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 Posted: Sun Nov 07, 2010 7:31 pm
Jumping from rooftop to rooftop had always been a daring and fun past time for Chaonis. Or rather, for Nathan Darrow. Now that he was Sailor Chaonis, it was even better. He could jump higher and farther, run faster and get more of a rush of wind in his ears when he leaped. It was as close to flying as he was going to get, he imagined.
Unless he could learn how to do that as he got stronger. Did Senshi fly? Eh, whatever, he was good with jumping.
Standing on the roof of the library, he grinned. At least this place was useful for something. It was taller than the buildings next door to it, which made the leap that much more thrilling, as he could fall a greater distance and have some hang time. He moved toward the center of the roof, making to run.
He wanted to make this one good. A running start, a giant leap, a long distance. It was going to be awesome.
Taking off, he charged to the edge of the roof and leaped, only to have something slam into his face. A bird? A bit big to be a bird, and it let out a terrible shriek of... triumph? He didn't have time to figure that one out, as he plummeted backwards. Luckily, he landed on a fire escape. Unluckily, he fell through some of the bars, breaking a couple, and was now stuck upside down.
What had knocked him out of the air was a youma, a bat or a bird or something in between. It circled down to come after him again, since he was hanging from his leg and a perfect target. And it had a flock with it.
Great.
"Goddamn it!"
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Posted: Sun Nov 07, 2010 7:44 pm
Oh, look, someone was falling from mid-air.
Well, that certainly was surprising.
Nemesis really didn't have faith in coincidences, but right about now her opinion was about to change. She had been following a small surge of power, and while she wasn't quite hurrying to the scene, she got there in a decent amount of time. As she drew closer, the power became more prominent. Pausing underneath a fire escape, she glanced left, then right, back, and then forward. Huh, nothing. But she swore that she had felt something here. This was one hell of a bad joke if it was one, because Nemesis was sure she had better things to do than stand in the middle of an alleyway looking for an elusive youma.
It was only by sheer coincidence that she had looked up to see Chaonis falling from the sky and crashing (ouch) into the fire escape. For a few long seconds she just stared up at the trapped senshi, hanging by just a leg. When would he fall through... would he hurt his head? Did she want to do something about it? Not really. Her lips thinned, her expression dead-pan as she stared at him.
Hearing a shriek, she noticed just what had pushed Chaonis down towards the ground. That was what she was after, and animation finally lit her face, her lips curling into a devilish grin. "Do you want some help!" she taunted from underneath him. Now really wasn't the time to ask if the senshi wanted assistance... but, ah, she had to live it up for a little bit. If he asked quickly enough, well, he wouldn't get beaked to death by a flying youma.
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Posted: Sun Nov 07, 2010 7:52 pm
Chaonis looked up, which was really looking down, toward the floor beneath him. His head felt like it was doing somersaults, and that was nauseating. Closing his eyes, having bumped his head a few times on the fall through the fire escape, it took him a moment to clear it enough to be able to understand what was going on around.
Besides the youma, of course. He was perfectly aware of them.
The offer of help he heard from down below sounded very much like one he might offer someone in the same situation. A sarcastic, mocking offer that reflected his knowledge that the person in trouble needed his help, they both knew it, and he was only asking to rub it in.
He didn't like that.
"No, I don't want any help," he yelled back, moving to try and free himself, "I've got this completely under control!" Lies. All lies. He swung, unable to get his leg uncaught, though at least he could feel that his leg wasn't broken. A youma flapped down to peck at his face and he swung his fists wildly, trying to strike it out of the air.
Frustrated, he yelled, "what are you, stupid? Of course I need help so stop being a d**k and get up here!"
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Posted: Sun Nov 07, 2010 8:03 pm
"Fine, I'll watch you get pecked to death. It's no problem for me," she replied archly. Her arms folded over her chest, a thin brow rising on her forehead as she watched the other senshi struggle. She had to wonder if his caution tape was added on by him, or naturally came with the rest of his fuku. She hoped it was the latter, because otherwise she'd have to consider him a little tacky, tacky and helpless. Whistling obnoxiously, she watched as Chaonis struggled to get free, and equally struggled to keep from being overwhelmed by youma.
She was waiting, waiting...
Oh, come on now, that was hardly nice! Here she was, being kind enough to offer her assistance, and he was calling her a d**k. "Oh, what was that? You're doing just fine on your own! It's only a flesh wound? This is a valuable learning experience that you need to do on your own? O-k!" And there she stood, watching impassively as Chaonis continued to struggle for freedom.
