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Rise to power and a fall : a story of fiction

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Elmer
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Rise to power and a fall : a story of fiction

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The city of dreams was kind of like ours, except houses and occupants were a little different. You might remember my story from a few months ago about the parallel city. This story is about some of them. enjoy.

The Rainbow Connection house was full of artistic types of all sorts, this was a pacifistic house. They mostly minded their own business and what they liked to do most was entertain the city and see the dreamers smile. Sadly there were some dreamers who hated the very sight of them, their clothes, their manner, the way they spoke, their smiling faces. One bunch in particular was sick and tired of some of the actors who fancied themselves magicians.

This bunch spent all of their dreams telling everybody else how the magic was fake, it was all just illusion, it wasn't real, and they were just really ridiculously bitter about it for some reason, and of course we all know, that well, magicians ARE illusionists, yea? Anyways, one in particular, of the group, Steven, was always relentlessly at the magicians, mocking them, collapsing them, trying to make them look foolish and trying to bar all the rest of the city from enjoying any performances from the Rainbow Connection, no matter where they were or what they were doing and even though he collapsed them time after time, that was not good enough for Steven, he, along with his friends and advisors got busy in their workshop and created an area effect weapon that would painfully and horrendously destroy the Rainbow members completely and eject them in a swirling cloud of sprinkles from the city for all time.

After awhile, the artists and magicians got pretty tired of this, having to constantly hide, or dream all day and night in a sanctuary not to mention they were losing mass amounts of energy and strength, and they were getting pretty sad too.

SOOO they got to work.
As with all houses, there is a house art and the one the Rainbow Connection had was called "Serenity Now" , what it would do is, anytime one of them was hit by any sort of nasty they would be wrapped up tight in a peaceful meditative state where, even though they WERE being collapsed, well , they just really didn't even let it bug them, they were so lost in meditation and serenity.

Steven had a close knit group of friends, comrades and advisors, who jacked up his strength, his confidence and his ego, he thought his friends were the bomb, and they thought he was pretty groovy too. Rarely did you see one without the rest. Now, the house art of the Connection, unfortunately was able to be abjured, so many times this would happen after the first hit which would cause a lot of stress and anxiety for the magicians and the rest of the troupe.

One night up at the house there was a huge event, there were of course the magicians, musicians, comedians and even juggling stilted clowns!, it was quite a sight to see. The city was having loads of fun, drinking and making merry when in rushed Steven and crew, Steven, the bravest and strongest of them all took a step forward and hastily group abjured the house members - that's a thing there, in that city, group abjure. Anyways, As soon as Steven abjured, the entire troupe joined hands and shouted SERENITY COLOSUS!!!! and they were swiftly wrapped in a strong reflective shield (made of melded rubber clown shoes) just as Steven let loose with his new weapon of doom!!

The shot bounced off of the troupe and ricocheted back towards Steven, being a master of battle he dodged and the shot hit all of Stevens comrades, who had been standing behind him ,they never saw it coming as they screamed in agony and they all burst into a massive cloud of sprinkles and disappeared from the city. oops.

Steven turned, with wide eyes : "what have i done?"

Whisperer>>elms<<Naturalist
-Greed breeds destruction-
-You'll only ever see what I choose to show you-
-Manners are free-
-The Music of Nature fills the cracks in the mind that words will never reach-
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