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Posted: Sat Aug 21, 2010 1:34 am
The docks, nighttime. No respectable girl would be there. Unfortunately, Sailor Gunn was not exactly respectable. It was only a matter of time before someone started linking fires to her orange-and-brown uniformed a**. And then that cop? He'd find her and put her in jail, and who knew how long you could hold this kind of transformation? Could you stay in your soldier uniform for however long it took to be arraigned on bail?
It was a pretty bad choice to be outside, but you know, she made plenty of them. And it was kind of freeing to be jumping around, off roofs and down to cargo boxes. There was even a ship you could sneak onto, like a theme park ride or a video game, except they'd shoot you if you got caught, and there weren't exactly any more quarters after, and the enemies were Epic level and you're just starting out. Being a sailor soldier was rather a cosmic joke, she thought. One in extremely poor humor, and one you couldn't cut off early or anything.
She sighed, and set her hands on her hips. Not even any monsters around tonight. What exactly was she supposed to be doing, anyway? "Lame," she decided aloud, and kicked a can.
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Posted: Sat Aug 21, 2010 3:38 pm
There was no hidden bonus to becoming an eternal senshi. No magical trick that would allow you to save those you loved. All in all you got a new attack and feathers on your a**. You did get 'eternal' tagged onto your name which sounded pretty badass. It also sounded pretty...eternal. Like, forever. Castor wasn't super keen on the idea but hey, he could punch things with his fist covered in magical ice. A good a trade off in his world view.
One other thing about being eternal? You were supposedly 10x more badass then your normal senshi counterparts. So when Castor spied a 'newbie' he felt a sort of obligation to help them out. By helping them out, it ment harassing them into a battle or to train with him. After all, he was teaching them! Sort of. Kind of. "Hey newbie!" Jumping down from a warehouse, Castor winced at the smell of lowtide. One reason he rarely came out to the docks. "What's up. Couldn't help but notice you're kind of...not doing anything." She had been kicking a can. "At all. Why aren't you running around scouting for youma?"
He would a find a youma for her to fight if she needed one. They were all over these days.
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iStoleYurVamps
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Posted: Sat Aug 21, 2010 4:10 pm
She'd just begun to consider turning in for the night--nothing to fight, nothing to do, and she wasn't fond of the idea of burning s**t down. Despite the powers, despite the thing she was supposed to guard (and who would want to look out for wildfires, anyway, weren't they madly destructive and all) she actually, unbelievably, wasn't fond of setting stuff alight. It didn't make her feel warm and cozy inside at all. Not even outside.
So after giving the can another kick, she was scuffing her shoes on her way back to an alley. God, what a waste of her time! She could be painting, or drawing, or sewing, goddamnit--
Hey newbie!
Her shoulders slumped, her head lolled back in quintessential oh great what now teenager fashion. She turned around, hands on her hips, to look at this new sailor soldier. He was taller than she was, and dressed in blue to boot--nothing like the other she'd encountered, though they had more in common with each other than she had with either of them. "Uh... was about to head in, actually. I haven't set myself on fire yet, so... figured I'd quit while I was ahead."
Was a youma one of those monsters? Come to think of it, hadn't that cat... "A youma's a monster, right," she asked, clasping her hands in front of her. "Haven't seen one. Anyway, I was doing something, I was... kicking... a can..." Her expression said she clearly understood exactly how lame that sounded.
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Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2010 7:11 pm
Not good enough! Here was a senshi, perfectly new, and not doing anything. Clearly, someone had yet to give her the 411 of senshi awesomeness that was 'how to kick bad guy a** like a pro'. Castor found her lack of badassery and need to be a badass disturbing. Even if she and Atlas would have probably been best friends in the 'I am fine watching department'.
"I don't think you're going to head in just yet Red. " Her new nickname. Castor did so love to hand them out. "With so many baddies out, I'm pretty sure you're just not looking hard enough. or it really is a slow day. In which case-" He walked over, holding out a hand. Introductions were in order. "Eternal Sailor Castor. And I-" He was grinning ear to ear, "- will find us a youma to fight." The sound of metal crashing into metal echoed down the pier. "Or a youma will find us. One of the two."
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iStoleYurVamps
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Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2010 7:22 pm
"Oh, that's creative," she said, but she took his hand to shake anyway. This was only the second sailor soldier she'd met, and she couldn't afford to be pissing off someone who, judging by the level of ridiculous in his outfit, outranked her. She brushed red locks of hair over her shoulder, still frowning a bit unhappily. It had seemed for a minute like she might get to go to bed at a normal time tonight, but apparently that was a little bit abortive, too. "Sailor Gunn."
