The Asper~ Gaia's Tavern on a Ex-Pirate Ship ~ (Open)

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[onyx2047]

angel_of_darkness_4000

Location: Plymouth ~ Millcroft Inn ~ Deziens Quarters

When Andrea would wake she would find a note along with a single rose upon the pillow beside her.

Andrea my love

I know it isn't in good fashion for the lady to wake and find her lover gone as though the previous night had meant nothing. But as you know I have an image to uphold to ward off suspicions. This means that I have to return to the castle. I didn't want to leave you, know that it was so hard to walk out of that room. I have paid for the room and informed the attendant that it is possible that you might be taking up further residency there. If you do decide to do this, I will pay the tab on my next visit in. There is a porter not far from the city of Plymouth so getting back to you will be very simple. Upon my return we can decided where it is we are going to go. I will take the liberty in checking out Lockeport on my way out. I will see you in a weeks time. Hold tight, be strong.

Love Dez

The signature signed so informally to her suggested a relation much different than the master slave that there nature implied.


(( and when you post Angel you can have Andrea head to the Asper for a visit wink ))

[onyx2047]

Location: Ship ~ Kitchen ~ Ensemble: Kimono

Onyx would wake and return herself to the bar where she would notice the pile of...stuff...in the back corner of the room. It was oddly familiar...that's because most of it was hers! It was what could be salvaged from the explosion. Now, a good majority of the captains things had gotten destroyed but she had some things very well sealed and now they were back. She wondered who had done this? Perhaps Li? Who cares. She would take what was hers back to her quarters.

Those who had been staying down on level three of the ship had been the safest in terms of their things. The blast had made it's biggest impacts on the first level and so by the time it reached the third level that impact had lessen significantly. There in a large case was a rather large, older looking Cello. Since it looked like a collectors piece Onyx would move that into her quarters as well setting it up on display.

Onyx promised she was going to make the naga clean up the kitchen but at the same time...she couldn't just leave it all there. So onyx got the broom...and swept everything in the laundry room, the warmest place on the ship where Migoto usually slept. If he wanted to sleep in comfort, peace, he would have to clean up his mess. Now sure that meant onyx would have to clean anything liquid based but that was nothing to do. She then had to head out to spend more money re-re-stocking her ******** kitchen. She put on her long floor length winter jacket and left the ship. She had to go all the way up to upper Locke where she came across a very angry, very rude, large, Japanese woman. She was saying something about 'Thief, owe me money, lots of food, good name and trust'. Onyx assured her she had no idea what she talking about. 'friend to make order, ran without pay' was what she said. Onyx's face went pink as she scratched the bridge of her nose as the worms squirmed there trying to heal what they could not. Onyx paid with lots of apologies. She promised that from now own she would come and get her lunch herself. Damn that Metal smearing her good name and reputation that she had worked hard to build in this town. Onyx refused to get pissy. She did groceries and returned home and began putting it all away.

[Rysen Ferinus]

Li yawned sitting up out of his hammock yawning having no idea about what had happened the night before...though his head was pounding. He stood up and sighed heading down to his room showering his rather foul vomit smelling self off. He went to his closet grabbing a wet suit top. He slipped it over his torso rolling it down over himself. He sighed and prayed today he wouldn't find any bodies down there today. he slipped on a strange pressurized suit which he had liberated from the order.....amongst other things. He hooked up what hoses needed to be hooked to up to what was called an aqua lung. A device which took oxygen from the water and pumped it into his suit allowing him to stay submerged for hours.

Li went up to the deck over to the wench tossing the control over the side into the water below. He then dived in after it sank its long cord sinking into the water. Li sank until he hit bottom beneath the asper. He began to walk the density of the water somewhat inhibiting his movement. Li set off towards the ships which had been sunk during the explosion.

