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 Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2011 9:00 am
Giglamesh noticed river standing at the open door, when roze was straightening his yukata, which he slightly shooed her away. "come on." Talking to river, he would gesture his hand for river to come in. once in there, gigs heart was beating so incredibly fast he was nervous. For so long he went out of his way to keep this from river, and now he was finally showing her. This book was one of the only things tangent that he put emotions in to, it was not like him at all, and because of that gig would think it was shitty, but thats what most of men like him would think of it. With her in the room gig would go over and plop down on the bed and scoop up mai, laying on his back he would toss her very high in the air catching her and holding her in front of his head. "Wanna hear the story of flowers hanna? This time...river is gonna join us also..." She was over excited with joy kicking and flailing her legs, reaching hr arms trying to hug gig because she was excited. Which gig released her and gave her a big hug. Then he would sit up and turn her in his lap, grab the book and put it in her lap. Then he would look at roze and pat for her to sit at his right, and then at river to sit as his left. He always had river at he left because he trusted her, he did not have to watch her so gig put her at the side which he couldnt even if he tried, gigs left eyeless side. Kerria sat close to gig, right against his side.....and knowing river she would sit by him...which he would then force her to sit closer against him. He then reached around both of them making river put her left hand out, and roze her right hand out. They would probably wonder why, but when gig opened the big book they would see, there hands would hold the front/back of the book in mai's lap. Gig would smile as he felt he tactically did that to keep them closer. Gig would clear his throat...his voice was shaky cause gig was so nervous. But after gig looked at river, wanting to hear it, or atleast trying for gig he would nod and begin to read it.
Giglamesh would flip to the first page and it had a few pictures and illustrations connecting the pictures, a single picture per page, the book was large but not thick. "The story of flowers......A long time ago dirt was dried up and angry he didnt like anybody cause they walked all over him." He would point at a picture of himself still in the black shinra spy uniform. "Back then he was all dried up and was so cold, but one day it began to rain. and a river formed."He pointed at the picture taken from the wanted report of gig, rain, and river. "At first the dirt didnt like it, he wanted to have all the rain for himself, and he didnt want to share the ground with the river. But it just kept raining and the river kept flowing and poor dirt was stuck with them. " He pointed to a picture of the three at a very young age, and maiyuri would yawn. "But over time, with dirt sharing the ground with the river, and it always raining the dirt began to get soft, he became happy and turned from dirt to soil." He pointed at the only copy of a picture of gig with his arms around river and rain smiling very large when he was drunk. "The river, rain, and soil were very happy together...but so empty. Eventually a single rose was placed in to the soil. the rain kept pouring on to it, and the river wanted to flood on over it, but it was a very strong single rose." Giglamesh would point at a document accepting the mission from roze for the first time, with a picture of her stapled over it. "At first the rain, and especially the river, didnt like the rose they didnt think it belonged in the soil. But with time they began to see the rose was just so nice that the rain couldn't help but like her. The rose helped out all three in any way she could, with out anybody even asking it. The rose wanted to be real close to the soil, but the soil was already in love with the rain because it was the rain that softened it up and made it good." Gig would..no he didnt even have to point at that picture, it was a picture of gig and rain face to face hand up at there shoulders with there hands locked and faces real close. Gig wasnt even sure if river had ever even seen this pick. "Eventually the rain would cover the soil in a field of little beautiful flowers, but in doing this...the rain stopped." ......no picture only the corners from where a picture had been ripped out. It was a picture of everybody at rains funeral...Gig would normally cry...but he managed to hold it back this time. River more then likely already knew this picture. "....Once the rain had stopped...instantly the river began to dry up,and the soil began to dry. They did not know what to do without the rain." Gig would point to a picture of maiyuri when she was first born. "That single rose though helped them, showed them to keep together and that the ground they shared was covered in little beautiful flowers, so even though the rain was gone it had given all of them a gift that she wanted them to have, a gift they could cherish, a gift that she had given her all to make." Gig pointed, finger shaking, at a picture of giglamesh holding maiyuri, in this picture he was also weeping cause lost a love, but gained a new one. "The river and the soil loved the gift the rain gave them so much, and with the help of the one rose, the soil became enriched, the river ran strong, and the beautiful little flowers flourished." He would point to a picture of river and gig, both holding maiyuri. It also had a picture of roze taped next to them. Above the picture it had a was a cut out picture of rains eyes, and below it said family. "Thats how the rain turned the soil, the river, the one rose, and the field of little beautiful flowers in to a family." He would look at that picture longer before closing the book smiling before finally closing it.
