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 Posted: Fri Dec 03, 2010 7:47 pm
(( OOC: Got permission for this guys. Stipulations being he has to be touching her when she transports, and she cannot leave him behind. ))
It was time... time to give this a try.
A few days had past since the 13, herself included, met Kurma. The events still baffling her... what had traversed couldnt have possibly happened. Denial was the first stage. She thought for CERTAIN they had blanked out... not been there.. all dreaming like that dream world. Though if it WAS a dream... then she wouldn't currently have the pictures of space on her senshi cell... right? Kurma didnt plant those there did he? Did he also cause the sensation she constantly had? The feeling of her constellation... it was always there, but ignored before. Not knowing what it was so brushing it off. Now though... that it was pointed out.. it was calling to her. It was a hymn... a tune only she heard. It was beautiful, it was comforting... if she had to put it on words? It was motherly. Something she had not felt since her mothers death.
If what Kurma said was true... and actually happened... she could travel to her 'power' base? Like... through time and space? What she truly feared was going, finding nothing, and not being to return. She couldn't imagine there were inter space taxi services. Then again, if running around in magical fukus was possible...
It took her a few days. Few days or trial and error... trying to get the nerve up. She started to try a few times... but fear of the unknown got in the way. Its not like anyone would miss her, right? Leave on a weekend... it was friday today. Today she needed to do it. If something went wrong... only Zac would miss her really.
She made a note to bring a bag of food with her... she had no idea how long she would be. She made sure no one was looking as she henshin'd up and slung the bag over her shoulder. Sighing, she pulled her phone out of the negaspace... she was going to go today. She needed to... the call from her world pulling, guiding, pleading... she didn't know why she was scared before, maybe being 'home' would be a good thing? Exhaling, she closed her eyes, zoned the world around her out, and probed for the link until it was stronger... her mind melding and remembering the feeling more. Flipping the cell open, there was something dialed into the phone already... even with her eyes closed she could see the light starting to glow all around herself. She was going this time.
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Posted: Fri Dec 03, 2010 7:55 pm
She was concentrating so deeply that she didn't even seem to hear him approach, he hadn't even been as careful as he might have been if sneaking up on her were to have been intentional.
It was simply too good an opportunity to pass up, more so because he had noticed something curious on her leg, he'd almost missed it because she did wear the tall white stockings, but being white there was a certain degree of sheer to them that made it show pink. A tattoo?
His heart skipped slightly in a surge of anticipation. Had he found something? Something that might help identify her? He wasn't sure though... it did seem new though, he was certain he hadn't spotted it before, though to be honest he'd never looked that closely... after all that could be seen as perverted.
The irony of the twisted morality was more or less lost on him as he reached a hand for her shoulder.
How marvelous too, what a perfect opportunity to experiment with draining energy from a senshi.
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Posted: Fri Dec 03, 2010 8:07 pm
She had not seen his approach, not in the least. Her connection to her constellation was too strong at the moment... her mental warning bells were not even going off. THe glow intensified, herself getting ready to press send...
Only when he touched her shoulder, did she open her eyes and while startled... pressed the button on the cellphone to 'send'.
Her mind still linked with her home world.. and the right numbers dialed, she was sent 'home'. The familiar sensation of being everywhere...yet no where. The feeling that a fishing hook was hooked onto her belly button, and tugged pulling her forward.
Except.. she wasn't the only one along for the ride.
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Posted: Fri Dec 03, 2010 8:14 pm
The wrenching sensation reminded him of one of those god awful rides at the county fair. A sensation that gravity had let you go...almost. Yanking you like there was a yo-yo cord wrapped tight around your spine and just hard enough to make whatever you had last eaten rise sharply up the back of your throat.
"What are you..." He had started to demand, his hand clenching hard as he could on the shoulder he had so lightly touched, no logical thought here just gut instinct to hold on lest he be cast free into he had no idea what.
Could senshi teleport too!? The only reports he'd had of such were that 'Foramen' senshi... surely... surely someone would have noticed them demonstrating this ability before now. God he only hoped she landed somewhere that had room for both of them...and not in a room full of other senshi.
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Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2010 11:55 am
It was almost over as soon as it started. The hook undone, dropping them both down onto their feet.... in pretty much the same position they started the journey on.
Lyra sank to her knees... the power needed to travel such a distance draining her both physically and mentally. The pack she had slung over her shoulder dropped to her side, if you peered within you would find a few sandwiches and some cans of soda, and two bottles of water. Her eyes remained closed, she had not seen the one whom grabbed her shoulder.... but she had a feeling she would soon. Not wanting to open her eyes, she was afraid what she was going to find. Was the journey successful?
Well... she wasn't dead. So she opened her eyes...
Only to gasp at what she saw.
