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 Posted: Tue Sep 10, 2013 10:17 am
Now that Avior was no longer feeling frightened of his own shadow, he decided to finally take this opportunity to explore further into the city than he normally did. Most of the time, he remained close to the elementary school, to Azure Valley, and to the over all 'wealthy' part of the city. Before his recent adventure into the very foundations of his mind, he had figured the only obligation he had to protect anyone was around the areas where his family often ventured to.
Nothing stopped him now though, and though he still felt like none of the areas around here were his problem, there was still something he wished to seek out. More than anything, he wanted to find more of those people from the Dark Mirror Court Faction. He wanted to know who they were, as individuals, not as a group of people lumped into one single identity. That wasn't at all what it meant to be a family. Certainly, each DMC member was different, so it was useless trying to get information about their faction, about how to join, about their purpose from one single individual, so he had to seek out more.
His venturing outside of his own preset limits had led him over to the University, somewhere he had not quite been before, at-least not at night. It was an interesting part of the town, and the spaces between the backs of the shops were quite an interesting place to be. He'd figured, if this were not a college area, this place would probably be a breeding ground for ne'er-do-wells. Even then, maybe there would people in the alleyways, and if there were people.. Maybe there was someone who was going around, trying to gather energy or something..
Avior landed in the alley, behind what seemed like a restaurant, and an antique store. Yes, he had been here before, maybe that's why he had returned...
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Posted: Tue Sep 10, 2013 6:31 pm
It was a bit late for Emry to be closing up shop, but he had stuck around a little later to meet a customer who was picking up a larger piece of furniture. The customer had left not too long ago and Emry had barely left Johnny Zeitgeist when he heard a rustle in the alley which hid behind the store. He paused. Thieves? Drug dealers? Whoever was back there, they were surely up to no good. Emry checked to make sure the street was empty before silently transforming into Sailor Celemorrow and slipping into the alley himself. A swirling shadow of Chaos energy played with some stray magnolia tepals at his feet, both remnants of his transformation, before softly fading away. The senshi slipped off his beret and pulled a shard of mirror from inside. Spotting Sailor Avior, Celemorrow stopped and considered whether he should just set the wraith on him for skulking around in alleys at night or try to talk to him like he was supposed to. The decision was tough.
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Posted: Tue Sep 10, 2013 6:53 pm
Avior moved to sit ontop of a low hanging part of a rooftop nearby, giving a bit of a yawn. It was rather boring, encountering nothing around here. He supposed that, though in his mind it seemed like a good idea, doing rounds of energy draining or something around a university wouldn't be the best. After all, there was campus police and what not about. He honestly figured it would be a bit more successful than this though.
A wee bit of hope hit him when he felt something nearby change, an energy signal that was a bit more Chaotic than the average senshi's, and he could not help but grin! Finally, atleast there was someone here to talk to! Hopping down from his perch, he started over to the source, trying to be slow and cautious about it. What exactly was the man doing with his hat? In the pale light in the alleyway, he could tell that the man's uniform was mostly dark colored, whether or not it was a Negaverse person, or someone actually from the Dark Moon Court, he couldn't tell, but he wasn't going to attack. He never struck first, what was the point in doing so?
"Hey there, I'm not here to fight! I'm just looking for some people from the Dark Moon Court to talk to." There was no use in lying, right? There was always problems when people found out you were lying.
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Posted: Tue Sep 10, 2013 7:37 pm
Talk? Just talk? While it was honestly a relief, Sailor Celemorrow remained suspicious. His last encounter with a White Moon senshi was a diplomatic nightmare. But if this senshi wanted to talk, he might as well see what he wanted. The mirror shard glinted as Celemorrow slipped it back under his hat. He made a quick inventory of what was in the alley....which aside from the garbage bin and a dented baking sheet from the cafe, wasn't much to work with. "What is your name?" The Dark Mirror senshi's aloofness was obvious.
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Posted: Tue Sep 10, 2013 8:14 pm
Whatever it was in the other's hand glinted for just a moment, before being put away in his hat. As confusing as that was, he shook his head, stepping forward and offering the other a smile.
