Predatory Puddles (11) : Summer rains aren’t uncommon, so finding puddles dotting your path isn’t in itself particularly surprising or abnormal. However, as you walk past them, you feel the sensation of being watched, like eyes are on you. If you look into the puddles, you don’t see your reflection--nor the reflection of anything familiar to you. Instead, you see strange, decayed buildings, and odd, rotting plants. Something is watching you through the puddles, but before you can investigate, between one blink and the next, it’s all gone. When you look back, the puddles are oddly non-reflective, and then in the next blink, they’re all gone. The feeling of being watched doesn’t fade, though.
Ametkhan loved the rainy days, the puddles made her feel like she was in the water. Sure her hair was a bit weighed down, but she didn't mind it at all. She loved the feeling of the rain on her skin and the sound it made as it splashed against the puddles. She felt free and alive in the rain, as if nothing else mattered in that moment.
Maybe her being the Senshi of Crocodiles had something to do with it, but either way she was happy to patrol on this rainy day. Now the rain had come to the point of light sprinkles that faded away, but now the puddles were everywhere the eye could see. She smiled, enjoying the beauty of the rain-soaked city. The sound of the rain droplets was calming and she felt almost at peace. She was ready to slosh through the puddles, eager to begin her patrol.
She slowly came up on her first puddle, and everything felt normal until a shiver rushed down her spine. "What was that all about?" she asked aloud, looking around. Could her body be colder than she thought it was or was it something else entirely?
MiddyGlow
Posted: Sat Jun 24, 2023 2:55 pm
chi honda
Mabella had only been a senshi for a very short time, she was still getting the hang of the idea of patrolling at all not to mention there was the fact she was still a very young senshi what they called a chibi. She wouldn't become a full-fledged senshi till her 14th birthday this January. She was looking forward to it, she wanted to be more powerful. She was the curious sort and realistic if she was going to fight nega soldiers and corrupt senshi then she needed to be stronger. It had been raining so there were puddles on the ground.
She looked down at one and saw something odd. She frowned and looked closer since what she saw made no sense. She ignored the chill feeling, silly things. She frowned and looked at the buildings around her they didn't match the picture in the puddle how was that even possible? She frowned crouching down and studying the puddle intently. She was bothered by the mystery she didn't understand. She wrinkled her nose and grumbled, "Stupid weird magic, what is the deal here!!" She said loudly. She huffed a breath and hit the puddle with her fist.
Ametkhan was taken back by the shaking. Never before had she been shaken by water. Even though she was a newer Senshi, even in her human form water never affected her. Water was something she loved, so it was definitely a weird occurrence. She decided to take a closer look at the puddle near her feet and noticed that the water showed unfamiliar buildings. Upon further inspection she saw that it showed a different scenery entirely than was around her.
Just as she was about to comment out loud about the weird scene, she heard someone else speak aloud. She turned just in time to see who she thought was a Chibi Senshi hit a puddle with their fist. She had to say that was one way to solve it.
"So guess I'm not the only one seeing things huh?" she said as she walked over towards the assumed Chibi Senshi. "Was your puddle weird too? Oh and I'm Ametkhan - Senshi of Crocodiles. Nice to meet you!" she said seriously in way. Not trying to be rude but she was eager to find out more about the other person's experience and learn more about what was going on with their puddle.
MiddyGlow
Posted: Sat Jun 24, 2023 4:16 pm
chi honda
Mabella looked up and said "Oh I am too smart to fall for a stupid illusion this is real all right!!" She nodded and stood up and said "I'm Mabella chibi senshi of Ermine." She sighed and then nodded after all it wasn't their fault that she was annoyed with all the weird stuff. "Nice to meet you as well, have you been a senshi long? I haven't I was only told by this cat I was a senshi the other day." She shook her head. "Ever since I moved to this city nothing had been normal, everything has been so weird since that bug attacked me and the cat in the woods." She grumbled again and looked down at the puddles that held strange imagines in them that didn't fit the world that they saw around them. "Any idea what's with the puddles?" She asked the other senshi curiously someone hand to know what was going on right? They couldn't be the only ones to see this right. Perhaps it didn't matter. She frowned no she wanted to know really badly what the meaning of this was. Was the city in danger and this was some kind of warning? What could it mean?
Ametkhan was surprised by how much spunk this Chibi had. Her type of Chibi for sure. They were definitely different from the Chibi's she had meant before. "You know I could believe that. Weird stuff happens here after all," she said with a laugh. Since honestly this place was full of crazy stuff and becoming a Senshi just opened her eyes to everything that was truly occurring. "Well nice to meet you Mabella, and I welcome you to the Order. As for me, it's just been a few months. I had a cat tell me I was a Senshi while I was kickboxing a youma." She remembered that day clearly. The cat thought it was so strange to see her running up and kicking the youma. Apparently it wasn't the norm for most new Senshi.
"Well I'm sorry it's been rough for you. Hopefully it gets better, but what do you mean by a cat attacking you? I have no idea what the puddles are but the buildings looked decayed, so they weren't anywhere near here, and I felt like someone was watching me," she said aloud.
It took her a while to realize it. However, it wasn't the water it was the feeling from that image of somewhere she suspected was far far away. She felt a chill running down her spine again. The feeling of someone watching her was still there.
MiddyGlow
Posted: Sat Jun 24, 2023 7:14 pm
chi honda
She nodded rapidly she was glad someone else agreed with her that this city was insane. She shook her head "No the cat helped me fight the bug that was attacking both of us, the cat saved me, the bug hurt a lot when it spit stuff at me." She showed her the burn on her arm from where the stuff had hit her. She nodded "Yea that's what I saw too, I wonder if it means something or if it's just like a window through time?" She suggested hitting her hand on her hip in a nervous gesture.
Ametkhan looked at Mabella's burn on her arm. "Ow that had to hurt. I'm sorry your experience was so rough," she replied, feeling sorry that theirs wasn't the same as hers. She never realized other senshi's chibi or adult ones could be that dangerous.
It is good to know someone else saw the same thing as she did in the puddle. She decided to look again. She noticed a puddle next to her and looked at it again. This time though all she saw was the right reflection. This is the reflection you should see, not a scene of decaying buildings, not a scene of dying cities.
"Well whatever it is, I think it's gone now sadly. Maybe it will appear again, but I have that feeling that they're still around. Where? Who knows?" she spoke. She looked around again, but only she and Mabella were here. Well them and the puddles.
MiddyGlow
Posted: Sun Jun 25, 2023 12:29 pm
chi honda
Mabella shook her head "Yea I guess it's gone things happen like this all the time." She said with a sigh.
Ametkhan nodded they were right this was kind of normal at this point.
"Well I think we should be good for now! Be safe, I'm going to go continue patrol, see if I can find anything else unusual," she said with a smile and wave. As she raced off through the puddles. For today anyways she would be looking over her shoulder, since she didn't feel like the feeling would be gone anytime soon. But even with that feeling she had a job to do and nothing would stop that.
