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 Posted: Sat Apr 04, 2015 10:55 am
Hyperborea had decided to patrol near the library tonight. She thought about her time as a page so far. She'd meet so many cool people: Mimi, Chaonis, Urda, Hver, Penthe, Ida, and even Theseus. She was living her dream, even if it wasn't exactly what she had envisioned. Sure there were some terrible things as well like finding out that there are people like Painite praying on helpless people or learning that the Negaverse turns people into youma, but that just made her more determined to get stronger to stop the evil in the city.
She was brought out of her thoughts when she felt a monstrous aura hit her. It was like nothing she had felt before, if the auras of the eternals had been a like pool this aura was like the ocean. But it didn't feel wrong like Painites aura did so Hype figured this must be a good guy. From what she could tell the aura was coming from the roof of the library.
She dashed around the building to the back, happy to see that there was a fire escape for her to use. She quickly made her way up the fire escape to the roof. She stopped dead in her track. She saw a man who looked like he had stepped right out of one of her books, he could have been king Arthur himself (weirder things had happened lately). But not only that the man had a strange familiarity that she couldn't put her finger on. She stood there mouth open trying to find the words and after a few seconds simply said "Are you king Arthur?"
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Posted: Sat Apr 04, 2015 1:07 pm
Camelot felt an aura approaching him and smiled. He liked that company would come and find him, and wondered why he had not patrolled like this before. Just... sitting down, relaxing. True enough, he was only doing it this way because he could not really get up and bounce around just yet.
Really, he would rather be healed and ready to play the game like he used to, if he had a choice in the matter. He was anything but lazy, after all, and liked going out there and taking to the streets to find trouble and, hopefully, stop it.
When the knight did get to the top of the building, Camelot smiled at her and shook his head, chuckling as he very slowly got to his feet. He limped to her, though he tried to hide it proudly, and offered her his hand.
"Not, Arthur, no. Not a King, either. My name is Camelot, Royal Knight of Earth. And you're a Page I'm not familiar with. It's nice to meet you."
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Posted: Sat Apr 04, 2015 3:11 pm
Hyperborea felt like her head was spinning Royal Knight of Earth, Camelot. She absently shook his hand trying to get her thoughts straight, her excitement quickly building. If his name is Camelot and knights are named after real places, wonders like my Hyperborea, then that must mean.... "OH MY GOD! Your wonder is Camelot then Camelot is a real place! Is the round table real too?! What about the Arthurian stories were they true, were they knights like us?!" Hyperborea let out a childish squeal of excitement. She had meet knight like Hver or Mimi who were great in their own ways, but this guy was exactly like the knights of her dreams and his wonder was actually Camelot itself. She couldn't contain her excitement and threw her arms around him in a hug, she was meeting someone who was basically her childhood hero after all. He let out a noise of pain and she realized he was hurt so she immediately released him. "Je suis désolé! I didn't hurt you did I?"
She tried to calm herself down a little. She blushed at how childish she was acting. "Um sorry its just that so cool. I've loved King Arthur stuff since my Mama read the stories to me when I was little. And not only do you look just like a story book knight but your actually Camelot." She straightened her hair and dress trying to regain composer. She realized she hadn't introduced herself yet. "Bonsoir Camelot! I'm Hyperborea page of Cosmos."
"So if your not a king why are you called a ROYAL knight, does that mean you lead the Earth knights? Does every knight group have a Royal Knight I haven't heard one mentioned for Cosmos yet." She looked at his face and she couldn't shake the feeling of familiarity. "Um we haven't met right, you look kinda familiar."
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Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2015 12:47 pm
Camelot was used to the way people had to take a moment to understand what they were looking at, when it came to him. Royal Knights were not common, after all, and... her response surprised him, though. It was not his power level she was wondering about, but... his wonder.
"It's as real as any other Wonder might be," he said with a grin, feeding on her excitement. Up until the point when she leaped at him and caught him in a surprise hug, sending a jolt of pain through him as his back spasmed in warning. He had not meant to make her feel guilty about it, but he couldn't help the eep of pain that escaped his throat.
"No, no, I was hurt when we started," he said, waving off the incident with a warm smile or reassurance.
Her excitement reminded him of his own, when all this first started. He had always loved Arthurian legends, as well, after all, and it had been a dream come true to become Camelot, and to be able to visit the place he was named after.
"It's a pleasure to meet you, Hyperborea. I'm glad to hear you're so excited about Arthurian Legends! I have a collection of books you might be interested in, then, but that's for another time I think. Ah. To answer your question, I don't believe there are any other Royal Knights awakened just yet, though that can change at any time. But I don't believe we've met before..."
He didn't realize she had met his son, and the two bore a strong family resemblance, even when they were both powered.
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Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2015 2:17 pm
"Your hurt! Maybe we should sit down and talk then. I don't want to make your injury worse." She said taking a seat on the ledge of the building.