She was sitting on a patch of unkept grass, or what looked similar to grass. Itchy and coarse its long green and shimmering mass would have reached up to her knee's if standing... the patch of it folded around her body where she sat. She ran a hand through it... wondering at the feel. Even going as far as clutching it while she took in everything she saw.
Lyra eyes filled with tears at the sight, not enough to spill over... but she felt a great sorrow for some reason. It was barren.. it was destroyed... it was dead. Inside her chest she felt something clench... something painful enough to bring her hand to rest on her bow. A invisible needle penetrating her heart... What she saw was a clump of large rocks floating in a upwards motion. Looking up, all around... a rainbow seemed to cover the entire 'sky'. The only thing giving away they where in space... to the left their was a circular patch of inky blackness and stars. Almost as if it were a window to the outside world. Mysteriously, the patch of rainbow did not touch the world here. It was as if each rock had a barrier placed on top... a invisible glass bowl. What had caused her to feel pain, was the city ontop of the rocks... all destroyed. What looked to be stone buildings, once standing tall and proud... were now broken and devoid of life. They had chunks missing from the roofs, glass broken and what looked to be family possessions tossed everywhere. Each rock was large enough to support families, businesses... life. They were small cities of their own, she was still unable to see how they traversed between them. Green eyes looking into the distance great spires reached towards the sky, proud and strong. What looked to be a giant castle was at the top and the tallest of all the buildings... it was hard to see from this distance, but something was calling her to it.
What she was certain of, this place hummed her tune.. the special sounds that she could feel from within, she had made it.
Looking around behind her... she finally had the nerve to see who she brought with her... she saw the purple black and blue outfit that she was dreading. Oh please tell her she had NOT brought a negaverser with her. Even so.. it was HIM.
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Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2010 12:29 pm
Oh... jesus christ.
He'd died... he had DIED and gone to hell with a senshi. There was no other logical reason for pieces of rock to be floating through a rainbow sky. Crumbling buildings and bridges reached into the prismatic sky and shifted overhead, the grass was alien in feel and touch.
"Oh god..." he said "Ohgod...ohgodohgod....whatthehell." He said the words coming rapid fire as he stared around them his heart hammering in his chest as panic rose and shot adrenaline through his system. He couldn't decide if this was fight or flight though, he had nothing which he could solidly form such an opinion.
Just over some trees he could see a waterfall, just the top of one and he mentally clung to that as something familiar and less strange, but it was still framed by alien trees and an unnatural sky.
"What did you do....What did you DO!?!" He demanded.
Gone was the normal aggravating composure, at least for now. Very present was something that panged far more of humanity and might be some small clue to the human beneath the mask.
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Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2010 4:03 pm
Why did this one man, this one negaverser, plague her so. He was always there as if he was following her for some reason, did he know what she was doing or was he back just to traumatize her more? This was HER world.. HERS. NOT his! He was tainting her world and GOD KNOWS now the negaverse would know what they could do.
"WHY are you...Why are you always... GOD." She threw her hands up and leaped out of the grass, on her feet now. "Do you think i was meaning to bring along a hitchhiker? YOU touched my shoulder just as i was about to come here. ALONE."
"For your information, captain obvious, CLEARLY your not on earth anymore. Thought you were the only ones whom could port? Welcome to space." With a huff she grabbed her bag and turned around and just.. left him there to ponder that. If he chose to follow, she didnt care. She would not shed blood in her home world. This was her turn to explore...
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Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2010 4:16 pm
"SPACE?!" He demanded scrambling to his feet. "WE CAN'T BE IN -SPACE- YOU CAN'T BREATHE IN SPACE!!!" He said following her hastily.
He half stumbled over his own feet as he stared around, the whole world seemed still...dead might be a more accurate world.
Never mind that it wasn't even empirically POSSIBLE that ...chunks of rock would float around at various heights and angles with buildings and no solid means of connecting to each other whatsoever.
"Look... what are the chances I could negotiate a return home... CLEARLY you don't want me here and I don't want to be here... and I CERTAINLY don't don't want to be LEFT here! Where the dickens are you going?"
He said scrambling after her as close as he could.
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Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2010 4:37 pm
"Didnt i just say Space?" She snapped back, irritated that he was still here. "Sorry we dont have any phone connections with the outside besides my cell, which only -I- can use by the way. So no trying to call your nega buddies for a frat party on MY world." She wasn't sure how far zink could teleport... but she had a feeling it was not far enough to get back to earth.
"Sorry your stuck here until i have the energy enough to transport back." If he was listening he would hear her breath was labored as she approached the building closest to her and placed a hand on the ancient walls. Sad eyes followed once again... "It takes a lot of energy to come here."
"...Behave and ill bring you back to earth with me." She didn't need to imply the other half if he DIDNT behave. She wasn't going to wait for him either. Turning around she moved down what must have been an ancient cobblestone road.
