from the old colony ship.
Amy could see thousands of bugs, spiders, and other creepy crawly things
living within the walls, some even gnawing on the cables. "Captain Loval, I'
m going to fix this problem if you don't mind." Amy didn't bother to wait
for an answer. Her Aura flares around her, giving off a bright red glow.
Slowly she works to build an electrical charge outside the shaft and giving
it a gentle push.

 2 Guards gasp as a loud whooshing sound moves away from the elevator, above
and below them. The sounds of millions of things running could be heard
through the stone on the other side of the walls. "Christ!" Yells a guard as
he backs up clear to the center of the room, the floor wobbles as the shock
wave moves through the elevator platform.

 Amy takes a mental note of the reactions as she works, but files it away to
be examined later. The lightning ball fills the shaft, frying anything
living, scaring everything else. The power travels up and down each cable
until Amy is sure the entire shaft is clean. Releasing the power, Amy's red
aura fades away. Then slowly, the elevator begins to rise again. Within
minutes a hole opens in the wall to reveal a doorway filled with chaos. Men
in robes, masks, and tool belts are running around franticly. Nearby is a
charred body, his hand still clutching a cable, Amy walks by ignoring it
completely.

 Captain Loval has the body moved as they make their way through the chaos
of the control room. A red robed man, wearing a mask with a star on it runs
up to them "Captain I'm so sorry, we don't know what happened."

 "We'll deal with it later, this is Magus Lee, and I must get her to the
King."

 Red robe looked Amy over, "A girl? Barely out of her diapers? You must be
mistaken Captain .Ghhhaa!" Red robe doubles up over Amy's arm as she punches
him in the stomach.

 Amy steps back letting red robe fall to the floor, he rolls into a ball and
whimpers. Amy steps over him as the whole group moves to leave. The frozen
eyes of the 50 men about the room watching their every move. They tried to
look busy and not to draw the notice of a being that many considered a myth.
An all-powerful Planetary Guardian, a the god of battle...

 "This way Magus Lee." The Captain said, pointing to a set of stairs across
the room. "Just a few flights of stairs and we can meet with the King."
After 4 flights of stairs, a long hall, and a large door they arrived before
the arched entrance to the throne room. There were runes and symbols
engraved all over the place. There were also several guards spaced out to
the sides of the door, all of them were wearing the black armor that Amy was
beginning to wonder about. These men were also able to use the Power and
seemed to have a rather strong power levels. Amy was feeling a little weird
here, nothing was going as she had expected, the clues were not adding up.

 "I'm here to present Magus Lee to the King." Captain Loval shouted out.

 A young guard by the door nodded and went inside after telling them to wait
a second. He returned a few seconds later and bowed to them both, "Sir, only
you and Magus Lee may enter."

 A small room greeted them, far smaller than Amy had expected really. An old
man was seated on an inlayed chair at the back of the room. "Come forward."
Amy could feel that the old man radiated the Power. It sparkled and swirled
around him and vanished as it slowly dispersed.

 "Your Magus Lee?"

 "Yes."

 "Captain Loval, please withdraw."

 Amy stepped forward, "You went to a lot of trouble to get me here, what is
this problem?"

 "Do you know just who I actually am? Who several of the others in the
Castle as well?"

 Amy considered, she'd never actually looked the King over when she arrived
on the planet. His question meant that he was something rare. "No sir."

 "You need to know, me and some others are actually over 200 years old. We
are what's left of the original colonists."

 "Ah, I think I understand. You and your fellows found a way to tap into the
Power using science didn't you? Even with all the warnings against doing
 so?"

 "Yes, it was amazing and magical. Every device we made could do incredible
things. Our soldiers were undefeatable, nothing stopped them. They could
fly, run at near light speed, pick up 2 or 3 ton items and hurl them, even
fire those balls of fire and energy.

 "Then we found that our toys were beginning to fail, we tried to
experiment, but we couldn't do anything about it.  Then my scientists came
upon an idea and created a device that.that.could again allow us to harness
the Power."

 Amy could see the problem now, "and now it has failed too?"

 "No Magus Lee, it's working perfectly. It's doing just as my scientist
built it to do, the dammed traitors. If they weren't dead already I'd hang
them."

 "Is it getting ready to explode?"

 "No it's worse than that, it won't shut down or even respond to us any
more."

 "The massive amounts of magic and power have been brought to life haven't
they?"