"I'm Sailor Avior. Just Avior though. Why anyone would want to call anyone else by their full title, I don't know." He wasn't going to say his rank, it might come off as a threat. There was doubt that the man before him was going to be so friendly with him. It wasn't as if their factions got along exactly.. Terribly unfortunate, really.
"But yes, I'm looking for more people from the Dark Mirror Court. I was honestly considering trying to join them. I wanted to learn more about it though." The man's outfit was rather peculiar to him, vaguely reminding him of someone in a play he saw recently, not that he dared say that out loud. Who knew what it would take to set someone off?
"I don't see a weapon on you.. And I don't see a crack in your forehead either, only magnolias.. Could you possibly be someone from that faction? A Senshi of Magnolias? I mean, that's what it comes off as, since it's on your uniform. That doesn't really mean much now, does it? You wouldn't be able to tell what my power is. I could be a senshi of baking, but I wouldn't lie to you, no. It's walls." Avior didn't really care that he was spewing off information, not if this person was to be someone he could trust later on..
"Oh, uh, what is your name?"
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Posted: Tue Sep 10, 2013 9:47 pm
"Full titles can be used to avoid confusion and to maintain a sense of formality." Sailor Celemorrow was not quite sure he could trust someone whose intentions seemed a little too transparent. He was a bit impressed at how observant Avior was, though that virtue also made Celemorrow view him with suspicion. Nevertheless, one of the missives of the Dark Mirror Court was to convert the senshi of the White Moon and the senshi in front of him claimed to already be willing and wanted to know more. "Sailor Celemorrow. As you have deduced, I am the Senshi of Magnolias." He didn't want to express his surprise that Avior even knew what a magnolia was or his confusion about the mention of cracks in his forehead. "What do you know about the Dark Mirror Court and what do you want to know."
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Posted: Tue Sep 10, 2013 10:00 pm
"I suppose that is right. But I suppose between factions it doesn't really mean too much,. It's a pleasure to meet you, Sailor Celemorrow of Magnolias." His hands came to rest behind him, in the small of his back as he leaned against the bricks behind him. He wanted to appear as lax as possible, the furthest thing away from a threat.
"Well.. I know that they follow a leader that is known to them. And I know that they don't go about randomly attacking people like the Negaverse does. I also know that it's small.. A more cozy faction, with a goal of making those in the White Moon join their side." His gaze turned upwards, smiling at the stars above them. It was a shame that he was so far north; in the southern Hemisphere, Avior was one of the brightest stars in the world.
"I also know that the White Moon is something I know even less about. It's one of those.. One of those situations where I was forced here without being told why. I was woken up by something that said 'you are aligned with these people, now go.'. I've never met the person who is in control of the White Moon, and I often wonder why would my star, my little homeworld so far, far away would even care about this place, and why would the White Moon care about it too."
"Do you think you'd have some sort of explanation for me?"
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Posted: Tue Sep 10, 2013 10:52 pm
"Getting the other senshi of the white moon to join us isn't our main goal." His voice still had an edge to it, but it had softened a bit and the change in acoustics indicated he was also looking at the stars, even if only for a glance. "We senshi are from out there, you know. Our true homes are those stars, planets, asteroids... But we were forced to be reborn here on Earth, awakened as soldiers to fight a dead empire's war and disrupt the natural balance of this planet. The Dark Mirror Court is trying to get the other senshi to recognize that the war is over, yes, but our main goal is to go home." Celemorrow's fists clenched and unclenched. "And to stop sullying this planet with our presence."
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Posted: Wed Sep 11, 2013 4:28 am
"Sullying this planet, huh..?" He contemplated the other's words for a moment, letting his eyes clothes, imagining how his planet would have been if it were full of people. He had yet to visit the place, but his heart just knew there was water everywhere. After all, his start was part of the enormous Argo Navis constellation, and that was a ship if he ever saw one.
