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 Posted: Tue Aug 03, 2010 8:01 pm
"We'd probably be dead..." Zen sighed, realizing he'd have to just let them blow up more things before anybody intervened. "So I guess we ought to go do something to prepare for later.... I could teach you.... other stuff?" Zen went a bit red.
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"I'll have to fix that... " Atra pointed to Christine's wound and went to work practicing his swordfighting. When he got tired of blocking and wimpy cuts, he wrote the name of his opponent in the air and sucked it into the blade. His power shot up dramatically and he took aim. "I'll use a special trick from Zensekai."
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Posted: Tue Aug 03, 2010 8:13 pm
Angela gave Zen a suspicious look because that sounded....really...suspicious. Plus, he was red. "Ah...what sort of 'other stuff'?" she asked, narrowing her eyes. "Preparation for what? Where?" Why was he being all randomly vague?
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"Eh, it's fine," Christine said, ramming her hand into her opponent's nose. "Bleeding doesn't bother me." She kind of wished these demony minion things would go away so she could watch Aetra fight though. It seemed like it would be amusing. Tearing her opponent's dagger out of his hand, she whirled around and stabbed it into his face before ripping it out and flinging it at another.
**
Agares hesitated when he felt the power build up and saw Aetra aim at him. However, he wasn't one to back down so he let out a very demon-like roar and lunged, swinging his sword and aiming for Aetra's head.
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Posted: Tue Aug 03, 2010 8:46 pm
Atra blocked it, releasing a power channeled to specifically cancel out the life force of the arch fiend. His own blade broke in the process, and cut his shoulder. "Nice warm up!"
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"Umm... well... I am umm..." Zen coughed and composed himself. "I am in need of someone else... who could umm... take care of Kall with me. My race is gone and there's only three of us working there... we need to prepare for a war of dimensions and realms... save the universe type, you know?" Zen scratched his head, he was pretty bad at explaining.
"Unless you already have your own realm and guardian duties." Zen realized he was just bad at explaining to HER, for some reason. Getting flustered? What, was he a teenager again?
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Posted: Tue Aug 03, 2010 8:58 pm
Christine managed to finish up with her last minion and was standing there trying to determine how bad the gash on her side was and was generally feeling a bit light headed from blood loss now that she wasn't moving, when she heard a very unmanly shriek and turned in time to see Agares crumple and shrivel and die a very melodramatic death.
She flopped back onto the ground, wincing at the pain that shot through her side. "Bravo!"
**
Angela blinked. Several times. She was trying to work her mind around what he was asking. At first, it sounded a little...um....but then the second part made it sound like he just wanted help preparing for war which was less...um.
She looked at him cautiously. "I don't have my own realm. I go around doing work for my father usually but I think right now he would be fine with me helping you....with Kall?"
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Posted: Tue Aug 03, 2010 9:15 pm
"Looks like we need a pit stop." Atra absorbed some energy and healed himself while walking over to Christine and offering his hand. "Take as much of my power as your body can hold and that'll fix your side. What an annoying demon dude, no manners at all."
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"Oh good! Maybe I ought to tell your dad first..." Zen looked around wondering if that was a good idea or not. "But are you good with it? It's sort of a life time thing that sometimes requires a lot of stopping people like Christine and Atra from wrecking things." It was way too long since he tried to ask anybody to come along with him for him to remember how to have it make sense.
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Posted: Tue Aug 03, 2010 9:27 pm
"Ah....no," Angela said, slightly dazed by what he'd just said. "He...he can find me wherever I am, if he needs me for some reason but he'd probably be glad for me to help you...." She trailed off and gave him a confused look. "I thought you meant just temporarily. Like, until this mess with Aetra and Chris is all sorted out. But you mean to stay permanently?"
She was sort of surprised he wanted to keep her around that long to begin with but then, also, it begged the question of why he wanted her around and what he had in mind and...and why did it sound vaguely like he was proposing!? She suddenly blushed.
**
Christine hesitantly took his hand, coughing slightly as his energy started to flow into her. "Well, you did knock over his tower. That's enough to make anyone a bit pissy," she said, pulling herself to her feet. "I'm mostly just surprised he could emit such a high pitched squeal. That's almost impressive in and of itself."
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Posted: Tue Aug 03, 2010 9:57 pm
"Well you don't have to stay with me forever and ever since that'd make anybody go crazy. Even I can't stay in there for that long! My nephew comes and goes and has his own life. I'm the Power, and if I die my sort-of-sister will take my place, so that's covered... But when things get really bad or there's nobody else around we might need you to step in and take care of the realm." Zen smiled, he couldn't believe she was thinking about it! Yay!
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"That was rather undignified of him. He didn't even have sense to quiver in fear before dying! Well anyway... where to next? Or would you like to come check out my place? if you know what I mean." Atra stopped the energy transfer, his own body was loosing more than it was taking in.
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Posted: Tue Aug 03, 2010 10:11 pm
"Check out just your place?" Christine asked with a sly grin. "I can think of something else I'd like to check out. Maybe a few things. At your place."
She glanced down at herself. "I'm sort of...filthy. So I hope your place has a shower. A large one. Big enough for two."