 The King shrugged, "I don't know, all I do know is hat we've pulled every
electric power hook up on it, and it's still drawing the Power out of the
very planet and storing it."

 "Then open all the lines, purge the system."

 "They've been open for weeks now, we managed to purge 200,000 Power units
before it somehow closed the lines on its own. Since then we haven't been
able to recharge our own systems, some how it has managed to invade all of
our equipment and cut us off almost totally. Except for a few things, the
kingdom is very near to becoming powerless now. Magus Lee I would like for
you to save my people."

 Amy considered again, this situation was worse than she had figured.
'Midory, Aho, I need advice on this.' Amy thought within her own mind. She
instantly felt her inner power begin to pulse as her friends powered up a
little. They scanned the area and pulsed in fiery life upon her fore arms,
causing Captain Loval to grow pale at the sight of them. Amy saw it, but
ignored everything around her as she scanned the entire city. She wasn't
very subtle about it either, a sphere of blue energy exploded from her body
and traveled outward until it covered the entire city. This took maybe 15
seconds to complete and Amy soon had a pretty good idea what was finally
going on, she didn't like it very much either.

 'Amy, this device is alive, too much time submerged within the Power' Aho
said, she had very kind and female voice that resounded in her head as she
spoke.

 'I can feel the thing pulsing with Power, it needs to be sucked dry and its
creations destroyed. Can you not feel what it is doing to the planet itself?
' Said a hard male voice, just on the heels of Aho's pronouncement.

 The planet? Amy looks with her senses, sending them deep below the castle.
There were dozens of levels below her, prisons, quarters, even the old
colony ship, of all things, buried below everything and a piece of this
mountain. The lift she had used to get here had once been a part of the
colony ship. She pushed down further, below the crust itself, the mantle
with its molten rock. From down here everything looked fine so she refocused
and looked into the atmosphere, but everything was fine here as well. She
was about to give up when she remembered what she had been seeing over the
last few years, those areas of forest dying for no reason. As if the life
had been sucked out of them, like that town where she had met Bet. Now she
understood a little better.

 "Can you do anything?"

 "Maybe, you see the Power is, simply put, what's left of the energy left
over from the creation of the universe."

 "Every one knows that."

 "True, but humans always over look the obvious. The Power is a universal
building block, life itself. Used in small amounts it is safe, but in large
amounts it will drain any area of all its life force until it can no longer
support life. Your machine is killing this planet with everyday that it is
in operation, while this side of the world is still teaming with life, it
has almost destroyed most of the life on the other continents. How you
allowed this to go on so long with out seeing the true cause is beyond me."
The King looked like he had swallowed something bad, but didn't look very
surprised, thought Amy. "Sir your own power is literally killing you."

 "Perhaps."

 "Sir, my scans tell me that your device is powered by a connection right
into the anti-mater core of the old colony ship. In turn the ship is charged
by that giant lightning rod of yours. There are also signs that your ship
has been absorbing since you arrived. By all my knowledge of this type of
thing, if you were to shut it down now this planet will only last another
300 years before it dies totally."

 The King seethed, "You can't be serious, all we have to do is shut it down
and everything will revert to normal."

 "Sir this machine has drained so much energy from this planet that it is
has doomed the whole thing to death, everything and everyone." Something
clicked inside Amy's mind and she realized that this idiot was the one to
originally put this machine into use and had used it to gain control over
the entire planet. He had killed those power users too, destroyed them while
they were week so that they wouldn't diminish his own power. Now that it
wasn't in his control anymore, he was trying to make sure no one else would
be able to use it either. Amy felt her hair raise up on her neck as her
explosive temper began to sure within her. The fool could live with his
problem, it was time for her to leave. This is what he had wanted, this is
what he would get. She couldn't care less about it, this planet was doomed
now. Amy turned and walked away, the King was beginning to sputter in fury.
Amy now understood why they didn't like outsiders very much too, there was
the chance of discovery of this traitors actions.

 "Guards! Guards! Stop her from leaving!" Bellowed the King. They seemed to
come from the very walls and quickly had her surrounded her just as she left
the small throne room.

 "I'm sorry Magus but you can not leave just yet, please go back inside."
they were all wearing that black armor and quickly began to glow, now Amy
realized that this armor was the reason that they could use the Power as
they did. They were cheating, using technology to do what nature allowed
only the worthy to do.

