#the legend of the red string

[mrsfrecklesmarauders]

The Red String

Sirius could lie in that sand forever. Cornwall seemed like a magical place. Like a temporary bubble that separated Sirius from all his problems.

It was so nice to be vacationing with his friends. James and Lily had the most brilliant idea to bring everyone here. Sirius was having fun.

The only thing conflicting him was the boy next to him.

It seemed impossible that Remus could make him feel like this again. Sirius felt like a freaking teenager with a crush. He got nervous when Remus was around. His heart started beating fast.

God, he couldn't stop staring. Remus had gotten so hot with the years. He wasn't a skinny teen anymore. He was a very handsome man.

When they talked, everything was so easy. Sirius liked how they teased each other again with some sort of flirtatious tone.

It was like before they started dating. When they were best friends figuring out their feelings. The best stage for their relationship. But in this beautiful paradise.

Sirius was lying on his stomach. He had his eyes closed but he felt how warm sand was falling down his back. He smiled.

"What are you doing?"

Remus had been reading a few seconds ago. And now he was pouring sand on Sirius' back? What was this?

"I got bored"

"Oh okay, Lupin" Sirius giggled "I am glad to be entertainment for you"

Sirius didn't see it but he knew Remus was smiling.

"How about your book? Isn't it interesting?"

Sirius’s body temperature was rising and it wasn't because of the sun. The hot sand touching his skin was making him horny. But it was more likely to be because Remus was so close.

"I read it many times" Remus answered casually "Plus, I wanted to bother you because I thought you had fallen asleep"

Sirius felt disappointed when Remus stopped. He didn't even shook the sand away. Sirius was hoping to feel his hand against his skin.

Sirius sat. He needed to shake these feelings away.

Remus was smiling at him playfully. He looked so good with those shades.

"Now you left me covered in sand" Sirius pulled his hair up in a bun. He liked having it this long.

Remus laughed.

"The sea is right there" he said as he to returned to his book.

Sirius couldn't get his hopes up. It had been Sirius who had broken up with Remus many years ago. They had hurt each other with words and insults. It didn't end up very well. Then Sirius pushed Remus away. It hurt but Sirius thought they were better apart. That they needed to figure things out on their own.

Maybe Sirius had been right, or maybe he had made the worst mistake of his life. He had missed Remus. This Remus. Playful Remus. Sarcastic Remus. His best friend. The one he had fallen for.

But five years had gone by and Remus was with Grant now. At least that's what Lily told him.

And now the fact that Remus' life didn't revolve around Sirius, somehow made him more attractive.

They had agreeded to not let the past ruin this trip. They were only friends once. They could do it again.

"Where's everyone?"

Perhaps Sirius had fallen asleep because the rest of their friends were gone.

Remus' eyes were still on his book. But he smiled as if he had planned this.

"James and Lily went for a walk..." he said

"Which means more snogging"

"It's kind of their honeymoon after all" Remus smirked "Mary and Peter went to find something to eat... and Marlene was going to call Dorcas"

Sirius nodded. Now realizing he was alone with Remus made him kind of nervous. Sirius had had many lovers since Remus. But only Remus could make him feel this way.

"Are Mary and Peter bringing food for us? Because I am hungry"

"Me too!"

"You're always hungry, Remus" Sirius smiled

Remus rolled his eyes with a smile "I wanted to go with them but they didn't let me"

Sirius blushed. Of course their friends were trying to get them alone. Mary had always been the group's cupid.

"You are stuck with me, then"

"I am stuck with you" Remus took out his shades and put them on his head. God...

They stared into each other's eyes for a wild moment in which Sirius' heart wanted to get out of his chest and he forgot how to breath. Remus' brown eyes looked caramel under the sun.

"Amm... Do you...."

Sirius was going to suggest having a swim. Mainly because there were certain parts of his body that were reacting. He needed to cool down.

But a voice interrupted them.

"May the lovers be interested in something?"

Sirius and Remus turned to look at a woman. She was about 50. She had long curly red hair floating in the wind. Like Lily's but tangled and not quite clean as hers. She was wearing a long blue dress with long sleeves and many colorful necklaces, bracelets and rings. Her eyes were bright blue. So light that they were almost white.

She was kind of beautiful, not in a hot way, in a intoxicating way. Somehow Sirius couldn't look away.

They both stood up to meet her.

She carried a bag and a basket with lots of interesting objects: books, stones, necklaces, amulets, and those crystals balls that people use to see the future.

