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 Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2011 7:18 pm
Tonight was a test run. Alunite had been caged within his human self for weeks, with only one brief stint that had ended in complete disaster, and he'd finally reached the end of his rope, and snuck out after his roommate left for his evening D&D session.
So far it had gone relatively well. No major pain pangs from his previously broken rib, through he would not know the state of the break for certain until he went for his checkup in a week. He'd stayed clear of any senshi aura he'd felt, and now he was crouched over an unconcious woman, finalizing the theft of her energy.
Even now it was hard, to draw out energy like that. Only made harder, it seemed, by seeing the ease from which his sister gathered her orbs. He couldn't help but feel jealous, and a little bitter about it all.
It made him feel useless... And when Alunite felt useless, things could get more complicated than they were worth.
He froze when the aura came to him - nothing he'd ever felt before, through it did not feel... Well, there was a darkness to it that seemed almost familiar. Still, he pondered teleporting right there and then - he had no desire to tango with anything tonight, not until he had a good idea of his healing level and his limits.
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Posted: Sun Aug 21, 2011 11:14 am
They were both having a test run of sorts, though Alkaid's was one of many by now. She was testing the waters, the city, the Senshi - everything and everyone. Most of all though, she was testing herself. The unfortunate part about being the first of her kind was that she wasn't actually sure what she was, least of all what she was capable of.
In everything around that was suddenly unfamiliar, however, there was one thing that she knew - a corrupt senshi's aura.
It took almost no time to find him and she didn't make a secret of her arrival. She let her aura continue blazing wildly around her and made a few slow, deliberate steps as she crossed through the last dark, shadowy alley to get to him. The click of her heels bounced off the brick walls, echoing around her and announcing her arrival.
Then she stepped out into the dim light of the street lamp, letting it wash over the glimmering cape that brushed the ground behind her as well as the rest of her.. unusual upgrades. She leveled a stoic gaze on Alunite, then simply laced her hands behind her back.
"Nice to see you back on duty, Alunite."
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Posted: Sun Aug 21, 2011 11:32 am
Whatever it was, it was coming toward him. Alunite tensed, ready to escape at a moment's notice - there was no cowardice in skipping off to fight another day - what use was a dead weapon, after all ?
Finally seeing her - as unsettling as it was - made him untense, and the sound of her voice even more so. It wasn't an enemy. Not to him, at least.
Of course, now he remembered what Fluorite had told him. Something happened to Alkaid, she'd said. She hadn't elaborated beyond saying that Metallia herself had been involved.
He could kind of see why, now.
Alunite had always been the more stoic of the siblings, the one with the greater control on his emotions and his reactions - there had been a brief flash of surprise in his eyes, but it was gone in a blink. "I am certainly glad to be." He said with a nod. "Through im uncertain if this will be really 'it', but I haven't felt much pain so far." One hand went to brush his chest, on reflex. Too low for the gesture to be meant as worry for his starseed.
...Should he ask ? Fluorite hadn't... really elaborated on what happened, but he wasn't sure Alkaid would appreciate being prodded for answers to questions she might have been asked many times before now.
"I've been keeping away of any senshi aura I could feel... Just in case. I'd rather not break my rib over again." Of course, the second he was certain... The second he felt like he could handle battle again...
He could still feel the pulse of that starseed in his hand, warm and inviting.
Maddening, even.
Alunite had a too-brief taste of blood, and now he wanted more.
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Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2011 3:06 pm
As he stood and turned to face her, she smiled very slightly. Fluorite had reacted more noticeably than her brother, if leaps and bounds better than Hematite had. She was beginning to appreciate the soldiers that had the mindset to react with a cool head. Feeling like a freak every time she walked into someone's presence, whether she was or not, was beginning to get a little tiring.
"Just don't over do it, then." She took a few steps forward, letting the edges of her cape drag over the asphalt with the faintest of rustles. She dropped her eyes from the purple haired head down to the torso of his fuku, as if she could see whatever damaged remained through the cloth. She walk a slow, half circle around him before ever let her bright eyes rise to meet his again.
"We can't afford to lose you, Alunite." She stopped her slow walk and brought her arms up to cross over her chest, hiding the garish wound that revealed the faintest glimmers of her starseed. Her new form left very little to the imagination, much to her disapproval.
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Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2011 6:07 pm
"I do not plan on it. I have been out of the action far too long as it is." But again - what use was a dead weapon ? None, that was what. Better for the super senshi of the eclipse to be out of action for a little longer rather than be caught in battle with a weak spot.
If anything, his fight against the blood moon court has brought him that knowledge. He should have been smart enough to step down - Zinkenite was reasonable enough that he would have listened, really.
No, it was Alunite that hadn't been reasonable enough.
Her peering would reveal nothing - they stood now as complete opposite, the ascendant general with a fuku that left nothing to the imagination, and the super senshi who was almost covered from head to toe.
He certainly could have spared some, really. Her new fuku was almost as ridiculous as some of the white mooners he'd seen, and left absolutely nothing to the imagination.
He could not imagine her to be very comfortable... especially not if those very drastic changes had been recent. Fluorite hadn't said.
Her statement about how the negaverse couldn't afford to lose him seemed to surprise him - it was pleasing in some way, to know what he was needed, but at the same time it also felt like an overstatement. Certainly if something happened to him, they could probably corrupt another senshi, get a stronger, more... magical sphere at their disposal. He only nodded to that, through. "I do not intent to go anywhere."
The message was clear - he didn't intent to die, and he certainly didn't intend to be 'purified'. Death was preferable, he was swiftly starting to think. The more he saw of the white moon senshi, the more horrified he felt toward them.
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Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2011 6:32 pm
"Good." It was a single, simple word that carried all the meaning a thousand could.
Her eyes drifted away from him and to the stars, lingering perhaps a little longer in one direction until they settled on the moon. That bright, half circle that represented the foulest treachery she had ever heard of. It was the sign of their enemy, mocking them in the sky at night. Yet, before her was the representation of the one thing that could put out the moon's light.
Her eyes dropped back to Alunite and she smiled, amused with her realization. Sometimes there was meaning in life's little coincidences. The Negaverse had the eclipse. Well, as long as he stopped injuring himself, they did.
"Take care of yourself, let yourself heal. We have a long fight ahead of us yet, Alunite. You and I will have much to discuss soon, I think." But for the night, she was done. There were things to do, places to go, people to.. see. In his condition she couldn't drag him along, but soon. She dismissed him with one nod of the head and turned then, as if she might walk off into the horizon. After a few steps the cracks of her body were set afire with her bright energy and she simply snapped out of existence.
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