 Amy's anger ignited her Aura, it flared up turning the whole room red,
crackling and waving as it hummed. Just as she flared up, she hurls 2 guards
away from her and in to the walls where one's armor shorted out in a shower
of sparks. "Back off vermin, or pay, I don't want to have to kill you." Amy
growled, her eyes flaring with red energy.

 The guards froze in place, transfixed in fear and unable to move for
several seconds, they had never come across anyone this strong before. Then
one decided that had had a chance and attacked, the rest quickly followed.
Over the years Amy had tried to be kind to people, gentle, and never killed
anyone. This had lasted about 50 years, she had come to realize that humans
were too stupid. She had become a bit jaded over the years, enough so that
she didn't pull her punches anymore. She had compassion, but that had to be
earned now a days and she had very short fuse.

 She had changed her tactics about years ago when her actions had been
ridiculed by the very people she had tried so hard to protect. Her so called
friends had thought her a coward when she tried to bring peace to the world,
by being merciful and caring. She had retreated from the world for a year to
examine herself and her motives, her return had been a shock to the people
that thought they knew her best, for she had become a cold and dangerous
woman.

 Amy's hand flashed out, latching onto a guards exposed neck. "I gave you
the only warning I every give." she growled. With a grunt she lifts him off
his feet and hurls him across the room to crash into the wall, it leaves a
small series of cracks in the stone. He slides down, collapsing in a heap
with sparks arching off his armor. Amy's aura flares again and the rest are
hurled from her to crashing into the walls and furniture.

 Amy decided to help these fools, but she would do it her way. These fools
were just to dangerous to let roam around on their own. The bastards had
caused the mess, but they would just cause more problems if they tried to
help. They would probably try to keep as much of their power as they could.
The guards groaned as some of them climbed to their feet, guns pulled. Of
the 15 men, only 3 rose, "Your dead." growled one, blood dripping from his
chin.

 Amy's eyes narrowed, her shield dropped, "Your no match for me, you will be
killed if you continue this."

 "Unlikely, I'm capable of the same attacks, I know your limits." The guard
smiled, but his face goes pale as he starts to scream in the most mind
numbing way. He bursts into a fire that quickly engulfed him from had to
toe. Amy watches in mild annoyance as his charred body falls over, Amy hadn'
t even lifted a finger.

 "My level for stupidity has its limits, you idiots call me Magus and act
surprised when I kill you in seconds? Please, I'm not even fully charged
yet." Amy glares at the last two remaining men. The clatter of weapons being
dropped soon follows and Amy watches the fleeing guards disappear out of the
hall.

 'Aho, how's it going?' Amy thinks to her friend.

 'Amy, there seem to be no defenses at all. Though we can find no signs that
the King has done what he said, everything should be very easy to
disconnect.'

 'That doesn't make sense...Please do a full scan of the thing for me, it
may be more than I thought, I don't want to be unprepared' Amy thought back.

 "Magus Lee?"

 Amy turned, the Captain Loval stood amid the rest of the unconscious
guards. "I will be more than happy to help you deal with this machine, but
lets follow the Kings plan." Amy could feel the Power building within him, a
very powerful level augmented by his artificial access. This guy was one of
the few who could use the Power on their own.

 "No, I'll do this myself." Amy turned to leave.

 "I can't let you do that."

 "Why? If I shut it down, all your problems will be solved. Don't be a
 fool."

 Captain Loval frowned, "Certain things must be salvaged if we are to
survive."

 Amy's anger almost boiled over, but then she had a thought. Something wasn'
t right here, she was missing a piece to this puzzle, something vital. "You
don't want this machine shut down yet, do you? Why? What do you gain by
keeping it on?"

 "Please step back inside Magus, let us make our plans."

 Amy's mind swirled in confusion, then it hit her. Could this machine be
something else? "No, I wish to see this marvel of engineering. Even the
Ancients thought it nearly impossible, at the height of their power." Amy
mumbles to herself, but the Captain hears her anyway, his reaction surprises
Amy.

 Captain Loval's aura flares out as balls of explosive energy fly out of his
hands, straight at Amy, they hit and a thunderous explosions shake the area,
windows shatter in the blast wave, and the stone begins to melts along the
walls. Seconds later he lowers his hand gasping for air, dust and smoke are
filling the room quickly. As the air clears, the only thing left is a small
crater in the floor. He couldn't believe his luck at all, he'd won. He
almost cackles in triumph at his victory, but then he remembers what they
had brought the girl here for...oh no. Ignoring his men he turned and headed
back to the throne room to inform the king of his accident. He hadn't meant
to kill her, they had needed her too much, now he might be the one they
used...

