Over the Hills and Far Away... Open and accepting!

[The Science Cheetah]

[Note!: I will be using two different colours for the two personalities I play. Astredae will be in blue, while Karla will be in dark red. thanks!]

It was cold, and windy. Cold and windy and white, so very white. Regarding it to be snow, Astredae whispered something unintelligible and inaudible to herself. She had a stange gait, one explained by the fact that she was imbalanced. Her left arm was entirely absent from her body, and by the look of the stub that jutted out from her dirty shoulder, she had been born that way. things were different for Astredae now..where brown hair used to grow, now only yellow locks sprouted. Her hair wasn't blonde...it was a bright, dandelion yellow that could only have been caused by something unnatural. One of her eyes, though she had vision in both, was entirely white. The pupil and iris blended into the white of her eye, giving her a surreal and crazed expression. Her other eyes was normal, though the intense shade of blue it was was startling to the onlooker at first. She was panting, somehow out of breath, but she didn't remember how she'd even arrived in this forest.

The woods around her were haunting, the voices she'd been hearing since the Change galloping through the branches and dancing on the wind. Suddenly she stopped walking forward and thrust her chin to the canopy of gnarled tree branches. "Shh!" She warned the absent air around her as she listened. Voice! No...Voices! Voices was something she recognized easily, but these weren't the Voices. These Voices had more substance, and were talking to each other, not her.

In a decision that took nothing but a second, Astredae stumbled toward the sound, her jumbled mind unable to recognize possible danger.

Klara shook her head to clear her thoughts, considerably more balanced without her arm than her host. She broke the body into a run, the shouts coming over the wind as urgent yelps of sound. She didn't call out yet, because it sounded like trouble was brewing at the epicenter. The Voices that Astredae was plagued by had vanished for Klara, who had no time for delusions and hallucinations. Through the windblown snow and haze, she could see shapes of mass. Whether they were a threat or not didn't matter....Klara had been watching from within Astredae, and they hadn't seen anybody in quite some time.

"Hey!" She cried in sudden instinct to be noticed.

[Playground Zombie]

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"I'm quite dandy, thank you!" She growled, frustrated that she couldn't be able to find ground again. With a hidden, but grateful look, she took cain's hand, surprised at how tight his grasp was. Fighting still, she looked up. Snow. O! how it blinded and handicaped her abilities! She let a low snarl trigger her ability to see behind her. Instantly, she found the creature thrusting its tail again. And more snow towering above her thin body. She allowed her eyes turn back to a raging metalic white. It blended well with the winter scene. In a flicker of a lash, she found another specimen that caught her eye.

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Huh? Her eyelashes were padded with flakey snow. It just could be hallucination from blood loss. Was her head just messing with her?... No, it has to be a person. She just felt the prescence.

"Where are you?" She called out to the new comer, still having the perfect timing of any unlucky soul who would dare talk in the middle of a battle.

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[The Science Cheetah]

Klara came closer, but stopped when the thing they were fighting came into view. This body wasn't mean for battling. "We..."she started, then decided to continue. "We are here!" She shouted, considerably closer to them now than before. she felt control loosening, her movement slowing. "Not now, you dumb b***h..." She warned Astredae, but it was too late....

It happened again. Another teleportation. She would black out and wake in an entirely different place...or maybe she just didn't recognize...people! The Voices told her where to look, and she listened. She said nothing more, back to her withdrawn, strange self again. The cold didn't seem to affect her, and Astredae stood there like a dumb animal, too confused to take in the scenario before her.

[Playground Zombie]

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A smile lit on her face when the figure appeared right then and there. Her innocent yet scared face allowed Yuuki to calm down a bit. With an off beat, vampyric sense of humor, she added:

"Indeed, you are here."

Though it was only a minuscule moment the creature let them be, it again pounded against the snow blanket, causing another irritation to the ground. Yuuki stumbled downward to the ground, rolling as she did. Frantic at this sudden happening, she triggered her rear vision, quite desperate to find another being on her side... Er, at least didn't hurt her.

"You! Will you fight or not carry out the burden?" The white-haired girl cried out, afraid her voice was not heard through the rumbling.