((*facepalms* Chris...))
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"I never said I wouldn't want to stay with you that long," Angela said. She grabbed his arm and looked at him earnestly. "And don't talk so casually about what happens if you die! If I'm staying with you then I've no intention of letting you die. Just...stop with that already."
"If I come, you have to promise--no dying."
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Posted: Tue Aug 03, 2010 10:50 pm
"I promise. I have no intent on dying." Zen looked her in the eye and assured her. "And hey I have the all time record for age probably, I doubt I'll going anywhere anytime soon." Though to himself, he had to admit if anyone was capable of killing him it'd be Aetra. The thought made him use the arm Angela grabbed to put around her shoulders.
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Aetra laughed his usual laugh. "Well, the place will need some cleaning as well but that shouldn't be a problem since we're now one.... Ready?" He grabbed Christine's hand excitedly.
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Posted: Tue Aug 03, 2010 11:41 pm
Angela hesitated slightly before she leaned against him. Okay. She was officially an idiot. She was getting way too attached to him. Way, way too attached.
"You had better not," she said. "If I'm going to come help you with Kall, it would be really irritating if you died on me."
**
Christine took his hand and waited for him to...do whatever it was he was going to do. She wasn't sure what that bit was about now being one but it sounded sort of exciting. Much more interesting than hunting for her little sister at least.
"Eh...we should have left some of the minions so we could make them clean for us," she said.
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Posted: Wed Aug 04, 2010 12:11 am
"My nephew says the same thing, the both of you can pummel me together I guess." Zen laughed, remembering how angry Asaiyo was all the time over more or less anything. He wasn't exactly sure how everybody else was going to take it, or if he ought to go back right away. "Need to pack anything? Anything else to do before eloping?" Zen couldn't believe he just asked that and turned red again.
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Atra grinned and transported them into a pitch black place with stale air. A second later and some flames burst into box torches that ran across stone walls of an abandoned and overgrown gothic city of some kind that began to fix the air. "This is my universe's palace. It's been rotting for Eternity but now you're here... I have spunk again, and that's quite rejuvenating don't you agree?"
The whole place spiked of his energy for a moment and then began to fix itself. Dead and almost petrified plants of otherworldly colors regrew, the sky lit on fire and became existent and red again. Things slowly began to clean up on their own. "The rest of my power is in here, it's too much for my flesh to hold all at once, take whatever you like and no pathetic fiend will hurt you again."
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Posted: Wed Aug 04, 2010 1:34 am
Angela flushed. "Ah....e--elope? Um...." Her mind went blank. "No. I don't think...I mean, everything I own really is on board the ship which is at Kall right now so no. There is nothing I need......"
Did he just say elope? They were eloping? Not that she was opposed to the idea but it rather came out of no where. "Are we really eloping?"
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"Fancy," Christine said with a smug smile, looking around. She decided not to get into an argument about a universe verses a multiverse and all that. She was having far too much fun.
She slid her arms around his waist and grinned up at him. "I like spunk," she assured him. She had decided. Aetra definitely trumped every boyfriend she'd ever had. All powerful, hot, witty...yeah.
Life was goooood.
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Posted: Wed Aug 04, 2010 1:49 am
"Ah...................." Zen couldn't believe he really said that. "I guess we are....earhhh... maybe we should go before your dad realizes..." He smacked his own head for such a stupid slip.
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"And I've got a shower back here.." Aetra lead the way through crumbling halls rebuilding themselves to a bath with four fountains filling it.
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Posted: Wed Aug 04, 2010 9:17 am
"I don't think he'll really care," Angela told Zen, her face red. He would probably be glad...On second thought, the fussing alone would be irritating and then all the traditional things he would attempt to shove down their throats. He'd probably drag them both off for week long ritual cleansing in the mountains or something.
Angela took his hand. "Ah...yeah. Nevermind. You're right. We should go before he realizes
**
"This is a shower?" Christine asked, amused. It was huge. Enough for probably fifty people instead of just two. "Aetra, who are you? Or who were you? You've never really explained to me where you come from."
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Posted: Wed Aug 04, 2010 1:01 pm
"ah ha..." Zen smiled awkwardly and poofed them back into Kall. "So umm.." Zen looked around thinking of what to say first. "I guess we should find you a room and move your stuff there?" Bringing anybody new around was always awkward.
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" Bath-shower... same thing right?" Aetra was about to say something witty and perverted, but the inevitable "Who're you?" question came up.
"Guess it's story time then, we can come back here when it's full." Aetra walked down some more stairs and down some more.
"This place, it's a hub inbetween realms and other universes in this... universe, called Enkelion. This castle is Salar-Ivictus. It's had nothing to do with anywhere you've been or heard of in your joined hub of universes... Whatever you call it there.
That is why we had to merge before coming, the walls and weight of creation come crashing down between here and there, but since we're linked it links Enkelion to your universe. Without you, I'd be the giant void I was in Kall... I'm afraid it's a long story, but if you really want to know..."
Aetra trailed off while walking along and fixing the worn down building as they went along. He'd never have told the story before and a question break seemed needed, plus it was weird since he only just remembered half of it after coming back.
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