-----
 His stomach still hurt, but at least that devil was gone, how could they
have thought that creature would be of help? It didn't make sense,
especially when if you knew what would really happen when the machine shut
down. Jackal adjusted his red robe, stretched his back and groaned in pain.
That creature had broken his baby, the elevator. Killed one of his crew, 12
years of special training gone in a millisecond, nothing but dead meat and
charred bone now.

 Suddenly a burst of wind from behind him blows his robe around his body, he
spins around but can find no immediate cause. What was going on? This was
the middle of a solid stone castle, in and enclosed room. "What was that?"
He yells, thinking one of his crew is playing a joke, but he slams into a
red pillar instead, knocking him to the floor. "Now see here." Then the sees
her standing above him like some kind of devil.

 "Shut up!" Amy orders, her eyes emitting red energy in a display of pure
evil that almost makes him faint on the spot.

 Jackal gasps, jumping to his feet, almost frothing at the mouth. "The witch
is here?" He didn't just say that out loud, did he?

 Amy's fist slams into Jackal's jaw, shattering it and sending several of
his teeth flying. His head whips around as he falls to the floor and bounces
around. Blood begins to pool around, his feet wobbling back and forth.

 "Alright you morons, that is your only warning! Where is the entrance to
the lower levels? Down to the ship." Amy calls out to the cowering techs
around the room. Her red aura flares out, a nearby glass container explodes
in a shower of shards. Techs fall to their knees begging for their lives, a
couple faint, several others point shaky fingers at a door across the room
under a staircase.

 She blows the door into a hail of splinters revealing a spiral staircase
leading down into darkness. She looks over the edge and jumps, falling down
the center. Her scan said the bottom was only 200ft down, she uses her aura
to slow herself down and lands near the bottom, her aura lighting the area
and revealing a pile of crushed human bones.

 She dismisses this and looks around, to her right stands a small
passageway. She stomps on down the passage and finds, to her amazement, the
hatch to the space ship. That was too simple, she thinks as she looks over
the metal and stone of the passage, the area looked as if it was fussed
together. She could find no obvious way to get to the door or open it. In
the background just on the edge of her hearing she could hear machinery
humming quietly.

 'One of you wouldn't happen to know how to open this hatch would you?'

 'No, but you need to know that this ship isn't what they told you.

'It's anti-matter core is totally depleted, there is barely enough power to
keep the lights on.' Said Midory.

 "Interesting." Amy said. Behind her, she could hear footsteps coming, a
squad of soldiers wearing the black armor uniforms, with their artificial
Power generators, they quickly filled the passage. Amy almost dismissed them
as useless, they hadn't been able to do anything to her so far. Blocking the
passage completely, they began to set up gadgets on the floor in front of
them.

 "Magus Lee, I say, I didn't expect you here. The Captain was boasting about
killing you until you set off the alarms down here, but it is no matter,
this is right where I want you." Said the King as he made his way through
his troops, he held a small remote in his hand, and held it up and pressed a
button as soon as she could make him out clearly.

 Behind her the sealed door opened to reveal a worn out, nearly dead
humanoid thing. Amy's knowledge of off world technology allowed her to
recognize that the room was actually a kind of modified stasis chamber with
some retinkering of the equipment. The man had wires sticking out of him,
his skin looked wrinkled and dried out, the eyes were shrunken and bug eyed,
and worst of all was the fact that the thing was actually gasping for air.

 "Magus, please remove that animal and sit in the chair, he has had about a
year in there and is just about used up. Now its your turn to supply our
power supply for awhile." The King said as he had the front row of soldiers'
level their odd looking weapons at her.

 "I'll do no such thing." Amy's aura starts up and begins to pulse and hum,
she crouches as her body begins to power up.

 The weapons started to spark and glow as they too began to build up power,
"It would be better if you just complied. That man behind you was also a
super type, he fell to these weapons as well. I highly doubt that you will
be able to resist them either, no one ever has." The king gestured and 10
beams of energy flash out to slam into Amy's shield.