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Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2011 5:45 pm
River shot a tiny glare to Kerria and she had to sigh at Mai’s hyper excitement. She was trying, gods help her, she just did not want to share her family. Not that she knew that was her reasoning. No she stayed bitter thinking she was mad from something else. She took her seat to Gig’s left and raised an eyebrow as he took her hand. Book stand? Really? She thought but she held the book open. As Gig spoke River found herself listening, and seeing the pictures matching with the words. River found herself overwhelmed with a mix of emotions once more. Dammit… She thought as she wiped a stray tear from her cheek. She wanted to accept Kerria. She also wanted Gig to be happy. It was easier to keep thinking of Kerria as Rain’s friend. As her estranged Aunt, the person she knew for almost 4 years. All these mixed emotions brought back her anger, as well as a varying range of disapproval. These past few days though brought River better to the ability to hold her tongue. She did feel another wave of fresh tears threatening to come, and she felt the tell tail signs. Her face was hot, a lump in her throat, and her vision blurred; but she cleared her throat twice refusing to burst into tears. Anger, and sarcasm was her best defenses when she could not run from her emotions. But she knew she would probably cry if anything else was said. It was weird how her silly little mind worked, she wanted to say, “That’s all well and good but the soil and rose better find another room or I’m moving rooms.” Maybe say, “The rose better watch their back, that’s right auntie… face the wrath of the river.” But no. River simply stayed quiet. Most of what she thought sounded hollow, and they would cause more problems. She just hoped they would take her silence as a good thing.
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Posted: Sun Aug 28, 2011 11:38 am
When giglamesh finished, had made them close the book. Then he was kind of waiting for river to.....do something....cry...run out of room...something. So in her silence he thought she didnt like the story. Possibly then single most emotion he has put in to something, and she didnt like it...depression wasnt great. The funny thing is the flowers to to river before gig did. Mai would of stood in river's lapp hugging her, before she looked her in the face. "Did wivet not wike daddies story? That makes mai sad....daddy tried real hard for mai, but wivet dont like." Maiyuri just kind of plopped down in to river lap, no longer looking at her, also sad. Gig and mai both knew she was sad, and while mai was a bit better at it....seemed she gained her fathers obliviousness towards emotions. Kerria had to do everything, she just went over to river, gave a smile, and gave river a large hug, didnt say anything she just held her and hugged her tight.
[Elsewhere in Upper layer of Midgar city]
A large room, tall green tubes lined the two side walls. They were clear tubes but light inside them made it look like liquid was flowing up them, lighting the room. Then at the back of the room a large very elaborate desk with no chairs infront of it. Large red drapes hung from the celings down, they had been tied off at the walls leaving the desk open. On the wall behind the desk was a large screen, as well as one on the desk. A man sat at the desk his back turned, in his left had down in his lap he held a small handheld holoscreen, used to do things like read files, or newspaper it did not have the res to do much more then have small vid files and read only files. In his right hand, elbow on the desk, he held a single pen which he would twirl once the click twice, every two seconds. Even after They brought in the two commanding officers from the last mission, he just sat there silent for some time. Rith something, and dane north were both brought in to the room (dane in a wheel chair if you want) Handcuffed. It was up till today that both were brought out of IC (intensive care) And it was now time for the ceo to judge them.
From in the desk the man continued to sit there twirling then pen, it was to dark behind the desk to see his face, the back lighting of the large screen made his face seem like a shadow. "Major Dane North....You were directed to retrieve the Capacitor unit from project 7718, you failed in this objective. You took it upon yourself to intrude in to the other commanders task, of retrieving the theif of the unit, and the current holder of the unit that...Grimm. You failed in this task also. Finally you decided to engage in combat with Giglamesh Grimm, You failed miserably in the process sustained heavy damage to yourself, and you lost over 15 men and 10 more injured. I would ask what you think i should do with you, but that irrelevant." The ceo was now facing them hands locked together elbows on the table hands locked in front of fact resting against his forehead. "You are worthless garbage and are not worth the time of day to treat medically. The grimm would of done a favor to him executing you in combat, but thats the only thing you were able to do was escape, and the lives of multiple more soldiers. I would ask what you think i should do, but as i said that Irrelevant because you say something along the lines of give you a second chance...thats not going to happen. Take him to execution grounds, get him out of my sight for good." The ceo would...just casually cast him off to death then take a sip of water before he looked in rith's direction.
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Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2011 7:35 pm
River burst into tears and she clung to Kerria. She tried; she did try to keep a brave face. She had been so emotional lately and she knew it was messing up a lot of things, so she tried and tried to keep it in check. It’s funny the one person she had been mad at before was the one person who helped her feel better. ”I’m sorry…” she whispered. Sorry for being mad, sorry for being stupid and sorry for crying all over your clothes. She just kept crying, as she thought, Thank you.
