Kiandra | TTWU ● ROUND 4 - Justice @KiandraChan | Uploaded December 2017 | Updated October 2024, 2 hours ago.
●ROUND 4: Justice●


The bright light fades progressively, revealing an horrifying view: the before prosperous, green land is now black and lifeless. Our contestants look at each other, gasping to recover their breath, but there are two that cannot be found anywhere: Aladdin and Kida. No matter how loud they scream their names, the only thing they obtain for an answer is a laugh, but they don't recognize the voice.
The hunched figure of an old woman emerges from the smoke: Mama Odie.
Mama Odie: Well, I shouldn't be surprised. You always had a gift for destroying all my stuff!
The contestants look again at each other, confused. The old lady carries an strange stick around, like a wand.
Mama Odie: Come on, don't make me come for you!
With a sharp movement of her wand, all the Tulios from inside the contestants emerge into one awkwardly, as one who has been suddenly waken up from a dream.
Tulio: M-master! -he stutters, looking blankly at the old woman.
Mama Odie: I sensed your essence as soon as you arrived, but these old legs couldn't get me to you fast enough, hehe. You have never been the cautious type, that's for sure, but to fall into Ruber's trick like that... He knew you would explode by hurting your sister. And you did make the whole island explode, quite literally... Glad I could stop the lava on time before it scorched your friends completely! -she adds in a scolding manner to Tulio.-
Tulio glances over the contestants, still awkward and nervous because of her master.
Sinbad: Ahem, we are...
Mama Odie: I know who you are. I know quite a lot about all of you, actually. I'm Tulio's master-- One of them, anyway. The best one, objectively. You can call me Master, as well, given the circunstances. -she glances over to Melody.- ... Or you can call me Mama Odie. You must be tired. Follow me. My house must be the only place in the whole island this good-for-nothing -she snaps at Tulio.- has burnt... Yet.


They arrive to a little cottage, and the contestants make their way in. The aura is heavy; they can all sense the intense magic that emerges from the seemingly old, fragile woman.
Tulio: I didn't know you would be here.
Mama Odie: Of course you didn't. But I knew you were coming. After all, you are dead now -she looks at the contestants- well, not quite, but kind of. And when all magic users die, our spirits all come to this very mountain. So you were inevitably drawn here. It was just a matter of time for you to arrive -she sighs- Ah, I had a very nice patch out there in my garden. Can you tell me know where I am supposed to buy my potatoes!?
Melody: Em... Master?
Mama Odie: Yes dear, I haven't forgotten about you. There's actually something I wanted to show you.
With another movement of her wand, she shows them a terrible vision: Frollo, Phoebus and Aladdin's whole family, his sister, father and mother, are all in the town plaza, in the very stage Tulio was going to be sentenced to death when they first saw him.
The Grand Duke is there, too, reading to the people the charges against them. He calls them traitors who helped the wanted magicians, and sentences them to die in three days.
The contestants are horrified, and agree that the execution has to be stopped. Mama Odie points out though that they shouldn't leave just yet. They need proper rest first, and most importantly, they need to prepare for the battle. Sinbad is the one who has the most experience with magic for now, but the use he has made of it has not ocurred in the best circunstances. Magic can be a powerful thing in the right hands.
Because of this, Mama Odie offers them a day of training, if they wish so. Mama Odie would ask them to focus on a particular element, and from then, she will teach them some tricks to control it as much as they can learn. However, keep in mind that for the contestants to use magic, they shall work together with Tulio, and some of the contestants may not trust him yet to offer him any control. It's their choice whether they train or not.
While Mama Odie is training with a contestant, the others have free time to do as they please. They can talk to one another, to Tulio, to explore what's left on the island, to prepare for the battle in other ways...

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