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 Posted: Mon Aug 14, 2017 6:33 pm
It was nearly time for autumn once again. Lysithea could feel the slightest hint of crisp air as she patrolled…or at least she liked to imagine that she could. It wouldn’t be long now before school was back in session and then Pumpkin Spice would be taking over everything once again. Honestly she was excited, and the thing she was excited for most was being able to be comfortable while patrolling. It was just too hot to do much. Of course…it wasn’t too hot to do things when there was trouble, and there was the feeling of a youma nearby.
With a sigh, the eternal senshi hopped down off of the rooftop she was sitting on and made off in the direction of the creature, wondering if she should try to show some mercy or just attack on sight…her gut was telling her to just attack, and when she saw the thing. A great hulking wolf monster, she figured that her gut might be very right in this situation, and for a moment, a jolt of fear went through Lysithea, and she almost wished the Michel or another member of her team were here with her.
It wasn’t that she didn’t think she could handle it…she just figured it might be difficult to handle it alone.
But thank God Malus hadn’t come out with her tonight. This would have been all he needed. Slowly, Lysithea raised her hand, preparing to attack. “You won’t be able to hurt anyone tonight, monster. I’ll make sure of that.”
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Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2017 6:51 pm
Airi's ears twitched as he listened from the shadows. It was always peculiar to him, just how much noise could come from humans. It made things a bit more complicated, if he were to track someone. Why did they have to be so noisy, both with themselves and the things around them. He just didn't understand.
But he wanted to.
They acted weird too. Did strange things. Some were in groups, were others just went alone. What made them no different from animals? Airitech couldn't see a difference between humans and youmas... They had so many similiar aspects...
yet both were so vastly different.
So why was Evan any different and why did it make him care so much.
His ears twitched and flatted as they picked up the sounds of someone approaching, his tail twitching before eventually settling. His fur began to stand on end and Airi tried his best to choke down the growl that crawled up his throat as he realized it was a senshi. "Does it look like I'm hurting anyone?" He scoffed, rolling his eyes, though he never looked at the senshi. "My Captain doesn't take lightly to threats made against me. It wouldn't be good for any of you if he lost me too." He'd already lost way to much. "What do you want?" He said, trying to keep his focus on the humans around him and not dwell on the presence of a senshi skulking about him.
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Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2017 7:03 pm
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Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2017 8:09 pm
Okay, now that caught Airi's attention. "...Yes?" He said slowly, turning his head to actually look at the senshi. The youma stared at her in surprise. "...Yes." Came the parroted reply. "I've been able to talk for as long as I can remember at least." Bright glowing eyes blinked. "Others... can too, by the way. But not all. It is entirely possible that the youma you've encountered up until now, have all been feral types." Where as he was not.
"I was not aware that sitting and watching someone was now a form of stalking. As far as I'm aware, stalking was following after someone without them knowing." He shot back, watching the people passing by once more. "Yes, I might be doing it from the shadows, which is creepy, I'll give you that, but I am hardly stalking anyone." Airitech snorted to himself. "Besides, if I was? You wouldn't even notice. I am not like most of the youma you've met. I don't think I have anything to worry about anyway, if you're meeting your first talking youma at eternal..." He jabbed, tilting his head back to look at her for a moment before returning his attention to the people. "Though if you're that worried about it, I have and had no intentions of harming anyone tonight." He mumbled, his tail flicking in mild irritation. "However, that being said and given our... current situation. I can not promise we will not fight."
Airitech laughed this time. "I've told you more then I should already and you dare ask for my Captain's name? That, is one thing I will not share as freely." Airi shifted his position slightly, but remained where he was hiding. "Why should I tell you anything of names when you haven't even given your own. I've given you plenty of information. Now it's time for a fair trade. Who are you?"
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Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2017 8:20 pm
Lysithea raised a brow, and then the other. Well. Huh. “There’s no need to get an attitude about it. So you can talk, that’s cool. Interesting even. There’s nothing wrong with me not having met a talking youma yet, honestly I would think that perhaps you would think that was a good thing. Doesn’t it mean that perhaps I don’t fight youma, yadda yadda? Also, and I’m just responding to your sass with some of my own, but you really haven’t answered anything. You’ve told me that yes you can talk, which hey. I figured out, and then you called me out on not meeting a talking youma before, and then you decided to give me a lecture on what is and what isn’t stalking? Not only that but you said you are stalking, and not stalking at the same time, so either you don’t really know what stalking is…or you’re trying to mess with me.”
