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 Posted: Thu Sep 19, 2013 8:32 am
For the past few hours, Isha had simply been on autopilot. The image of nothing but broken walls and bodies filled his mind, his vision. What there was no way to explain what he had seen, why he had seen it, only a ghost of a feeling that all of this.. it was his own fault. The records he had seen, the faces that were forever frozen in place could only haunt his mind..
Before he even realized it, the boy found himself no longer at home, no longer in bed where he had been gazing up at the ceiling. A thought that his body remembered, but he could not drove him to go out this far, and how he got here was a mystery, as he had not remembered talking to anyone.. Did he really walk all the way here? The sun was already below the horizon.. And yet he could just see the cracks in the ceiling he had been starting at.
His mouth opened and closed, and opened once more, as he gazed into the mirror of the coffee shop's bathroom nearby his friends store, a little dry-erase marker in his hand. He was supposed to do something here, right? There was someone he needed to talk to, someone he had told he would contact..
A little magnolia was drawn at the top of the mirror, as high up as he could reach, the very one that he could remember being on the man's chest. Would he really be able to see that? The only thing he could do was wait now, and hope that tonight they would be able to meet once again. Until then, he would stay up high nearby..
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Posted: Sat Sep 21, 2013 6:55 pm
Emry had been checking the bathroom in the cafe next to his work for over a week now. When he saw the promised flower, he knew what it meant: he would be meeting with Sailor Avior tonight. No. Sailor Celemorrow would be meeting with Sailor Avior tonight. Taking precautions, Emry had checked around the ally to make sure no traps had been set for him. He didn't know what he was looking for, exactly, but he checked anyway. After he was satisfied, he walked off in the opposite direction of campus, transformed in the shadows under a bridge and hurried back to the meeting spot as Sailor Celemorrow. When not traveling by mirror, he preferred to hop lampposts. It gave him a clearer view of the streets while avoiding most of the pedestrian and automobile traffic. At night he had the added advantage of being hidden behind the glare of the lamps. He took extra care to make sure his heels clipped against the pavement as he landed next to the alley he had previously met Sailor Avior. He saw no reason to sneak into a meeting where he was already expected, but he didn't want to shout his presence either.
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Posted: Sat Sep 21, 2013 7:14 pm
As soon as the shops closed around the small shopping center, Avior came down from his tree of hiding, walking around in the darkness before he came upon a ledge in the alley where he had been before. It was so terribly silent tonight, leaving him to his own thoughts too long. He honestly thought that he had shaken this darkness that was around him off weeks ago, but it just kept crawling back, up his spine, nesting in a section of his brain that he could not turn off. The soft nudge of chaos he felt as the other approached, and the sounds of the other's movements helped him release a breath he had not known he was holding.
"You're here.. I'm so very glad.. I.. Uh, How are you doing?" How was he even supposed to introduce such an experience to Celemorrow. If it were excitement that the home triggered within him, he would not have held back from telling him all about it. If there were only walls there, he would tell him everything right away. But this.. This was not the case at all.
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Posted: Sat Sep 21, 2013 8:43 pm
Avior's demeanor was noticeably different than the last time they had met. Celemorrow had remembered the Senshi of Walls as cheerful. At least more cheerful than this. The change unnerved Celemorrow slightly, making him suspect that Avior might be reluctantly planning to betray him to a more indoctrinated and powerful member of the White Moon. He ignored the niceties and plowed on to the subject that brought him here. "You said you would contact me when you found information on your home."
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Posted: Sat Sep 21, 2013 10:17 pm
"Yes.. I did.. And I found something that I was not expecting." He did not stand up from his perch on the ledge. There was no reason to, not of the one standing there was willing to listen.
"When I traveled there, I woke up on a chapel, covered in flowers all over. And there were these piles of dust spread all around, and from each one, there grew a single bloom. Like.. Like a red lily, with thorns on their stems. I didn't think much about it until I reached the outside of the chapel." He tried to bring back the image that had been engraved into his mind. It was a heartbreaking thought, but he did say he would..
