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 Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2025 1:48 am
Tress Gervene Poultrygeist (15) : As Destiny City is a bustling metropolis, it’s not unexpected that there should be some strange animals running the streets. Sometimes it’s a tiger, sometimes a monkey, sometimes a chicken. Sometimes it’s something worse. Strange egg clusters have appeared in Destiny City’s parks and officials aren’t really sure what they are; these eggs have nothing inside of them. Though it’s an anomaly, they are chalking it up to teenaged pranks. However, they have advised to just leave the eggs as they are. Nobody wants to say why, but if you’re out late at night, you’ll find out. In the darkness, whispered between the sounds of the city: a guttural, rasping cluck. The creature stands on stilt-like legs, rooted to the ground with razor-sharp talons. It wears a cloak of long, oily feathers that drag on the ground with a sinister scraping. If you stare into the darkness, piercing red eyes stare back at you. That’s all it takes for a confrontation: a mangled bird, maybe a chicken in another life, comes barreling out at you. It stands easily as tall as a person, but the proportions are all wrong. The smell of sulfur follows it as it lunges, pecking and screaming and scratching as it attempts to chase you away. Maybe, from the nests full of empty eggs. The battles are fierce, but fleeting; it will viciously try to chase you away but the effects are always the same: at some point, the eggs are crushed. As always, there’s nothing inside of them, but with one final wail, the bird will vanish into a plume of foul smoke. Susanoo had no idea if some huardian cat was drunk, or feeling particuklarly angry with the Senshi, but whiule his sister was out and about for the night, he'd begun noticing several things he planned to discuss with Dubhe later, first and foremost was asking if he was as big a b*****d as the newly awakened Senshi he'd found wandering around without a clue. It had meant to be so simple tonight too. He'd spied abnormal eggs near his workplace, near the university, all over, and when he lift4ed one it had been.... Strange. Cold, almost - he'd noted how light it felt - was it hollow? And had intended tyo see if this was some kind of youma production that night as Saiulor Susanoo. He figured with University lightening up, he could afford to investigate, and investigate he did, and... He found thius new senshi. Gagharin followed Sailor Susanoo because he seemed interesting... And Gagarin - seriouswly? Liuke the cosmonauit? LAME. - at a slow, measyured gait born of someone whom had to learn to carry themself dangerously in defense. Some cat had seen him and gave him some magical pen and now he was in a tunic!!! A TUNIC!!!!! and trousers wandering the city told to fight "the forces of Chaos". All Gagarin had to fight for, was the ability to keep his family company goping. and maybe his business buddies. Good people, even if he gave3 them flak for their antics. And well. The elderly or children. They seemed forgotten so often Gagarin wanted to play superhero just to protect them. And while wandering to find "Teh Evil" as he deemed it, planning to show them what wickedness was... He'd met Susanoo who seemed to have a migraine learning he was new. The pair walked down the sidewalk, of only because Susanoo didn't want Gagarin to break his neck tr7ying to leap high yet. Finally near the park something seemed to move in shadow, and Gagarin lookmed first. "God. The city always so weird at night?" He asked, sighing. Susanoo laiughed. "You have no idea kid." The older senshi laughed.
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Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2025 6:09 am
"You can say that again," a voice sounded from nearby the two order senshis, this one sounding as good-humored as the laughing Susanoo. His energy signature was chaotic, but not the same chaos that Negaverse agents or corrupt senshi energy signatures had, and his power level was of a super rank.
At 190.5 cm or 6'3", the Dark Mirror Senshi walked up from somewhere behind and to the left of the pair of White Moon ones from somewhere within the foliage of the park. However, when he showed, his gaze wasn't on either of the other sailor scouts. It was focused on what was up ahead of them, shrouded in darkness - a pair of ominous red eyes at the eye-level of a human. However, its sulferic smell, the sound of something scraping against the ground, and a low, rasping cluck suggested it was anything but.
"I'm assuming that thing isn't with either of you two, is it? Or something you know?" he asked, a broad grin on his face like he thought the strange, unpleasant creature was some huge joke he now had to deal with. In his hand he had an Emerald Star Charm that he quickly pocketed as he prepared to fight if he had to. He had found it just a little while earlier before he'd heard the others' voices and sensed their energy signatures...not to mention the signature of the giant bird that slowly became visible ahead of them.