She stretched for a moment then rested her back against a nearby tree, keeping her eyes on the large youma.
“I’m Lysithea though. Since you wanted a name, and if you don’t feel like telling me who your Captain is, perhaps you’d just settle for who you are. That would be good enough for me. For now. I guess.”
Of all the strange situations that she had expected to find herself in…having a full on conversation with a youma was never on that list…but…if she could talk to him…maybe…maybe she could…
…maybe he’d want to be saved. If she could get through to him…wouldn’t that make this whole thing worthwhile? She certainly thought so.
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Posted: Tue Aug 15, 2017 9:57 pm
"If I have an attitude, it is because your presence causes me to have one." He deadpanned. "I don't know if you know this, but youma and senshi don't exactly get along. Sassing an already aggitated youma is probably not the smartest idea but, to each their own." Airi muttered before yawning and exposing fangs. Then the youma snorted, and shook his head, throwing the senshi a confused look. "Wait what? No." Airi muttered, giving an indignant huff, finally pushing himself into a sitting position. "I said I'm hardly stalking anyone... as in I am not stalking them?" The youma tilted his head, dropping one ear as the other stood up. "...Have you never heard it worded like that before? I apologize for the confusion."
Well this was awkward.
"Airitech." Airi shrugged. "In this case, I couldn't tell you if others have names. I haven't met many." He glanced at the people passing by again before turning his attention back to the senshi. "What is your thing?" He asked. "Senshi are guardians of things aren't they? What is yours? Because no offense... you look like something out of a child's closet."
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Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2017 9:43 am
“My…presence causes you to have a bad attitude?” Interesting. Welll. Kind of rude too, but it was a youma so she supposed she should have some leniency towards him. At least for now. If he didn’t realize that he was stalking people, that was on him too. She didn’t want to argue, but it felt as though he was trying to pick a fight with whatever she said.
“Airitech? That’s kind of a mouthful, do you have a shorter version?” It was something said in jest, she figured that a youma wouldn’t want a nickname. But…if he did…well. That would just continue to expand the puzzle that was this talking youma who still hadn’t attacked her.
Though, perhaps that could be because of the Captain he spoke of. Was he under orders to not attack until a senshi’s defenses were lowered? Could that be it? Well.
Her eyebrows shot up again and Lysithea snorted. “And tell me, Airitech, do you spend a lot of time in the closets of children?” What…an interesting accusation. “Unicorns. I’m the senshi of Unicorns, so that’s why there’s a unicorn horn on my tiara here. See?”
She had always thought her sphere was kind of obvious…but she supposed a giant monster wolf might not realize such things…but then why would he know anything about a child’s closet? It was concerning. “Now that you’ve gotten two answers, and I’ve only gotten one. I have another one for you. Were you ever…human? Do you remember being human at all? Only, I’ve seen a human turned into a youma, so I’ve started to realize that’s most likely how they are made so. What about you?”
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Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2017 6:46 pm
"Yes." He muttered flatly, shifting his position again. "Because, again, youma and senshi don't get along. We probably should be fighting, however, I am trying to avoid that so... Snark and restlessness it is.." Though was it really better to put himself in a state of unease, just to avoid a fight? Perhaps tonight was the night to find out.
His ears twitched, swiving backwards for a moment as he glanced at the senshi once more. "Airi." He muttered. "Most of my friends just call me Airi." He paused for a moment before countering. "My name is no bigger then yours by the way, and mine is the mouthful? Is there a shorter version of your name?" Two could play at that game.
"Nope. Anything I've seen has been through movies." The youma said, standing up to stretch. When the sound of popping joints reached his ears, Airi seemed relatively pleased and resumed his earlier position. "You just remind me of those dress up costumes. The ones little girls would have and such." The wolf almost seemed to shrug. "I didn't know unicorn's involved so much...frill and lace." Guess they were both learning something today. "I have horns, but that does not make me a unicorn."