"How could return to our planet if it's destroyed here? From what I've learned from other people in the White Moon faction, all of the homeworld in this universe, where we senshi are from, are destroyed, in some way, shape or form. No life there, none at all.. I have not gone to see mine yet, but if this is true, if it is gone, even if all the White Moon senshi figure out that we do not belong here, where are we to go?"
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Posted: Wed Sep 11, 2013 3:01 pm
"If we can return to our homes, we can rebuild them." This was actually the first time Celemorrow had heard of that the homeworlds were destroyed, but he wasn't going to admit his ignorance. Besides, he was drawing his own conclusions. "I hope we won't just find desolation out there, but it's the sort of thing that the senshi will bring to this planet if we don't leave.
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Posted: Wed Sep 11, 2013 4:44 pm
"Rebuild them, yes, but.. You can't rebuild people, can you?" The tone he held sounded so very sad. It was true though, no one had the power to bring back the dead.. Not that he knew of, anyway.
"I know we just met and everything, but.. Once I figure out how to get back to my home, would you like to come see it? I'm hoping that I find something other than.. I just hope to find something. And I don't know if you know how to get back to your home either. If you could see mine, maybe you could even get an idea of what yours looked like." A hand came up to adjust his glasses, which had slipped off his face a little from his constant movements, looking up at the sky, then back to the Senshi before him.
"Do you really think that's what would happen? We'll break the world if there are senshi here?"
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Posted: Wed Sep 11, 2013 7:51 pm
'Yes. Destiny City is already a war zone. It's only a matter of time." He eyed Avior warily. He really did want to go see a senshi homeworld. His own, especially, but Avior's offer was enticing. But....was it a trap? "We'll see when you figure out how to get there. "You're right that we can't rebuild people, though, and I'm not going to search for an Eve just to play Adam. Still, nature has its order and our place is not here."
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Posted: Wed Sep 11, 2013 8:05 pm
"Ah, that is true. There's no sense in this war, really. If we could go home, if there was a home to return to then the fighting would stop. If you're saying that, and our worlds no longer exist as they should, how would we leave? where would we go?" When the other's eyes met his, he looked back down thinking of what to ask next.
"Can I ask a slightly off-topic question? Well, not off-topic but a wee bit so from what were were talking about before." His hand came up to press against his own chest, over the spot where he remembered seeing a hole in a corrupted Senshi's chest.
"If I do go to the Dark Mirror Court, if I want to become one of you, to join your society, your family, what happens to my star seed, do you know?"
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Posted: Wed Sep 11, 2013 9:02 pm
Cooro Cooro "I imagine we can try to rebuild a society of just senshi on one of the less-dead planets or a temporary place while we rebuild our worlds. But we can't stay here. The risk of collateral damage is too great." When Avior asked his last question, Celemorrow wasn't entirely sure where it was coming from. Having never met a corrupted senshi before and didn't know anything about what the senshi of walls could possibly be referring to. "Nothing! I mean there might be some alteration to its resonance if any of the White Moon cats brainwashed you, but that's a sort of cleansing. Those things are important. We don't mess around with those."
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Posted: Wed Sep 11, 2013 9:18 pm
"That sounds quite nice, actually. A place where there would be no need to hide who we are. A place where powers are an every-day thing, and we would have no need to fight or fear for our lives. Indeed, it is a wonderful dream, one that I wish so deeply to become part of.. I would gladly offer up my own world as a place of piece, if it were in a well enough condition to harbor life." But what such luck would that be. He honestly doubted would be so lucky to have a planet worth visiting.. Hope was hope nonetheless!
"Really? Nothing would happen to it? I was worried, for when I met a corrupted senshi not too long ago, right here, in his chest, there was a black hole. And there was one right in the middle of his forehead. When I was awoken as a senshi, we were given something to contact each other with, and with it, came a message with it, that I had not given into consideration until recently." He supposed it would be alright to share information about the corrupted senshi. It put no other White Mooners in danger, right?
"It said that the holes expose their starseed, leaving only a remnant behind.. I wouldn't want something like that to happen to my own, if I were to become part of your family. It's a frightening thought, indeed, but I am so very relieved that such a thing doesn't happen with you."
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