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[The Science Cheetah]

Astredae only blinked, with the genuine expression on her face like that of a curious woodland creature. Her solitary hand fidgeted strangely and sporadically at her side, as if it was trying to spur some reaction out of it's host. Astredae twitched as the wind blasted out its energy on her. Her blank eye rolled as her other looked around, but there was no reaction. Suddenly, and mindlessly, like a child, Astredae moved her arm out toward the fighting beast, her fingers stretching for its evil maw. She didn't seem to know what she was doing, and her mouth hung open slightly as she moved forward. It wasn't a quick or offensive movement, and soon she was whispering something her her Voices, telling them in a way that they could understand what she was doing. She looked up, as if one had caught her attention, and then she darted her head back down again. She stumbled forward a bit, her reaching hand trembling slightly. Her tongue darted out briefly, wetting her full lips before retreating back into her open mouth.

Without much warning, the confused girl let out a single syllable that almost seemed to make sense with the scenario before her. "Touch." She uttered, mostly to herself. She smiled in a distant away, and took another unsteady pace forward.

[Playground Zombie]

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What a strange one... Yuuki silently thought to herself as she charged at the beast. Hoping every step of her strong bones could hold her into the snow, she reached at her back, grasping the pole of her Naginata. The snow kept on crunching and rumbling as the three continued on what they done.

"Touch what?!" She shouted out at the strange one. Ready to lung any moment at the animal, she would take any kind of command that was thrown at her.

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[The Science Cheetah]

Astredae's body lurched forward at the recoiled beast, and her hand met flesh. The thing, surprisingly, let out a noise of pain, which the girl seemed to ignore. She was drawing with two fingers pressed together....her lines literally burning deep gashes in the thing as she moved her hand. A funny smile had spread across her face as the monster swiped at her, cutting open her body as if it were paper. She laughed wildly with the pain, her mind not sure how to react in its current state. She moved her hand away, finally, to reveal an intricate burn mark of some wild design that was obviously supposed to mean something. Her hand fell to her side, and it twitched there, her fingers jerking around.

The monster, seriously upset by the attack, lunged at Astredae....

Klara ducked, and rolled. "..the hell?!" She shouted in a clear and hardened tone, the voice of a troubled girl. She straightened herself, observing her body. "What'd she do this time?!" She shouted at the body without thinking, then shook her head. The eyes of the host body peered upward, controlled by Klara. Klara stared directly at the girl who must have been calling before, using the moment that the monster took to recover from its leap. "When this...thing....is dead, you are helping us." She demanded cryptically, then whirled around, only to bound away to try to escape another leap.

She wasn't so lucky this time. She landed hard in the snow, the weight of just one of the thing's limbs pinning her to the frozen ground below the deep snow. Klara struggled, but failed to lift the pinning limb away from her body. She grunted, her hand searing flesh as it fought to save the body. This hand didn't twitch....it was steady and precise. "Grraahh.....HELP!" She finally shouted, feeling the ribs of Astredae's body beginning to strain under the weight. Having only one arm was beginning to be a serious weakness.

[Playground Zombie]

ooc: Hold on a bit... I comprehend the whole two personality thing, but whenever it leaps to that section of another personality on the RP, does that same person do exactly whatever personality takes over? Just making sure.. xD;;

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The white-haired girl snarled at the sudden demand. Her eyes turned back to piercing white as she swung the Naginata at the fiend, accurately skinning most of its fur... Or scales... Or whatever else imaginable on the thing. She looked like an avenging ghost on the verge of silent murder. Of course, she was the youngest out the the three, and most obviously, she was the smallest. She held a cursed image that made everything re-think about the antidote.

Everyone was after it. The small, the big; The cursed, the evil; The... everyone. Who would have thought that this antidote was so important; that a disowned child would have to retrive it in order to fuction properly? It was an uncomprehendable concept for any adult with a heart of a parent.

"Helping 'us'?" She spat out with a unceasing stare. Her incredulous eyes became horizontal, distrustful slits in her face. What did she mean by that? Who else was out there? Yuuki's hind vision took over, trying to locate anything. But, no. There wasn't anyone out there besides the howling winds and endless amount of snow. It was an endless void.

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[The Science Cheetah]

[I'm not sure what you're asking me. However, think of it as two people in one body. Klara gains control at random intervals, usually when something important is going on. Klara acts like she's a separate person from Astredae, but it's the same physical body. However, Klara is aware that Astredae exists, so she refers to the body as 'us' or 'we', because there are two personalities within the body. Hope that clears it up.]