"You know how our world are supposed to be destroyed? That no life was to exist..? That was true, but it was more like.. All the people in that world existed. Frozen in time, turned to dust statues. Every person in that city I was in was frozen. Working a stall, playing with a ball, petting a little cat. And out of each one came a that same flower. It was like.. The flower that was inside of them drained them dry." He held his hands up, staring down at his palms. "I accidentally touched one, to see the flower closer, and the statue crumbled to nothing. Nothing at all."
"I found something else there.. The last person in that city was inscribing on a wall, right until the very end.. It wasn't chaos. It wasn't the negaverse or some unseen entity that brought the plants to our world. It was the senshi from another planet, a senshi of horns, who used them to blow down the walls protecting my city.. They brought their vile species into my world, and used it to drain it dry, every drop of water, from the very bodies of the people who were just going about their lives.." Avior's hands dropped into his lap, his head hanging down near between his knees.
"It was my planet, and whoever I was in the past.. I wasn't strong enough to save myself, nor the people who I was sworn to protect. But that's not what bothers me.. No.. I thought senshi were supposed to be what we were to trust. And yet they are just as aggressive and corrupt as the Negaverse is.."
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Posted: Sun Sep 22, 2013 9:00 am
With teeth clenching and unclenching, the Senshi of Magnolias silently listened to what was essentially the account of a biological weapon attack. He wasn't aware that the senshi had access to that sort of bioweaponry. Maybe it was in the past, but.... "Can you take me there?" Celemorrow wanted to see it for himself. An entire world destroyed by an invasive species. Not just that, but by a senshi; by this stupid war. He wanted to see with his own eyes the apocalyptic scene Sailor Avior had just described. Maybe they could fix it. Who knew what efforts would need to be taken to resurrect an entire world, but those thoughts were not on Celemorrow's mind right now. No. Celemorrow's mind was a cloud of righteous anger poisoned against the senshi who partook in a war he couldn't even remember. This was why the Senshi didn't belong on Earth. Cooro Cooro I'm now curious if you have plans for a senshi of horns.
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Posted: Sun Sep 22, 2013 10:19 am
"I can't.. I went too recently, just earlier this week, and now there's a countdown on my phone, saying that I can't go again for two weeks." He reached into his pocket, pulling out the goldish color phone, clicking on the button that would have allowed for him to travel back to Avior. He pressed it, only receiving a busy signal, along with a countdown timer, and he showed it his companion.
"I do.. I had an idea though.. In two weeks time, I want to go back.. I want to go through the city, and collapse all of those figures.. My people don't deserve to live through all of eternity like that. And those flowers.. I want to burn them all. They do not belong there, and I do not want them there.."
Verithe I actually don't! I mean, I have an idea planned, but what fun would it be if I was the one who controlled Avior's enemy? I also tried to say kinda vague with what kind of horn it was, so that I didn't hinder any one else's quests or anything. If you wanted more details about what he saw, the first half is right here. (I need to edit the second half before I post it. XD)
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Posted: Sun Sep 22, 2013 11:20 am
Two weeks? Two weeks?!.... Actually, two weeks was a remarkably short time for an energy recharge compared to the fact that the Dark Mirror Court had yet to collect enough energy to begin their exodus. It didn't sate Celemorrow's impatience any, but it certainly brought things into perspective. What was this miraculous technology that allowed interplanetary travel? "Where did you get that cell phone?" Perhaps the question betrayed too much of the white-haired senshi's ignorance on matters of the White Moon. He wasn't even aware of the talking cats roaming Destiny City. Sure, one had been present when he was baptized in one of the Dark Mirrors, but he had never heard it speak and just assumed it to be someone's pet. "You're right. If there's nothing else alive on the planet, we should burn the invasive plant. From the sounds of it, the plant would be dangerous to anything that tried to move back in." "The wars of the White Moon....if they used biological weapons on your home, just think of what they could do to Earth." Cooro Cooro I can't wait to see the second half! If I didn't already have 3.5 characters of my own in the works, I would offer to make a senshi of horns to be Avior's nemesis. I'll help you if you want to make it yourself, though! Or anyone else who offers!
