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 Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2016 2:44 pm
"I don’t get it," Sanidine was saying as he walked, Evan trotting next to him. "You're always finding the weirdest s**t. You don't even have pockets, where are you keeping these things?"
Evan was either ignoring him or didn't hear; instead, the youma was fluffing out his fur, picking out leaves and branches. They'd been in the park and Evan had gotten spooked and taken off running. He didn't make it very far before he'd circled back around and leapt up on Sanidine, scrambling up him like a cat up a tree.
And that was how Sanidine discovered all the weird little trinkets Evan kept tucked away. He still wasn't sure how it happened, but he'd found two rings, a necklace, and something that, when he'd poked at, Evan had dropped off of him and skittered away to keep from him.
But Evan never went too far.
Sanidine was examining one of the rings, surprised with the glistening gem in it as he and Evan walked. Things were casual tonight—just some fresh air, getting Evan out of the Rift for a bit and getting some fresh air to clear his lungs of all the musty book dust he'd inhaled while researching Evan's condition.
Evan didn't answer when Sanidine spoke to him, but Sanidine was getting used to that, so he just kept talking. "I'm keeping this one," he said, pocketing the ring. Sanidine was ready to talk more—not about anything important, he just liked breaking the silence—when he glanced down to see Evan holding some strange, glowing crystal amidst the leaves and twigs he was collecting in his hand as he groomed himself.
Sanidine cocked his head; he was vaguely aware of some energy on his radar, but he hadn't slept much, and it was his own fault for being so irresponsible and not picking up on who was nearer or more far away. Before Evan could hide the object, Sanidine snatched it up. He held it to his face, scrutinizing the strange item.
It was magical—or, at least, it had some strange, ethereal glow about it. His eyes narrowed and Evan let out an exasperated, annoyed chirp, standing on his tip toes and reaching for the object needily. When that wasn't enough to get Sanidine's attention, he pawed at the male's leg and then attempted to climb up him to reach it.
Sanidine simply kept walking, like there wasn't a youma clinging to him, reaching for the necklace he was examining.
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Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2016 2:59 pm
Hyperborea had taken a rest on a park bench, dusting youma was not any easier with one arm and her general state of lack of sleep and irritability weren't helping. She had felt the aura of a captain and youma heading her way, she had expected them to turn back when they felt the aura of a transcended knight in the area but it seemed this captain was either rather brave or rather dim. So She stood up and prepared to meet the pair, summoning her staff to her good hand. What she found when they approached was much more shocking than she had expected.
After a quick glance at the pair her eyes were drawn to the pendent in the captains hands. It was something unique there was no possibility that a replica could somehow be made, it was definitely one of her hope pendents.
"You there captain." She said carefully and clearly, her calm tone barely masking the rage she was feeling as her mind turned trying to figure out how he could have gotten one of her gifts. "Where did you get that?" She demanded pointing to the necklace. "I know every single person who should have one of those pendents, you are not one of them."
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Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2016 7:30 pm
Sanidine's eyes snapped up, though they remained narrowed when he realized who was speaking. He was either stupid or brave, or some mixture of the two because he didn't even seem to flinch when faced with someone stronger than him.
Instead, he lifted his head a bit, and while he seemed curious, he still seemed to enjoy looking down his nose at her.
"This is yours?" he asked, glancing at the pendant once more. He shrugged, suddenly, and then held it back to his youma, who snatched it eagerly and dropped to the ground before eagerly hopping over to Hyperborea. The youma didn't seem afraid and all—and it certainly didn't look particularly frightening. It was clearly humanoid, but all black, and covered in a soft, fluffy fur. It's ears twitched and somewhere, under all that fur, the stub of a tail wiggled. Immediately, the youma was making a few quiet, sharp trills and chirps, tucking the glowing crystal into its fur.
Sanidine bristled when the youma moved towards the Knight; he summoned his sword almost instinctively as if to fight off the girl if she made any sudden moves towards his youma.