This man seemed very kind. He really did seem to fit the role of a true knight. She wondered if other royal knight might be awoken could she become one. She wondered how exactly one becomes a royal knight, Mimi had said that becoming a squire and Knight just kinda happened on there own. She wondered if this was the same. One step at a time Hype, your not even a squire yet plus you don't even know if its possible for you to become one, maybe only special people get to be royal knights.
"So if its not impolite to ask how did you get hurt I mean you feel way stronger than Penthe, Painite or Chaonis." She couldn't imagine something stronger than the man before her.
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Posted: Mon Apr 06, 2015 7:43 pm
Camelot nodded his head, glad for the invitation to sit down, moving to do so slowly. He sighed once he was comfortable, taking the strain off his back and broken leg. Being powered was a wonder, since it allowed him to move around much better than when he was a civilian, but he did feel worn out very quickly.
"You met Painite? You met Chaonis?" Camelot looked surprise as he recognized two of the names on her list. He shifted a bit, looking at her directly.
"Be very careful around Painite. She won't hesitate to mark you as her prey if you give her a reason to focus on you, and that is the last thing you want to do. She is the one that injured me, though she had quite a lot of help. She kidnapped Chaonis' friend," his girlfriend, to be exact, but Camelot did not need to indulge all the personal details, "and tried to use her against him, and him against me. She set traps, literally, and when I stepped in one, she took advantage of it. Ah. Chaonis is my son, you see. And I would do anything to protect him. And those he cares about. But I suppose I would do anything to protect anyone that needed me." He looked sheepish, but it was an absolutely honest thought. He was a gentle soul, and he believed in defending those that needed defending, and offering his service, as a knight, to anyone that could use it.
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Posted: Tue Apr 07, 2015 9:23 am
Hyperborea felt so bad for the royal knight. What a terrible and underhanded thing to do, using someone's family and friends to hurt them. And this was the third person who warned her to stay away from the general, she must be really awful to have such a bad reputation. But that did at least answer her question of where she'd seen him, he and Chaonis looked alike cause they're family. They must be an awesome family if they're both so powerful, I wonder if other families have multiple people with powers?
"I'm so sorry that happened to you. What a cowardly thing to do, and then to not even fight but use traps. Its unfair, but your gonna be alright right? Hver said no one is born evil but I not sure I believe that with people like Painite, I mean she likes hurting people what person enjoys causing innocent people pain." Hyperborea felt tears of anger at the general and empathy for camelot's injury. She brushed her eyes with her hand. "Sorry I just can't stand seeing people in pain or people causing others pain. Compared to what happened to you I got off light when I fought her. But I totally get what you mean about protecting people. I mean thats our duty as knights right, to protect those who can't protect themselves."
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Posted: Sun Apr 12, 2015 3:29 pm
"Ah, well, these things happen in this fight, unfortunately. I would rather them happen to me, at least as far as these injuries go, than anyone else. I do wish I could better protect my friends and family from being targets..."
He sighed, but it was a common and constant struggle for him. For any of them. They just had to do what they could.
"Hver is a very sweet and honest person, and I think you would do well to trust in what she tells you. Chaos is a very evil force, and can corrupt anyone, or anything beyond what we can imagine. It's terrible, and made even worse when it seems that person enjoys what's happening to them. That is the case with Painite, I think. Her starseed is so twisted with chaos, she can do any manner of monstrous thing. But I don't think even she is beyond being purified, but the ability to reach her has grown limited. It's more dangerous to try, for most, than anything else, but I'm going to keep at it."
He was surprised that a Page had been able to encounter a General, any of them, and get out of that fight in such a good condition, but he was very glad to hear it.
"You're a very sweet, young Page, I can see that," he said with a warm smile, noting her tearful look, "and I think, as you grow, that quality is going to help you. Protecting each other is as important as protecting the innocent, I think. It sounds like you've already got a good network of contacts growing."
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Posted: Sun Apr 12, 2015 3:57 pm
"Thanks" She replied feeling her cheeks grow warm at his comment about her being sweet. She nodded her head as he talked about chaos corruption and Painites starseed. Purified? She thought. I wonder what that involves, wait could that be what Astrophyllite was talking about doing. It must be. She decided to ponder that later.
"It sounds like you've known the general for a while now. So she wasn't always like that, chaos made her this way. That's really sad. A captain I meet said that the negaverse can make you think mean thoughts but I didn't realize chaos could make a person actually enjoy hurting people like that. I hope your right that she can be purified, if its chaos that's making her do such evil things I guess she's kind of a victim herself." She decided to change the topic to a happier one before she started actually crying.
"So whats Camelot like? I've always dreamed about it but you've actually been. Is it as amazing as the stories make it out to be? What about the round table is it real? Or excalibur?" She thought for second. "Although I suppose even if the sword is real it would be with the Lady of Lake or in Avalon not at Camelot."
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Posted: Sun Apr 12, 2015 4:12 pm
Camelot looked thoughtful.
Painite had always had fun being a villain, but she was not always this level of crazy. She had become much, much worse over the years, and he knew that was because she was so steeped in chaos. It continued to alter her more and more, and he wondered how much more she could really take.