The sound of metal brought a certain kind of irritated, hunted look to her face, and she closed her blue eyes for a minute. "Uh, yeah. About that. It's really not a good idea, there's kind of explosives around here. And my power? It's kind of... it's really conducive to explosions, and I've already got caught once, and then there was the time when I-- er, well, you don't really need to know about that one."
She still turned to face the noise. "Anyway, I really don't want to get caught again."
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Posted: Tue Aug 24, 2010 9:08 pm
"Gun." Mind, blown. Castor had just met perhaps the best senshi ever. And now, he could see her in battle. OH. YES. "Tonight Gunn, I will show you how we do things the senshi way." It sounded lewd. Then again it was Castor and so it was bound then to be lewd, pity Gunn didn't know this factor. Still, as he grabbed her hand and pulled out from the alleyway, it seemed less lewd and more like an over excited five year old. A five year old who's train of thought consisted on killing youma with his newbie partner's supposedly badass power of guns.
Castor, the currently only male eternal senshi, had taken Gunn's name as literal. Her name was her power. Her outfit didn't hint otherwise, so he just assumed it was Gunn of Guns. "Nonsense! We'll be fine. If police show up we just jump away. Don't worry, You've got me!" Another crash. This one closer. Castor grin was growing wider. The idea he might be reliable was fading fast. Especially when a large salamander like lizard on private boat hissed at them before spitting some kind of yellow slime at then, just narrowly missing Castor's face.
"Whoops! Well, show me what you got Gunn! Let's kill that youma dead!" Enthusiasm, thy name was Castor.
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Posted: Wed Aug 25, 2010 7:59 am
She was pretty sure that having Eternal Sailor Castor on her side was only going to end in pain and heartbreak. But maybe she could just set something on fire and then run like hell? He had heard her say that things blew up a lot around her, right? Apparently all the sailor soldiers in the world had some kind of suicide wish in their hearts of hearts.
Well, whatever. She yelped when he yanked on her arm, following the sounds of grinding metal. "Yeah, well, I always forget that part," she yelled over the noise, even as she ducked and hauled back to avoid the yellow slime. From the way it was fizzling on the asphalt, it was a good thing neither of them had gotten hit by that appetizing-looking projectile.
"What do you mean show you what I've got," she demanded, staring at the giant lizard. And at the tiny lights of sparks being shed by an online, functioning engine. If she attacked now, that thing would go up like... like a roman candle. Or worse. With her luck, she'd blow up the boat and it'd be filled with roman candles, starting a chain reaction. "Did you miss the part where I said things tend to explode when I use my attack?"
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Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2010 8:52 pm
If Gunn knew Castor she would know he had faced death many times, and had a lucky streak about him. The same kind of luck that was 'Oh you save the kid...but his puppy died' type luck. Black cat luck. That was Castor's type of luck. The same luck he would chuck at any and all unfortunate scouts he came across. So when Gunn started something about how she wasn't going to attack, Castor treated her like he treated Atlas. She just needed a push. Literally. At the youma.
"Exploding bullets? Miss Gunn you get more badass by the second. Now, fight the youma. Pew pew pew all over it's slimy a**. Don't worry. I'm back up." He made it sound like it was a good thing to have him as back up. He made it sound good even if the feeling he exuded was 'run while you still can.'
The youma hissed, spitting again, Castor just side stepped it. A tad catching on one of his wing bows. He frowned. The feathers were melting a tad and smelt burnt now. not to mention frayed and ruffled. "Well?" Arms crossed. Castor was waiting. "Well?"
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Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2010 9:57 pm
Her toes caught on the lip of the sidewalk, and she went down; immediately, almost, she rolled onto her back and scowled at Castor. "a**," she accused, pointing a finger at him. "That was so a**." And she got up, brushed off her chest. Fortunately, the monster declined to attack her, but she could smell burning feathers, and that meant... that meant definitely no one wanted to deal with this monster any longer.
Still... out of principle. "Fine! And when the entire boat explodes, I am going to blame you. Gunn Wildfire Propagation!"
With a sweep of Gunn's black-covered arm, a spark caught in the engine. It was very subtle, for a moment, very quiet. The monster had paused as a white light pulsed from the interior of the exposed boat. Then it all went to hell in a handbasket as the gas tank caught and exploded, catastrophically, loudly, devastatingly. It evidently had held combustible cargo of some kind, because she could see a cascade of green and purple sparks. "Roman candles," she yelled, throwing both hands in the air. "God <********> damnit." The monster was dead--it had to be, since little pieces of it could be seen (but not heard; the explosion was rather loud, and she couldn't really hear anything) hitting the water. Fires were breaking out on nearby boats. Sirens were going off, and figures could be seen rushing to put out flames.