[Rysen Ferinus]

Li walked through the wreckage of the ships looking around various bodies were warped in chains suspended in the water like they were frozen in time their deaths being depicted as they hung. Li's face turned pale. Like yesterday he denied their very existence. He continued ov untill he came upon a strange ship waving a strange flag. He walked into the wreck via a hole within the side of the ship. He looked through the halls of the rather ghostly feeling ship until he came to a door. He reached out taking a hold of the door nob opening......there floating before him....was a shark....a tiger shark to be exact. Tiger sharks were like the billy goats of the sea they had the temper of the devil and ate anything from bumpers of cars to human beings.

Li stared at the shark.....the shark stared at li. Li broke the pause when a sweat drop formed on his forehead and he gave a nervous laugh as he backed away slamming the door. The shark burst through as li swam away through the halls of the ship the shark on his tail! Li couldn't kill it its blood would just attract more like it! He swam until he found a hole in the bottom of the floor leading into the belly of the ship once there waited until the shark grew bored and gave up. He let out a sigh once it had gone and looked around the belly of the ship. To Li's ignorance this was a merchant ship. The very ship one Kele had first to come port in. The belly of the ship was full of fine cloth rolls chest of gold and silver and countless other good!

Li stared around in awe, Welllllll time to go to work >.>

Li began picking up chest carrying them back to he asper and raising them tot he deck with the wench. Hours and hours and hours passed and the area around the wench was now towering with chests and boxes and Li had not even got to a quarter of what was down there! Exhausted Li raised himself back to the deck via the wench plopping down on the deck removing his helmet and sprawling out breathing heavily.

[onyx2047]

Location: Ship ~ Captains Quarters ~ Ensemble: Kimono

Onyx, after eating a little she would go and get dressed and a little kiss to the sleeping Anita would head out for the late afternoon/evening. It would be late when Onyx returned, late enough that she would go straight to bed. A nasty little run in with someone had spoiled her night and her mood for that matter. Walking into her room, grabbing her long white night robe she would change in the bathroom and then reluctantly crawl into bed. She would lay on her back with her head turned in the opposite direction, though she would place one arm around Anita to nuzzle her close against her body. Come mornings light though Onyx would be curled with her cheek to the top of Anita's head. Dare I say like a living mother and daughter. She was surprised that Metal hadn't pulled her aside asking her just wtf by now. He didn't know that she had a son. Onyx wanted it to stay that way. She wouldn't say it but she was terrified of him using Heiden against her. Though .... she knew that the moment he went there with Onyx's blood line that too many would step in. Anita was his blood and there was nothing she could do about that.

[onyx2047]

Location: Ship ~ Kitchen ~ Ensemble: Kimono

"I don't care about you...I just want your little girl..."

That was the line she heard from her dream as she had awaken that morning. She turned her head...Metal was gone but Anita...she had been still there. She smiled to herself and kissed the little girl. She was like a little doll, so sweet, so precious. Anita had been put into bed robes for sleeping as it just wasn't right to be sleeping in pretty blue dresses day and night. Now the one Anita had had been very dirty and needed a washing. It was clean, pressed and perfect but there was still some holes and tears in it. So...even though Onyx was by no means a seamstress what-so-ever she would pull out a needle and thread, sit at the table and to her best to stitch everything perfectly. If it was messy...she'd remove the thread and start again. A little while later, and finger tips wrapped in white bandages...Onyx was finished.

She moved back over to the bed with the dress, kissed Anita awake and showed her, her clean and perfect blue dress. She helped her into it and the day had begun. Now, there wasn't too much to do in the area on account of the fire, but upper Locke still had things to do for the two of them. However, today was...going to be different. Later today Onyx's son was coming home for a visit. Taking Anita to the kitchen she would make them some yummy oatmeal with real fruit in it and lets not forget the brown sugar and milk. She was so curious about Anita. She wanted to know what sorts of things she did or didn't know, what she liked and didn't like. Then she remembered something, her collection of dolls but they were not here on the ship. To show Anita...they would have to travel to the only other place of dwelling Onyx truly had on this planet. It was a place she called the spire. She wondered if Metal would mind taking her there...he wasn't exactly around (thank God) to ask.
"Anita...do you like..dolls?" she'd ask her as they sat in the kitchen together.