"Amm..." Sirius was too shocked to speak.

"I have love amulets to make the relationship longer..." she smiled pointing to them "Or perhaps instructions and rituals to make your sex life better"

Sirius raised an eyebrow.

"Oh! We are not a couple" Remus smiled politely

Sirius reacted.

"Oh yeah right!" he added rather embarrassed "Just friends..."

Just friends.... Sirius had to accept that.

"Don't worry!" the lady said, as she put her books back "I've worked with gay couples as well..." but then she stopped talking when she saw Sirius and Remus. She stared like she had found something interesting. Sirius felt naked.

The woman smiled.

"I see what's happening here" she pointed between the two.

Sirius couldn't avoid blushing. Remus seemed embarrassed and confused as well.

"Aha!" the lady clapped their hands making them jump "Soulmates...."

"Soulmates?" Sirius asked hopefully.

"Of course! I can see exactly what is going on...." she added looking into her basket "I rarely encounter this kind of thing....."

Sirius and Remus looked at each other agreeing in something. This lady was crazy.

"The legend..." she kept saying.

"What legend?" Remus asked.

"Ha!" the woman exclaimed showing them a red wool string.

Sirius and Remus frowned.

"Amm..." Remus spoke for the both of them "We don't want to buy anything..."

The woman laughed.

"The legend of the red string.... I can see the string tying you two up"

"What legend?" Sirius asked curiously.

Remus shook his head as if to say: 'This lady is bonkers. Don't listen to her'.

"You don't know the Japanese legend of the red string?"

Sirius and Remus shook their heads.

"The legend says..." the lady began explaining with a very mythical voice, like she was meant to tell these stories "that everyone's little finger is tied to a red string..." as she said this, she tied the string into Sirius' finger before he had time to protest.

"Eh..."

"The other end of the string is tied to the little finger of someone they are connected to..."

"No no no...."

Even if Remus protested, the woman tied the other end of the string to Remus' finger.

The woman contemplated her work and smirked.

"These two people" she said pointing between them "Are meant to cross pads, to have a story together..."

Sirius and Remus gave each other shy looks.

"The string may tangle, contract or stretch but it can never break" the lady announced.

The power of her words lingered in the air. Nor Sirius or Remus knew what to say.

"The legend has become true with you two" she smiled at both of them "You're connected. You are soulmates. Meant to fall in love"

Sirius blinked in surprise. The way the woman was saying it with such conviction kind of made Sirius want it to be true.

His cheeks went on fire as he gave Remus a side glance.

But Remus didn't seem to be pleased. He was red as a tomato too. But he seemed offended. He snorted.

"Right..." Remus said "We are not even together..." he pulled the string and Sirius' finger hurt.

"Ouch!"

"Can you take this off?" Remus asked the woman.

The lady just seemed amused.

"I bet you've been apart several times but always had found your way back to each other"

Sirius almost gapsed. It was true. They got separated when they were kids and found each other again six years later. They fell in love. Then after they broke up, they didn't speak for five years. And here they were, back together in this beach.

Was it fate?

Remus got even more red if possible.

"That's ridiculous!" he snapped "We said we don't want to buy anything, miss"

Of course Remus reacted this way. He had gotten over Sirius, right?

"The string will always pull you together" the lady hummed.

Remus pulled the string to his side. Sirius groaned in pain.

"Ouuu... Rem!"

"Sorry, Sirius. I'm taking this off"

But it seemed kind of impossible to untie the string. The more Remus tried, the more it tighten. And it hurt. Sirius felt like his finger was getting purple with no circulation.

"Oh Remus, it hurts! Take it off!"

"I'm trying! I am bloody trying!"

"Let me do it!"

"No! I am almost there..."

"You are tightening it more!"

"Jesus Christ! this isn't working!" Remus groaned in exasperation.

Sirius couldn't avoid but looking at him. His soulmate. Sirius would love that. Moony being his soulmate.

Remus stopped trying and turned to the lady.

"Excuse m...."

Remus' eyes widened. Sirius turned and to his surprise, the woman was gone.

There was no sign from her around the beach. She couldn't possibly run that fast. Not with that heavy basket. The beach was practically desserted. Only the sound of the waves and the wind could be heard.

It was as if the woman had never been there. Or as if she didn't exist.

Perhaps not even the string was there. Sirius turned to look. But the red string was still tied to their fingers.

"What the fuck?"

Sirius started to freak.

"Where did she go?"

Remus was the same.