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Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2010 4:50 pm
He groused something under his breath about 'behaving' and managed to stifle a threat about wait till they return to earth.
Teleporting just on earth was exhausting, and he thought it got more so the further he had to go... teleporting home? Not even an option, he'd either be dead of running out of energy or he'd pop out somewhere in the atmosphere...both were horrifying options so 'behave' it was.
"I wasn't trying to summon a -frat- party either, I despite frat parties." He snarled to vent his frustration.
"What is this place...other than 'space'?... " he glanced up at the floating stones again. "Must be...magnetic fields or something, this is absurd..."
No...it wasn't absurd the new General king had mentioned something about ultimate space energy....a pit or something. Wheels turned in his head and the very process of trying to process the information helped calm him at least a little. If he made it back...IF... he made it back, he thought he might have to make a meeting with the New General King...
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Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2010 6:00 pm
"Did it ever occur to you.." She said, picking up something that looked like it used to be a piece of pottery. She flipped it around in her hands...looking at the colors. "That the same rules of earth do not apply to all the other worlds?" She chose to ignore the questions about 'where' this was. The less information he got.. the better. She knew he would run with this back to the negaverse and she would prefer her home to not be a target of some sort.
She walked through the buildings in silence next. Touching a plant here or there... the plants seemed to...glow? In reply to any touch she gave them.
Lyra would NEVER admit it... but she was happy someone else was here with her through this. It was strange but, she would feel more sorrow for this dead world if she was alone. "I jsut dont..get what happened here." She mused to herself... she was pretty much ignoring Zink being there.
The buildings started to thin out.. and as Lyra approached the end of this rock, she noticed two giant spires parallel to each other. They were simple golden spires... with some sort of language or symbols carved into them. Without really thinking... instinct driving here.. she stepped a foot off the side of the rock, between the spires.
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Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2010 6:08 pm
"DON'T" He said lunging forward in alarm to try and snag the back of her uniform. Dear god if she fell into oblivion he was going to be stuck here forever.
His fingers slipped off her collar in a desperate scrabble to pull her to safety and he scraped his fingers downward to knot into her butt bow and pull her back as hard as he could fully expecting to have her be a dead weight in his arms as she fell into oblivion.
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Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2010 6:22 pm
"The HELL are you doing!" She said looking over her shoulder to glare back at him. "i would appreciate it if you did NOT grope at my a** thank you." She glared and took a backwards swat at him, to release his grip on her bow.
Though the best part was... she wasn't falling. Nope! Her feet were planted against...something firm. Wait thats Impossible! They couldn't be! Its only on...rainbow particles? Though as time passed by, you watched those particles thicken... and form a 'road' of sorts. The spires on either side seemed to glow, as a make shift golden light spewed out of them and formed a guard rail... it was more of a visual guide than anything else. Lyra was already making her way down this road heading for another of the rocks in a huff, how DARE he touch her! I mean clearly he knew the road was here!
Although, he hadn't known... she really should not have known either but something in the back of her memory had told her it was here... a hunch?
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Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2010 6:32 pm
He released her like her bow was on fire staring downward at the bridge of shifting particulates.
"You...have...to be kidding me..." He said, eyes locked on the 'ground' at her feet.
"Are you AWARE that that was not THERE a moment ago?" He demanded waving a hand at it. He was more than a little reluctant to cross but after a few stuttering steps hurried after her just in case the road only appeared when Senshi were present, though his heart was in his throat at every step half expecting it to give way and drop him into nothingness. At least with all the ruin this still seemed to be functional.
"Ohhhgodohgod...." he said and stuffed his hands in his pockets lest she accuse him of trying to grope her again...really.
At least he hadn't admitted he was ... disinterested in... well never mind.
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Posted: Sat Dec 04, 2010 6:52 pm
"No it was always here you just didnt see it. Maybe the light from Vega was in your eyes." If Zink looked out towards the inky black 'hole' in the colors... he could see a large star similar to their sun glaring back at them. How Lyra knew that was Vega.. was once again a passing glance thing. Nothing 'huge' as Lyra knew the star in Lyra was Vega from Google searching it back on earth.
"All the same.. its here now? I honestly do not get why your freaking out so badly. This is safe! You wont fall. " She rolled her eyes as they emerged on another rock, this one was the one with the waterfall... it seemed their was no civilization here, it looked like they grew things here once. It was a cluster of more of those silver trees... a pathway leading towards what seemed to be a lake of pristine water that pooled from the waterfall. How water was all the way up here and never ending... she did not want to think of science. It just WAS, no need to put logic behind it. "God this is....sad." She indicated looking around behind her, towards the ruins of many homes. "This looks like it was once a plentiful place to live.." Zink probably thought he was addressing her, heck..Lyra didn't know who she was speaking to.
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