"Evan," he commanded sharply, in a tone so fierce that the youma hunched low to the ground and looked up at him fearfully.
Sanidine commanded still, pointing at the ground near his feet with his free hand. "Come here."
The youma faltered for a second, looking up at Hyperborea before his ears folded low and he scampered back to Zack's side, hiding behind him.
Sanidine glanced back to the girl. "I didn't take it," he snapped. "I was just looking at it. Why, who did you give it to?"
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Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2016 10:50 pm
"Yes it is, I made it by my own hands at my wonder, for a friend." She said annoyed by the captain's tone. She watched the small black yoma move towards her, it seemed non hostile so she didn't move to immediately dust it and instead studied it curiously. She watched as the Captain summoned a sword, she was unimpressed if he was going to threaten her he'd have to do a much better job than simply pointing a sword at her. The name he said though did shake her.
Evan. The gears began to turn in her head as she put the pieces together. She let out a quiet "no" as the truth dawned on her. She looked away as quiet billowing tears began to fall. Her body trembled with rage and sadness.
"Evan I'm sorry, I'm so so sorry." She said quietly not really knowing or caring if the youma could actually understand her.
That was when her tear filled eyes fell on the captain. She had a look a of pure hatred and anger, a murderous look in her eyes that was entirely out of place on her youthful face. "You Negaverse bastards will never be satisfied will you. How many lives do you have to ruin, how many innocent people do you have to hurt to be happy. He wasn't a threat to you or anyone else, did you really need another damned youma to do your fighting for you. Va te faire enculer, fils de pute!" She berated the man as she took a forceful step towards the man gripping her staff tighter. She wasn't sure if she really wanted a fight or to just yell at him or to spirit Evan away from this horrible person.
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Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2016 11:23 pm
Sanidine's eyes narrowed; he didn't flinch. He still didn't seem afraid of her. There was something inside of Sanidine that was either sleeping, or dead. He didn't have that little voice in the back of his head telling him that he should fear something. He had always been arrogant, but now it was like there was no caution.
"Shut up," he spat, cold and dismissive.
He looked down at the Knight still, clutching his sword tightly.
Evan—or what was left of him, at least—did not like the conflict; his ears folded low and he seemed to shrink towards the ground. But Sanidine held his ground—and widened his stance, even. Not to prepare for a fight with Hyperborea—to protect Evan from her.
Whatever that meant.
"You don't know anything," Sanidine continued, voice strangely husky. Like the words caught in his throat and he had to force them out. "I didn't want this for him."
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Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2016 11:57 pm
Hyperborea glared the man down. She was very tempted to teach this man some respect and fear, and perhaps even introduce him to the cosmos aspect. Yet the look on the youmified Evan stopped her from smashing the guy's face in. She couldn't fight him now, Evan could be caught in the middle and accidentally get dusted. He hadn't gone feral yet and it seemed like some part of the man he was remained, he deserved better than dusting better than this.
She relaxed her stance and her grip on her staff but held her glare on the man, her eyes red from the tears. "Oh I know plenty." She growled in response.
"I see a friend of mine turned into a youma and you giving him commands, that's pretty damning evidence to me. But if there's more to the story then by all means please enlighten me. Was one of your agent friends responsible, should I be hunting down a different officer?" She would have answers as to how and why this happened.
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Posted: Tue Apr 12, 2016 12:19 am
Sanidine's eyes narrowed just slightly and his lips pursed; he glanced at Evan for a second, either to check on him or to scold him with his eyes, but his attention promptly returned to the Cosmos Knight. "No, I did this," he said after a few seconds. "But it's not because I wanted him to be a youma."
His jaw clenched and his grip on the sword tightened. A part of him, briefly, considered telling her about the Negaverse agent responsible—the one that prompted him to do this, but in the end, he supposed it didn't matter.
It had been his hand in Evan's chest when it happened.