"She disappeared, Remus"

Remus sighed. He was more preoccupied with untying the string off his finger.

"It doesn't come off..."

"SHE BLOODY DISAPPEARED, REMUS!"

Remus looked at him.

"Calm down!"

"How do you want me to calm down? She bloody disappeared! What the fuck was that?"

Remus pulled from the string again.

"Ouw..." Sirius hissed "What are you doing?"

"Trying to take this off..." Remus said "Let me see your side"

"Aren't you freaking out? That was really weird..."

Remus pulled from the string, pulling Sirius closer. For a second, Sirius felt as if time stopped. He looked into Remus' eyes and he felt some sort of magic pulling towards him. Sirius forgot how to breath.

"Don't worry" Remus said in a mild tone. Sirius wanted to melt "She was just a crazy woman trying to sell us something"

"If she wanted to sell us something, why did she disappear before we bought something?"

Remus pursed his lips. Sirius had a point.

"Was she a witch?"

Remus swallowed "My mum used to believe in witches... She used to tell me creepy stories about women like her..."

"Are fucking kidding me?"

Remus nodded "I didn't want to say it but I think that woman cursed us" he raised his hand, showing the string "This is a curse"

Sirius started panicking.

"We need to take this off!! Quickly!"

"I am afraid is too late, Sirius"

"What?" Sirius asked "What kind of curse is it? What is going to happen?"

Remus went pale.

"We might die...."

"What?"

Sirius frowned, this didn't make any sense. What about that soulmate bullshit then?

That's when Remus began laughing.

"Oh my God, your face, Sirius" Remus giggled.

Sirius pursed his lips.

"Fucking hell, Moony!! It was not funny!"

He started hitting Remus' shoulder while he laughed.

"You were like: 'Oh! We're going to die!"

Sirius hit him more as Remus kept laughing.

"Wanker!" But Sirius was smiling like a fool.

Sirius accidently pulled the string and Remus hissed in pain.

"I can't believe we cannot take this off"

Remus sighed.

"That woman was weird though"

"Where did she go?"

Remus shrugged "Maybe she ran off when she saw we weren't buying anything"

"That doesn't make any sense"

Remus shrugged again.

"We will need some scissors..."

Sirius stared at Remus with a smile. He could pretend they were destined to be while they were tied together. Only for a second.

"Do you believe in soulmates?" Sirius asked before he could stop himself.

Remus looked at him.

"Why? Do you think what she said about us is true?"

Sirius blushed. But he smiled.

"Do you?"

Remus blushed as well.

As they looked into each other's eyes again, there was some sort of magnetism pulling them closer. Sirius got lost in Remus' caramel eyes. He was hypnotized and all he wanted was to kiss him.

"Eh... Moony?"

"Yeah?"

How could you be so stupid? A voice said inside his brain. Why did you let him go? Remus might be the love of your life.

While he thought this, Sirius felt goosebumps all over his body. A rush of adrenaline as if someone had electrocuted him.

Just a few inches away. Sirius had to kiss him. He had to or he would die.

He closed his eyes at the same time as Remus. Bloody meant to be.

His Moony...

"What's up, losers?!" a voice said "Do I interrupt something?"

For a second Sirius thought it was the witch who was back. So he jumped and pulled away from Remus as fast as he could, but he had to stop in pain because they were still tied to each other.

But the one speaking was only Marlene.

Marlene looked amused between the two. And then she spotted the red string and raised an eyebrow.

"What's going on?" she asked.

Both boys started explaining at the same time.

"Oh my God!"

"You won't believe what happened..."

"She was a witch, Marlene, I swear"

"She tied us up!"

"Talking about some soulmate bullshit...."

"Which we don't believe..."

"Which we don't believe at all..."

"Obviously...."

"Dah, it is so stupid!"

Marlene was still open mouthed looking between the two. But then she just bursted out laughing.

"Oh bloody hell...." she laughed so hard, she even grabbed her belly "Only you would come up with a such a lame excuse to be close again...." she caught her breath with some snorts "Just cut with the sexual tension and snog already!"

Sirius gapsed. He was used to Marlene's rawness by now. Sharing a flat with her for three years. But he still felt his cheeks on fire. Remus on the other hand was kind if purple.

"Marlene! We swear there was a witch!"

"Why would we tie ourselves?" Remus asked.

Marlene waved her hand now uninterested. She sat down in the sand, sighing profoundly.

