Mist of Shadows

Traveling Magic Shop Part 32

"Are you sure you don't want to just burn it to the ground?" Harry asked Myst thoughtfully, thinking about some of the things Taylor had said about the school.

"If we burn it to the ground the corruption will spread," Myst replied, unwilling to torch the school with the students inside, mostly because at least some of them didn't deserve to be set on fire. He was less sure about the staff but figured some of them might be decent people.

"Meaning the rats would jump ship and...

Traveling Magic Shop Part 31

"Mistakes were made," Myst read the last line in the adventure book, causing a golden skinned humanoid that appeared in the shop. He relaxed a touch when he noticed that 'Scion' was smiling, something that he wasn't prone to doing. "Welcome to the Magic Shop, what can I help you with?"

"That depends, are you planning on trapping us in a cursed book?" Hephaestus asked dryly.

"Wasn't planning on it, Hephaestus," Myst replied with a grin.

"How much did you learn from the...

Traveling Magic Shop Part 30

"Take advantage of your right to remain silent and stop talking," Officer Murphy complained as he glared at the asshole in the rearview mirror that he'd arrested for flipping over a desk and threatening to beat the principal of the local middle school stupid.

"It's not my fault that your face looks like someone beat you with the ugly stick until it broke," Harry replied with a smirk, having fun with his attempt to destroy the credibility of Aisha's mother's boyfriend.

"At l...

Traveling Magic Shop Part 29

"Where the fuck were you?!" Ralph demanded.

"Not here," Aisha replied sarcastically as she stalked toward her room, hoping the bastard would actually try something so that she'd have an excuse.

"Don't take that fucking tone with me girl!" Ralph snapped as he reached out and grabbed Aisha's arm.

"Let go," Aisha told him, feeling strangely calm about the entire situation.

"Your mother is working, which means we're going to have a conversation about respect and doi...

Traveling Magic Shop Part 28

"Shake it like you mean it," Aisha joked as she watched Myst strip in the phone booth.

"Pretty sure your brother would kill me," Myst replied as he took off his underwear, unwilling to dance around like an idiot for her amusement. "You're supposed to be shooting people in the game."

"If you shake it, I'll let you spank me," Aisha lied, having fun teasing him.

"Why did I let you back in the shop in the middle of the night?" Myst asked as he used his Upgrade ability to ...

Traveling Magic Shop Part 27

"Shit!" Hero cursed when he walked out of the game room and saw a naked white skinned girl with black stripes.

"Relax, it's not the Siberian," Myst told Hero as Alexandria flew out of the game room.

Alexandria glanced between the girl that had the Siberian's black and white stripes, the shopkeeper and William Manton. "Explain!"

"Copycat has the ability to copy powers and shut them down," Myst explained as she gestured toward Taylor, trying to imply that she was leavin...

Traveling Magic Shop Part 26

Myst smiled as Lisa walked out of the game room wearing a Rogue costume with her jacket over the sheer shirt. "Do you want me to boost the Levitation so you can actually fly?"

"What's the catch?" Lisa asked as she walked over to the counter.

Myst glanced over at where Taylor was discussing something with her mother and Amy at one of the tables then focused on Lisa. "You've got two teammates that could use a bottle of healing cider, if you buy a couple of bottles and agree t...

Traveling Magic Shop Part 25

Myst turned to look at the door when he heard the bell and frowned slightly when a man wearing a green cloak over a blueish green costume and a glasslike helmet walked into the shop. 'So much for not having to deal with Eidolon,' he mused as he looked at the man's powers with his Upgrade ability. 'Doesn't look like there's anything wrong with the power, he's just running on fumes.'

Eidolon glanced at the teenagers that were sitting at one of the tables playing some sort of card g...

Traveling Magic Shop Part 24

"Welcome to…" Myst trailed off as Rose walked into the shop dressed like a robber from an old cartoon, complete with a 'loot' bag with dollar signs on it. "Seriously?"

"I figured it was appropriate," Rose replied with amusement as she walked over and set the bag of loot on the counter, causing it to change back to a regular looking trash bag once she took her hand off of it.

"Where's the rest of the group?" Myst asked.

"Swimming with the fishes," Rose replied in a h...

Traveling Magic Shop Part 23

"What the hell?!" a woman in her late fifties with a pinched face sputtered as she walked into the laundromat and saw a teenage girl leaning over the basin without any pants on.

Rose pulled her attention away from the money she was washing in the wash bin and looked at the furious looking overweight woman wearing hideous pink and orange tiger striped stretch pants and a bright pink sweater that almost hurt to look at. "What's the matter?"