Despite all the Star Festival activities and festivities, Ptolemaeus highly doubted that the bird was one of them. Perhaps it was an experiment of some sort? Maybe even from the Negaverse? It was strange then, though, that there weren't any Negaverse energy signatures around that he could make out. Perhaps the thing had escaped.
Nearby he'd found some eggs, too, and remembered he'd heard of other similar clusters of eggs being found here and there around parks. He'd picked one up to examine it and found a star charm under it; likely somehow from the Star Festival. Maybe someone had dropped it or the eggs' parent had placed it there since a lot of birds liked shiny things and as weird as the creature seemed to be, it still appeared vaguely avian.
Perhaps the other senshi had come to investigate the eggs, the rumors, or both as well. Maybe they'd been prepared for a fight and that was why there had been two of them since, as far as Ptolemaeus knew, Order Senshi didn't often patrol in pairs. One of them seemed quite new to being a sailor scout, however, so perhaps one of them was showing the other the ropes. Ptolemaeus tried to make a mental note of which one it was so he could make sure he especially watched that one's back. If the fight with the bird beast turned nasty, it wouldn't have done for the new senshi to get the short end of the stick and become injured just because he wasn't very familiar with how to fight in his powered form.
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Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2025 2:06 pm
Gagarin snapped his head to look first, and instantly, he was taking a moment to process all of the new senses and feelings the arrival of a senshi of a different faction triggered, Gagarin blinking a few moments. Ptolemeaus' arrival surprised the 5'4" younger senshi - and his expression honestly said how new he was as all his preperation to be 'tough' mnelted away into uncertainty - he was... New indeed. He'd awakened this night and this was his first brush wioth everything. Gagarin was quickly trying to compose himself, looking around before spying the bird, and instantly he looked ratgher disgusted by the stench of the beast, pointing in uncertainty. "Not... With me...? Areww we--" Susanoo hadn't run into many opponents but Dubhe at least trained him on noticing chaos and rank. He himself was at least six feet with aq muscular swimmer's build, and he snapped his head to look at ptolemeaus himself, however he was far more accustomed to intense situations. He hunted for a hobby and brought in meat -- and he followed the other senshi's gaze with the look of one, eyes narrowing immediately as he appraised the avian cryptid analkytically,. He plac3ed a hand on gagarin's shoulder instinctively, not against Ptolemeaus, but the creature. Chaos was sapient. But this.... This was... This was not something he'd seen before and he scowled slowly, almost with uncanny elegance. "It's not with us." Susanoo said immediately. As concerning as a chaos member might be, especially a Super near a newly awakened senshi, but.... Well this was soimehow worse. It had no power signature and while Susanoo had an idea of what his powers did.... He [knew Gagarin didn't. "Well. It seems we have an anomaly. I'm not sensing any... Aura. Yiou?" As Susanoo looked to Ptolemeaus for a response, Gagarin was wondering just how stupid Susanoo thought he was. The other man was so rigid and tense, that Gagarin was wondering if he was about to lunge at the first sign of danger. And sure Gagarin suspected they might be in troublke but nothing attackjed them yet. Bloody hells. Gagarin crossed his arms and uttered a snort, watching the creature with narrowed eyes and a cold, unfeeling scowl, utterly uinperturbed. "It's a stench-=beast if you ask me." Gagarin growled low, not understanding the 'aura' talk. "Are those things what's comin' out of the eggs all over town? If so I've got some nests to stomp out." Gagariun had a business and people to protect and sulphgur could pose a threat even uniognited - allergies, for starters. Susanoo paused, and eyed Gagarin with one brow raqised in milkd surprise. This ghuiy just had no fear of things, did he? At least it was interesting and he seemed to have a decent reaqson, for how utterly nasty and copld he seemed. Susanoo had to wonder if... Gagarin was acting so wicked anfd tough oput of a need to protect himself. He did notice Gagarin's voice sometimes crackjed, and he looked to Ptoilemeaus, warily making a ctrack. "A bird with no aura and some idiot cat awakening people and offering no information." He thumnbed at ?Gagariun ins a 'New guy' gesture. Maybe... This was fine. He might be fine. Dubhe could be satisfied he didn't cause problems later.
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