"Where's everyone else?" she asked "I am bloody hungry"

Sirius groaned. He looked at Remus, who shook his head. One thing was clear. None of their friends would believe them. They would think it was some stupid plan to get closer to each other again. Everyone knew their history. It didn't mean it had to happen again.

And if Grant were to find about this... God, Sirius was so embarrassed.

Thinking Remus was his soulmate. It was bloody stupid. Nothing could happen between again. Not as much as Sirius wanted to. Not as much as Sirius loved him. Because Sirius loved him. He was still in love with Remus.

"Hello darlings!" They saw James and Lily waving at them.

"We got scones for everyone!" Mary said approaching from the other side.

"They are amazing!" Peter added.

"Thank God!" Marlene exclaimed.

Sirius and Remus smiled at each other.

'Ready to be teased?' Remus' smile said.

'Can't wait' Sirius' smile answered.

[glitchedfoxx]

You guys asked so I deliver! Sneak peaks at all of the concept art for the sequel to Nylon Strings in Shades of Indigo! New looks, new characters, new lore! Project City Lights in Viridian Hues is a go <3 <3

(please don't tag the characters in their cosplay this is for the FSA fandom only)

[soleil-in-retrograde]

Lore change I appreciate in Echoes of Wisdom:

Changing it from the "Princess of Destiny" to the "Chosen Priestess".

Largely because it means if they make Zelda playable again she doesn't HAVE to be a princess.

[mistresscitrusslice]

Does the lack of Jayce merch worry anyone else? More so than the lack of Viktor merch or the existence of Mel merch? Hear me out.

We all know why Viktor merch doesn’t exist. It’s only because it doesn’t exist yet. Because of Hextech trio’s absence from trailers, it wouldn’t have been surprising if they were also entirely excluded from merch until the season came out, similar to how Ekko’s poster didn’t come out until he was revealed as the Firelight leader. Obviously they can’t release content so as not to spoil people who aren’t versed in League lore or League champions (love y’all btw 😘).

What DOES now concern me a lot is that Mel has started to be included in merch. She’s on the Fenty makeup and in the Tokidoki pony lineup. It’s an indicator that her design probably will not change in the coming season. This could be because she keeps the same look or possibly because she doesn’t survive long enough to have her design change. (I really don’t want her to die. She is the light of my life and also I have $20 riding on her survival.)

EVEN MORE CONCERNING/EXCITING IS THE FACT THAT JAYCE STILL HAS NOT BEEN INCLUDED IN MERCH. If Mel can be included, that means that Jayce probably would be too, considering he doesn’t have much reason to completely change his look in season 2 other than maybe putting a new jacket on… or does he?

We’ve been going off the assumption that no big changes will be made to Jayce’s appearance (other than an outfit change) since he already looks similar to himself in League. If so, there’d be no problem with including him in merch in his season 1 outfit. They’re already doing so with Jinx, Ekko, Heimerdinger, and sometimes Vi. But Jayce is suspiciously still missing.Jayce is also supposedly getting a legendary skin (or so I’ve heard, correct me if not). It makes sense for Viktor to be getting one, and also for Vi and Jinx to since they’re getting makeovers in season 2, but Jayce already has an Arcane skin.

All this makes me think that Jayce is getting a huge makeover come season 2 and it might even have something to do with Viktor or Jayce’s own magic obsession. If he were just getting a small change like Caitlyn putting on her little floppy hat, there’d be no reason to temporarily exclude him from merch because of it. There wouldn’t be a whole new skin because of it. I’m certain of it: Jayce is going to change A LOT.

[ilovelin]

Day 6: Soulmate AU OR "Those green eyes you have could be the death of me."

I chose soulmate au and was inspired by ‘Red Thread of Fate’ which originates from Chinese mythology

[maria-the-actress]

Femslash week

Day 7: Soulmates

The only one I ever bothered to color

[hauntingblue]

I am rewatching episode 1015 and ace accidentally says luffy's dream but it might be the forreal one not the pirate king.... so yamato knows

[nepnepian]

Nothing was more gratifying in me and Robo’s legend of mana playthrough than the fact that I figured out Alex was Sandra. Robo tried its best to be like "no dude, they're different people." But I was not having any of it. I literally asked it after talking to them in Geo to give me side by side images of them both (voiding spoilers ofc I'm not looking to spoil myself on a good game just cuz I think I'm right) and did a full on investigation on them. All the while, Robo was trying so fucking hard not to laugh at my shenanigans. Cut to when the reveal happens. I start SLAMMING MY FIST ON MY DESK ON CALL BECAUSE GDI I WAS FUCKING RIGHT!!!

