snare

Fields of Heather stepped out into the cool fall sunlight, a large duffle bag over her shoulder. Her vict... er.... students were already waiting in the courtyard for her. VisionAri, dgrequeen, ghia, trillian, Algernon, Rytalin, SciKai, and JustKai. Heather set her bag down on the bottom step and opened it. She pulled out four flare style guns and the metal box containing the cartridges.

"Good, your all here. Let's begin," said Heather smiling. She opened the box and pulled out a blue cartridge, "You all are here to learn how to use this, The Devil's Snare. It's fairly simple to use, but requires practice."

Heather pared everyone off. She handed a flare gun to each of the ladies and showed them how to load them. "Just point and shoot." She said. "We'll take turns, VisionAri, you first."

There was an audible gulp from her partner, Rytalin, as VA grinned and aimed. There was no loud bang, just a loud pop, as VA pulled the trigger. The cartridge shot out, the casing burst open. The bundle of vines opened itself, looking like a green net. It hit Ryt in the chest and wrapped itself around him, contracting. He struggled with it a few minutes and fell over. "Nice shot, VA. OK, Trill, your turn." said Heather. Trillian's shot hit JustKai square in the chest, with enough force to knock him down. SciKai soon followed his brother after Ghia hit him in the stomach. Algernon hit the ground with a groan, dgre's shot having hit him in the crotch.

"Next time, aim a little higher, dgre." said Heather, trying not to giggle. Heather showed them how to call off the Snare, by lightly stroking it's nerve bundle. The Snares were then put into new casings and loaded back into the flare guns. Now it was the guys turn. Within minutes all four ladies were laid out, struggling against the vines. Ryt was grinning and winking down at VA. Alg dodged out of the way as dgre kick out at him. He was bent over double, laughing at her, she growled from behind the vine that had wrapped itself around her mouth.

"Ok, guys, let um go." giggled Heather. SciKai and JustKai helped trill and ghia to their feet. Ryt seemed reluctant, saying how cute VA looked all tied up, but gave in. Alg couldn't stop laughing as she helped dgre to her feet. He stopped laughing pretty quickly after dgre kicked him in the shin though.

"OK, That's it for today. I don't want to put to much stress on the Snares until I've had time to grow more. But I want you to get more practice with them. Be back here tomorrow, same time," said Heather as she gathered up her stuff and put it in her bag. She followed everyone inside. Heather sighed, just realizing that by this time tomorrow, most if not all of the Kai clones would be clamoring to take lessons with the Devil's Snares, so that SciKai and JustKai wouldn't be the only ones saying they had. Heather shook her head as she walked back to her room, mumbling to herself, "What have I started?"

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Heather walked around surveying her students. As she had predicted, she had been bombarded with requests for classes. She had had to separate them into two groups, She had the morning group right now and would work this the evening group later. Heather jumped back as MyKai hit the ground at her feet. Dgre was having way to much fun with the Snare. VisionAri was rolling around on the ground, laughing. Rytalin had bent over to pick up a penny when VA had fired. Ryt looked very uncomfortable, bent over like that, his head level with his knees. Trillian and PirateKai had been fighting over who would use the Snare next when it went off between them. They looked very much like a mummy with two heads. Pandora was sitting off to the side, comforting DionysusKai, after her first shot had hit him in the crotch. Heather made a note to make all the Kai clones ware their codpieces from now on. Twilight was franticly trying to coax the Snare off Kai21. Her shot had been too high, hitting Kai21 in the face. The vines of the Snare were wrapped tightly around his head and shoulders. Ghia was screaming at SciKai. She had been standing to close to a tree and was now bound tightly to it. SciKai was sitting on the ground, trying to fix the flare gun, which wouldn't open to be reloaded. He seemed not to hear ghia as she shouted some words that would have made a sailor blush. Heather smiled. It had gone pretty well so far.

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Heather shook her head wondering why on Earth she had done this. She sat on the steps, her hands over her eyes. At the sound of a loud EEK, Heather peeked threw her fingers to see what had happened this time. Rave had been loading the gun when it went off pointed at herself. She lay on the ground, Thodin standing over her, trying hard to coax the snare off her. Doffy, CowboyKai and Kai45 were trying to help Necro. Somehow, she had been hit by two Snares. They were hopelessly intertwined and refused to be separated. Strytlr and Kai28 were trying to get a rather combative snare back into it's casing. It had a vine entwined in Kai28's hair and had ahold on Strytlr's nose.

Evening Star was chasing after Algernon, cursing loudly. He kept turning into a mouse every time she fired at him. Stan5 had been hiding up a tree for almost an hour now. SirKai stood under it, trying to talk him down, promising him that the Snare wouldn't hurt him. Heather was surprised to hear MicroMary growling at Kai18. She had never heard Micro growl before. Kai18 was winking and whispering in Micro's ear as she lay, bound in one of the Snares, on the ground. Just then, Kai18 was struck from behind. He fell across Micro's legs, a Snare wrapped around him and JustKai glaring at him. Angelmay was rolling around on the ground behind JustKai, laughing.

"Come on Heather, let me go." said PerfectBlue. He was tightly bound in one of Heather's newest Snares, an industrial strength version she had just bred. Laying on the ground at her feet, he looked up at her.

"NO." she said, glaring down at him. Blue had been partnered with Kai6. Blue had kept jumping out of the way of the Snares Kai6 shot his way, laughing at him. Heather had snuck up behind Blue and hit him with the new Snare. She had then called Kai 13 out to work with Kai6 and had hauled Blue off the field. Heather looked back at her class just as Stan5 fall out of his tree and right on SirKai. They hit the ground hard, the gun SirKai had been holding going off. Stan5 whimpered as SirKai struggled with the Snare, that had wrapped around both of them. Heather sighed and put her hands back over her face, wishing this class was over.