A thought itched at the back of her brain, the suggestion of actually helping the man before he begged for it. Lifting a hand, she scratched the back of her head, as if that would get rid of the stupid thought. Sigh. "Decay of Breath!" She aimed her attack at one of the larger youma, not the smaller ones that were plaguing Chaonis. As she saw it, it was best to get the big cheese out of the way first. The ground around her began to dissolve, pot-holes littering the alleyway. The youma's wings froze up, and the creature inevitably came crashing down to the ground.
"Hang on for a little bit, gotta clean up this mess first. Have fun!"
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Posted: Sun Nov 07, 2010 8:27 pm
"You a** hole!" Chaonis yelled. And yes, he was purposefully calling her male oriented insults because he was going to use that later. He had decided that no real girl would be so manly in her rudeness, so he had made the leap to specify his insults.
Sometimes he put thought into his efforts to annoy people. Other times, not so much. Right now it was unclear which direction he was leaning.
He heard her call an attack, but it did absolutely nothing for him. He growled, kicking his free foot, trying to free himself, but he was unable to do it. "Let me go, you damn crappy piece of metal... junk... thing!" He wasn't yelling at the inanimate fire escape very well, but since he didn't have to worry about hurting its feelings he didn't think he had to put a lot of effort into it.
Alright, that was it.
He swung his fists out and managed to hit one of the youma, then catch it. He looked down at the girl below, able to aim slightly and then he threw the youma at her. He was a good arm, at least.
"Stop being a c**k and get up here! Or are you one of those 'not really all that useful senshi'? They keep telling me not to judge a book by its cover, and you certainly look useless. I regret trying to be nice."
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Posted: Sun Nov 07, 2010 8:41 pm
Nemesis had picked one of the bars that Chaonis had broken in his fall up from the ground, idly testing its weight in her hand. It'd be good enough to smash the fallen youma's head in. She strolled away from the fire escape, almost out of Chaonis' sight. She finished that youma off in one brute strike of the bar against the back of its head. One down, a hundred million more to go. "Have you ever heard of biting off more than you can chew?" she called out to the trapped senshi, who's insults she had been ignoring if only to tick him off further.
Turning her head to further engaged Chaonis in conversation, she looked in just enough time to notice he had thrown a squalling youma at her face. Instinctively she raised her arms, tightening her grip around the bar. In absolute pro baseball style, she swung the bar like a bat, hitting the smaller youma into the library's outside wall. "You d**k! Now I took out two youma for you, and guess what, you're not even going to thank me?" She stalked over to the fire escape, which seemed to make it less likely that she was going to help the man, and more likely that she was going to kill him.
She was certainly considering it.
Nemesis mounted the ladder, batting away youma as they tried to fly in close to her. "You know, I wouldn't go around insulting people when you can hardly defend yourself." She had reached the platform where Chaonis was hanging from, staring down at him with blank features. She slammed he foot down on one of the bars, it creaking loudly underneath the force, threatening to cave.
She wasn't going to pull him back up. She was going to send him crashing down onto the next level. "Have a nice trip!"
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Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2010 2:16 pm
Chaonis watched, as best as he could from his upside down position anyway, as Nemesis hit the youma he had thrown at her right across the alley and hard into the library wall. He would have been impressed, if all the blood in his body wasn't rushing to his head and he was still very aware of the fact that she wasn't doing anything about it.
"Why should I thank you?! You're only doing it because you probably have no choice: if those things want to attack you, they will. You're not actually helping me at a- HEY."
He reached for whatever bar he could grab onto of the mangled fire escape when he felt it tremble under her stomp. He looked up at her and there was an odd moment of quiet when he realized her plan, and what was about to happen. His eyes met hers, and he spoke with a surprising calm.
"You c**k."
And then he fell, right down onto the level below, groaning as he hit the metal and rolled to his knees. At least he was the right way up now, if not bruised and incredibly dizzy. The youma continued to screech and circle, diving at Nemesis and Chaonis, oblivious to their arguing. It was easier to target the one higher up, so the female senshi would find herself quickly getting swarmed.
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Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2010 2:26 pm
The smile upon her face grew at those two simple words. It was just the way he had said them that was perfect, with realization of his fate, and knowledge that he could do nothing about it still. "Love you too," she taunted, and lifting her heel, she slammed her foot down on the trembling bar one last time. It caved, and with it Sailor Chaonis was sent falling down to the next level. "Still no 'thank you'? Damn, and here I was just thriving off of your indebtedness to me." Her victory was short-lived, though, because the goddamned youma did not follow Chaonis during his fall.
