(Hey, people, thanks for your patience, and sorry about the wait. Had to make it worth waiting for! Darlantan.)
Fire and Ice 3. The Gathering.
The doorbell was so commonplace that Kendra almost laughed. The cowbell gave a jangle as they pushed through the door. There was a young girl, barely out of school, taking orders by the counter. Kendra's eyes darted around at the other people in the diner, but if they were Centre plants, they were good ones. Nearly to a man and woman, they looked up and then after a cursory glance at her breasts or at Scott, they looked away. Except for a man in the back corner, who didn't even bother to look up, but instead concentrated on his mug.
Scott grunted as the young girl smiled charmingly at him. "Take a place anywhere, hon, and I'll be with you in a sec." The big cryogenic sniffed and lifted his chin towards the man at the back of the room. "We're here for him. To meet." The girl nodded and smiled, revealing a frightening lack of thought. "Well, when you're ready, you just come for me, okay?"
Kendra raised an eyebrow, and the waitress looked her up and down, a hungry light flashing through her eyes for a moment. Then she winked. Kendra shook her head, and stared at her, but the waitress didn't take notice. She just kept going on about her business. The pyrokinetic looked up at Scott and frowned slightly, but he squeezed her hand and moved towards the dark corner. The waitress looked back over her shoulder and flicked her tongue out at Kendra with a naughty little smirk. Kendra felt herself become suddenly moist, and followed Scott with a held breath.
The man in the corner sat, staring down at his mug, and didn't even look up until the two of them slid into the booth opposite him. When he did look up, there was something off about his face, an inhuman hunger. But his handsome features were the same as his brother's. But whereas Scott's eyes were a warm, confidant mix of blue and silver that shined when he laughed, his brother's eyes were black, and haunted. That's what was off about his face. He had absolutely no colour to his eyes.
The black and white orbs moved sideways and slid into hers with a sudden glare of power. The haunted look faded, and power blazed there, power and rage. Scott's fist hit the table and scared her, but his brother barely smiled. "Fire and Ice. Sounds like a nightclub. Talk about opposites attracting. How strange that it could work so well." His eyes moved back to his brother. "Mythril. You look well. For a man who kills so...easily."
Scott slowly withdrew his hand and slid it beneath the table. Kendra grasped it reassuringly, and Scott took a deep breath. "Marrack. Nice trick with the phone. Spooky." For the first time, a genuine smile lit the man's features, barring his eyes. No amusement flickered there, only that same haunting hunger. "Spooky is what I do, little brother. Actually, it was rather simple, scarily so. I cast a spell, and the spirit that connected us looked for your essence, not your phone number. When it found you, it was a small enough matter to make the phone ring."
Scott nodded, and his eyes dropped. "What are you doing here, brother?" Marrack stared at his brother. "I thought we'd talk for a while. Before moving on to the unpleasantness, I mean. Some refreshment?" He raised his hand, and the waitress with the naughty eyes and tongue sidled over. Kendra felt herself begin to heat up, and bit her lip. The waitress stood with one hip jutted out to the side, and smiled down at them. "Something I can get you...?" she breathed. Kendra sat back, and Marrack leant over towards her and gestured. The waitress leant down, her uniform tight against her body.
Scott shifted in his seat as Marrack twisted his hand towards her, and something moved along the table and slid into her. She shuddered and smiled. Marrack's eyes slid to the side to appraise his brother. "Well, ice-man?" Scott glanced at the waitress. "Hot chocolate, please." Kendra swallowed and smiled weakly. "Iced coffee." Marrack snorted. "Well," he sang, mockingly. "I guess that means I'll have to have some angel fruit cake." The waitress gave a breathy laugh, and Marrack shook his head slowly, his eyes locked on hers.
"On second thoughts, you can go and get their drinks, and then I'm going to let you swallow my cock. You're a cum hungry whore, who wants what I can give." Scott and Kendra stared at him, then up at the waitress. She smiled and licked her lips. "Yes, master..." Marrack turned back to the table and smiled, this time it reached his eyes, the hunger flaring. "You see, brother, when you killed me, you let me discover something truly magical. The magic of sin, brother, can grant tremendous powers in this world. This world is already steeped in sins, something that only spurs my powers."
"You seem to have come into your own power, brother. No more the Mythril, now you are what, the Popsicle?" Scott stared at his brother, his face stony. Kendra squeezed his hand under the table. "If you missed your brother, why does it matter? Why are you here?" Those dark eyes slid into hers and a smirk twisted his lips. "The dark meat denies her fear, I see." Kendra sneered at him and leant forwards. "I'm not afraid of you, but you seem to know an awful lot about us." Marrack shrugged. "More than you do about your beloved ice tray there." Kendra snorted. "I doubt that."
The conjurer raised a hand and a deep blue pulsed within his skin, and hit Kendra square in the forehead. Scoot stood up and hit his brother hard, but Kendra didn't see it. Her eyes whitened over, and she heard the hiss of machinery, and the hum of computers and the low murmer of human voices. Marrack shook his head and held his hands out to placate his brother, huge over him. The waitress stepped around the corner and stopped, her mouth open as Marrack slowly wiped the blood on his chin. "She sees the day you killed me, brother. No more than that. She only needs to know where I came from."
Scott didn't move to sit, but didn't stop his brother from standing up. The tray hit the table, and the drinks spilled as the waitress grabbed hold of Marrack's hand. "There's a bathroom this way, sir." Marrack nodded and moved out from the bench. He turned back to his brother, still standing, and glared. "Sit, brother, we're not done. Let your little spark's vision play out, and we can talk." He turned back to the waitress and nodded, and she led him away. Scott turned back to Kendra, who was shaking her head minutely and blinking.
There were fluorescent lights and bright, clean steel benches everywhere. No matter where she looked, men in white coats where moving, until she came to the figure strapped to the electrical gurney. Wires covered the man's huge physique, and giant vials of a silver liquid surrounded him. The man was obviously in pain, and another man, his hands shackled to a heating coil, was yelling. "Scott, jesus, what are they doing to you, fight it, Scott!!" The man on the gurney grunted as his arms flexed, the huge, thick cords of muscle straining against the unmoving clamps.
Marrack pulled his lip aside and inspected his teeth with his tongue. One was loose, and it was a miracle his face was not bruised to a pulp anyway. The waitress sat on the toilet, her hands feverishly trying to free his cock from his pants, and the sorcerer looked down as cold air hit his length. The woman was staring at his skin, at the arcane runes and demonic symbols burnt into the very flesh of his cock itself. She looked up at him and he slapped her, hard. Fury lit her features, and he grabbed her head. Power pulsed in his hands, and her mouth opened as lust took her. She pushed her mouth around his cock length and began to moved her head up and down it.
The clamps didn't move, but something else did. Needles slid into his skin, all around him, and another hum began. The silver liquid began to drain out of the canisters and into Scott's body, and the man trapped on the heating unit began screaming in a new intensity, to match his brother's. "No, Scott!! SCOTT!?!? FUCKING BASTARDS, LET MY BROTHER GO!!" He strained on the metal of the cuffs and screamed. "Gan-Mach tal NON-Yeh!" There was an explosion of sulphur, and the shackles burst into bone dust. He raced to his brother's side as the alarm began to sound.