Klara managed to escape from under the thing's massive limb. She planted it a surprisingly steady kick, and it was down. It was badly weakened by its previous battle, and quite exhausted. It struggled to right itself, moving sluggishly.

Given a moment of peace, Klara looked back toward the young girl. "Yes. Us. That's what I said." Realizing that maybe that was a little more confusing to a stranger, she sighed. "Astredae, and myself. I am Klara. Astredae is the weird one you saw earlier. She's got some mental problem or something...makes her useless." Explained Klara, who was distractedly touching her wounds to test their severity. She winced a bit in pain. "Utterly...ow....useless."

[Playground Zombie]

ooc: Ah, I see now. I'm so used to seeing people use different colors for two different people and not personalities. xD I love the originality in that (even though I couldn't comprehend it... hehe...)

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Yuuki was now on the opposing side of the woman, only being blocked by the monster. Kicking the other side of the fiend made it drop even lower so she could see Klara. Her eyes were still white, but they bulged out, filling with morbid curiousity. Her mouth slightly parted - she was so awed.

"How must we help you?" She asked another question with a serious tone any child's voice. The girl wasn't willing to help at all, but she felt the nerve-wrecking questions twirl around her head like the blistering wind.

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[The Science Cheetah]

Klara looked up, the body's brow lifting in a quizzical fashion. "Really? You're incapable of seeing all of these wounds? I just considered you young and small...not stupid." Klara was generally unfazed by the girl's white eyes. She herself had a white eye, and one blue. "You'll be helping us by mending our wounds. In case you also failed to notice..." She paused here to plant another swift kick in the monster's side to keep it low. "I only have one arm. Makes it, you know, impossible to actually bandage anything." Klara continued irritably, obviously not the friendlier of the two personalities.

It was a confusing sort of situation for the outsider, to meet up with one body that was sure it was two. That's why Klara wanted the antidote. she was sure she could chase off Astredae forever, and leave herself in control. With the rumoured cure, she could annihilate her weaker half and be left with what she considered to be the strongest persona to exist in the era.

Klara's ego went unmatched throughout the entire north. She made sure of it.


[Thank you. I try not to conform to cliches....So being told I'm original is a big ego boost. xD]

[Playground Zombie]

ooc: Lmao, I feel ya, sista xD; I try not to be as cliche as possible, but I can't imagine myself RP-ing without being a vampire.

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I have a big ego either way xD;

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"Well, excuse me for asking!!" She snorted at the snide comment. Young and small, yes. Not stupid, she angrily thought as she kicked the helpless fiend again. Satisfied at hearing the sharp yelp, she dug her foot into the snow, making a small crunch.

"If that is all you need, quite all right; we'll take care of that," Yuuki calmly stated with a distrustful look. Her eyes found themselves back in their Hershey-like tone.

"The next town should be a wee bit away from this most indignant forest."

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[The Science Cheetah]

"Oh, really? Just a wee bit? We're barely into the forest at all. The edge is barely fifty yards behind us. Do you have sense of distance at all? We could be DEAD by then. You'll help us now, anyway you can, or you will pay." Snapped Klara, genuinely upset. Leave it to a child to have no idea how to handle the wild. "You ought to have just let the civilians of...wherever you came from...beat you to your death. You're nearly as useless as Astredae." She uttered afterward, contempt and disgust present in her voice. She put her hand on her hip, sneering at the young girl in the way that she sneered at everyone. No one got special treatment, not even those younger than she.

Klara tired of looking at the girl, and so she looked down. The monster no longer seemed to be moving, and it's great jaws hung open, slack with death. It was dead, finally. She overlooked the thing, taking in its physical features to remember it for the next time.

[Playground Zombie]

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"Not the optimistic type, no?" Yuuki stated in mock enthusiasm. She felt a bitter anger in her chest when she looked at Klara, but she knew she had to get through her sharp tongue to get to the antidote. And away from Klara. Both to come were a nice package to look at whence they were in this sort of situation. She shook her head.

"All of our shirts and clothing are just about soaking in blood. If we try to bandage you now with what we have, it would be a weary future ahead. I wouldn't want to give you aids," she retorted with a sadistic note.

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[The Science Cheetah]

[So...is the creator never going to post then?]