 Amy gasped in surprise as she is suddenly pushed back several inches, the
power of those beams were nearly as powerful as she was, incredible! It took
everything she currently had just hold them back. What the hell were these
guns, she had never encountered anything like them before! She shifts and
hurls a ball of energy at the king, but instead of hitting him, it strikes
his own shield and dissipates around them. Suddenly the beams increase in
power and punch through her shield to slam into her. Amy gasps as her
shoulder and chest explodes in pain, she kneels down in shock as her blood
begins to swiftly flow out of her wounds. "What the hell!"

 "Get in the chair now! If I have to I will blow your arms and legs off a
piece at as time, you don't need them to play the part of our battery." He
gestures and the soldiers took aim again.

 Growling, Amy stands holding one bloodstained shoulder. Force wouldn't work
in this odd situation, as a Guardian she had more to call on than sheer
power. She'd been in training for years before being accepted to wear her
title. She could feel the skin healing as Aho went to work in the wound, the
bones rekniting, her healing ability working perfectly. Controlling her
anger, Amy enters her battle trance, this fight was going to require her to
use a different set of tactics. The guns were again glowing and ready to
fire. Amy's mind locked onto the weapons, she was beginning to understand
what they were, they were so simple and sneaky. No wonder she had been hurt,
she grinned evilly.

 "Look at that!" the King yelled, "She's healing before our eyes, shoot her
again!"

 Amy released her aura, powering down as 10 shots fired at her, but they
struck her without harm. "So do you have any more of your special weapons? I
'm also trained to handle any kind of situation I stumble upon. Those
weapons are brilliant, using my own aura to charge them, using my own
strength against me."

 The King back stepped as he turned pale, Amy's arms rose up. Sparks began
to flare from hand to hand as she chanted from her gut, the sparks started
to cascade from her hands as she taped into a kind of magic called Mystic
Magic. Soon wind rose up from nowhere, gusting at the Kings men. Her hands
came down, pointing at the cowering soldiers as they tried to fire powerless
weapons.

 Amy screamed out the final syllables as she twisted the gossamer like power
and formed it into a ball of fire. Her hands ignite as she hurls a fireball
down the small hall, she watches in quiet hatred as the king and his men are
blasted out of existence. Amy relaxes and turns to the poor man that had
been that machine for so long, she scanned him and found him to be on the
verge of death, if she disconnected him from the machine he would die. She
points her finger at him and fires a thin beam of energy that quickly lances
his heart. He collapses with a gasp of pain, Amy bows her head in respect of
a fallen warrior. The poor bugger hadn't deserved this.

 Now all she had to do was destroy this power absorbing ship, oh yes, easily
done. Her shoulder finishes healing while she relaxes for a second,
releasing her mental control. Suddenly she felt the build up of power all
around her, quickly growing. "Oh shit!" Amy's aura explodes around her as
she launches down the tunnel, using her aura to fly up the stairs in less
than a second. The stone is cracked and melted in the spot where she had
launched from, but the dust and debris quickly dissipate though.

 Once she is headed strait up she focuses her aura and releases a blast of
energy, firing straight up and not bothering with the door. The stone melts
and the blast shoves through the stone, shooting a hole clear through the
castle walls and sending the blast into the sky with Amy close behind. In
the sky Amy slows to a stop and hovers above the area looking around. Her
worst fears were being implemented, the dam thing was going to explode now
that that man had been removed as its control. She could still feel the
power building up around her.

 Below her, a man launches out of a window and flies up to her, Amy notices
that it is Captain Loval. The Captain came level, his aura pushing to its
limit. "Magus Lee, what have you done? When that thing goes everyone in the
city will die."

 "I'm sorry but I'm nobody's slave. You people built this thing, you get to
die with it. Be a man." Amy shrugged.

 "I-I'm Captain Loval, the last surviving member of the original colonists,
you've killed us all." Loval's Aura explodes out as he screams.

 Amy gapes in surprise as she feels his power level double, then triples as
it skyrockets. She hovered several feet away, this wasn't good. The man was
insane, just below them under the mountain a ship was going to explode,
everything miles would be wiped out by the blast wave and this maniac wanted
to challenge her out of some strange sense of pride. She smiled as the first
stirrings of real excitement began to surge, her body pumping adrenaline by
the gallon. It had been a long time since she felt this way, this could be
interesting afterall.

 Loval gave a heave, his aura burning bright, to Amy, his power was now
enormous in strength. Well beyond her current level, the fact that he was
still alive said a lot. The idiot should have been dead by now from holding
so much power, but his artificial Power tap must have worked like her
Bracers and allowed him to control his massive strength. He focused on Amy
and screamed at the top of his lungs, his eyes were completely insane.