"I can't say that it's just Chaos, no. As nice as it would be to believe that Chaos makes everyone we come across as evil as they are, but unfortunately that is not the only case. I do think it makes every evil intention they have a lot worse."
"Ah, Camelot, the Wonder, is an amazing place. It's beautiful. Clean. The air is light and unpolluted. I've found the Round Table, but I've not unlocked all its secrets, and Excalibur... well." He wobbled as he took a step back. He put his hand over the empty sheath he had at his side, closing his hand like it was around a hilt. Then he made to remove it and a crystal sword appeared in his hand, glistening and shimmering even in the dim light.
"This sword is made entirely of crystal, and is what I use to purify Negaverse soldiers who want to join the White Moon, and become Knights. It's as close to any sword of legend as I'm going to get, I imagine."
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Posted: Sun Apr 12, 2015 4:30 pm
She wasn't sure what to make of his comment about Painite, people are never born evil but sometimes they become evil on their own, but then chaos makes it worse. It made her head spin so she decided to leave the philosophical debates to other people. She knew that if she came across someone doing something evil she had to stop them, and that was enough.
She was captivated by his description of Camelot it sounded like a paradise. And he actually found the round table, this guy was the coolest person Hyperborea had ever meet and she'd meet some awesome people.
When the royal knight pulled out a crystal sword Hyperborea's eye lit up with sparkles. "Oh my gosh that is so cool. Did you find that at Camelot or is it your weapon. Thats so cool, I wish I had a sword like that. And it can even help people escape chaos." She thought back to her encounter with Astrophyllite. If only I'd had a sword like that, maybe I could have helped her. But then again she did say she had a plan so maybe she knows somebody else with a crystal sword or maybe she's going to get Camelot's help.
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Posted: Sun Apr 12, 2015 4:45 pm
"No, I got this when I became a Royal Knight. But I did find the sheath in Camelot. It actually has another power, from before I powered up to this rank. It allows me to summon a dragon. I know that's starting to sound a bit too fantastical," he laughed at himself.
Sometimes it was hard to listen to the things he said, because they sounded insane. But they were definitely all true, and people who were also in this powered war like he was knew how to take things with a grain of salt. There was a lot of crazy out there.
Crazy was the new normal.
"This sword is very special, and very important. With this, we can show the Negaverse that there are options. Some of them don't want to be there, I know that, and if they ever need the option of escape, I can provide it. I can't bring someone to the White Moon who does not want to be purified, and I never would. That's what separates us from the Negaverse. But at least we have ways of combating their corruptions."
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Posted: Sun Apr 12, 2015 5:17 pm
This guy can't be real, I must be dreaming. Hyperborea thought. No one this awesome really exists. He can summon a dragon, a real dragon. Hyperborea was in love. Not in romantic sense, in fact she had never really loved a guy in romantic sense though she was still young, but in an idol sense. He was truly the real life knight she always fantasized about: kind, chivalrous, strong (at least going by his aura she sadly wasn't getting to she him in fighting shape), noble, he'd been to Camelot, he had a magic sword that could purify evil, he found the round table, had dragon, and to top it off he had heroic morals. She pinched herself to make sure this wasn't actually a dream.
"Your so cool! Is there anyway you could teach me to be as awesome as you! Well I mean I doubt I'll ever own a dragon and my wonder isn't as famous as Camelot but I'd still love to learn from you, Please! Oh ah once your feeling better of course I wouldn't want to make you more hurt just to teach me."
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Posted: Sun Apr 12, 2015 6:04 pm
Camelot blushed furiously as she called him cool, a little surprised. He had not really heard things like that all that much, in his endeavors as a knight. When he started out, he had been much too awkward, and while he still had some of that, he had grown into the man he was now over many years of being powered.
"I... don't think I'm all that awesome, and I wouldn't know how to try and teach you to be like me. I think the last thing you want to do is be like me, anyway. I think you will be much more cool if you focused on your own potential. I see in you a knight that is just eager to bloom, and I think you can achieve some really amazing things. I'll help you, of course, by teaching you what I can."
"But would you like to come and visit Camelot with me some time? It helps me to heal there, and I love taking others. So if you'd like to see it, maybe we can set up a bit of a school session there. I can teach you some things about what I've learned as a knight, and show you around the Wonder."
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Posted: Sun Apr 12, 2015 6:57 pm
It was Hyperborea's turn to go scarlet. "I...um...I doubt I'll be that cool. I mean I'd like to be but...." She was giddy like a school girl "You really think I'll make a great knight? I'll try my best to become a noble and good knight like you."
Hyperborea's excitement couldn't possibly have gotten any higher, or else her heart would have popped, when he offered to let her visit Camelot. "I'd absolutely love to come with you to Camelot and that school session sounds amazing I'd love do it. Oh you have one of these right." She said pointing to her signet ring. "Please send me a message when is a good time for us to go. Oh and if you don't mind I'd love to take you to Hyperborea at some point." She got up to leave. "Its been amazing meeting you Camelot." She powered down to make her trip home. "Well I should probably get going. Au revoir!"
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