Dane saw red as he heard the Ceo’s verdict. He couldn’t think of anything to say, all would be pathetic, and he had more pride than that. He did vow revenge on Giglamesh, and he was still furious with Hardes who too had been dragged before the Ceo. Dane had some small smug satisfaction that Hardes too was to be punished. But Dane was still furious everything was gone. And there wasn’t a damn thing he could do about it. All his power, the respect he once had, everything gone in an instiant. Son of a b***h… As Dane was swearing he would live, a man entered the room. He had snowy white hair, but was barely in his thirties. He had blue eyes, with a taint of green and he seemed to have a dangerous aura in spite of his easy going smile shown on his face. He bowed towards the Ceo out of respect, then glanced at Dane. ”Sir if I may… I have use for someone like North in my labs with the bête noire project.” he said. This was Alexander Griffs, research officer of the De Kampfer unit.
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Posted: Wed Aug 31, 2011 9:32 pm
Giglamesh just kind of looked at kerria, his look screamed....."how the ******** did she do that!?" Gig had no idea what was going on, or how roze did that, he rarely saw river like that, and with roze made it even odder. He truly did not understand emotions, and that of a teen girl was so much worse he would much rather take a bullet to the face, cause he would never get it....And he slightly looking and mai, which was also hugging roze and river cutely, and got a horrified vision of her as a teen, and gig would literally shiver hoping death would come before that.
The man at the desk would slam down his little holoscreen. "I do not care what you do with him, i want that garbage out of my sight now!" He would then read for a few moments, it would look like he scratched his chin. The file and details of a project "Pitch black Doll" were displayed on the large screen behind him, which the Ceo of de kampfer would stand at his desk facing the large screen on the wall. "Research officer....i have warned you before on the use of foreign languages with your project names. We are in a society that uses English, i would advise you to use it, you may leave now." He waited for him to leave, still facing the screen, because of the light it made it so one could not see the ceo's face. "Mr Hardes....like the garbage you were brought in with, you completely failed in your mission to procure the thief of the prototype, and the holder of it. But things get interesting according to your report...not only did the reaper, track you down after originally intimidating you out of combat, to force combat on you after you obtained the prototype.....but after he defeated you, he ...let you live. I dont understand, north was nearly slaughtered and only managed to escape like a rat, because a lot of soldiers pulled him out of combat. You however were left in bad condition...but the reaper actually spared you, why is that? What is the purpose of sparing somebody after removing there pride threw defeat? ....I dont understand the reapers actions, i have read files where he has viciously massacred entire units, for less then making him look foolish like you did.....so why spare you? i dont understand it at all, and i want to know why. Regardless your damage resistance has perked my interest, and because of it i am placing you as a personal project of mine........Let us see if he spares you a second time." He turned and as he spoke that last sentence rith could see a large crazed temple to temple smile, showing great insanity.
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Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2011 12:35 am
Alexander would bow once more and he said, ”Thank you sir.” He nodded to the soldiers holding former Major Dane North and Alexander gave a cold smile before he directed them to leave. He had been looking for such a test subject for a week now. The two tests before each made progress, but it was not enough. They didn’t give the results he was looking for. He would start things rolling once they got back to the lab. English eh? Despite the fact the English language is Indo-European… maybe he means the Queen’s English. Alexander thought seriously, then saying, ”Understood.” He made a mental note to use another name and he left.
(thought Rith was sent to kill the thief o.o xP)
Rith actually gave a tiny shrug. He didn't know the answer either. Most of that battle made no sense. He had thought about a lot while he had been recovering. He was glad Dane would still live, though he knew a bit about Alexander Griffs. Things did not look good for Dane. Alexander's experiments were cruel, and he cared little about the test subject, just the result. Rith liked knowing about those he worked for, and with. Because of this Rith had also suspected the Ceo would so something like this; well not to this extent, but damn. Pride through defeat? Bah what pride? Rith thought inwardly looking within. A flicker of pride yawned at him and went back to sleep. Not like it matters now. He found himself thinking. He hadn’t had pride for a while now.
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Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2011 9:45 pm
~September 2, xx11~In the multiple passing months after the protection mission, and the end of the winter festival on rains b-day, possibly because of the heat, work had become very scarce. there were many jobs giglamesh could of taken, but things like "Save my kitty", and "Kill the law firm." Were not gig's boat. True gig was willing to kill, and if he saw it necessary he would not hesitate. Only if he saw it as necessary or enjoyable, and he only saw it as enjoyable if there person was guided by there sins. Gig was no saint, but he was a hand of justice he felt he had to be to make up for the wrongs he did in his past. But in the passing months, there was no justice to be served, just simple tedious, or vengeful missions, both were not the type he would do. Roze infact gave him a few missions...yet gig declined, and passed them to river...his arrogance of his skill, he would see them as below him.
