Novice's Guide to Villains and Villainy - Friday, Period 3, Danger Shop

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Thursday greeted the students inside the Danger Shop. Her arm was still in a sling.

"Good work last week. While Lord Vizzle lives on, you all performed admirably. This is our final class, and I would imagine the last class of the academic year for all of you. Thank you all for a memorable semester. I'm not teaching over Summer and I'm not certain at this stage if I'll be back in the Fall, so in case this is the last time I see any of you, best wishes for the future. I hope this class has been of some use to you. Let's get on to the final.

Your task is simple: walk through the door and you'll be faced with a villain from literary fiction or popular culture. Defeat them using whatever means necessary. You'll be graded on ingenuity and the effectiveness of your plan, so if you don't succeed in defeating them, it's still possible to obtain a good grade provided your approach is sound. Once you step through the door, there are no rules.

Good luck."

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Re: Face Your Villain

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And now Tori was experiencing deja vu. Thankfully this time, she wasn't stuck in a camera.

Wondering what exactly had happened, Tori decided to search the village, hoping to find answers and something to help her situation.

Re: Face Your Villain

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All Tori would have found were remnants of life, such as cooking boiling dry, that had been abandoned all of a sudden. Unfortunately for her, then the ground started to shake with each footstep that the tall balding man with an inferiority complex took.

"I know there has to be one more! I counted! Come out, come out wherever you are," he sing-songed in his gravelly old balding man voice.

Re: Face Your Villain

[water-wonder.livejournal.com]

Uh oh. That couldn't be good.

Tori was pretty sure she could hide from the man, but as for the cat? That was up for debate. She wondered if she could ninja streak past them without anyone noticing. It was worth a shot.

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"What was that?" the man snapped. The cat mrowred as if to say 'well I don't bloody know, do I?' "Find it! I know there's something here!"

Re: Face Your Villain

[water-wonder.livejournal.com]

It had worked. Score!

Tori had managed to take shelter behind a rock. She wasn't so sure she liked being so small. Especially with such a large nemesis around.

It was obvious that her powers worked well, even in her current predicament. If the cat was to come around, it might just get wet. Tori created a ball of water just in case. It was currently hovering over her hand.

Re: Face Your Villain

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The evil feline started sniffing around. Eventually, it reached Tori's rock and lowered itself closer to the ground, ready to pounce.

Re: Face Your Villain

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And Tori was ready for it. She had heard it, or rather felt it and it moved closer to her.

She moved out from behind the rock and sent a blast of water towards the cat, aiming for its face.

Re: Face Your Villain

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"MROWROWR!" the cat was startled by the water and unhappy by the resulting wetness. It scampered away into the woods, growling unhappily.

Bald guy was on his own. Unfortunately, Tori's actions had given her away and the guy was on his way with a butterfly net.

Re: Face Your Villain

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Tori felt bad about what happened, but she had to do it.

"Oh crap." She spotted the net and made a beeline for the trees, using her ninja speed to climb up one and finding a hiding spot.

Re: Face Your Villain

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"I can seeee you!" He really couldn't, but he took a swipe with the butterfly net anyway.

Re: Face Your Villain

[water-wonder.livejournal.com]

Tori raised an eyebrow, having a pretty good feeling that he had no idea where she was.

She looked around and decided to ninja streak to another tree, hoping to avoid the carelessly swung net.

Re: Face Your Villain

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Oh no! The net hit true and scooped up Tori. "HAHA! I have you now!"

He dumped Tori into a bag.

Re: Face Your Villain

[water-wonder.livejournal.com]

Well, frak.

Tori was now in a bag. She'd rather be back in the camera. Now how was she going to get out of this? Unless there was a small opening at the top of the bag...

Re: Face Your Villain

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What luck! There was. And the balding guy wasn't paying attention to her now. He was too busy rushing home to put her in a cage.

Re: Face Your Villain

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Tori grinned when she saw the opening.

She closed her eyes and focused her energy on one goal. "I summon blue ninja power of the rising waters." Just like with the camera, the flow of water that had formed under Tori's feet, propelled her towards the top of the bag and over it, to the ground below.

Re: Face Your Villain

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The moron in black totally hadn't noticed.

Re: Face Your Villain

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Tori was glad he hadn't noticed. She wondered how to stop him from attempting to catch others like her.

She wondered if he had managed to take the occupants of the village or if they had hidden themselves.

Re: Face Your Villain

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"Down here!" one of them whispered. Hey, there were the villagers! Little blue things. "Can you help us? He has to be stopped. He'll stop at nothing to capture us all!"

Re: Face Your Villain

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Tori nodded. "I can try my best." She smiled slightly. "I'm not going to let him capture you. What can I do?"

Re: Face Your Villain

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"Well," said one of them. "He can't swim?"

Re: Face Your Villain

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"He can't, can he?" Tori smiled, wondering if there was a way to create a big enough source of water around the village that he wouldn't want to come back anytime soon. "Well, I have this power to control water." She explained, showing them by creating a swirl of water and twirling it around in the air for a moment. "If there's any way to make a pool of water or something near your village, maybe he won't want to come back?" But that might be somewhat difficult due to their size.

Re: Face Your Villain

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"That could work!" the tiny blue things agreed.

Re: Face Your Villain

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"Okay." Tori smiled brightly. "Is there's a good location to place the water?"

Re: Face Your Villain

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"This side of the village! But don't flood the village. It's all we have! If it's across here, it's his only path. There's no other way in."

Re: Face Your Villain

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"I won't flood the village. But will it work if I flood the path? I don't want to hurt your home."