 'Midory, I think I am going to need a little help here. I do need to save
this planet and I can't do it if I am dead. These people haven't really made
me want to save them, but that isn't a reason to let so many people die.'

 'Agreed, I will lend you my power girl, use it wisely, this one is more
than he seams.'

 Amy stretched as her green bracer flashed into life, it quickly took over
her aura to give it a bright green glow. A wave of energy shot from her and
slammed into a wall near the castle to below and turned the thing into a
giant pile of rubble. In an instant, moving so fast that human eyes couldn't
track them they tore into each other like rabid dogs. Punching each other at
a hundred blows per second. Then a shock wave that blows the upper level of
the castle away a green streak hurls out of nowhere, punching through the
castle walls like they were paper and slamming into the ground on the far
side of the castle.

 Seconds later, this is followed by a giant energy beam hit the crater where
Amy had fallen and explodes, leveling another section of the castle. From
the air above one can see the city turning into a giant anthill. It's
inhabitants scurrying for cover as colossal shock waves of the battle and
explosions tear up the landscape, destroying lives in milliseconds.

 Amy crawls out of the crater grinning, her clothing was shredded and
chared, her green aura flared up and with a heave she launches skyward
trying to formulate a plan of action. Were those artificial taps this
strong? It seemed impossible, and yet there floating above her was the
proof. How? Could it be like those guns? No, this was something different
and if she didn't figure out what it was she was in for a major beating
before she could defeat this guy.

 They impacted each other, sending thunder rolling across the sky as they
countered each other's attacks, the explosions coloring the skies in green
and white flashes. Try as she might, Amy couldn't find any kind of clue that
said Loval was using her aura against her, only his own. Suddenly a double
impact exploded around her, throwing Amy downward. She cries out in
surprise, but turned to pain as Loval appeared below her, caught her arm,
and used her momentum to body slam her into a castle wall.

 He seemed to just get faster and stronger by the second, where could the
Power be coming from? That machine was supposed to be nearly depleted now,
wasn't it? Amy uses her aura to throw the stone block off of her, again she
launches into the sky. Should she tap into her special abilities, was this
guy actually worth it? It could be very dangerous for her and this town if
she did.

 Steam was beginning to filter through the ruin of the castle, and Amy could
feel the energy pulsing in the air. She sensed the countdown going as she
hovered, the blasted ship was about to explode. Loval flew up beside her and
leered in the male way, over confident and very dangerous. "Magus, where is
all your power now, I've got more to give and you seem to be losing, why is
this? Could your reputation be that wrong or just blown out of proportion?"

 Amy cursed silently, a bead of sweat rolling down her face, she took off
her coat and tossed it away. She wore the armored jacket for its weight to
give her a training edge and a handicap to work against. Without it she was
faster than ever, but unprotected if something odd happened, like how those
weapons from earlier. Her black sleeveless T-shirt stuck to her like a
second skin.

 Loval started to laugh and point, "Maybe you should go by Mr. Magus, you've
got no tits to speak of!" He cackled.

 Amy growled and moved, blurring out of existence and slammed a Power
charged fist to Loval's face. He screamed as he hurled in to the ground at
near mach 2 to throw dust and rock 40ft into the air. Amy took a deep breath
and began to power up a mega-blast. The Power flowed into her hand as she
formed a ball of energy above her palm.

 Loval launched a blast of energy from the ground, sending a line of death
at Amy. He cackled, totally gone, lost to the Power as it raged through him,
consuming him.

 Amy leveled her blast at Loval and hurled the ball so that she would
intercept his beam. If either hit, they would fry each other like an
electric fence. The backlash of explosive force lanced out as they met and
ripped the area to shreds. The beams seemed to be holding against each
other. Amy cursed, the bastard was actually holding his own and laughing at
her. Amy's aura increases outward to nearly 20ft and becomes edged in blue.
It was time to use her special move called 'Megasphere Blast.' She sends an
influx of energy down and screams as a blast of power flows from her hands
burning through her nerves like liquid ecstasy. The skin on her hands
quickly blisters and bursts into fire as the beam flares out, she screams in
pain.

 Unbelievably Loval's beam gets stronger and actually holds Amy's beam at
bay for several seconds before he is overpowered and the beam slams into
him, hurling him to the ground and begins to push him downward. He grabs
some of Amy's beam and manages to stop it from hurting him more, he growls
as his aura flares out and begins to push back the beam even as blood begins
to flow from his nose.

