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Fight Fire with Fire ~ Chapter 40

(Astrid's P.O.V.)

So far, I remember Kathrine barging in here to tell me we were gonna best the crap out of the Apostles et cetera et cetera then I scurried off to sleep and calm my pained head once again, but then at some point in my supposed slumber some irritating noise just couldn't be ignored...

"Did you idiot just deal with it already!"
"You die too you even moronic-Er idiot!"
"Moronic-er isn't a word moron!"

Awoken due to the incredibly disturbing sound of "die," and "idiot" repeatedly echoing in my already aching ears, I glared at the imbeciles before me. "Hey...everyone..." I cooed ever so sweetly. "DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE DIE." My face morphed into a scowl.

"First of all," I began the lecture I too despised yet gave.
"Why the hell are you all in this room?" I asked with a pissed-off tone.
"Astrid...uhh," Kathrine started nervously. "'Cause we kinda had to relocate due to the screaming in some other room..."
"That is the most idiotic excuse I have ever heard...aside from that extremely idiotic excuse of a man Percy gave us before..." I concluded.
"And why did you decide to wake me up in the process? Yeah, I know you're so gonna say that," Percy said. "We didn't decide that...it just happened."
My face burned up.
"I would've phrased my question better than that. Something like 'and why are you here waking me up' or something," I retorted.
I was flustered once more.
"Hmmm....good grief....what do we have here...why are you so...red...Astrid?" Magnus suspiciously asked.
"I'm just sick, Magnus." Stupid answer...
"Totally, yes, so true. Back to our topic." Percy ended that nonsense. Thank you very much Percy!

"The Apostles," Clint began.
"Twelve people of this game who each possess the ability to wield one of the forbidden spells. Aside from that, they each contain a piece of the essence of the game." I finished for him.
"Quit flexing, Astrid. How'd you know?" Tiberius asked pissed-off-ily.
"I heard you, you noisy goddamned idiots!"

"Yeah, yeah, we get it." Magnus butt in.
"Back to topic...again please..." Kathrine begged us for our compliance.
"Ah!" I announced stupidly. "Best way to get our stupid ideas out is to—"
"Complete each other's sentences." Percy demonstrated.
"Like so," Kathrine gestured towards us.
"But," Clint added. "Just one word per person."
"Sure," Tiberius nodded then looked at Magnus.
"Sure?"

~

Order: Magnus - Clint - Tiberius - Me - Kathrine - Percy

"In"
"Order"
'To"
"Defeat"
"Apostles"

"No! Idiot! You forgot the 'to'!"
"To?"
"Shoot whoops"
"You Forgot the 'the'!"
"Restart!"

"In"
"Order"
'To"
"Defeat"
"The"
"Apostles"
"Comma"

"Please don't recite the goddamned punctuation dammit...RESTARTTTTT!!"

And that's take two. I give up, so let's fast forward to the actual sentences we formed...that somehow somewhat made sense after all that nonsense...

"To - defeat - the - twelve - Apostles - we - must - counter - the - forbade - forbade? - forbidden - yes - forbidden - spells - and - get - rid - of - that - essence - thing - this - is - so - specific"
"But - how - question - mark - what - didn't - we - say - don't - do - that"
"We - should - use - spells - that - they - use - if - I - Wait - we - make - any - sense"
"Nani - what - do - you - mean - use - their - spells"
"Forbidden - spells"
"No - yes - yes - no - yes - no"
"Yes"
"No"
"Fine - explain"
"We - should - go - against - them - with - the - forbidden - spells"
"Fight - fire - with - fire"
"Ooh - smart"
"I know right! That's my girl!"