Gig spent then several months doing....little, mostly just being a father. He would train and spar frequently with fuzzy, river, and roze. But when you have to hold back to keep from destroying your surroundings, it made enjoying the fight hard. so he also spent alot of time at the bar in the brothel. What he did there was kept in utmost secrecy, from river, and roze. But those things only kept him entertained for so long, as more time passed he developed a new hobby, a hobby brought about from that last night they had a encounter with shinra, cars. Gig had taken up a decent sized hobby in street racing, nearly every week he would go out to watch, and even help in the street races. Naturally since gig was seen as a rebel, most street racers nearly saw him as a hero, and because of that gig became incredibly popular at the races. He used that to over time begin to assemble his own car. He had most of it...but...well the car. He had a huge ten cylinder v type engine, atleast 750 cubic inches. He had incredibly advanced military grade slippery clutch transmission. He had some advanced electronic systems, and a speaker box shaped like a old pine box casket which housed 3 1k watt amps which pushed two sub woofers 3 12 inch speakers, 4 10 inch speakers, and over 10 tweeters. Needless to say gig use this speaker for music when he was working on the parts he had. The real only problem about his hobby was, when he worked on it, music was so loud roze would not let gig work on his stuff there, so he just went to the ray's shop, ray was the owner of the charger gig forced to let him drive. They actually became decent friends....well as much of a friend gig would have i guess you could say. Gig just had jet to find a car and chassis that would be able to handle the equipment he had, but he was still looking, cause his Frankenstein monster car was going to be a absolute beast. But on this day gig was at the estate, napping on mai's bed with mai, after a some training with roze.A huge limo like car would pull outside the west security gate to the estate. SHE would get out and walk to the gate pressing the button and she waited for a response, taking a hit of her cigar, before speaking with her incredibly heavy russian accent in to the speaker. "I am here to zee Mr riiper, i have beezniess to speak vit him. Mece Kerria knows about mine arrival, and zee matter of mine beezniess." She would take another hit from her cigar, like always she wore the business type suit apparel, with the military style jacket draped over her shoulders, even though it was around ninety five degrees outside.
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Posted: Fri Sep 02, 2011 2:34 pm
Half a year had come and gone, during which countless of things had happened to young River. She had grown two inches taller, and while she would probably never be near what Rain was; River did an inner happy dance when she had to get new bras. {Rofl ya o.o} She had also gotten her hair redone, still purple and black; it was very short and choppy in the back; while spiked and feathered for the bangs. During these past months River had spent a lot of time with her friends, family and boyfriend. She had also gone to numerous parties. Birthdays, pool parties, raves and even some exclusive parties. She had gone on a week-long trip, just her and her Aunt Kerri; then camping, twice. Innumerable projects had been completed, and even more started. River was also learning more about mechanics, while she spent some time with her brother helping him with his project. Quite content with life; River now sat reading a book waiting for her friends to get their butts downstairs. She was waiting by the mountain bikes, one she had bought with payments she had gotten on small jobs. It was easier to travel through the town with some kind of transport; and Kerri didn’t always let River use one of the cars. Traci, Clea, Isis, Dixie and Jakobe were supposed to be coming; they were all going to the public pool. River had on one of the Ed Hardy swimsuits under a white scooped neckline shirt, and a pair of jean mini shorts. She had cut and frayed the shorts all over with a razor adding bright patches of color and a few sparkles for flavor. She had on a simple pair of flip-flops showing off the fact she had painted her toenails, and they even matched her, albeit now chipping, fingernail polish. She wore makeup when she didn’t have a job, but wearing some to go to the pool was kinda silly. She wasn’t that nuts. River thumbed another page of the book trying to recall what she was reading. Her mind was distracted. She missed Guiness. He was a few continents away on some kind of rally, which would probably turn into a protest knowing Guiness and his friends. True he had asked her to come along, but she had declined. Giving him a peck on the cheek she said, Have fun. He had promised to be back in time for her birthday which was in 21 days. Yes she was counting down the days. After all this was going to be her 16th birthday. River sighed and put the book on her knee. She was bored waiting. What the heck was taking them so long? She thought.
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Posted: Sat Sep 03, 2011 4:37 pm
Two security guys would walk with balalika,...they just felt something about her and did not stand to close though. Balalika walked with a brief case, which was not like her and as she was walking towards the estate after being let in the gate, she would see river. She would take her cell phone and call somebody, then she would speak in a odd language...she only spoke didnt really stop as if the person on other side was just listening. Then quick as she called she hung up, then went over to river. "Ahh liddle grem, i need vou to come vit me. I have a job for vou and jour brouder. ....Do not vurry about jour frends they vill be wery late." She had called and had somebody ...postpone her friends, where ever there where, because this was very important business. The two guards led balalika to a meeting like room, where she sat, despite traditions she did not remove her heels, and they clacked all the way threw the estate to the meeting room. The guards would kind of suggest for river to go get gig....but she was probably freaking out about what balalika did to her friends, so with a sweat bead one would go to retrieve gig.
