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 Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2012 6:24 pm
Everything with Hypnos' plan had been going great. She had managed to save Yvette, capture that very youma, and take it back to a secret location but after several days the youma had disappeared from its cage. She had immediately powered up and gone out to investigate, running down the streets of the city with her net in hand. It couldn't have gotten far, could it have? The answer was: Yes, it was far. Pretty damn far, but Hypnos didn't know that.
She direly searched for it until she settled down near the back alley of what seemed to be a diner of some kind. She decided she would take a break, a short one, because she was in no condition to run around searching for a youma (least of all catching a youma) when she was out of breath. She couldn't just lean anywhere though. Things were dirty, and she was a lady. She searched for a tidy place before settling against the wall there.
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Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2012 7:03 pm
"SHADDUP, I GOT IT! Jesus," Zia kicked the door to the back alley open, hands full of empty boxes Noah had demanded she take out. If she was going to be hanging around eating all the time, then she was going to work off that profit.
It hadn't taken Zia long to adapt to the way of communicating Noah and his cooks had, which was mostly loud yelling that was 80% insult and 20% orders. She still wasn't happy about having to get off her a** when she was perfectly happy burying all her feels in french fries. She was muttering about it when she almost tripped over someone. A small someone.
"Oh, geez," She couldn't see over the stack of boxes in her hands, but she still stumbled back when she sensed someone there. "s**t, I--! Oh, hey, kid," She immediately cut off the long string of swear words when she managed to maneuver to peek around the boxes in her hands. "Hey, I know you. Hypnosis or something." She only vaguely remembered her, since Zirconia had been driving the car the last time they met, but she definitely knew her.
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Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2012 7:13 pm
The door had opened but Hypnos hadn't thought anything of it, at least not until she was nearly tripped over. It startled her so suddenly that her arms threw up into the air with a little shriek and caused the net in her hands to fly up into the air and land on top of her head. Strawberry blonde hair peeking out from the holes in the net, blue eyes soon did the same as her head tilted up and she looked at Zia.
"Hello," she mustered. "You... know me?" Hypnos didn't recognize Zia though, having only met her as a fluffy mauve cat who wasn't quite as friendly as she hoped. Suddenly she felt very guilty, not liking the idea of forgetting someone so completely. There wasn't anything about Zia that Hypnos remembered, causing her to struggle with the thought.
"I'm sorry, I don't remember you." She said very politely, pulling the net off her head. "It's Hypnos."
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Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2012 7:28 pm
"Oh yeah man, you were in Elysion and that uh... uh... somewhere else?" Considering Zirconia had gotten knocked out and Zia's memories of it were fuzzy anyway, there was no way she was going to fully recall that whole incident in the toy factory.
"Yeah yeah yeah, I got it now, hold on," She glanced around, finding a spot next to the dumpster to set the boxes down before turning and transforming into her humanoid Mauvian form, only for a second, before she was back to Zia-in-jeans.
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Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2012 7:35 pm
The word Elysion struck a bit of a sad note with Hypnos. It had been such a heartbreaking time and while she had met such good friends while she was there she hadn't been able to see them very often since. She had seen them once, maybe twice since then and that wasn't nearly enough. She missed her Big Kitty, although Zia probably wouldn't recalling the fact he'd tried to burn them all in some firey pits of steam and lava. It hadn't been quite so terrible for her since she was pretty much safe on his back.
Hypnos watched Zia curiously, and when she seen the humanoid version of the Mauvian form, she gasped. She vaguely recalled it, just vaguely.
"Big Kitty's Volcano," she nodded, being proud to at least remember where she had met her before.
The excitement had dropped because suddenly Hypnos had a very particular realization. COULD CORA DO THIS? COULD CORA ACTUALLY BE A PERSON TOO? OR MAYBE THIS PERSON WAS REALLY A CAT WHO HID HER TAIL? OH, OH, OH... All these questions caused Hypnos' brain to melt, figuratively at least, and she quickly took a deep breath to cool it off.
"Where do you keep your ears and tail?" She pondered, trying to look behind Zia to see if she could find a bulge in her pants anywhere.
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Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2012 7:47 pm
"Holy s**t kid, I'm gonna need you to take about five steps away please," She said, grabbing her shoulders and moving her back a bit. Zia did not react to being closed in on by children quickly very well. She could tolerate them, as long as they didn't make any sudden movements. But their tiny hands and big eyes and high voices were kind of creepy, especially when they were trying to get a look at your a**.
"I'm kind of a special case. Zirconia's starseed is hitching a ride," Zia made a flippant gesture to the space above her heart where starseeds had a tendency to be, "But I still remember you. What are you doing creeping in an alleyway?" She was starting to wonder if she should just start carrying pamphlets explaining parallel bullshit because that was as far as she was willing to go into the whole story on her own anymore.