Instead, they swarmed around her, and there were only so many that she could hit with her bat before one got in to scratch at her face and arms. She cursed vibrantly, all the while trying to fend them off. She would have been MUCH happier if they continued to go after her fallen 'comrade'. He was already injured! He was the WEAKER of the two. Didn't these things know to feed off of the weak? "******** HELL," she yelled, as one swooped in towards her face. Its claws managed to find purchase in her hair, and wrenching the creature off was not only difficult, but painful. It took a few strands of her black and blue hair with it.
"You know, it'd be nice if you'd get up your a** to 'save the world', do that heroic bullshit most of you senshi are into." Truthfully, Nemesis liked playing the hero too. But, she did not like playing the hero at the expense of her own safety. There were certain conditions that had to be met before she risked her neck for someone else. "Isn't it about time you returned the god-be-damned favor?"
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Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2010 3:42 pm
Chaonis heard the ruckus upstairs and looked up, grinning. He moved from the fire escape landing to sit on the bottom step of the stairs up, reclining and looking up through the bars to watch Nemesis struggling against the youma that were flapping around her face. Good. That was one way to get rid of that stupid smile she had given him when she had made him fall.
He was almost cheering for the youma.
"Sorry, Upskirt," he called, indicating by nickname what other things he was able to see from his position beneath her, "I'm not one of those Senshi. And anyway, you didn't do anything to help me, why should I help you?"
But of course he wouldn't let the youma kill her, if only because he didn't want them getting her starseed. He hated those beasts, as well as the Negaversers, who wasted lives in pursuit of starseeds, but only because he had not been able to save a few people from it. Maybe it was guilt? Whatever the case, he thought about the starseed and remembered his job.
"Oh, fine."
He moved from his perch and hurried up to the next level, yelling 'warning: fisticuffs ahead' as he went. His body coursed with power and he swung a punch that sent the closest youma spiraling before it burst into dust. Chaonis loved his attack, because it was so physical and satisfying, but it did have its draw back.
No need to ruin the fun worrying about that, though.
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Posted: Mon Nov 08, 2010 6:54 pm
It was decided. As soon as she was done killing all these youma, her next victim was going to be Chaonis. She was going to throw him over the ledge of the fire escape and watch him plummet to his impending death. Nemesis had aided the menshi earlier! Sure, she hadn't done it in the nicest of ways, but he would have been dead if she had just left them there. Chaonis was thoroughly a d**k if he did not realize that she had saved him, and was even moreso of a d**k because he was peeking at her. He was dead. He was so ******** dead. He was going to be more dead than the American Spirit, and that was pretty dead.
She was thoroughly considering chucking her weapon at his head, just to see if it would do permanent damage, when Chaonis actually did something smart. He agreed to help her, miracle of all miracles. Nemesis didn't have much time to reflect upon this generous change of character, another bat-like youma swooping in at her face. She managed to bat it away like a baseball, though there seemed to be an endless supply of these mini-youma monsters.
"Ah, that's pretty damn useful," she remarked almost casually as Chaonis hit one hard enough to make it burst. Goddamn, why couldn't she have an offensive power like that? It was another reason that convinced her that the Space Cauldron had effectively screwed her the ******** over. At this rate, maybe they would make some progress. Maybe.
Nemesis wasn't exactly able to bat away every single one of these little devils, after all. She needed the help, though she'd hardly flat out admit it.
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Posted: Tue Nov 09, 2010 5:11 pm
Chaonis grinned at her, knowing damn well how awesome his power was. It was raw, and brutal, and just made fighting fun. Of course, the giant draw back to it would probably change her tone. Usually he warned the senshi he ended up teaming with whenever youma were around, but for this fight he opted not to.
Just because he liked her so much, she got to be special.
He continued to fight with the bird youma, smashing his fists into them whenever they swooped close enough and he could send them flying. He was actually starting to have fun with things, and that was exciting. He all but forgot his hatred of this new senshi, save whenever he saw her or his leg hurt because of how he had been hanging and it reminded him that she was awful. But hey, they had nearly gotten them all!
When the fire escape they were standing on started shaking, Chaonis made a face. A face that said 'whoops'. He looked at her, then at the wall to which the fire escape was fixed. As if hit by an earthquake, a large crack raced up the building, crumbling the wall as it went, shattering windows. The fire escape began to fall away from its connections, taking Nemesis and Chaonis with it, though it was bending and hadn't spilled them off yet.
But it would: the shaking continued.
"Ah, so, my attack kinda dispels and makes everything kind of break, and I don't know how to control it," Chaonis said really fast, in the hopes that she wouldn't understand it. And he wouldn't repeat himself.