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Posted: Sun Sep 22, 2013 11:32 am
"All of the white moon senshi have them.. The Cat that awakened me, gave me my henshin pen, gave me this phone too. How a cat can pull a phone and pen out of think air is beyond me, but I think it only works if you're part of that faction. If.. If I do change sides, I might not be able to use it anymore." He thought of how it would be terrible to never be able to visit the home he had just come to know after he went with the Dark Mirrors, but there was nothing left on his planet anyway..
"Do you think you could help me? I think I read somewhere in a message I received long ago on this phone that I can bring two people with me, and the city is so large, I could not do it on my own." Avior's thoughts went to his little contact list on the phone. None of those senshi's he met could really be contacted out of the blue.. He didn't know those people, they hardly ever said they wanted to see him again either. He meant nothing to them, he was certain of that.
"I could not call on another White Moon Senshi. I wouldn't want to, not after what I learned happened.. How do I know that one of my own supposed allies could be the one who did this so long ago? Maybe it's foolish to be so bitter about a past life, but I can't help it. I wouldn't want this to happen to earth, I don't want it to become like the wasteland that Avior is.."
Verithe Thanks! biggrin I had it written for a while, just needed approval for the people thing! I think I'll set up a plot idea for a senshi like that, for someone else to grab! I think it would be pretty awesome though to have a character like that exist! biggrin
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Posted: Sun Sep 22, 2013 12:59 pm
"The...cat." The inflection Celemorrow gave the statement suggested that Avior was insane. Or, at least, that Celemorrow needed some evidence that insanity was not an issue here. Cats do not give people cell phones with space travel technology. Celemorrow knew this. But Avior brought up another issue....that he might lose the ability to visit his home world if he were to join the Dark Mirror Court. "Couldn't you just...keep your cell phone? Or maybe....maybe I can give you a mirror to take to your home next time you go." It would be a cheap mirror from a superstore. No need to get an expensive one. "If you can take me to your world, I will help you. If those plants are still growing, perhaps we can plant something more like what should be there once we get rid of them." Emry really had little experience with gardening, but he would learn what he could. An entire world's ecosystem was at stake. "I don't blame you for not trusting other White Moon senshi or being bitter. They destroyed your home."
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Posted: Sun Sep 22, 2013 1:30 pm
"Yes, the cat. You've seen them before, I'm sure, even if you hadn't noticed. They have a symbol on their forehead, and are utterly useless.." Had this man.. Maybe NOT seen them before? It seemed wherever he went there were more and more of them.. Not that they ever really bothered to help him.
"Even if I could keep it.. What if it feeds off of the aura I give off now for power? If my aura starts to feel like yours, then how am I to use it.. I honestly don't know how it would work but.." Then there was the mention of the mirror.
"There was a room of mirrors in the palace.. It was like a dressing room, filled with old clothing and overgrown with vines. But I don't think it would be an idea that would be entirely plausible.. How far have you traveled through the mirror? How much power did it take? It's not.. It's not like it's on another side of the city, Avior is 600 light years away.. You'd have to ask your queen about it.." It was an idea, of course, but still something that could not be used at this time.
"The very knowledge that you would be so kind to help me.. To maybe help bring life to my planet once more brings such comfort to me, I don't even know how to thank you. Everyone I've ever met from the DMC has done nothing but treat me kindly, allowing me to go with them as they work, to show me what they do with the confidence that I can be trusted. I really feel like I belong here with you, with your Organization.. There are only a few things that are holding me back until I am able to change over." Sometimes, being under age was a true problem.. After all, he could not rely on his So-called earthen family anymore. He had to make sure he would be set when he cut his ties.