Airi paused once more, blinking. Was he ever... human? Such a strange question. "On the off chance that I was, I do not remember it. I've been a youma for as long as I can remember. But I've been told I'm not very old. I believe I would be about the same as a young child. I've spent a bit of time with human's though... Not many though. Just my Captain mostly, and his loved ones." Sometimes though, sometimes he had feelings... were actions were familiar to him, but he could never explain why or how. "I've met someone, that went through something similar... There is not much I can tell you unfortunately. I've heard rumors that that is how many of us are made but I can't back that up. As I've said, I haven't met many."
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Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2017 8:39 pm
Lysithea gave a little smile. “Airi, hm? I’m afraid that I don’t have a shortened version of my name. Not that I could really even think of anything to shorten it too, but Airi suits you, it’s cute.” She figured that calling this youma cute wouldn’t really make him happy, and that amused her quite a bit, but…she wasn’t here to pick a fight either. Not anymore, at least. “I didn’t pick my outfit, it just…was given to me, so that’s not something I really had control over…but you were a child when you were turned into a youma…or at least you think that you were? That must have been…really scary.”
She couldn’t imagine it. The pain, the violence that must have been done to him. Sanidine had turned Evan into a youma on accident…but Painite had done it to Merlinite on purpose…she wondered how it had been done to this creature.
“If you could find a way to be human again, would you want to? You say you spend a lot of time with your Captain…does he ever find a way to try and help you? Does he know that you might have once been human?”
Lysithea hoped her words reached him. She wanted to reach him.
She wanted to think that all youma could be saved eventually. Even…the really scary ones. Like this guy.
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Posted: Wed Aug 16, 2017 10:46 pm
"I could think of a few.." He sassed offhandedly, without any real bite to it. "Just take your name and break it into chunks. You said it was Lysithea right? You can break it into several... Ly, Lys, Sith, Thea." Airi shrugged. "Though I suppose you could create your own too. Aren't there a few human names that have smaller versions of them?"
Airi then flinched at being called cute, almost as if disgusted. "First I'm a monster, now I'm cute. Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't those two contradict themselves?" The youma hummed quietly as she explained about her outfit. "It's more of a manifestation of you. Not you the human, but you the alter ego... Or so I was told... once." A back leg came up as Airi scratched at his ear, restless and almost desperate for something to keep him moving. "No. Not quite like that... What I mean is I have only been around, or alive, I suppose for so many years... Five or so. I do not know how old I would have been, if I were a human that had been transformed into a youma." ...That made sense, right? "Like for example... Your friend. I would imagine they had spent years as a human, but only so much time as a youma."
"There's no way to reverse the process, from my understanding. And as I've told you, I don't even know if I once was human or what the deal is on how I came to be." Airi sighed quietly. "He doesn't want to lose me. As strange as this might sound to you, he is my friend. He considers me family. He's lost to much as it is. He doesn't need to lose me too." Airi wondered if Fangite could survive losing him. "Honestly, I don't think he does. I don't think either of them did. It's probably not something they want to think about really."
"The only option that even comes close to something like that is Purification, but incase you haven't noticed, I'm a literal hulking creature of darkness. Order doesn't exactly welcome my kind with open arms. With me it's a 'Dust first, ask questions later' sort of scenario. You people don't want to save us." He growled out, almost bitterly. "Just the humans. Even if it's the humans fault in the first place..."
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Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2017 4:37 pm
So…maybe he hadn’t been turned into a youma…maybe he had just been…born that way? But that didn’t make much sense. Not with the knowledge she had at the moment, at least…but…well, maybe the longer you spent as a youma…the more monster-ish you became. That would make sense. Sort of.
“Well…if there were a way to reverse the process, would you want to try it? I mean, what’s the worst thing that could happen?” That was a stupid question. He could cease to exist, that was a pretty bad thing to happen…but if it worked like it had with Evan…but…
She’d honestly rather have someone else to practice on before just zapping a youma with her magic stick. But…she hadn’t practiced before saving Evan…so.
“And yet…I’m order and here you and me are, having a pretty civil conversation, and I think I’m seeming pretty interested in trying to save you. Or at least trying to possibly figure out a way to try and save you…” She paused, frowning slightly. “What do you mean by that? What’s the human’s fault in the first place?” The humans hadn’t done anything. It was the magic users. The Senshi and all that jazz. All the humans ever did was…exist. Like lumps.