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Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2012 7:52 pm
Ironically, Hypnos had also met Zue but she had no idea that he was a human during the day. It was so neat! Who didn't want to be a cat? Well, other than those who wanted to be a bunny or some other animal. Either way, it was a very common trend for children to want to be animals they were fond of, at least for some moment in time. It made the idea of Zia being able to be a cat just that much more interesting. She wanted to investigate it further but Zia telling her to back away was more than enough to get her to take a step back.
"I'm sorry," she apologized immediately, her arms hugging her chest.
"I'm looking for a youma," she replied, dropping the subject about Zia being a cat almost as quick as she had apologized. She opted to keep her distance, gingerly brushing some of her hair over her shoulder in the meanwhile. "I catch them with my net."
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Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2012 8:11 pm
"It's fine, just," Zia held up her palms and lightly pushed the air in front of her as if to signify a personal space bubble that was not to be violated without permission. Which was mostly only given when she wanted to violate other people's personal space like the hypocrite she was.
She frowned when the word youma was said, though. Not so much a serious afraid frown but a 'oh-god-Noah-is-going-to-flip-a-b***h' frown that made her glance at the closed door. Noah had serious thing about youma in his general vicinity and he was not okay with them even a little.
"Uh... might not wanna say that word out loud around here," She warned, still kind of glancing around like her brother was going to stomp out here and start shouting about how there'd better not be another youma around here because damn it he was still paying off the window bills from the last time.
"Wait, you catch them? You know you're supposed to be dusting them, right?"
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Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2012 8:16 pm
And there it was folks, the general reaction that Hypnos always got when people learned she wasn't following the norm. She frowned, her face looking down as her bunny slippers kicked the ground. She didn't want to hurt them, even if all they did was cause pain because an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind. What if the reason youma were an omnipresent force in Destiny City was based purely on revenge? Maybe they could stop it.
"I refuse," she said firmly, her eyes jolting up to meet Zia's. She was tired of people forcing their way on her. "IfIcancatchandstudythemthenmaybe... maybe I can stop their violence... maybeIcansendthemback... home."
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Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2012 8:23 pm
Zia blinked, not having a clue. She had said it as casually as she told her she was holding her toothbrush the wrong way, but seemed surprised the kid had actually put some thought into it rather than was just mistakingly going about it the wrong way.
"I... uh..." It did just occur to Zia that she knew absolutely zilch about youma except they were Chaos creations and you zapped them. This was the education she had gotten the second she was thrown into the whole war thing and told to stand alone, and she had never really questioned it. Which was strange because she questioned everything about senshi. Maybe 'Chaos did it' was too simple an excuse to live by.
"Okay then. Where is home?"
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Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2012 8:28 pm
"I... I don't know... yet, but I plan to find out."
Hypnos refused to think anything in the world was so chaotic that there was no way it did not deserve the same rights as anything else. Even if no one believed the same Hypnos would stand by her belief. She could barely catch the first youma though, almost getting eaten in the process. She had to get stronger, somehow. It was apparent she was not used to all the running, her face flushed and her breath still a little sharp.
"I just need to study one!"
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Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2012 8:42 pm
Okay, Zia was not a fan of small people. But she could appreciate the scientific mind electing to study a problem rather than just go around smashing it, and was rather peeved she didn't think of it first. Though, in her defense, she had focused her area of study in mirror magic, knighthood, and Chaos seeds and youma were just a small hurdle/training fodder.
Still, she smirked and put her hands on her hips, looking Hypnos up and down. "I... look kid, I know you're super rank and all, but some of the tougher youma kick my a** and I almost killed you with my boots and a few boxes. How are you going to get one alive?"
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Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2012 8:47 pm
It was true she certainly wasn't the strongest senshi out there but she had a pretty good trick up her sleeve for immobilizing a good portion of lower youma. However, she still had to fight quite a bit simply to get to that point... not to mention she had to get quite close to begin with. She recalled her time after saving Yvette, the youma ran almost faster than her to begin with.
"I-I... I just need to get stronger... then it'll be easier to catch one again..."
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Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2012 9:15 pm
"Okay!" Zia accepted this answer, clapping together her hands, though the sound was muffled by her fingerless gloves. "I could train you! I've trained lots of senshi before. Like, tons. Well, I mean, I am a guardian cat, it's kind of in the job description. And lot of them went on to be very successful--" Negaverse exterminators? War criminals? Serial killers? Zia decided these were not things to put on your resume when Hypnos was your audience.
"Uh, just successful, I guess."
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Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2012 9:18 pm
Hypnos had never really trained before. She had been in a lot of sticky situations, and a lot of fights she didn't want to be in but she had never actually trained before. Things just happened, whether she liked it or not. She did want to be successful though, and nodded her head before she even realized what she'd be getting herself into.
"I do want to be successful," she said with a soft smile.
"What do we do?"
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