Verithe As a Note, In the second part of his trip on his planet, which I have yet to post, he finds a room with Lots of mirrors, all the size perfect to travel for a DMC sailor. I was talking to the GM about the mirrors in his home. As AWESOME as it could be to show the DMC he takes with him those mirrors, It is not viable as a travel option to his planet, as of yet, due to the fact that he'd be the ONLY DMC with the ability to go to their planet, and that wouldn't be fair, but maybe at some point, it could be further explained. For now, it doesn't mean too much. Maybe during the RP where you and Rem (who will agree to go with them) come to his planet, it can be further explained. I dunno yet. XD
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Posted: Sun Sep 22, 2013 5:44 pm
Celemorrow stared blankly at Avior as he explained the guardian cats. "There are cats giving out cell phones." There was that tone again. If Avior were trying to trick Celemorrow, he was choosing a really bad lie to work with. The subject of mirrors, though, the white-haired senshi took more seriously. In truth, he hadn't traveled much farther than the boundaries of Destiny City. He hadn't even bothered to visit his home town since he had awakened. Neither had he paid much attention to the energy it took to travel. In fact, he had only noticed how difficult it was to stay in-between mirrors. Perhaps some experimenting was in order. "If there is a room full of mirrors, then perhaps we won't need to take one. But you're right, I haven't had the opportunity to travel so far by mirror. I can't say for certain that it is possible." Celemorrow decided to refrain from informing Avior that Ares, as far as he could tell, no longer led the Dark Mirror Court. "What sorts of things are holding you back?" Cooro Cooro I had thought they ruled that a senshi that could remember a mirror on their planet from before they joined the DMC could still mirror-walk there. Maybe they changed their mind for game balance. Either way, I look forward to visiting Avior!
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Posted: Sun Sep 22, 2013 6:03 pm
There was no reaction from that tone again, just a little shake of his head.
"I will have to figure that out some day.. For now.. I think that maybe we should just wait.. to figure out. I can't change over just yet.. I'm only 16, so I need to figure out where I'm going to live.. How I'm going to register for school. I mean, I have money, I just.. I can't change over unprepared, you know?" He wanted to ask if Celemorrow knew of any older members who could house him, but.. It seemed a bit too much to ask someone he had only met twice. The boy fell silent once more, staring at his hands. What now.. He kept the other informed, but he doubted he'd be given any sort of comfort about it.. Were they just to part?
Verithe I don't know.. If it WAS able, that would be amazing, and the DMC could use his planet as somewhere they wanted to go. I really hope that one day it would help.
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Posted: Sun Sep 22, 2013 8:24 pm
Celemorrow had never thought of the concerns Avior brought up about converting to the Dark Mirror Court. In his own case, he had been awoken with a Dark Mirror baptism and didn't need to change his identity. Sure, he distanced himself from his family. But that was easier when you were already living far away at college. For a sixteen-year-old, it wasn't so easy. Although, with mirror-walking, it would be easy enough for a Dark Mirror senshi to spend their nights in furniture stores and collect their meals from restaurants and grocery stores which had closed for the night, it wasn't a suggestion Celemorrow wanted to make. "I will ask around and see if I can come up with something." It dawned on him how little he actually knew about the other senshi in the Court. He had never really talked to anyone other than Remarque. Until this moment, that had been fine with him. He could take care of himself and he had pride in his mission. But when it came to getting help from his peers, he wasn't sure where to begin.
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Posted: Sun Sep 22, 2013 8:50 pm
"Thank you.. I'm sure it would be possible to just.. I dunno, find my way into some place with a comfy spot to sleep, but that's not a home, you know? I want to make it somewhere that I can return to, and maybe have someone waiting for me." It just wasn't time yet for the boy to be all alone. No, he wanted to come to the Dark Mirror Court to find a place he belonged, to find a family that was able to understand him, and be by his side. Being alone would defeat that purpose.
"I.. Well, I don't know too much else to say, honestly.. I'd like to talk to you again before we go to my planet, but.. I don't think you're too much of a person to small talk with, are you? And.. What other reason would you have to speak to me? I want to become part of your family as well, but I have no idea where to even begin."
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