The guard knocked on maiyuri's room door whispering for gig. Which he answered....have matted sticking up on one side, eyes not blinking at same time, and face opposite side of matted hair, covered in drool. "Ehhh?!" The guard would tell him about balalika and then return to the meeting room. Giglamesh would grumble, looking around and grab a tanktop, tucking it under his hakama. By far not a very regal look....but very comfortable. He would kiss mai on the forehead, and head to the meeting room. By this time he wiped off the drool, and eye were blinking right but hair was still a mess. He would open the sliding door to find balalika, AND RIVER in the meeting room. Gig would sit at a chair across from balalika. ".....Whut?"
Balalika had a large sweat bead on the back of her head seeing what gig was wearing and his hair, she would just sigh. "...Obvisuly dis break frum verk haas not bean kind to vou...No matta, i have a busnees proposition for vou." She opened the briefcase on her lap and readied to give it to gig. Gig still not fully awake would scratch the matted side of his head. "...Hey...wait a sec...how you even know where i was?" He should of been off the radar, though he wasnt really hiding, he should of been under the radar for the last several months. "Mr Riiper....do vou not tink i vould keep treck of a waluable wesource like vou? I tink not." She would slide a small manilla file across the table to gig, she slide it so some of the documents and pictures would slide out for gig and river to see. "I need de grems for a "Contract kill" Dis vill go wery simply...you vill decline....but vith in tree stages, i can guarentee vou will accept reepir. Now de targat is a senatur, by za name of Harold Muniez." Balalika was was to calm she had this meeting already planned out.
Giglamesh would readying threw the files looking at the pictures."Bali baby... you know i dont do contract kills......not unle" Balalika would cut him off. "ves i already knuw dis, as i said at first vou vill decline, but in tree steeps vou vill accept. Now dis will not change vour mind, but zis senatur has financial becking by shenra....Zis will make you tink less of heem...but not change vour mind. First steep in to making vou accept is dis, in four deys he is going to take a beel to senate, to raise taxes eveen highur in de slums, and truought meedgar." Gig still not fully awake, didnt like the control she had cause she was right. The mentioning of the finical backing of shinra did change his mind just made him think he was corrupt, but he was a senator so it was not a big surprise. But when she spoke of the higher taxes. "What!?....but they already tax us so high most cant pay it as is!" He did not like the idea of this bill.
She slide the folder across the table pertaining to the details of the bill that was trying to be passed. "Jesh zat is step tu as i already said....now the ting zat vill make vou accept is, zat zis increase in taxes vill gu tu...none otha zen a military compain. Zey plan on using zis money to make many shenra compounds around ze vastelands....more soldeers, more bases...more power, and spreading the furces better zrewout meedgar's vastelands."Right before she got to the juicy details of why gig would want to take the mission, she slide the contract across the table in front of gig, with a guild pen. Midway in to the description gig would weave his fingers together putting them over his mouth but under his nose, with his elbows on the table. Then when she finished, gig wasted no time, and said nothing, he took the pen wrote his name. Being a guild pen and he clicked the back to retract the pen, he was like pushing a nail down, which pricked his thumb making it bleed, which he would put his thumb down signing a blood seal on the contract, much as contract were down within the guilds. "....cant even argue with you bali baby....makes me mad that you had this planned, but your 100% right. Knowing you....you already know something, and have a plan for it dont you?" It was like before he finished the sentence she tossed a large folder across the table, it was the debriefing on what she needed them to do, with all the resources and everything all ready for them to go. Giglamesh wasted no time in starting to look threw it, Kind of shocked by the inital idea. "So were....attacking a train, that is probably extremely heavily guarded?..........this may be fun." When he asked the question about the train, he knew something was up, he knew balalika as well as she knew him,....but gig kind of got a idea lookign from balalika to river, then that is when he said "this may be fun."
Balalika stood, she had a vien pulsing on her right scared temple, she hated gig calling her "bali baby", which he did to anger her so in turn she tries to hide it, which she dont know but he likes the fact she tries to but does so poorly. "Uf curse and....wittle grem.....not a scratch wittle one, not a scratch!" Balalika would toss the keys so river could easily catch them. She would turn and begin to leave the room, then with the guards walking outside, a new actual limo pulled up outside the gates, which a large man would step out in a suit, his face wraped and his eye's glowing a intense blue. He was obviously a soldier, one of her "knights of the round" he opened the door and waited for balalika to walk out of the estate and get in to the car. Then knowing gig and probably river were watching she would give a little wink, and blow a little kiss "chuu!" Before her knight closed the door, looking at gig with a look of intense rage, but that was not his fault it was one of the few things he knew, it was just his normal look and couldnt be helped and gig knew it. He would get back in driver seat and drive off. Gig got up and saw balalika out, and cringed heavily when he saw her wink at him, he knew it was just to torment gig. Then as they drove off gig, and probably river would see the car, and gig would spazz! He would run down to the car, it looked amazing, she had a impeccable taste for cars, the engine must of been massive, and the exhaust came straight out of the engine compartment. "this things is a ******** beast!!!" Gig was not a bit jealous that river was the one that got the keys to drive it. "...Ahem...well we got two days....lets get busy." The funniest thing is, gig and river would probably both look at each other with the same idea "take it to the stree races."