[Metal Trsu]

The small child just sat there her eyes blinking as the Lady wandered around the room, her eye's just being rubbed as she was still half asleep her raven black hair just flowing against her face as she rubbed her eyes. It was then she opened her mouth wide and just yawned as she reached up stretching a bit, much like Metal. As she did so she felt the dress being pulled over her arms and down against her head. She looked down smiling at it. It was nice and new and just smelled so good, at least now dirt wasn't on it. "Morning lady." She happily spoke to her, her little hairs just coming up and brushing the hair from her face. But being brought into the kitchen she just smiled and spoke. "Wheres my pony?" She asked, wondering if Onyx had remembered that she'd promised her a Pony the other day. She just giggled while sitting there her eyes watching Onyx as she continued to move around the room. It was then she asked about the dolls, yes she did like Dolls, but she didn't really like playing with them, more so looking at them cause in a way she knew she was a doll. "Yes I do." She just nodded smiling to the woman now.

[onyx2047]

Location: Ship ~ Kitchen ~ Ensemble: Kimono

Onyx smiled to her "Well...if you think your daddy would let you...I have this collection of dolls that I would love to show you. You can play with them I suppose if you really wanted to but...I don't. I collect them. They are called ball jointed dolls. You can bend and move their arms, legs, hands and feet. Do you think you'd like to see them?" she asked her.

[Metal Trsu]

Anita's eyes just grew wide now, her hands reached down slowly gripping the spoon before pulling up what Onyx had fixed her, it was hot, and nasty. She looked down her face scrunched into a nasty looking face, she just pulled the spoon out of her mouth and spit the food back down into the spoon looking at it, it looked as if she had just threw it up. She made a face, sticking her tongue out again as she sat there, her little finger running up and brushing her tongue over and over. "Ewwwwwww....Ew ew ew..." She proceeded to say as she sat there pushing the bowl away towards Onyx. "That's Nasty...now tell me about these dolls." She pried, but it didn't really take much as Onyx explained, she continued telling her that she had about a million dolls, and they could move, or at least you could make them move. "I wanna see I wanna see pleasepleaseplease." It sounded like she didn't even space her words she was so excited.

[onyx2047]

Location: Unknown ~ Spire ~ Ensemble: Kimono

Onyx face screwed up watching the little girl o.O
She sniffed her own bowl wondering that the hell was so gross about oatmeal with fresh fruit, brown sugar and some milk to cool it all down. The thing was as sweet as well as healthy as you could possibly get. Anita pushed the bowl away...onyx perked a brow. Anita wanted at those dolls.
"Sure. After you've eaten. I don't know what daddy lets you get away with but here...there's no playing until you've properly filled your tummy with food first. You don't have to eat the oatmeal but you've got to eat something" she said making Anita something to eat more to her liking.

After she was finished, after they were set to go, Onyx grabbed one of her fur shawls and tied it around her. On Anita it would be like a gorgeous fur riding cape. She would have Linia (in her human guise while around anita) transport them to the place known as The Spire. This place was in the middle of seemingly no where. For miles and miles around it was just greenery, forest. When standing before the front doors onyx traced symbols over the doors, there seemed to be a pattern to it. The door unlocked. They went in.

The spire was Onyx's strong hold. It was a castle, one she share with Raziel. In this place was all of onyx's most prized possessions and valubles. From antiques and fabrics to statues and artifacts, so many textures and textiles, so many paintings and strange looking items set on display as they passed through. The basement was where onyx worked her alchemy, her weapon experimentation and so forth. Now they came to a large room up on the second level where the bedrooms were. It was a very large room. Upon walking in there on the shelves that lined the walls, on stands, in class cabinets were all of these gorgeous, very detailed and very beautiful dolls. Some were dressed in modern clothes, some as fairies, others gothic lolita, so many! Small to big. Onyx had opened the door and just let Anita walk in.

