Cleo's visit

Where have the last few months gone? They've flown by so quickly, and the search for Don has kept us busy. Cleo's left for the CHASE now, but I'll catch you up on her stay with us.

Cleo game through the door between VHS and TP not long after the fight at the Cinema, and explained what had happened at TP. She went to see how Dragon was doing with Omni, while we sealed the doorway. I filled it with a slab of rock and Diffy made a passive illusion of a wall, while Tingle did something to it to make it hard to spot as fake. Cleo said the telepaths hadn't explored the basement yet, so they didn't know about it. Playwrite cancels out some of their power, so they shouldn't find us.

We followed her downstairs to Dragon, and saw him and Precog hard at work. Dragon was glowing, and had a hand pressed to the cocoon holding Omni, causing it to glow too. Precog was surrounded by papers, his eyes shining white, drawings blooming into being all around him, he wasn't even holding out his hands to the paper, his imprinting was creating his visions from his head, and he kept screwing up the papers and throwing them aside, shouting 'Useless, Useless! Lottery numbers, sports results, fifteen different ways the world could end before the year is out, Diffy's christmas presents but no knowledge! What's the point of this ability if I can't find what I want!'
Diffy dived for the most recently discarded paper, but Pig blasted it. They stared at each other, and yelled 'Cheat!' at the same time.

Cleo knelt down by Precog, put her hand on his shoulder comfortingly, and said 'You look like you need some sleep.' He closed his eyes and collapsed, having been knocked out telepathically.
Cleo scrutinized the shining body of Omni, muttered something about 'that cavern' and stood up. 'I think that cave we found her in is the answer. After all, Sage was released while in there. I think we need to go back, maybe we can free the others too. Whatever these fates have been planning, they seem to be keeping everyone important in there once they die.'

'We are not breaking in there again! We were lucky to get out alive! If it wasn't for that 'Eye' boy and his group, we'd be dead! You need to stay here and find the person with immunity, like he said!'

'Tempest, I will do what I like. I came here because, of all the people we've encountered, I thought I could still trust you lot, I still thought of you as friends! But I'll go on my own! I should have known, you're just a bunch of teenagers! This just proves my theory: Trust nobody.'

She began to storm out, and Dragon chased after her, calling 'Miss Cleo! Miss Cleo! You are needed! Surely you can see some planning is required before entering such a place again!'

They both got back an hour later, when both she and I had calmed down, and we agreed to tackle it together. Dragon had just recruited Cleo as the final member of the new Zodiac (Rabbit-she has super speed) When my cousin Tildy, now Sheep of the Zodiac, stepped forward. 'You haven't had mediumship for long' she said to Cleo 'So you won't have reached my skill level yet, but it's part of my ability of being a Psychic. I thought I might be able to help with Omni and Don. both of them are halfway between Death and Life, Omni because, although she' dead, you have almost brought her back, and Don because when he took the formula, something else took over. Something the Fates created. I can't reach them as I do the normal dead, but my astral projection should help.'

Healthbar took her aside to talk urgently, then they returned, gathering everyone together. 'My Clairvoyance is needed to, get ready.' whispered Tildy, and closed her eyes. After a minute she frowned, and started muttering. 'How on earth did he get there so quickly? Ah, I'm managing to separate the real Don and the thing in him, no, Don, I KNOW your body's still alive, but you aren't quite anymore, so I need to leave it because, uh, oh, how to explain the situation to a half dead non powered friend of my cousin who's only met me once? Don it's me, Tildy, I need to take you to the others...........'

She quivered, and leant to one side, as if pulling on something we couldn't see, and then exclaimed 'That's right! The VHS base, you recognize it, at least the Fates haven't scrambled you too much, oh you poor guy, come on, nearly, nearly, now float next to me. NO, that's Doolittle. Hang on, as a ghost you should be able to see my power, can you see the girl a couple of years older than you that's glowing white?' (We stared at her, she wasn't glowing at all to most of us, but Cleo sighed deeply, and breathed 'Oooooh' and ~Tingle squinted, as if almost seeing something.) She suddenly called 'Healthbar, Now! On my right!' and Healthbar thrust her hands at the space indicated, causing a beam of sunlight to concentrate upon it. 'I'm trying, but there's nothing to heal! I think I'm doing something, like the sense of him is stronger? Cleo, is it his Aura?!'
'Yep, I'll give it a boost, so your power has something to latch on to.'

She too held out a hand, and together, very slowly, the three of them created a glowing presence in the middle of the room. Don faded into view, completely see through, and most devoid of colour. Like pale coloured glass, with just vague hints of what shades and hues should be there.

'I? What? You! At the cinema! The formula! Something fizzy happened! Me power wrong boom something playwrite rebound weakness doom shiny eyes fizz fates doom energy floaty evil lost found ghosty friend drag poof base spirit light shiny shiny see through AHH! Help?'

Everyone just stared........