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 Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2018 7:30 pm
It was rare for her to power up - really rare. She had very little good that had ever come from being powered up, few good memories though there were some bright spots here and there. Most of them involving other corrupted senshi. It just...it felt like corrupted senshi weren't' wanted or were considered less...or servants...just tools. Tools to help hurt civilians...innocent civilians.
She was, as far as she felt, useless as a corrupted senshi - as a senshi in general. She had useful magic, at least she thought it was, but she couldn't fight and she was...as usual when out on her own - overpowered.
Hitting the ground she rolled, arms up to protect her face, as the large youma sent her several feet in the air and across the ground. Why did they dislike her so much? She hadn't even gone out looking to run into a youma but it had come for her. She'd just been doing her duty, much as she disliked the Negaverse and felt unwanted, she did try and fulfill her energy gathering quota. The youma had come for her out of seemingly no where and was on her quickly - before she could run because she couldn't teleport.
Hissing in pain, pink eyes watering, she pushed herself up from the ground and just in time also. Throwing herself out of the way of a long praying mantis like front leg...or maybe it was an arm and not a leg. Watching as it hit the ground, right where she'd been, she didn't have long to breath as she was getting up, nearly tripping on her hair, as she was moving to try and find some weapon to use. She'd already used her magic once...it hadn't helped a lot. It had caught up to her.
"This is it..." She breathed out to herself. She was sure of it. She didn't even have time to summon that new communications device and call for help, though who would even help her? She didn't know anyone really...and no one really knew her. She was alone and she felt it right now like she never had before.
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Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2018 12:53 pm
“Stop!” The command was definitive, and it was not aimed at the Senshi. The mantis youma, feral though it was, froze. Without the need to focus on the creature that was attacking her, she might then hear the sound of boot steps. His voice was quiet, but the edge of concern seemed real enough. “Are you alright?” He said stepping up beside her to offer her a hand. A glance towards the youma and he added quietly, but firmly. “Go.”
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Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2018 3:53 pm
From her place on the ground she, where she had been about to grab rock to throw, the corrupted senshi found a hand in front of her face and heard a voice. Looking up, brushing strands of pink hair from her face, she managed a small nod of her head. "I am now..." How she had missed them turning up she didn't know, their aura was massive, more than anyone else's.
Looking behind him ,towards the youma, she watched it seem to flee. He had gotten it to leave and not just that, because a General or even Captain could do that, but so quickly as if it were risking it's life by staying.
Taking the hand offered she managed a bit more of a smile. "I...I was just gathering energy when it came for me." Trying to explain how she'd found herself in this situation. It wasn't her fault youma didn't like her kind, even though they both served chaos. It did make her feel rather unwelcome...she couldn't go down there without a guide of some sort to keep her safe. It sort of hurt, especially since she hadn't exactly joined willingly.
"I'm sorry that you had to help me." Bowing her head as she stood slowly, stepping on a few strands of hair.
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Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2018 4:53 pm
“Why? You’re not cannon fodder, and it wasn’t a bother to me” He asked arching his eyebrows. “Youma aren’t … fond of things that remind them of what they might once have been I think. I’m not an expert though” He admitted. “I doubt they care for humans either, for similar reasons.” He glanced after the enormous mantis-creature. “My name is Zinkenite, and you are?”
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Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2018 5:08 pm
"It feels like it sometimes....to be honest." She knew she shouldn't say it, that it wasn't words she should speak. But it was honestly what she felt at times. "Youma don't like us...some other officers don't either, because we're still senshi." Shaking her head, not thinking it wise to speak more of the same words, she let the others hand go and smiled a bit more.
"Valeria...not that many know me. I'm not much for being active. Seeing innocent people hurt, and killed... I just... I prefer to gather energy and serve that way. It's what I can do." What she was comfortable with. The subway train...that still bothered her. It had been a bad plan, to her, to start with. Seeing a small child with a dead mother though...and then what had happened to the subway car and those in it. She'd had nightmares from it and guilt, especially when looking at her youngest siblings and her elder siblings little children.
"I'm sorry...for speaking so freely." It was best if she didn't speak...or just to the corrupted senshi of succubus. She felt calm around her and safe...at least as safe as she could.