[Metal Trsu]

Anita smiled and giggled hearing Onyx scold her somewhat about not wanting to eat the oatmeal, it tasted nasty, even with the sugar and fruit and all that good stuff she thought was good on it. Either way it was still nasty to her and she's wasn't about to eat it. Though Onyx prepared her some fresh sliced fruit, she just smiled pushing the fruit down into her mouth and swallowing. Anita looked at the other woman that was with them after they had walked onto the deck, she just smiled at her and waved, her little hang going back an forth. She was soon covered by the fur coat Oni had placed on her, she just rubbed the fur against her face.

"Ooh it's soft...like you, an of course me." She laughed placing her hands over her mouth as she tried to hold her laughter. But now they appeared in front of what looked like a giant castle, much like the one she was with in her fathers; after all what vampire didn't have a castle. A small side joke nontheless. She watched oni trace symbols and markings much like her dad, she just stood there watching, she was like her dad. They stepped in and her eyes went wide, almost like the Jewelery store; she grinned she wanted to go shopping again, except this time she wanted to shop in case de Oni. They walked into the well light and sophisticated room, she then had her jaw drop looking at the dolls. "Oh....." Speechless. "Can...I...Can we?" She really didn't know what to say.

[onyx2047]

Location: Unknown ~ Spire ~ Ensemble: Kimono

Onyx followed in after her and smiled looking around at her own collection. "yea I know...there's a lot" she would go and select a doll wearing a kimono with black hair and yellow eye's.
"Some of these are gifts. Wonder who this one is?" she wiggled it at Anita and then sat in the middle of the room.
"I have been collecting these for a very long time. Not as big as my kimono collection though my kimono collection is vastly more valuable." she shrug/nodded.
'Do you like them?' she tilted her head smiling at Anita who seemed utterly...awe struck.
'You can pick one to keep if you'd like sweet heart' Onyx offered to her.
Onyx looked to the doll in her lap and just smiled a little at it recall the fond memory of having it given to her.

[Metal Trsu]

"Awwwe." She just stared her hand slowly raising to grab at Onyx's clothing before she just pulled away to go look at the dolls, leaving Anita just standing there and looking around. Anita's eyes were wide on the dolls as she stared still she still wasn't sure what to say, until Onyx snapped her back. "Oh yes...hey that looks like me?" She giggled and just ran to Onyx as she looked at the doll, she smiled and reached for it taking ti from Oni as they stood there, well Oni just sit. "Pretty....hehehe I'mma tell daddy you play with dolls." She giggled putting her hand over her lips as she continued to laugh. She just fell back on her bottom in front of Oni after being said she could pick one. "I don't wanna take your collection away." She spoke looking down at the Doll Oni had had in her hands before Anita took it from her; her hands running through the dolls hair.

[angel_of_darkness_4000]

onyx2047

Location: Plymouth ~ Millcroft Inn ~ Deziens Quarters

Andrea stirred in bed moving her arm to try to find the body of her love, but instead her hand slid across the velvet petals of a flower. Her eyes flutter open revealing a piece of paper and a rose and an emptiness where Dezien should have lay. Fear and sadness crossed her mind as she realized Dezien was not in the room at all. Had she scared him off by being so forward last night. Before her imagination could get a running start she stopped herself. She took a deep breath in, calming her nerves and her fear she picks up the note, leaving the rose where it fell just below the pillow. Her mind eased as she read the note left for her by Dezien. She couldn't be upset or afraid, she knew he was going to leave her, that he had to leave. She was worried though. He had just fed off of her and she didn't know if he would smell like her again. That might give them away. She was worried, but knew he could protect himself.

She picked the rose up and found a glass to put it in. After calling down to room service and eating the meal she ordered she took a long shower scrubbing every inch of her skin. She dressed in a very simple outfit and headed out the door. She decided that she would come back to the hotel room after a jaunt over to the newly rebuilt Asper.

She hailed a cab and asked to be taken to the port. Upon arrival she would walk up onto the deck and look for any life on board
"Hello?" she called out to see if it was okay for her to be there.