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Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2011 8:20 am
River saw Balalika walk into the garage with two of Kerria’s guards, and then she went on her cell phone; spoke in a foreign language before she spoke to River. River had figured Balalika was there about a job but… how did you know I was waiting for my friends? And what do you mean late? River thought as she scrambled to her feet taking out her cell phone. She sent texts believing Balalika was not crazy enough to do something… wait… River thought and she immediately called Isis as she followed slowly behind those three. Come on Isis… pick up. She thought. She didn’t even hear one of the guards speak to her, as she got a text interrupting the phone call. When River reached the meeting room she was putting her phone away sighing. She took a seat and soon Gig came in the room. River bristled at Gig’s appearance and she put a hand over her face embarrassed.
River browsed the information and tried to pay attention to the conversation. That bill would be something Guiness would protest, but honestly River was having a hard time paying attention to it all. Boring… She thought refraining from yawning. Attacking a train? She sat up interested and she gave a tiny grin. That does sound like fun. She thought. River caught the keys and looked at them surprised. AWESOME! She thought doing an inner happy dance. She had the feeling Balalika brought a good car. She stayed sitting until she saw Gig’s reaction to the car. Ah! I wanna see! River thought and she ran after him. When she saw it, she ran closer to get a better look and she agreed with Gig’s comment. I wonder how fast this can go? She thought with a growing grin and she tossed the keys in the air before she caught them. So awesome. "Uhhhh so we should like take it out for a test spin... right?" She asked wanting some excuse to drive it asap.
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Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2011 7:12 pm
~Sept, 23, xx11~ Giglamesh and river were in romeo's abandoned gas station, working on the motorbike. Over the last few weeks they had done alot of work on it. Then had to gut the old system and reinstall a new one. the entire v10 engine fit, but it brought up a major problem. The bike used a duel drive system, meaning two wheels on one side, operated separately from the other side. One engine could not operate both. So what they ending up doing was....putting two straight 6 motors in to the bike. That was a surprise expense, but at same time gig saved some money cause, he just traded his amazing v10 for both of them from a tuner gear head. Once they got two motors in to the bike, the rest fit easily around them. A pro racing truck radiator, which would be nice with the two strong engines directly next to each other. The exhaust system, was shot and simple headers and a exhaust tip little on the loud side..but gig didnt mind. A fuel tank mounted below, and two racing transmission mounted sideways, each one for the rear tires.
They had spent a decent amount of time on this, once they had finally healed all there wounds from the last mission they took. but giglamesh had the bike raised off the ground on a dolly on his back under it, he would hooking up the last few wires, to the bikes electronic control systems, while river was above force pumping oil threw the engines, and fuel threw the heads, and fuel lines. Gig didnt cause he nor river were the best at fabrication, but a guy romeo knew even added a special little gimmick to the top of the bike. there was a open area of the frame, where two panels would open and split to either side, exposing a compartment to hold kagetsu kamakiri, and hissatsu ichigeki. Kagetsu even had a swivel arm to act as a tripod even when he was driving. Giglamesh finished, and put plugged in the last wire, then put the metal panel plate back in place tightening the bolts to secure the plate. once river finish they were ready to start it up.
Giglamesh was slightly dirty, and he would get up and go over to what acted like the kitchen table, littered with chinese food, and pizza boxes. he grabbed a newspaper, to use to clean off some dirt and oil....but when he read it, he would give a small laugh to himself. he would walk over to river and kind of toss the paper at her. The cover story was about "the left hand of death" a young rebel by the name river grimm, assassinated senator "name here" on oct 2, xx11 in cold blood, in attempt to silence the senator's bill idea that went to court on the 3rd. While it seemed her goal was to stop him, because of the fear of safety she brought, a majority of the senate passed the bill. "....well seems the droid was right....they used us to pass the bill anyways it was a trap we fell for hook line and sinker....but, something i didnt tell you....shinra will still be mad, cause as far as they know...you really killed the senator. Im betting there plan was to fake his death and let him live in far off country for rest of his life...but bally made sure that did not happen...while they wont ever release anything about it...im sure that pissed them off, that you still pulled one over on them, and still got to there precious senator.....of course...they can easily just make another...but for the time being, we may have made them bite there tongues for now atleast. hey "left hand"....after the motorbike test....how bout we go get a pizza." romeo stuck his head out from a different room, to ask if he could to. "...no" romeo kind o lowered his head, but remembered something. "Aww man....and here i went and got something for you...i see how it is....hey wtf!" giglamesh took the "something" out of his hand, it was a thick c shaped...what almost looked like a choker, missing 25% of the full circle.