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Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2018 5:13 pm
He crossed one arm over his chest, the other resting gently against this chin as he considered her. “I’d offer to ban apologies for the next, several minutes at least, but I have a terrible feeling it wouldn’t be effective at all . You have permission to speak freely to me, I have no orders to give you or missions either. I’m not so terribly well known myself I think, so I shall say it is a pleasure to meet you, Valeria.” He tipped his head to one side, taking her in and arching an eyebrow at her skirt. “I might hazard a guess at the nature of your power, but at the risk it’s wrong… what do you do if you don’t mind me asking?” “What do you mean, seeing innocent people hurt?” He added. “Walk with me? We can talk, whatever you’d like to say. “
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Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2018 5:31 pm
"No...I'm afraid it wouldn't. I worry that my words would upset you...I know they would upset others...be seen as many things - all negative for me." She admitted, glad she could speak freely. She didn't like to watch herself so much, to feel on guard and unsafe to say what she felt...and be herself.
"Brains...though I've never had my magic used on me it seems to leave people confused for a time. Not too long but long enough I can normally run away." Since it was what she normally had to do, people didn't know her and didn't help....and she didn't ask anymore or seek it.
Nodding her head she smiled more. "There was a plan...to drain energy from people on a subway...to take control of it.I can't remember it all so well now. But I remember seeing a child crying in his dead mothers arms. Someone took her starseed. We were hidden, our uniforms covered, so we could gather energy. I just...." Here she shook her head. "I come from a family of twenty others..." Counting her parents but still. She hoped that would convey how much seeing such a thing had hurt her. "The train was...possessed, I suppose, by a youma or many...and it became a mess...with people sinking into it...I think we only just made it out at the subway station where it turned into a fight." Against senshi and knights.
"I can't...not that. Or something like Christmas ornaments to be handed out...turned into energy gathering tools. Other things..I can accept." At least better than that. But Christmas was a holiday of joy and some meaning. Even to she who was from India and was hindu. It was a holiday her family still celebrated once they'd moved here.
"It is...that it feels that I am at odds with methods and targets..."
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Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2018 6:48 pm
He made a soft humming sound. “Are you assigned a specific general?” He asked “Or would anyone mind if we stepped out, and I showed you a method you might enjoy more. You’d have to do a little research mind you, to do this on your own.” He offered her a hand. He didn’t seem angry, not at all, just…calm, thoughtful from what you could see of his face. The slight mismatch of pale blue eyes over dark fabric; and little more to go on did make it something more of a challenge, but eyes could be expressive enough if someone let them be.
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Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2018 7:05 pm
"N-no...I wasn't brought into the Negaverse here. I moved here less than two weeks after being corrupted." She explained, voice low as she seemed to shrink into herself just a bit. "I'm from India originally." And she'd had no choice in the matter. It was death or what she had now...they had decided for her. Somehow they knew of her father, a well respected and talented surgeon who the news had said was going to Destiny City to work. That had been what signed her fate, or so she'd been told.
"Research is fine...so long as I don't...like that again." She answered softly, honestly. At least here she could talk, it was good. She liked this right now, it was calm - he was calm. Taking the offered hand she let the other lead her where he pleased.
"I tried to work with a general...he was giving lessons. He mad him angry...I thought I was doing the right thing when a youma went to attack him. I just...I jumped in and used my magic, it worked, and the group were able to get away from the angry youma. I didn't think I'd upset him for helping." But it had scared her away, kept her from working with groups again. That and other incidents had piled up onto her slender shoulders. It didn't suit her.
She didn't dare mention what had been on her mind, words which had previously slipped past her lips to another, words of leaving...perhaps that being the best for her. Not here...not right now. But it was perhaps easy to tell her feelings, she wasn't so good at hiding them.