  Amy gapes in surprise, she can't believe it, she only had a few moves left
and every one of them would blow up the city. 'Aho, read Loval's power, how
can the Megasphere Blast not work, or even be blocked like this? I've never
met anyone who could counter this before.'

 'Amy, the solution to this fight is obvious, just look at it.'

 Amy looked the situation over as suggested, but could find nothing obvious
about it, only that her opponent seemed to super strong, stronger than her.
She cursed silently under her breath, she would not let a man beat her like
this, she decided to try a different tactic. She flexed her shoulders, if he
was getting his power from the ship maybe it wasn't as dead as she had
predicted. She takes a deep breathe and alters the blast trajectory off of
Loval and just to the side. The ground explodes as the beam slams into the
ground and blasts through stone. Loval cries out in surprise, instantly
figuring out what she planed, he tries to prevent this, but he isn't fast
enough.

 Loval powered up and hurled a large beam into the sky, it slammed into Amy'
s aura and fragmented. Smaller balls of energy rained around the area.
Blasts went off wherever they hit and killed dozens of people around the
city. It gave it that carpet-bombed look.

 Amy broke through the last of the stone around the ship and struck the
buried ship. Loval screams in agony as he loses control of his power, his
aura flares out in a dome of fire. Amy ties off the power beam and lets it
go as it blasts clear through the ship and leaves a 20ft hole in its wake.

 Knowing that she had just doomed most of the city, Amy launches away so
fast she leaves a wake of flying dust and debris, seconds later as she
passes over the city there comes a loud explosion as she passes the sound
barrier followed by an underground thump. She angles up and increases speed
as a mushroom cloud rises behind her. A wall of destruction envelopes the
entire city and destroys every thing in its path. Loval is vaporized
instantly, the explosion sends shock waves out for miles around, followed by
a louder explosion as lava erupts thousands of feet high as the 'real' earth
quakes begin. With amazing speed the ground turns almost liquid and with
super slowness a mountain rises high with more lava bubbling out. Amy sees
none of this, for she is caught by the blast wave. It throws her miles,
until she slams into a hill and is shot clear through it like a bullet. She
strikes the ground on the other side and sends up a ton of dirt.

 She comes to some time later and slowly digs her way out of the pile very
slowly, every inch of her body hurt. She had used too much of her power
again, her nerves felt as if they were on fire. She staggers to her feet and
weaves around until she finds her balance, her clothing is in tatters and
she has taken another wound, blood runs out of a deep gash on her left leg.
She looks into the sky, watching the tower of lava cascade. Ground rumbling,
Amy can feel the life force surging back into the planet and revitalizing
it. She hadn't expected that, the energy should have just dissipated, but
she could live with it since it meant that this planet would have its life
back.

 She found that her back ached, so she groaned in pain. Tapping her high
level abilities was very dangerous, they ripped up her body. It would be
weeks before she would feel healthy again, her high level abilities also
messed up her healing ability when she taxed her body.  Amy yawned as she
staggered away, her flight power wouldn't return for days. She idly wondered
what Viki was doing right now, she should have woken up by now...


The End of Power Play Chapter One


Ending note: This story deserves one of these I think. Amy Lee is one of my
more loved characters, that is why I put her in alot of my stories in one
form or another. I had a lot of fun writing this story, but as I went along,
I found, much to my amazement that I wasn't able to put my full attention
into the story. This make for less structure and plot holes. It also meant
that I found it harder to take time to write this, I don't know why. In the
end of this story, I was planning to have a major battle between Loval and
Amy, but a complete lack of energy made me edit it down to a quick fight and
a disappointing ending. Sigh

Chapter 2, when ever I get it out, will deal with deal with the Amy on a
more advanced world a couple months after this one takes place, I already
have most of it planned out and this adventure will span the next 3 or 4
chapters. If I can find the energy to dig up a good story to finish it off.
I don't know why, but with this story, feedback means a lot to me and when I
don't get it, I slack off because I figure no one is interested in it. I
know this is only partialy true, but that is the way it is.

Also, now that this is finished, I can finally get back to finishing off the
last 5 or 6 chapters of Akiko Shoo. After that I don't know what I am going
to do...I Might resurect my 'Ultimate Staff' Story. Think La Blue Girl and
Sailor Moon mixed together with god like entities and stir...

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