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Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2011 7:55 am
ღRiver watched the oil pressure gauge as she held the priming tool. Glancing at the rocker arms she waited for oil to start leaking out the tips. She sighed as she finished the main task. She was having fun working on this project with Gig, but today was supposed to be important… She scowled as she removed the pump. She then saw Gig looking at the newspaper and chuckle somewhat at something then tossed the paper at her. Did he notice the date? She thought as she checked the paper, also wiping off what oil she could. Aww… the paper was old. Like twenty days old… she thought hanging her head. And it had a horrible picture… she added annoyed eyeing the picture. She had been wearing a cute top with jeans that day, but both were bloody and torn in that picture. Ug and my hair… River whined to herself shaking her head. When Gig mentioned the trap River shrugged. Politics was boring. ”Speaking of ‘Bally…’ uhhh you never told me what she said when you brought back the car…” she said glancing at him as she crushed the newspaper. She ignored the nickname the paper had given her; but she did like the mention of pizza. Food sounded really good. Though she was still irritated no one had commented about her birthday. Yes today was the day she turned 16, and it seemed everyone was too busy to notice. She would say nothing though, since it would defeat the purpose of being mature and grown up… but dammit… she wanted to throw a fit. Guiness was stuck overseas, something about a hold up… literally. Her friends were busy with schooling and their side jobs. Boring… River thought, disliking that fall had come. River had never, nor did she ever want to, tried school. With Rain, Gig, Dude, Kendra, even Kerria; River had learned a lot over the years. All these people in her makeshift family forgetting what this day was? She was crushed. Still she smiled a little bit and nodded. ”I guess pizza sounds good. Sure…” she said trying to sound enthusiastic. She was excited to see the motorcycle actually running, and maybe she can race it. Gotta try to tally up the good. She thought to herself.ღ
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Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2011 6:44 pm
giglamesh came out of the gross bathroom, using the sink to wash his hands....and touch nothing else. Unlike the other gear head in the abandoned gas station they were using as a shop for there illegal race cars who liked being dirty with oil, gig and river did not. "Yeah i did....dont you remember i told you she was cut our pay to repair for the damage....thats why i didnt pay you from last mission. she was almost debating giving you the car, ....i think she remembered how awesome it was though, and decided to just fix it.....hey romeo!? ....you never said how to activate....what ever this is." From a back room, you can hear him thud his head on something and curse cause he was trying to answer. "ahh....goes on the back of your neck....just put magic in to it!" Giglamesh would shrug and force in on to the base of the back of his neck. Giglamesh would go over and sit on the bike putting his hand on the large turning lever that was the key to the starter. "....you ready?..." Romeo would also come out of the back room, he wanted to see this. Then gig would turn the switch, the noise of a burdened engine trying to force its crankshaft for the first time, slowly each time faster then the last, it sounded like a car with a dead battery trying to start. The difference being the noise got faster, and as more gas built finally the sparkplugs would fire sparking the engines with a loud bang fire spraying out of the exhaust pipes that came out behind the foot pedal for giglamesh, the right engine started slightly before the left. With it still in neutral giglamesh would push both lever forward making the engines rev louder, Giglamesh felt great he would move the levers from mid way forward, back to mid way, then forward further. He was revving the loud engines, it sounded like a dragster it was quite loud, but to any gear head it was such a wonder full sound. They literally just made a motorbike, that would have around the same power of a funny car, may be a bit overkill but whom so ever rides it would not complain...unless the wrecked. Gig would lover the levers to mid way so the engine was only idle as he spoke to river. "Your fine with walking right? just head to the pizza place off central, im going to go test the bike out a bit to see that it works right, ok? cool" He did not give her a chance to answer just reved the engine, before pushing down the foot pedals, to shift it out of neutral where the back tires would just spin like mad, lifting the from of the bike. gig would pull back on the levers some when it did a wheelie, and drove the bike doing a wheelie out the front of the garage. He would land the front down pulling back on the left lever to turn the bike to the left. It was awesome how it worked, the front axels did not turn, each could just raise or lower, but the body could turn to assist in the turning to the appropriate side. The rear, while very complex, worked marvelously. It was separate from the rest of the bike and did not,,lean like the front of the bike did, instead it was a two wheels slanted over the transmission box. It did not turn, instead in tandem with the levers and engine one wheel would change from the acceleration pattern of the other, this caused one side to push forward, while the other pulled back and thus causing the bike to turn. It would be possible with out the front sway arms, and body, but they made it keep much better balance at higher speed so it did not flip if he turned to fast.