Gunn looked, for lack of a better word, abjectly depressed. And very, very disinclined to move.
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Posted: Tue Aug 31, 2010 10:12 pm
"I know, I have a wonderful a**. Don't I?" His a** with butt wings. it was a truely magnificent sigh to behold. Then again, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. And in Castor's eyes, he was made of 89% awesome, 10% moon magic. The last 1% was lameness but he didn't want to talk about that one percent. It was pretty lame. (It was all the times he had to get 'help'. Not the coolest thing. Getting saved by cat. Hence. one percent).
But As Gunn unleashed her attack all that Castor could think was '100% bada**.' He thought it would be bullets and she would make some kind of pew pew pew noises. But no, it was a mother ******** EXPLOSION. Which was like, 10 times better then PEW PEW PEW. Castor stood in awe as the boat turn into a fiery ship of flaming death and bright colors. It was the best thing he'd seen in weeks. "So..beautiful..." Castor almost wanted to cry. The sigh of such amazing explosive awesomeness was truely, the work of a god. Or Goddess.
Not to mention Gunn had killed the youma dead. But as sirens filled the air, Castor was jerked back to reality. "Oh s**t." He looked at the sad sack of senshi sadness that was Gunn. "OH s**t." Grabbing her arm again, Castor tugged her towards the warehouses. "We've got to get away. You didn't want to get caught right? If so, JUMP. And by jump I mean to the roof. Because police will swarm this place in like, 3 minutes. We need to book it." He was grinning. "And your attack kicked a**. Just so you know."
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Posted: Wed Sep 01, 2010 9:39 am
She hadn't actually looked at his a**, so didn't really feel qualified to comment. Nor did she see the need to justify his words in an almost reverent tone of her explosion with a response; that boat could have been someone's livelihood. The fireworks might have been the shipment that would save a family from foreclosure. And she'd just blown the entire thing up. Did no one else think about these things? Was it just her?
Her irritation only built when Castor grabbed onto her arm; her first instinct was to plant her feet and haul back, ergo stopping them both, but she didn't want to go to jail. So she followed, trying her best to keep up.
On command, she kicked off; having misjudged, she ricocheted off the wall and ended up on the wrong roof, but still--a roof! She was getting quite adept at getting away, since she spent most of her time doing that.
"Kicked a**, I'll kick your a**--" which she had finally taken a look at on the wild dash to the rooftops, and it was rather fine, but she wasn't going to admit that "--There were like, three satellite fires, did you miss the giant explosions? Or was that just me."
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Posted: Mon Sep 13, 2010 7:47 pm
What Gunn didn't know is that Castor was much more do-er then thinker. Do, as in, attack first and think about consequences on a larger scale later. All he knew that that Gunn blew up a boat and it had been magnificent. A grand spectacle. A thing to be remembered for ages to come. At least until Castor found something else for Gunn to blow up like a badass. "Fire is a fire is they should have had insurance." Castor joined her on the other roof. "Point is, which is worst, loosing a boat or loosing a life? Youma eat people. Steal starseeds for god only knows what, and you're worried about some tiny fire?" He sighed. "Sorry, a little property damage is nothing when faced with the idea of letting a youma escape and oh, maybe kill innocent people. Besides," he rolled his shoulders. "Like I said, they should have had fire insurance." He was acting like it was nothing. Like it was perfectly okay to cost random people who knew how much in repair bills and taxes for emergency response. Castor simple saw a problem, and the only solution was not more cowbell, but with more power.
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Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2010 9:07 am
Her teeth gritted, she started to come up with a response. People could have been on that boat, people who might have gotten away from a monster but couldn't get away from her fire. She could very well have compounded her former attack on a human with this... Gunn pressed her hands into her face, sighing with frustration. "They might, but insurance never covers the total cost," something she knew very well from her parents' funerals "what about the time it'll take to replace the ship, and then to buy new stock? That could have been their entire livelihood! For months--"
Instinctively, she ducked back when a beam of light lanced over the edge of the roof, but the police officer must have seen them because then he was calling stop! I'll shoot! and Gunn bolted--it didn't particularly matter to her, right then, in which direction she went, as long as it was away from Castor.
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