He lowered his sword. "He was in danger. There wasn't much to be done," he said instead. "But he's alive, and that's all that really matters. The rest will get sorted out. —Evan never mentioned you," he said suddenly. "Who are you? What were you to him?"
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Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2016 10:42 pm
Purple eyes turned red from tears watched the man in silence trying to take in his words. Not because I wanted to what did that even mean. Her shoulders slumped the will to fight draining out of her being replaced with a feeling of emptiness, of exhaustion, and of regret.
"Why didn't you just fight for him if he was in danger then, if you cared about him? Did you not know what would happen to him when you pumped his starseed full of chaos?" She asked earnestly. Were agents truly ignorant of these things, how did Evan being danger lead to him getting transformed into a youma.
"Do you really consider this better than death, at least in death he'd be reborn again through the cauldron. You've doomed him to eternity as a monster, never dying just being revived to suffer again and again." She said in a soft but bitter tone. She wasn't sure how much Evan could understand her words in this state
"I am Hyperborea of Cosmos; and I was a friend of his, or at least I like to think I was. I saved him from a youma attack once a while back, I even showed him my wonder a few weeks ago. I promised to protect him, which is a promise I clearly failed to keep." She said sorrowfully, looking toward the youmafied Evan.
She looked to the Youma. "Evan I don't know how much of you is still in there but if you can understand me. I swear by my knighthood if there is a way to reverse this I will find it and I will save you from this." She promised.
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Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2016 11:06 pm
Sanidine's lip twitched and his hands clenched into fists at his side. It was with great effort that he managed to calm himself down, but when he spoke it was with a very obvious, forced calm. "What did you want me to do, watch his back every moment of every day? I have a life, too, you know. And it's not like he would have appreciated someone following him every moment of every day—so, yeah. I do consider this better than death. Because at least he's here. If he dies, he dies. Gone. You don't get him back, even if you believe in that whole reincarnation s**t. "
Evan seemed like he wasn't listening, but there was a very distinct way that his brows seemed to furrow. A very distinct way his ears folded lower, or he seemed to lay a bit closer to the ground. He was trying to hide it, but he had at least some understanding of what they were saying. He picked at a pebble on the ground though, afraid to get too involved in the conversation. Sanidine seemed upset, and he didn't want to worsen it.
Besides; Sanidine had never had an issue speaking for him, before.
Even now, Sanidine seemed to be a bit more interested in the girl—in the secrets Evan had managed to keep even before his youmafication. He shifted on his feet, still eying the Knight. "If you find any information, you let me know, though," the Captain said, for the first time sounding like he wasn't looking to pick a fight with Hyperborea. "…You have to believe me when I say this isn't what I wanted for him. I wanted him to have the power to protect himself. It just…backfired."
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Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2016 10:53 am
"Could you not have spoken to your higher ups, gotten a promise that youmas wouldn't be let lose near his bar or that other officers wouldn't try to drain him or what ever was going on?" She asked confused, the negaverse seemed to have a heirachy and strict chain of command couldn't a captain pull some strings to get one insignificant and harmless cook peace and safety.
She shook her head. "Firstly, reincarnation is a fact, as true as the fact that we both hold starseeds within our chests, but that's not important right now. Death is sometimes the most merciful answer, as unpleasant as that is to say. When you say that it is better like this because he's here, do you mean better for him or better for you?"
"Still as long as something resembling his starseed still remains beneath all that chaos he now has inside him, then maybe there's still hope. Some stronger form of purification that hasn't been discovered yet." She thought back to how all the knights working together had been able to free the code of the chaos corrupting it while Camelot's sword alone had failed to purify it. Maybe something like that could be done to cure youmas.
"I will."She nodded in agreement. "I'm friends with a couple of royals, I can start by asking them if they have any ideas. They would probably know the most about purification. Oh that reminds me, I would hope I don't need to say this but keep him away from our royals. As I understand it they can permanently dust youma, and they might not wait to see that he is not aggressive." She warned.