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Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2018 7:32 pm
“Come with me.” He said softly. “I’m going to show you whom I tend to hunt. I think you’ll appreciate the selection, even if I don’t go out as often as I once did.” He offered her an arm, an antiquated gesture on his part perhaps, but he offered never the less. “You have said nothing I find offensive so far, I’m just going to try and give you an outlet. Sometimes, when people are feeling lost… they make choices they regret.” He said softly. “And it would cost you a good deal to make that kind of choice. I know… I’ve brought someone back from that choice. “ His voice was troubled. “So if I can offer you a path that you will feel safer on, one that you can help do the city some good. You know… there are some troubles in most cities. People… push drugs. They abuse their families, things like that.” He waved a hand lightly. “…and I think if you’re going to take a Star seed, that you can’t do much better than that. It benefits the city, the negaverse, and for those whom we do little more than take energy from? They are healthier, and safer than they were before.”
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Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2018 7:54 pm
"Why don't you go out so much anymore? If you don't mind me asking." She took the offered arm, it was an appreciated gesture. It wasn't expected either, who did such a thing anymore? She was fairly certain she hadn't seen anyone in some time...if ever.
Did he know? it seemed like he did....but how? She had been more obvious than she thought - hadn't she? "I-I don't know...the costs..." She was sure he knew what she had been thinking of doing. She might as well just go with it, without admitting to it. There was no point in it.
"If you have something better...better than what a choice would give...and what I already have...I would very much like that." The offer he made...it was better. She had gone after such people before but hadn't really done much. She had been scared away by others and wanted to just hide and not power up as much as possible. Now he was offering it to her as a solution...as something acceptable where the other things, what seemed to be pushed, wasn't a need for her to partake in and was ok to avoid.
"I think you are right....such things...they ruin families and homes...and people. I-I think I can take their energy...maybe more." She had done it once, when she'd had to, but could she again? She had a feeling she could.
"If you think I can do this...if this is the best path...an acceptable one I would like that. My magic isn't much, not now, but if it can help you somehow..." She would help him, work under him if he wanted or needed a team. He was what others had not been...not that many had a chance to guide her really or teach her.
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Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2018 8:11 pm
“I’ve been away for a long time, say I’ve been out of practice.” He said with a small shrug. “That, and I tend to draw a lot of attention. Some days I’d prefer not to, I have to be honest.” “But you could start to take over those duties when I’m not doing them, I think you’ll feel very productive, even if you start with energy and move from there. You’d be… vengeance. You’d protect the mother’s and their children. Unless it was the mother who was hurting her children, then… you take other steps.” He tipped his head side-to-side, thoughtful. “Isn’t that a better price than, loosing some part of your life, your memories? You’d need to change your name; no one in your family would know you anymore… you might not remember them it’s hard to say. You do in the end, have to choose your own path.”
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Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2018 8:24 pm
"Yeah....I don't know how anyone could miss your signature. I've never felt one so strong..." At least she couldn't remember feeling an aura that strong, that dark. Not that she had much experience around others where she might have felt a similar aura.
She liked the idea, smiled at him, as he spoke. He made it sound so good, that she really would be helping people, it made her feel good at the idea. "Memories...and my name changed?" She asked before shaking her head. "I'd prefer not to do that..I- I don't want to lose my family." They were important to her, obviously, so she would do what she could to not leave them and lose her memories.
"I think I'd like to do what you are saying. I don't want to lose that all - it's too much of a loss." His idea was the better option indeed - one she would take.
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Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2018 8:32 pm
“I personally agree, I’m not sure what could ever drive me to… forget.” He said softly, voice trailing off at the end. “I try not to, in point of fact, it might make you feel more at ease to keep a journal.” He added and then walked further in silence. “I’m sure the longer you are around the Rift and such places, you’ll find more like me.” He added after a while. “But, we don’t get out much.” He chuckled.
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Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2018 8:55 pm
"More like you?" She questioned. She hadn't met anyone else, thus far, like him but if others were like him than she wanted to meet them. "Why don't you get out more?" Did they have important things in the Rift or something else? More of a civilian life or just...they didn't do more than paper work really?
"I'll do that...I'll get a journal. But I don't plan to...not now - not after this." She wouldn't be changing sides as she'd planned on before, and losing her memories. She would remain where she was and keep her memories. The other side couldn't' force it...right? So while she didn't need a journal it might be a good idea....for small details maybe? Little things. it was something she'd do, she just needed to find something to write in that spoke to her.
"Do people do that? Forget...knowingly?"
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