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Posted: Tue Nov 09, 2010 5:45 pm
She took it back, the one moment of thought that suggested that Chaonis had a superb attack. Obviously its power was effecting something as she heard the fire escape creak loudly. The bird youma (which Chaonis and Nemesis were effectively disposing of), certainly weren't strong enough to make a crack in the building's wall. The only source of this devastating power was... Wait for it. Chaonis. Her head turned to the side, gaze locking on the senshi for just a few seconds. It was long enough for Chaonis to realize just the extent of Nemesis' seething hate for him.
If any outside audience needed to know, it was very deep.
This is why she hated new senshi (he had to be new if she had not seen him around, and he was hardly Super yet). They had weak-a** attacks, or attacks that had such huge drawbacks to them that made it hardly worth it to use them in the first place. It made her appreciate her own attack a little more, which, always hit the opponent she wanted it to hit, and did its ******** job without harming her in the process. "You're a ******** newbie idiot, you know that? WHY the HELL would you use THAT attack while we're IN THE AIR!?"
Nemesis wasn't hanging out on the fire escape until it fell. No, she was smarter than that. The Senshi of Decay took off down the fire escape, a few of the remaining bird youma screeching and following after her. Chaonis could very well get crushed underneath a fire escape. Nemesis, on the other hand, had a sense of self-preservation. A very keen one.
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Posted: Tue Nov 09, 2010 6:43 pm
Chaonis knew she was PROBABLY right. He was fairly new to the scene, but for her to say that he was a newbie idiot was going a little too far. He was not an idiot at all, even if he was a newbie! Hell, he was sure there were newer Senshi around now, right? So he wasn't even a newbie now. So she was, effectively, wrong on all counts.
Oh, right, things were falling apart around them.
Not missing the deathly threatening glare she was giving him. He just grinned back at her, though, because he knew he was completely to blame for the trouble they were in now, but he didn't seem to care. Plus, it would just piss her off more. And that was fun.
Right, still falling.
"Hey, at least I bothered to use an attack! All you did was play baseball!" He counted, running the opposite way. Of course, the whole building was coming down, or at least the side of it was, so they would have to move fast or get crushed by their choice of metal or brick.
Or both!
He had opted to run up the fire escape instead of down, climbing where it bent and leaping from it for the crumbling rooftop. He just needed to find purchase, then climb away from all the danger, and he'd be free and clear. Leave her to all the trouble.
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Posted: Tue Nov 09, 2010 6:51 pm
"Maybe you couldn't see from where you were hanging upside down, but I used my attack a while ago, and it did more s**t than your's!" She took mild offense to having HER attack demeaned. As far as she knew, she was one of the more solid senshi around here. She jumped the last few steps, landing heavily on the cement and quickly darting away from the fire escape as it began to cave and crumble. Of course he would go up, if only because Nemesis had gone down.
If he had followed her, it was almost a guarantee that she would have handed his a** to him right then and there. No one tried to make her look like an idiot and get away with it. She had beaten other people up for lesser insults to her pride and dignity. "Your attack ******** hurt the environment more than it hurt the --" and she paused, swinging her bar into the side of a youma's head, watching it burst into light brown dust, "******** youma."
Jesus christ she was dealing with idiots here.
The youma plague was lightening up, most of them preferring the higher altitudes - which also meant they were pestering Chaonis now more than Nemesis. The ones on her end were easy to deal with, if only because they weren't swarming her. She could pick each one off, one by one. "How're you holding up? Want to go home crying to your mommy yet?"
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Posted: Tue Nov 09, 2010 6:59 pm
Chaonis was not having as much fun as he had hoped. He thought there were less youma than there were, and while he was still a fairly strong fighter without his power boosts, he was not looking forward to being swarmed by these things while trying to punch and kick them away.
Once he used his attack, he was rather stuck for a while. He had never tried to use it twice in quick succession, and knew he didn't have the strength to pull it off now. He had no energy left for it, which meant he'd either have to find a way to bide some time, or figure out how to beat the hell out of these things without using his power.
Or...
He moved over to the edge. He looked down, judging the distance. A few floors. What was that to a senshi? He had definitely fallen further. Grinning, his plan in mind, he leaped from the roof and landed almost directly on top of Nemesis, purposefully shoulder checking her to knock her down. The youma followed him.
He waited for them to start collecting over the two of them, before he turned and ran. They didn't follow, as they had already proven they preferred the easiest, closest targets. And that was now Nemesis.
"Have fun!"
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