"I do believe you, but sadly intention doesn't change the outcome of our decisions. I learned that a long time ago. But I do have to ask did you really expect to turn him into an officer or what ever power you were trying to give him. If he had a powered starseed wouldn't it have manifested by now, I find it hard to believe the code would not have sent him his weapon during one of the times he got attacked by youma had he the potential for knighthood. Does the negaverse know something more about activating a powered starseed?" She asked curious.
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Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2016 1:48 am
"Do you think the Negaverse honestly give a s**t about one kid?" he asked; he gestured towards Evan instinctively. "If you met him, you know just about how useful he'd be in this whole war. The kid can't even protect himself normally—you think anyone in their right mind is going to think he'd make a good agent? Or go out of his way to keep him safe? They'd have laughed in my face. I warned them to leave him alone, but it didn't matter. Guess picking on him was just too much fun."
His lip twitched but he didn't mention anything further; instead, he wound up caught on her question. Outwardly, he deliberately ignored her inquiry—better for him or better for you. He could lie to her, and to himself, and to everyone, and say it was better for Evan.
But if he spent enough time thinking about it, he'd have known it was just what was better for him.
Thankfully, Hyperborea talked enough that it was easy to bury the thought, and for as begrudging as he was about all of this, she did give him a bit of information he hadn't yet uncovered: Royals were, apparently, very dangerous for youma.
Thankfully, they were pretty hard to miss.
He wasn't quite sure he wanted to answer Hyperborea's question, but if she had information, he wanted it—and he didn't want her to clam up just because he was stingy with information he didn't care about anyway.
"I can't tell you when someone's supposed to awaken. Knight or Senshi. I just know that the Negaverse has the ability to give you power even if you've got none. They just pick people off the streets, whoever they think might be a good candidate, and chug them full of power. So far as I know, they don't just activate something inside of you—they make you into something."
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Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2016 4:18 am
"Yet more evidence of Negaverse cruelty I suppose. No offense." She added not intending to insult any specific officer.
"The Negaverse can just...make an officer out of normal people? That's disturbing news, chaos continues to baffle me. Still that's good information to have, it might help in finding a solution to this." She mused trying to figure out how it worked.
"Hmm I should probably leave now." She said crossing the distance to the Youma behind the Captain, ignoring the man. She got on her knees and gently hugged the youma. "Evan, I'm so sorry this happened to you. Please don't loose what's left of you in there. I'll be back for you."
She stood up and pulled her hood up over her face to hid her crying eyes. "Oh and one last thing. Captain, if I ever learn that you've abused him or made him hurt innocent people, I will find you and I will make you experience a pain worse than anything you could possibly imagine." She warned, it wasn't a threat but a promise. She turned to leave.
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Posted: Wed Apr 20, 2016 9:10 am
Evan seemed to enjoy the hug; he'd wrapped his arms around the Knight and returned it. The human part of him, or whatever was left of it, was happy. But the youma part bristled and he had to wrestle with the desire to bite or scratch her while she was too close. Instead, his little tail wagged the whole time, and she was gone before any instinct could take over.
Sanidine snorted at her words; he wasn't afraid of her. He was tired of being threatened for something that had happened when he was doing all he could to fix it.
But he wasn't afraid of her, and he wasn't going to make an enemy of her if he could use her to work towards his goals.
"If you knew Evan like I do, we both know he's not good for any of that." He couldn't hurt anyone but himself. Sanidine didn't touch on abusing him; he hadn't at all been the nicest person to Evan before youmafying him, but things were different now. He was trying to make things right.
He didn't want to hurt him.
"You just let me know if you find anything I can use. And if I manage to fix him, I'm sure he'll find some way to get in contact with you."
He turned to leave as well; they had said what needed to be said, and the only thing they could do now was work towards the future.
Evan lingered for a moment, watching as Hyperborea left, before he scampered after Sanidine.
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