I love this game.

[jellyfishvibes]

Girl help i'm making even wilder wind waker conspiracy theories

[tyiaunia-harris]

Amechu week day five: Red String Of Fate

[thebrazilianfairy]

How about the "I heard today is telemachus birthday" Au

The suitors are actually nice, and just help penelope around with Telemachus and the kingdom

Odysseus is red with anger just to com home and everyone is helping penelope plan a birthday party to his son and helping her with ithaca while he is gone.

No bloodshed

And he gets to see penelope again and they have their emotional meeting.

The suitors are like

"SO THE KING IS ALIVE"

"I told you we should have belived the queen"

"Telemachus will be so happy to see you here"

"HEY, it became a legend that only you could string that old bow, since then everyohe tried but no one could do, can you show us?"

"Hey, let the king have a moment with his wife, they havent seen eachother in 20 years"

"Hey you two can have your moment alone, we will warn when we see your son boat on the horizon"

And then on their room

"What was that?"

"Oh yeah, telemachus' friends,they are pretty nice, they helped us around the palace."

And odysseus is like: ":0"

[fairieswithwings]

.

[glitchedfoxx]

guys something possessed me I don't know what happened....

in order: NSSI!Green and Blue, FAM!Shadow for @singingvio, BotDK!Red, and TD!Red all as ponies from MLP:FiM

[yanderefarm]

slasher!reader x fanboy!yandere

cw;; gore, blood, cannibalism, murder, animal violence mentioned

can u tell i love slashers... i wanna be a hot slasher monster thats the gender goal.

you're a local legend in the area, a modern myth to scare people away from the old slaughter house. most people don't actually believe you exist but there isn't an insignificant amount of people who never make it back from that "haunted" location.

you're no ghost, no you're very real. you live in the slaughter house where you do your "work". you actually ship out a decent amount of actual meat but only to specific customers who don't ask questions. some of them buy your premium meats but mostly you're just butchering cows and pigs. it's tedious work, nothing is as satisfying as cutting into a screaming crying human body.

you're so excited when another group of young adults come to visit. they're doing a test of courage. you're gonna make them really prove themselves tonight. there's only about 6 of them and from that you can only see 3 who's meat will actually sell. you silently plan to keep two as livestock to plump up and leave the 6th to go back and spread your myth farther.

it's a long night. humans don't like dying, they fight and scratch every step of the process. you've gotten two of the ones with the best meat and you've put them in your meat locker. one of the worthless ones is bleeding out with your hand in their hair. the remaining meats have given you a pretty nasty wound in your side and the pain is pissing you off. you don't even get to throw this worthless meat in the freezer before it's dead. annoying. you let go of its hair, your foot crushing it's arm as you drag yourself further.

you smell gasoline when your body finally gives against one of the walls. you can guess that those stupid meat bags are going to set fire to all your hard work. if only they hadn't gotten the drop on you. you hold your hand over the cut as you accept your fiery fate. but it doesn't come.

you hear footsteps, timid footsteps. you lull your head in the direction of them and you see the last premium meat standing there in front of you.

"...you... you're hurt." he drops next to you and tepidly reaches his hand towards your wound. you remove your hand letting it fall limp next to you. he immediately pulls out a small sewing kit.

"this is going to be uncomfortable but please bear with it." he threaded a needle and began the painful process of sewing up the gash.

you watched his hands move in silence, only flinching a few times from the pain. the boy in front of you had his brows furrowed and his tongue slightly out as he focused intensely on patching you up. it was so curious you couldn't stop staring at him. he tied it off and cut the excess string.

"i should kill you now." you picked your weapon off the ground next to you. the meat swallowed hard.

"if.. if you want... but can I make a request?" his face was red.

"i don't usually take requests.. but i suppose since you helped me out."

he swallowed again before looking up into your eyes. "i.. i don't want you to sell me. please eat me yourself!"

[sanguinesmi1e]

Pt. 1 Pt. 2 Pt. 3 (you're here)

Full fic on Ao3

Art of LBM

Pt. 4: An Unexp-ectoed Party (not on Ao3 yet)

Constantine was quietly freaking out. He couldn’t be sure, but he suspected that the ghost who had turned itself into a cute little tatzelwurm to avoid answering questions might be something far beyond his capabilities to deal with. Everything it said and did suggested it was way outside his scope of experience. While Tim used a shoelace to play with it like a rambunctious kitten, John mentally catalogued the things that threatened to give him a panic attack:

Before the ghost even arrived, the blinding power flowing through his spell array nearly knocked him flat. It had felt like being swatted in the eyeballs by an eldritch god.