"What the hell is wrong with you?!"...

Traveling Magic Shop Part 22

"Huh, nice combination," Myst told Rose after checking the sheer blue shirt with a backwards S on it that Rose had put on the counter for him to check. "The costume's Flight ability got an upgrade but the brute rating and force field dropped down to a third of what they were."

"That's fair, it's barely a third of a costume," Amy pointed out, wishing she'd ended up with pants and a shirt rather than the sheer dress that she'd ended up with when she'd combined her costumes.

R...

Traveling Magic Shop Part 21

"Magic girls!" Riley squealed when she saw the flier for the magic shop that was sitting on the table of the café they'd stopped at to grab some food.

Jack pulled his attention away from the rude and rather overweight waitress that he was seriously considering killing for being rude and looked at Riley. "What?"

"The shop sells magic girl items that turn you into magic girls," Riley replied as she checked the address for the shop. 'Oh, Panacea and I could be magic girls tog...

Traveling Magic Shop Part 20

"Finally!" Vicky exclaimed cheerfully when she unwrapped one of the packs of cards and found a card with a half naked man with muscles standing behind an anvil with a hammer in his hands.

Amy looked up from her stack of cards. "You found a lightning bolt?"

"Nope, eye candy," Vicky replied as she showed her sister the card.

"That can't be safe," Amy muttered as she watched the shirtless smith pull a glowing blade out of the forge and hammer it a couple of times before ...

Traveling Magic Shop Part 19

Myst smiled when he walked back into the game room and saw Taylor and Amy wearing a copy of the rogue pants along with their sweatshirts and floating a couple of inches off the ground. "Any trouble with the costumes?"

"Not yet," Taylor replied as she let herself drop back to the floor, keeping most of her attention on Vicky as the blonde slipped out of her pants.

Myst closed the door and turned to look at the phone booth where Vicky was already taking off her panties. "Goin...

Traveling Magic Shop Part 18

Myst smiled when the attractive blonde woman in her thirties walked into the shop with a seven foot tall giant. "Welcome to the magic shop, how can I help you?"

"Magic shop?" Neil Pelham asked as he glanced around the strange shop, a bit surprised that he didn't see more new age stuff since he was calling it a magic shop.

"It was easier and shorter than calling it 'The Shop of Tinkertech Like Stuff That Doesn't Fall Apart," Myst replied with a shrug.

"What happened to...

Traveling Magic Shop Part 17

Vicky pulled her attention away from where her sister was checking the shopkeeper for genetic issues when the bell over the shop rang and a bland looking man in a brown delivery outfit walked into the shop backwards pulling a refrigerator sized box with a handcart. "Do you need help with that?"

"I'm good, Tom has the door," the man replied as he cleared the door and carefully set the box down.

"Least I can do," Tom replied as he walked in carrying a couple of cardboard boxe...

Traveling Magic Shop Part 16

"Did you bounce up and down a couple of times?" Rose asked as Taylor walked out of the bathroom.

"I'm going to need a new bra," Taylor replied, unwilling to admit that she'd jumped up and down a couple of times to test how much her upgraded breasts bounced.

"That sounds like a good reason to go shopping," Rose replied as Myst walked out of the back room holding a silver bracelet.

"There goes the rest of my money," Taylor muttered, not looking forward to emptying her a...

Traveling Magic Shop Part 15

"The rules clearly state that you can't move like that," Seven told one of the children that she was supervising that had tried to move directly down the stairs rather than moving to the proper side of the stairs like you were supposed to.

"I could easily jump the railing," one of the Klingon children complained.

"Your character is old and feeble," Seven told the girl.

"That's because Andrew grabbed the warrior," she complained, annoyed that she'd gotten stuck playing...

Traveling Magic Shop Part 14

Kali blinked when she reached out and poked Rose in the side and realized that she wasn't actually wearing clothes. "Hologram?"

"Illusion but yeah, basically," Rose replied as she put the cooking book back on the shelf.

"Why?" Kali asked.

"Why not? It keeps people from being offended that I'm not wearing clothes and I can drop the illusion to mess with people, it's fun," Rose replied with a smirk.

Kali snickered. "Prove it."

Rose grinned as she dropped the illusi...

Traveling Magic Shop Part 13

Myst pulled his attention away from the collection of children that were playing games at the tables and looked at the door when the bell rang. He smiled when he saw Tom and Seven of Nine walk into the shop. "What can I do for you?"

"Your shop is abducting people from alternate timelines," Seven stated without hesitation.