Giglamesh would just take off down the street, it was not as quite as fast as a drag bike, but it was around the same speed as a funny car. In no time the motorbike flew past 100 hundred miles per hour, it got past 150 no problem. About 175 its acceleration trend began to slow down, but kept going, finally around two hundred the twin engines revved incredibly loud, and around two hundred thwey were at there limit. while of course two hundred was really fast, the g-force was to great to turn and he would never attempt to at this speed, he just wanted to give her some gas to see how fast she could go. He was surprised that it got that high, since it was so heavy. But what surprised him more was that how incredibly fast it get to speed, for a heavy tank of a bike its acceleration was amazing....granted it did have to straight 6 engines to get it to do it, still with the weight from the heavy frame and the twin engines most would think that it was to heavy to accelerate like it just did. it was a true beast, befitting to giglamesh, e had acquired a noble steed he deemed acceptable for himself.
Before he knew it was was at the opposite side of town, in no time at all, he had flew threw the city dodging as little traffic as he had to. At the other side of town, he would slow down, he would slow down and draw the right lever back to mid point causing the bike to turn very easily facing the opposite direction, like that he just sat. "Ahh i accept you as my mount...ill name you soon enough...but...now i must activate my plan, so she dont get all depressd on me." Giglamesh would drive back threw wutai, this time not at full speed, and only bit over the speed limits, he was heading somewhere specific.
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Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2011 10:47 pm
ღEww… River thought not ever wanting to use that nasty bathroom. She would rather dive in a freaking lake or wash up at the pizza place. River blinked surprised by what Gig said. Almost gave me the car?? Why tell me that?? She thought in dismay. River covered her ears expecting that bike would be really loud. She was glad everything worked properly. And man that was freaking sweet. She thought excited. The noise lowered and Gig spoke, but she paused a long while, even after he drove off before she even responded. No I’m not freaking Ok with walking… She thought actually stomping a foot to the ground in irritation. ”Gah choke on the exhaust… freaking IDIOT!” she said I a huff. She was tempted to go home and just go to sleep. Leaving the garage angrily she took out her phone wondering why her friends still have not responded to her earlier texts. She sent another multi text to the list with a tiny frown before she started heading to the pizza place. She was only going there because she was hungry. As she walked she still expected a ring from her phone. She had checked twice to see if the volume was loud enough to hear. Maybe it’s broken… gods know what I do to it. She thought with a frown as she jammed her phone in her back pocket. She headed into a shop and used their washroom. She glanced at the mirror as she dried her clean face. ”Happy birthday…” she told herself with a sigh and she tossed the paper towel to the trash can across the room. Hoo ya two points!... wee… she thought with another sigh. She left the store after buying two chocolate bars and she munched on one as she walked. ”Freaking people…” she muttered as she slowly walked.ღ
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Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2011 9:35 pm
Giglamesh would pull in to the parking lot of a shop, and he would turn the large almost lever like key. Giglamesh would step off the bike and walk inside and head straight to the counter. The man at the counter was pacing unhappy about you coming back. "******** you actually came back dammit...why you got to do this to me?" "Cause i am...so you going to make the deal with me...or am i going to do what my name sake states?" "So i take your deal for 5k for the bike...5k for a extremely limited edition atv concept...only 100 were made...for 5k and you send some more clients my way....or option b...you beat the s**t out of me or kill me and take it....your not a very fair negotiator." "Never said i was, i just have to have that atv, that specific one...its the only one good enough...if i have to i have to but personally i dont want your meaningless death on my conscious." "Yeah well i dont want my blood all over your fists either....but ******** man i get ******** either way, so this is down right some bull s**t..." "Ever here of the bunny hole?" "Uhh...maybe i heard....something about it being one of the biggest brothels in the city....why?" "What if i told you, i could get you vip acess there?" "you can get me in there!? i....i mean...sure if that interested me....wow now you got something to black mail me with dont you." "Yep..." "I hate your face....fine take it...but ill hold you to the vip access..." Giglamesh would pat him on the shoulder putting the large bag of gold down for him it would go over to the atv, he had in his show room. He would start it, and wait for the guy to reluctantly open the wide doors so he could drive out. A decent amount of time had passed so she was probably close to the pizza shop by now. So gig would speed to the pizza place, then from there he would head back to the gas station looking for river. He saw he walking...looking at the ground, forcing alot of chocolate in her face. Gig would know the situation. "she thinks i forgot...perfect..." Giglamesh would drive past, because gig was on a different bike so she should not notice him at all. Gig would just drive up behind her on the sidewalk, the atv was not loud at all unless he reved it up real loud. It sounded alot like a crotch rocket as it....well kind of was. Once he got close enough behind her so she would notice somebody on a bike. He would rev it loud driving out in the street turning on way hard before mid turn turning it all the way back the other way turning the bike doing a one eighty so he was just coasting backwards talking to her as he did. "Dam riv if you keep up all this walking...were going to have to get you some more boots, cause your wearing the rubber out of those." Giglamesh had a big playfull smile across his face, and note how tactfully he did not mention his bike, or this new bike he was on at all. He would make river ask the questions.
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