The ghost appeared in human form, fully alive, before being transformed by the summoning magic. John had only ever heard whispers of legends about a being who could do such a thing. The legends were vague and grandiose, but some epithets included The One Who Walks Between, He Who Straddles Life and Death, Twilight Walker, Shroud Danger Child, and The Halver. 

The ghost could not only see his soul at a glance, it could perceive all the damage he had done making deals with demons.

The ghost implied it was on casual, friendly terms with the Ancient of Time aka Chronos, Kala, Father Time, etc. And that it had altered the timeline at least once already.

It could age. Despite what the ghost said, only Neverborn should be able to age. The dead were static, and given the death that he could feel sustaining the portal, this ghost had definitely died.

It was brilliant enough to pinpoint a weakness and successfully distract Tim by transforming into a shape that could manipulate his protective instincts. John did not want to admit that he also felt protective of the cute little blighter.

It had hopped out of the summoning circle as if it were just chalk scribbles, despite John working in some of his most powerful containment spells as a matter of what he had thought was excessive precaution.

Shite, the list had already reached seven items. The tatzelwurm (had Drake really just named the thing Little Baby Man?) glared at him and called him “Gross!” 

“Seriously!? This cloaking spell should be more than sufficient.” John grumbled. “Did it really have no effect?” If so, that was gonna be item number eight.

Little Baby Man tilted his head. “It worked.” Then he huffed with amusement. 

Thank fuck for small blessings. 

A quickly muttered spell turned his burning cigarette into a makeshift sort of laser pointer, and Constantine distracted Little Baby Man while he tried to think of what to do next.

“Hey kid, this is a problem.” He kept his voice low, and watched to see if the tatzelwurm appeared to pay any attention to him. It dedicated all its attention to the glowing dot, and ignored the two men.

“I assume this isn’t the normal direction your interrogations go.” Drake wound his shoelace around his hand and pocketed it. “It’s certainly a first for me.”

“Ditto, in so many ways.”

“Any idea what to do now?”

“We should probably return him where he came from, and wait for Zatanna to get back from wherever she’s disappeared to now.” John would really like a second opinion. He would also like to dump this mess in someone else’s lap and be on his way. 

Although to be fair, watching the tatzelwurm careen around after his lazer dot was actually pretty fun. Not that he’d ever admit it. Still, the creature was done answering questions and John wasn’t prepared to bind the thing because he didn’t think he’d need to pack the tools to bind an eldritch god when Batman called him to do a “quick consult.”

Danny couldn’t remember the last time he had this much fun. The CEO person played with him! He did feel a bit bad for hurting his foot, but it was difficult to dwell on regrets or worries when he could attack the string instead. And now there was a red dot to chase! It was very fast and sneaky, but he was faster and sneakier.

Is this what Paulina felt like when she wished herself to be a giant chibi version of herself to be loved and worshipped by everyone? Because he felt adorable. And fierce. He was going to kill that red dot so hard when he finally sunk his claws in it!

Frustratingly, it seemed to also have intangibility powers. Well, Danny knew what to do about that! He concentrated ectoplasm into his paw and bapped it down hard on the dot. This scorched the floor a bit, but when he lifted his paw, the red dot was skewered on one of his claws. It tried to tug away, but he clung tight. Apparently its size belied its strength, because it started to drag him across the floor. 

Danny tried to release the dot, but his claw was firmly snagged, so he resigned himself to being dragged back into the chalk circle. He tingled a bit as he crossed the perimeter, but it wasn’t a bad sensation, just a little odd. Then a portal opened up and pulled him through the water filled tube snake toy sensation in reverse and ugh! Just as bad the second time, if not worse.

The spell spat him out in human form under the Specter Speeder. Or rather, it ejected him at speed so he smacked into the bottom of the Speeder before falling back to the ground with a heavy thud. Thankfully he didn’t crack his head against the concrete, but he still couldn’t stifle a pained groan.

A firm hand wrapped around Danny’s ankle and dragged him out, and he found himself staring up at Drake and Constantine for the third time that day.

“Uh, hi,” he said, rubbing the back of his neck. “I suppose I have some explaining to do.”

Being able to create ghost portals would come in real handy right about now. Maybe he should just commit some arson and let these two deal with escaping the basement on their own.