Myst glanced at Tom then focused on Seven, doing his best not to focus on her shiny outfit since it left very little to the imagination while still coveri...

Traveling Magic Shop Part 12

Myst paused when he walked out of the back room and he saw a child that looked about six looking around the shop, dressed in what might pass for black and blue pajamas elsewhere but looked like a Starfleet outfit. "Can I help you?"

Linnis turned to look at the man behind the counter. "Do you have any games?"

"Quite a few," Myst replied as he used his Upgrade ability to check the child, curious about the child as he didn't recognize them from the show. 'Female, half human, h...

Traveling Magic Shop Part 11

"Over twenty pages of smut, but we only get two pages about their trip to America to hunt super mutants and buy computers, that's bullshit," Rose complained when the story skipped Harry's adventure to America and finished with him going back to high school.

"Yep," Myst agreed as he read the last of the story in his head, causing Harry to reappear wearing the clothes that were far too large for his five year old frame and carrying a shoulder bag that was almost dragging on the gro...

Traveling Magic Shop Part 10

"Idiot," Rose grumbled under her breath when they rushed back into the main room and realized that her brother had entered the adventure book.

"He's four," Myst replied as they walked over to check the book.

"Doesn't change the fact that he should have waited," Rose argued.

Myst sighed in relief when he saw the title of Harry's adventure. "Godric's Hollow, it could have been worse. Do I need to read the story out loud?"

Rose rolled her eyes. "I'm not four."

Traveling Magic Shop Part 9

"Any luck?" Rose asked as she walked into the workshop where Myst was pouring a dark red liquid into a measuring cup half filled with cider.

"It's a work in progress," Myst replied as he finished adding the raspberry juice to the apple cider. He turned to look at the naked teenager as she walked over, doing his best to ignore the fact that she wasn't wearing clothes. "How's Harry doing?"

"Sleeping like a rock," Rose replied as she studied the red tinted cider. "Raspberry ap...

Traveling Magic Shop Part 8

Rose walked into the dressing room the band was using and stopped when she saw an overweight woman with a bowl cut in a faded pink suit that should have been burned twenty years ago standing in the middle of the dressing room. "Are you in the wrong place?"

"No, my name is Dolores Ragebottom, you've violated your contract which means your souls belong to the company," the woman snapped as the band walked into the dressing room.

"Sorry, I don't have a soul," the drummer repli...

Traveling Magic Shop Part 7

'What's with the cheering?' Myst wondered as he made his way back to the main room with the adventure book, curious if someone had won a difficult match or something. He froze when he reached the doorway and saw one of the local girls shoot a ball of multicolored light out of a black wand. He watched the glowing ball of light shoot across half the room before it exploded in a burst of harmless sparkles that fell to the ground like fireworks. "What's going on?"

"She learned it fro...

Traveling Magic Shop Part 6

"Found him," Beth teased as she walked around the corner and spotted Myst walking towards a wooden door with the words 'Alchemy Lab, Invitation Only!' written on a wooden plaque above the door.

"He got further than I thought he would," Amy admitted as they walked over to join him.

"Funny," Myst replied as he turned to look at the girls that were wearing knee length skirts, boots and long sleeve shirts and had their hair pulled back in ponytails. 'Still gorgeous,' he mused a...

Traveling Magic Shop Part 5

"Gargoyles," Myst mused as he looked at the seven story black stone apartment building that would feel right at home in Gotham. "I'm going to kill someone if I have to climb up seven flights of stairs."

"It should have a lift," Beth assured Myst as they headed for the doors to their dorm.

"Here's hoping," Myst muttered as he spent more mana to restore his stamina as he'd burned through most of his keeping up with the girls despite his longer legs.

"Are you always this...

Traveling Magic Shop Part 4

Myst leaned up against one of the buildings and took a minute to catch his breath, feeling like shit despite the fact that he'd only walked two blocks. "I should have hailed one of the carts," he grumbled as he spent his available mana to increase his stamina regeneration, hoping that it would help him get to the school in something approaching a reasonable time frame.

"Hey, mister, are you dying?" a girl asked.

Myst glanced at the busty, blue haired teenage girl that was ...

Traveling Magic Shop Part 3

"You shouldn't let the girl walk around without clothes," a fat and rather dumpy looking woman told Myst in a snide tone of voice that screamed self righteous bitch.

"It's a work in progress," Myst replied as he took the coins an old man with more than a couple of missing teeth handed him, doing his best not to get pulled into an argument.

"You should beat her until she gets the point," a bald man in his late thirties with a spare tire suggested.

Myst handed the old man the ...