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Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2017 5:04 pm
"Death. Death is the worst thing that could happen. The only thing that comes close to what you're describing is purification, and that stuff does not work for things like me." It's either look like this for the rest of his existence or end up a smoldering pile of ash and dust.
"Civil? You called me a monster and said I was stalking people. Not exactly the civil I think things are but..." The youma shrugged. "I also didn't call you names right out of the gate by the way." Airi muttered, fixing her with a flat look. "But if you want things to be fair, I could always toss a few out." He snorted, not that he had anything ready to go.
Airi's ears flattened when she questioned his comment. "Ah... I told you. I have a friend who went through similar. Can you really not understand what I mean?They were put there because of someone they knew. Someone they called a friend. I've heard rumors and such that my friends case, had not been the first. It's happened before." The youma shrugged. "You say it's the opposing sides of your fight that you can't trust... But from where I stand, it looks like you humans can't even trust each other."
Yet here he was, wanting to learn more and understand them better.
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Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2017 6:28 pm
Lysithea nodded, he wasn’t wrong. Death was a pretty big thing…but if she were ever given the choice…she thought that she would rather be dead rather than be a monster. “Well. I would obviously do my best not to kill you, if I was trying to help you, I would help you. I try not to be deceitful. Sure I came up thinking to attack you, but I’ll admit now I made a mistake. You did look menacing, and I thought you were a threat. My job is to protect people. I have already admitted that I didn’t realize youma were capable of conversations, so you don’t have to keep bringing it up that I started this interaction out poorly. I understand that now.”
She frowned slightly at the statement, and the way his ears flattened. “But…I don’t understand. Your friend…got turned into a youma by a friend of theirs? But…was it on purpose? Did your…friend’s friend just want to be an a*****e? What happened?”
If the Negaverse were really turning their own into youma…that…that was honestly more than a little creepy. Painite was one thing, but she was utterly crazy, and Lysithea knew that. But…were they all so crazy? “Where is your friend now? Are they okay?”
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Posted: Sun Aug 20, 2017 2:11 pm
Airi snorted. "The bone spikes don't help... but honestly I think I look a little more intimidating when I'm walking on two feet instead of four. I definitely would not want to run into that coming out of the shadows..." He mumbled with a tiny bit of sarcasm.
"From what I understand... It wasn't on purpose. Their friend had intentions, but I don't think turning E- er, my friend, into a youma was one of them. I think the friend had tried to recruit him? I didn't exactly ask... My friend wouldn't talk about it. My Captain wasn't exactly happy with the officer who had caused all this. I think, in some weird way, their friend was just trying to protect him... Or give him the means to protect himself, only it backfired on them both."
Airi suddenly found himself wishing he'd disappeared when Lysithea first found him.
"They're... Yeah they're okay now. Turns out, they didn't need me as much as I thought they would." After all, who would want to stay with a beast. "He's where he needs to be. Where he was suppose to be before everything happened." Without me. "And here I am. Stuck in my own delusions of grandeur."
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Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2017 9:42 pm
That did sound quite intimidating, and Lysithea was again glad that this hadn’t turned into any sort of a fight. She had some offensive magic but…well. Well.
Listening to the story of the youma friend, the senshi frowned slightly. It almost sounded like Evan…and Airi had almost sounded as though he was going to say Evan…but. “Well. I’m very, very glad your friend is okay…and you mean…they’re a human again? They…got saved? From…being a youma?”
Now, that really sounded like Evan. “I don’t think that could be the case, Airi. I’m sure your friend needed you a lot, and I’m sure that they miss you, if you were so involved in their life while they were a youma…You seem like you’d be a good friend to have around, at least I’m starting to get that vibe from you, a little bit. You…don’t seem like you’re all monster.” And he seemed like someone who might be able to be saved.
Might merit being saved. She would have to talk to Evan, see if he had ever met a giant dog named Airi…and then talk to the court…of course, if he wasn’t willing, well. This was all a moot point, wasn’t it.
“…Do you think you’d like to meet up again to talk sometime? I’d like that.” She smiled at him and held out a hand, hoping he would understand the gesture. “Perhaps…you and I can work on improving relations between senshi and youma? Or…perhaps we can just…keep talking about possibly finding a way to see if we can make you human again someday. Then perhaps you and I can be friends for real. Like, not…that we wouldn’t be now, but I mean…well. I hope you know what I mean.
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